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Top 4 wines under AED100 (column 12)
Summer has arrived too early this year and coupled with our last column before Ramadan kicks in, I am dedicating this month to wines that are great to drink indoors, with the ever welcome breeze from our beloved air conditioning system. Our four wines come from two outstanding regions in France that I very much love, and are typically paired with great food.
One region is probably the most well known in the world; of course we are talking of Bordeaux, much admired by many people for their Cabernet and Merlot-based wines. However, not many know that Bordeaux is also excellent for amazing white wines, based on Sauvignon and Semillon grapes.
The art of blending is very common and we will discover some terrific and unusual grape varieties. The more blends in a wine, the more layers of complexity in the flavour, and also the more balance between the colour, the tannin, the acidity and alcohol. This doesn't mean that grapes can't stand on their own, because there are some outstanding wines made with a single grape variety, like white and red Burgundy.
The other region, Roussilon, is lesser known in France for producing dry wines, as it is famed more for its vins doux naturels. However, in the last 15 years, the quality of the dry wines and even more so the red wines, has improved considerably, and in some way, due to the proximity with Spain, these wines are more Spanish in style than French.
We're able to bring you this column regularly thanks to our key partner Monviso, the Italian natural mineral water brand with its low sodium content and total dissolved solids (TDS) – available across the UAE at leading supermarkets and restaurants. With all this wine drinking, you need to stay hydrated 🙂
Special thanks to both MMI and A&E where you can buy these wines, in addition to duty free of course. As usual, please note this column contains references to alcohol, and is therefore only for reading if you are of a legal drinking age in your country of residence (21 years in the UAE) and non-Muslim.
So here's our 12th column, with top 4 wines under AED100 including tax. Do you enjoy blends or do you veer towards single grape varieties?
Let us know what you think in the comments or on social media using the hashtag #FooDivaVino. If you missed them, here are the previous columns. Cin cin 🙂
- Les Vigne de Bila-Haut, White, M. Chapoutier, France, 2014: Dry white Cote de Roussillon wines are finally having their moment and many wine aficionados are paying notice. For many years people didn't like the big, blowsy wines that came mostly from the Grenache Blanc. However, this Chapoutier blend with the rare pink-skinned Grenache Gris and the Macabeu with its herbal and floral aromas makes this wine outstandingly fresh, mineral and fruity. I would pair it with Spanish dishes such as cod a la Catalan, which is served with tomatoes, peppers, anchovies, garlic and olive oil. Another of my favourite dishes that marries well with this wine is the Catalan cargolada – snails grilled in their shells with salt, pepper and lard. AED57 + tax from MMI.
- Bordeaux Blanc, Chartron La Fleur, France, 2015: This Bordeaux Blanc is made entirely from Sauvignon Blanc, however it is nothing like those typical to the new world or New Zealand, nor your Sancerre or Pouilly Fume. Bordeaux Sauvignon Blanc can sometimes be confused for a Chardonnay as it expresses more subtle aromatic flavours, however is still very fresh, with floral and stone fruit flavours. Lately, I have been cooking plenty of vegetarian starters, so this would pair perfectly with steamed cauliflower or broccoli served with tzatziki dips, ricotta crostini or whole UAE tomatoes stuffed with couscous salad. AED63 + tax from A&E.
- Les Vigne de Bila-Haut, Red, M. Chapoutier, France, 2014: This wine is definitely one of my favourites, not only because of its terrific value but also for the hard-to-beat quality. Since it comes from an area that is not very well known, it is the wine to look out for when dining out or when in the wine shop. The blend is an even split between Syrah and Grenache with 10 per cent Carignan, so expect juicy black and red fruits, rich and intense pepper, violet and herbs, with its medium body. It works very well with Hachis Parmentier, a French version of the famous English shepherd's or cottage pie, but uses confit de canard instead of lamb and beef. AED57 + tax from MMI.
- Private Reserve, Medoc, Schroder & Schyler, France, 2012: Schroder & Schyler is one of the oldest family-owned Bordeaux producers that are behind this label for the white Chartron La Fleur. The blend here is 70 per cent Cabernet, 20 per cent Merlot and 10 per cent Cabernet Franc. It's a proper Medoc blend, where the wines are full bodied, brimming with black and red fruits, and well balanced with great acidity and tannins. This wine would probably be your best entry-level Bordeaux, where you begin to get the particular flavours and aromas distinctive of the region's left bank. Typical pairings with Bordeaux blends are dishes with high protein to perfectly match and balance the tannin structure. Red meat is, of course, the most succulent marriage and any cut will do, however I particular love inexpensive cuts such as sirloin steak, cooked in a pan with rosemary, garlic and olive oil, and finished in the oven to keep it tender and medium rare. It also pairs well with great hard cheeses such as Italian Pecorinos and Parmigiano Reggiano. AED70 + tax from A&E.
WHO IS LUCA GAGLIARDI? Sommelier by birth, and Michelin-starred trained maître d', Luca is GM of Pierchic. His CV spans a decade to the service of world-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay, followed by Roberto's, Iris, Solo and R Trader. In his spare time, Luca is in his state-of-the-art home kitchen cooking for friends and discovering new wines, typically anything but rosé! You can follow him on his wine blog Tasted and Rated, Twitter at @sommelierdubai and on Instagram at @tastedandrated – or for wine consultancy services via email at firstname.lastname@example.com
Our last wine column by @simonelucagagliardi before Ramadan kicks in is dedicated to two outstanding regions in France. All four wines are under AED100 including tax! Available @mmidubai @african_eastern and duty free. Do you enjoy blends or do you veer towards single grape varieties? As always, thanks to our key partner for this column, the Italian natural mineral water brand, @monvisowater that keeps us hydrated throughout all this wine drinking ?. Incidentally, Luca has just joined @pierchicdubai as the new GM. He's got a lot on his plate…and in his wine glass ?. Column now live on www.foodiva.net (see link in profile). ??? #foodivavino


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Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Release Nears As New Deal Offers A Huge Discount Of Up To $300 On Surface Pro 3 Bundle
The sales record of the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 show that it is the best selling laptop-tablet hybrid till now. Rumours have it that the Surface Pro 3 will be replaced by Surface Pro 4 this year. It is the usual practice of various OEMs to offer attractive price cuts in a bid to clear off inventory and to make way for the newer product.
Microsoft is now offering a massive discount of up to $300 on the purchase of the Surface Pro 3 Bundle. The bundle includes the Surface Pro 3 tablet and four other items like the Type Cover, sleeve, Office 365 and extended support plan for hardware damage and technical assistance for two years.
Users can choose from a Surface Pro 3 from its different storage variants like 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB. Next, users are required to choose from Surface Pro Type Cover colour options like red, purple, black and cyan. A wide range of Surface Pro 3 sleeves are available for men and women to choose from.
The bundle also suggests the buyers to make a choice between Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal editions. Lastly, the Microsoft Complete extended assistance allows purchasers to take advantage of the accident protect for Surface Pro 3. It covers hardware issues for 2 years during which owners of Surface Pro 3 can also benefit from unlimited software support for up to 2 years.
In the recent past, plenty of rumours have surfaced about the successor model for the Surface Pro 3. Even though the Redmond software giant has not confirmed anything on a successor device, speculations from industry watchers indicate that the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 release date is aimed for July this year, claims the International Business Times report from March 10.
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February 04, 2011 09:22AM
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couple of more links to Bloom Box tech.
the Wikipedia
If the military is looking at small ones for portable use, we arent that far off from automotive use.
General Colin Powell is a board member, and I am sure its because of military applications.
Hopefully this new clean energy is something America can lead again in technology.
The Bloom Box "servers" make me think of the old computers that would take up rooms of years past.
Eventually if this tech follows the rules according to Moores Law it will get smaller quite quickly. Hopefully in the next 10 years!
February 04, 2011 11:15AM
5th gear
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I have plenty of room at home, price is what concerns me!
February 04, 2011 06:20PM
5th gear
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I am pretty sure, considering current technology. Energy is not created or destroyed, just transformed.
Electricity must be produced from other energy sources, and that process has more or less losses, considering that from the total energy input only so much energy comes out as electricity to the grid. After that, from the plant to the consumer, some energy is lost in heat produced at the wires, transformers, etc (Power plants are often far from the consumers). Just like the total energy produced by burning gasoline can't be completely transformed in mechanical energy to move the car. Thermal engines usually have relatively low efficiency, due to heat and pumping losses.
Now if one multiply the successive efficiency ratios, an EV has always LOWER efficiency than the power source it is charged from.
Even if there was an ideal EV, that could use all the electricity charged on it, some energy and resources would be needed to build it in the first place, and energy had to be produced somewhere to charge it.
Note i am not saying EV are a bad solution, considering electricity comes from many sources, some of them are renewable!
Same for hydrogen cars, the car itself is very clean and only produces H2O, but most hydrogen is made out of natural gas at some plant, so the bad emissions are concentrated there. Why not use regular cars powered from that same gas?!
There is no "free" or "green" energy, just compromise solutions.
February 04, 2011 09:52PM
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February 04, 2011 10:03PM
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The thing that the fuel cell companies completely fail to disclose; is that apart from the fuel cell producing only water; is that the fuels that are cracked for the hydrogen are waste products just as hazardous as other technologies.
For example; GM uses gasoline to power it's version of the fuel cell. What they don't tell you is what to do with the gasoline once the hydrogen has been removed form it! Same applies to methyl hydrate or any of the other hydrogen rich fuels.
Might be that Mercedes has one of the cleanest fuel cell systems...it runs on Borax(sodium borate). After the hydrogen is removed, you are left with Boraxo...soap
February 05, 2011 02:49PM
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Spot on. The governments should focus on (efficient!) mass transport, taking away as much private circulation as possible. All vehicle taxes could be canceled and fuel prices raised a lot, so people would become really aware of the environmental problem. (and if you'd own a Ferrari you'd take out twice a year, it wouldn't cost as much as it does now in my little country)
February 07, 2011 10:03AM
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Wind power require huge wind towers, erected on windy spots, usually mountain tops. those places are often environment sensitive areas, plus the consumers are far away from there, requiring long transmission lines, with respective losses. The towers+generator themselves are big and bulky, need losts of steel and concrete plus major work to place them at the final location. Plus the wind is unpredictable, and seldom coincides with consumption peaks, requiring other plants on the network to fill in the gaps. On top of that, if there is too much or too little wind they don't work at all.
Over here we have considerable power of wind turbines working, the deal is ALL power they generate is bought by the network at a fixed (high) price and that expense is paid by all the consumers.
Wave power: there is no economically viable technology yet.
Geothermal power: good resource for HVAC systems on buildings or houses, if there is a possible source nearby. The equipment is very expensive, and seldom economically viable, is definitely a path to develop further.
Solar power (photo-voltaic?): Very expensive equipment, again we have lots of m2 of it. Power is ALL sold to the grid, consumers pay it.
Hydro electric: renewable and clean in operation, except it needs a huge dam to work. It takes space, and destroys valleys that had other use before, so not all rivers are suitable to be damed. Dams can be equipped to operate reversed, to pump water from below to above and use that water latter on the turbine. This can compensate the wind power "fluctuation" at expense of the transmission losses on the power lines, plus efficiency losses of the pumping ant turbinate hydraulic process, about 0.75. Also the "artificial" lake, with still and deep water is a source of methane and CO2 gases, from decomposing mater under water, equivalent to emissions from a gas plant of similar power.
Nuclear: it would be good, except for the radioactive waste and danger of catastrophic failure...
Nuclear fission: How much longer we must wait?! They are working on it for decades now!
February 07, 2011 08:01PM
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Sorry Jose,
I only see the same old tired excuses why we don't get off our behinds and make these things 'financially' viable
I have visited one of the 'wind turbine farms' in the Southern California mountains and there is little to no evidence of ecological disaster other than the few metres of ground around the bases of the towers...and of course the dirt tracks that service vehicles use to access the towers. Other than a few displaced scrub brush bushes and cactuses, the ecology is pretty much undisturbed.
The other sources I mentioned also have equally viable and non-intrusive possibilities. Tide power is currently being use very successfully in the mouth of the Thames river in England. Geothermal power runs a lot of Iceland; heating for sure and also steam turbines that produce electricity.
These technologies are not in the far future; they are here now but being delayed by the big oil concerns.
Oil is still relatively plentiful and cheap but it won't last forever and we need to be ready with alternatives. CEO/accountant bonuses based on the price of oil are probably the worst enemy of development of alternative technologies. If the oil companies spent even a fraction of the money they do fighting alternate energy, we would be a lot closer to becoming oil independent. I don't care who controls the alternate energy sources, just so long as we have them!
February 08, 2011 06:02AM
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I didn't meant to say alternative energies shouldn't be exploited or developed, just there to point that any source of energy has an impact on the environment.
When you visited the wind turbine farm, you saw the disturbs, and qualified it as pretty much undisturbed, some wildlife may think the opposite.
The only free energy is the one you save, every kWh saved is one less to be produced somewhere and transported to you, and less you have to pay.
The alternative energies are not necessarily NEW. There have been windmills since forever.
There are old tide mills in Portugal, those were abandoned because it was so much more convenient to make flour at a factory near the city than to carry the cereal to the mill and the flour back.
In the 1950, the Benguela railway (Angola) operated steam engines that used eucalyptus wood for fuel. The trees were planted to grow along the line, and chopped in bits adequate for firnig the locomotives. That is completely renewable energy, despite the low-tech involved. Those trains were repllaced by new diesel locomotives, burning oil.
Same with cars, people no longer walks, and most moved to the suburbs far away from work and services, so we depend on the automobile now!
Hence the need for massive amount of energy, let it be oil, electricity or whatever we choose to power our cars from.
What we need is to go back to basics, use less energy.


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Fulham FC (2) vs. Liverpool FC (5)
Liverpool FC backers were rewarded with a 5-2 victory over Fulham FC Monday in English Premiership action.
Scoring for Fulham FC was M. Dembélé in the 57th minute, and S. Sidwell in the 86th minute.
Scoring for Liverpool FC was M. Rodriguez in the 1st minute, M. Rodriguez in the 7th minute, D. Kuyt in the 16th minute, M. Rodriguez in the 70th minute, and L. Suarez in the 75th minute.
Over bettors were rewarded when the seven goals sent the match over the total of 2.5.
The halftime score was 3-0 for Liverpool FC.
Fulham FC's D. Murphy in the 3rd minute, C. Dempsey in the 45th minute, C. Salcido in the 61st minute, S. Sidwell in the 74th minute, and C. Baird in the 89th minute were given cautions by the referee.
Liverpool FC's J. Reina in the 58th minute, and M. Skrtel in the 66th minute were given cautions by the referee.


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Ducks will be rewarded for offseason move
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, May 27, 2007
When Scott Niedermayer hoists the Stanley Cup following Game 5 a week from Wednesday night, it will culminate what was almost predestined with the events of last July 3.
Anaheim will be the first team in the Pacific time zone to win the Cup since it was awarded to the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League for their 1925 conquest of the Montreal Canadiens.
California will boast an NHL champion for the first time.
Teemu Selanne, a best man in a sport full of great guys, will -- after 1,041 regular-season games, 86 more in the playoffs and 14 years in the league -- finally be able to sip from the big shinny silver challis after numerous recent close calls nationally and internationally in his attempt to be a champion.
And it will be thanks to the bold yet confident move made by Ducks general manager Brian Burke, who wasn't afraid to part with a bushel of riches to acquire defenseman Chris Pronger from Edmonton.
The deal will go down as the most significant transaction since Joe Thornton became a Shark in late November of 2005, and the one that really did mean a Stanley Cup for the team getting the best player.
It was immediately following last year's Game 7 loss by the Oilers in Carolina during the Cup Finals that Pronger made his wishes known: after just one season in Edmonton he demanded a trade.
Despite the perceived weakened stance, Edmonton still made out more than all right by dealing the services of the 32-year-old dominant blueliner for a promising forward who is an Edmonton native (Joffrey Lupul), a promising defense prospect (Ladislav Smid) and three high-round draft picks (Anaheim's first this and next season, and its second in 2008).
The Sharks could have been in on the Pronger Sweepstakes. In fact, most insiders felt this all along was a two-team proposition. But the Sharks did not want to talk once the asking price started from a list that included Matt Carle, Milan Michalek, Steve Bernier and picks.
On one hand, it's hard to fault Doug Wilson's reluctance to roll the dice. On the other, San Jose's general manager is not going to feel very good seeing that Stanley Cup banner hanging from the roof of the Ducks' rink.
What has to gall the Sharks even more is the fact Anaheim was able to respond to adversity against the Red Wings in the West Finals where San Jose failed against Detroit a round earlier.
In addition to falling behind 2-1 in games with a 5-0 drubbing at home in Game 3, Anaheim lost the services of Pronger for Game 4 due to a one-game suspension. The Wings' chance to seize the series was right there, a victory in Game 4 would have meant a 3-1 lead and Detroit knowing it had three games left -- two at home -- needing to win only one.
Instead, it's where the Ducks will look back and point to proving they were the team ready to overcome all obstacles. Without Pronger, Anaheim won Game 4 5-3 and it did to the Wings exactly what Detroit did to the Sharks -- win three straight to close out the series.
Other observations during the most demanding two-month march to any pro sports championship:
-- If Buffalo was considered too small among its top-6 forwards, is it too easy to suggest a trade of Chris Drury to the Sharks in exchange for Patrick Marleau? Yes it is, because San Jose could never risk that kind of a deal without a guarantee that the unrestricted free-agent Drury would sign with the Sharks. Otherwise, the Sabres get size and a very good player in exchange for what the Sharks needed most -- a proven clutch performer in the playoffs to complement Thornton.
-- Nashville did the right thing even if it wasn't the popular decision by retaining original GM David Poile and coach Barry Trotz together for a 10th season.
-- New Jersey's Lou Lamoriello should do the right thing next time and not fire a coach in the final two weeks of the season.
-- Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson, Dallas' Marty Turco, Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk and Thornton responded with terrific postseasons after being singled out by Sports Illustrated for not living up to their billing after the regular season.
-- A European-born captain has never lifted the Stanley Cup. Alfredsson, the native Swede, captains the Senators.
-- Will anyone remember that Keith Tkachuk played for the Atlanta Thrashers?
-- Detroit defenseman Chris Chelios is not only the oldest player in the league at age 45, but the most savvy. You got to give it to this guy for his smarts and unbelievable competitive nature.
-- Despite what anyone from the league will say, Versus and NBC are not good for the NHL.
-- Mike Emrick, octopi on ice and multiple-period overtimes are good for the NHL.
-- Game 1 will mark the first time Ottawa has played outside the Eastern time zone since a March 4 in Chicago, all of an hour away. The Sens' last game in the West was Dec. 9, 2005 and they haven't been to California since Oct. 18, 2003.
-- Anaheim goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere has been even better this postseason than in 2003 when he won the Conn Smythe Trophy despite his team losing Game 7 to New Jersey.
-- It you're a Florida Panther, it must feel like you've been off forever.
Stanley Cup Finals
Ottawa vs. Anaheim
Monday -- at Anaheim, 5 p.m. Versus
Wednesday -- at Anaheim, 5 p.m. Versus
Saturday -- at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Channel: 11 Channel: 3 Channel: 8
June 4 -- at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Channel: 11 Channel: 3 Channel: 8
x-June 6 -- at Anaheim, 5 p.m. Channel: 11 Channel: 3 Channel: 8
x-June 9 -- at Ottawa, 5 p.m. Channel: 11 Channel: 3 Channel: 8
x-June 11 -- at Anaheim, 5 p.m. Channel: 11 Channel: 3 Channel: 8
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Does The Home Repair or Improvement Require a Permit?
Major home renovations such as those that requires alterations to the structure of your home or various electrical and plumbing require that you obtain a permit. Thus, you need to know building codes so that your improvements and additions are compliant with the code. In such situations it is well advised that you seek the help of home improvement contractors to complete the job. The reason could be safety as well as compliance with building code. It is well advised that you always call in a competent electrician to take care of the wiring.
Do I have The Skills and Expertise to Complete The Project?
You really need to be frank with yourself and not let your decision be influenced by your ego as here where many homeowners fall over their head. Assess the project that needs completion and yourself if you have the skills and expertise along with time and patience to complete the project well. Just doing the work is not what you should look at but doing it well. If you do not have the required skill or have not performed similar task in the past, then it is good idea to give the project to the experts.
patience and doing the task well is another important factor that you must consider. If you do not fix a plumbing problem properly, it could lead to future problems or leaks that can damage your property and furniture. Plumbing is a special trade and if you do not have the required patience or skill, it is best to call a plumber. If the job is simple but you don't think you have the time or patience, then look for a good handyman to help out.
Quality matters
One of the main reasons for remodeling is to make your home more attractive. Thus the question is not whether you can simply finish the project but whether you can achieve high quality; after all this is the reason for your remodeling decision in the first place. For each task you should select a home improvement contractor that is skilled in that area. For instance call a roofer to do your roofing, and flooring installer to install your hardwood floors.
Set A Budget
One of the most important aspects of home remodeling is budgeting. You need to know what you can actually afford before deciding to move on with the renovation project. Also remember that if your skills and knowledge is not up to par for completing a project, you could actually save money by hiring a skilled contractor. Yes! You could save money by hiring a skilled contractor instead of doing the work yourself and find out that that it was not done correctly so that you have to tear down the work done and do it over again. Don't forget that time is money.
It could cost you a lot more if you do not perform a job correctly as you would wast time, material and money tearing down and redoing a poorly finished job. This is the most common mistake that homeowners make when approaching renovations projects they have never done before.
After setting your budget you need to determine by getting price quotes from various professional as to what you can afford. As mentioned earlier, you need to hire a skilled professional for each trade. To help with your budget, you can assign the easier task to a handyman as their rate is lower than a skilled contractor.


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Bad Axe Choir to perform Thursday
Published 8:00 pm, Monday, May 11, 2009
At 7 p.m., Thursday, the Bad Axe High School cafetorium will come alive with music. "Straight to the Top," the title of this year's annual choral spring program, will feature performers from the Junior High School and High School Choral departments. In the first half of the program, the sixth grade choir will perform "A Pirate's Life" and "Walking in the Air." The junior high school choir, just back from State Choral Festival, will perform "Dance, Love, Sing, Live!", and "A Joyful Son." The sixth grade choir will join the junior high school choir for a combined performance of "I Believe." The high school chorale, also back from a State Choral Festival performance where they earned a "I" rating, will sing "In this Ancient House" and "Come Live with Me." Several soloists and ensembles will be interspersed throughout the program, including: Jacob Currie on ukulele singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as done by IZ and Jaimmika Bouverette singing "Hall Om Mig" in Swedish.
The second half of the program will transport you to the Broadway stage with some exceptional medleys. The Madrigals (the most elite performing group at Bad Axe High School) will give an exciting rendition of the Tony award-winning show "Grease." The sixth grade choir performs a Disney Silly Sing-Along that will have everyone singing. The Junior High School Choir will sing and dance their way into your heart with their rendition of "Anastasia." The high school chorale will close with a medley from "Les Miserable." Posters with the number 24601 have been placed around the school with no explanation. The answer is that it is the prison number of Jean Valjean, the show's main character. As always, the seniors will end the show with a song; this one from Brother Bear entitled "On My Way." Seniors this year include Jaimmika Bouverette, Kendra Neumann, Lucas Rego, and Jamie Siewert. As always, the show is free and open to the public.


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Ad Astra 2009 was held this past weekend in Toronto. I attended a number of very interesting panels, with a large focus on the process of writing and publishing.
I photographed a number of the panelists, which can be seen on my flickr page, as well as some below the break.
People photographed include Michael Green, David G. Hartwell, Karl Schroeder, Hayden Trenholm, Tony Pi, David Drake, Violette Malan, Fiona Patton, Rob St. Martin, Eve Silver, Karina Sumner-Smith, Jana Paniccia, Marcel Gagne, Suzanne Church, Michelle Rowen,Derek Künsken, Rick Wilber, Matt Moore, Erik Buchanan, Gabrielle Harbowy, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Sèphira Girón, Michael R. Colangelo, Phyllis Gotlieb, Alison Baird, Nigel Bennett, Kent Burles, Joanne Ellen Hansen, Ruth Stuart, and Robert J. Sawyer.


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Published by Bloomsbury Childrens on March 3, 2014
Genres: Contemporary Romance, YA
Pages: 368
Format: Ebook
Source: Purchased
After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O'Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. Her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah's 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of healing hearts and break-up ballads.
But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking.
A fresh new voice in this growing genre, Emery Lord's gorgeous debut hits all the right notes of contemporary romance.
What I Thought…
• Open Road Summer was so amazingly good I don't even know where to begin. The writing. The characters. The story. It was all perfect.
• I've heard a lot of good things about Open Road Summer, but given my aversion to country music it wasn't high on my priority list. Huge mistake.
• Emery Lord knows how to write. How to make you feel for the characters and for the story in general. I absolutely LOVED the song lyrics. The added an extra special something to the book and I know that Open Road Summer wouldn't have been as awesome without them.
• Reagan is not your typical teenager that you read about in books. She's made some big mistakes, used to smoke and drink. Of course she also comes with the typical family issues and a bad news ex-boyfriend issue. She is intent on making changes though, even though she struggled at times.
• Dee, Reagan's best friend, is one of the best best friends around. She is there for Reagan, wants what's best for her and is always on her side. They do have a little spat (what pair of high school bff's doesn't?) but they work through it because they have a friendship worth saving. Even though the focus of Open Road Summer isn't on Dee, she is going through some things of her own that added a lot to the book.
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Learning Inheritance, Substitution vs Extension
We are going to look at inheritance hierarchy. If we take a classic approach, as shown below we would see the methods that have been defined in the base class overridden in the derived classes. Inheritance guarantees that any derived class will have the interface of the base class. If you follow this diagram below, derived classes will also have no more than the base-class interface.
This can be thought of as pure substitution, because derived class objects can be perfectly substituted for the base class, and you never need to know any extra information about the subclasses when youre using them. Everything is basically handled through polymorphism. When you see this from the perspective that all you need to do is upcast from the derived class and never look back to see what exact type of object youre dealing with this way, it seems like a pure is-a relationship is the only sensible way to do things, and any other design indicates muddled thinking and is by definition broken. This is considered a trap. If you think deeply into this you will discover that a better approach is to extend the interface is a better solution to this type of problem. Rather than having a is-a relationship, one can define a is-like-a relationship, because the derived class is like the base class. It has the same fundamental interfacebut it has other features that require additional methods to implement:
While this is a preferred approach (in most situations), it also has its drawbacks. The extended part of the interface in the derived class is not available from the base class, so once you upcast, you cannot call the new methods: If you have no need for upcasting in this case, it wont bother you, but often youll get into a situation in which you need to rediscover the exact type of the object so you can access the extended methods of that type.
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Decent dps for normals are a dime a dozen. He isnt worth the hassle of continuously losing tanks and healers. Boot him.
Decent dps for normals are a dime a dozen. He isnt worth the hassle of continuously losing tanks and healers. Boot him.
No matter who you want to call pussies or babies or any other derogatory slam, this particular guy calling everyone out in passive aggressive, snide, stick up his ass ways isn't working for this guild or they wouldn't be losing so many recruits or needing to replace ppl so often.
Having a spine is great! But remember, spines DO bend and move. They aren't rigid. Don't confuse having an iron rod stuck up your ass with having a spine.
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When ppl show you who they are, believe them the 1st time.
Tolerated behavior doesn't change.
We teach ppl how to treat us.
We get what we settle for.
'golden repair', is the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer. The aesthetic philosophy focuses on imperfections rather than attempting to disguise them, with the intention that the piece becomes both more valuable and more beautiful because of its history and for having been broken.
The fact the original poster came here asking us what to do instead of asking what his guild leader is going to do means it's already over for him-- he doesn't trust the guild leader to do anything about it, and that means he no longer has interest in the guild. He just doesn't know it yet.
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You have to get rid of him.
In the past 7 years any time I retained a big attitude problem because of their amazing DPS it hurt us more than it helped.
It is tough but the bandaid must come off. You won't change this guy.
Maybe it's just that I'm running on no sleep but I just don't believe OP.
I'm sorry, but the advice here is obvious and has been since post #2. You either kick this guy, you leave (leaving includes quitting WoW) or you resign yourself it. If the GM just reinvites after a gkick, you are left with two choices - leave or put up with it. This is so blindingly obvious and the supposed offences of the bad egg are so mild in how they're described that this whole thing just doesn't pass the smell test. If someone is so toxic that the drive 15+ people away, you remove them. That's just.. fucking obvious. There's no magic bullet - the options on just stupidly clear.
Yet, when people point this out over EIGHT PAGES the OP keeps coming up with reasons that a kick can't happen, yet he doesn't leave. Sorry, but this just doesn't feel right - something's fishy here and the description of the bad egg's actions don't help. Maybe the descriptions don't convey his tone or something, but I can't imagine 15+ people leaving over what's been described here.
Anyway, OP, you know your choices. You knew them before this post. Make a choice.
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Sounds to me like the guy is calling out shit players and said shit players can't take the heat. Maybe he could be a little nicer about it but it's not all his problem.
Recruits are other thing. If you do it in-game, then you don't know how good or bad he is. You only know this after a first raid and vent/ts discussions during it.
Now i'm member of much better guild with a heroic 25m progression team and casual 10m team. I don't know any of these guys and haven't raided with them yet, in the next expansion maybe. I still has to work and earn my spot in that heroic team and that is not easy task.
1) Gkick the guy (or at least kick him from the raid).
2) Leave the guild
3) put up with it (and possibly step down from recruiting).
That's it. 100% super-obvious. It's time for OP to man up, make one of those choices and move on. We don't need another 8 pages hashing over this... be adult, pick one and get on with life.
It really seems like the OP was very vague when it came to what exactly the 'problem raider' did in order to chase these people out. As a raider, it is impossible to not be sympathetic to somebody who gets pissed off over:
Raiders who *still* get hit by the iron star on Garrosh
Raiders who don't pay attention and kite Thok into the raid group
Raiders who stand in ravager on Nazgrim
Raiders who run the laser into oil on juggernaut
Raiders who blow up the raid on Sha
It seems to me like the problem raider is the one who is really unhappy in the guild he is in, however since he has been in the guild for so long he feels like he cannot leave.
Most people would rather die than think, and most people do. -Bertrand Russell
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns. Why should we let them have ideas? -Joseph Stalin
As someone who was a guild leader for many years managing guild member cap I have gone through many different types of people including those like you describe. You can see this person's personality as a gift and not a detriment.
Therefore, the solution is obvious:
Put him in charge of recruiting.
For example, some years back, at this large electronics company I worked at, there was this vice president who used to show up at noon, walking around the otherwise busy office in an aloha shirt, shorts, and golf shoes. He was inherited as part of an acquisition. Eventually, he was dispatched to Europe to manage the deployment of Office 2000. Of course, it was never going to work, and it destroyed him.
Option 2: Find a new guild
Option 1 is your best bet, but if this really can't be done then you need to question why you're in the guild and if it's worth going on under these circumstances. Or you could just do nothing and stick with the status quo
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It will make recruiting tougher as well. Word spreads and people talk in trade about him when his guild tries to pug new people. My guild has had a decent rivalry/friendly relationship for most of this expansion. We frequently recruit each other's alts to fill in open spots, but since they acquired said bunghole no one will join them if he's there.
Long story short, one dedicated poor attitude player can destroy your guild's raid team. Have a talk to him about it, if that doesn't work it might be time to cut him.
Give the guild master an ultimatum: he leaves or you do.
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In the early 2000s some of Rwanda's most vulnerable children – some orphans, some children living on the streets through no fault of their own – began seeking shelter in a half-built warehouse in Nyabugogo, Kigali's busy, dirty industrial area. Hundreds of children would congregate there seeking shelter from the streets, the cold and other dangers of the night. A local Rwandan church began assisting these children by providing some food and clothing, but the sheer numbers of children overwhelmed them. They put local people in charge of caring for these children and named the shelter El Shaddai.
The orginal children's home
In 2005 Dr Paul Oas, a retired psychotherapist from San Diego, California, and Dr Ron Reinsch , an obstetrics/gynaecology surgeon, and others visited Rwanda and volunteered their time to treat patients and train professionals. They were told about El Shaddai and decided to pay it a visit. They found the conditions within the warehouse deplorable.
On this and subsequent visits they spent time with the children at the El Shaddai orphanage and were moved by what they saw. Upon returning to the U.S. they joined with other concerned citizens to form the Rwandan Orphans Project in order to raise funds in the U.S. to improve the conditions at El Shaddai. They soon became the primary funders of the center, while it continued to be run by the Rwandan church.
Children receiving meals at the El Shaddai kitchen
Through their donations El Shaddai soon became more than a shelter for street kids at night: classrooms were made in the warehouse and a catch-up school program was launched to begin educating the young boys who had fallen behind in school. Health insurance was purchased so all children had access to proper healthcare, and dormitories were constructed so the children could stay at this new center all day, safe from the dangers of living on the streets. El Shaddai was soon known as the Rwandan Orphans Project, Center for Street Children, or simply as the ROP. Conditions had improved, but the warehouse where the ROP center was based was in a very poor condition, with a leaking roof, little ventilation in the dormitories and only one light bulb in the entire building.
The original center was overcrowded and very basic
In 2009 Sean Jones became the newest member of the Board of Directors and committed to volunteering at the ROP center for several months to assist the program locally. In February 2010 the ROP split with the church that was running the center over differences in how the money was being spent and how the orphanage was being managed. The ROP then took over the running of the center and continued to fund it from the US, with Sean as its Executive Director on the ground. The ROP continues to be a secular organization with no religious affiliation.
In April 2010 the Center moved from the run-down warehouse it had been based in for years to new location in a former school on the outskirt of Kigali. This was home for the ROP for the next five and a half years, until the owner of the property decided to redevelop the land for commercial use and pressured us to leave the site with little time to find a new home and fundraise for a move.
Fortuntely we found our new home outside of Kigali in an area called Rwamagana. Thanks to many of our supporters we were able to purchase the property fully early in 2016. Our children have chosen to call our new site the Imizi Children's Center (Imizi means "roots of a tree" in the local language). Now, finally, our program has a home nobody can take away from us, and where we can take care of Rwanda's vulnerable children for many years to come.
Today's Rwandan Orphans Project
The story of the ROP has mirrored that of our children over the years. We started out not having much, but we never gave up, and today things are better than ever. Despite all of our successes we still have challenges in front of us, and we will never quit striving to give our children an ever improving home environment, education and opportunities so they can thrive. With your help, we can continue transforming the lives of these special children.


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WASHINGTON – A new nationwide campaign, 1 for All, to build understanding and public support for the First Amendment, was launched July 1.
The nonpartisan campaign is a collaborative effort of educators, artists, journalists, lawyers, librarians and others who believe the public will benefit from a greater understanding of the First Amendment. 1 for All encourages news media and other organizations to explain the First Amendment and encourage Americans to celebrate and use the freedoms it guarantees: speech, press, religion, assembly and petition.
Two sisters were found dead inside their Flat Creek Road home Sunday afternoon, and authorities are still waiting to find out what led to the deaths.
Lancaster County Coroner Mike Morris said the women – Peggy Small, 55, and Gail Patterson, 51 – were both sitting on a couch when their bodies were found, about 2:15 p.m. Sunday.
Their bodies have been sent to Newberry for autopsies. Preliminary results have ruled out foul play, Morris said.
The remaining tests will help the coroner's office determine the cause of death of the two women.
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He flips open the top of an ice-shaver machine and tosses in a handful of ice cubes, then he collects the finely shaved ice at the bottom of the machine in a red cup.
With a gloved hand, he pats the ice into a snowball before choosing from more than 50 bottles of flavored syrup lined up inside the tiny hut his family has named Jack's Ice House. After coating the shaved ice, he adds a spoon and a straw, and the concoction is ready for another hungry customer.
You can shop for original arts and crafts while exploring your patriotic side at this weekend's Lancaster Street Market.
The market is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in downtown Lancaster at Main and Gay streets.
About 20 vendors from both Carolinas will be selling hand-crafted jewelry, woodwork, purses, clothing and other items. The theme for Saturday is "Celebrating America," said coordinator Caroline Hasty of See Lancaster SC, the group organizing the event.
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At a picnic table across from Jackie's Place on Brooklyn Avenue on Saturday, Michael Jenkins sat with other children as they finished a hot dog lunch and dug into a juicy red watermelon.
"Y'all make messes," Jenkins, 10, said matter-of-factly to the girls sitting next to him. The girls – Amani Steward, 7, Shamora McFadden, 6, and Lamonisha Nelson, 13 – giggled.
A potential home detention program could soon ease the county's jail overcrowding problem.
County Council unanimously approved first reading of an ordinance Monday to create a home detention program.
The ordinance would allow the sheriff's office to create the program, which would use electronic monitoring devices to keep tabs on non-violent offenders, allowing them to serve time in their homes.
Budget shortfalls forced Lancaster County School District personnel to eliminate about 100 positions for 2010-11.
But how do administrators determine which people lose their job?
Lydia Quinn, the district's director of planning and accountability, said a reduction-in-force policy is followed when the district has to make position cuts.
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The Lancaster County Historical Commission has rediscovered an out-of-print book about local history.
The Rev. J.B. Knight, who has written books about Lancaster's mill hill community and has an extensive collection of local history books, found "Historical Notes from Lancaster County, S.C." in his collection in March and thought the county Historical Commission would be interested.
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This name I have heard many a time, but I never knew what this man did, and when. The discovery that he was one of the first to make light sculptures came as a surprise, and I am curious to see some of his photographs.
Moholy-Nagy was born László Weisz on the 20th of July, 1895 in Bácsborsód to a Jewish-Hungarian family. He attended Gymnasium (academic high school) in the city of Szeged. He changed his German-Jewish surname to the Magyar surname of his mother's Christian lawyer friend Nagy, who supported the family and helped raise Moholy-Nagy and his brothers when their Jewish father, Lipót Weisz left the family. Later, he added "Moholy" ("from Mohol") to his surname, after the name of the Hungarian town Mohol in which he grew up.
One part of his boyhood was spent in the Hungarian Ada town, near Mohol in a family house. In 1918 he formally converted to the Hungarian Reformed Church (Calvinist); his Godfather was his Roman Catholic university friend, the art critic Ivan Hevesy. Immediately before and during World War I he studied law in Budapest and served in the war, where he sustained a serious injury. In Budapest, on leaves and during convalescence, Moholy-Nagy became involved first with the journal Jelenkor ("The Present Age"), edited by Hevesy, and then with the "Activist" circle around Lajos Kassák's journal Ma ("Today"). After his discharge from the Austro-Hungarian army in October 1918, he attended the private art school of the Hungarian Fauve artist Róbert Berény. He was a supporter of the Communist Dictatorship (known as "Red Terror" and also "Hungarian Soviet Republic"), declared early in 1919, though he assumed no official role in it. After the defeat of the Communist Regime in August, he withdrew to Szeged. An exhibition of his work was held there, before he left for Vienna around November 1919 and for Berlin early in 1920.
In 1923, Moholy-Nagy replaced Johannes Itten as the instructor of the foundation course at the Bauhaus. This effectively marked the end of the school's expressionistic leanings and moved it closer towards its original aims as a school of design and industrial integration.The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists, and Moholy-Nagy was no exception. Throughout his career, he became proficient and innovative in the fields of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, and industrial design. One of his main focuses was photography. He coined the term "the New Vision" for his belief that photography could create a whole new way of seeing the outside world that the human eye could not. His theory of art and teaching is summed up in the book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture. He experimented with the photographic process of exposing light sensitive paper with objects overlain on top of it, called photogram. While studying at the Bauhaus, Moholy's teaching in diverse media — including painting, sculpture, photography, photomontage and metal — had a profound influence on a number of his students, including Marianne Brandt.
Perhaps his most enduring achievement is the construction of the "Lichtrequisit einer elektrischen Buehne" [Light Prop for an Electric Stage] (completed 1930), a device with moving parts meant to have light projected through it in order to create mobile light reflections and shadows on nearby surfaces. Made with the help of the Hungarian architect Istvan Seboek for the German Werkbund exhibition held in Paris during the summer of 1930, it is often interpreted as a kinetic sculpture. After his death, it was dubbed the "Light-Space Modulator" and was seen as a pioneer achievement of kinetic sculpture. It might more accurately be seen as one of the earliest examples of Light Art. Moholy-Nagy was photography editor of the Dutch avant-garde magazine International Revue i 10 from 1927 to 1929. He resigned from the Bauhaus early in 1928 and worked free-lance as a highly sought-after designer in Berlin. He designed stage sets for successful and controversial operatic and theatrical productions, designed exhibitions and books, created ad campaigns, wrote articles and made films. His studio employed artists and designers such as Istvan Seboek, Gyorgy Kepes and Andor Weininger. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, and, as a foreign citizen, he was no longer allowed to work, he operated for a time in Holland (doing mostly commercial work) before moving to London in 1935.
In England, Moholy-Nagy formed part of the circle of immigrant artists and intellectuals who based themselves in Hampstead. Moholy-Nagy lived for a time in the Isokon building with Walter Gropius for eight months and then settled in Golders Green. Gropius and Moholy-Nagy planned to establish an English version of the Bauhaus but could not secure backing, and then Moholy-Nagy was turned down for a teaching job at the Royal College of Art. Moholy-Nagy made his way in London by taking on various design jobs including Imperial Airways and a shop display for men's underwear. He photographed contemporary architecture for the Architectural Review where the assistant editor was John Betjeman who commissioned Moholy-Nagy to make documentary photographs to illustrate his book An Oxford University Chest. In 1936, he was commissioned by fellow Hungarian film producer Alexander Korda to design special effects for Things to Come. Working at Denham Studios, Moholy-Nagy created kinetic sculptures and abstract light effects, but they were rejected by the film's director. At the invitation of Leslie Martin, he gave a lecture to the architecture school of Hull University.
In 1937, at the invitation of Walter Paepcke, the Chairman of the Container Corporation of America, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus. The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original, and its headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect Richard Morris Hunt designed for department store magnate Marshall Field. Unfortunately, the school lost the financial backing of its supporters after only a single academic year, and it closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy was also the Art Advisor for the mail-order house of Spiegel in Chicago. Paepcke, however, continued his own support, and in 1939, Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design. In 1944, this became the Institute of Design. In 1949 the Institute of Design became a part of Illinois Institute of Technology and became the first institution in the United States to offer a PhD in design. Moholy-Nagy authored an account of his efforts to develop the curriculum of the School of Design in his book Vision in Motion.
Moholy-Nagy died of leukemia in Chicago in 1946. Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest is named in his honour. Works by him are currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The software company Laszlo Systems (developers of the open source programming language OpenLaszlo) was named in part in honor of Moholy-Nagy. In 1998, he received a Tribute Marker from the City of Chicago. In the autumn of 2003, the Moholy-Nagy Foundation, Inc. was established as a source of information about Moholy-Nagy's life and works.
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• Dakota Wesleyan baseball doubleheader vs. Dordt College, 5 p.m. at Cadwell Park.
• Dakota Wesleyan men's golf at Mount Marty College in Yankton.
• Area track and field: McCook Central/Montrose at the West Central Invitational in Hartford; Kimball/White Lake, Wessington Springs, Burke/South Central, Gregory, Colome at Kimball/White Lake Invitational in Kimball; Howard, Marion, Menno, Freeman, Bridgewater-Emery, Tripp-Delmont/Armour at Flyer Invite in Freeman.
• Area girls' golf: Mount Vernon/Plankinton, Lyman at Miller Invite.
• Area high school baseball: Dakota Valley at Bon Homme/Scotland, 5:30 p.m.; Chamberlain/Kimball/Lyman hosts Todd County, 5:30 p.m.; Platte-Geddes/Dakota Christian/White Lake vs. Winner/Colome, 5:30 p.m. in Platte.