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June 2018 Flash Contest (Part 1) - The Voting
June 2018 Flash Contest (Part 1)
General Thoughts:
This segment of the contest is important for both the voters and the readers. To communicate with thoughtful responses requires focused thinking which develops skills in a person's writing and public speaking.
Wormtongue, the Archive Editor wants the stories posted in separate posts so he can link onto them for the archive.
Voting and commenting for the "I Can't Make You Love Me" Flash Fiction Contest begins today and will continue through Saturday June 9, 2018.
The results will be posted after the voting.
Rules For Commenting:
01. If you have something unfavorable to say about a story, make it constructive so the author can benefit from your viewpoint and insight.
02. Never say anything negative about the authors themselves.
03. Praise and encourage the authors with any element that is worthy of it. Let them know they did good.
To Vote:
Send me a pm (private message) by clicking on my name on this post and then click the words private message on the following screen. Type in the name of the story you liked the best and click submit.
The titles of the 8 stories in this flash contest are:
Michele Dutcher - Charlie Willson
Jolene Wilkerson - Baby, Please Don't Go
Jim Statton - Never Do Business With Stupid People
Sergio Palumbo - Rain at a Funeral
Megawatts - Some Things Can't Be Planned For
Twilight Zee - Ring Around My Heart
Olatubosun David - Damaged Beyond Repair
Robin Lipinski - I Love You


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Rating: 3 stars out of 4
112 McGill St. (at Wellington St.)
Phone: 514-842-0867
Website: www.restaurantikanos.com
Open: Lunch weekdays, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; Dinner: Mon.-Sat. 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Licensed: Yes
Credit cards: All major
Wheelchair access: No
Parking: on the street
Vegetarian friendly: Yes
Reservations: Essential
Price range: Lunch: two-course menu (with mignardises) $22. Dinner: starters $11-$21; main courses $21-$39 (also dishes for two); desserts $10.
MONTREAL — I first visited Greece 30 years ago on a school trip where I survived on a diet of bread, chocolate bars and Pepsi. The oily moussaka, sad salads, and unidentifiable fish we were served — a casualty of the trip's bleak meal budget, no doubt — left me with a dire impression of Greek cuisine. Coming back to Montreal, the introduction of brochetteries into my life did little to improve the situation. Yet by the mid '90s, Montreal's Greek restaurant scene started to gain momentum, and slowly but surely, I came to relish every bite of calamari, tzatziki, octopus, skordalia, horta and lemon- and oregano-enhanced loup de mer. The sensual Kalamata olives, lush yogurt and honey-laced mounds of hot loukoumades sealed the deal. I was hooked!
A recent return trip to Greece this past June deepened the relationship. This time, I dined in tavernas in the mountains and tiny restaurants spitting distance from the sea. I wolfed back flash-fried shrimp, charred baby lamb chops, olive-oil soaked greens, sea urchins, razor clams and every variation of Greek salad set in front of me. The feasting was relentless. Salty saganaki cheese, sticky baklava and fat wedges of watermelon passed these lips meal after meal. We drank Greek white wines made with assirtiko grapes seaside in Santorini and vibrant red wines made with xinomavro grapes in the vineyards of Naoussa. I ate so well that I began to fear that I could never replicate such Greek nirvana back home.
Though there are several excellent Greek restaurant s in Montreal, too many offer interchangeable menus, wine lists weak on Greek selections, and the inevitable sea of checkered tablecloths. But in the new Greek restaurant, Ikanos, we have chefs eager to take the Greek canon and twist and turn it to produce a less traditional and more innovative cuisine. After a couple meals enjoyed at this six-week-old resto, those great Greek feasts didn't seem so far away.
Located in a former artist's loft on McGill St. right near two other excellent, modern Mediterranean restaurants — the Italian Graziella and the Portuguese Helena — Ikanos is run by the team behind the former St-Denis St. eatery, Tasso. The last time I dined at Tasso in December, I was told there was some good news and some bad. The bad was that the restaurant would be closing at the end of that week. Gasp! The good was that the team would be relocating to new digs in Old Montreal in the summer. Phew!
The Mentzas brothers, Nicholas and Constant, gained quite a following at Tasso for dishes like oysters with oregano foam, rabbit confit with baked phyllo, and jumbo shrimp with pork belly and fennel. At Tasso, their goal was to present Greek food in a more contemporary light and focus on mezze, the appetizer-size Greek equivalent of tapas. Not only did they succeed (garnering a three-star review in these pages), they stood out for not being the most authentic Greek restaurant in town, but the most exciting.
Ikanos, though, is quite different. First of all, the restaurant is far more swish. Set over several levels, the 80-seat space features towering ceilings, a handsome bar, sleek banquettes and large textured "tableaus" hung around the room. With pieces of faux fur wrapped around every second chair, there's a sort of Nordic Greek chic feel to the place. But when it comes to the food, overseen by Constant Mentzas this time around, the tastes are strictly Mediterranean.
The menu now follows the standard appetizer/main course/dessert format, and thankfully, it's short and sweet — and I say thankfully because reading through the selections, you'll want to taste them all. How to resist dishes like scallops with foie gras, octopus in a panzanelle-style salad, pomegranate-braised lamb? There are all sorts of enticing grilled fish and seafood, some of which is made in a Josper oven, a closed grill that burns live wood charcoal like you see in many a Greek taverna.
And then there's Ikanos's wine list, a great lineup of some of the most food-friendly Greek wines available along with well-priced French and Italian bottles, and some good selections also available by the glass.
We began a recent dinner with four starters along with a bottle of slick Estate Argyros 2012 ($55). I like to get a Greek meal off with a few dips and spreads, so we began with a trio including a tzatziki flan, a fish brandade, and eggplant caviar. Served with mini homemade pita breads, the trio was a hit, with diverse textures and bang-on flavours, though I do prefer my tzatziki enhanced with dill instead of their chosen mint. Next came a plate of roasted calamari. Garnished with fava beans, artichokes, and a couple of arancini, the grilled squid was chewy, but the vegetables saved the day as did the crisp arancini. I was less taken with a bowl of fried zucchini. Paired with a garlic dipping sauce, the zucchini slices were too greasy. The greasiness worked better on a dish of pan-fried kefalograviera cheese, doused with ouzo and flamed tableside. It was salty and rich, but the fennel slaw served alongside helped cut through the fat.
Mains included a terrific seared red snapper complete with orange-braised fennel ravioli, and a saffron-spiked fish fumet poured at the table. I just loved everything about this plate: the delicate fish flesh, the chewy skin, the handmade pasta, and the deeply flavoured sauce to tie it all together. Easily one of the best restaurant dishes this year. I'm less enthusiastic about the butter-poached lobster tail with rabbit, though. The surf and turf idea is fun, but the lobster was undercooked, a shame as the white asparagus, morels and white polenta underneath were just delicious.
We capped that meal off with a dish of walnut-topped loukoumades served over an orange panna cotta (great idea and what a treat!) and called it a night. The meal was so good that we decided to return a few days later for the $22, two-course lunch. To begin, there was a refreshing bowl of gazpacho paired with a deep-fried baby zucchini whose attached flower was stuffed with ricotta and mint. Yum! Thumbs up as well for the tuna croquettes served with a few grilled asparagus spears and a tangy sauce gribiche.
For mains, we more or less moaned with pleasure through a plate of perfectly grilled halibut served with a cauliflower purée and grape/hazelnut/cauliflower salad. And with a glass of Noir de Kalavryta 2012, I lapped up a bowl of pomegranate-braised lamb pasta with roasted tomatoes, peppers and pine nuts. The pasta could have been more al-dente, but otherwise what a perfect pairing that was. We finished our lunch with a plate of mignardises (included with the menu) and a chocolate cream dessert set on a pistachio cake with pistachio ice cream and a few plums. Gorgeous.
At Tasso, service was one of the restaurant's few weaknesses, so I was happy to see that the service at Ikanos is not only friendly, but efficient. The waiters could have taken more time to describe the dishes (how about a few words about the Josper oven?), but otherwise, for a restaurant opened less than two months, kudos.
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On Wednesday's edition of "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart slammed the rampant speculation over the Supreme Court's ruling on the Obama administration's 2010 health care law—a.k.a., "Obamacare." The announcement, which is slated for Thursday morning, has stirred up a frenzy of conjecture on cable news networks.
According to correspondent Jessica Williams, though, everybody needs to zip it until the verdict is actually announced.
Stewart asked Williams, who was stationed "live" from the steps of the Supreme Court building, which way the justices were "leaning."
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"Leaning? I'm pretty sure they're horizontal. As in sleeping," Williams said. "Because it's nighttime. And that's what you do when you're not stuck outside an empty building."
Stewart then peppered Williams with absurd speculative questions about the political and legal ramifications of the as-yet-unknown decision.
"You need to calm the [expletive] down!" Williams responded. "We'll know in less than twelve hours!"
But Stewart, mocking the feverish tone of many of Fox News' and MSNBC's talking-heads, persisted in his line of questing.
Finally, Williams relented: "Chief Justice John Roberts just announced a 7-2 decision—that you need to calm the [expletive] down!"
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So by that definition if I understand it right anyone who uses proprietary software (even though they may not know what that actually means) because they don't have the knowledge or the time to sit in front of a PC hour after hour trying to figure out something they know absolutely nothing about are not only terminally idle but morally bankrupt, useless and bereft of any integrity ?
All this started because I pointed out that the person making a new distro ought to consider more than just "lazy people". That there are bigger and more important issues than mere convenience and that we already have umpteen distros that cater to "lazy people".
Just because Debian, Trisquel, et al, don't add this stuff by default, doesn't mean you as a user are not free to add it if you choose
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The PlayStation 4 was released in North America after months of anticipation to largely positive reviews, thanks to a sexy, smaller and whisper-quiet new console and controller design. But that doesn't mean the launch was a smooth one.
Citing issues with the system's hard drive and HDMI port, some gamers who purchased the system have yet to experience the breathtaking graphics and all-in-one entertainment experience they were promised.
Here's what to expect if you haven't picked up Sony's next generation console yet.
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The Good:
Leading video game website Kotaku.com loved the new slim design of the console:
"The PS4 is a surprisingly small box. It is so sleek that it might as well be the 2015 PS4 Slim tossed back to us 2013ers via a time machine. It is lighter, thinner and quieter than the original 2006 PlayStation 3. Some game machines, such as the first fat PS3 or the original Nintendo DS, arrive with an imperfect design that predicts their own looming displacement. Not this one. The PS4 shapes up as a box in need of no space-saving or cosmetic improvement."
IGN.com absolutely raved about the new DualShock 4 controller:
"The DualShock 4 controller is the best controller Sony has ever produced. It's not perfect, but the bigger, more ergonomic handles feel great in your hands and the thumbsticks are tight and responsive. The concave thumbsticks have a nice bit of surface area so you can really hook your index fingers on them. The lightbar is distracting at times — like when you're playing in a dark room, for example — and use of the touchpad is so infrequent amongst launch titles that it's easy to forget it's even there. That said, there's untapped potential in both that we'll see greater use of in 2014 and throughout the system's lifespan."
The Bad:
Gamers who received the console early experienced problems with the system's hard drive and HDMI port.
PlayStation 4 news site PS4Daily, says the hard drive problem is only a small one, however. Out of the 5,000 pre-launch consoles, only six had problems, the site said.
Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida said on Twitter yesterday that the company was working hard to understand the issues with the console.
Be assured we are investigating reported PS4 issues. The number is very small compared to shipped, we believe they are isolated incidents. — Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) November 14, 2013
There are no reports of how widespread the HDMI problem is, but it is known to be caused by the HDMI pins bending and not going into the HDMI port. Once the pins are straightened and reinserted into the system, the console comes back to life.
Away from the technical blips, some critics weren't fans of some of Sony's exclusive launch titles. While the new Assassin's Creed and "NBA 2K14," which will also be available for Microsoft's Xbox One console later this month, received top honors from critics all over the web, Sony's "Knack," and "Killzone: Shadow Fall" were lauded by the media.
"Knack's few attempts at diversity are merely competent," Gamespot's Tom Mc Shea, wrote in his review of "Knack." "The occasional platforming scenario lacks the joy of movement so necessary for jumping to be engaging, and the platform placement doesn't require any cleverness to surpass. There's not one element of Knack to rally around, to excite you. And without that special something, Knack crumbles just like its piecemeal protagonist."
Now that you know what to expect from the console, will you purchase the PlayStation 4? Sound off in our comments section below.


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I've named this quilt "Love Is Timeless" because it is made out of a lot of hourglass blocks and of course, hearts! I think this line is perfect for this quilt, too!!
I hope you enjoy the tutorial and come visit me, KarrieLyne, over at my blog, Freckled Whimsy, when you're done reading!
Oh…and guess what??!! The famous Leah over at Burgundy Buttons is kitting this quilt just for you!! Hurry on over to grab yours up! Click HERE to go shopping! 😀
Enjoy…. Love Is Timeless …
2 sherbet pips layer cakes
3/8 yard solid white fabric (border for heart blocks)
1/2 yard for border #1
1 1/4 yard for border #2
5 yards for backing
3/4 yard binding (8 strips 2.5″ x WOF, pieced)
template plastic
Heart Template {included in Printer Friendly Version at bottom of post}
Notes before beginning::
*All seams are 1/4″
*WOF means Width Of Fabric (selvage to selvage)
*LC means Layer Cake
*You will have to piece your backing
1. Choose 6 LC pieces that you want to use for your hearts and set them aside. You will use these for your Four Patch Heart Blocks.
Hourglass Blocks:
1. Choose 60 layer cake pieces and trim them to 9.5". I trim off the top and right side first just enough to cut off the pinked edge.
2. Turn it 180 degrees and square it up to 9.5". I put 4 LC pieces together to make trimming go faster. Just be careful to keep them lined up. Best way to do this is to turn your mat when you do the second cut instead of moving your pieces.
3. Pair these up into 30 pairs. Remember to use contrast in choosing your pairs.
4. Take one pair, place them right sides together and sew 1/4" seam along EACH edge of the LC pieces. Basically you are sewing a big square. Be sure to sew edge to edge, remove your piece, and begin again on the next edge. You will have no openings! *Note* Chain piecing works well here too. Sew all of your right side edges together in a chain, trim apart, then sew your next edge on all 30 pieces, trim and repeat until you have all 30 pieces sewn. This makes the process go faster!
5. This is the fun part!!
7. Using your ruler and rotary cutter and mat, cut your piece from corner to corner, and repeat for the other corners. (You just cut an X in your piece)
8. Now cut 4.75" from the left (cutting in half vertically)
9. Then cut 4.75" from the bottom (cutting in half horizontally)
10. You should now have 8 quarter square triangle (QST) pieces! 🙂
11. Psst…you can move them now. 😉
12. Press each piece to the darker print. Take care not to iron the piece as this will stretch your bias edges. Just press.
13. You will have two sets of four QST that match. One has a seam pressed to the left, one to the right. Keep these piles the same as you cut each LC set. One pile that has all seams pressed to the right, one pile that has all it's seams pressed to the left. Keep these piles separate.
14. Using all these QST choose 2, both from the same pile, and both with different fabrics. Place these right sides together, matching and nesting your seams and sew along the LONG edge.
15. Press to one side. This makes up 1/4 of your block and it should measure 6" square. Square up if necessary.
16. Make 3 more.
17. Sew two pairs together, press to opposite sides.
18. Sew the pairs together. Press.
19. This is your Hourglass Block! It should measure 11.5".
20. Make 30 Hourglass Blocks total.
Four Patch Blocks:
1. Choose 6 LC pieces and pair them up for contrast. (Note: You can use more than 6 to get a better variety in your blocks).
2. Lay 2 LC pieces right sides together, matching all edges. Sew 1/4" along each edge. (right and left)
3. Keeping your sewn edges to the right and left sides, cut piece in half. (5" from edge.)
4. Press to darker fabric. You should have two pieces that look like this.
5. Repeat for the other 2 pairs of LC pieces.
6. Pair up these pieces so each pair has different fabrics.
7. Place them right sides together with the middle seams matching. Be sure that the lighter and dark fabric pieces are opposite each other between the two pieces. See photo.
8. Sew 1/4" along each edge (left and right) so you are crossing over the seam. (refer to photo). From the edge that is sewn, cut in 1/2 way. (5" from edge")
9. Press. You know have a Four Patch Block measuring 9.5".
10. Repeat until you have 6 blocks.
11. Now cut 6 strips of white 1.5" x WOF and sub cut them into 12 strips measuring 1.5" x 9.5" and 12 strips measuring 1.5" x 11.5".
12. Sew the 9.5" strips to the top and bottom of each of your Four Square blocks. Press.
13. Sew the 11.5" strips to the right and left of each of your Four Square Blocks. Press.
14. Continue this block using the Heart Template instructions below.
Heart Template:
1. Trace the heart template onto template plastic and cut it out on the line.
2. Using this template, place it on the wrong side of each of your 6 LC pieces you set out earlier and trace around the heart.
3. Cut out each heart on the line.
4. Attach the hearts to the Four Patch Blocks using your favourite method of applique. I placed mine in the center of each block then I sewed 1/4" away from the raw edge on the inside all the way around the heart.
5. When washed, this will cause it to fray and give it a scruffy look. 🙂
1. Layout your blocks in a pleasing order, 6 x 6, scattering the 6 heart blocks.
2. Sew the blocks together in each row. Press row 1 to the right, row 2 to the left, row 3 to the right, and so on.
3. Sew your rows together. Your seams should nest nicely.
4. Using your first border print, cut 8 strips measuring 1.5″ x WOF. Piece these in pairs. Add border strips to the right and left sides first, trim excess. Press. Then add to the top and bottom. Trim excess. Press.
5. Using your second border print, cut 8 strips measuring 4.5″ x WOF. Piece these in pairs. Add border strips to the right and left sides first, trim excess. Press. Then add to the top and bottom. Trim excess. Press.
6. Press your quilt top well.
7. Piece your backing then layer the backing, batting, and quilt top. Baste, and quilt as desired.
Before washing, your quilt should measure approximately 76″ square.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial! If you make this quilt, please oh please share it with me? You can email a photo of it to me HERE or you can add it to my Flickr Group HERE. I would love to feature them on my blog! 🙂
Much Love and Happy Quilting!!


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Continuing our ever popular Readers Lives' series on these pages is Ipswich Town fan, Chris Mills who takes a visit to see FC Union Berlin..
IT was the best of times. It was the wurst of times. We travelled to the far, far east of the old East Berlin, to a magical place, a forest kingdom under the spell of… barbeque.
Acres (or German Hektars, I should say) of sizzling grilles and everywhere the cold air warmed and suffused by the fragrant aroma of, yes: cooking meat. And at the centre of this beautiful, greasy sausage-fest: the Stadion An der Alten Försterei, home of FC Union Berlin.
This is no sunny, goofy Australian beach barbie. This is German meat-processing with not a hint of salad nor seafood anywhere to be seen, just German men in biker jackets and women with fantastische 80s hairdos lining up for a wurst in a bun for €1. And if you want variation, they have "Buletten" – delicious meat-lumps, also served in a naked bun, for €1.50. It's like Communism never ended (in a good way).
Here you can eat cheap (and drink cheap) but another option is the walk through the wurst-mist past more meat cookery to the 1.FC Union Berlin klubhaus "Die Abseitsfalle" (The Offside Trap), a jolly and super-heated run-down community centre style complex where the pool table and table-fußball are both used for the putting-down of plastic beer glasses pre-match, when there's drinking to be done.
But it appears this ersatz glassware is not necessary, as my local fixer – legendary EFW Gold Member Stoffers (who recently beat Boris Becker into second place in a poll of Britain's favourite Germans) explained. When his team 1860 München played here, the travelling fans filled the Abseitsfalle bar by 10am. It was a take-over, but when the Union fans pitched up it was all good humour and the quiet chinking of plastic beakers of Berliner Kindl and other good local lagers.
This place is an homage to drinking and footy and I was slightly mesmerised (in a Twin Peaks sort of way) that the several TV screens in there seemed to perpetually show scenes also from a bar, like a strange tunnel of mirrors. There was no discernable sound from these screens – instead we enjoyed some traditional German music (Tupac Shakur).
Everything about this club is cool, from its retro logo to the fact that in the days when the Wall split Berlin, being a fan of FC Union was akin to marching in the streets with a banner reading: "I heart the West!" Their arch-rival on the eastern side of the mined and watch-towered barrier was Berliner FC Dynamo, the fußball klub of the Stasi, the secret police. Mysteriously Dynamo always won the league.
But this never bothered the Union fans and, indeed, they loved winding up DDR leader Erich Honecker's goons, often to be heard chanting "Liverpool, Liiivveerrpooool" and sporting blue patches on their cut-off denim jackets in support of West Berlin's main side Hertha BSC, ironically now their 2.Bundesliga rivals in the re-unified German capital (while Dynamo languish in the fifth-level NOFV-Oberliga Nord).
Less than a week before our match, Union had won a shock 1-2 victory at Hertha in front of 74,000 and many flares. And that very night Union's reserves beat the BFC Dynamo first team 0-1 at the Jahnstadion back in north-central Berlin – the very place where the former evil Dynamo played their big games with West Berliners peeping in over the Wall from their apartment blocks.
Stoffers and I were at Union to see them take on VfL Osnabrück, from near Dortmund in Lower Saxony to the west. We operated with German precision, timing our beer intake to the millilitre and the second and then stomping through a later pitch-dark muddy forest to the 18,432-capacity ground.
It was only here that some very un-Teutonic planning by the club sent us into a groundhopper anxiety spiral. The ticket sales/gate house we found ourselves outside (a building resembling an Alpine border post) had six doors but, with only 25 minutes before the 6pm kick-off, only two were open and a large crowd of surprisingly cheerful fans were trying to funnel their way into these small orifices.
The mass of fans simply wasn't moving, partly because, we later discovered, the ticket price had just gone up from €10 to €11 with no signage making this clear so everyone was fishing for that extra coin or waiting for change to be counted out.
Then, at precisely 17:40, lights came on two more of the doors opened to cheers (initiated in part by Stoffers and me). But these new portals were marked "Achtung! Achtung! Season Tickets Only!" (OK, there weren't really the Achtung!s) so while many streamed straight in, we ticket buyers were still stuck in purgatory.
Eventually, Stoffers and I (both 6ft-plus and still full of currywurst from the city centre) gently forced our way around metal barriers into the line (Stoffers deftly flipping me a euro coin just in time to stop me holding things up like everyone else) while, all around, empty, inviting ways-in taunted us. There were no turnstiles; it occurred to me that, in England, this scenario may have led to a mass invasion.
Our proactive queue-jumping got us in with 15 minutes to spare, but I wonder if a few fans missed the k/o. Stoffers assured me this has never happened before on his many visits to Union.
Inside, the sudden feeling of space was liberating; there is a large, fenced-in area with trees and wide concrete steps up to the main stand which gives the place a kind of music festival aura, complete with its own strange, pagan statue feature a giant red hardhat surrounded by wheel barrows. This commemorates the recent rebuilding of the stadion by the fans themselves (admittedly led by fans with building companies and construction skills, but apparently regular Joes would show up just to labour).
This feeling of community is one of the many things I love about football and I found the support inside (attendance 14,074; 500 from Osnabrück) actually quite moving (*sniff*); thousands of spinning, rot/weiß striped retro-scarves and the enthusiastic singing of songs such as:
"Dem Morgengrauen entgegen, zieh'n wir gegen den Wind,/ Wir werden alles zerlegen, bis wir Deutscher Meister sind./ FC Union du sollst leuchten, wie der hellste Heiligenschein/ Und überall wird es schallen, FC Union unser Verein!"
("Towards dawn, we're marching on against the wind,/ We'll take everything apart, until we'll be Champions of Germany./ FC Union you shall shine, like the brightest gloriole [as in radiant light around a saint's head],/ And everywhere it will resound, FC Union - our club!")
Makes "Dodgeeeee keeeephaaaaaah!" sound a little infantile. The full club anthem was even more remarkable, starting as one of the coolest sounds I've ever heard over a stadium PA with some death metal, morphing into The Scorpions (for old time's sake, I suppose) and ending with community singing of the above.
I went into the game a neutral and as such was impressed by the Osnabrück dee-fence; they put a stop to all Union had and nicked a goal and then another. It was looking dire for "Eisern Union" ("Iron Union" – a chant from the team's working-class beginnings and as Union is pronounced "Oon-ee-on" in German sounds like "Icy Onion!" to many a silly English-speaking EFW member (titter).
But the Onion boys turned it around about 15 minutes into the second half and it was Osnabrück's turn to collapse at the back. Soon it was 3-2, then 3-3 and then a penalty for Union, skilfully ballooned right in to Row Gay ("Gay" is the German word for "G"). Great match and a fair result, I would say. And finally, after literally days of searching, I now have my own Deutschland klub to support: 1.FC Union.
Ja! Ich bin ein Berliner! (You're a doughnut? A doughnut? Ed.)


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Guitarz reader Richard saw this guitar in the UsedOttawa.com classified ads:
Vintage, small scale Harmony acoustic guitar, stripped down and fancied up with Elvis images. One of a kind strummer for the Elvis completist. Comes with new bone nut and saddle for added twang, Andy Warhol print on front, and the infamous burnt toast image on back.It's definitely one to file under "Wacky finishes". With a price tag of $330 I think it's also one to file under "Optimistic sellers"!
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LD is over feeds all move out back the boys are using the billard balls to play a game on the turf.. if hayden brakes another item he gets a penalty nom!
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I have been asked lately to talk to a couple of peers in the industry about Marketing Localization at Adobe and thought this would make an interesting blog post as well.
At Adobe, Marketing Localization is centralized and consists of a team of International Program Managers, which I manage.
I believe this is still the right model for us. Adobe has offices all over the world and decentralizing marketing localization would actually introduce inefficiencies. That said, the challenge with a centralized model is to balance productivity with the ability to provide GEOs with the right process and tools so they can participate and provide valuable input around GEO-specific nuances, country specific content, etc. This is an on-going challenge and we work very closely with our Marketing Managers worldwide to conquer it.
The challenge here is the balance between giving more flexibility and freedom of expression to the regions and the use of productivity tools such as Translation Memory. If we want to leverage the savings that TMs and other tools offer to localization (and we do), we can offer some flexibility in the target content but not as much as sometimes the regions would like to have – for instance, complete re-writes of segments.
At Adobe we are aware to these issues and the key here is to work closely with the regional offices and offer them opportunities to provide feedback early on, directly into the source content, before localization starts. It also means providing opportunity for reviews on localized content that is presented in context in a process that allows for easy feedback. Our GEOs are Field Marketing Managers and we are sensitive to the amount of time spent in reviews.
There are always challenges in localization and in particular in Marketing localization, where 'good translation' is just not good enough.
Take the Digital Marketing BU for example. Worldwide campaigns around the digital marketing solutions have to appeal to 'marketers', to professionals that create marketing content, and so the 'localization quality bar' for the content we provide to our GEOs has been raised significantly.
Here's an example of a recent campaign that was particularly challenging for localization due to the use of the very US centric expression "ticks them off". For translators is not always a clear choice of words for the target language. The 'weight' of the expression and what it conveys need to be taken into consideration.
Regional offices are free to create their own marketing materials – International Brand Guidelines are in place and Adobe's Brand team works directly with the GEOs to ensure a consistent interpretation and use of our brand.
We are very protective when it comes to the Adobe brand and although the regional offices are given some flexibility in terms of creating some of their own marketing materials (in their original language), Adobe's Brand team normally is involved to make sure the materials follow the established international brand guidelines.
What regions or international markets are most difficult or challenging for localization?
I think anyone that works in localization would start by saying that Japanese is a very challenging language to localize. The idea of 'translation' is already something that is not appreciated by the Japanese market. A very good 'translation' still means 'it's translated' and so it has a different flow and feel than the content that is originated in Japanese. This becomes an even greater challenge around marketing content.
At Adobe we do have a successful program for localizing marketing campaigns into Japanese and that involves working very closely with our in-country product marketing managers and employing in-country copy editors when necessary.
That said, every language and every country present challenges. We recently had to deal with orthography changes in Brazilian Portuguese, tonality changes in Spanish (formal to a more informal tone), imagery issues in the middle east, different 'flavors' of a single language, and so on. I guess I would say that there are no 'easy' regions. Our work is always interesting and we look at these challenges with a very positive attitude – these challenges are what differentiate translation from localization and it's always exciting to be part of this process, where you see the source messaging deployed all over the world and having the intended appropriate impact in every region, around the globe.
What aspects of branding are most important to localize for regional audiences? What channels are most important?
The emphasis has greatly shifted to online content (web pages, multimedia content and social), the larger part of the content we now localize will end up on Adobe's 57 international sites. The need for printed content has decreased but there are still certain regions that need to be supplied with printed content. We try to listen to our GEOs and provide relevant localized materials.
The Adobe 'look and feel' is very homogeneous in all our sites. Our regional offices have the flexibility to add country specific content but the site template is the same for all locales and all international sites are centrally managed.
Regional offices are also free to create some of their own marketing materials – International Brand Guidelines are in place and Adobe's Brand team works directly with the GEOs to ensure a consistent interpretation and use of our brand.
I believe the big challenge now is the creation of a strong and successful Creative Cloud brand worldwide – and we are well underway 🙂
Bottom line
The regional offices should be an extension of your team and taken into consideration in every step of your processes and tools.


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Whenever I first met Minsc in the town that he stands around in, all he said was that he didn't like the look of me. Every attempt to reengage him in conversation fails, and I never get the option to have him join my party.
It's been a while since I've played this game originally, but I remember being able to team up with Minsc to save Dynaheir from the Gnoll Fortress.
Thinking it would help, I went ahead and left for the fortress without Minsc, rescued Dynaheir, she joined my party, and I went back to try talking to Minsc again. He still ignores me even though Dynaheir is in my party!
I don't have any evil characters in my party. The other members are Jaheira, Kaleid, and Imoen.
How do I get him to join up with me?


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With the future of our nation's health care reform and the repeal and replacement of Obamacare still unclear, Dr. Edward F. Group III and Alex Jones are reaching out to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on behalf of millions of concerned families and thousands of health practitioners in an open letter encouraging him to assemble a Health and Wellness Advisory Team to focus on the root cause of our nation's healthcare problems, as well as prevention and the implementation of proven natural remedies.
Price has the responsibility to advise the President on matters of health, welfare, and income security programs across America. The Open Letter urges Price to assemble a team of scientists, experts, and independent researchers with no ties to the pharmaceutical, food, or chemical industries. Their job will be to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of all artificial ingredients, genetically modified foods, colors, dyes, fluoride, herbicides, pesticides, phthalates, refined sugars, preservatives, and other toxic compounds added to or used in food and beverage production which have been linked to the cause of many degenerative diseases.
"Our existing allopathic model treats the symptoms of a disease, not the root cause. It does not encourage wellness or disease prevention," said Dr. Group, Infowars Health Advisor and Founder of Global Healing Center. "The root cause of a disease is the accumulation and exposure to toxins that pollute our air, food, and water. We know they damage our health, make us sick, and harm the earth."
Dr. Group and his team of healthcare practitioners are willing to volunteer their time, effort, and expertise to begin this conversation and work towards healing America. America can't be great again until we make America healthy again.
An Open Letter to Sec. Tom Price:
Dear Secretary Price,
My name is Dr. Edward F. Group III. I have spent over 20 years studying natural medicine. I am a Doctor of Chiropractic, Naturopathic Practitioner, Certified Clinical Nutritionist, Holistic Healing Practitioner, and Certified Clinical Herbalist. I am also a Diplomate of the American Clinical Board of Nutrition (DACBN), the American Board of Functional Medicine (DABFM), and the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition (CBCN). I am a veteran of the United States Army and attended Harvard and MIT business schools.
I would like to congratulate you on your new appointment. As our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, you have the privilege and responsibility of making the most important decisions about the health of all Americans. The most significant way to make America great again is to make America healthy again. Secretary Price, America needs an independent advisory committee to advocate for disease prevention and the implementation of proven natural remedies to address the root cause of America's health problems.
Over the years, my focus has been evaluating the root cause of disease. As part of true healthcare reform and the challenge of repealing and improving on the Affordable Care Act, I would like to volunteer my time, efforts, and expertise to begin this conversation and work towards healing America.
Here is how I propose we work together:
Address the Root Cause of America's Health Problems
Our current healthcare system does not promote wellness, proven natural remedies, or prevention-based medicine. The allopathic model treats the symptoms of disease, not the root cause. The root cause of disease is exposure to, and the accumulation of toxins that pollute our air, food, and water. We know they damage our health, make us sick, and harm the earth. Lifestyle modifications are known to dramatically reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, which represent the majority of healthcare spending. To change healthcare, we must acknowledge why we are becoming ill, overweight, sterile, and mentally unstable:
– Toxic Chemicals: Review and replace the use of all toxic, endocrine-disrupting, human-made chemicals such as herbicides, VOCs, fire retardants, pesticides, and phthalates that are destroying our bodies, soil, and earth.
– GMO Foods: Review the production of all GMO food crops which will also reduce the use of toxic herbicides and pesticides. We know that the health of gut flora is closely tied to the health of soil flora. GMO foods are saturated with toxic chemicals that are unhealthy and cause disease.
– Toxic Food and Beverages: Review and study the use of all artificial ingredients, sweeteners, colors, dyes, chemicals, refined sugars, alcohol, MSG, preservatives, and synthetic compounds added to our food and beverages. Determine the safety of each by the use and funding of third-party research groups.
– Vaccines: Allocate funding and appoint a third-party research team free of ties to the pharmaceutical industry to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and flu shots, and, specifically, study the health of vaccinated children compared to unvaccinated children.
– Toxic Water: Establish a team of qualified scientists focused on cleaning up our water supplies as well as municipal water. Review the use of fluoride and chlorine and determine ways to eliminate chemicals, herbicide, heavy metals, fracking compounds, and prescription drug residue found in the water supply.
– EMF Exposure: Establish a team of independent scientists to review the health-depleting effects of wifi, smart meters, cell phones, cell phone towers, body scanners in airports, and other forms of harmful EMF exposure.
– Toxic Air: In the last ten years, respiratory disease in the US has moved from the eighth to the third highest cause of death. Asthma rates have more than doubled in the western world and Alzheimer's disease, a condition that is caused by aluminum poisoning, has also skyrocketed.
Establish Freedom of Choice in Healthcare
About one-third of Americans rely on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and spend over $30 billion annually on health-related expenses. Most pay out of pocket because insurance doesn't cover treatments. This needs to change if we want to reduce our healthcare costs as a nation. Regulatory agencies and insurance companies dictate treatment guidelines and often exclude preventative and proven alternative medicine from coverage. Americans deserve the freedom to choose the healthcare they prefer and have their treatments covered by insurance providers, the VA, and Medicare and Medicaid. We need to give people the freedom to choose between natural and allopathic healthcare and insurance companies need to cover it, including preventative care such as chiropractic, nutrition, massage, and acupuncture.
Appoint a Health and Wellness Advisory Committee
To execute the above, we need to assemble a team of scientists, experts, and independent researchers who have no ties to the pharmaceutical, food, or chemical industries. Their job will be to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of all artificial ingredients, genetically modified foods, artificial sweeteners, colors, dyes, fluoride, herbicides, pesticides, phthalates, refined sugars, preservatives, and other toxic compounds used in food and beverage production.
I am happy to volunteer my time, efforts, and expertise to begin this conversation and work towards healing America. Let's make America great again by making America healthy again.
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Down 1 more pound, finally, after a 3 week plateau. I'll take it:) Here's what I've been eating:
B: granola bar and 2 clemetines (literally every day this week):)
L: baked potato, 1 pat of butter, and a smigen of shredded cheddar cheese, broccoli, pineapple
black bean tacos with avacado, feta cheese, pico de gallo, and salsa
roasted chicken, green beans, a few new potatoes, salad
roasted chicken salad from Arby's with balsalmic vinigrette dressing - this is soooo good!
D: spaghetti with marinara sauce, salad
McDonalds honey mustard grilled chicken snack wrap
2 slices thin crust cheese pizza, steamed mixed veggies
This is just a sampling from the week, I can't remember everything and my phone is dead at the moment or I'd look it up - so there!
My saving grace this Halloween season - fun size kit kat's - at 2 points a piece I allow myself 1 a day:) YUM!
Have a great week - hoping for more success on the scale next week!


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A Conversation with Mary Carol Garrity
The third installment in the series that focuses on local entrepreneurs features Mary Carol Garrity, founder of Nell Hill's and one of today's most sought-after lifestyle mavens.
After establishing Nell Hill's in an old bank building in Atchison, Kansas, in 1981, Garrity's company has become a decorating trend-setter thanks in part to Garrity's elegant, yet practical tips on everything from holiday decorating to stylish ways to entertain at home.
Garrity has opened a Nell Hill's at Briarcliff Village in Kansas City, North.


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The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) is one of the largest audio-visual archives in Europe.
Co-ordinators: Lotte Belice Baltussen, Johan Oomen
About Sound and Vision
The Institute preserves a major part of the Dutch audio-visual heritage and makes it accessible to potential users. The collection totals over 700,000 hours of television, radio, music and film. But the Institute is more than just a collection. Apart from functioning as an audio-visual archive for the national broadcasting corporations and others, it also offers a unique media experience for its visitors.
Sound and Vision focuses on collecting and preserving most of the audio-visual heritage of the Netherlands and making it available to as many users as possible.
The Institute's collection forms an important part of the Dutch cultural heritage. Programme makers use parts of the collection for new programmes and the archive is a unique source of information for research, not only for students and academics, but also for journalists, international production companies and broadcasting organisations.
New material is added to the Sound and Vision collection on a daily basis. The Institute is responsible for keeping the collection in optimal condition, for both present and future use. Digitalisation is an essential part of this preservation, both for efficient long-term management and for making the collection accessible.
ECLAP content
Sound and Vision will contribute videos and images to ECLAP from various collections. The videos are mainly taken from a collection of newsreels and date from from the 1920s to the 1960s. The photos come from a wide variety of Dutch television programmes and showcase performers, puppet shows, dance programmes, television decors and music shows.
Sound and Vision has a unique archive of newsreels. They were made by the production company Polygoon-Profilti from the early 1920s until the 1980s. The newsreels were shown in cinemas every week and contained news items on all sorts of subjects from the Netherlands and abroad. The news items in the so-called 'Dutch News' ranged from politics and the Dutch royal family to sports and floods. They contain large historic events like the crowning of Queen Beatrix, the German occupation in WWII and the North Sea flood of 1953, but also items on smaller subjects like folklore, hobbies and pets. Thus, the collection gives a broad overview of life in the Netherlands in the 20th century.
Theatre performers from the Netherlands and from abroad were among the many people who starred in these newsreels. One of the people who appeared in the newsreels was the Austrian operetta star Marga Graf. Besides touring Switzerland, Germany and other European countries, Graf found her second home in the Netherlands in the 1910s and 1920s. In 1922 she gave a performance in front of the camera:
International stars also frequented the Netherlands during the Holland Festival. This international festival of theatre, music, dance, opera and film has taken place every year since 1947. In 1951, for instance, the ballet dancer Tamara Toumanova and the English opera singer Kathleen Ferrier performed during the festival. The Polygoon cameraman was there when they arrived at Schiphol Airport:
Dutch artists were also held in high regard. So when the famous Dutch actor Johan Kaart celebrated his 40 years on stage jubilee, the cameras from Polygoon were there. Kaart starred in a range of productions during his career, such as De Jantjes, Ciske de Rat and the Dutch version of My Fair Lady. Since 1975 an award carrying his name is awarded every year to the someone who has made an outstanding achievement in the field of comedy theatre.
The photograph collection of Sound and Vision contains over two million photographs of programs which have been made through fifty years of Dutch broadcasting. These images contain a lot of important information about broadcasting history, especially since sometimes the pictures are the only remnant in cases when the recordings themselves have been lost. They also depict behind-the-scenes events and rehearsals of famous Dutch performers. An example of the importance of the photo collection are the ones from the comedy show Yes nurse, no nurse, one of the most famous Dutch television shows of the 20th century. The show was broadcast from 1966 to 1968 and centers around the residents of the retirement home of nurse Klivia.
Most of the episodes have been lost or were never recorded. However, the archive of Sound and Vision contains photos of most of the episodes of this popular television comedy.
The first twenty years of Dutch television (1951- 1970) a lot of theatre productions were adapted for the small screen. With slight changes, these productions were played live in front of a camera. A nice example is the program called Ballet-intermezzo, in which three dancers perform a pas de trois on music from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi.
Photographs of performances in pop programs are also a big part of the collection. Toppop was a very popular pop program between 1970 and 1988. It was the fist weekly programmed show about pop music on the Dutch television. A lot of national en international stars have performed on the Toppop stage. In 1974 the internationally known Dutch rock band Golden Earring performed in Toppop.
That same year singer David Bowie played in front of the Toppop cameras.
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Now that's getting into character.
In a new interview with Sports Illustrated, loose cannon actor and torpedo of truth Charlie Sheen admitted he took steroids before playing bad boy pitcher Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn in the 1989 comedy "Major League."
"Let's just say that I was enhancing my performance a little bit," admits Sheen. "It was the only time I ever did steroids."
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He claims he felt the effects - and although he wasn't throwing 100 mph heaters like his character, he was putting up some major league numbers.
"I did [steroids] for like six or eight weeks. My fastball went from 79 [miles-per-hour] to like 85," claims Sheen.
Unfortunately, he also felt the other effects of steroids - issues with rage and impulse control. Sheen claims he nearly got into a brawl with bar patrons after several of them made fun of the spiked hair he sported for his character.
The actor, who claims to be clean and sober, is rumored to be prepping a sitcom of his own after he was replaced on "Two and a Half Men" by Ashton Kutcher.
Selected Reading: Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News


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Colin has a crack. And, no, it is not the one that probably immediately came to mind.
This particular crack has provided Colin with many, many 'funnies'. He doesn't even realize it, which is the cute thing--and it really makes the things he says that much funnier.
Colin's bed is pushed as far as it can go to the wall, but there is still a space between his mattress and the wall because of his bed frame. Approximately 7 inches or space or so. It used to terrify me when he was little--I was always worried that he would fall down into that 'abyss' while he was sleeping, so we used to stuff big pillows down there at nighttime. Now that he is bigger, we don't do that anymore....and this space has been affectionately nicknamed by Colin as, "my crack."
He finds toys there all the time. Just the other day, Colin came to me and showed me a car that he had found. It had been missing for about 2 weeks.
"Look Mom!" he said.
"Colin, where did you find that car?" I asked.
"Down my crack."
"The crack" now remains open all of the time--and therefore, in this mommy's eyes, it can be a very treacherous space.
All three of the boys like to play this game where they climb up on Colin's bed and "play" (which translates to wrestle), and then jump to "escape from each other" onto Cameron's bed below. (By the way, I have tried keeping Ethan out of this game, for safety reasons--but now that he has become so proficient at climbing, and can get right back up on to Colin's bed himself two seconds after I leave the room after taking him off the bed, the effort is futile. Plus, they all three put up such a protest to have E included--a chorus of "Mom, we'll be careful! Please??" is generally heard--that I have just given in on this one. It's not always pretty, but we deal.)
Sometimes, the play turns a bit rough, which is always my fear--and things happen which lead Colin to say things like this:
"Mom! I need you to come here and help me please!"
"Colin, what's the matter?"
"Well, Ethan fell and now he is stuck down my crack...."
But, the greatest funny Colin has ever provided me in regards to "his crack" came a couple of weeks ago when we went to Grandma and Grandpa's in Chicago for a visit. See, Lynette has a bed just like us--a single bed with a trundle underneath--and she always sets it up for the boys when we come. Her bed, like ours, sticks out just a little bit from the wall.
Upon close examination of his bed when we got there, Colin proclaimed:
"Grandma and Grandpa have a crack just like I do!"
Hilarious. I just couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.


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Human papillomavirus
According to a July 9 study(pediatrics.aappublications.org) (abstract) in Pediatrics, data suggest that the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV4) vaccine is responsible for a marked downturn in the number of cases of HPV infection caused by strains contained in the vaccine reported among those immunized against the virus, as well as a decrease in cases among those who are not so protected.
"Clinical trials have demonstrated that prophylactic HPV vaccines are highly effective in preventing HPV infection, but the impact of vaccination on HPV prevalence rates in real-world, community settings is uncertain," the researchers wrote. "This study provides evidence of a substantial decrease in the prevalence of vaccine-type HPV among young women and evidence of herd protection in a community only four years after the (HPV4) vaccine was licensed."
The study recruited 368 sexually active, unvaccinated young women ages 13-16 in 2006 and 2007 before later recruiting a group of 409 participants in the same age range, of which more than half had received at least one dose of the vaccine. Comparing the two groups, researchers found that cases of vaccine-type HPV infection were reduced by
- A recent study in Pediatrics suggests that the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is responsible for a marked downturn in the number of reported cases of HPV infection caused by strains contained in the vaccine among those immunized against the virus.
- The study also reports a decrease in cases among individuals who have not been so immunized, which is thought to be due to so-called herd protection
- An increase in HPV infections caused by strains not contained in the vaccine among vaccinated participants may be due to type replacement and warrants further study.
- 58 percent overall,
- 69 percent among vaccinated participants and
- 49 percent among unvaccinated participants.
"This change is especially remarkable given that participants were sexually experienced, a substantial proportion was exposed to vaccine-type HPV before vaccination, and only one HPV vaccine dose was required to be considered 'vaccinated' in this analysis," the researchers wrote.
"As the high-risk vaccine-type HPV (strain)s HPV-16 and -18 are responsible for most cases of moderate/severe cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in young women and cause 70 percent of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) cases, the results are promising in terms of their implications for declining rates of CIN and, ultimately, ICC in this community in the future."
HPV4 was licensed by the FDA for use in females in June 2006, with the bivalent HPV (HPV2) vaccine getting FDA clearance for this population in October 2009. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended(www.cdc.gov) routine vaccination of girls and women ages 9-26 with HPV4 in March 2007 and expanded its recommendation in late October 2011 to include routine HPV4 vaccination of boys and young men.
Not all of the study's findings were positive, however, because researchers also reported an increase in nonvaccine-type HPV in vaccinated participants, which they said warrants further study.
"The prevalence of nonvaccine-type HPV and high-risk nonvaccine-type HPV increased significantly among all women and among vaccinated women, but not among unvaccinated women, a finding that could be consistent with type replacement," the researchers wrote. "A possible explanation … is that their risk for HPV may differ. Vaccinated versus unvaccinated girls did not differ in number of recent and lifetime sexual partners; however, they were more likely to be African American and reported, on average, an earlier age of first sexual intercourse, both of which have been associated with higher rates of HPV infection.
"Only serial surveillance studies in this population, as well as regional or national surveillance studies with larger study samples over longer periods of time, will definitively address the issue of type replacement after vaccination."
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Speakers suggest the cost of water and climate change will motivate people and industries to return to the Milwaukee area
In April, the United Nations designated Milwaukee as one of 14 cities comprising the Global Compact Cities Programme and the only city focused entirely on all aspects of water quality. As a member of the Cities Programme, a consortium of Milwaukee organizations represented by government, academia and business will work toward solutions to a number of serious environmental and other water challenges: eliminating phosphorous from sewage, removing road salt and other contaminants from storm water runoff, generating and using energy from sewage being treated and developing and installing residential grey water systems.
On July 20 many of these participants met when the Milwaukee 7 Water Council convened Water Summit III: The True Costs and Opportunities of Water where leaders from local and international business, technology, education and environmental organizations met to discuss the value and "true price" of water. Multiple presenters addressed different perspectives of the increasing value of freshwater, and how Milwaukee's strength in water technology and its proximity to Lake Michigan uniquely positions it for investment and economic development.
"As the value of water becomes a more critical input component of almost all the items we consume, we are now adding the term 'water footprint' to our lexicon," said Jud Hill, managing partner of Summit Global Management, a global private investment firm focused exclusively on investing in the water sector. "We are now beginning to consider the total input cost of the water necessary to make the products we use every day; for example, it takes 100 gal of water to make a ream of paper and a whopping 8,000 gal to manufacture one pair of shoes."
"Water utilities are significant consumers of energy," said Hill. "About 3% of U.S. energy is consumed moving water. In California it's 15% to 20%. Water is heavy. It weighs about 8 lb per gallon, which makes it a very local commodity. In many cases the allocation of water is a much greater issue than water availability. For example, about 80% of the water used in the West is for agricultural purposes. We're putting in desalination plants in San Diego where it costs up to $7 per 1000 gal for water while some agricultural consumers are paying substantially less than 1/100th of that amount to grow crops in these near desert regions. We need to think about water stewardship and how we allocate the resource (our water footprint) in conjunction with how we employ new water saving solutions."
"The Water Summit was an ideal place to pool the water industry brainpower we have in the southeastern Wisconsin community and to reach out to speakers bringing terrific perspectives from outside the region and all over the world. By continuing our momentum, Milwaukee can continue its ascent to become the world leader in the water-related research and engineering industry," said Rich Meeusen, chairman, and president & CEO of Badger Meter and co-chair of the Water Council. "The discussion and ideas from today's Water Summit certainly helped us move toward that goal."
The Milwaukee area is home to the Great Lakes WATER Institute, the largest academic freshwater research facility on the Great Lakes. In 2009, the Milwaukee area further increased its stature as a global freshwater hub with Wisconsin's commitment of $240 million in capital funding to help support the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its new School of Freshwater Sciences—the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. The region is also home to more than 120 businesses that serve some aspect of the water industry including five of the world's largest water companies that have headquarters or other major operations in the area.
To access videos and slides of the Water Summit presentations and to learn more about the Milwaukee 7 Water Council, visit www.milwaukee7-watercouncil.com.


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Behind The Scenes At Kee's Chocolates, NYC
Kee's Chocolates in New York's Soho makes some of our favorite chocolates in NYC, and in more than 50 flavors; we can't get enough of it. Owner and chocolatier Kee Ling Tong left her corporate job many years ago in pursuit of a more fulfilling and hands-on career. Nowadays you can find her in the kitchen churning out batch after batch of chocolates, all made by hand.
We spent a few hours in the kitchen with Kee herself to see how some of her popular chocolates are made.
Check out the slideshow for a peek into the kitchen.
Kee's Chocolates
80 Thompson Street, New York NY 10012 (map)
About the Author: Donny Tsang traded a life of traffic jams in LA for one of crowded subways in NYC, where he's been since 2003. Now he is a Brooklyn-based food photographer and founded the website Foodaissance, where he photographs local artisans.
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It seems that legislators aren't ready to let go of last fall's failed referendum proposing a ban on bear hunting with bait, dogs and traps, as more than a dozen bills proposing changes to Maine's bear hunt are on tap for the 122nd Legislature.
It seems that legislators aren't ready to let go of last fall's failed referendum proposing a ban on bear hunting with bait, dogs and traps, as more than a dozen bills proposing changes to Maine's bear hunt are on tap for the 122nd Legislature.
The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife opposed the referendum, arguing that wildlife management decisions ought to be made by its biologists, but Commissioner Roland "Danny" Martin hasn't yet taken a position on any of the new bills, DIF&W spokesman Mark Latti said Thursday.
The members of the now-defunct coalition of hunting groups and businesses that fought the referendum have no such doubt, George Smith, executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, said last week.
"They [referendum supporters] lost. ... Our whole coalition will be unified in opposing all of these bills," Smith said. While some of the bills suggest relatively minor reforms, Smith believes that the Legislature is the wrong place for the ideas to be considered.
"If there are changes, we'd like the department to address them," he said.
But those who support reform say their constituents deserve to see each of the three hunting practices considered independently. None of the bills seeks to ban baiting, but several banning traps or dogs are on the minds of legislators, particularly in southerly and urban communities where the referendum was favored.
On Election Day, countless voters said they wished that the triple referendum could have been split -- defending the right to hunt with bait or dogs, but outlawing bear trapping.
While collecting signatures to get the bear referendum on the ballot, Rep. John Eder, a Green Independent Party member from Portland, heard the same complaints. Although few hunters use the equipment, Maine is alone among the 50 states in still recognizing the leg-hold traps as legal for bear.
Eder had initially introduced a bill banning each practice, but has since pulled his bill seeking to ban baiting for fear it would be too "inflammatory." Instead, he has joined forces with Rep. Thomas Watson, a Bath Democrat and co-chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, to co-sponsor a joint bill to ban bear traps.
"There's a real divide between the hunting community and the people down south," Eder said Thursday, explaining that he wants to see the rift healed.
Watson said Thursday that he hopes to end the bear controversy by giving a bear trapping ban the opportunity to be heard, as well as by sponsoring a second bill, supported by SAM, that would allow bear guides to carry guns into the woods at night and on Sundays if they are tracking a wounded bear.
"We're trying to work out a compromise," Watson said.
Bob Fisk, founder of Maine Friends of Animals and the spokesman for last year's referendum campaign, said Thursday he will urge passage of the trapping bills, as well as a measure introduced by Rep. Jane Eberle, D-South Portland, that would ban the hunting of bears with hounds.
Fisk, too, supports splitting the issue, saying Thursday that he believes a referendum on only trapping and hunting with hounds -- practices that he terms "barbaric" -- could have passed.
Daryl DeJoy, director of the new Bangor-based Wildlife Alliance of Maine, said last week his organization also will be supporting several bills that seek to ban the use of traps in bear hunting, including those sponsored by Eder and Rep. Deborah Hutton, D-Bowdoinham.
As a new organization with a focus on shifting more of DIF&W's attention to the priorities of non-hunters, WAM's legislative action this session will be limited to a few bills seeking to bar or legalize practices that the group's members consider particularly egregious, such as bear trapping, coyote snaring and Sunday hunting, he said.
Maine Audubon, which declared itself neutral on the referendum, intends to take positions on the bills but hasn't yet reviewed all of the specific proposals, Audubon attorney and lobbyist Jen Burns said earlier this week.
Several bills introduced this session also seek to require broader participation in getting a referendum on the ballot. The bear referendum drew a majority of its signatures from the more urban southern Maine, while the rural regions where most bear hunting occurs were underrepresented, critics have said.
But Rep. Thomas Saviello, who has sponsored a bill that would require a percentage of each county's voters to sign a referendum petition, rather than a percentage of voters statewide, said that the problem -- and his proposed solution -- pre-date the bear referendum.
"I really feel that referendum questions need the entire state to participate. They're being driven more and more by southern Maine issues," Saviello said last week, citing forestry and wildlife policy as examples.
Rep. Harold Clough, R-Scarborough, agrees with Saviello, but proposes a different solution in his bill. His measure would limit the amount of funding and volunteer support a referendum campaign could accept from out of state.
Groups from outside Maine often promote referendums that support their ideology, bringing in both money and staff to ensure a spot on the ballot, he said last week.
Saviello is also sponsoring a measure to create a committee for reforming Maine's citizen referendum procedures -- everything from the geographic distribution of signatures, to funding, to when and where signature gathering is permitted could be up for debate.
In the days immediately following the bear referendum, Smith had spoken of putting SAM's resources behind a bill restricting the right of citizens to make wildlife policy by ballot. No such bill has been introduced, however, and the hunting group is instead supporting Saviello's reform proposal.
Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News


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Look no further for the best low carb, gluten-free banana bread recipe. Ground chia seed, that nutritional powerhouse, gives this bread the perfect banana bread texture.
The past few weeks have been wildly hectic for me so apologies in advance for the haphazard nature of this post. There may be a few of them like this in the coming weeks. This past weekend, I attended the BlogHer Food conference in Miami, along with some folks from Swerve Sweetener, and next weekend I am heading up to Burlington, Vermont to run with the Cabot Fit Team. In between, I am still cooking and baking and working to bring you 3 or 4 recipes per week. I have no idea how May got so jam-packed with activity, really. As always, I seem to say yes to too many things. They are all wonderful things, and great opportunities, so I am loathe to turn them down.
This recipe is one that took me a little while to perfect but it was definitely worth all the work. After all, banana bread is the quintessential comforting baked good. Who among us hasn't eaten warm banana bread straight out of the oven and thought it pretty close to heaven on earth? And who among us hasn't had a grandmother or caring friend make us banana bread as a sign of their deepest affection? And if you're a mother, surely you've made batches of banana bread for your own kids to let them know how much you love them. Banana bread is a sign of love, I am quite certain of it.
But bananas. Oh those high carb, sugar-laden bananas. They aren't exactly friendly to the carb-conscious crowd. So we fake it. Once again, I send up thanks to the creators of extracts and flavourings, because they allow us to get that banana taste without all of the natural sugars. Several readers have asked for a low carb faux banana bread recipe and a few months ago, I finally hit on the perfect solution. When I created my low carb Chia Seed Brownies, I noticed that the chia add a moist, slightly fibrous quality that was reminiscent of banana bread (so much so, that my littlest even asked if the brownies were made with bananas). It took me a bit to get the amounts right but when I did, it was spot on. The banana extract added all the flavour and the ground chia seed gave it just the right consistency.
As for the frosting, it really is the icing on the cake in this case. The bread is pretty great without it, especially warm with a smear of butter, but the caramel cream cheese frosting really does take it up a notch. You can dress it up or dress it down, your choice.
Look no further for the best low carb, gluten-free banana bread recipe. Ground chia seed, that nutritional powerhouse, gives this bread the perfect banana bread texture.
- 1/2 to 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup ground chia seed (I grind mine in a coffee grinder and then measure out 1/2 cup)
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1/2 cup Swerve Sweetener
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 1/3 cup unflavoured whey protein powder
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 3 large eggs
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1 tsp banana extract (imitation would also be fine)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp stevia extract
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup powdered Swerve Sweetener
- 6 tbsp whipping cream
- 1 tsp caramel flavour OR vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325F and grease a loaf pan very well.
In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup water and chia seed. Stir and let sit to gel. If it remains very thick, add more water (it should resemble mashed bananas in consistency).
Meanwhile in a large bowl, whisk together almond flour, sweetener, coconut flour, whey protein powder, baking powder and salt.
Stir in almond milk, eggs, melted butter, banana extract, vanilla, stevia and chia mixture until thoroughly combined.
Spread mixture in prepared baking pan, smoothing the top.
Bake 70 to 75 minutes or until golden brown and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean
Let cool in pan 20 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and powdered sweetener until smooth.
Beat in whipping cream and caramel or extract until well combined.
Spread over cooled banana cake and let set about half an hour.
Serves 16. Each serving has 9 g of carbs and 5 g of fiber. Total NET CARBS = 4 g.
Unfrosted: 171 Calories; 13g Fat (65.7% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 9g Carbohydrate; 5g Dietary Fiber; 48mg Cholesterol; 240mg Sodium.
Frosted: 215 Calories; 18g Fat (70.7% calories from fat); 8g Protein; 9g Carbohydrate; 5g Dietary Fiber; 64mg Cholesterol; 263mg Sodium.


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WINDSOR, Ont. — The controversial boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) referendum at the University of Windsor was a first for a Canadian campus and designed to be a "more democratic" way of endorsing a campaign against companies that support the Israeli "occupation," a spokesperson for the yes side said.
The undergraduate referendum on the resolution to support BDS, which passed by a vote of 798 to 585, "would give a more legitimate statement" to the campaign, which up until now has seen motions passed only by university student councils, not campus-wide votes, at least at the undergraduate level, said Mohammed Almoayad of the campus Palestinian Solidarity Group (PSG).
"It's much more productive in terms of some of the main goals of the movement," he said.
These include to "spread awareness… so instead of just a few student representatives in a room discussing it and voting on it, now all students hear about it and have to decide how to vote and they look into the research and are involved in campaigning."
The referendum has been severely criticized for its "abuse of process," a charge initially brought by the campus Jewish Students Association (JSA).
Association vice-president Josh Zelikovitz castigated the vote for being "rushed through in a way that would minimize debate, minimize dissent." A JSA letter detailed a long list of alleged violations of the University of Windsor Students' Alliance's (UWSA) own constitution.
Officials from the UWSA, which ran the referendum, have not commented on the charges, except to post a letter stating that it was "aware" of complaints that were to be made to its election monitoring committee. The UWSA's chief returning officer (CRO) is slated to submit a report to student council March 13 on the referendum.
The UWSA appears to be ready to accept the report, despite a request from university president Alan Wildeman that it "defer" it and the "finalization of the referendum process" until both the UWSA and the university administration complete a review of the way the vote was held.
"Should you choose not to defer the tabling of the CRO report, and the complaints are proven to be valid, the University of Windsor will have to consider its options," Wildeman said.
He said the administration "cannot allow student organizations to compromise the university's commitment to provide a welcoming learning and living environment for each and every student."
But in its response, the UWSA said it would be up to its discretion to defer the report and not anybody else.
"This referendum and its results are not binding on the University of Windsor but on the University of Windsor Students' Alliance, which as Dr. Wildeman has noted, is an autonomous organization."
The reviews of the vote also come in the wake of vandalism when a Support Our Troops flag belonging to a UWSA vice-president was desecrated with the word "Zionist" and a Star of David spray-painted on it. Police are investigating the incident, which has received international coverage.
Meanwhile PSG spokesman Almoayad said he was "disappointed" by Wildeman's intervention.
"But it's not surprising," he said. "We totally expected the administration and the president and everyone to sort of put up as much resistance as possible," noting "pressure" from the likes of the media, politicians – "from all over the place."
Almoayad said prior to the vandalism, which he condemned as a "hate crime," there were "no incidents" and the mood on campus was "very quiet."
The flag desecration, however, "created a lot of hysteria, a lot of students were upset asking questions – the administration obviously had to react."
Asked about the fact only a little more than 10 per cent student body turned out for the vote, Almoayad said that at first glance, that number might appear low, but compared to other similar votes, it attracted more voters. A referendum last year on what to put in the space of the former campus pub "didn't even reach quorum," he said.
Brent Farrington, internal co-ordinator for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), said BDS has been a localized campus issue. And while the national student organization has taken stands on a variety of issues – from sexual assault to the Idle No More aboriginal protests – it has never debated a BDS resolution.
He said several years ago, a motion that wasn't about BDS but criticized certain Israeli government actions, came forward but there were "objections" because some of the clauses were not factually accurate.
Farrington said referenda, however, are widespread at the campus level and provide "a viable way" for students to make their voices heard to student councils.
Donald Sylvan, executive director of Hillel Ontario, said it's important to distinguish between student associations and university administrations, since the latter aren't affected by these resolutions.
"These are being done by student organizations that don't have any implementation authority," he said.
Sylvan also applauded university administrations for increasingly taking the initiative to ensure campuses remain peaceful and to protect freedom of speech.
"A lot of them are moving pre-emptively in advance to take steps to calm fears and make dialogue constructive," he said.


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When leaders of a project designed to provide homegrown, renewable fuels for the military and to strengthen Eastern North Carolina agriculture needed help finding the right source crop and testing it locally, they turned to N.C. State University and its N.C. Cooperative Extension Service for help.
The project, called "Fuel the Force," culminated in July with the shipment of 800 gallons of biodiesel to Camp Lejeune, a large Marine Corps base in Onslow County.
The fuel was made from canola grown on five 5-acre demonstration plots in Jones and Craven counties with the help of N.C. State's Jacob Morgan, Dr. Matt Veal, John Garner and Mark Seitz.
The North Carolina Eastern Region Military Growth Task Force coordinated the collaborative project. The task force's mission is to analyze the way rapid military growth impacts the region and to help prepare the region for that growth.
Morgan, an agricultural Extension agent in Jones County, and Seitz, Extension director for Pender County, worked with local farmers and landowners to create the demonstration plots. Veal, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering and Extension bioprocessing specialist, and Garner, superintendent of N.C. State's Williamsdale Farm in Wallace, helped plant the crop, harvest the seeds and then crush the seeds to separate the oil from the meal. And Melissa Evans Hoffman, an agricultural Extension agent in Onslow County, worked with a local grower to test camelina, a related oilseed crop that can be used to make jet fuels.
Morgan, Seitz, Evans, District Extension Director Greg Hoover and Onslow County Extension Director Peggie Garner were on hand July 18 when Major Gen. Carl Jensen welcomed the first shipment of homegrown, canola-derived biodiesel for North Carolina's military.
Jensen, commanding general of Marine Corps Installations East, praised the project as a first step toward breaking the military's dependence on petrochemicals, noting that the military must meet aggressive federal mandates to reduce energy consumption by 30 percent by 2015.
"We need to be energy self-reliant," Jensen said. "This is one small step, a small stone down the mountainside and (we) hope it gains momentum."
If the project does gain momentum, it could give growers a market for what proved to be a promising crop for Eastern North Carolina. Canola is used to produce oil not only for fuels but also for cooking, and the meal is a good source of protein for livestock.
Veal and Morgan said that canola could easily fit into winter crop rotations, giving growers an economically viable alternative to wheat.
"In Jones County, it would be planted in mid-October after corn harvest in September, and it would be harvested typically around the first week in June, with soybeans being planted after that, basically in the middle of June," Morgan said.
In part because of interest spurred by the demonstration project, Veal and Garner held a canola field day at the Williamsdale Farm in late May to address growers' and agents' questions. About 50 people attended that event, seeing how commercially available varieties performed, learning about production methods and the impact of cultural management strategies on yield, and watching live harvesting and oilseed pressing.
Although the canola project demonstrated that the crop can be grown successfully and profitably in Eastern North Carolina, Morgan pointed out one significant hurdle: Right now, there are no facilities in the region where the canola seed can be crushed to separate the oil and the meal.
A farm in Statesville has a crushing facility, he said, but hauling the harvest that far would push up the price, canceling out the profit potential.
"If they can get that crushing aspect worked out," Morgan said, "then I think we've got a chance for making this a viable crop for Jones County and Eastern North Carolina."


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Following on from my overview of the UK Govcamp unconference I want to put some markers down for the thing that excited me the most: the potential of location-based services to deliver on the localism agenda and some ideas on how that might work.
I've got quite a low tolerance for reading HM Government documents so the fact that the Government published a plain English guide to the localism bill (see http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/localgovernment/localismplainenglishguide) was music to my ears. There seem to be a few salient points which act as a background for this discussion:
- The new general power of competence will give councils more freedom to work with others in new ways to drive down costs. This might, for example, give us the freedom to utlilise an existing location-based service to experiment with their APIs and/or pilot some services.
- the Community right to bid to run local services effectively means that some of the facilities currently provided by the local council may move out to community groups. Doing this while maintaining the benefits of joined-up information mean that a solution architecture needs to be in place that provides an interface (in its broadest meaning) to allow a 2-way information flow between the public asset and the local authority and other local public services.
- there are some reforms to the planning system included. Although not directly relevant to this solution architecture, the planning system is often hampered by lack of access to information. You might see a yellow planning application notice nailed to a tree somewhere but it's not always easy and quick to see what is being planned. A location service might help with this.
I like to think about scenarios to help get some requirements teased out, and these ought to be based on services that we actually deliver. There seem to be categories of scenario based around
- internal council workflow (eg Highway maintenance)
- citizen interaction with the council (eg library services)
- community group operations when delivering a service (eg Park services)
- civic social interaction around a location (eg reporting a crime/graffiti)
- general social interaction at a location
this last scenario is already well covered by location-based services such as FourSquare or Gowalla. Nothing to add there. However, the other four scenarios require that, on check-in, information is pushed and that information is a real-time aggregate of a number of other data sources, some of which might be under local authority control (Highways, libraries), some of which are provided by 3rd parties (community-provided Park services), and some of which are transactional forms to enable the person checking in to provide feedback and information (all of the above).
Currently the commercial services in this space provide the ability to send "tips" and special offers to people checking in, but these are relatively static. Perhaps some kind of frigging with the APIs could allow tips to be generated dynamically from an XML file? Then we could create the XML file in real time from whatever data sources we have and deliver that whenever someone checks in?
We also need a security model to ensure that a council highways officer gets a different view of the "tips" file (sorry, I really must think of a better name) to a citizen or community group representative.
Some of this stuff overlaps with my recent post about a solution architecture for highways, but I wasn't location-enabled when I wrote that. Expect more detail to be added to this once I've met with colleagues later this week.