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How are Landlords Affected by a Voluntary Liquidation?
While a landlord will ordinarily become one of the unsecured creditors to the company, on occasion they may have a rent deposit deed in place which will enable them to claim against for any rent arrears and dilapidations. Obviously, this claim will be limited to the amount of money being held as a deposit.
The rent deposit deed will often be found as a charge granted by the company in favour of the landlord and is registered at Companies House.
How are Unsecured Creditors (such as Landlords) paid in a CVL?
It is the insolvency practitioner's role to pay creditors based on what funds can be raised from the liquidation of company assets. He will pay secured and preferential creditors before unsecured creditors, which means landlords should be aware that they may only receive a proportion of their unsecured debts.
What are Landlords Entitled to in a CVL?
Landlords are entitled to:
(a) deduct funds from any rental deposit
(b) to seek a court order for termination of the lease.
(c) In some situations, 'peaceable re-entry' may be appropriate
(d) Consent to the assignment of the lease to a new party
Peaceable Re-entry: When can Landlords take back Their Property Without Seeking Recourse to the Courts?
'Peaceable re-entry' means that, if a landlord has been informed of a company's insolvency, there may be recourse to take back possession of the property, without first getting a court order (assuming that the right to forfeit is expressly granted by the lease).
This is a high-risk strategy, in tha, if anyone present opposes the landlord's right to change the locks, it may then constitute a criminal offence to proceed. Further legal issues may also arise if there are goods at the property, which would then make the landlord an involuntary bailee. A landlord's behaviour, in this scenario, is governed by the Torts Act, which outlines a statutory method by which bailees should handle goods found on the property.
Given the legal complications surrounding peaceable re-entry, landlords would be advised to have a solicitor present if they choose to enact this option. It will also be necessary to fix a notice of forfeiture to the exterior of the premises and to send copies of this notice to the tenant's registered address.
The Liquidator's Powers to Restrain Forfeiture
Landlords considering peaceable re-entry should be advised that the insolvency practitioner, should they deem it necessary, can apply to the court to either restrain or stay any forfeiture by civil action.
The Liquidator's right to Disclaim the Leasehold
When a company goes into liquidation, a liquidator can disclaim the lease. This is a unilateral decision by the liquidator to simply hand back the property to the landlord. The liquidator will do this by sending a form under section 178 of the Insolvency Act 1986 to the landlord and all other interested parties to disclaim the onerous lease. In addition, the liquidator will send a copy of this notice to the Registrar of Companies and to the Land Registry.
This means that from that moment on, any ongoing running costs of the property, such as utility bills and rates, will become the responsibility of the landlord once again. This is another reason that landlords need to be cautious against using 'peaceable re-entry', since it may preclude them from deferring potential running cost claims to the insolvent company should a dividend become available.


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Update December 14: There are 6 properties for sale in our area. Treebrooke has 2 a bedroom unit for %264,900 and a 3-bedroom unit for $349,500. Flint Hill Manor has a townhouse for $360k. Arrowood offers two townhouses: $419k and $424,900. And Mayfair Manor has a townhouse with a garage for only $525k.
It is the best time to buy. The interest rate is the lowest in 40 years. Prices are down, and it is in fact the best time to bargain. Chances are the prices will start creeping up after the 10th od January. So, if you and somebody you know are just procrasting, call me. I am your neighbor. You can always make an offer with a delayed settlement if you cannot move in just yet.
Good luck!
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Pervasive environments offer an increasing number of services to a large number of people moving within these environments, including timely information about where to go and when, and contextual information about the surrounding environment. This information may be conveyed to people through public displays or direct to a person's mobile phone. People using these services interact with the system but they are also meeting other people and performing other activities as relevant opportunities arise. The design of such systems and the analysis of collective dynamic behaviour of people within them is a challenging problem. We present results on a novel usage of a scalable analysis technique in this context. We show the validity of an approach based on stochastic process-algebraic models by focussing on a representative example, i.e. emergency egress. The chosen case study has the advantage that detailed data is available from studies employing alternative analysis methods, making cross-methodology comparison possible. We also illustrate how realistic, context-dependent human behaviour, often observed in emergency egress, can naturally be embedded in the models, and how the effect of such behaviour on evacuation can be analysed in an efficient and scalable way. The proposed approach encompasses both the agent modelling viewpoint, as system behaviour emerges from specific (discrete) agent interaction, and the population viewpoint, when classes of homogeneous individuals are considered for a (continuous) approximation of overall system behaviour.
Author(s): Massink M, Latella D, Bracciali A, Harrison MD, Hillston J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Formal Aspects of Computing
Year: 2012
Volume: 24
Issue: 2
Pages: 267-302
Print publication date: 02/07/2011
Date deposited: 08/03/2013
ISSN (print): 0934-5043
ISSN (electronic): 1433-299X
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00165-011-0188-1
DOI: 10.1007/s00165-011-0188-1
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The students in a Canadian high school in China were given an assignment by the social studies teacher to ask other teachers about why they love Canada.
One student was worried at the response of one teacher. It was something completely unexpected.
"What is Canada?" asked the teacher.
"Should you love a country that was stolen by from its Indigenous peoples?"
"How did you feel when outsiders came and divided up China among themselves? When Britain took Hong Kong and Portugal took Macau. When Japan took Manchukuo, etc. was that okay?"
The student shook his head.
On July 1, many Canadians will crowd into city squares and parks to listen to the national anthem and watch fireworks in the evening.
It is taken for granted that citizens of a country love that country. That is patriotism. But not everyone is a patriot.
In Canada, the Original Peoples find that their languages are not official. In Canada, the reserves that First Nations have been allotted are Crown lands; that is, the lands do not even belong to the First Nations who have lived there since the world began ((See Arthur J. Ray, I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1996, 2005).)) but belong to the Queen in Right of Canada.
Therefore, to be a patriot in Canada means to love a country whose land was stolen from its Original Peoples, to love a country that does not grant official status to the languages spoken by its Original Peoples. ((The Official Languages Act of Canada recognizes equal status for English and French.))
It means to love a country riven by an economic chasm between the descendants of the colonialists and the Original Peoples. Canada was top ranked on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) from the years 1992-2000. However, when Original Peoples are measured using the same criteria, they rank usually somewhere from 60 to 70 or so, many ranks below Canada as a whole. ((Kevin Lee, "Measuring Poverty among Canada's Aboriginal People," Insight, 23 (2), 1999: 2 in John Sutton Lutz, Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008): 293. Found on-reserve Indigenous peoples ranked 65th on the HDI.)) Yet because of the mineral and resource wealth of First Nation lands, First Nation peoples "should be among the continent's wealthiest residents." ((See Ward Churchill, Struggle for the Land (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 1999): 239.)) Instead they have the "lowest per capita income of any population group." ((See Ward Churchill, Struggle for the Land (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 1999): 239.))
Water is something that all people need to survive. Water is life. Canada is a land abundant in fresh water; it is assumed by most Canadians that everyone can go to the tap and fill their glass with water and drink. Not so for many First Nations. In November 2006, 86 First Nations communities were under drinking water advisories across Canada. ((Kim Petersen, "The High Cost of Lousy Water," The Dominion, 22 November 2006.)) Half a year later, little had changed, even though the solution was relatively inexpensive. ((Kim Petersen, "Watered Down Excuse," The Dominion, 21 May 2007.)) Water is being squandered in the recovery of oil from Alberta's tar sands, even though putting at peril the health of Indigenous peoples nearby. ((Kim Petersen, "Oil Versus Water," The Dominion, 21 May 2007. )) The water situation keeps getting worse for First Nations. Health Canada reports, "As of May 31st, 2012, there were 117 First Nations communities across Canada under a Drinking Water Advisory."
Water is just a small part of the ongoing struggle for rights by Original Peoples in the state called Canada. ((See "Original Peoples," The Dominion.))
Should a country be loved just because one is a citizen?
Patriotism has an evil flip side. This sentiment is often exploited to command or coerce people — soldiers — to kill people who live in different countries. To the extent that patriotism is a sentiment shared around the world, presumably these slain people loved their countries, too. Is it not morbidly ironic that patriotism — love of country — could inflame hate of another country and the killing of that country's patriots?
Should not the love be greater for the people of a land and the peoples of the world than any love for a geopolitically defined territory?
Instead of a national day, why not a people day? A day devoted to the love of peoples wherever they might be, and the best place to start seems to be right at home. The people of Canada need to include First Nation peoples. To love means to care that all people have respect — respect for their languages, cultures, and beliefs — to have jobs that protect the dignity of labor, to share equitably in the wealth of a country, to be cared for when ill, and to never be encouraged to take the life of another people unless defending against attack at home.
When Canada achieves something approaching this love, then Canadian teachers abroad may have something worth extolling to their students.


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Dubrovnik, 30 June – In the framework of the SEECP Summit, the President of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, held a meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov as they discussed about the possibility of deepening the cooperation between the two countries.
President Thaçi thanked Prime Minister Borisov for the support Bulgaria has given to Kosovo in strengthening international subjectivity and in the process of European integration.
In this meeting was also discussed about the expansion of economic cooperation, trade exchange and the strengthening of cooperation in education and culture.
On the other hand, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov reaffirmed Bulgaria's support for Kosovo and backed the proposal for Kosovo to head SEECP in 2019.
During the day, President Thaçi, along with his counterparts from the region, participated in the SEECP Summit where was once again was urged to accelerate the process of EU membership of the countries of the region.


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How to use P6 to realize interface management in large-scale engineering projects?
Title: "How to use P6 to realize interface management in large-scale engineering projects?"
Author: "Deyi.zhang/张德义"
Abstract: In some EPC type projects, the physical interface exists in a large number of project construction processes, including the interface during the project implementation process, such as the interface of different design stages in the design process (the interface between the design of the solution and the preliminary design, etc.) and the construction process. The interface between different processes and the interface between the equipment installation and the engineering entity. This article focuses on the flexible use of P6 to implement interface management.


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Remember the last time you called your local pizza joint to complain about the cheese being too hot, or the garlic knots too cold, or having to wait an entire four minutes past the estimated delivery time, or any other petty First-World gripe that pops into your mind?
Yeah, you're gonna feel really, really bad about that after watching this compilation of real Domino's Pizza customer complaints.
Brought to you by the Australian comedy group Stuntbear (who describe themselves on their Facebook page as "stupid idiots who make stupid videos") the video contains actual comments from the pizza chain's Australian Facebook page and superimposes them on top of footage from war zones and developing countries.
So for instance, a consumer complaint that the Domino's Pizza website doesn't include a GPS tracker feature for pizza, "so I can follow its every move," is juxtaposed with images of a First Aid worker distributing rations to throngs of emaciated refugees. And a customer imploring the pizza chain to live up to its "empty promise" of bringing back the puff pastry is superimposed on a close-up of flies swarming a sick child's dirt-covered face.
Of course, because the video is on YouTube, some commenters took the opportunity not to chuckle and reflect on how trivial their petty gripes are in comparison to real suffering, but to defend their God-given right to bitch about subpar customer service.
And we, in turn, will continue to enjoy our right to mock you. This seems particularly apropos:
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Last weekend, Crowfall developer ArtCraft Entertainment held the last of its February playtest weekends, inviting the game's Early Access backers to jump into the gameworld to play, test, and provide feedback on the game in its current state of development. As one of said Early Access backers (full disclosure there), I was among those invited to take part in the test, and having last played the game sometime early last year, I figured now would be a good time to pop in and see how the game's coming along.
At present, the game build is a very early one that the devs have dubbed Pre-Alpha 2.0, so the features on display during the playtests are both limited and almost certain to undergo radical changes between now and Crowfall's eventual launch. The game's current, rather bare-bones incarnation includes the frameworks, in varying stages of completion and polish, for its basic gathering, crafting, and PvP combat features, though my playtime over the weekend was limited largely to the former two, with relatively little in the way of bloodshed. I don't consider that to be altogether a bad thing, though; even this early implementation of Crowfall's gathering and crafting systems is intricate enough that I reckon it deserves a column in and of itself, so let's go ahead and dig in.
When you first log into the game and choose your first vessel (I chose the adorable, straight-outta-Redwall duelist, if you were wondering), you're effectively, but thankfully not literally, naked as the day you were born, devoid of any equipment whatsoever. So the first order of business is to get yourself outfitted with some starting gear, and the only way of doing that—short of finding yourself a generous benefactor to donate some freebies—is to craft it yourself. And before you craft anything, you've got to gather up some raw resources for materials.
The general gathering-crafting cycle will be fairly familiar to anyone who's ever played a crafting-survival game like Minecraft or its many offshoots: You harvest materials with which to make better gear, which in turn lets you harvest higher-tier materials with which to make even better gear, etc. In Crowfall, there are four main types of raw materials, each with an associated harvesting tool: wood, harvested with axes; stone, harvested with hammers; metal ore, harvested with picks; and skins, harvested with knives.
As a fresh vessel, you start with nothing but a basic axe. There's a special beginner recipe to craft your basic array of starter harvesting tools, and the specific tool it creates is dependent on the material used to craft it. Using wood creates a hammer, allowing you to harvest stone, which in turn creates a pick that lets you harvest metal ore, which finally creates a knife that lets you skin dead creatures. Similarly, there are special beginner recipes to craft a basic set of weapons and armor. They're spectacularly cheap, requiring only a handful of resources to create, but they don't allow much in the way of customization, and their stats are underwhelming to say the least.
The overall crafting process, like resource-gathering, should be familiar to anyone who's ever played a crafting-survival game or just about any MMO with crafting in it. In a nutshell, you choose a recipe, gather up the necessary resources, stick 'em in the appropriate slots, and craft the item. Or try to, anyway. If a character's skill level in the relevant crafting discipline isn't high enough, there's a chance for the craft to fail, consuming all materials in the process.
This will probably be the most contentious aspect of the game's crafting system, and I can personally attest to its rage-inducing potential. Don't get me wrong: I think a solid system of risk-vs.-reward is essential, especially in a high-stakes PvP title like Crowfall, but failing to craft an item with a 97% chance of success is uniquely infuriating, especially considering the immense time and resource investments involved, as we will see shortly.
Before I can go into detail about the crafting process, though, I first need to explain a bit how the materials function. Materials are classified based on two attributes: grade and rarity. Grade is a numerical value from one to whatever the highest grade is—I have no clue, though the highest I saw was grade five—that serves as an indicator of a material type's overall quality. All materials of a given type share the same grade; i.e., slag is considered a grade one metal, while gold is grade 5. Higher-grade resources seem generally less common than lower-grade ones and tend to require higher-quality tools to harvest effectively, but they result in much higher-quality items when used as crafting materials.
A material's rarity, indicated with the grey-white-green-blue-etc. spectrum that should be familiar to most anyone who's played an MMO in the past decade or so, can be looked at as an indicator of an individual piece of material's quality in relation to other pieces of the same material. Take again the previous example of slag versus gold: Gold, being of a much higher grade than slag, will always (to my knowledge) be of better quality, but when mining a gold vein, each individual piece of gold you receive may be common, uncommon, rare, etc.
Now, on to why that whole infodump is important: Crowfall's crafting system is intricately modular, to put it mildly. You'll see what I mean in a minute. Given the complexity of the systems at work here, I think it'll be easier to explain by way of demonstration, so let's look at the process of crafting a shiny new gun.
The screenshot above shows the recipe to create a pistol. As you can see, it requires only two materials: a pistol body and a pistol barrel. "What's so intricately modular about that?" you might ask. Well, as you may have surmised, both of those components are themselves crafted items, so let's go ahead and look at the recipes for the body and barrel.
The barrel is obviously pretty simple: just three metal bars (more on those soon). But the body is more complex, requiring the combination of three more crafted components: a pistol hammer and frizzen, a pistol trigger, and a weapon grip, the recipes for which are shown in the screenshot below.
This is just one example—and a relatively simple one, if you can believe it—of the kind of modularity I'm talking about. The stats of a finished item's component parts will ultimately contribute toward determining the stats of the final product itself. This modular, component-centric approach to item creation gives crafters substantial control over the attributes of crafted items. But if the stats of a crafted item are determined by the stats of its component parts, you might be wondering how the stats of said components are determined.
Now, fair warning, past this point things get even more complex, and because I didn't have time during the playtest to do quite as much experimenting and note-taking as I would have liked, my understanding of the finer details of the mechanics at play here is limited. I'll do my best to extrapolate from what I learned during the playtest and to fill any gaps with information from the official wiki wherever possible, but it's pre-alpha, so it's likely that all this information, as with so many things in life, will ultimately be irrelevant.
You may have noticed earlier that the basic materials used in crafting recipes have generic names like "metal bar" and "plank" rather than, say, "copper bar" and "cedar plank." This is also the case for the recipes for refining raw resources into usable materials, as seen in the following screenshot of the recipe for metal bars.
So to smelt a bar of metal, you need three separate stacks of three pieces of ore each—ignore the "specialty seal" slot for now, we'll come back to that later. As you've probably already guessed, each ore slot in the metal bar recipe can be filled with any ore, though each individual stack must consist of three pieces of ore of the same type (copper, iron, etc.) and rarity—white-rarity iron ore won't stack with green- or blue-rarity iron ore, for instance. However, it isn't required that all three stacks of ore be identical to one another.
In fact, the system encourages players to mix and match. See, the type(s) of ore you use when crafting a metal bar will determine the finished bar's stats, which in turn will contribute to the stats of any item that bar is used to create. Mixing (or not mixing) different types of ore will produce varying kinds of metal bars, each with its own specific stats.
For example, if you craft a metal bar with three stacks of copper, you'll unsurprisingly end up with a copper bar, which grants increased critical hit chance. But if you use two stacks of tin and one stack of copper, you end up with a bronze bar imbued with a bonus to in-combat stamina regeneration. I wasn't lucky enough with my harvesting drops to be able to determine the exact effects of using higher-rarity resources, but I'd hazard a guess that it increases the magnitude stat bonus provided by the finished item.
Now, consider this: There are (to my knowledge) five different types of metal ore—six including slag, which I don't think can be combined to create alloys like the others can. When crafting a metal bar—the most basic component for most metal-based items—players can use up to three different types.
I'm not great with numbers, but I reckon that's a substantial number of unique combinations, each of which presumably creates a different type of metal bar with its own unique (or at least semi-unique) stats. Now consider that all those types of bars can be combined in however-many ways to create components, such as the pistol barrel we looked at earlier, which can in turn be combined in various ways all the way up the chain until the final product is complete.
Obviously, the other resource types won't have quite so many possible combinations—you can't make wood alloys, after all—but even so, the amount of control that crafters have to fine-tune the stats on the items they create is pretty impressive. And that's still not even quite the end of it.
Yes, there are a couple more (mercifully small and easily explained) facets to Crowfall's crafting system that allow crafters to customize their creations even further still. First, remember that "specialty seal" slot in the metal bar recipe that I told you to ignore earlier? Specialty seals are optional components that convert an item's combat stat (e.g. the crit chance bonus on copper bars) into a non-combat stat, such as harvesting or crafting—the specific stat a specialty seal provides is determined by the materials used to craft the seal, natch. There are also similar optional components that can be added to armor recipes to grant various stat bonuses, but I didn't have much of a chance to fiddle with them myself.
And lastly, there's experimentation. Before you finish crafting an item, you are given the opportunity to experiment on the item, as seen in the screenshot to the left. You're given a certain number of experimentation points, represented by the line of green pips near the top, which you can spend to experiment to attempt to raise one or more of the item's stats (grade and durability in the screenshot). The number of experimentation points available, the number of points that can be invested in a given stat, and the chance of success are all determined by a character's skill-point investment in the relevant nodes on the skill tree. It's a gamble, however, as an experiment's success is not guaranteed—in fact, a critical failure may instead lower the item's stats. And whether it works or not, it will increase the item's build time, which isn't much of an issue for lower-tier crafts, for which the increase is usually only a second or two, but may prove crippling when trying to construct larger and more complex items like siege weapons.
I'm sure there are more details about Crowfall's crafting systems that I've forgotten and still more that I flat-out haven't discovered yet, but at this point I feel like I've written enough to provide what I hope is a decent impression of the overall scheme of things, and I'd wager that by now you've read about it as much as you're willing to read in a single sitting. And of course, there's still much more to the game that is yet to be explored—classes, skills, and of course the carnage and mayhem of PvP combat, for starters. But for now, I hope you've enjoyed this deep-dive into one of the game's most complex (and intriguing) systems. Until next time, friends.


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Owens' Clutch in Penalty Kicks; Sends the Eagles to CAC Semifinals to Play Salisbury3 min read
By KEVIN BOILARD
With her team down 2-0 in overtime penalty kicks, University of Mary Washington sophomore goalkeeper Charlotte Owens needed to provide a spark. Ten kicks and three breathtaking saves later, Owens was engulfed by her teammates in a celebratory dog pile.
UMW's Capital Athletic Conference tournament match-up with St. Mary's College of Maryland on Saturday, Oct. 27, took seven rounds of penalty kicks (PKs) to determine a victor. The Eagles eventually came out on top, 1-1 (3-2 in PKs), advancing to the CAC semifinal round versus Salisbury.
The Eagles, who had shut out St. Mary's in their regular season match-up, saw a slightly different Seahawks team during postseason play. St. Mary's came out firing, controlling the ball on their offensive end for much of the first half.
"They made some slight adjustments in the midfield from the last time we saw them," head coach Corey Hewson said after the game. "Once again, we came out flat and had to build up our fight."
The slow start proved to be costly for the Eagles, as St. Mary's took the lead early in the first half. In the game's 18th minute, Seahawks midfielder Liz Mosher was able to create a dangerous one-on-one opportunity with Eagle's sophomore defender Jenny Mayo. With Mayo feverishly backpedaling, Mosher connected with her teammate, forward Tori Eskay, who was cutting toward the net. The pass landed right on her foot, and Eskay easily tucked the ball away in the bottom left corner.
The Eagles did not have much luck the rest of the first half. Freshman forward Jessica Bednarcik had a shot bounce off a St. Mary's player and the goalpost before it was redirected out of bounds, and junior midfielder Tina Rader had a promising strike squelched by Seahawk's goalkeeper Kelsey Wirtz's outstretched fist.
Down by a goal at the half, the Eagles knew they had to find a way to score in the second half if they did not want their 13-win season to end prematurely.
"Sometimes you have to battle," Hewson said. "You have to get knocked down flat on your face in order to see how you'll get back up again."
Hewson's Eagles got back up, but not right away. They chipped away at the Seahawk's defense, hoping that it would eventually allow a chance to tie the game up at one.
St. Mary's defense was staunch, though, and the Eagles' frustration began to show on the field. Mayo, sophomore midfielder Enisa Turko and freshman midfielder Adrian Newcomb were each given yellow cards, and the team collected eight fouls in the second frame alone.
However, Mary Washington never completely lost its composure, and with just under a minute to play, the Eagles were awarded a free kick from just outside the 18-yard box. With one last chance to send the game into overtime, senior defender and team captain Emmalee Denkler stepped up to the ball and eyed down her shot.
"Normally, from that distance, coach [Hewson] would want me to shoot," Denkler said. "But with all the people in front of the net, I thought it would be tough to go low. So instead, I put it up on the back post, and , luckily, it was cleared out to Mayo."
Mayo fired the ball back into the scrum of players crashing the front of the net. A moment later, the ball squirted into the back of the goal, and the Eagles were given new life.
Neither team was able to score in either of the two 10-minute overtime periods, which forced the game to be decided by penalty kicks. The Seahawks took a particularly defensive approach during overtime, presumably because they felt that their goalkeeper would outperform Owens in a PK situation. Owens, on the other hand, was brimming with confidence.
"When it comes to PKs, you're either going to do it or not do it," Owens explained after the game. "We had been there before, and I wasn't worried."
St. Mary's capitalized on its first two kicks, setting the Eagles back, 2-0, early. The Eagles rallied, however, with successful attempts from sophomore defender Jenna Abraham, forward Kelsey Carter and freshman midfielder Lizzie Weast.
With her team up 3-2, Owens made one final save to seal the victory for UMW.
The Eagles will travel to Salisbury today for a chance to move on to the CAC finals.


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Velvet Hernandez-Johnson - Season 2 Episode 10
Listen to our conversation with Velvet Hernandez-Johnson, where she talks about her journey of moving to the U.S. from Guatemala to complete her education and finding purpose in helping her community, and advocating for girl power with her daughter. Velvet is also a strategic partner to Irie Love, her daughter's initiative to provide care packages to Guatemalan children who work instead of attending school.
Latina Equal Pay Day Discussion - Season 2 Episode 9
The economic status of women in Tennessee has made considerable advances in recent years however women of color still face inequities that often prevent them from reaching their full potential. Unfortunately, Tennessee still ranks in the worst third in the nation for both women's Employment & Earnings and Poverty & Opportunity.
That's why we had this conversation with three local Latinas from different industries, Arielle Garcia-Hayes, Nahomi Ortiz and Veronica Perro focused on awareness, advocacy, and structural change to build true equity for Latina women in Tennessee as we navigate inequality through the covid-19 crisis and beyond.
Let's start by clarifying what is Latina Equal Pay Day, is the approximate day Latina's must work into the new year to make what White non-Latino men make at the end of the previous year. Latinas nationally earn only .55 cents for every dollar earned by a white, non-Hispanic man and must work nearly 23 months to earn what white men earn in 12 months. That means it takes Latinas almost two years to earn what white men earn in one.
Many people assume that Latinas face a pay gap because they're concentrated in lower-paying roles. But even in the same job, Latinas are paid less than white men. For example, Latina nurses earn 28% less than white men nurses, on average. This hurts Latinas and their families, making Latinas, many of whom are single heads of households, at risk to experience poverty. For those listening, you can be an ally and advocate for us by talking about the many contributions we are making as a community and telling our stories.
Claudia Caballero - Season 2 Episode 8
In this episode, we talked to Claudia Caballero, the President & CEO of Centro Hispano de East Tennessee, a nonprofit that works to empower the Latino community through education, workforce development, youth, and family engagement, and resource referral services. During her five-year tenure at Centro Hispano she has increased the organization's annual income tenfold and expanded its staff from one employee to over 30 full and part-time team members. Raised between Honduras and the United States, she is both bicultural and bilingual.
In 2021 Caballero was the first Latina to join KUB's board. She is a member of Conexión Américas' Mosaic Fellowship class of 2018, the 2019 class of Leadership Knoxville, and class VII of Leadership Tennessee. She is the recipient of the YWCA Emerging Leader Award, the Young Professionals of Knoxville Outstanding Young Professional Award, and was named to the 2019 Knox.biz list of 40 Under 40 and VIP Knoxville's 2020 list of VIP Women.
Sarah Marquez Berestecky - Season 2 Episode 7
In this episode, we talked to Tejana, Sarah Marquez Berestecky a third-generation Mexican-American/Chicana who grew up navigating the borderlands of living as a light-skinned Latina in the United States. Her engagement with Be the Bridge to Racial Unity inspired her to develop Anti-Racism and Cultural Competency Training (ARCC) after relocating to Chattanooga. Her anti-racist work is closely tied to her efforts as a nationally trained community organizer. As a self-declared introvert, you can find Sarah taking a break from people watching Netflix, reading a provocative book, or blasting Mariachi music in her house.
Luis and Gisela Contreras - Season 2 Episode 6
In this episode, we talk to husband and wife entrepreneur duo Gisela and Luis Contreras, owners of The Local Juicery and Kitchen, Local Paletas, and Squeaky Clean, on how taking a leap in their relationship set the course on taking leaps in their businesses.
They share their roadmap to their success and future business goals, and the source of inspiration that they find in each other, their family, and their community in Chattanooga.
Dominique Brandt - Season 2 Episode 5
In this episode, our conversation is more relaxed and personal as we talk to Dominique Brandt, originally from Miami, FL, and relocated to Chattanooga in 2013 to work in community engagement and development.
She talks about her previous life, as she calls it, as a real estate paralegal, event planner and how she never stops looking for the next professional venture and life adventure thanks to her Dominican mom who played a huge influence in her life and taught her how to adjust to new circumstances.
Jimmy Obleda - Season 2 Episode 4
This is our first episode where we interview a Latino and not a Latina. We wanted to include the men in our lives and in our community who not only support Latinas but who were influenced by them. In this episode, we talk to the head coach of the Chattanooga Red Wolves of the USL League One Division, Jimmy Obleda, a New Yorker Uruguayan who later moved to California to pursue his soccer career and play professionally for 8 years in South America, Europe, and the United States.
Jimmy's success speaks for itself as he also holds degrees in child development, cross-cultural development, and Kinesiology. This extensive educational background creates a unique perspective on his coaching philosophy and style.
Silvia Ramos - Season 2 Episode 3
This episode gets real quick as we talk to Silvia Ramos an Afro-Indigenous Peruana about how we can figure out what type of changemaker we "want to be when they realize that many of us have inherited systems of inequities and in order to dismantle those systems, we have to be intentional and examine ourselves."
She utilizes her background as a transformative equity strategist professional to partner with higher education, non-profit organizations, and corporations to assist them in achieving systemic equity and inclusive excellence. Her passion quickly grew into a lifelong commitment to dismantling barriers within education that prevent underrepresented students, schools, and their communities from experiencing the full benefits of education.
Jully-Alma Taveras - Season 2 Episode 2
Jully-Alma Taveras is the founder of Investing Latina, an online community for financially powerful women. She is an award-winning money expert, writer, and YouTuber that covers topics around personal finance, investing, and entrepreneurship. She's a speaker and facilitator that has led workshops at Nasdaq, Google, other Fortune 500 companies, and startups. Her money philosophies have inspired thousands of women to live minimally & spend intentionally so that they can invest more.
We talked to Jully about her financial career journey and all things investing. Learn more about her program The Investing Workshop, where she teaches foundational investing principles and strategies to her audience. You can also text her where she invites you to "Ask Me Money Things™".
Jeannette Ceja - Season 2 Episode 1
Jeannette Ceja from Jet Set with Jeannette, is an award-winning seasoned bilingual Travel Journalist, TV Host, Travel Advisor, and Global Public Speaker. Her work and experience have taken her to over 60 countries to date. She also has interviewed countless celebrities, politicians, athletes, and travel experts on the red carpet. Jeannette's work has appeared on ABC7 Los Angeles, FOX 11 Los Angeles, Mexico Travel Channel, and countless media outlets around the world.
We talked to Jeannette about her career journey and how she continues to shed light on the lack of diversity in the Travel industry.


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Traditional Family Editor vs Conceptual Massing Environment - (again)When you create a profile family in the traditional family editor it is by nature a 2D element (this is dictated by choosing the profile template to create the family). It also has rules about what it should contain - basically it must be a single closed loop (or chain) of lines/arcs. When you try to assign it to another family, Revit will pretty soon tell you what is wrong with it if you don't follow the rules:
|Select a path and two profiles with nested loops
|Extremely unhelpful error message when you try to create a form
How to create a hollow section sweep in the CMEThe first step is to create an adaptive component profile that only has a single chain of lines/arcs - this is by nature a flat 3D family.
- Then the profile can be loaded into another adaptive or mass family (external or in-place)
- Host the adaptive profile on the sweep (preferably using points to get maximum control). Refer to the post on swept blends for more detail.
- In this example I have only hosted one profile at each end of the sweep, and they are the same size, but you could have different sizes and intermediate profiles to create a lofted form.
- Select the path and two profiles
- Create Form - it should create a solid sweep form providing the path is not too tortuous for Revit to handle.
- Place two more profiles (smaller this time), preferably hosted on the same points
- Select the same path plus the two smaller profiles
- This time create a void (use the drop down arrow on the Create Form icon)
- Revit should then carve out the inside of the sweep to create a hollow form
Voila - a hollow steel section sweep. Both the solid and void forms are hosted on the same sweep path so they will move when it changes.


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I'm all set to give you my Spider treat holder tutorial ~ I hope you are! These are really easy and SOOOOO cute! I hope you don't mind but there is no stamping involved. Actually, you can stamp the bottom of the spider with a Handmade By..... There, it IS stamping related! I made at least 40 of them last Halloween for my kids' classmates and teachers. This year I am just going to give them to some of their teachers and will make something else for the kids.
I filled them with candy (you know the kids don't get much candy on Halloween so I wanted to make sure they had a little treat!). Anyway, I had seen something like these in a magazine last year. From what I can remember, they used smaller boxes than I did. I wanted them bigger but you can do them smaller and you can use the oval paper mache' boxes too. I did some of those last year too and they were cute. I thought the oval ones would be so cute to make grasshoppers like in spring....... OK, so I got my boxes at Micheal's. They are paper mache' and cost $1.99 regularly. The size is about a circle ~ 4 1/4" round. This is what they look like before they are altered:
The next step was to paint the box black. I used some flat black acrylic paint I have had. I used a foam brush and had to do a couple coats to cover it completely. I did not paint the inside which you will see in some later pictures but what I did was put some shred inside with the candy. They didn't care! All they wanted was the candy! After I painted the black, I then painted a layer of Mod Podge ~ Mat on the top (not the top sides ~ JUST the top) and sprinkled glitter on and let it dry. I used purple but you can use any color you want.
I got the purple glitter at AC Moore and of course the other stuff you can get at any craft store. After putting the glitter on the top, set it aside. You are now going to do the legs. To make the holes, I used a wooden handled corn on the cob holder but you can use about anything. I found that the size of the corn cob holder was perfect. I punched it through and then spun it to make a circle.
Sorry for the blurry picture but you get the idea ~ right??? I used regular black pipe cleaners for the legs. Bend 2 pipe cleaners in half to
make 4 legs ~ you will do this again for the other 4 legs. Poke the folded legs through your hole. Once you get them through, twist them together (inside the box) and fold and press them up close to the side.
The way I did the legs was to just keep bending them until I got the look I wanted. The feet, I folded the bottom 1 time so it has some dimension. When I was finished, I put a dot of Elmer's glue on the top of each foot and put some glitter on them.
The eyes are 10 mm and the pom pom's are 1". I used Elmer's glue to glue them on the top of the lid and to glue the eyes on the pom pom's.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! They really are cute in real life and are great decorations as well. Thanks for looking and I'll get back to stamping tomorrow so be on the lookout!


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April 16, 2014"The Gnomes Defy Categorization"Jeffrey D. Wagner, Crowdy News
BRISTOL, R.I. — Gnomes may look the same, but not all of them sound or act the same.
Just ask the music ensemble The Gnomes, which play well as a group but brings their individual sound and background to their work.
Bristol's Stone Church Coffee House at the First Congregational Church welcomes The Gnomes on Saturday, April 26. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and
the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
The sound of The Gnomes is difficult to pinpoint or categorize. Although they sometimes express their unity by wearing gnome hats, they
respect and embrace each other's musical differences.
"Our thing is global folk fusion, and we like to mix up a bunch of sounds and styles, bringing to the music each of our unique musical
backgrounds," according to Cathy Clasper-Torch, who plays keyboard, vocals, violin and an erhu, which is a two-string Chinese violin.
The latter fact speaks volumes of the group's cultural diversity.
Clasper-Torch brings to the table her jazz and improvisational background, having dabbled with her instruments since the age of 10. She lived
in Asia for a stint and brings some Eastern musical traditions to the mix.
Mike Fischman, another band member, has played in bluegrass, old timey, Irish, rock 'n roll, blues, acoustic folk, Dixieland, swing, jazz,
country and western (both kinds) and now, for the second time, a world folk fusion band.
He has also been a DJ on WRIU's Bluegrass Breakdown for the past 20 years, bringing that influence to the band.
Newest member Matt Niebels, the drummer, combines his foundation in jazz and rock drumming, "a passion for world music and a degree in
classical percussion," according to a written release.
"With a hybrid drum set made up of hand drums, a jazz kit and a variety of shakable and bangable things, Matt adds a musical spice rack of
flavors to the group as well as a contagious energy and groove," the release adds.
Pete Breen, an accomplished and versatile bass player and singer, began his musical journey as a Suzuki-method violinist at the age of four,
and brings a Reggae flavor to the sound.
Phil Edmonds, a native of Killaloe, Co. Clare, Ireland, learned to play the tin whistle in his homeland and gives the band that Irish/Celtic touch.
The Gnomes has been together in some form for 10 years but took on its name eight years ago.
Clasper-Torch said the name is fitting.
"Gnomes are funny, unpredictable and bring to mind a Celtic tradition, as well as a Scandinavian tradition — a really great name for us
and the images it creates," she said. "We wear pointed hats at our concerts. We have fun with it as well."
Clasper-Torch went on to say that gnomes have a mischievous quality, making its name even more perfect for their band, in that they defy categorization.
Coffee house director Roger Dubord said he has seen individual band members and the band as a whole perform in the past.
He summed up their performances in one word: "phenomenal."
November 25, 2008 - Tuesday"Everybody Must Get Gnomed" CD ReviewJohn Fuzek, Motif
Magazine Roots Music WriterCategory: Music
The Gnomes' new disc includes such memorable numbers as: "Let's Get Gnomed", "Pauline's Tango", "Via
Umbria" and "Waterfall". The Gnomes play a lively blend of World Folk Fusion featuring a wide range of styles - Irish, Scandinavian, Eastern European, Caribbean as well as their own Rhode Island
style originals. Members: Cathy Clasper Torch, Phil Edmonds, Otis Read, Ron Schmitt, and Peter Breen play a slew of instruments that include accordion, fiddle, whistles, guitar, bass, percussion, and
vocals. Their music is guaranteed to get you moving and grooving. I told Cathy Clasper-Torch that the tallest garden gnome in the world is in Kerhonkson, NY and is named Chompsky. It is actually listed in
the Guinness Book of World Records. Kerhonkson just happens to be where this year's Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference (NERFA) will be. Otis Read is attending NERFA, maybe he will go check it out!
Cathy Clasper-Torch sent me an e-mail that read, "That is so funny that the big gnome is named Chomsky! At our gigs we sell 'Gnome Chomsky' buttons! Ha! Some people ask us, why did you
pick the name, 'The Gnomes'? Well, there is an answer to that, but it's also been a great source of puns and fun!" She didn't tell me the reasons…TEASE! She went on to add,
"In Europe they actually have Garden Gnome Liberation Fronts!" If you would like to talk gnomes with Cathy, find out the deep secret behind the band's name, start a Rhode Island chapter of the
Garden Gnome Liberation Front or just go out hear some really great music, then check out a Gnomes Gig!
November 6, 2008By Rick MassimoThe Providence Journal"'Everybody Must Get Gnomed' is the groaner of a title that THE GNOMES picked for their excellent new disc. Rhode Island traditional-music masters Phil
Edmonds (whistle and accordion) and Cathy Clasper-Torch (fiddle) team up with local stalwarts Otis Read (guitar, vocals), Peter Breen (bass, vocals) and Ron Schmitt (percussion) for a global gallop through
Celtic, Russian, Scandinavian and Hassidic instrumental traditions as well as singer-songwriter lyrical songs from Read."
November 2008"Everybody Must Get Gnomed"Motif Magazine ReviewBy G.W. MercureCategory: Music
The cover of this album says "world folk fusion" right on it.
Fusion makes me think of two things: jazz, and food. Jazz, according to Wynton Marsalis, is a negotiation. And while "Everybody Must Get
Gnomed" is not necessarily jazz, The Gnomes have negotiated a beautiful and broadly international feast here, with ideas, decisions, temperance and turns that keep a brisk, organic pace. Folk or traditional
songs that transcend their roots as dance and work music have usually done so by masking their syncopation in free-flowing melodies on diverse solo instruments such as fiddles, guitars and, most notably here,
But the steps are unmistakable and I challenge anyone to allow their gait to be broken while walking down the street with the disc's
opening medley playing on their headphones. "Hasidic Melody" finds the innate joy in mysticism by segueing into a pair of Irish jigs; the softly distorted bass brings the stomp to "Boys of the
Lough/Monaghan Twig" without sacrificing any of the Gnomes' delicate interlocution. From the refined blues of Roscoe Gordon's "Sit Right Here," on which Peter Breen brings an arching
clarity to the vocal, it's on to the next course, a tango. Then a tarantella. Than back to the tango. The next course is a polka, then a flamenco polka! Whoa, back up.
Who are these guys, and where are they getting these combinations? They are: Peter Breen on bass; Cathy Clasper-Torch on fiddle, erhu, keys
and cello; Phil Edmonds plays the accordion and the whistles; Otis Read is on vocals and guitar; Ron Schmitt plays every form of percussion known to mankind, some guitar, and some bass. Now that you've met
the chefs… Positioned near the center of the album and among only a few tracks to stand alone and apart from a medley, "Imagine Peace" is clearly the main course. A penetrating meditation for
accordion and whistle, it is swayed along by a windy keyboard refrain keeping waltz time.
Dessert starts with a pair of tributes to Otis Read's time spent living in Umbria, Italy. "Via Umbria" is a guitar and cello
driven tune that breaks behind a whistle that dances deliberately over the track like a time-lapse sunrise on a few dozen yards of olive trees. These are both Otis Read's compositions and he lays a reserved
vocal treatment over the Tropicalia-inflected "You've Got A Home.""Waterfall" is a tribal rhythm behind a series of ascending Western scales, accented by a few Stephane Grappelli-esque
violin turns and the meal is nearly over: All that's left is ceremony."Finn Yenta" is a quick Norwegian waltz led by violin into the album's ceremonial closer: "The Light and the
Spices" a Sephardic hymn to the Jewish ceremony of Havdalah, which is performed on Saturday evenings to conclude the Sabbath. The light is warm on "Everybody Must Get Gnomed," but it's the
spices that resonate: exotic, fresh and unique.
November 25, 2007By Rich Eldred[email protected]The Bourne Courier, Cape Cod, 2007Category: Music
Gnomes: Celtic Roots and World Music BranchesThe Gnomes bring their eclectic musical stew to the Grange Hall Coffeehouse on Nov. 10.
You won't go to many Irish music shows where you'll hear music from Israel, Russia, Scandinavia, Jamaica and Finland but then again
The Gnomes aren't your average Irish jig band.
The Providence Rhode Island based quintet will bring their eclectic brand of tunes to the Grange Hall Coffeehouse in Sandwich this Saturday night.
"We don't consciously choose to go with other styles, it's just something on our palette and we went with it and started to
incorporate it in our repertoire, " Gnomes guitarist Otis Read explained. "It's compatible with the instruments we use. One of the things about Celtic music [is that it] is restrictive and can lack
variety, you can get bogged down in genre. It's nice to be able to experiment."
Then again when you consider the group's varied backgrounds it isn't surprising that their musical menu is a smorgasbord of sounds.
"I was born in Burma and I lived my high school years in Hong Kong," fiddler-keyboardist Cathy Clasper-Torch recalled. "But
there is something about Irish music that reminded me of a lot of Asian music. It is something I felt very at home with right away."
Phil Edmonds is at home, the band's tin whistle and button accordionist was born in County Clare.
"I learned tin whistle in Ireland when I was seven or eight years old," Edmonds said. "My family emigrated here when I was 14
in '73. I went back to Ireland for six months and started playing again. When I came back I started going to Irish sessions. Those led to many bands over here."
It was out of these multiple bands and links The Gnomes were formed in 2004.
"I played guitar back in the '70's and started writing songs in high school. It just evolved from there, meeting different
musicians, learning different songs, maintaining different influences from other cultures," Read recalled.
He'd produced a couple of CD's; 'New England Christmastide' and 'Wind in the Rigging' before moving to Italy for a
couple of years. Read returned in a songwriting mood.
"We started I suppose when Otis came back from Italy," Edmonds recounted. "He asked me to record a CD with him, instrumental,
all original tunes, and I did. I asked Cathy Clasper-Torch in, who I had performed with me in the past. From there we started performing as a trio at India Restaurant in Warren. Then I asked Peter Breen (bass
and fiddle) in for bigger concerts and then we added Ron Schmitt as a percussionist."
The CD was Read's 'Under the Arch,' released in 2004. Clasper-Torch had performed with Edmonds as a duo while Edmonds was also in
a duo act with Read, but the fiddler and guitarist had never met until they worked on the CD.
"I always played since I was a kid," said Clasper-Torch. "Probably 15 years ago I happened upon a Mary Black album and became
very interested in Celtic music. So although I'm not Irish I was around people who played Irish music and I could learn from. I play with a number of groups that have a Celtic influence. Phil has been a
great teacher to me because he really embodies the music."
Keeping that Celtic base, The Gnomes released their own CD of instrumentals in 2006, 'To The Dance Floor' that spotlighted a Mexican
waltz, an Edmund's penned reel, a 'Finnish Fling' all mixed in with Irish roots material.
"We do a lot of our own music and we listen to CD's from all over the world to see what we can find," Edmonds explained.
"The title tune from 'To the Dance Floor' we came up with from listening to Cape Verdean beats, music."
The variety is part following their interest and part marketing strategy in the crowded world of Celtic music.
"With The Gnomes we focused on world music," Edmonds said. "Scandinavian, tangos, reggae, everything. In some of these cultures
they do use these instruments, in reggae I like adding some whistle licks, it really fits. I think for all of us The Gnomes is our favorite band. We have something pretty original to offer, Celtic with a world
music flavor. About a quarter of our music is Irish and the rest comes from many cultures. Still the tin whistle and (button) accordion gives it an Irish flavor."
It's fun for the musicians as well when they swap styles.
"I love the challenge of that, it presents a lot of distinct challenges for a fiddle player," Clasper-Torch declared. "It keeps me on my toes."
They wouldn't mind getting the audience on their toes either.
"I would love for people to get up and dance, that's what we love, but we cater also to the sit down audience," Edmonds said.
"Most all of our material will be up-tempo so it will be hard to sit there."
All three have been to the Cape before. Edmonds and Clasper-Torch played at The Grange as members of the Fourth Street String Band. Read lived
in Sandwich and Orleans in the late 70's and early 80's. He gigged around Cape Cod as part of Big Lost Rainbow (anyone remember them?). They'd like to widen their Rhode Island base and have played
several Irish Music festivals.
This winter The Gnomes will workshop CD number two, one that'll sport some vocals. In person half their material features singing but
they've yet to record a vocal for posterity.
For now they'll continue their tour on musical styles.
"I think we'll always be grateful for our Celtic roots and continue to explore those," Read said.
MOTIF MAGAZINE August 2-15, 2006 (www.motifmagazine.net)In The Groove By: Don DiMuccio
Gnomes come up big with first CDThere is little more satisfying to
a musician, painter, or any true lover of the arts than to see master craftsmen celebrating their skills. For those of us willing to listen, the experience can be humbling in its sense of joy and learning.
Recent memory precludes me from recalling a more graphic example of such a full musical expression than the new CD To The Dance Floor by a group with the unlikely name The Gnomes.
With a designate like that, I was half-expecting garage-destined punk rockers – perhaps a testament to how myopic I've become.
However, what I found were five seasoned musicians pouring the collective essence of their very souls into beautifully arranged instrumentals, most with a distinct Celtic flair.
The band clearly dips into a well of life experience to cull such convincing performances of Scandinavian, Eastern European, and general World
Music. The Gnomes are made up of Irish-born Phil Edmonds on button accordion and whistles, acclaimed violinist Cathy Clasper-Torch, percussionist Ron Schmitt, staple on the New England scene bassist Peter Breen,
and producer/musician extraordinaire Otis Read on guitar. Though these musicians regularly turn up on projects with Joyce Katzberg, Atwater-Donnelly, and other regional regulars, To The Dance Floor serves as the
assembled lineup's first recorded project.
Though many of the traditional songs herein contain instantly recognizable classic melodies, it's the original compositions by Phil
Edmonds that spotlight the proficiency of this unusually gratifying group. The title track is, as described on the CD's liner notes, a fusion of Irish and Cape Verdean-influenced music.
Moreover, it's a catchy number that astutely utilizes some superb percussion work by Schmitt. Another highlight is For Those No Longer
With Us, a moving albeit uplifting musical homage, paying tribute to the loved ones lost over the years with much grace and reverence. One of the unexpected gems on this disc came in the form Roy Rogers Comes To
Killaloe a bit of comedic relief which accomplishes the almost-impossible task of fusing Celtic with Cowboy. Inspired by a trip to Ireland by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, a young Phil Edmonds was transfixed by the
couple's roping and bullet catching tricks, and years later said inspiration makes for great music.
And therein lies the greatest strength of The Gnomes and all those who toil to the same end as they. Pulling memories, inspiration, life
events, and deep emotion into song is why Stradivari made violins, Les Paul makes guitars, and God made music. To The Dance Floor is an instrumental celebration to which all music lovers are invited.
The Gnomes To The Dance FloorReview by Arthur KetchenCeltic Beat Magazine
There are some works of art and music that just stand out, not by their ability to sensationalize, or to excite, but merely on a masterful and
unique vision conveyed with superb craftsmanship. The Gnomes(formerly the Lucky Band) release To The Dance Floor is one such example. Here is a love of the music as music. Whether playing to an audience or by
themselves what the members of The Gnomes do is way above and beyond the call of just good music.
To The Dance Floor is for starters the Gnomic meld of Celtic(Irish, Highland Scots), Scandinavian(Finnish particularly), Eastern European and
Latino styles and traditions,but that is just the beginning. The music here is by turns gentle, ecstatic, sad and elegaic, and always intriguing. The Gnomes don't need sturm and drang to draw you in, they
just draw you in by the beauty of what they do. Their intensity is not that of screaming guitars, it is far more powerful.
A big part of this is the work as a composer that Phil Edmonds does, he is both equally at home in the Cape Verdean-Latino music around him in
Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts and in the Irish tradition he grew up in. The title cut "To The Dance Floor" is an outstanding case in point. As is his counterpoint to the Celtic
Tiger-"The Celtic Lamb." If anyone can make a poetic statement with music, and one that is at times gentle and subtle and still will get to you, it is Phil. Add the excellence of the instrumentalists
here: Besides Phil on accordion and flute and whistle, here are the virtouso skills of fiddler Cathy Clasper Torch, guitarist Otis Read, bassist Peter Breen, and percussionist Ron Schmitt.
There is not a tune here that you do not feel like playing again after you've heard it. There is something here that covers human thought
and emotion in every walk of life. From "Kilda's March" /"Kilda's Wedding"/"Tam Lin"/Rolling In The Rye Grass" by turns happy and jaunty, then dour, to Phil'
Edmond's elegaic remembrance "For Those No Longer With Us" this music will catch you up in it's mood, or intensify the one you already have.
I first saw The Gnomes at Bright Night Providence 2006. I realized then that on whatever level of musical universe a new threshold had been
crossed whether the whole world knew it or not. And this CD just confirms that I was right.
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JDS Architects together with KLAR, CREO ARKITEKTER A/S and Sloth-Møller engineers has presented us their latest project, the Faaborg Harbour Bath and Blue Bass in Faaborg, Denmark. This was the winning design among the invited entrants to the Faaborg compeition and the execution process is ongoing. Follow after the jump for a few additional images and a short project briefing.
The new Faaborg Harbour Bath and Blue Base at the southern end of Fyn, is based on the idea of bathing in the sea and close to the elements. The concept of the bath is based on the idea of creating an open sea bathing area with piers branching out seawards creating swimming areas between them. The various functions define every pier in the bath. This creates a "finger plan" with open basins between four baths bridges of different width and length, where each bridge offers a new way to get in the water on and in which each pool has a specific use. The wooden piers form ramps, stairs, sitting opportunities and small pools for children. The Harbour Bath has changing rooms, a sauna and a 300 m² meeting point for boat tourism on land.
The Faaborg Harbour Bath will give the town of Faaborg a new public water space which will attract visitors and invite the locals to swim and enjoy water sports.
Architects: JDS Architects Location: Faaborg, Denmark Size: 1,600 + 500 m2 Budget: 15,000,000 DKK (2,000,000 EUR) Client: Faaborg Kommune Collaborators: KLAR, CREO ARKITEKTER A/S, Sloth-Møller Type: Invited Competition, 1st Prize Status: In progress


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30 grams of the finest quality ground Star Anise.
Star Anise Badiane or Chinese Star Anise is a spice that closely resembles Anise in flavor. Obtained from the star-shaped pericarp of Illicium verum a small native evergreen tree of southwest China. The star shaped fruits are harvested just before ripening.
It is widely grown for commercial use in China India and most other countries in Asia.
Star Anise is the industrial source of Shikimic acid a primary feedstock used to create the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. In 2005 there was a temporary shortage of star anise due to its use in making Tamiflu.
Star anise is grown in four provinces in China and harvested between March and May. Its also found in the south of New South Wales. The shikimic acid is extracted from the seeds in a ten-stage manufacturing process which takes a year. Reports say 90% of the harvest is already used by the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche in making Tamiflu but other reports say there is an abundance of the spice in the main regions – Fujian Guangdong Guangxi and Yunnan.
Culinary Use:
Star anise contains anethole the same ingredient which gives the unrelated anise its flavor. Recently star anise has come into use in the West as a less expensive substitute for anise in baking as well as in liquor production most distinctively in the production of the liquor Galliano. It is also used in the production of Sambuca pastis and many types of absinthe.
Star Anise is widely used in Chinese cuisine and Indian cuisine where it is a major component of garam masala and in Malay-Indonesian cuisine. Star anise is an ingredient of the traditional five-spice powder of Chinese cooking. It is also a major ingredient in the making of a Vietnamese noodle soup. It is used as a spice in preparation of Biryani in Andhra Pradesh a state of southern India. In Marathi it is called BarDan which literally means "spice with twelve seeds.
Medicinal Use
Star Anise is recognised as a Diuretic odontalgic stimulant. The fruit is carminative stimulant and stomachic. It is used primarily to promote digestion and the appetite and to relieve flatulence. It also makes a good additive to other medicines to improve their taste. The leaves and the seeds are antibacterial
Star anise has been used in a tea as a remedy for rheumatism and the seeds are sometimes chewed after meals to aid digestion.
Using Star Anise as a remedy for colic may be dangerous
Japanese star anise (Illicium anisatum) a similar tree is not edible because it is highly toxic.
https://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Illicium anisatum


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The leave can be available when:
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The high speed networking that ESnet provides supports an incredibly varied range of scientific projects. The express purpose of DOE national labs is to conduct research in the national interest. Much is basic research, exploring fundamental issue in physics, energy, cosmology, and climate science. However the study of microbial evolution is one intriguing area that is already changing our lives with everything from new medicines to potential fuels.
Microbes are single-cell organisms that live in colonies and can be found in nearly every corner of our planet, in places ranging from insects' intestines to some of the most toxic chemical environments. The site for the most detailed information on the genetic makeup of these organisms only lives in one place – at the DOE's Joint Genome Institute – and is accessed via ESnet. The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) Data Management System provides the genetic makeup of thousands of microbes and tools for analyzing the functional capability of microbial communities based on their metagenome DNA sequence. Understanding these tiny organisms can provide new insights into a wide range of important problems, but in order to study the microbes, scientists need reliable access to the genomic data.
Microbes such as bacteria are responsible for a number of diseases, such as plague, tuberculosis and anthrax, while microbes known as protozoa cause diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness and toxoplasmosis. On the plus side, microbes also live helpfully in human digestive systems, helping to digest carbohydrates and synthesize certain vitamins.
Famously, taq polymerase, an enzyme isolated from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus found in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park in 1965, became the basis for PCR, the technique for amplifying short strands of DNA that has revolutionized biologic and genetic research. While some scientists examine exotic microbes like Deinococcus radiodurans, the most radiation-resistant organism known (and the darling of exobiologists, found as a contaminant of irradiated canned meat in 1956) for clues to how life began on earth and could evolve on other planets, your laundry detergent probably contains enzymes developed from bacteria that evolved in hot, alkaline conditions.
In the private sector, microbes are genetically modified to develop innovative drugs as well as industrial products. In an example close to home, a few years back, LBNL's Joint BioEnergy Institute director Jay Keasling used microbial evolution techniques to synthesize artemisinic acid, a precursor to artemisinin, an anti-malarial compound. Artemisinin is derived from Artemisia annua or wormwood, a plant known to Chinese medicine for centuries. Keasling made a steady supply that could be manufactured extremely cheaply and at large volumes, so accessible to people in developing countries.
Keasling's next project is to use microbes as potential energy sources by turning them into factories to produce sugars. Certain microbes living in termite guts are essential for digesting the wood fibers eaten by the insect. While this can be bad news for homeowners, the chemical capabilities of the "bugs" in these bugs are being studied as for their potential in converting wood and other plant matter into new energy sources. Successfully producing fuel using plant waste instead of food crops like corn, could improve our country's future energy options. To be sure, there still are prosaic bars to overcome, such as chemical separation and processing in volumes high enough to meet our insatiable demand for transport fuels. Other scientists at DOE national labs such as NREL and a host of private companies, some right across San Francisco Bay from our headquarters at ESnet, are investigating how to make gasoline and jet fuel from microorganisms. Genetic analysis is the essential first step in growing hardworking bacteria with the desired qualities.
Another promising microbial application is environmental cleanup. One form of bacteria found almost 2 miles underground in a South African gold mine lives in total darkness, 140 degrees Fahrenheit – and no oxygen. The organism gets its energy not from the sun but from hydrogen and sulfate produced by the radioactive decay of uranium. By understanding how life can thrive in such an apparently toxic setting, scientists may get new insight into using microbes to clean up environmental contamination.
Currently, the IMG database contains complete genomes for 4,879 microbes, with another 1,569 in draft form. Of the total, 1,107 are bacteria and 2,536 are viruses. The information, containing data for more than 20 million genes, is provided freely to interested researchers.


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Stena Impero was seized by Iranian forces for alleged maritime violations [File: Tasnim News Agency/AP]
Iran has said Stena Impero, a Swedish-owned tanker sailing under the British flag, is "free" to leave, more than two months after its seizure in the Strait of Hormuz sharply escalated tensions in one of the world's most significant oil shipping lanes.
"The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tanker can move," Aliu Rabiei, government spokesman, said at a news conference on Monday.
It was not immediately clear when the Stena Impero would set sail.
The vessel, with 23 crew members on board, was seized on July 19 by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for allegedly violating international maritime rules. The United Kingdom and Stena Bulk, the company that owns the vessel, denied the allegations.
Herik Hannel, the chief executive of Stena Bulk, welcomed Monday's news with caution.
"We hope it [the tanker] will be able to leave in a few hours, but we don't want to take anything for granted. We want to make sure the ship sails out of Iranian territorial waters," Hannel told Swedish television station SVT on Monday
The tanker's capture came two weeks after British forces seized Iranian tanker Grace 1, now known as Adrian Darya 1, during an operation off Gibraltar over suspicions it was breaching European Union sanctions by transporting oil to Syria. Iran denied the allegations.
Despite an attempt by the United States to extend the detention of the Grace 1, the tanker was released in mid-August after Tehran formally assured that the vessel would not discharge its 2.1 million barrels of oil in Syria.
The seizure of both vessels came amid rising tensions in the Gulf between Iran and the United States.
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated since US President Donald Trump withdrew last year from the 2015 nuclear deal brokered between Iran and world powers to prevent Tehran from building nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief.
Since then, the US administration has adopted a "maximum pressure" campaign aimed at crippling Iran's oil exports, the country's main source of income.
Monday's announcement came on the same day UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined the US in accusing Iran of being "with a very high degree of probability" responsible for the attack on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia on September 14.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday on the plane to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, Johnson said the UK would consider taking part in a US-led military effort in Gulf.
"Clearly, if we are asked, either by the Saudis or by the Americans, to have a role then we will consider in what way we could be useful," Johnson said.


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A well rounded life at Bish
At Bish we provide a structured environment for you to obtain the best academic results, and give you the opportunity for social, sporting and cultural activities.
It gives you an environment that will encourage you to achieve your best during your first years at university, and establish you in friendships that may well last a lifetime. We have students from all faculties at UC giving us great cross section of students.
We are a diverse community of people from around New Zealand as well as other countries. We have a high ratio of Welfare staff to students and pastoral care is a high priority for those who need assistance and guidance at some stage. You will get to know the welfare staff and they are there to help.
The hall is a vibrant cultural, social, and sporting community which complements academic life and gives you a wonderful experience of living as an individual among a caring group of people. We have an annual ball, term dinners including mid winters and valedictory dinners, and themed parties. We take part in the inter hall sporting and cultural events organised annually by the university and the halls. If you are musical, sporty or like drama then this is the place for you.
- A large study centre provides the focus for academic life: study, tutorials and recreation.
- There is a music room and computer room with computers linked to the University. The Christchurch Press is available each day to members.
- A brand new Common Room has been built with Sky Television and other entertainment available. Students also have access to a large screen TV with a Video and DVD player in the study centre.
- In the evenings the front foyer of the Hall becomes a homely common area with Freeview TV and a DVD player as well.


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G.K Update 6, june 2016 (English)
By. D.K. Choudhary
Sasikumar appointed as new MD of SBT
i. CR Sasikumar has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore (SBT), one of the associate banks of State Bank of India (SBI).
ii. Prior to the present posting in SBT, he was Deputy Managing Director, Inspection & Management Audit, at SBI Corporate Centre in Hyderabad.
iii. State Bank of Travancore (SBT), is a subsidiary of the State Bank Group and also has private shareholders. It is the premier bank of Kerala, India
Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali Dies At 74
ii. Ali had suffered for three decades from Parkinson's Disease, a progressive neurological condition that slowly robbed him of both his legendary verbal grace and his physical dexterity.
iii. He also wrote several best-selling books about his career, including The Greatest: My Own Story and The Soul of a Butterfly.
Odisha becomes first state to give social welfare benefits to transgender community
i. Odisha is first in the country to give transgender people social welfare benefits – such as a pension, housing and food grains.
ii. This move seeks to give the transgender community in the state same benefits as those living below the poverty line (BPL) in order to improve their overall social and economic status.
iii. They would also be entitled 5 kg of food grains every month under National Food Security Act.
IBC Gets Affiliation From Commonwealth Boxing Council
i. The Indian Boxing Council ( IBC ), a licensing body for professional boxers in the country which has Vijender Singh among others on its roster, has been granted affiliation by the Commonwealth Boxing Council.
ii. It is a National Boxing Governing body that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards national and subordinate championship titles.
iii. It is the first time in India where there is an opportunity for the Boxers to be professional. It also aims to promote and serve the sport of boxing, to implement fair, scientific and objective computerised systems.
Khattar inuagurates 'Jai Jawan Awas Yojna' to provide affordable housing to serving, retired JCOs
i. Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar laid the foundation stone of Jai Jawan Awas Yojna (JJAY), an initiative to provide affordable housing to serving and retired JCOs and Other Ranks at Bahadurgarh, Haryana.
ii. General Dalbir Singh, Chief of Army Staff was the Guest of Honour during the event.
iii. The project is being executed by Army Welfare Housing Organization and aims to provide low cost housing. This housing project has been named in the memory of Late Major Rajiv Joon, recipient of Ashok Chakra and Shaurya Chakra, who had attained martyrdom fighting militants in Anantnag district of Jammu & Kashmir.
V.O.Chidambaranar Port Bags National Award For Excellence In Cost Management
i. V.O. Chidambaranar Port has bagged National Award for Excellence in Cost Management for the year 2015 from The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) under the category of Public Service Sector- Small.
ii. This is the third time this port is receiving the award , the earlier years being 2008 and 2012.
iii. The award has been given for exemplary performance of V.O. Chidambaranar Port towards optimization of manpower, savings in electricity, implementation of Solar Energy Systems, reduction of overall cost of handling by mechanization and improvising efficiency and logistics support.
HDFC Ergo Buys L&T Insurance For Rs 551 crore
i. HDFC Ergo General Insurance, the insurance arm of mortgage lender HDFC, has acquired L&T General Insurance for Rs 551 crore.
ii. L&T General Insurance had reported gross earned premium (GEP) of Rs 483 crore for the last financial year, which puts the deal value at 1.14 times of the GEP.
iii. L&T General Insurance is a wholly-owned subsidiary of infrastructure and engineering major Larsen & Toubro.
Leander Paes wins to complete mixed doubles 'Career Slam'
i. Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes completed a 'Career Slam' in mixed doubles with Swiss partner Martina Hingis with a hard-fought win over compatriot Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig, in Paris.
ii.It was 18th Grand Slam title for Paes and 10th in the mixed doubles.
iii. Defending champion Serena Williams will take on fourth seeded Spaniard Garbine Muguruza in Women's Singles final


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Sometimes I realize how ridiculous it is that reviewers/critics exist – in the end, does one person's generally subjective opinion really matter? No. Do I think it's irritating that a review from one person can sometimes make or break a restaurant, or at least affect the number of diners the place thereafter draws in for dinner? A huh. Do I think foie gras is an overrated, overused hunk of fat? I sure do. But those are my opinions. Show me negative reviews with consistent complaints from several experts, and I may discount a restaurant, but one person's view isn't going to directly affect mine. I've worked in the back AND the front of the house, I've certainly been a diner, and I've spent over 2 years preparing meals directly in clients' homes, tailored exactly to their individual tastes. Opinions, likes, and dislikes are everywhere. What matters is the preparation of the food. Is it properly cooked? Did it require impressive skill or knowledge to prepare? Did everything on the plate make sense together? Did I receive what I expected based on the description? Whether it was filet mignon with truffles or sloppy, sticky BBQ, did it taste the way it should and was it put up in a proper amount of time? Did each bite roar with flavor? Those are the things I care about knowing when I read about a restaurant. I want to know only about the food, and so that's all I write about. Here is an account of a dinner I genuinely enjoyed last night at Lilly's Bistro, a time-tested culinary staple in Louisville since 1988. I don't need to tell you that this place is great, but, in my self-indulgent reviewer opinion, I think you DO need to know how wonderful this particular meal happened to be based on what I consumed. Not because I want to influence you, but because I want to share my experience. Think of it as more of a story, as a testament to excellent dining, than a review.
Last night, I enjoyed a special 5-Course Argentina wine dinner at Lilly's which showcased the fruits of Chef/Owner Kathy Cary's culinary-oriented travels through Argentina last October. Argentina's cuisine is heavily influenced by Italy, and so this meal was a beautiful fusion of both Latin and Italian flavors/techniques, with items such as empanadas, risotto, pappardelle, basil, chimichurri, and 2 wines that were started in Italy and finished in Argentina.
David Dubou of Vintner Select did a wonderful job of pairing wines with each course, and when he arrived at my table, he made a point of sharing that the first two wines were made by female vintners, which is remarkable because wine is still a heavily male-dominated industry in Argentina. However, because women have heightened senses of taste and smell, they tend to create wines that are decidedly more complex with rounded, subtle notes. Because of this "gift", he said that women vintners are slowly beginning to be embraced in Argentina.
The appetizer, a warm Stonecross Pork Empanada, was just lovely. Served alongside a cool "avocado, tomato, and lemon salsa" (lemony guacamole), it was stuffed perfectly with a dense pork filling. The meat itself had an impossibly fine texture, but was packed so tightly into the flaky pastry that it almost became a super tender sausage. Laced with warm spices, a solid kick of heat, and a citrus punch from the avocado "salsa", this paired really well with the Altivo 2011 Torrontes "Vineyard Selection", which was a crisp, clean, citrusy white wine that smelled delectably (and deceptively) sweet. This course was simple, but it was a nice WOW to start off the meal. I know, I know – it was just an empanada. But it was a very good one.
The second course, Ruby Red Truchas, was impeccably designed and seasoned to perfection. The Ruby Red trout encrusted with parsnip coin scales was nicely cooked with a crisp skin. It rested on a bed of well-made and perfectly-seasoned lemon risotto, which was snuggled up against an emerald green pile of spinach and a circle of pale green basil foam. The fish was seductively draped in an utterly delectable, sweet, smooth, pale yellow sauce in which I tasted honey and lemon. Now, let me make something very, very clear: I HATE foams. I don't care how wonderful they taste because they look like cat spit. That being said, this basil foam changed my mind – it was intensely flavorful and downright pretty. Best of all, it made sense on the plate. This course wouldn't have been the same without it. As for the wine, this was the best pairing in my opinion. A crisp, citrusy white with a beautiful golden color, the grape used in its production offered a rounded, almost honey-like flavor that made the entire dish, particularly that sweet yellow sauce, sing. This was a truly glorious pairing and a fantastic dish.
The third course, a Homemade Porcini Pappardelle, was a very interesting nod to the persistent Italian influence in Argentina. It wasn't the prettiest dish of the evening, but the pasta was a perfect al dente, cool microgreens offered a welcome fresh element, and the color of the red wine-poached egg was striking. Once I had tasted each component, I pierced the egg and released the beautiful, oozy yolk, then swirled everything together. The result was much like a carbonara, though a spicy version with a complex red sauce. The accompanying red wine, Colonia las Liebres 2011 Bonarda, was light and clean with much less body than I had expected. It was subtle, though pure and delicious with a gentle sweetness, a bright acidity, and notes of black pepper that complemented the dish very well.
The fourth course, the "Yes – a plate of meat!" dish, was fantastic. Simply labeled "Asado" on the menu, it was a bold, exciting plate of food, and if I really HAVE to choose, it was my favorite. A beautifully tender cube of roasted bone-in ribeye and a fan of intensely delicious peppercorn-rubbed New York strip rested gently against tender chorizo gnocchi that were caramelized to a crisp golden brown on the outside but were light as air and surprisingly flavorful inside. The beef was fabulous, but those gnocchi stole the show. With an acid green stroke of well-made chimichurri waiting off to the side and a pile of crisp, fried salsify on top that melted on the tongue, it was truly outstanding. Every element played a lovely tune on its own, but a bit of everything in one forkful was a symphony that only we diners could hear. I giggled to myself when I first read the name of the wine that accompanied the dish – Vale la Pena (2007 Malbec, "Laurel Glen Vineyard") – because "vale la pena" is the Spanish equivalent of "worth it" or "worth the time". (I remember pathetically little Spanish from school, but I did remember that!) It paired very well with the dish, and certainly lived up to its apt name.
The fifth course was a very simple cheese platter with a trio of Spanish and Italian cheeses, nicely-grilled bread, and a small pillow of intensely sweet carrot. The Manchego, a Spanish sheep's milk cheese, with its distinctive cross hatch-patterned rind, was buttery and firm. The Queso Iberico, which is often mistaken for Manchego, was hard and tasted much like Manchego! Imagine that. ;) Soft, creamy Tallegio, an Italian cow's milk cheese with a subtle blue cheese twang, was a perfect addition to the platter. This course's wine pairing, the Altos las Hormigas 2006 Malbec "Vista Flores – Single Vineyard", was intense. It was very thick, very strong, and very dry, and though it was a nice wine, I felt like it upstaged all the beautiful and subtle complexities of the cheese.
Though dessert wasn't a scheduled portion of the meal, the kitchen staff did present some pretty little nibbles so that each of us could end the meal with something sweet. What I received was a round lemon curd wafer that was crumbly and luscious, much like a lemon bar, and a dark chocolate-hazelnut curl that much resembled a potato chip! Alas, it was not a crunchy spud, but it was smooth, rich, and delicious. A great way to end the meal.
This dinner was truly something special. I've eaten at many restaurants in town since I began writing, and I have to say that any place should take a page from Lilly's on how to season food perfectly. It sounds simple, perhaps ridiculous, but salt and pepper make or break a diner's enjoyment of a meal, and the staff back in the kitchen last night did not disappoint. Also, not a single ingredient was unnecessary or without purpose throughout the entire meal. That, in and of itself, is something special and commendable. I believe that proper seasoning and simplicity are the marks of a confident, matured culinary team, and though I'm sure the kitchen was as chaotic and lively as the dining room was serene and comfortable, they really did a great job and should be proud. Thank you to General Manager Mytch Law, Chef Kathy Cary, Chef de Cuisine David Scales, my lovely and attentive waitress, and the hard-working, efficient kitchen staff for a great meal!
Pictures are below.
I certainly hope Chef Cary travels again soon.
Lilly's Bistro
1147 Bardstown Road
(502) 451-0447
Open: Tuesday through Saturday from 11 AM to 3 PM and 5 PM to 10 PM