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I confess, when I heard Mitt Romney would be making his official pitch for the African-American vote at the NAACP convention, I groaned. "Why, oh why couldn't it have been Newt Gingrich?" Seriously, it would have been so much more fun to watch. Or even Rick Santorum. Newt's remarks about the Black folks and foodstamps, and Santorum's problem with "blah people" on welfare would have made more interesting viewing. Not to mention an opportunity guess the odds that either candidate would "go there" with an audience that's wasn't predominantly "old, fat, and white."
Chances are neither Santorum nor Gingrich would've had the nerve. While Romney doesn't either, his policies reveal the same thing that Gingrich's and Santorum's suggested: that the GOP's "problem" with African-American voters has everything to do with the conservative failure keeping Black America in the red.
Probably nothing illustrates this than the conservative solution to the African American unemployment.
Romney rattled off the usual dismal statistics on African-Americans and employment and education. And then Romney said what Gingrich and Santorum would likely have said. The conservative solution to do the unemployment crisis in African-American communities is simple: Everybody get married.
I'm hopeful that together we can set a new direction in federal policy, starting where many of our problems do – with the family. A study from the Brookings Institution has shown that for those who graduate from high school, get a full-time job, and wait until 21 before they marry and then have their first child, the probability of being poor is two percent. And if those factors are absent, the probability of being poor is 76 percent.
Here at the NAACP, you understand the deep and lasting difference the family makes. Your former executive director, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, had it exactly right. The family, he said, "remains the bulwark and the mainstay of the black community. That great truth must not be overlooked."
Any policy that lifts up and honors the family is going to be good for the country, and that must be our goal. As President, I will promote strong families – and I will defend traditional marriage.
So Mitt Romney's plan for the economic uplift in African-American communities is to oppose marriage equality.
As you imagine, I have a lot to say about this. I'd say it again, but I said it almost one year before Romney's speech to the NAACP. Little has changed since then: Romney and Republicans still need to get real about jobs or African American unemployment.
This Thursday, CAF will host The Summit on Jobs & America's Future. We'll talk about how to create the jobs America needs for a real recovery. Meanwhile, House Republicans will hold hearings on Islam. House Speaker John Boehner will launch an effort to Defend the Defense of Marriage Act. Apparently, that's what passes as a jobs agenda on his planet.
At least someone in Washington will be talking about job creation.
At the same time, the Heritage Foundation just launched a website, FamilyFacts.Org, that touts marriage as an economic cure-all, while blaming single-parenting (single mothers in particular) and out-of-wedlock births for all manner of economic ills. I guess they live on the same planet as John Boehner.
I visited that planet last month, when I attended CPAC— a three-day conference that had nothing to say about job creation. It wasn't on the agenda. I did sit through the "Traditional Marriage and Society" panel, which featured two African American speakers. I marveled that — given the unemployment crisis facing African American communities — this is what these two speakers came all the way to Washington to address. I wasn't surprised, though. The right has been too successful at getting "Black People Who Should Know Better"™, to hop on that train to nowhere for too long.
Attacking my marriage won't change the marriage rates or the employment rates — or lower poverty rates — in African American communities. None of that appears to be the point. I'd say the point is that they're not interested in creating jobs in black communities. If they were, well… Here's what I'd say.
A brother generally needs a paycheck before he can afford to "put a ring on it." A 2006 poll conducted by the Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University found that "Black men report the same ambitions as most Americans — for career success, a loving marriage, children, respect." But in this recession black male unemployment has reached depression era levels. Some 8% of us lost our jobs between 2007 and 2009.
You want to promote marriage in African American communities? Start with job creation.
You want to create jobs in African American communities? Stop giving corporations tax breaks for off-shoring jobs, and bring back manufacturing jobs. The thirty-year slow bleed of manufacturing jobs out of this country hurt African Americans disproportionately. In 1979, almost one in four African American workers had manufacturing jobs. By 2008, fewer than one-in-ten were in manufacturing.
Black men were hit particularly hard, because they were over-represented in those jobs. In many cases, these were the best jobs black men could get, and often the only "good jobs" that were open to them. I say this as a college educated African American man, and the son of a father who laced up his work boots, put on a hard hat, and carried an industrial strength lunchbox to work every day, because he didn't work behind a desk.
My father started out working behind a mule and a plow. His parents were sharecroppers. He didn't have a college degree, yet held down a "good job" with a salary that took our family from sharecropping to middle class, in one generation. That "good job" made it possible for my mother (who had her own business as a beautician before she married) not to work outside of the home, and for their children to have a better start in life then they did.
If you want more marriages like my parents' 50-year, "til-death-do-us-part" marriage, and more men like my father, you'd better start with more jobs like his.
You want to create jobs in African American communities? Stop attacking unions that made those "good jobs" good through collective bargaining, and helped build the black middle class. Stop attacking unions that were in the forefront of the civil rights movement. It's no coincidence that the decline in manufacturing jobs that impacted many African Americans was paralleled by a decline in African American representation in unions.
Remember Martin Luther King last speech, before his assassination? He was in Memphis, TN, to support a union, because he understood how importance of the labor movement to the economic future of African Americans. Dr. King stood with public unions when they were under attack, and died supporting public employees' right to organize themselves into unions.
In fact, Romney and the Republicans have it backwards on economic decline and marriage rates.
Not that it will matter to Gingrich, Santorum or many other conservatives, but a new Brookings Institute study shows that conservatives have it backwards on economic decline and declining marriage rates.
The Brookings Institute's Hamilton Project is out with a new study showing a strong correlation between income and marriage. While marriage rates have dropped as a whole over the last few decades, there's been much a steeper decline in marriage among low-income Americans. Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney suggest that one reason for that drop is that labor-market changes that have altered marriage prospects for those trying to make ends meet, countering conservative claims that social norms and values are responsible for the trend.
Marriage rates among lower-income men and women have declined, but Greenstone and Looney offer different explanations for each gender. Among men, they say, those "that experienced the most adverse economic changes also experienced the largest declines in marriage" between 1970s and the present day.
By contrast, women have made big gains in the labor market over the past few decades. But their greater participation in the workforce–combined with a low-income male population, increasing prison rates for men, high unemployment and diminished earning power–has also kept more women from marrying. As s result, there's a similar, if less dramatic, correlation between income and marriage among women…
Romney's history alone doesn't inspire confidence that his policies would even get the African-American unemployment rate down to the same level as the national unemployment rate.
Remember, this is a guy who touts his business experience as his main qualification for the presidency. But Romney was an "outsourcing pioneer," as well as a "vulture capitalist," who created more jobs in China than he created here (most of which were low-wage, and offered no path to middle class-status).
How many of the jobs Romney made millions outsourcing, or helping other companies outsource, while at Bain Capital belonged to African American men, who were over represented in those jobs, and thus disproportionately impacted by the loss of those jobs?
The public sector is bleeding jobs at the state and local level — more than 600,000 since 2009 — as a direct result of three years of de facto austerity forced on city and state governments by conservatives as conservatives obstructed any form of economic stimulus that might have aided state and local governments, including money to help states and municipalities retain or rehire teachers and first-responders, and even opposed a smaller bill to help keep teachers in the classroom. Mitt Romney has joined his party's war on public sector workers, declaring the America needs fewer teachers, police officers, and fire fighters.
How many of those public sector jobs were filled by African Americans — men and women (especially women) who have hit hardest job by the public sector job loss that's decimating the black middle class?
African Americans were targeted and sometimes pushed into subprime loans, and many are now struggling with financial burdens of debt and destroyed credit that may last generations, because of the same financial sector deregulation that Republicans want to bring back, and that Mitt Romney championed in his speech to the NAACP.
As he wrapped up his speech, Mitt Romney made it clear that he would he would be a "severely conservative," and will continue the same conservative policies, the same disastrous consequences for African Americans. The same conservative obstruction and intransigence that choking off the recovery will leave African Americans in the red.


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You've all gone perfectly potty for the idea of low-carb recipes. I had no idea that that was the way to your hearts. I had thought you liked my swearing, my slap-dash cooking instructions and my amateurish photographs.
But it turns out that you all just want to be THIN and want nothing more than ideas for low-carb stuff that isn't grilled chicken and broccoli. Whether you are preparing for weddings, or losing babyweight, or just trying to shift general blubber you all want to be SKINNY and to hell with all those fattie know-it-alls, who try and tell you about being a "healthy weight" and having a balanced diet.
"Fuck you!" you scream. "I don't need BOTH kidneys and heart failure is a small price to pay for being 7.5 stone."
So anyway, not that I'm really craven or desperate to please or anything, but I'll have a care to feature more low-carb things. I mean, it's going to be all you get once I'm on a diet too, so we might as well start now.
But I need to clarify what I mean by low-carb. I don't mean carb-FREE; I think as long as you cut out:
refined sugar (i.e. not fructose, so you can eat fruit)
weight will come off. Cutting out those things is hard enough, without also dodging stuff like butternut squash, fruit and whatever else randomly has carbs in it. Carrots, or whatever. I also don't think it's neccessary (unless you're feeling really hardcore) to cut out alcohol.
And I think a very occasional square of high-percentage cocoa solid chocolate is okay. That is, as long as you can ration yourself to 1 or 2 squares and aren't one of those people who ends up eating the whole bar. Which I think might possibly be everyone.
So, this chilli feta salad is a thing I pinched off Nigel Slater. We had it for dinner last night and although I almost never reach for a salad at dinner - way, way too depressing, especially in January - this was actually really great. As with all these things, I think you can get away with having it with some rye toast or a wholemeal pitta bread. Note I said A wholemeal pitta bread, not 6 wholemeal pitta breads plural.
Chilli and feta salad
for 2
1 packet feta
1 chilli, seeds out, chopped
1 lime
olive oil
3 spring onions
1 avocado, sliced
2 tomatoes, sliced
chopped coriander
mixed lettuce - I used chicory and little gem
It's pretty self-explanatory but I'll go through it anyway.
1 Cook in some groundnut oil over a very low flame the chilli and spring onion for about 6 minutes. Squeeze over some lime juice and scatter in some zest. Turn the heat up and add the block of feta and leave to cook for about 4/5 minutes each side on a medium-high flame.
2 Arrange the salad-bit on a plate and dress with olive oil, lime juice and salt. Plonk on top the cooked feta and scatter over the chilli, spring onion and coriander.
Eat while looking at a photograph of Megan Fox, and chant "THIN THIN THIN".
Jamie's cherry vanilla affogato
This I'll just mention in passing, seeing as I know a pudding isn't really what you want to know about right now. But I made it so you might as well know about it.
This is from Jamie's 30-Minute Meals and I thought it looked like a clever, sweet idea - and it is. Although the very expensive tin of organic black cherries I bought tasted of absolutely nothing at all. Really nothing. They were more of a texture than a taste. So this is only really worth doing if you can get your hands on some cherries that actually taste like something.
1 Mix up some instant espresso powder (you can get it from Waitrose, it's called "Percol" and it's just like very strong instant coffee - perfectly nice) - with a teaspoonful of sugar. For one cup, you only need about a shot's worth, so for, say, six people you'd need about a cupful.
2 Crumble some shortbread into the bottom of an espresso or small coffee cup
3 On top blob a ping-pong-sized ball of vanilla ice-cream and a tablespoonfull of cherries. Sprinkle over some flaked dark chocolate if you like. Just before serving, pour a shot-sized sloop of coffee over the whole lot. V nice, makes the shortbread go cakey and peps up the vanilla ice cream. And the cherries, if you can find some nice ones, will add extra mystery.

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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Fancy Fennel, Simple Salad
This past week, I undertook something that I hadn't ever. I invited a large number of people over for dinner. Eight, to be exact. (And yes, that is a large number for me.) I was very nervous as I haven't cooked for that large a number in all these years. It was a day off from work and I spent about 6-7 hours prepping and cooking and assembling, with a break of about two hours for shopping and lunch.
There is a hypermarket at the far end of the road we live on and getting there is a journey. But the reward for it were some small (read relatively inexpensive) boxes of strawberries, good black grapes and a bulb of fennel (which produces the saunf we Indians are familiar with) that I've never seen here earlier. I took the smallest of those, which cost Rs 40, knowing I would make a salad that I'd eaten I don't remember where earlier.
The fennel stayed in my fridge for three days - naturally, I'd forgotten all about it as I'd not opened the vegetable crisper as I hadn't needed to cook because there were lots of leftovers from The Dinner for Eight People - till I remembered about it yesterday. (In the process, I also noticed a big bunch of greens, which I converted into two stir fries, one with the leaves and one with the stalks.) Then I set about looking for recipes and then for sites which would tell me how to process fennel into paper-thin shavings. I realised rapidly it wouldn't be a simple case of taking the peeler and shaving it - it involved 'removing tough outer portions', 'cutting off the stalks and saving them for use in soups later' and such.
I regret to say my fennel didn't come with any 'ferns' or 'fronds' (just a few tiny, ragged, blackening-at-the-tips leaves) and the inner portions seemed as tough as the outer portions. My bulb of fennel was rapidly attenuating as I attempted to remove the Tough Outer Portions, so I simply stopped discarding the T. O. P. after a minute or so and cut it into thin strips.
'Aromatic' is an understatement, and, I think, rather inaccurate. My fennel smelt of an entity that could straddle the paint and petroleum derivatives categories and yet be pleasant - I can't be more accurate than that myself.
I looked for recipes for simple fennel salad and chose this though I didn't have half the ingredients with me. (I had powdered Parmesan cheese in a tin, which I didn't want to risk using.) So I made it with just fennel, lime juice, olive oil, salt and pepper but felt that it lacked something, so added a sliced onion to the mix. It was just right.
Fennel bulb, cut into strips: 150-200 gm
Onion, small/medium: 1, sliced thin and well separated
Olive oil: 2 tbsp
Lime juice: from 1 big lime
Salt and fresh cracked pepper, to taste
Mix the olive oil, lime juice, salt and pepper and whisk a little with a fork till it begins to emulsify. Pour it over the fennel and onion and mix. It tastes good a couple of hours later.
I read that India produces about 30,000 tonnes of fennel (not sure how recent the link is) but I do wonder, what happens to all those bulbs?
I'm sending this off to Astrid who's hosting Kalyn's Weekend Herb Blogging this week, now managed by Haalo.
Weekend Herb Blogging Vegan Salad Fennel Fennel
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30,000 tonnes of Fennel in India!! And to think of that they are categorized & placed in the exotic section of veggie dept.. Wonder where do these bulbs light. I rarely see them in my supermarket.ReplyDelete
Am going to try this simple and light salad soon.
8 people is a LOT! I'm impressed.ReplyDelete
This fennel salad looks delicious!
Looks yummy.ReplyDelete
And eight people is considered just the right about for a dinner party: enough to mingle, but not too many that guests get lost. Will you do it again?
yummmmmmmmmmmy salad.ReplyDelete
looks so very yummy!ReplyDelete
Thank you for joining us this week at Weekend Herb Blogging!
The round up is up at: http://foodblog.paulchens.org/?p=3422
Hope your Eight People Dinner was successful at the end! :-)ReplyDelete
Wow Sra! I am impressed :D . Have never picked the so-called hyped vegs off the section in the so-called market for not knowing what to make of them to suit our palate.ReplyDelete
Fennel bulbs taste just TOO strong for me - definitely within the "paint and petroleum derivatives" description, and not entirely on the side of pleasant tasting. I find very little goes a very long way! :) Bravo for eating it at all!ReplyDelete
There have been many times that I have passed from this aisle in my supermarket where fennel bulbs are kept..but couldnt pick it up..and thats really impressive cooking for 8..bravo!! hugs and smiles
For some reason, I've not tried cooking with fennel - infact I don't think i've tasted either. Salad looks good.ReplyDelete
So, what did you cook for the party of 8? :)
I get the nerves too...though I've cooked for 26 once. Why did your fennel smell like paint? I actually like fennel, try it in a desi fusion spaghetti.ReplyDelete
I love fennel. The freshness it exudes is simply awesome. I once made a fennel salad with freshly squeezed OJ, that was my lunch that day.ReplyDelete
Love the name of your post. very rhyming :)ReplyDelete
Never used fennel (other than seeds) in my cooking, so looks interesting.
I have stayed an arm's length away from fennel even though it is readily available here. Never can think of making anything with it. Have to say, you try out more exotic or unusual herbs and vegetables in India than I do here.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2/02/2011 5:34 AM
i love the looks and sound of this salad. simple and delicious. ;-)ReplyDelete
Cooking for 8 is definitely no easy task. The salad looks good, but your description of the smell of those bulbs tells me I'll never try it out.ReplyDelete
Love the "paint and petroleum derivative description :) and didnt we love inhaling petrol fumes when we were children ;)ReplyDelete
This is one of favorite vegetables, and I have always wondered whether it is available in India as the seeds are quite popular there. It might be a stupid question, but do the seeds grow inside these bulbs? I mean can we still get the seeds if the bulbs are removed, which might explain why the bulbs are exotic?ReplyDelete
Sig, the seeds come from the flowers, the bulb is underneath. Well, at least that's what it looked like on Google Images ;)ReplyDelete
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Here is a review by Pixel Dan of Super7's release of MOTUC Collector's Choice Hawke!
Check it out:
Do you think we'll get a Hawk MOTUC? I know she's 200x, but she won't be the first exclusive 200x (that belongs to King Grayskull... and he was followed by Zodak). However, she will definately add another female into the line. I know she'll probably need a new head and body sculpt, but with Teela under Mattel's belt, that shouldn't be too difficult. Would you get a Hawk? Should she be a bonus figure?


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And the other SECRET benefit of wearing the Rainbow bikini?
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An artist, Marcin Sobolev, created the fish etching on the acid-treated glass end wall of the rooftop pool enclosure. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Artwork by Jeremy Blake stretches along a hallway. Photo by Eric Laignel.
A ribbon of stainless steel wraps the wenge handrail of the staircase, which leads up to the pool terrace and down to the bedrooms and study. The steps are also wenge. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Brushed stainless steel frames sliding doors between the marble-floored kitchen and the dining area. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Martin Szekely designed the dining table and chairs as well as a pedestal that displays a sculpture. Photo by Eric Laignel.
In a corner on the lower level, a 1966 chair by Eero Aarnio accompanies a giant Murano glass necklace by Jean-Michel Othoniel. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Ron Arad\'s chair sits on the teak pool deck. Photo by Eric Laignel.
In the dressing area of the master suite, custom furniture includes a pair of lacquered chests and a suede-covered chaise longue. Photo by Eric Laignel.
The living area's piano was customized from Andree Putman\'s limited-edition Voie Lactee design. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Cecilie Manz\'s pendant fixtures line up in the kitchen, where two walls are chiseled granite. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Andree Putman's often-used checkerboard motif appears in the form of the entry's oak-and-ebony parquet. Photo by Eric Laignel.
The guest room's furnishings, all custom, include a leather-wrapped pull-down desktop and pull-out ottoman. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Garouste & Bonetti designed the geisha lamps. Photo by Eric Laignel.
Cotton organdy drapery can be pulled around the bed in the master suite. Photo by Eric Laignel.
In the hall of a Brussels duplex by Agence Andree Putman, a love seat by Satyendra Pakhalé sits near a lamp by Alessandro Mendini. Photo by Eric Laignel.
In her 2005 makeover of the Guerlain flagship store on Paris' Champs Elysées, Putman incorporated a large gold-beaded chandelier encircled by the striking fragrance display.
Among Putman's many hotel commissions was her 1989 interior design for Hotel Le Lac in Japan. Photo by Deidi Von Schaewen.
Putman's 1993 redesign of the interior of Air France's Concorde focused on "austerity and fresh details" by changing the lighting and simplifying the lines of the overhead bins. Photo by Deidi Von Schaewen.
For the redesign of French Minister of Culture Jacques Lang's Paris office in 1984, Putman contrasted 18th-century extravagance with spare mid-century modern furniture in the same pale golden color palette. Photo by Deidi Von Schaewen.
1984 Andree Putman's bold checkerboard bathroom design for Morgans Hotel in New York in 1984 is credited with helping create the concept of the "boutique hotel." Photo by Deidi Von Schaewen.
In 2008, Putman designed this digital photo frame exclusively for Parrot.
Among the private residences Putman has designed is this 2005 project in Spain featuring soothing robin's egg blue tiles, warm wooden flooring and a freestanding bathtub with unconventionally modern feet. Photo by Deidi Von Schaewen.
Another distinctive 2008 product design by Putman: the "Voie Lactée" piano for Pleyel, France's oldest piano company. Photo by Marc Abel.
In 1990, Putman designed the interiors for the Hotel im Wasserturm, a 78-room property in Cologne, Germany that used to be Europe's largest water tower. The interiors feature blond woods and circle details reflecting the 140-year-od building's geometry. Photo by Deidi Von Schwaewen.


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It's no surprise that the new C-Class looks like a shrunken S-Class. What is a surprise that it's up to 220 pounds lighter than the old model, making it the lightest car in its segment.
How'd Mercedes do it? Aluminium, or alloy as the guys from Stuttgart were calling it. The body in white, that is, the chassis and body panels, is just under 50% aluminum by weight. I heard 48% from one representative from Daimler AG. This means that about 68 kilos (150 lbs) of the C-Class' weight reduction is from the body in white alone. The fenders, hood, and trunk are aluminum, the roof is aluminum if you don't get the panoramic sunroof, and all the other exterior panels are aluminum save the rear 3/4 panel and parts of the bumpers.
This means that, in its lowest spec (a base, manual European-market C180) the car weighs a startling 1310 kg or 2888 pounds. A last-generation C180 manual in identical spec weighs precisely 100 kilos more (1410kg/3108 lbs). 150
Don't get too excited — the cars we get in America will be heavier than that. Our lightest last-gen C-Class was just over 3400 lbs. That means we can expect the official US C-Class weight to plunk down into the 3200 pound range.
So if you leave enough options off, you're looking at the lightest car in its segment. For reference, the BMW 3er is 3300 pounds and up, the ATS is the same, and the Audi A4 is 3500 and up and so is the Infiniti Q50
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OTTAWA — As a high-performance and highly accomplished paralympic athlete, Jason Dunkerley is obsessed with all the elements that allow him to run fast times and produce tape-breaking wins.
But almost six months before the International Paralympic Committee world athletics championships in Lyon, France, Ottawa's most successful distance runner with a visual disability is about to take a courageous step outside of the box.
He wants to make the most important person in his life experience her own thrill of victory.
But there will be no race, no podium ceremony, no flag waving, not even a stadium full of screaming spectators. Instead, in a cool, quiet operating room, they will be surrounded by teams of specialized doctors and nurses, who will perform a delicate two-person relay.
Sometime either in late February or early March, the Achilles Ottawa Running Club and Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club member will have one of his two healthy kidneys removed at the Ottawa Hospital General Campus.
Minutes later, it will carefully be implanted into his wife, Colleen Hayes, who has had progressive kidney disease since 2008, which has compromised both of her kidneys.
It is considered relatively uncommon for a husband to donate a kidney to his wife, but Dunkerly has met all of the medical conditions to assist his wife.
Dunkerley, 35, and Hayes, 34, are both visually impaired and have been married seven years. He was born without sight because of a congenital eye condition called Leber's Amorosis, and she lost full sight as a university student in 2000 because of glaucoma. Despite their visual disabilities, they have satisfying full-time jobs, fulfilling and energetic lives and a true love for each other.
The couple, who hope to be given their surgical date at a medical appointment on Feb. 7, learned about Hayes's kidney disease when Dunkerley participated at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing. Her two kidneys were functioning at about 25 per cent and remained that way for about four years.
But in October, Hayes's creatinine level suddenly spiked. A month later, she was forced to start dialysis three times a week to cleanse her blood. They also learned a transplant would be a necessary for her to regain a healthy life. Immediately, Dunkerley, who won silver and bronze medals in the 5,000 and 1,500 metres, respectively, at his fourth Paralympics in London last September, enthusiastically stepped forward to say he was willing to donate a kidney to enrich his wife's life. That was, if he was a perfect match.
After overcoming a hurdle on his first medical test - a blood sample showed he had the hepatitis C antibody, but doctors later ruled there was a minimal risk he would give it to Hayes - Dunkerley passed a full battery of exams to be able to donate a kidney to his wife, who was ecstatic over the sacrifice of her husband.
"It's pretty amazing. It's rare for a non-relative to be a good match," said an upbeat Hayes, who also had offers from family and friends to assist her.
"But from Day 1, Jason was the first to step up to see if he was a match.
"I tell you, you can't put it into words (what Jason is about to do); he was willing to be tested for being a possible match and put so much on the line. He's putting his running races aside and his own health. Doctors have told us any time you have surgery there are risks going in (such as bleeding and infection)."
Dunkerley's surgery will be first and take about two hours. Hayes will follow and will be in the operating room up to three hours to remove her two deteriorating kidneys and receive one of Dunkerley's kidneys. Both Dunkerley and Hayes will be able to function with one kidney and his remaining kidney is expected to grow larger to compensate for the removal of the other one.
Hayes will be in hospital for about six days, while Dunkerley's stay will be between two and four days.
"We're led to believe it (transplant surgery) will be a success," said Hayes, an advertising sales rep for the Ottawa-based Gordongroup, a marketing and communications agency.
Dunkerley has placed checkmarks beside all of the necessary steps needed to be a donor - had blood and urine sample tests, ECG, chest X-ray, abdominal ultrasound, renal scan, met with doctors, the surgeon and a social worker, watched a presentation on a kidney donation, met a psychiatrist, and had a renal CAT scan.
"I'm so happy I can be eligible to be able to do it," said Dunkerley, who will receive the individual sport honor for paralympic sports Wednesday night at the 60th Ottawa Sports Awards dinner, which comes five days after accepting the Queen's Jubilee Award for his Paralympics success. In December, Dunkerley and running guide Josh Karanga of Ottawa won the Athletics Canada outstanding para-athlete of the year award for ambulatory events for 2012.
"I want her to have one of my healthy kidneys and benefit from that. I want her off dialysis and feeling better and healthy."
Both Dunkerley and Hayes balance their excitement to get on with the surgery with an understandable amount of nervousness.
"Surgery is surgery," Dunkerley said. "I'm ready to go forward and hope it works. There's a 95 per cent likelihood it will be successful. I'm excited and hopeful to see it work. We definitely know what to expect. They (medical team members) make you feel comfortable.
"I feel lucky to be in a position to be able to donate. Being married to Colleen, I feel lucky she didn't have to look too far (for a donor). It feels very right.
"We're definitely not a perfect (medical) match, but it's close enough. Technology has come a long way and they feel it will be a success."
Following surgery, Dunkerley has been told to avoid any running for six weeks because of the sport's impact on the body. Dunkerley has been training hard leading up to surgery to help make the transition back to workouts for the world championships as smooth as possible.
But as Dunkerley, a program co-ordinator with Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability, is taking a major stride to help his wife live a better life, he's also growing as a person and a runner. He's hoping to compete in his fifth Paralympic Games at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro and win his first gold medal to go with three silvers and two bronzes.
"As hyper-focused and anal as I get about running," he wrote in a recent blog, "something like this makes you realize that it isn't everything, that life and health and being there for your loved ones matter far more."
But once the surgery is complete and he can start to train again, it will be, as he used to say in his native Northern Ireland, "back to the porridge," or back to work to reach for the top and break the tape for the first time at the 2016 Paralympic Games.
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Impacts of Winter Weather – Part 1
Impacts of Winter Weather Part 2
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Indianapolis firefighters work at the scene of a house fire in February last year.
Winter operations can be broken down into a few categories: personal gear preparation, procedures to protect personnel, and vehicle and scene operations. Over the past decade, the United States has seen ever increasingly significant winter storms, impacting the ability of emergency services to respond to massive areas of damage.
Winter presents itself in multiple weather patterns: lower temperatures, precipitation changes and shorter daylight hours. Significant amounts of snow bring obvious impacts, while overcast skies can also cause challenges when trying to read the presence of smoke on the horizon if the fire is in the beginning stages.
Heating systems
Colder weather results in increased use of heating systems and all the increased fire impacts associated with them: space heaters, fireplaces, and heating systems whether forced hot air, electric or passive systems. Don't forget that solar heating is becoming more prevalent for primary heating sources so you should take the time to research those structures in your area that have solar heat and find out how they are impacted by significant winter storms.
In addition, remember that exposure to cold weather is just as stressful to the body as hot weather if not worse. The body must keep itself warm and it performs this by burning fuel. That fuel can be glucose or if that is low, it will burn body fat through lipolysis. If the body is unable to generate sufficient heat with glucose, it will start generating more heat through muscle shivering.
This will in turn both increase body heat and burn more glucose. Cold environmental air is generally low in humidity and the body is forced to both warm itself up and humidify it at the same time. The body is normally somewhat more dehydrated during winter months as compared to the summer. All of the above actions will reduce the body's ability to work at peak performance for long periods of time, so you should be prepared for the fact that physical endurance in cold weather operations will be reduced.
Counter assault
So how do we counter the assault that Mother Nature and our body design brings? First, make sure you and your personnel have the appropriate cold weather gear for your area. Layers of clothing should be worn to allow for adding or removal based on the work load or increased cold impacts. Socks that are suited to keep your feet warm for long periods of time should be warn under your bunker boots. And have an extra pair of the same type to help keep your feet dry.
Spare structural firefighting gloves and a spare pair of work gloves in case one pair gets wet are also recommended. On nighttime responses, wear underclothing when responding at night, which should consist of cotton underwear when possible – should you get caught in a high heat event, you don't want to be caught wearing shrink wrap.
It goes without saying that wearing personal protective gear and wearing it properly is vital throughout the year – but in winter it can offer additional benefits, providing a significant amount of warmth by itself.
Water repellent
Make sure your bunker boots/station boots are water repellent. If they need some repair or reconditioning, do it before the snow flies. If your personnel wear cold weather gear for EMS calls that are not bunker gear, ensure that gear is water repellent as well. And don't forget to inspect your foot gear to ensure you have good traction. As someone who was found lying on the ground during an extrication, you may injure yourself or others if you cant keep your traction – though I saved the extrication tool from damage anyway!
It's a good idea to carry your spare socks, gloves and hats with you in a small duffel bag so it's always to hand when you need it. During this time of year, it's certainly worth dressing as if you will be outside for a long time when responding on calls. Chances are it will happen.
We need to ensure that our primary responsibility is to protect our crews. .Increasing the number of personnel on a fire scene enables crews to be rotated, keeping them warm. Rehab during cold weather should be pre-planned to cover the ability to keep personnel warm. Do you call in buses with heating systems for rehab or do you have a local occupancy that will allow you to set up rehab? Include rest and the ability to rehydrate with the establishment of the rehab area. Most critical, a spot to warm up must be a minimum. Ensure rehab has the ability to monitor personnel for hypothermia, hypoglycemia and frostbite.
If our outer shell of protection has the ability to absorb water, it will freeze. In addition, anything we sweat onto or into can freeze, too. This will impact how rapidly an individual looses body heat versus dry clothing.
Equipment impacts
Cold weather significantly impacts the equipment we use. Cold air from our SCBAs could freeze our first or second stage pressure reducers, while SCBA facepiece exhalation valves may also freeze. Pay attention to what your gear is doing. If it appears that a number of SCBAs are starting to freeze up, do we need to consider a tactical switch from interior operations to exterior?
I know from personal experience that the best place to be on a structure fire in the winter is interior, near the heat. Remember that going from a high-heat environment to a rehab or overhaul situation creates drastic changes to atmospheric conditions and may start to freeze gear that has water/perspiration soaked into it.
Our ability to keep ourselves and our personnel ready to perform in a cold weather environment starts with our ability to be proactive. We can ensure personnel are prepared physically and mentally, and equipped with the proper gear to allow them to operate effectively on incident scenes in cold weather.
Train them ahead of time to anticipate cold weather impacts from a physical point of view and to expect that cold weather firefighting is a different ball game compared to fighting fires in a warm environment. Remind them to have the warm weather gear -- let them know it is acceptable to wear the gear when the weather requires it. Remember also that Incident Commanders need to stay warm as well. That may mean them commanding from inside a vehicle instead of standing at the rear of the command car.
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Qingdao has been noted as a light air venue with strong currents. That combination will be a challenge, but USA Laser Radial representative Anna TUNNICLIFFE said it's still fair game. "The conditions are difficult but everybody has to deal with it. Whoever deals best will come out on top." As the #1 ranked Laser Radial sailor, TUNNICLIFFE is a strong medal favourite in the 26-boat Laser Radial class. TUNNICLIFFE's most notable recent wins include the 2007 Qingdao Olympic Test Event, the 2008 Delta Lloyd Regatta in Holland in May and, of course, the US Olympic Trials for Sailing. Other medal favourites in the Laser Radial class are China, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, Belgium, Lithuania, and Great Britain. Canada, Poland and Argentina could also bring fruitful results. When asked about one of her main competitors, Lijia XU of China, TUNNICLIFFE explained her level-headed approach, "She's good, but when we're on the water I'm not going to take a special interest in any one person. I'll just do the best I can." Always gracious and a model sportswoman, TUNNICLIFFE thrives on competition and it is clear she is ready to get racing.
In the Yngling class, Sally BARKOW, Carrie HOWE and Debbie CAPOZZI are generally considered strong medal favourites. Though currently ranked fifth in the world, this trio has been ranked in first place and have ended up at the podium in about 80% of their events over the years. Middle position HOWE said, "Looking at the past World Championship finishes is a good way to tell who can do well. We haven't been out of the top five in the past five years." Medal favourites in the 15-boat class include Great Britain, Russia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Also in the running are Spain and, in particular, Norway, whose team has come on strongly in the past few regattas. When asked about their medal hopes, the USA team was fairly reserved, but BARKOW gave a smile and just said, "gold."
Tim WADLOW and Chris RAST sail in the 19-boat 49er class and are two of the four Olympic veterans on the United States team. WADLOW steered a 49er to fifth place in Athens. Off the water, he has been elected the US Olympic Sailing Team Captain, and will represent the team in IOC affairs for the Games. RAST, who is a Swiss citizen as well as American, sailed in the Olympics twice for Switzerland and coached for them once as well. WADLOW and RAST are ranked #9 in their class, but have shown particular potential in light air, so they rise to medal contention and could excel in Qingdao's typically weak winds. Spain, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Great Britain and Ukraine are medal favourites in the class. Most of those teams are defending Olympic medallists or World Champions. Each is fast, but Ukraine is known to look average in practice and then turn out great regattas, while Great Britain has not shown as much strength under pressure.
John LOVELL and Charlie OGLETREE will race in Qingdao at their fourth and final Games. After sailing together for 15 years and winning a silver medal in Athens, the duo has high expectations. When asked to list medal favourites, OGLETREE jokes, "First: Charlie. Second: Johnny." Though he quips about the gold, he's not really joking when he says they are here to win. When it came to assessing the 16-boat fleet, OGLETREE said, "There are no dark horses. There are a couple teams here that are not in the running, but every single other team has a shot at a medal." He continued, "In this class you don't shoot for gold; you shoot for the podium and you sort out the colours in the last race." If anyone on this team would know Olympic level strategy, it would be him.
In the 26-boat Finn class, Zach RAILEY shares the notion felt my many classes: "About 10 to 12 sailors can make it to the podium at the 2008 Olympic Games." He explained, "It depends from week to week. You can have a guy get third place one week and then ninth the next. It all depends on who puts a consistent series together in the week we race here at the Games." Top medal contenders in the Finn are Great Britain, Denmark, Spain, Croatia, Holland, Slovenia and Italy. RAILEY is ranked #17 and has recently shown marked and consistent improvement in his ISAF Grade 1 events finishes. He appears prepared to peak at the 2008 Olympics.
John DANE and Austin SPERRY race together in the Star class. The Star class is known for its depth of talent and tends to attract legendary sailors with multiple world championships from various classes under their belts. While over half of this 16-boat fleet has a chance at a medal, favourites include Brazil, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Poland and Sweden. At 58, DANE is the oldest American going to the Olympics, and he hopes to be the oldest American to come home with a medal.
As many of the United States' representatives have expressed competitive closeness in their classes, Andrew CAMPBELL, who races in the Laser class, emphasizes the parity in his class by listing about fifteen sailors who have reached the podium at this quad's Grade 1 events. He notes six medal favourites and another eight "possible race winners with medal potential." CAMPBELL's strongest countries in the 40-boat Laser class include Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia and Sweden. As potential dark horses, Canada, Brazil, Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain show promise. CAMPBELL has only sailed an aggressive schedule in the Grade 1 circuit for two years but has reached #15 in the rankings. He says of his chances, "I think in less than 12 knots I'm between the two groups [medal favourites and potential medal winners]. The coaches certainly like taking pictures of me during practice races recently."
Amanda CLARK and Sarah MERGENTHALER will compete in the 19-boat Women's 470 class. Crew MERGENTHALER observed, "At almost every major event this year we have had a different winner. Anyone in the top ten in the rankings can get to the podium." Among the top group are Australia, Japan the Netherlands, France and Sweden. Italy, Great Britain and Brazil are more potential podium contenders. CLARK and MERGENTHALER list themselves as wild cards. CLARK explained, "We are currently ranked seventh, but we have been ranked as high as fifth. We are right in the mix on speed and now it's about tying in consistent finishes." MERGENTHALER said, "A lot of it depends on the first race-- who combusts and who holds it together."
Stuart MCNAY and Graham BIEHL are competing in the Men's 470. BIEHL said, "Twelve countries can win medals, honestly. There are a lot of people who can win; it just goes down to how they sail this regatta. You can usually tell by the second day." Medal favourites in this 30-boat class are Great Britain, Australia, the Netherlands Israel and France. In reference to potential wild cards, BIEHL notes that New Zealand puts forth a strong pair, but as they are both 17 years old, it's not clear how they'd handle a pressure situation like the Olympics. MCNAY and BIEHL are currently ranked #9 in the world in the Men's 470 class, and they put forth their best performances in Qingdao's typically lighter breezes under twelve knots.
In the 35-boat Men's RS:X windsurfing class, Ben BARGER counts 11 racers who have won Olympic medals, World Championships, or have performed in the top five at recent test events in China. To top that leaderboard, BARGER said New Zealand, Greece, France and China look like the strongest medal hopes. BARGER expects to finish somewhere in the middle of that 35-person windsurfing class.
In the Women's RS:X windsurfer, 20 year old Nancy RIOS races as the youngest person on the US Olympic Team for Sailing. France, Italy and Spain are expected to perform well in this 28-person Olympic event.
Four hundred sailors from 62 countries will race at the Olympic Sailing Competition from 9-21August. Event schedules are staggered over the 13-day period, with reserve days built into the end of the Olympic Sailing Competition as well as during each individual event. Under normal scheduling, reserve days are lay days for the sailors, but may be used as race days for weather reasons. On 9 August, the Olympic Sailing Competition begins with the Finn and Yngling classes.
For more information, news, features and updates on the US Olympic Team for Sailing, please visit http://olympics.ussailing.org/Olympics.htm.
For daily video, pictures and blog coverage by Gary Jobson on NBC, please visit www.nbcolympics.com/sailing/index.html.


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The Complex Joys Of Music In The Age Of Digital Abundance
from the times-they-are-a-changin' deptA recent issue of The New Yorker had a fine essay by Mike Spies about the joys of discovering and listening to music. But its overall tone is rather melancholic:
We seem to have created an environment in which wonderful music, newly discovered, is difficult to treasure. For treasures, as the fugitive salesman in the flea market was implying, are hard to come by -- you have to work to find them. And the function of fugitive salesmen is to slow the endless deluge, drawing our attention to one album at a time, creating demand not for what we need to survive but for what we yearn for. Because how else can you form a relationship with a record when you're cursed with the knowledge that, just an easy click away, there might be something better, something crucial and cataclysmic? The tyranny of selection is the opposite of freedom. And the more you click, the more you enhance the disposability of your endeavor.Of course, this is a common complaint -- that digital abundance is somehow devaluing our experience of art. It's a close cousin of the idea put about by the copyright industries that the lower the price of something, the less you value it (neatly confounding two quite distinct concepts -- "price" and "value".) But the post by Spies rises above that, partly because it is so poetic in its phrasing, and partly because it gets down to specifics. Here, for example, is his description of some of the pleasures enjoyed during that now-lost era of analog scarcity (the music was already digital, but the packaging wasn't):
When I returned to my dorm, I unwrapped the cellophane and turned the album over in my hands, flirting with it, searching for clues about what lay within. The cover image of the singer seemed to tell the story of a man who, perhaps in order to avoid great pain, had entered oblivion, but done so in style, with a cool cigarette sticking straight out of his mouth. The question was: How did he get to oblivion, and why did he seek it out in the first place? The answer, needless to say, was the CD itself: the music, the sonic promise.There seem to be two distinct elements here. The first is "clues" for the music: that cover image of the singer. In the pre-Internet days, such images had considerable power because they were one of the main ways musicians were visualized for the public. Today, a simple image search will bring up hundreds, if not thousands of images of musicians engaged in lots of activities, both cool and uncool. But for anyone who was truly "searching for clues" about the music, even the uncool images might, in their authentic awkwardness, offer vital hints.
The other element, of course, is the music itself, and its "sonic promise". But again, to understand any given piece of music, is it not useful to have access to the pieces written before and after it by the artist, the pieces that influenced it, and those that it influenced? Or what about all the pieces written in that year, or for the same musicians, or played at the same venue? Those complex cuts of the totality of recorded music -- the rich and surprising playlists that people make and share -- are something that the Internet with its digital abundance is uniquely well-placed to supply in a way that CDs never could. Isn't that multidimensional richness something to be welcomed, not feared?
On the one hand, Spies seems to be saying that today it's too easy, that we don't do enough to earn the pleasure of our music by spending time as we did in the old days:
if I was going to buy a CD, back when I bought them, I had to eke out some time, and even pray for a little luck, as I could spend hours in a dimly lit store, and leave with nothing. So I had to make a conscious decision that I was going to take my chances.
But on the other, he seems to be lamenting the fact that it's just too hard, that we can never know whether we have found what we are looking for, because there is always more to explore:
how else can you form a relationship with a record when you're cursed with the knowledge that, just an easy click away, there might be something better, something crucial and cataclysmic?
Perhaps he just needs to recognize that, as in so many domains, the shift from analog scarcity to digital abundance brings with it a need to change our own ways of thinking and listening. Now, the difficulty of finding music that we like -- the hours spent bent over racks of CDs in that "dimly lit store" -- has become a challenge that is physically trivial, but mentally far more demanding because it is unconstrained and almost limitless in its extent. It's no longer about arriving at that definitive record that is "crucial and cataclysmic", but more about enjoying the journey through, and connections between, entire sequences of wonderful musical performances.
I suspect that the generation now growing up with digital abundance will have no difficulty forming their own deep and important emotional bonds with collections of music that they have discovered not through a slow process of seeking and finding in the physical world, but by constant, high-velocity adventures through an equally valid digital space.
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It's been a year of wonderful surprises for me one of which was to be awarded the nation's highest honor in jazz, the 2012 NEA Jazz Master's Award. More on that and other events in the news section.
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Jack H. Knott took the reins of the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy in August 2005 as the C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and Professor. Before joining USC, Dean Knott served from 1997 until 2005 as professor of political science and director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chicago. From 1987 to 1997, Dean Knott was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, where he served as departmental chair and director of Michigan State's Institute for Public Policy and Social Research.
Dean Knott is a leading scholar in the fields of political institutions and public policy, health policy, and public management. He has published three books, including Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice, and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, his M.A. in comparative political economy from the School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, and his undergraduate degree in history from Calvin College.
Fall 2007: Dean Knott Elected to National Academy
Jack H. Knott, C. Erwin and Ione L. Piper Dean and Professor, has been elected as a fellow to the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). In addition to the National Academy of Science — which includes the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine — NAPA is the only other congressionally chartered National Academy. NAPA is an independent, non-partisan organization chartered to assist federal, state, and local governments in improving their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability. More information on NAPA is available at www.napawash.org.


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Alumni Weekend '08: What a Show!
If you weren't there, you missed hearing Tony DeSare sing, watching nonagenarian Vergiu Cornea glow, and witnessing long-lost brothers and sisters reunite.
Among the more than 800 alumni and guests who came to Alumni Weekend 2008 were nearly two dozen theater arts grads who came to honor retired professor Vergiu Cornea, as he received the alumni association's James J. Whalen Meritorious Service Award. The weekend also included a visit by new president Tom Rochon and a gathering of Greek organizations that brought back 275 members from pre-1993.
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Goods: Arson 09 Limited Edition
Length: 40.7
Waist width: 15.5
12″ tip and tail
Every once in a while you read a board review from some guy whose never even ridden the board, much less even handled it. I didn't want to be that guy. I wanted to give this board the full work over before telling you what I thought. I might not be the most talented wakeskater in the world, but I have ridden my share of boards. Feel free to make fun of my lack of skills in the video below, but I think I got a good feel for what the Arson 09 Limited, ridden by Marcus Knox and the rest of the team, was all about.
This was my first chance to ride a board from Arson, the new company no one will shut up about. I liked the board and think it had a really sick shape. The shape reminds me of the older Kampus decks, with a pretty square tip and tail. I actually like the fact they kept the rail line as straight as possible. The actual concave felt really good too, it's not abrupt. One issue I did have with it is it dragged quite a bit more than other boards I've ridden; but it probably didn't help that I ride really slowly. I couldn't narrow down where the drag was coming from, but I would think it would be the rocker and rail edges. Since Nick Dazuat has no problem on it though, I again, could be user error. Also, the board felt a little slippery at some times when you busted the rail free, but it tracts well.
I rode the board around for about 10 minutes and had no problem getting used to it. Shuvs were effortless and I liked how the board popped up to my feet. Probably the biggest perk of Arson boards is the overall construction is bomb proof. I do not see how you could break this board unless you really wanted to, and then it still might be hard. The wood core is made from a phoenix tree. I do not know if that's like the phoenix from Harry Potter's tree or something, but it has a lot of snap. This board would be great for someone who rides a lot of rails or cable parks.
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what is the weight???????
I think not running the 3 stage rocker is not a good idea, its been proven to work the best and its the safe way to go IMO. Does look like a sick board though
Evan71 It has a 3 stage rocker, Omen's had 5 stage but Arson is different.
Is this for real?
I rode mine today and had a blast! Even if it was only 53 degrees outside.
Cool marcus, i read somewhere they werent going to be 3-stage thanks for the clarification.
looks like a fun board
how do i get one?


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Restaurateur Profile: Susan Feniger
Co-Owner: Susan Feniger's Street
742 No Highland Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Yelp: 3.5 stars
Interview Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010
"My mom was a fantastic cook," says Susan Feniger, co-owner of Susan Feniger's Street restaurant. "We always had people at our house, and there were always great things in the freezer, ready to go when we had guests. Everything she did went in the freezer – cheese dreams, peanut butter chutney, bacon toast, and lady finger icebox cakes. Everything was ready so that if people just walked in there was something to serve them. I definitely picked up a lot of Mom's traits – some people just get it – they know how to season and cook."
"My first job was at Smith's Cafeteria in Toledo, Ohio," says Susan. "I fell in love with the idea of service, and was drawn to the pressure and flow of working in a food service environment. I never really thought that I would cook for a living though!" Susan went to Goddard College in Vermont to study psychology, but dropped out to live in a teepee. "I was rebellious as a kid – I wore Salvation Army clothes. My dad was not happy when I dropped out of college."
Susan decided to try a second time, this time at Pitzer College. "I was on a tight budget, so I would figure out how many meals I could make out of one spaghetti squash," she says. "I worked for a cabinet maker and in the cafeteria at Pitzer while I studied Psychology, Economics and Business. I was always very focused and driven." The cafeteria manager had been a cook in the army, and after two years of having Susan in the kitchen asked why she wasn't studying to become a chef. "It had never crossed my mind," she says. "But I talked to my advisors and set up an independent study program with the Culinary Institute." Susan fell in love immediately. "I was always trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, but once I went to CIA it was a no-brainer. I never looked at my watch when I was cooking. It was just the right fit."
Susan describes being a chef as requiring a lot of right and left brain. "It's also very physical work and requires focus, business knowledge and a little bit of therapy," she says. "The restaurant business is all about the people, the community, the relationships with customers, with employees. That is the most important part – how you treat people. The vibe of the restaurant comes from the people who own the restaurant. It's very natural for me – I like people, I like learning about how they are. I like the physical aspect of being in the kitchen. I like the pressure, the coordination."
After working in numerous kitchens and building Border Grill with Mary Sue Miliken, Susan was looking for a fresh opportunity to build a new restaurant. "I love Border Grill and everything that we have built," says Susan. "With Street I was just looking to do something small and on my own." She partnered with Executive Chef Kajsa Alger and the two got to work on building all of the elements of Street. "Kajsa worked at Border Grill for 20 years, and now she's a powerhouse. I love seeing people develop and grow. When you're building a restaurant, everything is important – we wanted the food to be right, but also the aesthetics. The tables are made from recycled paper, and the soap in the bathroom is recycled from our cooking oil. We had the muralist from Border Grill create a different style here, and we create customized music mixes with music from everywhere – Ethiopia, New Orleans, France." The restaurant opened in March 2009.
In balancing her time, Susan says that she goes wherever there is the greatest need. "We have an extremely strong team at Border Grill that keeps things running really smoothly. Of course, when you open a new restaurant it takes more time, but I'm involved in both businesses."
"I work a ton – at least 14 hours per day five days per week and one eight-hour day per week. I try to take one day per week off, but it's hard," says Susan. "I haven't taken a vacation for about three years, but this is how I like to spend my time. I want to see it all grow, and I absolutely love what I do. Sometimes I struggle with the idea of 'do I have enough free time?', but I'm also sure that I'm doing exactly what I want to be doing."


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Passing of a Dream
Jell called me today with some sad news: she had just learned that one of our nearest and dearest friends in SecondLife passed away, Dreamer Demontrond. Dreamer was one of those shining star type personalities which were larger than life. Her wit, intelligence, sarcasm, love, and competitive spirit were all things that drew me to her. She will forever be the hostess with the mostess. She used to love to egg me on in private to always best Jell's many suitors at Tringo who loved to drive the pot up higher than I could afford. She was the first person to know that Jell and I were becoming a couple in SecondLife and she had the honor of being my best "man" at my wedding. I spent many a late night/early morning due to the Australian time zone difference having a brisk discussion and "huggles" on a beach of her choosing. Her ability to cut through the crap and to the point with razor sharp clarity was amazing to say the least.
She is a living testament to the power of technology to bring about change and the fact that SecondLife can actually deliver some good with all the dramz. In real life her body was never capable of delivering on all the promise she held in her heart and mind. She fought a debilitative lifelong disease that at the age of 42 finally won the battle. It was her secret that was to be spoken of only in "hushed tones" to those she truly trusted. In SecondLife she was able to find her true love, Sal, and to experience running down the beach, climbing trees (which were craftily scripted by her love), surfing, and much much more. In fact, her RL mother created an account and logged in for the first time to be part of her wedding to Sal as she wept with tears to see her daughter so happy.
At this point I am filled with sadness and regret that as I moved away from SecondLife I did not do more to stay in contact with her. Although she was often in my thoughts, I didn't make the time to let her know how much she meant to me. I think that knowing her as I do, she understood my thoughts and feelings about SecondLife and was happy that I found love through SL that I could carry over into RL. She was not the self pitying type, even though she justifiably would have had a lot more reason than most.
Dreamer was loved by many… but in the end no one can speak more eloquently than herself when I quote her poem that she wrote knowing her end was soon:
When I come to the end
of the road,
and the sun has set for me.
I want no rites in a gloom
filled room,
why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little –
but not too long
and not with a head
bowed low,
remember the love
that we once shared,
miss me – but let me go.
RIP Dreamer… I look forward to huggles on the beach one day in the future.
6 Responses to "Passing of a Dream"
Love you Darling Dreamer, Foreverly and Alwaysly <3<3<3+++
A party to celebrate her life wil be in the SL Sim "Chi" on November 12th .. time and precise location to follow.
Rest in Peace.
Sally –
I will do everything in my power to get Hawks & I there to celebrate Dreamer's life with you & her friends. ❤
Huggles to you


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NASHVILLE — Changing nappies is, naturally, more on Miikka Kiprusoff's mind at the moment than changing teams.
"I try to stay out of that," shrugged the habitually-nonplussed goaltender of trade speculation. "I try to keep it simple, still. I try to help team here. Try to win games.
"Everything else is out of my control.
"So there's no reason to think about it. At all. It's NHL. Every year, it's the same talk. A part of the game. My name is out there, too.
"But I can't worry about it too much."
Along with captain Jarome Iginla and defenceman Jay Bouwmeester, Kiprusoff's name is front and centre among the Calgary Flames on the trading block. This is, never forget, arguably the best puck-repeller of the world's best league over the past decade.
Even at 36, he could be a difference-tipper for an ambitious organization looking to make a post-season splash.
Chicago is rumoured to be sniffing around. Toronto, too. Any team with Stanley Cup aspirations that needs shoring up between the pipes would be unbelievably daft not to at least inquire about the possibility.
With one year left on a deal that plummets to $1.5 million in 2013-2014 and his no-movement clause expired, the time has never seemed more ripe for the unthinkable prospect of the 2006 Vezina Trophy winner changing addresses.
"I've been traded once in my life" — from San Jose to the Flames back in 2003 — "and it was probably the best thing that happened in my hockey life," Kiprusoff mused. "But, like I say, I just try to do my job here. That's it."
Given the perpetual state of mediocrity of the franchise that he's propped up for so many seasons, he might secretly actually welcome a move.
A trade and a solid playoff run somewhere else would certainly up his bargaining power, assuming his desire is to remain in the NHL for a few more years.
Kiprusoff rejoined his mates here in Music City after wife Seidi gave birth to Oskar, the couple's second boy, on Monday at Rockyview Hospital, where, he wanted emphasized, the staff could simply not have been more supportive.
"Everything's good," reported dad. "Everything went well. It's been a long time. My other son (Aaro) is old (seven, actually), so I don't even remember how to handle a baby.
"But I guess it's coming back."
When he was asked if Oskar would grow up to be a Gumby-elasticized goaltender like his pa, it was put to Kiprusoff that the boy might be wiser to take a different pro career route. Say, a tennis star swatting baseline rallies weekly in dream vacation spots, like, for instance, Monaco.
"Yeah," joked Kiprusoff. "No taxes."
As pleased as pop was by the new arrival, Aaro had to be just as ecstatic. After all, a baby-brother sidekick. Nothing better, right?
"Yeah, he was pretty happy," said Kiprusoff. "It'll probably take a couple years before they can play together but he can't wait. It's cool."
And the complexities of successful diaper manipulation for a guy out of that rather messy loop a while now?
Kiprusoff smiled. "It's OK. I've been practising."
Speaking of swirling speculation, Iginla, the captain, was again deflecting the ongoing speculation regarding his future as a Flame.
"You try to focus on the games and my job — which is a great job — is to prepared and do my best on the ice. It's fun and that's why you try not to worry about the other stuff.
"I said at the beginning of the season that I wasn't going to talk about any possible scenarios because it's just a headache for our team and the guys. We're in a race right now, and that's where my mind is."
Mikael Backlund is giving himself a thumbs-up. The centreman played Monday in Dallas despite a cracked bone in his right foot and came away feeling no ill effects.
"It went better than I thought," he reported Wednesday. "Not too bad. Obviously the medication kicked in a little later and made it feel better.
"It's still sore but once the game started, I felt pretty good. I didn't think about it too much."
The peerless Bobby Orr turned 65 on Monday, making everyone of a certain ear feel that little bit older, sorer and slower.
"A big Bobby Orr fan," gushed Hartley, who, you should know, is an even bigger baseball nut. "I have a stick signed by Bobby Orr and a picture signed by Bobby Orr.
"In Colorado, I was talking to Bobby a lot. And when I got to Atlanta, Pete Orr, a good Canadian boy, was a reserve player for the Braves. And he wore No. 4, because of Bobby Orr. So I placed a call to Bobby and he sent a picture, that famous picture" — airborne after being tripped by St. Louis Blues' defenceman Noel Picard after scoring the Stanley Cup-winning goal for the Boston Bruins against Glenn Hall in the spring of 1970 — "and Pete Orr was pretty happy about this."
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Peter Ubel, author of Critical Decisions, has an interesting post over at Forbes that asks that question. He mentions the training baristas get in customer service:
As described in Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, Starbucks employees undergo rigorous training in how to recognize and respond to customer needs. They learn about what the company calls the" Latte Method" of responding to unpleasant situations (and really, would you have them call it anything else?). The Latte Method involves:
"We Listen to the customer, Acknowledge their complaint, Take action by solving the problem, Thank them, and then Explain why the problem occurred."
The result? Baristas learn to recognize when their customers are exhibiting negative emotions and, more importantly, how to address these emotions in positive ways.
Ubel (a doctor himself) contrasts this with medical training:
…we don't even receive a fraction of the training that Starbucks employees receive about how to recognize and respond to people when they express negative emotion…doctors respond appropriately to patients' expressions of negative emotions less than one in five times.
I've posted about how research shows medical school actually reduces empathy:
Three longitudinal and six cross-sectional studies of medical students demonstrated a significant decrease in empathy during medical school…
And the new book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success indicates that surgeons are near the top of the list of professions whose members frequently show psychopathic traits.
Is there room in those barista training sessions for some medical students?
More From Barking Up The Wrong Tree:
5 things you need to know about that wonder-beverage, coffee
Advice on how to best use caffeine — from a neuroscientist
Are psychopaths more likely to become criminals… or CEOs?
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I have to say that my husband is a prince among men. I mean, who else would see this sign on a five hour car ride
and decide we had to pull off the highway, find this restaurant, and then TAKE the picture of his wife in front of the place?
Too bad the place was closed.
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The Frye Company is the oldest continuously operated shoe company in the United States. The Company was founded in 1863 by John A. Frye, a well to do shoemaker from England. John A. Frye ran the business for nearly 50 years. After his death in 1911, his family continued to run the company until 1945.
Frye products have a long and illustrious history; Frye boots were worn by soldiers for both sides of America's Civil War, soldiers in the Spanish-American war, and for Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders. When home-steading drew adventurous New England families to the West during the mid and late 1800's many of the pioneers wore Frye Boots for the long journey. In 1938, on a trip to Washington, D.C., John A. Frye's grandson and namesake met a U.S. Navy Admiral who confided that he had trouble finding the Wellington style he liked so much. As a favor, John agreed to make him a pair. Frye continued to fill requests for these boots through the Second World War. During World War II, Frye supplied thousands of servicemen with Frye's Wellingtons, known as Jet Boots, by mail order. Jet Boots traveled the world on feet of U.S. servicemen during the war. Even General Patton wore a pair.
In the 1960s, Frye reintroduced the Campus Boot, from its 1860 original, featuring a bulky toe and chunky heel that came to epitomize the attitude and the style of the 60s and 70s. There was nothing like the "new" Frye Boot on the market, and consumers began to demand "Original Frye's." When searching for items to represent the America of the 60s, the Smithsonian Institute chose a pair of Frye Boots, which remain on display today. Today Frye's classic Harness Boot holds a place in American culture. The Harness Boot has been pictured in fashion spreads internationally and enjoys strong sales in the United States, Europe and Japan.


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Agricultural economists' research into grain prices may surprise you.
As farmers explore their program options under the 2014 Farm Bill, many are looking closely at past, present, and, especially, futures prices for their grain.
"A common presumption is that futures prices can predict future price, specifically the price during the last or delivery month of trading on a futures contract," explains Carl Zuluaf, an agricultural economist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in a research article published in the Farm Doc Daily. "This presumption has potential importance for both marketing and policy. Many crop insurance contracts use futures prices to establish their pre-plant and harvest prices. In addition, it is common to hear that futures prices should be used to forecast prices when evaluating the farm program choices in the 2014 farm bill."
But after examining corn and soybean futures and cash prices from 1975 to 2006 crop years, Zulauf and his co-authors Nick Rettig and Matt Roberts say using futures is a flawed approach for farmers and their crop insurance calculations.
In "Do Futures Forecast the Future?" the three researchers assert that future prices offer "an unbiased forecast of future price, but [that the] forecast error is large. A futures price provides no better forecast of future price than using last crop year's cash price."
As a result, they offer a "radical" observation: "Using futures prices to help determine the farm program choice in the 2014 farm bill offers no advantage over using the 2014 crop year average price."
For more detail, click here to read their paper.
Where do you fall on the futures vs. cash price debate? Share your thoughts in AgWeb's marketing discussion forums.


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April 24, 2010
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team finished third at the Little East Conference/ Track and Field Championships at the UMass Dartmouth Athletic Complex Saturday afternoon. The men were fifth in the New England Alliance Championships, while the women were sixth.
The men scored 82 points in the LEC meet. Southern Maine was first with 157.5 points. The women scored 60 points. USM also took the women's title with 234 points. In the Alliance, which includes teams from the LEC and the Massachusetts Collegiate Athletic Conference, UMD's men were fifth with 78 points, while the women were sixth with 58 points. Southern Maine took the women's title with 230 points, and the men's championship with 155.5 points.
For the second week in a row, the Corsairs broke a pair of school records. Junior Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) won both the LEC and Alliance titles in the 100 meter hurdles in 15.28 seconds. She ran 15.19 in the trials, and those are her two personal bests in that event. The 4 x 100 meter relay team broke the school record when they finished first in the LEC and second in the Alliance. The team of Mello-Frost, freshman Jillian Van Ness (Agawam, MA/Agawam HS), freshman Shannon Singletary (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) and junior Briley Morrill (Whitman, MA/Whitman-Hanson HS) set a record with their time of 49.75 seconds.
Junior Jermai Harrison (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) won the shot put with a toss of 39 feet, one inch. She was also seventh in the discus at 104 feet. Sophomore Caitlin McGarigal (Shutesbury, MA/Amherst Pelham Regional HS) was second at 5000 meters in 19:05.00, Singletary was fifth at 100 meters in 13.05 seconds and eighth at 200 meters in 27.50 seconds, sophomore Brittany Cole (Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS) was sixth in the shot put at 35 feet, six inches, sophomore Jess Carpenter (Rutland, MA/Wachusett Regional HS) was sixth at 800 meters in 2:25.82, sophomore Stacey Dybel (Littleton, MA/Notre Dame HS) was seventh in the 3000 meter steeplechase in 13:21.92, sophomore Emily Migre (Whitman, MA/Whitman-Hanson HS) was seventh in the javelin at 111-10, and freshman Jamie Zizza (Stoneham, MA/Stoneham HS) was eighth in the pole vault at seven feet, 9 1/4 inches.
Men's highlights included sophomore Kevin Gilmore's (Hanson, MA/Whitman-Hanson HS) LEC and Alliance championship at 5000 meters in 15:43.43, freshman Kaylin Miranda (Brighton, MA/O'Bryant HS) winning the LEC and finishing second in the Alliance in the long jump at 22 feet, nine inches, and junior Kevin Markie (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS/Nichols) taking the LEC title and finishing second in the Alliance in the triple jump at 44-10 3/4. Junior Nick Santoro (Shrewsbury, MA/St. John's HS)was second at 10,000 meters in 32.14.31, junior Steve Burke (Norwell, MA/Norwell HS) was second in the 3000 meter steeplechase in 9:48.66, sophomore Brian McArdle (Winchester, MA/Winchester HS) was fourth in the 110 meter high hurdles in 15.70 after finishing the trials in 15.37 seconds, the eighth best mark at UMD, and the 4 x 100 meter relay team of sophomore Brendan Wilson (East Falmouth, MA/East Falmouth HS/Cape Cod CC), senior Corey Sleep (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS), Markie and sophomore Hymlaire Lamisere (Newton, MA/Newton North HS/Iona) was fourth in 43.18 seconds.
Freshman Scott Connolly (Sharon, MA/Sharon HS) was fifth at 800 meters in 1:59.56, sophomore Robert Yarbough (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS) was fifth in the hammer throw with the best toss at UMD, 149 feet six inches, and was sixth in the shot put at 44-8 3/4, Lamisere was sixth at 100 meters in 11.36 seconds, junior Eric Nygaard (Medway, MA/Medway HS) was sixth at 1500 meters and qualified for the Division III New England Championships in 4:03.81, senior Matt Lemanski (East Longmeadow, MA/East Longmeadow HS) was sixth at 800 meters in 1:59.79, and junior Brian Hopkins (Mendon, MA/Nipmuc Regional HS) was seventh in the 400 meter hurdles in 59.91 seconds.
"The women moved up from last year's outdoor performance, and the guys finished in the same place they did last year, but with faster times than last year," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "Our women have improved and become a more balanced team, and our men are faster than they were last year, but the league has improved as well. It shows that we have to work even harder. We're moving forward with two more school records and great enthusiasm, and we're heading in the right direction."
The Corsairs will return to action at the New England Division III Championships at Tufts next Saturday.


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Thanks to Mick and every one else the threads have now been chased out. I borrowed an engineers level and have the lathe as level as its ever going to be in my possesion, the level is accurate to 0.3mm and I focused my patience towards the front to back rather than along the length - I wish i knew the correct terminology! I was more concerned about twisting the bed. I will be making chips and swarf tomorrow. Ian
Is that possible? Surely there is a mechanical interlock that would preclude this happening?
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Adobe Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC documentation
As promised, Adobe Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC were released today. If you're an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, you will find Acrobat Pro DC among the apps available to install.
If you're interested in accessibility documentation on the DC releases, we've got you covered. The Adobe Acrobat accessibility site has loads of new documentation on Acrobat DC, including a step-by-step guide on adding accessibility support to PDF documents, and new VPAT documents. We're also updating our guide to Acrobat Reader for users of screen readers, including information on our new support for VoiceOver, and will let you know when that is available.
We would like to pass along one note of caution: Acrobat DC will replace your installed copy of Acrobat XI. If you need to revert to the older version for any reason, you can uninstall Acrobat DC, then reinstall Acrobat XI by going to the Acrobat downloads page. Creative Cloud subscribers will still be able to activate the Acrobat XI installer by logging into their account.


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Andrei Kirilenko and Russia Headed to the Olympics
Random Stuff, etc.
** Russia first defeated Korea (91-56) and then the Dominican Republic (84-69) in group play to move on to the quarterfinals, where they beat Angola (80-65). In the semifinals, Russia beat Nigeria (85-77) to make it to the finals. As both finalists and the third place finisher all qualify for the Olympics, there was no actual final game.
** AK led Russia in points, field goals made (tied), free throws made and attempted, offensive/defensive/total rebounds, steals, and blocks (tied). He was second in minutes played and assists.
** The qualifiers were held in Caracas. All 12 teams stayed at the same hotel, and players weren't allowed to leave the hotel. The team had an armed police escort when they traveled between the hotel and arena. Practices were held at a military base.
** Before tip-off of Russia vs. the Dominican Republic, Francisco Garcia told AK that he'd be a good fit in Sacramento with the Kings.
** London 2012 will be AK's third Olympics, following Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008. Russia didn't qualify in 2004.
** Half (6/12) of Team Russia comes from the same club team (CSKA Moscow). The six CSKA players accounted for 63 percent of Russia's points, 67 percent of Russia's rebounds, 73 percent of Russia's assists, 72 percent of Russia's steals, and 64 percent of Russia's minutes.
** Russia tallied assists on 100 of its 119 field goals in the tournament. Love that.
** Russia never trailed in its final game. In the entire tournament (160 minutes), Russia trailed for a total of 174 seconds.
C's reaction to the breaking news that is the goatee: "Does it look silly with his hair?"
modernagejazz permalinkJuly 9, 2012 10:43 pm
Come on, it's not like Venezuela has ever had a memorable footbal team! Actually, Venezuela never played in the World Cup!
Russian moment: in russian, Kirilenko is pronounced Kirilenka and AK never made the US media say it correctly? I heard that whenever an o is not in the tonic sylab of a word, it's pronounced as an a in russian, and this looks like it.


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Job preparation: Where to find a job
As with many things in life, preparation is key when trying to get your first job.
The graduate market has never been more competitive. Use this section to make sure your CV shines and that you're up to speed on what to expect at interviews and assessment centres.
A good place to start looking for jobs is your university's careers service who often have a careers notice board like the one at Sussex University.
Also, as almost every job vacancy is now advertised on the internet, we've selected the cream of recruitment sites offering jobs to physicists.
- www.brightrecruits.com
A new website from IOP Publishing dedicated to physics graduates and industry professionals with a background in physics.
- www.prospects.ac.uk
A premium careers management and coaching service offering a range of "pay-at-the-point-of-use" specialist career development services.
- www.jobsinscience.com
Jobs in Science pretty much does what is says on the tin. It's a specialist employment agency for scientists in the UK, and includes a special physics section
- tiptop.iop.org
The self-styled" dynamic job list for physicists" features regular vacancies and the opportunity for you to place your own ad, free of charge
- www.phdjobs.com
A valuable source for PhD careers. Includes job hunting tips as well as listings
- www.ecmselection.co.uk/jobs
A Cambridge-based recruiter that places candidates with some of the UK's most innovative technology companies
- cerncourier.com/cws/latest/cern
The international journal of high-energy physics features its own regular international job page
- nanotechweb.org
Job ads are one feature of this specialist site on nanotechnology
- www.jobs.ac.uk
A source of worldwide vacancies in universities, further education colleges, research institutions, companies, schools and charities
- www.insidecareers.co.uk
A graduate-focussed website for jobs in the following sectors: banking, patent law, management consultancy, and more
One last thing: don't forget to check the websites of the quality national press, including the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times. Their websites all advertise science-related jobs. And if you're particularly interested in working for a certain organisation, check their site for vacancies.
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