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More than half a dozen candidates running for Undergraduate Student Government (USG) positions presented their initiatives and platforms on Tuesday, March 26 in the Student Activities Center (SAC).
The debate got off to a late start as the organizers waited for people attending a USG-sponsored vigil for the victims of the Christchurch mass shooting to arrive. The vigil and the debate were originally scheduled for the same time, but on Wednesday night, USG announced that the vigil would begin a half hour earlier.
About 30 people attended the debate, although the Facebook livestream of the event received almost 2,000 views.
Increasing USG’s student outreach was a common theme throughout the evening.
Maame-Esi Otoo, a junior business management major running for vice president of clubs and organizations, pointed out the difficulties that new clubs often have in communicating with USG. She said that she would like to implement workshops and biweekly memos to help emphasize the organization’s role as a resource for clubs and organizations on campus.
Otoo also said that she wants to continue to emphasize an open door policy to clubs and organizations and help them grow. She suggested incentivizing clubs to cater more to commuter students, which would help both groups.
Otoo’s opponent, Ilayna Guevrekian, a junior psychology and political science double major, said she wants to get commuters more involved on campus through meetings and office hours.
“You want to be involved,” Guevrekian, a commuter herself, said. “You want to be a part of what everyone else is a part of, getting the college experience and the best way to do that is to stay on campus, to have something here for you that’s keeping you here and that you can be a part of.”
Guevrekian also suggested creating an app or online platform where students can check up on club engagement and do a better job informing incoming freshmen about the opportunities available on campus.
Huntley Spencer, a sophomore political science major and the only candidate running for vice president of student life who was present at the debate, outlined a plan that he said would help USG avoid canceling another concert, like this year’s Back to the Brook.
“I don’t want the concerts to be on weekdays, Thursday, Wednesday,” Spencer said. “I know that it’s going to limit the choices of artists that we can choose, but if more students can come out, I think that’s more important. A lot of people have tests the next day, a lot of people are coming from tests, a lot of people have classes when we have our concerts. So that doesn’t really make sense to me.”
Spencer said that he would continue to poll to see which genres or artists students want and try to make committee minutes public to let students see where they’re going. He also wants to add more events like Spooky Brook, a Halloween-themed event added this year and plans to improve Wolfieland by making it possible for students to buy their tickets at the carnival, instead of only selling them in the SAC. He said that he would do his “utmost best” to make events more sustainable.
Patrick Scharf, a sophomore history and political science double major running for vice president of academic affairs, said he wants to help advocate for humanities students by looking into budget cuts and to encourage more people to go to University Senate. He also said that he’s working to advocate for a veteran’s position on the Senate and he wants to create more events around midterms and finals to help students with their academics. One other initiative that he’d like to push includes adding a presentation about USG to the freshman orientation so that incoming students know what the organization is and how to get involved.
“When I first came [to Stony Brook], I wasn’t so sure what USG was,” Scharf said. “It took a lot of digging around to find out all the information that I wanted, and so I want that to be more readily accessible for everybody. I want everybody to know that they can, who they are represented by, they can run, that somebody is out there working for them. I want to make our presence greater on campus.”
Justin Ullman, a sophomore political science and economics double major running against Scharf for vice president of academic affairs, said that he would advocate to bring back the G/P/NC option for business courses and support adding the option for other courses too, including health science courses.
“The lack of a G/P/NC option is a limitation on our academic freedom especially for those looking to seek a graduate education,” Ullman said. “Getting knowledge from other majors without taking a hit to your GPA is very essential to be able to explore other disciplines.”
Ullman’s other goals include improving internet accessibility on campus and hosting financial aid and scholarship workshops for international and out-of-state students.
James Edell, a junior economics and philosophy double major minoring in political science, was the only candidate running for executive vice president present during the debate. Edell said he wants to improve student representation in the USG Senate by adding positions for the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Journalism, as well as compiling a database of contacts and resources for USG senators working to complete their projects.
Shaheer Khan, a junior political science major running for USG president, emphasized the importance of progressing the diversity and inclusivity of USG, and within Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). He said that CAPS should have staffavailable to speak to students in their native languages, whether that’s Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, Korean or any other language, emphasizing that it’s a life-saving service that all students pay for.
“When you need psychological help, when you need someone to talk to, you need to be able to communicate in your language,” Khan said. “That’s very important. And that’s something that the Counseling and Psychological Services hasn’t been able to do.”
He also plans on working to maintain healthy relationships within the Executive Council and increasing voter engagement on campus. He said that, among his 13 goals, he’d like to check in with senators on their projects more often, make sure that dancers have space to practice and give students more opportunities to have face-to-face interactions with USG members.
Lazaro Rivera, a junior psychology and English double major also running for USG president, wants to put in a transitory system for senators coming in and out of USG. He brought up the database that Edell mentioned earlier, saying that this way, future senators won’t have to start their projects from scratch. He also mentioned having retreats to promote USG cooperation and initiating more sustainability initiatives.
“One of the things I’ve noticed is that a lot of senators and EC [Executive Council] members, they start these wonderful projects, but they, unfortunately, do not get the opportunity to finish them because they’re only in USG for a semester or a year, or they don’t run again and then they graduate, which is understandable,” Rivera said. “But I want to put in place a transition reporting system, where all senators would — and this takes me back to what James Edell was talking about — creating a database, having a record of every step of the way and everyone’s senator projects so that future senators, when they come into the position, they don’t have to start from scratch.”
Four of the 12 candidates couldn’t make it to the debate due to academic obligations.
Students can cast their ballots on SOLAR starting Monday, April 1 at 12 p.m. Voting will end Friday, April 5, at 12 p.m.


We spotted the gorgeous, simple elegance of Texas natives Cassidy and Brandon Lobaugh’s home last year when we sponsored the Junior League of Northwest Arkansas’ (JLNWA) Winter Dreams Tour of Homes.
Photography by Janet Warlick
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] Lobaughs have lived in Fayetteville for nine years and in their current home for two. “I’ve supported the JLNWA since Kelli [Leander] moved to Fayetteville and became a member,” Cassidy Lobaugh said. Leander, a close friend, is practically considered family. “We were building the house, she was chairing the tour, and all the pieces just sort of fell in place.”
Lobaugh said when designing the family’s holiday décor, she keeps in mind how they use the spaces. “I chose to place our Christmas tree in the study because it’s comfy and cozy, and that’s how we’ll feel on Christmas morning. I also keep in mind that we’ll entertain quite a bit during the holidays, and while we want to create a festive atmosphere, we want to keep the main spaces uncluttered.”
An Illuminating Experience
This is the family’s second dining space in the kitchen — a circular table with generously appointed highback chairs featuring nailheads. Metallic ornaments spiral down to a bowl full of antique ornaments and moss balls. “I have a huge collection of vintage, glass ornaments,” Lobaugh said. “I started collecting them 20 years ago, and I’ve used them in various areas.”
The room also includes an alcove, with elegant lighting and additional seating, and a wall of windows overlooking the outdoor dining area.
Prepared to Toast
This wine bar is located in an alcove between the kitchen’s dining spaces. A red reindeer statue, a metallic “peace” sign as well as a silver cup with greenery bring holiday cheer. A bottle of wine with a specially designed label, as shown here, is an ideal gift.
Make a Statement
(Photo at top of page)
The main living area of this home is separated from the entry with a wall. On the entry side, Lobaugh used black and white photographs to create a collage in the shape of a Christmas tree. On this side a large abstract painting dominates the space with its size and color. The homeowner has employed subtlety to celebrate the season through her use of metallic branches set in vases and ornaments placed on a set of antlers. A traditional floral arrangement, situated on a table between the pair of chairs, brings a touch of red to the space.
Outdoor Dining for the Holidays
“We spend as much time outside as possible,” Lobaugh said, “and we eat outside as much as possible, so I thought, why not during the holidays as well?”
So she set a classic table complete with chargers, monogrammed napkins, seat covers, antique water glasses and magnolia leaves and bright red amaryllis, creating a table that is welcoming and festive.
A Place to Congregate
The kitchen is a decidedly sleek space with a neutral color scheme that lends itself to the use of many colors. Lobaugh chose metallic as the color base for this year’s Christmas decorations and added the bold colors of traditional crimson, white and ebony to add pop. Here, again, the touches are subtle: a beautiful bouquet of roses with magnolia leaves and red napkins, placed on a silver tray, which includes a little shout-out to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Razorbacks.


Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The Eagle, an earnest adaptation of Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth, offers a solidly engrossing first half as Marcus Flavius Aquila (Channing Tatum), the son of the commander of the “Lost Ninth Legion,” assumes command of an isolated fort in Roman-occupied Britain in the 2nd Century AD. As the stolid by savvy Marcus, Channing Tatum exhibits commendable screen presence as he shapes up his fearful, grumbling Latin grunts like an American officer bolstering reluctant soldiers in a forlorn Vietnam firebase. Marcus senses danger and expertly prepares his men for a nighttime assault. Unfortunately, excessive fast-shutter speed camerawork makes most of the action a blur. Meanwhile, the film’s memorable long shots frame this Roman outpost of progress under brooding skies and establish its very convincing presence.
After a thrilling scene in which Marcus forms his men into the testudo in order to charge through a Celtic horde and save Roman captives from decapitation, the wounded commander ends up convalescing in a tranquil Thames-side villa where he gets the aged good council of Uncle Aquila (Donald Sutherland). There, Marcus plans a journey to retrieve the Ninth’s golden eagle in order to reinstate his dead father’s lost honor.
As Marcus, guided by a Briton slave, Esca (Jamie Bell), travels north through rugged landscapes filmed in Hungary and Scotland, the scenes of riding and camping and riding slow things down. Attacks by “rogue warriors” and Celts, who look a cross between Pawnee warriors and Queequeq in John Huston’s Moby Dick, pep things up though they turn the movie into a different sort of film. Mark Strong as the fierce Celtic Chieftain, Guem, steers the story toward melodrama, but the film’s rich settings hold your attention.
Ironically, a lot of dying is done to win back a dead man’s honor. Marcus’s motives might be something only an ancient Roman could understand, but the film offers a matter-of-fact depiction of a simple tale of honor set convincingly in a muddy, murky ancient Britain, and I enjoyed the film’s sincerity and the atmospheric images it presents.


Friday, February 11, 2011
Black Manta pt. 2
Final! So over the Xmas break I worked on a complicated, full color render piece that was required to be able to be rearranged, and elements could be dropped out or replaced. Because of that, I think the image came out a little less than it could have been, but it also messed with my mojo a little bit. I had finished this one yesterday, but it wasn't sitting right.
Before the end of the day I reopened it to take another look and decided that I was perserving too much in terms of layers, so I merged a few to make it easier to work with, and created new alternate highlight layers, using the Overlay setting, with different colors creating the light source and diffuse lighting. It brought out a lot more depth, and it also afforded me the opportunity to blur around the legs and outer edges, to subtly pull focus towards the center.
So I may go back and tweak the Flash image a little, it also suffers from the restrictions I had to work with on the last big full color render image I did - that simply don't need to be there for my own development work. It's kind of a nice lesson/reminder to have, not to get buried in the tech of photoshop, and do what's best for the piece, not use every trick just because you can. If that makes any sense?
Anyways...I though this one came out pretty good, he looks pretty badass.


This post was inspired by the novel, Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed. A copy of this book was given to me by virtue of my membership in www.fromlefttowrite.com. This is not a review of the book.
Deborah Reed sets up a story for us that highlights all the ramifications of loving others, loosing those we love and learning to forgive. Like many good stories, it is a universal tale of love.
The book instigated my thinking about the complexity of loving others, a proposition that is rarely, if ever, simple. Perhaps the most pure form of love is mother for child but even that can sometime be made complicated by circumstances. What if you have to give that child up for some reason? What if you have initiated the pregnancy as part of a scheme to get the money required for the survival of the rest of your family? Why can’t even that purest of all loves be simple?
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I have a new friend and a very old friend who are staying in loveless marriages for their own complicated reasons—in spite of loving someone else! Why can’t love be simple?
I have loved more than a few alcoholics in my family. That is truly a complicated love that many people have experienced. Why can’t love be simple?
And then there is the complicated love we experience as parents when we learn there is an expiration date on children following our wishes and demands. We learn that we love people even when they make decisions we disagree with and when we can no longer protect them from themselves. Why can’t love be simple?
I’m currently thinking the purest form of love is grandparent for grandchild. I revel each day in the simplicity of it. I don’t want the day to come when it will be more complex. I hope the most complicated disagreement we will ever have is whether Poppa will buy him a Happy Meal or not. I know that will not always be the case. Why can’t love be simple?
Have you experienced a simple love? What made it so?


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16th Annual REALTORS Care® Blanket Drive
In 2009, REALTORS® collected a record breaking 4,350 bags of clothing, coats and blankets for dozens of charities across the Lower Mainland.
Beneficiaries in our area include: The Salvation Army/The Caring Place and the Friends in need Food Bank.
This represented literally thousands of people making donations. It’s no longer one industry or group making a difference, it’s the entire community recognizing a need and pulling together as one.
The Pearce Team would like to invite you to join us in collecting new blankets, sheets, sleeping bags, socks, underwear (women, children & men) as well as new or gently used warm clothing, scarves, hats and gloves.
If you have a contribution to this great cause, please drop off your donation at our office at 11933 224th Street between November 29th and December 6th.
Can't make it to the office? Please give us a call and we will come and pick up your contribution.


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SMA News – Geneva – ExclusiveThe Southern Independent Group started its work by participating in the self-determination seminar held by UNHRC in Geneva on July 1st, 2019. Saleh Al-Noud presented the southern paper including two major points: Hints about southern Yemen and Stages of the southern cause.
Al-Noud gave a brief history of Southern Yemen since British colonization, independence, declaring the People’s Democratic Republic of Southern Yemen, union with the north, violations leading to 1994 occupation by former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, the struggle against Al-Qaeda and Al-Eslah militias, the southern peaceful movement. Second invasion in 2015 by Al-Houthi/Saleh militias and forming the southern resistance with support of the Arab Coalition. Al-Noud also referred to the legitimacy government failure in assuming its simplest responsibilities towards citizens. He also asserted that the southern are in actual control over the south, so as the northern in the north.
At the second point, Al-Noud talked about self-determination in the international law and UN convention. He asserted that southern Yemen was once an independent state recognized by all countries of the world and a member of the United Nations, Arab League, Islamic World Organization and all international organizations. Southern Yemen went into union with Arab Republic of Yemen as another independent country. As the union failed by war and military occupation in 1994, the southern have the right of disengagement according to international law. Self-determination can be used to fulfill the practical part of exercising the southern rights.
In a press release after the seminar, Dr, Nasr Obaid, member of the group, said that any solution for Yemeni crisis should include a real solution to the southern cause. He asserted the self-determination right of the southern people as a safe path for regional and international peace and security.
Southern Independent Group regularly participates in UNHRC seminars to discuss the southern cause inside the united nations.
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So it’s been a while since I’ve posted an individual review (see my last one here). It’s not that I haven’t read any particularly worthwhile books lately – it’s just that I have an insane backlog of book reviews to get on. September and October were really bad months for my tbr (see a full list here) and I read absolutely nothing at all. So I’m more or less devouring everything I can get my hands on for November, which, as you can imagine, has pretty much left me scrabbling to catch up on all my reviews. Jfc I am a terrible book blogger.
I picked up All the Bright Places on the recommendation of a friend. In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have listened to her, because this is someone who thinks The Fault In Our Stars was brilliant and John Green is the pinnacle of human evolution. Nevertheless, I had space in my “4 books a month” quota for one more, so I went ahead and bought a copy. Biggest regret of November 2016. I could’ve bought two caramel macchiatos with the money I spent on that book.
Brace yourselves, guys, gals, and non-binary pals, for the first ever Kate’s Books post to review…a book I did not like.
But first, a few warnings!
- I cannot properly talk about this book without spoiling. So if that’s the sort of thing that bothers you, please skip this post.
- Trigger warnings for suicidal thoughts, descriptions of depression, and talk of self-harm. Please tread carefully.
Violet Markey was once a straight-A student, an avid writer, popular at school, but her life comes screeching to a halt when her beloved sister dies in a car accident. Standing on the edge of the bell tower in school, she comes across the school “freak”, Theodore Finch.
At first, Violet thinks nothing of the strange boy who talked her down, but then the two are paired for a school project on the “natural wonders” of their state. They wander around Indiana, visiting weird, random roadside attractions and slowly beginning to open up to each other. Violet discovers a Finch utterly different from the image he projects in school, and Finch begins to break the wall erected around Violet’s heart.
Their wanderings come to mean more than just a school project. Violet learns to stop counting the days and start living them, and slowly finds herself falling for Finch. However as her world begins to grow, Finch’s begins to shrink.
What I liked:
- Jennifer Niven is a really good writer. I actually initially really liked the book, and this is because of Niven’s prose. Her descriptions made my imaginings more vivid, and she has this way of writing that really sucked me in and made me feel as though I was right there with Violet and Finch.
- I actually really liked the dialogue between Violet and Finch. I know a lot of people don’t like it when teenaged characters start whipping out literary references and intelligent dialogue, but personally, I adore it. When people criticize YA authors for writing their teenage characters as “sounding too smart”, I feel just the tiniest bit insulted. I mean, have you met every teenager in the world, that you can say that a teenaged character sounds too smart? Not to toot my own horn, but my friends and I actually did talk like that when we were younger. We were emo loners with black nail polish, notebooks full of bad poetry, and feelings of superiority over our more popular peers – of course we read Virginia Woolf.
- Finch’s mood swings are amazingly portrayed. I could really feel the intensity of his emotions and how struggled to overcome his bipolarity.
- I appreciate Niven’s attempt to bring light to the issue of mental illness. According to some interviews, years ago, Niven knew a boy who had depression and bipolar disorder, and it was on her experiences with this boy that she based this book. I liked that the author’s notes in the book contained sources for readers to turn to if they or anyone they knew was suffering from mental illness. Niven’s intentions, at least, were good.
What I didn’t like:
Before I start in on my usual bullet point format of my book reviews, I’d just like to say that my dislike of this book stems from just one major point: Jennifer Niven totally and utterly fails to deliver on her portrayal of mental illness.
Disclaimer: A lot of my misgivings about this book’s handling of mental illness are based on my own experiences with a very close friend’s mental illness. This girl and I grew up together, and shortly after her mother passed away, she tried to commit suicide. I was the one who found her and rushed her to the ER. This was about three years ago, and since then, me and a couple other girls from our friend group have been in charge of our friend’s maintenance (helping her with stuff like follow-up appointments with her psychiatrists, keeping track of her medication, etc.). She’s doing much better now, but the past three years have been pretty much a “baptism by fire” type deal regarding therapy and psychiatric help for me. Nevertheless, I am not an expert on mental health and do not claim to be one. Take everything I say with a grain of salt.
- Finch is a textbook Manic Pixie Dream Guy. Everything about him only exists to help Violet get better and recover from her own depression. He has all the beginnings of an interesting, well-rounded character, but all of that is dedicated to helping Violet get back on her feet. His character literally serves no other purpose.
- Even Finch’s suicide is not about him. He spends the whole book trying to find ways to “stay awake” and combat his mental illness. But when he finally succumbs and commits suicide, instead of being about his struggles, his suicide is yet another avenue for Violet to heal. He leaves her a series of clues to all the places he visited, or “wandered to”, to use the book’s terminology, prior to committing suicide, in a sort of treasure hunt across Indiana that helps Violet comes to term with her sister’s death. I mean, what? The poor kid dies and it’s still a plot device for the girl to get better? Come on.
- The book does an awful job portraying the road to recovery from mental illness. Instead of getting professional help, Violet and Finch are shown “getting better” through going on whimsical dates and waxing philosophical with each other. Far be it from me to tell people with mental illness what form their recovery should take, but professional help should not take a back-burner to running around with a significant other.
- Speaking of professional help, this was totally demonized in this book, and I find this un-fucking-acceptable. Seeing a psychiatrist or relying on medication is already stigmatized enough – we don’t need to see it in literature too. This one, more than anything, really pissed me off. Finch tries to attend a therapy session and describes the kids there as having “the dull, vacant look of people on drugs”. NO. God, I wanted to throw the book at the wall when I read that line. Repeat after me: medication is not bad, people. For a lot of people, antidepressants are necessary, important, and effective. And honestly, fuck anyone who thinks lesser of people with mental illness who depend on medication.
- The novel ends on a very fatalistic note. As I mentioned earlier, Finch commits suicide. I don’t think no book ever should have characters that commit suicide, and in fact, such a topic, when handled well, can make for not only an excellent read, but a socially relevant one as well. However, that’s where Niven failed. The suicide in this book was not handled well. Instead of a “please don’t commit suicide, every life – including yours – matters” vibe, what I got was the romanticization of suicide. Which is absolutely not okay.
2/5. Good writing, terrible handling of the subject matter. If you suffer from a mental illness yourself, please, please, please tread cautiously if you decide to read this book.


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When I was little I thought the lord’s prayer had Evel Knievel in it see below… Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from
evil. (Evel Knievel) For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, Forever and ever. Amen.
I was just remembering this, it always makes me chuckle. He was so famous that his name was strong in my memory that it overrided what the school was teaching me to say, I remembered this while I was having thoughts of my childhood and who we really are and that God is not what we are taught, as with some controlling factors in religion. The lords prayer had no power of good feeling to me, it was dry, never enjoying it with the conformity of morning prayer at school. Evel Knievel had invoked my imagination, weather you think he was mad or powerful he made many children’s heart’s & adults following his dare devil stunts. So thank you Evel Knievel, I love you and me, we are our own god.
They were even toys for kids.
- Watching this youtube video by Dr. Wayne Dyer was what invoked this memory & feelings….


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Chinese people are good at using all available resources to make food delicious. Tea, originally used as a medicine in ancient times, is now not only a drink but also an excellent form of seasoning. Here are two delicious dishes made with tea.
As a famous snack, you can find delicious tea eggs that are served by street vendors in almost every city in China. It’s a very simple dish, easy and economical to make in the kitchen.
The ingredients are simple: eggs, water, tea, soy sauce or soy sauce, star anise and a dash of sugar.
Instructions for making tea eggs
1.Put the eggs in the pan and cover them with water. Bring the water to a boil and continue to cook for another 7 minutes to make sure the eggs are cooked.
Remove hard-boiled eggs from the hot water and let them cool (you can speed up the cooling process by washing the eggs in cold water). Use a tool (usually the back of a spoon) to crack open the surrounding eggshells and let the flavor soak in.
2.Return the egg to the hot water and add the tea, soy sauce, star anise and a little sugar. Bring the water to a boil. Then turn down the heat and simmer for an hour. Add water if necessary.
Although tea eggs are delicious, it is not recommended to eat too many. People who eat tea eggs regularly increase their risk of osteoporosis.
Dragon Well Tea Shrimp
Dragon Well Tea Shrimp is one of the most famous dishes in hangzhou. It’s called lDragon Well Tea Shrimp. Traditionally, longjing tea is served with Fried river shrimp.
Traditionally, tea leaves must be picked around the tomb-sweeping day in early April to ensure their tenderness. The shrimp must be fat residents of the local rivers and must be caught alive.
Like most stories related to longjing tea, the legend of longjing tea shrimp is related to a visit to the south of the Yangtze river by the qing emperor qianlong (1711-99).
According to the legend, one day the emperor took shelter from the rain in a girl’s house and the host invited him to drink a cup of fragrant tea with freshly picked leaves. The smell impressed the emperor, but he didn’t want to reveal his identity, so he just pocketed some leaves and continued his journey.
Then he took a rest at a small hotel and ordered some dishes, including Fried shrimp. The emperor handed the tea to the waiter to make tea while he waited for his meal. But the waiter glanced at the imperial robe inside and, in shock, ran to tell the cook.
Under the pressure he now felt, the cook became flustered and added fresh tea to the Fried shrimp dish because he had mistaken it for scallions. But surprisingly, the aftertaste of the tea and the crispness of the shrimp won the emperor’s favor, and the mistake received positive reviews.
Thus, this classic dish was born and gradually became a common dish at home in hangzhou.


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The Cartoon Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Black and White and Read All Over: Comics of the New Millennium, is a showcase featuring nine comic strips introduced between the years 2000 and 2010. From talking animals to beleaguered cartoonists, childhood fears to childhood nightmares, the perils of adulthood to the trials of arrested development, the nonsensical to the political (which often goes right back around to nonsensical), the modern comic strip page really does include something for everyone.
Featured artists in this exhibition include Harvey Award and Glyph Award Winner Keith Knight; three National Cartoonists Society winners for Best Comic Strip of the Year, Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Mark Tatulli (Lío) and Jeff Parker and Steven Kelley (Dustin); and the 2011 Winner of The National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Best Cartoonist of the Year, Richard Thompson.
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The exhibit runs through May 6, 2012 at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.


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A plastic material, such as clay, also possess some degree of rigidity. However, the critical shear stress at which it yields is relatively small, and once this stress is exceeded the material deforms continuously and irreversibly, and does not recover its original shape when the stress is relieved.
By definition, a fluid material possesses no rigidity at all. In other words, a small fluid element is unable to withstand any tendency of an applied shear stress to change its shape. Incidentally, this does not preclude the possibility that such an element may offer resistance to shear stress. However, any resistance must be incapable of preventing the change in shape from eventually occurring, which implies that the force of resistance vanishes with the rate of deformation. An obvious corollary is that the shear stress must be zero everywhere inside a fluid that is in mechanical equilibrium.
Fluids are conventionally classified as either liquids or gases. The most important difference between these two types of fluid lies in their relative compressibility: i.e., gases can be compressed much more easily than liquids. Consequently, any motion that involves significant pressure variations is generally accompanied by much larger changes in mass density in the case of a gas than in the case of a liquid.
Of course, a macroscopic fluid ultimately consists of a huge number of individual molecules. However, most practical applications of fluid mechanics are concerned with behavior on length-scales that are far larger than the typical intermolecular spacing. Under these circumstances, it is reasonable to suppose that the bulk properties of a given fluid are the same as if it were completely continuous in structure. A corollary of this assumption is that when, in the following, we talk about infinitesimal volume elements, we really mean elements which are sufficiently small that the bulk fluid properties (such as mass density, pressure, and velocity) are approximately constant across them, but are still sufficiently large that they contain a very great number of molecules (which implies that we can safely neglect any statistical variations in the bulk properties). The continuum hypothesis also requires infinitesimal volume elements to be much larger than the molecular mean-free-path between collisions.
In addition to the continuum hypothesis, our study of fluid mechanics is premised on three major assumptions:


I’ve been in corporate “brainstorming” sessions organized for the goal of developing a mission statement. All too often, these exercises are about developing a marketing position or a tag line for an annual report to shareholders. The statement usually becomes so generalized as to not tip off competitors and obscure enough as to avoid criticism. The result is nobody knows what you do or why.
As soon as you hire your first employee, it is very important for you to communicate the purpose for your company to exist on the planet. This purpose must be concise and memorable but it must encapsulate a vision that inspires and captures the imagination.
Simple and clear!
It’s never too early to develop your core ideology. Your company culture starts with you. For a start, read or re-read “Good To Great.”
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Something simple for today, my favourite Kuey Teow Th'ng from O & S Coffeeshop in Paramount Gardens. Once in a blue moon, I always hanker for a bowl of this as I call it perfect comfort food for my tummy. Although it's just a simple noodle dish with slices of fish cake, chicken shreds and fishball for RM4, it's one of my favourites. After days and nights of excessing on rich food, this is my perfect breakfast.
If you wish, you can add on lots of other items such as intestines, blood cubes which remind me of the English black pudding and etc. For me, a simple bowl is sufficient to whet my appetite. My Penang friend claims this is pretty much like the real stuff in Penang and having tasted Kuey Teow Th'ng in Penang, I tend to agree this is a pretty good substitute.
O & S Restaurant
At the corner shop house facing Caltex petrol station
Along Jalan 20/14
*Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here is entirely based on my personal tastebuds and may vary for others. The reviewer also declares that she has not received any monetary or non-monetary compensation from the restaurant for writing this review.


How is project management like conducting an orchestra?
By Diana Lindstrom
Conductors of great symphony orchestras do not play every musical instrument; yet through leadership the ultimate production is an expressive and unified combination of tones.
– Thomas D. Bailey
How is project management like conducting an orchestra? In many ways.
A project manager does not need to be the subject matter expert to be able to lead the project team. Some people think that this is blasphemy.
But here’s why it’s not blasphemy.
Project managers must know:
- the technical and business requirements of the project product
- those areas of expertise and skills required
- the best process for producing those requirements
- the corporate culture and how to navigate it
- how to manage people and resources
Just like a conductor knows the musical piece that the orchestra is playing, the project manager must know the ebb and flow of the project process. A conductor doesn’t play every instrument, but he knows every note in the piece. He knows the phrasing of each movement. He knows the entry and exit point of each instrument – what instrument plays and when.
A good conductor also understands at a profound level how the instruments interact. Sometimes the strings carry the main melody while the brass provides a bed of deep, resonant notes. The percussion section maintains the foundational beat, keeping everyone together.
A good project manager knows when each member of the team needs to be contributing and what they need to do. The PM knows how to keep the project moving at just the right pace. That project manager understands that she is the foundation for the project – keeping everyone working together through her leadership.
A good project manager “conducts” the project. She doesn’t run herself ragged trying to perform all the parts.
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Team Losi Racing Aluminum HRC Front Pivot Block
Team Losi Racing
This is an optional Team Losi Racing Aluminum HRC Front Pivot Block.
- The HRC Aluminum Front Pivot's higher roll center allows for a smoother front end feel for increase stability and an easier to drive vehicle
- Made from strong 7075-T6 aluminum and Hard Anodized for ultimate protection and a stylish look that matches the rest of the vehicle
- Direct replacement for the standard front pivots and requires no new parts or modifications for a proper fit
- Compatible with 22, 22 2.0, 22T and 22 SCT vehicles
This product was added to our catalog on November 22, 2013.


This library provides TeX-Hyphenation in PHP.
This package has the following requirements:
- PHP-Version >= 5.3
- Multibyte-Extension loaded
- Input has to be UTF8-encoded.
On loading the \Org\Heigl\Hyphenator\Hyphenator-class the internal encoding for the Multibyte-String-Extension will be set to UTF8.
There are three ways to install this package:
- via PEAR
- via composer
- copy the 'Org/Heigl/Hyphenator'-folder somewhere to your PHP-include- directory.
More information can be found in the doc-section
<?php use \Org\Heigl\Hyphenator as h; // Create a hyphenator-instance based on a given config-file $hyphenator = h\Hyphenator::factory('/path/to/the/config/file.properties'); // And hyphenate a given string $hyphenatedText = $hyphenator->hyphenate($string); echo $hyphenatedText; ?>
More documentation can be found at http://orgheiglhyphenator.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Build-Status of the latest release can be found at http://travis-ci.org/#!/heiglandreas/Org_Heigl_Hyphenator
Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Andreas Heiglandreas@heigl.org
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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Freddy Stories is the Xeric-Grant-winning collection of vignettes about tom boy Freddy, her mom, her Great-Uncle Sal, and her dog Frank. Freddy pokes at bugs with sticks, rides her bike, plays in dirt & mud, and eats food. You know, kids stuff.
Melissa Mendes has captured exactly what I remember childhood to be. The simplicity of a day, running around, getting dirty, grass-stained and bruised. Laughing one minute, being bullied the next, and then laughing again. Melissa’s drawings are simple and spare, but the details she chooses to draw reveal an entire world of information about her characters and their lives.
There are no unrealistic plot lines, or constructed conflict, just simple moments from Freddy’s days. It is experience boiled down to its most essential, and therefore a very important read.
Freddy warms your heart and tickles your funnybone at the same time.


Item Bugged: All Pixel items (from all categories)
Character page link: http://aq.battleon.com/build30/charview.asp?temp=147442
Did you log out and log back in? Yes
Did you clear cache? Yes(Also tried it on a different PC that is not mine)
Browser Info: Mozila Firefox latest version (64-bit)
Flash version: 22.214.171.124
Description: All of my Pixel items from all categories are lvl 10 instead of 150 lvl.
Notes: I have no idea when and how this happened. Lately i haven't been around much. I saw this maybe a month ago but didn't have time to do anything about it and was hoping it's a bug that will get fixed for everybody. I see i still have lvl 10 version of all items. So the info given might not be correct for whenever that happened - could have been months ago for all i know. This info is true at present date.
EDIT: Actually i would ask to have a good look trough my inventory. It is actually quite the mess and MUCH worse than i though. I was scrolling trough my stuff and i see any items with minimum versions...And i should have best version for all of them. I will try to check the others tho i probably wont have the time to them in one go.
Weapons: Dainashini lvl 10, Guardian Magic Block Hammer lvl 15, Bee Bee Gun lvl 10, Moglord Axe lvl 5.
Armors: Full Metal Santa lvl 5, Chillax Crusader lvl 10, S.A.N.T.A. lvl 5
Shields: Hand of Chillax lvl 10, Moglord Shield lvl 5, V.I.X.E.N. lvl 5
Spells: D.A.N.C.E.R. lvl 5, Guardian Gnome Stampede lvl 15, Trivial Award lvl 5
Pets: Legendary Soluna lvl 10
Misc: B.L.I.T.Z.E.N. lvl 15, don't know if the signs (would, water, fire, bronze, stone, iron) are supposed to be lvl 0, if memory serves they weren't lvl 0 before.
Of course all Pixel Items too.
That's what i found after a quick look. Could please someone have a good look at this because it's a big issue for me.
Thanks in advance.
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It is November. A month of holiday lead-up, Halloween (and quite possibly autumn) are over, and the writing sprints of NaNoWriMo begin. As someone who completed two novels this year, the idea of writing 50,000 words again exhausts me. Therefore, I’m playing my own game: #NaNoPlotMo, or National Novel Plotting Month.
Graduate school work is over. Say, WHAT?
Holidays interrupted the not-hating things. Got some reading done, got lots of graduate school done.
Sent Thieves Project to some friends and buddies to beta read. It’s going to be weird to be going on break again. Oh wait, it’s NaNoWriMo. I should get back on that.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) kicked off this week and I’m off to a great start. It’s hard to get into that “get the words on the page” mode, but this is a good way to force me to get over it.


WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
The day is won by the Pontonniers!!
After the victory.
Last night we played another WSS games using house rules and 15mm Roundway figures. To make up the numbers I had to use some Seven Year War figures on both sides.
The scenario was inspired by a Seven Year War battle at Vellinghausen in 1761 with a few amendments to make it a little more exciting.
The table was essentially divided into three by the Lippe river, which was impassable, and a large stream with marshy banks. In addition there was a second stream, perpendicular to the first, also with marshy banks just to make things more difficult.
This effectively cut the Allied force into three – right on one side off the stream, centre between the stream and the river and left across the river and cut off from the rest as the only bridge had been destroyed. The French on the other hand were divided into only two wings – the left wing on one side of the stream and the right wing between the stream and the river. They had no forces across the river but the Allied player did not know this. The French player kept throwing dice for reinforcements across the river forcing the Allied player to deploy his artillery just in case. That was all a French bluff but it kept the Allied player on edge.
The French therefore thought they had a very good chance of destroying the Allied centre with a massive blow thereby separating the Allied left from the Allied right. The plan was sound but there were some difficulties. The centre was quite narrow and the French could not deploy their superior numbers there and also they did not realise that the Allies had a full pontoon train across the river which was ready and waiting to replace the destroyed bridge.
The second problem for the French was that the left wing failed to activate orders to advance nearly every move. The French left was formidable and posed an enormous threat to the Allied right but they advanced only once during the entire game. The outnumbered Allied force realised this after a while and started to move reserves over to the centre. This was a bizarre situation but this is what happened in the actual battle so it was realistic.
In the centre the French launched their attack from move 1 as they could see the pontonniers setting up and realised they had to drive the Allied centre off the hill before Allied reinforcements could march across the bridge and tip the balance against the French. The Allied commander immediately started to move the British Brigade across from the right to increase the Allied defence in the centre. This turned out to be a decisive move in the game. The Danish Brigade, supported by numerous artillery, pounded away at the advancing French lines while the Austrian Brigade moved around the left flank of the hill to meet the advancing French.
In the meantime the French had deployed their heavy artillery on the road to bring the pontoon bridge under fire in a effort to delay its construction but this met with limited success.
The French lines lost heavily as they approached the hill and in fact they did not reach it before they started to crumble under the weight of allied fire. Firefights broke out all along the front and the allies, supported by regimental guns and all of their artillery, prevailed. An Austrian Brigade came around the hill and attacked the French right while a British brigade did the same on the other side of the hill. The French right was eventually shot to pieces and the heavy guns had to be abandoned. The centre brigade also collapsed under the weight of fire leaving only the French Gardes Françaises to hold back the British while the French survivors fell back.
It was a humiliating defeat for the French. Their artillery was wasted on the pontoon bridges and they had no room to deploy their cavalry. The Danes proved to be dogged in defence and the Austrian and British Brigades not only stopped any outflanking attempts by the French but the Austrians actually drove them back and captured the heavy guns.
The heroes of the day however were the Allied pontonniers who worked frantically under fire to build and repair the pontoon bridge so as to get the reinforcements across in time. Once the Hessians appeared on the bridge the French knew the game was over.
All this time of course the huge French host on the left did nothing and withdrew from the battlefield in commendable order with flags flying.
It was a great game, very exciting and played by two players in one night.
Next week – Battle of Ramillies.
Before the game started. Not the best photograph but you can see the way the table is divided in three by the river and the stream and the perpendicular stream as well. The Allies are on the left and the French on the right of the photograph. You can also see the Allied left across the river and the broken bridge. The fortress in the distance is only for show and was not garrisoned.
The French left drawn up for battle.
The Allied centre moving into position before the battle.
The Allied cavalry on their extreme right.
The Danish Brigade in the Allied centre. Their dogged defence of the hill would play a key role in the battle.
The Allies moving into position to defend the hill in their centre.
The broken bridge over the Lippe river which separated the Allied centre and left.You can see the road here going off the French side of the table. The Allies were never sure if there were French on that side of the river. In fact there were not but the chance could not be taken when their force was strung out on the march toward the bridge.
The pontoon train arrived at the broken bridge.
The pontoon train marching up to the river.
Behind the pontoon train the Hessians and British.
British Grenadiers marching towards the pontoon bridge.
The French right started its attack on the Allied centre.
The armies come to blows. It proved to be a bloody contest.
The Austrian Brigade starts it advance in three lines around the hill against the French right.
French heavy artillery set up on the road to fire upon the pontoon bridge in a effort to slow its completion. They had limited success and in fact caused little delay.
The British Brigade cross the stream to reinforce the Allied centre.
Despite the French artillery the pontonniers have nearly completed their work.
The Hessians move up ready to cross the pontoon bridge as soon as it is completed.
In the meantime the Danish Brigade continues to defend the hill against repeated French attacks. They are supported by the Reichsarmee Brigade behind.
A brigade of French Dragoons hovered around the flanks looks for opportunities which never came. There was no scope for cavalry in this game.
A major clash between the Austrian Brigade and the Irish Brigade in the French service. The Wild geese were driven back by the Austrians and the French heavy guns visible here had to be abandoned.
The pontonniers worked frantically to repair damage from the French heavy artillery.
The British Brigade stood like a rock defending the side of the hill.
While all this was going on in the centre the French left eventually advanced and then stopped!
Allied cavalry started to move over to the centre when it was obvious that the French left was no longer a serious threat.
The British Brigade faced off against the Gardes Françaises. By this stage the French had collapsed and the Gardes were really only covering their retreat.
The pontoon bridge is now finished and the Hessians have started to cross. The numbers are now against the French anyway.
An overview of the completed pontoon bridge. The pontonniers were the heroes of the battle.


The company considered the federal government and the military its primary customers, and it focused on marketing to those customers through its direct sales force. For example, its equipment has gone into Iraq to protect rifles, guns and computer equipment from the elements.
Deployable also had a Web site, but online sales were nonexistent.
“We had launched a Web site for e-commerce, but we were getting no real traffic or sales through it,” said company President Mike Morin.
Deployable approached Search Mojo, a search engine marketing agency, with the intention of generating incremental sales revenue through e-commerce.
Initially, Search Mojo worked to gain an understanding of Deployable’s business and customers, then it optimized the company’s Web site. That work included a standard practice among search marketers: identifying a universe of keywords and optimizing the site on a select subset of those terms as well as measuring the organic results. The optimization immediately increased traffic to the Web site.
“It was quite an improvement,” Morin said. “We saw improved results, but not what we were expecting in terms of sales.”
Next, the decision was made to implement paid search. Search Mojo created an account for Deployable with Google AdWords, starting out with a fairly robust list of keywords that Deployable was willing to pay for.
“We wanted to be in the first five listings [in the search results] or at least on the first page,” Morin said.
By testing those keywords on Google and carefully tracking the results, they winnowed that list of words down, removing about 70% of the words that were logical to pay for given the company’s business but which were not converting.
“Some of them were too broad or had too many other meanings to searchers,” Morin said. “We ended up with a subset of 30% of the total and applied our whole budget to those words. Spending money on a smaller subset translated to better positioning [on the results page]. We’re coming in among the top five for most of those words, and it has driven sales.”
Deployable spends an average of $6,500 per month on paid search, including its retainer fee to Search Mojo.
Search Mojo uses Google exclusively for Deployable’s paid search campaigns. “Yahoo has never been a converter for us,” said Janet Driscoll Miller, president-CEO of Search Mojo. “We’ve had a tough time with Yahoo having a good return on investment.”
In addition to testing to identify the best converting keywords, Search Mojo created landing pages for the company, which has had the greatest impact on its sales.
Creating landing pages gave them the ability to highlight very specific, bestseller products. Deployable found out that the most popular items by far were its Storm Case line of cases manufactured by a company called Hardigg and resold by Deployable.
Search Mojo created a landing page for the top five performing cases, with easy links to allow purchase of the products.
“It has made a huge difference in the number of conversions they receive,” Miller said. “It’s challenging for them to convert from the main site because the catalog is so large. There are so many choices. The more [users] have to click, the greater the chance we have to lose them. You have to make it as easy as possible to convert.”
Additional landing pages were gradually created.
“As part of our package, we create a landing page for them every month for their campaigns,” Miller said.
That enables Search Mojo to do multivariate testing in order to compare conversions from one page over another. “We may have a Storm Case page that is performing really well, but maybe we can make it even better. We would simultaneously test it against another page.”
Her business associate agreed.
“For example, we’ll put up a landing page similar to the one we had, but with more of a watertight theme, with pictures of a boat [to highlight that particular benefit of the product],” said Tad Miller, account director at Search Mojo. “We’ve seen improved conversions on those keywords than on our regular landing page.” He added, “You can’t get the whole catalog on the page. We want to give them what sells and what sells best. The emphasis is to drive traffic to the bestsellers.”
Perhaps the most surprising outcome of deploying paid search has been that the federal government and the military, while important customer constituents, have not been the only markets for the company’s products. Deployable discovered entirely new markets.
There was significant demand from b-to-b companies across industries, as well as state and local governments. In addition, integrators for the government, such as Lockheed Martin, have found Deployable through paid search. Even trade show organizers are customers, because they need to transport things like big screen TV monitors.
“The majority of our customer list are not government buyers,” Morin said. “That was not the market we set out to tap; it was a secondary market.”
In terms of results, the program has more than paid for itself, and Deployable plans to expand its search strategy by building landing pages for additional product lines.
In the last 12 months, revenue has soared. “In terms of rough sales numbers, we went from zero at the start to averaging about $35,000 to $40,000 a month in revenue [for the last 12 months], with a high of $80,000 last June,” Morin said.
Morin estimates he has added 2,000 to 3,000 new customers since this time last year. “It gives us a base of customers to market to,” he said.
In addition, they intentionally timed the search campaign to coincide with the government buying season to acquire customers. August and September are typically considered a heavy government buying season, with federal agencies scrambling to spend any remaining balance of their budgets before Oct. 1, when the new fiscal year starts. However, since Deployable discovered a wide array of customers outside the government sector, its paid search program has become a year-round initiative.
“It definitely is a year-round business,” Miller said.


Walk With The Mayor Resumes with Chaumont Bakery and Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
Posted: Saturday, October 14, 2017 – 5:32 PM
Monday is coming – and Monday is Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bosse’s FAVORITE day, because its Walk with the Mayor day, and everyone is invited to Chaumont Bakery and Mitchell Gold+Bob Williams!
Chaumont Bakery and Café is one little gem in the heart of the City. They are rated as one of the 10 Best Brunches in Beverly Hills.
The menu, says Zagat, “Features a variety of grain bowls topped with the likes of lemongrass chicken, tofu or salmon, but the standout items are the soft serve sundaes offered atop hand-held croissant cones.” If that sounds good, listen to what others have to say:
“The pastries at Chaumont in Beverly Hills often steal the spotlight, but don’t forget about lunch! We’re fans of the spicy tuna sandwich,” wrote one review. “Everything was amazing: the coffee, pastries/croissants, and breakfast options,” said one. “Lovely French bakery with amazing food,” wrote one reviewer. “Just like the ‘boulangeries’ in Paris,” wrote another. “Try the almond croissants at your own risk. You’ll find yourself hooked and returning every day for more. Amazing! And the coffee is the best anywhere!”
Appetites satisfied, the next stop will be Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, where modern classic furniture is always in style. Since 1989, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams has had a singular vision – “to make the world a more comfortable (and stylish) place.” With a team of over 700 people and stores throughout the United States and overseas, their designs can be found in fine hotels, restaurants and public spaces, as well as the most comfortable and tasteful homes of Beverly Hills, blending fashion, fun and functionality.
But this company is not all about business, because it also about philanthropy and making the world a healthier and better place.
With LGBT equal rights and education one of their core focuses, founders Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams founded Faith in America in 2006. Their Eco-Friendly initiatives are environmentally safe, supporting the best practices for healthy living. The company is a proud member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council; even their packaging is eco-friendly. MG+BW also believes in the integrity of family – and their employees’ kids enjoy their own on-site, not-for-profit child enrichment center, a fun home-away-from-home where kids can learn, grow and flourish. They even provide an on-site health center for their employees, a gym and healthy-living incentives.
So what you see in their store is not just a piece of furniture – it is the product of a whole lifestyle and a dedication to the holistic health of their MG+BW family of employees – and the health and comfort of their customers.
It is precisely the thing for a Walk with the Mayor with Lili Bosse, whose #BHHealthyCity initiative is all about being holistically healthy – in mind, body, soul and — business in Beverly Hills. It is a perfect union of philosophy!
This Monday, like every Monday when Lili Bosse is Mayor of Beverly Hills, join her and a few hundred of her orange-clad friends in a high-energy, start-your-week-right walk through the City. Meet your neighbors and explore new businesses and merchants in the City. The meet-up is at 8:30 a.m. at the Crescent side of City Hall, so wear your walking shoes. Everyone is welcome! Parking is free at the public parking structure next to the Beverly Hills Public Library!


The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; Vietnamese: Lục quân Việt Nam Cộng hòa), also known as the South Vietnamese army (SVA), were the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975. It is estimated to have suffered 1,394,000 casualties (killed and wounded) during the Vietnam War.
The ARVN begun as a post-colonial army trained and closely affiliated with the US and had engaged in conflict since its inception. Several dramatic changes occurred throughout its lifetime, initially from a 'blocking-force' to more modern a conventional force using helicopter deployment in combat. During the U.S-intervention the role of the ARVN was marginalised to a defensive role with an incomplete modernisation, and transformed again most notably following Vietnamization as it was up-geared, expanded and reconstructed to fulfil the role of the departing US Forces. By 1974 it had became much more effective with foremost counterinsurgency expert and Nixon adviser Robert Thompson noting that Regular Forces were very well-trained and second only to US and IDF forces in the free-world and with General Creighton Abrams remarking that 70% of units were on par with the US Army. However, the rushed retreat of American forces through Vietnamization meant the armed forces could not effectively fulfil all the aims of the program and had became completely dependent on US equipment, given it was meant to fulfil the departing role of the United States.
At its peak, an estimated 1 in 9 citizen of South Vietnam were enlisted and it had became the fourth-largest army in the world composed of Regular Forces and more voluntary Regional Militias and Village-level militias.
Unique in serving a dual military-civilian administrative purpose in direct competition with the Viet Cong political and armed wing, the PLAF. The ARVN had in addition became a component of political power and notably suffered from continual issues of political loyalty appointments, corruption in leadership, factional in-fighting and occasional open conflict between itself .
After the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese army (NVA), the ARVN was dissolved. While some high-ranking officers had fled the country to the United States or elsewhere, thousands of former ARVN officers were sent to reeducation camps by the communist government of the new, unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
On March 8, 1949, after the Élysée Accords the State of Vietnam was recognized by France as an independent country ruled by the Vietnamese Emperor Bảo Đại, and the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) was soon created. The VNA fought in joint operations with the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps against the Viet Minh forces led by Ho Chi Minh. The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to the Battle of Nà Sản (1952), Operation Atlas (1953) and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954).
Benefiting from French assistance, the VNA quickly became a modern army modelled after the Expeditionary Corps. It included infantry, artillery, signals, armored cavalry, airborne, airforce, navy and a national military academy. By 1953 troopers as well as officers were all Vietnamese, the latter having been trained in Ecoles des Cadres such as Da Lat, including Chief of Staff General Nguyễn Văn Hinh who was a French Union airforce veteran.


17 Quotes For The Women Who Are Young At Heart
Go live your dream.
Do you ever feel like you're sometimes just a kid stuck in a millennial's body?
Nostalgia is strong for 90s kids and sometimes we still feel like the same little girl watching The Little Mermaid for the first time. But don't fret! You're not alone. Embrace that you're young at heart, because growing up is overrated.
"Go, live your dream."
"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."
"Just keep swimming."
"Childhood is the world of miracle and magic."
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."-Walt Disney
"Don't just fly, soar."
"Buy only the fearless can be great."
"How do you spell ‘love'?" -Piglet "You don't spell it, you feel it."-Pooh
"The greatest risk any of us will take, is to be seen as we are."-Cinderella
"Youth has no age."-Pablo Picasso
"Take her to the moon for me, okay?"
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairly tales again."-C.S. Lewis
"When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles."-Pooh Bear
"I want adventure in the great wide somewhere."
"Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional."-Walt Disney
"Laughter is timeless imagination has no age and dreams are forever."-Walt Disney
"The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake."-The Little Mermaid
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