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CAMBA's ten homeless shelters – five for adults and five for families – provide emergency housing and supportive services to over 8,000 people each year.
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In Nagoya University, in order to produced a leader to challenge the aggressive commercialization from this earth, we will conduct student, graduate student, entrepreneurship education to target the graduates to "Tongali project". Tongali project, from research seeds (ideas emergent) to entrepreneurs (EXIT), elementary has become a step-by-step to learn the system from, also, to welcome the people with actual entrepreneurial experience as a mentor, entrepreneur for has taken a system that can receive direct guidance.
Tongali features of the project, actively not only only on the education of a leader to challenge the commercialization (= Tongali human resources), located in the place where also continuously support to entrepreneurs. Tongali companies it is possible to use a part of the Nagoya University of resources.
In Nagoya University, through this project, Nagoya, activation of the Tokai district of the industry, will contribute to the creation of employment, we are working to build a global innovation ecosystem.

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I got a bit fed up with my workroom as it felt cluttered, dark and stagnant. So I bought three coloured stands (including, of course, on in purple!), booted out a couple of boring stands, and brightened up the place.
I also moved my crystal mandala table from its previous position close to my shelves full of crystals to its own space under my drum and Woman of Power artwork. I felt when the table was close to the crystal collection that the stones on the shelves interfered with the focus of the crystal mandalas I create on the glass table, and it actually feels are lighter and more focused in its new position.
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La'Porsha Renae Declares 'No More Drama' And JLo Ugly Cries On American Idol 2016 (VIDEO)
La'Porsha Renae sang "No More Drama" by Mary J. Blige on American Idol 2016 on Thursday, March 17, 2016. Simply amazing!
Jennifer Lopez was so moved by the performance she "ugly cried" during her critique. I've never seen JLo this emotional before on the show. La'Porsha really touched her soul. I'm sure Jennifer is going to miss this when the show ends.
"You are an inspiration," said judge Jennifer Lopez.
Harry Connick Jr. smirked at La'Porsha though. What's up with that? Thank goodness Ryan Seacrest did not let him speak due to time constraints.
La'Porsha could definitely win this thing!
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William Gibson dazzled readers in the 1980s by envisioning worlds few could have imagined then; cyberspace, the Internet, virtual reality...
William Gibson dazzled readers in the 1980s by envisioning worlds few could have imagined then; cyberspace, the Internet, virtual reality. Now the pace of change has become so mindboggling, the Vancouver, B.C.-based author has decided to dwell in the ephemeral present — "We can't spin futures, because the present has become too brief," says the author of "Neuromancer" and "Pattern Recognition."
Gibson's new novel, "Spook Country," (Putnam, 371 pp., $25.95) lives in the present, but what a strange and wonderful present it is. Virtual art created with the aid of Global Positioning Systems, rogue intelligence agents who "dead drop" intelligence via iPod, a mysterious shipping container whose trajectory is both tracked and obscured by cutting-edge technology. Three characters — a magazine journalist/rock star, a half-Cuban member of an underground crime family who looks "like an ethnic version of a younger Johnny Depp" and a drug-addicted Russian translator — are drawn into the chase. (Hubertus Bigend, a filthy-rich man-behind-the-curtain from "Pattern Recognition," makes an encore appearance.)
Along the way, Gibson, 59, keeps the reader Googling, trying to match his uncanny grasp of historical and contemporary culture, from the gods of the Santeria religion to "piggybacking" on wireless networks. (A couple of Web sites named after Node, a fictitious "Spook Country" magazine, track these references — go to http://node.tumblr.com/ or www.nodemagazine.com.)
Gibson will appear Tuesday at Barnes & Noble in University Village, and the bookstore expects a crowd. A B&N spokesperson advised arriving two hours in advance to secure a seat.
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Q. In "Spook Country," you write about "locative art" — that is, viewing historical happenings and contemporary artistic images in situ through virtual-reality devices. How much of this technology already exists?
A. The software that Bobby (the novel's reclusive GPS genius) uses exists, but I have no idea if it conceivably could be made to do what he uses it for — the rest of it you can buy on eBay. I don't know if anybody actually can do what Bobby does, but if you Google "Locative art," you get millions of hits.
One of my more technically adroit colleagues pointed out that you can't use GPS indoors (as Bobby does in "Spook Country"). We hadn't quite gone to press. But then he said, if you need to use GPS indoors, you can just triangulate it off the nearest cellphone towers. I spent a busy afternoon updating Bobby's skill set a bit. Whatever relationship I have with the technology … it is not in understanding how it works. I think what it is is seeing the forest for the trees. I don't know how it works, but what I watch is how people react with it. Which is generally not what the manufacturer had in mind.
Q. This novel seems to be about turning virtual reality outward. Have you found other examples of that?
A. I was looking for something that was symbolic of that (turning virtual reality outward, into the real world). That's how locative art came up.
Fifteen or 20 years ago, the time we spent in digital systems was a special time. We spent less time there and we noticed it more. Now that's reversed. The increasingly rare time we spend is that which is not in the system. That's how it turns itself inside out.
That's why a term like "cyberspace" starts to go the way of all those things in the 19th century that started with the word "electro" — electro-water, electro-toothbrush. Electricity was a novelty. But as everything is increasingly transacted in what we used to call cyberspace, cyberspace ceases to exist. What becomes special is the world that's not in it.
I was thinking the other day — I was in a cab, and a ridiculous old mechanical Russian wristwatch I happened to be wearing stopped. There was the irritation I felt — then I realized that my cellphone had the time. At that point, the watch became jewelry.
I realized that all watches are jewelry now. That characteristic gesture people make when they check their wristwatches — that will be gone soon. Today, [the dominant technological-human gesture] is people holding their cellphone to their heads, talking. It looks kind of like grief.
I remember that in London, 12 or 13 years ago, I was headed to a shop I was looking forward to visiting. There was a crazy man talking at the top of his lungs. I was afraid to pass this guy. I really wanted to go in that shop — then eventually I realized he was talking on a cell. He was the first guy I had ever seen wearing a headset.
[Cellphones] changed London in some profound way; I saw it happen. There was a town in which people, of necessity, spent a remarkable amount of time alone, on the subway, on the street. It was not a culture where people chatted to strangers very much, due to the necessity of going through this maze of brick and stone as efficiently as possible to do their business. It was solitary, but it's over. Now everyone on the tube is talking on one of their various cellphones. No one needs to be alone there anymore.
Q. I read that the finished versions of your characters often bear little relationship to the ones you sketch out in your book proposals. Which of "Spook Country's" characters were with you in the beginning?
A. All the characters pretty much made it through, but the ones I put down on paper for the publisher aren't really the characters; they're placeholders. I'm capable of changing them at the drop of a hat. Most of the characters I mentioned in the proposal managed to stay in the novel, but what they became when rounded out was unlike anything I could have imagined. The process of them becoming characters was sort of organic, below my radar — to some extent, outside my control.
Q. I found it a bit scary that Milgrim (the drug-addicted Russian translator) is such an appealing character. What were you thinking when you created him?
A. I think I had some early first draft version where there was no Milgrim, just two points of view [of Hollis, the journalist, and Tito, the young half-Cuban], cutting between two points of view. It wasn't working. Without really paying much attention, I tried introducing another viewpoint. You don't know much about him at all, but it's quickly kind of jolting — there he was. It enabled me to make the other two threads more viable. He took over much more than I would have expected.
He's periodically disinhibited to the point that he can express himself in ways he wouldn't at other times [laughs]. The way he voices his discomfort with his captivity — you sense it's not wise to do it, but it's probably the only time he's telling the truth.
The book Milgrim is reading [on revolutionary messianic figures in medieval Europe] … I already had the Milgrim character, and I went back to New York to visit a friend of mine. He has this vast book-filled apartment and is obsessive and enthusiastic. He said, here, you've got to read it right now. He gave me this old beat-up copy. By the time I got back to my hotel and read a chapter or two, Milgrim was reading it, too.
I found out later, after Bigend's mother is revealed as having hung out with Situationists, that the book was a favorite of Guy Debord, the "evil genius" of the Situationists [a libertarian group that came out of the French student revolution in 1968] A lot of people at both ends of the [political] spectrum see his fingerprints on all kinds of radical activities. They were so radical they would disown and disavow everybody, so there would only be one guy left. They were so wacky and they were all drunk all the time.
I was really happy with things like that — the material starts communicating with me. I'm not being supernatural about it, but I know I'm really into the material then. Q. The narrative thread of Cuban exiles turning into their own crime family/intelligence agents for hire — is there any real basis for that?
A. No, but before I'd started the book, I got an invitation to go to a seminar somewhere in California about "illegal facilitators" [what Tito is called by rogue agents who are chasing him]. I'm a member of something called the Global Business Network, which is a scenario-spinning organization that has corporate and sometimes government clients. [This organization studies] illegal facilitators — crime families that specialize in smuggling across a particular border. They don't care what they're smuggling — if they've got enough money, they'll smuggle whatever it is. This is a big worry for nation-states.
Q. What books have you read lately that you can recommend?
"The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson, about a London cholera epidemic. I've also been reading a book I've been hearing about all my life, "Our Southern Highlanders" by Horace Kephart. [Gibson grew up in the hill country of southwestern Virginia.] I think he was a high-school teacher in Chicago who went down to Tennessee, and managed to make a living writing about people up in the mountains. It always turns up in every survey of Southern historical sources.
Also, "The Orchard Keeper" by Cormac McCarthy. It's set in Tennessee, just over the Virginia state line. It was set in the 1940s, during and after the Second World War, and it's a brilliant window into this world that had gone by the time I was there. But its presence was still there. That was one of the things that made it a special place to grow up in — an intense specificity. It was a county psychology, though not necessarily a good one. Q. Do you think the pace of change we are experiencing will persist through our kids' lives? If so, do you care to make any predictions of what their lives will be like?
A. In one of my previous novels, one of the characters argues that we can't do futures anymore. He makes the case that in the old days, the present was bigger and slower moving. In the old days we could stand on it, like H.G. Wells, and imagine an arc of imaginary history.
One thing I've always found very comforting is that during most of my mother's life, there were quite a few people around in that part of Virginia who had lived their lives without hearing recorded music. Before people heard recorded music, music sounded different. As soon as they heard recorded music, something changed. But we don't know what it is; we don't even know the difference. Some people would say it's not a valid distinction at all. Wherever it is that our children are going, things that are major concerns for us are probably not going to be that important for them. I think I can remember the day my father brought our first television set home, but I'm not positive. It was a wooden or octagonal box with a tiny little screen. That means I can remember the world before television. The world before television was unutterably different, but they'll never know how.
Science-fiction writers, if they have anything going, have to have been continually humbled throughout their careers by that fact. Nothing gets quainter faster than that history you just made up.
The pleasure in reading older science fiction is that patina of quaintness.
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An Insignia LCD TV features a flat-screen liquid crystal display. Insignia is Best Buy's house brand and is sold exclusively by the retailer as a part of its "value line." As with most consumer electronic goods, problems with the set can arise. Whether it be a problem with picture quality or resetting the unit, many glitches are relatively simple to remedy. Before calling a service technician, there are a number of basic troubleshooting steps you can run through on your own.
Check that the TV is plugged in and press the POWER button on the remote control or TV if there is no power to the unit. Inspect the home electrical panel to check for any tripped breakers or blown fuses. Reset any breakers and replace fuses with new ones of the same amperage. Check that the batteries in the remote are inserted to connect with the correct +/- polarities. Replace the batteries, if necessary.
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The seven-year-old shivers on the deck of the ship, holding his younger brother's hand.
Their parents have awakened them early, and the difference between the warm berth below deck and this February morning in 1955 makes him dislike America more.
His father tells him this is a momentous occasion, and he points at the huge statue in the harbor. That is the Statue of Liberty.
The boy wouldn't dare contradict his father's enthusiasm, but he doesn't understand the significance.
She looks stern and cold like the rest of the New York skyline.
He wipes the sleet away from his tired eyes and misses home. Here there are no colorful fields of tulips, no Oma and Opa, no Holland.
Here there is only "opportunity."
Once on board the train to Chicago, the boy turns his face to the icy window in case he cries.
He misses his grandfather, who questioned the wisdom of the boy's father to move to America and leave behind everything they had ever known. He misses his cousins, his house, the view from his bedroom window.
He places a small, barely warm hand against the pane and leaves a weeping print through which he peers at a place some distant voice–maybe his father again–declares to be Pennsylvania.
No matter what any of this new world is called, the boy cannot yet call it home.*
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Business man Jack Van Namen shared this story about his first glimpse of America at a presentation to college business students I recently attended.
When his father Jacob Van Namen decided to go to the States, Jack's grandfather questioned Jacob's wisdom. Jacob answered with: "I have two hands and a Father in Heaven. He will take care of us."
To support his wife and children, he peddled tulip bulbs from Holland door to door. Then a local wholesale florist asked Jacob if he could drive a truck. Jacob said he could (not that he knew how but that he could). He eventually worked his way up to partner in the local wholesaler and later became the owner. He grew what he had initially named Vans Wholesale Florists from a single Chicagoland location to 10 distribution centers in five states by the 1990s, enlisting the help of his children. As a teen, Jack spent his summers learning everything from growing fresh flowers to marketing to retailers.
Years later would find Jack spearheading the expansion of the company into growing floral products in Florida, California, and Mexico, while opening more distribution facilities in six states. In the fall of 2012, Vans Floral Products, as currently branded, was acquired by Kennicott Brothers Co. (an employee-owned company), and the major Midwest competitor of Vans. Jack now serves as director of sales for the merged company's corporate mass market division, KBC Direct.
The students, eager to hear more about the "real world," happened to be gathered in the college recital hall named for Jack's family.
Jack told them about growing and running a successful floral distribution business.
About the challenges of family dynamics in a family run business.
About the need to leap ahead–not just evolve–when grocery stores get into the flower-selling business and the Internet becomes the new floral products storefront.
And he told them that he believed in leading by example.
What better example to this boy who clung to his brother's hand as tightly as he did his homeland than an immigrant father, man of faith, and entrepreneur peddling flower bulbs to feed his children?
What better example to young, aspiring business people than for Jack to share this personal story of his first glimpse of a new country, the determination of his father to build a business, and Jack's own dedication to growing and nurturing it?
But stories add value in building a business's brand and shaping customer perception as well.
In an April post on Wood Street, Jon-Mikel Bailey talks about stories being an integral part of our business website content. His final point echoes the story arc we learned in school. The hero faces some obstacle and overcomes it.
Just like Jack's story, these are the types of stories that inspire.
Not necessarily the "how I made my first million" stories, but the quieter, harder ones that can teach all of us about adaptability, fortitude, sacrifice and commitment.
*My "creative account" of Jack's arrival in America is a retelling based on the details he offered in his presentation.


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District Policy Group, the lobbying unit of law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath, is experimenting with a new model of using outside consultants to capture new business in the health-care field.
The group, which lobbies primarily on health-care policy, has taken the unusual step of forming an advisory board that includes external consultants. The outside advisers are not employees of the firm and instead receive a consultant's fee, which means the firm does not have to pay their salary or benefits, but can still tout their services to clients.
The board was formed in July and is made up of four Drinker Biddle attorneys and two outside consultants, Tracy Sefl, a Democratic communications strategist, and Michael O'Grady, a health economics specialist and former Health and Human Services assistant secretary under President George W. Bush. Both Sefl and O'Grady have day jobs running their own consulting shops. The internal Drinker Biddle board members are employee benefits attorney Brad Campbell, education lawyer Charles Rose, corporate attorney Jesse Ruiz and white collar defense attorney Scott Coffina.
The model is a cost-effective way of giving clients access to services that the lobby shop does not do itself. It is an extension of the rebranding effort the lobbying group began earlier this year, when it renamed itself District Policy Group and began more aggressively marketing services that go beyond traditional lobbying and include grass-roots organizing, social media training and political intelligence.
The firm has used Sefl and O'Grady in the past to consult on individual projects for clients, but the new arrangement gives the network more structure without the financial commitment of hiring the consultants full-time, said Ilisa Halpern Paul, president of District Policy Group. Paul declined to specify whether a portion of fees go back to District Policy Group, other than to say the model gives clients access to expanded services, but without overhead and other costs, which boosts the firm's revenue.
"If we were to have them full-time, it'd be a much more expensive endeavor," Paul said. "And the reality is we don't need a full-time health economics person right now, but we do need one sometimes. Our clients don't want to pay exorbitant fees to have a full-time person when there's not the demand for it. It's a nimble way to staff things."
The setup brings Sefl and O'Grady into the firm's operations more than they were before — the board meets regularly to strategize and talk about clients — so that when they are brought in to work on a specific project, they don't have to spend as much time familiarizing themselves with the client, Paul said.
Law firms have been testing out new ways to provide health-care consulting that is not traditional legal work. McDermott Will & Emery recently created a consulting subsidiary, McDermott + Consulting, led by lobbyist Eric Zimmerman that focuses on health-care lobbying, data analytics and policy analysis.
"There's been a lot of innovative activity in the health care consulting space within law firms," said Steve Nelson, managing principle for the law and government affairs groups at the McCormick Group, an Arlington-based executive search firm. "It's sort of been accepted as an adjunct service in the law firm space, certainly in the regulatory practices. We're seeing a lot of firms doing things like this."
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HR Learning and Development Intern (Masters)
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Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa's sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.
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Note: By applying to this position your application is automatically considered for the following locations: Foster City, CA; Austin, TX; and Highlands Ranch, CO
Imagine yourself leading the design of innovative experiences that transform the learning culture of Visa. This is an incredible opportunity to shape some of the most highly visible initiatives inside one of the world's most valuable brands, including strategic learning programs.
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- We are a startup within a large global organization.
- We combine data, subject-matter expertise, intuition and common sense to develop the most effective solutions for the business.
- We like to prototype, launch and evaluate.
- We are comfortable learning from our mistakes.
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- You are innovative, agile and care deeply about the learner experience.
- You are resilient, flexible and view false starts, changing priorities and constructive feedback as opportunities, not setbacks.
- You have a solutions-oriented approach and find challenges to be an energizing way to flex your creative problem-solving skills.
- You have a global mindset and are skilled at developing relationships across levels and geographies.
- Employ agile development approaches and human-centered design to manage the creation of meaningful and effective learning experiences (including instructor-led, online, mobile, social, microlearning, gaming, and mixed reality).
- Collaborate with design partners, stakeholders, subject-matter experts and vendors to create and deliver exceptional learning experiences.
- Seamlessly incorporate recommendations based on evaluation data into the design and maintenance process.
- Conduct reviews to ensure quality of learning materials, experiences and programs.
- Curate and create online learning paths.
- Clearly articulate rationale for learning approaches based on sound learning science, adult learning principles, interoperability standards, web accessibility standards, and human-centered design.
- Create learning products that boost employee performance and happiness.
- Pursuing a Master's Degree in Instructional Design and Technology, Learning Sciences, Adult Education, other related discipline, or equivalent education or experience.
- 3-5 years of experience designing innovative learning products for corporate clients preferred.
- Deep knowledge of instructional design including needs assessment, participant and program evaluation, curriculum design and development.
- Demonstrated experience with design and development of innovative instructor-led training, eLearning, social learning, microlearning, learning games, virtual/augmented reality, etc.
- Expertise with effective use of technology in the classroom and the design of synchronous distance learning solutions, including video-conferencing, webinars, etc.
- Expertise leveraging agile product management principles to lead learning design projects.
- Ability to create high-impact instructional materials, technical and non-technical reports, presentations, and briefings.
- Demonstrated ability to influence peers, leaders and key stakeholders.
- Experience curating content.
- Proficient leveraging content-authoring tools (e.g. Articulate Storyline).
- Expertise with Learning Management Systems (LMS).
- Strong business acumen, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Additional Information
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.


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Fans of extreme brevity, rejoice! Drabbledark is nearly out. It's an anthology of drabbles, stories told in exactly 100 words (excluding the title). There's 101 stories from 86 writers with a lot of variety; my contribution is post-apocalyptic, but the themes of the pieces run the gamut from monsters and murders to stalkers and summonings. The sole common denominator is, as the title suggests, that the stories within are all quite dark.
Usually I wait until an official publication date to mention anything which includes my work, but Drabbledark's a bit of a special case. Technically the book releases on the 20th, but the paperback version was made available slightly early to account for shipping times. You can find both with a quick hop over to Amazon.
But wait, there's more! Drabbledark's editor, Eric S. Fomley, also recently launched Martian, an online magazine specifically dedicated to publishing science fiction drabbles. I've got a tidbit of military scifi coming up over there sometime, too.


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A quilt becomes a labor of love for a lonely wife mysteriously separated from her young husband.
After her fiancé returns from the Klondike gold rush in 1897, Florence Harms sets about building a new life in her new marriage---even though the lingering effects of illness have left her weak and vulnerable. She and her young husband, Will, work tirelessly to clear the land around their Northwest cabin, content with their modest life.
But then a stranger comes knocking and Florence suddenly senses a restlessness in Will's spirit that she had never seen before. When he leaves her with only a note that tells her he will return before their baby's birth, she is devastated, and the illness that stiffened her joints returns. Counting the days until Will walks back through her door, Florence busies herself with a Tree of Life quilt displaying a map of the farm they call home. Doubts claw at her heart as Florence struggles to believe Will's promise to return to her. Will her labor of love-and faith in God---sustain her as she waits to see her beloved once again?
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Eva Gibson is the author of twenty books, including The Gift of Forgiveness and The Three Marys. She currently teaches "writing your life story" classes for Portland Community College and is an active member of Oregon Christian Writers. She has lived most of her life on the family farm in Wilsonville, Oregon, which is the setting for A Stitch and a Prayer.
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Florence Harms eagerly awaits the return of her fiance. Her health is unbearable at times but she wanted so to be well enough to marry Will when he returned to her from the Klondike. Will had hoped to surprise her with a cabin as her wedding gift. They loved each other dearly and looked forward to a long life together.
Just as she seems to be healing a stranger enters their life causing Will to leave her yet once again. She thought she was over her illness when she has a relapse. Family and friends feared for her life. Will must return so her broken heart heals which will no doubt give her more strength to get well. With so many praying for her and she praying for Will's return she puts her faith in God to bring Will home.
At first I found the story hard to follow. It had the feel that there was a book prior to this one. If there had been another book I would have liked read it first. Other than that I enjoyed the story.
Life was really tough back then for a healthy person let alone someone with an illness that keeps recurring. Her Aunt in this story took on a heavy burden in caring for her niece. Her Aunt did this without complaint and with loving care. I found it difficult to like her fiance and his pattern for disappearing.
I recommend this book.
I rated this book a 4 out of 5.
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book from Litfuse Publicity Group for an honest review.


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There's an "About Us" feature on Gold Beach Lumber's website, describing the history of the company launched four generations ago in that South Oregon town of under 2,500.
But it leaves out the part about when owner Ryan Ringer, 35, steps into the phone booth and emerges in his Superman suit—or at least that's what you expect when reading his resume. On the phone, however, he sounds like a nice—and vastly smarter—Clark Kent.
Twenty years ago, as the website relates, Gold Beach was the smallest yard in town. Today, it's the sole one remaining in Gold Beach, and doing so well that two more locations have been added, thanks to Ryan's superpowers, aka business savvy.
By age six he was already at work with his parents, sweeping floors and bundling trash. But after completing a college business degree in 2000, "I knew there was more out there in the world," he says, "so I explored different fields," from Baltimore to Reno. But Reno was a nine-hour commute from Gold Beach, where he returned every weekend to feed his passion for the river.
"Eyeball deep" at work and fielding other job offers, he decided—okay, you've guessed the outcome: he returned to his dad's yard. "Before, I had worked outside. Now, I came inside, working with a tremendous group of people." But he soon found that none had much of a clue about the information powerhouse represented by that new device, the computer.
Ryan set about overhauling the POS system "to get our first real understanding of what's going on" rather than operating by instinct. Sensing there was an opportunity for greater margins, he dissected and reassembled the pricing structure of every last department, generating a 3% uptick in margins. Not the walk in the yard it sounds like: "We underwent three different POS systems in 14 months" as his co-op changed systems. "Pretty tough on our crew."
But they rebounded, just in time for the next big learning curve—a 3,500-sq. ft. expansion in 2002 which Ryan engineered to lure more retail trade (Gold Star's customers were 75% pro by dollar volume.) And women shoppers were the DIYers he set about enticing.
"We added expressions of color and convenience to spark new trade. Previously, of 200 transactions, five or six were by women; now, it's 20% to 30%. We made it friendly, changed the flow (including more obvious check-out counters and less prominent contractors' desks. Paint and Lawn & Garden shot to the front of the store. But, of course, he had no intention of neglecting his pros. Improved product selection helped drive sales from $3.5 million in 2002 to $10 million in 2006; that's an incredible 186%, when you do the math.
Analyzing the numbers, Ryan became aware that Gold Beach was doing a substantial amount of business with contractor clients in Brookings, 30 miles way. He'd achieved those healthy accounts not through some out-there agenda, but via what he calls "old-fashioned hard work and smiles," that resulted in Gold Beach's running close to 40 deliveries a day to Brookings. So, time to launch a second store?
Cautiously, his father, Reed, held back in 2004. In 2006, he again acknowledged it just might be too much for him to handle. In 2008, the plan lay dormant until Ryan, on those daily delivery runs, noticed that a Ford lot in Brooking suddenly was empty. "A phone call later and I started throwing numbers together for my father. I was young! I didn't know any better! I saw a lot of opportunity. I'd expected six months to work something out and told him that the lot could pay for itself in five years simply as real estate—but it turned out we had to decide fast. The owner (who, by now, had received other, far more lucrative, offers) would sell to us if—if!—we got the sum in escrow within 24 hours and closed within 30 days." Time to dart into that phone book and pull on the cape.
"Dad wasn't crazy about the huge challenge, but he did agree," although (this is beginning to sound even more like a comic-book thriller) he added a challenge of his own: the dealership had to be transformed into a top-notch lumberyard and retail operation in just four months. Ryan flew around the country, securing design ideas that would emphasize the retail set-up he'd steered to success at Gold Beach.
Yes, he made the deadline—and thank goodness, he adds, because Brookings opened in June 2008. (Remember 2008?) That's the year the recession ripped into town, killing off all its builders of posh second homes for a growing retirement community. "Company sales fell 60% and transactions were cut in half," Ryan shudders. "We literally had a year's worth of projects vanish within five days. Gold Beach was suffering—only selling 2x4s. But in the larger community of Brookings, people still needed paint, shovels and light bulbs. That helped us maintain business during the downturn and keep our people employed. I shifted my sights from larger contractors, which I can't control, to homeowners, which I can influence. It was more important to keep people on than turn a profit."
One key means of shaping that emphasis was through advertising, Ryan decided. "In 2008, our ad budget went from $20,000 to $100,000—a drastic difference," he underscores. (And what did Dad think of all this? "Starting with Brookings, he told me, 'You're on your own,'" as Reed transferred day-to-day operations to his son. In 2014, Ryan purchased the business from his parents.)
"So I put together our advertising attack, experimenting with TV, radio, direct mail and newspaper inserts. It took us eight months to nail down accurate data, but we found our sweet spot. We found we could get 30% to 40% dollar-wise response to a sale if we spent an extra 20% in direct mail for one community. But with the other, they loved their newspaper, so inserts work best."
Thus, Ryan and his team have been able to corral almost 75% of Brookings' building material business. So, why not aim to duplicate that score in yet a third, underserved, market? In Port Orford, 30 miles south of Gold Beach, Ryan surveyed acre after flat and dusty acre of under-developed land. Rather than weeds, he saw an opportunity. His customer surveys showed that people left Port Orford to shop for many of their home-improvement needs. So, when he spotted a ho-hum hardware store in town, he phoned the owner, who jumped at the chance to exit: "Give me an offer! Anything!" After another whirlwind remodel, the store opened in June 2014. Already sales are up 40%, in part by heeding a customer survey that begged for new departments, from sporting goods and L&G to clothing and farm & ranch.
Meantime (he never sleeps, right?), Ryan had spotted another cherry just begging to be picked. He'd heard incredible things about a certain lady who managed a Fastenal store in Brookings. "I was looking for an outside salesperson. I'd never met her, but I just called and we set up a breakfast meeting; she had no clue why. I opened with, 'I'd like to hire you,' and—frustrated with her present position—she signed on. She now runs our new InCom department, selling to industrial and commercial clients. InCom developed by accident, but in just a few months, she'd sold $600,000."(Oh, and Ryan also launched a buying group among colleagues to negotiate better rebates with manufacturers.)
Much of Ryan's success may be based on his keen awareness that he doesn't know it all and has no playbook to follow. He listens, he learns, he's not afraid to make changes. "I wish this industry came with an instruction manual, but it doesn't," he jokes. Instead, he found a mentor. When he heard a savvy operations consultant speak at a roundtable, Ryan accosted him with "I want you to visit!"
Well, the pro had heard that one before. So he came back with the proposition he presents to make sure an owner really, truly, was prepared to benefit from his thoughts. He instructed, "Write me a letter by tomorrow so I know you're serious." The ensuing three-day visit "changed my whole philosophy," swears a born-again Ryan. "He dissected everything from employee relations to margins. Talking about margins was the most valuable five hours in this company's history." The biggest change, he says, was pricing: "It changed dramatically and gave me a whole new mentality. You know that little devil sitting on your shoulder saying 'You can't do that?' Well, in reality, yes, you can! It's not against the law to make money. A person walking in here has no clue what a certain item 'should' cost, as long as it's in the ballpark. So in six months, we raised overall gross margins another 4%."
He pulls it in, but he also gives it back. While the rest of us are sleeping, Ryan eagerly takes on community projects. "I'll never say no to an organization that helps kids."
What's ahead? "I'm always looking for opportunities," he says, so stay tuned. Time to slow down and smell the sawdust? "Hey," he reminds a reporter, "I'm only 35!"
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Automation, he said, is dramatically changing the nature of work. It has implications for the kind of people you need and how you can reskill them. "We traditionally sold to CIOs and that stakeholder has changed. It's the digital offi cers, CMOs and CFOs (who are important now). We typically sold fixed-price contracts, and now it's more and more outcome-based projects. An organization like ours has to transform and we can't be paralyzed by fear. We have either to swim or sink," he said.
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Pamphlet: The Christ
We currently have 15 in stock.
The activity, consistency, and authority of the Christ—as lived by Jesus—are present, active, and healing today. This pamphlet shows how.
Illumine your sense of the Christ through this uplifting collection of articles and testimonies of Christian Science healing. Learn how a true understanding of the life and works of Christ Jesus reveals your own unit with the Christ—and heals!
Table of Contents
- "The Activity of the Christ," - L. Ivimy Gwalter
- "The Consistency that is in Christ," - John M. Tutt
- "The Christ Science," - Julia M. Johnston
- "The Office of the Christ," - Florence C. Southwell
- Testimonies of Healing
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Botany (Plants) References
Virginia Native Plants for Conservation, Restoration, and Landscaping: Department of Conservation and Recreation site for information on native plant species in Virginia.
Flora of Virginia Project: The Flora of Virginia Project was undertaken in 2001 to steer creation of the first comprehensive reference work on the native and naturalized plants of Virginia.
Dendrology (Trees) References
Virginia Dept. of Forestry – Tree Identification: The Virginia Department of Forestry has many tools to help you identify the trees you love. You can also also download a free copy of the popular book "Common Native Trees of Virginia" (English; PDF format)
VTREE: Virginia Tech Tree Identification brings the award winning Virginia Tech digital dendrology material to your iPhone or Android. It contains fact sheets for 969 woody plants from all over North America with an in-depth description, range map and thousands of color images of leaves, flowers, fruit, twigs, bark and form.
VTREE iPhone App | VTREE Android App
Arbor Day Foundation – What Tree is That? Online, Eastern Edition: An illustrated, step-by-stepfield guide that makes it easy to identify a tree simply by the kinds of leaves it produces.
Identifying American Chestnut Trees: This page is designed to help you distinguish among several species of the chestnut family (Castanea) commonly seen in North America. Also included are three non-chestnut species that are often confused with chestnut.
Chestnut ID Presentation (PDF download) from The American Chestnut Foundation.
The Cavity Conservation Initiative: Retaining dead and dying trees to preserve cavity-dwelling species and their habitats.
Geology (Rocks) References
Geology of Virginia at W&M: A resource at William & Mary University for information, photographs, maps, and diagrams of the geology of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Geology of Virginia at Radford: A Web resource for learning about the geology of Virginia.
Geology of Virginia at JMU: This site was created from materials developed over the past two decades by Lynn S. Fichter. Site creation was supported by a Summer 1999 Faculty Assistance Grant awarded to L.S. Ficher and Steve J. Baedke by the College of Science and Mathematics, James Madison University.
Virginia DMME Geology and Mineral Resources Map: An interactive geology map of Virginia from the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy.
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Roanoke Area, Virginia: (PDF download) A PDF version of the 1932 Virginia Geological Society Bulletin #34 by Herbert P. Woodward. It is a "…comprehensive discussion of the surface features, rock formations, structure, geologic history, and mineral resources of Roanoke County and adjoining parts of Botetourt, Bedford, Franklin, Floyd, Montgomery, and Craig counties."
Herpetology (Reptiles and Amphibians) References
Virginia Herpetological Society: Reference pages on Reptiles (Snakes, Lizards, Turtles) and Amphibians (Frogs. Toads, Salamanders) of Virginia plus additional educational materials.
Ichthyology (Fish) References
EFISH – The Virtual Aquarium: The Department of Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences at Virginia Tech provides key characteristics, aquatic habitats, distribution in Virginia, food and reproductive habitats for representative species of the fish families found in Virginia waters.
Virginia Game Fishes: Virginia offers excellent, extremely diverse freshwater angling opportunities. Over 176,000 acres of public lakes and 27,300 miles of fishable streams provide every freshwater angler something: tidal river for largemouth bass, striped bass, blue catfish and shad; unsurpassed float fishing smallmouth bass rivers spread across the state; expansive reservoirs renowned for largemouth bass, striped bass, and crappie; numerous "close-to-home" small, family fishing lakes and ponds with great chances to land bass, sunfish, and channel catfish; and phenomenal stocked and wild trout fishing in the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains.
Virginia Marine Fish Identification Guide: (PDF download) Depicts more than 50 species of marine fish commonly encountered in Virginia coastal waters. In addition to color illustrations of each species, the description of each species lists the distinctive characteristics which enable a positive identification.
Ornithology (Birds) References
Beginner's Guide to Bird Watching: A very informative and helpful page for those who want to get started in the exciting hobby of bird watching. Provides guidance and links to excellent sources on identifying birds, setting up bird feeders, and even selecting binoculars.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds. Our hallmarks are scientific excellence and technological innovation to advance the understanding of nature and to engage people of all ages in learning about birds and protecting the planet.
All About Birds: An online guide to birds and bird watching provided by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
eBird: Provided by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Audubon, eBird is a global tool for birders, collecting critical data for science. It allows you to record the birds you see, keep track of your bird lists, explore dynamic maps and graphs, share your sightings and join the eBird community, and contribute to science and conservation.
Sialis.org (Bluebirds): This website was developed as a resource for people interested in helping bluebirds and other native cavity-nesters survive and thrive.
Roanoke Valley Bird Club – Birding Sites List: An excellent list of local and regional birdwatching sites hosted on the Roanoke Valley Bird Club website.
The Feather Atlas: From the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, an excellent visual search tool for identifying flight feathers of North American birds.
Especially Good for Young People
A Kid's Guide to Bird-Watching in the Playground (New!): Bird watching, also known as birding, is considered a hobby by some and a sport by others, but it can also be a great activity for kids. It is one of the most popular hobbies in that it embraces a large group of people of all ages. About one-fifth of the United States population is thought to be involved in bird watching, according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. One of the reasons for the popularity of bird watching is that there are no special requirements in order to participate.
Official Birds of the United States (New!): A map and description of the Official State Birds of the US.
Hawk Migration Association of North America: The Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA) is a membership-based organization committed to the conservation of raptors through the scientific study, enjoyment, and appreciation of raptor migration.
A Guide to Hawks Seen in the Northeast (PDF Download) by the NorthEast Hawk Watch, a chapter of HMANA (2008). This two-page guide shows soaring silhouettes and key field marks for the migratory hawks regularly seen in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. You can download and print the guide free for personal, noncommercial use. You can also order inexpensive printed editions of the guide: a standard edition printed on heavy, glossy card stock or a special laminated edition designed for heavy use in the field. Individual and bulk ordering information is available from the Northeast Hawk Watch website.
A Guide to Hawks Seen in North America (PDF download) by the Hawk Migration Association of North America (2009). An expanded version of the earlier Northeast guide, this new two–page guide shows soaring silhouettes and key field marks for 21 migratory hawks regularly seen in most of North America. You can download and print the guide free for personal, noncommercial use. You can also purchase a special laminated edition designed for heavy use in the field. Individual and bulk ordering information is available from HMANA.
Other References
Guide to Animal Tracks (PDF download), courtesy of Blue Ridge Discovery Center.
Leave No Trace Seven Principles. For when we actually hike on trails in addition to maintaining them!
Other Local, Regional, and State Resources
Virginia State Parks: You'll find plenty of programs, events and activities at Virginia State Parks. Our 36 parks have thousands of campsites, hundreds of cabins, more than 500 miles of trails and convenient access to Virginia's major waterways. Beaches, picnic shelters, family lodges, meeting facilities, festivals, concerts, nature programs, cultural happenings… the list goes on and on.
Explore Park: Just off the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 115, Explore Park features hundreds of acres of rolling hills, pristine woodlands, hiking trails, river frontage, historical buildings and a visitor information center. Stop inside the center from April to November to browse our gift shop featuring artisan crafts and parkway memorabilia. Whether you're looking to bike, hike, canoe, picnic, or learn more about all Roanoke County has to offer, Explore Park is your destination for exploration!
Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail: Within Virginia's 43,000 square miles of diverse natural habitat, you can find some 400 species of birds, 250 species of fish, 150 species of terrestrial and marine mammals, 150 species of amphibians and reptiles, and a wide variety of aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates. The Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail celebrates this diversity. In fact, it is the first statewide program of its kind in the United States.
The Nature Conservancy – Bottom Creek Gorge Preserve: One of the head-water streams of the South Fork of the Roanoke River, Bottom Creek boasts a 200-foot high waterfall. Bottom Creek is a powerful mountain stream that forms a stair-step series of broad-basin waterfalls known as "The Kettles." Flanking Bottom Creek are forests of mixed hardwoods (tulip poplar, maple, oak, hickory) and upland meadows. Bottom Creek Gorge also contains virgin hemlocks and hundreds of wildflowers.
George Washington and Jefferson National Forests: The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests stretch along the ruggedly beautiful Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and even cross into parts of West Virginia and Kentucky. The forests are primarily Appalachian hardwood and mixed pine-hardwood forest types located within the Blue Ridge, Central Ridge and Valley, Allegheny, and Cumberland Plateau provinces.
Continuing Education
For certified Virginia Master Naturalists and others, See this list of Continuing Education Opportunities.
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Virginia Master Naturalist Volunteer Management System: View approved projects, report volunteer and continuing education hours.
This page is provided as a convenience to Roanoke Valley Master Naturalists and the general public. Inclusion on this page does not constitute or imply any form of endorsement by Roanoke Valley Master Naturalists.
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What is Reboot To Restore Technology?
Reboot to restore technology restores devices exhibiting IT issues with a simple reboot. In other words, the technology is developed on the general notion of restarting computing devices facing IT challenges. Reboot and restore as a framework ensures that system issues need not be diagnosed and administered as specific use cases. Multiple IT issues, such as accidental malware download, configuration drift, unwarranted app installation, and data encryption, can all be dealt with a system restart. It works by restoring the system to a predefined pristine configuration. Restoring the system's desired state removes viruses, reverses configuration changes, and uninstalls applications which ensures smooth operability and functionality after every reboot.
Evolution of Reboot to Restore technology
The task of restoring systems has evolved over time and can be done in a number of ways. To list a few of them:
Disk imaging
An image is a file where an exact copy of your disk data is stored. One can overwrite an entire hard drive or a specific partition using an image. Using this, you can copy image of one configured system and deploy it to other computers. If you want incremental backups, you can do so by creating different images. However, deploying images takes a lot of time and storing different images requires lot of space. Also, there is a risk of losing the entire data in case the image file gets corrupted.
File synchronizing
A pre-defined or master snapshot is referred to in case of system issues. This snapshot is compared with the current state of the system and any changes to the files are rewritten and synchronized back to its "pristine" state.
Buffer files
Any changes written on the system by end-users does not get reflected on the hard drive permanently. Instead, user defined changes get written onto a big buffer file on the hard drive. Administrators can later on decide which changes they want to retain permanently and which ones to discard.
Read-only file systems
Some OS's are configured in such a manner that it only allows for mounting files in read-only mode. This ensures that none of the end-user made changes can be saved onto the partition space.
Hardware solutions
These are physical cards which work like a "read-only" switch for a specific hard drive when plugged into the motherboard.
Block level protection
Block level partitions do not work on individual files. It works on specific sectors on hard drives and protect them entirely. These protected partitions cannot be overridden with end-user changes and exhibit a fresh image upon restarting the system.
Reboot to Restore
To minimize the challenges and time consumption of various methods, reboot to restore technology was developed. The objective was to resolve multiple IT issues at once with ease. It works by restoring the system back to its pristine state post each reboot.
How Reboot To Restore Software Solutions Work?
Multiple in-built and third party software leverage reboot to restore technology. To name a few of them:
Windows SteadyState
Windows SteadyState is a freeware developed by Microsoft that allows administrators to configure computers on a shared network, protect hard drives, and perform advanced user management. This reboot to restore software was meant for use on public access computers, as in computing systems shared by many people, like in business centers, public libraries, and schools. SteadyState was discontinued as of December, 2010. This was due to its incompatibility with 64-bit Operating System versions like Windows 7 and higher. Windows SteadyState reverts a system to a previous configuration, one that is predetermined by the system administrator. The system is restored to its pristine status on every reboot. To enable reboot to restore functionality, the Windows Disk Protection (WDP) component should be turned on. With WDP switched on, changes made by end-users get redirected to a temporary cache. The 'discard' mode clears the cache on every reboot. The 'persist' mode retains the cache for a specific period of time, which is discarded post an expiration date. The 'commit' mode does not retain changes as cache but rewrites them onto a disk and end-user made changes become permanent.
Deep Freeze
Deep Freeze is a workstation recovery software for public access computers developed by Faronics that uses patented Reboot to Restore technology. This restore software mitigates unwarranted configuration changes and resolves IT issues with a simple yet effective reboot. The rollback software is operable on Windows OS and macOS systems. When end-users override baseline configuration, the information gets redirected to an allocated table, while the original data remains safeguarded. The redirected information is not referenced on a restart. This removes temporary alterations and the reboot to restore technology rollback the system back to the desired "frozen" state. Deep Freeze enables automatic Windows updates. The application creates virtual "ThawSpaces" for storing end-user personal data, if required. Additionally, it protects the master boot record (MBR) from rootkit injections and other changes. With the centrally located enterprise console, this reboot to restore software is capable of locking input devices and scheduling power management as well.
Use cases or applications
Computing systems in the universities and schools often exhibit unwanted configuration changes due to student activity. As a result, the IT team labors over cleaning the systems of unwarranted virus, unapproved software, and private information on a daily basis. IT admins at educational institutes often use a reboot to restore software on all its computers to deal with system issues effectively. With the reboot to restore software in place, all unapproved applications are removed with a system reboot. Confidential private information left behind by students on systems are also removed with a quick reboot. As a result, data security improves on the whole. Also, private student information, such as social security, and credit card information do not stand at a risk of being shared among other students.
Police departments have Mobile Data Computers (MDCs) set up with their cars. The MDCs are key instruments during mission critical problems. The department should ideally have a solution in place, one that can lockdown these computers centrally. Reboot to restore technology fits the bill perfectly in this aspect. Not only does the centrally located enterprise console of robust reboot to restore software help monitor remote MDCs, but rebooting individual systems restores them to their pre-defined state as well which resolves any issues on the go.
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12 Sep2007
After driving 8+ hours from Manila to Vigan, with a few pitstops, we finally made it to Vigan (for last June's roadtrip). We quickly located our hotel, dropped off our bags, and decided to grab some lunch. Nearly everything you read about Vigan mentions Cafe Leona, so we figured we couldn't go wrong by starting our Ilocos adventure there. Located on Crisologo street, right near the heart of town, it is best described as appearing quaint and old from the outside. Inside, there are several rooms but only one dining room was open to guests that day, and it was filled with smokers. That, to me is a serious STRIKE NUMBER 1; trying to enjoy any food while several neighboring diners are puffing away on cigarettes in a stuffy low ceilinged dining room is NOT something I usually tolerate. But we were hungry, so we decided to stay anyway…
Once seated and given a menu by a waiter, we were instead directed to view the dishes on offer at a nearby buffet. Now that is almost certainly STRIKE NUMBER 2. Any restaurant that is so well-thought off for its food but serves it turo-turo style, with fat coagulating and other vegetable dishes continuing to cook, WHEN IT DOESN'T HAVE TO, speaks volumes of laziness and a lack of understanding what makes any dish delicious…coming right off the flames fresh. We decided NOT to have the buffet and insisted on ordering from a menu, at which point they told us it would all come from the buffet anyway and they wouldn't be cooking to order. We should have left then but didn't.
Instead, we ordered some bagnet, which was brought to the table barely tepid, with a side dish of KBL (tomatoes, onions and bagoong)… the KBL was more interesting that the bagnet, and frankly, I made better tasting bagnet at home on my FIRST attempt. We also ordered monggo which had small dried shrimp and ginger and sili (chili) leaves. This was delicious and didn't suffer much from sitting on the buffet. We also ordered pork igado, a native specialty with innards et al that was not particularly memorable.
We also got a plate of the famous Vigan longannisa that frankly, reminded me more of a "travel poop" (that inevitable first bathroom visit after a 20-hour transpacific flight) more than a vaunted food specialty from Ilocos. It was wickedly hard, wickedly overcooked and wickedly solid. We ate much better longannisa elsewhere on the trip… The last dish we ordered was some fried bangus which was just so-so.
The bottom line? Buffet may be the modus operandi for lunch but it was horrible. HORRIBLE. The food was lifeless, flavors unremarkable, and arrived at the table tepid if not cold. I would NEVER send anyone to Cafe Leona after that experience, and considering the number of wonderful meals we got elsewhere on the trip. I think the restaurant is a victim of its travel book and blogger popularity and nothing more than a tourist trap, though I must say there were oddly a lot of locals eating there that lunchtime. At PHP1,100 for 4 people, the price was not bad, but the food left a lot to be desired.
the last time i was at cafe leona was perhaps four or five years ago. we were fortunate to have been brought there by a local bigwig who was allowed to order a la carte and we were treated to some local fare that really tasted good.
i would have used the word "memorable" but sadly, i forget what it was that we had. except that the bagnet was good and there were other dishes that our party of ten really enjoyed.
or maybe we were just really hungry. it was a 3 p.m. lunch, after all.
Sep 12, 2007 | 10:48 am
Management turn things around without any notice or perhaps they have a new chef in the house still undergoing ala carte lunch skills lesson 101 or perhaps it has a magnetic aura that keep locals coming back! It has its own roster of patrons and people have varying degree of taste. Longanisa wherever their provenance is – they are wickedly good when piping hot as the fat content settled when cold. Sorry to hear your disappointing lunch but looking forward to your joyful escapades in Vigan.
Sep 12, 2007 | 11:20 am
Cafe Leona may be a well-known resto in Vigan because of its proximity to the cathedral. their food, however, is not that memorable. i only have two favorite restos in vigan: the mcdonalds (because of its amazing architecture) and cafe uno (with its bricked walls, beautiful paintings, and 'to die for' pakbet with bagnet and chocolate strawberry shake). cafe uno has a homey, quaint and modern ambience :)
Sep 12, 2007 | 12:10 pm
LOL@ "travel poop"
Had the same impression when I ate at Cafe Leona. My home-made meals at Villa Angela were infinitely better — hot, fresh, flavorful and comfy. They ask you the night before what you want to eat the next day, then go to the market in the early morning. We would wake up to the smell of eggs, longganisa or bangus, fried rice, whatever side dish the cook felt like preparing, and this yummy beef soup I cant recall the name of… Sweet native bananas were always on the table too. So perfect.
Sep 12, 2007 | 1:10 pm
From your description, you would've been better off eating the yummy Vigan empanada prepared roadside (near the Church, if memory serves) and eaten piping hot with sukang iloko! Then a bowl of sinanglaw (hot soup with unidentifiable beef parts but which I found quite tasty, never mind if I worried that it was a Vigan version of Soup No. 5!)
Sep 12, 2007 | 3:00 pm
My family vacationed in Vigan about 3 or 4 years ago. I am not sure but it seems that we also had lunch in Cafe Leona–I think. The restaurant we lunched in had really good food and served some foodstuffes a la carte. A bit pricey for us although the range was practically that of similar establishments. If we're talking of the same restaurant, how sad that the management failed to maintain its good standards.
Sep 12, 2007 | 3:09 pm
The moment a "good" restaurant offers buffet, that's the beginning of the end. And you don't know what else they'll compromise on for a few more bucks and customer count.
Sep 12, 2007 | 3:16 pm
I guess I was right, I didn't like the food there either, even if I was a hungry traveller that time. I always thought the reason was I compared it to ilocano food cooked at home… Greasy food overcooked/fried meat (making it tough…
MM, I cant answer your poll. Its soo hard to choose ( I actually thought about it veery hard),then it hit me! I can't do without any of these! I guess I can for a time only.
Sep 12, 2007 | 3:27 pm
CecileJ, thanks for jogging my memory re the beef soup/sinanglaw. If anyone out there has a recipe, I would love to have it. Have had dreams about this soup (eaten with very garlicky sinangag), but too far to drive back to vigan to have it again…
Sep 12, 2007 | 3:42 pm
Hi, sorry, off topic, but i wanted to hear your views about this:
Sep 12, 2007 | 6:23 pm
i agree with myra_p.. the best meals i had in vigan were at Villa Angela. the meals were simple, hearty and comforting, and the longganisa was 'to die for', in fact we brought some home with us!
Sep 12, 2007 | 9:00 pm
went to cafe leona last feb. we really enjoyed the bagnet and longganisa there, perhaps our best meal in Ilocos….we had a very late lunch so service was quite good and everything was fast and clean….
Sep 12, 2007 | 9:50 pm
My family and I had lunch at Cafe Leona in 1999 and that was when we discovered bagnet. We didn't have any problems with the food or the service. Maybe they weren't so famous yet then. We just went there because it was near the hotel we were staying at, and it seemed like a good place to eat. BTW, it is beside (or maybe part of, I don't remember anymore) the house of Leona Florentino who is the mother of Isabelo delos Reyes and a poetess.
Sep 13, 2007 | 10:39 am
Went to Cafe Leona two years ago. What a huge disappointment, especially the bagnet. It tasted like ordinary lechon kawali to me.
Sep 13, 2007 | 11:06 am
Cafe Leona is the premier restaurant that side of Vigan by sheer lack of competition. The food and ranges ranges from passable to disappointing. Their prices are not worth the food. In Vigan, I insist on lunching at Gaizel's in the public market carinderia, famous in its own way. Then in the evenings I am forced by convenience and company to go to Leona.
Sep 13, 2007 | 7:12 pm
I'm so sorry that your first foray into Ilokano food while in Vigan was a near disaster. I hope you had the chance to enjoy other cooking, and give the regional cuisine the chance to redeem itself.
Yes Fred, I know what you're talking about. I think you are correct that in general, the closest you would get to a fresh, home-cooked Ilokano meal in Vigan is at the market.
Sep 13, 2007 | 10:12 pm
One more thing, I forgot to mention that some old houses in Vigan have excellent cooks and if you know insiders, you can have them cook a meal for you. They charge by the plate. ;) I heard that many tourists enjoy this experience – good food and bahay-na-bato ambience.
Sep 13, 2007 | 10:42 pm
Never been a fan of Leona's. I like Grandpa's Inn, though. I love their Ilocano version of tinolang manok where the broth is thickened with chicken blood. A MUST in Ilocos is a drive to Daoang's (or Dawang's, not quite sure how to spell it) in San Nicolas, I. Norte for their pikit-mata-sa-sarap na dinuguan with bagnet. Zero ambience (a few start buzzing flies and eyeballing with askals is the set-up there) pero, man!!!!, the food. But go early, they cook only so much that by 11:00 AM the food's gone.
Sep 14, 2007 | 10:06 am
This is horrible, but we were tired and hungry after driving from Manila… we had Cafe Leona on our schedule but the service was so slow and the buffet so unappetizing – maybe they weren't even serving food in the early afternoon, it was so long ago (2000?) – that we actually got a driver in our entourage to get us longanissa, the local empanada and bagnet off the street and ate it there. It was divine.
Sep 14, 2007 | 10:22 am
having lunch in someones house is better, there is no better way to taste local food in Vigan than being invited for lunch etc, the local food is best served at home. . . before, Cafe Leona has a BBQ night. . . food is better because it is fresh from the grill, and you dine al fresco on the cobble stone street. . .
Sep 14, 2007 | 1:13 pm
yep Gaizel's. . . its a carinderia but they have good food. .. . famous for tricycle and jeepney drivers. . . and folks who dont have time to cook. . .
Sep 14, 2007 | 1:17 pm
sigh.. its so sad to hear eerr read that.I'm from vigan and in my opinion Cafe Leona has its ups and downs. they use to have thai food every thursday nights which is cooked outside by a local from thailand.Its really really good especially their yum moo yang(grilled pork with delicious sauce with onions)but then their thai cook dont work there anymore so their thai food is not that good as before BUT still is ok. Now they serve pizza which is cooked in a "pugon" (clay oven? am i right?) its really good especially the Bonito special (garlic,"tuyo" and
wasabi) the crust is thin and is cooked just right! Cafe Uno is also my favorite, it's very homey and they have comfort foods like soups,pasta,frapps and local delicacies. i think i'm gonna go there right now. i'm starving. hehe
Sep 25, 2007 | 4:26 pm
i was in vigan for semestral adventure. hey, there's a new restaurant called la mirada. a little bit difficult to find for first timers in vigan, the place is just two blocks away from the cap bldg (its that imposing white palatial building beside what they call plaza maestro) the food is really great. my escort bigueno says its the cleanest and most decent place to dine while in vigan. for travellers going this far, you can also try the spa located at the second floor level.
Nov 14, 2007 | 10:21 pm
i am a regular costumer of cafe leona, for me, this resto is the very best resto in ilocos sur.. and those people who are complaining bout cafe leona was the person that are very very ignorant about the local food of vigan.. cafe leona is much better than other resto like la mirada.. the japanese foods and italian style pizza and pasta of cafe leona was so vey yummy… masarap balik balikan like our co-costumer always sayin… kaya huwag nating pansinin ang mga sinasabi ng mga walang utak na tao.. ignorante lang sila mga kaibigan…
Nov 15, 2007 | 9:39 am
i was on a short vacation from new york last month. fine dining in la mirada is comparable to those in manhattan. cafe leona is great too for its local dishes which i miss much. cafe uno's grill is commendable.
Nov 15, 2007 | 10:11 pm
marketmam, are sure of what are you saying about cafe leona? can you prove that?… if i will say that all your statement are totally wrong!! can you?..
Nov 19, 2007 | 1:28 pm
If you loved the bangus and longganisa in Villa Angela, ask Maricris's mother to make you chicken adobo next time. They made the best chicken adobo i have had in my entire life!!!
Dec 14, 2007 | 3:30 pm
i am from vigan and i've read all of what u can say about cafe leona and other restos in the city. for me, i have to agree that the food in CL is soso. i've tried eating there a couple of times when i was still in vigan and i have to say it never tickles my tastebud. in my opinion, the best place to dine in when you're in vigan is cafe uno – w/ it's ambience and delectable foods. i particularly love their pork sinigang and sisig. it's a must if you eat there. it's amazing how alot of u likes the cooking of villa angela, it's also one of the best i have to say. i didn't get to try la mirada tho, but i heard it serves good food as well. don't forget about hambre resto, i tried eating there once, and it's ok. can't wait to go back. i miss everyone there in vigan. and the food. :(
Dec 16, 2007 | 7:00 pm
Went to Vigan for my honeymoon sometime back. Same experience with Cafe Leona. Very small place, highly overated, cold, hard longanisa. Was one of the worst vacation meals I've had. My wife and I were also about to try the Vigan empanada by the plaza roadside near the shopping area/market. When we sat down and were about to order, we looked at the bottle of vinegar and sili on the table. Inside were hundreds of little squiggly worms, almost microscopic if you don't look closely, but you'll notice them because of the fast rate that they wiggle. Needless to say we cancelled the order and left. Is this the "secret ingredient"?
Jan 2, 2008 | 2:19 pm
my first time in vigan this february. my friend invited me to this place called la mirada. i never thought that this city also has a great fine dining restaurant. try the spa too. the manager, forgot her name, is so accomodating.
Feb 24, 2008 | 9:03 pm
well… its my first time to visit vigan… last march 7,2008 we had a tour… vigan-laog tour, neway… when we arrived there, we had our lunch at cafe leona.. the place were nice and beautiful, yah, like the usual, (first timers always say the place they've visited was beautiful) neway… it was really nice.. the food at cafe leona was very tasty… most specially their "pinakbet" hehe… some other time.. i'll be bringing my parents in that place…
Jul 22, 2008 | 6:08 pm
Cafe Leona has that perfect Vigan ambiance. As for quality of food, it's on the average, nothing great. I ordered grilled T-bone and they overcooked it. The experience was like eating rubber. I am a forgiving person. I will visit them again and may be have a few drinks and skip the other dishes.
Nov 8, 2008 | 11:42 am
The food and service there in Cafe Leona is terrible. We we were there in Vigan 2 days ago, we had our dinner there. It really took too long before the food was served. We were dining outside the resto,my cousins already had their 3rd stick of cigarette but the food was still not served. We already then wanted to leave but we were already tired to walk around to look for another place to eat, so we had no choice then but to wait and wait and wait. I really wont recommend this place. TERRIBLE!
May 25, 2009 | 8:05 am