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The Washington Redskins got it right Thursday in hiring Jay Gruden as their next head coach. Owner Daniel Snyder and General Manager Bruce Allen needed fewer than two weeks to complete a process some in the organization privately hoped would end with Gruden, formerly the Cincinnati Bengals' offensive coordinator, becoming the team's eighth coach since Snyder purchased the team in 1999. Now comes the hard part for Gruden: fixing Robert Griffin III.
Although the Redskins have many problems, none is bigger — and potentially more damaging to the franchise long-term — than the one at quarterback. Gruden must be given time to rebuild a roster in disrepair and establish his style in an effort to turn around a team that has finished last in the NFC East five of the past six seasons. But the longtime NFL assistant has to work quickly in both helping Griffin improve on the field as a pocket passer and restore the quarterback's tarnished image off of it. The latter could prove to be more difficult.
As part of his get-fired-and-get-paid strategy, former Redskins coach Mike Shanahan revealed that Griffin's chummy relationship with Snyder undermined the team's dynamic. Gruden's predecessor succeeded in casting Griffin as an out-of-control spoiled brat. Anyone who read my friend and colleague Sally Jenkins's recent column on Griffin knows what I mean. Jenkins was too harsh on Griffin, but he does have some fence-mending to do at Redskins Park.
When Gruden speaks with players about Griffin, many will tell him they're still united behind the 2012 NFL offensive rookie of the year. They'll say they're confident Griffin is the best person to lead them under a new coaching staff. The Redskins will leave no doubt Griffin still is respected in the locker room.
Some veterans, however, undoubtedly will suggest Griffin should take more responsibility when things go wrong. It wouldn't be surprising if Redskins offensive linemen reveal Griffin was too quick to point in their direction during an embarrassing 3-13 season. For an organization torn apart by infighting in the previous regime, Gruden will discover, the healing process can be accelerated if Griffin gets back on a good path.
Before Gruden starts working on X's and O's, he'll have to earn Griffin's trust. To his detriment, Griffin blocked out Shanahan and his son Kyle, the offensive coordinator, who Griffin thought were in cahoots against him. Third-string quarterback Rex Grossman had a spot on the roster, people within the organization said, because the warring factions needed an intermediary.
The Shanahans devised a spectacularly successful offense that topped the league a season ago and helped Griffin have a groundbreaking year for a rookie signal-caller. Griffin, though, felt threatened by the Redskins' father-son coaching tandem. No matter the situation, Griffin believed the Shanahans were aligned because of what they shared: blood.
Gruden's brother, Jon, is a Super Bowl-winning coach, and the Redskins could use as many sharp football people as possible to help clean up this mess. After what happened with the Shanahans, however, Snyder probably is done with family acts for a while. Griffin is eager, people familiar with his thinking say, to build a bond with a coach whose only agenda is to help the Redskins thrive.
Considering Griffin's poor play and missteps — he and his father erred in pushing for major changes in the offense publicly — some Redskins fans are ready for turnover at quarterback, too. Many believe the organization should stop catering to Griffin. Those people also suffer from short memories.
The Redskins gave up four high-round draft picks for the opportunity to select Griffin. In completing the deal, the Redskins will send their first-round pick in the upcoming draft — No. 2 overall — to the St. Louis Rams. The Redskins mortgaged their future for Griffin.
Although team management has done some crazy things through the years (like guaranteeing Albert Haynesworth $41 million), turning away from Griffin now would set a new franchise low. The Redskins knew they had to bring in someone who could help them maximize the return on their investment in Griffin, and Gruden clearly has the credentials.
Under Gruden, Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton emerged as a solid quarterback capable of guiding a team to the playoffs. Dalton hasn't had postseason success, but Redskins fans should ask themselves this: Wouldn't you be happy if Griffin rebounds enough to lead the team to consecutive playoff appearances?
Griffin needs much work as a pocket passer — "Right now, he's a project," a longtime member of the franchise told me recently — so the Redskins' help-wanted ad might as well have read: "Quarterback doctor needed." When word emerged Wednesday the Redskins were close to finalizing a deal with Gruden, a team official told me Gruden would be the perfect fit for Griffin because, foremost, Gruden's an outstanding teacher.
There are no guarantees Griffin will ever become an elite pocket passer. And Griffin may never again be as popular with fans as he was during his magical rookie season. But in choosing their next coach, the Redskins put Griffin first — and that's exactly what they needed to do.
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A powerful photograph captured by photographer Rob Godfrey is quickly going viral on social media, showing a black police officer helping an elderly man, who is reportedly a member of the KKK group. According toMic, South Carolina Director of Public Safety Leroy Smith was helping the man to safety amid intense southern heat that was around 95-97 degrees Fahrenheit.
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LES with BFC
Hello, Since the previous posting about LES in PHOENICS, I have been trying to use LES in BFC. However, there is some odd thing going on. Using similar geometry and setting for each case, I find that the results from BFC is not identical with Cartesian case. Actually, I do not see any eddies develping using BFC, althogh I tried many variations of time step sizes and grid dimesions. Is there any library case using LES and BFC together or any publication using PHOENICS as such? Or is LES compatible with BFC in PHOENICS? Thank you in advance.
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I am not aware of any LES restriction for BFCs. The default grid filter for the Smagorinsky SGS model is one-third of the cell volume, as may be seen in the file /phoenics/d_earth/d_core/gxmxlen.htm. For wall-bounded flows, wall damping is advisable and so the LTLS variable must be solved to provide computation of the WDIS variable.
It might be a good idea to check whether the ENUT and LEN1 values are reasonable for BFC meshes. Check the values by hand for a few cells. It should be possible to restart from the Cartesian case, and perform a single-sweep run with the BFC case. The velocity fields will then be similar, but check whether the ENUT and LEN1 values returned for the BFC mesh are similar to those for the Cartesian mesh.
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In the brand new ABC promo for this week's General Hospital, it's decision time for several couples that will propel future story for them!
First, Lulu (Emme Rylan) tells Dante (Dominic Zamprogna) she wants to try and have another child, while Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) begins to tell Nikolas (Tyler Christopher) the truth that Brad (Parry Shen) is not the father of Baby Ben? Will she reveal all this time? Meanwhile, it looks like Britt and Nik hit the sheets!
But it looks like a game-changing moment for Spinelli (Bradford Anderson) and Maxie (Kirsten Storms)! After Spinelli is about to leave town with Ellie (Emily Wilson) and head to Portland with baby Connie in tow, Maxie and Spinelli have a revelation that they both still love each other and yes … Spixie kisses!
Watch the new promo after the jump! Then, let us know if you are rooting for Spinelli and Maxie to finally get back together and be a family with their little daughter? And, what do you think will happen next with Lulu/Dante/Britt/Nikolas? Something tells us, and the viewers, that their lives are more intertwined than they may think!


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Potatoes: Friend or Foe of the Waistline?
The media has been abuzz about a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine linking long-term weight gain to certain food items, and weight loss to others. Potatoes! They cried with the fervor previously reserved for a witch trial. It seems potatoes have been highlighted as one of the culprits for long-term weight gain. Other culprits were sodas, butter, refined grains and desserts. The additional weight gain over four years ranged from one pound to 3.35 pounds.
So why were potatoes singled out in this study? It seems those who consumed french-fries and potato chips showed spikes in weight gain, compared to the lowly spud boiled or mashed which only added about 1/2 pound to weight over the same period. Why? Let's take a closer look:
|One potato in jacket (8oz)
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|French-fries (4.7 oz serv)
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|22.9 grams fat
|Potato chips (3 oz. serv)
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|34.8 grams fat
It seems it is less about the potato itself as it is about the processing – note how the calories and fat increase with the more processed choices! Not to mention the sodium. All combine over time to add to the waistline. The other items on the study's diet no-no list are also filled with highly refined carbs and sugars (white bread, sodas), or just filled with plain old fat (deep-fried foods, butter). The much-maligned potato in its jacket actually is relatively low in calories and fat, yet provides fiber and other nutrients, so don't count it out just yet if prepared right.
That brings us to the winners from the study – yogurt, a serving of nuts or fruit, whole grains and veggies. All seemed to point to small decreases in weight. Dairy – such as milk – remained neutral.
Researchers behind the study say the report is less about shining a light on some magic solution for weight loss. It's really about reminding us to make sensible choices every day, and to remember what seems like small amounts of food can add up over time – especially as we age.
We think this makes sense, and it aligns with the CalorieKing mantra of always being aware of what you eat. While the study focuses on a few specific food choices it does not delve into eating habits or lifestyle choices which can also affect weight over time – serving sizes, snacking habits, nutritional balance of meals and the like. Weight gain or loss is part of a bigger picture of healthy habits, so remember our CalorieKing Quick Tips:
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text: Hi! >> Is that a LUN 0 backed by actual storage or a LUN_Z? > I don't quite know what you mean by LUN_Z. My EMC guy says it >is a "ghost" projected because the second SP owns no disks, but SCSI >requires a LUN 0 to be scannable. > >Joel If no LUN 0 is present (or no LUN is in the Storage Group), and arraycommpath is enabled the Clariion 'emulates' a LUN this is a LUNZ. >From a EMC primus article: A SCSI-3 (SCC-2) term defined as "the logical unit number that an application client uses to communicate with, configure and determine information about an SCSI storage array and the logical units attached to it. The LUN_Z value shall be zero." In the CLARiiON context, LUNz refers to a fake logical unit zero presented to the host to provide a path for host software to send configuration commands to the array when no physical logical unit zero is available to the host. When Access Logix is used on a CLARiiON array, an agent runs on the host and communicates with the storage system through either LUNz or a storage device. On a CLARiiON array, the LUNZ device is replaced when a valid LUN is assigned to the HLU LUN0 by the Storage Group. The agent then communicates through the storage device. The user will continue, however, to see DGC LUNz in the Device Manager. LUNz has been implemented on CLARiiON arrays to make arrays visible to the host OS and PowerPath when no LUNs are bound on that array. When using a direct connect configuration, and there is no Navisphere Management station to talk directly to the array over IP, the LUNZ can be used as a pathway for Navisphere CLI to send Bind commands to the array. LUNz also makes arrays visible to the host OS and PowerPath when the host·s initiators have not yet ·logged in to the Storage Group created for the host. Without LUNz, there would be no device on the host for Navisphere Agent to push the initiator record through to the array. This is mandatory for the host to log in to the Storage Group. Once this initiator push is done, the host will be displayed as an available host to add to the Storage Group in Navisphere Manager (Navisphere Express). LUNz should disappear once a LUN zero is bound, or when Storage Group access has been attained. To turn on the LUNz behavior on CLARiiON arrays, you must configure the "arraycommpath." Regards: Norbert Gaal


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Seven bodies found in Karachi airport's cold storage
At least seven bodies were recovered on Tuesday from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport's cold storage facility
Islamabad: At least seven bodies were recovered on Tuesday from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport's cold storage facility in Pakistan, media reported.
Also read: 23 killed as Pakistan militants attack Karachi airport; Taliban claims responsibility
Smoke rises after militants launched an early morning assault at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi
A terror attack on the airport on Sunday night killed 23 people including 10 militants, Dawn online reported.
The rescue operation followed by the attack, continued for nearly 28 hours.
Also read: This is the first of many revenge attacks to come: Terrorist outfit on Karachi airoprt attack
According to officials, the rescue workers broke down three walls of the cold-storage facility and retrieved the bodies which were badly burnt and were beyond recognition.
The victims had taken refuge in the cold-storage facility to escape the attack where they were later trapped.
They were employees of a private cargo company, the official said.
Speaking at a press conference held at the airport on Monday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that at least 19 security personnel including 11 Airport Security Force personnel were also killed in the attack.
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'Wake-up call' for Asia as Francis leaves Korea
Pope Francis' Korea trip was a "wake-up call" for the Church in Asia, the president of the country's Bishops' Conference said as the papal plane left for Rome this morning.
The Bishop of Cheju, Peter Kang U-il, said that Francis, in Korea for five days for the sixth Asian World Youth Day, demonstrated that peace was born of justice and compassion, and must not result in "stale charity".
He said that Francis' own example of humility was particularly relevant to South Korea, which since the war has overcome poverty to become the world's thirteenth-largest economy, recalling his insistence at a Mass for the Feast of the Assumption in Daejeon in central South Korea on Friday that they do not leave the poorest behind.
"The most important thing is that solidarity towards the poor should not be understood as mere material aid. The pontiff literally walked for five days to demonstrate his vision of the human being and the world," he told Asia News
Humility, human dignity and the poor were central themes of the five-day visit, which opened on Thursday with Francis' plea to the President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, to pursue peace with the North because "it affects the stability of our whole war-weary world" and closed with his strongest call for peace and reconciliation at a Mass this morning.
Pope appeals for peace and reconciliation in Korea as he begins five-day trip
Between telling Korean bishops not to let their country's "prosperous, yet increasingly secularised and materialistic society" distract the Church from its essential duty to evangelise and calling on Korea's young Catholics to "wake up" at the Asian Youth Day Mass on Sunday, Francis met with about 70 disabled adults and children at the "House of Hope" in Kkottongnae and prayed at the Garden of Aborted Children, a cemetery there.
Pope Francis struck a chord with Korean Catholics by travelling in the smallest available South Korean car, a Kia Soul, throughout the visit, on Friday shunning the papal helicopter and taking a local train from Seoul to Daejeon.
Before this morning's Mass at Seoul's Myeong-dong Cathedral Francis prayed with women who were forced to work as sex slaves during the Second World War.
"Let us pray ... for the resolution of differences, for continued generosity in providing humanitarian assistance to those in need, and for an ever greater recognition that all Koreans are brothers and sisters, members of one family, one people," the Pope said during the Mass, which concluded as the choir sang: "our wish is unification".
During the visit Pope Francis also stressed South Korea's key role as a bridge-builder between the Vatican and those Asian countries with which the Holy See does not have formal diplomatic relations, including China and North Korea.
On Sunday he diverted from his prepared speech to urge 80 Korean bishops to work towards dialogue with those countries, explaining during a meeting at the Haemi shrine in Seoul: "Christians aren't coming as conquerors; they aren't trying to take away [people's] identity".
Don't let benefits of economic growth corrupt you, Francis tells Catholics in prosperous South Korea
The Pope was due to greet the Chinese Government for a second time this afternoon as he flew over the country, reiterating the unprecedented greeting he sent on the outbound flight, which had to be re-sent by the Italian embassy after it emerged a technical glitch meant the message never reached Beijing.
During the visit Francis baptised the father of a young victim of this year's Sewol ferry tragedy. Demonstrations calling for a full inquiry into the accident that killed more than 476 people at one point threatened to overshadow the visit. Pope Francis wore a yellow ribbon on his cassock throughout the trip to express his solidarity with victims and their families.
On Saturday he beatified 124 Korean Martyrs at Gwanghwamun Gate in Seoul before a crowd Korean media reported to be one million people strong.
800,000 watch as pope moves 124 Korean martyrs closer to sainthood
Above: Pope Francis meets with religious leaders in South Korea. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring
Women pray as Pope Francis celebrates Mass for peace and Korean unity. Photo: CNS/paul Haring
Pope Francis baptizes father of victim of South Korea ferry accident, Photo: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, pool
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text: On 2/16/06, Matthias Baas <baas at ira.uka.de> wrote: > Roman Yakovenko wrote: > Isn't there sort of a duality between the declaration tree and the code > creator tree? From what I understand at the moment, at least every > exposed node in the declaration tree will have a corresponding node in > the code creator tree (is this correct?). Almost, For example function that takes an argument pointer to an other function will not have node in code creators tree. Also include_t code creator does not have analog in declarations tree. > Then I think it would also be possible (and useful) to attach all of the > above things to the declaration tree and pass them to the constructor of > the corresponding code creator. This way I don't have to search for > virtually the "same" node twice (once in the declaration tree and once > in the code creator tree). You don't have. You will use declarations tree to configure code creators. > >> q5: How do I add methods? (can you provide example code to do this) > > > > Take a look on py_date_time example, _customize_classes method. > > http://tinyurl.com/e44kh > > This is extremely low level, isn't it? Aren't you virtually bypassing > pyplusplus if you directly set things like > > def( "min", &%s::min, bp::default_call_policies() ) Yes > pyplusplus then has no chance of knowing the semantics of this text. Right > What if this definition should be involved in the reordering process? After code creators tree is constructed, reordering is done by developer. >Is it really guaranteed that the Boost.Python namespace is always called > "bp"? In my case - yes :-). Also you can change it. > I couldn't use the standard mechanism for assigning doc strings > (once there is one). This is not true, you can insert your documentation into the string itself. > I would prefer a solution where I can manipulate such a new method just > as if it was part of the C++ class (hence the suggestion for an > add_method() function). There is already exist one. You can create pygccxml.declaration.member_function_t class instance, fill the data/properties - that's all. It is not to difficult, but the process is much longer then injecting right code in the right place. -- Roman Yakovenko C++ Python language binding http://www.language-binding.net/


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Wisdom from Jenny Mannion
The greatest lesson I have learned is that we are truly unlimited beings. It seems easy to believe all that we have been told, "Life is hard", "You have to work hard and sacrifice to get ahead", "Life sucks then you die" but none of these hold any truth with our soul. When you connect with yourself truly and deeply life flows and can seem magical.
WE are the ones causing our own limitations. In hearing and getting to know the true us, our soul, we become limitless. Learning to love and forgive ourselves for acting from what we knew up until that point is key. Not blaming others but noticing the effect our mind has had on our life up until NOW makes a difference.
A key ingredient for creating an easy and in flow life is self love. We are truly mirrors reflecting how we feel we deserve to be treated to the world. We cannot live from what others have told us we are or limited beliefs of what we can be and all we cannot do.
We all have the power to fall in love with ourselves for who we are at the deepest level and also to recreate those patterns and behaviors that have not served us. Remember to treat yourself as kindly as you would a close friend that would come to you for help….Continue reading at InspireMeToday.com.
Jenny is a Reconnective Healing Practitioner, Soul ReAlignment Practitioner, Medical Intuitive and Mind Body Mentor.
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We are mid-way through July and the Pittsburgh Steelers are getting very close to reporting to Latrobe for training camp to kick off the 2017 season. The Steelers are among the favorites to make a run in the AFC and were just one game away from playing in the Super Bowl last season. Continue reading Steelers Training Camp Preview: Wide Receiver
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Enjoy a garden harvest of portobello mushrooms, zucchini and summer squash on your grill with this recipe for Grilled Vegetable Napoleon with Roasted Pepper Sauce from executive chef John Reis of Hilton Harrisburg.
Makes 4 servings
Vegetable Napoleon
4 portobello mushrooms, cleaned and gills removed
4 slices Zucchini
4 slices Summer squash
Freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup olive oil
12 slices fresh mozzarella cheese
4 large slices fresh tomato
6 sprigs fresh basil
1. Season portobello mushrooms, zucchini, summer squash with salt and pepper and brush with olive oil. Place on hot grill and grill for about 2 minutes on each side.
2. To assemble Napoleon, place a portobello on serving plate. Top with 1 slice of cheese followed by a slice of tomato, slice of zucchini, then another slice of cheese and the slice of summer squash. Sprinkle with goat cheese. Ladle warm sauce over the vegetable Napoleon and finish with a basil sprig, for garnish.
Roasted Pepper Sauce
1 red bell pepper, seeded and halved
1 orange bell pepper, seeded and halved
1/2 red onion, halved
3 cloves garlic
8 to 10 whole black peppercorns
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt
1 teaspoon hot chili sauce (recommended: Sriracha)
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Put the bell peppers, onion, garlic, and peppercorns on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and season with a healthy pinch of salt. Mix with your hands to fully coat the vegetables, and arrange the bell peppers skin side up, so that the garlic and peppercorns can hide under the cavity of the bell pepper halves.
3. Roast until the skin of the peppers begins to blacken and pucker, about 25 to 30 minutes.
4. Remove from the oven and immediately put all of the ingredients and residue from the baking sheet into a bowl, and quickly cover tightly with plastic wrap. Let the peppers steam for about 5 minutes.
5. Remove the pepper halves and, using your fingers, remove their skin by gently ripping and pulling it off, and return the peeled peppers to the bowl.
6. Add the mixture to a blender along with the chili sauce. Pulse lightly until almost smooth, but still having a slight texture. Season to taste with salt and pour into a small bowl.


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|Reference : Functional response to inhaled salbutamol and/or ipratropium bromide in Ascaris suum-...
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|Functional response to inhaled salbutamol and/or ipratropium bromide in Ascaris suum-sensitised cats with allergen-induced bronchospasms
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|[en] Knowledge about the use of inhaled bronchodilators in cats with so-called 'feline asthma' is limited and relies on the experience of clinicians treating these patients. A randomised controlled four-way crossover study was therefore designed to compare the effects of salbutamol (SAL, 100 μg), ipratropium bromide (IB, 20 μg) and a combination of both (SAL/IB, 100 μg/20 μg), delivered through a pressurised metered-dose inhaler (pMDI) connected to a spacing chamber, on allergen-induced bronchospasms in five Ascaris suum (AS)-sensitised cats. Four AS bronchial provocation challenges were carried out at 1 week intervals, followed by one of four treatment protocols: SAL, IB, SAL/IB or control (untreated). Enhanced pause (Penh), an estimator of airflow limitation measured by barometric whole-body plethysmography, was repeatedly assessed within 120 min following the administration of each treatment protocol. Responses to inhaled medications were evaluated by calculating the area under the time-response curves (AUC) from 0 to 60 or 120 min after drug administration (AUC(0-60), AUC(0-120)), as well as the times required for half-recovery (T(50%)) or for returning to nearly basal conditions (T(20%)). No significant differences were found among the four study groups, with reference to the mean AUC(0-60), T(20%) and T(50%) values of Penh (P>0.05). Mean AUC(0-120) values of Penh were similar between the bronchodilators tested, but were significantly lower than those in the untreated group. It was concluded that inhalation of SAL, IB and SAL/IB via pMDI failed to improve most Penh-derived parameters, which suggested that these bronchodilators were of limited efficacy in reversing allergen-induced bronchospasm in cats. However, further studies using a larger number of animals are warranted to investigate if different drugs or delivery devices or higher dosages may be more effective
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energy efficiency study for industry, households and services
The demand study by Utrecht University aimed to develop a low energy demand scenario for the period 2009 to 2050 covering the world regions as defined in the IEA's World Energy Outlook report series. Calculations were made for each decade from 2009 onwards. Energy demand was split up into electricity and fuels and their consumption was considered in industry and for 'other' consumers, including households, agriculture and services.
Under the low energy demand scenario, worldwide final energy demand in industry and other sectors is 31% lower in 2050 compared to the Reference scenario, resulting in a final energy demand of 256 EJ (ExaJoules). The energy savings are fairly equally distributed over the two main sectors. The most important energy saving options would be efficient production and combustion processes and improved heat insulation and building design. Chapter 10 provides more details about this study. The demand projections for the Reference scenario have been updated on the basis of the Current Policies scenario from IEA's World Energy Outlook 2011.


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I know about Webstorage and the basics on how to implement it. My question is what happens when the user decides to clear out his/her internet cache? Won't that delete the Webstorage info and thus wipe out all saved info in the process?
Is there a way to backup the Webstorage data somewhere else on my internet server or on their machine so it can be retrievable?
My project Way of the Sax (I'm sure you all know about it by now) is a very lengthy interactive comic that requires save points due to several features that include minigame and collection scores and reader decisions.


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2016 Conde Nast: The Best Restaurants in the World
Los Angeles Magazine: We Ranked All 15 Guisados Tacos
Bon Appetit: Plan Your Ultimate LA Restaurant Weekend 2016
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2015 GQ: The 6 Best Tacos in LA
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LA WEEKLY: 99 Essential Restaurants 2016
MUNCHIES: Chef's Night Out 2015
2016 Americas Test Kitchen: Cooks County LA edition
LA WEEKLY: 20 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles 2015
CNN: Best Tacos in America 2015
2015 LA Weekly: 99 Essential Restaurants
LA Downtowner - Handheld Breakfast Glory
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2015 Business Insider: 50 Best Tacos in America
Remezcla- How Boyle Heights Father-Son Joint Guisados turned into one of LA's most essential Taquerias
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2014 How You Glow: Guisados
HYPEBEAST Eats series visits Guisados in DTLA.
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Downtown's Next Foodie Hub - 2014by Downtown News
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The Definitive Guide to America's Best Tacos- 2014by Refinery29
The Best Tacos in Los Angeles - 2014by The Tasting Table
Guisados: LA's Finest Tacosby Life & Thyme
Tacos With a Twistby Pasadena Magazine
Guisados Opens in Downtown Los Angeles Spring Arcade Building - 2014by Los Angeles Times / Russ Parsons
The 30 Most Instagrammed Restaurants in Los Angeles
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25 New Restaurants to Try Around Los Angeles - 2014by Zagat
Sneak Peek: Guisados Previews Breakfast Taco Menu- 2014by Los Angeles Magazine / Garrett Snyder
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Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants- 2014by LA Times- Jonathan Gold
Fresh Off the Boat with Eddie Huang: Los Angeles
Eddie links with LA food truck King, Roy Choi, in East LA to eat corn tortilla tacos and talk about how they've chosen to live the food life.
Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants- 2013by LA Times- Jonathan Gold
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University of Pune gives job fair fillip to traditional IT courses
Will organise recruitment drive on June 5 exclusively for BCA, MCA, BSC (Computer Science) and MSC (Computer Science) students
With hiring in the information technology (IT) sector slackening and engineering students being preferred in campus recruitment, admissions to traditional IT courses like BCA, MCA, BSC (Computer Science) and MSC (Computer Science) have seen a slump. To tackle this situation, the University of Pune will organise a job fair for students pursuing traditional IT courses. Engineering students will be strictly kept out. The recruitment drive will be held in the Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCoE) on June 5.
"We are getting feedback from UoP-affiliated colleges that admissions in computer application and computer science degree courses are going down, mostly because of the current slowdown in the IT sector. Students now prefer to pursue graduation in pure science subjects rather than securing admission in IT-related courses, where the fees are more. Hence, we have organised this recruitment drive, which will focus on IT-related courses," said Dr Pandit Shelke, director, UoP students welfare department.
Prof Shitalkumar Rawandale, Dean (Industry-Institute Interaction), PCCOE said, "Yes, this year we are paying special attention to students pursuing traditional IT-specialised courses. Nearly 700 students from around 60 colleges are expected to participate in Thursday's drive. We held a similar drive last week."
Engineering wins
Engineering colleges in the city, however, have seen high recruitment from IT firms. "In a campus recruitment drive held in August 2013, in which four top IT companies had participated, as many as 540 out of 660 students from our college received job offer letters on the first day itself," said Prof Sandeep Meshram, placement officer, College of Engineering Pune.
Dr Deepak Shikarpur, an IT evangelist said, "It is true that IT companies prefer students with an engineering background for the obvious reason that top scorers in Std XII usually take up engineering courses. Traditional IT courses, thus, lose out in the recruitment race."
Students having an aggregate of 55% and above in all semesters can participate in the recruitment drive by registering on www.PCCOEpune.com


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Just a few days after the news of Marilisa Allegrini as nominee for the Wine Enthusiast's "Person of the Year", the "Winery of the Year" achievement was made official.
It is the most coveted prize in the wine sector, awarded by the guide Gambero Rosso Vini d'Italia edited by Marco Sabellico, Fabrizio Gianni and Eleonora Guerini.
What is more, Allegrini's Amarone della Valpolicella Classico is continues to collect accolades, once again obtaining the 'Tre Bicchieri' award! Vintage 2011 has now won the award for the 19th time in a row, bringing the Company to a record 31 awards by Gambero Rosso.
"It's an honor to receive such important recognition by an veritable institution such as Gambero Rosso, a sense of satisfaction that repays the efforts of a lifetime of hard work, and an enormous joy that I share with my Family. Every day, we all work with passion, with the sole objective of making a unique and recognizable wine, faithfully following the innovative philosophy passed down to me by my father. I am also delighted with the reasons behind the award, which have highlighted one of our real 'added values', that is, our heritage of hillside cultivation which is so crucial for the production of a great Amarone" said Marilisa Allegrini.
Winery of the Year – Reasons
"Franco and Marilisa Allegrini have been able to bring the company founded by their father, Giovanni, to the pinnacles of success in Italian winemaking, evolving well beyond their own native area whilst at the same time remaining strongly linked to their own territory of origin. The Estate's vineyards now extend for more than one hundred hectares in the Valpolicella, distributed along the best exposed slopes in the appellation: indeed, Allegrini eschews the valley floor and pursues the freshness that only high elevations can provide, thus producing wines in a manner that is disciplined and beyond compromise."


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Fire dispatcher to be promoted
Published 5:16 pm, Monday, June 2, 2014
DANBURY -- The City Council is expected to approve the promotion of a 14-year member of the Danbury Fire Department to the position of communications coordinator when it meets Tuesday.
Steve Rogers, a career firefighter since October 1999 and an emergency dispatcher for the last three years, was nominated for the promotion by Mayor Mark Boughton last week.
Rogers has been filling the post on an interim basis.
"Dispatcher Rogers has already made significant contributions to the Fire Department and community through his many roles and I am confident that his skill and dedication will continue to benefit the city," the mayor said.
The promotion is included on the council's consent calendar.


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Eighteen inches of crispy corn dog. Stuffed with cheese and bacon. And served up with fries.
Now how delicious does that sound? If you answered, "Absolutely, that sounds like the most delicious thing ever," then you answered correctly. Corn dogs are the best. But is this "mega corn dog" delicious enough to warrant its price tag?
The Arizona Diamondbacks have announced the "D-Bat Dog," to be sold at Chase Field, and it costs a whopping $25. Then again, when you consider that it's so much food you definitely won't have to eat again that day and possibly not ever again, that kind of sounds like a deal.
The Internet has already begun justifying the cost: Yahoo points out that it's really only $1.39 per square inch of corn dog. While Forbes does that math and realizes if you split it with two friends, you get six inches of corn dog for $8.33.
"This is really about providing our fans with new options each year, and in the case of some of our larger items, it's really about sharing with the family," team president and CEO Derrick Hall told ESPN.
He continued, "We don't have any expectations for the D-Bat, but we'll look forward to seeing if it becomes popular with our fans. Every night for us is a successful night because we offer the most affordable food prices in all of baseball."
For the record, this isn't even the most expensive dog in baseball history: In 2012, the Texas Rangers offered a 2-foot "Broomstick" chilidog for $26. Yep, 26 bucks for a dog that wasn't even corned. Now that's a rip off.


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Skip to comments.Obamacare Allows Abortion Funding, Doesnt Cover Pregnancies to [age] 26
Posted on 08/07/2012 4:49:40 PM PDT by wagglebee
That the Obamacare law contains no safeguards protecting taxpayers from being forced to fund abortions is very clear and it also contains the HHS mandate forcing religious groups to fund or refer for abortion-causing drugs and birth control.
But a new report in the Washington Post by Michelle Andrews indicates Obamacare covers children up to age 26 but not for pregnancy.
The health-care overhaul provides a safety net for young adult children, who can now stay on their parents health plans until they reach age 26. But it doesnt guarantee that their parents plan will cover a common medical condition that many young women face: pregnancy.
Group health plans with 15 or more workers are required to provide maternity benefits for employees and their spouses under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. But other dependents of employees arent covered by the law, so companies dont have to provide maternity coverage for them.
Although hard numbers arent available on how many companies dont provide dependent maternity benefits, I would say its common, says Dania Palanker, a senior health policy adviser at the National Womens Law Center. And the number could grow with the recent expansion of coverage to children under age 26, she says.
So just how many insurance plans that will likely provide abortion or birth control coverage dont provide maternity coverage for dependents up to 26 years of age?
Dan Priga, who heads the performance audit group for Mercer, a human resources consulting company, estimates that roughly 70 percent of companies that pay their employees health-care claims directly choose not to provide dependent maternity benefits.
Andrews goes on to case profile some women who were denied coverage. As pro-life attorney Matthew Clark of the ACLJ explains, Obamacare allows for a myriad of abortion funding a horrendous contradiction.
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But Muslims are exempt from Obamacare, are they not?
If Satan designed a President, how would his result differ from Obama? I honestly can't think of much he would change.
Stalin killed millions in artificial famine, as class enemies, or his own junior henchmen; started several aggressive wars before Hitler paid him the same coin, and had half Europe under occupation for 40+ years.
And he legalized abortion as well, Russia's principal method of birth control.
Yeah, we could have something like this too, but not yet. In Stalin, Russia exchanged one leader of occupation government for another; the Russian people had no control over their destiny since the Czar was murdered. Obama, we elected in competitive elections; there is a good chance we'll re-elect him, too. THAT is a scary thought worth pondering.
I am pretty sure that Obama thinks of pregnancies as a punishment.
This law has GOT to be repealed,,,the hell with repeal and replace...just get rid of it.
But again, we need to get an answer to this question:
"2300 pages.
We know who passed Pelosi's bill.
But, Who WROTE Pelosi's bill?"
Doesn't cover pregnancies?
There is another strike against the God-planned and blessed family
I have always wondered who wrote this tirade against humanity, too. Many a committee?
Some day we will find out.
Do they cover HIV treatment for dependent children up to 26?
Do they cover HIV treatment for dependent children up to 26?
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Is this part of the Slingers faction or is it the Regular survivors Faction?
Disaster - a deadly virus SDGS (most of those infected have died, but some were mutations that increased their strength, endurance and aggressiveness). In May 2015, the world heard about a new outbreak of bird flu infection in a month on humans, in July were recorded deaths in those infected by the time the vaccine was developed and the disease went into decline. The fall of the infection back to a more dangerous form: deaths accounted for ~ 90% of cases, moreover, the incubation period is sometimes reached week. Two weeks later, when authorities impose quarantine measures, and even after a week of martial law. It did not take long to realize that it is impossible to localize an outbreak and it has been decided to hide the political elite in the bunkers. Citizens of the Russian Federation once again were left to fend for themselves.
Is this part of the Slingers faction or is it the Regular survivors Faction?
Is this outpost of the TFR (The Final Revolution). This faction very often using old Russian and European IFV and tanks
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Christmas Eve, one year ago, was profoundly different than today's.
Christmas 2012 was spent with two friendly and brilliant, albeit quirky engineers from New Jersey, in the most remote place on earth.
By the time Christmas rolled around, we had become friends.
They are great guys.
We had a fine time.
But, I can't imagine a more bizarrely placed Christmas will ever befall me.
Bob and Andy are the engineers for the AGO project, which work on and stay at five remote camps in the Eastern Antarctic Plateau.
I was their Field Camp Coordinator.
They've spent a whole lot of time holed up at these "camps".
During my season, we never broke ten days at any camp.
But, they have been stuck for two to three weeks before waiting for a pickup.
The name of the game in Antarctica, is patience.
You have to be ready to make the most of your time while marooned, no matter where or when it happened.
The AGO sites aren't even field camps, they are dots on a map…a very, very small dot.
They consists of an 8' by 16' building that resembled a red single wide trailer on stilts.
They are made of five inch thick fiberglass insulation and closed up with a freezer door.
A wind turbine and propane heater, make it a manageable temp inside.
Eventually, that is.
When we arrive it is -25F inside, just like it is outside.
The structure holds all the electronics, but doubles as a tiny common area.
We sleep in two person mountaineering tents in the "front yard" and use the building to keep warm during the day.
There are five of these structures, and they were placed strategically throughout the Eastern Antarctic Plateau.
Well, there is actually six of them.
The sixth one got covered by blowing snow and has since been lost in time, never to be unearthed.
We had been dropped off at AGO 1 by a Twin Otter, along with supplies and gobs of electronics.
We had all of our work completed after about four days, and were ready for pick up.
But, it was now day nine.
We had plans of spending Christmas at the South Pole.
While The Pole, is still a wild place to spend a holiday, it is quite the event.
There is an elaborate dinner with deserts and a few cocktails.
Christmas lights line the walls and it's as "Christmas" as it can be, while essentially being in a space station.
Over 150 unique and wonderful faces were waiting to eat well, and enjoy a Christmas party fit for the South Pole.
The South Pole Station even has a Christmas tree and Santa-like thing.
I don't know the dolls story, but it is odd to say the least.
The tree has been crafted out of pipes, wrenches and other odds and ends, all welded together.
That's as good as it gets, seeing as the closest tree is 2500 miles away on the coast of Chile.
The Twin Otter pilots had plans to remove us four days ago, but a nasty weather pattern had rolled in, stranded us in camp.
Every morning, I woke up, called in weather observations and hoped to be pulled out.
With no success.
This morning was no different.
By mid morning, we were aware of our holiday fate.
We were spending Christmas at good ol' AGO 1.
So, here we sit in the absolute middle of nowhere.
The closest humans were 500 miles away, rockin' in the holidays at the South Pole.
We were actually the only three human beings in an area about the same same size as the entire western United States…or larger.
These camps are "near-ish" to a point called "The Point of Inaccessibility".
It is the place on any continent that is furthest from a coast.
In Antarctica, that's saying a lot!
It's essentially the most remote place on earth.
And we were gonna "celebrate" Christmas in all its splendid, frozen remoteness.
Trying to breathe a bit of normalcy into my holiday, I stole away and made some calls on the Iridium Satellite phone.
Some of you reading this, were the recipients.
I appreciate the loving conversations which for a moment placed me back home.
My tent was a lot more cozy while chatting with all of you.
Later, I went for a meandering walk to photograph the alien, ultra white landscape.
Now, it would have been nice to enjoy dinner back home, in a nice warm house.
But, I was fully aware, that this was an epic, once in a lifetime experience.
To spend Christmas in such a odd situation, is something I couldn't have even dreamt up. .
An odd phenomenon called a Sun Dog occurred while I was out wandering around.
It creates a massive ring around the sun.
I figured that was my Christmas present.
Obviously unprepared, we didn't have much of a Christmas vibe to the shelter.
We signed the wall, making sure to point out that we were the Christmas shut in crew.
The evening was spent eating the best frozen burritos that the government can buy.
More importantly, a Christmas isn't complete without gathering around a movie while letting your dinner settle.
This time Bob, Andy and I huddled around my laptop and watched Marty McFly save the day in Back To The Future.
I will never forget that Christmas.
But, Wow it is wonderful to be back in the U. S. for this round.
Ironically, the weather in the Northern U.S. this winter isn't much more hospitable than the Antarctic Plateau.
But, it does have Christmas trees, yummy cookies, my lovely wife and egg nog.
Oh, the Egg Nog!
I hope this finds all of you happy, healthy and surrounded by those you love or maybe a dedicated puppy dog.
Happy Holidays Folks!
It's great to be home for this one!
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looking to rent or buy?
I got a realtor rec if you need one. He found my house close to there
no matter where you are in fw you are a 5 mile walk to the colonial. so thats good.
Anybody live in oakhurst or have a friend that does? I'm close to offering on a house there but want to chat with a local first.
I just want to give a shout out to The Leaky Colander food truck at Republic St. Bar. They took over the old truck that Heim BBQ started in. The dude makes some good food and the homemade tater tots are amazing.
What's interesting to me is how fairmount and Ryan place home values overcame the FWISD issue to grow so quickly the last few years. And while each city is its own real estate animal, Austin ISD and Dallas ISD certainly haven't held back explosive value growth in the urban core.
Fort Worth private schools have done a great job marketing themselves and a big sell is the scare tactic of sending your kid to FWISD with the gen pop. some schools truly suck but Paschal and Arlington heights are both pretty good schools.
Stockshow/rodeo... If I'm not exactly 'bout that life should it register with me? I guess I'm wondering, is it some big party setup or just a bunch of $#@! kickers rolling into town for a month with a death wish carnival?
Go to the Stock Show one day when the weather's decent since you're new to FW. Ain't gotta do the whole rodeo thing.
stockshow and rodeo is super kickass.
Rodeo is always a good time. Bulls Night Out or the Super Shootout are the best nights. Oh, and the rediculous opening prayer to Jesus Christ is always good for a laugh.
The concert series in that Coors Light tent usually has some decent acts. Couple of years ago I caught Billy Joe Shaver one night, Joe Ely another night. I think I paid $7 to get into the Stock Show and then whatever I spent on beer to stand right at the stage and watch them rock out.
30th birthday this week. Wife is treating me to steak. What's the best place around? Ruth Chris, Del Frisco, Capital Grill, H3? The only requirement is that it have an orgasmic Ribeye. Thanks!
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Reata was aggressively average when I've had it.
Thanks! I had a steak at Reata once and while it was very good it wasn't the best ever. I think I messed up by getting some kind of shrimp or lobster bisque stuff on top of the steak. Appreciate the suggestions!
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There was one in Deep Ellum ~2003-4. It sucked and closed quickly. I can't imagine this one will last long.
It's almost time to bid adios to Ojos Locos, which per the twitters is closing in March and will be replaced by a CVS.
Heard hopdoddy sign went up in the new Tom Thumb development on W7
Any thoughts on the new Mr. Gatti's Pizza coming to W.7th? I worked at the one on 183 N. in Austin back in the late 70's, and their pizza was one of the best, but the last one I had years ago was very subpar. Apparently, the new owners have promised to return to the original recipes, so there is hope!
Haven't had it since I was in college hitting up the one on MLK
i $#@!ing loved mr gattis growing up in Austin. without question my favorite pizza, one on MLK was money.
had once in the last 2-3 years and it was pretty meh. if they go back to old recipes, it will be a staple in our house.
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With the release of a promotional poster for The Grand Master it was expected that the film would be finished sooner rather than later.
However, a person purporting to be a crew member on the film has been tweeting messages on their Weibo account (Asian version of Twitter) which suggests otherwise. According to the staff member, they have recently been shooting scenes with both Tony Leung and Song Hye-kyo in a secret location in Guangzhou.
They were shooting past 4 a.m. as the child that Hye-kyo has been carrying was crying non-stop, and they needed to re-shoot it many times.
A photo of the meal schedule for the 21st of September for The Grand Master crew:
Breakfast: 06:30-08:00
Lunch: 12:00-14:00
Supper: 18:00-20:00
If the report of reshooting is true then it would certainly push back the intended release date for the Lunar New Year, making a Cannes 2011 premiere more likely. Director Wong Kar-wai has a habit of reshooting scenes as he spent three days re-shooting the final kiss in My Blueberry Nights.
Song Hye-kyo is scheduled to begin work on a new film (directed by Lee Jeong-hyang) in October.
However, Tony Leung won't start work on his next film (directed by Derek Yee) February of next year.
Credit: wloi @ soompi.com
UPDATE: They were filming in Chikan Movie and Television City.
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The Grand Master undergoing reshoots?
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More and more stories are coming out about illegal actions
of debt collectors.
Sure, filing bankruptcy stops all debt collection activity, but
are there other ways to deal with debt collectors?
No, that is not a picture of a mean debt collector. Unless you don't pay me.
Just kidding.
So, most people who are sued for debt do not respond.
The creditor gets a default judgment for whatever amount they put in their complaint.
Base on what? Based on the paperwork attached to the complaint.
Robo-signing is a term that came into common usage in reference to the mortgage foreclosure crisis.
Employees were paid minimal wages to sign papers all day, which turned out to be affidavits about mortgage documents being real. Said documents were used to kick people out of their homes.
Guess what? Debt collectors like robo-signing too!
Lawsuits filed to collect old debts usually rely on sworn statements called affidavits. Debt buyers draw up these statements to stand in for account records — contracts and account statements — as proof of the debt. Signers of the affidavits swear that they have reviewed account data to ensure that the claim is accurate. But a number of court cases found that major debt buyers churned out the affidavits without checking records. In a landmark class-action suit against debt buyer Midland Funding, for example, employees of the debt buyer admitted to signing affidavits at rates of 200 to 400 a day.
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I have to back up the truck.
These days, the original creditor rarely files the lawsuit anymore.
There is a multi-billion dollar debt buying business, with companies like Midland Funding buying batches of credit card debt by the tens of thousands at a time.
Just as with the mortgage market, it cost money to get originals, or even copies, of the credit card contract, or other proof of use of the card, payments made, and so on.
So, it is easier just to buy computer records, which have maybe one page with start date, account number, balance.
Then you have your employees sign affidavits that the amount is correct and from the records of the credit card company that sold the debt.
And, guess what? The bad guys sometimes add interest, or other charges, that do not belong there.
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Several years ago, I started producing a series of 13 question (hence the Baker's Dozen) interviews for RevolutionSF. Since I am a contributing editor to the site, I felt it was a unique and potentially interesting way to expose our readers to a wider variety of writers and artists.
My latest, a conversation with Stoker-winner and World Fantasy-nominee Norman Partidge, discusses Patridge's latest Dark Harvest, writing in general, and what the future and past hold for this under-appreciated talent.
What made you decide to use a second person narrative in Dark Harvest? Is this a style you will continue using?
I'm sure I'll use it again someday, but it's not the kind of style that would fit every project. With DH, I really wanted readers to hear me talking from the other side of the page, the way you do when you listen to a campfire tale.
I wanted to yank them into the book and make them part of it, too. I had that intention from the first paragraph: "A Midwestern town. You know its name. You were born there." That was kind of the wham bam welcome to my world moment.
The feature began on December 10, 2004 with comic book artist John Lucas as we discussed his then forthcoming The Barker series for Detective Comics.
How would you describe your artwork?
Stranded. Alternative editors think it's too mainstream and the mainstream don't quite know what to do with it. It's a tough row to hoe, but if I can develop a following, I think it'll be a loyal one. All the artists I'm most influenced by are the kind of guys who put out a project, the die-hard fans buy it, then wait for the next scrap. Hopefully, I'll be able to follow that model.
The comic ran for four issues beginning in Detective Comics #801. Lucas currently inks The Exterminators (DC/Vertigo).
Mark London Williams, the next.. er.. victim, talked about the release of the third Danger Boy episode, Trail of Bones, being a father, and writing young adult fiction.
You began your literary career producing magazine articles, plays, comic book scripts, and adult fiction. How did you emerge as a young adult novelist?
It was thanks to my son, Elijah. When he was a toddler (now he's almost 11, and going by "Eli,") he ran down the halls of our house saying "I'm a 'Danger Boy!' I'm a 'Danger Boy!'" I'd been looking for a series idea for older readers, since getting back into the children's book section with him — what was he gonna read next? Nothing at the time seemed very dark or complex, at least in the new series that were out. Nothing with real "stakes." This was about a year or so before "Harry Potter" arrived on the scene. . . .
Chris Roberson and I talked about his first Pyr novel Here, There, and Everywhere, acclaim, publishing, John Picacio, and the Bonaventure-Carmody universe.
In Here, There & Everywhere you introduce the time traveling Roxanne Bonaventure. You write of her like you know her. Who was the inspiration for her?
This is something I've been asked before, but I've yet to come up with a satisfactory answer. I'd hate to be so clichéd as to say that Roxanne sprang fully-formed from my head, but at the very least I have to admit that much of her genesis was fairly unconscious. She certainly shares personality traits in common with a number of women I've known over the years, and I think it's fair to say that there is a bit of my wife Allison Baker in the mix as well, but she wasn't intentionally based on anyone in particular. Once she appeared on stage and started speaking, though, she was all Roxanne, so far as I was concerned.
Artist and filmmaker Bill D. Fountain:
Why after a ten-year hiatus did you decide to return to comics?
A combination of life happening and a growing frustration with the declining quality of the comic work I was being offered drove me away from graphic novels and into other media ten years ago. I spent the last ten years teaching, cycling, writing, directing films and raising a daughter. I think more than anything, the thing that brought me back to creating comics was I felt a strong need to communicate and express myself using sequential art, and more to the point, to communicate with this up and coming generation.
It was also a huge "practice what you preach" awakening moment for me. You are telling these kids to pursue their dreams with passion and never give up and you aren't doing likewise. Doing The Raven comic was me finally walking the walk. We stray from the path but occasionally the path finds us again. With a vengeance.
World Fantasy winning artist John Picacio:
For a young artist who'd like to become a book cover illustrator, what words of advice do you offer?
As far as doing the actual work itself, figure out what you love to do the most, and make that your focus. It's like I always say, "There's Plan A. And when that fails, there's Plan A. And when that fails, there's Plan A. . . ." Just keep pushing.
World Fantasy nominated Robert E. Howard biographer Mark Finn:
What is Robert E. Howard's place and stature in American literature?
Howard occupies a unique niche in American Literature. My friend and colleague Steve Tompkins has written a lot on the idea that Robert's fiction falls squarely in the American literature camp, the camp occupied by Hawthorne, D.H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, Hemingway, and others. Howard's stance is certainly masculine, aligning him with Jack London and others, but his use of symbol and metaphor is as rich and varied as any of the Southern post-modern gothic authors like Faulkner.
Comic book writer Paul Benjamin:
How does a Jewish guy from Oklahoma end up writing a manga-style graphic novel for Tokyopop?
It's a very easy, step-by-step process. First, since the Jewish guy from Oklahoma is just about the only Jew in the state, he turns off the lights in the synagogue then leaves Oklahoma. After going to college in Arizona he moves to Los Angeles and spends 10 years working as a Hollywood executive and a graphic novel editor. This exposes the Okie to comics from all over the world rather than the primarily super-hero-centric American comics he grew up reading.
After selling his house in LA to move to Austin, Texas, the comics editor can now afford to take some time off from a day job to focus solely on his writing career. Having made contacts with many artists and editors during his years in the comics business, the Oklahoma Jew sits down with a Tokyopop editor and pitches some ideas. He then calls the American artist trained in Japan with a Japanese art partner for a wife and asks them to co-create his manga story about a high school for demigods in present day Los Angeles. So it's a simple 6 step process that any Jewish guy from Oklahoma can follow.
Acacia Book 1: The War With the Mein author David Anthony Durham:
Your previous three novels (Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness, Pride of Carthage) were all award-winning, well-reviewed historical novels. Why the seemingly radical switch to epic fantasy with Acacia?
It didn't feel radical to me. In many ways Pride of Carthage was such a fantastic story that it could barely be contained in historical fiction. It was about sweeping events, death on a massive scale, with incredible turns of fate, with powerful families and charismatic leaders, love stories and personal vendettas, myth and legend, etc. Hannibal's elephants weren't exactly oliphants, but they were just as spectacular as they churned through terrified troops that had seen nothing like them before.
Parts of it were so unbelievable, and the main characters actions so bold, that the entire Second Punic War seemed one of those rare instances when actual life was grander than anything you'd imagine.
And finally with former-Cyberpunk, acclaimed writer Lewis Shiner about The Fiction Liberation Front, short fiction, the Wobblies, and other pertinent topics:
What is your response to Howard V. Hendrix and others who claim that that posting works for free undercut those "who aren't giving it away for free and are trying to get publishers to pay a better wage for [the] hard work."?
I think trying to get publishers to do anything is futile, especially when the writers have no clout. People aren't paying to read short fiction, so of course the writers are not going to get paid more for writing it.
He used a lot of emotional language to get people stirred up. No one likes to be called a "scab," for example. But we don't have a situation where Howard is refusing to sell to Anthology X because they have a lousy contract, and I stepped in and said, "Here, buy my story instead of Howard's, I'll take your bad contract." I was one of the few guys who took a beating for refusing to sign the lousy [Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine] contract back in the 80s, when SFWA [Science Fiction Writers of America] was too busy worrying about who was on the Nebula ballot to get involved, so I'm particularly sensitive to this issue.
If Howard is a union man, I invite him to do what I did, which is join the IWW, the Wobblies. Their dream of "one big union" would really give workers power, even in entertainment.
So there you have it, a Cliff Notes journey through my Baker's Dozen interviews. Hope you enjoyed the trip.


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Police say a man in a pickup truck was boxed in after pulling off the road following a highway dispute and he pulled out a knife.
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Larry Westerlund may return to Fresno City Hall
Former Fresno City Council Member Larry Westerlund may be in line for the "Adam Smith Chair" at City Hall.
In other words, the largely thankless job of bringing capitalism to a city where for decades the only reliable road to the middle class is a taxpayer-funded job.
The chatter at City Hall is that Mayor Ashley Swearengin wants to hire Westerlund to lead her economic development team. The position has been vacant since Craig Scharton resigned at the end of August to open Peeve's, his Fulton Mall restaurant.
Anyone who's been around City Hall recently knows Swearengin is gearing up to push private-sector job-creation during her final three years in office.
I asked Swearengin about the rumors Thursday afternoon. She had just finished telling the City Council about her business-friendly plans.
Swearengin adroitly dodged the question. She said the city is understaffed when it comes to economic development expertise. She said such expertise is pivotal if business is to look kindly on Fresno. She said maybe something will break at year's end or in January.
I called Westerlund today. He was termed out in January and now works for a local law firm. He sent me an email.
"I understand the mayor has plans to add an additional staff member to be dedicated to economic development," Westerlund said. "I don't know whether I will fill that role or not. I do believe it's the right thing for a city the size of Fresno to have a person dedicated to supporting job creation."
I have no idea the title of the position in play. Scharton was called the "business development director." Scott Johnson, the former Fresno State athletic director who came to City Hall during Alan Autry's second term, was the "economic development director." Fred Burkhardt, who came on board in Autry's first term, was the "economic development manager."
Each of them made more than $100,000 a year.
By any name, the job is a tough one.
Jeff Reid, city manager under former Mayor Jim Patterson, said of the job in 2005: "This role is so multifaceted that no one background can well prepare anyone for the challenges."