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Regal Theater
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The Casino Theater is located two blocks away from the Metropolitan/State Theater, which was designed by the same architectural firm. The Casino Theater was opened in 1914. It had been renamed Regal Theater by 1941.
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Chris, I wish you and Dixon all the best in bringing this one back to life. With so many of Cincinnati's theaters facing the wrecking ball with the demise of R.K.O, this venue is a true survivor. Because of this, it becomes all the more valuable. You might check if it had a pipe organ at one time. If so you could check with the American Pipe Organ Society (ATOS), as well as that group's Ohio chapter. They would be willing to help with research on this. A grand theater organ would make the Regal all the more popular. Again, best wishes for success!! == Sam ==
My Dad managed this place in the early 90s for Gary Goldman until the day they shut it down, the neighborhood largely ruined a lot of the splendor the building had along with the fact that business was on the decline and the money wasn't there to do proper maintenance at the time. The neighborhood and clientele were a little more dangerous then than they would be now.
I'm afraid there is no pipe organ in there. There's a reasonably large stage, a dressing room or two, a decent sized basement are under the stage, a very small orchestra pit in front. In the early 90s the balcony was converted into two more screens.
It ran mostly second run with the occasional first run picture and had the best steamed hot dogs and metts you could get in Cincinnati.
I spent my whole life in the movie business, there's not much of a market these days for small theaters that aren't art houses. I left just last year for an office job.
Casino Theater was the original name of this venue when it opened in 1913 and later became the Rialto Th. It was designed by local Cincinnati architects Rapp,Zettle,and Rapp.One can still see the Casino name inscribed at the top of its entrance tower.
Does anyone have any interior pictures of the Regal (Casino) Theatre?
I take it that Mr. Edwards' renovation efforts were not successful.
The Regal Th. was two blocks away from the Metropolitan Th. (not Majestic Th.) which later was re-named The State Th. and finally Allision's West-End Th. Today the original Metropolitan Th. is the home of the Lighthouse Church.
Unfortunately Cincinnati is full of residents- former and current- who have good intentions but limited capabilities. Add Chris Randolph and Dixon Edwards up to this uninspiring list. From the old Hudepohl building to the Crosley factory plenty of people are sitting on buildings and stopping the future improvement of our community. I would like to request that Mr Edwards and his company- CASINO THEATER CINCINNATI LLC- hand this property over to someone capable of improving it.
MPFAFF doing a documentary of the West End do you have pictures of the Regal before it's demise have included stories of the Regal (Casino) in my book , Cincinnati's West End along with The State, Lincoln, Peking, Hippodrome, Roosevelt and Dixie theaters http://www.amazon.com/Cincinnatis-West-End-Through-Eyes/dp/1456306022/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363878705&sr=8-2&keywords=cincinnati%27s+west+end
Built as The Casino Theater in 1913 and opened as same in 1914, in the 1940"s its called Regal Theater. Architects for this venue were Rapp/Zettle/Rapp. Current owners in Nov. of 2013 are the Port Authrity Land Bank Cincinnati,Ohio. More info can be garnered at that site.
Circa 1983 photo added courtesy of Renee Rachel-Garcia.
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Solo Player Runs Instance With Group
This is my first group instance after WoW Classic. This means that I leveled several characters through Outland and 2 through Northrend to level 80 without stepping in a single instance. Crazy wacko eh? Well, if you read this blog you probably have at least a vague idea about where I'm coming from. I do like instances, I really do, but my time is limited enough that I cannot ever dedicate it to a group experience with any certainty. Besides, waiting on other people can be a bummer and it cuts down on my leveling/farming time. Oh and something else: usually I'm not available when people are looking for a DPS character. I'm either about to log off, or it's too late, or I can't stay much longer.
Having said this, I still enjoy a nice instance with a good group. Thanks to the aforementioned achievement, I spotted someone LF1M DPS in trade chat and since I had plenty of time at my disposal, I immediately whispered the person and I was promptly invited.
Now guess what my problem was. Since I had never been to this instance I had no idea how to get there. I knew where Utgarde Keep was, obviously, but not where the entrance to Utgarde Pinnacle was. So I played it cool as always. In fact this is the same strategy I used previously in Battlegrounds. When you're clueless, just follow the others.
So I got to Utgarde Keep real quick and just watched what the others did. I followed them and it was the same story inside the dungeon. Yes, I was a bit embarrassed to admit that I didn't know the instance but I bluffed my way through it nicely.
In the end, it was a very good group and we even finished the instance on Heroic, which was another first for me. To be honest I couldn't tell the difference. It just seemed like a rather easy instance to me.
So there you have it: another "priceless" piece of advice from a die-hard solo-ist: when placed in a new group situation and you don't want to appear a noob, just follow the others' lead and you should be fine. Of course, even if you never do instances, you should still know your role in a group and try not to make an ass of yourself.
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- Joe said...
Utgarde Keep is a fairly easy instance from what i;ve heard, i've not been myself but my guildies run it almost daily for all the new 80's because its fairly quick and easy and good for instance training as it were. Glad you got to taste an instance, since some are really good and fun, as long as your with a good group!
- May 11, 2009 at 4:28 AM
Grats! It's a good feeling when that last boss goes down knowing that an hour ago you didn't even know how to get there :)
For the few instances I've run I've either gone with guildies (who know I rarely run instances) or run as DPS rather than bear. It's much easier to run your first time through as DPS than try to be a tank for a more experienced PuG that will get frustrated quickly with your slowness.
In the spirit of playing solo, I also recommend going back and going through the old Outland and Classic dungeons. The change of scenery is nice and for most instances (I like Stratholme) there is some good gold to be made as well as a shot at a rare mount.
- May 11, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Darth Solo said...
Well, like I said, even though it was on heroic, I found it easy. It was a bit tricky at the part with the dragon rider boss because of the AOE damage but I learned quickly that I need to get out of it and I also got to use the harpoon several times.
Now I'm sure gear and the experience of the others in the group played a large part. Even as a solo player, I'm mostly blue-ed and epic-ed out (though I still have 2-3 greens) while the others had nice epics.
- May 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM
- superdeluxe said...
With you admitting that you do not have good gear for dungeons, how well did you hold up?
- May 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Darth Solo said...
Well, my gear is not THAT bad. I mean, I'm running ideal itemization here, while my weapon is a Nesingwary 4000 (epic, pretty good) and I also sport a few other epics and blues. The epics are all enchanted and gemmed.
Since this wasn't a raid but merely a heroic instance, it wasn't that hard.
I think the biggest advantage was that the other 4 people in my group were all raiders, hence very well equipped and they knew the fights well.
Like I said, when in doubt, follow what the others do and use your common sense.
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In the first of three stories profiling organizations at various stages of storage networking, we look at those who have chosen to wait and find out why.
Better disk utilization. Better scalability. Improved data availability. These are just a few of the advantages supposedly awaiting enterprises making the move from direct-attached to networked storage topologies. What conscientious storage manager could resist?
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As the economic slowdown continues, many companies are attempting to hold down storage spending, according to a recent survey of 129 senior executives by Forrester Research Inc. Of those surveyed:
Yet a March 2003 survey of 529 Storage readers showed a different picture:
The difference probably speaks to the volatility of the issue, as well as the difference in perception between direct storage managers and higher-level IT execs.
Tim McGovern, for one. The director of engineering at Skywalker Sound, a film production studio in Nicasio, CA, spent the last 18 months testing--and, he says, breaking--various storage area network (SAN) products. Before that, he and his team had spent five years investigating SANs. They declined to do any hands-on testing because, he says, most products were too expensive and lacked the kind of robust storage management and virtualization features he needed.
Only last fall did he finally change his mind and spend $2 million for a SAN setup, consolidating 18TB of data--which was mostly post-production movie audio and film files--from direct-attached storage (DAS) devices. His verdict after a few months of living with the SAN is that while Skywalker Sound's film editors have embraced it because the SAN gives them near-instant access to files it previously took them up to 20 minutes to find and load onto their servers, the IT side of the operation has found the SAN every bit as expensive and difficult to manage as McGovern had expected.
"Frankly, I don't believe the SAN makes business sense at this point," says McGovern. "You'd be looking at getting payback on your investment in a matter of decades, not years." Fortunately for editors at privately owned Skywalker Sound, the company's chairman, filmmaker George Lucas, is the type who doesn't mind taking on an expensive storage project if it means turning out better movies. "I don't think a regular accounting department would have gone ahead and approved this," says McGovern.
McGovern is not alone in harboring doubts about the cost-effectiveness of networked storage. Long after many large enterprises have accepted the idea of networked storage and begun replacing direct-attached storage devices with SANs and network-attached storage (NAS), a significant number of holdouts are still dragging their heels. Many of those remaining on the networked storage sidelines are small and medium-sized businesses that, particularly in times of economic uncertainty, are unable to justify making a significant investment to replace DAS that works--even if it doesn't necessarily work optimally. A recent Gartner Inc. survey of companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees found that 70% still rely mainly on direct-attached storage, while only 32% have begun using SANs for block storage. (See "Slow to move to networked storage").
"Among these midsized companies, SANs are still seen as quite expensive and complicated to manage," says Pushan Rinnen, a senior analyst for Gartner. "Most of them think it's not a good investment."
But it is not just small and medium-sized companies that have been holding out or moving slowly toward networked storage. Many larger enterprises that had embarked on the move from DAS to SANs have begun to apply the brakes, according to a recent survey by TheInfoPro, a market intelligence company in New York. The study found that 40% of storage professionals plan to spend less on SANs in 2003 than they did in 2002, and 30% said they plan to spend the same amount. The study found concern among enterprise admins about whether they would receive adequate returns from SAN investments, as well as dissatisfaction with storage management tools.
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Holdouts cite many reasons for remaining cool to networked storage, including the perceived complexity of SAN products, the immaturity of SAN products and standards and inadequate storage management software. Other issues include confusion over whether to use SANs or NAS devices and uncertainty about the value of vendor-touted features such as storage virtualization and snapshots.
"The vendors and system integrators don't even know when to use snapshot, what problems it solves and how to integrate it into a backup or archiving strategy realistically, so they're not doing the users any favors [by pushing it]," says Steve Kenniston, an Enterprise Storage Group analyst based in San Jose, CA.
But by far the single most significant roadblock facing networked storage holdouts is concern about high product costs--particularly for Fibre-based SANs-- and how quickly a networked storage investment will pay for itself.
"It's all about ROI right now," says Scott Stone, senior director for the professional services global storage practices at Sun Microsystems Inc. in Detroit. "If you can't show payback quickly, they'll show you the door."
The lingering economic downturn has made ROI a more important question among networked storage holdouts. First, at many organizations, dollars simply aren't available for IT infrastructure projects unless payback can be assured within 12 months, according to Brad Nisbet, a storage analyst at IDC. "In recent economic times, we find many storage customers are backing off from strategic implementations and are instead focusing on shorter-term, tactical decisions," says Nisbet, "such as using the storage they already have--in many cases, DAS."
"Many smaller companies are about where large enterprises were two years ago when it comes to deploying SANs," says Paul Ross, director of storage networking at EMC Corp. "The difference is that, compared to two years ago, the smaller guys aren't growing as fast."
That's been the case at 600-employee Stahls' Inc., a St. Clair Shores, MI, maker of graphics systems for printing on garments. Stahls' director of technology, Mike Terenzi, has tried for the last two years to persuade top management at the privately owned company to replace the firm's Dell PowerVault 201 DAS devices--which hold about 50GB of data--with a SAN. Terenzi argues that the SAN would improve disk utilization by consolidating data availability. The company's top managers, however, weren't buying the argument, partly because the down economy had slowed the typical data growth at Stahls' from a gigabyte per month to as little as half of that.
"Upper management didn't really understand what we would be getting with a SAN," says Terenzi. "It was a cost issue."
Recently, however, Terenzi changed his approach, arguing that it was necessary to replace DAS with a SAN in order to support a planned upgrade of the company's Great Plains enterprise resource planning system. Because the upgrade of the Great Plains software--Version 7.5--replaces a monolithic architecture with a separate application server and database server, Terenzi told Stahls' management there would be increased risk of down time--and lost sales--should one of the servers fail. A SAN, he says, would provide consolidated data storage and allow one of the Great Plains servers to continue operating--with access to all critical data--even if one of the two servers were to fail.
Two years after beginning his SAN campaign, Terenzi recently got approval for a $125,000 investment in a 60GB Dell/EMC Fibre Channel (FC) SAN built around Dell's rack storage. Terenzi is now testing the SAN setup and expects to roll it out with the Great Plains upgrade.
But Terenzi says that the SAN go-ahead never would have come about if not for the Great Plains project. "We were able to bring to the attention of top management that if the Great Plains database server were to go down for a day, we'd lose $200,000 in sales," says Terenzi. "With the SAN, we've eliminated that threat, short of a fire in the data center."
Cost concerns are also behind the reluctance of many organizations to expand use of an existing FC SAN. The University of Michigan, for example, deployed an FC SAN last March for its video-on-demand and unified messaging applications. The SAN, purchased from Sanrad Inc., in Tel Aviv, Israel, has proved more than adequate for meeting the demands of streaming video to multiple university departments and for storing the e-mail, voice mail and fax data generated by the university's 97,000 students. The 2TB FC SAN uses two 1TB JBODs that are redundantly attached to two separate controllers. The SAN setup connects to the university's wide area network via iSCSI, using three Gigabit Ethernet ports.
But while the FC SAN has performed well, university officials are shying away from moving more data and more applications to the SAN. Officials from various parts of the university are currently discussing building a centralized storage utility that different departments could tap into, paying for storage on an as-needed basis. But, says Daniel Hague, a senior engineer for the school, the university probably won't use the FC SAN for that project. Why? It's too expensive, he says.
"The JBODs are very expensive, and the controllers are very expensive," says Hague. "That means each time we need to expand it, we have to go through an involved cost-justification process. We'd like to be able purchase storage like anything else, through the central purchasing function. A drive shouldn't cost a fortune."
He says the university is now looking at other alternatives for storage, such as lower-cost IP-connected SANs.
Complexity concerns
But it's not just concern over cost that's keeping many organizations from buying into networked storage or significantly expanding its use. The complexity of SANs and the difficulty of managing them have also kept even technologically adventurous organizations such as Skywalker Sound waiting for years on the networked storage sidelines.
At Skywalker Sound, the big challenge was finding storage management and virtualization software robust enough to manage files once they were stored on the SAN. While most SAN products are designed to allow enterprise applications to store and retrieve large amounts of fairly static transaction-oriented data that isn't frequently shared among multiple servers, Skywalker Sound had a much different problem. Film editors are constantly collaborating on different projects, so they need to be able to dynamically check audio and film files as small as 3GB in and out. They also need some form of file locking so that one set of editors can't make changes to files that are simultaneously being worked on elsewhere. At any given time, up to 80 different editors are accessing files from their Macintosh workstations.
Before deploying the SAN, a Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) 9980V running HiCommand management and ShadowImage file copy management software, Skywalker Sound engineers used removable, direct-attached hard drives, physically transporting disks from one workstation to another. The constant fear among all engineers, says Skywalker Sound's McGovern, was that a removable disk would fail while in transit, threatening changes or entire files.
A SAN--accessible directly from all editor workstations--was the obvious answer. But Skywalker Sound also needed file management and virtualization software that would allow the company to track and manage files as they bounced from editor to editor. Complicating Skywalker Sound's problem was the lack of a robust file system on the client side. While Apple's new OS X operating system adds improved file management, OS 9--which Skywalker Sound runs--has no file system. So the company looked to SAN virtualization and storage management software to support file locking and management in its very dynamic, high-performance environment.
"For a long time, management was the real showstopper," says Jacob Balser, Skywalker Sound's network administrator. One product, for example, would not transfer data between the storage devices and the host in chunks larger than 1MB, seriously bottlenecking the system. "It wasn't feeding enough raw data through to the workstations," he says. "We couldn't get more than six machines attached to the SAN."
Another product Skywalker Sound tried--a storage router appliance--failed when the company attempted to get several units to work together. In order to scale the system to support the required number of hosts, Skywalker Sound deployed multiple router appliances. The appliances, Balser says, were supposed to interoperate, distributing load across several routers and giving any host the ability to save any storage at any time.
"Unfortunately," says Balser, "a real-world crash of one router would ripple through the SAN and cause all other routers to hang, crash or reboot, dropping all connections to storage and effectively bringing down every project."
At one point, says McGovern, Skywalker Sound officials considered bypassing FC SANs and waiting for IP-based SAN products that could take advantage of more proven, Ethernet-based management protocols and tools. In the end, however, Skywalker Sound opted for the HDS SAN, largely because Hitachi could provide both the storage hardware and management software and virtualization engine that came close to doing what the company needed. Still, Skywalker Sound officials admit that it's not a perfect fit. Because of limitations in the Apple OS, Skywalker editors aren't able to easily create, move and otherwise manage files stored on the SAN. So McGovern and his technical team must take on such mundane, time-consuming operational tasks themselves.
"We've achieved storage efficiency at the expense of smooth back-room operations," says McGovern.
An absence of robust storage management tools--particularly cross-platform tools--is also complicating deployments at large enterprises that are firmly committed to networked storage. Defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin, for example, is giving itself three years to fully roll out an enterprisewide networked storage strategy that will include SANs from EMC at Lockheed's data center in Sunnyvale, CA, as well as a collection of SAN, NAS and tape storage at sites in 45 states. The $27 billion company is just over a year into its networked storage rollout, according to director of infrastructure services Stephen Hightower.
What's taking the company so long? Hightower says it's partly because the cross-platform storage management software needed to manage both legacy devices and the newly deployed networked storage at distributed locations doesn't exist yet. So often, he says, company storage managers have to negotiate with distributed technical staff over which storage management tools will be used.
"You get into cases where you have to spend time discussing which standards to use, which make the most sense," says Hightower. "That happens when you have a large legacy environment." (For more on issues facing companies attempting to proliferate networked storage platforms and standards enterprisewide, see the second installment of this series which will be published in the October issue of Storage.)
|Slow to move to networked storage
Small and medium-sized companies are slow to move to networked storage, according to a Gartner Inc. survey taken at the end of 2002 of storage managers at companies with 100 to 1,000 employees. The survey showed:
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Many organizations also find themselves delaying purchasing decisions in part out of concern over the relative immaturity of many networked storage products and the notion that a less expensive solution to their problems is just around the corner. Like Skywalker Sound, Stahls' Terenzi spent time evaluating IP-attached SAN technology before finally settling on the FC SAN approach. Although the Fibre Channel SAN was more expensive, says Terenzi, "the IP stuff is fairly new and because of the mission-critical nature of what we were doing, we decided to go with the Fibre implementation."
Even storage vendors admit that the rapid evolution of the attached storage market--the emergence of iSCSI and IP-attached SANs and concepts such as virtualization--have confused their networked storage marketing message and caused many potential enterprise customers to back off or delay purchases.
"Two years ago, it was all about the V [virtualization] word, how great it was going to be, that you didn't even need to know where your storage was," says Mark Nagaitis, director of product marketing for infrastructure and network-attached storage at Hewlett-Packard in Houston. "But for many customers, the concept proved too complex, and they shied away."
Not surprisingly, vendors say they're on their way to fixing much of the confusion and cost issues that have kept some away from networked storage. That sounds good to the University of Michigan's Hague, who decided against building a centralized storage utility on top of the school's FC SAN because it was too expensive. Hague and his team are planning to propose basing the storage utility project on a new IP-based SAN product from Intransa, which they are now testing. Says Hague: "It's certainly much more affordable."
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Last weekend I visited the Barnes Foundation art gallery in Philadelphia, and among my favourite pieces were the sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz. The Vox Olympian Loudspeaker hangs with them aesthetically, and it can play music too.
The Vox Olympians, designed for superyachts, are crafted in England by a company called Living Voice. They're made with some materials you know are good, like gold, silver and bronze, and some that sound like they're good, like tellurium, beryllium and alnico. Each pair takes 1400 man-hours to make.
The cheapest they run is £210,000 (about $347,000), which is outrageously expensive, even compared to the run-of-the-mill ultra rich person gear you normally come across. But if I had a boatload of money, buying speakers that were as good for looking at as they were for listening to would probably be something I'd consider. [Born Rich]


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The star of Silver Linings Playbook will collect his honour at the 24th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) gala on Jan 5.
Cooper's awards season is well underway with a recent best actor win from the National Board Of Review and a Spirit Award nomination for best male lead.
Past honourees of the Desert Palm Achievement Award include Jeff Bridges, Daniel Day-Lewis, Colin Firth, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and John Travolta.
"Bradley Cooper is just one of the many silver linings in David O Russell's enjoyable film Silver Linings Playbook," said festival chairman Harold Matzner.
"Cooper's portrayal of Pat Solution is a career-best performance that has created Oscar buzz and has audiences rooting for him despite the challenges he faces throughout the film."
The festival is scheduled to run from Jan 3-14.


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(picture courtesy of: Nicole)
Look at the beautiful table Nicole set for this meal! When I look at this picture, I can still remember all of us trying to savor the meal, talking to each other and tending to the little ones all at the same time. It felt like a busy evening, but a great one spent in the company of friends.
Nicole and I had set a big goal for this evening. We were going to make a chicken stew and bake bread to go with it. I selected Sailu's Chicken stew recipe and made some adjustments, and for the bread we chose Susan's Laziest Loaf. I look forward to these cooking dates when we can chop, cut and cook together and exchange stories. I never realize when a couple of hours have gone by and hungry husbands, and children re-enter.
I made the chicken stew a few more times after the playdate and it came out great every time. It's perfect for cosy evenings when you want to catch up with friends and family and have a hearty bowl to go with it.
For the chicken stew, we decided to add some more vegetable and stick with low fat coconut milk. I also ground half of the garam masala with the fennel and it gave a wonderful aromatic smell to the stew. For a milder flavor I used white peppercorns instead of the black ones. Here is my tweaked recipes.
Ingredients:(recipe courtesy of Sailu's Kitchen)
2-3 lbs chicken cut into bite size pieces
2 medium onions, finely sliced
2-3 medium potatoes, cubed (I left the skin on)
3 medium carrots, peeled and cubed
12-15 green beans, cut into smaller pieces
8-10 curry leaves
1/2 tsp ginger paste
3 cloves garlic, sliced thinly
3-4 green chillis, (I didn't slit them but you could)
4-5 cloves
1″ cinnamon
2 cardamoms
8-10 white peppercorns
1/4 tspoon turmeric powder
1/2 tpsoon fennel powder (I ground some fresh fennel seeds)
1/2 tsp garam masala pwd
2 cans light coconut milk
salt to taste
1 tbspoon lemon juice
1 1/2 tbspoon oil
1 tbspoon butter
chopped mint and cilantro mix (optional)
Method:Heat oil and butter in a heavy bottomed vessel, add curry leaves, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, pepper corns and saute for few secs till you start smelling the garam masala. Add garlic slices and saute for a minute. Add ginger paste and green chillies and saute for a minute. Then add the sliced onions and fry for 4-5 minutes.
Add turmeric powder and combine. Add the chicken pieces and cook over medium heat for 7-8 minutes.
Add 1 can of coconut milk and salt and combine. Cook for another 5-6 minutes. Add garam masala powder, fennel paste, potato, carrots and green beans in the pan. Add the rest of the coconut milk and let it cook and the chicken and veggies are cooked and soft.
Turn off heat. And serve warm. I leave the lemon wedges and the mint cilantro mix in the bowl so everyone can customize their own.
Serve warm with rice or bread.
We ate ours with a French Bread that we baked using Susan's @ Well-Seasoned Cook's recipe. We followed it exactly and it worked well. The bread turned out soft and delicious as well and was perfect to soak up the last bits from the bowl.
Thank you Sailu and Susan for these wonderful recipes.


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The Celtic Tiger may have lost its growl, but this auld town is as energized as ever, with bustling pubs, fast-evolving culinary and theater scenes and the warm, witty hospitality that's given the Irish such a good name
Author Jon Marcus Photography Brian Park
"YOU'RE VERY WELCOME." That traditional Irish greeting will likely be the first thing you hear from every taxi driver, hotel clerk and maître d' in Dublin, and it's seldom seemed so heartfelt. Since Ireland's so-called Celtic Tiger economic boom went bust in the 2000s, this island nation has weathered some harsh economic times. But while that pushed down restaurant prices and hotel rates — propelled not long ago to previously unimaginable heights — it hasn't slowed the confidence or entrepreneurship of a generation raised on energy and affluence. Talented chefs are launching innovative restaurants, and whole neighborhoods of hotels and theaters that appeared overnight are now thriving. The new Dublin is fashionable, cosmopolitan and confident, yet it's also, in a way, returned to basics, with a tempo that has slowed down to the leisurely pace of a pour of Guinness. But for all the changes, there's one thing this city never lost: its Irish hospitality, the warmest anywhere. You'll be very welcome.


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Already beset by injuries, the Houston Dynamo got an extra dose of bad news on Monday when midfielder Geoff Cameron was diagnosed with a ruptured right PCL suffered in Saturday's game against Chicago. Cameron will undergo surgery later this week and will miss the remainder of the season.
"We are very disappointed to lose an All-Star caliber player, and we feel especially bad for Geoff and the timing of this injury," Dynamo Chief Operating Officer Chris Canetti said. "We are confident he will come back healthy and be an impact player for us again next season."
Cameron, 24, was entering his first season as a starting midfielder after earning MLS Best XI honors as a defender in 2009. Earlier this year, the third-year pro earned his first cap for the United States national team. Cameron had appeared in 82 of the Dynamo's 89 games in all competitions since joining the team in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft.
In the meantime, Canetti indicated the Dynamo will look to add a midfielder to join the current first-choice quartet of Corey Ashe, Brad Davis, Brian Mullan and Lovel Palmer.
"We've begun our search to find a midfielder who can step in and play a key role," Canetti said. "We just got the news about Geoff today, obviously, so it's going to take some time."
The Dynamo are now expected to be without four players due to injury and six total for Saturday night's home game against the Kansas City Wizards.


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J. David Spiceland LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY and
Hilary C. Zaunbrecher UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of numerous trea-tises on the relative merits of human resource accounting. While the unprecedented pervasiveness of human resource literature sug-gests that the topic is new to our era, the debate itself is by no means novel. Indeed, the concept of human resource accounting is deeply rooted in the history of economic thought.
To provide a desirable perspective of the current debate and thus a basis for an accurate assessment of the probable impact of human resource accounting, a familiarity with the development of the con-cept is necessary. The intent of this article is to trace the historical evolution of human resource accounting to its present stage of de-velopment. Its purpose is to impart the perspective essential to a thorough understanding of the pros and cons of human resource accounting systems.
Human Capital In Early Economic Thought
Throughout history economists have been concerned with the concept of human capital, but their treatment was limited to includ-ing human beings and their skills in a definition of capital.
Several motives for treating human beings as capital and valuing them in monetary terms were expounded. Of these a central motive is apparent—to serve as a basis for making a decision or to influ-ence the decisions of others.
Meanwhile, a small group of relatively unknown economists un-dertook to develop techniques to measure the worth of human capi-tal. Basically, two methods of estimating the value of human beings emerged—(i) the cost-of-production and (ii) the capitalized earnings procedures.
In the cost-of-production approach costs incurred in "producing" a human asset are estimated. The capitalized earnings procedure


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Memorial opens Niagara's first New York State-designated Health Home
Mar 8, 2013
Press Release
Howard* is a 39-year-old single man who lives alone and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He has been prescribed several medications that require monitoring and adjustment to keep his symptoms in check. Even on medication he is tormented by voices, fearful of strangers and experiences sleep disturbances.
Howard has been in and out of the hospital many, many times. He lives alone because his parents and siblings can't understand why he doesn't take his medications regularly and often enough to stay "normal." He has been evicted several times. His symptoms sometimes make him disruptive and difficult to engage.
Howard receives intermittent case management services from a local mental health agency but he sometimes disappears for weeks, often misses appointments and doesn't take good care of himself.
Heavy tobacco use and untreated bronchitis have resulted in Howard developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a lung disease that makes it difficult to breathe. He is a frequent patient in the emergency room, and is often brought there by his case worker or a crisis worker.
Chronically ill patients such as Howard too often fall through the cracks. That's about to change in Niagara County, thanks to a pioneering state-designated program for multiple-needs patients who struggle to navigate the healthcare system.
The new resource, introduced today by Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center and 46 community partners, is the Niagara Health Home.
More than an office or a single site for service, the Niagara Health Home is a one-stop care management network that provides an unprecedented level of care coordination and service linkages to patients and their families.
The network consists of collaborating care providers from across Niagara County who supply services ranging from specialized medical and mental health care to food, housing, home care and heating assistance.
"Comprehensive care provides better outcomes and lower long-term costs," said Congressman Brian Higgins. "I commend Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center for leading as an outlier in this transition, which takes a holistic approach to patient care."
"We must collaborate with community partners if many of these patients are to not only have their healthcare requirements met but receive the social support they need to avoid emergency services or hospitalization," said Memorial President & CEO Joseph A. Ruffolo. "This is an entirely new approach, a groundbreaking process that changes the role of our hospital in a profound way."
Niagara Health Home clients will have a dedicated case manager to help manage their care. That case manager will schedule regular primary care and counseling appointments, call or visit them periodically to check on their welfare and remind them to take their medications, connect them with community resources such as housing, food, transportation, heat and legal services, and provide valuable support services to their family members.
"No single organization has the resources or the expertise to do what needs to be done for clients such as these, people with multiple chronic and medical and psychiatric diagnoses," Ruffolo said. "Community partners must collaborate in meaningful ways to provide the health care, social and community supports that will avoid their frequent use of the emergency room, and prevent community tragedies."
The health home program is a New York State Department of Health effort to improve patient outcomes and control Medicaid costs. Led by Memorial Medical Center Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Sheila K. Kee, Memorial and its partners participated in a very competitive process that led to the Niagara Health Home's state designation.
Kee emphasized the health home's collaborative strength and its countywide reach, noting that the YWCA of Niagara, the Dale Association and Eastern Niagara Health System, with hospitals in Lockport and Newfane, are among the participating partners.
"This collaboration between independently operated health networks at opposite ends of the same county is unprecedented," Kee said. "The Niagara Health Home will benefit community members from Lewiston to Middleport, from Wilson to Wheatfield."
"Eastern Niagara Hospital is pleased to serve as co-lead of the Niagara County Health Home," CEO Clare Haar said. "Providing comprehensive care management to its participants, the Health Home furthers the hospital's mission, to meet the healthcare needs of the community with quality, compassionate, state-of-the-art and personalized medical care."
"Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center has again led the way in transforming the way health care is delivered by partnering with the Eastern Niagara Hospital and more than 40 other care providers to form a new, multi-disciplinary network that will dramatically improve health care and social support services to chronically ill patients with complex care needs. I commend these hospitals and their health home partners for demonstrating a willingness to work together to keep patients out of the hospital and control Medicaid costs," state Senator George D. Maziarz said.
Leadership at the Niagara Health Home will be provided by Medical Director Amarpreet Grewal Bath, M.D. and Administrative Director Vicki Landes, R.N., B.S.N.
Dr. Grewal Bath, who is board certified in Family Medicine, previously worked as a primary care physician at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego and as a family physician at the Cleveland Clinic.
Landes has 14 years of experience in the case management field and is the former director of clinical service at Fidelis Care New York, where she was responsible for designing, implementing and directing all case management and quality assurance activity functions statewide.
"As Memorial Medical Center continues its transformation from acute care hospital to a center for community health, we need to reinvent ourselves as a people-centered, integrated primary care and behavioral hub for care coordination. The implementation of the Niagara Health Home moves us another step closer to realizing that vision," Ruffolo said.
* Not his real name.


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Growth marks, bites, insect bite marks, scars and creases are common on leather furniture and it is precisely these marks that distinguish 'real' leather from man-made substitutes. None of these characteristics has a weakening effect on the hide. The marks signify that this is a natural product and it would be impossible to obscure them all from view without coating the surface with a thick layer of paint, which would destroy the beauty and softness of the material.
Natural surface marks we consider acceptable are:
Insect bite marks: Some cattle get bitten by insects, which can leave bite marks. These occur as tiny lumps on the surface.
Scars: There may be many causes, but they are mainly the result of the animal brushing against barbed wire. As with humans, the skin heals but often leaves fine lines. These light scars are not to be confused with badly healed ones, which are automatically rejected during manufacture.
Creases: These normally occur in the neck area of the hide. Because of their heavy grain, they can look very attractive. Normally this section is placed where it will not detract from the design of the furniture.
Dung marks: Seen in the hides as more textured areas than normal.
You will find veneer surfaces on most of our board furniture, such as shelves, console tables and coffee tables. Our veneers are layers of cut wood – so a natural material – and variations in the grain must be expected. This is what makes each piece of wood furniture unique. The majority of our wooden parts are lacquered several times to ensure a very durable surface. The colour fastness meets our standard for normal, everyday use.
Veneer is used where solid wood cannot be used because of design constrains such as shelves. Shelves and wooden boards come in 1.5-3cm thickness which is too thin and cannot be used in combination with solid wood as it would bend and crack over time and therefore would make wood furniture unfit for purpose.
Daylight can affect wood and veneer. For initial period after you have received your furniture, they will absorb the surrounding light and adapt to the surrounding environment. In order to allow even light absorption change move items displayed on the surface around in order to avoid permanent marks and circles. At first, new furniture will also need time to absorb light before it will match the tone of your existing furniture.
Do not use liquids or wet cloths to clean your furniture. Water is only to be used in small doses in the form of a damp cloth. Always ensure furniture are dried with a dry cloth and no liquids or water are left remaining on the surfaces.
Veneer and wood are both absorbing liquids quickly, especially if they do not have a lacquered finish. Ensure that spilled liquids are wiped up immediately by blotting with a dry cloth. If the spillage has caused staining we recommend you contact specialist cleaners who are equipped to deal with such occurrences. For professional cleaning and maintenance advice (contact Guardsman Home Services on 0845 6020789), alternatively – James Turtle Onsite Services on 03292 466 153.
To prolong the life of your Content by Terence Conran furniture we advise to care for them in the following way:
We recommend regularly dusting your wooden furniture with a soft cloth. Occasionally it should be wiped with a soft slightly damp cloth with a mild detergent solution and dried with a lint-free cloth.
Do not use polishes, waxes or other abrasives. Polish containing silicone is not recommended, as it will lead to a build-up of a silicone film changing the appearance of your furniture.
Please protect delicate flooring (especially parquet and other wooden flooring) from potential marking by feet or legs. Our furniture come with felt glides which should be used on hard flooring. For carpet floor the felt glides do not need to be attached.
Dropping furniture onto corners or feet will cause damage to the frame and/or legs.
Take care to prevent sharp objects such as toys, buckles and heels from coming into contact with your furniture.
Avoid contact with any chemicals such as hair & makeup products, perfume etc. as these may affect the finish.
If your furniture becomes stained, scratched or chipped or suffers other damage we recommend professional help is sought to restore it.
If you have relevant insurance you may wish to contact your provider for advice.
Alternatively a nationwide service is offered by (contact Guardsman Home Services on 0845 6020789), alternatively – James Turtle Onsite Services on 03292 466 153.
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All timber will display movement from season to season because of changes in atmospheric temperature and humidity. This may occasionally make moving parts a little stiffer to operate.
We do not recommend locating products in excessively high or low temperatures, or where the environment is often damp as this may cause product issues.
All our furniture come assembled. The Wave range has not got the metal legs attached to the unit during transport. The legs only need to be screwed onto the unit into predrilled holes. You can find further instruction here.
Take care when moving products. Do not move furniture around, pushing them over the floor. We recommend they are lifted by two persons as dragging items across the floor will cause damage to the joints, legs and glides. Legs or hinges can break and can damage the furniture. Always ensure you take shelves and storage out of and off the furniture before moving them.
It is essential that your furniture is positioned on a level surface to ensure that the doors hang correctly and open smoothly.
Products with doors have either adjustable hinges or wedges to square the doors if the floor is not level:
For adjustable hinges or feet: follow the instructions included with your furniture if adjustment is necessary.
For wedges: place under the feet to raise the corner as required, and snap off when the furniture has been in place for several days so they are no longer visible.
If doors fail to operate smoothly, or the product is moved, levelling should be rechecked; either readjust the doors or level the corners (any suitable packing material may be used).
Avoid exposing your furniture to excessive heat e.g. by placing it in front of a radiator, as this can cause cracking. A minimum 30cm clearance from heat sources is advised.
Direct sunlight will cause the colour of real wood to change, even if it is painted or lacquered, this will be more readily apparent if the furniture is placed under a window.
Use in hot and sunny conservatories is not recommended.
Leaving items such as vases or ornaments in one place on a piece of furniture in sunlight may leave a mark when it is removed. Such marks should blend in with time.
Never place hot dishes directly onto wooden or painted surfaces, we recommend you use tablemats. Prolonged use of hot electrical equipment, such as a laptop, on top of furniture may also cause scorching.
The dark rubber feet used on electrical and other equipment occasionally contain chemicals that can leave a permanent mark on furniture surfaces care should be taken.
Wood is a beautiful natural material. It is important to understand its unique properties; which should not be mistaken for flaws.
Wood Shading and Grain
Each piece will have a slightly different grain pattern. Variation in colour, shading and grain between different products and within the same product can occur; this is a normal feature of all natural wood furniture.
Knots are a natural property of all real wood furniture; they do not affect performance, and add interest to each piece.
Medullary Rays
These markings are created where wood is cut across the grain producing interesting features such as growth rings and flecks.
Resin Pockets
These are a natural feature of wood and will appear as small marks in the finish. These add character to each piece and are not defects.
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Take a look at this photo of Caius Veiovis, a 31-year-old fellow from Massachusetts. Sure he has a 666 tattooed onto the forehead into which he's surgically inserted what would appear to be six gobstoppers — but does that necessarily make him a bad guy? Yes! It does! Very bad! Veiovis and two others are facing murder and kidnapping charges in connection with the deaths of three men, one of whom was scheduled to testify against them. So go right ahead: Judge a book by its cover. Then run! [TSG]


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Saturday, June 24, 2006
Tea Review 71 - Boston Tea Campaign Darjeeling
First Flush Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe Darjeeling (FTGFOP1)
Boston Tea Campaign
You get what you pay for - or so I've always assumed. So as much as I'd love to be able to obtain really topnotch tea at bargain basement prices, I have to admit that I'm skeptical when anyone offers such a thing.
Just as I was skeptical when I found that Boston Tea Campaign's First Flush Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe (FTGFOP1) was going for $16 a pound plus $5 shipping.
Tea Guy really hasn't had as much experience with Darjeeling tea as I'd like. As far as Indian teas go I've tended to focus my interests a little more on the Assam varieties. But I know enough about Darjeeling tea to know that one dollar an ounce is really cheap. Which, as I said, made me more than a bit skeptical.
But, as it turns out, my skepticism was mostly unfounded. Though I don't have a lot of other Darjeeling experiences to compare this one to, I found it to be not bad at all. It has quite a light, pleasant taste. It's perhaps not quite as fruity or aromatic as some of the few Darjeelings I've tried, but it's not bad, especially if you consider the price.
My only other complaint - but it's one that applies to most Darjeeling tea I've tasted - is that they tend to be a bit on the bitter side. Perhaps I just haven't yet found the optimum brewing criteria. I started out using boiling water for about 3-4 minutes and now I've got that down to about two minutes. It's still a little more bitter than I like so maybe I'll back off to 1.5 minutes, or even one.
But, a pretty good experience and you sure can't beat the price. How does Boston Tea Campaign offer their wares so cheaply? As they tell it, they're "an offspring of Teekampagne, located in Berlin, Germany. Founded 20 years ago, Teekampagne has evolved into the largest mail order tea business in Germany and become the world's largest single importer of Darjeeling tea."
So the trick here, apparently, is to offer one product and one only and to buy it up in sufficient quantities that you can sell it really cheap.
But don't take my word for it. If you ask nice, BTC will send you a sample of their tea and, right now, first time customers can pick up a pound of this variety for only $10.
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2 comments:
- KF said...
Dear Tea Guy, thanks for reviewing our Darjeeling tea. Please visit (and contribute to?) our blog, recently established at http://blog.bostonteacampaign.com. Best regards, K.
- mtelesha said...
I have the solution to Darjeeling tea being bitter. It's really not black tea. If you look at your tea leaves while brewing you will see some green color. The process of the tea is just not the same as most black teas.
You need to treat it as Oolong tea. I usually go 190 degree water and seep for 4 minutes. Especially for first flush I might go 5. It is a different tea then Assam which is fully blackened.
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Day 6: Too much, too much!
…Of natural beauty, that is.
I'm running out of adjectives here. So I'm not even going to try. Suffice it to say that while Cottonwood Pass is a little rough around the edges, it's way, way easy on the eyes. That's when you can tear them away from the road in front of you, which isn't always easy on a 4,000-foot climb. After a rest day. When your unmentionables hurt.
Which brings me to a little disclaimer here. After long, long rides, I will end up talking a lot about my seat, my butt, the unmentionables, what have you. I can talk about that. It's all part of the touring experience. Ask anyone on this ride, and they will have something to say about their own.
Strangers, however, especially those online, are not in any position to talk about my butt because I'm the only one who's attached to it, literally. And frankly, it's a little creepy. So to the guy who wrote in that I should "lube up and put some extra cushioning on the you-know-what" because Cottonwood roads were in rough shape, I have two things to say: keep your posts off my posterior, and Cottonwood was fine. Sweet, in fact. So I'm going to adopt my niece's attitude and stick my tongue out at you. In a respectful, virtual sense.
Back to the topic. Day 6 of Ride The Rockies took us from our two-day campout at Crested Butte, over Cottonwood Pass at !2,126 feet, and then down into Buena Vista. It's 75 miles in all, about the perfect length, I think. And the downhill just rocked.
One of the best parts of the ride was being able to go South on 135 — the road we came in on two days before, the road with 300mph headwinds, the road I got inadvertently clocked on. But going the other way — sa-weet! Gradual downhill, tailwind, sun coming up over Crested Butte Mountain. Totally better than coffee. Even though it was 30 degrees, and 7 a.m., and everything still hurt.
Per previous posts, there was some talk about the condition of the road up to Cottonwood Pass. The Pass itself had just opened up last week, and snowmelt and winter runoff have been in full swing. I don't know exactly what magic the road crews and RTR staff worked, but the road was in much, much better shape than I expected. Not an easy thing to say about any unpaved road. I didn't hear complaints from fellow riders — in fact, just the opposite. So thank you, thank you, thank you to whoever pulled off that minor miracle.
And there's just something about riding on a road with 10-foot snowbanks on either side of you. When you're wearing a sleeveless bike jersey. And sweating like a pig. Those three things just shouldn't go together, but they did. I stopped a couple of times to take photos, and then sort of gave up because they were so redundantly beautiful.
I'm planning on remembering the views when I'm 90.
At the top of the Pass, I had the obligatory photo of rider-standing-next-to-sign-proclaiming-great-height that you always have when you go over large passes. You've got to do it. But there was so much snow and so much wind up there that I cut short the top-o-the-pass celebration and began the descent — the c-c-c-cold, windy descent through snow-covered country down to a very warm, summery Buena Vista.
Did I say it rocked already?
Tomorrow is the last day of Ride The Rockies 2008, a 69-mile ride from Buena Vista to Breckenridge, where a celebration and hopefully showers and chamois butter await.


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