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A New York couple has been arrested after police say they left their two teenagers and two younger children alone without food or heat for six days while they stayed at a hotel.
Tulio and Maria Ayala of Central Islip on Long Island are each charged with four counts of child endangerment.
Police say their children were left unsupervised while the couple stayed at a nearby hotel. The children's ages are 15, 13, 8 and 4.
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Some Can Charge Interest Rates Exceeding 200%; No Credit Check and Little Paperwork
When Heather Robinson needed money to start a sports-apparel line, she turned to an unusual lender, offering a prized possession as collateral: a bronze nude torso sculpture.
Ms. Robinson, who directs a Washington nonprofit, brought the 16-inch statue last month to a New York firm called Borro Inc., which immediately wired her $15,000. The interest rate: 3.99% a month, or as much as 23.9% for the six-month loan term.


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Protecting against factors known to damage the gastric lining is essential to ensuring optimal stomach health. CarnoSoothe with PicroProtect combines four remarkable nutrient compounds that naturally modulate the growth of H. pylori while supporting the health of the gastric lining.
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This stunning authentic Louis Vuitton Damier Ebene Trevi PM is amazing. This beautiful satchel is named after the Trevi Fountain in Rome. The Louis Vuitton Damier Trevi PM has both style and practicality. It has a roomy interior, and features a detachable shoulder strap that allows it to be handheld or carried on your shoulder.
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Water: Walk across the beach road to our award-winning "Blue Wave" beach with picnic tables, play areas and lifeguards. Snorkel and dive trips 3x daily; charter party and fishing boats, enjoy public fishing pier, surfing, jet skis and boat rentals and gambling cruises.
Restaurants: Some of the best restaurants in all of South Florida are a short walk or drive away. There are dozens of really good ones, including waterfront dining, in all price ranges.
Shopping: Walk to local beach shops or drive to many high-end shopping malls including the new Pompano CitiCentre mall, trendy Las Olas Boulevard, Sawgrass Mills outlet mall, the Swap Shop and Festival Flea Market Mall.
Cultural: Walk or drive to local establishments with live music, nightclubs, dancing, comedy clubs and all sorts of local and regional festivals. Visit the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery and Science with IMAX theatre and the historic Bonnet House museum and gardens.
Sports: Visit the spectacular Isle Casino (smoke-free) right next door to Pompano Harness Track. All professional sporting events are represented at nearby arenas, plus Jai Alai, car racing, tennis, golf, and local gyms.
Eco Tourism: Visit Butterfly World, Fern Forest Nature Center, or Quiet Waters Park. Drive to the Everglades for airboat and swamp buggy rides, photography, Indian reservations, alligator farms, nature trails, kayaking, fishing, and bird watching.
Just for the Kids: Visit museums, water parks, the zoo and seaquarium, and various playgrounds and arcades.
The condo is in a perfect location within a short, scenic walk to our award-winning Blue Wave beach, boat rentals, diving/snorkeling boats, party and charter fishing boats, gym, day spa, gourmet fish store, supermarket, and dozens of shops and restaurants.
The new Pompano CitiCenter shopping mall, movie theaters, tennis and aquatics complex, dog park, air park, 36-hole golf course and driving range are a five-minute drive. The smoke-free ISLE Casino, next door to Pompano Harness Track, is a 15-minute drive. I-95 is a 10-minute drive for easy access to all South Florida business centers, shopping and attractions.
The condo is immaculately clean and well-designed with new furnishings, granite countertops, two master bedrooms (each with full bath), and sleeps up to four people. One master has a king bed. The other has twin beds. A sleeper sofa is in the living room. You'll find a complete kitchen with everything you need. Two laundry rooms are in the building. One parking space is assigned for your exclusive use.
FREE Parking, FREE Local Phone Calls, NO Resort Fees, Voice mail, Heated Swimming Pool, Shuffle Board, BBQ Gas Grills, Tropical Landscaping, Air Conditioning / Heating, Cable Flat-screen TV/VCR and DVD, Stereo System/CD, Books / Magazines, Family Games, Refrigerator, Stove and Oven, Microwave, Dishware, Cooking Utensils, Coffee Maker, Toaster, Balcony, Bed and Bath Linens, Iron/Ironing Board, Hair Dryer, Beach Towels, Beach Chairs, Beach Toys, Cooler, Coin Laundry, Vacuum Cleaner/Mops
For longer stays, every fourth consecutive week is free or discounted.
Additional charges include:
- Exit Cleaning Fee: $125
- Taxes: 12% to Broward County and the State of Florida
- Condo application Fee: $100
*Rates are subject to change until confirmed. We accept all major credit cards.
Payment Terms:
A 50% deposit of the rent, exit cleaning fee and taxes is due upon signing the lease. The balance is due 30 days prior to arrival. $500 toward a security deposit is due prior to arrival, and can be put on a guest's credit card as a temporary hold on the money instead of a charge to the card.
Cancellation Policy:
In the event of cancellation, the Guest is responsible for paying the full amount of rent for the contracted lease. The Landlord will refund monies realized from re-renting the unit during all or part of the same rental period, after deduction of the $300 administration fee and 20% of each new rental fee collected to cover commissions. Travel insurance is recommended prior to signing this lease for anyone who is unsure whether they may need to cancel.
Check in beginning at 4 p.m. Check out by 10 a.m.
For the comfort of future guests, no smoking is allowed inside the apartments or in the pool area.
Please note that this is a 100-percent SMOKE-FREE PROPERTY. Smoking is no longer permitted anywhere inside the apartment or anywhere on the condo grounds or common areas. There is NO designated smoking area. No pets are allowed.
(All of our other properties are pet-friendly).
NOTE: This property requires a three-week minimum stay.
(The minimum stay at our other properties is three nights).
140 NE 28 Avenue, Pompano Beach, FL 33062:
From Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport or Miami International Airport:
Take I-95 North
Pass the Fort Lauderdale exits (Broward, Sunrise, Commercial, Cypress Creek)
Exit East on Atlantic Blvd. in Pompano Beach toward the ocean.
Cross Federal Highway (U.S. 1) and continue East a few more blocks.
Go to the Intracoastal Waterway bridge but DO NOT go over it.
You will see Mr. Fish gourmet seafood on the left.
Get in the left turn lane at the base of the bridge, and turn left onto NE 28th Ave.
(note there is no street sign for NE 28th Ave.)
The street is only one block long and it dead ends into Pompano Yacht & Beach Club.
Unload your luggage in the circular drive, then park in assigned parking space #52
to the left of the building.
From Palm Beach International Airport, or from points North:
From I-95 heading South, pass Boca Raton and the following exits
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Exit East on Atlantic Blvd. in Pompano Beach toward the ocean.
Cross Federal Highway (U.S. 1) and continue East a few more blocks.
Go to the Intracoastal Waterway bridge but DO NOT go over it.
You will see Mr. Fish gourmet seafood on the left.
Get in the left turn lane at the base of the bridge, and turn left onto NE 28th Ave.
(note there is no street sign for NE 28th Ave.)
The street is only one block long and it dead ends into Pompano Yacht & Beach Club.
Unload your luggage in the circular drive, then park in assigned parking space #52
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|Map Legend
|Yacht and Beach Club - Waterfront Condo
140 NE 28 Avenue #207, , Pompano Beach, Florida
|Golf Course
|2 miles
|1/8 mile
|3 miles
|Minimum stay
|2017 Summer - Fall 4/21/17-12/14/17
|21 nights
|2017/2018 Winter 12/15/17-1/25/18
|21 nights
|2018 High Winter 1/26/18-3/8/18
|21 nights
|2018 Spring 3/9/18-4/5/18
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|2018 Summer-Fall 4/6/18-12/13/18
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"In the past, we underestimated what students with disabilities could learn.... We now know that the vast majority of these children can achieve grade-level standards."
— U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
In his State of the Union Address, President Bush unveiled Building On Results: A Blueprint for Strengthening the No Child Left Behind Act. It is designed to provide additional tools to our schools and educators to close the achievement gap and help America's students read and do math at grade level by 2014.
We know what works: high standards, accountability, a highly effective teacher in every classroom, more information and choices for parents, and sound, proven methods of instruction. These principles have increased attention and targeted instruction for students with disabilities.
The No Child Left Behind Act has evolved from idea to law to a way of life. It's the foundation upon which we must build, and the time to act is now. To further gains made by students with disabilities, the President's proposal:
Continues to require the disaggregation of achievement results so that students in critical subgroups remain the focus of attention. Schools are held accountable for improving the performance of all students.
Increases the amount school districts are required to expend per-child on extra tutoring for students with disabilities above what is already available under the supplemental educational services (SES) provision of NCLB.
Makes certain students with disabilities are all being properly assessed and fully included in adequate yearly progress (AYP) determinations.
Allows states to tailor assessments to small groups of students with disabilities with modified or alternate achievement standards as long as they are of high technical quality and promote challenging instruction.
Allows states to use growth models to achieve grade-level proficiency by 2014, as long as they have robust data systems, well established assessments, and set annual goals based on proficiency, not on students' backgrounds.


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Even though a sought-after federal grant fell through, the City of Minot and Minot Public Schools continue to pursue a partnership to provide two police officers to serve as resource officers in the schools.
The Minot City Council's Finance and Improvements Committee agreed Tuesday to recommend the council use the $13,000 included in the 2014 city budget as match for a potential federal grant to help hire and equip the resource officers.
The school district has committed to pay 75 percent of the salary and benefits of the new resource officers as well as a large share of initial equipment costs. The officers would be stationed at Magic City Campus and Central Campus but would spend some time at Jim Hill and Ramstad Middle Schools and be on call for the elementaries, said Kim Slotsve, assistant superintendent.
Minot is the only major North Dakota that does not have officers in the schools.
Slotsve said her previous experience with resource officers in Grand Forks convinced her that a police presence is valuable in a school setting.
"I can tell you that the changes that makes in the culture in a building and the resource that offers to staff, to students, to families, to parents, you can't put a dollar amount on that," she told the committee.
"They are there, certainly, to provide a heightened sense of security that really does make an impact," she added. Having a consistent presence rather than a visiting officer supports the development of relationships with staff, parents and students, she said.
The positions would begin in January when the city's budget year begins.
The Minot Police Department had applied for a federal COPS grant for three officers in the schools. The department did not get the grant.
However, the department received more money than expected from a state Oil Impact Grant when the State Land Board reduced the local match to 10 percent. The grant went to buy equipment and pay overtime costs for law enforcement projects.
The police department is proposing to use the $31,582 budget savings in part toward the school resource officers.
The bulk of the savings, or $25,556, would go to supplement a federal STOP grant to create a position for a domestic violence investigator. The city received $40,000 from the STOP grant after requesting $65,556.
Police chief Jason Olson said the number of domestic violence and other cases are increasing.
"Our investigators are extremely burdened right now, and I think a detective that would concentrate on sexual assault/domestic violence crimes would lessen the burden," he said.
The committee gave its support to redirecting the funding to provide for a domestic violence investigator as well as the school resource officers.


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Kate Upton has bagged the January front cover of British Vogue, capping off a year in which she has been championed as the 'healthy' face of the modelling industry.
2012 has been one rollercoaster of a year for 20-year-old Kate Upton, but 2013 has already started well for the model, as she graces the cover of January's British Vogue.
Beginning as a swimwear model (Upton appeared on the cover of the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue), Kate Upton has moved swiftly into fashion editorial and advertising work, shooting with big-name photographers like Miguel Reveriego, Terry Richardson and Steven Meisel. She also featured on the November cover of Vogue Italia and stars in a video for an upcoming GQ Germany shoot.
"It's very rare for a girl; to move from one area of the business to the other, largely due to the fact that fashion models are almost without curves, whereas swimwear girls are celebrated for them," said Shulman in her editor's letter. "When I decided to shoot Kate for our first cover of 2013, it was to kick off the year with a young women who is not a stereotypical fashion model - although, let's face it, she's hardly a heffalump!"
While she's had plenty of success, Upton hasn't been embraced by everyone in the industry. Victoria's Secret casting director Sophia Neophitou isn't a fan, telling NY Mag that "she's like a footballer's wife, with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy."
Upton's career has nonetheless been championed by Vogue magazines around the world as a poster girl for what publisher Condé Nast sees as a positive stance for 'healthier' body shapes in the pages of the famed fashion bible. In May this year, Vogue editors released a set of six guidelines laying out their responsibility for model health.
Kate was also shot for the cover of Carine Roitfeld's CR Fashion Book by famed photographer Bruce Weber, the first run of 50,000 issues selling out in just over two months.


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Clock Is Ticking For Mandate Relief
Only in New York state can a city lose $268,000 and consider the year a financial success.
That's the case in Jamestown.
Rather than have a huge tax increase, Mayor Sam Teresi and council members used $755,000 from the city's surplus to balance the 2012 spending plan. Department heads all they could do – using overtime only when necessary and keeping spending to a barebones level. A mild winter helped keep public works costs down. A slew of unanticipated retirements also helped the city, as higher-wage workers were replaced with workers at the lowest levels of the city pay scale. Despite being $544,000 under budget, Jamestown still operated at a deficit.
It didn't help the state required the city to pay nearly $1 million more into the pension fund in for its employees in 2012 than in 2011. State aid was decreased in the 2012 budget by $90,000 from 2011 levels. Had those numbers stayed the same, Jamestown would have been able to post a 4.31 percent tax levy decrease in 2012.
That's why it is so disappointing to see inaction and hand-wringing on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's two proposed mandate relief items. As we wrote Tuesday in this space, binding arbitration reform that would cap public safety union awards at 2 percent wasn't included in the state Assembly or Senate budgets. Its place in the 2013-14 state budget is murky at best at a time when Jamestown is in the midst of negotiations with the police officer and firefighters unions.
No one knows if Cuomo's pension smoothing plan, which would allow local governments and schools to spread out the spikes in pension costs over 25 years, will be approved by Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli or the New York State United Teachers. Cuomo's plan has many critics, but there are no other ideas being discussed.
The fact there aren't other plans being publicly discussed is unacceptable. Jamestown has proven, without a shadow of a doubt, struggling cities across the state can't make it in the best of years without some sort of mandate relief.
Gov. Cuomo showed leadership in passing his 2 percent tax cap. Now, he needs to show leadership to deliver meaningful mandate relief in the 2013-14 state budget.
The clock is ticking.


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Fruit Wine (watermelon)
Gaillac (red)
Garganega (and blends)
Gewürztraminer (and blends)
Godello/Gouveio (and blends)
Graciano (and blends)
Greco di Tufo
Grenache/Garnacha (and blends)
Gros Manseng (and blends)
Grüner Veltliner (and blends)
Hard Cider
Hard Cider (dry)
Hard Cider (flavored)
Hard Cider (semi-dry)
Hermitage (white)
Ice Wine/Iced (not Riesling)
Isabella (and blends)
Jurançon sec
Kadarka (and blends)
Languedoc (red)
Languedoc (white)
Late Harvest (not Riesling)
Lemberger/Blaufränkisch (and blends)
Leon Millot (and blends)
Lisboa Red blends
Mâcon (white)
Madeira (drier style)
Madeira (sweeter style)
Malagousia (and blends)
Malbec (and blends)
Malbec and blends
Malvasia (medium sweet)
Marechal Foch (and blends)
Maremma red blends
Marsala (dry)
Marsala (slightly sweet)
Marsala (sweet)
May Wine
Mead (apple-infused)
Mead (apricot-infused)
Mead (black raspberry-infused)
Mead (blueberry-infused)
Mead (cherry-infused)
Mead (cranberry-infused)
Mead (dry)
Mead (maple-infused)
Mead (medium sweet)
Mead (raspberry-infused)
Mead (strawberry-infused)
Mead (sweet)
Meritage (red) Bordeaux-style
Meritage (red)/Bordeaux-style
Merlot (and blends)
Meursault (white)
Mocato d'Asti/Moscato
Moldovan Sweet Red
Monica (and blends)
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Moscatel Graúdo (and blends)
Moscato d'Asti/Moscato
Moscato Passito
Mourvèdre/Monastrell (and blends)
Mtsvane (dry)
Muscat (liqueur)
Muscat (sweet)
Muscat de Beaumes de Venise
Muscat, Valvin (slightly sweet)
Muscat, Valvin (sweet)
Muscat/Moscatel (dry)
Muscat/Moscatel (slightly sweet)
Muscat/Moscatel (sweet)
Müller Thurgau/Rivaner
Nebbiolo (and blends)
Negroamaro (and blends)
Nerello Mascalese
Nerello Mascalese (and blends)
Nero d'Avola (and blends)
Niagara (and blends)
Niagara (and blends) dry
NY Red hybrid (slightly sweet)
NY Red hybrid blend (medium sweet)
NY Red hybrid blend (off-dry)
NY Red hybrid blend (slightly sweet)
NY Red hybrid blend (sweet)
NY Red hybrid-labrusca blend (medium sweet)
NY Red hybrid-labrusca blend (slightly sweet)
NY Red hybrid-labrusca blend (sweet)
NY Red hybrid-labrusca-vinifera blend (sweet)
NY Red hybrid-vinifera blend (dry)
NY Red hybrid-vinifera blend (medium sweet)
NY Red hybrid-vinifera blend (off-dry)
NY Red hybrid-vinifera blend (slightly sweet)
NY Red hybrid-vinifera blend (sweet)
NY Red Labrusca (sweet)
NY Red Labrusca-vinifera blend (slightly sweet)
NY Red Labrusca-vinifera blend (sweet)
NY Red vinifera (dry)
NY Red Vinifera blend (dry)
NY Red Vinifera blend (medium sweet)
NY Red Vinifera blend (off-dry)
NY Red Vinifera blend (sweet)
NY White hybrid blend (dry)
NY White hybrid blend (medium sweet)
NY White hybrid blend (off-dry)
NY White hybrid blend (slightly sweet)
NY White hybrid blend (sweet)
NY White hybrid-labrusca blend (medium sweet)
NY White hybrid-labrusca blend (slightly sweet)
NY White hybrid-labrusca blend (sweet)
NY White hybrid-labrusca-vinifera blend (medium sweet)
NY White hybrid-labrusca-vinifera blend (sweet)
NY White hybrid-vinifera blend (dry)
NY White hybrid-vinifera blend (medium sweet)
NY White hybrid-vinifera blend (off-dry)
NY White hybrid-vinifera blend (slightly sweet)
NY White Labrusca-vinifera blend (medium sweet)
Orange Wine
Pedro Ximenez (dry)
Petit Verdot (and blends)
Petite Sirah (and blends)
Pineau des Charentes (white)
Pinot Bianco
Pinot Bianco (and blends)
Pinot Blanc (and blends)
Pinot Grigi/Gris (and blends)
Pinot Grigio (and blends)
Pinot Grigio/Gris (and blends)
Pinot Meunier
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir (and blends)
Pinot Noir (white)
Pinot Noir and blends
Pinot Noir Blend
Pinotage (and blends)
Plavac Mali (and blends)
Port (ruby)
Port (tawny)
Port (vintage)
Port (white)
Primitivo (and blends)
Provencal Red
Quarts de Chaume
Red Blend
Refosco, synonyms (and blends)
Rhône (red)
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Ribera del Duero
Riesling (and blends)
Riesling (dry)
Riesling (medium dry)
Riesling (medium sweet)
Riesling (off-dry)
Riesling (semi-dry)
Riesling (slightly sweet)
Riesling (sweet)
Riesling (very sweet)
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Rioja (red)
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Rivaner (and blends)
Roditis (and blends)
Rosé (dry)
Rosé (medium sweet)
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Rosé (slightly sweet)
Rosé (sweet)
Rosso di Montepulciano
Rougeon (and blends)
Roussanne (and blends)
Roussillon (red)
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Sagrantino passito
Saké (coconut lemongrass)
Saké (Junmai Ginjo)
Saké (Junmai)
Saké (Nigori)
Saké (pear)
Saké (plum)
Saké (raspberry)
Sangiovese, synonyms, and blends
Sangria (red)
Saperavi (medium sweet)
Saperavi (Semi-Sweet)
Sauvignon Blanc (and blends)
Scheurebe (dry)
Scheurebe (medium sweet)
Scheurebe (sweet)
Sémillon (and blends)
Seyval Blanc
Sherry/Montilla (dry)
Sherry/Montilla (off-dry)
Sherry/Montilla (sweet)
Sherry/Montilla (very sweet)
Shiraz/Syrah (and blends)
Sicilian White
Silvaner/Sylvaner (and blends)
Siria/Roupeiro (and blends)
Sparkling (dry)
Sparkling Burgundy
Sparkling Rosé (dry)
Sparkling Rosé (slightly sweet)
Sparkling Rosé (sweet)
Sparkling Shiraz
Sparkling Wine (apple-infused)
Sparkling Wine (citrus-infused)
Sparkling Wine (cranberry-infused)
Sparkling Wine (dry)
Sparkling Wine (mango-infused)
Sparkling Wine (medium sweet)
Sparkling Wine (off-dry)
Sparkling Wine (peach-infused)
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Sparkling Wine (slightly sweet)
Spiced Wine
St. Croix
St. Laurent (and blends)
Super Tuscan
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Syrah/Shiraz (and blends)
Tannat (and blends)
Tempranillo, synonyms, and blends
Teran (and blends)
Teroldego (and blends)
Terret (and blends)
Tinta Caiada
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Tokaji (dry)
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Torrontés (and blends)
Touriga Nacional (and blends)
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Trebbiano (and blends)
Trincadeira (and blends)
Turkey (red)
Verdejo (and blends)
Vidal Blanc (and blends) dry
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Vidal Blanc (and blends) off-dry
Vidal Blanc (and blends) slightly sweet
Vignoles/Ravat 51 (and blends) medium sweet
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Vignoles/Ravat 51 (and blends) slightly sweet
Villard Blanc
Vin Santo
Vinho Verde (red)
Vinho Verde (rosé)
Vinho Verde (white)
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Viognier (and blends)
Vouvray (sparkling)
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White Blend
White Merlot
White Vinifera blend (dry)
White Zinfandel (and blends)
Xarello (and blends)
Zinfandel (and blends)
Zinfandel (medium sweet)
Zweigelt (and blends)
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American (All)
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California (All)
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NY, Finger Lakes (Keuka)
NY, Finger Lakes (Otisco)
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NY, Finger Lakes (Skaneateles)
NY, Hudson Valley
NY, Lake Erie
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KJ dazzles in Merlot taste-off
Northside Staff
Dave Pohl, ed.,
Dana Malley, Jason Wentworth, and Mark Britten
Despite the recent surge in the popularity of Pinot Noir, the oft-maligned Merlot has maintained its following. According to California's Wine Institute, as of 2012 Merlot maintained its status as this country's second most popular red variety after Cabernet Sauvignon with sales of 22 million cases in that year. The Institute attributes Merlot's continuing popularity to its soft, luscious character coupled with its appeal to both new and regular wine drinkers.
This appealingly lush character is particularly apparent in Merlot wines produced in California and other relatively warm wine regions such as Australia and Chile. These Merlots tend to be low in tannin and fruit-forward compared, say, to Merlot-based wines from Bordeaux, which typically show an earthier and more tannic profile.
The staff at Northside Wine & Spirits recently blind-tasted a group of 17 Merlots from California, all priced under $25 per bottle. The tasters were curious to see if these wines would live up to their reputation for soft, fruit-driven appeal.
Most of the wines in the tasting did, indeed, exhibit a straightforward, pleasantly fruity character. If there was a single fault with several of the wines, it was the overwhelming presence of oak that smothered the otherwise appealing fruit.
As enjoyable as many of the wines were, one really stood out from the rest of the group. The
Kendall-Jackson 2011 Grand Reserve Merlot
, $24 per bottle, was the nearly unanimous top pick of the staff. In terms of balance, flavor interest, judicious use of oak, and lovely aromatics, it was in a class by itself.
The staff was not alone in its positive assessment. In its December 2013 edition,
The Wine Advocate
awards this wine a score of 91. Robert Parker, the
's eminent lead critic calls the Kendall-Jackson "outstanding," and states, "Copious aromas of berries, mocha and chocolate as well as a hint of oak emerge from this full-bodied, opulent Merlot."
This beautifully wrought wine shows just how compellingly delicious a moderately priced California Merlot can be. Try it with chicken with tarragon, roasted vegetables, or a hearty beef stew at your next dinner party. Your guests will love you!
Past Wine Picks
© 2019 Northside Wine & Spirits. All rights reserved. (07/19/2019)


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MCM EXTRA MINI STARK LEATHER BACKPACKCategories:Other Brands
Everything 'Extra Mini' is worth taking a look.
We've noticed the MCM for quite some time, we love this bag. And as backpacks are becoming the next hot thing in the fashion industry, we would like you to check this one out.
Presenting the MCM Extra Mini Stark Backpack.
There are studs everywhere and from tiny to big… in all sizes. Take the black and the mini studs look like the stars in the sky – gorgeous and attractive.
Carry this bag to add bit of rock to your wardrobe – or express your tough personality while going downtown. I mean you need a tough world right, especially in the big cities; nowadays you need to have some attitude to survive.
On the front flap, it comes with a metal logo signature plaque. The interior features two card slots and there is one front zip pocket and two side pockets to store your little essentials. This bag is made form cowskin and its really tiny (which is cute), measuring 20 x 17 x 8 (H x W x D) cm, priced at $1100 USD or €895 euro via Luisa Via Roma e-store.
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Chanel Extra Mini Classic Flap Bag in MetallicCategories:Other Brands
We adore very much the Chanel Extra Mini Classic Flap Bag, we've seen a lot of colors throughout the years, in black, in fuchsia, in beige, in white, you name it. They are usually crafted in caviar or lambskin, both leathers are lovely.
READ: Chanel Extra Mini Classic Flap Bag in Fuchsia
If you've been following us so far (and we assume you've), then you can't have missed the Extra Mini Classic Flap Bag in Baby Blue, which has been released for the Cruise 2015 Collection. How can so small shines so big? The Mini Bag was made in Patent, it melts you right away!
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A week after the NFL fined the Baltimore Ravens $20,000 for failing to list safety Ed Reed's torn labrum on their weekly injury reports, the Ravens went out of their way to make sure they complied with the league rules.
Baltimore listed a whopping 15 players on Wednesday's injury report in preparation for Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns. The Ravens report tripled in size from a week ago and is more than double the size of any of their injury reports this season. Baltimore had previously listed seven players on the injury report before their Week 3 game against the New England Patriots.
Pernell McPhee (thigh) was the only player held out of practice on Wednesday. Jacoby Jones (foot), Haloti Ngata (shoulder) and Jimmy Smith (abdomen) were limited.
Chykie Brown (ankle), Dannell Ellerbe (hand), James Ihedigbo (hand), Ma'ake Kemoeatu (knee), Bryant McKinnie (thigh), Michael Oher (ankle), Kelechi Osemele (ankle), Bernard Pollard (chest), Ed Reed (shoulder/chest), Terrell Suggs (ankle) and Marshal Yanda (shoulder) were all full participants.


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The shooting of Trayvon Martin was a local tragedy that should have been avoided. Instead it became a prime-time soap opera to argue that racism is still prevalent in the United States.
The cast of characters was perfect, and so was the scenario. There was the victim, a black teenager who happened to be in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time, and the killer, George Zimmerman, a "white Hispanic," who took it upon himself to protect a gated community against outsiders.
At the subsequent trial, a jury of six women who sat through every minute of the trial � sequestered and unaware of the national attention or the perception of blacks being mistreated by the justice system � listened to the evidence, weighed and debated the facts before deciding Zimmerman's guilt or innocence.
For the race-baiters, however, it hardly matters how the verdict was reached. For them Trayvon will always be the cute black kid in a hoodie, and Zimmerman a racist vigilante who got away with murder. The reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, self-appointed black leaders who practice their trade searching for racism under every stone, were having a field day.
It is unfortunate that President Obama chose to join the parade, thus encouraging hundreds of "Justice for Trayvon" rallies and demonstrations across the country. He was bemoaning "the experience of black men walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars," and white women "clutching their purses when alone in an elevator with an unfamiliar young black man." He made it personal with his narcissist remark: "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."
He referred to disparities in the criminal justice system as applied to blacks versus other races, overlooking certain policies a recent Boston Globe editorial described with extraordinary delicateness: "That some of these policies, or the ways they're applied, are rooted in statistically accurate perceptions that young black males are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system doesn't make them right."
Black Americans are aware of the toll that violence takes among their own ranks, and are skeptical about the way most black leaders are handling the problem. They wrestle with the question of whether "stand-your-ground laws" that played a key role in the Zimmerman trial apply to groups, as well as to individuals. In view of stubborn resistance by the gun lobby, they wonder whether such laws will ever be changed, while trying to find an answer to the question: If the use of weapons can be restricted for any reason, what good is the Second Amendment?
The dictionary defines racism as "belief in the primary determination of human traits and capacities, and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race." By that definition, the Nazis in Hitler's Germany were racist. So were the perpetrators of apartheid in South Africa, and the Ku Klux Klan in the Deep South.
Those who believe that people of different color are biologically inferior, don't deserve good jobs, the right to live next door, or to marry their daughter, are racist. But with political correctness spreading in the land, the definition has expanded beyond recognition. Racial and ethnic prejudices, ugly as they are, have always been part of the human condition and are likely to remain so. People like to look down on others or feel superior to them. Mitt Romney was called a racist for telling a group of Jewish donors during his presidential campaign that Israeli culture made them inherently more successful economically and intellectually than the Palestinians.
Last year, a Leominster police officer was fired for calling a Red Sox outfielder a "Monday" while attending a minor league baseball game. According to the Urban Dictionary, it is a racial slang term for a black man, used to avoid the "N" word, and derogatory because no one likes Monday, the first day of the workweek. The Urban Dictionary is a veritable cornucopia of street lingo that was founded by Aaron Peckham while he was a freshman computer major at California Polytechnic State University It contains several million definitions posted by its readers. The dictionary gained official status when a word from it was used in court in Indiana to prosecute a man accused of threatening to "murk" someone � meaning to cause serious bodily harm by beating.
The site contains several million definitions, and an average 2,000 are submitted every day, with 80 percent of the users being under the age of 25. Anyone with a valid email address can contribute a definition, but before they're included in the dictionary, they must be approved by the editors.
Now back to racism. True racism is a venomous mind-set. It needs to be properly identified, exposed and fought. But the indiscriminate use of the racist label tends to dull its impact. When people are subjected to racial abuse or discrimination, they deserve protection. However when derogatory labels � sexist, fascist, homophobe, chauvinist, misogynist, and more � are cheaper by the dozen, we should avoid throwing them around carelessly, or go out of our way looking for opportunities to take offense.
Robert Z. Nemeth's column appears regularly in the Sunday Telegram.


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This panorama, taken by Robert Pettit, features the Clemson Tigers football team playing on their home turf for another win at Frank Howard Field at Memorial Stadium. On the same day Clemson honored the 1981 National Championship football team at Death Valley, the Tigers tied one of its records for points in a quarter with 35 in the third quarter, and also eclipsed 50 points in the game for a second-straight week. The Tigers were established in 1897 and achieved their first undefeated season in 1900. Clemson University is located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains on the shores of Lake Hartwell and enrolls over 19,450 graduate and undergraduate students on an annual basis.


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Saturday, February 17, 2007
In prep.
Instead, what I am thinking about is how some of my own students and postdocs want my advice on constructing their CV's and research/teaching statements for job applications, and some don't. I should say that I am happy to provide comments on CV construction and on general issues of what goes in a research/teaching statement, but I do not edit the statements. The content and writing style of the statement accompanying an application have to be an accurate reflection of the candidate. I don't ask to see application materials for my own students and postdocs, though I make it clear that I'm happy to if anyone wants me to. Sometimes it's tricky navigating that path between being an advisor who wants to help and letting an advisee know that you think they are ready to go out on their own.
The ones who don't want my advice on their job applications are also the ones who get upset when I have lots of critical comments on their manuscripts and informal talks. And I imagine that for them, getting reviews of papers and proposals - and perhaps also teaching evaluations - will be a continual source of anguish as they continue in their careers. At least my comments are kindly intended and kindly worded, even if I tend to have a lot of them. I wish I could do more to provide all of my students and postdocs with the necessary medium-thick skin needed to deal with a life of reviews, not all of which will be positive or even 'constructively worded'.
A few of my students never completely realize that they will be continually subjected to criticism and evaluation in an academic career. I don't know how they don't know this after years of being in this environment, but some just don't. Example: A couple of years ago, one of my grad students was extremely upset when his co-advisor and I had many critical comments about a document he'd written (sort of a proto-manuscript), even though he had worked very hard. I said that I didn't doubt that he had worked very hard, but the result was far below what was acceptable for even a rough draft of a manuscript, both in terms of writing and content. Our critical comments were intended to help him take the draft to the next level. By that point, he was in tears, and said that I didn't understand how awful it felt to be criticized and he couldn't wait until he could be at a point in his career when he didn't have to go through this anymore. When I told him that we all are continually evaluated, he didn't believe me. I showed him some recent paper and proposal reviews, but somehow these didn't convince him either because they didn't have anything to do with him. Strange. He's still around, but he's not working with me anymore.
And then there are the negative comments you get when you have a blog -- it's sort of like asking for more 'reviews', as if we don't get enough already. Oh well.. bring it on.
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- bushpigeon said...
One thing I've had a lot of trouble explaining to my post-grads is the difference between "constructive" commentary and "positive" commentary. Many students think the two are synonymous. I had a Ph.D. student tell me that she would only accept "positive" comments from me from now on. (We no longer work together, for obvious reasons).tte
One professor I know put quotes from three reviews of his articles on his door.
The first was gushing with praise. The second completed ripped his research apart. The third had something of the form, "This research isn't bad, but it really doesn't add anything to our knowledge. If your journal has some extra space, there's no harm in publishing."
The three were humorous to read together, but they also did a concise job of showing criticism doesn't end.
- Dr. Lisa said...
I'm a full-time faculty member in the physical sciences at a community college and am affiliated with a large research university. I spend a lot of time on hiring committees, and I frequently offer to the university to do a resume/CV seminar, but the research profs don't think their students need help. Um, trust me,...they do. Perhaps offering to give a graduate seminar might be received positively, because it won't be as personal. Thanks for taking such an interest in your students!
- Female Science Professor said...
I've never suggested exactly that kind of seminar or workshop, but similar ones I've suggested (e.g., to advise undergrads on how to apply to grad school) were dismissed as irrelevant ('Our students don't need that.. blah blah blah'). So now I am thinking that I might organize something for the students/postdocs in my research group, but let it be known that any student is welcome, and just do it that way. The university has workshops for grads/postdocs applying for faculty positions, and most of my students take these workshops, but there aren't any that specifically focus on science/engineering, and so I think some important issues aren't covered much if at all.
- Doug Natelson said...
At Rice we've had a really positive reception for an implementation of the NSF's ADVANCE program - see here.
One part that seemed really helpful was to bring in a bunch of would-be faculty candidates, and critique (in a constructive way) their job talks and CVs. The talk criticism was interesting - the participating established faculty members had somewhat divergent ideas about how to pitch a job talk (how important is it to have a generally accessible intro vs. starting off immediately with an elevator pitch: "Here is a TERRIBLE CRISIS IN SCIENCE AND/OR ENGINEERING, and here is how MY RESEARCH hold's the key to solving it!").
- Female Science Professor said...
Doug - Thanks for the info and link. That looks like a particularly interesting and useful ADVANCE program.
I totally agree with Female Science Professor on the main point she made there. However, I still want to make a note here. Sometimes professors (reviewers) critize someone's work without really looking into it. Then their criticism can sound unfair and make you angry. This kind of incidents are not rare at all. I believe a lot of significant research in natural science and social science were rejected initially due to this reason and later rised because of researchers' persistency. Nevertheless, I agree that every student who want to succeed in academia should learn to positively handle and process criticism.
- Ianqui said...
When I told him that we all are continually evaluated, he didn't believe me. I showed him some recent paper and proposal reviews, but somehow these didn't convince him either because they didn't have anything to do with him.
Wow. What does he think goes on in this profession, anyway? If literally showing him reviews doesn't convince him, then he may have no hope.
i laughed when i read the story about your (former) male student.
i just received comments back from my first submitted manuscript, and was devastated when i opened them. when i talked them through w/ my advisor (who is as patient and pragmatic as you sound), i realized that directions that our paper will grow and, actually, that the comments were quite positive when put into perspective (e.g. no additional experiments, no major flaws w/ design, etc). but it took talking to someone who'd been through the ringer a couple of times to gain this perspective.
my advisor said the same thing that you did: it's an integral part of the scientific process, and it never ends. which reassures me that my now-thickened skin will serve its purpose far into the future :)
Keep up the great work. The purpose of criticism is to add more points of view to an intellectual product, which only benefits from these.
When I was preparing my job talk, I went through multiple rounds of practice talks. The first one was to a large audience (4 faculty and a bunch of students and postdocs). The faculty kept me on for an hour after my talk, going over slide by slide and deconstructing the entire talk. Note that they first prefaced this dressing down with copious encouraging comments, which made it easy to take the critiques. Then the students/postdocs had a go the next day. Finally, my PI took a crack at this revised version, breaking it down and building it back up.
So when I arrived at the interview, I had already seen all the criticisms, the weak points and logical gaps exposed and filled in. Got that and other faculty jobs. Now I solicit critiques on my grant applications and steel myself for the red ink, knowing that once I run this gauntlet, I can take anything the reviewers dish out.
The only type of gender discrimination that I have felt as a woman who is a full professor in science is that students (of all levels) consider criticism from me to be more harsh than that from male colleagues because they expect me, as a woman, to be kinder and gentler, and somehow more motherly. So whem I offer straightforward criticism that calls it like I see it they are often put off. I still don't know exactly how to deal with this problem.
Gosh, I am so familiar with the "bee there, done that" rant." Just the other day, I had to correct a subordinate at work for using commas to pluralize abbreviations! Things like "MRI's," "DVD's" and "TV's" were just all over the place!!!


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PRETORIA, South Africa, June 27 (UPI) -- The condition of ex-South African leader Nelson Mandela, reported to be on life support, improved but was still critical, President Jacob Zuma said Thursday.
Zuma provided the update after visiting the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon in the Pretoria hospital where he is being treated for a lung infection, CNN reported. Zuma said Mandela's doctors said the former president "remains critical but is now stable."
"He is much better today than he was when I saw him last night," Zuma said.
Mandela's oldest daughter said her father opens his eyes and responds to touch, the state-run South African Broadcasting Corp. reported.
"I reiterate that Tata [the Xhosa word for father] is very critical, that anything is imminent," Makaziwe Mandela said. "But I want to emphasize again that it's only God who knows when the time to go is. And so we will wait.
"He's ... still reactive to touch. We will live with that hope until the final end comes."
Mandela, considered the founding father of South Africa's multiracial democracy, has been hospitalized since June 8.
Authorities have described his condition as critical since Sunday.
Zuma canceled a visit to Mozambique, where he was supposed to attend a summit Thursday on infrastructure investment, so he could visit Mandela.
Mandela became a world figure while being imprisoned for 27 years for fighting apartheid, South Africa's system of racial segregation. He was elected the nation's first black president in 1994, four years after he was freed.
His administration focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalized racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation.
Mandela, whose birthday is July 18, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.


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US Pharm. 2012;37(9):17-18.
Menopausal Hormone Treatment
In menopause, levels of estrogen and progesterone are reduced, leading to the development of serious symptoms (e.g., hot flashes and vaginal dryness) and physical changes (e.g., osteoporosis) in some women. Menopause occurs naturally as part of the aging process, usually over a period of years, but it can be artificially induced by hysterectomy and treatment of certain diseases, such as cancer.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), also sometimes referred to as menopausal hormone therapy, is the therapeutic replacement of estrogen with or without progestin. Estrogen and progestin act to ease the symptoms and physical changes associated with menopause. Historically, HRT was standard practice for relieving menopausal symptoms and preventing heart disease and osteoporosis. This modality was re-examined after the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) studies revealed that HRT was linked to serious health problems, not only in naturally menopausal women who were receiving estrogen and progestin, but also in women in hysterectomy-induced menopause who were receiving estrogen alone.
A recent comprehensive review of the studies that were conducted during the 10 years since the WHI studies were discontinued provides the information necessary to update recommendations for the use of HRT. The updated guidelines will likely confirm the current FDA recommendations suggesting that HRT is safe for short-term use at the lowest dose possible to relieve serious symptoms of menopause. HRT is not recommended for long-term use or to prevent chronic diseases such as osteoporosis in menopausal women.
No Longer Routinely Prescribed for All Menopausal Women
Menopause is the stage of a woman's life during which estrogen and progesterone levels decline. In some women, this reduced production of female hormones causes symptoms such as hot flashes and vaginal dryness, along with physical changes such as bone weakening (osteoporosis). Menopause is a natural part of aging, usually developing over a number of years. An artificial state of menopause can result after a woman undergoes hysterectomy.
To Treat or Not to Treat? Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the therapeutic replenishment of estrogen with or without progestin (a progesterone-like drug). These hormones work to relieve the symptoms and physical changes that occur with menopause. For many years, HRT was used routinely to ease the symptoms of menopause, as well as to prevent osteoporosis and heart disease. This practice was reconsidered after studies discovered that HRT was linked to serious health problems, such as stroke, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. It has since been determined that, in some women, HRT can provide health benefits with less risk than was previously thought. For women who experience natural menopause after age 45 years and do not have significant symptoms, HRT is not necessary for preventing osteoporosis or heart disease. Lifestyle changes and nonhormonal medications to maintain bone strength are recommended, if appropriate.
Forms of Therapy The treatment of menopause-related symptoms should be specific to the patient. Each woman has a unique medical history, family history, and set of symptoms for which she is seeking relief, so the best drug regimen is tailored to the woman's risk factors and symptoms. Risk factors that may prevent a woman from being a candidate for HRT are a history of breast, endometrial, or ovarian cancer, blood clots or stroke, smoking, and liver disease.
Estrogen with or without progestin is the most effective treatment for hot flashes and is available in both oral and patch dosage forms. Symptoms of natural menopause are treated with an estrogen-progestin combination; the progestin balances the estrogen and reduces the risk of uterine cancer. Since women who have undergone hysterectomy no longer have a uterus, they can take estrogen alone to ease the symptoms of artificial menopause. Women who experience early menopause for any reason should take HRT until at least age 45 years to prevent diseases such as osteoporosis, heart disease, and dementia.
HRT should be used at the lowest effective dose for the shortest time needed. If vaginal dryness or urinary symptoms are the primary problem, estrogen in the form of vaginal cream, gel, ring, or suppository may be used. These forms of estrogen do not relieve other symptoms, such as hot flashes, but they have the advantage of little absorption into the system.
Bioidentical hormones, which are custom prescribed and compounded, are an alternative to standard HRT medications. Although they have been in use for many years, there is some controversy regarding their safety. Chemically, bioidentical and standard HRT drugs are the same as those produced in the body. Phytotherapy—the use of herbs such as black cohosh, red clover, and passionflower—is another option for women seeking relief from menopausal symptoms; however, these remedies have not been proven effective, and they may not be standardized or manufactured in approved facilities.
Nonhormonal drugs that have been successfully used to treat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, clonidine, and gabapentin. To prevent osteoporosis, drugs that increase bone strength, such as bisphosphonates and selective estrogen receptor modulators, are used instead of hormone supplements.
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My favorite apple cake
If guests are coming, if I'm going somewhere and need to bring dessert, if I just feel like baking, this is the cake I make in the fall. It comes from Julie Riven, with whom I wrote the Globe magazine food column for many years, and then a cookbook. Her mother made it.
What is special about this cake is its remarkably moist texture, from oil and orange juice. When you layer the batter with four apples (Julie and I both use Cortlands), you wonder if there's enough batter to hold the apples together. But there is. The cake tastes delicious, it's easy to put together, it keeps well, and it's high in the pan. Head to the kitchen.
Julie's mother's apple cake
Makes 1 large cake
Butter (for the pan)
Flour (for the pan)
1 cup canola oil
4 eggs
1/4 cup orange juice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups flour
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 baking apples (Cortland, Baldwin, Mutsu, Northern Spy, Opalescent, Rhode Island Greening, Rome Beauty, Spigold), peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon mixed with 5 tablespoons granulated sugar
Confectioners' sugar (for sprinkling)
1. Set the oven at 350 degrees. Butter a 10-inch tube pan, line the bottom with a piece of parchment paper cut to fit it, and butter the paper. Dust the pan with flour, tapping out the excess.
2. In an electric mixer, combine the oil, eggs, orange juice, and vanilla. Beat until smooth.
3. Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Beat just until smooth again, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
4. Spoon one-third of the batter into the pan (barely a layer). Smooth the batter with a metal palette knife. Gently press half the apples into the batter (OK to overlap). Sprinkle with half the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Add one-third more batter, the remaining apples, and all but 2 tablespoons of the remaining cinnamon-sugar. Cover with batter, smooth the top (it may not cover the apples; that's OK), and sprinkle with remaining cinnamon-sugar.
5. Bake the cake for 60 to 70 minutes or until the top is firm and a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
6. With a small knife, cut around the inside and outside edges of the cake to release it from the pan. Turn the cake out onto a plate. Set another plate on top and invert again so the cake is right-side up. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Adapted from "The Way We Cook"
What's cooking in the world of food.
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In yogic cooking we employ foods, herbs and spices for not just their
"healing" qualities when we are sick, but on a regular basis, to help maintain a healthy colon, strong immune system, good organ function, and overall well-being.
In the spectrum of health, we tend to see it as one end or the other, either sick or healthy. In reality, most of us are somewhere in between. We so much accept "getting by" as being well in today's world! And, as we get older and our bodies start realizing the consequences of life long diet, thought, and exercise patterns, we get closer and closer to the "disease" end of the spectrum.
You can easily begin to incorporate yogic foods into your diet, begin to change the way you think and feel about what you take into your body/mind, and invoke great change in your quality of life.
The first step is to include some basic yogic "survival" foods in your regular diet: Onions, garlic and ginger root (these "trinity roots" are for purifying the blood, cardiac health, digestion, stomach, potency, reproductive organ health, immune strength…), turmeric (for joints, spine, stomach), beets (for liver), and Yogi Tea (either made from scratch or purchase packaged). We will learn more about the yogic uses of these and many other foods in the column, "There's a Yogi in the Kitchen".


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A common step in a software developer's life is building packages. This happens both directly on you own machine and remotely when waiting for the CI server to test your merge requests.
As an example, let's look at the libcolumbus package. It is a common small-to-medium sized C++ project with a couple of dependencies. Compiling the source takes around 10 seconds, whereas building the corresponding package takes around three minutes. All things considered this seems like a tolerable delay.
But can we make it faster?
The first step in any optimization task is measurement. To do this we simulated a package builder by building the source code in a chroot. It turns out that configuring the source takes one second, compiling it takes around 12 seconds and installing build dependencies takes 2m 29s. These tests were run on an Intel i7 with 16GB of RAM and an SSD disk. We used CMake's Make backend with 4 parallel processes.
Clearly, reducing the last part brings the biggest benefits. One simple approach is to store a copy of the chroot after dependencies are installed but before package building has started. This is a one-liner:
sudo btrfs subvolume snapshot -r chroot depped-chroot
Now we can do anything with the chroot and we can always return back by deleting it and restoring the snapshot. Here we use -r so the backed up snapshot is read-only. This way we don't accidentally change it.
With this setup, prepping the chroot is, effectively, a zero time operation. Thus we have cut down total build time from 162 seconds to 13, which is a 12-fold performance improvement.
But can we make it faster?
After this fix the longest single step is the compilation. One of the most efficient ways of cutting down compile times is CCache, so let's use that. For greater separation of concerns, let's put the CCache repository on its own subvolume.
sudo btrfs subvolume create chroot/root/.ccache
We build the package once and then make a snapshot of the cache.
sudo btrfs subvolume snapshot -r chroot/root/.ccache ccache
Now we can delete the whole chroot. Reassembling it is simple:
sudo btrfs subvolume snapshot depped-chroot chroot sudo btrfs subvolume snapshot ccache chroot/root/.ccache
The latter command gave an error about incorrect ioctls. The same effect can be achieved with bind mounts, though.
When doing this the compile time drops to 0.6 seconds. This means that we can compile projects over 100 times faster.
But can we make it faster?
At this point all individual steps take a second or so. Optimizing them further would yield negligible performance improvements. In actual package builds there are other steps that can't be easily optimized, such as running the unit test suite, running Lintian, gathering and verifying the package and so on.
If we look a bit deeper we find that these are all, effectively, single process operations. (Some build systems, such as Meson, will run unit tests in parallel. They are in the minority, though.) This means that package builders are running processes which consume only one CPU most of the time. According to usually reliable sources package builders are almost always configured to work on only one package at a time.
Having a 24 core monster builder run single threaded executables consecutively does not make much sense. Fortunately this task parallelizes trivially: just build several packages at the same time. Since we could achieve 100 times better performance for a single build and we can run 24 of them at the same time, we find that with a bit of effort we can achieve the same results 2400 times faster. This is roughly equivalent to doing the job of an entire data center on one desktop machine.
The small print
The numbers on this page are slightly optimistic. However the main reduction in performance achieved with chroot snapshotting still stands.
In reality this approach would require some tuning, as an example you would not want to build LibreOffice with -j 1. Keeping the snapshotted chroots up to date requires some smartness, but these are all solvable engineering problems.


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At its core, the film is a love story and about how greed for wealth and power can drag one into the mire. It is also about the struggle one addicted to greed is faced with in sustaining any significant positive relationships. There's betrayal and compromise in loyalty of a different kind. And it's all packaged within the context of betting and match-fixing in cricket. This means that I shall have to do well to take off my cricket fan hat while writing this, which should not be that difficult, because the film would certainly be just as effective if it were based around any other sport (well, not quite, but you get the point). Read on.
1. Arjun Dixit (Emraan Hashmi) was, by every definition, a gambler. He went from luckless card game player to lucky sports better, his inspiration to acquire wealth being the lovely Zoya (Sonal Chauhan)...
...and more dangerously, an unrelenting lust for more...money and power.
2. As a bookie well-respected for his foresight and ability to convince cricketers to deliver outcomes suited to his liking, he was well-liked in his circles. A flyover sighting along the stretch of roadway most frequently mentioned on this blog (that would be the Queen's Necklace in Bombay), a reference to the Hollywood flick Sixth Sense, and a welcome reference to Aati Kya Khandaala from Ghulam (1998) later...
...we were taken to Cape Town in South Africa, where Javed Sheikh, a big bad don named Abu Ibrahim (no offense to anyone named Abu or Ibrahim), employed Arjun, who had two distinct paths to choose from: one with high-risk (involving a possible loss of the love of his life Zoya) and high-reward (money, tons of it), the other with stability and love, but one without the glitz and glamor of 'jannat' on earth. Which path would he choose? And would he risk all along the way?
3. One of the biggest strengths of Jannat was the clever dialogue. Given the characters, the lines were well written and well delivered. A couple that stood out given their purpose:
a. Main raaste badalta nahin hoon, raaste banaata hoon.
I do not change courses, but chart new ones.
b. Jab ghareebi darwaaze se aati hai tab pyaar khidki se baahar jaati hai.
When poverty enters through the doorway, love exits through the window.
6. Allusions to cricket were, for the most part, accurate. Nicknames for players used were well done, and the technical portions of the sport (although I would have liked more of them) were well-researched too. Two of the darkest chapters in the history of South Asian cricket, both of which marked the World Cup in 2007, were incorporated into the plot. One even drove the climax.
The one glaring flaw was this: the India-Pakistan game from (the group stages of) the World Cup of 2003, appeared *before* the India-England game from (the final of) the Natwest Series of 2002! Did they really expect to get past fans of the game? Luckily for them and for us, the sequence was hardly consequential in the context of the film.
The first 30 minutes were quite ordinary, mostly for the slow pace. Once the plot developed, pace was not at all an issue, especially given the elements including some excellent cinematography. I think there's more than enough in Jannat to warrant a viewing. I enjoyed it, and thought it was very well made and well-conceived. I know this isn't the popular stance to take, because the self-proclaimed 'true' Bollywood junkies seem to love to hate Hashmi, but it's only fair to give credit where credit is due, and the dude has earned it.
At its peak, Jannat is a reminder of how things can go horribly wrong when one loses control of desire. At the very least, it's a thrilling love story that provides entertainment centered around some witty dialogue. In either case, it succeeds in engaging viewers. If you have yet to see a film starring Hashmi, this is a very good one to start with! If you have seen and even liked one film starring him, this is mandatory viewing. There's a valid reason it is his biggest box-office success to date.
Movie rating: 3.75/5 (Very good!)
My classification: R (for plot, dialogue)
Please beware of the Wikipedia entry for the film, for it gives away the end.