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When fall rolls around I make myself busy with harvesting the garden, putting up tomatoes and pickles and apples, making cider, starting to brew beer again when the weather cools off. This kimchi is an end-of-season ferment, made from some of the last crop harvests and walk-in cleaning projects.
Hand taste, the flavor food carries from everyone that touches it, has always spoken to me. This beautiful kimchi feels very special to me through the people that have touched it – late fall shishito, scallions, daikon, watermelon radish, and napa cabbage from Yellow House Farm and Calvert's Gift Farm. I first tasted it with the full harvest moon! It feels like a fitting harvest summary as the season turns to winter, and it's delicious!
End of Season Kimchi
Note: The recipe below makes two gallons–a large batch for serious kimchi eaters to last the winter or give as gifts!
- 6 heads napa cabbage
- 2 pounds leeks
- 2 quarts shishito pepper
- 1 pound turnips (hakurei and/or purple-topped)
- 1 pound radishes (watermelon and/or daikon)
- 1 bulb garlic
- 4-inch piece ginger
- 2 pears
- 1/4 cup miso (plus more to taste)
- 1/4 cup chile flake (plus more to taste)
- salt
- Cut the cabbage into 1- to 2-inch squares, discarding the core. Wash the cabbage in a large colander or a few changes of water. Peel and thinly slice the turnips and radishes into rounds. Wash and trim the roots from the leeks and slice into thin rounds. Combine all these vegetables in a large pot, bowl, or clean bucket.
- Mix a 2-3% brine, enough to cover the vegetables. Cover the container and soak in the brine overnight. Note: you can create a ferment without soaking and draining, but this process will help achieve a more traditional kimchi texture, and you won't wind up with as much kimchi liquid, rather, more concentrated paste flavor! I think it's worth the extra steps.
- The next day, drain off the brine and gently press extra moisture from the vegetables. Here, you're aiming to get the vegetables to a slightly limp state where they have lost some of their water, but not press them so hard that they become soft, very bruised, or torn. When you have drained most of the moisture from the veg, add it back to the large bowl you were using. Cut the tops from the shishitos and slice them into rounds – and add to the bowl.
- Now, make the paste. Peel the ginger and garlic. Roughly chop the ginger to break up the fibers. Core the pears. Combine the ginger, garlic, pears, miso, and chili flakes in a food processor and blend until smooth.
- Add the paste to the bowl of veg and mix and massage the paste onto the veg, stirring, scrunching, squeezing, and mixing until the vegetables are evenly coated all over. Taste some! Add more salt if needed – it should taste just saltier than you would prefer to eat raw. You can also add more chili flakes for more spice, keeping in mind the spice will slightly amplify during fermentation.
- Once well mixed, pack into a fermentation vessel like a crock or large jar. Weight the top with crock weights or a double-bagged ziplock with some brine inside. Loosely secure a lid to allow gas to escape, and ferment at room temperature for 10-18 days, starting to check at ten days for your preferred level of fermentation flavor. Once it has fermented to your liking, move to the fridge for the most stable flavor – under refrigeration the kimchi will stay fresh and crunchy for 6+ months.


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DaveLV | 329 posts since Mar 2001
188.8.131.52 | 04.30.2001 @ 15:52
This is the letter I used to dispute my CHEX listing which was deleted this week.
March 28, 2001
Customer Relations
12005 Ford Road Suite 600
Dallas, TX 75234
To Whom It May Concern:
My bank has informed me that there is negative information reported by Glendale Federal
Bank included in the file ChexSystems maintains under my Social Security number. Upon
ordering a copy of the report, I see an entry from this bank listing a "debit card revoked" in
March 1997.
I do not recall having a debit card from this bank in 1997.
Please validate this information with Glendale Federal Bank and provide me with copies of
any documentation associated with this "debit card" bearing my signature. In the absence
of any such documentation bearing my signature I ask that this information be immediately
deleted from the file you maintain under my Social Security number.
My contact information is as follows: Name, SSN: xxx-xx-xxxx, Address.
The website is www.chexhelp.com. George reposted the dispute letter I used to clear my Chex report a couple of weeks ago. It felt nice to walk into the credit union the next business day to open an account. When the new accounts person was pulling up the Chex report on their PC I got to play dumb and ask "What are you doing there?"
Of course, if anything had still shown up (which didn't happen) I had the letter from Chex telling me about the deletion along with a printout of my clean report in my back pocket. Just in case.
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As Franklin Roosevelt said, "Presidents are selected, not elected." And it seems Joe Scarborough from MSNBC is starting to catch on. In this episode of Morning Joe, watch him get pissed off at the proof of a rigged election, while his stuck-up guests just won't admit it. I'll throw in there a quote from George Carlin to remind us not to continue giving our hope and power away to politics, and remember that our fate is up to us, the people.
"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests." [George Carlin – The Illusion Of Choice]


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Take a spin on the iconic Melbourne Star Observation Wheel to soak up views across the city. Grab a drink on your way to a concert at Marvel Stadium, or take your place at one of many premium bars or restaurants to watch the sunset over the shimmering water.
Docklands attractions
Melbourne Star Observation Wheel
Attraction in Docklands providing panoramic views of Melbourne.
O'Brien Icehouse
Ice arena for public skating and ice sports events, located in Docklands.
An interactive 3D art gallery with optical illusions that visitors can touch and explore.
The District Docklands
Open-air shopping precinct with attractions, entertainment, dining and fresh food.
GoBoat Melbourne
Be your own captain when you rent your very own picnic boat, with no boat licence required.
Black Light Mini Golf
Good old-fashioned mini golf transformed into an amazing glow-in-the-dark-experience.
Library at The Dock
A modern public library in Docklands with harbour and park views.
Docklands Park
Kid-friendly park with walking trails and barbecue facilities.
Eating and drinking
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This small Docklands outpost serves coffee, sweet treats and take-home beans.
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Late last week I got the mail and was happy to find a letter in the box asking me to come to immigration to collect my working holiday visa! Great news for me as it means that I can now start the not at all stressful task of looking for a job.. I was really happy to get this but another feeling I had was relief. I was relieved that I'd managed to include all the right information for my application and displayed it in the right way. In the couple of weeks it took to process my application I was all kinds of nervous.
There's guidance notes for filling in your application, but there's a few things that aren't clear and for some reason I couldn't find ANY answers online from other people who had been in my position. Luckily I have a friend who went through the process last year, otherwise I would have probably done everything wrong.
So, as I just love helping people, I decided to do a write up of the things on the application that aren't so clear.
First of all, the working holiday visa is for people aged 18-30 who want the option of working in Hong Kong for a year. They will only give you a year and this can't be extended but I guess I'll cross that rickety little bridge when I come to it. The scheme is available to people from a range of different countries but not ALL countries so check out the website to see if you're eligible. Also, things vary depending on your home country such as fees and eligibility criteria – here's a link to it all.
I'm going to be really rude and pretend that everybody reading this is British and say well done, because you were born British you get the joy of being able to work for one company for the whole 12 months of your working visa, unlike the other eligible countries who only get 3 months with the same employer. The same goes for studying if you choose to do that as well/instead.
The application is pretty straight forward, they ask for your personal details and if you have a reference in Hong Kong – filling the form in is easy. Obviously, you can do that application whilst you're in Hong Kong, just make sure you put your Hong Kong address on the form as your current address – I was tempted to put my British address down because I wasn't sure that you could apply whilst in the country, however, if I'd done that my visa obviously would have gone to England making it pretty hard for me to activate it (my brain is stupid sometimes). One of the sections asks for your permanent address, which would in fact be your address back home, I panicked and left it empty (I worried they may send my visa to England..) evidently this wasn't a problem as I now have my visa.
Most of my angst came from the supporting documents section. I had to convince them I had enough money to survive for 12 months, which I totally did not have. A couple of months of buying the best quality beef to spit roast in our oven soon got rid of my little pot of cash. British citizens need to show they have at least $22000 HKD (approx 1881.213 British Pound Sterling – thanks Google) in the bank by sending a bank statement (Again, here's the link with the details for other nationalities). We quickly transferred some money into my account and then I did an online banking screenshot of my savings account, it didn't show any account numbers or even my name. It was just a page that said 'Santander' on it and a sum of money. I didn't want to send in a document with personal details like my sort code, account number or recent transactions so took a risk with the bare minimum. I also had more in there than the minimum amount as I needed to prove I have sufficient funds to travel back as I don't have a return plane ticket.
Another confusing part of the application was the need for health and hospitalization insurance. It goes without saying that you need insurance, but I wasn't clear on what I needed to send in for proof. That got me thinking about people applying from overseas, a years worth of insurance isn't cheap and a lot of people wouldn't want to purchase it in order to apply for a visa that they're not definitely going to get. Paul and I looked at the phrasing and pulled it apart and realised it just says 'agrees to hold medical…' etc. So that's all I did, I wrote a short note saying I agree to get cover should I be granted the visa and signed it. I was pulling my hair out wondering what HK immigration expected of people in order to apply for a visa and it was as simple as writing a note. Again, this is simple for Brits, there's a few countries where you have to actually send in proof of already holding the cover, but if it's a lot of money to shell out I'm sure you could take it out and cancel within the cooling off period, and then take it out again when your visa is confirmed.
Those are the main issues I had with the process, I imagine nobody else had these problems and that I'm a massive worrier but I hope this might help someone else who's applying and is worrying like I did. I know there's not much information out there, or maybe there is and I just couldn't find it.
When you receive your visa in the post, you stick it into your passport and make sure to get it stamped when you enter Hong Kong. If you're already here you're going to make a trip to immigration tower in Wanchai to pick your visa up – take your passport, the letter might not say you need your passport, but you do. I didn't take mine initially and ended up rushing between Happy Valley and Causeway bay to get back bt 4.30pm. You're most likely going to be heading to floor 24 to pick up your visa, but check your letter, it will say the floor and counter number in the top left hand corner.. another detail I missed. I'm starting to think I'm not as smart as I once thought.. Anyway, after you pick up your documents you'll need to go to Macau to activate your visa.
If you're not sure when you're travelling but want to apply early for your visa don't worry, you get 3 months to activate it and your 12 months starts from your date of entry. So, for instance, even though I got my visa last Friday, if I go to Macau and back on March 4th, my 12 months will be from March 4th. So it's pretty flexible if your plans aren't set in stone. That also means that whilst you're job hunting you can take advantage of that period as it may take a little while to find a job, you're not going to waste valuable time on your visa.
The next step is to go and get your Hong Kong ID card – that's my next step. So more info on that later but I think that part is pretty straight forward!
I'm not the best at writing things up, I'm sure it's a bit higgledy piggledy but I just type it as it comes out of my head. There's no order in my brain. Chaos. Anyway, if anyone has a question just let me know and I'll try to help.. I'll update this if I think of anything further.
Good luck!
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Alzheimer's is one type of dementia that destroys memory and personality and ultimately leads to death. While there are many types of dementia, Alzheimer's is the most prevalent and makes up the vast majority of cases of dementia. This course will focus largely on Alzheimer's and how it ravages the personality and ultimately leads to death.
The story begins with the discovery of Alzheimer's disease with Alois Alzheimer in 1901 and concludes with how music and storytelling help victims reclaim their identity and self-worth.
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28 Jul Whats Hot on The Tech Blog – March
Whats Hot on The Tech Blog – March? These are the hottest topics on the Tech blogs. As what we always emphasise, we need to keep ourselves updated on the latest trends and news because there is nothing constant in this world but change. In order for us and our business to succeed, we must be able to embrace the changes around us but first, let's be informed on what these changes are.
Hands On With HereO, The Small And Simple GPS Watch Made Especially For Kids
If you've got a child between the ages of 3 and 8, you're in an interesting spot as a parent. The kid is old enough to be involved in activities such as school and play dates, which can keep them out from under your watchful eyes for hours at a time. But they're not quite old enough to have a cell phone of their own for keeping in touch.
A startup called HereO has made a gadget especially for keeping tabs on young kids in that age range. HereO has made what it claims is the world's "smallest and cutest" GPS watch device, which connects with a mobile and web app to allow parents to keep track of where their children are at all hours of the day. Read more…
Why We Hate Google Glass — And All New Tech
I have a theory. When it comes to new technology, there are early adopters who start using it and everyone else sees the very worst in the technology: These people ultimately belittle, dismiss and make fun of those who use it. But in spite of this initial negative reaction, the technology eventually finds its way into the mainstream, and the early fears and misinformation fade away. Read more…
Popcorn Time Is Back
Behold the power of open-source software. After the untimely death of the originalPopcorn Time, a so-called Netflix for pirated content, the project was forked several times on GitHub. And guess what? It's back and more shady than ever before. The torrent site YTS has taken over the project, reports TorrentFreak. Read more…
You're Looking at It Wrong — Why the Web Demands Vertical Screens
The first person to twist apart an Oreo, or sit backwards in a chair, or pretend a tennis racket was a guitar — visionaries who recognized that everyday objects used by the masses have higher callings. I've joined them by turning my widescreen monitor vertically. To be clear, I did not invent this idea. People have been rotating monitors 90 degrees since the widescreen was invented. I have just joined them as an acolyte of the modern Internet. Read more…
Google Launches App Store for Docs and Sheets
Google is rolling out an online marketplace for third-party apps on Google Drive, the company announced Thursday. The apps, which Google is calling add-ons, are available to Google Drive users in Docs and Sheets, the free online word-processing and spreadsheet services. Read more…
Report: Leaked iOS 8 Photo Reveals New Apps
iOS 8, the next version of Apple's mobile software for the iPhone and iPad, is expected to arrive in June with new features that have a strong focus on fitness. Now, an alleged leaked photo of iOS 8 reveals what other types of apps we'll see added to the update. According to a picture shared on Chinese social network Weibo, Apple will be adding iOS versions of some of its existing OS X apps for Macs, including Preview and TextEdit. These tools will reportedly help users view files stored in iCloud, according to 9to5Mac. Read more…
Refinements, additions, and un-breaking stuff: iOS 7.1 reviewed
There were about six months between the ouster of Scott Forstall from Apple in late October of 2012 and the unveiling of iOS 7.0 in June of 2013. Jony Ive and his team redesigned the software from the ground up in that interval, a short amount of time given that pretty much everything in the operating system was overhauled and that it was being done under new management. The design was tweaked between that first beta in June and the final release in mid-September, but the biggest elements were locked in place in short order.
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On a chilly morning in early January, I joined a hundred students in a lecture hall on the Georgia Tech campus for a class called Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. The professor, Thad Starner, looked up at his audience of aspiring programmers, industrial designers, roboticists, and user-interface specialists. He is forty-four, with a boyish face and sideburns that yearn for the 1990s. He wore, as he often does, a black T-shirt and black jeans. "In this class we're going to talk about four main things," he said. "Privacy, power and heat, networking on- and off-body, and interface. Every time you make any decision on any four of these dimensions, it's going to affect the others. It's always a balancing act."
Valve replaces Steam Controller touchscreen with new analog face buttons
When we briefly got our hands on Valve's prototype Steam Controller earlier this year, we found the face buttons placed right up against the lip of the circular touch pads more than a little awkward to use. Now, Valve is showing images of a new version of the controller that replaces those buttons and the planned touchscreen on the face of the controller with new analog directional and action buttons that resemble the layout of many other gaming controllers.
A Simple Adapter Lets the iPhone Assist in Eye Exams
We've already got machines that give ophthalmologists a close-up view of the inside and outside of the human eye. The problem is they're big and heavy, expensive, and rarely accessible to those in third world nations. So researchers at Stanford University have created a simple iPhone add-on that lets almost anyone, anywhere, perform eye exams. Read more…
Lego Robot With a Smartphone BrainShatters Rubik's Cube World Record
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The social and ethics committee is a formal statutory committee of the board that assists the board in adhering to the Companies Act and Regulations. The committee also provides a basis for a more structured and focused approach to social and ethical issues relevant to the company.
The committee functions within formally approved terms of reference, reviewed on an annual basis and operates according to an approved, detailed annual work plan.
Role of the committee
The role of the social and ethics committee is to monitor the activities of the company and its subsidiaries, within a framework of legislative compliance and prevailing codes of best practice.
The committee monitors and reviews the company's standing and promotion of good corporate citizenship, which includes ensuring that:
- stakeholder engagement is constructive, interactive and in support of business objectives;
- employee health and workplace safety are pro-actively managed to achieve workforce well-being;
- the impacts of the company's operations on the environment are managed to minimise and mitigate negative outcomes;
- human capital is managed to improve people's ability to achieve their objectives;
- transformation and B-BBEE objectives are met in a constructive manner to establish a culture that reflects and supports all facets of the environments within which the businesses operate;
- businesses comply with relevant laws and regulations; and
- principles of sound corporate governance are adhered to. These include adherence to Grindrod values, upholding human rights, working within an ethical framework, discharging its responsibilities towards communities in which it operates and reporting business, operational and other outcomes in a sustainable manner.
The committee is supported by the CEO and executives and is authorised by the board to investigate any activity within the scope of its terms of reference, interact with employees and obtain external professional advice in conducting its business.
Composition and committee meetings
The committee consists of three members, two of whom are independent non-executive directors and one executive director. During the year under review, members serving on the committee included Mkhuseli Faku (appointed 16 November 2011, resigned 22 February 2016), Mike Hankinson (appointed 28 February 2012), Raymond Ndlovu (appointed 27 May 2016), Bongiwe Ntuli (appointed 19 February 2013, resigned 22 November 2016) and Andrew Waller (appointed 16 November 2011).
Following the resignation of Mkhuseli Faku on 22 February 2016, the committee resolved that Mike Hankinson assume the role of acting chairperson, which role he fulfilled for the meetings held in February and August 2016. Following his appointment to the committee in August 2016, Raymond Ndlovu assumed the role of chairperson at the committee meeting held on 22 November 2016. More details of these members are given in the directorate and executive committee section.
The group company secretary serves as secretary to the committee.
Committee members meet at scheduled meetings three times a year and unscheduled meetings when the committee is required to address urgent matters in its scope of responsibility. No unscheduled meetings were held in 2016.
Attendance of committee members at the meetings of the committee during the year is listed in the directorate and executive committee section of this integrated annual report.
Fees paid to the committee members are reflected in the report of the remuneration committee and the proposed fees for 2017 are detailed in the notice of annual general meeting.
Key activities
In terms of its mandate, matters included in the social and ethics committee's annual work plan in 2016 included:
- monitoring and reviewing the company's sustainability performance in line with the Grindrod sustainability pillars, the UN Global Compact Ten Principles and applicable risk-identification and mitigation measures;
- reviewing the UN SDGs and adopting specific goals as part of Grindrod's sustainability strategy;
- monitoring and reviewing of the company's human capital management strategies and performance, including HR strategies, systems and policy, and employee relations, skills development and retention, performance management and the company's status in terms of safety and health and employee wellness;
- monitoring and reviewing of the company's action plans to set and achieve transformation objectives and B-BBEE strategies and performance including the Grindrod B-BBEE scorecard;
- reviewing performance in the areas of corporate social investment and socio-economic development;
- legal compliance and good corporate governance, including ethics;
- an integrated approach to stakeholder engagement;
- reviewing the role ascribed to the social and ethics committee as outlined in King IV;
- evaluation of the performance of the social and ethics committee;
- reviewing the committee's report for inclusion in the 2016 integrated annual report; and
- approving its annual work plan for 2017.
On behalf of the social and ethics committee
Raymond Ndlovu
1 March 2017
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my winter wardrobe blahs have been getting an inspirational pick me up via the glamourai.
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APS Passes On Popular Administrator
Principal Sought For Adobe Acres
Some parents at an elementary school are displeased that their popular interim principal wasn't even allowed to interview for the permanent position.
Melissa Salazar, an assistant principal for three years at Adobe Acres Elementary School, remained in charge of the campus on Tuesday while Albuquerque Public Schools pursues a permanent principal.
Many parents would like to have seen Salazar, a Spanish speaker at a predominately Spanish-speaking school, get the job or at least a shot at the job.
"I am going to feel sorry for her for not having the opportunity to be interviewed," parent Lynn Anaya said. "She might have been chosen, but to not even have the chance, it's not right."
Salazar applied for the position, but wasn't granted an interview.
She said she was told she failed to detail a quality school plan, but Salazar denied that.
A search committee selected a finalist for the Adobe Acres principal position, but the selection was being reviewed by APS's human resources department because of questions about the hiring process.


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All voting stations have closed across Georgia and the ruling party has started celebrating after the party's own poll and initial exit poll results showed it gained the most support.
Both exit poll results released by local TV companies showed Georgian Dream – Democratic Georgia (GDDG) party enjoyed the highest number of votes in today's Parliamentary Elections.
Party leaders, including Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, went out into the square in front of the party's headquarters in central Tbilisi and congratulated GDDG supporters on the "big victory".
This was a truly free and fair election, which firmly cements #Georgia's democracy. The real winners today are the Georgian people. #gvote— Giorgi Kvirikashvili (@KvirikashviliGi) October 8, 2016
Kvirikashvili said the final results were yet to come from the Central Election Commission (CEC) but Georgian Dream was the winner of the elections according to all preliminary data.
"We gained this victory as a result of a big struggle. Thank you very much, Georgia," the PM said.
"Today Georgia has once again answered the question whether or not human dignity is the most important thing to us and the answer is yes, of course, it is."
"I would like to thank you for supporting us and promise you that the next four years will be the years of building."
Georgian Dream supporters celebrate the election outcome on front of the party's headquarters in Tbilisi. Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
The Prime Minister went to Twitter to thank local and international observers for their efforts to ensure peaceful elections.
A special thanks to all foreign and domestic election observers for their commitment to #Georgia's democracy. #GVotehttps://t.co/vJGxSN9pi5— Giorgi Kvirikashvili (@KvirikashviliGi) October 8, 2016
GDDG founder and former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili also addressed supporters from the party headquarters this evening.
"This is a continuation of our victory in 2012."
"Five years ago we started [our activities] and we all remember what the situation was at that time in Georgia .[…] Today Georgia is competing with leading European countries in terms of democratic and human rights and values. Now [we have] the best conditions for fast development of our economy."
Meanwhile the Administration of the Prime Minister of Georgia assessed the elections as a "successful vote".
"The Georgian vote has taken place without any major incidents," it said.
"At a few polling places issues arose in the final hours before polls closed [but] they were addressed swiftly and effectively to prevent disruption of the political process."
Meanwhile exit poll results showed the second most popular party in Georgia was United National Movement.
The vote-counting process has now begun at the CEC.
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Days after Martin Shkreli posted his $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album on eBay, bids have shot up to $1,000,200.
It remains unclear if the 34-year-old felon really will sell "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," which he listed for $1 on Tuesday, or is just seeking publicity, Page Six reported on Thursday.
Shkreli has incrementally released tracks of the previously unheard recording, which he describes in his listing as "like new," on livestreams.
He's first believed to have played a song to commemorate Donald Trump's election victory, and then again put on the CD following his August conviction on multiple counts of securities fraud.
Shkreli was blasted in 2015 for raising the price of medicine used by AIDS and cancer patients from $13.50 to $750 per pill after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, bought the drug's rights.
Shkreli, who bought the 2014 album from the Staten Island hip-hop group in 2015, said although he made the purchase as a gift to the group, he "received scorn" from at "least one of their (least-intelligent) members," referring to rapper Ghostface Killah, who, referencing the price-gouging scandal, called Shkreli "a real killer, but you're a soft killer."
Shkreli, who faces up to 20 years behind bars, has not yet been sentenced on the fraud conviction.
The online auction is expected to close Sept. 15. Shkreli has said he'll donate half the proceeds to medical research.
It looks like María Pilar Abel Martínez won't be getting anything from the estate of great surrealist artist Salvador Dali.
Martínez, a tarot card reader born in 1956 who claimed her mother had an affair with Dalí, and had been told that she was Dali's daughter, actually got a judge in Madrid to agree to exhume the artist's body for testing in June.
This week, the Dali Foundation reported that DNA tests carried out have conclusively proved the two are not related.
Dali experts initially were skeptical of Martinez's claim. According to the BBC, biographer Ian Gibson noted Dali's statement, "I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter."
Sassy gossip from New York Post's Page Six is coming to the airwaves.
KTVU-Channel 2 announced today that "Page Six TV" will debut on Sept. 18.
Hosted by John Fugelsang of Sirius XM Radio/VH1, the interactive show will include reports from experts and insiders Bevy Smith (Bravo's "Fashion Queens"), Variety reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister and New York Post Page Six reporter Carlos Greer.
Music producer Avicii is 28. … Rapper Wiz Khalifa is 30. … Reality star Chumlee is 35. … Singer-songwriter Eric Hutchinson is 37. … Singer Pink is 38. … Actor Larenz Tate is 42. … Singer Aimee Mann is 57. … Politician Bernie Sanders is 76.
— Staff, wire reports
John FugelsangKTVUMaria Pilar Abel MartinezMartin ShkreliOnce Upon a Time in ShaolinPage SixSalvador DaliWu-Tang Clan
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Officials to break ground on proposed medical school in Chaffee Crossing
School is scheduled to open in fall 2016
On Tuesday, officials will break ground on a proposed medical school in Chaffee Crossing.
The groundbreaking is the first step for the future Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine. the 102,000-square-foot building will have classrooms, labs, lecture halls, and office space. 200 acres of land was gifted to the school by the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority.
The college should help drive up local business as well. With the announcement of the proposed Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority has already sold two commercial properties right across the street from the site of the future school.
The school will also bring in new jobs. The new facility is projected to hire 95 faculty members. The proposed school is expected to bring in $100 million for the community.
The school plans on having its first 150-student class in the fall of 2016.
The groundbreaking will take place Tuesday at the intersection of Frontier and Veterans Road at 11 a.m.


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The stronger the neck muscles are, the less neck pain a person is going to feel. Using strength training exercises is the best way to make the muscles stronger. It does require time, effort and commitment, but the rewards are worth the effort. If person is able to alleviate the chronic neck pain through these exercises, they will understand why it is worth doing.
In order to learn how to strengthen the exercises, it is important to learn the right exercises and how to perform them. It is always important to make sure to use the proper form to get the best results and to prevent any further damage to the neck muscles. These two exercises are a great way to build the muscles of the neck and help reduce pain.


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In case you missed today's news, Cosmos 2.0 and NASL 2.0 announced a reunion of nostalgic proportions.
"We are extremely proud to welcome the New York Cosmos to the North American Soccer League," said NASL Commissioner David Downs. "As we continue to expand the league and help grow professional soccer in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, the Cosmos brand and their strong ownership group are a perfect fit with us.
"The history of the Cosmos and soccer in the New York City area are intertwined," he continued. "Bringing the Cosmos into the NASL is a logical next step as we embrace the heritage of our own past and now reunite the Cosmos, Strikers, Rowdies and several markets with ties to the NASL's early days. Most importantly, we look forward to the Cosmos enhancing the quality of our league both on and off the field."
Nearly two years after Paul Kemsley paid Pepe Pinton's ransom, allowing him to pimp out one of the richest brands in soccer history, things are finally beginning to fall into focus for the Cosmos. Saudi based Sela Sport bought out the real estate mogul, clamped down on the theatrics, removed the Cosmos name from the glare of international media (and even local media for that matter) and have quietly begun the process of *GASP* building a proper professional soccer team.
Go figure.
This no-brainer decision finally puts the New York Cosmos in serious standing when discussing the endless NY2 debate. How can a move to the second tier of the American soccer pyramid do this? Just ask second-tier alumni Seattle Sounders and the Portland Timbers, who relied every bit as much on history and nostalgia as they did on money and investment when selling themselves to Major League Soccer.
Recent news regarding MLS's goal to build a stadium in Flushing Meadow Park has furthered the reality of a second New York franchise. The Cosmos name remains as coveted a brand by MLS as it ever was in the mid 90's. The move towards NASL in 2013, which club chairman Seamus O'Brien labels the "first step" towards reaching "the very highest level" of American soccer, makes the team an immediate and viable suitor for this wildly ambitious endeavour.
This is perhaps the best news to come out of the Cosmos camp since the new ownership group settled a near-lawsuit with their youth academy affiliates. As a matter of fact, it may be the only news that has been released from the Saudi owners since then
Sela was left with a circus, no question about it, but it wasn't always about tight rope walking and lion taming during the Kemsley days. The former ownership group did (barely) manage to acquire and put a stamp on a successful youth academy program (BW Gottschee), and created a grassroots New York connection with the highly successful "Cosmos Copa." Their many (costly) marketing campaigns, from major ad space in Times Square to the shambles that was the Paul Scholes Testimonial, revived recognition to a once adored franchise (no such thing as bad publicity as they say!).
In a round about way, however misguided they were, the Kemsley Cosmos did leave essential building blocks amongst the rubble that are vital for any aspiring MLS side to wield.
With this move towards the NASL, a serious infrastructure can be applied around a brand that desperately wants to be considered a viable contender for the New York expansion spot (and it also helps that MLS is equally enamored with the Cosmos as well). Sure, there will be many more hoops to jump through from now until the time any sort of kick-off commences (what would the Cosmos be without the circus, right?); Money (particularly the current $100 million dollar league buy-in) is an obvious concern. Sustainability there after is a must. A stronger infrastructure is vital. Most of all, a capable ownership group must be ready to prove itself up to the task of leading this unique project.
Still, with all that said, today's announcement is a positive step in the right direction and puts this group at the forefront of the NY2 discussion once more.
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The KNAW hails Van der Putten for his "pioneering research into the role of soil-borne pathogens in the natural development of plant communities."
Thanks to his work, we now have a better understanding of how terrestrial ecosystems work, what the influence is of biodiversity and how we can more accurately predict the way plant communities adapt to the changing climate.
Van der Putten's emphasis on aboveground-belowground linkages has even led to the development of a new 'subdiscipline' within soil ecology.
Prof. dr Wim van der Putten (1958) is head of the department of Terrestrial Ecology at the NIOO. He also holds the chair in Functional Biodiversity at Wageningen UR.
The sixteen new KNAW-members are prominent researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Members are elected after nominations from peers within and outside the Academy. In all, the KNAW compromises around 500 members. Membership is for life.
Wim van der Putten and the other new members will be inducted into the Academy during a ceremony at its headquarters in Amsterdam on Monday 28 September.


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McGregor facing lawsuit from security guard over Diaz press conference fracas
Bottles and cans were thrown ahead of the rematch between the rivals in Las Vegas in August 2016.
Reduction in Nevada punishment could pave the way for McGregor to box in Vegas
The UFC lightweight champion had been fined $75,000 and given 50 hours of community service last October.
$150,000? McGregor was only fined half that, Nevada Commission insist
NSCA executive director Bob Bennett says Conor McGregor will only have to cough up for a $75,000 fine.
Conor McGregor's response to $150,000 fine: 'Good luck trying to get it'
McGregor was sanctioned earlier this week by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Diaz gets slap on the wrist for using 'prohibited substance' CBD after McGregor loss
USADA has issued a public warning to the UFC star.
Punishment on the way for McGregor and Diaz over press conference fracas
The opposing camps exchanged missiles at a press conference ahead of last month's UFC 202 bout.
We asked a UFC judge to explain if Conor McGregor deserved his win at UFC 202
Ben Cartlidge writes about McGregor's majority-decision victory over Nate Diaz last weekend in Las Vegas.
I'd like Conor to go for a second belt now and I believe he'll only need two rounds to win it
SBG head coach John Kavanagh brings us his latest exclusive column.
'Great fight, brother' - UFC footage captures sporting exchange between McGregor and Diaz
The pair had a thrilling battle in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
Coach releases fascinating behind-the-scenes footage from Conor McGregor's UFC 202 win
Great insight from Owen Roddy in Las Vegas.
'Doubt me now!' - McGregor delivers message to fellow UFC athletes in post-fight footage
Hate to say I told you so…
McGregor facing up to six months out of the octagon after UFC 202
The Notorious will only be able to return early on doctor's orders after leaving the arena on crutches.
'Everyone, from the media to the fighters, wrote me off for this one'
After an enthralling five-round encounter, it was a night to remember for Conor McGregor.
A conventional Irish trait brought an unconventional Irish sportsman to his most important victory
Revenge was sweet for Conor McGregor but he had to dig deeper than ever before in order to achieve it.
Jose Aldo and Eddie Alvarez both calling for McGregor to drop weight and fight them next
There's only so many red panties to go around.
Diaz trilogy will probably have to wait as McGregor ponders his next move
"I have other stuff in the pipeline. S**t is about to hit the fan."
'He did a lot of running' - Diaz bemoans judging, injuries and McGregor's tactics
Nate Diaz disagrees with the judges' decision to award Conor McGregor the victory at UFC 202.
15 compelling images from Conor McGregor's epic UFC 202 win over Nate Diaz
The Dubliner went the full five rounds for the first time in Vegas last night.
McGregor gets Vegas vengeance with thrilling victory over Diaz
Conor McGregor out-pointed Nate Diaz in the main event at UFC 202 at the T-Mobile Arena.
Artem Lobov: 'I find it hard to respect them outside of the octagon'
The SBG Ireland featherweight tasted victory in the UFC for the first time tonight in Las Vegas.
First blood to Team McGregor as Lobov dominates Diaz's team-mate Avila
It was third-time-lucky for the Russian-born Dubliner as he picked up his first win in the UFC.
All the results from tonight's UFC 202: Diaz v McGregor card
We'll keep you up to date throughout the night on everything happening in Las Vegas.
All the info you need to watch McGregor's rematch with Diaz live tonight
If you plan on tuning in for all the action from Las Vegas, here's what you should know.
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The rematch takes place tonight in Las Vegas.
McGregor's army arrive in Vegas for fiery final face-off with Diaz
Conor McGregor might be on 'enemy territory' this time but there's still set to be a sizeable Irish presence.
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The stakes are high in Vegas this weekend.
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The fighters went head-to-head for the final time before tomorrow night's event.
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The pair are now officially on weight ahead of tomorrow night's rematch at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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McGregor is "gonna bleedin' burst your man" on Saturday night
The latest episode of Embedded gives a behind the scenes look at Nate Diaz' dramatic exit from the UFC 202 press conference.
McGregor and Diaz labelled 'unprofessional' by peers as Dana White guarantees 'massive fines'
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'I've got to stay true to myself' - Diaz explains press conference fracas
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'Diaz's press conference walk-out was as fake as Pamela Anderson's tits'
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Tonight's UFC 202 press conference had a heated ending after Nate Diaz and his team decided to walk out.
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Having grown and preserved an outstanding reputation since opening 40 years ago, Al Yusr Industrial Contracting Company founders recognised the potential benefits of expansion and decided to move in that direction
Al Yusr Industrial Contracting Company (AYTB), a Saudi integrated group providing a range of services and solutions to oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation and other major industrial sectors of Saudi Arabia, has registered a consistent growth over the past two years and plans to maintain the same or even better it in the coming years.
"We are constantly looking to better ourselves from the year before. Our motto is, 'we will only survive by measurable improvement,' something that only comes about when we have properly planned and executed initiatives. At AYTB we never stop learning," says AYTB CEO Kevin Hudson.
One of few Saudi companies to survive intact the oil price shock, AYTB's biggest triumph has been taking its time to establish its core competencies. "We haven't tried to swallow the elephant in one bite. It is an ongoing evolution of the brand rather than a revolution. We are starting on a smaller scale and incrementally growing our ability to do things on a larger scale. For example, we've done operational maintenance with Sabic for 30 years – now we are taking this experience and moving it into other industry sectors, as well as growing the products we offer," says Hudson.
Hudson firmly believes that at the core of the brand's success is its employees. With a team of more than 5,000, AYTB has nurtured this workforce as one big family – all treated equally and valued independently.
He says: "We get out and actually talk to people so that our employees know that they have a say in the way the company is run."
Its methods have proven popular with the workforce and consequently AYTB has a high staff retention rate and is a brand that they are proud to be associated with. However, not only does AYTB value its people, it acknowledges the responsibility it has as a company to safeguard the wellbeing of its team and how difficult it can be to procure top talent.
Hudson says: "Attracting and retaining competent people is a continuous battle, one that will be ongoing long after I have gone. We were able to grow when the oil price was down while other companies were struggling thanks to our commendable reputation of quality, safety and dependability. We are honest we will always get the job done. I know those values seem a little old fashioned now but being dependable isn't a bad thing, this is a reputation we will continue to cultivate."
AYTB looks to share these values with its suppliers. From construction and manufacturing to housing and catering, the diversity of the company sees AYTB working with an eclectic group of suppliers. "We rely on our suppliers just as much as our clients rely on us," says Hudson, "so we are trying to create a much more partner-orientated environment. The hope for the future is to forge close partnerships with fewer suppliers based on longer contracts and price stability."
AYTB started operations in 1979 as a modest operational maintenance service for the newly established petrochemical industry in Jubail and Yanbu but today the brand has diversified to provide solutions across the board, from construction, manufacturing, industrial services, operation and maintenance to housing and catering, AYTB is a provider who will get the job done.
Having grown and preserved an outstanding reputation since opening 40 years ago, AYTB founders recognised the potential benefits of expansion and decided to make the move. With quality integral to the success of AYTB, the company aimed to capitalise on its existing talent and grow from the inside out.
To kick-start this expansion, AYTB began to spread into different fields. Originally confined to servicing solutions within the construction and oil industry, the business grew into the housing and catering industry. Despite a successful expansion, these new ventures lacked both structure and strategy that threatened the quality of the services at hand.
Former managing director of MIS in Dubai, Kevin John Hudson was appointed AYTB CEO by the Board of AYTB shareholders in 2016 and has been leading a thriving unit ever since.
Hudson, along with the vice president of the Construction and Fabrication department, Peter T Williams, has created a clear strategic plan and method of execution.
"We use a balanced scorecard," says Hudson. "If you walk into AYTB now you'll see a visible strategy map in the offices. We give rewards and have a bonus system for the people achieving their objectives on the scorecard. We have a framework for management on how to improve on things we do. This has been my main objective; I spend a lot of my week having meetings on how we can keep improving and bettering ourselves as a company."
Indeed, the many hours spent finding ways of fine-tuning the existing methods is reaping benefits for the business.
AYTB focuses on Saudi Vision 2030 which is pulling the manufacturing assembly into the kingdom, providing AYTB with many opportunities. The firm sees the industry is growing strong in Saudi Arabia and AYTB is and will continue to be a part of it.


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Mel Elfin, a longtime Washington bureau chief for Newsweek who moved to the rival U.S. News & World Report in 1986 and helped build its college rankings feature into a major educational franchise, died on Saturday in Washington. He was 89.
His son David said the cause was Alzheimer's disease.
For Mr. Elfin, overseeing U.S. News's college rankings posed a challenge that differed from working at Newsweek, where he covered President Richard M. Nixon's groundbreaking trip to China and developed a strong stable of reporters during the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.
Now, at U.S. News, he was dealing with college presidents, educational data and algorithms.
"He was a pivotal figure," said Bob Morse, the chief data strategist of U.S. News, who worked closely with Mr. Elfin to hone the methodologies behind the rankings. "He embraced the fact that the rankings were needed and that serving consumers was our primary mission."
The rankings had begun in a rudimentary way in 1983, but under Mr. Elfin's stewardship their criteria were broadened, graduate schools were ranked and U.S. News's Best Colleges guidebook was published, expanding on the information in the magazine (which is now published only online).
The rankings helped U.S. News differentiate itself from Time and Newsweek in the newsweekly race and build a new source of revenue. They also became an unavoidable presence for college-bound high school juniors and seniors and their anxious parents.
Mr. Elfin, who was the special projects editor at U.S. News (he also wrote a column about Washington politics), faced pushback about the quality and meaning of the rankings. Some critics believed that the rankings formula created a false air of scientific certainty, caused colleges and universities to adjust their policies — or fudge their figures — to raise their rankings, and turned the choice of a college from an essentially educational issue to a high-stakes economic and social transaction.
And some school officials howled when their institutions dropped in rank.
But Mr. Elfin defended the rankings as an effective way for students and parents to comparison-shop for higher education.
"When you buy a VCR for 200 bucks, you can buy Consumer Reports to find out what's out there," he said in an interview with The New York Times in 1997, the year he retired. "When you spend 100 grand on four years of college, you should have some independent method of comparing different colleges. That's what our readers want, and they've voted at the newsstand in favor of what we're doing."
But he conceded that it was impossible to create an ideal formula to evaluate the merits of a college or university. He told The Chicago Tribune in 1997 that the rankings were "one tool."
"Look at it, but it's not the be-all," Mr. Elfin said. "There are other things to consider."
Melvin Elfin was born in Brooklyn on July 18, 1929. His father, Joseph, was a truck driver, and his mother, Bessie (Margolis) Elfin, was a homemaker. Mel attended Brooklyn Technical High School, where he worked at the student radio station, and studied journalism at Syracuse University. He earned a master's degree in American civilization at Harvard.
After working briefly as a copywriter for an advertising agency in Boston, he was hired as a reporter by The Long Island Daily Press, where he won a George Polk Award in 1956 for a series that exposed unethical practices in the home mortgage industry.
Two years later, Mr. Elfin joined Newsweek as a features writer for the magazine's back-of-the-book sections. He rose to education editor and was named Washington bureau chief in 1965, succeeding Ben Bradlee, who had been hired by Katharine Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post, as its deputy managing editor.
At Newsweek, Mr. Elfin had a reputation as a witty, no-nonsense, sarcastic and high-strung boss.
"He made the work so exciting," Eleanor Clift, one of the bureau's former reporters, said by telephone. "I'd go to a mundane White House briefing, then head into his corner office, which was like sticking your head in the lion's den. You had to throw him a fresh piece of meat."
In 1969, Mr. Elfin hosted a dinner at his house in Washington for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew with a guest list that included bureau reporters and Mrs. Graham, whose Washington Post empire included Newsweek. Agnew's attacks against the news media concerned Newsweek and many other print and broadcast outlets, and his abrasiveness that night did little to assuage the guests' concerns.
"What we all had for dinner was pure essence of Agnew," Mr. Elfin wrote with his colleague Robert Shogan in a post-dinner memorandum that Mrs. Graham cited in "Personal History" (1997), her Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography. "It may or may not be reassuring to know that the man doesn't sound or act differently in a semiprivate, semi-social situation than he does in public."
Mr. Elfin had a strong relationship with Mrs. Graham, which led him occasionally to write speeches for her.
" 'Melsie, I've got to speak to the newspaper editors ... and I need five pages,' " Mrs. Graham would say to him, recalled Thelma McMahon, the bureau's office manager, in the book "Power, Privilege and the Post" (1993), a biography of Mrs. Graham by Carol Felsenthal.
Mr. Elfin left Newsweek after years of battles with higher-ups at the magazine in Manhattan.
"He fought first of all to persuade New York of the importance of a development or a story — put it in the magazine or give it more space than they often wanted," Richard Thomas, a former chief economics correspondent at Newsweek, said by email. "He also completely backed his reporters' findings of facts and interpretation against editorial rewrite in New York."
In addition to his son, Mr. Elfin is survived by his wife, Margery (Lesser) Elfin, a former professor of politics at Hood College in Frederick, Md.; a daughter, Dana Elfin; and four grandchildren.


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Stool make-over with Poetic Blue
A while ago I received this vintage stool from my aunt. I loved the shape and wanted to give it a fresh look, so I decided to go with Classico chalk-based paint in colour "Poetic Blue" by Pure & Original. The reason to go with a chalk-based paint is the natural and matte finish, besides the beautiful finish it is also easy to work with, and requires only minimal preparation. Success guaranteed! Another significant advantage of Classico; no wax needed.
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General rule: Make sure that the substrate is free of wax, silicones, and grease.
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Online grocer Redmart has voluntarily recalled chilled meat and seafood which were not stored in accordance with temperature standards at its Jurong warehouse.
Explaining the recall, a spokesman said on Tuesday: "The temperature in one of our cold chambers could not be maintained at the optimal level for storing fresh meat and seafood."
So, on Oct 1, the four-year-old store contacted consumers who bought and received the affected products between Sept 22 and Oct 1, and gave them a full refund and goodwill store credit.
The spokesman said that "a very small number reported potential illness", and that Redmart was investigating further.
Most customers who contacted the store were checking the status of their refunds, he added.
The online supermarket also put up a recall notice on its website and social media platforms.
It also discarded all affected items in the warehouse and asked customers to do the same.
Some of the items that were found not to be stored at the right temperatures were Australian pork, Kee Song chicken and Hai Sia seafood.
Redmart also cancelled future orders for the affected products, and told the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) of the incident.
About 2 per cent of Redmart's customers were affected in this case, the first time such an incident had happened, the spokesman said.
AVA said it was aware of the recall and that the affected products were no longer on sale.
"Consumers are advised to dispose of the affected products and not to consume them," an AVA spokesman said.
Consuming products which have not been stored at the right temperatures can cause food poisoning, said general practitioner Yik Keng Yeong. "When the temperature is too high, bacteria can multiply. Depending on the amount of bacteria, symptoms can appear in one or two hours, or in a few days," said Dr Yik.
Symptoms include nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
While its cold chamber has been fixed, Redmart, which started selling chilled and frozen items last October, is ensuring that the temperatures are stable before storing and selling these products again, possibly by the end of the week.
"A full investigation is under way to examine the cause of this incident and to ensure that such an incident does not happen again," its spokesman said.
Mrs Dinah Yeo, 38, who works in the financial services industry, was one of the affected customers. She has been ordering products from Redmart regularly for about a year, and decided to get chilled fish delivered to her home recently so as to avoid going out in the hazy conditions.
She said that by the time she received an e-mail message from Redmart, she and her five-year-old son had consumed the food without incident. "I am glad that they took responsibility for it. It is not easy to own up to something like that. If they didn't, nobody may have known about it," she added.
Mrs Yeo said that while she would continue to order bulky items from Redmart,she is not sure if she would order fresh food again.
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Adventure Motorcyclist: Frazier Shrugged
After six global circumnavigations by motorcycle and being described as "America's No. 1 extreme motorcycle adventurer," Dr. Gregory W. Frazier has again shaken, or at the very least wobbled, the motorcycling community with this entertaining, knowledgeable, humorous—some may call it existential—view of the adventure motorcycling world.
Hundreds of Frazier's personal and occasionally secret tips and tricks to successful adventure motorcycling are presented in Adventure Motorcyclist: Frazier Shrugged. Whether you are a newbie or old hand in this class of motorcycle adventure seekers, you'll find plenty of thoughtful takeaways along with a healthy dose of lampooning in this read.
On the topic of his latest book, Frazier says, "I don't anoint myself as the best, but after a million motorcycling miles I've been successful enough to still keep learning and laughing at my mistakes as well as those of others."
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LATE player/coach comments, 10/13
- DE Antonio Coleman on his powwow with
Vito CorleoneGene Chizik on Monday: ``It went great. I went up and talked about the defense. He's a very understanding guy. We sat down, had words, nothing serious. It was a great chat. I chatted with him about all the small things that caused us to lose, the things we have to correct."
- More on that meeting: ``The first five games were great -- flying around and having fun. The sixth game was a tough loss. We didn't go out and we weren't prepared. I went up and talked about what our mindset was and how I thought the guys on the team were reacting to that loss. That opened our eyes. We're a much better football team just learning from that loss."
- LB Joshua Bynes on today's practice: ``Today was a great practice, very physical. Coach Chizik wanted it. The offense was going against the defense at the beginning of practice setting the tone. The scout team was even physical. All you heard all practice were pads clacking, everybody was getting after it. It's been a long time since we've heard things like
- Gus Malzahn on the need for more threats at wideout: ``The longer you go the more you have to have a third guy or even a fourth guy. Some guys to get involved and take some pressure off our main guys. We're working hard to do that and we're hoping we have some guys in the wings that can do that."
- TB Onterio McCalebb on ... cold weather: ``They said it's supposed to be cold again. We're supposed to play a night game, so I have to get prepared for that. It will be my first game that's like this, me playing football like this. I'm from Florida. I ain't used to playing in some cold like this. I'm used to playing in the heat. But I'm adjusting to it well and I'm ready to go."


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Update, 10/17/13: We have a winner. Congrats to Brad Mann. Brad and a guest will be our guests at the show. Thanks to everybody else for the other entries.
It just wouldn't be October without DeVotchKa's annual Halloween extravaganza. This year, the beloved Denver act is holding court at the Gothic Theatre on Thursday, October 31, and the Boulder Theater on the following night, Friday, November 1. Shady Elders (who just premiered its new video, "Summer Song," which you can peep below) is slated to open the first night. We've got a pair of tickets to the Gothic show up for grabs, and we'd love for you and a guest to be our guest. Continue on to enter.
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by Phyllis Shearer
from Jump
Cut, no. 16, 1977, p. 5
LUMIÈRE glitters but does not illuminate its subject, women actresses. Writer-director-star of the film, Jeanne Moreau, has given us a lush, pretty movie that is intellectually out of focus. We see privileged women languishing on the pedestal of success as the film pretends to explore the intersection of their roles as actresses and as women. But LUMIÈRE just flavors the ideas it provokes with a touch of this and a dab of that, never raising any essential interpretation of its own subject.
There is little humor or anguish in LUMIÈRE that might explain the characters it pretends to study. In the role she herself plays, Moreau only touches slightly on a certain ennui felt in being at the top of one's profession. In a succession of vignettes about four movie actresses, the film simply centers around how they feel about who they are as women — especially privileged women.
At the film's opening they meet at Moreau's summer home for a respite from their work. There they share confessional conversations as they drink wine and eat elegant food in a hilltop house overlooking a lake. They imply that only they, as actresses, can appreciate their special secrets. All their discussions revolve around men they have known — fathers, first lovers, husbands, ex-husbands, and current lovers. Gradually it becomes apparent that men, over other influences, define them. The film never suggests that these women might have achieved their success without men. Moreau isn't concerned with how skilled, accomplished actresses function in their professional and private lives, but with how it feels to be a part of an exclusive group.
We keep wanting to see another dimension of the women. Moreau establishes the framework without furnishing the detail. She does not show us whole people at all but merely subdivides and classifies her characters into types, especially into categories that favor the sensuous part of a woman. Two of the actresses are mothers (Francine Racette and Lucia Bose) but we never know what demands their families make on them. Another actress (Caroline Cartier) spends most of the movie bickering with a jealous boyfriend. The fourth, played by Jeanne Moreau, is everybody's darling, the clichéd "toast of Paris" — the bonne vivante of the movie world. These "European" stereotypes show us people who are sought-after women first and actresses second.
When famous actress takes on the project of directing a film about actresses' lives, she could demystify the glamorous aspect of what most of us know in truth to be hard work. Furthermore, if, as Moreau maintains, women talk to women better than to men, why isn't LUMIÈRE talking directly and honestly to women instead of hiding behind fluff and opulence? Actresses and women directors (when they finally get the chance through their own projects) need to force the movie industry to free their image from the stereotypical modes of the past. Although actresses today consistently bemoan the parts offered them, LUMIÈRE provides nothing new. Shirley MacLaine, for one, has discussed this problem in terms of her own career.
"The only good parts I ever got were hookers … Naturally, I took them because I wanted to be successful. That's why I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up — sociologically, politically, and creatively — I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror."(1)
Actresses have to make compromises in their choice of roles, but Moreau does not either raise this issue within her film or do much as a director to change it. Ellen Burstyn abhors this aspect of movie making and what it does to audiences.
"We've seen enough of women as whores, boring wives, insipid, frightened little Jane Austen characters, or the instruments of destruction … I don't think actresses should be unaware of what they're contributing to. People get their ideas about life from the movies. I got my idea of life from the movies more than I did from life. What are we offering to girls? Whores, boring mothers… If women in films are willing to do something about it — instead of sitting back and saying, 'they're writing songs of love, but not for me,' a great deal can be accomplished."(2)
Moreau is also not honest in LUMIÈRE about the competition actresses must engage in to get the occasional good part. In her film the women exhibit a strong camaraderie and understanding for each other. How did it get that way? How do these women as a group, or individually, deal with the abuses, the disappointments, and the scarcity of good roles the industry offers them? How could these protagonists arrive at such a state of union and harmony?
LUMIÈRE depicts a little-girl world with women who act baffled by the complexities that surround them. Moreau does not analyze the real complexities — she ignores them. Innocence prevails. The women stay young and beautiful, albeit with a limited consciousness, forever. In keeping with this tone, Moreau avoids close ups of Lucia Bose, who portrays an over-forty actress who is pregnant and worried as she tries to understand her fading beauty, her wandering husband and her two growing children. These very real and recognizable circumstances are ones many women experience but they are uncomfortable to Moreau's camera. In distant long shorts, Bose's facial details are lost and buried against the background. We may not look too closely at this woman's pain, for an aging face and perhaps some wrinkles would fill the frame.
Jeanne Moreau seems to keep playing her Catherine in JULES AND JIM — a little older and more seasoned, but sadly no wiser. In Truffaut's hands the complex Catherine was always an enigma whose childish, egocentric will prevailed because of her selfishness. Yet feminist filmmakers cannot "inherit" and easily integrate into their work those images of women produced by classic cinema, even when those images are supposedly positive. Here those images and LUMIÈRE itself reconstruct the typical social relation of male directors to actresses. In LUMIÈRE Moreau gives herself a more generous role to play than Catherine but maintains her position of power, for as director and writer she has created the other roles to suit her narcissism. All the women in the film are alter egos of herself.
The men's roles are as vapid as the women's. Moreau has a friendship with a scientist (François Simon) who loves her. She seeks his scholarly perseverance in trying to cure a disease never mentioned, but he never comes to function as a whole person. In the plot he is merely an elegant addendum, some cultivated touch to raise Moreau's movie star's self-esteem. Keith Carradine, the only U.S. actor in the film, seems to represent American decadence, in contrast to the Parisian variety, as he confidently tries to seduce one of the actresses in clumsy French with clumsy gestures. These facile, one-dimensional portraits are either offensive or a total bore, or both.
The many mirrors in LUMIÈRE reflect more than glossy surfaces, but the visual images stay superficial and one-sided. There is a positive surfeit of beds. So much centers around the bedroom. Moreau receives and makes phone calls to her lovers from her king-size bed. Meaningful confessional conversations between women occur as they sit on beds. The young bickering couple, he stewing with jealous accusations, she tight-lipped and incensed, argue, guess where? What is Moreau saying with all these beds and bedrooms? Like hiding places existing by themselves, they seem intended as a respite but also as some curious lifeline to the movie's message about women. Again and again, Moreau reinforces the sensual side of a woman's nature by having half of her hidden under the covers. Is a woman more womanly, more inviting as a person, more appealing couched cozily in a bed? Is that her best physical attitude? If so, it was better done in 1938 with DINNER AT EIGHT, which did not take itself nearly as seriously as LUMIÈRE does. When Jean Harlow, propped up in bed, played coy, we knew it was an act. She oozed ambition from behind that coy facade and from beneath those silk sheets. Snarling at her maid in one breath, cooing at her oafish husband and trying to get what she wanted in the next. And then, pretending sophistication on the telephone while speaking with a sought-after hostess, she revealed her aggression and ambition. Harlow's bedroom perfectly framed her strategy for upward social mobility. Moreau's bedrooms are a pretense, a fraud, aimed only at sensuality in a vacuum.
Finally, the movie disappoints us precisely in this regard — about what it means to be an actress. We do get an occasional glimpse of Moreau's character on the movie set, at which time LUMIÈRE is about a movie within a movie. The cameras, the technicians, the complicated lighting equipment, the large crew all assemble for us to see. But as with the opening sequences at the summer home, these sequences do not show the bustle and activity of a movie set but have a deadness of composition and design. We do not see Moreau's character working at her craft, but rather in the last scene of the film, she sits carefully poised before a camera for a screen test.
This is the real work situation — the relationship between film actresses as workers among other workers — which Moreau could have explored and did not. However, the way in which she chose not to do this is instructive for feminist filmmaking. Instead of exploring how people work together when they make films, she focused in on the individual sensitive woman. That emphasis on the subjective and personal to the exclusion of everything else serves to reinforce the vulgar notion of what belongs to a woman's world and to a woman's art.
Recently informed of the death of her friend, the scientist (a suicide when he discovered that he was dying), Moreau collapses into tears, submitting to her grief. Apologizing to the camera crew and lighting technicians, she attempts to regain composure for the test. The scene ends and goes to black, ending the movie. Are these tears of recognition for not caring more for her friend? Are they part of knowing she has been thoughtless? Does this moment stun Moreau into reality — one she cannot act out? If the camera continued running would it capture a true or manipulated grief. Or is this sequence portraying "the show must go on" brand of reality? When I got to that point in LUMIÈRE, I realized that I was making up my own scenario.
Unfortunately, the film's ending was for me its beginning. That was when it started saying something complex about the life of an actress. But too little, too late. Freeze frame, cut, go to credits.
1. Lee Israel, "Saving An Endangered Species," Ms., No. 8 (February, 1975) p. 55.
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The MNHN's mummy collection is composed of 63 complete mummies, of which 33 Egyptian, 23 South-American and 7 of other origins, as well as 52 isolated mummy heads from Egypt and South America, and other body parts.
In the 18th century, mummies and mummy parts were isolated curiosities that were collected for the Jardin du Roi (now the Jardin des Plantes). This was the case, for instance, with the "green hand" from Méry-sur-Oise and the child's body, presumably Gallo-Roman, from Martres-d'Artières. After the French Revolution, the creation of the MNHN led to more systematic collections that were enriched by numerous donors, including Mariette for Egypt.
A research team at the Anthropology laboratory is specifically devoted to the study of mummies. Using techniques like 3D scanning, palaeogenetics and many others, they analyse and identify the health of the individuals who were mummified.
A platform dedicated to the conservation of the collection also lends its expertise to the restoration of a number of pieces from outside institutions. The mummies are stored in a climate-controlled space. For reasons of conservation and ethics, they are rarely displayed in public.


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HOTTA is one of famous brand from New Concept Product Co., Ltd., which is a leading health and herbal food manufacturer in Thailand more than 30 years of experience with the vision to provide a better solution for improving health and reducing obesity problem among people through the commitment in producing the best quality product for consumers.
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Marijuana and Methamphetamine Seized from Tires in CAPosted on May 4, 2014
On Sunday, May 4, 2014, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers referred a 1994 Ford Explorer for further inspection at the Andrade port of entry in California.
With the use of a density meter, officers noted abnormalities within the vehicle's spare tire. A pursuant canine sniff also alerted to the presence of narcotics in the area of the tire. When the tire was opened, officers discovered 10 packages of marijuana to be concealed inside. The street value of this find is estimated at over $22,000.
The driver, a 42-year-old Mexican female, was arrested by the Imperial County Sherriff's Office.
The following day, Monday, May 5, 2014, officers at this same port of entry also referred a 2011 Chevrolet Cheyenne pickup for further inspection.
A search of this vehicle uncovered another 10 packages of narcotics to be concealed inside the vehicle's spare tire. In this incident, the packages contained methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $162,000.
The driver, a 39-year-old Mexican female, was taken into custody and handed over to Homeland Security Investigations.
The vehicles and narcotics from both incidents were seized by U.S. Custom and Border Protection officers.