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Swedish Outsiders – How do you listen to music?
Last weekend, the ICA had a very narrow Swedish music festival featuring some unknown music to me, but the fans were present, and the event called Swedish Outsiders was sold out. I'd personally call it art rather than music, which in my definition has to provide me with some rhythm or melody, something I can hang on to for a little while, memorize and sing or hum back to myself. Swedish Outsiders made me think a lot about how we listen to music, and since I have had a love for radio and sound since a kid, it reminded me of the pleasure you can get by listening to sounds, especially the ones that you don't notice and yet they contribute to that wholeness of the piece of melody you end up liking.
At the same time I started thinking of what people put themselves through in the name of art, both creators and the listeners or viewers. This was a very experimental festival where you got to experience sounds and films during the course of two days. I was amazed to see there is an audience which craves these uninhibited noise compositions, which could have been made by just anyone. Obviously, you need to be very talented to play the drums like Roger Turner and the saxophone like Mats Gustafsson. It looks as if sounds just happen, but without talent and knowledge you can't make the saxophone moan and sound like anything but the saxophone. Was it an elephant, honking horns, traffic, screams, stress, pain and all other abstract things you can possibly think of.
Even though a few people did walk out half way through some of the sound displays, it was not as bad as that time I saw Greek clarinet player Vassilis Saleas at the Barbican when most of the people walked out, as they had expected traditional clarinet music from Greece and not a keyboard loaded set creating space noises behind the clarinet.
The Swedish Outsiders was different, this is why I call it art and not so much music, even though there was one band which performed the more conventional type of music, the trio Tape. The people next to me referred to them as boring, but I found their music quite soothing and relaxing and I could just hear how the people surrounding me where exhaling as if they were in a yoga or pilates class. Tape made us exhale, breathe and rest our minds with their subtle careful compositions. Maybe this is boring, as we expect action and happenings all the time.
A few of the other musical and sound creators were Folke Rabe. His three pieces were different, one he called a remix where he mixed sounds from a commercial radio show in New York from the 60s, where you can hear the presenter's voice, news and weather forecasts, snippets of the song Ferry Cross the Mercy and Petula Clark's Down Town! To hear this in darkness and stillness, is like listening to the radio in the dark, on your own, when no one else is around and all you do is close your eyes and listen. Have you ever done that?
Listen and what do you hear? Everything, how the dial moves between the channels and how it surfs through the radiowaves. Rabe's second piece was more disturbing, as it depicted how disasters creep up on us. Sometimes we don't see them coming and this he illustrated by letting the audience sit in darkness and listen to sounds that sometimes were resembling those of a war plane from WW2, or a sinking boat, a rainstorm, a truck driving past or the crackling sound of wood making you think that the buidling you're in will fall upon you and bury you underneath.
So far all good, the disasters were creations of our imaginations, but the most painful bit was to listen to 25 minutes of 6 notes only being played in such a manner that you didn't notice they were changing. To me that was hard, 25 minutes was way too long. I think people applauded themselves for having survived the ordeal, or just applauding because it was finally over, and finally over because to listen to this monotonous sound is not something we are used to, it makes us feel discomfort, especially when the sound is there to make you worried or scared like a Hitchcock movie.
Ok I am exaggerating a little bit. Trying to distinguish sounds from one another is like trying to distinguish which organs are being used for a song we like to listen to. In the end it is sounds, and when focussed and listened to in darkness, your imagination gets very creative. Especially so if there are to abstract sounds and you cannot associate them with natural rhythms that you're already used to.
Thank you Swedish Embassy in London and no.signal for organising this sound and cultural experience.
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The Berlin Wall divided Germany's present-day capital for 28 years. Today, you need a helping hand to explore the history of the former border installations and to find what remains of them. One of the best ways is by bike.
Travelling along the Berlin Wall Trail, the traces of Cold War tensions are never too far away. Much of the trail runs on border patrol paths in the west (Zollwege) and their equivalents in the east (Kolonnenwege). You cycle through the city centre, past the museums, memorial sites and the last remaining watchtowers, and along the old border outside the city. This mix of nature and dramatic history means the Berlin Wall Trail offers the best of both worlds. It is a themed city tour and scenic route rolled into one.
Terrain: signposted from beginning to end and largely traffic-free beyond the city limits. The cycle paths are mostly flat and asphalt; some sections are surfaced with crushed brick/stone or concrete.
Scenery: city sights and sounds in the Berlin metropolitan area, followed by quieter, scenic stretches in leafy surroundings or by the water. Numerous sections where fragments of the wall remain or its history can be traced.
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A grand finish
The Bisons finally ended their losing streak tonight at Coca-Cola field defeating the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs 7-6 with the help of a walk-off grand slam from center fielder Fernando Martinez.
Martinez put an end to the Bisons longest losing streak of the season when he took a 1-2 offering from Iron Pigs pitcher Scott Mathieson deep to right and into the parking lot to give the Bisons a much needed victory.
The walk-off grand slam was only the second in the history of Coca-Cola Field. The only other occurrence was when Marcos Scutaro hit one against Syracuse on August 2, 1999 to give the Herd a 7-3 win.
When the Iron Pigs scored early the Bisons were forced to play catch-up. Right fielder John Mayberry Jr. scored after first baseman Andy Tracy hit a double to left field to give Lehigh Valley an early advantage.
After the Bisons tied the game in the fourth behind a double from catcher Josh Thole, the Iron Pigs surged ahead again in the sixth inning. Second baseman Melvin Dorta hit a two RBI double to center to give Lehigh Valley a 4-2 advantage.
It did not take long for the Bisons to respond however as Thole hit a solo home run to pull the Herd to within one run.
For the day Thole had one of his most productive seasons at the plate, going 3-3 with two doubles along with his solo shot.
The Iron Pigs would add what they thought to be two more insurance runs in the eighth inning when third baseman Cody Ransom hit a two-run blast to left field, his 15th home run of the season.
The Bisons had a chance to chip away at the three run lead in the bottom half of the eighth. Newly acquired left fielder Lucas Duda reached base on a fielders choice. Following Duda, Thole and short stop Andy Green drew walks to load the bases for J.R House. House who was pinch hitting watched the third strike go by as the Iron Pigs avoided the threat without any damage being done.
The following inning the Herd would again load the bases, giving them one more shot to end the losing streak. Right fielder Russ Adams started the rally when he led off the inning with a walk. Second baseman Justin Turner followed him and while Turner got out, his at-bat was crucial in what transpired after.
Turner's at-bat consisted of 12 pitches. Turner fouled off seven pitches in his plate apperance before finally flying out to center field. While Turner was unable to get on base, his at-bat wore down Mathieson.
Following Turner was first baseman Mike Jacobs and third baseman Mike Cervenak who both singled to load the bases for the second consecutive inning.
Martinez followed Turner's suit by fouling off the first four pitches and letting a ball go by before he won the game with his deep shot to right field.
Because of the extended at-bats, Mathieson was forced to throw 36 pitches in only two thirds of an inning. The Herd was able to overwork the reliever and it finally paid off when Martinez took the 36th pitch over Heron's Landing to end the Herd's losing skid and etch his name into the Bisons history books.
The win now puts the Herd at 34-31 and the loss drops Lehigh Valley to 25-39.
BISONS NOTES: With his two doubles, Thole surpassed third baseman Mike Hessman for the team lead in doubles. Thole now has 18 on the season. The Bisons will end their four game series with the Iron Pigs tomorrow when right hander Dylan Owen (2-2, 6.11 ERA) takes on Lehigh Valley's left hander Joe Savey (1-6, 4.88 ERA) tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m.


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The Archives of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library houses a collection of professional papers, research notebooks, and personal manuscripts of renowned, early 20th- century French physiologist Louis Lapicque.
Born August 1, 1866, Louis Lapicque was a pioneer in the field of neural excitability. One of his main contributions was to propose the integrate-and-fire model of the neuron in an article published in 1907. This model is still one of the most popular models in computational neuroscience for both cellular and neural networks studies and in mathematical neuroscience. The Lapicque concepts of excitability and nerve transmission form a part of the basic framework of modern neurophysiology.
Louis Lapicque completed his doctorate at the Paris Medical School. He married Marcelle de Heredia, one his notable students, on May 14, 1902. Their only son, Charles Lapicque, was born Oct. 6, 1898, before their marriage. Marcelle completed her doctoral studies under Lapicque in 1903, concentrating on the nerve impulse. Charles trained as an engineer but later gave up engineering in 1940 to become a painter.
Lapicque and his wife worked closely together for nearly fifty years in the Sorbonne Laboratoire de Physiologie, publishing over 80 articles. They devoted their life work to the study of what they termed the chronaxie of the nerve – the nerve response over time under various physiological conditions. Louis held a professorship at the Museum d'Historie Naturelle and then at the Sorbonne. From the 1910's to the late 1930's, he was seen as the most important French physiologist of the time. Marcelle assisted him and was eventually named associate director of the laboratory.
La Sorbonne, 1893
Professor and Madame Lapicque attracted and trained a host of pupils from France and many other countries, such as the United States and Japan. They were excellent hosts and well-loved and respected by their pupils. Together they brought physiology in France to world recognition. Lapicque's interests were broad, but in later years he concentrated principally upon problems of excitation. He was also interested in history and published many articles about his deceased colleagues.
Louis Lapicque was an ardent yachtsman and an accomplished navigator. He and Marcelle sailed across the English Channel to attend conferences in their yacht, rightfully named the Axon. His experience later proved beneficial during the occupation of France by Germany during World War II. Lapicque was imprisoned by the Gestapo for helping the resistance. During his three months' incarceration, he authored his final book entitled La Machine Nerveuse, which was published in 1943 and in which he credited his wife with 40 years of collaboration, in addition to her own important individual research.
Louis Lapicque died in Paris on December 6, 1952. Marcelle de Heredia Lapicque took over the directorship of the Sorbonne Laboratoire de Physiologie until her death in 1962.
Held in the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library's Archives, the Louis Lapicque Papers contain original handwritten lab books, journals of travel, a ship log for Lapicque's yacht, manuscripts for papers, journal reprints, bibliographies of the research work of Lapicque and Alexandre Marcel Monnier, obituaries and biographical articles written by Lapicque and Monnier, and correspondence with both Lapicque and Monnier. For a detailed description of this collection, see the Guide to the Louis Lapicque Papers.
Data and Graph from Lab Notebook: Experiences du Bresil, 1927
The P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library's Special Collections owns a copy of Notice Sur les Titres et Travaux Scientifiques de M. Louis Lapicque. This volume published in Paris includes the original 1908 edition, as well as the two subsequent supplements from 1919 and 1928, all bound together. Its bibliographic listings reveal Lapicque's extensive and wide-ranging scientific interests.
To obtain more information or to access this collection in the Archives, contact Mellisa DeThorne, Special Collections Assistant, at 210-567-2470 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
"Lapicque, Marcelle (de Heredia) (1873-ca. 1962)." The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, edited by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie and Joy Harvey. New York: Routledge, 2000, Vol. 2: L-Z, pp. 745-746.
"Louis and Marcelle Lapicque." For Better or For Worse? Collaborative Couples in the Sciences, edited by Annette Lykkness, et. al. New York: Springer Basel, 2012, pp 66-67.
"Louis Lapicque, 1866-1952." J Neurophysiolog 16:97-100, 1953.
Illustration of La Sorbonne, 1893 is available under Licence Ouverte courtesy of La BIU Santé.
Photograph of Louis Lapicque courtesy of académie Nancy-Metz.
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Aluminum and dementia: Is there a link?
Risk factors are aspects of people, their lifestyle and environment that contribute to the likelihood of getting a disease. While there are some risk factors that you can control, such as changing your diet to help lower your blood pressure, there are other factors that are beyond your control like your age or genes.
Studies have not provided strong evidence of aluminum being a risk factor for the development of dementia.
What is aluminum?
We usually think of aluminum as a light silvery metal used to make pots and pans, airplanes or tools, but it also has a non-metallic form. This form of aluminum makes up eight per cent of the earth's surface. Aluminum in small amounts is referred to as "trace elements," and are found in our environment and in our bodies. These amounts are "normal" and are not harmful.
Where is aluminum found?
In the environment
Because these trace elements are present in the earth, they occur naturally in the foods we eat, in our drinking water and are even added to the water treatment process in some municipalities. Trace elements of aluminum may also be found in:
- Many processed foods
- Cosmetics and personal hygiene products, such as deodorants and nasal sprays
- Some drugs in order to make them more effective or less irritating
- The air we breathe from dry soil, cigarette smoke, pesticide sprays and aluminum-based paint.
In our bodies
Aluminum is present in the body, but its role is not fully understood. Very little of the aluminum taken in by a healthy individual is actually absorbed; most of it is flushed out by the kidneys.
Is there a connection between aluminum and the development of dementia?
Aluminum has been studied for over 40 years as a substance that might be linked to dementia. However, there have been many conflicting findings.
- Some studies show increased levels of trace elements of aluminum in the brains of people with dementia, while others do not.
- Studies have not found an increased incidence of dementia in people with occupational exposure to aluminum.
- Tea is one of the few plants whose leaves accumulate larger trace element amounts of aluminum that can seep into the brewed beverage. However, there is no evidence that dementia is more prevalent in cultures that typically drink large amounts of tea.
- Unfortunately, earlier animal studies focused on one animal that is particularly susceptible to aluminum poisoning, which has led to incorrect conclusions about the general effects of aluminum on the body.
What about pots and pans?
It would be difficult to significantly reduce exposure to aluminum simply by avoiding the use of aluminum cookware, foil, beverage cans and other products. Use of aluminum in pots and pans only contributes to a very small percentage of the average person's intake of aluminum.
In summary
Current research provides no convincing evidence that exposure to trace elements of aluminum is connected to the development of dementia.


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Yahoo 14-team 5x5 standard H2h
I waited on a C in my draft yesterday. For whatever reason, a 4 guys decided to draft backup C's before I even got my 1st (lol?). So I ended up taking Saltamacchia as the 19th C on the board. Still available were Martin, Hundley, Iannetta, Flowers, Jaso, and Ellis. Stick with the Salty one?
Note: Carlos Ruiz is also sitting out there but with shallow benches I want to wait 2-3 weeks before I stash him. There's also the strong possibility one of the idiots with a backup C with drop him for someone else in week one, so I might end up with Lucroy, Avila, or Pierzynski anyway.
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I like Flowers slightly more so I might take a flyer on him. I tend to always wait on catcher and will stream them like crazy throughout the year. I will constantly check out the WW to see if one catcher is hot over his past 10 days or something and put him in until something better comes along.
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I kinda like Flowers too. I agree with shallow benches Chooch is not a guy you need to hop for right now. If Lucroy becomes available in a 14-teamer then L.I.B...
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Disgraced No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson has been jailed for 18 months today for plotting to hack phones while he editor of the News of the World.
The 46-year-old father of three was found guilty last week of conspiring to intercept voicemails at the now-defunct Sunday tabloid following an eight-month trial at the Old Bailey.
Coulson, from Charing, in Kent, was joined in the dock by three former colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire who all admitted their part in hacking before the trial started last year.
Speaking before he sentenced the former journalist, the judge said: "Mr Coulson has to take the major shame for the blame of phone hacking at the NotW. He knew about it, he encouraged it when he should have stopped it."
The judge said Coulson clearly thought it was necessary to use phone hacking to maintain the newspaper's "competitive edge".
And he said the delay in the News of the World telling police about the Milly Dowler voicemail in 2002 showed the motivation was to "take credit for finding her" and sell the maximum number of newspapers.
Following his conviction, David Cameron issued a grovelling apology for hiring Coulson after the former News of the World editor was convicted of phone hacking.
The PM was accused of allowing a criminal into the corridors of power by stubbornly ignoring repeated warnings about the conduct of the journalist – who faces up to two years in jail.
And he faced a further grilling over how disgraced Coulson slipped through the normally stringent vetting procedure for staff at No10 to land a plum job at the heart of government.
Chancellor George Osborne also came under fire for his role in recruiting the Tory press chief in 2007 shortly after his resignation from the News of the World.
Mr Cameron spoke after close friends Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie were cleared of all phone hacking charges, along with three other former News International colleagues.
The grim-faced PM said: "I take full responsibility for employing Andy Coulson. I did so on the basis of undertakings I was given by him about phone hacking and those turn out not to be the case.
"I always said that if they turned out to be wrong, I would make a full and frank apology and I do that today. I'm extremely sorry that I employed him. It was the wrong decision."
But Labour leader Ed Miliband accused Mr Cameron of employing Coulson in a bid to cosy up to News International boss Rupert Murdoch.


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More on Chris Bianco Step-back Situation in 'Arizona Republic'
The paper of record for the Grand Canyon State has some more details on Chris Bianco's distancing himself from the pizza-building at Pizzeria Bianco. The paper talked to Ed Levine here for commentary:
"For me, one of the most profound experiences I had eating anything was to see him, in the moment, living and dying with every pie."
Levine, a longtime friend, said he and Bianco talked about the situation a few days ago. He said Bianco's hands-on absence will not affect quality.
"He always talks about the connection he feels between him and his pizza, and him and his customers, and that won't change," Levine said.
The Arizona Republic also notes that Chris Bianco has long farmed out the dough-making duties to his brother, Marco, and that, for now, oven duties are being handled by longtime assistant Horacio Hernandez.
I'll have to note that when I visited in late October 2009, Hernandez was doing all the stickwork with the pizza peels. Chris Bianco's role was pie-building and quality control. So just given that single night I visited, the one thing that would be different in this new world order is that someone else would be building the pies.
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New Run Activity Pages
Please leave us your comments and feedback for the new Run Activity pages here.
Great news, runners: your new run activity page on Strava.com is now live. We spoke to tons of you about what is important when viewing your activities and those of others, and have incorporated your needs and experiences as runners into this new page.
Some of the new features:
- Social Bar: We added a social bar to the top of the page, putting your activity title, description, comments, kudos, Instagram photos, and other athletes on your run front and center.
- Sharing Module: Easily share your run to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, email, or embed in your blog from the sharing module located at the top, left-hand corner of the page.
- Key Stats: Distance, time, average pace and elevation are located between the Social Bar and Elevation & Performance Chart. Your mile/km splits from your run are located on the right-hand side of your activity map.
- Top Results: Get a snapshot of your achievements for the run, including any goals you have accomplished, PRs for best efforts, and segment achievements.
- Elevation & Performance Chart: We've vastly improved the visual interaction for reviewing and scrubbing all your activity details. Use the cursor to look at your pace, elevation, grade adjusted pace and grade at any point during your run.
- Premium Analysis: We've rolled out changes to the Pace analysis and distribution, including the new analysis specific to a race. Now you can designate a run activity as a "Race" and get interactive and granular data such as race splits and projected finish times.
- Segment Efforts, Stats & Comparison: We've optimized the Segment Efforts within your activity so you can quickly scan your most meaningful achievements. We display key stats of your effort along with your leaderboard ranking. And when you're looking at another athlete's segment effort, you'll be able to compare your PR against theirs.
Some of the changes: There are aspects of the run activity pages that are not currently available, with some of these aspects scheduled to return, redesigned, at a later date:
- Viewing the Performance Chart with 'time' as the x-axis: The new performance chart is set with 'distance' as the x-axis, and we plan to re-add the option to switch to 'time' in the near future (coming soon).
- Lap data from a Garmin device: Will now be visible underneath the Segments view in the left sidebar for Free and Premium users.
- Segment Comparison: The ability to compare your segment effort with your PR and/or the CR for the segment has been removed, and will return after a redesign incorporating the features from http://raceshape.com/.
- Run "Score": The run intensity score that appeared previously under the Analysis tab is no longer available, but will return when the calculation is more accurate.
- GAP for mile splits: We're currently working on our algorithm for GAP. Once the algorithm is improved, GAP split data will be displayed on our new Premium Pace & Race Analysis pages.
- Best Efforts: The technology available used to generate Best Efforts was not up to our high standard of accuracy. Due to this, we will continue to display any PRs you receive for the next few weeks, but then we will turn off Best Efforts in its current form. Over the next few months, we'll continue to explore innovative and relevant ways to bring this feature back to all users once it has reached our high standards of accuracy. We apologize for this change.
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Lady Gaga is again gracing the cover of "Harper's Bazaar." She's just doing it without face implants—or even makeup--this time.
For the magazine's October issue, the daring diva appears on the cover and subsequent spread without any of her usual theatrics and wild looks.
"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside," Gaga told "Bazaar." (Though, on a technicality, Laura Brown writes that the photos taken by fashion duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin were "basically barefaced.")
Gaga goes on to talk of her experience with fans and their expectations of her. "I think what has been lovely about my relationship with the public is that they expect something unexpected from me."
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If the unexpected is what Little Monsters have come to expect, there is no doubt they're happy. In the past few months, the "Yoü and I" singer has been a veritable chameleon, switching from platinum to sherbet-colored coifs and even genders.
At the MTV Video Music Awards, for instance, Gaga spent the evening as her male alter-ego Jo Calderone.
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The following article is from the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), marking the 100th birthday of Enver Hoxha, 1 year ago:
Celebrating the 100th birthday of Enver Hoxha:
Architect of socialist Albania, anti-revisionist fighter, and one of the great Marxist-Leninist heroes of the 20th century
Born in Gjirokastër, southern Albania, on 16 October 1908, Enver Hoxha was involved in politics from a young age – at just 16, he became secretary of the Students Society of Gjirokastër, an anti-monarchist movement. A highly capable student, he won a scholarship to further his studies in France, where he spent the early 1930s. There he found an active communist movement, and started to immerse himself in communist activity and Marxist literature, reading such works as Marx's Capital and Engels' Anti-Dühring.
Hoxha returned to Albania in 1936, becoming a school teacher. He was dismissed from his post when, following the Italian invasion of 1939, he refused to join the Albanian Fascist Party. Driven underground, he became actively involved in the communist movement, and, at the founding conference of the Communist Party of Albania (later renamed the Albanian Party of Labour) on 8 November 1941, he was chosen as a Central Committee member.
In the remaining years of the second world war, Hoxha emerged as a most able and inspiring party member, working tirelessly all over the country. He played a crucial role in organising the armed struggle of the united front against fascism, leading the Army of National Liberation. He was also the main inspirer of the new forms of underground popular power that were emerging – the National Councils of Liberation. In March 1943, Hoxha was named First Secretary of the Communist Party.
After the partisans forced the withdrawal of German troops in November 1944, Enver Hoxha became head of government of Albania. In March 1946, the Constituent Assembly proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of Albania, and nominated Hoxha as its prime minister.


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Westside Church (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
At the 2006 convention of the British Columbia (BC) Conference of Mennonite Brethren (MB) Churches, delegates accepted Westside Church, planted under the auspices of Ignite Vancouver, a church planting initiative of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. The church, led by Norm Funk, began holding services on 25 September 2005, meeting in the Fifth Avenue Cinemas in the Kitsilano area of Vancouver. In 2008 the church had 100 members and an average Sunday attendance of 400. By 2010 membership had grown to 275 with an average attendance of 585. By this time the church had participated in the planting of Reality Vancouver.
After several years the church relocated to the Granville Island Stage on Granville Island in Vancouver and in April 2012 Westside established the Westside Northshore campus in North Vancouver. At that time three Sunday morning services were being held at the Granville Island site, with an average weekly attendance of 900.
Mennonite Brethren Herald (25 November 2005). Web. 11 November 2009. http://www.mbherald.com/44/16/news-4.en.html.
Todd, Douglas. "'Casual' Vancouver Church Delivers Strict Christian Theology." Vancouver Sun (23 April 2012): A7.
Additional Information
Mailing address: 210 - 1909 West Broadway, Vancouver BC V6J 1Z3
Location: The Granville Island Stage, 1585 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC
Phone: 604-263-2314
Website: Westside Church
Denominational Affiliations:
British Columbia Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (2006-present)
Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (2006-present)
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Pentagon: Army Selects New Camouflage for Afghanistan
News in Balance:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2010 -- The following news release made available Friday by the U.S. Department of Defense is the text of a statement announcing the U.S. Army's selection of new camouflage combat uniforms for Afghanistan:
The secretary of the Army announced today that the Army will provide combat uniforms in the MultiCam pattern to all soldiers deploying to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, starting this summer.(Report from a U.S. Defense Department news release.)
This decision follows a rigorous four-month evaluation and reflects the Army's commitment to giving soldiers in Afghanistan the most effective concealment possible.
Soldiers deploying to Afghanistan this summer will receive fire resistant Army combat uniforms in MultiCam, along with associated equipment including body armor, rucksacks, and helmet covers.
The Army's selection of MultiCam for soldiers in Afghanistan culminates phase III of a four-phase plan to thoroughly and deliberately evaluate camouflage alternatives.
The Army took action in fall 2009 to provide two battalion-size elements in Afghanistan with uniforms and associated gear in patterns other than the standard-issue universal camouflage pattern (UCP). One unit received uniforms and gear in MultiCam, and the other in a variant of UCP known as UCP - Delta.
In addition, the Army deployed a team of experts to Afghanistan in October to gather extensive data and photos on the diverse environments of Afghanistan, where soldiers often travel through multiple environments in a single mission, from snow to woodland to desert.
The Army incorporated the information gathered into a photo simulation study it then administered to nearly 750 soldiers who had deployed to Afghanistan. The study asked them to compare six patterns against eight different environments. The results, along with surveys of soldiers in the two battalions who received alternate camouflage, formed the basis for the Army's decision on MultiCam.
The Army will now implement phase IV of its plan for camouflage, which is to evaluate long-term Army combat uniform camouflage options for all soldiers.
Camouflage alternatives represent one facet of the Army's ongoing efforts to improve the Army combat uniform. The Army has made more than 26 improvements to the ACU since it was first fielded in June 2004.
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DiNapoli: Signs of fiscal recovery emerge
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says he sees a flicker of light at the end of a long tunnel for local governments struggling with higher payments for employee pensions.
Tax revenue makes up whatever funding needed for the system that does not flow from investment returns. So when the system's holdings plunged a whopping 26 percent in the state's 2008-09 fiscal year, municipal budgets had to start making up the loss.
But the most recent state fiscal year ended Sunday on an up note for equities -- which make up more than half of the pension fund portfolio. Local governments pay into the retirement system based on investment returns from the previous five years. The previous three years came in with returns of 24, 14 and 6 percent, officials said. The latest year, still to be audited, looks strong.
The five-year calculations to be issued in the fall will be the last to include the 2008-09 crash -- after which local-government payments could begin to wane.
"We certainly said all along with regard to the pension fund that it would take us five years to work through the losses of 2008 and 2009 when the market tanked," DiNapoli said Friday. "We don't have audited numbers yet . . . but with markets at a pre-2000-level high and a great deal of the portfolio still in public equities, it appears to be a good year in terms of positive results."
Politically, this uptick could curb the perceived urgency of some advocates' demands that defined-benefit pensions give way to 401(k)-style plans. For his part, DiNapoli, sole trustee of what's officially called the Common Retirement Fund, said that while his office always viewed the spike in contributions from governments as temporary, rates "are not going to drop overnight."
Markets would need to stay strong. DiNapoli, a Democrat, faces re-election next year, as do Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
GRIM WARNINGS: With nine months to go as New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg has made it a bit of a habit to say citizens will die if he isn't heeded on legislation. His national push for expanded background checks for gun buyers is but one example. A bill he opposes for a new NYPD monitor "will put the lives of New Yorkers and our police officers at risk," he asserted. When a court voided his big-soda ban, Bloomberg warned that "people are dying every day" from obesity. And when his proposal for speed-tracking cameras failed in Albany, he suggested calls to state lawmakers after future accidents to ask why they allowed children to be killed.


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Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially entered the race for the U.S. presidency on Sunday afternoon, casting his candidacy in historic terms and declaring it was time for a new era in the country, one in which he and Americans work with optimism and hope to meet the country's challenges.
SOUTH BEND — Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially entered the race for the U.S. presidency on Sunday afternoon, casting his candidacy in historic terms and declaring it was time for a new era in the country, one in which he and Americans work with optimism and hope to meet the country's challenges.
"Are you ready to turn the page and start a new chapter in the American story?" he asked supporters crammed in Studebaker Building 84, a former auto assembly plant in downtown South Bend.
He told the crowd to embrace "the era that began here today, in this building where past, present and future meet, right here on this chilly day in South Bend."
Buttigieg, who now joins a crowded field of Democrats, took aim at President Trump a few times, saying the country could not look back and should not fear change and that he wanted "to tell a story other than Make America Great Again." He referenced the "horror show in Washington" and pledged to "change the channel."
"I believe in the greatness of America. I believe in American values," Buttigieg said. "And I believe we can guide this country and one another to a better place."
Buttigieg acknowledged the "audacity" of a 37-year-old man from a mid-sized city running for the nation's highest office. But his announcement came as his national profile has exploded in recent weeks and on the heels of a big first quarter. The once seemingly long-shot candidate in a crowded field of Democratic presidential contenders has raised more than $7 million and has surged in some polls in early primary states.
Buttigieg spoke to more than 4,000 people packed on the first floor of the Studebaker building, part of a complex that is being renovated into modern office space.
Buttigieg repeated the themes around which he has built his campaign — primarily the idea that he has revitalized a once-struggling Rust Belt city that faced "economic disaster" when the Studebaker facility shut down in 1963.
"This city's story is such a big part of why I'm doing this," he told the crowd. Shortly after, he added, "Now, I can confidently say: South Bend is back," a statement that was met with a roar from the audience.
He also recapped his key principles: freedom (the freedom that comes with good health care, consumer protection and racial justice) security (secure elections, cyber security, security from climate change) and democracy (protecting voting rights, ensuring fair voter registration and abolishing the electoral college.)
Buttigieg spoke at times about his personal life, pointing to the nation's evolution on gay marriage and referencing his husband, Chasten. Buttigieg at one point spoke about his mother's heart surgery and how Chasten stayed with her in a hospital room, in a sign of how the country has changed.
"In the eyes of the hospital and the state and the law," Buttigieg said, "he was not just someone I loved, he was my lawfully married spouse."
Buttigieg was preceded by several introductory speakers who worked to fire up the crowd, including three mayors — Nan Whaley of Dayton, Christopher Cabaldon, of West Sacramento, Calif., and Steve Adler of Austin — and Julia Chismar, one of Buttigieg's former teachers at St. Joseph High School in South Bend.
In a sign of the strides Buttigieg has made in attracting attention, Republicans have begun poking at his record. The Republican National Committee released a statement ahead of the announcement calling him a "small-town mayor with no major accomplishments."
Inside Studebaker Building 84, however, the atmosphere was strictly enthusiastic. And the crowd's loudest cheer came a few minutes after Buttigieg took the stage and made the declaration that has been expected for months.
"My name is Pete Buttigieg. They call me Mayor Pete," he said. "I'm a proud son of South Bend, Indiana and I am running for president of the Unites Sates!"
After the applause came a repeated chant of of "Boot-edge-edge" — the pronunciation device his campaign is using for his last name.


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Nigel Farage will decide within hours if he will fight the by-election sparked by disgraced former Tory minister Patrick Mercer's decision to quit over a cash-for-questions scandal.
Mr Mercer admitted he was "ashamed" and had many regrets as he announced his intention to stand down as the MP for Newark after facing a six month ban from parliament.
The battle for the Nottinghamshire seat will come after next month's European Parliament elections in which Conservatives are expected to be forced into a humiliating third place and will be an unwelcome fight for David Cameron.
Although Mr Mercer secured a Conservative majority of 16,152 in 2010, the Prime Minister would come under intense pressure if Mr Farage capitalised on his party's popularity in the vote.
Mr Farage told the BBC: "I know that winning one seat in Westminster would completely transform the landscape for us as a party in terms of our prospects.
"What I've got to work out is, is it the right seat for me. And I just...my reservation in my mind is I haven't particularly got connections with the local area."
Mr Mercer said he believed he had to "fess up and get on with it" after a sleaze watchdog yesterday agreed plans to suspend him from the House of Commons.
The former army colonel is alleged to have tabled Commons questions and offered a Westminster security pass after signing a deal that paid him £4,000 for seeking the readmission of Fiji to the Commonwealth.
He told reporters in Westminster he was going to do what he could to "put it right" for the people of Newark and for his wife and family "who have been under such pressure for the last year".
Mr Mercer added : "As an ex-soldier I believe that when I have got something wrong you have got to fess up and get on with it.
"No point in shilly shallying and trying to avoid it. What's happened has happened and I'm ashamed of it."
Mr Mercer resigned the Tory whip when the allegations emerged in May last year to ''save my party embarrassment'' and said at the time that he would quit the Commons at the 2015 general election.
The decision by the Commons Standards Committee to impose a six month suspension from Parliament prompted him to bring forward the date.
Mr Mercer served as shadow homeland security minister until 2007, stepping down after suggesting that racism was ''part and parcel'' of life in the forces.
Labour sources said the party fights for every seat but pointed out that the Tories were 30 points ahead of them in 2010 and had double their vote in last year's council election .
Newark Conservative Association quashed speculation that Mayor of London Boris Johnson could stand in the seat by announcing that Robert Jenrick had been selected as the Tory candidate.
A Conservative spokesman said: "We agree that Patrick Mercer needs to stand down and that there should be a by-election so the people of Newark can have a new MP."


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With the Olympics just finishing and the Paralympics about to begin, the 2012 London Games are demonstrating once again how sport can be used for humanitarian, development and peacebuilding efforts.
The UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP), with offices in Geneva and New York, has been part of these efforts, working closely with UN system sister organizations, the London Games Organizing Committee, the UK Government and the International Olympic and Paralympic Committees to channel the publicity and excitement of the Games for the promotion of development and peacebuilding initiatives.
In connection with the world event, a number of initiatives are being carried out by UN system organizations, such as the Giving is Winning project by UNHCR, where clothing is collected and sent to refugee camps, UNESCO's presentation of the documentary The War on Doping, UNEP's work on making the Games more sustainable and environmentally-friendly, WHO's contribution to disease prevention and control, and UNICEF's UK active contribution to the London 2012 official legacy programme 'International Inspiration'.
These are great examples of how the UN system can get involved and take advantage of the popularity of the Games. During the upcoming Paralympic Games, more activities are planned, in particular highlighting and fostering issues pertaining to the well-being, empowerment and inclusion of persons living with a disability.
Attending the opening of the Olympics at the end of last month were several UN Officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace Wilfried Lemke, with both also taking part in the traditional Olympic torch run.
They made great efforts to raise awareness to the Olympic Truce Resolution, which was adopted and co-sponsored by all 193 UN Member States for the 2012 Games. This Resolution called for all warring parties to lay down their weapons during the Olympic and Paralympic Games and focus on unity and reconciliation.
The SG also recorded a video message which was played in the stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, highlighting the power of the Olympic Truce. In his words, "one day of peace can lead to a week of peace, a month of peace and eventually an end to war."
"This office is excited to work with UN partners and with the organizers of future mega-sport events such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the football World Cup to make sure these events are catalysts for positive change in the host countries and around the world, ranging from sustainable development to social inclusion and peace," said Mr. Lemke.
The UNOSDP staff works to promote and mobilize sport and physical activity as cost-efficient tools to advance the UN's goals, missions and values throughout the world. This ranges from coordinating collaboration efforts between the UN system, Member States, inter-governmental organizations and other key stakeholders to sharing information with programmes, organizations and the media about best practices.
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Just Because We Acknowledge Viewers Want Control Doesn't Mean We're Going to Give Them Any
Boy, NBC Universal really has those broadcast TV blinders bolted on tight, doesn't it? Just weeks after yanking its programs from Apple's iTunes store, the company announced plans for a download service of its own, one that combines the convenience of the Internet with that mainstay of pre-DVR broadcast television, the unskippable advertisement. The service is called NBC Direct and it will offer free episodes from a selection of the network's more popular shows for display with NBC's proprietary Windows-only software.
"With the creation of this new service, we are acknowledging that now, more than ever, viewers want to be in control of how, when and where they consume their favorite entertainment," said Vivi Zigler, executive vice president of NBC Digital Entertainment.
Ironic then, that commercials will be embedded in the programs and viewers will not be able to skip through them. Even more so that downloaded programs expire within a week of their original on-air date–not a week after they're first downloaded. "Kind of like 'Mission: Impossible,' " NBC Universal Television Group president Jeff Gaspin told the New York Times, "only I don't think there would be any explosion and smoke."


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Jim Mahfood, Ben Templesmith, Camilla D'Errico, Scott Campbell, David Mack, Ray Fawkes, Chris Haley, Rebecca Woods, Pete Woods, & Lar DeSouza appear on March 4th.
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Comic con season kicks off this again this weekend in Seattle, and you can find Ron and Conor at the Emerald City Comicon on March 4-6.
iFanboy has hit Emerald City for the last three years and we've had so much fun that we wouldn't miss it this year! The talent lineup for this show is absurdly good, since so much of the comic community calls the Pacific Northwest home. As always, if you're on the convention floor, walk up, say hi, get to know us!
We're excited, and we hope you're excited too! We'll be shooting lots of video in both places for those of you stuck in the rest of the world, because we can't leave you out!
And if you don't spot us on the floor, come check out the Emerald City Comicon Live Art Event!
When: Friday, March 4th. 9:30pm to 2:00am
Where: Noc Noc, 1516 2nd Avenue. Seattle, WA 98101
What: iFanboy.com, Graphic.ly, and Comic Evolution present the hottest event at this year's Emerald City ComicCon: Live Art at the Noc Noc!
Join a bunch of superstar comic book artists as they paint incredible, original artwork for your amusement as you drink and dance to the fantastic guest DJs. Observe the creation of art in a laid back atmosphere that you would not necessarily get at a crowded convention.
Artists include:
Jim Mahfood, Ben Templesmith, Camilla D'Errico, Scott Campbell, David Mack, Ray Fawkes, Chris Haley, Rebecca Woods, Pete Woods, & Lar DeSouza
Also featuring local Seattle talent:
Stephan Maich, Autumn Baker, Redd Walitzki, & Carl Faulkner
More artists will be announced as the event draws closer.
Dance your cute little behind off to the spinning of DJ Svengali Lad and DJ [Brandon] Jerwa!
Admission is FREE at the door if you say you are there for the live art.
The Noc Noc is a mere couple of blocks from the convention center, so you can continue your geeky excursions well into the night with this event!
All art created will be donated to Emerald City Comicon's Saturday Night art auction, and all proceeds go the Seattle Children's Hospital. Come help support art for a good cause, and watch artists do what they do best in a fantastic environment.
RSVP on Facebook! (Not mandatory but it's nice to know who's coming.)


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Casting for the Robocop remake is moving right along, and hot off the heels of yesterday's news that Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to join director Jose Padilha's redo comes word that Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch) may sign on as the film's female lead. The Killing star Joel Kinnaman is set as the titular star, a cop who—following an incident on duty—is remade as the robot infused supercop. Deadline reports that Cornish has been offered the role of Kinnaman's wife, who thinks she is a widow. Cornish would make yet another swell addition to an increasingly impressive cast, as Gary Oldman is set to play the scientist who is responsible for creating Robocop.
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Electronic Registration of Deer Available
Registration number allows hunters to process deer in the field
Nearly 100,000 hunters will pursue deer in
this fall, and those numbers will peak from now through early December. The archery season is open, and November is the most popular month with bowhunters. The regular firearm season is Nov. 28-Dec. 9. One important regulation hunters should be aware of is deer must be tagged before being moved from the site of the kill. Unless a hunter has an either-sex permit, the head must remain attached to the carcass while in transit to a residence or place of commercial processing or preservation. However, the agency does offer a voluntary option for transporting harvested deer that allows hunters to register their deer through the Internet, using photos taken at the harvest site. Once registered, the hunter may then transport the carcass without the head attached. If Internet access is unavailable at the kill site, the hunter can retain the photographs while in transit and a registration number can be obtained later. To access the electronic deer check-in, go online to the KDWPT website, www.ksoutdoors.com, and click "Hunting/Big Game/Deer/Deer Check-in." Kansas
This is not a telephone registration system and it is not required.
The hunter is walked through the registration process and given the necessary instructions. The registration process requires the hunter to submit two digital photographs — one close-up clearly showing the completed tag attached to the deer and a second showing the entire body of the deer with the head still attached. Once logged on to the KDWPT website, a hunter must submit the photos and enter the KDWPT number from their permit, time and date of the kill and the county where the deer was taken. A confirmation number will be issued by email when the photos and data are successfully received. This confirmation number must be retained during transportation.
Once these steps are completed, the deer head may be removed and the carcass prepared for transportation. The system allows KDWPT staff to see the deer and the hunter's completed tag without the time and expense of maintaining a check station. This flexibility is a benefit to both the hunter and KDWPT.
This option was developed to address two important issues regarding deer carcass transportation. The first concern is about the movement of any material from a deer that may contribute to the transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD). It is believed that spread of CWD could be diminished if certain body parts affected by the disease are not moved from the site where the deer is taken. Because CWD affects the brain and central nervous system, the transportation of a deer head and skeleton from one location to another is considered a likely means for the disease to spread. The new registration system allows a hunter to leave these items at the kill site, minimizing the possibility of spreading CWD.
The second concern is directly related to the first. Many states have adopted strict regulations to prevent the spread of CWD. Typically, these regulations do not allow the transportation of a deer head with brain tissue from a state with confirmed CWD cases. Hunters have been cited in other states and their deer confiscated for not complying with the transportation laws of that state. The new registration system allows a hunter to properly dispose of the head and legally transport the boned meat, as well as the cleaned skull cap and antlers, to the hunter's home.
More information on CWD and transportation laws may be found on the KDWPT website, www.ksoutdoors.com under "Hunting/Big Game/Chronic Wasting Disease."


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In 1990 the Australian ornithologist Ron Johnstone observed a Myzomela on the island of Rote in the Lesser Sundas in Indonesia. In 2009 the birds were observed again by Belgian birders Philippe Verbelen and Veerle Dossche who noticed that the songs they recorded were quite different from other Myzomela populations. The taxon has been described as Rote Myzomela Myzomela irianawidodoae. In the same year Philippe came across Myzomelas on Alor, that also turned out to have quite different vocalisations. These have now been described as Alor Myzomela Myzomela prawiradilagae. For now the recordings are stored on XC under Myzomela kuehni.
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What is xeno-canto?
xeno-canto is a website dedicated to sharing bird sounds from all over the world. Whether you are a research scientist, a birder, or simply curious about a sound that you heard out your kitchen window, we invite you to listen, download, and explore the bird sound recordings in the collection.
But xeno-canto is more than just a collection of recordings. It is also a collaborative project. We invite you to share your own bird recordings, help identify mystery recordings, or share your expertise in the forums. Welcome!
Latest News
Katie Paoloantonio is the 7000th XC recordist!! Awesome. Welcome!!
Congrats and welcome! The XC's community don't stop growing.
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dear all, please note the below request by Christian Beiwinkel:
"Dear Xeno-Canto contributor/user,
For many years, the XC website has been using several maps that aim to help the users with different tasks, such as locating new recordings or browsing the recordings by location. Currently, a Master's thesis project is underway that aims to redesign the maps on XC, and possibly add new functionality to them as well.
Therefore, one important aspect of the project is to receive feedback from you, the user, in order to improve the maps according to user needs and wishes. For this, I have prepared a questionnaire for the users of XC about their use of and opinions about the maps on the website. No prior knowledge about maps is required, as all important concepts are briefly explained in the questionnaire. Filling out this questionnaire should take about 15 minutes. Please consider filling out this questionnaire, as every response is a valuable contribution to the future of maps on XC.
Link to the questionnaire (in English)
Enlace al cuestionario (en Español)
The questionnaire will remain online until the 7th of October. Thank you for your participation.
Christian Beiwinkel, Msc student Geographical Information Management & Applications"
It has to be said that the XC maps are very useful and I use them very often. When it comes to looking up (sub)species distribution, they are simply fantastic!
Just add functionality - not the other way. Would be also useful to add possibility to show the locations to all or only the known persons.
hi Jarek, can you try to explain what you mean in another way? Not sure I understand :-)
Youst - do not reduce present functionality, and would be nice to fix this function: "Make a map of all locations of the current selection" in Advanced Search. I will fill up the questionnaire also
ok, great
For the pages for species like Great Tit with many subspecies it would be useful to divide "Other Resources" from subspecies list - in the way than "Other Resources" would not be scrolling - always shown. And subspecies list would be only scrolling. Because most of beginners starting from common species which usually has many subspecies and do not see useful "Other Resources" links
I just answered. I will invite to my other colleagues. Go ahead!
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Marc Anderson adds Red-chested Buttonquail from Australia. Still 5 species from that genus (Turnix) missing. Amazing.
.. more firsts: this week Nick Hart shares Northiella narethae (Naretha Bluebonnet) from Australia and Daniel Mello shares Buteogallus lacernulatus (White-necked Hawk ) from Brazil. Thanks for sharing!
Clanga hastata (Indian Spotted Eagle) another first, shared by Niranjan Sant & Rahul Prabhukhanolkar. Fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
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Dries van de Loock is on a roll. Three species new to XC in the last week or so: White-backed Duck, Katanga Masked Weaver and now Lesser Jacana. All from Zambia. Thanks for sharing Dries!!
hmmm, it's hard to keep up. Four species! Welcome Brown-Eared Woodpecker!
Ha, thanks! Hope to get some more (and better!) recordings of Zambian birds in upcoming months!
We will be looking forward to that Dries. Have fun recording!
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:53 am
Post subject: Off Topic: Anolon Nouvelle Copper Stainless Steel Cookware S
This holiday season (2012), we're running one more giveaway contest! Anolon has generously provided an entire
10-piece set of Anolon Nouvelle Copper Stainless Steel Cookware
for me to give away to a lucky reader. Read on to find out how to enter this contest!
Earlier today, I posted my
review of the 3-quart covered saute pan with helper handle
that I had a chance to use for the last few months. That pan is normally $80 (on sale) to $100 (regular price) by itself. This ten piece set is normally $300 and can be a great value if you need more than one additional pot or pan (for someone just starting out or someone who needs to replace more than one piece of cookware).
This set comes with six pots as well as four lids:
3-quart saute pan with lid
1.25-quart saucepan with lid
2.5-quart saucepan with lid
6.5-quart stockpot with lid
8-inch french skillet
10.5-inch french skillet
The saute pan I
is not one of the ones included in this set, but the 3.5-quart saute pan is very similar with two major differences: it is 1/2 quart larger and does not have the helper loop handle.
This time I'm running the giveaway for two weeks (ending on December 24, 2012) and would appreciate any help in spreading the word!
I'll run the giveaway similarly to the
Thermapen giveaway
from last week but change the comment from "your favorite article on CFE" to "what's your favorite pot and why?". Here are the rules for this contest:
You need to be in the United States to qualify for this giveaway. (Sorry, world! Feel free to participate in the comments if you wish, but leave a note that you aren't entering if you can't or don't want to win.)
Join Cooking For Engineers
(through the forums) and post a comment to this article with what your favorite pot or pan is and why (what do you like about it or what do you like to cook with it). I need you to join so, if you win, I'll have an email address to contact you with to get your mailing info so Anolon / Meyer Corporation can send you the cookware. I won't have contact information for guest/anonymous posts so I can't include your entry unless you are logged in. (If you are an existing member, be sure to
double check your email address on file
to make sure it's accurate.)
On December 24, 2012, I'll post a comment signifying the end of the contest. All entries (where I have contact info) above my comment will be eligible to win. (I don't know what time I'll be making the post, so it's best just to enter early.)
I'll number the participants and generate a random number which will determine the winner and post the winner as well as contact them via email. If there is no response within 72 hours of my email, then I'll probably pick another number and winner (and so on).
It takes a couple weeks for Anolon / Meyer to ship the cookware, so the winner should receive it sometime in January 2013.
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Post subject: My favorite pot
My favorite pot is the 4 gallon stainless steel stock pot I use when brewing beer.
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Post subject: My favorite pot or pan
My very favorite pan? A 10 inch cast iron skillet with an interior bottom that is machined flat. Why? First, it was my mother's skillet, and her mother's before that. So it's a family heirloom and that alone makes it dear to my heart. But skip all that and the reason that this old skillet with a thick and crinkly crust of carbon around the outside that has built up over at lest sixty years of use is because it cooks great! I can sear with it at the highest temps. I can fry an egg in it and have what amounts to non-stick performance. I can saute. I can put in an inch of oil and make the best fried chicken you ever ate.
My old cast iron skillet isn't elegant and it isn't fancy. But it has the history of prior generations dating back to the 1940's and my grandmother coming home from the mill to put it to use to feed her family. And now I use it to feed my family.
It's a great piece of cookware, and if I could have only a single piece of cookware in my kitchen, this would be it.
So that's my favorite. And that's why.
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Post subject: When 'favorite' doesn't equal 'most-used'
I have a form-versus-function dilemma when it comes to my favorite cooking pan. My very old Cousances enamelled cast iron braiser is so beautiful that it's permanently stored right on the stovetop, where I can constantly admire it. But in truth, the pot I reach for virtually every day is a 3-quart stainless steel chef's pan made by Cuisinart. Its balance in my hand is perfect, its shallow bottom and wide top facilitate reduction, and its gently sloped sides are ideal for quick meals of sauteed or stir-fried ingredients. And it cost about 1/10th of what the Cousances beauty queen did.
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Post subject: Favorite cooking Pam
I have a large soup pot from Calphalon. It has thick walls and nice curves with sturdy handles. I love it because when I'm cooking, I can just about stick my whole head in it to get an emmersive smell of the food.
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Post subject: All clad 8 qt soup pot
I love our soup pot; I used it most recently to make massive batches of fudge this weekend. Easy even cooking with lots of volume. Yay for soup pots!
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:28 pm
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My favorite is the stockpot. Either for a simple broth or something more comforting, like pozole.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Post subject: My Favorite: Le Creuset dutch oven
I do love my cast iron pan, but the go-to pot in my kitchen is my round Le Creuset Dutch Oven. It's the 5 1/2 quart size, and perfect for braising, soups, and even browning and sauteeing when I want to stick to a single pot for my dish. It's easy to clean (even if the bottom is stained) and should last for many years to come.
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My favorite has to be our enameled cast iron dutch oven. I most often use it to bake no-knead bread in.
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My roasting pan. I can roast all types of vegetables all year long, chickens, turkey and almost anything else. I use it all the time.
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My current favorite is the 10" Calphalon non-stick pan. Good, versatile pan that can be used for frying just about anything, can be used in the oven, and comes with a glass lid.
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I would be thrilled to win this wonderful set of cookware. 31 years ago my father gave me a set of Revere cookware with copper bottoms. He died from a heart attack a couple of years later. I still use this set of cookware and love it for more reasons than it's wonderful ability to cook evenly. It cleans really well, and is light weight. Also, since selling a house to Michael Chu I've learned through his website many many great recipes that I have shared with all my family members. Kuddos to Michael!
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My favorite would be a giant sauce pot. Growing up I would help Mom make pasta sauce. The trick was conducting a few "taste tests" without being caught
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The Young And The Restless Weekly Blog
Restless Rant
Week of February 11 – 15:
This week of "Y&R" was surprisingly dull at times – with some notable exceptions of course. Hopefully this was the build up for next week to be something spectacular. Abby's return was a highlight – welcome back! Here we go:
We finally learned Nikki's diagnosis – Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Victoria's panic at Nikki being sick was palpable and Jack's comfort and concern was so genuine. This will make Victor feel powerless, which could be a bit of a mess. The question is whether he'll be able to truly support Nikki, keep the peace for her sake, and focus on traveling and doing whatever she wants to do, when he'd rather be indulging himself in scheming and business.
Don't do it.
Paul being Jamie's champion was amazing – he seems to be the only one left who gives a damn about the kid. Summer and Fen seemed to be far more worried about themselves than the fact that Jamie tried to kill himself, in fact, Fen's 'poor me' attitude was worse than ever this week! Instead of making Fen take responsibility for tormenting someone to the brink of suicide, Michael began apologizing for having taken a hard line. Michael should have stood his ground even after he learned Jamie lied, because Paul's sentiments were true – Fen might as well have pushed him – and Fen hasn't learned a thing. When Summer found Fen hitchhiking, he blamed Jamie for ruining his life. Unbelievable! It's disappointing because the cyber-bullying storyline currently seems to be sending the message to stay away from kids like Jamie altogether because they'll just mess up your privileged lives. Hopefully this will change. This week, Kyle and Summer crossed paths – I got a 'big brother' vibe from this interaction, and still feel Kyle's perfect for an older woman – hopefully this wasn't foreshadowing of a pairing. As for Carmine whispering in Lauren's ear and then kissing her – hottest thing I've seen in eons; puddle on the floor! I so prefer this sort of conflict for Lauren and Michael to the doppelganger and Sheila stuff. What did you think about their close encounter? Let Soaps.com by voting in our Y&R Trouble poll.
She's back!
Abby's return was a highlight despite the news that she appeared to have ditched Carmine while on the road, and that she told Jack she wants to tone things down a bit. Hopefully she keeps her promise to Jack not to be totally boring – I'm looking forward to her spicing things up in Genoa City!
Something's not working here – perhaps it's just too transparent what the writers are trying to do with these characters and their interactions, which gives it a scripted feel. When conflicts and/or attractions happen between couples or people who work together organically, viewers are irresistibly drawn in.
Wheeler dealer.
The Wheeler intimidation stuff was a bit of a yawn this week. We don't really believe he's going to best Victor, so what's the point?
Avery and her men.
Avery's being as wishy-washy as ever. She's basically caught between two men who seem a lot alike and with the shock and excitement of Dylan returning from the dead waning, the prospects for this story seem a bit more bleak than they did last week.
Adam and his women.
What is supposed to be going on with Sharon and Adam? Does she want him or not? They can't seem to resist each other - such a steamy kiss on Friday! As for Chelsea, who really hasn't proven to be an overly popular character, becoming pregnant for the third time in a row – file this under 'What are they thinking?'
Just get a room.
Sorry, even characters like Billy, Nikki, and Summer saying that Phyllis and Jack should be together, isn't going to sell it. Jack makes Phyllis boring rather than dynamic, and it's got a very tired recycled feeling to it. This pairing needs to stay firmly in the 'friendzone'.
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When executives at Paul Hemmer Companies, a Fort Mitchell, Ky.-based construction and real estate firm servicing Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee, decided to expand their retail division five years ago, they knew they were in for a challenge. The move, part of an overall growth strategy, was helped by the signing of several contracts with national retailers, including Ace Hardware and Dollar General, but it required the establishment of new contacts in the retail real estate community and the development of expertise in shopping center building and management. Previously, Paul Hemmer concentrated on industrial and office space.
Though the transition was difficult — the new areas of specialization required Paul Hemmer to create separate departments for construction, development, marketing and administrative functions, as opposed to having everyone work on the same projects and it paid off. A few months ago, the Cincinnati Business Courier put the firm on its list of 55 fastest growing privately held companies in the region. In May, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce named it the top Small Business of the Year. And the 2007 ICSC Spring Convention marked the first time Paul Hemmer had a booth on the trade show floor. In the past, the firm's executives were attendees, but not exhibitors.
Hemmer's success shows that even in a world where the top 10 owners of retail real estate command a combined portfolio of more than 1 billion square feet, there is still plenty of room for small operators.
The challenge, though, is that increasingly REITs are expected to encroach upon niche areas where smaller developers have thrived, says Stanley Eichelbaum, president of Marketing Developments, Inc., a Cincinnati, Ohio-based consulting firm.
For now opportunities remain, he says. "We are still in a period of market elasticity and there is a reasonable amount of work out there that smaller firms can participate in," he notes. "But [in the future], the world of opportunity for smaller developers will be more constrained than it has been."
That means smaller firms that would like to succeed in shopping center development will have to pay closer attention to their business strategy. And the bit of wisdom that most old-timers, including Paul Hemmer Companies, offer is this: don't try to be David to the REITs' Goliath. The best thing that a smaller firm can do is take advantage of its size by becoming an expert in one product type, developing strong relationships within the real estate community in its home market and positioning itself as one that can offer retailers a level of local knowledge the nationals won't be able to match.
Building bridges
One of the greatest challenges for smaller developers when they start out is that retailers are reluctant to sign on to a project with someone they don't know, says Thomas W. Sudberry, Jr., president of Sudberry Properties, Inc., a San Diego, Calif.-based development and asset management firm with 1.8 million square feet of retail space in its portfolio. Often, it is difficult to even get a meeting with the person responsible for the retailers' real estate decisions. To gain credibility, smaller firms should surround themselves with consultants who already have a good reputation in the local real estate community, including brokers, architects and site planners.
Volunteering with ICSC is one of the best ways to meet new business contacts, including potential tenants. "Working with the retailers and government officials who are involved with ICSC has opened a lot of doors for us," says Rod Castan, vice president with the Courtelis Co., a Miami, Fla.-based development and asset management firm that owns 2.5 million square feet of shopping center space.
And in the initial stages of building a portfolio, Eichelbaum recommends researching which of the local stores might be ready for expansion and then offering them appropriate sites instead of going after the bigger players from the start.
"It is, of course, unrealistic that a small developer out of Memphis, Tenn. will walk into Home Depot's headquarters in Atlanta and [get a contract]," he notes. "But the local restaurant, the local grocery chain, the local electronics player are the types of retailers that will work with you."
A word of caution though — if you are marketing a site to prospective tenants, make sure to purchase it first. If all you have is an option to buy, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise. "The retailer might wait for your option to build to expire and get a more experienced developer to come in and do the project with them," Sudberry warns. And it's a good idea to line up several interested parties for the site instead of concentrating on just one prospect. That way, a retailer will be more willing to sign with even a relatively unknown developer.
"If you've got the right site, they really want to be there and they will work with you," says Jack Levermann, vice president of the Cincinnati development group with Paul Hemmer Companies.
Slow and steady wins the race
In their bid to break into retail development, Paul Hemmer executives also found it helpful to focus on a specialized product type — neighborhood shopping centers — instead of throwing a lot of money and resources into projects they do not yet have the experience or the resources to complete. Eventually, the company would like to expand its reach, but that has to be the result of organic growth, not gung-ho mentality, says John F. Curtin, III, senior vice president of the real estate and development division with Paul Hemmer.
"You can't be everything to everybody when you are a small, family-owned business and we tried to identify specific kinds of projects we wanted to get involved in, so that we could use our people to the maximum," he notes. "We will not go from day one and compete with major developers in the U.S. who build $100 million retail centers."
What Curtin hopes will happen is that the level of service Paul Hemmer offers its clients in smaller projects in its home market will convince them to hire the company for larger shopping centers down the line. That's another important point — the maxim that "the customer is always right" takes on an added weight when you are small.
But if they are considering expansion, Eichelbaum advises small developers to be cautious. It makes sense to go into neighboring markets first, to capitalize on already existing knowledge and relationships. And it's best not to open a new office unless there are enough projects in the new region to make that extra expense a necessity.
"We had such a great expansion [in the past few years], you have to wonder how much opportunity still exists, so I would be a lot more conservative with my resources," Eichelbaum notes.
Size matters
Being smaller, however, does have its advantages. A family-owned firm might not have as much capital as a national REIT, but it also doesn't have a lot of overhead and a rigid corporate protocol for pursuing new opportunities. That often allows smaller developers to close deals faster, according to Castan.
Plus, being privately held means being able to take a longer-term view on investment, perhaps paying a little more for a piece of land or putting extra money into the center's architecture, knowing that the firm will reap greater rewards 10 or 20 years down the road. "I like being a smaller, private developer," says Sudberry. "I like the flexibility and I can develop projects for the long term because I don't have to satisfy a public investor."
The key is to concentrate on finding the kinds of sites that retailers covet and to remember that retail real estate is all about relationships — with brokers, with retailers and, when you need a joint venture partner with an extra wad of cash, with the national REITs themselves.