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|No. 342 February 2, 2005
|Victoria, B.C.
To past and future Botany BC participants:
The evening of Thursday May 26th 2005 marks the start of the 20th Botany BC. This year's event is being held in the thriving village of Lytton BC at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. Botany BC 2005 will continue until Sunday May 29th 2005 and will feature exciting trips into the Stein and Botanie Valleys, scintillating, humorous and educational speakers/presentations as well as other creative activities. Further details, including an itinerary and registration forms will be posted on the Botany BC website http://members.shaw.ca/dmeidinger/botanybc/ by the end of February.
I want to thank the members of the Academy for inviting me to speak here tonight-the first ever keynote address at the Oscars. It is a great honor, and I feel privileged to be in the company of the other incredibly talented nominees. Addressing all you glittering stars here in the Kodak Theatre, and all of you, the billionsome movie fans in the worldwide television audience, well, truly it's stunning!
As you know, I am an educator as well as a botanist, so to introduce my topic I want to start out with a quiz. Please don't get nervous; you'll get to grade yourself! But see if you can identify the movie in which the following botanically oriented character appears:
How did you do, Jack? And you, Nicole?
The answers will follow, I promise.
The function of this quiz is to point out to you how often we don't notice what is right in front of us. Scholars tell us that one of the best ways to learn is to have questions in mind, to always be looking for something.
As a movie lover and a botanist, I notice when plants and botanists show up in film. It's an Aha! moment. And believe me, these moments don't occur as often as I would like. In my remarks tonight, I want to subject the movies to the lens of botanical science-the study of the foundation of all life on the planet.
Without the photosynthetic mechanism of green plants to capture the sun's energy, life on earth would not exist. Their role in our daily lives as food, fuel, fiber, medicine, building material, and aesthetic objects gives them importance as a filmic subject.
Is it just that familiarity breeds contempt? Yet how many people are actually familiar with the plants (or the botanists) around them.
One of our roles as botanists is to name the diversity of plants, and by naming it, make it visible. A first question we all ask is "what is it?" You have to know what to call something if you are to see it well.
Plants of power and mystery do crop up in the movies every now and then. The bloodthirsty plant in Little Shop of Horrors, the tree that kept Merlin captive in Camelot, the edelweiss in The Sound of Music, and the poppies in the Wizard of Oz -these and more populated the movies I grew up with. As my eye for plants developed, I also noticed some botanical howlers. The Southern California oaks and chaparral out back of Los Angeles stood in for "the West" in countless westerns. I saw green clothespins holding on the bean leaves in The Milagro Beanfield Wars. The Last of the Mohicans featured tall shrubs of Rhododendron in what was supposed to be upstate New York. If you film in South Carolina, the botanists in the audience are going to figure it out.
I don't mention these botanical gaffes to demean my colleagues, the "greens" staff whose names are buried in the credits. Their work often creates remarkable and diverse impressions, such as the gardens in Howard's End and A Room with a View, or the topiaries in Edward Scissorhands. No doubt the greens workers, like most botanists, labor under difficult conditions, tight schedules, and budgetary constraints.
Plants in movies are rarely central to the plot, even if they figure large in the setting. The same can be said of botanists in film. Their work seldom drives the plot, unlike that of cops, murderers, and spies. You'll see that botanists frequently portray stereotypes or personify societal anxieties.
Throughout the nineteenth century, botany ruled. Clubs, outings, and specimen exchanges enrolled participants in the tens of thousands. When botany was so popular, it was considered a genteel and healthy activity for girls and women, thus tainting it as an endeavor for boys and men. Botany held less value than more masculine pursuits.
One editorial lamented that "the boy who, having an eye to see and a heart to feel the beautiful in nature, undertakes to master the charming science is taunted as a 'girl-boy' and as unmanly."
By 1887, when botany was shifting from the study of natural history and an emphasis on taxonomy to more experimental work in fields such as plant physiology and ecology, the journal Science published an article titled "Is Botany a Suitable Study for Young Men?" It argued that botany was indeed appropriate for men who were "able-bodied and vigorous brained."
Botanists of various stripes have been popping up in films since the 1920s, and in the first half of the twentieth century they reflected this idea, that botany wasn't quite a manly profession. This attitude shows up in films such as Local Boy Makes Good (1931) in which a timid, bookish botany major pines for a beautiful coed. He is a proverbial ninety- eight pound weakling, but one who overcomes his limitations (and his interest in botany) to win a track meet and get the girl. In the French film classic Grand Illusion (1937), Erich von Stroheim plays the stern and upstanding German commandant of a World War I prisoner of war camp, complete with monocle and stiffly buttonedup uniform. He summons an imprisoned aristocratic Frenchman to his office. When the Frenchman observes the one bright spot of color in the prison, a potted geranium on the windowsill, the commandant says scornfully "We are not just botanists here." As if to say, botanists could not be soldiers, could not be men.
In Ball of Fire, a 1941 movie starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, this botanist-as-wimp stereotype reaches its peak. Cooper plays Professor Potts, an awkward but handsome grammarian who lives with seven other scholars, including a botanist (Richard Haydn). Cooper recruits Stanwyck, a lounge singer named Sugarpuss O'Shea, to help him with his research into slang. The botanist is the only one of the scholars who is a widower, not a bachelor, so he is considered a man of the world, and capable of giving Cooper/Potts advice on love. But our botanist wears an old fashioned (even for the 1940s) high starched collar, a wing coat, a white bushy mustache, and pince nez glasses that hang from a chain. He walks with his chin thrust forward and his rear stuck out behind, slightly stooped and clearly silly. His voice emerges from halfway down his throat, as if he were gargling with marbles, and he enunciates his words with overelaborate care.
Toward the end of the film, when the road to true love isn't running smooth for Sugarpuss and Professor Potts, the botanist tells about his long ago honeymoon in the Alps. He compares women with the trembling windflower, Anemone nemorosa, enunciating this scientific name carefully in a cascade of syllables. He emphasizes that a woman must be treated with utmost delicacy, or like an Anemone nemorosa that has been visited by an unruly bee, all will be lost.
During their honeymoon, he says that his bride produced a collection of fourteen excellent watercolors, and that each evening he kissed the palm of her hand. Even now he is stunned at his boldness.
The botanist's name? Professor Oddly.
After World War II, the climate in American films shifted for botanists. While still all male and white, they could be botanists and consummate heterosexuals. In 1949's Family Honeymoon, the "bachelor botany professor" is plagued with a scheming ex- girlfriend after he marries a widow with three children. The Snow Creature (1954) features a botanist adventurer whose collecting expedition to the Himalayas nets not only plant specimens, but an abominable snowman who escapes captivity to murder and pillage in New York.
All that Heaven Allows (1955) features Jane Wyman as Cary Scott, an upper middle class suburban widow who falls in love with her gardener. Rock Hudson plays Ron Kirby, the gardener who is "taken with trees." He points out to Cary that she has a Koelreuteria, or golden chain tree, growing on her patio, and that the Chinese say a house will be full of love with that species growing nearby. Their relationship really takes off when he asks her "Do you want to see my silver- tip spruce?"
Kirby/Hudson is tall, dark, and handsome, with a deep voice and a well-groomed pompadour. He wears khaki pants and plaid shirts open at the neck, showing a clean white undershirt beneath. A friend of his says that Kirby "doesn't read Walden, he lives it!" A member of Cary's country club calls him "her nature boy." What a dreamboat! He's sensitive, his own man, and an ardent lover. What delicious irony that Rock Hudson, a gay man, plays this masculine heterosexual hero-a war veteran who pulls corks out of Chianti bottles with his teeth.
Ron Kirby/Rock Hudson has such a way with those Latin names! He's very botanically oriented although he defines himself a gardener and a nurseryman. He lives in a room next to his greenhouse. Botanists in film all tend to work in greenhouses or in the field. While in real life botanists do work in those settings, we also work in labs, libraries, herbaria, museums, and offices. You members of the Academy may not know that botany can encompass all branches of plant science, from plant physiology, plant anatomy and morphology, to the study of algae (phycology), fungi (mycology), and mosses (bryology), just as filmmaking involves everything from costume design and catering, to accounting and acting.
Botanists can study ecosystems, whole organisms, cells, or molecules. Some botanists never set foot in the field, but most will work in a laboratory at some point, or collaborate with someone who does. Labs and offices are less picturesque than greenhouses or jungles, and I can understand why you filmmakers rarely or briefly show them in most movies.
Incidental botanist sightings occur in a number of films. In E.T.-The Extraterrestrial (1982) the space creatures come to earth to collect botanical specimens-that is what E.T.'s parents are doing when he gets separated from them. They are hurriedly gathering species in the dark, a difficult working situation for any botanist. In Jurassic Park (1993), Laura Dern plays a palaeobotanist. She has just a little time to ooh and ahh over some living examples of extinct plants before she starts running for her life.
In Cousin, Cousine (1975), a French romantic comedy, cousins by marriage start a relationship with each other. Ludovic (Victor Lanoux), the male cousin of this pair, is a free spirit; he changes occupations every three years. The job before last was as a mycologist; he found a prize specimen of Boletus parasiticus. When I saw this film, the college-aged audience laughed knowingly, in a way that reminded me that most people think of fungi primarily as mushrooms, and that "mushrooms" can have a psychedelic connotation. This character's charm depended in part on his dilettantism, although in real life a three-year long acquaintance with fungi is hardly sufficient time to develop the proficiency he claims. Botany attracts a certain number of dilettantes, as do other fields, but botany also draws many obsessive-compulsive personalities. How else could people find themselves specializing in phallic and foul-smelling corpseflowers and stinkhorns?
Silent Running (1971) is one film in which botany is central to the plot. Bruce Dern (father of Laura Dern) plays Lowell Freeman, a scientist who continues to maintain his spaceship- greenhouse in opposition to the rest of his crew and contrary to orders from the authorities. He is trying to save Earth's plant life after the planet has become too polluted to support it. Freeman sets his spaceship greenhouse loose into the outer beyond, and his only companions are the small robots and the plants on board his ship. The robots take on more and more endearing qualities, but the dialogue devolves into a series of monologues from Dern's character, with some chirps and squeaks from the machines. At least he doesn't talk to the plants.
This free man, a man of conscience, is torn over losing human companionship but he commits himself to preserving what remains of Earth's plant life. He'll never know the ultimate fate of his space- bound, photosynthesizing cargo. In this way, his circumstance echoes our own, whether we are botanists or not, as stewards of life on this planet with a responsibility not only to our own species but also to life as it has evolved here. This life that may be unique in the universe, despite the hundreds of science fiction films that posit otherwise.
Freeman grows long hair and a beard, and he wears a series of oh-so-seventies caftans. Although he's a man of principle, his taste in clothes strikes us now as laughable, even embarrassing. What to wear in the field is always a troubling mix of practicality and fashion.
Another botanist with sartorial difficulties emerged in the 1971 film, A New Leaf. Walter Matthau plays Henry Graham, a monumentally selfcentered rogue who has run through all his own money; to stay solvent he must marry a rich woman within six weeks. The object of his scheming is the marvelous Elaine May playing Henrietta Lowell, a socially inept and clumsy botanist and heiress who forgets to clip the tags off her new clothes. She is a fern expert, a pteridologist. The script enhances its botanical credibility by having May's character speak excitedly about receiving correspondence from "Wagner in Michigan." The late W.H. Wagner was an eminent American pteridologist at the University of Michigan for some forty-plus years. Any botanist interested in ferns will recognize his name. In the movie, Matthau's character succeeds in wooing the toothy, spectacled taxonomist. Then, on their honeymoon, he attempts to murder her by pushing her off a cliff.
Before her rescue, while clinging to the rocks, she finds a fern species new to science. She names it after her new husband.
The character of Henrietta Lowell interests me for several reasons. Despite the "gentility" of botany and thus its suitability for women, May's character is the earliest female botanist in film that I have found. Elaine May wrote, directed, and starred in the movie, but in 1971, during the second wave of feminism, she made Henrietta awkward and mannish. This perhaps follows a comedic imperative, but it also expresses society's uncertainty about women's roles during that time.
Still, the character is ultimately, determinedly her own person, with a vocation and a marriage. We see her doing what taxonomists do: finding and naming and classifying life on the planet. Her interest in science is not predicated by any ideas of usefulness for human beings, or any conservation urgency, or any spiritual calling. She doesn't give a reason for her engagement with her study; she doesn't feel that she needs to.
Early in the 1990s, as a working botanist, I had a brush with the film industry myself. At the University of Washington Herbarium I received a call one day from an assistant set dresser for the film The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. The movie was being filmed in Seattle. My heart beat fast, my face flushed, I was all atwitter-was this the start of my career as Botanist to the Stars? Little did I know I would end up here on stage in front of you tonight!
The set dresser asked me to look around and tell her what I saw. What was on the walls of my office? Surely I had some botanical prints they could rent for their set? I told her about the dull brown metal bookshelves, stuffed with fraying nineteenth century books. I described the smudged white walls that surrounded me, and how ranks of seven-foot tall cabinets filled most of the room. I explained that I sat in a windowless basement, with a ten- dollar wildflower calendar hanging above my desk.
In The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992), Annabella Sciorra plays Claire, who is building a greenhouse in her backyard. The house she shares with her picturesque family sits in one of Seattle's tonier neighborhoods. Unlike my office, her home is clean, bright, cheerful, and tastefully decorated with art prints and area rugs. My input didn't appear to have had much effect.
Claire also volunteers at a city park greenhouse (filmed at Seattle's Volunteer Park Conservatory), which provides another colorful backdrop. She says that the Conservatory is "one big botanist family" that talks about "root rot and the drainage properties of shredded bark." I think the script consultant who talked with my colleague at the University greenhouse paid better attention than the set dresser; drainage and root rot are big topics. In the film, Claire and her husband hire a nanny, the toogood-to-be true Peyton Flanders (Rebecca De Mornay). This woman proves to be a psychopath, and she uses the backyard greenhouse to commit a grisly, glass shattering murder. The botany here is subservient to the plot's expression of societal tension. The film demonstrates a profound misogyny, in keeping with 1990s apprehensions about yuppie women "having it all." While purportedly showing Claire's fulfilling life with her loving husband, cute kids, affluence, and satisfying avocation, the real message is that Claire should stay at home with her children. She shouldn't need a nanny.
The early 1990s were a hard time to be a woman botanist in the movies. In Green Card, Andie MacDowell plays Bront Mitchell, a New Yorker desperate for an apartment that includes a greenhouse. This is no little rooftop hothouse built from a kit, with listing shelves of vegetable seedlings. Rather, it's reminiscent of a Victorian conservatory, with high arched ceilings and mature plantings. To be able to lease this apartment, she must convince the building's board that she is married, which is how she hooks up with Georges Faure (Gerard Depardieu), a French musician who wants to stay in the United States. At the beginning of the film, Bront's occupation is the nicest thing about her: she facilitates the provision of garden spaces in the city. Otherwise she is a hard driving hardass, selfish, self-centered, dishonest, and unethical. During the course of the film, the sensitive artist Georges teaches the rude scientist Bront how to be nicer, more genuine, and more compassionate.
Then consider the treatment of Dr. Rae Crane (Lorraine Bracco) in Medicine Man (1992). This film intends to show the environmental urgency of rainforest destruction-how the tropical rainforest is the repository of so many of the planet's resources, and yet we don't know or understand all that lives there. Sean Connery plays Robert Campbell, a botanist who has requested a research assistant from the private foundation that funds him. He's been incommunicado for the past three years but now he seems to have found something important, although he's not saying what. Rae Crane's occupation isn't explicitly stated although her self introduction implies that she is a plant biochemist. She journeys to Campbell's rainforest compound, bringing with her a gas chromatograph and the other supplies he requested.
Campbell is by turns rude, arrogant, demanding, mysterious, and officious. He expresses scorn for Crane on all levels. He ridicules her expectations for food and a place to sleep. He jeers at her boots and her lack of field experience. And he derides her gender. Bracco's character shrieks and gesticulates, repeatedly demands a bath, and threatens to withdraw funding for his research program. Clearly, they deserve each other.
All this bad behavior must be for dramatic effect, of course. We moviegoers rarely reward films in which people are nice to each other with blockbuster attendance records. In my experience, however, most scientists in remote field locations go to great lengths to extend courtesies to one another across divides of culture, gender, age, and nationality. If field biologists are new to a location or a culture, they will go without rather than presume. If they are hosting visitors, they will try their utmost to provide information and comforts to new arrivals. Incivility and arrogance can certainly be found in plant science, but among botanists in the field I have rarely encountered it.
Despite his rudeness, Connery's character is deeply, almost fanatically, committed to his research, to the rainforest, and to the people he is living among. Early in the film he subjects Crane to a medical exam so that she won't infect the native people with any diseases she might be carrying. A noble sentiment, profoundly at odds with historical precedent, but made ludicrous by the superficial medical knowledge portrayed in the exam; it is the screenplay's excuse for Campbell to probe Crane and to set up the inevitable love-thang between them. Unfortunately, this begins a long series of scientific inanities in the movie. When Connery's character says, in his mellifluous brogue, "I found the cure for cancer, but I lost it," he is giving voice to farcical popular misconceptions about science. The idea that one scientist, working alone in a rustic, palm- roofed, field station, could know that he had a cure for anything-let alone cancer, which is really many different diseases.well, that is so ludicrous that I choked, laughing, on my popcorn.
Now, my point here is not that I am so much smarter about the workings of science than the screenwriters who developed this script. I understand that drama has exigencies of its own, and that a Hollywood film is primarily about entertainment and not education-although we all learn from movies, whether that is their intention or not. The plot of Medicine Man disappoints me precisely because it has so much potential to say something true, or at least pertinent, about the tropical rainforests' importance to humans and to the planet.
At least in Medicine Man the botanist's work is central to the story, which isn't the case in almost all of the other movies in which botanists appear. You could replace "horticulturist and greenhouse" with "photographer and darkroom." Or "botanist on an expedition" with nearly any other kind of field scientist (e.g., geologist, zoologist, entomologist). The occupation of most of these botanically oriented characters is secondary to the main drivers of the plot, which are usually love, murder, mayhem, or all three.
With Chris Cooper's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as John Larroche in Adaptation (2002) to start off the century, I have great hopes for botanical presence in films to come. Are you listening Harvey Weinstein? How about you Steven Spielberg? And you, Martin Scorsese? John Larroche is worlds away from Elaine May's timid pteridologist, but he too follows his own way. He is disrespectful of authority, convinced of his own righteous opinions, but he has a painful past that makes him sympathetic. He's no better than he has to be, but he's awfully good at what he does.
Adaptation works on many levels, but John Larroche fascinates Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), the journalist who is writing about him, precisely because of his passion. It's his passion she's hot for. Well, maybe it's the drugs, too. But her urban jadedness contrasts with his rugged, working-class enthusiasms, in a tradition that can be traced at least as far back as Lady Chatterley's lover. The cross-cultural romance is one of film's stocks in trade. Certainly the class transgression is part of the draw in All that Heaven Allows. We see it also in Greenfingers (2000) when sexy lout Colin Briggs (Clive Owens) and his fellow prisoners create a garden that attracts the attention of horticulture diva Georgina Woodhouse (Helen Mirren in some fabulous hats). Clive Owen and the diva's daughter start a romance, and the diva herself takes up with one of the other gardener-convicts.
Beyond being a working class hunk, what John Larroche does in Adaptation is find and grow orchids. He tantalizes Susan Orlean with his obsessive curiosity. When she meets him, his interest is orchids. Before that it was fish. And will be something else. But when he is interested in something, he gives it his all. That rings true for me. The botanists I know tend to be impassioned about their subject. This can be lucky for them, to be so committed and engaged in their work when so many others have less passion about what they do.
Perhaps it is similar to a mania for filmmaking? In Adaptation we see screenwriter Charlie Kauffman (Nicholas Cage) tormented as he wrestles with the unwieldy but fascinating material of Orlean's book The Orchid Thief. Ultimately he opts for the conventions of cinematic storytelling, with drugs, guns, car chases, and murder. This serves as a commentary on his creative struggle, but more importantly it slyly scrutinizes-and lampoons-the expectations of Hollywood and the movie consumer.
Well, this consumer loves a movie that makes me laugh and cry! Your industry understandably focuses primarily on the human condition. But while some movies do show concern for issues of social justice, more often they dwell on sensationalistic crimes, infidelities, and explosions. Film is another medium where we as a species show our almost complete focus on ourselves. This anthropocentrism may be our ultimate undoing. I suggest that the intersection of humans and nature at large-and not just big animals with sharp teeth-offer a fertile ground for the practitioners of your art.
Botanical and other scientific adventures can be exciting and rich. There are big stories to explore here. Spectacular stories could be told about the science of plants: their discovery, their use, the tragedies of habitat loss and the extinction crisis. I'm thinking about Erin Brockovich-type stories of halting development to preserve biodiversity.
I'm thinking about the heroism of Soviet scientists who literally starved to death rather than eat the seeds they were charged with preserving during World War II. I'm thinking about larger than life, colorful characters:
These are just some of the possibilities. You are the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences! I invite you to consider how your art, your science can interact with the green life that supports us all. There are a million stories in the naked herbaria, laboratories, and greenhouses of the world.
What would happen if you make plants and our planet more central to your art? The winner would be ... all of us.
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I love the possibilities of SVG.
And in the current landscape of mind-blowing retina displays, we can't ignore them. Chris Coyier gives a great overview of using them; I used his technique recently in a project. It worked great! I highly recommend it.
Also be sure to check out Kyle Foster's SVG workflow video if you're setting all this up for the first time.

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ZolpiMist is a sedative-hypnotic (sleep) medicine. ZolpiMist is used in adults
for the short-term treatment of a sleep problem called insomnia.
ZolpiMist (zolpidem tartrate) Oral Spray is indicated for the short-term treatment of insomnia characterized by difficulties with sleep initiation. Zolpidem tartrate has been shown to decrease sleep latency for up to 35 days in controlled clinical studies. The clinical trials performed in support of efficacy were 4-5 weeks in duration with the final formal assessments of sleep latency performed at the end of treatment.
Complex sleep behaviors including sleep-walking, sleep-driving, and engaging in other activities while not fully awake may occur following use of ZolpiMist. Some of these events may result in serious injuries, including death. Discontinue ZolpiMist immediately if a patient experiences a complex sleep behavior.


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International Driving Permit
If you intend to drive in Japan based on foreign licence, you must obtain an International Driving Permit before arrival. Once you arrive in Japan with one, you are all set for a year (unless you plan on driving a motorcycle or scooter). It is valid for 1 year from the date that you arrive in Japan. If you stay for over a year, you will have to get a Japanese licence.
Note that there are some countries, such as France, Germany, and Switzerland, that issue international permits that are not recognized by Japan. If you have a license from one of those countries, it is possible to drive for one year with an official Japanese translation of your license. You can apply for this at the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF). Information can be found here.
Converting Your Foreign License to a Japanese License (Cars)
If you are in Japan for over a year, you will need to get one. You can only use an IDP in Japan for a maximum period of one year from the initial date of entry (arrival in Japan), or until the expiration date on the permit, whichever comes first. If you don't have a license from your home country or cannot prove that you were in that country for at least three months after getting the license, you will need to take driving courses here in Japan. These can be time consuming and are very expensive. Luckily, most people will be able to transfer a foreign license into a Japanese one.
Some countries and states have agreements with Japan that make it very easy to get a Japanese license. People who have received Japanese licenses in the past also fall under this group. All you have to do is go to the Driver's License Center with your documents, take an eye test, and fill out some paperwork.
As of April 1, 2022, the list of countries/states that have these agreements in place are:
South Korea
State of Hawaii, USA*
State of Indiana, USA*+
State of Maryland, USA*
State of Ohio, USA*
State of Virginia, USA*
State of Washington, USA*
New Zealand
Czech Republic
|Europe (cont.)
* does not apply to other states in the United States of America
+ only the driving test is waived; the written test is still required
For more information, please check this website here. (Japanese)
You only need to have a license from one of these countries, you do not necessarily have to be a national of the country your license is from.
If you don't have a license from one of these countries or states, the process is a bit more complicated. In addition to all of the same documents, you will need to take a written test and a practical driving test. The written test, which is offered in English, Japanese, and Chinese, is very easy. It consists of ten true or false questions. The driving test is more difficult and often takes multiple tries to pass.
It is a good idea to begin this process a few months before your International Permit expires in order to accommodate waiting time for the JAF translation and crowded times at the Driver's License Center as many other recontracting ALTs also try to get their licenses.
Follow these steps:
STEP 1 – Check that your home country's license meets certain specific criteria.
- It must say "date of issue" or "issue date." The date of issue must be at least three months prior to your arrival in Japan.
- If your home license uses a different term to refer to the date you received your license or if it does not include this information at all, you will need to obtain a letter from the licensing center in your home country (state/province) stating the date when your license was issued.
- If you renewed your license within three months of coming to Japan, you will need to obtain a driving record or letter from the licensing center in your home country (State/Province) stating the date when your first driver's license was issued.
- If you received a license for the very first time within three months of coming to Japan, you will not be able to convert to a Japanese license and will need to obtain a Japanese license from the start (i.e. by attending driving school) in order to drive in Japan.
STEP 2 – You will need to get your home country's license officially translated into Japanese.
- This can only be done at your country's consulate or the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF). In Kumamoto, it's easiest to go with JAF. The translation costs ¥3000 and you can get it by mail through the Fukuoka branch. Either way, download the application form here.
- By mail (takes one week): send the application form, copy of home license (front and back, in color, and blown up so it is easy to read), and the ¥3500 fee plus ¥392 return postage by genkin kakitome (registered mail for cash) from any post office to the Fukuoka JAF office. The Kumamoto JAF office cannot process translation requests by mail.
Fukuoka JAF office: 5-12-27 Muromi, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken 〒814-8505 (〒814-8505 福岡市早良区室見5-12-27)
- In person at the Kumamoto JAF office: take the application form, your home license, and the ¥3500 fee to the JAF office. It is located where Dai 1 Kuko Dori (#1 Rd to the Airport) passes under the Kyushu Express way. While same day service used to be available, recently people have been asked to return in a few days to pick up the translation. You can also request the translation be mailed to you (for an extra cost). However, most likely they will just be mailing it off to Fukuoka to be translated, so you might as well skip coming to the Kumamoto JAF office and mail your documents directly to the Fukuoka office.
- If you had to get a letter from your home licensing center, you will likely need to pay to get that translated, as well. Call JAF (096-380-9200) to inquire about the process and fees. JAF can only do certain translations, so you might have to go through your consulate.
JAF Kumamoto
6-30-30 Nagaminehigashi Higashi-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto-ken
Phone: 096-380-9200
JAF Fukuoka (for requests sent by mail)
5-12-27 Muromi, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken 〒814-8505
Phone: 092-841-7000
STEP 3 – You will also need to prove that you were physically present in the country where the license was issued for more than 3 months after it was issued.
- The simplest way for most people to prove they were present in their home country is to provide university transcripts or a reference letter from a previous employer with dates that show you were in your home country for at least 3 months after you got your license. Though the Menkyo Center prefers an original, it is possible to use a photocopy of your transcripts or a reference letter from your JET application if it has an official stamp of authentication (genpon-shoumei, or 原本証明 in Japanese) from your Contracting Organization. (In order for your CO to give you an official stamp of authentication, however, they need your original transcript.) Finally, if you use a reference letter, this must also be translated into Japanese (doesn't have to be an official translation, though).
- Make sure that documents you use provide a start and end date, for example, the date when you started studying at your university and when you graduated. If your university transcript is multiple pages, provide all pages with a stamp on each one. The Menkyo Center may not use your document as proof if it only contains one date.
- Passports are also acceptable if your home country stamps the dates when you enter and exit the country. However, by practice, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom do not commonly provide exit stamps.
- The menkyo center no longer accepts pieces of postmarked mail as proof of being in the country of license issuance. It does accept utility bills, receipts from being admitted/discharged from a hospital, etc. if they clearly show the necessary dates (must be original or with genpon-shoumei).
- Make sure the dates on your documents sync up with the issue date of your license. For example, if you have gotten a new license since leaving university, your university transcript will not be sufficient since the dates on your transcript will be before the issue date of your new license.
STEP 4 – Make an appointment and go take the test!
- The menkyo center can only take 2-3 non-Japanese residents a day, so make sure to ask your tantosha to call and make an appointment for you. The menkyo center has recently been dealing with more and more requests for foreign licence transfers, so they recommend calling very far in advance.
- The number is 096-233-0116. Make sure your tantosha has your passport and foreign license in hand when she/he calls, as the menkyo center will ask for the date of issue and date of expiry on both items.
- Applications for transferring licenses are only accepted between 9:30AM and 11:00AM Monday – Friday. The license transfer process is called 外国免許切替 (がいこくめんきょきりかえ, gaikoku-menkyo-kirikae) in Japanese. Reservations can be made up to 3 months before your international driver's permit is set to expire.
- The driving test for motorcycles is only conducted on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- You cannot take more than one driving test in one day.
- When you go to the Menkyo Center, bring the following documents and items:
- Original driver's license and certificate of the issue date (if it is not shown on the license)
- Official Japanese translation of original driver's license by the Japan Automobile Federation
- An official document showing that you have been in the country that you received your driver's license from for at least three months after issuance. The best is an official college transcript. If providing copies of documents, make sure they have a stamp of authentication from your Contracting Organization.
- International Driving Permit (if you have one, to prove that you didn't drive to the center without a license)
- Residency certificate (住民票, juumin-hyo) issued within the last six months, available from your local city/town hall for 300 yen
- Residence card
- Two photographs (3cm x 2.4 cm), which can be taken at the license center
- Passport
- Inkan
- Pen or pencil/eraser for the written test
- Money (2,550 yen application fee + 2,050 yen issuance fee + 700 yen photo booth fee + extra just in case. You will have to pay the application fee every time you take the test, but the issuance fee only when you pass)
- Japanese speaker (Highly recommended if you do not speak much Japanese. Chances are no one at the center will be willing to translate for you. Please note that the Japanese speaker will not be allowed in the car with you during the driving test.)
*Further information can be found here: http://www.japandriverslicense.com/.
*Tips from an ALT from the Netherlands:
The process took me 3 months (and another ALT from France at least 1 month), people should not do this last minute. Although there seems to be an unwritten rule that the menkyo center isn't accepting applications of licenses expiring within 3 months, they'll process your application. I started in December and got my license in April. Secondly, the proof of physically being in the country for three months can be quite difficult as the menkyo center is quite picky on the 'evidence'. The thing that worked quite well for me was to contact my embassy and let them make a letter, saying that I was physically present in the Netherlands for three months. I think I could have saved 1 to 1.5 months if I had done this right away instead of using it as a last resort.
Scooter Licenses
Your International Driver's Permit does not entitle you to drive a scooter in Japan. You MUST obtain a special scooter certification. If you have a Japanese automobile license, you can use that. To get a scooter certification, please follow these steps:
- Go to the Licensing Center (免許センター, menkyo-sentaa) near Kumamoto City between 8:30 and 9 a.m. on the day you wish to take the scooter course. No appointment is necessary. If you are late they will make you come back another day.
- Register for the day's scooter course. You will have to fill out a bit of paperwork (in Japanese) for this.
- Take a written exam, in English, consisting of 46 questions plus two picture questions each divided into three parts. (If you want to take the Japanese version instead, all the kanji have furigana written over them). In order to pass you need to get 45 or more questions correct. The "Rules of the Road" can be found here (a digital download version is also available): http://www.jaf.or.jp/e/road.htm
- Take an "aptitude" test. This is nothing more than a vision test. Bring your glasses if you wear them for driving.
- Bring with you these items:
- Residence Card
- Proof of Residence (住民票, juumin-hyou), available at your municipal hall or at combinis with your "my number" card.
- A passport-sized photo (3cm x 2.4cm). If you can't get one beforehand, or forget, there's an instant photo booth at the Menkyo Center where you can get these done for ¥700.
- Something to write with. There are, apparently, no pens or pencils at the center, so bring your own.
- The total costs of the course, registration, tests, etc. will be roughly ¥10,000. Best to shoot a little higher in case a few extra fees pop up.
- Glasses (if you wear them).
- If you don't pass the test, you will be given your passport sized photo and Proof of Residence (住民票, juumin-hyou) back.
It is recommended that you bring someone to interpret if your Japanese isn't very good.
Renewing a Driver's License
Depending on how long you stay in Japan, you may need to renew your license. You can do this within a month before or after the expiration date (your birthday). You will be sent a reminder 30 days before your birthday. When you go to renew it, your driving record will be checked. If it is clean, a renewed license will be valid for five years. If you have caused an accident or been caught breaking traffic rules, a renewed license will be valid for three years.
When you go to renew your license, you will need the renewal notification you received, your driver's license, and inkan. It will cost around 3,000 yen if nothing is on your record. You will be required to take an eye test and attend a traffic rule lecture (in Japanese). This should take about two hours (future renewals, if there are no violations on your record, are shorter).
If you don't renew it within the renewal period, you can still renew it if you take an aptitude test and attend a traffic rule lecture within 6 months.
Reissuing a Driver's License
If your license is lost or damaged, you must go to the Driver's License Center to have it reissued. You will need 3,350 yen, plus a 3cm x 2.4cm photograph and inkan. If it was lost, you will need a report issued by your local police station. If it was damaged, just bring the license.


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TG Therapeutics to Host Conference Call on Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2021 Financial Results and Business Update
Feb 24, 2022
Conference call to be held Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 8:30 AM ET
NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TG Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGTX), today announced that a conference call will be held on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 8:30 AM ET to discuss results for the fourth quarter and year-end 2021 and provide a business outlook for 2022. Michael S. Weiss, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will host the call.
In order to participate in the conference call, please call 1-877-407-8029 (U.S.), 1-201-689-8029 (outside the U.S.), Conference Title: TG Therapeutics Fourth Quarter and Year End 2021 Update Call. A live webcast of this presentation will be available on the Events page, located within the Investors & Media section, of the Company's website at www.tgtherapeutics.com. An audio recording of the conference call will also be available for replay at www.tgtherapeutics.com, for a period of 30 days after the call.
TG Therapeutics will announce its financial results for this period in a press release to be issued prior to the call.
TG Therapeutics is a fully-integrated, commercial stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of novel treatments for B-cell malignancies and autoimmune diseases. In addition to an active research pipeline including five investigational medicines across these therapeutic areas, TG has received accelerated approval from the U.S. FDA for UKONIQ® (umbralisib), for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed/refractory marginal zone lymphoma who have received at least one prior anti-CD20-based regimen and relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma who have received at least three prior lines of systemic therapies. Currently, the Company has three programs in Phase 3 development for the treatment of patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (RMS) and patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and several investigational medicines in Phase 1 clinical development. For more information, visit www.tgtherapeutics.com, and follow us on Twitter @TGTherapeutics and Linkedin.
UKONIQ® is a registered trademark of TG Therapeutics, Inc.
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Shelby Baier White
Shelby Baier White Class of 1957
Shelby Baier White, Class of 1957 is an author, collector and philanthropist. Along with her late husband, Leon Levy, she has a passionate interest in the ancient world, which is the focus of much of her philanthropy. Shelby is the Founding Trustee of the Leon Levy Foundation in 2004. In 2007, Shelby helped create the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, a center for advanced research and graduate education at New York University. The Foundation also supports arts and humanities institutions, gardens and bird conservation, neuroscience research and human rights. Through the Leon Levy Foundation, Shelby has been a leading donor to Brooklyn's major institutions, including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library. Shelby also helped create, with the Bahamas National Trust, the First National Park on the island of Eleuthera.
Through its signature Leon Levy Foundation Archives and Catalogues Program, the Foundation is currently supporting the cataloguing of Packer's institutional records dating to 1843 at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Shelby serves on the boards of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York University, The Institute for Advanced Study, The New York Botanical Garden, The Bard Graduate Center, and the Writers Room, and is Chairman of the Board of the American Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Shelby Baier White received a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MA from Columbia University.
Shelby received a Sesquicentennial Award from Packer in 1995. Her very generous gift to the Building on Success campaign led to the creation of Packer's Belle Alenick Baier Atrium. She has been an advisor to the Board of Trustees and is a loyal and generous alumna.
Accepting the award in the Chapel, Shelby said of her years at Packer, "I learned so much about learning for its own sake. I learned to succeed, by applying what I knew."
Brooklyn Historical Society interviewed Ms. White as part of it's Voices of Brooklyn oral history collection: Civic Leaders series. The interview may be accessed through BHS's Oral History Portal.


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I am sitting with friends at a Korean restaurant, lunching on boiled monkfish and sweet wild-raspberry wine. My cellphone rings in my pocket. From the rhythm of the buzzing, I know exactly what this is about. The goods have arrived, beautiful stuff. The guy is holding part of the shipment for me, but he can't promise to hold it any later than late afternoon. The price is high. I am assured it is worth every nickel.
My friends, the ones eating monkfish, assume that I was talking to a dealer. In a manner of speaking, I was. The man on the other end of the line was Nathan McCall, who runs McCall's Meat & Fish with his wife, Karen Yoo, and I had just scored a massive pork shoulder from a Heritage Berkshire hog.
When I rubbed the shoulder with salt and fennel pollen, stuffed its crevices with garlic, rosemary and vacant-lot wild fennel, and roasted it for four hours at low heat, it was the best thing that had ever come out of my oven, and at a party the next day it evaporated as if it had never existed.
McCall, whose lithe build and genial sneer make him look more like a sensitive indie guitarist than a butcher, was a line chef at three-star Daniel among other places, and there is always a recipe scrawled on the chalkboard on a wall in his tidy Los Feliz shop. McCall's is busy all day — he and Yoo understand the Los Feliz need to eat extremely well, but in small, Pilates-compatible portions.
If you stop by on a late Thursday afternoon, maybe to have a look at the pig's head back in the walk-in, or the 65-day dry-aged rib eyes that look like roasts carved out of petrified wood, you will see a stunning array of customers who all seem to be the same guy: married Eastside industry guys in their 30s, skinny jeans and scruffy beard growth, coming in to pick up their cooking projects for the weekend — pork bellies or fat geese or shining pink snapper; clams so fresh that they scoot across the crushed ice; glowing arctic char or the first Alaskan salmon of the season; sausages, grass-fed steaks and baby lamb chops for the grill.
McCall, a new father who may qualify as a marriage counselor as well as a meat cutter, has ideas for most of them, special things in the back for some and baby pictures for all, the beatific bro of all things meat and seafood, a shining beacon of cool.
This story is from this week's People Issue. To read more, see our cover story.
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Fire damages Norway apartment
No injuries reported
Firefighters contained a second-story apartment fire to one room and an exterior deck on 21 Cottage Street in Norway on Tuesday night.
No one was injured in the fire in the five-unit building, Second Assistant Chief Jim Tibbetts of the Norway Fire Department said. The building was evacuated during the fire, which was reported at 8:35 p.m.
The state fire marshal's office has been contacted for a possible investigation, Tibbetts said.
The fire, which did not appear suspicious, began in the area of a living room and balcony.
Firefighters used water and foam on the fire, Tibbetts said.
Five mutual aid departments responded to the fire. Units cleared around 9 p.m., Tibbetts said.
Two people lived in the apartment that had the fire. The landlord is putting up the two people in another apartment, Tibbetts said.


text: On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 11:04 +0000, vkaehne at doctors.org.uk wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to the mailing list and new to any kind of software development - means I have not much clue yet. But I am keen to become involved in gnomesword, which I love and use increasingly. > > I think the best place for me currently is helping to work on the documentation. I looked at it, think I understood how it works, did some patches (which i would luike to submit) and will/can learn more as it becomes necessary. > > What shall I do next? Join the gnomesword devel list here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/gnomesword-developers/ and submit your patches there :) Andy and Pierre handle the documentation. Terry


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*Welcome to another edition of WWDB?
What is WWDB? you ask?
WWDB? = What would Desi buy?
and I'm Desi!!!
I am letting you know about good products that I test out that I love!
So what would Desi buy, you ask?
What is WWDB? you ask?
WWDB? = What would Desi buy?
and I'm Desi!!!
I am letting you know about good products that I test out that I love!
So what would Desi buy, you ask?
BUGLES!!!! Ok I know I am takin it back to like 1852 (not really... but they did first come out in 1966) with this, since they have been around for so long, but I forgot how much I love Bugles! I used to eat the cheesy kind as a kid, putting them on my fingertips and pretending they were long nails. I'd put them up to my face and act like I was thinking and pondering about something in depth, or I'd pretend to scratch my friends or mama with them. Bugles made playing with food, fun.
But I forgot about them for years and years. Until I saw some in a little convenience store by my work. I was starving and needed some quick snack and I saw those cheesy Bugles, and I wondered if they would still be as good as when I was a kid. Oh, they were. I seriously think I went back and bought out all the cheesy Bugles in the store. Only like five $.99 bags but still.
And then I went to another little convenience store around my work, and they had ranch Bugles! I had NEVER seen ranch ones. Of course I have seen Cool Ranch Doritos, but not Bugles. I was uber excited. So I stocked up on some of those too, and I just may like them more than the cheesy kind.
Now I am on the lookout for all the different flavors of Bugles! Is anyone else with me?! I've also seen a sweet and salty caramel flavor, and a sweet and salty peanut butter chocolate kind that I would love to try : ) I feel like they should have so many flavors out of these, like they make tons of Ruffles and Doritos flavors. Wikipedia says that there are numerous flavors like chile cheese, sour cream and onion, salsa, smokin' bbq, churros, southwest ranch, hot buffalo, and hot & spicy bbq. Where are they?!!? Not in any of my grocery or convenience stores near me!
Bugle man... or fairy.... or cowboy, whoever and wherever you are, please bring me more-flavored Bugles.
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EA's latest quarterly fiscal report included a stark admission: Battlefield V's sales fell way below expectations. This, combined with a severe drop in mobile-gaming revenue, led EA's executives to admit that they were "disappointed in our underperfomance" in fiscal Q3 2019.
BFV's sales to date, according to EA COO and CFO Blake Jorgensen, have reached 7.3 million copies across all platforms worldwide, which the company says is "one million less" than it had indicated in previous Q3 2019 guidance. Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the series' uptake on the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson took the opportunity to confirm that BFV's battle royale mode, currently dubbed Firestorm, will launch in March of this year. Wilson did not offer further details about any monetization strategy for that mode; it currently requires that consumers buy the game's retail edition, much like the battle royale mode found in Activision's multiplayer-only game Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. (That Activision game includes additional microtransactions in its battle royale mode.)
The executives repeatedly blamed "intense competition" in that quarter for general underperformance, which Wilson clarified later as "Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Red Dead Redemption 2. (Fortnite's hugely popular battle royale mode launched well before the October 2018 start of the fiscal quarter in question.) Wilson added that BFV's release delay into November 2018 resulted in a "better game," but he cited "the combination of a poor start in our marketing campaign with a longer development cycle that put us in a more competitive window."
In addition to a lack of uptake on new mobile game Command and Conquer Rivals, EA also cited one delayed mobile game and "changes to broaden Madden Mobile's appeal" that "failed" to drive monetization. The company's net bookings for mobile-only products dropped in Q3 2019 to $142 million, compared to $183 million in the same quarter in fiscal year 2018—a drop of over 23 percent.The executives reminded investors that the EA Sports line of games and Ultimate Team microtransaction systems continue to drive revenue. "FIFA stands out as a robust franchise during a tumultuous time in the industry," Wilson said. Executives also praised new game Apex Legends' solid performance after launching 24 hours earlier, though Wilson made clear that its one-day metrics weren't a measure on which to base expectations just yet.
When pressed about EA's sales expectations for Anthem in the wake of a wonky public demo, Jorgensen said that EA still expects its first-quarter sales to reach roughly 5-6 million units. "We're comfortable with that based on what we're seeing in the outcome of both demos," Jorgensen added. "A lot of excitement, a lot of interest."
EA confirmed that a range of console-specific games is expected to launch by year's end, including a new Plants vs. Zombies "shooter," a new game in the Need for Speed series, and the Respawn-developed Star Wars game Jedi: Fallen Order. An additional Titanfall-related game is also slated to launch by year's end, but Wilson would not offer any further details about what shape that game might take (meaning: a remake of an existing Titanfall game isn't yet out of the question).
Wilson further clarified that Respawn has "two fully staffed teams, one focused on the shooter genre, and one focused on action-adventure." He also dodged questions about any new Battlefield-series games launching in 2019.
Wilson told investors to expect "deliberate changes to our organization and operational focus."
EA is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange, which means the investor call began as soon as markets closed on Tuesday. After-hours trading suggests a severe drop in stock price from the day's close of $92.52 to somewhere below $76—already lower than the company's previous major low in late 2016.
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Tis' the season of gift giving and celebration! Holiday shopping can be difficult but giving the gift of wine or wine accessories will never go out of style. Whether it's a gift of celebratory champagne or some special item that will expand the knowledge of the oenophile in your life, these gifts are sure to make wine lovers smile.
The Wine Buff: Perfect, water-spot free wine glasses takes time and skill…or a Wine Buff! These microfiber towels will not only make sure your glasses sparkle and stay guest ready, but they can also improve your wine knowledge skills. These handy clothes also feature maps of Napa Valley and Sonoma with trivia and sommelier-written notes.
The Wine Odyssey: For some, wine is a serious hobby. These serious wine fans would love a subscription to wine consultant John Foy's weekly newsletter. Each one features in depth knowledge on a specific wine topic. Along with the articles comes specialized tasting notes and suggestions on the best wines for your cellar.
Private Preserve: Occasionally, wine drinkers open a bottle and need to preserve it. Once a bottle of wine is opened, oxygen comes into play and begins the chemical reaction known as oxidation. Once that happens, wines lose their brightness, color and flavor. Private Preserve is a mix of heavy gases that cover the wine and prevent oxidation meaning you can open a bottle for a glass without finishing it.
Coravin Model Eight: while certainly more of a splurge gift, this device allows wine drinkers to taste their finest wines before opening them. The thin needle is pushed through the cork. According to the website, the user then "presses the trigger to pressurize and release it to pour wine into your glass. Remove the needle by pulling the system straight up. The cork will reseal naturally and continue to protect the wine for many future pours to come."
Major Scale Musical Wine Glasses: Do you have both a music and wine lover? Well, we have you covered. "Fill the goblet to the desired note, and run your finger around the rim of the glass…Soon, your finger will cause the glass to vibrate, and a crystal-clear note will sound."
Wine (From Big Red LIquors): true some of the accessories above are great gifts. But a great bottle of wine, can't be beat. Consult our glossary for terms to help with your selection or ask your local Big Red liquors wine expert! Whether it's a Napa cabernet, bubbly prosecco, or a great chardonnay, (or all three with the Power Buy!) your wine-lover will love and enjoy this gift.


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26 Thai Kitchen & Bar is a top-rated Atlanta restaurant next to the Lindbergh Center MARTA station on the red and gold lines. In addition to Thai food that uses local ingredients, there's a large bar with happy hours. A unique feature is that the owner/chef was 26 when she opened the restaurant — hence the name.
The restaurant is one of the closest places to eat near MARTA. It's literally next to the station (northbound platform). Look for the Main Street exit after getting off the train.


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I have just read an excellent article by Adam Hamilton that analyses fifty years of US FEderal Reserve data against gold prices to see if the current mantra that rising rates are bad for the gold price is true or not.
the quick summary is that in all 11 rate rise cycles (3 or more interest rate hikes in a row) gold gained an average of 27%. In the six cycles where thr Fed raised rates slowly gold gained 60% and in the five where they panicked and raised every meeting quickly gold dropped 13%.
This shows once and for all that rising rates are GOOD for gold, especially if the rising rate cycle begins when gold is coming off a low. Enjoy the read here:


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Trusted interoperability and the patient safety issues of parasitic health care software
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secau Security Research Centre, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School of Computer and Security Science / Security Research Centre (secAU)
McCauley, V.B., & Williams, P.A.H. (2011). Trusted interoperability and the patient safety issues of parasitic health care software. Paper presented at the 9th Australian Information Security Management Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia. Available here.
With the proliferation of software systems and products in the healthcare environment, it is increasingly common for such software products to be constructed in a modular design. However, for modular software to be securely interoperable with other software products requires agreed consistent and accountable interfaces. This agreement may take the form of bilateral vendor to vendor arrangements or via a trusted external third-party who coordinates agreed interaction methods, such as a jurisdiction. Standards are a particular form of mutually trusted third party. Unfortunately, this agreed method of interoperability is not always present in vendor software. Where one software product or module interacts with another, in the absence of any agreement, it is referred to as ―bolt-on‖. It is perhaps more descriptive to refer to such software in terms of its potential to cause harm and refer to it using the biological analogy of ―parasitic‖ software and associated ―host‖ software. Analogous to biological systems, parasitic software can operate by data injection into or data extraction from, the associated host database. Both forms of parasitic software exploit access mechanisms or security flaws in the host software independent of the host vendor and in ways not intended or supported by the host vendor. This paper discusses the mechanics of this security vulnerability and more importantly, the potential adverse consequences to patient safety of such susceptibilities. As Australia moves to a national connected e-health system these issues are causes for grave concern. This paper provides a case study of this insecurity to highlight the problem, promote discussion and encourage potential change.
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Learn more about cellulite and the Endermologie treatment with our Endermologie FAQs, found below.
Endermologie is a non-invasive technique for reducing the appearance of cellulite. Cellulite often shows up as dimpling on the skin, even in those who are fit. The look of cellulite does not necessary diminish with weight loss and liposuction fails to address this top layer of fat under the skin.
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Paxton, Nebraska: Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge
Ole Herstedt killed animals on five continents, then wedged the stuffed carcasses around the diners in his restaurant.
- Address:
- 113 N. Oak S., Paxton, NE
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Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge
More stuffed animals than a teddy bear section of a Toys R Us. Wandering into a staple of what a roadside attraction should be, it pays off in a way that only taxidermy and pull tabs can. Hungry? The steaks are way fresher than the epic '50s-'60s stuffed animals let on, and good ol' American is the only thing executed today. If you need a break and some food you best make this stop. Ole's is the best stop we had on a motivated drive through Nebraska.[Jayrockfish, 11/10/2016]
Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge
Fun atmosphere if you like big game taxidermy! The best part was the fact that the food was very good and it was the cheapest meal of the trip! Our bill for a family of four: $28.71. Eat at Ole's if you are on I-80 near Paxton, NE.[Donna Taylor, 07/28/2012]
Ole's Big Game Bar - Vague Recollections
A curiosity one might expect perhaps in Key West or maybe on a backstreet in Atlantic City, but seems oddly out of place in the "heartland." Best I can remember, I met Ole himself in 1970 and exchanged a few laughs with him, had a meal and a couple of drinks before returning to the Interstate.
The place is straight out of the fifties, when it was still cool to display dead animals and spin impossible yarns. But oddly enough I've found over the years when thinking back on that particular trip that Ole's was one of the high points on a loooong winter drive from the east coast to Jackson Hole.[Lee Acuff, 06/18/2009]
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Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge in downtown Paxton, known for six decades as a place where good friends gather, enjoy each other's company, grab a bite to eat and spin a yarn or two. More than 200 big game trophies and countless mementoes of Ole's worldwide safaris.[Bryant Welles, 07/11/2006]
Paxton is like every other Nebraskan town situated around a water tower and a grain elevator. However, in the middle of town is a little lounge called Ole's. It literally knocked my socks off. You go into that place and it is like the 1950s. It seemed that Ole, who has since died, was a big game hunter. He started the bar just after prohibition (or possibly during it!) in the 1930s. He hunted extensively in Africa and South America in the 40s, 50s, and 60s as well as deep sea fishing, and the bar was his base of operations. He had amassed an incredible collection of stuffed game animals including a full size polar bear, lion and elephants heads, and any other politically incorrect oddity. In addition, he has hundreds of photos of celebrities who had visited the lounge. I even noticed one of Robert Duvall.
It is well worth your visit if you are ever going down I-80 in the central southern part of the state.[Don Hudgins, 06/02/1998]
I-80, exit 145. The place itself is pretty tiny; the dead animals are courtesy of Ole Herstedt, who killed wildlife on five continents. We especially enjoyed the postcard; kudos to the Brown-Harano Studio in North Platte.
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An Internet History of Kobe Bryant's Insane 81-Point GameJanuary 22, 2013
When it comes to scoring, Kobe Bryant is second to only Wilt Chamberlain.
Seven years later, the 81 points the Black Mamba dropped against the Toronto Raptors still stands as the second highest single-game point total in NBA history, behind Chamberlain's 100.
As Bryant continues his path towards retirement, the gravity of his performance that night must not be lost on us. What he did was truly spectacular, and knowing that there is no footage of Chamberlain's performance, makes it all the more impressive.
Why? Because there is plenty footage of the Mamba.
Kobe took 46 shots against the Raptors that night, connecting on 28 of them. He was 7-13 from beyond the arc and 18-20 from the free-throw line, leading the Los Angeles Lakers back from a lopsided deficit to a blowout victory at the expense of Toronto.
After the game, Bryant himself (via ESPN.com) couldn't even explain what had happened:
"Not even in my dreams," Bryant said. "That was something that just happened. It's tough to explain. It's just one of those things.
"It really hasn't, like, set in for me. It's about the `W,' that's why I turned it on. It turned into something special. To sit here and say I grasp what happened, that would be lying."
Most couldn't "grasp" what the 27-year-old Bryant had just accomplished. Though he led the league in scoring at the time and was no stranger to championships, this solidified his spot amongst the NBA's all-time greats.
Remember, Michael Jordan's career-high was 69 points and that, coupled with the absence of footage from Chamberlain's performance, really heightened the importance of his accomplishment. That he was able to do it alongside Smush Parker is even more incredible.
This was a performance for the ages and nothing, not even "NFL championship Sunday," could overshadow what the Mamba did.
Lakers owner Jerry Buss wasn't immune to disbelief either.
"You're watching, and it's like a miracle unfolding in front of your eyes. And you can't accept that somehow, the brain doesn't work," he said.
Even then, head coach and ever composed Phil Jackson couldn't help but gush over the shooting guard's performance:
Jackson coached Jordan and the Chicago Bulls to six championships in the 1990s and the Lakers, with Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, to three more titles, from 2000-02.
"That was something to behold," Jackson said. "It was another level. I've seen some remarkable games, but I've never seen one like that before."
Two years later, Phil was still smitten (via NBA.com) by the performance:
"I've seen some remarkable games but I've never seen anything like that before," said Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who played against Chamberlain and coached Jordan.
Bias undoubtedly exists amongst coaches and their players, but Jackson is a guy who played against Wilt Chamberlain, who coached the Greatest of All Time in Jordan and remains mesmerized by Bryant's performance years later.
Do you know who never seemed acknowledge its importance? Kobe himself.
Remember, immediately after torching the Raptors, he didn't play up the magnitude of his performance. That held true (via Dave McMenamin of ESPNLosAngeles.com) five years later as well:
I just remember we were down 16 points to a bad Raptors team and we had just lost I think to Houston the game before and it was just kind of doom and gloom. We needed to win and I just got hot.
I really don't think about it too much. I still don't know how the hell it happened, to be honest with you. It's just one of those things, I guess.
That was the first game and only game [my grandmother has] ever been to in the NBA and it was my grandfather's birthday that had passed away. So, there were a lot of things at work.
To be so nonchalant about his 81 points is bordering on impossible. As the NBA sphere evolves and superstars continue to team up, the rarity of his performance has become even more valuable.
Bryant was simply unstoppable that night. He couldn't be defended and former Raptor Jalen Rose later admitted (via Reid Cherner of USA Today) that Kobe pushed Toronto beyond the point of reason:
Rose remembers the 1-2-2 zone defense and begging coach Sam Mitchell to change it up. He also remembers that Bryant "didn't say a word" and "we thought about doing things to him during the game."
Indeed it was an unconscious performance by Kobe. Again, he hit 28 shots that night and scored 55 points in the second half alone.
For those wondering, 55 points was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's career-high. And he's currently the NBA's all-time leading scorer. Bryant put that up in one half.
One half.
How's that for a memorable performance? Better yet, how's that for a once-in-a-lifetime-like performance?
With teams stockpiling star-caliber talent and egos, we revel in the 50-point excursions of a Kevin Durant. Imagining him carving up a defense for 81 in this generation of hoops is seemingly implausible.
Which is why we appreciate what he did now more than ever. And we've celebrated it to no end.
Seven years later and (via Kurt Heilin of NBC Sports' ProBasketballTalk) we're entertaining the notion that his 81 points were far more impressive than Wilt Chamberlain's 100:
Kobe's points came in the flow of the game—the Lakers were on a two-game losing streak and were down 14 at the half to the lowly Toronto Raptors. The Lakers needed Kobe to step up and carry them, they needed him to take over and he did.
Also, Kobe had to create his own shots—Chamberlain got fed the ball in the post, a luxury Kobe did not have.
Chamberlain is a player to be celebrated and his 1962 season may be the best single season a player has ever had. His 100-point game is an amazing performance that will never be matched.
But Kobe's game was better.
That this is even a discussion speaks to the paramountcy that was this performance. Nearly a decade later, still, we all look back an awe on how Bryant was able to accomplish such a feat.
All of us, except for Bryant himself.
It's been seven years, yet he's just getting around to watching himself score his way into the history books.
Letting u know that tmr I'm gonna watch my 81 game for first time @nbatv 1pst.I will be tweeting during. Time to rest and focus now#win— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) January 21, 2013
Times have certainly changed, but Kobe hasn't.
Bryant has won two more championships and become the youngest score to eclipse the 30,000-point plateau (fifth all time), yet nothing—aside from his seasoned public demeanor—has changed.
"For me, it's about the 'W,'" Bryant had said after that performance.
Seven years, two championships and thousands of points later, nothing has changed.
Bryant's still all about getting that "W."
*All stats and facts in this article are accurate as of January 21, 2013.


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OLD PHOTO: AHS Marching Band, 1952
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Shirley Ridge of Asheboro shared this picture of the Asheboro High School marching band in 1952. She was a majorette.
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In advance of our annual summer trip to the South of France, I'll share with an article I was asked to write for a media outlet in Europe.
For the past twenty years my wife and I have spent the better parts of August and September in the South of France. Five years ago, while lounging around the pool at the Chateau de la Messardiere in Saint-Tropez, the bartender came to my chair and, whispering discretely, let me know that my wife, Andrea, was locked inside the ladies room.
This was when I decided to utilize the South of France as a location in my novels.
In both Death Never Sleeps and Death Logs In, my stories move from New York City to Paris, Rome and Florence but always wind up throughout the beautiful towns of southern France – mainly Saint Paul de Vence and Saint-Tropez. My upcoming third novel, Death Logs Out, will do the same.
Now every trip to this enchanting region gives me the opportunity to live each moment – not only in the moment – but in the past and long after, through my writing. Even the tedious editing process is filled with joyous recollections of the great days and nights, and the incredible dinners I've experienced. Each restaurant and plate of Durade is the source of not only culinary pleasure but fuel for the imagination. After all, history is often made over dinner. Especially at restaurants like La Columbe d'Or in Saint Paul de Vence.
It's also about shadows – and ghosts. The ones who've been there before me, often long before, the important and the simply celebrated: Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Simone Signoret, Bardot, Loren, Jagger, Cary Grant, Deneuve, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Colette . . . Dining at their tables, sleeping in their rooms, walking in their paths, trying to think what they thought, seeking inspiration where they once found it.
In the case of my wife trapped in the Messardiere's ladies room, I quickly went to the poolside building and watched while the hotel's security staff worked to unlock the jammed door, all the while assuring her that she would soon be free. Ten minutes later, she was – and during that time I imagined a poolside murder scene at the Messardiere which I later wrote for Death Never Sleeps.
Each time I returned to the Chateau and revisited the fabulous pool and watched the beautiful people all around it, I would also gaze back at the ladies bathroom, remembering the time my wife was trapped. Most likely I'd be taking in the sun, enjoying a light lunch and a few glasses of rose'. Before long, my mind would return to the murder. I'd look over at the lounge chair next to me, look at the pretty woman in the Jackie O sunglasses and feel relieved and secure in the knowledge that Andrea was right there, safe and sound.


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We meet and work with a vast array of wedding services and suppliers throughout the season, some more regularly than others.
The following is a list of our friends in the trade who appear on our weddings time and again…we know them well and know they will give you an exceptional service.
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Q&A with Kit Foster: April 16, 2015
Q. At first there were open touring cars, and after 1926 convertibles and roadsters. My first car was a 1942 Plymouth convertible with an "automatic" hydraulic reclining top. I have not been able to find out the year or make of the very first "automatic" reclining top. Does anyone know?
— Dave Reader, via e-mail
A. The history of open cars, touring cars, convertibles and roadsters is a bit more complex than your first sentence implies, particularly as manufacturers didn't have a standard way of defining the various styles. As to the first "automatic" tops, which I think refers to power-operated tops, the Chrysler History website (www.chryslerhistory.com) claims a first with the 1939 Plymouth. A Vintage Chevrolet Club of America forum explains that Chevy had vacuum-operated tops in 1940 and '41, electric tops for 1942, and a hydro-electric system from 1946 onward. Ford had vacuum-operated tops for 1940; by 1946 the Club Convertible and Sportsman shared a hydro-electric system. Marque experts, feel free to chime in with your make's history with power tops.
As another exercise, what was the first car to have a power-operated top on a convertible sedan?
Q. I am a member of a car club in Vermont that began in 1953 called "Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts." I am also the editor of our monthly publication Wheel Tracks. Another member recently brought an item to a meet and we made guesses but would like to know exactly what this item is. We think it is for cigarette butts, but the pull-out tray is plastic. There is a fitting that might hook up to a vacuum hose. Would the smoke go into the engine? The whole device is about 14 inches long and 4 inches wide. Where would it be mounted?
— Gary Fiske, Enosburg Falls, Vt.
A. Yes, it looks like a butt collector that uses engine vacuum to pull the dead smokes into a collector jar. Some smoke will be pulled into the engine, which won't harm it, and I expect the plastic part is a type of Bakelite, which has a high melting point. It has been used for household ash trays, after all. The device is an early environment-friendly accessory, removing the smell of old cigarettes from the car and keeping tossed butts from littering the countryside. I expect you could mount it under the dashboard, wherever it would fit and where the "ashtray" could be reached by smokers.
Q. The car pictured here is clearly a 1956 Cadillac, but the dual headlamps perplex me. Dual headlamps were not introduced until the 1957 model year by Ford, Chrysler, and Nash, and then only on an optional basis, where permitted, as some states did not allow them. I think Cadillac did offer quad lamps for '57, but only on the Eldorado Brougham. GM did not introduce dual headlamps until the 1958 model year, and they were standard equipment (by then, all states had revised their laws to permit them).
So how did this 1956 Cadillac get these dual lamps? They almost look aftermarket, as the styling of the lamp bezels doesn't quite look GM.
— Patrick Bisson, Flushing, Mich.
A. I think they totally look aftermarket. I haven't yet found conversion kits for Cadillacs, but I have 1958 J.C. Whitney catalog that offers kits for 1957 Fords and Chevys. From memory, I think that Mercury and Lincoln were the only Ford brands with optional "four-eye" installations in 1957, and I believe Nash just said to heck with the holdout states and offered only vertically stacked dual headlamps. I have read time and again that "14 states" prohibited duals in 1957, but I've never seen a list naming them. Does anyone know?
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How Do I Motivate My Children?
One of the most common questions I hear parents ask when it comes to homeschooling and/or homework is, "How do I get my children to finish their schoolwork?" Whether you're a parent trying to get their children to do their homework, or a homeschooling parent trying to get their children to complete their schoolwork, many other parents before you have struggled with the same thing.
The real question, though, should be, "Why?"
Why isn't your child wanting to do their work?
The most important question to ask yourself, if you're a homeschooling parent or have assigned the work yourself, is if you would want to do the assignment you've given your child. Is it really necessary for them to do this work? Could the concepts you are covering with your child be learned in a way more in tune with your child's learning style? Is there any way to make the assignment more interesting to your child?
It can be frustrating, especially so when you've purchased expensive curriculum or invested a lot of time in creating a lesson plan, when a child is not interested in what you've given them to do. You must keep in mind though that flexibility is one of the greatest things about homeschooling. Homeschoolers get to customize the lessons to fit the child, not the classroom. Try to find activities that work with your child's interests and learning style(s).
Often times, if a child isn't finishing their assignments, it's because they are confused. Make sure that your child understands the assignment, and what is expected of them to complete their work.
Time for a Break
Is your child tired or fidgety? It's possible your child has been sitting too long, and they need to take a break from the work they are doing. Depending on the activity, sometimes just 20 minutes is too long to spend on one assignment.
In Need of Support/Encouragement
Many children need a parent sitting with them than others do. Allow your child to follow you around the house with their workbook while you do housework. This way, if they have questions while they're finishing their assignments, you're there to answer them.
Hopefully, some of these ideas will help make your homeschool or homework time more pleasant.
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