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Tokyo is once again named the world's gourmet capital, according to the latest "Michelin Guide: Tokyo Yokohama Shonan 2013".
Ditching two three-star restaurants to 15 only in the 2013 guide, Tokyo (including one in Shonan) still snatched more stars than any other places in the world, including another Japanese star-packed regions Kyoto Osaka Kobe Nara (12) and New York City (7).
Guide for Paris 2013 will only be announced earlier next year. Currently, Paris has 10 three-star establishments.
Among the 15 best-rated restaurants in Tokyo, Joël Robuchon and Quintessence are the only non-Japanese restaurants that were haloed with three stars.
The Japanese capital has surpassed Paris as the city with the most Michelin-star rated restaurants since 2010.
It will not be surprising for the distinctive advantage to continue this year. Tokyo has 286 starred restaurants, four times the number of Paris (77) now.
The latest list also featured 22 new restaurants, including six new two-star restaurants and 16 one-star establishments.
The third star from Araki and Hamadaya were taken away whereas Jushu Japanese restaurant and French restaurant Ryuzu were promoted to two-star from one-star.
In addition to the current three guides for Japan -- "Michelin Guide: Tokyo Yokohama Shonan," "Michelin Guide: Kyoto Osaka Kobe Nara" and the first Hokkaido guide published this year, the publisher will release a new guidebook next year for Hiroshima Prefecture, according to Japan Times.
More on CNN: What is it like to eat at the world's best sushi bar?
Restaurants with three stars:
Azabu Yukimura (Japanese)
Esaki (Japanese)
Ishikawa (Japanese)
Joël Robuchon (French)
Kanda (Japanese)
Koan (Japanese)
Koju (Japanese)
Quintessence (French)
Ryugin (Japanese)
7chome Kyoboshi (Japanese)
Sukiyabashi Jiro Honten (Japanese)
Sushi Mizutani (Japanese)
Sushi Saito (Japanese)
Sushi Yoshitake (Japanese)
Usukifugu Yamadaya (Japanese)
The Japanese version of the guide is available in store from December 1 onwards.
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Sebastian Vettel dominated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to secure his seventh consecutive victory with a performance in a completely different league to the rest of the field, including Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber in second place.
Vettel won by over 30 seconds after picking off Webber at the first corner and bolting into the setting sun. He was not only significantly quicker, but was able to eke life from his tyres for longer, allowing him to build a big lead early in the race. Once he was 30 seconds clear he levelled his pace with Webber, who was keeping an eye on Nico Rosberg in third rather than trying to resurrect any hopes of a victory. Just like he did in India, Vettel celebrated in style be performing a series of doughnuts which the stewards may launch an investigation in to.
Romain Grosjean managed to haul his Lotus up to fourth, but despite running longer on his two-stop strategy than the two cars in front could not make use of fresher tyres at the end to finish on the podium. Fernando Alonso finished fifth under investigation for straying off the track as he passed Jean-Eric Vergne after returning from his second pit stop. The move was important for Alonso, who rejoined on soft tyres in seventh and attacked until the end, but the stewards decided that Vergne had not left him enough space and opted against any penalty.
Paul di Resta drove a very accomplished race to sixth place on a one-stop strategy, holding off Lewis Hamilton who spent most of his evening losing time in traffic. Felipe Massa crossed the line eighth after a strong start to the race waned towards the end. Sergio Perez pulled off a last-lap overtaking manoeuvre on the one-stopping Adrian Sutil to take ninth place.
Vettel muscled his way past Webber at the start with Rosberg also taking advantage of the slow-starting Red Bull. Webber got back ahead of Rosberg at the first pit stop and was then able to keep a decent gap to the Mercedes for the rest of the race. Grosjean, who made a good start from sixth on the grid, opted for a slightly different strategy, pitting at the same time as Webber but then going three laps longer on his second stint. However, it was not enough to alter his track position and he finished 1.1s behind Rosberg.
Alonso's alternative strategy did pay off, however, as he pitted first on lap 16 and then went to lap 44 when he took on a set of soft tyres. With his rivals on mediums he was able to attack, leapfrogging Massa in the pit stop itself and rejoining alongside Vergne. The nature of the part of the track where pit lane feeds back onto the circuit meant he had to run wide, but in doing so gained the position on the Toro Rosso. Race control referred the move to the stewards, but with the laps ticking down the investigation was postponed until after the race.
Alonso's strategy was in stark contrast to Massa's, who had looked stronger than his team-mate in the opening stint but stuck with the more conventional strategy of soft, medium, medium and did not have the pace to progress at the end. As a result he finished behind Hamilton and di Resta, the latter making use of his car's tyre advantage to make just one pit stop.
But no one was on the same level of Vettel, who underlined his dominance by equalling Michael Schumacher's record of seven successive victories in a single season. If he can win the next two races he will equal the record of nine held by Alberto Ascari over two seasons and was quite clearly emotional about the prospect in the post-race press conference.

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If you're interested in the translation of poetry, one thing you hear over and over and over again is that Octavio Paz said that all texts can be thought of as "translations of translations of translations." He must have written that in Spanish, of course; but what we get in English is this:
On the one hand, the world is presented to us as a collection of similarities; on the other, as a growing heap of texts, each slightly different from the one that came before it: translations of translations of translations.In his Oxford lecture on Eugenio Montale's poem, "L'anguilla" ("The Eel"), Paul Muldoon explores this - and Montale's poem - wryly and thoroughly, perhaps definitively. Like everything else he does, it's a tour de force. As you'd expect, Muldoon starts off by quoting Robert Lowell's infamous introduction to Imitations, and, having presented his own version, wiggles his way through a number of competing English translations of the poem (there must be at least fifty, but Muldoon takes on a selection of the most formidable of them). My guess is that most American readers read Montale's poems in either Jonathan Galassi's versions or William Arrowsmith's, though Charles Wright's have been a perennial favorite as well. Galassi's are increasingly becoming the go-to versions in this country, revised versions of which have just been reissued in paperback by his company, F.S.G.
Anyway, it's a funny thing that such a slippery poem as "L'anguilla" should be such a touchstone for this kind of case study. This peculiar poem has wormed itself into the canon and is so well-known, even in translation, that it must by now produce little anxiety in the average consumer of poetry - no doubt thanks to its having been so relentlessly translated and dissected. (I was going to say that we're swimming in translations of Montale, but I'll quit joking and add that the compulsive, of which I am one, will also want to consult a handy volume, Montale in English, edited by Harry Thomas.)
My post here is occasioned, though, by what appears to be the simultaneous reappearance of the Galassi and now the Arrowsmith translations in comprehensive volumes. Most folks who will have read to this point have seen the former, but it's quite good news that the Arrowsmith versions - published in separate volumes over the years, some of which are now quite scarce - have been collected for the first time in a single book, edited by Arrowsmith's best student, the diligent and brilliant Rosanna Warren.
It might not have happened. A 2005 article in the New York Sun called "A Montale Mystery" mentions a note of hers that appears in Arrowsmith's posthumously-published version of Cuttlefish Bones:
When William Arrowsmith died on February 20, 1992, he left in manuscript his translations of every volume of poems by Eugenio Montale arranged by the poet himself, except for "The Storm and Other Things"("La bufera e altro") and "The Occassions" ("Le occassioni"), which had already appeared from Norton in W.A.'s translation. "Altri versi," put together for Montale by Giorgio Zampa and published a few months before the poet's death in 1981, was not included; nor, for obvious reasons, was "Diario postumo," edited by Annalisa Cima and not published in toto until 1996.The Sun telephoned Warren -
She told us that two Montale collections from Arrowsmith - "Poetic Diary: 1971 and Poetic Diary: 1972" and "Poetic Notebook 1974-77" - have yet to be published. In 1997, she put aside the remaining manuscripts and returned to her own work, which she'd been neglecting. Our inquiry, eerily, came just as she'd been thinking again about the remaining translations. "I have been feeling guilty about the manuscripts, and I am one of his literary executors," she said. "But it's a considerable job and has to be done by someone who knows the work."
These manuscripts lack Arrowsmith's end notes, which are among the very best writing on Montale in English and one of the things that makes his other versions of Montale so valuable. They need an editor who can work with Arrowsmith's translations and compile good annotations. "There's a lot of scholarship on Montale," Ms. Warren said. "To do it responsibly, the editor of these books should know that scholarship."
Ms. Warren was Arrowsmith's student at Johns Hopkins University and his colleague at Boston University. They shared a love for Montale, and he had been showing her his translations for years. "Montale is an enduring poet, and I'm confident that I'll find someone who'd like to take on the task - or that I'd come to a point in my work where I'd like to take on the task," she said.Well, the task was indeed undertaken, and the book has now been published beautifully by Norton as The Collected Poems of Eugenio Montale: 1925-1977.
I mention all this because I am deeply indebted to both Warren and Arrowsmith. Rosanna was my mentor in all things relating to translation and editing; I'd not have translated Miguel Hernández, nor learned how literary magazines work, except for her guidance over a great many years. As for William Arrowsmith, I was one of his very last students, in graduate school. He had to stop teaching in the middle of the semester in which I was taking his class, "T. S. Eliot and the Mind of Europe." Out of breath and fumbling repeatedly for a plastic water bottle he carried with him in a flight bag, Arrowsmith - clearly quite ill - smiled as if teaching could make no man happier.
Arrowsmith suffered no fools and was intimidating; he could be blunt, and he was always sharp. But we hung on his every word, little knowing that his words were, sadly, in very limited supply. Early in the semester, I gathered up enough nerve to go see him in his office. He'd put some material for the course on reserve in the library, and when I went to retrieve them I found things in German, French, and Italian. I shuffled around the library shelves for translated versions; there were none. When I mentioned this to Arrowsmith he looked amazed. "You have to read them in the original," he said flatly. Unless, he proposed, I wasn't up to it. The hair on the back of my neck bristled: it was an eerie moment for me. Once before, when I was in college, I had made the same mistake. A comp lit professor of considerable talent sent me off to read some Wagner, and though I had taken just enough German to read it, I found myself wanting to get by with some English translations. "Why?" the prof asked me - "it's beautiful in the German, isn't it?" But Arrowsmith did not dismiss me as a lazy or ignorant neer-do-well which, in fact, I was. He simply pointed out that yes, these works were beautiful in the original, and that as we were talking about the likes of Dante and Eliot, it could scarcely be too much trouble to do as much work as they had, if I'd any real interest in poetry.
He was not being pedantic. I don't know when it was that poets decided they didn't need to know as much as, say, Dante or Eliot, that they could skate by on their own vocabularies and experience and the translations at hand. But that's how most of us are now. Arrowsmith and Warren sternly and generously sent me packing off in a different direction, and I never have been able to thank them enough.
What I remember most vividly about Arrowsmith, however, was a translation talk he gave in which he discussed his translations of Montale. This was many years before Muldoon became Professor of Poetry at Oxford, needless to say. And Arrowsmith dissected and demolished other translations of Montale including, you guessed it, "L'anguille," except his own. I especially remember his discussion of the strange poem, "Xenia I," for Montale's lover, later his wife, whom the poet nicknamed "Mosca" - Arrowsmith clarified it for us with great joy and, well, love, relating the housefly, which is what mosca means, to Donne's erotic poem ''The Flea'' (which Montale had read with another lover), to the mosca in Dante's Inferno and the spiritual itch that must be scratched ("let them scratch wherever is the itch," to translate Dante). He made his case exquisitely, dramatically, at times even venomously, reading from his own published notes to the poem. (These are among the principle pleasures of his work on Montale, by the way.) He waved books and papers in the air. I think he was even sweating; it was a smotheringly hot room. At first, we all kind of giggled. But we stopped that pretty quick. By the time he was done, I could see eels swimming like thick floaters in the water of my own eyes. I was frightened, exhilarated, inspired.
It is hard to express how much, in moments like those, I loved my teachers, loved languages, loved poetry. This has all seemed like a very long time ago to me (it was back in the 80s, after all), but the publication of William Arrowsmith's Montale brings it all back, resurrects a poet and his translator, and revivifies poetry itself. If gratitude is the grandest virtue, somehow, of all literature, then I have been amazingly lucky, and remain intensely grateful to so many others. And now readers can be grateful, too, for such a teacher as Arrowsmith... and for all the translations of Montale... and, of course, for the texts of which the translations are translations.
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"The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself. My image was an issue at my record label. I fought for months and cried at meetings. I got criticized for being arrogant because if you're sure of yourself as a woman, they say you're a bitch, whereas if you're a man and you're strong-willed, it's normal." -the LADY
People. I've put off writing this post about Lady GaGa for a while, since there seems to always be something new accumulating in our era of viral video and always a new juicy tidbit to incorporate. Two occasions finally pushed me over the edge and I can't hold back any longer…
First, by the time I finish writing this post Black Maps will have already hit a quarter of a million views since launching in January, 2009!!! This is an incredible triumph for me and commemorating it with a
Second, next week's episode of Glee is gonna be entirely themed around Our Lady of Gaga– and I can't let Glee beat me to the punch. (also, glee? gaga? already??! can we say too soon?! didn't they JUST do an amazing Madonna episode? please don't go and ruin it by jumping the gun you guyz 😛 )
and thus I present to you…
Fame Monsters: Talent Shows, Music Reviews, and Bad Hotels
So my place of work has been completely overcome with gagamania for going on a year now…, and given that we're a crunchy non-hierarchical collective (average age of our staff… early 30s?), I can understand the disbelief when our recycling person showed up today and was like "Jeez! Even YOU guys?!" as "telephone" was bumping in the back of the store. He launched into a cranky tirade about how his gym blasts nothing but Our Lady of Gaga, and he just doesn't understand how everyone is brainwashed into listening to the pop-cacophony and what the deal with all this?
I'd break it down like this. Nobody gives a frack about Lady Gaga. Her songs are mediocre when it comes down to it (they grow on you like all pop songs, I enjoy them now) and her voice is on par with your average American Idol tryout. But but BUT, if you just stop there then you're missing the anthropological phenomenon that has become the House of Gaga. Its not about her, per se, its about the project of Lady Gaga…
Here we have a female bodied drag queen, which is short circuiting a few mainstream culture braincells right there, and her ability to be a high-femme chameleon is like a flux capacitor for whatever subversive dreams or subcultures teenagers, queers, capitalists, curators, feminists or glitteratti are trying to ignite. And it works, cuz she's all about all of it.
Apparently her live shows (in addition to having dazzling choreography and special effects), is like a motivational speech for kids who feel like they don't fit in. She tells people they should never feel too fat, or too weird, or too feminine or too masculine, and that they are beautiful (and then breaks out into song).
So the thing is… we don't need Lady Gaga as much as we use "Lady Gaga," and we use her to inspire us to do incredible things that we always had the power to do (think ruby slippers).
we instrumentalize Lady Gaga to believe in our own fabulocity.
Exhibit A. This kid is thirteen years old, performing at his middle school talent show, and he will take over the world in fabulous kate bushian ways!!!
Exibit B, LGBT and Queer activists in San Francisco parody Bad Romance in a piece of brilliant guerrilla theater aimed at Boycotting the Hyatt and other "Bad Hotels":
They are calling on folks to support Hyatt and other hotel workers across the country in their quest for jobs with respect and dignity, decent wages, affordable health care, and safe working conditions.
Exhibit C, Glee:
who knows what Will Scheuster will prod them with this week? I hope the writers let Kurt shine!
Exhibit D, Newsies bring the ruckus through a retro-new york Bad Romance danceparty!
Obviously examples abound. The viral videos are endless. We've all seen the army battalion lip-sync implicit protests to Don't Ask Don't Tell (meh, armies…), the bedroom best friend sing alongs and all the rest of it. There are also plenty of blog deconstructions, and I don't need to get in on that (I do it in the student lounge at grad school, which is more than sufficient thank you very much).Oh, except that can we just say that (prison industrial complex notwithstanding), making Beyoncé a homicidal boyfriend killer in favor of lesbian affections was a triumph I didn't think we'd see from the hip-hop R&B charts for a while (I mean, OMG, Queen Latifah is still closeted!!!)
Anyways, I think the lesson is clear: at a certain level, we're all drag queens!
I'll leave you with the best review I've read anywhere of the Fame Monster (just a snippet, the full awesomeness is something you'll just have to surf to yourself).
If we can define good pop albums the way Howard Hawks famously defined good movies- that's three great scenes and no bad scenes- then Lady GaGa's The Fame Monster is certainly a good pop album. At least three songs are great, the rest aren't bad, and at only 34 minutes long it never threatens to wear out its welcome. It's shamelessly sleek, glossy and digital, but with enough heart, humor and horror that it is far from soulless. The only significant problem I can hear is that its tracks are in slightly the wrong order.
It starts with the current mega-hit "Bad Romance," a move that might have made more sense if not for the last track, "Teeth." One of the album's fun n' catchy fillers, "Teeth" throbs with four-on-the-floor stomp and neo-burlesque brass as Lady GaGa entices the men in the house to show their proverbial fangs. It sounds like a slow-burning fuse that's supposed to psyche us up for a big-ass pop explosion, and for some reason it's anti-climactically placed at the very end of the record.
So after my tenth spin through The Fame Monster, I shuffled "Teeth" to the top of the order and it worked much better. Besides, a song as show-stopping as "Bad Romance" deserves at least one opening act. The profusion of succulent hooks, the Amazonian-cyborg lust and the near-operatic drama would have been enough to cement this song's status as an instant classic, yet Lady GaGa goes the extra inches when she delivers one of the most deliciously reprehensible lyrics that will ever infect the Billboard Top 40 ("Want you in my room/ while your baby is sick.") [editorial correction, its actually this whole Hitchcock thing: "I want your Psycho, your Vertigo schtick. Want you in my Rear Window, baby, you're sick." -SS]
If "Bad Romance" has any warts, they're the moments when she insists on reminding us in plain English that she's "a freak bitch, baby." Well duh- she made that crystal clear with that sick baby lyric. I'm nit-picking, though. Criticizing Lady GaGa for her lack of subtlety is kind of like complaining that Andy Warhol didn't use enough earth tones.
Be Fierce+Embrace Yr Inner Drag Queen
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Football Game, Parade, Highlight UW Homecoming Schedule
"On This Land We Put Our Brand, 125 Years of Excellence, Pride and Tradition" is the theme of the 2012 University of Wyoming Homecoming, Oct. 11-13.
Activities will include a pig roast, dancing, a band concert and the time-honored Homecoming sing, parade and football game along with numerous reunions, seminars, hospitality events, campus tours and open houses.
For more information on Homecoming events, including a complete schedule, visit www.wyoalumni.com or call the Alumni Association at (307) 766-4166.
Among the highlights:
"Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible" exhibition will be on display daily in Coe Library. It tells the story of the origins, creation and impact of one of the most influential books in history.
Thursday, Oct. 11
7 p.m. -- Homecoming Sing, Arts and Sciences auditorium.
9 p.m. -- Dance in the Wyoming Union Ballroom with music by Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band; Cowboy Country Swing Club will give free swing dance lessons at 8 p.m. in the Ballroom.
Friday, Oct. 12
11 a.m.-1 p.m. -- ASUW pig roast at Simpson Plaza.
3:30 p.m. -- Wanda Burget, director of sustainability for Peabody Energy, will be the keynote speaker for the Keith and Thyra Thomson Honors Convocation in the Arts and Sciences auditorium.
7:30 p.m. -- United States Army Field Band concert, Fine Arts concert hall. It is free, but tickets are required. Call (307) 766-6666 for ticket information.
Saturday, Oct. 13
10 a.m. -- The Homecoming parade begins at the corner of Ninth and Ivinson streets.
2:15 p.m. -- Cowboy Walk from the Hilton Garden Inn. The Western Thunder Marching Band will lead the football team from the Hilton Garden Inn to the team locker room at the Rochelle Athletic Center through a gauntlet of cheering, high-fiving fans.
5 p.m. -- Football, Wyoming versus Air Force at War Memorial Stadium.


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ETSU (6-24, 6-12) was out hit by Kennesaw 11-9 as the Bucs stranded nine runners and struck out seven times. The Bucs also committed four errors in the game leading to three unearned runs.
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BD+C: How is the market for design services in Indianapolis these days? What's in demand? How is business holding up?
Sanford E. Garner: We received a nice influx of ARRA money, mostly for transportation projects, but more than likely when that work is done, a lot of contractors are going to be wondering where they're going to get work. The commercial office market is soft. The single-family housing market seems to be turning positive, and there are still a number of condo projects going to rental—the banks are not as desirous of financing condominiums.
We're fortunate in being in the third phase of a capital improvement program for our consolidated schools system, so there's a reasonable amount of work for K-12. Higher education seems to be opening up a bit in RFPs and projects. The area that we're seeing a lot of work in is anything that is tax-credit related, such as tax-related low-income housing projects, even more so than mixed-income. That's pretty strong.
BD+C: What's about other building sectors in Indy?
SEG: We've finished the majority of our major public-based projects—a new basketball arena, the football stadium, a new convention center, and a new airport—and I don't imagine we'll have anything that large for a while. However, we are working on our county hospital [the new Wishard Hospital, with 315 in-patient and 200 outpatient beds, a 2,400-car parking garage, a 90-bed emergency department, a women's health clinic, and a central energy plant, currently under construction and seeking LEED Silver certification, financed through a $754 million referendum in 2009]. There's also a new FBI field office [a $39.8 million project northeast of the city] and some court buildings.
We're starting to see a few more developer-led projects, in particular the North of South project, where Eli Lilly is working with a developer [Buckingham Companies] to develop housing for their employees [320 rental units]. It will also have a boutique hotel [from Dolce Hotels & Resorts], 40,000 sf of retail and parking, and a full-service Y [a new 75,000-sf facility].
BD+C: Your Fall Creek Place mixed-use housing project won awards from the NAHB, Professional Builder, the Urban Land Institute, and the American Planning Association. What lessons did you learn from it?
SEG: One of the lessons is that we need to address potential problems like gentrification early in the process. In the case of Fall Creek, 51% of the homeowners were 80% below area median income (AMI), with a five-year tax abatement. It was hugely successful—we sold out phase one in about eight months, but the AMI kept increasing, and you're coming off a tax abatement in year six, just before the market crashed. So, for mixed-income projects like this, you might want to consider looking at a 10- to 15-year period. We tried to do a good job with gentrification going in, but any time you significantly increase the value of surrounding properties it's going to increase property taxes. Having that kind of discussion early on was hugely important.
Another lesson is that private-sector development expertise is a must-have. We spent a lot of time trying to get the private sector involved. We succeeded in engaging several developers that were relative newcomers to this type of project, which meant having to do a lot of education.
We also learned that the greatest marketing tool is always visual impact. We had six prototype houses and two other projects from developers, all adjacent to historic buildings that were being rehabbed. We had a nice mass of redevelopment going on, and that lent confidence to the project.
The other thing that we did well in this case was maximizing public/private partnerships. The city leveraged its relationship with the utility companies to supply incentives, and we worked with the banks to provide pre-approved loans for a point or so below prime. Financial incentives like that are absolutely necessary for mixed-income projects.
BD+C: You spoke at your alma mater, Howard University, recently on "the profitability of diversity"? What did you mean by that phrase?
SEG: We are at the point where companies are realizing that it can be profitable to be diverse—in gender, race, religion, sexual orientation. In the design industry, the better your understanding of those individuals or cultures or religions, the better you're going to be able to market to them.
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Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:03 am
Post subject: Integral Threaded Studs for Roof Rack
Ive been using traditional clip fastened roof racks forever, a Yakima Q Tower for the last ten years or so. I just acquired a 2002 BMW sedan that has four integral threaded studs (2 per side) in the roof drainage channel with a nifty flip up cover that provides access. Im sure I can get a set of foot pads that will continue to allow me to use the clip system with this car, but I wonder if anyone has had experience using the integral studs. The clip approach aint broke, but Ill happily use the studs if its at least as good of a system, and maybe better in terms of the structural security of the anchorage. I realize it means taking screws out to uninstall the rack which is more time consuming than the clips. The stud system may very well be the anchorage approach that all factory racks utilize, and just as proven as the clip system Thanks for any thoughts.
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My Element uses a similar system except that it has female threaded insertes welded to the edge of the roof and covered by plastic trim. The base/foot of the roof rack system screws down to the inserts and remains permanently attached to the roof. The rack bars and towers just pop on and off of the foot. I imagine your car would be similar in that it is unlikely that you will need to unscrew your rack each time you want to remove it. Most likely, you will just have a small, low profile foot that stays on the roof permanently.
In any case, threaded studs seem like a much stronger system for attaching a rack than going under the door.
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Saab has used that system with Thoule racks for years. It not only makes for a secure mount but when the doors are closed and locked prevents the rack from being stolen.
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My wife's car was parked at college for a night class, filthy theiving bastards popped the $600. racks off by prying the clips right out from under the door edge, took the whole system. Clips only had a 90 degree bend, made them very easy to steal. We bought replacement racks and I screwed them right into the roof with #14 stainless steel security head sheet metal screws & urethane caulk. Not worried about resale, plan to drive it till it stops.
I'd go with the integral studs, probably take longer than 20 seconds to steal, then. Everyone else, beware!
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Many OEM roof rack mounts are just swaged/expanded/pressed into sheet metal, intended to
modest loads, not "hold down" boards hanging over the windshield into the slipstream. I'd investigate (e.g., body shop, detailed factory maintenance diagrams, junkyard) the OEM anchors, and if not persuaded of their ability to resist cantilevered board nose lift at high speeds in extreme gusts, would find another way. Spennie's sheet metal screws are probably good, and big honkin' nuts and bolts down to roof support structures are better. If it ever matters, a body shop could easily plug and paint the holes for resale.
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...and replace the headliner that will get stained from inevitable water leaks.
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I've had no problem yet with leaks, but then I go nuts with gaskets and sealant.
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guy at work had the yakima through the roof system installed(by a body shop)on his quad cab and carries two ocean kayaks all over no problem. clean low profile system that might look like your oem. check out the yakima site.
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I installed through-the-roof gutter-brackets from Thule. They provide a hold for gutter-mount towers where no gutter exists. In this case my car was a small coupe (VW Scirroco) that didn't provide sufficient spread between the front and rear tower locations -at least to support my gear at highway speeds.
No leaking whatsoever. Use plenty of caulk, and apply a small amount to the bolt threads. This pushes the caulk into all nooks and crannies. Really sealed it up and worked for the two years I owned the car. Again, no leaks but a torn headliner due to install.
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To original poster "Thinman"... Don't you mean that the BMW has, integral threaded inserts, and not studs ??
It's confusing cause you mention a couple times about "the studs"... but then you also mention, having to remove the rack screws to remove the rack. So, do really mean that the car has integral inserts, right? Not built-in studs... or, does it?
Anyway, I'm guessing it has integral threaded inserts. And yes, this is a reliable system. It is probably kinda similar to the Saab approach as "Quigley" mentioned.
And it would be harder to steal, than what happened to Spennie.
Geez, no kidding "filthy theiving bastards" !!
That's really crappy... very sorry to hear about it. I guess I've just been lucky. I haven't heard much, of that kind of theft before.
And Isobars is right as well... but, you're not in that situation with the BMW factory inserts. Anyway, I agree with what he said. I have shopped for so many kinds of vehicles over 30 years of carrying windsurfers. And when I ask about factory racks, they always just tell you about "the load it can carry". But that's not what I'm worried about. I carry longboards and a few shortboards, up on my roof-rack. They're not so heavy. But, if I'm driving at 60 mph into a Gorge headwind of 30... the "pulling force up" is huge !!
So yes... I've looked into that stuff... and I've never had a problem.
And yes, I load the gear very carefully. And if it is "Nukin"... I slow down a bit.
Also agree with Dan and others.. properly installed "through-the roof" systems... are strong and will not leak... and will not damage your head-liner. That's what I have now on my AWD van. This van has been parked outside in Seattle rain for 9 1/2 years. And it has been up at the ski areas parked in below freezing temps, at least 20 times a winter for 9 years. That's a lot of snow and ice, potentially wearing out the attachment system and causing leaks.
And it has carried loads like 2 longboards and 3 shortboards to the Gorge for 9 years.
I've had no leaks in the Thule "through the roof mount system"... or any headliner damage.
Anyway, this is all very good stuff to be aware of... and to be careful about. You could kill someone behind you, if a board went flying off your roof. Ot at least damage your roof, or rack... and for sure "total" your board(s).
And if any of those things happened... it would really ruin your nicely planned windsurfing day
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During a recent USDA Risk Management Agency listening session in Valdosta, Ga., Commission Executive Director Don Koehler said that while the peanut program changed significantly with the 2002 farm bill, the Federal Crop Insurance Program changed only slightly.
Under the old program, said Koehler, crop insurance at a rate of 75 percent essentially covered out-of-pocket costs and provided meaningful protection for farmers. Now, however, the 75 percent coverage doesn't "come near" covering the out-of-pocket expenses of peanut producers, he says.
"The commission suggests that coverage be increased on peanuts to allow for coverage at the 80 to 90-percent levels under the new program," says Koehler. "This will allow farmers to more nearly cover the risk they have in out-of-pocket costs."
Under the old program, the coverage was based on a peanut government support price of $610 per ton. Coverage now is based on $355 per ton, while out-of-pocket expenses have changed little, he contends.
Another issue of concern, he adds, involves those peanut producers who are located in new areas of peanut production. Koehler says those producers who wish to plant peanuts in counties without a production history aren't able to obtain crop insurance, because a yield history doesn't exist in many of these production areas.
"The commission favors providing some level of crop insurance coverage in new production areas in a state until the time that yields may be proven," he says.
Commission Chairman Armond Morris also expressed concern at the meeting that there is no differentiation made in the current crop insurance program between irrigated and non-irrigated fields. This creates a problem, he says, because a farmer actually is penalized for using good cultural practices such as irrigation to manage his risk and, thereby, the risk of the program.
"Producers need to be allowed the option to insure their crops on a field-by-field basis," suggests Morris. "This will allow farmers to manage their coverage and be protected from the variations of weather, as well as reaping the reward of instituting risk management components such as irrigation."
Another major concern of the commission, says Morris, is that the disaster years which are beyond the control of the grower are counted against him in calculating the actual production history on the farm.
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• Coverage needs to be increased on peanuts to allow coverage at the 80 and 90-percent levels under the new program. This will allow farmers to more nearly cover the risk they have in out-of-pocket costs.
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15 November 2011
Fall in Paris: a Study in Yellow and Brown (with Roast Chicken and Squash)
At a party a couple weeks ago, our hosts, who had invited a group of people who didn't all know each other, made us play a getting-to-know-you game, which involved writing answers to questions like "If you were a planet (adjective, famous person, book, etc), which one would you be?" A person's answers were read out anonymously and everyone had to guess who it was. To the question "If you were a season, which one would you be?" I was the only person who answered "autumn". When the host read it out, he said "oooh, this person is depressed!" Wide of the mark. I'm not depressed. Where I come from, autumn is a season of abundance, of bright colors, of beautiful light and crisp air.
But having lived in Paris for five years now, I can see why the French find fall depressing. The days get short so quickly, and gray and rainy. Even on the few sunny days, the fall colors are somewhat limited: yellow and brown pretty much cover it. For the past couple of years, I've tried to take myself out of my apartment to enjoy what fall has to offer here.
Montmartre with its colorful climbing vines is actually one of the prettiest places around. Last year at the jardins de Luxembourg, my sister and I appreciated the yellow and brown there, followed by warming homemade Chai. This year, I headed down the the Canal St. Martin to see the yellows reflected in the water.
As the weather gets colder and the leaves (whatever their colors) fall off the trees for the winter, it's important to have warming food to come home to. This roast chicken with squash is simple to make and perfect for the season. You can make it with chicken breasts or thighs or a whole chicken. Whatever fits your tastes and budget. And to top it all off, it matches the colors of fall in Paris - which are not depressing at all if you only you look at them the right way.
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1 whole chicken (or 4 chicken breasts, or 4 chicken thighs)
1 squash (i used a potimarron, but butternut squash or pumpkin would work well too)
1/2 cup olive oil
1 Tbsp dried sage (or 2 Tbsps fresh)
large pinch of sea salt
punch of black pepper
pinch of cayenne pepper
2 Tbsp brown sugar
Preheat the oven to 375ºF/190ºC.
Mix together the olive oil with the sage, salt, pepper and cayenne. Rub this mixture into the chicken on all sides and place chicken in the center of a baking pan. Add the brown sugar to the remaining oil mixture.
Peel and cut the squash into cubes. (Ok, this is the evil part of the recipe. Squash is hard to cut and peel. I suggest cutting it in half, scooping out the seeds - you can save them and roast them - putting the squash half cut side down so it is stable and using a sharp knife to peel it, cutting down towards the cutting board so as not to slice your fingers. Then cut it into cubes.) Place the squash around the chicken in the baking pan and drizzle the rest of the olive oil mixture evenly on top of it.
Bake for about 1 hour (or until the chicken is cooked), mixing the squash once or twice to keep it coated with the juices. Serve hot and enjoy!
8 comments:
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
I love autumn too! It is such a fabulous and colorful season.
A delicious meal.
- 16 November, 2011 14:58
- Tony said...
Fall is my favorite season, too.
- 16 November, 2011 22:36
- Hopie said...
Rosa - I know. Isn't it! And such good food in the fall.
Tony - That's because we're from New England ;-) It's everyone's favorite season there. In Paris, everyone's fav is spring!
- 17 November, 2011 11:08
I've know this for a while, but only just recently tried it out: potimarron skin is totally edible! If you really do want it peeled, though, I find that unlike some other squashes (*cough* pomme d'or), the thin skin peels off very easily with a peeler.
Nice recipe!
- 19 November, 2011 14:19
- Hopie said...
Camille - You know, I've heard that potimarron skin is edible but never dared try. Now that you say so, though, I think I will!
- 20 November, 2011 11:45
- Psychgrad said...
I feel so conflicted about autumn. I love the colours, particularly the reds in this part of the country. But, the short days and cold weather are a lot to take for such an extended period of time. I love living in Canada, but would rather live somewhere where the cold weather and short days only lasted for a couple of months, rather than 4-5 months.
- 21 November, 2011 02:57
- JonathanN said...
This is delicious! I love the flavors you have in here…and it gets the highest compliments!
- 23 November, 2011 16:01
- Hopie said...
Psychgrad - Yeah, I see your point. Still such a pretty season, even if it leads to as season that's much too long in your part of the world!
Jonathan - Thank you! Glad you like it!
- 23 November, 2011 18:03


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Media outlets around the world reported yesterday that a pill can make people less racist.
"Heart disease drug 'combats racism'" heralds the UK's Telegraph. "A Pill that Could Prevent Racism?" asks The Daily News.
Is this for real?
The answer is less racy – and less raced – but actually more interesting than the headlines suggest.
Researchers at the Oxford University Centre for Practical Ethics, led by Sylvia Terbeck, administered a common blood-pressure lowering drug, called propranolol, to half of a group of white subjects and a placebo to the other half. (Read the study's press release here and the research paper here) The subjects then took a test that measures "implicit associations" – the rapid, automatic good/bad, scary/safe judgments we all make in a fraction of a second when we look at words and pictures. The subjects who took the drug showed less of an automatic fear response to images of black people's faces and were less likely to associate pictures of black people with negative words than the subjects who did not take the drug. Based on the study's design, it is likely that results would be the same in trials involving racism by and against other racial and ethnic groups.
This looks like the pill treated racism in the research subjects. But this isn't so.
Researchers have long known that propranolol has a range of effects that include lethargy, sedation, and reductions in several kinds of brain activity. In high-flown medical parlance, this drug makes people really chilled out. I know: I've been on propranolol myself (unsuccessfully) for migraine prevention. When I was on the drug, my biggest fear was falling asleep at work – and even that didn't stress me as much as it should have.
Because propranolol muffles fear generally, it reduces automatic negative responses to just about anything. Propranolol has been used to treat everything from "uncontrolled rage" to performance anxiety and is being explored for treating PTSD. Very recent research shows that it generally reduces activity in the brain region called the amygdala (more on that, below).
But the study remains interesting and important for a few reasons. This is the first study to show that inhibiting activity in the amygdala, which is crucially involved in fear learning, directly reduces one measure of race bias. This validates extensive research that has correlated race bias with heightened activity in that brain region. (Although some contrary research also challenges the association.) So this study helps support the idea of a causal relationship between automatic or pre-conscious race bias and conditioned fear learning.
The cure for racism born of conditioned fear learning is not to chemically dampen the brain's response to fear generally – because fear is often useful – but to attack the causes of the conditioned associations that lead to bias in the first place.
The rest of this post will show how the fear response, claims about race, and the way the drug works all come together to point to the social nature of even "neurological" race bias – and to its economic and legal repercussions.
The fear response
When we see something that frightens or startles us, several regions of the brain become active – particularly the amygdala. The amygdala has many functions, so a neuroimage showing activity in the amygdala does not necessarily mean that a person is experiencing fear. But if a person has a frightening experience (loud noise!) or sees something she's afraid of (snakes!), activity in the amygdala spikes. This activity is pre-conscious and totally outside our control: We startle first and then maybe stop to think about it.
The automaticity of fear serves us well in the face of real threats – but poorly in much of daily life. Fear learning is overly easy: A single negative experience can create a lasting, automatic fear association. Repeated, weak negative experiences can also form a strong fear association. And, we can "catch" fear socially: If my friend tells me that she had a negative experience, I may form an automatic fear association as if I had been frightened or harmed myself. Finally, fear lasts. I can consciously tell myself not to be afraid of a particular thing but my automatic fear response is likely to persist.
Race bias and the fear response
In neuroimaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on white and black Americans, research subjects on average have a greater amygdalar response to images of black faces than to images of white faces. Researchers have interpreted this as a pre-conscious fear response. Indeed, the more that activity in a person's amydala increases in response to the images of black faces, the more strongly he or she makes negative associations with images of black faces and with typically African-American names (see paper here).
These automatic fear responses matter because they literally shape our perceptions of reality. For example, a subject might be asked to rate the facial expressions on a set of white and black faces. The facial expressions range from happy to neutral to angry. A subject who has a strong amygdalar response to images of black faces is much more likely to misinterpret neutral or even moderately happy expressions on a black facial image as being hostile or angry. This shows how fear changes our perceptions, which in turn changes how we react to and treat other people. It also shows how fear alters perception to create a self-reinforcing loop.
This kind of pre-conscious or automatic racism matters economically and legally: A majority of white people who have taken these implicit association tests demonstrate some automatic bias against black faces both associationally and neurologically. White people numerically and proportionally hold more positions as decision-makers about employment – like hiring and promotion – and about legal process and consequences – like whether to charge a suspect with a crime, the severity of the crime with which to charge him or her, and whether to offer a generous or harsh plea bargain. A study of two hundred judges serving in jurisdictions across the United States has shown that judges, too, more readily make these automatic, negative associations about black people than they do about white people. The implication is that automatic racial bias could play a role in pervasively tilting the scales against black people in every phase of economic life and in every phase of the legal process.
Yet, current anti-discrimination law only prohibits explicit racial bias. An employer may not advertise a position as "whites only" nor fire nor refuse to promote a worker because the employer does not want to retain or advance a black person. Systematic racial bias that creates unlawful "disparate impact" also rests on explicit racism: plaintiffs who claim that they are proportionally under-represented in, say, hiring and promotion by a particular employer must show that the disparate impact results from an intentional discriminatory purpose.
Automatic race bias, by contrast, takes a different form – a form not barred by law. Automatic discrimination expresses itself when the white supervisor (or police officer, or prosecutor, or judge, or parole board member) just somehow feels that his or her black counterpart has the proverbial "bad attitude," or doesn't "fit" with the culture of the organization, or poses a greater risk to the public than an equivalent white offender and so should not be offered bail or a plea deal or be paroled after serving some part of his sentence.
Tying it all together
If current anti-discrimination law does not touch automatic bias, and automatic bias is pervasive, then does this point to a role for drugs?
On propranlol, an implicitly biased interviewer or boss might perceive a black candidate more fairly, unfiltered by automatic negative responses. (She might, of course, still harbor conscious but unstated forms of bias; propranolol certainly would not touch race-biased beliefs about professionalism, competence, and the like.) But it also would generally dampen the decision-maker's automatic fear responses. An overall reduction in automatic negative responses would not necessarily be a good thing: while it might free decision-makers from some false negative judgments based on race, it also would likely impair them from picking up on real negative signals from other sources.
And the take-away …
That a fear-dampening drug reduces racial bias in subjects helps confirm that much racial bias is based in automatic negative responses, which result from conditioned fear learning. Although this finding is hardly surprising, it is interesting and important. Any person reading this study should ask him- or herself: How does automatic fear affect my decisions about other people? How does it affect the judgments of important economic and legal decision-makers? How can we make it less likely that the average white person sees the average black person through distorting fear goggles in the first place?
The problem with this study and the headlines hyping it is that they perpetuate the idea that racism is the individual racist's problem (It's in his brain! And we can fix it!). A close reading of the study points to the importance of socially conditioned fear-learning about race – which then becomes neurologically represented in each of us. Despite the headlines, racism is not a neurological problem but a cultural one, which means that the solutions are a lot more complex than popping a pill.


text: The land that today makes up North Dakota became U.S.territory as part of the Louisiana Purchaseof 1803.The regionwas originally part of the Minnesota and Nebraska territories, until, along with South Dakota, it was organized into the Dakota Territory in 1861. The state was very sparsely populated until the arrival of the railroads in the late 1800s, andfinally becamea state in 1889. During the run-up to statehood, there was an intense rivalry between North and South Dakota over which state would be admitted to the unionfirst. When the time came for their formal admission, President Benjamin Harrison selected at random which bill to sign first, and did not record the order in which the bills were signed, though North Dakota is traditionally listed first. The state is renowned for its scenic "badlands," which are part of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.


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Last month, WCRS and Women's Aid created the world's first audience-edited commercial. The ad launched in cinemas ahead of screenings of The Hobbit, using 3D stereoscopic technology to highlight the issue of domestic abuse. Ross Neil describes how the work came to see the light of day.
Eighteen months ago, two members of our creative team were in The Kings Arms. Their conversation went something like this:
Creative: Why is current 3D not in red and green any more?
Tech: Well, the two lenses are still different to each other, but one now has horizontal lines and the other vertical lines.
Creative: So each eye is seeing a different image?
Tech: Yes. Then the brain puts the two images together.
Creative: So, in theory, you could play two different films at once and let the audience edit between them by closing one eye and then the other?
Tech: Hmm, in theory, yes. I think we need to speak to Ross.
So that's what they did. And I thought it was a good enough idea (plus, I was curious to see if it would work) to put the theory to our TV department, which, in turn, took the question to Chris Vincze at The Moving Picture Company – the 3D pioneer responsible for the likes of Prometheus, X-Men: First Class and the Harry Potter series.
Chris was as intrigued as we were and started testing our idea. Much to our surprise (and our relief), it worked on a still image: you close one eye and you see a yacht; close the other and you see a hot-air balloon. Hooray! Cue a room full of adults sat in the dark making "ooh" noises for ten minutes.
With stage one complete, it was time to take a brief to the whole creative department. What idea would work in total synergy with this technology? Almost immediately, the creative team Naz Nazli and Rob Welch took me to one side to say the answer was simple: "Would you turn a blind eye to domestic violence?"
Not sure I've ever had less time for a penny to drop. We had to do it. With one eye shut, you'd see a woman preparing a pleasant meal in her kitchen; with the other shut, you'd see the same woman being brutally attacked by her husband. Rob and Naz wrote the script that very evening, and we took it straight back to MPC with one very simple question: "Could it work?" Luckily, Chris loved the script and thought it was achievable… providing we could iron out any potential hiccups in a moving image test.
A number of weeks passed. Then we got a call from MPC. We went down and were blown away by a full moving image test film that Chris himself had shot. It was amazing, but there were some issues.
First, we needed to get rid of the ghosting. When you closed one eye, you could still see the faint ghost of the other image on the screen. MPC worked out a shrewd way of narrowing this divide with some cunning dressing of location and cast in mid-tones, and by soft-lighting the whole set to prevent any harsh contrasts.
Second, how do you educate people in the act of self-editing? How do you make an entire auditorium close one eye and then the next to get the full impact of this idea? The solution was actually quite simple: a title card that alternates between an apple and an orange to dramatise the two separate images. It was straightforward, elegant and the first thing that made the whole team realise just how good this could be.
Women's Aid saw the test and immediately recognised the potential. They were on board. We were now full steam ahead.
Now all we needed was a director. But who? Who knows 3D technology like this and can direct? Again, it was such a simple leap. Chris had been with us since the start, he'd pioneered the self-editing technology, knew the 3D element inside out, had shot the test and knew the actors. Did we really need to look anywhere else?
We shot in a house in Wimbledon. It was a painstaking process – in particular, having to rehearse the action so the woman on screen stayed in exactly the same position at all times in both the violent and non-violent scenarios. The actress repeated the action again and again and again, until she knew exactly where she had to be on every single beat. Then, of course, there was the meticulous repositioning of apples and oranges for the two different opening shots playing simultaneously. I've never seen continuity quite like it.
Everything was eventually in place and the finished article was presented to the British Board of Film Classification, which then rated it… 12A. 12A!? But we'd been given media space in front of Life Of Pi, a PG. Disaster. Hours of frantic phone calls and some cunning media shuffling eventually got the ad to run ahead of The Hobbit instead. I'm still not sure some of our account team have recovered.
The finished article is something we're all proud of. It's a powerful ad for a great cause. But what I'm perhaps most proud of is the way it takes something as technologically advanced as 3D and uses it in a way it wasn't intended. And still makes it work. Not bad for something that all started in The Kings Arms.
Ross Neil is a creative director at WCRS


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Oakville Winery was first established in November 1877 as Brun & Chaix, Oakville Winery. It was the 9th bonded winery in California. In 1993 when we purchased the winery and surrounding vineyards, it was sold to us as The Oakville Winery. Our Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon vineyards are planted adjacent to the winery, the essence of an estate definition in the very center of the Oakville appellation.
Our family has owned vineyards in Napa Valley since 1903. We strive to produce wines that represent our land and its heritage. The Bonded Winery #9 Portfolio always represents Napa Valley's best quality at reasonable prices. The "new" Oakville Winery will produce wines from the same vineyards and the same location as the founding winery, thus continuing a 132 year old tradition. In a real sense, the name Oakville Winery was chosen for us from the beginning. The Oakville appellation is precious to all of us who share this region's bounty.
Plan a trip to Oakville Winery on our interactive winery map:
The Tasting Room at Napa Wine Company is host to 24 alternating proprietors.
Located on the corner of Highway 29 and Oakville Crossroad, it is a place where some of most sought after wines are made. The Tasting Room at Napa Wine Company can best be described as a launching pad for some of Napa's most notable cult wines and celebrity winemakers.
The Tasting Room at Napa Wine Company offers you the chance to experience what the Napa community already embraces, that great fruit and fantastic winemakers make collectable wine. In our case these extraordinary wines are available to you all from one location.
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
To join the wine club, visit www.oakvillewinery.com or call 707-944-1710.


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Categories: Population, Population Change, Population Estimates, Population Estimates by Age and Sex
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Language: English
Geographical coverage: England and Wales
Geographical breakdown: Local Authority and County
The population of England and Wales was estimated to be 56,170,900 in mid-2011, with the population of England estimated to be 53,107,200 and the population of Wales estimated to be 3,063,800.
The population of England and Wales increased by 95,000 (0.2 per cent) between 2011 Census day (27 March) and the mid-year point (30 June).
In England and Wales there were 187,600 births and 121,000 deaths in the three months between 2011 Census day and the mid-year point.
The estimated flow of international migrants into England and Wales between 2011 Census day and the mid-year point was 98,200 and the estimated flow out of England and Wales was 68,500.
Compared to the 26 member states of the European Union (excluding the UK), the population of England and Wales ranks fourth, behind Germany, France and Italy.
Estimates of the usually resident population as at 30 June of the reference year. The Population Estimates reflect the administrative boundaries that were in place on 30 June of the reference year.
The Primary Care Organistion (PCO) estimates included within this release have been superseded by the Primary Care Organisation Population Estimates, Mid-2011 Final (Census Based) that were released on the 11th April 2013.
Population Estimates for England and Wales: Methodology Guide
Population Estimates for England and Wales: Frequently Asked Questions
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Designation can be broadly interpreted to mean that the statistics:
Once statistics have been designated as National Statistics it is a statutory requirement that the Code of Practice shall continue to be observed.


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Mayne Hall is the home for 138 first year students and seven Resident Assistants. Mayne Hall is home to the Honors Community. Residents in Mayne Hall may participate in the Kneading Minds program, which is run through the Honors Program, and bakes bread once a month in the hall kitchen.
Mayne Hall has four floors with women residing on first, third and fourth floors and men on the second floor. Two single rooms are located on the first floor with all other rooms being doubles. A laundry room, kitchen and large lounge are located on the first floor. Each upper floor has a small study lounge.
Please note that these are samples of typical floor plans and furniture arrangements in this residence hall. Actual measurements and arrangements may differ.
Furniture in rooms consists of bunkable XL twin beds, movable desks, desk chairs and built-in dressers and closets. Each room is fully carpeted. Please note, most beds are not loftable in double or single rooms.
Some rooms may be triples for extra capacity. In this case, at least one bed will be lofted.
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Announcement of EPS-TOPIK and Skills Test schedule in 2013 from HRD KoreaEPS-TOPIK by CBT (Computer Based Test)
Special EPS-TOPIK (CBT) : implement a Test quarterly (more than once a quarter of year)
Country : Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongol, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal ( based on 1st Quarter in 2013)
* The other countries are under consideration of implement a test in the second-half year.
※For more details, Refer to the bulletin board or web page of sending agency of the country.
View EPS TOPIK Schedule in 2013 from HRDKorea:
Korean Language Test Results 2013
- Bangladesh
- Cambodia
- Indonesia
- Kyrgyztan
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Sri-Lanka
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
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Robo drinks a beer
Cameron Diaz joined the GMD and Katie Holmes at the Sevilla vs Glasgow soccer game last night. Katie seemed much more animated than usual, non? Was it the beer? Robo gets smashed? Look at her all touchy feely and tipsy. This will be me tonight too with my Darren at Lady Gaga.
What's amazing is that she's allowed to imbibe. Xenu must not have an official position on alcohol then. Perhaps this was a directive from above too. Katie's been looking so miserable in candids, maybe they thought an extracurricular libation would loosen her up. If so, it worked.
Or the more simple explanation is that she took a night off from the child and is finally able to have some fun. I buy this too. Am spending the holidays this year Chinese-styles with my Squawking Chicken mother. This is why we're going to New York first. For some joy in our lives before facing her for 10 days. The upside to Christmas with mom however is that there are no kids around. She frightens them.
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2013-14 Men's Swimming & Diving News
Tornado set six school records at ASC ChampionshipsFebruary 15, 2014CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – The King University men's swimming and diving team finished tenth at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championship on Friday and Saturday, but the Tornado set six new school records and saw a number of swimmers achieve personal best times. King finished 10th of 12 teams with 128.5 points.
Start of swimming & diving championships pushed backFebruary 13, 2014CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – With all the snow that has fallen, the start Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships have been postponed. The championships were supposed to start on Thursday, but the teams will kickoff competition this afternoon at 3:00 p.m.
Tornado split with Union and BethelFebruary 09, 2014BARBOURVILLE, Ky. – In their first meet of the semester, the King University men's swimming and diving team set three personal records on Sunday when they faced Union College and Bethel University. The Tornado fell to Union 148-48, but topped Bethel 118-34.
Tornado top Warren Wilson 114-65November 22, 2013BRISTOL, Va. – The King University men's swimming & diving team honored their seniors at their final home meet of the season on Friday night. The Taylor Horton and Alek Nochowicz were honored as King defeated Warren Wilson College 114-65.
Tornado fall to Pfeiffer and MilliganNovember 08, 2013MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. – The King University men's swimming and diving team was defeated twice on Friday night, losing to Pfeiffer University 95-23 and falling to hosts Milligan College 71-50.
Men's swimming and diving takes sixth at Sewanee InvitationalNovember 02, 2013SEWANEE, Tenn. – The King University men's swimming and diving team finished sixth out of eight teams at the Sewanee Invitational, scoring 283 points and finishing ahead of Warren Wilson College and Campbellsville University.
Tornado set six PRs, fall to Lions 97-93October 26, 2013FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. – The King University men's swimming & diving team traveled to take on Emmanuel College on Saturday afternoon. The Tornado took a narrow 97-93 defeat to the Lions, but set six new personal records in the process.
King takes 98-98 tie at MilliganOctober 24, 2013MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. – The King University men's swimming & diving team traveled the short distanced down the road to take on local rival Milligan College on Thursday night. The Tornado turned in a solid performance, coming away with a 98-98 tie with the Buffaloes.
Tornado compete at Conference Carolinas meetOctober 18, 2013GAFFNEY, S.C. – The King University men's swimming & diving team faced the other Conference Carolinas member schools on Friday at the Conference Carolinas meet hosted by Limestone College. The Tornado finished third in the three-team meet with five points.
King takes two individual wins at season opening meetSeptember 28, 2013GAINSVILLE, Ga. – The King University men's swimming team opened their 2013-14 season at Brenau University where they faced Thomas College and Milligan College. The Tornado fell to Thoms 60-29, and to Milligan 56-39.
Veteran King squad carries high expectations into seasonSeptember 27, 2013BRISTOL, Tenn. – Last season didn't end the way the King University swimming & diving team wanted it to, as they came home with a ninth place finish at the Appalachian Swimming Conference Championships. However, the Tornado have set some loft goals, that they expect to achieve with a core of experienced swimmers, and a solid group of newcomers for the 2013-14 season.


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Physical Agent Data Sheet (PADS) - Lasers
Other PADS:
Health Hazards
Electrical Hazards
Chemical Hazards
Safety Classifications of lasers
Emergency Procedures
Permissible Exposure Limits
A laser is a device which produces a concentrated beam of electromagnetic energy. The beam of energy can be in the form of visible light or in the form of invisible infrared or ultraviolet radiation.
Lasers differ in many ways, but there are certain characteristics which all lasers have in common. For all lasers, the production of the concentrated beam of energy requires three basic processes. First, an energy source is applied to a solid, gaseous or liquid substance called the lasing material. The lasing material then produces radiation having a specific wavelength. Then by using mirrors, lenses and shutters, the light or infrared waves or ultraviolet rays are magnified and focused to produce the laser beam.
Lasers may be different from one another in several specific ways. The basic categories are:
The hazards related to the use of lasers vary depending on the type of laser, the power of the laser, the purpose and manner in which the laser is used, and the safety features of the laser.
Eye injuries are the most serious danger from laser beams. The cornea of the eye is like a glass window that allows light to enter the eye. It is located in the very front part of the eyeball. The cornea is very sensitive and injuries to the cornea can be very painful. most injuries to the cornea heal without permanent damage. If the deep layers of the cornea are affected, permanent injuries can occur. The types of eye injuries which occur from improper use of lasers depend on the wavelengths of the laser beams. Laser injuries to the cornea are usually caused by lasers having short wavelengths in the ultraviolet and long wavelengths in the infrared ranges.
The lens of the eye is located toward the front of the eyeball but behind the cornea. Injuries to the lens can result in loss of transparency of the lens. The lens becomes cloudy and then blocks some of the light rays entering the eye, thus making it hard to create clear images on the retina. When the lens of the eye becomes cloudy, it is called a cataract. While damage to the cornea usually heals completely in a day or two, damage to the lens almost always persists. Very slight damage to the lens may go unnoticed, but repeated minimal damage can add up to serious damage later on. Damage to the lens may not cause problems until many years after the injuries to the lens occurred. Lens damage is most likely to occur with certain lasers that produce beams in the near-ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelength range.
The retina of the eye is the surface upon which visual images are produced. It is located in the back of the eyeball. Certain lasers in the wavelength ranges of visible light and near-infrared wavelength ranges can burn permanent blind spots in the retina causing partially or totally obscured vision.
Skin burns may also occur from the use of lasers but are less likely to occur and are less serious than eye injuries. When skin is exposed to a potentially dangerous laser beam, a person will usually feel the heat and remove the exposed part of the body from the path of the laser beam.
Some lasers require high voltage power supplies and some workers have received electrical shock because of carelessness while working around these power supplies. Almost all laser power supplies under certain circumstances, could possible cause electrical shock or electrocution. Following the general safety standards for other electrical or electronic equipment provides protection against the dangers of electrical shock or electrocution.
Laser welding or cutting of metals will cause formation of many of the same metal oxides and other fumes that are produced in conventional welding processes. Explosions can occur when ice collects in valves or connectors in lasers which require very cold liquids, such as liquid nitrogen.
Lasers are commonly used in the workplace to perform the following functions:
Welding and machining
Safety Classifications of Lasers
For safety purposes, lasers are divided into Classes I, II, III, and IV; Class I being least hazardous and Class IV most hazardous. Almost all reported eye injuries have been from Class IV lasers.
Almost all lasers that produce visible light beams are so bright that they can produce eye injuries. Therefore, to reduce risk of health hazards to the eye, many are designed in a way, such as enclosing the laser beam in a box, which prevents direct eye exposure to the beam.
Any laser which by itself is in Class II, III, or IV may be reclassified to a lower risk category if the laser beam is enclosed in such a way to decrease the risk of hazardous exposure to people.
Class I lasers are considered entirely safe even if used improperly. Class I lasers do not require any warning labeling. Some more hazardous lasers may be placed in the Class I category when they are part of a consumer or office machine which shields the user from the hazards of the laser beam. These machines, however, must have some type of warnings which are visible if the shields are removed.
Class II lasers are often referred to as "low-power" or "low-risk" lasers. These lasers are hazardous only when someone stares directly into the laser beam even though the beam hurts the eyes. Class II lasers require warnings to avoid staring directly into the beam.
Class III lasers are Moderate Risk or Medium Power lasers. They can produce eye injuries when the laser beams are viewed directly or when a sharp reflection is viewed directly. Class III is subdivided into Class IIIA and IIIB. Class IIIA is considered to be hazardous only when the laser beam is collected and focused by optical instruments, for example when surveyors look into a laser beam with a telescope-like instrument. Class IIIA lasers require warnings to prevent such hazardous practices. These lasers can cause serious eye injuries before someone who accidentally looks directly into the beam has a chance to blink.
Class IV lasers produce beams that when reflected, even if it is not a sharp reflection, may cause serious eye and skin injuries, and where the beam may be a fire hazard. It is critical that the dangers of Class IV lasers are clearly marked with warning signs.
Safety Precautions
Class I Controls
No user safety rules are necessary.
Class II Controls
Class III Controls
Class IV Controls
Fortunately, these high-power lasers are seldom used outside of research laboratories and restricted industrial environments where personnel access is carefully controlled.
These lasers should only be operated within a localized enclosure, or in a controlled workplace, or where the beam is directed into outer space. If a complete local enclosure is not possible, laser operation indoors should be in a light-tight room with interlocked entrances to assure that the laser cannot emit while a door is open.
Emergency Procedures
Anyone who is suspected of having a laser-related eye injury should be examined as soon as possible by an ophthalmologist, a physician who specializes in the care of eye injuries and diseases.
Laser-related skin burns should be treated as any other skin burns. Cold water should be applied immediately to the burn area for first and second degree burns (reddened skin or blistering skin). Third degree burns (open wound) should be covered with a sterile dressing and the person taken to a medical facility. Never put ointments, creams or butter on burns.
Permissible Exposure Limits
Lasers used in construction shall comply with the Alaska Construction Code, Section 05.040(e):Nonionizing radiation
1. Sliney, D. & Walbarsht, M., Safety with Lasers and Other Optical Sources. Plenum Press, New York, NY 10013.
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One Teletype to Bind Them (Or, Clustered SSH for OS X)
When working at scale, and particularly with hosts that need to have the same configuration or you want to perform the same queries on, the issue becomes how do I 'reach out and touch' my fleet? Without centralized infrastructure backed by a messaging broker or a heavier process that leaves hooks in systems and/or requires its own domain specific language, sometimes you can get by with… plain ol' ssh. Apple Remote Desktop can take us a lot of the way there, and one of the announced features of Mountain Lion is that screen sharing gets another piece of ARD's pie, the ability to drag-and-drop files to transfer them to the remote machine. But when trying to use features other than screen control, ARD has been found to be hit-or-miss (or misreporting the functionality of hosts) in some circumstances. 'Scripty' folks look at these issues and craft tools to meet the challenge-slash-obscure-use case. Perl has long been relied upon for network-aware utilities, and csshX is a tool for managing a 'cluster' of ssh sessions on the Mac. You can download or checkout the code from its googlecode site, and it has a man page that can be accessed when calling the binary directly with the -m switch. Options include telling it the login and/or password to use, feeding it a text file of hosts to access, or merely list hosts by DNS name or IP with spaces in between. Even if user names or passwords are different, fully-functional windows open as it attempts ssh connections to each host, with a red window you can use to control them all once you've authenticated to the ssh sessions. From that point on, the world is your proverbial jerry-rigged oyster! To mimic ARD's file transfers you could scp back to your machine (as kludges go, smileyface,) and another random tip: using the emacs readline functionality to jump to the beginning of a line with Ctrl-a still works, even though csshX uses that for a special purpose (as does the terminal multiplexer screen,) simply hit Ctrl-a again and the program will understand you wanted to send that to the remote sessions. Enjoy!


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Don't Be a Litterbug: Put Your Butt Where It Belongs!
If you are going to smoke, please put your cigarette butts in the trash—not out the car window, not in the gutter, not on the lawn, and not in a stream.
Cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate, a plastic that degrades slowly in the environment, if at all. Filters are designed to trap carcinogenic chemicals that smokers don't want in their lungs and bloodstream. Littered butts are carried by wind and stormwater runoff into nearby water bodies. The cancer causing agents in the filters leak into aquatic ecosystems, threatening the quality of the water and aquatic life. Cigarette filters have been found in the stomachs of fish and birds who mistake them for food.
According to Keep America Beautiful, Inc., smokers litter about 4.5 trillion cigarette butts yearly. The Department of Forestry reports that in 2001, cigarette butts thrown out of vehicle windows caused 190 fires, resulting in 464 acres of Virginia land being burned.
Littering is illegal. Most people are unaware of littering fines. Section 33.1-346 of the Code of Virginia makes littering or dumping trash a Class 1 misdemeanor, punishable by up to 12 months in jail and/or a fine up to $2,500.
Section 10.1-1143 of the Forestry Code makes it unlawful to throw "any lighted smoking material" from a vehicle. This is a Class 2 misdemeanor violation, punishable by up to 6 months in jail and/or a fine up to $1,000. (With either the Class 1 or Class 2 offense, community service can take the place of jail time.)
Penalties are deterrents only when they are enforced. In 2001, Fairfax County police issued just 62 summonses for littering. Any cursory look at parking lots, street gutters, commercial strips, park land, beaches, and even sidewalks and lawns will show that littering is still prevalent in our society.
People who litter are showing their careless disregard for the property and well being of others and the environment. Keep America Beautiful studies have shown that one of the reasons litterbugs feel it is okay to litter is because they believe someone else is paid to clean it up. That's true. The Virginia Department of Transportation spends about $6.5 million a year on litter control on nearly 57,000 miles of interstate, primary and secondary roads. That's $6.5 million of taxpayer money that otherwise could have been spent on highway repair projects.
In addition to what VDOT collects, Adopt-a-Highway volunteers pick up about 3 million bags worth of trash annually from 14,000 miles of Virginia's roads.
Australia adopted strict litter laws a few years ago. Littering lit cigarette butts or tossing any item from a car is subject to a $200 fine. Stubbed out cigarette butts left on the ground earn the violator a $60 fine. In the first nine months under the new laws, 3,131 offenders paid fines for littering from vehicles—mostly cigarette butts.
Please don't be a litterbug. Put your butt where it belongs—in the trash.