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In Which We Determine How The Hell Permanent Trinity Groves Pop-Up Restaurant Kitchen LTO Works.
Nick Amoriello puts down his knives and walks out to greet his very first customers. He grins from ear to ear as the customers wipe away from the corners of their mouths the meal he has prepared for them.
Slowly, more customers begin to trickle in. These curiosity seekers have gotten the news that a new chef has arrived at Kitchen LTO.
LTO, you see, stands for Limited Time Only and Amoriello is the sixth chef to take the reins at this popular permanent pop-up restaurant in Trinity Groves. He replaces Anastacia Quiñones, who for sixth months dished out some of the best modern Mexican cuisine in Dallas in this same spot as part of menu that included some delicious crab stuffed enchiladas that are now nowhere to be found unless and until she goes on to open her own place, fingers crossed.
That's LTO and Trinity Groves' restaurant-incubator concept in a nutshell. Once you get to know and love a chef's cuisine is when the tablecloth is pulled right from under your plate.
Literally, everything changes at LTO once a new chef takes over — from the silverware to the table decor to the servers' uniforms. The paintings on the wall are even traded out as, with Crimson Shults' work going out and Sara Reiss coming in to take over for version 6.0 of the restaurant.
All of this shifting, redesigning and constant rotation would be maddening for some restaurant owners. But not Casie Caldwell. She embraces change. It's her role to be the glue holding things together here.
"It's always evolving," Caldwell says. "I think my job is refining that process and making that transition smooth. I give my people the tools that they need to get their job done. If I'm not doing that. then I'm not doing my job."
The only facets of the restaurant that remain static from set-up to set-up are the general staff, from both the front and the back of the house. Among those staffers is Jason Parsons, LTO's first and only bartender, who prepares the drink and cocktail menu for each version. He says his job is to find the right drinks for the right food, but most importantly keep the menu seasonal. Parsons says Amorellio's regional and rustic comfort cuisine calls for some drinks like a Honeysuckle Shandy, which he crafted to be paired with the chef's Buffalo Fried Quail.
Rustic is perhaps not the right term for Amorellio's cooking. His dishes are neither clumsy nor bulky. They are carefully prepared works of edible art, the result of skills he's honed for nearly 20 years. Amoriello is 32 years old, but he's been cooking in restaurants since he was 15. A position like this one — which he won as part of an open-call competition — has been a long time coming, but he says he's glad to take on an executive chef position at this age rather than when he was fresh out of culinary school.
"There was a time when I was 22 or 23 and I was like, 'You know what, man? I could totally do a restaurant right now! I got this!'" he says. "I'm so glad that did not happen, because it probably would have burned to the ground, literally."
A father of two daughters, Amorellio understands the stressful pressure he is under to perform at a high level. Without that awareness, he may not have been chosen as a finalist for LTO 6.0, as the contestants' ability to handle stress is one of the major qualities for which Caldwell is looking.
"We're looking for people that obviously have the culinary skills and skill level to teach and to maintain a busy kitchen on a Friday and Saturday night," Caldwell says. "Also, do they have the personality to be able to come out and talk to the guests? And then, of course, there's also the factor of: how are you going to treat our staff? How are they treating the lead cook? How are they treating the dishwasher? You get a pretty good vibe as to whether or not you're going to be able to work with this person for six months."
After this careful scrutiny of the contestants, Caldwell and her restaurant partners are confident that one of their five named finalists for each round will find success. That's then when the general public gets a turn to cast its vote. At that point, contestants are thronged into a frantic tasting audition where up to 350 patrons have the opportunity to taste the chef's favorite dishes. Additionally, the chefs are given a chance to appeal to voters online, on radio or surely by skywriting if they felt so inclined. After a week of public voting, the winning chef is announced. Three weeks later, he or she is in the kitchen, slinging their new menu concept to the populace. (Amorellio was fortunate enough to have a group of supportive colleagues from his former restaurant-home at Rapscallion run his social media campaign.)
So far, the public's chosen wisely. Each of the first five chefs at LTO have gone on to reach a certain degree of success. Inaugural chef Norman Grimm went on to become executive chef at Souk and currently has been given the keys to a new steakhouse called The Trophy Ranch. After him was chef Eric Shelton, whose fresh and delicate cuisine had Café Momentum clamoring for his expertise before he moved into the role of head chef at Salina Country Club. Brooke Egger, who won the third LTO contest, later held the position of "jelly princess" at The Jelly Queens, an organic artisan jam and jelly company based in Dallas.
The most successful chef to rise out of the fires of LTO, though, is Blythe Beck. During a time when Caldwell rotated the chefs every four months, Beck — already something of a known entity thanks to her time on TV — was given an extra stay at LTO amounting to a total of eight months thanks to her strong sales. Beck's run actually changed the game here some: Now, each LTO chef is given a six-month stay instead of four — a change that Caldwell says helps each chef to hit their stride, and for the patrons to really embrace the new menu. It was such a strong stint, in fact, that Caldwell has come on as a partner at Beck's new Pink Magnolia spot in Bishop Arts.
Such a success is what Caldwell hopes for all of her chefs.
"She kind of scouts out the talent," outgoing LTO chef Quiñones says about Caldwell's veracity as a recruiter for chefs in her restaurant. "When she finds you, she will not stop until she gets you to do it. She will make sure she gets you in here to do a tasting, to do the competition. But, you know, she's very supportive."
Now is Amoriello's time to hone his skills and soak in all of the nuances that come with existing as the new executive chef of a very popular restaurant, if only for six months. As he peeks into the dining room from his new home in the kitchen, he has a look of steely concentration. When another ticket is rung in, he immediately turns to his cooks to lay out the game plan. In the blink of an eye, a beautiful pork belly dish appears in the kitchen window. Chef Amoriello calls over the service staff and explains to them the details of the dish. then claps his hands and sends off his troops with a smile that pushes through his enormous beard. The server charged with delivering this plate, wearing a brand new plaid shirt, zips across the dining room floor and delivers what LTO hopes will be just one of the first of many delicious dishes this new chef will direct.
For his part, Amoriello looks up to the task.
"I'm just at a point in my career where I'm very confident," he says, "not just in my cooking skills but also my management skills."


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I had awful dreams last night, the first woke me just before midnight. I went to visit a friend and for some reason decided to lie down on his sofa, I was in my normal clothes. Someone else was in the room but neither of them spoke to me. I had a chocolate in my hand and was asleep but could still hear. When I got up I was in my jim jams. I went to the hallway and could hear voices upstairs, I didn't recognise one of them. I ran to my car but it wasn't there, I kept running and eventually found it although it was parked on some ramp on only three wheels.I then ended up in a house with my father, we were walking along a landing and the ceiling kept getting lower and lower. We turned back and my father clutched his chest. I was then asked to do something really awful (so awful I can't bring myself to type it here) I kept crying and saying "please don't make me do it, you are my father") then I woke up crying.My next dream was later in the night and involved me and a MTB. A guy was trying to sell me some hubs but I refused them as they weren't red. There was some kind of race going on and we had to walk the track first. I can remember all of the buildings in great detail.I am tired now.
Last night I cut the heads off about 30 goats whilst in some shitty middle eastern market place
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
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Gathering around a table with family and friends over a comfort food type of meal is one of the simple things in life that we love to embrace. This Autumn Idaho Styled Shoot brings out everything I love about the fall weather: good food, gorgeous decor, and enough places for family and friends to gather together.
The tablescape is perfect for a thanksgiving meal (or any fall meal, really), with the basil greens, muted yellows, and amber oranges, that pair perfectly with the pops of eggplant purples. And who isn't obsessed with those raw wood chargers? After enjoying a delicious meal like this one, guests will need to relax in the cozy siting area complete with a chocolate dessert cake roll (one of my favorites)! And of course get in some cuddles with the adorable golden retriever, Whiskey, while wrapped in a cozy plaid throw blanket.
Since I am in the Thanksgiving mood now, I am ready to give thanks to the awesome design team that worked together to make this shoot truly one to be grateful for! I hope you all enjoy this shoot as much as I did!
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Exciting news! This month I'm the guest curator on the fabulous online gallery, the Beholder! The Beholder has a ton of great art which made my job of selecting just a handful of pieces difficult. I was particularly drawn to art on the site that was understated, figurative, graphic, and neutral (color-wise), which I loosely-classify as contemporary folk art. The term "contemporary folk" has a broad array of definitions, but I think this collection provides a good sampling of some of the more compelling examples of this genre. Scroll down for my statement on the collection.
Big thanks to Suzanne Shade, the Beholder's director/curator!


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So after building the IF Filter haphazard looking like a spastic, I connected up the test gear to run a Bode Plot to see the shape of the filter. I then proceeded to sit here wondering what i did wrong for the next hour as my 500hz CW Filter is almost 4K wide and probably ok as an AM Filter. LOL. Well, slow as slow can be it dawned on me, I grabbed 470 capacitors out of the box, thinking they were 470pf not 471 capacitors which are 470 pf. So in my haste and not thinking i have 47pf capacitors in my filter not what i originally planned.
On a positive note, the shape is not all that bad and not to much ripple even though the input to the filter is not correctly terminated. That is another headache, trying to get accurate measurements of in and output impedances and matching right when you have not built the preceeding stages. So I am going to switch to Termination Insensitive Amps for the IF and make my life easier.


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Two friends, Bill and jim, were chatting last week. Bill is a Catholic and Jim a Christian Right Protestant. Jim: "Bill if you are really a good Catholic you cannot vote for Biden because he favors the legalization of abortion." Bill: "Actually I think I CAN vote for Biden. You, however, absolutely CANNOT vote for Trump. He may oppose abortion; but in no way is he pro-life…."
Fortunately, Bill and Jim are still good friends and both respect each other, even with their political and theological differences. They are good examples however of the variety of "Christians" today; and a good introduction to my reflection this weekend on "The Christian Right."
Today's Christian Right is well known for promoting socially conservative positions on issues like school prayer, intelligent design, embryonic stem cell research, homosexuality, LGBT rights, and abortion. Most often the term "Christian Right" is connected with political action groups in the United States. In fact however, far right Christian groups are active in several contemporary European countries. I think immediately, for example, of Hungary under its far-right leader, Viktor Orbán and the far-right Catholic revival in Poland under its far-right president Andrzej Duda.
In the United States, evangelical Christians constitute a core constituency in the Christian Right but one should not therefore say that all evangelicals belong to the Christian Right. A large number of American Catholics also belong to the Christian Right's core base; and 52% of US Catholics, remember, voted for Donald Trump in 2016.
An historical perspective helps one understand the contemporary Christian Right, which the investigative journalist, Katherine Stewart, calls the "Power Worshipers," because so many of them are indeed cult-like authoritarian followers. [See Stewart's book: The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.]
Already In 1863, representatives from eleven Christian denominations (Protestant leaders and Catholic bishops) organized the National Reform Association with the goal of adding an amendment to the US Constitution. They wanted to establish the United States as a Christian state. Their amendment stated that they would acknowledge "Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among nations, His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government…."
In 1895, the largest women's organization in the United States, at that time, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union announced its solidarity with the National Reform Association, proclaiming "God in Christ is the King of Nations, and as such should be acknowledged in our government; and His Word made the basis of our laws."
The National Reform Association never achieved its constitutional amendment goal and separation of church and state is still a key official US jurisprudential principle for defining the political relationship between religious organizations and the state.
In the 1970s, the Christian Right became a notable force in both the Republican party and American politics, when the Baptist Pastor Jerry Falwell and other Christian leaders began to urge conservative Christians to actively involve themselves in the US political process. A number of US Christian Right universities began, as well, to actively educate young Americans in the philosophy and theology of the Christian Right. Key among them are: Bob Jones University (Greenville, South Carolina) – Protestant Fundamentalist, founded in 1927; Jerry Falwell's Liberty University (Lynchburg, Virginia) – Baptist, founded in 1971; Christendom College (Front Royal, Virginia) – Roman Catholic, founded in 1977; and Regent University (Virginia Beach, Virginia) – Evangelical Christian, founded in 1977.
Members of the Christian Right hold to a literal interpretation of the Bible and a more static rather than developmental understanding of human nature. They see God as a rigid reward-and-punishment task master. The Christian Right's "enemies" therefore are God's enemies and deserve damnation, punishment; and some a cruel death.
Since about 1980, the Christian right has been the focus of several socio-political movements: Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, and the Family Research Council. The Christian Right strongly supported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter; and Reagan was the first US president to describe himself as a "born-again Christian."
More recently however members of the Christian Right — much like Al-Qaeda – have begun to promote violent right-wing extremists who lash out and kill in the name of religion. They are terrorists who consider themselves "Holly Warriors" acting through paramilitary organizations, cults, and loose groups of people who promote hatred and chaos. They find support and promote the current US president as their God-sent savior, in a very cultic authoritarian way. They are indeed Power Worshippers.
So what is my point in all of this? I will pursue and explain that next week…..


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Cap City Half : Week One
Week one of training is in the books! Once again we had some crazy weather (huge snow storm, followed by an intense wind storm that left us without power for 10 hours), but I had a pretty good week of workouts. Here's how it went!
4.5 miles / 9:48 pace
Dirty Dozenplan that I'm following has a core workout that's supposed to be done on Mondays, so I made sure to do all 12 of the moves right when I got home from my run.
Beat Fitness / 1 hour
Class was pretty intense today, and I left completely sweaty. The moves we completed were- dumbbell pull-down, kettlebell squats, TRX row, barbell back squat, hip thrusts, bicycle crunch, True From treadmill sprints, wall sits, mountain climbers, and club swings. It was challenging but great!
Rest Day!
We got hit with a HUGE snow storm, so I stayed home from work and didn't really do much of anything.
2.5 miles
Yoga Glo / 1.25 hours
I met up with a friend to try out a new yoga studio in Shadyside- Yoga Love. This one was candlelit and was super relaxing. The flow itself was pretty challenging and moved really quickly. I enjoyed it a lot!
5 mile run
I met up with Jessie for an early morning long run! We did a lap around North Park and it went by really quickly, and I felt great.
3 mile hike
A few weeks ago, I joined a Outdoors club to meet up with other local ladies to do fun activities outside. We met up at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve and had a great hike.
Rest Day!
Went to Top Golf with a few friends for two hours of golfing, but otherwise just relaxed all day and took it easy.
Have a great week!


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By Devin Hartman | R Street Institute
This year's USAEE conference will offer an insightful refresh on many themes and explore today's hot topics like the DOE and FERC agendas and energy protectionism in practice. Expert panels will explore the battery revolution, new findings in energy consumer behavior, U.S. energy production resurgence, and more!
Last year's USAEE conference in Houston showcased leading research in areas like intelligent energy systems and integrating renewables into electricity markets. It also revealed practitioner insights on topics ranging from entrepreneurship in energy to the shifting geopolitics of oil and natural gas. Plus, the networking opportunities proved valuable to students, academics, and professionals on a variety of energy career paths.
And don't forget that NCAC member Natalie Kempkey will be moderating a plenary session. The workshop on energy risk management features NCAC's own Elaine Levin and Alan Levine. There is also a Tuesday tour of NCAC member Andy Knox's net zero home in D.C. Plus, the Sunday workshop on Making Good Presentations is chaired by past USAEE and NCAC president Adam Sieminski. Barney Rush did a write-up about his panel, below.
By Barney Rush, Board Member, ISO New England | Rush Energy Consulting
NCAC members have been helping to organize the upcoming USAEE Conference in Alexandria, Sunday, September 23 through Wednesday, September 26. On Tuesday, September 25, I will be moderating a plenary panel that will focus on one of the major challenges facing US wholesale power markets: how ISOs/RTOs will maintain reliability as the grid is powered increasingly by gas and renewables.
Will markets work to sustain needed conventional generation, in an era of low energy prices? How should ISOs adjust their markets and planning to account for demand side management and distributed generation? Can these challenges be addressed with continued reliance on markets, or will we enter a new era of regulated returns?
The panelists include two chief executive officers of ISOs: Andy Ott from PJM and Gordon van Welie from ISO New England. They will be joined by Thad Hill, CEO of Calpine. The institutions that they oversee are at the center of the debates on these critical issues, and we look forward to hearing the thoughts and insights of these three leading executives.
By Jim McDonnell | Avalon Energy Services
The shale revolution has led to a dramatic increase in the production of natural gas and associated propane. Despite expanding demand, the increasing supply of natural gas has kept natural gas prices low. Has the increasing supply of propane kept propane prices low? No. Read more here about this issue of importance to rural areas that are "beyond the main" for natural gas service.
By Ben Schlesinger | Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates, LLC (BSA)
We're getting closer! Our attempted net-carbon-neutral house in St. Michaels, Maryland, won't be finished for another two months, but its energy systems are now starting to spool up. Although it's still too soon to report any systematic results, data reported on our utility and solar provider apps look promising.
This month's illustration (attached) is a snapshot of the past few days from our page on Choptank Electric Cooperative's website. The indication is that our 50 SunPower solar PV panels have continued to overproduce electricity, which we're selling back to the grid via Choptank (also see last month's report). Then, this past week, we started up our 8-well geothermal ground-source heat pump system. Things changed a little (see sawtooth pattern in the figure) but this still looks highly positive – i.e., we're producing from solar energy much more electricity than demanded on site, even despite enjoying a nice, cool house in 90-degree weather!
Preliminary, it appears likely that electricity produced by our panels will continue to more than meet the house's space conditioning and water heating energy demands. On sunny days, this will be especially so, including around the clock after our three Tesla Powerwall batteries are delivered and installed - but on dark, cloudy days, we're unlikely to make HVAC ends meet without buying electricity from the grid.
Looking ahead, we expect our electricity uses to increase after our kitchen (mostly electric) is installed next month, and after the house lights up at night in late September, and as soon as we move mid-October and plug in everything, including the cars! With all this, if our solar panels are still overproducing, then we'll keep selling the excess back to the grid. We should have a reasonable indication in another two months or so.
Sometime in 2019, we'll be able to present results on a more systematic basis in terms of pay-back periods and the project's implicit avoided cost of carbon.
By Rita Beale | Energy Unlimited LLC
Washington D.C. was the locale of the triennial World Gas Conference held by the International Gas Union (IGU) and hosted by the American Gas Association. The event marked the culmination of the United States holding the IGU Presidency with a theme of "Fueling the Future". I was compelled to attend the event with the global natural gas community in our backyard and the opportunity to focus on the strategic, commercial, and technical aspects of gas. It also provided an opportunity to catch up with global colleagues and clients and the many corporate sponsors, concentrated in the LNG sector.
With over 600 hundred speakers and 12,000 attendees, industry leaders cheered increasing gas trade and a bright future, heralded the contributions of gas to sustainability and prosperity, and outlined the hurdles to growth. U.S. administrators, legislators and policy makers also embraced the program highlighting the positive impacts of natural gas on the USA. Other panelists presented topics as result of the call for technical papers. Having downloaded the more 700 presentations and papers from WGC 2018, I look forward to completing my summer reading with a continued focus on natural gas.
In my opinion, one interesting industry topic to watch is the global LNG supply-demand balance, in face of the unexpected tightness during the 2017-2018 peak demand months and the continued surge in the number of countries wanting to build LNG regasification capacity, juxtaposed with the trends away from long-term contracting and fewer final investment decisions for new liquefaction plant capacity.
Korea will host the WGC in 2021 with the theme ''A Sustainable Future – Powered by Gas''.
With Pat McMurray
Clean Bay Renewables has developed a process using proven technologies to fully recycle chicken litter waste and produce clean power. Using anaerobic digestion and nutrient recovery in a fully-enclosed system, the company addresses a local waste stream by creating renewable energy in a way that protects the Chesapeake Bay, provides for local farmers and brings online a brand-new source of renewable natural gas.
Q: What is it exactly that you produce?
A: We take chicken litter and run it through an anaerobic digestion system, which forms and collects biogas for extraction. The biogas is then cleaned up to produce renewable natural gas. It's a zero-waste product.
Q: When was your company founded?
A: In 2013. I founded it with Thomas Spangler. He had previously been at DOD working on energy issues as they relate to national security. Using chicken litter was his idea. We both had a background as entrepreneurs.
Tom became aware of the technology used in fermenting feedstock. You can create byproducts that can then be used to create energy. Biomass can be used to generate energy. There was plenty of chicken litter on the Eastern Shore that was creating an environmental problem. Tom asked me, can we make money on this kind of project?
It was all about how to pursue this project in a way that didn't destroy value and that created a renewable product. We wanted to take a resource that's contributing to pollution but repurpose it in such a way that everybody wins.
Q: I would think that environmental groups would support your plans.
A: Some will look at the project and support it, but others don't. However, we are winning more over to the promise of this technology and its obvious benefits to the Bay.
Q: When do you start building your first plant?
A: We own a plant site in Westover, Maryland and we have laid out the plans for the buildings there. The footprint of the plant is about 25-30 acres. The output will be about 1800 MMBtus of renewable natural gas.
Q: Will you inject it into a pipeline?
A: Not at this point. We will truck it to southeastern Pennsylvania, to an existing pipeline. In the future, we hope to be able to inject it into a pipeline here on the Eastern Shore.
Q: How many jobs will be available at the new plant?
A: There will be about 15 full-time positions at each plant. We plan to develop six plants; this first one, in Westover, Maryland and subsequent ones in Delaware, Maryland again, and Virginia.
Q: The business community on the Eastern Shore must be glad to see the plant will be up and running and creating jobs.
A: Yes. We are partnering with the community college system to find people with the right technical skills to work in plant operations. And of course, these facilities will help the biggest business on the shore, the poultry industry, address one of its most serious environmental challenges in addressing the disposal of its waste stream.
Q: I hadn't heard of renewable natural gas before.
A: In part that is because most renewable portfolio standards that are intended to incentivize renewable energy have been focused on electricity.
But now that solar and wind power are very robust in most places, it's time for natural gas to get some credit in that space. Renewable natural gas should benefit from a state's renewable portfolio standards. And even though states have been reluctant to get on board with this idea, we are beginning to see more traction for renewable gas.
Jason Levine was the speaker at the June 2018 NCAC luncheon.
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
University of Chicago Office of Federal Relations
1730 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 275, Washington, DC
Join us for a panel discussion of technology advances in oil and gas production and transportation use, and their impact on US and global markets. The panel discussion will be led and moderated by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy alumni and professionals working in the energy sector in D.C.
Click here to RSVP by August 25
Panelist Bios:
Jeff Gerlach, MPP'14, is a Senior Policy Analyst at Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE).
John Staub, MPP'02, is the Director of the Office of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Analysis at the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Mark Schipper is an analyst on EIA's Transportation Energy Consumption and Efficiency Analysis Team.
James Blatchford, MPP'09, is Director of Policy at Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE).
Moderator's Bio:
Michael Ford, MPP'10, is an economist with the Bureau of Land Management's Office of Energy, Minerals, and Realty Management.


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Wow... the complete transcripts of a Mike Scioscia interview at the winter meetings (LINK TO TRANSCRIPT) are up online at ASAP Sports. Scioscia really went on and on, throwing Lyle Spencer a bone for analyzing bullpen blowups as the reason the Angels didn't make the playoffs.
- Chris Iannetta should catch 100+ games in 2012 for the Angels
- A more reliable bullpen is a top priority
- Jeff Mathis defense a luxury they can no longer afford
- Mike has not seen Kendrys Morales run (avoiding mentioning his controversial first name).
- Fact C.J. Wilson has only been a starter for two season is a PLUS as there is less wear and tear on the arm. (gotta admit, I never thought of it that way).
- No way Hisanori Takahashi is going to be considered as a starter.
- Mark Trumbo's foot is still healing. No baseball activity yet. Pushed the possibility of him playing 3B off the table.
- Wishy-Washy on Hank Conger, Mike Trout (transcript linked here reads "Cot") and Jordan Walden.
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I think it's interesting to see an artist's work as it progresses from start to finish. I didn't have many photos of this self portrait in progress, but these give an example of the beginning, middle and end. Most of my work starts out as a searching mess. I've seen other painters whose work is very organized from the beginning with well defined planes and values. More often than not my values are well defined, but the planes usually find their way into the piece as I work. I have a sort of dialog with myself where I ask myself questions and answer them visually. It seems my work develops organically.


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During our vacation in the Black Hills a leveling spring on the jack broke. After tightening it up and looking for a Freightliner dealer, I found one in Gillette, Wy. this was right on our way. We Called Richard and made our way to the dealer. We didn't have to disconnect, we were pulled right in and a technician was put on the job. He was great and this was the first jack he had fixed. Great Job. It only took less than a half hour and there was no charge. Thanks Richard.
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A three-car crash on Highway 1 in Abbotsford resulted in two people being airlifted to Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster with serious injuries early Sunday morning.
Fire, police and ambulance personnel were dispatched at about 2:30 a.m. to the collision which occurred in the eastbound lanes of the freeway just west of the Mt. Lehman Road interchange.
It was initially believed that four cars were involved in the crash, but police later confirmed there were three vehicles.
Cpl. Holly Marks said it is believed that a BMW rear-ended an Acura, causing the BMW to roll into the ditch on the south side of the road.
Marks said the Acura then spun and came to a rest sideways in the fast lane of the freeway. The driver got out of his car to check on the damage, and it was then T-boned by a third vehicle – a Nissan Maxima.
The lone male occupants of the BMW and the Acura were transported to hospital by ambulance for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The two occupants of the Maxima – a man and woman in their late 20s – were transported by air ambulance to Royal Columbia Hospital in New Westminster.
Marks said the cause of the first collision is not yet known. Alcohol is not believed to be involved, but the speed of the Nissan could be a factor, she said.


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The value of human disease models, which are based on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), depends on the capacity to generate specifically those cell types affected by pathology. We describe a new iPSC-based model of Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder with an intronic GAA repeat expansion in the frataxin gene.
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A little Photoshop tutorial after some time. Selection techniques (or rather their deployment) is one of the most difficult aspects of photo editing. In an earlier article we'd talked about some of those techniques in connection with selecting hair or foliage, but today I'll show you how to use the path tools of Photoshop to select larger, block-type areas with great precision.
At this point you might wonder why should you not just use the magic wand, the magnetic lasso, or the freehand lasso tool to do the job. The answer is simple: because those tools don't give you the ability to fine-tune the selection the way the path tool does. Even the magnetic lasso tool isn't perfect at finding edges, and that is especially the case if what you're trying to select might be a well-defined object, but not a well-defined image. It's easier to see this with a photographic example.
|The side wall is a well-defined object but thanks to
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Open a copy of your image. Select the freeform path tool, using the shape layers option and ticking the magnetic properties as shown on the image below
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Select the area you with to adjust (in our case the side wall). It will be imperfect, for the reasons we mentioned (the magnetic properties of Photoshop are fooled by the shadow). When you have a complete, looped path, it will look like this
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At this point you will need to add a layer that will contain the adjustment you'll need to perform. For the purposes of this tutorial, I'll add a curves adjustment layer but of course it can be anything you want. After you add the adjustment layer, delete its mask from the Layers tab and then click on the chain icon of the shape layer below it. This will unlink its own mask, which you can then drag and drop onto the adjustment layer above. You can now delete the shape layer (it's only a solid color layer, and as it is obvious we only need the mask/path we created).
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We now need to adjust the path, so that the selection match our desires. Click on the Paths tab (I think by default it should be next to the Layers tab) and the shape appears on your image (if not, you might have to also click on the mask of the layer of the Layers tab). Pick the direct selection tool. Click onto the line of the path and you'll notice that anchor points appear that you can start "pulling" and adjusting the path in order to make the shape fit. See the image below
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Adjust the shape of the path so that it fits your requirements. In this example, I'll make sure the selection is on the side wall itself and not on its shadow. It's a good idea to do that at a great magnification. If needed, you can also add anchor points using the path tool. After you're satisfied with the selection, you can perform the adjustment on the adjustment layer. In this case, I decided to slightly adjust the hue by dragging the blue curve a bit downward. Note that you can still make changes to the path, and as you drag the anchor points around you will see the changes "live" - in other words and in this example, we could see the hue changes applied to the areas we select.
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When you're satisfied with the result, right click on the mask of the adjustment layer and select "rasterize". Now the path disappears. You can still make some final corrections in the familiar way - i.e. working on the mask. In this example I added a slight blur on the mask to make the edges disappear more smoothly. Final result:


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U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) issued the following statements after the House passed Thune and Heitkamp's Prescribed Burn Approval Act of 2016 (S. 3395), bipartisan legislation that would require collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and local officials before initiating a prescribed burn on USFS lands when fire danger is rated as extreme.
"Prescribed burns are a proven management tool that I support," said Thune. "That said, before a prescribed burn is initiated, effective collaboration between Forest Service personnel and local officials is essential. South Dakota is all too familiar with what can happen when carelessly started prescribed burns, like the Pautre Fire, for example, blaze out of control. They can damage private property and require multiple local firefighting units, at a significant cost to taxpayers. I'm glad this common-sense bill is headed to the president, and I want to thank my colleagues in the House, including South Dakota Rep. Kristi Noem and House leadership, for recognizing the need to get this bill to the finish line."
"The Forest Service needs to listen when ranchers and first responders say conditions are unsafe for a burn – and this bill will help guarantee that happens," said Heitkamp. "The Pautre wildfire was completely preventable, making it obvious that the Forest Service hasn't done enough to listen to local communities in North Dakota and beyond. Our bipartisan bill will help prevent what happened in 2013 from happening again, which will help protect our ranchers, their property, and valuable grasslands."
Thune and Heitkamp introduced this legislation in response to the Pautre fire, a prescribed burn that was intended to cover just over 100 acres in northwestern South Dakota, but quickly turned into a 16,000 acre out-of-control fire that burned for several days and destroyed millions of dollars in private property.
The collaboration requirements in S. 3395 pertain only to the U.S. Forest Service. The bill, which was unanimously approved by the Senate on November 17, now heads to the president for his signature.


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Windsurfing and kitesurfing are the two most popular wave sports in Crete. In recent years fans of a new form of sport, stand-up paddle (SUP), have increased. During the winter days, the most adventurous are engaged in surfing.
Crete retains its rugged terrain below the sea surface, forming imposing abysses, caves, and reefs. Furthermore, numerous shipwrecks and airplane carcasses are scattered around Crete, a reminder of the island's history. Guests of Crete have the opportunity to escape to the magical underwater world by choosing among a large number of diving clubs. Besides diving, visitors can explore coasts through snorkeling or participate in fishing trips or bottom-glass boat...Read more...
"Freediving is not only a sport, it's a way to understand who we are." -Natalia Molchanova, 23 times world freediving champion Freediving is a fundamental part of the life of marine mammals like whales, seals andRead more...
Hundreds of Crete's visitors each year enjoy the pirate excursions and the exploration of the most secret places in Crete with the pirate ships and the ferries that organize events around the island.Read more...
The visitors of Crete looking for seclusion could rent a motor or sailing vessel from the marinas of Agios Nikolaos, Heraklion,Read more...
Windsurfing is a water sport that combines the disciplines of sailing and surfing. The sport first emerged in California in the 1960s and spread rapidly to all countries, Greece between them. Kouremenos bay, next toRead more...
The aquatic sport of kitesurf or kiteboarding began to spread after 2000 and has evolved in one of the most popular water sports mainly due to its extreme features. It is generally easier than surf or windsurf. Conditions and spots for kite surf in Crete are perfect for all the kite surfers and experience levels. Elafonissi,Read more...
Surfing on a board is a very popular aquatic sport originating from ancient Hawaiian civilization. All one needs is a board and a wetsuit for the winter! However, the most interesting question is whether Crete is a place where someone could surf. What most people don't know is that there are stunning places that feature waves from 1.5 up to 2.5 meters. Especially in winter when the sea is full of waves, surfing is an ideal sport for those loving the pumping...Read more...
Stand up paddle (SUP) is a new sport similar to surf, at its simplest form which is standing up on a large board using a paddle for moving and keeping balance. It's a new form of surfing that allows everyone to catch some waves with a little practice. Moreover, it can be enjoyed on calm days for a relaxing stroll and cruising through channels, sharp coves, and caves. Lately, a new form of SUP activity has arisen, that is SUP Yoga, i.e. taking yoga exercises on a SUP board...Read more...
Free dive from cliffs, known as Cliff Diving, is one of the most popular extreme sports internationally. Indeed, Crete plays a leading role as it hosts the Agios Nikolaos Cliff Diving international event.
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2013 Bajaj Discover 100M first ride
The commuter motorcycle segment is more complicated than you can imagine. There are several sub segments within the segment. There are entry level commuters, mid-level commuters and even premium commuters. It is Bajaj's plan to have a motorcycle that suits every sub-segment in this segment and the Discover 100M is a step in that direction.
The Discover is Bajaj's brand of commuter motorcycles and since the brand was introduced in 2004, the number of motorcycles have grown to include the Discover 100, the Discover 100T, the Discover 125, the Discover 125T, the Discover 125ST and now the Discover 100M.
At first glance, the 100M looks pretty much the as the other new Discovers. Muscular tank design, twin pilot lamps on the front fairing, aluminium cast sidesteps and other bells and whistles. The 'spider-web' alloy wheels also make it onto the motorcycle as a standard fitment.
The 100M gets electric start as standard and a front disc brake as an option. Like most of the new Discovers, the 100M too uses a 4-valve, DTSi engine. Bajaj says that it is a first in the sub-segment. The 102cc engine makes 9.3PS at 8000rpm and 9.02Nm at 6000rpm. This is a tad lower than what the 100T makes. The drop in power is due to reworked valvetrain and minor internal changes. Bajaj says that the changes to the engine have helped in creating a flatter torque curve. This is quite evident as the engine pulls steadily even from low revs without any bumps or spikes. Also, thanks to the reworked engine, claimed mileage has gone up to between 70 and 75kmpl. The 100M uses a 4-speed gearbox and claims a top speed of 95kmph.
Bajaj says that the Discover 100M is built on an all-new platform. The only change we can see so far to the chassis is that the wheelbase has come down to 1255mm from the 1305mm of the other Discovers. This does make the bike a bit more flickable and direction changes are quick without it becoming unsettled. The ride too is reasonable but a bit on the stiff side. And unlike the hydraulic units on similar motorcycles, the 100M uses gas charged Nitrox shockers at the rear.
The tyres are Eurogrip and aren't something to write home about. As are the brakes. The Endurance units aren't the best in the business and feel a bit like they are made to a price. The quality of plastics too are not that great.
At Rs 46,000 for the drum brake version and Rs 49,000 for the disc brake variant, what the Discover 100M does is offer a good value proposition. Hero themselves have only three products that are below that price bracket and they have gotten a bit long in the tooth. They still use pretty much the same engine that have been running for ages and don't feature many of the fancy bits that the Discover boasts of. Whether the commuter space is getting crowded or not, it is hard to deny that the Discover 100M makes a good case for itself. The fact that on Dussera alone 350 units flew out of Bajaj showrooms in a single day alone is testament to that fact.
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