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Sega Dreamcast Unofficial Wheel Pack 6-26-2017
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200 downloadsI pulled most of the wheels in this set from one of Aorin's packs, credit goes to him for organizing it, and all of the contributors that actually made the wheels. All I've done is fill in blanks, so that we can have a complete set for the current database. I've given the wheels a quick run through - quality ranges from acceptable to excellent. Many of them will need to be redone in order to pass as 'official.' But, that is beyond my ability. They're not terrible. You most likely won't notice flaws unless you are actually looking for them. My hope is that those awesome Adobe Illustrator guys get this system on their radar, and decide to overhaul the entire set. They will surely use at least some of the wheels already in this one. But in the meantime, if 'good enough' is good enough, enjoy this wheel set. Included in this pack is a folder called 'Large.' It contains WIP photoshop (psd) files, a few alternate logos, and large versions of files before they were resized. I didn't bother to clean it up or organize it. If you have a better quality version of any of these logos, please upload it to the following thread:
Unofficial Sega Dreamcast Discs 7-11-2017
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87 downloadsCredit and very special thanks goes to @Avar and @Black Hazor, who contributed towards this project in a big way - actually purchasing some missing games, so that we could all have nice artwork. This is @Avar's set that he uploaded several weeks ago, with 'inauthentic' artwork that I was able to identify replaced, and missing discs added. There may still be a few inauthentic discs here and there, but there are substantially less than there were. In some cases, ebay photos were used. The quality is not the best. The discs are round and authentic, but maybe they have a reflection or light that wouldn't be present if we had been using actual scans to create the artwork. They're acceptable, but ideally, they will eventually be replaced with something better. The short list is as follows: AeroWings 2 - Air Strike (USA)Bust-A-Move 4 (USA)Capcom vs. SNK - Millennium Fight 2000 Pro (Japan)Ducati World Racing Challenge (USA)Giga Wing 2 (USA)Godzilla Generations - Maximum Impact (Japan)Grinch, The (USA)Gundam Side Story 0079 - Rise from the Ashes (USA)Hello Kitty no Magical Block (Japan)Inhabitants - Dreamcast (World) (Unl)Magforce Racing (USA)Marvel vs. Capcom - Clash of Super Heroes (USA)Maximum Pool (USA)Monaco Grand Prix (USA)MTV Sports - Skateboarding Featuring Andy McDonald (USA)Netto de Tennis (Japan)Next Tetris - On-line Edition, The (USA)Puyo Puyo 4 (Japan)Q-Bert (USA)Rippin' Riders (USA)Sega Marine Fishing (USA)Sno-Cross Championship Racing (USA)Speed Devils - Online Racing (USA)Speed Devils (USA)Sports Jam (USA)Super Euro Soccer 2000 (Japan)Super Runabout - San Francisco Edition (USA)Surf Rocket Racers (USA)Urban Chaos (USA)Virtua Striker 2 (USA)Wacky Races (USA)Wild Metal (USA)Yu Suzuki Game Works Vol. 1 (Japan) If you own any of these games, please help by getting involved. If you have a collection of Sega Dreamcast discs, a decent scanner, and would like to contribute towards making better quality artwork, please visit the following thread: Also be sure to post a reply if you've identified 'inauthentic' artwork, and we'll do the best we can to get it replaced with something better.


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Becky Hammon: a Model for Women in Business
Becky Hammon recently made news when she was hired as the first female assistant coach for an NBA team. In the fall of 2014, she will be making history as she begins coaching the San Antonio Spurs. In doing so, Hammon is a model for women in business.
Hammon is no stranger to breaking through glass ceilings. She has had a long and distinguished career as a female athlete, and her new job is only her latest achievement as a star female athlete in a sport often associated primarily with men.
Early Years
Hammon's basketball career began when she was in high school in the early 1990s. She played basketball through her high school years and was named South Dakota Miss Basketball when she was a junior. The following year, Hammon was voted both Player of the Year and best female athlete (the latter was an informal vote for a title in the school yearbook.) As a result, she already had distinguished herself as a basketball player before she went to college.
Hammon began attending Colorado State University the following year, where she distinguished herself even further. While playing for Colorado State, she not only gained a reputation for being able to score a lot of points per game, but broke many records. She scored so many points that she surpassed University of Utah's Keith Van Horn to become the all-time leading scorer in the WAC – the first of many male-dominated records she broke during her career. She also got her team into the Sweet Sixteen, broke records for field goals and assists, and eventually was inducted into the Colorado State Hall of Fame.
Despite her skills, Hammon didn't always have an easy time on the court. She was undrafted during her rookie season after graduation, but she didn't give up her dream of being an all-star basketball player. She was given to the New York Liberty as a free agent, but not signed to the team, and some of the established players there bullied her. She was elbowed, pushed, shoved, and once was even pushed to the floor so hard she bruised her entire face. Hammon kept playing ball, ignoring the way she was treated, and her determination eventually won her team over. She even became friends with Vickie Johnson, one of the established players who had beaten her up when she first arrived.
It wasn't until 2004 that Hammon got a starting position, but she had earned it through perseverance and her hard work scoring points for the team. In the years in between, she was often benched until the last second, when she was put in to instantly score points for a team that was about to lose the game.
Also in 2004, a knee injury from years earlier flared up, causing Hammon to be unable to play for most of the season. She still didn't give up. After her knee healed enough that she could play again, she won several more awards.
Going Beyond Necessities
Most people don't know that Becky Hammon is a naturalized Russian citizen. In March 2008, about a year after she had been traded to the San Antonio Silvers from the New York Liberty, Hammon became a dual citizen so that she could play basketball in Russia. She had always wanted to compete in the Olympics and had never made the US shortlist. Soon after gaining Russian citizenship, she was invited to play on the Russian team. Some Americans hated her for her decision to do so, which she agonized over. Hammon emphasized that "It's not about getting back at the US. It's never been about that. Nobody would love to play for their country more than me. [USA Basketball] had an idea of what they wanted, and it wasn't me. You go where you're wanted."
It was a gamble that paid off – Hammon played in the Olympics twice and helped Russia win a bronze medal the first time she played.
According to Rich Campbell at SportsCareers.com, the Spurs' "hiring of Becky Hammon may be a watershed moment." Citing the book Moneyball, he notes that when a team or a business recognizes talents that others overlook, they gain a competitive advantage. Hammon's success demonstrates that too many women are "undervalued assets," just waiting to be discovered.
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Hammon has been determined to make it in basketball player all her life. Whether she was paying her dues at New York Liberty as an unsigned player, going to Russia in pursuit of her dream of playing in the Olympics, or healing from a knee injury, she never gave up. That's why she's won so many awards and how it led her to the breakthrough moment where she became the first female assistant coach to an NBA team.
Written by Ashford University staff
Photo credit: "Becky Hammon (bolshoisport) 4" by Platon Shilikov - http://for-wikimedia.bolshoisport.ru/. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Aquavit
Myrna Katz Frommer
Harvey Frommer
We've always had this thing for Scandinavia. As a young couple on our first trip to Europe, we did the typical England-France-Italy route like all our friends but were compelled to add Denmark and Sweden to our itinerary. When they were buying French Provincial sofas and Early American bedroom sets, we were furnishing our first apartment in sleek Scandinavian, accessorizing with Orrefors crystal, and collecting Arabia dinnerware – which, incidentally, comes from Finland. And while they were learning the intricacies of Escoffier cuisine, we preferred the open sandwiches, the herrings and boiled potatoes, the delectable dishes of the smorgasbord
The experience of Aquavit, however, goes beyond dining.
It is the total Scandinavian aesthetic that begins with the
understated identification of the restaurant – a bronze nameplate
on a seven-story midtown brownstone that today is owned by Unibank,
but once belonged to Nelson Rockefeller and family. The
low-key motif continues five steps down into the entrance level, a
long, softly lit cocktail area.
At its far end is another descent, and here the heart stops.
West 54th Street off Fifth Avenue seems millions of miles
away as we enter what seems to be a clearing in a Nordic forest
surrounded by white birches, banks of white poinsettias, and
branches of crab apple.
Photo by
Harvey Frommer - Click to Enlarge
We look up a seven-story
atrium and see the dark winter sky through the skylight and a huge mobile
suspended in the air looking like a series of free-floating kites.
Directly ahead, a sculpted waterfall sends sheets of water down a copper
façade: Aquavit, the water of life.
It is the night after Christmas when many restaurants
are closed, but nearly every table in this spacious dining room with its
black and chrome Marcel Breuer-style chairs is taken. Seated beside the
waterfall with the sound of water cascading into the pool below a
soothing constant, we begin the Aquavit experience with the icy,
potato-based spirit the restaurant is named for, one flavored with the
tart lingonberry, the other with the fruity cloudberry that only grow in
the lands of the north.
Evelyn Rivera appears to
take our order dressed in a Scandinavian-modern
uniform that befits a flight attendant on a spaceship.
Evelyn tells us she comes from Florida and is of Puerto Rican
ancestry. Yet in the year she
has been at Aquavit, she has become knowledgeable and enthusiastic about
Swedish cuisine and the unique creations of its chef, Marcus Samuelsson,
the celebrity chef we have already heard much about. "It's very
wonderful to work for someone who has such a passion for food," she
says. "You have to learn a lot because the menu changes so often, and
the chef combines such interesting flavors."
At the age of 24, after working in restaurants throughout Europe,
the young chef came to Aquavit.
That was in 1995. Since then, he has earned multiple star ratings from the New
York Times, Forbes, and Crain's and was named
the best "Rising Star Chef" by the James Beard Foundation.
Evelyn Rivera stands before the "water of
life" Photo
by Harvey Frommer - Click to Enlarge
Such a fascinating,
unexpected story; what an interesting complexity it brings to the Aquavit
experience. As we want to sample as much of it as possible, we decide on a
tasting menu. "Marcus likes
to play," Evelyn warns us. "Expect unusual combinations of foods and
presentations using stones, tiles, even glass blocks."
And so we begin with lime
sherbet in a martini glass. On it rests a single oyster in a pearly shell
topped with a dollop of Sevruga caviar that glistens like a heap of
miniature black pearls. This starkly beautiful dish is but a harbinger of
what Evelyn has predicted. Consider the following: a crisp taco filled
with smoked herring served on a marble tablet; Tandoori smoked salmon with
goat cheese parfait, a spoonful of Beluga caviar and black mussels set on
an oval-shaped rock covered with coarse sea-salt; a lobster roll topped
with Sevruga caviar accompanied by pickled Asian pear and ephemeral
lobster and potato foam; and a baked shrimp ball infused with a puree of
paella that is based on fingerling potatoes and accompanied by salmon red
roe. The combination of
flavors and textures is dazzling, the presentations striking.
All fit within the Scandinavian concept but raise the bar to a new
and different plane.
At this point, Aquavit's
general manager Philip Montane stops by our table with glasses of
house-made ginger ale gratinee spiked with a Mandarin-flavored vodka to
clear the palate. Philip, who
came here from his own Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, tells us the
restaurant's staff is made up of as much as twenty-five different
nationalities, and their native cuisine enters into the eclectic and ever
changing menu Marcus Samuelsson creates.
"You're gonna love
this," Evelyn says, as she present slices of Kobi beef beef from Japan along
with ravioli filled with taro root puree and beef brisket dressed in
truffle oil and green tea. "The
beef is beer fed, so we suggest you have some Kirn beer to go along with
it." We do, and it is a terrific combination. The beef is tender and
flavorful; the ravioli deliciously different from any we've had before,
the green tea adding a strangely pleasing piquancy. Next comes a sampling
of sea bass topped with water chestnuts served on a white square plate
with Miro-like designs, and seared tuna and scallops so rare they could be
mistaken for Sashimi.
A last dish remains on our
tasting menu: an almond flour cake with foie gras inside and pear ice
cream on the side. Who would think of putting foie gras in a cake, we
wonder. A single taste convinces: these ingredients are meant for each
"But where are the
Swedish meatballs, the beef Rydberg, the Janson's Temptation?" we ask.
Upstairs in the informal
café, Evelyn tell us, where the traditional dishes are served. This
spectacular dining room is reserved for the spectacular creations of
Marcus Samuelsson.
Philip Lopane had told us the clientele at Aquavit is mostly
American and Swedish, of course.
"But they come from so many other places too," he says.
"We get lots of Mexicans and many Japanese."
We still love all things Scandinavian.
But after dining at Aquavit, our sense of its scope has
mushroomed into a world of new possibilities. Scandinavian
minimalism has met East African flamboyance. And it's a magical
Owner: Hakan Swahn
13 West 54 Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-307-7311
Fax: 212-957-9043
Photos by Harvey
About the Authors: Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are a wife and husband
team who successfully bridge the worlds of popular culture and traditional
scholarship. Co-authors of the critically acclaimed interactive oral histories
It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing Up Jewish in
America, It Happened on Broadway, It Happened in Manhattan, It Happened in
Miami. They teach what they practice as professors at Dartmouth College.
They are also travel writers who specialize in luxury properties and fine dining
as well as cultural history and Jewish history and heritage in the United
States, Europe, and the Caribbean.
about these authors.
You can contact the Frommers at:
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It was love at first sight with Warren, says Alba
London, Aug 13 (IANS) Hollywood actress Jessica Alba has revealed it was love at first sight when she met husband Cash Warren.
The actress says she felt an instant connection with Warren, whom she married 2008, shortly before giving birth to their daughter Honor Marie, reports gossipblender.com.
"Right after I met Cash, I called my best friend and was like, 'I met this guy and I feel like I've known him forever and I'm gonna know him for the rest of my life'," she said.
The "Sin City" star also said the couple are thinking of adopting a child in the future.
"My mom grew up around a huge family, and they always wanted more kids, and I was like, 'Why don't you just adopt?' I'm totally inspired. If you have the love and the capacity to love children, you should just adopt. And I plan on doing it," she said.


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To control a stepper motor, you have to energize each winding individually in a specific and timed order. The energizing is accomplished by a driver circuit (an amplifier). The timing is performed by an indexer circuit and the objective (go forward, go backward, brake, coast, etc. ) is controlled by some external user interface, such as a computer
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or joystick. The figure below shows this process. The circuits for driving unipolar and bipolar stepper motors differ because bipolar stepper motors don`t have a "center tap. " However, it is possible to use bipolar drivers to drive unipolar steppers after some small modifications. Care must be taken in the driver circuit to protect against voltage spikes. Because the motor windings are inductors, switching off the power to the winding produces a short burst of voltage. To protect against this, always put a diode in parallel with the winding, making sure the diode can handle the winding current. This is shown in the following figure. For the switches, any kind of switching technology can be used. The following figure shows two such switches. The first one uses a power darlington transistor and the second one uses a power field effect transistor. For driving a full stepper motor, with multiple coils, you can either build each of the above circuits individually, or you can use a integrated chip. One such chip is the DS2003, which is a darlington array, and is shown below. This chip can be used when the total current to each winding is less than 500 milliamps. Bipolar stepper drivers use H-bridges to energize the windings of the motor. H-bridges allow you to choose the direction of the current through the winding. Using an H-bridge configuration, there are four transistors for each winding as shown in the first figure below....
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Gerard Adriaan Heineken is the founder of the popular brand. His quote "There is always something happening around a beer" is my favorite because if you just think about it, beer is one of the oldest beverages and people all over the world drink it. Do you agree?
We took a closer look at the brewery process. In each of the huge copper tanks, there was a short light presentation showing how the beer is being made, what the ingredients are and so on.
I didn't really like the WORT.
There was even a Heineken farm inside...
Here we made a Heineken degustation. We were shown what exactly we should do when drinking it in order to get fully satisfied. I enjoy it anyway but it was interesting to get to know some details about the foamy liquid such as why it has bubbles and how high the foam must be.
After that, we moved on to the party hall. Mitko was a good DJ.
But my set was better. OK, we both are good! :)
But we aren't really good at beer draughting.
There was a football room...
Chilling room...
Too many selfies in one day! That was all inside the museum. After the tour, there were 4 cold beers waiting for us. After we slaked our thirst, the journey continued.
We had a boat trip with a Heineken boat. It took us to the official store where everyone received a gift an original Heineken glass.


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After the dust was swept and house was kept, kids to bed and stories read then it was my time. My time to write about a good recipe I had made or nail polish I'd tried. My time to review a small appliance or baby item I'd tried out. My time to read up on SEO or figure out how to join a giveaway hop. My time to learn what social networking was all about.
I've had fun doing this and I can't imagine life without it now. It's brought me out of my shell a bit and I feel more confident. For so long I felt invisible. I was a stay at home mom who pretty much just raised kids, cleaned house, cooked and shopped. Once I really started putting myself into my blog then I realized that I was short-selling my own self! There is so much more out there and my bubble popped, I felt like a new person. I now hold my head a bit higher. I feel like worlds have been opened for me, I can breathe deeper.
I had always aspired to join SoFab since the birth of my blog but I knew it would take hard work and determination to get there. So I did my best, improving as I went along and eventually felt like I could try and apply. I filled out the app and waited. Not much longer after the app was submitted did I get asked to create an example Google album shop. I knew I could knock that out of the park if I just did my normal shopping. I gathered up my coupons, list and camera to shop. I submitted my album once it was finished and I was immediately approved! I jumped for joy and called my husband at work to tell him the news. I was elated, it felt like I'd figured out how to cross a broken bridge...then the fun began.
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Worked over 50 hours this week (including today), there were only a few hours of that where I wasn't going full steam ahead. Which meant I came home and pretty much collapsed. Leaving drafts for posts on multiple books in mid-stream. Next week will likely be the same, but I'm trying to get things done. Did manage to read a bit — some very strong stuff, which helps tremendously.
Anyhow, here are the odds 'n ends over the week about books and reading that caught my eye. You've probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
- Crime pays: thrillers and detective novels now outsell all other fiction — I bet the numbers are similar on this side of the pond.
- What Are the Rules for Lending Your Books to Friends?: We asked librarians, since they're the experts — there's some wisdom here
- Alex Bledsoe on Finding a Genre That Fits — Bledsoe discusses the difficulty of labeling the genre for the Tufa novels.
- My Favorite One-Star Reviews of My Books — Lee Goldberg shares some real, er, gems?
- Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? — I think we've all asked this question
- Why You Should Be Watching Bosch, Amazon's Under-the-Radar Noir — yes
- Rant: It's MY Review and There Aren't Laws!
- Can You Trust Book Reviews? — blah
- E-Readers vs Print Books. — not really adding anything new to the debate, but The Tattooed Book Geek's post is plenty of fun.
- The 20 Best Insults in Fiction, RANKED — should memorize a couple of these for future use
- This Week's New Releases I'm Excited About and/or You'll Probably See Here Soon:
- The Fairies of Sadieville by Alex Bledsoe — Apparently, April is a month of good-byes. First, the Iron Druid. Now, the Tufa. This is one of the best series I've read the last few years — now, you can read them all. Do so.
- Madam Tulip and the Bones of Chance by David Ahern — Madam Tulip makes a movie in Scotland and, shockingly enough, becomes embroiled in murder and mayhem. I thought it was plenty of fun, as you can read here.
- Skyjack by K. J. Howe — Kidnap and Ransom specialist, Thea Paris, is back in this tale of secret armies, skyjacking, divided loyalties and impending doom. Here's my post about it.
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The Canadian Pharmaceutical Bar Coding Project is a joint initiative of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP-Canada) to implement standardized bar codes on all aspects of pharmaceutical labeling to enhance medication safety. The Canadian Pharmaceutical Bar Coding Project is a unique opportunity for all stakeholders of the Canadian medication system to collaborate nationally and internationally, from industry to healthcare providers, within both institutional and community care, on a comprehensive strategy for enhanced medication labeling to improve patient safety. International health jurisdictions have embraced medication label bar coding requirements as a critical first step toward improved public safety, through the increased use of smart systems that utilize automated identification (AI) methods of assisting healthcare practitioners in their administration of medication.
ISMP Canada and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute have facilitated a collaborative strategy with over 50 participating organizations to address the technical approach to bar coding, adopting the GS1 global AI standard. This multi-phase project developed and issued technical requirements in 2010 for Canadian pharmaceuticals that have been marketed for use within Canada. The standard provided guidance to all health sectors, outlining recommended bar code components and symbologies, product database elements, medications to be included in the bar coded categories, and packaging levels and bar code placement. To view the Joint Technical Statement on Pharmaceutical Automated Identification and Product Database Requirements, click here. The Joint Technical Statement is due to be updated later in 2011, to address additional recommendations for pharmaceutical automated identification system improvements.
The project leads recently met with the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Deputy Ministers of Health to provide an update and outline potential areas of synergy. The Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres (CAPHC) Patient Safety Collaborative hosted a webinar where Ian Sheppard, ISMP Canada Project Lead for the Canadian Pharmaceutical Bar Coding Project explained how evidence shows that many errors are preventable through medication bar coding and related patient care systems improvements. To access a copy of the webinar presentation, visit the CAPHC Knowledge Exchange Network website: www.ken.caphc.org and click on Patient Safety.
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According to a study on food trends, that we did together with Foresight Factory in spring 2017, peoples' distaste for waste is growing. On average 80% of respondents in UK, US and Nordics think that people are far too wasteful when it comes to food. We are all making strides to reduce food waste in our homes, and 60-70% agree that they try to reduce the amount of household waste they produce.
At the same time we are getting more aware of waste generated during production of the things that we consume. Increasingly we have started to object the fact that certain produce is discarded by retailers due to specific quality requirements.
We see that brands have started to respond to this trend with a multitude of initiatives. Leftover and waste from food, drinks, energy, packaging and beauty products, are getting upcycled or repurposed to alternative goods. We also see that consumers often are involved and educated in the process.
A few producers joining and leading this trend: The restaurant Silo in UK, Brighton. Silo opened in 2014 with the aim to go Zero waste. In addition to using up most of the animals when cooking, they also upcycled old furniture, churned their own butter, used old jars were used for glass, and formed plates from plastic bags. Silo became the first zero-waste restaurant in UK.
Another example that we spotted is Operation Dagger in Singapore, who puts food that would otherwise go to waste on its menu. Serving pickled watermelon rinds as snacks and empty vanilla pods as straws, the cocktail bar also hosted a Potential Wasteland workshop in 2016 to educate customers about ingredients.
In summer 2016, UK restaurant Duck & Waffle launched a range of cocktails dubbed Urban Foraging vs Urban Decay, which contained waste food products such as burnt toast and asparagus ends, as well as foraged ingredients like pollen.
The company Snact buys ugly and unwanted fruit from British farmers to act on food waste. The fruit is blended into a smoothie then dried into fruit jerky on a family farm in Kent. The packaging is home compostable helping them to reduce waste even further.
Those were just some examples, but all in all we find the awareness and richness of initiatives in this field really inspiring, as we are continuously working to reduce the food waste in our own restaurants.
Jonny Zackrisson, Head of Quality and Environment at Fazer Food Services Sweden, puts it like this: "We have found a model to reduce our food waste in our business, which is largely based on a great commitment from our employees". He continues: "By continuously measuring, controlling and creating commitment, we have managed to reduce our food waste in Sweden by about 16% in the past year, which corresponds to about 168 tons of food."
Jonny also points out the responsibility that he sees in helping our chain of suppliers to reduce the food waste. He exemplifies how that responsibility is taken, often all the way down to the farmers: "For instance we purchase many vegetables that do not hold the right appearance, often referred to as" ugly vegetables". "By acting openly with our environmental goals and seek cooperation with our suppliers, we have found this work much more successful and easy, he concludes.
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Cerangkor-OnFire archaeological experimentation project
Siem Reap, Cambodia, 09 December 2019As part of the Cerangkor-OnFire archaeological experimentation project organized at the EFEO Center in Siem Reap, a ceramic firing in a dragon kiln replica is being organized on December 9. The public firing will take place at 6pm around a buffet to which you are warmly invited.In addition to providing our knowledge of this Angkorian industry, these experiments constitute a unique didactic tool for students who will have to search equivalent structures.
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04 December 2019It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jean Deloche, who died on December 3, 2019 in Pondicherry.
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Buddhist scribal practices in a transcultural perspective
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Paris, France, 07 November 2019Alain Arrault gives a lecture on religious statuary in China, Japan and Korea on Thursday, November 7, at 2pm, Salon Pelliot of the Hotel Heidelbach.
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The explanation of "arm candy" is simply a beautiful work of art called an "it" bag, that women love to carry. The designers mentioned in this article have certainly made a name for themselves in the high fashion world. What did they design that caused women to be so intrigued?
Fendi Baguette
In 1998, Silvia Venturini Fendi, designed the Baguette to be a small piece of art that would enhance any outfit. Despite the fact that it can just about fit keys, lipstick and a couple of credit cards, the Baguette continues to be a most popular purse. This little bag is ideal for the busy, modern woman to doesn't have time to go home to change bags for the evening.
Fendi re-issued the Baguette for a limited run in six of its most popular designs. This re-issue coincided with the launch of a new book about the original It-Bag: Fendi Baguette. Women have always had many choices of fabrics to pick from with the Baguette. The Baguette certainly falls in the category of "arm candy"!
Dior Saddle
This bag started a trend for heavy handbag embellishments and of course the equestrian women were intrigued by the inspiration of a horse's saddle. It has a lot going on with stirrups, buckle, rivets and various spurs and horsy bits. Oh, by the way, it totally changed bag shapes. Dior Saddle bags are always expensive and come in exotic python or alligator to French toile du jour. It is very hard for knockoff artists to duplicate. This is "arm candy" unlike the others!
Chloe Paddington
Chloe came up with the idea of creating a limited edition bag that would automatically make a woman feel she belonged to a trendy club. This bag would cost more than an average month's salary. Remember the words, "arm candy"? This is a distinctive, large bag with an over-sized lock. It would have the shape of a doctor's bag. The bag would make her feel like a rich, rock star. In 2005, it reached the peak of fame and is still on a long waiting list for most women.
Mulberry Bayswater
This designer handbag was stripped of all excess. There is no pockets, rivets, tassels or chains. Some say it is a plain and timeless bag that is both classy and classic. It can be very versatile depending what fabrics it is created in. This "arm candy" looks great in shocking pink ostrich or bronze mirror metallic. This bag can communicate without saying a word.
YSL Muse
The YSL Muse, which was created in 2006, is very often sold out. It is extremely popular with celebrities and has been seen slung over the shoulder of Naomi Watts, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Moss, Jessica Alba, and many others. This purse, is in the design of a roomy oval with its double zip and big straps, is perfectly proportioned and gives the owner instant class. That is what "arm candy" will do for you!
Please note that all of these bags have the distinction of being voted some of the greatest "it" bags ever!
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A 40'-long one-aisle Narrow body cabin interior and two 10'-long exterior wall sections were air freighted to make the schedule for the last day of shoot of "Addicted to Love."
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The most challenging jobs are the most fun for the professionals at Aero Mock-Ups. Doing the out-of-the-ordinary keeps our job interesting.
Other jobs we have done are, set up a cabin in a freight elevator so that party goers could travel from the ground floor to the upper floors of a travel theme Bar Mitzvah. Removed doors and dismantled sets to get them to fit into buildings. Even strapped them to a scissor lift in a field. No job is too small or too difficult.
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As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2016 Olympics and celebrate its newfound economic prowess as a player on the world stage, the connection between poverty and racial discrimination in Brazil is coming under scrutiny. Would Brazil benefit from U.S.-style affirmative action to counter its history of slavery? What are the challenges of implementing such programs?Read the Discussion »


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With Head Office in Johannesburg, CARDINAL wants to provide its customers with a global and unique solution gathering policy and claims administration as well as the entire reinsurance processes management.
Cardinal and Effisoft partnered in a joint venture where Cardinal represents, implements and supports Effisoft's reinsurance solution: WebXL.
Cardinal is also Effisofts representation and partner for Sub-Saharan Africa.
The WebXL reinsurance system is CIMS-integrated for the most complex insurers' and reinsurers' re-insurance requirements. WebXL can moreover be offered by Cardinal as a standalone reinsurance-specific system for very large insurers and reinsurers.
Initialized in 2011, this alliance seems already attractive for many insurance companies in South Africa since CARDINAL has already presented WebXL to half a dozen reinsurance managers this Fall.


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Yahoo Sports NFL senior writers Charles Robinson, Terez Paylor and Kimberley A. Martin select games this week that will leave us buzzing heading into Monday or Tuesday.
Robinson's must-watch
New Orleans Saints at Los Angeles Rams
C'mon. Are we going to pretend there is any game on the slate better than a rematch of last season's controversial NFC title game?
Saints fans have been circling it from the moment of the schedule announcement after getting pooched on the biggest pass interference no-call in league history. But hard feelings aside, the football is what matters here. And this is going to give a fantastic measuring stick on the quality of both of these teams.
We all know the Rams and Saints should be in the mix for the Super Bowl. With both teams relatively healthy, this will let us know which one has the edge in the conference's race for the No. 1 seed.
Paylor's must-watch
Cleveland Browns at New York Jets
The Browns looked terrible in a 43-13 home loss to the Titans in the season opener, as they struggled to protect quarterback Baker Mayfield and were also flagged so many times (18) it made the 1976 Oakland Raiders blush.
Now they have an opportunity to right the ship against a Jets team that will be starting Trevor Siemian in place of Sam Darnold, meaning the over-under for interceptions they should snare is about 1.5. The Jets are at home, however, and it's on Monday night; if the Browns don't play well, anything could happen. And if Cleveland loses ... woof. Expect a meltdown by arguably the most tortured fan base in the NFL.
Martin's must-watch
Cleveland Browns at New York Jets
Odell Beckham, Jr. vs. Gregg Williams.
Jarvis Landry vs. Adam Gase.
Baker Mayfield vs. Everybody.
Get your popcorn, people!
Williams' Bountygate ways are back in the news after Beckham blasted the former Browns defensive coordinator/interim head coach for targeting him with "cheap" and "dirty" defense two years ago. Landry denied being disgruntled about Gase dealing him from Miami to Cleveland last year, but there's definite bad blood there. And after throwing three interceptions against the Titans, Mayfield is amped to quiet his critics.
But if you're not here for the drama, consider this: The beginning of the Baker era began in Week 4 against the Jets with a 21-17 come-from-behind win on "Thursday Night Football." Now the stage is set for one hell of a prime-time showdown.
Both teams were embarrassed at home last week, so this is as "must-win" of a game as it gets this early in the season. The Browns, who were blown out by 30 points, are still reeling from the death of DE Chris Smith's girlfriend. Meanwhile, the Jets were dealt a blow when they lost starting quarterback Sam Darnold to – of all things – mononucleosis.
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Pam Schwartz and I are in Iowa for Christmas. On Christmas Eve it started to snow and it snowed all day long. I set some time aside to paint the view out of some bay windows that overlooked the property. The house is on top of a hill that overlooks all the land around it. There is a pond down at the bottom of the ravine in the direction that I was painting. There was a fine dusting of snow all day. I was pleased to find out that there was a brush on the tablet that easily paints snow.
The Christmas tree had been set up with care and the next morning the presents under and next to the tree would be unwrapped. All the open fields became white encrusted in the snow as we rode to grocery stores for holiday supplies. On Christmas Eve evening we had a 15 pound NY strip loin roast that was amazingly tender along with cheesy potatoes and green beans with bacon. I gave Pam's brother credit for a pan full of roasted water chestnuts wrapped in bacon that were delicious, that had really been made by Pam.
Relatives come and go in waves and the family chats in the living room, warm from the snow outside. We often gather at the table to play board games. The sun has just set and online sites track Santa's progress around the world. His sleigh seems to always be in flight. He never seems to and drop off presents. There is only an electric fireplace here in Maquoketa, so he must have to be good at breaking into homes to drop off his presents.


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Suzy Fonseca remembers traveling with her family from California to Washington and back, following the crop seasons along the way.
She pitched in to harvest hops, cherries, and other crops, and to pick the slugs off the raspberry plants. She speaks from experience when she says, "Farm labor is hard work."
Today Fonseca is president/CEO of Lower Valley Credit Union in Sunnyside, Wash., a community in the rural southeastern part of the state, whose residents are 88% Hispanic. She started working at the $100 million asset credit union as a teller 18 years ago, becoming CEO in 2011.
Most of the credit union's 13,000 members and 50 employees have experiences similar to Fonseca, who's a first-generation American. They understand the challenges facing farm laborers.
"Our staff can relate to the fact that in the winter, these members won't have food on the table if they don't budget for it," Fonseca says. "And if the harvest is bad, they won't have a job come spring."
The credit union's members have three key needs, and Lower Valley serves all three:
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2. Affordable loans; and
3. Assistance gaining citizenship.
Used-car loans comprise a major part of the loan portfolio. Lower Valley has been making individual tax identification number (ITIN) loans for three decades, Fonseca says, to enable noncitizen members to get car loans. Now some are obtaining mortgages, as well.
"They've built their credit with help from financial counseling," she says. "Now they're eligible for real estate loans. That has a huge impact on our community. We have a lot of renters who need a loan source to buy homes."
In the past, farm laborers often turned to their employers for home loans because they didn't trust financial institutions.
Many farmers wanted to help their workers who had been with them for years, even decades and through generations. But they also wanted those workers to build credit and learn about budgeting.
Now those employers can steer people to Lower Valley for both mortgage loans and financial education. "We've had good relationships with a number of farmers around here," Fonseca says.
Lower Valley also has created a "Path to U.S. Citizenship" program. Lack of citizenship hurts many people in the community, Fonseca points out. Working in partnership with other community organizations, Lower Valley hosts daylong sessions that bring together immigration attorneys and others to assist with citizenship applications.
People make appointments and are prescreened to be sure they qualify for citizenship. Those who attend leave with a completed application ready to drop in the mail with a check.
Fonseca recognizes immigration is a controversial topic, but Lower Valley sees citizenship help, as well as financial help, as part of its mission. For 80 years, credit unions have been helping American workers, no matter where they came from originally.
"It's who we are and what we do," Fonseca says. "We serve the underserved. It just so happens that the underserved market in our area is Hispanic."


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JLL names new head of capital markets for Singapore
Ting Lim will lead team of 21 experts in connecting Singapore investors to cross-border investment opportunities, and facilitate capital flows into city state from overseas investors
Real estate consultancy JLL has tapped Ting Lim to lead its capital markets business in Singapore. Lim, who has been with JLL since 2004, will head up a team of 21 real estate experts, serving large investors including pension funds, Singapore-based developers, major Singapore government-linked companies, sovereign wealth funds, and international investment managers.
In her new role, Lim will leverage her network and experience to connect Singapore investors to cross-border investment opportunities, and will facilitate capital flows into the city state from overseas investors. Previously executive director, JLL Asia Pacific Capital Markets, she will continue to serve a number of the firm's important regional clients.
During her time at JLL, Lim has been involved in several landmark transactions in Singapore, including the 2019 sale of a 50 percent interest in Frasers Tower to South Korea's National Pension Service (US$1.5 billion); Frasers Property's acquisition of a 35 percent interest in PGIM Asia Retail Fund (US$2.5 billion) in 2019; the sale of Asia Square Towers 1 and 2 (US$4.1 billion) in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
Based in Singapore, Lim will report to Stuart Crow, CEO, JLL Asia Pacific Capital Markets, and Chris Fossick, CEO, JLL Southeast Asia.
"Asia Pacific, and specifically Singapore, continues to be an attractive market for global investors, with many of them looking to overcome the high barriers to entry through innovative structures. Ting's international experience will bring a broader perspective to the team and further enhance our services, enabling our clients to access greater cross-border connectivity," says Crow.
Fossick says, "I look forward to working closely with Ting to further grow the business, as we continue to offer our clients the best real estate investment opportunities and the highest quality advice. Singapore is a key market for JLL and continues to be a safe haven for foreign investors amid ongoing political uncertainty and market volatility."
According to JLL research, real estate investment in Singapore nearly doubled in H1 2019 compared to the same period in 2018. Driven in part by large-scale transactions, the office sector continues to account for the largest share of investment with nearly US$4.6 billion in acquisitions so far this year compared to US$3.1 billion transacted in 2018 and US$4.7 billion in 2017.
"With the emergence of funds entering the Singapore market directly, as well as a number of joint ventures and M&As across the region, this is a signal that Asia Pacific's real estate market is maturing," explains Lim.
Lim has a degree in Investment and Finance in Property from the University of Reading.
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Lately, I've been probably OBSESSED with how good everything looks when it includes a piece of lace. Lace has been a classic trend for years, but in the last few months, designers have included this beautiful material into their designs, making them look better than usual.
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This Thanksgiving morning, all is well. I have family to be with today, plenty to eat, a lovely home to eat in. And if I did not have those things, I have many friends who would gladly have included me in their Thanksgiving celebrations today.
But as I think about Thanksgivings of the past, things were not always so wonderful. There was Thanksgiving 2001, when my daddy passed away just a week before. After the funeral, we did go on to have Thanksgiving with my husband's family, but when we came home, Daddy's chair was empty. It broke my heart.
Just a year later, we buried my mother-in-law three weeks before Thanksgiving. That year, the five of us ate a small meal in the dining room that before had hosted 50+ family members each year. We spent many hours going through things in the house before it was sold, dismantling a life.
These were hard times, and everyone has them. I think of innocent children whose lives are wretched due to the consequences of someone else's sin, and my hard times don't look so bad after all.
But one thing we all have in common, the thing we must be most thankful for today–we have hope of a much better life for eternity, without all these sorrows. The Bible says,
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10:27-28
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Traditionally Modern
Text and photography by Elodie Bellegarde
Singapore's growing vibrant local café scene is an illustration of the city-state's diverse communities where locals meet expats and modern embraces traditional. While some cafés specialise in serving a quick caffeine shot on the way to work, others focus on providing their loyal clientele with homemade food inspired by the past. A growing number of establishments take great care in creating a menu or an experience that merges traditions with modern touches. The value in the convergence of old and new staples is that they give spaces an aesthetic of their own.
Mr Keng's Tong Mern Sern Antiques Arts & Crafts on Craig Road is one of the few places in Singapore where café owners can find original artefacts to celebrate our heritage. A man with an acute taste for collecting junk and turning them into valuable antiques, Mr Keng's love for old artefacts traces back to his early childhood, at a time when owning an antique business was considered madness. First established 40 years ago on Tomlinson Road and having been at its current location for nearly 20 years, Mr Keng's shop has become an emblematic landmark and proof that antiques haven't gone out of fashion. On the contrary, the renewed interest in objects inherited from previous generations that carry a sentimental value adds to the dichotomy between junk and antiques.
Famous for its slogan, suggested by an American expat customer, "We buy junk and sell antiques. Some fools buy some fools sell", the shop is an Aladdin's cave of antiques with its three floors of treasures and dust. It offers an eclectic mix of items from porcelain chopstick rests to imposing solid wood furniture, silver dinnerware to old travel suitcases. Anyone with a taste for old things is certain to unearth wonders from the shop's dusty shelves. When used to serve food, these gems bring a timeless and reassuring feeling of comfort that contrasts with—yet perfectly complements—the modern concept of cafés in Singapore.
One café that has successfully embraced tradition and modernity in the creation of its dessert menu is The Plain, which is coincidentally next door to Mr Keng's. As its owner Vincent Teng highlights, the baked goods are "chosen with love with my baker. This makes the sweets very personal and meaningful." The delectable selection of homemade desserts baked by The Plain's in-house baker, Jane Ng, is a blend of traditional recipes reinvented over generations. A classic butter cake is brought to another level when enhanced with hints of rose water the same way a brownie is revived with the addition of salted caramel. A local staple like the pandan cake feels at home when unusually displayed on a cake stand. The choice to display desserts on a trolley also reminds one of the way freshly made dim sum is traditionally served and pushed around on trolleys in older Chinese restaurants. By mixing traditional Asian flavours with Western recipes, the desserts served at The Plain bring together the expat and local crowds into a communal space designed for conversation.
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When you start any diet it is important to set a firm weight loss goal. This is because your working brain needs to be in sync with your mind's thoughts to achieve your ideal body weight loss goal. If you just say to yourself, "oh I need to lose a little weight", it will not work as effectively as a clearly defined goal of a certain loss of fat weight. It doesn't matter whether the goal is seven pounds, 17 pounds or 107 pounds, give your brain the direction it needs.
Before you set a goal, find out first what a healthy weight is for your age, height and body type. You can find your healthy weight range by using the calculators available online. Simply choose a weight goal in the middle of the range that fits your age, height and body type. Be Honest!
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If you have a substantial amount of weight to lose, it is helpful to break the weight loss down into stages. For example if you want to lose thirty pounds over the next six months, you can then break this down further into five pound segments. As you mark off each five pound loss it will give you a big sense of achievement, a feeling that you can then use if you begin to stray off your diet. Also its helpful to reward yourself with little treats as you reach these milestones. Treats must be non-food related of course, such as a new shirt or blouse. Giving yourself something new will help to motivate you to the next diet goal.
Setting weight loss goals is all about motivation and helping you to feel as positive about the process as possible. Sometimes it might take you a little longer to reach the next goal than you had hoped, but at least the goal is always in sight and you will achieve it. Setting goals and sticking with them are integral to your fat loss success.


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Lipolytic effect of in vivo leptin administration on adipocytes of lean and ob/ob mice, but not db/db mice
Frühbeck G., Aguado M., Gómez-Ambrosi J., Martínez J.A.
Department of Physiology and Nutrition, University of Navarra, Pamplona, 31080-, Spain
Magazine: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Date: Sep 1, 1998Obesity Unit Endocrinology and Nutrition [SP]
The present study has examined the effect of a single in vivo intraperitoneal injection of the adipocyte-derived hormone, leptin, on the in vitro lipolysis of fat cells of different types of mice.
Administration of 1 and 10 mg leptin per kg body weight to ob/ob mice significantly increased (P < 0.0001) the basal lipolytic activity compared to ob/ob mice receiving vehicle solution (phosphate-buffered saline, PBS). The highest leptin dose tested (10 mg/kg body weight) produced a threefold increase in basal lipolysis. In lean mice administration of 10 mg leptin per kilogram of body weight produced an increase in basal lipolysis of 52.7% (P < 0.01). However, in db/db mice none of the three leptin doses injected had a significant effect on the lipolytic activity of adipocytes relative to basal lipolysis observed in db/db mice injected with PBS only.
These data provide evidence for a lipolytic effect of leptin on white adipose tissue, which operates independently from changes in food intake, body weight, and the size of the fat stores.
CITATION Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998 Sep 8;250(1):99-102
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The study will evaluate the impact of five irrigation schemes in Rwanda that have just been constructed as part of the Land Husbandry, Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation (LWH) project.
Irrigation investments have enormous potential to improve the lives of smallholder farmers who otherwise depend on rain-fed agriculture, both through increasing yields, adding additional cultivation seasons and reducing risk. Many irrigation schemes fail for lack of collective action over maintenance issues, absence of a water allocation mechanism or for lack of adoption of high value crop.
The Government of Rwanda considers agriculture an engine for the economy (Rwanda Vision 2020? Rwanda's Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy) and aims to reduce poverty and achieve food security through sustainable agriculture. MINAGRI has plans to expand and scale up hillside irrigation through the development of 9,392 hectares in 2014-2017, and 15,300 hectares in 2017-20.
As irrigation schemes are very costly to be construct, the government is extremely concerned with both the cost-effectiveness and the sustainability of these investments. This impact evaluation will shed light on these central issues, from local to international policy dialogues.
Research questions
- What are the impacts of irrigation on smallholder welfare?
- What is the impact of escalating irrigation fees on farmer behaviour?
- Do self-demonstration kits encourage experimentation and long run adoption? If so, how does this interact with water usage fees?
- Does the placement of a monitor within the irrigation scheme affect resource sharing?
Intervention design
The LWH is a flagship project of MINAGRI designed to meet its objectives through a modified watershed approach. It introduces sustainable land husbandry measures for hillside agriculture on selected sites, and develops hillside irrigation for subsections of each site. Construction of the irrigation schemes began in 2012. Three of the sites are completed, and two additional schemes were to be completed by the end of 2016. In each case, hillside terraces were recently rehabilitated? a main canal runs along a contour of the hillside, with a slope prescribed by engineering calculations. Secondary pipes tie into the main canal and bring water down the hillside, where tertiary outlets allow irrigation along individual terraces.
Theory of change
A virtuous cycle occurs when farmers begin to experiment with high value crops: productivities improve as farmers learn how to cultivate high value crops; they use the irrigation system because it is necessary for their cultivation and they properly use and maintain the irrigation system as their production is dependent on it. Additionally, this constant use of the irrigation system allows LWH to collect enough fees to make the irrigation scheme sustainable. Most of the farmland in each of the LWH sites is planted with staple crops (maize and beans). In order to realise the full benefits of these schemes, farmers will have to adopt higher value horticultural crops. Moreover, maintaining and managing the schemes will require a mix of monetary and effort-based fees that will pose substantial challenges.
Evaluation design
A quasi-experimental spatial regression discontinuity approach will be used to provide estimates of the impacts of irrigation on farmers' welfare, captured by yields, profits, labour markets, rental and land markets, migration, and education. This approach will compare farmers who own land just below the main canal with those who own land just above it. In addition, RCTs will be used to test: 1) the impact of escalating irrigation fees on farmers' adoption of a high value cropping system and land sales; 2) the impact of experiential learning, through the offer of demonstration mini-kits, on adoption behaviour and fee repayment; and 3) the impact of several components related to operations and maintenance of irrigation.