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Sodexo currently has a job opportunity for SOUS CHEFS to join our healthcare Food Service team at Holmes Regional Hospital, a 514-bed facility located in Melbourne, Florida. This position will be responsible for assisting with food production for patient dining, retail dining and catering. Looking for someone with strong culinary skills.
Is this opportunity right for you?
Are you an experienced chef ready to take your career to the next level? At Sodexo, you will find the ingredients for a great culinary career. With benefits including schedules that encourage work-life balance, reimbursement of association dues and continuing education opportunities, you enjoy an improved quality of life thats unique in the hospitality industry.
We are looking for candidates who will:
- manage the daily food production including production;
- ensure Sodexo Culinary Standards including recipe compliance and food quality;
- manage food safety, controls and compliance;
- have high expectations for customer service and quality of food;
- have the ability and willingness to develop and train frontline employees;
- have a passion for food;
- have knowledge of special diets and allergens; and
- knowledge of Sodexo Food Management System (FMS) is preferred.
The ideal candidate has:
- a strong culinary background;
- excellent communication skills with the ability to maintain the highest of standards and implements company policies;
- previous experience working in a high volume facility; and
- strong management skills.
Working for Sodexo:
How far will your ambition, talent and dedication take you? Sodexo fosters a culture committed to the growth of individuals through continuous learning, mentoring and other career growth opportunities, along with the performance of organizations. We believe it is important for our work to be meaningful to all who contribute to it, and we remain faithful to our mission, our core values and the ethical principles that have guided us since 1966. We support these values and help them thrive in each employee.
We strive to make working for Sodexo a genuinely great experience with benefits to promote your professional, personal and financial well-being, and to improve your Quality of Life now and into the future. Our experiences with our over 50 million customers each and every day enable us to develop Quality of Life services that reinforce the well-being of individuals, improving their effectiveness and helping companies and organizations to improve performance \u2026 every day.
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Position Summary
Leads food preparation at one station of a foodservice operation (i.e., salads, soups). May supervise less than two full time employees.
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Basic Education Requirement - High School Diploma, GED or equivalentSodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.
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If everything were in my hands, I would really snatch out some directly out of the screen!
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I saw a girl the other day with a great t-shirt on. It was a simple grey colour with lots of fun colourful beads around the neck. I loved this idea, so I took a sticky note and drew (very messily) a little cartoon version of the shirt to remind myself. This project only took 20 minutes because all you need is:
- a shirt
- beads
- a needle and thread
First, gather up all your beads. I used a pink and red theme. Then take your shirt, and create a "knot" with the thread by putting it through your fabric a few times. Slide each bead onto the needle and sew them in separately. Here is a picture of me 1/4 of the way.
The once you get to the end, secure the thread and you are all finished.
I'd wear this shirt with my jeans, but you can dress it up too! Try adding beads to different parts of a shirt – maybe the shoulders?


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Challenge Accepted is a web-based app that turns your to-do list into a quest log, and turns you into a bold adventurer. Earn experience points for your real-life adventures by treating them like quests in your favorite role-playing games. Are you ready to join the battle?
These things don't display for magical beans on older browsers or Internet Explorer. We recommend Google Chrome, a fully updated Firefox or even Safari for the full experience.
An adventurer's class tends to reflect their personal style, and how they prefer to get things done.
But of course, people change! Your class is not set in stone. To change it, you need only go to your character sheet, click "edit,", and pick a new class from the drop-down menu.
Make art, not war! Or, if you must make war, for Lim's sake, at least be creative about it. Using song and story, the bard captivates audiences, ensnares enemies, and keeps themselves in sitar picks and new strings. A bard won't often settle for the usual method of completing a quest. Instead, the bard will spin a remix, creating a new tactic capable of both raising the roof AND bringing the house down.
The culinarian seeks glory through gastronomy. Whether they studied in the prestigious kitchens of the old masters, or whether the aim to take the foodie scene by storm with food cart and a cuisine that's completely unique, culinarians value hard work and attention to detail. And when a disagreement must be settled, or a goblin slain... well. A culinarian knows how to wield a chef's knife. Allez productivity!
The path of the healer is difficult, but rewarding. Healers find welcome anywhere, no matter how far they wander from home. Healers prefer to take quests as they come. They focus on tasks that require urgent attention, prioritize the next most important, and leave alone things that can be done another day.
Herbalists know that growth takes time. Just as a seed becomes a beautiful flower or a towering tree, an adventurer's skills bloom with practice and care. Herbalists don't stress about immediate results, choosing instead to focus their energy towards eventual rewards. And let's face it, where would adventurers be without potions? DEAD. THEY WOULD ALL BE DEAD. (Probably.)
For those called to learn its ways, magic is not merely a tool: it is a way of life. A mage devotes all their energy to studying the building blocks of the world, so that they can cast spells that reshape it entirely. Similarly, mages like to break quests down into their most basic tasks, and methodically work through them all.
Silent, swift, and deadly, the ninja is a skillful spy and assassin. Their training in the martial arts has given them immense discipline, which they use to complete quests with poise and efficiency. You'll never see a ninja putting off for tomorrow what they could do today. That is, if you ever see a ninja at all… Aside from their discipline, ninjas are known for their stealth tactics, and accomplish tasks in sneaky, unexpected ways.
Pirates sail the seas—and the skies—in search of one thing: treasure. Well, two things: treasure and a good time. Well: treasure, a good time, and the opportunity to confound figures of traditional authority. So, amongst their interests are such diverse elements as treasure, a good time, the opportunity to confound figures of traditional authority, and a really good barrel of rum—moving on. Pirates are as disorganized as they come: they tend to plan things at the last minute, but go after them with great enthusiasm and single-minded drive.
Rangers forsake the hustle and bustle of cities and towns to live in the wilds, talking to the animals and speaking for the trees. They generally know the language and lore of many cultures, and are skilled with multiple weapons rather than mastering a single one. They prefer to focus on the big picture, rather than sweating all the little details, and will try many different strategies to find the one that best fits a particular task.
The rogues are a crafty bunch, preferring to use their quick wits and their nimble fingers, rather than their muscles, to find success. Rogues are known for using a wide array of tools t o increase their productivity and help them complete quests in a quick, profitable manner.
You're not mad, per se: mildly upset is far more accurate. You've even got the numbers to prove it! And it's not like it makes your findings any less accurate. For SCIENCE!
Those who walk the warrior's path are known for their strength, their tenacity, and their commitment to totally rad parties. Warriors may not be the most organized bunch, but once they commit a quest, they go after it with a will and power through. Warriors work best with companions to fight alongside, and will often go searching for those who need their help.
The pen is mightier than the sword!


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MDM Cloud
Master data management (MDM) as a discipline and technology is over 10 years old. Not much has changed in this time, with the 2006 Microsoft publication "The What, Why, and How of Master Data Management" still coming up tops on Google, reflecting that there are those who still want to understand the basics.
A comparison of legacy on-premises MDM solutions such as Informatica MDM (formerly Siperian), IBM InfoSphere, Oracle Customer Hub, Tibco MDM and even Talend master data management in Gartner's latest customer and product data magic quadrants highlight that there isn't anything new to be excited about. Even the era of hosted on- premises systems masquerading as cloud has come and gone. And even those that provide cloud MDM today are limited to a single customer domain, and mostly designed to improve the quality of data in popular SaaS CRM systems.
Traditionally MDM been only affordable for large enterprises with the resources required to take on a multi-year master data management strategy and endeavor. A lengthy initial implementation and ongoing upgrade cost of hardware, software maintenance coupled with the inability to quickly deliver relevant applications to business users has some labeling legacy master data management as a promise unfulfilled.
Companies without means have typically been left wanting, either using CRM systems for their customer master data management tool and system of record, or manually tracking and reconciling data through spreadsheets.
Implementing a complete multi-domain MDM solution, principally customer and product data has not been easy. Even though some tools claim to universally support both, they are rarely deployed within the same instance, thereby further perpetuating silos of data.
Finding skilled master data management experts who have gone through intensive master data management certification, which could take up to three weeks just to learn the basics, is also cost prohibitive.
With some original MDM systems hitting their 12 year birthday, enterprises are re-thinking their data management strategy across the board. Not just for master data, but how they need to accommodate the increasing wealth of information being provided through transactions, interactions and social channels.
Fortunately the increasing popularity of big data technologies, coupled with cloud-based data management and delivery, is improving the efficiency and affordability of master data management for organizations large and small.
Unfortunately it is still hard for companies to avoid fragmenting data sets into silos and then having to use disparate tools and technologies to stitch together a unified view of information that continues to expand and grow.
Our team at Reltio is very familiar with these issues as we were among the first to deliver some of the most popular MDM solutions over the course of 10+ years when we worked at Siperian, Informatica, Oracle and IBM. Reltio Cloud, which delivers a unique combination of both modern data management and data-driven applications, is a solution that addresses this challenge, with unique functionality designed to take advantage of new opportunities.
Reltio Cloud is goes beyond MDM by providing a transformational modern data management platform that:
- Supports both structured and unstructured data at any volume and scale
- Blends and relates multi-domain master data, reference data, transaction, interaction and social data into a single unified view
- Provides data-as-a-service so you can access third party provider data sets through a single click
- Has granular data change tracking history down to attribute point-in-time level comparison for audit and compliance
- Handles complex connections, hierarchies and relationships between multiple domains using graph technology
- Forms a foundation to instantly deploy easy-to-use enterprise data-driven applications to business users
- Doesn't require going to university to learn how to use it


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By Noel Randewich
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison played down concerns on Wednesday about possible government snooping in his business customers' private data.
At an industry conference in San Francisco, an audience member asked the Oracle co-founder what to tell potential Oracle cloud-computing clients who worry that the National Security Agency could access their information.
"To the best of our knowledge, an Oracle database hasn't been broken into for a couple of decades by anybody," Ellison replied. "It's so secure, there are people that complain," he added.
Oracle, Salesforce.com and other major Silicon Valley companies are increasingly offering Internet-based business services for things like human resources, accounting and sales management, in a trend known as cloud computing.
Entrusting software and data management to cloud services can save companies the expense of maintaining their own servers and other IT infrastructure.
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations about U.S. government surveillance have increased companies' concerns about privacy and may cost U.S. technology vendors billions of dollars in lost sales, analysts say.
David Litchfield, an established security expert and frequent speaker at top hacking conferences, disagreed with Ellison's comments and said he regularly sees Oracle systems being compromised.
"Of all of the commercial databases, Oracle is the least secure," he told Reuters by email.
The roots of Ellison's software company go back to 1977, when the Central Intelligence Agency contracted him and two co-workers to design a database, codenamed Oracle. The same year, Ellison and his colleagues founded the database company that would eventually be renamed Oracle.
In an interview with CBS News' Charlie Rose in August, Ellison said he believed the NSA's widespread surveillance was essential to preventing terrorism.
(Additional reporting by Joseph Menn; Editing by Matt Driskill)


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A proper adaptation for Castlevania has been a long time coming.
The franchise, which got its start on the NES, has a long history of top-quality games, and many were ecstatic when Netflix dropped the first season of their take on Castlevania into the monstrous horde of fans, who were eager to drink its blood and taste its flesh... or something like that.
Based on the third entry in the franchise, Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, the violent, gory, and profane Netflix series follows Trevor Belmont, the last of the exiled Belmont Clan, who meets a young sorceress named Sypha Belnades. The duo then team up with the son of Dracula, Alucard, in order to eliminate the catastrophic threat of Count Vlad Tepes himself.
Thankfully, the show runners were keen enough to include numerous Easter eggs and references to the storied history of the franchise, giving long-time fans something further to chew on.
With that said, it's time to grab your oak stake and garlic, because we're marching straight to the Castle with our list of the 15 Things You Didn't Know About Netflix's Castlevania.
When Castlevania appeared from the mist on the NES in 1987, players were delighted to lay waste to Dracula's minions with the unconventional weapon of a whip.
Known as "Vampire Killer," this item became a series' hallmark, with an iteration of it appearing throughout its storied history in nearly every entry. Along with its appearance, however, also came its ability to make the player's enemies explode into balls of fire.
For a time, this could have been chalked up as a way to save the programmer's from having to animate gory death sequences or elaborate expirations, but Netflix's Castlevania proves that fiery doom awaits all unholy creatures who face the whip's wrath.
In the series, Trevor strikes an oncoming vampiric demon with it and, upon being lashed, the creature's flesh bubbles up and combusts in a bloody, incendiary display, solidifying what was started way back on the Nintendo Entertainment System, all thanks to it being blessed to deal with the supernatural.
The original Castlevania was technically an action-platformer, but its actual mechanics separated it from its genre kin. Where others were fast paced, fluid, and twitchy, Castlevania was clunky, slow, and contemplative.
The Belmont you controlled strutted along at a deliberate pace, his jumps were unwieldy, and there was a delay in your attack command. These were intentional gameplay additions, as the stages were strategically designed around this, with treacherous enemy placement and patterns.
To make things easier, a selection of sub-weapons could be collected that would bolster your Belmont's weaknesses, such as a fast, far-flying dagger, or an axe that could attack vertical enemies.
In the Netflix series, Trevor uses nearly all of the classic sub-weapons in one way or another, and it's exciting to behold for long-time fans. He's armed with silver daggers that he's prone to throwing, crosses are regularly brandished, an axe is hurled during one scene, and he even gets a local priest to consecrate buckets of water in order to sear the flesh off a demonic horde.
In fact, the only sub-weapon that doesn't make an appearance is the time-stopping clockwatch, but perhaps that'll be reserved for the second season.
Back in 2007, a blog run by Warren Ellis appeared to reveal that pre-production was beginning on a yet-unannounced animated film based on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.
Periodically, snippets of his script or concept art for the production would appear, trickling information for years until it finally stopped. However, even then, eagle-eyed fans kept noticing that the copyright of the site continued to update, giving a faint flicker of hope like a dying candelabra in the castle crypt, until, that too, stopped.
Now, the blog has been laid to rest, forever entombed, but its contents live on in the form of Netflix's series, with Ellis as the main writer.
While some may argue that the new series uses a brand-new script, it's clear to those who read the excerpts years ago that most of the elements were carried over. This is all but confirmed by one infamous sequence in which two locals discuss how their acquaintance has gone blind from his, er, "encounters" with one of their goats.
Who would have thought that a disgusting discussion about bestiality would have been the proof that Ellis' script eventually saw the light of day?
The two major players in the Castlevania series have been Dracula and the Belmont family. It's only fitting that both Dracula and Trevor Belmont's voice actors in the 2017 series have a history together in one specific property: The Hobbit.
Graham McTavish, the man who brings Vlad Tepes to life, has a long list of television, film, and video game credits, doing everything from playing Tommy Holiday in Creed to acting as a mercenary in Rambo.
However, his time as Dwalin in The Hobbit trilogy is likely what he's best known for in the geeky realm. As Dwalin the dwarf, he survived the ordeal of the Lonely Mountain and the Battle of the Five Armies, going on to bid farewell to Bilbo with the rest of his comrades at its conclusion.
Trevor's voice actor, Richard Armitage, is also no slouch when it comes to roles, being a pilot in Star Wars Episode I, Francis Dolarhyde in Hannibal, and having countless stage roles. However, he too, also toiled in the mountains during The Hobbit films as Thorin Oakenshield, the man who led the expedition that would set the sometimes-questionable events of the Lord of the Rings in motion.
Adi Shankar has a long history in making violent, irreverent takes on beloved nostalgic properties, and as producer of the 2017 Castlevania, he lives up to his reputation.
Born in India, he has made a name for himself by being the executive producer on 2012's Dredd, an excellent film based on the A.D. 2000 property Judge Dredd, whose gritty atmosphere and straight-forward action created a cult fanbase.
Along with this, he's also made a series of one-shot films that he calls "the Bootleg Universe," which are typically radical takes on familiar properties. A major hit in this roster was his take on the Power Rangers, titled Power/Rangers, which focused on a timeline where the Rangers lost, starting a downward spiral into darkness.
Best of all, his version of Castlevania has been a hit, and he'll be using his video game adaptation magic on yet another franchise, specifically the wildly successful Assassin's Creed property, which will also be on Netflix in the future.
Before the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow trilogy was dreamt up, the long-running series was dangerously fatigued and seemingly only relegated to numerous (but still high-quality) installments on handhelds. However, Dracula had other plans.
Released to critical and commercial successs, 2010's Lords of Shadow was a reimagining to the aging franchise, shaking up much of the lore while retaining all of the critical elements tied to its identity.
While a certain extremely vocal minority of the fanbase decried the trilogy for changing things up, it was great to see the game and its sequels referenced in the Netflix show. During a scene at the local pub, we learn from some angry drunks how much they despite the affluent Belmont family, and that they regret not killing every last one of them when the family was exiled.
No sooner is this revealed that Trevor Belmont, the main protagonist, makes his presence known and absent-mindedly reveals a crest on his shirt. The crest is that of the Belmont family, and its appearance is nearly identical to how its look in the Lords of Shadow games.
Seeing this was an awesome nod to the divisive series, so here's to hoping there's more to come.
NES games are notorious for having cover art that either totally lies about the content of the game, or is an awfully rendered, nightmare-version of the main character.
For example, the cover of Bomberman features a robotic warrior cradling a futuristic bomb while explosions surround him, while the game, despite having a similar presence, follows a cute little guy that drops cartoony bombs on questionably-evil balloons.
Then there's the Mega Man box art, which, instead of featuring a robotic youth with a gun on his arm, chooses to represent the game by having a forty-something year-old man wearing baggy clothes holding a pistol.
Thankfully, the original Castlevania's artwork was accurate and awesome, with Simon Belmont striking a heroic pose and brandishing his deadly whip in front of the dreaded Castle.
One oddity about the art, however, is that Simon appeared to have a holstered sword at his side, which was never used in-game. Thankfully, Trevor makes use of that very sword throughout the Netflix series, and its an excellent callback to fans who have always wanted to see a Belmont let loose with the sheathed weapon.
Castlevania III is unquestionably the most brutally difficult game in an already excruciatingly difficult series. While the stages and enemies provided ample challenge, the bosses added an even more imposing challenge to players skilled enough to reach them.
Netflix's Castlevania took note of this, and made sure to feature one of the more iconic bosses from the game, the dreaded Cyclops.
In actuality, the Cyclops is one of the easier bosses, able to be crushed quite easily from the relative safety of a nearby cliff. That said, the show amped up his presence, ditching his massive hammer for the power to turn people into stone, and created an elaborately choreographed fight sequence to boot.
Even cooler was that a little known trick to defeating the Cyclops, using the dagger when lightning strikes, was referenced by having Trevor tie a dagger to a the end of whip and using his to kill the beast.
Alucard originally appeared in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, but it wasn't until Symphony of the Night that his popularity skyrocketed, forever cementing him as a favorite in the franchise, so it's only appropriate that his character reflects this.
Similar to SotN, he is the son of Dracula and a human named Lisa, having the powers of his father and the love of his mother. After Dracula decides to lay waste to humankind, Alucard takes matters into his own hands, as his compassion will not allow for this kind of slaughter, and takes a stand against his father.
Plot details aren't the only homages, however, as he also references the official artwork for Symphony of the Night, where he strikes the iconic pose of his sword to his face for a brief second in the opening credits.
Lastly, his actual appearance mirrors both his Symphony of the Night regalia and his general look from Lords of Shadow. In LoS, he wears his jacket open, shirtless, with his scarred body on full display, which is how he first appears in this series. Later, he dons his famous jacket, matching up with his 1997 counterpart, combining the best of both worlds.
During the first episode, we learn much about Dracula and his relationship with humanity. After having his beloved taken away by witch-hunting crowds, Dracula makes a vow to utterly decimate everyone in Wallachia.
He uses an enchanted mirror to make this proclamation and, for a brief second, his look and aesthetic are a nearly identical image to that of his character portrait in Symphony of the Night, done by Ayami Kojima.
Ayami Kojima is a fantastically talented artist who, using massive canvas and multiple mediums, has created countless official artworks for the Castlevania franchise, often filled with haunting hidden imagery and surreal, dream-like qualities.
It was wonderful to see her art referenced in this production, as she had long-defined the look of the series with her gothic style and imposing atmospheric presence through her art.
The Castlevania gamed series predominantly focused on medieval time periods, weapons and magic, with science or modern technology typically relegated to a near non-existent role.
This is all turned upside down in the Netflix series, where Dracula has a keen interest in genuine science, despite some flourishes. In peaceful times, he taught Lisa the science of medicine, but after her death, he combined his hellish powers with his empirical knowledge and laid waste to the countryside.
Strangely enough, this was a plot point in Lords of Shadow 2. Placing the players in the role of Dracula in the near future, he awakens to find that the ruins of his castle have been turned into a modern city, and the children of Satan secretly run the major corporations within it.
With the Devil's help, they'd been mixing science with hellish arts, creating monstrously powerful artificial beings and super-viruses with demonic elements in order to bring about the apocalypse, posing major threats to not just the world, but Dracula himself.
Sypha Belnades is one of four playable characters in Dracula's Curse. With her, the player is able to use magic abilities, providing a great contrast between her and Trevor Belmont.
Being an integral part of the game, it was absolutely fitting for her to play a major role in the animated adaptation. Unexpectedly, however, Warren Ellis made sure to reference an oddity from the game's original script.
Before Sypha's introduction in the series, Trevor is told he must rescue a Speaker's "grandchild," who is then referred to exclusively by gender-neutral terms, surprising Trevor to her identity as a woman upon finally meeting her.
In the original game, when the player comes across Sypha, they are asked if they want to take "him" with them or leave "him" behind. Couple that with her hooded (and sometimes manly) artwork, a great debate took over playgrounds all over the '90s about her gender, despite the fact that the game calls her a "she" in the finale.
However, then again, who in the world could get that far in the impossibly difficult Castlevania III?
The writer for Castlevania, Warren Ellis, is an award-winning author, well-known for a myriad of creative endeavors, such as screenplays and novels, but his biggest claim to fame is the work he's done in regards to comic books.
Although a large body of his work is with original series, such as Red, Trees, and Injection, he's also spent time as a writer for Marvel, with Moon Knight, X-Men and even the groundwork for Iron Man 3, the Extremis arc.
He's rightfully received recognition for his efforts, too, as the recipient of seven Eagle Awards in various categories, the Sidewise Award, and a the Best One-Shot from Wizard Magazine.
Most intriguingly, however, are his transhumanist beliefs, which permeate throughout his body of work, and even into Castlevania, with its focus on science leading to salvation, but being misunderstood by a group threatened by its power.
One of the most iconic parts of the titular Castlevania is its Clock Tower. Typically filled with some of the most difficult and frustrating platforming in any given game, it's also a usual contender for having a critical showdown with an extremely powerful boss.
Netflix's Castlevania was acutely aware of this, and they made sure to incorporate both of these elements. As Sypha and Trevor sought a "legendary warrior" within the depths of the catacombs, the two found themselves in a clockwork-laden dungeon, complete with rotating gears and death-defying swings, courtesy of the holy whip.
While this area wasn't technically the Clock Tower proper, it contained nearly all of the elements about it that makes gamers sweat, and also managed to reference an exact stage from Castlevania III. Of course, waiting for 0ur heroes at the end was a climactic clash against the son of Dracula himself, Alucard, satisfying the requirement for a challenging boss battle.
Thankfully there were no Medusa Heads to speak of, but it would have been nice to see Grant DaNasty, who is found in the tower, and is the only major character missing from the proceedings.
Simon's Quest, the second Castlevania game for the NES, is generally considered one of the worst games in not just the series, but the system's entire library. Its slow-pace is crippling, its difficulty can feel insurmountable, and, worst of all, its progression is exceedingly cryptic, to the point where if you don't have a guide, you might not make any progress at all.
A large portion of the frustration is caused by the game's many "helpful" denizens. Within a town's walls, Simon is able to converse with these aimless wanderers for tips, but don't expect too much. Aside from blatantly lying, they'll say things like "do not look into the death star or you will die," and "believe in magic and you'll be saved," both of which mean absolutely nothing… or do they?
It was a treat to see these villagers referenced in the 2017 series, as Trevor walks through a town, gathering information, and listening to all kinds of nonsense from the many of the local citizens.
If you were a fan of the games but hesitant to give the series a try, this reason alone should be enough assurance to prove that you won't be disappointed.
What do you think about Netflix's Castlevania? Are there any other interesting facts we missed? Let us know in the comments!


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If any local geek could know everything about you from your favorite font, it's probably Jenny Lam.
The graphics guru who helped design Vista and Windows Live now works at software startup Jackson Fish Market, and she's seattlepi.com's Geek of the Week.
Photo by Robert Scoble. Have someone in mind for next time? Let me know.
Name: Jenny Lam
Title: Co-founder, Jackson Fish Market
What do you do, exactly? I make software beautiful and easy to use. Specifically I build brands, design user interfaces, and integrate the two to create a focused, cohesive emotional experience.
Geekiest title you've ever had: �Kerning Colonel�
Geekiest thing you've ever done: For my wedding this summer, I designed a seating chart that assigned tables by the font used for each guest�s name. (I think some of them cheated, and just waited for everyone else to sit down!)
Favorite movie: "It�s a Wonderful Life"
Favorite game: Right now, I�m loving Sims 3
Favorite book: Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces V: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI '06, 6-8 June 2006 Bucharest, Romania, vol. 5 by Gaëlle Calvary (just kidding! J)
Favorite junk food:
Favorite time waster: Watching Law & Order while catching up on Facebook
Mac or PC? I go both ways.
iPhone or Blackberry? iPhone.
Star Wars or Star Trek? Star Wars.
When did you first know you were a geek? Describe that moment: An issue of U&lc (a typography magazine I used to subscribe to and now out of print), Stylus & Writing Equipment Society Magazine, and the eBay auction purchase of a 1923 Manual of Linotype Typography delivered to my house on the same day. My roommate got Newsweek and People.
Who are your geek heroes, and why? I�m a big fan of Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Not only are they big change agents in the world of design, but they are always shipping.
Look into your crystal ball: What's the next big disruptive technology/event/movement? More ways for people to create art & design using technology (and make money doing it). For example: high quality films, toys, sneakers, ceramics, etc � a la threadless.com
Final thoughts? A geek love story: I met my husband — and got my first patent! — working on a Microsoft project that was code-named after Gene Roddenberry�s wife. (Not that I knew it at the time�)
Geek link: jacksonfish.com
Twitter: helveticagirl
Our last GoW, Marty Stepp, asked Jenny what her favorite number was — 1 or 0?
"Zero, clearly," she said.
To keep a thread going with future GoW's, we asked Jenny to submit a question for the next geek. Check back next week to find out what it is, and how it's answered.


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Guestrooms have MP3 docking stations, complimentary wireless Internet access, and fax machines; rooms also include air conditioning and...
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The bedrooms including 14 seaview bedrooms all have en suite bathrooms with full facilities. Rooms are of a medium size and have good...
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Sunday, July 16, 2006
Hakuna asked me to remind you that Carnival of the Cats #121 will be posted later today at Musings...
Aw, crap. No, she didn't. Hakuna does not speak the Language of Men, and in fact she speaks precious little of the Language of Cats. And she probably does not give a Rat's Ass about the Carnival of the Cats. Pretty much all she cares about is getting a warm place to sleep, two squares a day, and staying the hell out of Matata's way.
Really, all I was looking for was an excuse to post this photograph. So there you are.
Update: The Carnival is up. Go see it here.
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Did you miss the "festivity" of June jazz concerts in major Manhattan venues — or did you find ways of coping without them? There's so much fine music — jazz and beyond — in nearby festive settings, many of them out-of-doors, that the absence of a 38-year-old institution doesn't seem to have made much stir. Perhaps you didn't even notice?
Here's my most recent City Arts – NYC report on how George Wein responded to his perennial presence in New York City's jazz summer being suspended, upcoming classic jazz alternatives in Kent, CT, Katonah NY and Tanglewood, MA — plus notes on promising "world music" events coming up free in Central Park, Battery Park, Prospect Park and the late August Charlie Parker fest, uptown and downtown.
I was thrilled to hear the daringly improvisational but highly groovy electric bass lines of Maestro Melvin Gibbs undergird his Elevated Entity free at the Prospect Park bandshell in a Celebrate Brooklyn! concert last week. I heard good things there about the previous David Rudder performance (audience estimated as 80% Brooklyn's West Indian population) and the David Byrne show which opened the season ("27,000 people, the police didn't even have a report of anyone being sick" according to publicist Blake Zidell). I partook of VIP seating privileges but the sight lines and sound were fine for everyone everywhere, including the lawns. Best of all was the music: this the peak Afro-Caribbean-rock-funk-jazz ensemble outings I've enjoyed in, oh, the past five years.
Guitarist Vernon Reid was inspired to launch two harmonically far-reaching solos that establish him once and for all as way past any of the more commercial idolized gtr gdz, riding out his own twists on the live-wire Hendrix/Mahavishnu line — but he couldn't have done it without Gibbs' super-low fluid and propulsive bottom, the space-jam beds and fills provided by keyboardist Bernie Worrell, the solid in-the-pocket drummer of J.T. Lewis and an Afro-Latin percussionist. Amayo, a loose-limbed cheerleader-type singer with dramatically painted face (best known with the Brooklyn band Antibalas) served as front man, with a guest rapper on two early tunes, and he was fine, but it was the instrumental work that raised this set to its heights, well above the levels of complexity and instantaneous engagement that headliner Fema Kuti attained with his big touring Afro-pop show. This set didn't have the Brazilian nuances producer Arto Lindsay brought to Elevated Entity's excellent record Ancients Speak, which has a more extended cast. Just proving Elevated Entity is a concept, not a fixed act. If all the Celebrate Brooklyn! shows are this good, why go elsewhere, farther? Check the series' complete summer schedule.
- However on Sunday July 5 at Central Park Summerstage, free, 3 pm to 7 pm, women singers of Africa including Mali's Oumou Sangare, the Paris-born Les Nubians and 25-year-old Nigerian Asa.
- And I enthusiastically recommend the "Steppin' Off The Corner" take-off-on-Miles gig Wed. July 8 free, 7 to 9 pm — a River to River festival event at Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, 7 pm featuring Ingrid Jensen, trumpet; Steve Gorn, bansuri flute; South Asian-American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa; Badal Roy, tablas; Michael Henderson, electric bass; Kenny Wessel, electric guitar and Mike Clark, drums and on the basis of having heard some of these folks wail on this material at Merkin Hall and Iridium in May. Free.
- (also that night, 7 pm to 10 pm at Summerstage, "electronic and danceable sounds from Argentina and Brazil, presented in association with the Latin Alternative Music Conference" — Juana Molina, Curumin and El G (ZZK). Free.)
- Saturday, July 11 from 3 pm to 7 pm, Central Park Summerstage: "internationally renowned, high-energy Argentine sensations Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, with opening support from alternative hip hop via Puerto Rico Eric Bobo." Free.
- Thurs July 16, Wagner Park Battery Park City, 6 pm, free: Junior Mack, is a smooth voiced singer and well-informed guitarist with a large repertoire and a lot of heart, leads his Blues Band, seldom playing NYC outside of the Bleeker St. bar Terra Blues.
- July 18 is the can't miss concert by King Sunny Ade at Prospect Park again (gates for seating open at 1 pm, music runs from 2 to 9 pm); the Nigerian ju-ju guitarist and smoothie headlines a day-long Africa fest with (from the pr) "South Africa's Freshly Ground; The Mandingo Ambassadors, from NYC by way of Guinea, Senegalese drum troupe Cheikh M'Baye & Sing Sing, Brooklyn-born, Ghanaian vocalist Abena Koomson and whirling traditional Egyptian dancer Yasser Darwish." Free.
- Next day, Sun July 19 Summerstage strikes back with Ivory Coast's Alpha Blondy and political reggaeist Lee "Scratch" Perry, 3 to 7 pm, free.
- Thurs July 23, 5:30 pm, George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian (Bowling Green, Old Customs House) — The Bannaba Project, Kuna people of Panama (advertising: "pre-Columbia roots, Caribbean rhythms"), free (River-to-River fest event).
- Wed. July 29 7 pm, Wagner Park, Battery Place and West St. — Quimbombo, "groove-oriented Cuban son," free (River-to-River fest).
- Thurs, July 30, 6:30 pm, Celebrate Brooklyn! Prospect Park — throaty reggae singer Burning Spear and Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, free.
- Monday, August 03, 2009, 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm Central Park SummerStage — banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck and kora master Toumani Diabaté perform, " followed by a screening of the documentary tracing Fleck's journey through Africa in search of the origins of the banjo." Suggested donation $5.
- Sat., August 29 and Sunday, Aug 30 — both days starting at 3 p.m. — free — in Marcus Garvey Park (Harlem) and Tompkins Sq. Park (East Village, respectively — the Charlie Paker Jazz Festival. Swing-to-bop-modernist tenor saxophone-flutist Frank Wess, from-the-'60s alto saxist Gary Bartz and emerging pianist Aaron Parks are attractions in Harlem, post-bop pianist Cedar Walton, Papo Vasquez Pirates Troubadores — almost a boogaloo band — and unclassifiable singer Pyeng Threadgill star downtown.
Also see the August dates for Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors — I notice that Iraqi trumpeter Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Large is co-billed with
pianist Dave Brubeck's band and guest oudist Simon Shaheen on Wed., Aug 5 at Damrosch Park bandshell, 7:30 pm, free. A steal at that price.
pianist Dave Brubeck's band and guest oudist Simon Shaheen on Wed., Aug 5 at Damrosch Park bandshell, 7:30 pm, free. A steal at that price.
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Forms of Cause Marketing: Purchasing, Licensing, and Message Promotion
A partnership between a nonprofit and a for-profit for mutual profit is called cause marketing. Three of the forms of cause marketing are purchasing-based donations, licensing and caused focused messaging.
Purchase or action-triggered donations
A purchase or action-triggered donation occurs when a consumer performs a particular action — donating a coat, liking a Facebook page, and so on — or purchases a product or service. In both instances, a donation is made to a cause. For example, when you buy the RED app for iPhone and iPod touch, Shazam contributes 20 percent from the $5.99 price tag to the Global Fund to invest in HIV/AIDS programs.
Licensing is when a company pays a fee to use a nonprofit's brand on its product. Licensing typically includes a certification process by the nonprofit before the company is allowed to use the logo. A longstanding licensing pact is the Arthritis Foundation's Ease-of-Use Commendation for the Advil Caplets Easy Open Arthritis Cap.
Cause marketing licensing is practiced by only large causes with the iconic brands, such as Komen for the Cure and the American Heart Association. These well-established causes can drive consumer buying and have the legal teams to ensure that pacts are executed properly. Cause marketing licensing is not a realistic option for small companies and causes.
Message promotion
Message promotion is when a business puts its resources to work to promote a cause-focused message. For example, pet food company Iams recruited celebrity spokesperson Hilary Swank, a two-time academy award winner and the owner of two adopted dogs, for ads in support of the Helen Woodward Animal Shelter. Swank's voice was used in a pair of moving public service announcements showing shelter dogs and cats bonding with their new owners. "The real reward in adopting a pet," Swank says, "is when the pet adopts you."
Sometimes message promotion is combined with a charitable gift. In the case of "Red, White & You" from New England Confectionary Company (NECCO), their print ad was combined with a $75,000 donation to the United Service Organizations (USO) and enough sweetheart candies for 3,000 care packages.


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Drinking to forget your problems?
Scientists have found that drinking will actually help you to remember them.
A new study from the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at Austin says that getting drunk primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember things more clearly.
The common view that drinking makes you forget about things and impairs your learning is not wrong, but it highlights only one side of what alcohol does to the brain.
Neurobiologist Hitoshi Morikawa told Science Daily: 'Usually, when we talk about learning and memory, we're talking about conscious memory.
'Alcohol diminishes our ability to hold on to pieces of information like your colleague's name, or the definition of a word, or where you parked your car this morning.
'But our subconscious is learning and remembering too, and alcohol may actually increase our capacity to learn, or "conditionability", at that level.'
Mr Morikawa's study, results of which were published last month in The Journal of Neuroscience, found that repeated exposure to ethanol enhances synaptic plasticity in a key area in the brain.
When people drink alcohol or take drugs, the subconscious is not only learning to consume more but becoming more receptive to forming subconscious memories and habits with respect to food, music, even people and social situations.
Mr Morikawa says that alcoholics aren't addicted to the experience of pleasure or relief they get from drinking alcohol but to the environmental, behavioural and physiological cues that are reinforced when alcohol triggers the release of dopamine in the brain.
He said: 'People commonly think of dopamine as a happy transmitter, or a pleasure transmitter, but more accurately it's a learning transmitter.
'It strengthens those synapses that are active when dopamine is released.
Among the things learned when drinking alcohol is that it is rewarding.
Going to the bar, chatting with friends, eating certain foods, listening to certain kinds of music and other pleasant things people do while drinking alcohol are rewarding.
The more often we do these things while drinking, and the more dopamine that gets released, the more 'potentiated' the various synapses become and the more people crave the set of experiences and associations that orbit around the alcohol use.
Morikawa's long-term hope is that by understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of addiction better, he can develop anti-addiction drugs that would weaken, rather than strengthen, the key synapses.
He said: 'We're talking about de-wiring things. It's kind of scary because it has the potential to be a mind controlling substance. Our goal, though, is to reverse the mind controlling aspects of addictive drugs.'
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Beautifully seasoned, crispy on the surface and fluffy inside, this leavened spring onion flatbread only takes 10 mins to cook in a pan.
Traditionally, in the North-west of China where I was born, wheat-flour based food is a dominant staple. My parents used to buy big bags of flour (25 kg each package) and make all types of noodles, buns and breads from scratch. One of my favourite staples back then was "mum's best" flatbread (Lao Bing, 烙饼). Based on what I learnt from my mum, I created a recipe with a few twists of my own. Now my pan-fried spring onion flatbread (葱油发面饼) made from leavened dough has become my own children's "mum's best".
Chinese kitchens are not usually equipped with ovens. Home cooks make bread either by steaming or by cooking in a pan / wok. There are two types of Chinese pan-cooked flatbread: unleavened ones such as Spiced beef flatbread and Chinese tortilla (Spring pancake); leavened ones like the spring onion flatbread I'm sharing today.
Same as preparing other leavened bread, the key is to leave adequate time for the dough to rise properly. The rising process takes place in two stages: one after you form the dough; the other after you shape the bread. Well-risen dough will result in a fluffy and soft texture inside the finished bread.
It takes about 40 minutes to 1.5 hours to double the dough in size during the first rising stage (depending on the room temperature). Recently I learnt from food blogger Nagi (Recipetin Eats) an unusual but very effective way to speed up the process: run an empty tumble dryer for 2 minutes, then place the bowl (dough in, covered with wet kitchen towel) inside the drum. I tested this method the other day: 40 minutes, job done!
The flatbread my mum used to make was cooked in a pan without any oil. It wasn't seasoned with any flavour neither. I like its natural taste which has a slight hint of sweetness. Inspired by a classic street food called Cong You Bing (葱油饼, known as Scallion Pancake which is made from unleavened dough), I added a few elements to my mum's recipe.
- Season the flatbread with spring onion, ground Sichuan pepper (or Chinese five-spice powder) and salt. Be generous with the spring onion. It's the soul of the flavour.
- Roll, fold and coil the dough in a particular way. This gives the finished bread a layered look.
- Top the flatbread with sesame seeds for its nutty aroma.
- Then fry it with a little oil to create a tasty, crispy crust.
I often serve this pan-fried spring onion flatbread for dinner, along with soup (or Chinese congee) and other savoury dishes. It tastes best when freshly cooked. I also like it cold as a snack.
Beautifully seasoned, crispy on the surface and fluffy inside, this leavened spring onion flatbread only takes 10 mins to cook in a pan.
- 500g (4 cups) plain flour (see note 1 & 2)
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons dried instant yeast (see note 3)
- 280ml (1 cup + 3 tablespoons) water, lukewarm
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon ground Sichuan pepper (or Chinese five-spice powder)
- 1/8 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
- 1-2 stalks spring onion, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Form the dough: In a large bowl, mix flour, yeast and sugar. Pour in water little by little while stirring with a pair of chopsticks (or a fork). Then knead with your hand until a smooth, elastic dough forms (see note 4)
- The first rise: Cover the bowl with a wet kitchen towel. Leave to rise in a warm place until double in size. It will take about 40 minutes to 1.5 hours depending on the room temperature.
- Shape the bread: Take the dough out. Knead on a floured work surface until the dough goes back to its original size. With a rolling pin, flatten the dough into a rectangle shape (roll it as thin as you can. Dust with flour to avoid sticking). Brush oil on the dough. Sprinkle ground Sichuan pepper, salt and spring onion on top. Roll the dough into a rope. Coil it to form a flat circle. Then roll the circle out into a 26-cm (10-inch) disk. Wet the disk with a little water. Sprinkle with sesame seeds then press them down gently.
- The second rise: Cover the bread loosely with cling film. Leave to rise for around 20 minutes.
- Fry the bread: Heat up the oil in a deep frying pan (28cm / 11 inches) over a medium low heat. Place the bread in (the side with sesame seeds facing down) then cover with a lid. Cook until the first side is golden brown. Flip over and cook with the lid on until the second side is done (see note 5). Turn the bread over again to crisp the first side for a few seconds.
- Serve: Transfer the bread onto a chopping board. Leave to cool for a short while then cut into pieces. Serve warm.
1. This recipe is to make a 26-cm (10-inch) flatbread in a deep frying pan. If your pan is smaller, reduce the quantity of the ingredients proportionally. Or cook two breads instead.
2. The ideal flour water ratio may vary slightly depending on the brand of the flour and how you measure it (Measuring with cups is less accurate).
3. I use dried instant yeast (this is sometimes called "quick", "fast action" or "easy blend" yeast) which doesn't need to be frothed before using. You may use other types of yeast following the recommended quantity and mixing method.
4. You may use a stand mixer with a fitted dough hook. Put all the ingredients into the mixing bowl. Knead for 8 minutes on lowest speed. Alternatively, a bread maker with a dough cycle can help you to finish step 1 & 2 with ease.
5. It takes me about 10 minutes to cook both sides in a heavy, thick-bottomed pan. The time required varies depending on the quality of the pan and the heat level. Check the bread if uncertain.
Hope you like this simple, comforting flatbread. If you are interested, have a looks at another two Chinese bread recipes: Spiced beef flatbread and Chinese tortilla (Spring pancake).
Have a great time in your kitchen!
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Just Perfect, Inc. has created and trademarked the Zip&Dry apron. The bottom of this bib apron zips off and becomes a handy towel, though you can certainly leave it attached and simply wipe your hands on it as you would a traditional apron. Other colors, including dark blue or pink on red, are available, and this innovative apron will cost you $29.95.
Similarly, Royal VKB has created a bib apron with built-in padded oven mitts. On top of all that cleverness, there are two buttons on the waist from which one can hang towels or other kitchen necessities! The elastic back ensures that one size can fit anyone, and this apron can be found in black, blue, or gray hues. For $32, this is a great find!
For the environmentally-conscious, these bib aprons from Stanley & Sons are the perfect find. They're made from reclaimed materials like denim, pup tents, and even conveyor belts. They aren't cheap (prices start as low as $120), but each apron is hand-made to order, and just think of the conversation-starting potential! Mother Earth will thank you.
Finally, Suck UK has created this all-in-one apron cooking guide. The sketched guide on the apron includes things like conversions, a cooking glossary, proper cooking times for vegetables, and appropriate roasting times for various types of poultry. What a relief--you can finally get rid of that besmudged and tattered piece of paper containing the conversion from grams to cups! This is a company based in the UK, so shipping prices may be a factor, but the cost of the apron alone is £15, which, since conversions are the topic of the day, is about $23.50.
See? Aprons are good for more than just looking pretty and protecting your clothes from grease splatter, clouds of flour, or other kitchen messes! They can be functional and multi-purpose, too.
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Building Community at the Core. Love Otsego!
Otsego, Michigan is located in Allegan County along M-89, about 15 miles north of Kalamazoo and 40 miles south of Grand Rapids in southwest Michigan, easily accessible via US-131. Interstate 94 is 16 miles to the south, providing a nearby connection to the Chicago and Detroit metro areas. M-89 runs through the heart of Otsego and offers convenient access to businesses to the west in the City of Allegan. Going east, M-89 connects with Plainwell, Richland, Gull Lake, and Battle Creek.
Otsego Main Street is focused on developing downtown into a destination location. Over the past few years we have tackled such issues as street scape, walkabilty, and business recruitment. As an organization we are committed to helping small businesses grow. If you are interested in growing with us by starting a small business contact us at 269-692-2336. Below you will find the available properties that bursting with opportunity. See here for a PDF of our available properties.


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Roland Rhythm Arranger TR-66
The Roland Rhythm Arranger TR-66 is an analog drum machine from 1973. It is considered more an a arranger because it has 18 different drum patterns, from rock, swing, march and dance styles. These patterns could then be mixed with the 9 more rhythm patterns. Waltz, Cha-Cha, Bossa Nova, Rumba and more. A new unique feature for it's time was an A/B/Auto variation which increased the rhythm arrangements to make the unit more flexible.
Type: Analog
Synthesis: Subtractive
Pattern Engine
Programming: Presets, Real Time
Sounds Per Pad
Sounds Per Pad: 13
Sources: Synthesizer
Polyphony & Tuning
Polyphony: 13
Timbrality: 13
Tuning: Standard
Modes: Polyphonic
Patterns User: 1
Patterns Preset: 18
Case: Desktop
Controls: Buttons, Knobs, Switches
Dimensions (WxDxH): 162 x 230 x 267 mm
Weight: 4 kg
MIDI / Sync / Trigger
Audio Outputs: 1/4" Phone Jack, Mono Out
Audio Output Count: 2
Power: 4 W
Used: $199-$349
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
The Tea Chronicles - Short Film
Tea plays an integral role in this short film, as you might have guessed from the title. As the filmmakers put it,
the Tea Chronicles is a short psychological horror comedy film about tea, written and directed by Charlie McDonnell and Khyan Mansley.
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The Infiltration of the U.S. Government
By Cliff Kincaid
At the recent "Pumpkin Papers Irregulars" dinner in Washington, D.C., author and commentator M. Stanton Evans joked about his "Law of Inadequate Paranoia," which says, "No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it is always worse." The comment generated nervous laughter among a crowd of people concerned about America's internal security weaknesses and foreign threats. Evans talked about the problem of "literally hundreds of communists and Soviet agents in the U.S. government" during and after the World War II period that he documents in his new book, Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government, co-authored with Herbert Romerstein.
Some of the more influential communists were Alger Hiss, a top State Department official and founder of the United Nations; Lauchlin Currie, an Administrative Assistant to Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Harry Dexter White, a Treasury Department official.
As members of Congress and a few members of the press attempt to get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, when four Americans were left virtually undefended and killed in a terrorist attack, this book provides important new details in a story of treason that goes back over 50 years and whose death toll can be seen in literally tens of millions of human corpses. This is the death toll of communism.
The new threat, radical global Islam, has been sanitized by the Obama Administration, which wants the American people to believe that we should actually offer financial aid and assistance to Islamist regimes in the Middle East, such as the one Obama helped bring to power in Egypt. Some prominent Republicans were supporters of this misguided policy and refuse to face up to how they were confused and misled about the "Arab Spring."
The Evans-Romerstein book deals largely with FDR's appeasement of the Soviet Union during and after World War II, which led to the rapid expansion of the Soviet empire. It is a reminder of how the U.S Government can be easily infiltrated and its foreign policy manipulated. One reads this excellent book and wonders whether it could all be happening again. It is not paranoia to consider whether history is repeating itself before our eyes in the Middle East as enemies are accommodated and allies betrayed.
Their book not only adds important new details of the treason carried out by State Department official Alger Hiss and other high-level Soviet agents in the U.S. Government, but exposes the peculiar mindset that characterized President Franklin Roosevelt's post-World War II deliberations.
In an extraordinary revelation, Evans and Romerstein quote from a document, which they republish in their book, that Roosevelt told Stalin that he intended, at an upcoming summit, to offer Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud "the six million Jews in the United States" as a concession. This "astounding comment," they note, was "edited out of the official record" but survives in the minutes preserved at the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, and in the papers of Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.
The authors suggest that the comment was deleted from the official record for various reasons, including that the remark would undermine FDR's liberal reputation or "might be construed as evidence of anti-Semitism" on Roosevelt's part. Another explanation is that FDR was suffering from a mental disorder that caused him to blurt out impulsive statements.
At the time of the Yalta conference, which defined post-World War II Europe and betrayed Eastern European nations to Soviet control, FDR was known to be gravely ill. Stettinius was new to the job, however, and FDR acted as his own secretary of state. One of FDR's missions was "to get Stalin to agree with the Rooseveltian vision of a peaceable kingdom to come via the United Nations," a vehicle whose pieces were put in place by the Soviet spy Alger Hiss, the first acting secretary general of the U.N., and which today continues to serve as a check on American power by America's enemies and adversaries. Flawed from the start, the world organization has functioned as a Communist front and an impediment to freedom and progress in the world. Today, it is also a front for Arab-Muslim interests operating through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which wants to outlaw criticism of Islam.
Yalta gave rise to the Soviet empire, the betrayal of Free China, and "half a century of Cold War struggle," Evans and Romerstein note. The rest is history: millions would die in the Soviet Union, China, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and Communist regimes would take power in Africa and Latin America.
On top of what Evans and Romerstein report in their new book about the advance of our enemies, Robert Buchar's new film, The Collapse of Communism: The Untold Story, argues that the Soviets engineered their own "collapse," under pressure from the West, in order to fool us into thinking that their ideology and global intentions were dead. We celebrated a victory when the enemy had simply changed its appearance and approach, in order to fight another day and way. Buchar's film reminds us that the fingerprints of the Soviet Union are all over the Arab/Muslim terrorist groups of today.
With President Barack Obama, a student of Communist Party operative Frank Marshall Davis, we have gotten a taste of what the Marxists have intended for us all along. It is a subject that many Republicans and conservative news operations don't want to talk about. But the evidence of Obama's involvement in a Communist network that stretches from Hawaii to Chicago and around the world is undeniable.
While there is much more to report from the authoritative Evans-Romerstein book, one is struck by the evidence of the official cover-ups that are still underway. Evans and Romerstein not only document how FDR's controversial comment about American Jews was deleted from the record, they point out that the official State Department compilation of the Yalta papers "omitted or obscured" other essential facts about what had transpired. Evans and Romerstein are two experts on communism who deserve enormous credit for uncovering the facts about the internal subversion which has crippled our nation.
At the "Pumpkin Papers Irregulars" dinner in Washington, D.C., Evans noted that the significance of Hiss was not just in his theft of classified information and its turnover to Soviet intelligence operatives such as Whittaker Chambers, but as an agent of influence. Chambers, of course, would defect from the communist cause and expose all of this, ultimately providing absolute proof of Hiss's treason in the form of the "pumpkin papers" that he had hidden at his Westminster, Maryland farm. These papers, hidden in a hollowed-out pumpkin, were microfilmed documents that Hiss had stolen from the State Department and given to Chambers.
Hiss "was a major influence on policy, and he was a very effective one," Evans noted. The media, however, have depicted Hiss as a mere "note-taker" who worked in the background of policy discussions.
In contrast to the official State Department record of what happened at Yalta, Evans gained access to the Stettinius papers at the University of Virginia which demonstrate the significant role played by Hiss. In addition to finding the reference to FDR offering to give King Saud America's six million Jews, Evans found several references to Hiss's role at Yalta, including in helping to shape U.S. policy on China. The papers include notes referring to Stettinius telling historian Walter Johnson on various occasions to consult Hiss about important background and information regarding policy matters.
Evans reminded his audience of the fact that Hiss would have escaped prosecution had it not been for Chambers hiding and then producing the "pumpkin papers." This evidence was used to indict Hiss for perjury for denying he was a Soviet spy.
A major cover-up had been going on regarding the involvement of Hiss and other communist agents in Soviet espionage activity. Indeed, Evans, in his remarks and his book, notes that President Harry Truman's Justice Department convened a grand jury in 1947 to hear communist defector Elizabeth Bentley's charges of subversion involving some 40 communists and Soviet agents working in the U.S. Government or "global organizations." The grand jury did not hand down a single indictment, primarily because federal prosecutors refused to call Chambers as a back-up witness.
The situation was so twisted, Evans noted, that the Truman White House and Justice Department were considering indicting Chambers, because he had not previous testified completely accurately about the Communist espionage apparatus in government that he had been a part of. Such an indictment would have continued the cover-up of "massive Communist infiltration of the government," Evans notes in his book, and would have protected Hiss and his network of collaborators.
The situation only changed when the House Committee on Un-American Activities opened hearings on the case and Rep. Richard Nixon met with Chambers and persuaded him to produce the additional documents of Hiss's guilt. The left "never forgave" Nixon for taking Chambers' side in the Hiss-Chambers struggle, Evans adds.
This means, in the current context, that the major media will demonize and try to destroy any member of the U.S. House of Representatives who moves forward aggressively and quickly in regard to President Obama's Watergate-what is being called "Benghazi-gate"-and attempts to get to the bottom of the treachery before the cover-up intensifies. What remains to be seen is whether what happened in Benghazi was just one element of a policy that is designed to promote the interests of radical Islam throughout the Middle East.
The problem for the House is that it lacks what Rep. Nixon had-a congressional committee exclusively devoted to internal security problems or "un-American activities." All of the internal security committees were abolished by the congressional liberals in the 1970s. This makes the job of exposing treason and its cover-up much more difficult. It is a problem, however, that can be easily rectified by the new House.
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism, and can be contacted at [email protected].


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What? How? Why?
Gestalt Process Writing to C is a basic program
that we can use if we want to write our life story or it can be used in a therapy- or in a training group.
GPW is a way to communicate and connect
when you are in love and disconnected, excited and misunderstood, curious and ignored, creative and not heard, seen, angry and sad.
when there is no one to talk to or no one willing or able to listen, we still have our self as a listener, as a partner, as a cocreator.
All we have to do is sit down with a pen and a note book, take time to focus on a question or a problem and write without stopping for at least ten minutes. When we are
ready we will need courage to read out loud what we have written. But when we do we will be relieved, for our hand knows and our hand cocreating with our heart is very efficiënt and wise. To our surprise we will find we have written the perfect answer
to our question or the perfect next step concerning our problem.
GPW can be used during individual therapy when talking is not working, but it can also be a trap if we do not share on a deeper level afterwards.
in groups: when there is not enough time for everyone to speak up. After a short meditation to focus and become aware, everyone – also the leader(s) - can write for ten minutes or more. Reading out loud is important. It can happen in pairs
or triads or in the whole Group.
To structure
we can explore the triangle:
– Process – Meaning' by using the words: What? How? Why?
Content: WHAT are the facts?
Process: HOW is it to experience this?
Meaning: WHY do or did we need it?


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Aura will power Avaya-Nortel unified communications integration
Avaya has staked its future of retaining Nortel customers on its flagship SIP-based communications platform, Aura, as the heart of the Avaya-Nortel UC portfolio.
Software has become the new face of unified communications (UC) integration as enterprises with multivendor systems and applications want to tear down silos between different communications and collaboration platforms. Avaya is hoping this trend will help it retain Nortel customers as it promotes its flagship SIP-based communications platform, Aura, as the heart of its Avaya-Nortel portfolio integration.
Following the release of an Avaya-Nortel roadmap last week, that wager appears to have been a solid one. Former Nortel Enterprise Solutions users appear ready to embrace Aura
"It's obvious that Aura is going to be the platform of the future," said Brad Tompkins, president of the International Nortel Networks Users Association (INNUA). "That is the direction the industry's going anyway, whether Nortel was purchased or not."
Vanessa Alvarez, an industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said the focus on Aura will be a natural next step for Nortel users, who had already begun to go down that software-based path with its Agile Communications Environment (ACE) product, which uses service-oriented architecture to embed UC tools into business applications and processes.
"The Aura platform fits very well into where communications is going," Alvarez said. "It lends itself very well to the data center and deployment, and for enterprises, that's a good thing because they can then make an IT and telecom decision all at once."
Avaya-Nortel roadmap aims for 'flexible' transition
But Nortel users who are lukewarm to Aura or don't have the budget for a new deployment shouldn't feel left in the dust, said Alan Baratz, Avaya senior vice president and president of the company's Global Communications Solutions.
Instead, Avaya officials pitched the Avaya-Nortel roadmap more as a road trip -- encouraging Nortel users to embrace Aura as a way to lower their UC total cost of ownership but noting that sales and support for many Nortel products will continue for years to come.
Baratz said that Avaya aims to help Avaya and Nortel users to transition "from today's integrated voice-based PBX systems to the future world of open, flexible, modular, real-time communications" to support voice, video and data through SIP.
"This cannot be about rip and replace. This should not be about capping your current investments," Baratz told thousands of viewers in a recorded webcast. "This needs to be all about protecting your current investments and growing with the new Aura architecture."
Avaya and Nortel users will be able to achieve better UC integration by deploying Aura on top of their existing PBX -- be it Avaya's or Nortel's -- and keep the same user interface and feature set, Baratz said. By leveraging the new ACE feature for UC integration into business processes, users can also put applications on top of Aura.
"It doesn't matter whether you're an existing Nortel customer or an existing Avaya customer -- the story is the same," he said. "If you want to add another system, we'll sell it to you … but at the same time, we are bringing Aura to market as an 'on-top' capability for both [vendors' systems]."
Nortel investments protected under Avaya-Nortel integration
Meanwhile, a few Nortel UC products will be lost in the shuffle. Although no firm end-of-sale dates were announced, Avaya will discontinue the Nortel Multimedia Communication Server 5100 and Multimedia Conferencing platform sometime in 2011.
The long-term support of Nortel products and flexibility of the Avaya-Nortel integration plan was "very comforting" news to Nortel users, Tompkins said.
"The product roadmap has really given a lot of options and time [for users] to make their leap forward when it's best for their business," he said. "Knowing that this is something that's not going to be crammed down old Nortel customers' throats was a relief to everybody."
Stuart Chandler, president and CEO of Optivor Technologies, an elite Nortel partner, said he has "not heard one negative thing" from former Nortel users and fellow resellers about the Avaya-Nortel roadmap.
"It's been a long time since I've been able to have this kind of comfort level going into something like this," Chandler said. "The customers are going to be protected, and that's critical for us."
Let us know what you think about the story; email: Jessica Scarpati, News Writer


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Tourist site owned by Kiowa revamped
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- Category: Tourism & Sports
- Published: 30 May 2008
Anadarko, Oklahoma (AP) 5-08
The Creator shone a spotlight onto the Tonkawa Hills and whispered a subtle breeze into the Indian City courtyard as the Kiowa Tribe presented its grand opening of the historic park as well as a grand display of gratitude to its benefactor tribe.
Its a beautiful day, said Modina Waters, park manager. A member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, pride resonated in her voice as she called the park by its new name, the Kiowa Indian City USA Cultural Center.
Waters referenced the days beauty in the weather and the emotion in completing the journey to purchasing the park.
Waters was one of the main catalysts in the tribe making it through the process to receive a $1 million grant from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Tribe, said Lyndreth Palmer of the parks governing board.
The park, located 21/2 miles southeast of Anadarko on state Highway 8, was built in 1955 by George C. Moran and a group of University of Oklahoma anthropologists. The grounds include realistic, life-size villages, tours, wildlife, a gift shop and information center and an amphitheater. It was for sale since 2004. The Kiowas have worked on the purchase since 2006 and sealed the deal in February after receiving the grant.
I want to thank my mother and to honor my mother, Modina Waters, for all the time and hard work she put into this, said Randi Lynn Sunray, Waters daughter. A chorus of lulus sounded from the audience in approval.
It was a day that shone with Kiowa pride. Down the road and west of the museum and cultural center, the 50th annual Kiowa Black Leggings Tohn-Kong-Gau Armed Forces Day weekend dance carried on.
Palmer, also a member of the Black Leggings Warrior Society, spoke with emotion of the journey hell take back to the camp after the ceremony.
Were going to be able to go down there and know this is going to be there. This is ours, Palmer said as he pointed in the direction of the grounds.
After the initial ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Kiowa and Shakopee flags were raised and plaques unveiled in appreciation of the Shakopee, the Kiowa Business Committee and the parks board of directors.
Events moved to the courtyard to start the honor ceremony planned for visiting Shakopee representatives. Kiowa Chairman Billy Evans Horse offered an appreciation to the mildness of the noontime heat.
Believe it or not, were actually running pretty much on time, Horse said to the sound of laughs and lulus shared by the multitribal and multiethnic audience. Everybody in this little part of Caddo County was Kiowa for a little while.
Horse presented a Kiowa lance to Keith Anderson, the Shakopee secretary/treasurer. Shakopee Chairman Stanley R. Crooks was unable to attend the ceremony due to health concerns, Anderson said.
I was up until 5 a.m. finishing this, Horse, a renowned beadsman, said. This is unique. It is the best Ive done. I wanted to give you something that represents some of the best works shown by the Kiowa people.
The Shakopee representatives were presented with many gifts, from the drum performance of the Northern Honor Song and the Kiowa Honor Song, to the handcrafted Kiowa moccasins made by internationally known Kiowa beadworker Vanessa Jennings.
Anderson said he was really touched by the gifts and offered a thanks from his people to the Kiowa people.
Those are for me? Those are for me! said Palmer, as Jennings presented him with a pair of black buckskin moccasins with long, white fringe trailing perfectly behind. She said long fringes were part of the Kiowa heritage of being great horsemen and a mark of honor for a Kiowa man. Palmers work for the park, as a veteran, for his people and for his family made him worthy of the gift, his sister said.
Fawn Tsatoke, a park guide and member of the Kiowa Tribe, told the first group to tour the villages what a blessing they are.
Instead of investing in a casino, youre investing in our culture, Tsatoke said.
A descendent of Chief Hunting Horse, she said the Kiowa devotion to tradition is the source of the peoples pride and a cause for respect by other tribes.
The sounds of the afternoon gourd dance at the Black Leggings camp rolled through the Tonkawa Hills and offered another sensation of what it means to be Kiowa. The gourd dance was originated by the Kiowa people, Tsatoke said.


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Last Friday Sam and I spent the day with Cora, my granddaughter, celebrating her birthday, which was this past Tuesday – also her first day of school. We followed Cora's lead – except when she climbed to the top of a stone pillar. Sam did, though his magnified size made it less cozy on top.
We went to the beach (near where they live), to the 'Slip', to the library, to her school and finally mini-golfing.
Around 5pm – a half hour before Mom got home from work – we returned to the beach. Sam read his book sitting in the Lifeguard chair since lifeguards left at 5pm. I joined Cora searching for critters. It was low tide. We didn't find any so we went up on the breakwater to throw rocks. I loaded them into my shirt, forming a pocket from the lower half. Cora followed suit, then we 'rock hopped' to the end. Cora's got a good arm. I helped her with her stance and she threw even farther.
Around 5:30pm we headed home. While driving I said, "Cora, it's such fun being with you. Thanks so much for this day." To which Cora replied, "Mama made this day true."
Is that not the perfect line for a song?


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Sun Community News introduced their new augmented reality feature through the Layar application last week with an advertisement campaign and coverage of the Port Henry dissolution plan public hearing.
ELIZABETHTOWN — Last week, Sun Community News debuted its newest innovation with augmented reality.
Once the Layar app is downloaded, users can use their smartphone or other mobile device to scan a page, picture or advertisement which features the Layar logo. Once recognized, enhanced content will start showing.
The application will also store the content to be replayed at a later time.
"I have been referring to it as interactive print," said Dan Alexander, Jr., General Manager at Sun Community News. "It's something fun and cool. We can bring so much more to a reader than a headshot or a link to a website at the end of the story. It will make the newspaper so much more interesting to read — I can sit there and hold my phone and watch the page come to life. You move the phone and what you are watching stays attached to the page."
Alexander said the technology, which runs off an interactive application called Layar (downloaded from the Apple Store or Google Play Store), gives the company the ability to enhance any type of print for their newspapers and North Country Living magazine, along with providing the same feature for advertisers through print ads, business cards, brochures, posters, banners and billboards.
Example of AR
Example of Augmented Reality (Interactive print) in use.
"You can have photo carousels or video, which can also be enhanced — the possibilities are kind of endless," Alexander said. "It allows businesses to have more enhanced pieces printed for them as well as on their print ads."
Sun Community News debuted AR last week in an advertisement and as part of a story on the dissolution plan public hearing in the village of Port Henry.
Sun Community News Publisher Dan Alexander, Sr., said augmented reality is a way for the business to combine the print and digital worlds of journalism and advertisement.
"Readers haven't abandoned print, it's newspapers that have abandoned readers," Alexander, Sr., said. "Augmented reality is the first of many steps to bring hard copy and digital into one platform. Once again, our newspaper is proud to be the first newspaper in our region to bring AR to you."
Alexander, Jr., talked about the various ways businesses could use the feature.
"You could have a link to the history of your business that opens when a person scans your business card," he said. "You can take a virtual tour of a store or a house up for sale. You can enhance news coverage in the paper by having video of an interview with an official that comes to life when you scan the page. You can do all of this without having to open a website, you can launch the app, tap the screen and watch the enhanced content show up. You can link to a person's Twitter feed, so when you scan their face their posts come up right next to it."
During the recent New York Press Association (NYPA) spring convention, Alexander said the company led the discussion on AR.
"After going to the NYPA conference, we seem to be the only ones really implementing this," he said. "We knew this was really a step up when we talked to Dave Tyler (NYPA President and Publisher of Sun Community News sister company Eagle News) and other publishers who were really impressed with what we were doing with this."
For more on augmented reality, see Dan Alexander, Sr.'s "Thoughts from the Pressline" column on the editorial page in this week's edition.


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LazyAdm Unclaim users in a list using Pradoxzon's AdminUtils
D_Sang last edited by D_Sang
Hi, i recently made a script to call the /unclaimall command of the AdminUtils mod on a list of people.
This an user script, it's automatize input, just like you typed it. You dont need to install it on your server. The only requirements are to have the Pradoxzon's AdminUtils mod correctly installed and the right to use the command /unclaimall.
Because AutoHotkey compiled scripts (the software used to make this) tends to be detected by antivirus software as malware, i provide it in two forms, one as plain text usable by downloading AutoHotkey and one compiled and directly usable.
Make a txt file name "unclaim.txt" in the same folder of the script. List inside the users you want to unclaim.
Launch the script. If all is good you should see a white H on a green background in your tray.
Launch the game. Log into your server.
From the start of the script to the end you must wait without use your keyboard or your mouse. Your chat should not be open. To start the script press Ctrl + U.


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