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With rising concerns around the spread of corona-virus globally, many public companies have already postponed their annual meetings over the course of last week, due to health concerns or partial lockdowns often prohibiting public gatherings.
Numerous companies as Daimler, Deutsche Telekom and others have postponed their meetings, while others such as Schindler or Berkshire Hathaway will hold their meetings without the public and only with proxy representatives. Numerous other issuers on the Continent are considering adding a virtual component to the format of their annual shareholder meetings in order to mitigate health risks ("hybrid") meetings. While the general meetings of the Spanish banks Santander or BBVA are set to go ahead, the banks are encouraging shareholders to participate remotely, to protect the wellbeing of the investors. HSBC in the UK has already warned its shareholders of the potential COVID-impact on its shareholder meeting, recommending to vote via proxy.
Depending on the country, AGMs may be a needed precursor for operational items; some countries require shareholder approval to make dividend payments. Shareholder associations1 across different jurisdictions are asking governments for forbearances that will allow them to pay dividends even if a general meeting is postponed. Other jurisdictions, as France, Spain or Netherlands already allow for interim dividend payments.
Postponing the Meeting
It is clear that globally, issuers are putting in contingency plans in order to prepare for a potential delay of their meetings or to find hybrid solutions in order to fulfill legal requirements while mitigating risk. The most obvious of these is delaying the meeting date. Generally, in most jurisdictions AGM's can be delayed up to 8 months (or 6 months for European SE's), but the question on dividend-payments is often not resolved, similar to the fact that delaying into September, might conflict with newly to be implemented regulation around the EU-Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II).
In the UK, it is anticipated that most meetings will go ahead as planned in some sort of hybrid-version, as voting by proxy is mostly standard and the quorum requirement to be binding is very low. In the UK the use of virtual meetings is already minimal impact is expected in this jurisdiction.
As many other developed markets, France has urged shareholders to stay at home and use digital tools, vote by proxy and make sure that AGMs are streamed online if allowed by the respective statutes, indicating the likelihood of many general meetings to take place behind closed doors. Companies as Schneider Electric asked shareholders to vote before the AGM and to prepare written questions in the leadup, as online voting will not be permitted during the GM. COVID also is impacting retail shareholders, with many companies shutting down organized travel, as shuttle buses, as well as cutting handing out goodies or food at on site meetings.
Asian regulators appear to have a head start, with most meetings scheduled to take place as planned; in Singapore, the regulator stepped in gave issuers several months of extension to hold their AGMs, suggesting alternative arrangements to ensure shareholder participation. In Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan recently announced a guidance to carry out hybrid-virtual AGMs. Several companies conducted their meetings by giving shareholders the chance to participate via an app, after the government urged companies to cancel big gatherings. While fully virtual meetings are also not accepted in most parts of Asia, on-site participation remained low, with meetings being webcasted and the few participants being checked and often rejected based on fears of fever.
For US companies, there is less of a concern of operational risk from delaying a meeting. In a separate note, the SEC put out a regulatory relief and guidance document, allowing companies to delay their annual reporting requirements up to 45 days, if they were scheduled between March 1 and April 30. The SEC does require that companies must convey "why relief is needed" and detail the relevant circumstances. Separate guidance released on March 13 noted referred to this prior relief, and clarified to include that companies may change the dates of their AGMs, but do need to give sufficient notice to shareholders of the change. That said, many US company bylaws require an AGM to take place within 15 months of the prior AGM, and depending on state regulations and company charters this summer may serve as a limit for postponement in many cases.
Virtual Meetings: Legal Concerns & Regulatory
Not every country is as prepared to hold virtual meetings, due to legal challenges, companies lacking the required adjustments of their articles of association or simply lack of experience and limited practicality. In other markets, online AGMs are not tested, and of limited practicability, especially with bearer shares in many countries, resulting in legal risks of not being able to engage, communicate and enable shareholders to properly register for the meetings. Interactive AGMs that allow a debate, or simultaneous webcast of the proceedings to provide shareholders with a forum to ask questions and engage with management and the Board of Directors, are mostly untested. Hence, while national laws generally govern2 the availability of a virtual meeting format, no direct guidance has been issued by several European governments with respect to hosting annual meetings in a changed environment and crucial legal questions remain unanswered.
Physical meetings also remain favored in the US, but the nation has seen a significant rise in virtual meetings over the last years, between 15-20% uptick over the last year3, depending also on the local state legislation, which often create legislative hurdles to hold virtual AGMs. This year, Starbucks led the way, notifying its shareholders that the company intends to hold an online meeting. The SEC's March 13 guidance did discuss "virtual-only" and hybrid AGMs and reminds companies that are considering them to give clear instructions to shareholders; it mentions that those that have already mailed a proxy card do not necessarily need to mail a second if public disclosure of the change is made in other formats.
Investors and Proxy Advisors with Additional
Several investors4 and proxy advisors already addressed the issue and raised concerns over feared restrictions of access to companies' board and management, as well as limited ways for shareholders to ask questions or raise shareholder proposals. At the same time, they believe that investors will be more accommodating to virtual meetings this year, in light of the latest COVID-19 crisis. In the US, The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) has weighed in with support for virtual-only meetings, but has clearly tilted its statement toward encouraging companies to resume in-person or hybrid meetings in subsequent years.
Shareholder-sponsored proposals are most common in the US, with social and climate-focused issues reaching an increasing amount of proxies over the last several years, and the rights of proponents do require protection to avoid shareholder outcry. The SEC's guidance release added an interesting treatment of shareholder proposals. It states that companies should offer shareholder proponents the ability to present their proposals by phone in a virtual-only or hybrid meeting, but it gives companies the option to exclude the proposal if the proponent "is unable to travel" or has other COVID-related hardships. While this opens a potential loophole for issuers to get out of critical situations, one could hope that companies show good corporate citizenship, which otherwise likely will be punished by investors the following year.
In light of these developments around the pandemic's influence on the global general meeting season, both proxy advisors ISS and Glass Lewis, added context to their voting positions on virtual meetings. Glass Lewis has pointed to its guidelines, but also mentioned they will watch the season very closely. In the context of the COVID-19 situation, Glass Lewis stated that companies that have already filed their proxy statements and provided information for an in-person meeting but are moving to a virtual-only meeting should provide public disclosure explaining the rationale. Such disclosure should specifically state that the change is due to the coronavirus outbreak, include complete information about accessing the meeting and confirm shareholders will have the same opportunities to participate - as they would have had at an in-person meeting.
Glass Lewis also issued a special report on "Coronavirus Fears Impacting Annual Shareholder Meetings5" listing the actions taken by various governments. Based on intermediate results, at this stage the proxy advisor has not taken any issue with any of the virtual US AGMs so far this year.
Existing Proxy Advisor guidelines:
Glass Lewis indicated that it will continue to review companies' proxy materials regarding virtual meetings. Generally, the proxy advisor will recommend voting against governance committee members where the board is planning to hold a virtual-only shareholder meeting and the company does not provide disclosure in their proxy statement assuring shareholders that they will be afforded the same rights and opportunities to participate as they would at an in-person meeting.
Glass Lewis provided the following examples of "effective disclosure" about shareholder participation rights at a virtual-only shareholder meeting:
ISS also expects shareholders to be more accommodating of virtual meetings this year, in light of COVID-19. Similar to Glass Lewis, ISS6 stated that it will require companies to provide comprehensive disclosure affirming that a virtual meeting will provide full opportunities for shareholders to participate, ask questions, provide feedback to the company and present shareholder proposals. ISS also indicated that it anticipates the way in which companies manage virtual meetings this year will impact its future position on virtual shareholder meetings.
Based on their current guidelines, ISS generally supports hybrid shareholder meetings (hybrid refers to an in-person, or physical, meeting in which shareholders are permitted to participate online) if it is clear that it is not the intention to hold virtual-only AGMs. In the 2018 ISS Governance Principles Survey, investor respondents were largely supportive of hybrid meetings, where companies employ technological means to allow for virtual participation as a supplement to the physical shareholder meeting. Investor respondents were less supportive of virtual-only meetings however, with a majority indicating that virtual-only meetings merited support if they provided the same shareholder rights as a physical meeting.
International Sample Disclosure:
Many companies face new challenges and unfaced territory with general meetings going virtual or hybrid. Hence, we listed some international sample disclosure, mostly from the US, pointing to pre-cautionary measures in light of COVID-19 or detail the means of remote communications as well as instructions for shareholders. We will continue to update our clients on new developments.
No matter what, management has to be proactive in communicating to the markets with a clear rationale and legal obligation to have analysed the situation in relation to the risk-assessment of conducting onsite-, hybrid- or virtual AGMs. Since communication and transparency are key in times of uncertainty, our global Corporate Governance Advisory Teams stands ready and happily supports you in all matters of shareholder engagement, outreach or sample materials and examples of companies who have experience in hybrid/online meetings, including their disclosures.
Julia Heitzenberger
Senior Associate, EMEA Governance Advisory
Andreas Posavac
Executive Director, Head of ESG, Governance & M&A Advisory
Brian Matt, CFA
Director, Head of ESG Americas
1 Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz (DSW), 11
March 2020
2 E.g. German Stock Corporations Act para 118 or the Austrian Stock Corporations Act para 102
3 Corporate Secretary, 16 March 2020
4 www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/business/dealbook/coronavirus-markets-stocks.html
5 www.glasslewis.com/s-fears-impacting-annual-shareholder-meetings/
6 www.thecorporatecounsel.net/blog/2020/03/sec-issues-guidance-about-annual-shareholder-meetings.html
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If you want to clean the kitchen and make it look like it was freshly painted, to get rid of grease stains on walls, dust and smoke smell, you have 2 simple and effective solutions.
Scroll and grab the best information to clean your kitchen like a pro!
It doesn't matter if is spring cleaning or you can't stand the dirt, the kitchen area is the most difficult to be cleaned. It requires a huge effort especially when it comes to clean the grease behind the stove. Damn, hard and dirty job! But the following idea will turn this awful job into a pleasant one!
Use baking soda to get rid of grease stains from kitchen walls
If the walls around the stove and kitchen sink are full of grease stains, you just have to prepare a baking soda paste as it follows:
– Mix a bigger quantity of baking soda (depending on the area you have to clean), and add gradually water to form a thick paste. Then, add a few drops of dish detergent to obtain the consistency of toothpaste.
Apply the resulting paste on the greasy walls and let it act for half an hour, and then rub the walls with the green side of a dish sponge. Wash the walls to remove the paste with a solution made from water and dish detergent.
Then, mix 3 tablespoons of vinegar in 3 cups of water, and use it to spray the greasy walls. Remove the vinegar solution with a clean cloth.
Your kitchen will look impeccable!
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I'm so excited to share these mini reviews, because I absolutely loved all of these books! They actually fit together quite well, since all of them are about queer women and have similar themes of family, identity, grief, etc. Not to mention that every single one of them made me cry, or at the very least tear up. So basically what I'm saying is, go read all of these.
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
"I will not stand still while the world makes my choices."
Camino and Yahaira are sisters — one living in New York City and one in the Dominican Republic — but they don't know about each other until their father dies in a plane crash. Their lives change forever as they uncover family secrets and learn about each other's existence.
As with The Poet X, I listened to this as an audiobook (partially narrated by the author) and, naturally, cried a fair bit. It's written in verse and therefore isn't a particularly long book, but it sure packs an emotional punch.
This book has so much to say about grief, shame, sisterhood, and more, all with Elizabeth Acevedo's unbearably beautiful writing. I wanted to let every word soak through me. From its very first pages, I was drawn into Camino and Yahaira's emotional journeys as they struggle not only with their father's death, but with realizing that he was not the man they thought he was. It's heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time and has one of the most perfect endings I've ever read.
Content warnings: parent death, sexual assault
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
"Maybe 'perfect' was just another word for belonging. For feeling like yourself. It didn't mean things weren't hard. It just meant they were right."
After her home is destroyed in a tornado, Ivy Aberdeen feels out of place, within her family and her school. Then pages from her missing notebook — where she drew pictures of girls holding hands — start appearing in her locker, forcing Ivy to confront her secret.
Between this and Hurricane Season, queer middle grade books are just out to make me cry, huh?? There's something about middle grade that can really get me in the heart like nothing else — the innocence and honesty of the narration, the fact that the characters are still so early in the process of figuring out who they are. This book is definitely going among my favorite of that category.
Introspective and beautifully written, this book explores complex family relationships, friendships that change as you get older, identity, belonging, and so much more. It feels like a little piece of the author's heart, a gift to the reader, a guidebook on how to be comfortable in your skin and write your own letter to the world. Absolutely gorgeous from start to finish.
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
"I'm so tired of the way this place treats people who are different, tired of feeling like I exist in the margins of my own life. I deserve better than that."
When the financial aid that Liz was counting on to attend her dream school doesn't come through, she reluctantly decides to join the running for prom queen to get the scholarship that comes with it. At her prom-obsessed school, though, this is no small feat, and it becomes even more complicated when she begins to fall for one of her competitors.
Honestly, this book made me nothing but happy. A rom-com starring a queer black girl who gets a happy ending?? YES. I found myself laughing so many times, and I could absolutely picture this as a quirky, hilarious, romantic movie (Netflix I'm begging you).
Not only is Liz a delightful narrator with one of the most entertaining voices I've read recently, but all of the characters and relationships are just lovely. I especially appreciated the friendship between Liz and Jordan, her childhood friend who she had a falling out with. Plus, the messages of self-acceptance and pride and bravery?? Absolutely gorgeous!
In conclusion, @ Leah Johnson:
Content warnings: public outing, homophobia
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
"But I want to be more than careful. I want to be happy."
Marisol and her sister, running from their home in El Salvador, are given an opportunity in exchange for asylum in the US: Marisol will join a brand new experiment that involves transferring grief and trauma from one person to another.
The scary thing about this book is that the most unrealistic aspect is the technology. Everything else — the treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers, the unfairness of the entire system, the obstacles that Marisol has to overcome — is completely rooted in reality. Isn't it great when a dystopian world feels pretty much exactly like our own?
This is an absolutely gutting book, and I mean that in the best way possible. Marisol's voice is raw and honest and heartbreaking, and the story deals with trauma, abuse, and the nonlinear path of healing in a way that felt so realistic. I felt so many emotions while reading this, and I still feel like I'm kind of processing all of them.
I did wish, though, that there had been 1) a bit more growth with Rey's character (the girl whose grief Marisol ends up taking on), and 2) just a little more from the ending. But other than that, this was a fantastic and thought-provoking book that did things to my heart.
Content warnings: racism, homophobia, suicide attempt, depression, references to sexual abuse
All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
"You won't see us in the photographs. The history books. But the landscape remembers."
When Deena's sister Mandy disappears, everyone believes that she's dead. But Deena refuses to believe it. Following letters left behind by Mandy, she begins uncovering a history of their family and the curse that has followed them through generations.
I listened to this audiobook in the course of a single day because I simply could. not. stop. It's a book full of rage and sorrow and remembrance, about generational trauma and the historical silencing of women, and it is incredibly powerful. There were moments while listening that I had to stop what I was doing, take a deep breath and blink back tears before I could continue.
Moïra Fowley-Doyle is a master of using hints of magic and fabulism to enhance her stories. You never really know how much of what's happening is real, and the surreal, mystical effect was absolutely incredible. The writing is enchanting, the characters broke my heart, and I think you should go read this immediately.
Have you read any of these books? What books have made you cry recently?
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Today I am going through the new features of ASP.NET 4.5.
IntroductionToday I am going through the new features of ASP.NET 4.5. I have seen som fantastic features for Web Developers. Previously there was plenty of trouble when binding any data controls from a data source. If you are using an item template with any Model, then that Model was not tightly coupled with the Data Control.But now in ASP.NET 4.5 we have a very good feature; now we can map a Data Control with a Strongly Typed Data Model. Microsoft exposes one new property for all Data Controls, called ItemType.Code: Let's see a sample use for the ItemType and Data Controls. In my example I am using a GridView control; you can use any Data Control like DataList, Repeater etc.Step 1: First we will create a Model Class.namespace SampleForASPNET45_1{ public class Employee { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public int Salary { get; set; } }}Step 2: Now we will take a GridView control in the ASPX page:<asp:GridView ID="myGridView" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false" ItemType="SampleForASPNET45_1.Employee"> <Columns> <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Name"> <ItemTemplate> <asp:Label ID="lblName" runat="server" Text='<%# Item.Name %>'></asp:Label> </ItemTemplate> </asp:TemplateField> <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="City"> <ItemTemplate> <asp:Label ID="lblCity" runat="server" Text='<%# Item.Salary%>'></asp:Label> </ItemTemplate> </asp:TemplateField> </Columns> </asp:GridView>
See the following image of how the model property is populated.Step 3: Now we will bind a GridView control with the DataSource:protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){ IList<Employee> ListEmp = new List<Employee>(); ListEmp.Add(new Employee { ID = 1, Name = "Amit", Salary = 100000000 }); ListEmp.Add(new Employee { ID = 2, Name = "Ram", Salary = 100000000 }); ListEmp.Add(new Employee { ID = 3, Name = "Raju", Salary = 100000000 }); ListEmp.Add(new Employee { ID = 4, Name = "kumar", Salary = 100000000 }); myGridView.DataSource = ListEmp; myGridView.DataBind();}Step 4: The output screen:Note: I just want to highlight one major point here; in previous releases Microsoft introduced the ModelType Property but they changed with ItemType.
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Few men have impacted the sport of drag racing like Bill Grumpy Jenkins. His storied history at the drag strip began in the late 1950s, and continues today. Throughout his career, both innovation and success have followed him closely, and this book documents the long and colorful history of the competition cars that proudly bear the name Grumpy's Toy. Grumpy's Toys: The Legendary Cars of Bill Grumpy Jenkins stands as a full and complete history of Jenkins' career to date as told through his cars, and has been heartily authorized by the man himself (Jenkins wrote the book's foreword.) Author Doug Boyce has been following Jenkins throughout his racing career, and amassed an impressive collection of vintage photography which is shared on the pages. Through his own knowledge, extensive research, and by working with Grumpy himself, Grumpy's Toys offers readers an unparalleled look behind the man and his machines. This book boasts the largest collection of Jenkins-centered vintage photography ever assembled. Input from Grumpy punctuates the tales behind the now-legendary cars, and author Boyce's fan-friendly writing style entertains. Many myths about both Jenkins and his formidable racing cars have grown over the decades, and this book separates the fact from the fiction. This book is essential for the true drag racing fan.


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Aaug Ukulele Chord
Aaug for Ukulele has the notes A Db F and can be played 3 different ways. Learn about its related chords and interval structure: R 3 m6.
Aaug ChordFull name: A augmented
On this page:
ChartsInversionsLeft handed chartsStructureChord on other instrumentsHarmonized progressionsRelated scalesChord staffSummary tableReferences
Aaug Ukulele Chord Charts
Aaug Inversions on ukulele
Aaug chord charts for left handed ukulele
Aaug Chord StructureNotes: A Db F
Interval structure: R 3 m6
Chord construction:
A + major interval = Db (scale degree = 3rd)
Db + major interval = F (scale degree = sharp/augmented 5th)
Aaug on other instrumentsAaug piano
Aaug guitar
Aaug ukulele
Aaug mandolin
Aaug banjo
Aaug Chord Harmonized ProgressionsF# harmonic minor scale harmonized triads
F#m G#dim Aaug Bm C# D Fdim
F# melodic minor scale harmonized triads
F#m G#m Aaug B C# D#dim Fdim
Scales Related to AaugScales that include all of the notes of Aaug.
D melodic minor F#/Gb melodic minor A#/Bb melodic minor D harmonic minor F#/Gb harmonic minor A#/Bb harmonic minor C#/Db whole tone D#/Eb whole tone F whole tone G whole tone A whole tone B whole tone C#/Db augmented D augmented F augmented F#/Gb augmented A augmented A#/Bb augmented C#/Db leading whole tone D#/Eb leading whole tone
Aaug chord staff
Aaug summary table
|Ukulele chord name
|Aaug (A augmented)
|Notes and structure
|A Db F (R 3 m6)
|Chord Categories
|basic augmented triad. Augmented chord
|Chord Construction
A + major interval = Db (scale degree = 3rd)
Db + major interval = F (scale degree = sharp/augmented 5th)
|Aaug on other instruments
|Aaug piano
Aaug guitar
Aaug ukulele
Aaug mandolin
Aaug banjo
References related to this chordbasic augmented triad. Augmented chord
Major Seventh Chords on Wikipedia
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June 3rd, 2014
5@5 is a food-related list from chefs, writers, political pundits, musicians, actors, and all manner of opinionated people from around the globe.
Editor's note: Robert O. Simonson is the author of "The Old Fashioned" and he writes about cocktails, spirits and bar culture for The New York Times as well as GQ, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Advocate, Imbibe, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, and Time Out New York.
The thing to keep in mind about the Old-Fashioned - and the reason this drink keeps people fascinated, satisfied and frequently argumentative - is that it's not just a great cocktail but that it's also the cocktail. That is, it follows to the letter the blueprint for a category of drink - spirit, bitters, water, sugar - that was established more than two centuries ago.
That recipe structure, while as sturdy as steel, also happens to be endlessly welcoming of interpretation, embracing spirits well beyond the de rigueur whiskey. In fact, for a short period of time in the late-19th-century and early 20th century, a number of old cocktail books treated the Old-Fashioned not as a single drink, but as a branch of cocktails. (Gin Old-Fashioned, Brandy Old-Fashioned, etc.)
Today's mixologists approach the drink with much the same mix of reverence and imagination, perfecting their ultimate expression of the classic drink with one hand, while messing around with the model with the other. The profit of this twin-minded attitude is that many of today's cocktail menus include a classic Old-Fashioned for the purists and, for the curious, an in-house version that switches out the base spirit, the sweetener, the bitters and sometimes all three.
So, it you ever find yourself growing tired of the same old Bourbon or Rye Old-Fashioned (why this would happen, we can't fathom), there are options. Try giving one of these differently spiritous iterations a spin.
5 Old-Fashioned variations for every spirit: Robert O. Simonson
September 20th, 2011
While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.
Gather around the punch bowl, a different kind of water cooler– September 20 is National Punch Day!
You can skip straight to the punchline today. Whether you like it spiked or as innocent as a high school homecoming, punch has been a catch-all beverage since the 1600s.
Originally, punch, known as "panch" in Hindi, "panj" in Persian or "panchan" in Sanskrit (all words meaning "five"), was made with alcohol, sugar, lemon juice, water and tea or spices. The British developed their popular Wassail, created around a wine or brandy base, but once Jamaican rum dropped on the scene circa 1655, modern punch was born. Naturally, today is also National Rum Punch Day.
Fruit punch was developed by soft drink manufacturers, although it doesn't have much to do with fruit in the first place. Different regions and cultures are famous for their own takes on punch, so try one of these 600 or one of the dozen vintage recipe in the gallery above.
We dare you to attempt Chatham Artillery Punch. According to Joe Odom, it's "seven parts liquor, three parts juice, whatever you have on hand on both counts." Drink up, and try to remember us in the morning.
Click through for 12 vintage punch recipes
March 7th, 2011
For the past 25 years, the International Association of Culinary Professionals has celebrated excellence in the field of culinary publishing with the IACP Cookbook Awards. Behold the finalists for the 2011 honors.
2011 Cookbook Award Finalists
"The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern"
"The Winemaker Cooks"
"Fried Chicken & Champagne: A Romp Through the Kitchen at Pomegranate Bistro"
January 17th, 2011
While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday and the most delicious finds on TV.
The December holidays are behind us, but so long as temperatures are dipping into single digits anywhere in the US, we're happy to keep taking our tipples on the warmed-up side. January 17 is National Hot Buttered Rum Day, and we humbly suggest celebrating with the recipe above, scanned from our 1941 edition of W.C. Whitfield's drink mixing masterpiece 'Here's How'.
Not in a rum state of mind, but still hot 'n' bothered over the notion of a steamy beverage? Pop some butter in your whiskey toddy. We surely won't tell.
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I was a keen deep sky observer back in the day. This means I would use optical instruments, primarily telescopes, to tickle out those faint fuzzies in the night sky. These were various stellar and non-stellar objects such as star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and planetary nebulae. Photography has changed, but observing has changed little.
I don't like crowds. I prefer to work alone and with the tools that I personally like to work with. The end of the days working with film are all but gone. I really do not want to join the crowds of digital mavens honing their crafts with the latest gadgets and squirrel cage wheel of innovation. More and more I just want to observe. I've grown tired of photography. The stream of Milky Way images have never been greater. It's time to move on.
My eyes have aged, but they are essentially the same. Age has also given me the wisdom to see once again that the act of observing as much more precious. The photograph pales to the direct experience of observing.
Last night I could see what I have been missing. A pair of binoculars on a tripod and a sweep of the skies made the case for returning to my roots. The downside is in the sharing. I may post a photo or two to convey just where I am looking, but the projected images on my retina are solely mine.
|Observing - The direct act of communion with the Cosmos
Photography has given me so much pleasure and insight into the Milky Way. The cake has been iced.
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After years of anchoring inside South Pacific atolls—where tropical islands of sand and coral lie just a few feet above shimmering seas, and our tallest companions were rustling coconut palms—we've entered a new region, one of imposing scale and grandeur. It feels like we've wandered into the mythical world of King Kong.
These rare geographical giants emerged more than 200 million years ago, forced by shifting tectonic plates from below the ocean to rise hundreds of feet above. They are weathered by centuries of driving monsoonal rains, and dripping with great stalactites of calcium deposits hanging the height of Dream Time's mast. These pillars stand sentry throughout Southeast Asia, resting gently on emerald waters while towering into wispy skies.
Thailand is unlike any other region my wife, Catherine, and I have explored since sailing from New York's Long Island Sound 12 years and 40,000 nautical miles ago. The warm tropical waters lying off Phuket's eastern shoreline is a rich and seductive cruising territory, offering mariners hundreds of impressive limestone karsts to explore, where behind craggy folds and overhangs concealed by tropical jungle, caves, sinkholes and hidden chambers wait to be discovered.
Light winds and distances between these islands of just a few nautical miles have us sailing under only a genoa and often, to shade us from the equatorial heat, the shelter of our canopies. And by early afternoon, Dream Time rests in anchorages where our only company is the island watching over us, and on one occasion, a family of long-tailed macaques foraging for oysters among the rocks at low tide.
And just before the sun disappears into the Indian Ocean, fruit bats emerge, rising by the thousands in a swirling black mass from caves hidden deep within the island. Warm light plays across ancient rock faces that seem fixated on a point far beyond our horizon, and with Dream Time nodding gently in calm waters, these giants of the Andaman Sea, balancing on foundations eroded by time, seem to stir, rocking and swaying with the tide, and it is both humbling and hypnotic to be anchored so very close, resting quietly in their shadows.


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Local blog Imperator Fish has a nice little satirical comment on the impending legal case being taken against NIWA by New Zealand critics of climate change science (see A desperate plea to be noticed?). If They Win is a fictional news report of legal action taken by the Climate Science Coalition (CSC) alleging breach of a court order that ruled climate change was not occurring. That is it assumes the CSC will be successful in its current case.
The CSC sued the Crown Research Institute NIWA over weather data issued by the institute, and obtained a ruling by the court last year that NIWA's data was invalid.
But the CSC are concerned that global temperatures may have risen, in defiance of the court order.
CSC spokesman Terry Dunleavy said the recent atmospheric activity was concerning.
"It may just be an anomaly, but we would certainly be very concerned if temperatures were on the rise, in defiance of the judge's order."
Problem is who is responsible? Who do they sue now?
Auckland University Associate Law Professor Nigel de Blath said it was not absolutely clear who or what was behind the recent temperature changes. But if it was God He may have a case to answer.
"On the face of it He appears to have breached the spirit of the court order, if not the actual express language of it.
"I think we all accepted when the ruling came out last year that climate change was at an end. The judge made his views very clear on the subject."
Mr de Blath said the latest temperature anomalies made a mockery of the entire judicial process.
I nice little story, illustrating the stupidity of thinking one should take legal action in an attempt to change reality.


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Broken leg and impending darkness: How two skiers survived a Sierra avalanche on Jobs Peak
Aaron Zanto describes ski lines in snow the way a painter describes brush strokes on canvas.
When he's skiing the Tahoe area backcountry, the 44-year-old firefighter from Kings Beach strives to make every line meaningful.
"Something that's beautiful going up as well as beautiful going down," is how Zanto describes lines from a great day on snow.
But not every line is beautiful, as Zanto learned during a ski day on Jobs Peak when an avalanche turned his partner's ski line into an ugly smear across the snow.
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'Things do go bad'
It also transformed the remainder of the day into a crisis that required every ounce of Zanto's skill and a few strokes of luck to escape.
The hours after the avalanche were a struggle that involved setting his partner's broken leg, watching a rescue helicopter turn away due to high winds, dragging his partner more than 1,000 feet through deep snow and wondering whether a last ditch effort by rescuers to get his seriously injured friend off the mountain by nightfall would work.
Through the ordeal, Zanto gained an even greater appreciation for the tools and knowledge anyone who skis, hikes or rides in the backcountry should take on every trip.
"Think about where you are going and are you prepared for what it is going to mean," he said.
"Things do go bad."
'Oh crap, he's not going to be able to stop'
For Zanto and his partner, things went bad on Feb. 12 after they decided to take one more lap on the flanks of Jobs Peak, a mountain that's familiar to just about anyone who ever visited Nevada's Carson Valley.
Towering more than 5,000 feet above the valley floor, the 10,600-foot peak dominates the skyline. The peak itself is across the border in California.
For summer adventurers seeking commanding views of the Lake Tahoe Basin and western Nevada, it's a demanding day hike.
During winter when days are short, snow conditions tough to predict and winds can reach gale force, it's an even more ambitious destination for skiers or snowboarders.
For Zanto and his ski partner, who didn't want to be interviewed or identified publicly, Jobs would be a challenging but realistic destination given their skill and fitness levels.
Their plan was to summit Jobs, but they could tell from the plumes of snow blowing from the peak that winds were strong and summiting was no guarantee.
An advisory from the Sierra Avalanche Center warned of the potential for wind slab avalanches, which occur after wind-deposited snow consolidates on a slope and breaks loose.
On that day the wind slabs held potential for avalanches big enough to bury cars, destroy a house or break trees. And they could be weak enough to break free under the weight of a skier.
Zanto had been monitoring the snowpack all season and was confident they could evaluate risk and avoid problems.
WATCH: Here's how they survived their journey
'We definitely thought things were stable'
"I think any reports are super important, but skiing day in, day out is kind of more what I take into consideration," he said. "We definitely thought things were stable that day."
At 7:30 a.m., winds at the top of Slide Mountain 30 miles to the north were over 40 mph, gusting to 50.
But the Jobs Peak skiers were well below where the worst of the wind and enjoying a nice day on the snow.
"It was really nice … really easy to make progress," Zanto said, noting their skis only sank to shin deep.
By 10 a.m. they had reached the rim of a steep couloir called Jaws and noticed there had already been a natural avalanche. At this point they were above tree line, exposed to the wind and facing poor skiing conditions due to the previous avalanche on the line in Jaws they had planned to ski.
Instead, they skied a 2,000-foot line on better snow back into the canyon.
'We wanted to go through the trees'
With plenty of time left in the day, they decided to head toward an area called the S Chute, another tempting line named for its shape and visible from the valley below.
The trip up and over to S Chute was also a chance to inspect conditions along the way.
"We were talking about skiing (S Chute) but we wanted to go through the trees and see what was happening," Zanto said.
Along the way they noticed the strong winds had rearranged snow, even in protected areas. They also observed ridges of wind-deposited snow deep into the trees, something usually associated with exposed terrain.
Although they noticed the conditions, they didn't factor it into their decision-making as much as they could have.
"That was probably what we really missed, we really missed how much wind transport was happening in the trees," Zanto said.
Eventually, they reached what they estimated to be about a 40-degree pitch, an angle that's steep enough to produce avalanches.
While they were discussing their options, a gust of wind ripped a climbing skin from Zanto's grasp. The piece of gear was blown down the line they were contemplating.
While they both agreed it would be safe to ski down and retrieve the skin, the fact it blew into the line affected their decision.
"Do we still want to ski this slope," he said of his thought process. "I really want to ski this slope because now my skin is at the bottom."
Zanto skied first, going far enough down to retrieve the lost skin. The snow held and all seemed well, so Zanto's partner followed.
That's when things went wrong.
Zanto's partner skied over a wind-loaded spot on the slope; the snow broke loose.
"He hit this pocket and basically hit it dead center and the whole thing just broke away, it started to carry him," Zanto said.
Zanto watched helplessly from 15 feet away while the avalanche gained size and speed. By the time it stopped, it was 40 feet wide and had carried his partner 500 feet down slope.
"I remember him getting washed off his feet and being like, 'Oh crap, he is not going to be able to stop.'"
Rescue: Skier triggers avalanche on Jobs Peak, rescue involves Black Hawk
Bad situation becomes crisis, and then it gets worse
Zanto reached for his avalanche beacon but quickly realized he wouldn't need it. His ski partner was only partially buried with his head and arms free above the snow.
When he realized his partner was not only above the surface but breathing and conscious, Zanto thought they may have averted a serious problem.
It wasn't until Zanto was digging out his partner that he realized their problems were worse than he had hoped.
"I dug down there and then could see blood, his foot was backward, it was facing the wrong way," Zanto said.
Zanto knew he had to act fast.
First, he disassembled a collapsible ski pole to make a splint to set the broken leg. Then he wrapped his friend in warm clothes and tucked him into a bivy bag.
Given his medical training as a firefighter, Zanto knew his friend was at risk of catastrophic blood loss, hypothermia and shock.
Fortunately, the two skiers were within range of cellular towers. Zanto called 911 at about noon.
He said the initial call was confusing because the operator wasn't familiar with their location. The fact they had parked in Nevada and skied into California made describing it more complex.
But Zanto remained persistent until he confirmed dispatchers would send a California Highway Patrol helicopter with a hoist to get them.
CHP helicopter forced to turn back
Once the helicopter was en route, Zanto received a call from an acquaintance who was on the flight crew and was familiar with the location.
With the helicopter coming, Zanto was hopeful rescue would come quickly, although the hope wouldn't last long.
At noon, the Slide Mountain weather station was showing sustained winds of nearly 60 mph. By the time the CHP helicopter arrived, it was clear that hovering and lowering a hoist would be difficult.
Despite multiple attempts, the helicopter was forced to turn back.
That meant Zanto and his friend would remain on the mountain.
Alpine County Search and Rescue advised them to stay put while rescuers approached by ski and snowshoe. But it would take rescuers hours to reach the two skiers, and Zanto knew they didn't have that kind of time. It was already nearly 2 p.m. and the sun would set in less than four hours.
"That means if I'm lucky you will get here by nightfall ... and that is just not an acceptable option," Zanto said.
So, with his partner bundled up and bagged for transport, Zanto decided he would start moving toward the rescuers.
It was a slow operation.
The snow was too deep and soft for Zanto to slide his partner downhill. That meant Zanto would have to pull him, step-by-exhausting-step.
"I was pulling on his good leg; I basically pulled his ski boot and walked backward," Zanto said.
WATCH: CHP helicopter hoists 2 skiers and a dog to safety south of Lake Tahoe
'This guy may not live if you guys don't fly'
For more than an hour, Zanto pulled his partner downhill. Even resting was a challenge because every time they stopped, his partner's body heat would melt the snow around him and cause the bivy bag to freeze in place, making it more difficult to start again.
It wasn't until after 3 p.m. that Zanto and his partner reached the first rescuer, about 1,000 feet lower than where they started.
They continued towing Zanto's friend, descending another 200 feet before meeting more rescuers.
But even with help, progress remained slow and daylight dwindled.
The two skiers had been on the mountain nearly eight hours, three of those under extreme duress. And they still had nearly a half mile to travel which, given the circumstances, could take until after dark.
It was time Zanto and the rescuers worried they couldn't afford.
One of the rescuers knew the Nevada National Guard had a helicopter and had performed rescues under difficult circumstances.
So, he made one more attempt at getting help from the air.
"He's like, 'The sun's going down and this guy may not live if you guys don't fly,'" Zanto said.
The last chance
The call eventually reached Lt. Col. Andrew Wagner of the Nevada National Guard.
It would be up to Wagner, who was about to go home for the day when he got the call, to make the decision about whether to fly.
Wagner knew other helicopter teams had already decided against flying. But he also knew the Guard's UH-60 Black Hawk has a larger operating envelope than many other aircraft.
The Black Hawk has two engines with a combined 3,000 horsepower and is rated to carry as many as 11 crew members and their gear.
Even in breezy conditions, Wagner was confident his crew of five could conduct the mission without exceeding their tolerance for risk.
Plus, there was one more factor that influenced the decision.
The Black Hawk might be the skiers' last chance.
"If we weren't able to get there, there was a good chance they were going to be there all night which greatly increased the risk for the patient," Wagner said.
Weather conditions were good at takeoff, Wagner said, and the crew was excited to go help.
"We are constantly training," he said. "To actually get to go out and do the real thing, we only get to do that overseas."
With the capability to fly 170 mph, the crew was able to reach the Carson Valley in about 20 minutes. However, there was a complication.
Along the way Wagner received an updated weather forecast calling for much stronger winds than the earlier outlook.
"They texted it to me after I was already flying," Wagner said. "By that point we had already made our own assessment."
The National Guard crew had little trouble locating the group, but they still had to deal with the winds.
"It can be really challenging when you have to fight winds, especially on ridge lines and mountains," Wagner said.
Wagner described hovering about 120 to 130 feet above the ground despite tall trees in the area. The trees, he said, helped him keep the craft properly oriented.
"We had some good visual references over the treetops," he said.
The crew used a hoist to lower Staff Sgt. Nicholas Hammond and a stretcher to the ground.
Zanto said he was relieved to see the Black Hawk, but even with Hammond on the ground it wasn't certain the crew would be able to complete the hoist.
"They inserted their guy but still that doesn't mean they are going to hoist," Zanto said. "Their guy could get left in there and could be postholing out with us."
Wagner, however, said he felt the conditions were within the operating parameters of the Black Hawk and the crew.
"We train in more difficult conditions routinely around here, whether it is night or snow or higher elevation," Wagner said.
It wasn't until after his ski partner was safely in the Black Hawk that Zanto could relax. By then it was dusk and time for him to ski back to the truck.
"It wasn't until he was in the helicopter that I was like, this is going to be OK … nothing else went wrong," he said.
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Lessons learned
Although the skiers' day included a serious injury and helicopter rescue, they made more good decisions than bad, said Richard Bothwell, a backcountry ski guide and avalanche instructor.
Bothwell, who read Zanto's description of the incident on the website for the Sierra Avalance Center, said the skiers were well prepared for emergencies and made good decisions under difficult circumstances.
Specifically, Bothwell said he agreed with Zanto's observation that carrying a bivy bag instead of a space blanket and having a working cellphone and GPS location were critical.
"I think they did a great job," Bothwell said. "Kudos to the people involved for being so well-prepared and self-reliant."
The fact Zanto and his partner came so close to spending a night on the mountain shows how quickly a pleasant day on the snow can turn into a crisis, Bothwell said.
"The vast majority of the people we see out in the backcountry are poorly prepared to deal with a significant situation," Bothwell said.
Skis and snowboards can make it easy for fit, healthy people to move swiftly across the snow. A serious injury or gear malfunction, however, can leave them stranded far from safety. Dragging or carrying an injured person in deep snow is slow, grueling work.
In a crisis it could take someone several hours to cross terrain that, under good conditions, they could cover in minutes.
"It takes a long time to move in deep snow, and you are getting cold, and you are getting wet, and you are getting frustrated," Bothwell said.
Zanto and his partner also benefited from good luck during their ordeal, Bothwell said. That's not something backcountry skiers and snowboarders can rely on.
"If somebody breaks a leg and they are immobilized I would expect you are spending the night," Bothwell said. "With just a little bit of a shift in luck that helicopter wouldn't have flown in and they would have been out there for a significantly longer period of time."
Zanto said the entire ordeal reinforced to him the importance of talking in advance about how much risk each person is willing to accept and preparing for worst-case-scenarios.
The incident would have been worse, he said, if they had been skiing lines they weren't prepared, both mentally and physically, to ski.
"This one, I don't feel guilt for my partner. We both knew what we were getting into," Zanto said. "For me that clear conscience is huge."


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Fall 2022 Enrollment for Head Start and GSRP Programs now available at www.hmgallegan.org/preschool. Applications will start being reviewed in March.
Have a Preschool Question?
Visit www.hmgallegan.org or call Help Me Grow at 269.512.7775Lindsay Sichta (Director of Early Childhood Services) Email or call 269.512.7735Susan Berens (Early Childhood Coordinator) Email or call 269.512.7730Enrollment / Classroom / Location Information:Online enrollment link - HMG Allegan PreschoolChild must be age 3 or 4 years of age by September 1, 2022. Age waivers may be accepted.
Students qualify according to State of Michigan guidelines. This is a FREE program for those who qualify.Tuition spots will be considered only if unable to fill free spots by September.
Transportation provided for most districts.
Special needs children are encouraged to apply.Head Start/GSRP Classroom Locations Provided Below.Busing may be provided depending on location.
# of Classrooms
North Ward Early Childhood Center
440 Monroe Street
Allegan, MI 49010
Monday - Thursday
2 Head Start (1/2 days)
2 GSRP (full days)
Allegan County Tech Center
2891 116th Avenue
Allegan, MI 49010
Monday - Thursday
1 Head Start (full days)
Pullman Elementary
5580 South Avenue
Pullman, MI 49450
Monday - Thursday 1 Head Start (full days)
Fennville Elementary
8 Memorial Drive
Fennville, MI 49408
Monday - Thursday
3 Head Start (full days)
2 GSRP (full days)
Sycamore Elementary
2163 142nd Avenue
Dorr, MI 49323
Monday - Thursday
1 Head Start (full days)
2 GSRP (full days)
Brandon Elementary
1583 University
Martin, MI 49070
Monday - Thursday
1 Head Start (full days)
1 GSRP (full days)
Washington Street Elementary
538 Washington Street
Otsego, MI 49078
Monday - Thursday
1 Head Start (1/2 days)
No GSRP
Starr Elementary
601 School Drive
Plainwell, MI 49080
Monday - Thursday
1 Head Start (full days)
1 GSRP (full days)
Gilkey Elementary
707 S Woodhams Street
Plainwell, MI 49080
Monday - Thursday
1 GSRP (full days)
Cooper Elementary
7559 North 14th Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
Monday - Thursday
1 GSRP (full days)
Baker Elementary
507 West Sycamore
Wayland, MI 49348
Monday - Thursday
No Head Start
2 GSRP (full days)
Steeby Elementary
435 E. Superior Street
Wayland, MI 49348
Monday - Thursday
1 Head Start (1/2 days)
No GSRPEnrollment Process:Initial registration will take place via the online application. This is a free program for those who qualify.Basic qualifications are:
Low family income
Diagnosed disability or developmental delay
Severe or challenging behavior
Primary home language other than English
Parent(s) with low educational attainment
Abuse/neglect of child
Environmental risk
This Program Offers:
Preparation of young learners for success in school.
A variety of social and learning activities.Curriculum-based experiences (HighScope).Parent participation.
Great Start Readiness Program Children:
Benefit from a wide variety of learning experiences so that they are ready for success when they begin kindergarten.
Have opportunities to enhance their social skills through play and learning activities with children their own age.
Experience literacy with appropriate pre-reading curriculum.
Experiment with numbers and beginning math concepts.
Develop both small and large muscle skills through daily physical activities.
Are monitored quarterly on their academic progress.
Receive monthly home learning packets and free books.


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Cliff Asness Has A Dream, Which May Involve Wearing A Cape
What drives a man who's made billions already to continue coming into the office every day in a quest to amass even more, particularly at a time when many are closing up shop? What drives him to keep going when he could comfortably retire to a beach on the coast of a country he could buy, and the one next to that, plus all their women and small boys? For some money managers, it's a matter of proving themselves to mommy or daddy, who never thought they were good enough. For others, it's the thing that makes them tick, with nothing else being a proper substitute for the feeling they get in their plums when they're playing the game. For AQR Capital Management founder Cliff Asness, the motivation can be summed up in two words: super hero.
As we have discussed previously, Asness is a longtime Marvel comic book collector who currently keeps his favorite action figures, Spiderman, Captain America, The Hulk and Iron Man, on the desk of his office in Greenwich, Connecticut. Captain America is his favorite, and he has a tattoo of the guy's shield on his right forearm. But for Cliff, this is more than a boyhood hobby. Since his days on Long Island, where he was "obsessed with little besides girls and comic books," Asness has clearly had a dream.
Cliff wants a super hero character to be modeled after him. And he thinks that if he makes one more dollar, if he does one more interview wherein he suggest being photographed in front of his dolls, someone will get the hint. And speaking of hints, without expressly saying it, many have been dropped re: what kind of elements Cliff thinks should be involved in-- and this name is not set in stone but let's just call him this for now-- Quant Man's bio.
For instance, his duties in life include protecting truth and eradicating lies, by fighting the vicious animal liars who tell them.
"His super-villains are intellectual dishonesty and ignorance," Jonathan Beinner, a managing director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and a former classmate of Asness, tells Bloomberg Markets magazine. "When someone offers an opinion that Cliff feels is incorrect or dishonest, whether it be related to investments, politics or pizza, he feels it is his duty to stand up, even if it's not in his best interest."
In addition to people who want to spread evil like universal healthcare.
He also takes a dim view of the administration of President Barack Obama, calling his economic team "Cossacks on a shtetl," a reference to the Russian cavalrymen who sacked Jewish villages in Eastern Europe in the 19th century.
Like the Hulk, Quant Man has some rage tendencies that erupt when he's battling things like market volatility.
And Asness...who admits to a superhero complex...[also] admits to a temper: He's knocked his ViewSonic computer monitor to the floor on three occasions, though it never broke. "Either they're building good computer screens or my punch isn't what it used to be," he says.
That's because Quant Man is getting tired. He's starting to lose his strength, like an out of shape Hulk who can't even lift a car. How much thicker must this be laid on before someone moves their ass on the idea? Let's at least get a costume sketch by the end of the year.


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Yorkshire Pride Lottery Results (11/08/2017)
Yorkshire Pride Winners List for Draw #2 of August 2017
The draw took place on the 11th of August 2017.
£10 Winners:
A1244 Andrew Marshall from Halifax
A0214 Simon Meritt from Leeds
C3527 Ged Maloney from Wetherby
A0746 Frank Fletcher from Leeds
A1647 Chris Addey from Bath
B2364 Geoffrey Robinson from Northallerton
A4496 Alan Hart from Pontefract
C4742 Stuart Black from Glasgow
A1449 Stephen Hadley from Welwyn Garden City
A2586 Daniel Shaw from Bradford
The jackpot of £500 for this draw was not won and so rolls over to £750 next week. The numbers drawn were 3, 16, 17 and 28.
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Ecuador cocoa was internationally recognized within the framework of the Salon du Chocolat in Paris, France. The event took place between October 28 and November 1, 2015. On the night of Wednesday 28 the International Cocoa Awards (ICA) were given.
50 cocoa samples were chosen out of a total of 146 from 35 producing countries. From this selection, 17 were awarded by a prestigious panel of experts, composed of large chocolatiers and globally renowned cocoa specialists, according to information collected by the representation of PROECUADOR in France
Ecuador, one of the largest producers of the raw material for chocolate, was awarded for the excellent quality of the cocoa produced in its rich territory. The "Alicia Villacis Encalada" and "La Fortaleza Agricultural Association" plantations won the International Cocoa Awards.
Additionally, the Vinces Association of Organic Producers (COFINA) and Vicente Norero, received a certificate for the quality and diversity of their cocoa. The information was provided by Valeria Escudero, Director of PROECUADOR Commercial Office in Paris
PROECUADOR, through its Commercial Office in Paris, was present at the Salon du Chocolat with a stand. There, the Ecuadorian companies coordinated meetings and actions to be taken with cocoa importers. Also, there they could discover the latest trends and innovations in this exciting sector of the economy.


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Cuisinart DCC-3200 14-Cup Glass Carafe with Stainless Steel Handle Programmable Coffeemaker, Silver
- State-Of-The-Art technology to ensure hotter coffee without sacrificing flavor or quality
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In keeping with this column's focus on Yukon related material, I'm returning this week to a successful thriller that is set in a version of Dawson City. It's not quite my town in both geography and details, but Elle Wild didn't try to pretend it was when I talked with her about it, and even put a map of her fictional version on her website so people could see the difference.
Strange Things Done is a murder mystery published by Dundurn Press. A somewhat disgraced journalist from Outside arrives to take up a post at the Dawson Daily, a local paper run by a guy who is a teacher at the local school.
This was a shock when I read it, seeing as that was pretty much me from 1989 to 2008, until I retired from teaching, but we'd never met when she was here in 2004, so it was a coincidence.
An even greater coincidence was that her investigating RCMP officer bore the moniker of Johnny Caribou, which is the actual nom de guerre of one of our long time locals. She swears she never met him and had no idea.
Newly arrived, Jo Silver investigates the mysterious death of a local politician on the river, from a fall that could not actually take place as described, but I'll forgive that. Mysteries multiply and the body count rises.
Winter sets in; the airport shuts down and the highway is closed. These things don't actually happen, either, but having them in the book does ramp up the tension.
Silver is that staple of noir mysteries: a failed reporter full of self doubt and a number of character flaws. She means well, but has trouble getting past her own inadequacies.
Anyway, this is, to some extent, a bit of a "cozy" mystery with an exotic locale and an intriguing puzzle, and it started winning awards before it was officially published, picking up the 2015 Unhanged Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel.
Arthur Ellis was the name used by the official hangman in Ontario. Not his real name, just the one that the various occupants of the role traveled under to remain incognito. It's the Canadian version of the American Edgar (after Poe) or the British Agatha (after Christie).
The publisher's notes describe Strange Things Done as "A dark and suspenseful noir thriller", and it does have noir-ish overtones.
Before it won that Ellis award, it had already racked up some other nominations or wins:
• 2014 Telegraph/Harvill Secker Crime Competition — Shortlisted
• 2014 Southwest Writers Annual Novel Writing Contest — Silver Winner
• 2014 Criminal Lines Crime-Writing Competition — Shortlisted
• 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — Longlisted
This year, it scored another Ellis award, this time with the 2017 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
In addition, it won the 2017 Women in Film "From Our Dark Side" Contest.
You can read more about Elle Wild and see a video teaser for the book at her website: StrangeThingsDone.ca. I recommend it.
Strange Things Done is available through the Yukon Public Libraries system. It is also for sale at Mac's Fireweed Books on Main Street in Whitehorse, as well as online and in ebook form.


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Welcoming guests
We welcomed guests Hollie and her daughter Avonmare. Hollie and Avi visited our booth at the Mebane Autumn Fest, and Avi is an enthusiastic young sewer and quilter.
We also welcomed Carol and Cathy from the Greensboro Modern Quilt Guild who shared their work in progress that will be entered in the QuiltCon 2020 Charity Quilt Challenge. Entries can include only shades of black, white, and gray and must include some type of text. Words will be added to their penguin quilt. They also were displaying and selling raffle tickets for their Birch Trees quilt made by Rosemarie Ameen. The guild meets at 6:30 on third Mondays at Studio Stitch.
Nanette Zeller: An Artistic Journey: Finding Your Own Voice
Nanette traveled from her home in Southern Pines to inspire us to be brave and find our own creative voice. She reminded us that according to Henri Matisse, "Creativity takes courage" and that sometimes we need to get away from reality. She shared many of her beautiful works with us as you can see in photos below. You can learn more about Nanette and her journey as a textile artist from her website NanetteSewZ as well as see her gallery of even better photos of many of the pieces she showed us.
Nanette described herself as a reluctant quilter who finally joined a guild after encouragement from friends. She shared a few of her early pieces including her first quilt and a stack and whack quilt where she felt she finally mastered free motion quilting.
Nanette encouraged us to be creative, experiment and play and not be afraid to try new things – and even embrace the ugly when we fail since "The best way of learning about anything is doing" (Richard Branson) and "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents" (painter, Bob Ross). She described how she began to experiment and move beyond traditional quilting by applying paint to fabric, enhancing designs with thread, and working from photographs. In the quilt showing a spigot of running water, she painted the background after quilting to emphasize the quilting lines.
Describing herself as a recovering perfectionist, Nanette encouraged us to try to let go of our need for perfection by reminding us, "You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement." (Hlovate, author)" and "Your inner critic is a big jerk." (Danielle Krysa, author). She participated in several challenges including creating a wonderful thread painting rendition of her dog Storm that was featured in the 2012 issue of the Quilting Arts Calendar that featured art quilts depicting the artists' pets. She teamed with a poet to create Hunter's Moon from the poet's work and learned through that experience that creating quilts depicting people is not her thing.
Nanette also encouraged us to take non-quilting classes as a way to enhance our quilting and expand our box of tools. For example, she learned a lot from taking a colored pencil class. She created the oil cans (not plungers!) using colored pencils on paper and then had Spoonflower transfer the image to fabric after which she embellished the fabric with thread painting.
Finally Nanette explained that her academic background in biology and environmental studies has spiraled around to influence her art, and she shared several pieces inspired by nature. She shared a quilt depicting the probably extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, a piece called "Stumped" inspired by her puzzlement over trees being cut down to make way for structures, and a long-leaf pine cone native to her area.
Other nature-inspired work included trumpet pitcher plants – she described photographing the plants and the sounds of insects swarming around as she as they awaited certain death once they fell prey to the carnivorous plants. Nanette described a technique of posterizing photographs in Photoshop to reduce the number of colors before having the image printed on fabric. She also shared a quilt made from a photograph of the underside of an osprey wing and one from a photo fo a sunflower. Both were posterized before being printed.
She shared a work in progress that resulted from a grant she received that requires her to create art using material purchased with grant money, in her case a camera lens and computer software. She described her toolbox of ideas and the evolution of this piece that began with photographs of a goldfinch in California.
Additional nature-inspired pieces were a pileated woodpecker – actual size to make it clear how large a bird it is and a piece called Looking for Muir inspired by a trip to Muir Woods.
She ended with a lovely piece that was featured on the cover of Quilting Arts magazine.
She left us with a quote from Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook CEO: "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" and offered us a permission slip that encouraged us to explore our own unique creative style, allow time to create, experiment and play, accept mistakes as learning opportunities, and when complimented on our work by others, instead of pointing out issues in our art, to just say "thank you."
A few members had questions about technique and we learned that Nanette is a fan of Aurifil thread and size 80 topstitching needles – the larger eye results in less thread breakage.
Taking care of business
- Miranda reminded everyone that as per our agreement with Merry Mayhem, all monthly clues for our 2019 mystery quilt will be removed from the members-only area at the end of this year, so if you want to download copies of the clues, you should do it before the first of January.
- Sylvia, VP and chair of nominating committee, presented a slate of board members for 2020 – officers and committee chairs. All were elected by voice vote. All current and new board members are reminded to meet at the church November 21st at 6pm for our final board meeting of the year.
- Amy presented ballots for members to use to rank charities to support for 2020.
- Sylvia and Lisa J won name tag drawings.
- Debbie explained new forms members should give to the treasurer when they request money for reimbursement (attach receipts) or turning in money for deposit into guild account.
- Members were reminded to bring something made from charm packs taken home in July to have names entered in a drawing for a prize.
Show and Tell
Sheila has been busy creating for our boutique sales. While moving quilting frames out of Lisa R.'s garage to relocate them to our new storage room, Sheila took home two glass-front cabinet doors and some old Alamance plaids quilts that were falling apart. Using these finds and her incredible appliqué skills, and with assembly help from hubby Frank, Sheila created these two amazing pieces which members purchased before the night was out!
She also shared a craft-inspired apron, nativity wall hanging, and a table runner.
Amy a.k.a. scrap queen adapted a crow design she saw on Pinterest to create a cute wallhanging and used up holiday scraps to make two winter wall hangings, one of which she donated to boutique.
Ann A. continues to romp in the UFO challenge. She shared a coiled rope rug she worked on at our recent fall retreat. We were surprised to see how flat it was given how curly it was when she finished it at the retreat. Turns out she took out the stitching and redid it with less easing on the straight edges – live and learn! She also shared a couple of bench covers – one with flower pots and one welcoming autumn.
Enola shared a winter-themed panel and a baby quilt for her great niece that was quilted by Gail.
Ann L. shared a lovely nativity wall hanging and a colorful quilt she made in one of Helen's classes using fabric from her stash backed with great complimentary fabric she found.
Sylvia aimed to provide proof she attended the retreat and shared some of her accomplishments. Her granddaughter who loves scrunchies sewed the tubes for some herself, and Sylvia sewed the elastic. Sylvia felt fortunate that she had some to share at the meeting since her granddaughter is already wearing others. Sylvia also shared pillow covers she made for a family that went on a mission trip to Guatemala and returned with these embroidered panels. The family will share the pillows as gifts for relatives who helped support their trip – once Sylvia makes all the pillow forms since every panel was a different size. Finally she shared a snowflake table topper she made using a pre-cut fusible – she loves creative iron products and says they stay fused with no stitching.
Teresa shared a baby quilt for boutique and raved about the flickr group devoted to half square triangles. She also shared an adorable bunny wall hanging.
MJ showed off a couple of wall hangings she made for boutique by adding borders to orphaned blocks from our storage room. For one she tried decorative stitching on the binding. She also shared an advent calendar she made from a panel – her husband is glad this one stays at home.
Janet who is known for bright colors raided a cedar chest and shared some finds she claimed to be from her dark period. She also shared an Amish Roman stripes quilt that she completed after acquiring the top from a donation to Hospice. Finally she shared the top she completed at our recent retreat – a patriotic quilt made for a woman veteran.
Helen D. has sewn several sizes of bowl koozies for our boutique and shared two other quilts, one made by her students and one using up Kaffe Fassett scraps.
Catherine shared a multiplication table panel for which she pieced the back and had Gail quilt it. Barbara T. shared a quilt she pieced at the retreat and finished up at home. Fabric was a gift from a dear friend whose sister owns a fabric shop.


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Vault Intelligence has opened a new base in Singapore as part of its overall growth plan for the South East Asian region.
The Australian risk and safety management software provider will sell through the regional distributor ACA Pacific, co-sharing the partner's office in Singapore.
According to Vault, ACA Pacific has more than 30 years of experience in South East Asia and will help the provider drive growth among its customer network.
"Having Vault physically open its operations in Singapore is essential to the conversion of large opportunities with government and other corporations that we have jointly been progressing," Craig Gledhill, CEO and MD of ACA Pacific said.
Known as Vault IQ, the Asia operation will be led by long-term Singaporean resident Paul Meredith in the role of general manager.
Vault, which was founded in New Zealand but is now based in Australia, specialises in delivering cloud-based software and mobile apps to the risk and safety sectors.
According to the company, the expansion came off the back of increased demand for its Vault Solo portfolio, which includes the Solo Enterprise Platform, and the worker protection and driver safety apps, Vault Solo and SoloDrive.
Released in September last year, the Solo app was launched in collaboration with Samsung and was described by Vault as the first workforce management app available on an enterprise-level smartwatch.
The Australian Securities Exchange-listed company added that it received "significant assistance and guidance" from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) on the move.
"We are very excited by the manner and speed in which Vault is making their mark in Singapore. This reinforces the strong ties we have with Singapore and their commitment to the adoption of smart innovation from technology such as that offered from Vault," Hayley Horan, the NZTE Trade Commissioner for Singapore said.
The move comes three years after Vault first listed on the ASX. Within a year, it opened an Australian headquarters in Melbourne and launched its first partner and reseller program.


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SESAME at NURETH-18
The SESAME project presented many outcomes during the important NUclear REactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH) in Portland. More than 10 scientific papers of SESAME work were presented. On top of that, two keynote lectures of prominent SESAME colleagues were provided. And finally, 2 SESAME papers were selected by the Honors and Awards Committee to receive one of the 8 best paper awards prior to the conference banquet. We congratulate Julio Pacio, Markus Daubner, Thomas Wetzel, HeleenRead More →
SESAME won the Euratom Project Award!
We are very pleased and honored to announce that the SESAME project won the EURATOM Project Award at FISA-2019, for its high scientific level and originality.Read More →
Throwback on SESAME International Workshop
The Final International Workshop of the SESAME project (2015 – 2019) took place in Petten (Netherlands) from 19-21 March 2019. The aim of this event was to disseminate the main achievements of the project among the international nuclear community and to foster the exchange of the newest scientific and technical results between researchers and experts. In total, 62 technical papers were presented along with 8 keynote lectures from international experts, mostly not directly involved in theRead More →
NUGENIA Forum 2019
The NUGENIA Forum 2019 will be held from 13 to 15 March 2019 at La Cité Universitaire in Paris, France. The theme of this year Forum is "Innovation for a safe, efficient and low-carbon nuclear energy production". It will be devoted to the discussion on the technical and scientific milestones to be tackled to ensure competitive, efficient and safe production of low CO2 electricity from GEN II, GEN III and SMR water-cooled nuclear power plants. Technological innovation is fundamental to maintain a highRead More →
SESAME International Workshop programme
The detailed preliminary programme for the SESAME International Workshop is now available! ==> Click HERE to download itRead More →
SESAME final newsletter is out!
SESAME has published its fourth, and final newsletter edition, covering the latest technical activities that have been carried out, highlights and interesting events for the community.Read More →
Portrait of a young professional: Jure Oder
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG PROFESSIONAL: JURE ODER Could you briefly describe your role and responsibilities in the SESAME project? I am a PhD student at JSI, which is a partner in the SESAME project. The main involvement of my team is in the Work Package 1, which is about Fluctuations and Vibrations. It is our responsibility to provide reference data about thermal fluctuations in a flow of sodium in a heated backward facing step geometry (TaskRead More →
Portrait of a young professional: Pierdomenico Lorusso
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG PROFESSIONAL: PIERDOMENICO LORUSSO Could you briefly describe your role and responsibilities in the SESAME project? My name is Pierdomenico Lorusso, I'm a PhD student of University of Rome La Sapienza and I'm attending my PhD at the ENEA Brasimone Research Center. I'm actually involved in the SESAME Project and I'm working in the following tasks: In the framework of WP4, task 5.4, I participated to the realization of the numerical activities withRead More →
SESAME Keynotes at the ANS Winter Meeting
During the ANS Winter Meeting in Orlando (Florida) embedded Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH) topical meeting, two out of three keynote lectures were provided by SESAME experts. The opening keynote was provided by Katrien van Tichelen on 'Advanced Liquid-Metal Thermal Hydraulics Research for MYRRHA'. This keynote was very well received and obviously discussed amongst many other topics also topics covered by SESAME. Katrien received her certificate of appreciation from Dr. Sama Bilbao y Leon currentlyRead More →
SESAME's Wentao Guo wins NUTHOS best paper award
During the 12th International Topical Meeting on Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation, and Safety (NUTHOS-12) in Qingdao (China), Wentao Guo won a Best Paper award for his paper: 'DNS of Turbulent Mixed Convection in Liquid Metals and Its Application to Improve RANS Turbulence Models'. The work described in this paper was performed within the framework of the European SESAME project in a collaboration between the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and NRG. The paper was co-authored by BojanRead More →
Sophia Buckingham, a new PhD celebrated
We are pleased to announce that Sophia Buckingham (Von Karman Institute) successfully defended her thesis in front of the private jury on the 27th of June 2018 at the Université Catholique de Louvain. This is the second step after submitting the manuscript in the process of acquiring the PhD in Belgium. The last step is the public defense, that is scheduled on the 29th of August, 2018. Her thesis is entitled: "Prandtl number effects onRead More →
SESAME celebrates Morena Angelucci, a new successful PhD
The 7th of May, at the University of Pisa, the candidate Morena Angelucci defended her doctoral thesis titled "Coupling between System and CFD codes for the analysis of thermal-hydraulic phenomena relevant for LMFR". Her research activity concerned the development and the use of multi-scale approach, i.e. coupled calculation between a system thermal-hydraulic code (RELAP5/Mod3.3) and a CFD code (ANSYS Fluent) to perform thermal-hydraulic analysis of heavy metal-cooled systems. The research included also an experimental activityRead More →
SESAME celebrates successful PhDs
On 7 June, KTH students Marti Jeltsov and Kaspar Kööp obtained their PhD based on SESAME-related work. The PhD defense of Marti was chaired by SESAME Senior Advisory Committee member Janne Wallenius. Furthermore, SESAME experts Mariano Tarantino and Afaque Shams served as opponents during the defenses of Marti and Kaspar while SESAME experts Vincent Moreau, Katrien Van Tichelen, and Ferry Roelofs served in the evaluation committees of their PhD defenses. We are happy to announceRead More →
SEEDS-2 experiments ready to start
A step forward was taken at the Department of Radiation Science and Technology of TU Delft, The Netherlands. The SEEDS experimental loop (SEven rods bundle Experiment in Delft for Sesame) was changed replacing the SEEDS-1 (inaugurated in November 2017) test section with the SEEDS-2 test section. SESAME colleagues from NRG visited the new setup. The SEEDS-2 test section is a 7-rods hexagonal bundle facility with wire spacers wrapped around the rods to mimic the geometry ofRead More →
Tracking bears!
Prior to the recent SESAME progress meeting in March in Ljubljana, local organiser Iztok Tiselj arranged a unique social adventure of bear tracking in the hills around Postonja, Slovenia. Two SESAME members, Graham Kennedy (SCK•CEN) and Afaque Shams (NRG) — both originating from the warmer parts of the globe — joined the adventure in sub-zero temperatures and at times knee deep snow. The fresh snowfall and winds made bear tracking nearly impossible and so noRead More →
SESAME's third Newsletter is out!
SESAME has published its third newsletter edition, covering the latest technical activities that have been carried out, highlights and interesting events for the community.Read More →
SEEDS Experimental Facility Revealed!
It took a lot of thinking, designing, drawing, constructing and testing… the SEEDS facility is ready to go! On 17 November, SEEDS (SEven rods bundle Experiments in Delft for SESAME) was officially revealed at the department of Radiation Science and Technology of TU Delft, The Netherlands. SESAME colleagues from NRG and TU Delft were there to celebrate this event. The SEEDS facility is a water-based bundle consisting of seven rods. SEEDS 1 is a 7Read More →
SESAME Heavy (Liquid) Metal Concert
The SESAME progress meeting in Brasimone hosted a unique event. The first ever heavy (liquid) metal concert in the containment of a liquid metal cooled reactor. SESAME scientist Diego Angeli from Modena is also guitarist in the Italian melodic and aggressive heavy metal band Blue Hour Ghosts. And as they said themselves: 'Have you ever heard guitars play in a Nuclear Reactor Containment Building? Well, we did!'. It was a unique and very special concertRead More →
SESAME's Heleen Doolaard wins NURETH Young Professional Award
During the 17th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-17) in Xi'an (China), Heleen Doolaard won a Young Professional award for her paper: 'Experiment design to assess the inter-wrapper heat transfer in LMFR'. The work described in this paper was performed within the framework of the European SESAME project in a collaboration between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and NRG. The paper was co-authored by Julio Pacio and Abdalla Batta from KITRead More →
ASCOMP hands-on training
ASCOMP organises periodically hands-on training sessions on TransAT in Zurich and elsewhere. During the two-day training session, the participants get to know the code structure, architecture, physics (equations, models), problem setup and installation details, followed by hands-on-training. Next available dates for Training: Zurich ASCOMP: 14-15 September 2017 Registration available here: http://ascomp.ch/products/support/training/Read More →
SESAME's second Newsletter is out!
SESAME has published its second newsletter edition, covering the technical activities that have been carried out during the first year of the project, highlights and interesting events for the community.Read More →
FJOH School 2017
Frédéric Joliot & Otto Hahn Summer School on Nuclear Reactors "Physics, Fuels and Systems" Uncertainties in nuclear reactor systems analysis: Improving understanding, confidence and quantification When: August 23 – September 1, 2017 Where: Karlsruhe, Germany More information: http://www.fjohss.eu/ The 23rd session of the Frédéric Joliot/Otto Hahn (FJOH) Summer School on "Nuclear Reactors Physics, Fuels, and Systems" will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, from August 23 to September 1, 2017. This session is entitled Uncertainties in nuclearRead More →
Lecture series: Thermohydraulics and Chemistry of Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors
We are pleased to announce a new Lectures Series on Thermohydraulics and Chemistry of Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors that will be organised in the framework of the MYRTE and SESAME Horizon 2020 projects of the European Union. Most of the lecturers will be scientists who are actively involved in one of these two research projects. The lecture's co-directors are Ferry Roelofs from NRG (the Netherlands) and Philippe Planquart from the von Karman Institute. Date: Monday 10 April 2017 toRead More →
SESAME's first Newsletter is now out!
SESAME has published its first newsletter edition, covering the technical activities that have been carried out since the start of the project, project highlights and interesting events for the community.Read More →
Announcement: Heavy metal summer school 2016
Date: 13-17 June 2016 Location: Mol (BELGIUM) Heavy liquid metal (HLM) coolants offer new perspectives for the development of innovative nuclear systems for materials research, nuclear waste transmutation and energy production. The Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK•CEN) is at the forefront of HLM nuclear technology worldwide with the development of the MYRRHA accelerator driven system. During this summer school, participants will gain insight into the state-of-the-art of research focused to the development of MYRRHA and otherRead More →
SESAME to collaborate with US partners ANL and ORNL
SESAME Newsletter #1 (March 2016) ALL ARTICLES Access Newsletter here > SESAME is proud to announce that the US/EURATOM I-NERI proposal to collaborate with the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been approved. ANL and ORNL will participate in the project's effort to improve the state-of-the-art in thermal-hydraulics simulation and validation experiments in support of the safety evaluation of liquid-metal cooled fast reactors (LMFRs). This cooperation will provide anRead More →
SESAME project presentation available
The SESAME project presentation is now available for download. Download here >Read More →
Launch of SESAME project
The SESAME project officially launched on 15 April 2015 with the kick-off meeting that was held at the The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels.Read More →