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Forget Che
As usual, the great legacy that keeps Che in our faces is that stupid t-shirt. I hope there's an afterlife, so that he can see what I've seen: two young men strolling hand-in-hand along a Chelsea sidewalk, one of them wearing a Che t-shirt, extra-small, the guy's gym-toned abs rippling beneath Che's pursed lips. Guevara was a vicious homophobe. The only thing better will be the day I sit outside Starbucks on the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana, sipping an Iced-Che Latte while reading in the Cuban free press about the progress of Castro's trial in the Hague.
In the meantime, if the editors and writers at the Associated Press are so eager to keep doing Che stories, why don't they do one about his penchant for executing dissidents, or the fact that his (and Fidel's) gay-bashing machismo ended up shaping a special police-state apparatus for homosexuals in Cuba, or that once he stepped off Castro's coattails, his armed uprisings failed to achieve anything except making more people dead. Even leftists sometimes admit that Che was a failure in pretty much everything except self-promotion. In 2007 we'll reach our fortieth Che-free year on this planet. Can we resolve to ignore the anniversary and give Ernesto Che Guevara the inattention he deserves? Somehow I doubt it.


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Despite the handwringing from public school advocates over Huppenthal's well-reported pitch encouraging families to take advantage of the Empowerment Scholarship Account, the program that gives parents tax dollars to send their kids to private schools, has so far only attracted a small number of students.
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Another busy RWA kind of day, and the last full day here in Atlanta.
Last night, I met two of the editors from Tor Books for dinner, along with author Jenna Black and Claire Ashgrove. Jenna has a new YA book, Replica, which came out this week via Tor, and Claire writes the Curse of the Templars series, also for Tor.
We ate at a place called JCT Kitchen, with "modern" Southern cuisine, so I had shrimp and grits, which is fine stuff, and their version had andouille in it, a coarse smoked pork sausage I know from Louisiana, specifically LaPlace. LaPlace is west of New Orleans and bills itself as the "Andouille Capital of the World." Anyway, it was tasty in its simple white bowl, as you can see.
I had some work to catch up on, so I stayed in this morning before heading next door to the Hyatt to have lunch with my new editor at Montlake. We talked about (mumbles)…and then about (mumbles)….and finally, about (mumbles)…. Yeah, stuff I'm not at liberty to say at this point. I only had a salad, but my editor had…shrimp and grits…and it had andouille in it. Say huh?
Finally, I went to the Tor Spotlight to hear what all they're publishing this year and what they're looking for in terms of new stuff.
Tonight, I'm skipping the RITA awards ceremony. Yeah, yeah. I know it's like the Academy Awards for romance authors, and several of my Montlake pals are nominated. But I'm meeting brother, sister-in-law, niece, nephew, etc. for dinner. Family time.
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The Labor Party commissioned shadow attorney-general Lionel Bowen and me to campaign in favour of all four proposals. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th proposals were carried by large majorities in all states. The 1st proposal secured an overall majority of 1,825,860 votes and a majority in NSW, Victoria and South Australia. It was defeated in Queensland and Western Australia because, since the referendums were not held on election days, the premiers of Queensland and Western Australia campaigned against their federal colleagues.
Secondly, Howard has stated that, if there was general support, he might sponsor a referendum to repeal section 25 of the constitution. That section deals with the situation where "all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections" for a state assembly. Federal Labor should encourage the Prime Minister to sponsor a referendum to repeal a section that is now unacceptable.
Thirdly, sub-section 44(i) of the constitution has, on many occasions, disqualified a candidate from being chosen or sitting as a member of the Federal Parliament if he "is under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power". The High Court has held that a British subject is a citizen of a foreign power.
Federal Labor believes a person who has become an Australian citizen or who has dual citizenship should be entitled to be chosen and to sit as a member of the Federal Parliament. Therefore federal Labor should encourage the Prime Minister to sponsor a referendum to repeal section 44(1).
Gough Whitlam was prime minister from 1972 to 1975.
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Web Extras: Tips for Growing Beets
Beets were the featured ingredient in the Spring 2013 Out to Eat Cooking in Season department. Beets are fairly easy to grow in Vermont, and if you're ready to try, Paul Betz of High Mowing Seeds has shared the following tips for growing these earthy vegetables.
- One thing to keep in mind is that a beet seed is actually a fruit, and there are multiple seeds present.
- Thinning your beets might be really helpful for getting big beets. Try for an inch or two between them for beets big enough to store. You can eat the thinnings.
- Beets that are grown for their tops can be sown more thickly.
- Certain varieties of beets are better for early spring and for greens, while others are better for large roots for storing. Read the descriptions in the High Mowing Seeds catalog and think about the time of year you will be planting your beets. Early Wonder Tall Top is a great beet for spring and greens, Red Ace F1 is a great all-around beet, Boro F1 will get really big for storage and still have nice, quality roots.
- Beets don't really like a weedy bed; keep the garden clean for best results.


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Toothpaste Box Drumsticks
Let your toddler make some noise and get into the rhythm! Take a couple of empty toothpaste boxes and fill one with a couple of plastic toddler spoons and the other with some dried beans or coins. Then tape them shut on both ends so that they won't open. Give them to your toddler and let her hold one in each hand and bang them on the floor or on a homemade drum set made of boxes.
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– 2 empty toothpaste boxes ( or of similar shape or paper towel tubes)
– plastic spoons, beans, coins, anything to make a rattling sound inside the boxes
– Talk about the different sounds your toddler hears.
– Put on some funky songs to play along with and help your toddler bang to the beat!


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Scouring Sands deals 1 damage to each creature your opponents control. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
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The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB)-funded research project 'Causality: metaphysics and methods' was launched in October 2002. Its principal aim is to investigate the applicability and prospects for the development of methods of causal inference formulated in recent philosophy of science. It pays special attention to the details of how these methods work in concrete contexts, primarily in the areas of econometrics, medicine and biology.
The research builds on that of Judea Pearl, who provides semantics for different types of connection, and on recent work by David Lewis and his students. Pearl's results are fairly tightly tied to determinism. Lewis's work relies at base on possible-worlds semantics and hence does not easily connect to methodology. Our research aims to push this starting work beyond determinism without sacrificing the close fit to methodology.
Principal personnel
Cartwright, Nancy - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE and Department of Philosophy, University of California San Diego
Reiss, Julian - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE
Sober, Elliott - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE and University of Wisconsin, Madison
More information: Elliot Sober's Home Page|
Worrall, John - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE
General developments October 2002-October 2003
At the end of the second year of the project, we have come a good deal closer to our aims as stated in the scheme of research.
Seven new papers have been published in our series Causality: Metaphysics and methods technical reports. A number of contributions to academic journals in philosophy and in the sciences have been published and others have been submitted for review. We continued our seminar series with roughly biweekly meetings during term, held one special workshop and organised an annual conference at the beginning of July with local, national and international speakers.
In the seminar series we maintained our practice of having a mixed programme of discussions of published research, presentations by group members and formal talks from outside speakers.
In the economics arm of the project, we had a discussion of James Heckman's econometrics (our work on Heckman is reported in two research papers: CTR 11/03 Uncertainty in Econometrics: Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals| (PDF) and CTR 12/03 Practice Ahead of Theory: Instrumental Variables, Natural Experiments and Inductivism in Econometrics| (PDF)) and a talk by the eminent econometrician David Hendry (Oxford). A version of Hendry's talk is forthcoming in the discussion paper series.
In the area of biomedical science, we organised a public lecture by Sir Michael Marmot (University College London (UCL)) on finding out about causal relations between socio-economic inequalities and various health conditions. We held a special workshop with Amartya Sen (Cambridge), Lord Richard Layard (LSE) and Marmot on reasoning about health and happiness. Basudeb Chaudhury (Caen), a project associate, reported research on a related topic conducted in France. Nik Rose (LSE) gave a paper on biological psychiatry and Donald Gillies one on causal mechanisms in medicine.
In a third area, which we call general philosophical and methodological background, we had discussion of new work on counterfactual accounts of causation. Jon Williamson (King's College London (KCL)), a project associate, gave a talk on Judea Pearl's work. Dan Hausman (Wisconsin-Madison) presented his paper 'Probability causality and practical causal generalizations' to the group. Tim Crane (UCL) presented his work on physicalism. Finally, Robert Northcott (LSE), also a project associate, gave a paper on defining causal strength, which has been published as CTR 14/03 Defining Causal Strength| (PDF).
The conference took place on 2 July 2003. Julian Reiss spoke on Counterfactual Reasoning in Econometrics, Elliott Sober on Epistemological Holism and the Duhem-Quine Thesis: learning from the analysis of variance, Samir Okasha (University of York) on Multi-level Selection, Price's Equation and Causality| (PDF) and Malcolm Pike (University of Southern California) on The Causes of Breast and Ovarian Cancer: exploiting this knowledge for prevention. About 40 scholars from LSE and elsewhere participated and discussions were lively. Okasha's paper is now published in the discussion paper series, Reiss's and Pike's are in the production process.
In our view, we have made good progress in all areas of research.
With respect to the metaphysics of causation, Nancy Cartwright reports a novel view in CTR 07/03 Causation: One Word; Many Things| (PDF), where she claims that the notion of cause piggy-backs on 'thick' causal notions such as compress, attract and smother and that the thick causal notions are not reducible to the concept of cause plus X, whatever that X may be. In CTR 09/03 From Causation to Explanation and Back| (PDF), she gives a historical overview of the relation between causation and explanation, and in CTR 10/03 What Makes a Capacity a Disposition?| (PDF) she relates the concepts of capacity and disposition.
In general, we moved slightly away from the methods designed to give answers to all causal questions (such as the Bayes' nets methods, counterfactual and invariance accounts) to applications in the special sciences. Research undertaken in the past year is reported under each heading separately.
We were lucky to have Samir Okasha speaking at our conference. In his paper, he examines two alternative statistical approaches to modelling multi-level selection (the covariance approach and the contextual approach) and argues that they have different implications for what constitutes group selection and what does not. He shows that the contextual approach is philosophically preferable and discusses the implications on the frame-shifting debate and additivity. His paper has been published in our discussion paper series (CTR 13/03 Multi-Level Selection, Price's Equation and Causality| (PDF)) and is forthcoming in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
In a different context, Nikolas Rose discussed approaches to causal inference in biological psychiatry in a presentation for our seminar series. In particular, he was interested in how new styles of reasoning in the emergent discipline constitute new classifications, and in what counts as evidence for causal claims and for the existence of objects.
Counterfactuals are at the heart of economic policy making. In order to select the best of an array of possible courses of action, policy makers need to know 'what would happen if' any of the alternatives were implemented. Unfortunately, there does not exist a satisfactory systematic methodology of how counterfactual claims are to be evaluated.
Julian Reiss and Nancy Cartwright try to fill in this gap. They discuss three approaches to the problem found in the econometrics literature (LeRoy, Heckman and Pearl), point out their respective deficiencies and generalise these results into a sketch of a methodology for evaluating policy counterfactuals. Their paper is published as CTR 11/03 Uncertainty in Econometrics: Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals| (PDF) and will come out in a volume on truth and accountability in economic policy, edited by the National Bank of Austria.
It is part of standard methodological wisdom that large-scale experiments are impossible in economics for a variety of reasons. Julian Reiss argues in CTR 12/03 Practice Ahead of Theory: Instrumental Variables, Natural Experiments and Inductivism in Econometrics| (PDF) that under certain conditions the instrumental variables technique in econometrics can mimic experiments and hence allow inductive causal inference. He also discusses the more general implications for economic methodology. The paper has been submitted to the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
This subject has enjoyed a large amount of attention during the past year, in particular in two areas. One area is a good example of how interdisciplinary research, characteristic of our project, can lead to fruitful results.
An important topic for health policy is how socio-political factors can affect the probability of suffering from certain medical conditions, for example how poverty can increase the likelihood of obesity, which in turn may cause diabetes, which itself increases the risk of heart failure. In some recent analyses, econometric methods of the kind we are studying in the economics branch of the project are used to establish causal relations.
The initial foundation for that research was laid in the public lecture by Michael Marmot that we organised (Life and Death on the Social Gradient|). A conversation after the lecture led to a special workshop held in March in which Amartya Sen and Lord Layard discussed with Marmot the reasoning of health and happiness. Our research group also examined recent work on the topic in seminars.
Finally, a project associate, Basudeb Chaudhuri (Caen), started a systematic applied research programme at his home university on Social Inequalities in the Screening and Treatment of Cancer and reported first findings to our group in a seminar meeting (a paper reporting some of the results is also forthcoming in the series).
The other area concerns randomised clinical trials (RCTs), which form an important evidential foundation in the programme of evidence-based medicine.
Building on his previous research, John Worrall extended his criticism of 'randomisation as sine-qua-non dogma' to arguments from the literature on probabilistic causality. He reported his new results to the group in a meeting, and in another, we discussed various Bayesian arguments on the topic.
We were fortunate to have Malcolm Pike (University of Southern California) to speak at our conference and report on his research on breast and ovarian cancer, which largely proceeds without large-scale RCTs.
We will continue to have regular research group meetings in the third and final year.
For the Michaelmas term we already have a good line-up. Jon Williamson will present a new paper on 'Epistemic Causality'. Damien Fennell (LSE, a project associate) will present his research on Herbert Simon's work on causality in econometrics. Georg Theiner (Indiana University Bloomington) will present work on causality and dispositions. We are in touch with Trudy Dehue, a psychologist from the University of Groningen who has worked on randomised trials and may give a paper during this term. Gregor Betz (Free University, Berlin) visits the CPNSS for two terms, and we hope to persuade him to present his research on the limits of forecasting in econometrics.
Nancy Cartwright will become a 'participant-observer' in Marmot's group, looking at the causal relations that underpin health status correlations. She will also visit and work with the group of Princeton economist Angus Deaton who studies the same issues using economic methods.
Julian Reiss has in the past analysed a number of methods of causal inference in econometrics, which all suffer from the deficiency that either a large amount of background knowledge is required in order to make inferences possible or that they are applicable only to narrowly defined socio-economic systems or both. He plans to extend the research to methods that apply when these conditions are not fulfilled. A second branch of his research concerns singular causal conference. His work will build on the classic account from Max Weber as well as Adolf Grünbaum's views (the latter has been worked on by Nancy Cartwright, as reported in CTR 08/03 How Can We Know What Made the Ratman Sick? Singular Causes and Population Probabilities. An Essay in Honour of Adolf Grunbaum| (PDF)).
Associated faculty
Chaudhuri, Basudeb - Department of Economics and Groupe d'Economie Mathematique et Microeconomie Appliquee (GEMMA), University of Caen
Dash, Michael - St Thomas Hospital, London
Epstein, Philip - Department of Economic History, LSE
Gillies, Donald - Department of Philosophy, King's College, London
Mosini, Valeria - Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS) and Department of Chemistry, University of Rome
Papineau, David - Department of Philosophy, King's College, London
Williamson, Jon - Department of Philosophy, King's College, London
Asgari-Targhi, Marzieh - Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex
Fennell, Damien - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE
Larski, Stanislav - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE
McKay, Phyllis - Department of Philosophy, King's College, London
Saaristo, Antti - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE
Stentenbach, Michael - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE
Virdi, Arhat - Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, LSE
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Buxton's reputation for excellence in the arts is set to grow with the launch of a new community arts space in the town.
The Green Man Gallery at fiveways junction, Higher Buxton, opened its doors on Saturday after an exciting collaboration between Buxton organisations.
The 'Unit 8 Art Collective' was approached by Vision Buxton director Julie Collins who saw the idea as an opportunity to complement the growing independent shopping in Higher Buxton.
With collective member and fellow Vision Buxton director Neil Scowcroft, she secured an exciting agreement to lease the old corner furniture shop 'Alexanders' to the group for at least six months. All four floors of the building are being utilised, including a bright attic space where artists can work.
"Some of the most exciting independent shops and businesses are appearing in Higher Buxton and let's hope that continues," said Neil.
Hundreds of visitors attended the opening evening when collective Chairman, Buxton artist Martin Olsson, said: "The Green Man Gallery has been given the chance to make a real difference to the artistic output in Buxton."
Martin has been involved in 'pop-up' projects in the town before when The 4 Artists group took over an empty shop in The Old Courthouse for a summer in 2010.
The Green Man Gallery will showcase the talents and products of 15 local artists and craftspeople with a variety of work including painting, illustration, photography, sculpture, aromatics, jewellery and mixed media pieces.
Exhibitions and a range of affordable, accessible workshops will be taking place throughout 2013 and the group believes that it will grow into a productive arts hub for the whole community.
"We're hoping other artists and groups will contact us to help realise the potential of the space," says group member Michael Clement.
"The Fiveways junction is a very visible part of our town and its going to be fun adding some colour there".
The artists will be manning the gallery themselves every day of the week and anyone wishing to get involved or looking for unique Christmas presents are very welcome to call in for a chat or a browse.
l For more details, call Chairman Martin Olsson on 07505 905 646 or visit their website


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What had been a hopeful opening to the week — the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 413 points on Oct. 20 — turned into yet another period of heavy losses for the stock market, as cable stocks, despite continued claims of their recessionary resilience, continued to get pounded.
The Dow went on a see-saw ride again last week — last Monday's gain was followed by a 231-point drop on Tuesday, a 514-point plunge on Wednesday and a 172-point gain on Thursday. The market fell 312 points on Friday, finishing at 8,378.95. All together, the market slid a total of 642 points for the week.
Cable shares, as in past weeks, mirrored the markets. Cablevision Systems fell hardest for the week, down 25.6% ($4.92 per share) from $19 on Oct. 20 to $14.08 on Oct. 24. Comcast followed closely, down 18.2% ($2.90 each) for the week, followed by Mediacom Communications (down 25.5%); Charter Communications (down 13%); and Time Warner Cable (down 9.6%).
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On the programming side, News Corp. dipped 13.4%; The Walt Disney Co. was down 14.8%; Scripps Networks Interactive fell 20.8%; Time Warner was down 15.9%; and Discovery Communications dipped 24.5%. Only Viacom, perhaps because of chairman Sumner Redstone's vow not to sell any more stock, gained ground last week, ending last Friday at $20.34 per share, up 3.6% (70 cents).
Satellite-TV stocks were also affected, with Dish Network faring best — it was down 1.8% (29 cents each) for the week to $16.19. DirecTV finished the week down 16.1% ($3.59) to $18.68 per share.
The outlook for the coming week is no more optimistic. Cable giant Comcast is scheduled to release third-quarter results on Oct. 29, and analysts are expecting strong growth for the period. Verizon Communications — which has 1.1 million FiOS TV customers and counting — is scheduled to report earnings on Oct. 27 and depending on its results could have an effect on cable stocks. But given the market's reaction to other earnings reports last week from different economic sectors, it's anyone's guess how the stocks will fare.
For example, AT&T fell 6% ($1.73 per share) last week even though it exceeded analysts' estimates for its U-Verse IPTV product — investors instead focused on continued wireline losses. Consensus estimates were that the telco would add about 160,000 to 170,000 U-Verse customers, and AT&T beat that mark by adding 232,000 customers.
Miller Tabak media analyst David Joyce estimates that Comcast will lose about 26,000 basic subscribers in the third quarter, but add about 358,000 digital customers, 319,000 high-speed data subscribers and 520,000 digital customers.
"The market is paying little attention," Joyce said. "Stocks are moving just because of general macro, global fears."


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3) The Interviews
Every six weeks on my mission, the missionaries would have a one-on-one interview with the Mission President. Interviews were one of the only times that companionships were separated. These interviews were not particularly long – they would typically last anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour. Their purpose was simple: the MP was checking in with the missionaries, and giving them an opportunity to ask questions, discuss any issues had in companionships, etc. They were not scripted, and no topic was an absolute requirement for review.
I liked my MP, and I liked him a lot. On a personal level. He was sincere, reflective, and a deeply thoughtful man. I also liked his wife, largely for the same reasons. I respected them. He would often make comments to me about how he disagreed with our culture of quasi-hero worship of the General Authorities, since they are men serving in a calling, susceptible to weakness like any other man.
Once in a Zone Conference (also a meeting that took place every six weeks) he opened up the floor to questions on doctrine or practice, encouraging the missionaries to ask anything they wished. One of the Elders from my district – a guy that I also really liked and stayed friends with after the mission – asked "What would happen if we used a cross on our church?" The MP replied, "It would still be the Lord's Church, but with a cross on top." Like I say, I really liked this man.
My one-on-one interviews with him tended, more often than not, to be forays into issues of doctrine and culture. He would often preface his statements with the wry disclaimer: "If you quote me on this, I will deny it, but…" He and his wife were adept at picking their battles carefully from within the large, streamlined institutional culture of the church.
On one particular tropical stormy day, I entered his office troubled and defiant. A General Authority had just come to visit the mission. This GA gave a stirring talk to the assembled missionaries, offering tips and authoritative advice on how to increase baptisms. (I've mentioned before that our mission was noted for being the lowest baptizing mission in Latin America, a topic of great concern in Church Office Headquarters.) The powers that be had dispatched this GA to rally the troops and, using guilt and rousing rhetoric in equal measure, to create a baptism-doubling miracle. Among the many words of advice that he gave was that our testimonies needed to be "perfect" in order for us to be successful. To illustrate his point, he then said: "Do you have a problem with polygamy? Make your peace with it – pray and make your peace with it, or you will never have a perfect testimony and you will fail as a missionary."
I turned to the MP in my interview, quoting the GA, and said "I don't think I can ever be a successful missionary if coming to terms with polygamy is required." I had read about polygamy in depth before my mission. I knew about the polyandry. I knew that there were many, many things that were done then, back in those early, turbulent times, that were not talked about anymore.
The MP looked at me with the measured, unblinking, probing expression that had become so familiar to me, and then said, "Well, what about blacks and the priesthood? Isn't that just as troubling?" He went on to tell me that he had been granted privileged access into some archival material that is no longer available to church scholars and historians, and that he personally had come to the conclusion that barring people of African descent from priesthood ordination had been a huge mistake from the very beginning. He said that he saw notes from first presidency meetings going back to the early twentieth century that showed them trying to figure out when and how the ban had come into being, and what the rationale behind it was. He then said, "Many of us have problems with polygamy, Hermana. Many of us." He went on. "This is the Lord's Church, and I believe it is in trouble." Citing his career as an oft-contracted Church employee, he added, "I believe that the problems go far deeper, and far further up the chain of command, than is widely known. I believe it is systemic, and it causes me great concern. But I also believe that God would have me serve, and serve honestly, and that the greatest good that I can do is from within. God wants us to be loyal to Him, and to His Church. He would not have us leave."


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I've been neglecting this blog of late. In retrospect, I can appreciate that over the past few months, I've become a social hermit of sorts and took a long hiatus from all my usual routines, including snatching a moment or two for blogging. A few significant life changes lie at the center of this – leaving my old workplace and embarking on a new role in a new industry had me working long hours and busy learning the ropes again as I frantically tried to get up to speed with all the new processes and lingo. We've been doing some minor renovations in our new home – nothing dramatic – an attic fitout here and a lick of paint there but yet it still took ages and cost more than we expected. But most consumingly, we've embarked on a little farming project: 'human farming' so to speak and we're expecting the arrival of our own limited edition genetic hybrid quite soon. I've been relatively fortunate throughout the process – no nausea or tiredness to speak of so I'd hoped to cash in on the aspects of pregnancy that I had been curiously looking forward to all my life: oddball food cravings. I have a very diverse diet and varied palate, so I'd often quietly speculated on the sorts of crazy cravings I would develop – perhaps an insatiable appetite for those fatty, dense mooncakes as my sister did during her first pregnancy? Or perhaps hot chips covered in chocolate sauce – as demanded by one Hollywood celebrity whilst she was pregnant. There are even rare cases of some women craving washing powder or clay.
But sadly no, nothing.
A few friends pointed out my odd food habits and labelled them as "pregnancy cravings", and it was then that I conceded that my normal food habits resemble that of a pregnant woman with cravings. Stacking hash browns into my bacon and egg roll is normal for me. As is snacking on a bowl of pickled jalapenos on their own. And maybe following that with ice cream. Ice cream and pickles might be the stereotypical, pregnancy craving cliché but the Co-pilot mused on this and deduced it was pretty standard behaviour for me.
The other pregnancy aspect I'd most highly anticipated was the onset of an enormous appetite. Let's not beat about the bush here – I have a remarkably gluttonous, greedy appetite for someone of my make and build. The Co-pilot has often remarked upon how it was fundamentally wrong that we normally eat roughly equal servings, yet he is a good 25kg heavier and 20cm taller. Pregnancy was going to be my get out of jail free card to eat like an unhinged starving beast. Picture that memorable No Face character from Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away – that was going to be me and I was going to devour everything in sight with ferocious vigour!
But sadly no, nothing.
In fact, the opposite happened and as my belly grew, my precious stomach space shrank and often after just a few bites, perhaps a quarter of my normal servings, I would experience excruciating stomach pains and be forced to stop eating. More often than not, I couldn't even finish an entree sized portion without the onset of stomach pain, but feeling indignant would stubbornly push on through the pain, get partway through a main and have to leave with my stomach in spasms of pain for hours afterwards. So we stopped eating out in nicer establishments altogether and contented ourselves with cheap and cheerful eateries where doggie bags were routine and not sniffed upon. It was a very sad development indeed.
I'd all but resigned myself to ruling out all restaurant outings when an invitation to experience Public Dining Room's new menu from a visiting international guest chef came my way. Chef Guillaume Zika has an impressive pedgiree having worked in boast-worthy Michelin-starred restaurants in Europe and New York including:
- 3 Michelin-starred Per Se in New York that we had the fortune to experience a while ago
- 3 Michelin-starred Le Grand Vefour, Paris
- 2 Michelin-starred Le Moulin de Mougins, Paris
- 2 Michelin-starred Relais Louis XVII, Paris
- and most recently, he was head chef at the 2 Michelin-starred Hibiscus Restaurant in London
Now Sydney has secured him for a brief sojourn as guest chef at Public Dining Room at Balmoral and his initial 5 course degustation offering was scheduled over 8 weeks and sold out in a mere 48 hours. From mid September until the end of October he is offering diners a Parisian inspired set menu, appropriately entitled "A Night in Paris". Stomach pain or not, I simply couldn't resist this invitation. If eating out comes with the backhanded slap of searing stomach pain, then I'd better make it worthwhile and ensure it's a darn fine meal. So one balmy Friday night, the Co-pilot and I made our way to Balmoral Beach for a rare date night.
Neither of us had been to Public Dining Room before and were seated in the dining room just as the sun was setting. The restaurant has floor to ceiling windows that saturate the dining room in ambient light and offers great views over the beach where the fading sunlight was being gradually replaced by softly lit piers and fairy lights on grand old trees. Inside, the decor is modern, casual, and inviting with polished wooden surfaces, white eames chairs and lush floral displays. There was no white linen and silverware to be seen and the dining room chatter fills the air without becoming noisy or forcing diners to raise their voices to be heard. In short, I'd describe it as a refined casual setting and it's just what we like. There's a time and a place for those revered Michelin-starred establishments where suited waiters and hushed tones are the order of the day – but I'm perfectly happy enjoying fine food in a more comfortable setting.
We perused the menu and very quickly collated a number of questions about what I could or couldn't eat from the menu. Cue the Chef, Guillaume Zika, a young and effusively friendly man with a broad smile and utterly without the pretentious airs you might expect of a Michelin-starred chef. He personally came out to both welcome us and to go through each of the dishes in turn and explained what could be considered the pregnancy-friendly dishes.
Armed with the Chef's advice, we made our choices and snacked on some feather light kalamata olive and lemon crisps to start that weren't unlike very adult salt and vinegar crisps – the full flavoured salty hit of kalamata olives complimented by an acidic lemon zing.
The entrees came and the Co-pilot's choice of foie gras custard was definitely something that was right up my alley, particularly as I've been recently reviewing photos from our own trip to France and reminiscing on foie gras laden meals there – but sadly it was yet another of those items on the forbidden list. I could only watch on as the Co-pilot devoured it, providing a running commentary as he went. He described it as a very rich and decadent dish – a creamy pool of very gamey and pungent foie gras studded with tiny cubes of brioche, and topped with fine shredded salty Parmesan, tangy yuzu and crispy duck skin. The classic citrus and liver combination worked well but he wished it was served with more substantial pieces of crusty toasted bread to really savour the dish. The little cubes of brioche simply weren't doing the foie gras enough justice. At his urging and reassurance I tentatively tasted a microscopic amount of the foie gras custard and sighed with half-exaggerated nostalgia and longing. He wasn't wrong – those foie gras flavours weren't shy and it was exactly my kind of dish. In this case, absence certainly makes the heart grow fonder.
I'd opted for the only perfectly safe entree option: the heirloom tomato salad entree, dressed at the table with a pitcher of tomato and vanilla water. The tomatoes of course were the star of this dish and seemed injected with turbo charged flavour. One taste and we both remarked it was how tomatoes should always taste and quite frankly I'd like to be able to abolish all those rubbish tomatoes like the 'QLD cricket ball' variety that dominate our supermarkets. Accompanying the tomatoes were chopped pistachios and diced and slivered baby zucchinis that were so young they had a nutty crunch and texture of their own. The vanilla water was more aromatic and powerful on the nose than the palate and at first taste seemed at odds with the other ingredients. Where it matched well was with the fried zucchini beignets – the slightly oily, fried flavour seemed to transform somewhat when mixed with the vanilla into a lingering rich sweetness.
For our mains, the Co-pilot chose yet another "off limits" dish: the grey mackerel, which as Guillaume kindly explained, would be just cooked and he really didn't recommend it any more well done than that as it would just ruin the fish. The fish was as expected just poached through and still tender on the inside, sitting in a inky black pool of thick and unapologetically punchy black garlic paste. The oily fishyness typical of mackerel was tempered by the necessarily powerful flavours of black garlic and anchovy-laden hollandaise.
I opted for the beef cheek bourguignon – a dish that Guillaume admitted would be his choice if he were a main from the menu. I'm so very glad that I did – it was not traditional bourguignon as I knew it, but quite simply an amazing interpretation of it. The cubes of beef cheek were incredibly meltingly tender – the gelatinous texture of the cheeks lending so well to this dish and the intense rich, fatty aftertaste is so good it immediately evokes a sense of guilty pleasure. To counterbalance the soft textures crispy puffed grains and tiny micro vegetables provided contrasting crunch. I'm not generally a fan of licorice and have seen it backfire when used in savoury main dishes (like a disastrous Pernod infused fish pie I once had in Lima), but it was executed incredibly well here, possibly because the emphasis was on subtle hints of licorice – just enough to achieve that almost menthol-like cooling quality licorice root has and complementing, not overshadowing the beef. Testament to its subtlety is that the Co-pilot, his palate overwhelmed by the stronger black garlic paste and anchoiade hollandaise flavours in his main, couldn't detect the licorice at all. Despite not being able to taste the Co-pilot's mackerel main, of the two mains, I'd wager that I picked the winner.
Desserts rounded out our meal and surprise, surprise, the Co-pilot chose the last off-limits dish available: the melted pont l'evêque cheese. The cheese was melted over a bed of toasted sourdough, honey and grapes and served with a small shot of sweet riesling wine on the side. He was instructed to pour the riesling over the melted cheese and wait about 10 seconds for the riesling to soak into all the crevices before plunging in. He described it as a truly deliciously pungent cheese and the honey, grapes and sweet riesling added a much needed dimension of sweetness to the ripe cheese. It was however, quite rich and overpowering to have in such a large quantity. Particularly since I wasn't devouring half the dish as is my usual custom.
I'd chosen the poached pear which came dipped in dark chocolate and covered in slivered almonds, paired with a quenelle of ice cream atop a bed of crunchy crystallised dark chocolate. The concentrated sweetness of the pear was perfectly tempered by the bitterness of the dark chocolate and icecream. I couldn't recall reading what the ice cream flavour was and upon tasting, I was momentarily lost for words for what the familiar flavour was. The Co-pilot tasted it too and mentally grasping, I eventually remembered it: "Marzipan – no, almonds!" I cried. "Cyanide!", the Co-pilot cried simultaneously.
Cyanide. Good grief! Even if cyanide technically does taste like marzipan and thus almonds – who says that? What a nerd..
The final dessert was a complimentary addition from the Chef who'd heard us deliberating over the three different desserts on offer. The broken vanilla crème brûlée looked like a thick glazed pancake gently blanketing a mound of sweet, succulent strawberries and basil. A relatively simple offering but one that particularly sang to the Co-pilot, a sucker for a custardy dessert. And pushing the proverbial stomach pain envelope, I ate heartily and finished off the remaining dessert.
We were absolutely satiated at this point but were offered some petit fours to finish. I can't recall exactly what these were – I think semi frozen light and airy chunks of white chocolate and caramel served on a bed of cacao nibs. I certainly didn't need anything extra but still dutifully ate the petit fours – these melted under my fingertips and their intense sweetness was balanced by the bittersweet cacao nibs.
The Co-pilot raised a wary eyebrow at my appetite. "Don't give yourself stomach pains again" he cautioned.
Too late. I could already feel the simmerings of stomach pain – but it was well worth it. You don't get to sample the menu of a Michelin-starred Chef everyday so a few pangs of pain could be tolerated. The Night in Paris dinners at Public Dining Room are only on until the end of this month, so you'll have to get cracking if you want to try that menu. But if you can't make it – don't despair, Guillaume has collaborated with Public Dining Room's resident head Chef, Anthony Telford to create the current a la carte menu that's available each and every day at Public Dining Room. I just hope Guillaume stays on in the Sydney scene so once my appetite bounces back, I may just be able to entertain my No Face-inspired delusions of gluttony once again.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Serves: 4
(4) 3 oz. Pork cutlets, tenderized
1 cup Panko breadcrumbs
Avocado oil for frying
1/4 cup Organic Hot Cherry Merlot Dip
4 Lemon wedges
Salt and pepper (to taste)
Place a deep 12-inch sauté pan over medium heat. Add enough oil so that you have about 1/4-inch of depth. Place the breadcrumbs in a large dish, and season with salt and pepper. With the heel of your hand, press the pork cutlets (one at a time) firmly into the breadcrumbs. Fry the pork in the oil for about 2 minutes per side, or until a deep golden brown. Remove from the pan and drain over a paper towel. Slice the pork, plate, squeeze the lemons over each one and drizzle with the Organic Hot Cherry Merlot Dip.
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With more than a foot of snow, sleet, and ice falling over much of the nation, the television news teams went into overdrive. This may be an accurate description of one of those minute-by-minute broadcasts. "I'm Harry Hansom. Co-anchor Polly Prattle just called. Her car slid into a ditch about eight miles from the studio.


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WYATT ROY (Longman) (12:55): In this country we enjoy many liberties and have extensive freedom in our lives. We enjoy access to many education institutions, including internationally respected universities. Yet sections of this bill, the Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012, threaten some of the liberties that Australian students enjoy. The reduction of these liberties has wide-reaching implications for the future of our society and our nation.
Australia's future and its future success lies in its ability to adapt to the changing conditions of its economy. We are well aware that as a nation we face significant challenges over the coming decades. As time marches on we will be confronted with the challenge of an ageing nation as well as the challenges associated with the economy restructuring post the mining boom. As I have said in this place before, it is our obligation and it is our responsibility, as legislators, to ensure that we are prepared and resourced to face these challenges head on, to tackle them effectively and ensure our future financial security.
One of the planks which will form the structural foundation of our future economy is higher education. Education and innovative research will be absolutely critical to achieving higher productivity, better efficiency and new industry. Research and education will help enable this country to have a high-productivity economy, affluent with opportunity, an economy where individuals are empowered to be employed in innovative industries and earn higher real wages.
I have spoken in this place before about the recommendations of the Bradley Review of Australian Higher Education and the implications that these recommendations would have on Australia. The Bradley review recommended a goal of 40 per cent of young Australians holding bachelor's degrees by 2020—perhaps a grand goal, but a country such as ours needs grand goals. If we are to genuinely restructure our economy post the mining boom to focus on innovation and research, this is a goal that needs to become a reality.
But how can we encourage more students to achieve tertiary education, I ask? I propose that it is not by increasing the amount a higher education provider can charge under the compulsory student services and amenities fees. I propose that what this bill is trying to achieve by raising compulsory student union fees will have the opposite effect for students. It will make higher education less affordable, and it will make it less viable for many young Australians around our country to attend university. Ultimately, this move threatens Australia's chances of achieving the Bradley review's goal of 40 per cent of young Australians holding bachelor's degrees by 2020. This country is striving to achieve that goal. It is a strange move for those opposite to work to undermine that goal rather than to support it.
There are many barriers to entry to university around Australia. In some cases a barrier can be the sheer distance to travel to access a university campus. In other cases it can be the cost of relocating to a metropolitan centre to study. Another can be the difficulty of studying full time and trying to earn enough money to pay the bills. If we want our young people to attend university—indeed, if we want to encourage them to partake of the many opportunities available at a tertiary level—as policy makers we need to be doing everything we can to make the transition to university and time at university as practical and affordable as possible.
Nowhere is this evidenced more than in my own electorate. My community is one where the majority of young people have not gone on to training or higher education. In terms of university participation, my electorate of Longman is ranked 144th out of 150 electorates. Every day I speak to people in my community who share with me stories of struggle—struggle to pay their bills, to put fuel in the car and to put groceries on the table. This struggle has been made significantly worse by this Labor government. People are telling me that they cannot afford more costs. This struggle is not confined to families—young people have the same concerns. How then can we expect Australians to fork out even more money for their studies when they are already finding it difficult to make ends meet? It is difficult to quantify what impacts this will have on my community. How many young people will choose not to attend university simply for the fact that they feel they cannot make their money stretch far enough to get by on their limited funds while they study full or part time? But we can be guaranteed that there will be young people who choose not to attend for this very reason. If this bill, and the resulting higher student union fees that it causes, forces one person to choose not to equip themselves with the tools of a university degree for this reason, it is one person too many.
My community is host to one university campus, the Queensland University of Technology. The Caboolture campus of QUT, headed by Robert Craig, is a great community asset which has significantly invested in the future of our community through some important community engagement measures and which perfectly illustrates some of the difficulties that young people in my electorate experience in simply making the choice to attend university. Mr Craig highlights that one of the biggest hurdles is actually an aspirational one, convincing young people that they could and should attend university. That it is a possibility and that it is not too big a hurdle to jump are the keys to helping young people from my region overcome their background to go on to success at a tertiary level. But how can we possibly inspire our young people and help them to aspire to university when the perceived hurdle of financial costs in attending university are only set to increase under this bill? I suggest that this goes against exactly the thing we are trying to achieve in our community. I suggest that it works to undermine the unsteady and wavering aspirational goals of students that we are trying to build up.
Another issue that this raises is the way this bill enforces university students to pay for so-called services that they may neither want nor need through their time at university. We on this side of the House have a long history in support of individual freedom of choice to be voluntarily a part of a government organisation or association. We on this side of the House have long been advocates of voluntary student unionism at universities. It is clear that these actions are simply another example of a government trying to underhandedly go about reducing the freedoms of students and young people alike by introducing or reintroducing compulsory student unionism. The most powerful argument against this stealth attack on voluntary student unionism is the views of the students themselves.
We have a very strange situation here. We have a Labor government which truly believes that the majority of university students would be better served by seeing up to $263 of their money—money that could buy 50 beers, 175 litres of petrol or 40 pizzas—go to student politicians instead. How out of touch has this Labor government become? If the Labor Party cannot understand a student choosing to keep nearly $300 of their own money instead of giving it to a student politician, let us talk in statistics so that the Labor Party might actually understand. And the statistics do speak for themselves. Only five per cent of university students ever vote in student elections and the majority, a massive 59 per cent of students, indicated they were against compulsory university student fees in a poll commissioned by the Australian Democrats.
Why should students be subsidising student politicians' duplications of services through fees which they cannot afford, do not want and, for many young people, are a deterrent to entering into study at all? The answer is simple: they should not be subsiding these services and they should not be forced into forking out even more money, their own money, when they are at their least financially stable.
Recently I was contacted by one of my constituents, Wes Draper, who commutes to Brisbane to attend the University of Queensland. This young man, a conscientious physiotherapy student, contacted me to express his concerns over the reintroduction of compulsory student unionism. In his message to me, Wes said:
I have recently found out that I alone will be paying $131 at the start of this semester to pay for services that I do not use. This may seem like a small amount, but I fail to understand how it is fair that so many students will be paying this fee even though we don't all use these services. Many of these services, such as food and drink, are paid for by us anyway. I would also like to point out that a friend of mine who studies two degrees is required to pay this fee twice. How is that justified? Is that not "double dipping"?
Wes is just one of many young people who have contacted me to express their disgust over these fees. It is the concerns raised by Wes and many others like him that are the basis for which I do not support the move to increase the amount of money that universities can take from students.
As policy makers in this place, the responsibility rests upon our shoulders to prepare Australia for the significant national challenges that our country will face in the coming years. We are well aware that part of this will include education and innovation in our industries. To achieve this, higher education will be a priority. Ensuring that enough of our young people are educated and contributing to research will be integral. How do we achieve this? We achieve this by encouraging, not hindering. The best way that we as policy makers can make an impact and support our young people on this front is to ensure that costs associated with study do not increase, but this is exactly what this bill seeks to do. It seeks to empower universities to collect even more money from students who cannot afford extra money. It empowers student unions to force the subsidisation of their activities at the expense of students.
As policy makers in this place it is up to us to ensure that we have a society based on opportunity and on fair reward for hard work, where individuals are empowered and offered a hand-up rather than a handout, and where we as a nation can have hope that tomorrow will be better than today. A vibrant and inclusive higher education sector will be a key plank in achieving this. It is in this society that an individual's freedom to choose must be protected. It is this individual liberty that is directly under attack in this bill. It is this individual liberty that is under direct attack by this Labor government's student tax. On this side of the House, we will always stand up for Australians' individual liberty and for their freedoms.


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Johnston is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
Incorporated on March 6, 1759, Johnston was named for the colonial attorney general, August Johnston. The city is approximately 24 square miles with less than one square mile of water. Home to the only landfill in Rhode Island, the town is not the top of mind for visitors, whether they come from a distance or are Rhode Islanders. There is much more to Johnston than meets the eye. The town has the highest population of Italians in the State of Rhode Island.
Johnston is part of the Providence- Fall River- Warwick metropolitan statistical area (MSA). It is located in the Providence county area, and is four miles North West of Cranston, Rhode Island, and 43 miles South West of Boston, Massachusetts. The population of Johnston is about 28,195 people. Johnston was originally part of Providence, but in 1758 it was separated. Johnston became incorporated on March 6, 1759, and was named after August Johnston, the colonial attorney general. The town held it's first official town meeting on April 18, 1759 at the home of Benjamin Belknap, in order to elect new officers.
As of July 2009 the average population of Johnston was 28,613. The average male population was 13,409 (46.9%) and the average female population was 15,204 (53.1%). The median age of all residents is about 40.7 years old. The average household income in Johnston is about $56,394. Johnston is very famous for it's landfill. The landfill is the only one in the state of Rhode Island and is often subject to many issues such as over capacity or a "strong smell". Although the landfill seems like something that you would prefer to remain veiled, it's definitely a worthwhile trip. All of the machinery used to process the disposed waste is available for viewing making for a rather interesting and informative experience. It's also the biggest mountain in RI!
Get in
Johnston is easily accessed from either Route 295 which runs North to South or Route 6 which runs East to West. those arriving to the state by plane will travel Route 295 north and those arriving by rail will take route 10 west to Route 6 west. Driving times will range from 15 to 30 minutes depending on traffic from either direction.
Get around
Public transportation options inJohnston are limited to non existent. Other than in local neighborhoods, the town is not pedestrian friendly so a car is absolutely needed. Rental car agencies are available in town as well as at the airport for those arriving by plane.
RIPTA bus number 19(Planfield), 27(Manton/Greenville), and 28(Hartford) from Kennedy plaza takes you into different areas of Johnston.
Central Landfill 65 Shun Pike. 401-942-1430 www.rirrc.org This is worth the time even if it just to drive by. Not just a dump, the landfill is a state of the art facility often visited by other sanitation experts. If you are lucky enough to be visiting from April through October tours are offered two days each month. Consult the website to obtain days and scheduling information.
The Johnston Memorial Park. The park is located on Hartford Ave, not far from the center of town. Every evening, the walking path is filled with people of all ages getting their daily exercise. It's a pleasant walk but leave the animals at home, no dogs allowed! The park includes an outdoor exercise area, baseball fields,tennis courts,and basketball courts for visitors as well as a playground for children. The recreational department holds a variety of different camps for children throughout the season and is the center for most town activities. Even when the weather gets a bit colder, Johnston Memorial Park holds many events well into the fall months, as well. Johnston's Apple Fest,is a family-friendly festival that brings the joy of the fall season to all who attend. There are games for children, raffles, and most notably, the delicious assortment of homemade apple-centered creations. Visit http://www.johnstonrec.com/ for more information on park events!
The Hope Chest, 2953 Hartford Ave, ☎ 401-949-2333, [1]. 10am to 5 pm. Just on the town line between Johnston and Scituate, The Hope Chest is a large consignment store with everything from furniture to clothing to antiques. Occupying the site of a former nursery, the building and grounds are as much of an attraction as the merchandise. Children can feed the birds in the small pond, while mom and dad look through the treasures.
Burlington Coat Factory, 1386 Atwood Avenue # 1,, ☎ (401) 946-9587. Burlington offers you an array of name brand attire and styles for your whole family, all up to 60% off department store prices every day.
Town Fair Tires, 1412 Atwood Avenue, Johnston, ☎ (401) 751-5560, [2]. Shop for all of your car needs. Town Fair Tires boasts the cheapest prices on tires and automotive needs. Town Fair Tire offers free services; such as free flat tire repair, free tire rotation, free front wheel alignment, and free snow tire changeover.
Yorker Shoes, 1503 Hartford Avenue, Johnston, ☎ (401) 274-2211, [3]. At one time Yorker shoes was the only places to get shoes in Johnston. It is sorted into three departments; men's, women's and children's. They boast the most fashionable and comfortable shoes that you can find.
BJ's Wholesale Club: The new BJ's is located on Atwood Avenue. It is an even bigger warehouse than their previous building. BJ's has everything one could need, especially if you're traveling and forgot something while packing! For more information on store visit our website http://www.bjs.com/ and select the Johnston location by typing in the zip code 02919!
If you are looking for some good Italian food, Johnston is the place. Check out any of the bakeries in town and get some pizza strips. Not a slice, a strip. Served cold with sauce only, wrapped in wax paper. If you are in the mood for a more formal dinner, there are several places to choose from.
Luigi's Restaurant 1357 Hartford Ave. 401-861-3850 An upsclae Italian restaurant that also offers a take out section and cafe option. There are also several large rooms for functions.
Pat's Restaurant 1200 Hartford Ave. 401-273-1444 This is a nice family restaurant with huge portions and homemade pasta's.
D. Palmieri's Bakery, 624 Killingly Street, Johnston, ☎ (401) 621-9357, [4]. One of the most popular bakeries in Johnston. D. Palmieri's bakery has recently needed to build a new building to put their bakery in, since their old one was in a fire. During the period without the bakery, many people were disappointed and missed eating the delicious food. The new building is beautiful, with a small dining area if you would like to eat inside. Try one of their many different strips of pizza, or get a delicious zeppole!
Atwood Grill, 1413 Atwood Avenue, Johnston, ☎ (401) 943-3331, [5]. Atwood Grill is a very popular bar and restaurant on the 'main street' of Johnston. Atwood Grill is known for having a variety of Italian specialty courses. They also have a variety of wines and special drinks. Atwood Grill also allows people to place takeout orders, and even include some of their specialties on their to go menu.
Café'andiamo, 235 Greenville Avenue, Johnston, ☎ (401) 349-4333. Café'andiamo is a small family owned Italian restaurant with a small dining room and a to go menu.
China Jade, 1511 Atwood Avenue Johnston, RI 02919-3263, ☎ (401) 273-6220. China Jade is a Chinese food restaurant located in Town Hall Plaza. China Jade has been located in Johnston for nearly 40 years, generations of Chinese-food loving family members taking their children there on special occasions, or just for a quick meal. The Johnston Senior High School Band has dinner in China Jade after their march.
Brewed Awakenings: Brewed Awakenings Coffee House is a wonderful place to relax after a long day! Enjoy a cup of coffee, tea, or even a smoothie with friends in the cozy, quiet environment! Brewed also offers sandwiches and deserts! Visit either of their two Johnston locations both located on Atwood Avenue! Visit 1395 Atwood Avenue or 1387 Atwood Avenue.
Sundaes Ice Cream: Sundaes is a great ice cream place for people of all ages! Stop by and choose from a menu of 24 soft serve flavors with unlimited toppings, or try hard ice cream consisting of many flavors as well! This is one of two Sundaes locations, the other is located in Cranston. Visit their website for more details http://www.sundaes-icecream.com/history.php
The English Muffin: The English Muffin is a wonderful breakfast/brunch place located at 1989 Plainfield Pike, Johnston, Rhode Island!
Wings To Go: Wings To Go is a restaurant specializing in chicken wings! It is located at 1463 Atwood Avenue.
Noble House: Noble House is a Chinese Restaurant located at 1463 Atwood Avenue.
J & D's Restaurant: This restaurant is a wonderful family restaurant to sit down for a family night out! Take the kids and chose from their wonderful children's menu. Come at any time to enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desert at J & D's! J & D's is located at 46 Putnam Pike, Johnston, Rhode Island. Visit their website for more information http://janddrestaurant.com/
Ribs and Company 1383 Atwood Ave 401-944-1532 This restaruant specializing in barbecued ribs has a nice outdoor bar with entertainment during the summer.
Bishop Hill Tavern 2868 Hartford Ave, 401-934-0097. This is your typical neighborhood bar with a twist. The food is amazing! If you are feeling a bit shy entering a bar for dinner, they offer a dining room in the back but it is usually empty. There is something about the chatter of the neighborhood folks at the end of a long day, the ball games on the TV, the dart board on the wall and the keno screen that draws even the most reluctant visitors.
RI Alehouse The Rhode Island Alehouse was founded on December 15th 2010, the former Players Pub. They claim to serve the "best beers in the best atmosphere anywhere in RI". The bar features a full menu, 7 flat screen TV's, and a pool table. One of the oldest standing bar "locations" in Johnston, the recently dubbed Alehouse has a variety of events every weekend. Wednesday night is Trivia Night; questions begin at 7PM and are hosted by John Lincoln. There is no cost to play and prizes are rewarded based on weekly attendance. Thursday brings the meat-eaters in with all you can eat wings for just $8.00 (take that hooters). Also, drafts of Blue Moon are only $2 dollars a pop, as well as mixed drinks for only 5 dollars. Friday night is the start of the weekend, and what better way to celebrate your days off if not by singing along to your favorite songs? Karaoke night is held every Friday beginning at 9 PM. The atmosphere is always fun and supportive so don't be afraid to step up when that Journey song comes on. Saturday night brings "real" live entertainment to the bar with a different acoustic band each week. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Each Sunday, the Alehouse offers a sampling of 10 4oz beers for just $10. The beers and then scored by the tasters with the winner being selected to be the bar's "special" for the next week. This even begins every Sunday at 4PM
Skyview Motor Inn 2880 Hartford Ave 401-934-1188 A classic American motel. Nightly rate is $60.00. Nothing fancy here, but if you are looking to save money and just need a place to sleep, this is a good choice.
Bel-Air Motor Inn 2154 Hartford Avenue, Johnston, RI 02919 (401) 934-9889
Get Out
Johnston is a good choice if you need a central location, a cheap room and some good food while touring Rhode Island and nearby states. Providence is 15 minutes away, Hartford Ct. is 60 minutes and Boston 90 minutes.


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Well, Another 4 years.
I had to step away from the blog for a couple days after the election. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going postal or in a rage about the results. I am disgusted.
For all the positive things Romney represented for America there was really no way he was going to win. As a matter of fact. Obama has laid the ground work for a democrat president until America is no more. Here's why:
1st. Obama's become the savior of healthcare. Americans have a short memory and when our healthcare system becomes the system we know it will, Americans will blame whoever is in charge at the time not the designers.
2nd. Obama's become the savior of the illegal immigrants. As of now he hasn't done anything other than grant an executive order to allow the dream act. But in 2014 the house elections he will grant amnesty to all.
3rd. Obama stopped the welfare to work program. He basically cemented the urban slug vote. The good thing about this is, if the next democrat POTUS candidate isn't black, most will probably stay home like they used to.
4th. Democrats have essentially demonized any women that doesn't believe in their vision of abortion as birth control. Now if you are a woman and vote republican you're as bad as a black republican. They have demonized marriage, moral character and truth.
In 2006 I said the nation was headed the way of California. As of right now, the national government is running exactly like CA. Republicans have been fighting for years they've been unsuccessful because of the media bias here. Demonized for standing up for hard work and moral fiber is not popular here. Standing up for abortion, gays, illegals is lauded.
My suggestion and this might sound bad but there's a reason it's the best course now. The first thing the Republicans in the house need to do is surrender. Don't fight it in the media anymore. Don't fight tax hikes, Don't fight any regulations. When the Democrats put fourth a bill if you don't agree with it, abstain.
Why would we do that? Simple. We're going to drown slowly if not. We're going to be tortured to death rather than a quick painless death. In CA we've been slowly drowning for many years and we can't stop it. We are going to collapse and when we do the entire nation is going to be dragged down. I suggest we get it over with, let the people see where the Democrat policies lead.
They need show and tell, give it to them.
Here's another thing those of us who are Americans and live by that label can do. Stay off of the MSM. Don't link anything from their news source. Don't watch them for any reason. The fact is they have failed America and as far as I'm concerned ABC/CBS/NBC are traitors to the nation.
Don't believe me? Watch the news coming out now about Benghazi, Iran, Unemployment numbers for October. Watch all the stuff come out that should have came out prior to the election like they did with EVERY REPUBLICAN POTUS since their founding.
The idiots who voted for Obama voted in favor of their self interest. They voted to kick the responsibility to save this nation to their kids/grandchildren. When my grand kids ask me why I didn't do anything to stop this mess from happening I will tell them I did everything short of illegal activities to stop it. And I will hold my head high when I tell them. I hope you have that ability too.


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As Professor of International Law and Co-Director of The Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Program, Hurst Hannum is active on academic and policy fronts around the world.
Hannum returns to teaching at Fletcher in September 2008, after a leave of two and a half years, during which he served as the Sir Y.K. Pao Professor at the University of Hong Kong. At the University, Hannum taught at Asia's only LL.M. in Human Rights program, while at the same time continuing his ongoing writing and research projects.
In 2006, Hannum published the 4th edition of one of the leading casebooks in the field of human rights,Human Rights Problems of Law, Policy and Practice, with new co-authors S. James Anaya (University of Arizona) and Dinah Shelton (George Washington University). Unfortunately, new developments at the United Nations Human Rights Council—which met for the first time in June 2006—have necessitated updates that will be available on-line to teachers and students. Hannum follows the Council's activities closely and participated in three of its sessions during its inaugural year on behalf of the Geneva-based International Service for Human Rights.
In addition to work on the United Nations' human rights mechanisms, Hannum remains involved in issues related to self-determination, autonomy, and minority rights. Following on earlier UN consultancies concerning East Timor and Western Sahara, as well as work in 2001-2003 on negotiations between Aceh rebels and the government of Indonesia, Hannum has recently participated in meetings examining autonomy in China and Mindinao. While in Hong Kong, he organized a conference on the concept of universal suffrage and its applicability to Hong Kong's unusual political system.
On the non-human-rights policy front, Hannum works on a consulting basis with the International Center for Alcohol Policies, based in Washington, D.C. The center, supported by major international alcohol companies including Pernod Ricard, Coors Brewing Company, and Diageo PLC., works on corporate social responsibility practices and develops partnerships with governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs, scientific researchers, and public health officials. Many of these practices stem from the Dublin Principles, a set of guidelines outlining mutually acceptable means of cooperation, based on ethical principles, among all those concerned with alcohol consumption and its effects. Hannum brings significant expertise to this issue, having helped develop these principles at the 1997 Dublin conference. In the past few years, Hannum has spoken on these issues at meetings in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Paris.
Hannum's regular course offerings include the introductory course, "International Human Rights Law", as well as two seminars. The fall seminar, "Nationalism, Self-Determination, and Minority Rights", is an inter disciplinary course exploring the theoretical foundations for claims of nationhood and self determination. In the spring, the course "Current Issues in Human Rights" offers students the opportunity to discuss a number of contemporary human rights issues in greater depth, such as democracy, economic and social and economic rights, and humanitarian intervention.


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TAE KWON DOWe are happy to offer Tae Kwon Do as a free benefit to our Y facility members. Members ages 7 and up are invited to participate in this program. Beginners are welcome to attend anytime!
Tae Kwon Do ProgramChung Do Kwan Information (PDF)
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7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Beginners - Intermediate)
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Open to all students)
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One-Step SparringOne-step sparring teaches body control and distance, targets areas of the body, balance and self defense combinations. One-steps are practiced with a partner and control is very important. One-steps must be performed with out any contact for beginning students. As participants gain more control of their technique, they'll be able to execute the full power techniques to target areas without the chance of injuring their partner.
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Bullying Speaker addresses East Texas Youth
On May 4, 2011, I was able to visit a couple schools in Kilgore, TX. I spoke to over 300 third graders at Chandler Elementary. One thing I learned from that experience is that school age students know what bullying is and how it makes others feel.
Students in elementary school really care about others. I can see on their faces the hurt when I talk about being bullied at school. Some wanted to be on my side. They actually looked like they wanted to give me a hug.
When I walked into the Kilgore Intermediate School hallway I saw a sign hanging that said, "Don't be a bullydog". I had to take a picture next to it because it was creative and it's a constant reminder for students. The school has a process in place where they handle bullying situations in house. The school makes kids face each other and tell each other how the bullying behavior makes them feel.
I'm glad I was able to speak to this age group because this is their last year for some to attend grade school. Next they will have to dodge middle school bullying which is one of the hardest times in my life. For some this is the worst time for bullying that they will have to endure. That's why it's important for schools to raise awareness of bullying. Bullying is abuse and the more we speak on the subject, the more aware students and parents will be on the subject. Many feel along when they are bullied and I feel my job is to let them know that I'm going to stand up for them wherever I can.
I feel that I can be a voice for students who are not willing to stand up for themselves. I know what it feels like to be bullied and I don't want others to feel the pain that I felt. I applaud Kilgore for being proactive in the way they handle bullying behavior.
Thank you also to the state of Texas for adding laws on bullying which protect students and give parents a way out.
Read the bullying speaker press release.


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News: The Compact Disc Turns 25
Did you know that on August 17 in 1979 the first compact discs were developed as a spin off to Laser Discs? For those of you that have never seen a Laser Disc, let's just say thank goodness, otherwise listening to a high quality version of your favorite music outside of your home would have involved a DJ crate and a stack of record sized shiny discs.
We can't believe it has been that long, or maybe it's more that time has gone by that fast, but it seems that the 25th birthday of the CD could also be leading up to the retirement party. With so many ways to get music digitally, it is inevitable. We can't even remember the last time we bought a physical CD. Can you?
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Monday, March 31, 2014
Sports News
Florida 62, Dayton 52
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[March 31, 2014]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. —
Florida 62, Dayton 52: Scottie Wilbekin scored 14 of his 23 points in the first half as the Gators
upended the Flyers in the NCAA tournament South regional in Memphis,
Tenn., to reach the Final Four for the first time since 2007.
Patric Young added 12 points and four blocked shots for
top-seeded Florida (36-2), which advances to face Connecticut in the
national semifinals. Michael Frazier II scored 10 points as the
Gators stretched their school-record winning streak to 30.
Dyshawn Pierre scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half for
11th-seeded Dayton (26-11), which was trying to reach the Final Four
for the first time since 1967. Devin Oliver added 12 points on four
3-pointers but the Flyers posted their lowest-scoring effort of the
The score was knotted at 23 15-plus minutes into the contest before
the Gators took control with a 15-1 burst. Wilbekin scored nine
points during the run and knocked down a 3-pointer with two seconds
left to give Florida a 38-24 halftime lead.
The Gators stretched the lead to 53-36 on Young's basket with 11:25
remaining and Dayton got back in the game with a 14-5 run over the
ensuing 7 1/2 minutes to cut its deficit to 58-50. Wilbekin hit two
free throws with 1:05 remaining and Florida finished off the victory
after losing in the Elite Eight in each of the previous three
GAME NOTEBOOK: F Dorian Finney-Smith had nine rebounds off the bench
as the Gators recorded a 37-26 rebounding edge. … Flyers leading
scorer Jordan Sibert was scoreless on 0-of-3 shooting. … Florida was
21-of-28 from the free-throw line while the Flyers were 6-of-8.
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Aubrey and Judy Millard have been cruising on their Ontario 32 'Veleda IV'vsince 1998 and have cataloged their journeys throughout this time.
Their Website is "The World Cruise of Veleda IV" and there you will find information about all their travels over the years and they continue to document their travels right through to the present.
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