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Five titles missing in action this generation.
It seems like every week we get word of a new and interesting title, however what has happened to some of the most highly anticipated titles of this generation. Which unannounced titles were popular enough to make this list? Hit the break to find out.
Star Wars: Battlefront 3
The Battlefront series is easily on the most highly regarded in gaming and unfortunately Battlefront 3 is highly unlikely. Original rumors pointed towards Rebellion creating this title, however late rumors and news confirmed that Free Radical was handling development. So what's the problem, right? Well, it turns out the Free Radical was actually in the process of closure and was quickly snatched up by Crytek. At this point, the future of the series is uncertain. Perhaps it got picked up by another studio, or Crytek is now handling development of this title. One thing is for certain, if it isn't officially unveiled at this year's E3, it probably won't ever see the light of day.
Summoner 3
Chances are the last two titles slipped under your radar last generation. The original Summoner was something of a cult-classic when it released, and provided one of the most compelling, deepest, and fun role-playing experiences on the PlayStation 2. This would be a perfect opportunity for THQ to announce an RPG in a generation full of questionable ones.
Darkwatch 2
Darkwatch had some of the most well-done animations and shooting mechanics of any first person shooter last generation and featured a mature story as well. Those excited about the prospect of a sequel will be disappointed to know that it has been cancelled. With High Moon Studios currently working on several different projects it's highly unlikely we will see a sequel anytime soon or maybe even ever. We certainly hope one of the larger publishers raises this title from the grave.
Kingdom Hearts III
Next to Star Wars: Battlefront 3 this has to be one of the most shocking no-shows of this generation. The absence of Kingdom Hearts III is especially baffling considering the series had a lot of momentum going into the next generation. Square Enix and Disney have been quiet for far to long regarding a console version and proper sequel to the series. It doesn't help that Square Enix has been jamming crap in our faces all generation. Mindjack still gives me nightmares.
Syphon Filter 5
Ubisoft has essentially left a large gap in the stealth/espionage genre and it's very surprising Sony hasn't taken advantage of this. While several rumors and job listings have pointed towards Syphon Filter 5 it seemed like Gabe Logan would be making his debut on the PS3. However, with Sony Bend currently working on Uncharted for the NGP, it's unlikely we will see Syphon Filter 5 grace the PS3. Who knows, right? Perhaps E3 will surprise us.
Is there a game you thought should included? Let us know in the comment section.


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Chipworks' ongoing analysis of the Apple TV's new A5 →
It's not a die shrink, and it's still manufactured by Samsung. But it's single-core:
If we compare this with the earlier 32-nm APL2498 part, it looks as though we now have a single-core ARM A9 CPU, together with a dual-core GPU as in the APL2498. The Apple TV has always been 1-core, but the APL2498 had one core disabled – maybe Apple now thinks that sales will be enough to justify a dedicated part, or maybe we are going to see another single-core device in a different product line.
To get the almost 50% die size reduction that we have, though, there has to be more than removal of one core – other changes have been made. As yet we haven't quantified them.
This is getting interesting again.
Knowing Apple, this revised, single-core A5 wasn't made only for the Apple TV. The big question, then: Where else might Apple want to use a small, cheap, single-core A5?
I'd guess it's still too big and power-hungry for a watch, but if they want to shave component costs down for a low-cost iPhone or an even cheaper iPad Mini, this could be a good CPU candidate.

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Pilotage exemption certificates
Apply for new pilotage exemption certificate
You can apply for a new pilotage exemption certificate (PEC) by email.
It must be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or it will not be processed.
Before you apply
You must have all of the following before you apply:
- a certificate of competency consisting of:
- a current certificate as an Australian Master appropriate for the size of vessel
- or a current Certificate of Recognition issued by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA)
- or a current certificate of competency as master appropriate for the size of vessel, not issued by AMSA but eligible for the issue of a Certificate of Recognition by AMSA through bilateral agreement with the issuing flag state a current certificate of competence or a certificate of recognition issued by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) appropriate to the size of the vessel
- a valid certificate of medical fitness in accordance with marine orders part 9.
You must also provide a record of trips within 12 months immediately before your application showing you have:
- completed not less than four voyages through the compulsory pilotage zone of the port, with a licensed pilot, in command of the vessel for which the application is made
- or completed not less than:
- three voyages through the compulsory pilotage zone of the port as chief mate, on duty on the bridge throughout the entire voyage, on the vessel for which the application is made
- two voyages through the compulsory pilotage zone of the port, with a licensed pilot, in command of the vessel for which the application is made.
How to apply
To apply for a new PEC follow these steps
Step 1: Application
Fill in the PEC application PDF (1.2 MB) and submit this with the documents listed above to email@example.com.
Your application will not be accepted unless all documentation is submitted with the application and complete.
Step 2: Pay invoice
The invoice will be sent to the address included on your application form. Read about marine fees including PEC fees.
Step 3: Examination
Once an application has been approved you must apply for an exam time. The exam will be held at:
Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics
Level 2, Energy House
18 Cavenagh Street
Darwin NT
To read about the exam criteria get the Darwin pilotage standards:
Darwin pilotage standards PDF (1.7 MB)
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Step 4: Pilot assessment
When you have completed your exam, it will be forwarded to the pilotage service provider.
This will take at least 24 hours for marking.
You can't have a pilot assessment until your exam has been marked.
To book a pilot assessment email firstname.lastname@example.com and copy your email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Once you have passed two pilot assessments you will be given a PEC number and an electronic certificate by email.
Your PEC will need to be revalidated every two years to remain current.
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The ocean and virtually all men and women now contain plastics
Some plastics are known to decrease Vitamin D levels meaured in the blood
Perhaps some plastics also limit vitamin D getting to the cells
By reducing kidney function or Vit D binding protein, or CYP27B1, or CYP24A1 or the Vitamin D Receptor
- BPA is a possible cause of obesity epidemic - Dr. Greger June 2019
- Off topic: Plastics and BPA are getting into seafood and your bloodstream – Dr. Greger Spring 2019
- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - book April 2019
- Microplastics consumption - credit card's worth (5g) per week – June 2019
- Many reasons why vitamin D deficiency has become epidemic
- Drugs which create a vitamin D deficiency
- Air Pollution reduces Vitamin D
- PFAS (forever chemicals) reduce Vitamin D and VDR, cause health problems - many studies
- PCBs increased the chance of being Vitamin D deficient by 3 percent – May 2013
- Interactions with Vitamin D category listing has
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- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Vitamin D (T1 Diabetes in this case) - April 2020
- Phthalate and novel plasticizer concentrations in food items from U.S. fast food chains: a preliminary analysis Oct 2021 PDF the study does not contain the word VITAMIN
- How Plastics Can Affect Your Love Life Dr. Greger Dec 2018
- Why BPA Hasn't Been Banned Dr Greger nov 2016
- What Not to Do When You Handle Receipts Dr. Greger Feb 2020
- Effects of endocrine disrupting compounds on Vitamin D circulating levels - 2017 10.11138/ccmbm/2017.15.1.132
- Receipts are 5! BPA by Weigh. BPA can enter the body thru the skin, and not get detoxified by the gut->liver pathway
- "...many skin-care products, including hand sanitizers, lotions, soaps and sunscreens," contain chemicals that enhance skin penetration.
- "Women working in automotive plastics and food canning are at five times the odds of breast cancer," ree PDF online
- Eight Different Plasticizers Found in 90% of People Mercola Feb 2021
- "Oceana International describes plastic material a little bit like a curious cat, finding places in the environment where it shouldn't fit and being able to sneak in."
- "The average (baby) bottle tested reached 4 million particles for every liter of water."
- Exposure to Plastic Chemicals Before Conception Tied to Premature Births NYT April 9, 2020
- "50 percent to 70 percent increased relative risk of preterm birth"
- No mention of decreased Vitamin D
- Effect of developmental exposure to bisphenol A on steroid hormone and vitamin D3 metabolism
- Perturbation of vitamin D3 metabolism by BPA can be associated with neurobehavioral problems .https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124469 - Dec 2019
- Investigation of serum bisphenol A, vitamin D, and parathyroid hormone levels in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome Free PDF July 2013
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: implications for human health - Aug 2020  PDF
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22% more likely to be Vitamin D deficient (< 20ng) while pregnant if BPA or Phthalate in urine – Aug 2017
Urinary BPA and Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations and Plasma Vitamin D Levels in Pregnant Women: A Repeated Measures Analysis
Lauren E. Johns,1 Kelly K. Ferguson,1'2 David E. Cantonwine,3 Thomas F. McElrath,3 Bhramar Mukherjee,4 and John D. Meeker1
1 department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2 Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
3 Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Background: In addition to its well-established role in maintaining skeletal health, vitamin D has essential regulatory functions in female reproductive and pregnancy outcomes. Phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) are endocrine disruptors, and previous research has suggested that these chemical agents may disrupt circulating levels of total 25(OH)D in adults.
Objectives: We investigated the relationships between repeated measures of urinary phthalate metabolites and BPA and circulating total 25(OH)D in a prospective cohort of pregnant women.
Methods: The present study population includes participants (n = 477) in a nested case-control study of preterm birth drawn from a prospective birth cohort of pregnant women at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Urine and blood samples were collected for biomarker measurements at median 10 wk and 26 wk of gestation.
Results: In repeated measures analysis, we observed that an interquartile range (IQR) increase in urinary mono-3-carboxypropyl phthalate (MCPP) was associated with a 4.48% decrease [95% confidence interval (CI): -7.37, -1.58] in total 25(OH)D. We also detected inverse associations for metabolites of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) [percent difference (%A) = — 2.83 to -2.16].
For BPA, we observed a nonsignificant inverse association with total 25(OH)D in the overall population. Our sensitivity analysis revealed that the associations for some metabolites (e.g., MEHP) varied by race/ethnicity, which may reflect potential differences in susceptibility.
In agreement with findings from repeated measures analysis, we reported that DEHP metabolites and BPA were significantly associated with an approximate 20% increase in the odds of vitamin D deficiency (<20ng/mL) [odds ratio (95% CI): 1.19 (1.06, 1.35) for molar sum of DEHP metabolites and 1.22 (1.01, 1.47) for BPA] at median 10 wk and 26 wk, respectively.
Conclusions: Our results provide suggestive evidence of the potential for environmental exposure to phthalates and/or BPA to disrupt circulating vitamin D levels in pregnancy. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1178
 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
Increase of BPA by one quartile in women decreased Vitamin D by 3.7% – Nov 2016
Relationships Between Urinary Phthalate Metabolite and Bisphenol A Concentrations and Vitamin D Levels in U.S. Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2005-2010.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Nov;101(11):4062-4069. Epub 2016 Sep 20.
Johns LE1, Ferguson KK1, Meeker JD1.
- 1 Department of Environmental Health Sciences (L.E.J., K.K.F., J.D.M.), University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; and Epidemiology Branch (K.K.F.), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709.
CONTEXT: Recent research suggests that environmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals may alter circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels in humans. To date, no studies have assessed the associations between phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA) and total 25(OH)D in the U.S. general population.
OBJECTIVE: To explore relationships between urinary concentrations of 11 phthalate metabolites and BPA and serum total 25(OH)D in a representative sample of U.S. adults.
DESIGN: A cross-sectional study.
SETTING: U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010.
PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS: U.S. general adult population (aged ≥20 years).
INTERVENTIONS: None Main Outcome Measures: Serum total 25(OH)D measured by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.
Metabolites of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) were consistently inversely associated with total 25(OH)D in the overall study population and in gender-stratified models. In the overall population, we detected a significant inverse relationship for the molar sum of DEHP metabolites (ΣDEHP), where an interquartile range increase in ΣDEHP was associated with a 1.90% decrease (95% confidence interval [CI], -3.64, -0.17) in total 25(OH)D. A positive association was detected for monoethyl phthalate.
For BPA, we found a statistically significant inverse relationship in women, but not in men. In women, an interquartile range increase in urinary BPA was associated with a 3.71% decrease (95% CI, -6.41, -1.02) in total 25(OH)D.
Overall, our results provide suggestive evidence that environmental exposure to phthalates and BPA may alter circulating levels of total 25(OH)D in adults. Future human and animal studies are required to resolve the direction, temporality, and impact of these relationships.
PMID: 27648964 PMCID: PMC5095248 [Available on 2017-11-01] DOI: 10.1210/jc.2016-2134
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Increase of plastic compounds (phthalates) in urine during pregnancy associated with decreased Vitamin D
- Increase of plastic compounds (phthalates) in urine during pregnancy associated with decreased Vitamin D – Aug 2017
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- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Vitamin D (T1 Diabetes in this case) - April 2020


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Zayn Malik attended Valentino's Men's Fashion show in Paris on Wednesday, sporting a new bleached blonde buzz cut.
Seated in the front row, the former One Direction band member looked on as runway models showed off the latest menswear from Valentino's Spring-Summer 2016 collection. Malik, who has a lot more free time these days, also patiently posed for photographers and greeted fans outside of the Paris Fashion Week event.
Malik took to Twitter… "Feels good to be in Paris and see some familiar faces!! Big love to the fans x."
Just last month, Malik debuted a dyed green haircut. He's noted on social media that he's been experimenting with his look, having also tried a shade of purple before settling on his new white hairdo.
Joe Jonas was also in attendance at the Valentino show, but most of the attention was focused on Malik who hasn't made that many public appearances since quitting One Direction this past March.


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The Indomitable Richard Holbrooke
The death in 2010 of the diplomat Richard Holbrooke wasn't just a loss for the American government. It signaled the end of the so-called American century, or half-century, which Holbrooke's remarkable career embodied. This career — which began in 1962 in Vietnam where Holbrooke served as a young foreign service officer and ended with his death while serving as Afghanistan/Pakistan czar for President Barack Obama— is the subject of George Packer's remarkable new biography Our Man.
Packer's book is much more than just a recitation of Holbrooke's CV. It's also a piercing account of a true force of nature — an indefatigable diplomat determined to solve the world's problems through sheer imposition of will. Along the way, his exploits caused substantial collateral damage: two failed marriages, a distant relationship with his children, many enemies. He wasn't everyone's style. Not least Obama, who found the veteran diplomat's constant references to the Vietnam War tiresome and kept Holbrooke at arm's length.
Holbrooke is best known for negotiating the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995 that ended the brutal conflict between Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia. But many of his most notable diplomatic achievements occurred in Asia. As Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter administration, Holbrooke pushed the United States to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees from Southeast Asia — the so-called "boat people" — to find safe passage in the U.S. and elsewhere. Two decades later, as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton, Holbrooke helped protect thousands of East Timorese civilians from the Indonesian military and paved the way for East Timor's independence.
Packer writes:
Holbrooke wanted more. He wasn't a grand strategist, but his frenetic public presence made him the embodiment of a certain idea in action. He believed that power brought responsibilities, and if we failed to face them the world's suffering would worsen, and eventually other people's problems would be ours, and if we didn't act no one else would. ... His views like everyone's emerged from his nervous system, his amygdala, the core of his character, where America stood for something more than just its own power. He was that rare American in the treetops who actually gave a shit about the dark places of the earth.
Holbrooke wasn't just Our Man: He was our man, too. From 2002 to 2009, he served as chairman of the Asia Society, where he oversaw the establishment of the Center on U.S.-China Relations and new centers in Mumbai and Seoul.
Orville Schell, whom Holbrooke tapped to lead the U.S.-China center, reminisced about the diplomat's unusual recruitment style in an essay published after Holbrooke's death:
When as chairman of the board of the Asia Society he and President Vishakha Desai were courting me to come to join them in running their new center on U.S.-China relations, I was able to watch Holbrooke in high gear. Once he knew what he wanted, all he wanted to do was, Get it done! In the summer of 2007, during the process of my hire, we were sitting in his office at Perseus Books one day talking about his aspirations for the new center. I was asking far too many questions for this get-the-job-done guy. As I think back on it, perhaps all my questions suggested to him that I was wavering in my interest. Whatever the case, without even asking me if I was available, he picked up the phone, ordered a private helicopter, called up Arthur Ross (the philanthropist who had endowed the new Center), told him we were coming for lunch; and then ordered me to get my effects together. An hour later, we were down at the 33rd St. East River chopper pad leaving for Easthampton, Long Island. A few hours later, we were sitting in Arthur Ross's living room on Long Island and I had taken the job.
The experience left me marveling at Holbrooke's presumptuousness, decisiveness and brazen sense of self-entitlement. It was as if he — then just a rainmaker at a publishing company — were still in command of a whole military unit with a fleet of aircraft at his disposal. I had also gained a hint of how this singular diplomat had managed to corral the likes of Slobodan Milošević into signing the Dayton Accords!
Rachel Cooper, Asia Society's director of performing arts and cultural programs, described an encounter with Holbrooke in Bali, Indonesia, in 2008.
I had met Holbrooke in various board and regional meetings at the Asia Society over the years but it was when we were in Bali at the Williamsburg Conference for an off-the-record policy meeting that we actually had time to talk about ideas. Although I am in charge of performing arts and cultural programs at Asia Society, I was at the Williamsburg conference in Bali because it is my regional area of expertise. The opening dinner of the conference was scheduled to feature a speech by the finance minister of Indonesia. Literally, at the last moment, she was not able to make it from Jakarta. As the resident Indonesianist, I was asked if I could come up with something else in the next half hour. I actually had a Balinese journalist there who had been planning to speak about culture but switched and spoke about Hindu religious extremism as it manifested in Bali. (Most people in attendance only knew of the Islamic extremism in Indonesia). I was asked to introduce him and give a short background talk.
Holbrooke had not known this aspect of my work at Asia Society nor the current situation in Bali, so it provided a new context. He later came to speak to me and learned of our Asia Society project Making a Difference Through the Arts that focused on cultural projects that built bridges, particularly in the Muslim world. Based on this, he later shared the report we wrote with officials in Pakistan, Afghanistan and yes, at the State Department and White House. Later, I received a call from the president's Committee on the Humanities regarding the recommendations in the report. They even awarded two of the young people featured in the report and brought them to the ceremony at the White House. I think of the impact Holbrooke had on me and I am grateful for the attention he gave.
There's plenty more about Holbrooke on our site. In February 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan at Asia Society for the Richard Holbrooke inaugural address. Later that year, journalists Roger Cohen and David Rohde and historian Gordon M. Goldstein joined writer Kati Marton, Holbrooke's widow, on our New York stage for a discussion of Holbrooke's legacy. And in 2006 Holbrooke sat for a wide-ranging interview with Asia Society's Nermeen Shaikh about the role of the United Nations in the global war on terrorism.
Packer will join PEN America's Suzanne Nossel and Asia Society Executive Vice President Tom Nagorski at Asia Society New York for a discussion of Our Man on Tuesday, May 7. You can read excerpts of Packer's book at The Atlantic and Foreign Affairs and purchase a copy at AsiaStore.


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I was flattered the other day to see that Brockley Central had praised this blog as being one of the best providers of local news – which was rather nice as I was having one of those head-up-bum periods where I spent far too much time wondering "what's the blog for?", "what am I hoping to achieve?" and "does this just look a bit stupid in the end?"
It followed a call from the editor of the Guardian for public money to be given to the Press Association – the UK's biggest news agency, which is owned by most of the major newspaper publishers – to fund a revival in local reporting. The first comment someone left at the bottom of the story suggested sites like Brockley Central could be part of the future.
And on Monday came a rare, but welcome thing – an Andrew Gilligan piece I agreed with, rightly tearing into council-run newspapers like Greenwich Time, which he claims costs council taxpayers here half a million pounds a year. How many street sweepers could they employ for that?
Sure, it doesn't mention how the owners of local papers such as the Mercury have allowed GT to park its tanks on their lawn by cutting their papers back. The Mercury's past owner, PA shareholder Trinity Mirror, hobbled it some years back by moving the paper from Deptford High Street to the South London Press's offices in Streatham while its rival, the News Shopper, is based in its Orpington heartland. And naturally, Gilligan's piece doesn't mention the Standard's general ignorance of all matters south-east (which will no doubt become a deafening silence when Gilligan moves to the Telegraph). As Nick says on Brockley Central, there's clear evidence of market failure – local papers are no longer a product of their community, they're either owned by big combines and based far away, or run by local councils to dictate to that community. So there's a gap which needs to be filled.
I think the call for PA to get public funds to cover council meetings and courts is interesting… but I can't help feeling that it's another call from the same old busted flushes to get cash to reverse the things they've screwed up in the first place. The old Mercury worked brilliantly because it was based in in the communities it covered (Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs – Deptford High Street traditionally was slap-bang on the boundary, and isn't far off it now), the reporters were local faces, and it had a feel for local issues. It even triumphantly launched a Bexley edition in the 1980s, as its old readers moved out to the suburbs.
Sadly, the people who ran the Mercury in its pomp are now behind Greenwich Time – and probably getting a much better salary for it too, while the paper they used to work for is based miles away, has little nous for local issues, is poorly-distributed, has a ropey website and looks like it's run on a shoestring. And it has a Bexley edition which now covers absolutely no news in that borough whatsoever. The legacy Trinity Mirror left south-east London is a reason why we should be sceptical of any claim from it for public funds.
And on an issue like Charlton Lido – would a PA reporter from outside be able to pick up that story from a council meeting? Local issues take time to learn and understand. I once spent a day working with a team of journalists at Westminster, and was assigned to cover a select committee about immigration, only to find the story I produced turned on its head by an editor who had the experience to spot a running story I'd not really been aware of. You could stick me in, I don't know, Wandsworth, but I could only ever scratch the surface of what's going on over there.
Most local blogs are produced by people with no journalistic training (even if they're quite media-savvy) and no legal support but end up producing products which are appreciated more by their readers than those made by big firms with hacks who have flogged their guts out to get NCTJ training and the like. It's a sad indictment on those big firms, the ones who are now crying out for cash. Unfortunately, it's no good for the local journalists, stuck in the middle, trying to do their jobs on crap salaries, seeing their work undermined by their own bosses and by publicly-funded rivals like Greenwich Time.
So where does this site fit into all this? Well… on its own, it can only play the tiniest of roles. There's only me, I'm pretty partisan and I can only tell things the way I can see it, by highlighting things that are good/bad/interesting, making a bit of mischief here and there, trying to stick to things nobody else has done, and hoping you pick up the thread and leave interesting comments, because that's where these things take off. As for journalism as most local hacks would recognise it, there's been very little of that – blogs tend to offer simple, straightforward opinions while real local journalism involves putting in calls, bothering people and pounding the streets. And unlike Brockley Central, there's precious little community in Charlton anyway, so the focus is a bit wider and there's a bit more of a scattergun approach.
In a blog format, just being part of the discussion is more satisfying, I find; although the more I criticise local papers (although to be frank, I've not had a regular delivery of either title for many years) and the more frustrated I get with the smothering all-is-good embrace of Greenwich Time (which has vanished from my doormat again), the more I wonder if I should be doing more proper local reporting. And if someone tells me something, I'm more than happy to check it out. But for now, I'm happy to be part of a discussion. That's all it is at the moment.
But beyond that? If you look at 853, Greenwich Phantom, Plumsteadshire, and Brockley Central regularly, then you probably pick up some idea of what's going on in this patch of London without having to pick up a local paper (or wonder why it's not being delivered). I'm sure you don't get all your news on TV from just one source, and the same works on the web. I think a great part of the future will involve networks of local blogs, co-operating and promoting each other, maybe taking different viewpoints but all with the well-being of their local area in mind. To an extent, this happens anyway – Adam at Tory Troll did some digging around after I made a cheap joke at the expense of Greenwich Labour party and got a proper story out of it.
But what if trained journalists were around to mentor and support those behind local websites? As Nick mentions, how about offering small subsidies to encourage local creative businesses, an idea floated by journalist Martin Bright, which could help encourage local bloggers and others to get involved with their communities?
Like with the Digital Britain report, the thinking still seems to be about trying to save crumbling media combines that long ago neglected their local communities. (Weirdly, on a national level only yesterday the BBC agreed to allow the likes of the Mail and Telegraph – two papers whose editorial lines are vehemently anti-BBC – use its news video for free on their website, presumably so the Mail can concentrate on filling Mail Online with more tits and arse while the BBC does the hard work on its behalf. Yet the Mail owns 20% of an organisation that's already in place to do this – ITN. But why pay its sister firm some money when the BBC can provide it for free?)
Sooner or later, enough local people will despair of ropey local freesheets edited miles away and crap council propaganda rags, and being patronised and ignored by London-wide media, and will want to club together to get their own networks going. Giving them practical help to do this would be far more valuable to than bailing out businesses which have already failed in their tasks. It'd give local journalism back to local communities, empower people, and ultimately help democracy. After all, what could big media firms and politicians be scared of?


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There used to be a deli called Cafe Express on 7th Ave btw 29th and 30th (they closed couple years ago to make room for a stupid Pret A Manger ) that served my favorite roast beef sandwich. It had roast beef, mayo, fried onions and was sandwiched between 2 delicious slices of focaccia bread. It was such a magnificent sandwich, that I got really sad when I found out the place was closed. Since then I haven't really eaten a good roast beef sandwich in Midtown during lunch. So when I found out that Melange Green & Gourmet has a roast beef sandwich that was supposed to be great, I knew I had to give it a try.
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Most of us are walking around trying to get out of our heads and feel present. It's hard with so many distractions, responsibilities and worries. I found an app that can help you to improve this skill on a daily basis. I'm not the only one who discovered this app. Seems its getting a lot of positive attention. It's called Headspace.
I like it because it's only 10 minutes a day so its possible to find that much time each day. Often it starts with an animation that represents a concept such as distractions. These serve as good images to think about while clearing out the noise.
I also like that it has specific meditations for different areas of interest such as relationships, anxiety, sleep etc..
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The Union Cabinet today extended the time period for Udaan – the Special Industry Initiative (SII) for Jammu and Kashmir till 31 December 2018.
Udaan is a centrally funded skill enhancement scheme for J&K youth implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). It is a special initiative to address the needs of the educated unemployed in the state who are graduate, post graduate and three year diploma engineers.
The aim of the scheme is to provide skills and job opportunities to the J&K youth and simultaneously provide exposure to corporate India towards the rich talented pool available in the State.
The target is to reach out to 40000 youth in J&K over a period of 5 years. The Udaan programme is designed to encourage corporates to travel to J&K meet with the youth and hire aspiring youth who wish to explore the opportunity to work with corporates. Udaan provides a framework of support to the youth to travel, undergo training in firms and transit to work.
Under UDAAN scheme, the selected candidates undergo rigorous training, ideally between 3 to 6 months, for a defined program. Travel, boarding and lodging costs are reimbursed.
A stipend is also provided to the candidate during the training period. At the end of training, candidates are assessed based on their training for a job position.
Around, 10555 JK youth who have joined Udaan training programs till July 2017, out of which placement orders have been made for 4,984 youth.
The aspiring candidates can register for Udaan on the link:https://udaan.nsdcindia.org/.


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every time they come for me.
They drag my tired old body
down yonder to the lynching tree.
We pass by that old church
where we worshipped in your name.
They burned it to the ground.
All that's left is just the frame.
I see that old confederate flag.
Sometimes I forget it's there
But when they call me 'nigger',
I know it ain't going nowhere.
Lest I do forget
let me recall to mind
that old Negro spiritual
"My God is color blind."
I've lived through slavery and Jim Crow.
And I'm tired and in need of rest.
Take me in your arms Lord.
You know I did my best.
I sing this song, a song of love,
I won't be burdened by hate no more.
The Lord will welcome me home.
I'll be glad to see heaven's door.
Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
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Investigators Probe Fires At 6 Black Churches In 5 Southern States
Fires damaged Glover Grove and some other black churches in the days following the murders at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, raising concerns that the incidents were hate-inspired arsons.
Glover Grove Baptist Church is nestled in a woody, quiet part of Warrenville, S.C., surrounded by trailer homes and old cars. The congregation is small, about 35 people, according to local reports. You have to look hard online just to find a phone number or an address.
Hours before President Obama spoke to a packed house in Charleston last Friday in another black church, delivering the eulogy for state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, Glover Grove Baptist Church burned to the ground.
It is one of at least six black church burnings in the South, all of which have taken place in the week-and-a-half since nine people were killed in Emanuel AME Church.
Whatever the cause of the Glover Grove fire, Adonica Simpkins says she will still be afraid. We asked her what it's like to be a black person in South Carolina.
"I tell you what, I wouldn't walk down this road. I wouldn't walk down this road," she said, sighing as she pointed down the road where Glover Grove sits. "It's so much hate. You might walk down the road and hear the word n*****, for nothing. People used to be riding by, and just throw bottles at black folks."
Less than half a mile from the church and Simpkins' home, a Confederate flag waves on a front porch.
"We had another church that burned down, over across the woods there,"
And while we are busy celebrating same-sex marriage and worrying over fast tracking of the TPP, it is business as usual for Black people in this hellhole and I am supposed to give a damn because someone else feels that their rights are being violated? Seriously? Once again, walk a goddamn mile in MY shoes and then come talk to ME!
Black folks, I sincerely hope that there is indeed a heaven for if there is, you have certainly 'earned' your spot and my sincere hope also is that you need have no fear that you will meet up with those that have spewed nothing but hatred towards you because of the color of your skin and because you were dragged, unwillingly, to this shithole.


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When federal sharpshooters arrived in Crow Wing County last week to euthanize a herd of captive deer first infected with chronic wasting disease in 2016, they found more than one animal already dead, a state veterinarian with the Board of Animal Health said.
Dr. Linda Glaser, an assistant director with the agency overseeing deer farms, also confirmed that the "depopulation'' action killed a monstrous mule deer buck named Mass XL, a famous sire in deer farming circles.
Glaser said the elimination of all 102 mule deer and whitetail deer at Trophy Woods Ranch in Merrifield sets up an important second phase of government oversight. For the next five years, state and federal officials will watch to ensure the owner complies with mandates to make the site less contagious. Healthy deer could become infected from environmental contact with soil and other surfaces contaminated by prions that cause chronic wasting disease (CWD). Infected deer shed the non-living protein particles in saliva, urine, blood, feces and antler velvet. They can persist for many years.
"We will monitor,'' Glaser said.
Five years from now, the deer farm can be restocked, she said. But in the meantime the owner must gather, burn and bury all organic matter that could be contaminated with prions. That includes manure, feed, bedding and wooden feeders. Equipment must be cleaned, and the owner must keep the site enclosed by an 8-foot-high fence. He must notify authorities of any intrusion by wild deer, kill any such animal and have it tested for CWD.
Glaser said the management plan doesn't include mandates for soil scraping or other ground treatments because there are no viable methods proven as beneficial to fighting CWD. Nor does the plan address water runoff, she said.
Lou Cornicelli, wildlife research supervisor for the Department of Natural Resources, said he had no comment on the site controls because he hasn't seen the agreement. He previously said the depopulation action was overdue.
Glaser said three other deer farms are located within a 15-mile radius of known CWD cases and those farms now face deer movement restrictions.
Trophy Woods Ranch owner Kevin Schmidt could not be reached for comment. He agreed to surrender his deer for an undisclosed amount of taxpayer money controlled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Public pressure to put the pay-to-hunt ranch out of business mounted in February after the DNR announced that an emaciated, CWD-infected wild deer was found dead a half-mile away from Schmidt's property. DNR wildlife officials had been fearful of an outbreak and the finding marked Minnesota's first case of CWD in wild deer outside of the state's southeast blufflands.
Glaser said the USDA will dispose of carcasses removed from the ranch, regardless of CWD test results. The highly anticipated CWD prevalence report is due in a matter of weeks. Asked how many deer were found dead at the ranch, Glaser said, "I'll need to wait until I hear from the sampling group on the final numbers.''
She did note that the combination of live deer and carcasses found at the ranch matched the state-monitored livestock inventory for the farm. Cornicelli said any dead deer found at the ranch would be considered high risk for having been infected by CWD.
According to a recent document written by Glaser to summarize a 2017 USDA investigation of the Merrifield deer herd, five other deer were reported to have died in the herd with no samples submitted for CWD testing. The tests are mandatory but are impossible when the carcasses are not recovered in a timely manner or when predators have destroyed needed tissues.
Since the deer farm was established in late 2012, nine deer have tested positive for CWD, Glaser said. The tests are only conducted on dead deer because there's no reliable live test.
Glaser said there were no deer escapes from Trophy Woods Ranch. Her report said there were shortcomings with the herd owner's records regarding animal identification.
Schmidt did not respond to the Star Tribune's attempts to reach him by phone and Facebook Messenger.
Torey Glenny of Tyrone, Pa., had been involved with Schmidt in marketing Mass XL, the star attraction at Trophy Woods Ranch. At age 2, the deer was described as the largest 2-year-old mule deer buck ever recorded. "They are killing the best mule deer that ever walked and all his sons and daughters,'' Glenny said. "That deer was one in a billion.''


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Please join Academy Award Nominee, actor Peter Weller for an evening of art, readings, happenings and performances to support the new documentary William S. Burroughs: A Man Within directed by Yony Leyser. It will feature a rare exhibition of William Burroughs' paintings and drawings on paper, and a special preview screening of the documentary trailer.
5:30 pm to 9:30 pmFriday, August 28, 2009 TH!NKART SALON 1530 N. Paulina, Suite F, Chicago, IL Map it!
Live music by Maya Jensen Sumptuous cuisine catered by Chef Daniel Mejia
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7 Vegetables for Beginner Gardeners
Kathy is an avid gardener who loves to grow perennials and vegetables in her zone 5 Ontario gardens.
Easy Vegetables for Gardening Beginners
If you've ever tasted a tomato fresh from the vine, you may have had the urge to plant your own vegetable garden. While the ability to grow certain vegetables may be limited depending on where you live, there are many easy-to-grow vegetables that are sturdy and versatile enough to be grown just about anywhere, making them great choices for wanna-be gardeners.
While nothing can be considered 100% infallible, certain plants are better options for gardening newbies who are looking to plant a successful vegetable garden. Here's a list of seven easy vegetables you can grow, no matter what your level of gardening skills or experience.
1. Lettuce
Salad greens are super easy to grow with minimal effort. Leafy greens like lettuce are a perfect choice for shadier gardens, but you will do well to remember that certain lettuce types, such as head lettuce, get a little fussy about being exposed to too much heat. Beginning gardeners are best to try their hand with leaf lettuce because it's not quite as heat sensitive.
For an extra perk, leaf lettuce can also be harvested earlier by only using the outer leaves. With the center leaves still intact, the lettuce will produce a continual harvest.
2. Carrots
Carrots are a popular vegetable for new gardeners because they are so darn hardy. One of the best vegetables when it comes to pest and disease resistance, carrots will also fair well with unexpected temperature fluctuations. Where they should be planted in your garden is really up to your preferred timeframe for harvesting them.
Carrots grow well in both full sun and partial shade, but they will mature a lot faster in an area with more light exposure.
3. Tomatoes
Tomatoes are a popular vegetable to grow, and with good reason—they yield an amazing crop that can be harvested often throughout the season. They do take a bit more patience, but overall, tomato plants can be quite easy to take care of if you know what to watch out for.
Tomatoes have a much longer growing season than most other garden vegetables, so plants should begin indoors, four to six weeks before your last frost date. If not, your best choice is to purchase the plants themselves once any possibility of frost is out of the way.
Although they do grow faster in full sunlight, tomatoes are quite adaptable. As long as they do get at least a couple of hours of sun, they will continue to flourish; they will take a little longer to be ready for harvesting.
4. Radishes
Radishes are another newbie-friendly crop. They flourish in a more shaded area of your garden, and with regular watering radishes will easily produce a continual crop, often as fast as within 30 days from planting.
Another nice little bonus to including radishes in your garden is that they also work as repellents for certain insects like cucumber beetles.
Read more about other beneficial plant combinations in the vegetable garden in this helpful Vegetable Garden Companion Planting Guide.
5. Potatoes
Potatoes are so easy to grow, they are almost a must-have in any beginner's garden. They do take up a lot of room, but as long as you have allotted enough garden area for them to thrive, growing potatoes are darn near impossible to mess up.
As with any plant, you need to monitor how much water your potatoes are getting. But with average rainfall and/or weekly watering, you can easily start harvesting a few "baby potatoes" to enjoy in about eight weeks. The nice thing with potatoes is that a minimal amount of planting can yield a fair-sized crop that can be harvested over the course of the growing season.
6. Cucumbers
Cucumbers are a favorite vegetable in any garden. Their ability to grow fast without demanding much care outside of keeping the soil consistently moist makes them a perfect choice for any wanna-be gardener.
Cucumbers thrive in sunlit areas but can also be quite sensitive to extensive heat exposure. Therefore, once the time for any possible frost has passed, new gardeners will do well to plant their cucumbers in an area of the garden that benefits from partial or dappled shading.
7. Chives
Chives are actually a herb, but they are so versatile and straightforward to grow, they must be included in any newbie vegetable garden.
Perfect in a salad, as a topper for baked potatoes or most any meat, chives can easily be included in your vegetable garden and grow equally as well in containers.
Chives prefer full sun but will easily grow in partial shade and continue to grow even after harvesting.
Which Vegetables to Grow Where
|Prefers Full Sun
|Tolerates Some Shade
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Don't Be Scared, Plant Away!
Many gardeners will tell you that the enjoyment they get from tending their garden is not only because it gets them outdoors but also because they find it to be very relaxing. But, unfortunately, many people miss the opportunities that a garden can bring because new gardeners are often deterred by their lack of knowledge.
The vegetables mentioned above are the best vegetables for the wanna-be gardener and excellent choices to exercise your green thumb, thanks to their ability to produce with little skill or effort required. Don't be afraid to experiment to see what grows best In your garden!
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author's knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
© 2014 Kathy Sima
RTalloni on September 19, 2014:
More people than ever are planning to being growing some of their own veggies and this will help them get started.


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During the EU referendum campaign—remember that? It was the thing that happened just before the British political system became a weird episode of Celebrity Apprentice—it emerged that feelings about Brexit were split along generational lines. The 18- to 24-years-old overwhelmingly supported Remain, according to YouGov, by as much as 75 percent. Those over 65 voted to leave by around 60 percent.
After the election, it was widely reported that only 36 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds turned out to vote. Those workshy, lazy, bastards. In the post-Brexit analysis, it seemed like one of the big reasons the Leave campaign was successful was that older voters turned out in much higher numbers.
The blame game began quickly. The Independent ran a piece entitled "Young people—if you're so upset by the outcome of the EU referendum, then why didn't you get out and vote?" while the Guardian went with, "Young people are so bad at voting—I'm disappointed in my peers." Both pieces quoted the 36 percent figure as gospel.
But studies by Michael Bruter, professor of political science and European politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his colleague, Dr. Sarah Harrison, have suggested that youth turnout was much higher. I spoke to Professor Bruter about the youth turnout figures and other crucial things people have misunderstood about this election.
VICE: Where did the thirty-six percent figure come from?
Michael Bruter: On election night, there was a figure published by Sky Data, which actually listed the turnout by age groups. That was the data that said eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds had a thirty-six percent turnout, but no one asked "where did that figure come from?"
Actually, it didn't come from a survey. It didn't come from any figures from the referendum in 2016. It came from figures from the general election in 2015, when people were asked, "Do you usually vote?" and "Do you always vote?" They used that data to predict turnout. Because there were no exit polls, people jumped on that figure and kept recycling it. Out of the blue everyone was saying, only a third of young people voted.
Now, there have been some surveys since, and most of them find out about sixty percent of young people aged eighteen to twenty-four voted, which is much closer to the average, but even that is wrong because most commercial surveys don't control for whether people are registered to vote or not. Turnout is the proportion of registered voters who actually decide to vote, versus the registered voters who decide not to.
So what was the youth turnout, according to your research?
I've just got the figures back from our other survey, which is from a fresh sample, and what we found is that turnout among voters eighteen to twenty-four was sixty-four percent. Now that is an estimate, because it's always an estimation, but it comes from an actual survey where people were asked whether they voted or not, and whether they registered or not. We also controlled for over-reporting of electoral participation, because people always have a tendency to tell you that they voted even if they did not. So even when you account for all of that, we find is that turnout among eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds was about sixty-four percent. That would be the highest turnout among eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds for the past twenty-five years.
Turnout among young people was sixty-four percent. That's the highest for any election for the past twenty-five years
This is a very different story to what we've been hearing.
Yeah, and this is a very important thing. That Sky data, they just took the answer from whether people voted out of nine out of ten or more on a zero to ten scale. They effectively confessed that it's not an actual turnout figure by any standard, just a prediction based on last year's data.
OK, to move beyond turnout—what were the major differences that you noticed between something like a general election or previous referendums and this referendum when it came to young voters?
I'd say that the biggest difference not just for young voters but for voters in general was the emotional reaction to the vote.
How can you measure people's emotional response?
One of the things we always measure, I know it might sound silly, but it's actually important, is whether people cried when they heard the result of the election. What we found is that in this particular referendum, thirty-two percent of people told us they either cried or had tears in their eyes when they discovered the result of the vote. A small proportion were crying out of joy, but a much larger number, because they were Remain voters, were extremely sad.
To give you a point of comparison, that's thirty-two percent, just for this referendum. The results we had before is that only twenty-four percent of people had ever cried at any point in their lives from anything related to an election. In other words, there was far more emotion in that referendum alone than was experienced by the entire population throughout their entire life, including thinking about very significant and fairly emotional elections like '45, '79, or '97, and things like that. I think that's one big difference.
The notion of disgust is something that is totally unprecedented in the UK. This referendum was more polarizing than the reelection of George W. Bush.
The second big difference is what happened in people's minds afterwards. Normally, after an election, people tend to be much more positive. Whether you're a winner or a loser doesn't make any difference; in general, people feel much closer to other citizens, more positive toward society. In this case, it didn't happen at all. In fact, what we found is that a very significant majority of people in both camps, Leave and Remain, have very negative feelings toward the other half of the country. They said they feel worried, gutted, sad, and angry.
Sadness is one thing, but I think the anger or the notion of disgust is something that is totally unprecedented as far as I know, at least in the UK. We had a little hint of that at some point in the US after some of the most polarizing elections, for instance the reelection of George W. Bush, but even that wasn't as polarizing as what we're getting in the UK with this referendum.
That goes against a lot of the common thinking about this issue, which is that the EU is a distant bureaucratic institution that most people don't care about.
I think that's more the way the media perceive it, but that's not right. We've done a lot of work on European identity and what it means for people to be European. People always think the UK is Eurosceptic. That's both true and false, in the sense that when we rank countries across the EU in terms of European identity we find that the UK has the largest proportion of people who don't feel European—but the UK also has the third-highest proportion of people who feel very European. There are more people feeling very European in the UK than in France or Germany, for instance.
That's kind of surprising. What else has the media missed in this election?
All the news was about the fact that Remain was the rational vote. It was the vote for people who didn't really care but would be reasonable. Leave was the more emotional vote. This is simply wrong. What we found was that both camps were very emotional. When people in general, but young people in particular, thought about leaving the EU, they weren't thinking about Brussels, the commission, the parliament, or some regulation or director. What they think about is effectively their rights as a citizen. So what they were saying was, "I'd miss the right to work around Europe or miss having a European passport," for instance.
Older voters would say things about having medical coverage when they travel, or being able to bring back whatever they want from holiday. For them, it was a much more consumer-based approach to the EU. For young people, it was a citizen approach. Almost as if somebody were trying to amputate part of their citizenship rights.
When you talk about feeling resentment or anger after the referendum, where is that anger aimed? At Cameron? At the processes of democracy? At the other side?
It's very much about the other side. So, for instance, we'll ask people, "Do you think the referendum is a good way of deciding on important questions?" and they still answer yes, so there is no rejection of the notion of referendums as a democratic tool.
Then we ask "how do you feel about people who voted differently to you," that's where we get about seventy percent of people saying they feel angry toward people who didn't vote like them. So, there is a notion of… it goes above anger. The two camps really dislike each other.
In your opinion then, was the Remain campaign focusing on the wrong issues? I don't think I ever once heard them talk about concepts of citizenship.
I think they did focus on the wrong issues. That's an opinion. It's not scientific—it's just my personal thoughts based on people's answers and everything, so it's sort of an educated analysis. But they talked about the wrong things, and they tried be completely rational when the voters were in a much more emotional mood. The big stakes for people was the notion of citizenship rights that they were going to lose. Particularly, that was important to people who were younger, lived in metropolitan cities, had the opportunity to travel more. It gave them the sense of freedom.
We also tried to work out whether people were voting for what's best for them or what was best for the country as a whole, and that's another thing the Remain didn't do right. People wanted to do what was best, not just for the country, but for the younger generations. And they didn't necessarily pick up on that.
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Paul Fussell, in his book, Class – A Guide Through the American Status System, noted that aristocrats and others in the hereditary-upper-classes will say, "Let's have a drink and talk about it" where those of the middle-class cannot resist saying, "Let's discuss it over cocktails." It has been noticed by many that the status-security of someone from the aristocratic-class or hereditary-upper-class tends to result in their speaking simply and directly, while someone from the middle-class or high-proletarian-class (that is, the working class with money) tends to fear being revealed as inferior and therefore often over-dresses their speech.
Fussell humorously states that airline menus "constitute a veritable exhibition palace of the fake elegant" – but noticed that one such menu card he encountered did "forget itself and slip once, calling beverages 'drinks' in a thoroughly upper-class way."
Also in Paul Fussell's book one reads, "If a woman does a lot of knitting for family and friends, chances are she's upper-middle-class. But if when she finishes a sweater she sews in a little label reading 'Handmade by Gertrude Willis' she's middle-class. If the label reads 'Hand-crafted by Gertrude Willis' she's high-prole."
Are you ready? Here it comes:
Hand-crafted Cocktails
No, this does not mean to contrast the bar that uses the above phrase with other bars where the drinks are made by robots, or by bartenders using their feet.
I know that bars feel they must compete for the dollars of the high-proletarian-class. Some surely consider dumbed-down marketing appeals such as "hand-crafted cocktails" a necessary evil. Yet, I am humored at the ever-present spectacle of the 'fake elegant' when it comes to promoting anything alcoholic. It's time for me to go have a drink and a chuckle.


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Pork Meatballs
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 teaspoons fresh, minced garlic
½ cup finely chopped, shallots
1 pound ground pork
2 tablespoons finely chopped, Italian parsley
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, plus a pinch
1/8 teaspoon allspice, plus a pinch
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/3 cup plain bread crumbs
½ cup fresh grated, Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 ½ teaspoons coarse black pepper
Whisk 1 large egg with ¼ cup whole milk and 1 tablespoon white balsamic vinegar
Olive oil
1 cup chopped celery
2 cups chopped, onion
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 quarts chicken broth
1 branch fresh thyme
Chicken Bouillon paste, unsalted
3- 15 ounce cans white great northern beans
1 1/2 cups fresh baby spinach
Meatball Soup
Pork Meatballs
Heat butter in a small pan over medium-low temp. Once hot, add shallots and cook for 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute. Scrape into a mixing bowl, add pork and remaining ingredients and mix well.
Drop heaping teaspoon sized meatballs onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment.
Bake at 350 25-30 min untill browned.
Heat 3-4 tablespoons olive oil in a large stock pot over medium temp. Add celery onion and salt and cook until onions are translucent. Add chicken broth and thyme and simmer covered for 20 minutes.
Whisk in some chicken boullion paste until desired richness. Add the beans and spinach, salt & pepper to taste, add meatballs and remove from heat. Remove thyme branch and cover to keep hot.
Serve with fresh grated Parmesan.
About 8 servings


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Music by the Norwegian composer Synne Skouen. SISU is participating with the piece Pocket Music for Percussion.
Excerpt from Fair Plai – Pocket Music for Percussion
- 106:59Une Soirée D'été
- 204:41Hils domitila
- 306:02Nattstykke
- 403:01Fair Play – Pocket music for percussion I
- 507:34...à travers les paroles
- 605:47Catchme!
- 702:15Fair Play – Pocket music for percussion II
- 813:45O Vilhelm, Vilhelm – for string quartet + 1
- 902:55Vent!
- 1015:11Scenes from Volven
- 1103:53Fair Play – Pocket music for percussion III
Voices and Drums2006
Music by Håkon Berge. SISU and various artists.
- 104:16Javi
- 207:47Clockworks
- 304:39Songs & Tears
- 407:51Svev II
- 505:23Ramulosus
- 604:37Voices & Drums
- 708:39De Profundis
SISU plays music written by Norwegian composers.
Excerpt from Five Imprints of Time II (Henrik Hellstenius)
Excerpt from Sikoté Sukán (Rob Waring)
- 105:51Scratch (Rolf Wallin)
- 216:25Five Imprints of Time II (Henrik Hellstenius)
- 325:56Sikoté Sukán (Rob Waring)
- 402:40No Illusion (Tomas Nilsson, DJ Barabass)
Music by John Cage. Performed by SISU, Cikada Duo and Hilde Torgersen.
Excerpt from Trio
- 112:34Credo in Us
- 203:05A Flower
- 302:19The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
- 409:12Amores
- 504:55Trio (allegro - march - waltz)
- 610:05Aria
- 705:15Imaginary Landscape No. IV
- 810:54subAria
Out of Delusion1998
SISU plays music by Örjan Högberg.
Excerpt from Out of Delusion
- 115:33Out of Delusion (Örjan Högberg)
- 203:05Delusion Remix (DJ Barabass)
SISU plays music by Håkon Berge.
Excerpt from Nanawatai
- 112:54Nanawatai (Håkon Berge)
Music by Rolf Wallin, various artists.
Excerpts from Stonewave
- 112:41Stonewave performed by SISU
- 216:58ning - BIT 20 Ensemble
- 314:52...though what made it has gone - Hilde Torgersen


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OK, no one's tagged me on this but I'm going to jump in anyway. I'm splitting the difference on "mainstream" stuff and "obscure" stuff, in case anyone wonders.
Journey "Frontiers": Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - I am a HUGE Steve Perry fan and I always say this is my favorite Journey song. The best thing for me is how Jonathan Cain described it in the Time3 box set: "We played it live and the audience came unglued."
Beatles "Abbey Road": Come Together - Gotta have some Beatles on it and this proved they could still make great music in the midst of personal turmoil.
Michael Hedges "Live on the Double Planet": All Along the Watchtower - OK, so this is a live album and not a song that he wrote, but I'm bending "the rules". All that sound is one man, one guitar. A great guitarist who died way too young.
Sass Jordan "Racine": Make You a Believer - Great female blues rock. She's not very big but rocks hard. I saw her once in concert from the front row.
David Broza "Stone Doors": Night in Wyoming - Another acoustic guitarist who I heard for the first time when he opened for Steve Perry. He does recording in English, Spanish and Hebrew and all of those influences are in his music as well. Interestingly, he takes poetry written by others and puts it to music.
Devin Olson (I know Phil already did, but Devin hasn't posted)
Ray Bilyk (I gotta have more cowbell!)
Mike Sobczak
Technorati: Top 5 Side 1 Track 1 List


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Just like anyone else in our fast paced world of American on the Internet, I have many things tugging for my attention and too little time to do them all.
Professors potentially have many task masters, and being a blogging professor means asking for a never-ending work load.
The purpose of today's blog piece is to show you just how busy and pressured is the life of a blogging accounting professor.
What could I do today [it is only 8:00 a.m. as I publish this post]?
- Attend a campus wide all faculty meeting. The College president is speaking about something, from 9:15-10:20. If I go, it means getting showered/dressed, and driving 9 miles over to campus, finding parking, sitting through meeting whenI want todo other things, then recovering and focusing my attention where I can leverage my core competencies. Already sent e-mail to dean asking if I can blow it off. [He said no, so I went.]
- Attend to some administrative tasks on campus. Must get modified parking sticker. Must get some drivers and other things installed on my work horse laptop. ITS means well here, but I'm so busy it is easy to put them off. I'm too busy for this today, but it does need to get done sometime.
- Devote the day to preparing for classes next week. A new semester has started, and there are new topical chapters to cover. Organizing my approach to the chapter, writing mini-chapters, writing new homework problems, etc. It could take 50 hours, and that is just for today. Students pay $30,000 for me to create the best-for-them educational experience. Am thinking about delaying this until Saturday night, as I again have nothing social to do.
- Respond to a request for analysis on an issue presented confidentially by an accounting group.
- Working on some blog essays. There are many.
- Starting work on a scholarly article. There are four on my plate right now, summarizing pro-GAAP argument (sole authored), holistic approach to teaching accounting (sole-authored), critique of accounting education today (co-authored), study hints (co-authored).
- Regular stuff, like e-mail (300+ new in in-box).
What blog posts could I write today?
- A continuation of my worldview thoughts. It would be a response to the student who initiated my first thoughts on writing about worldviews.
- Responding to someone who asks how to how blogging works (they want to get started as a blogger)
- Writing a documentary-style post on the process of writing a blogging piece. The final product would be a post, and the post about writing it.
- Write a blog piece on some of the problems associated with the current structure of accounting education. Francine McKenna put out something yesterday or the day before, and it deserves someone else chiming in.
- Just tracked down copies of Daniel Thornton's summary of principal-agent theory. I don't have a copy of Jensen-Meckling, but I remember it well enough. So, could blog about those, and then apply it to the discussion on purpose of auditors into today's conception of market regulation and financial accounting/auditing regulation.
- Continuing on my thoughts from yesterday, when I published piece on Economic Consequences and the Political Nature of Accounting Standard Setting. There's much more. The person who prompted my writing in the first place has asked for me to further develop it.
- Extend thoughts from yesterday's piece to writing about implications for the GAAP-IFRS debate. I've thought about various approaches. The current model for financial reporting is sucky (and sucky would be in the blog post title), sucks in so many ways. Why is there such a push for institutionalizing such sucky accounting? It will just make it more difficult in the long run to make improvements.
- Just why is today's accounting model sucky? Pretty much because it is based on accounting for merchants. Merchants buy and sell. In order to record something, there must be an exchange transaction. In today's world, we have many unrecorded assets: human, environmental, intellectual property. And, in today's fast-paced IT-enabled world, there is pressure for making everything market-value driven. It is simply impossible to account for everything today given some of the assumptions inherent in Pacioli's model. We need something else. Well,then, WTF are we ready to cement into stone such a sucky model? We need to have an environment with several competing accounting models until we finally get something that will work well in the 21st century.
- Writing a piece on where are the professors? A reader has asked this. There are only 20 accounting professors who are blogging about their work. Some are commentary-type blogs on current events. Some deal with educational issues. But there are 3,000-4,000 accounting professors with a mandate to get published. I can testify that publishing in blogs means entering a fast-paced environment of being releveant to the world. The world could benefit from seeing professor's work, hot off the keyboard. I benefit greatly from immediate feedback from readers. Where are the professors? Their old outlet channels are obsolete. Journals are like newspapers, obsolete with financial problems and declining readership. Professor have trouble in tracking down newest work (databases of articles are prohibitively expensive and schools just don't invest in them).
Yikes, I need about 200 hours, just for today.
The purpose of today's blog piece has been to show you a little about my life, that of a blogging accounting professor.
Debit and credit – – David Albrecht


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Consumer Alert: Dangerous Weight-Loss Drug Marketed Online
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every three Americans over the age of 20 could be classified as obese, and the numbers appear to be climbing.
Unfortunately, the prevalence of overweight consumers has led many dieting companies to position themselves to take advantage of the situation, with many offering potentially dangerous weight-loss supplements that don't always prove effective. Recently, many websites have begun promoting HCG as a weight-loss supplement; however, the Food and Drug Administration has made it clear that these claims aren't founded in reality.
What Is hCG?
Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is a hormone created in the human placenta. Although it is approved by the government for treating certain types of medical conditions; according to health and fitness expert, Paul A. Achoa, it hasn't been judged safe or effective as a dieting supplement.
"Recently, Ilisa Bernstein, the acting director of the FDA's Office of Compliance, issued a warning to consumers regarding HCG," he said. "According to her, there are no scientific studies demonstrating that the hormone has any effect on weight-loss. More importantly, the supplement has the potential for causing potentially dangerous side-effects, when used improperly; and the agency has warned many companies against promoting it as a solution for dieters."
The FDA Issues Warning Letters
According to Achoa, who specializes in features centered on how to lose weight safely, the FDA recently issued a batch of warning letters to numerous companies, which have been marketing HCG as a weight-loss supplement. Unfortunately, Achoa says, that's all it can do, right now.
"The FDA does not currently have the money or authority to regulate diet supplements," he said. "At this point, all it can do is warn companies about potential legal action. Unfortunately, while some of these companies comply, others are located overseas, outside the U.S. government's jurisdiction. In the end, the agency has focused its attention on educating dieters by issuing statements and creating educational videos."
What Consumers Should Know
Achoa says dieters should avoid potentially dangerous hormonal supplements that could compromise their health. According to him, the FDA has linked HCG to disturbing side-effects, such as headaches, vomiting and difficulty breathing.
"The FDA has made it clear that these supplements don't work and are potentially harmful" he said. "Whether sold as pills or drops, this stuff isn't meant to help people lose weight. Unfortunately, because the FDA is limited in its ability to regulate diet supplements, consumers will need to get educated to protect themselves from potential scams."


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Monday, January 23, 2017
Rain Rain Go My Way
Southern California sure got dumped on yesterday. It rained and poured. It poured and rained. It never does this! It kept us indoors. It canceled our plans. It forced us to slow down. It turned our Sunday - a day of "rest" - into an actual day of rest. Unless, of course, you were filling sandbags.
I'm not overreacting, either. I drove and couldn't see. My daughter drove and hydroplaned. Rain went sideways! The baseball field down the street used to have pitching cages, but I couldn't see them - they were under water!
It was good for us, I think. Weather, forcing us to slow down, acting as a temporary "force quit" to our lives. Sure we didn't get snowed-in or anything. But still. We needed this.
During a recent, non-rainy-day drive to the gym, I stopped at a red light and looked around: to my left, folks were signing up for one of those fun runs, everyone wearing the same orange shirt, fighting for some cause. To my right, Boy Scouts were doing community service, picking up trash and planting flowers. And in the park behind them, soccer games were going on and dogs were pooping. There were shirtless dads pushing jogging strollers and cute moms walking with their Starbucks and workers trimming trees and a helicopter was overhead...and, and, and! (And don't forget me, going to the gym!)
My eyes beheld a vast labyrinth of human activity all in one concentrated area, at a single intersection in Mission Viejo, California, on a Saturday - the end of the "work" week. And it hit me: we all look so tired; we need a good rain to keep us home in our jammies. After all, it's been cheesily said that we are human beings, not human doings. When do we ever carve out time to "just be?"
So it's a good thing God nudged us in the direction of being-not-doing by sending us this rain. He longs for us to rest more, produce less. I mean, the guy didn't create wintry seasons for nothing, for he often uses them as a reminder to "come away by yourselves to a secluded place - put that sandbag down - and rest awhile." (Mark 6:31)
2 comments:
You made me "see" this post. Great visuals and word twisting, Molly.ReplyDelete
We've had three mud days this past week, and aside from a few annoying sibling moments and a strong desire to write in silence, the cozy is just what we needed.
Write on, amiga!
I had a little grin on my face as I read this, coming from Ireland where all it does is rain. Days of rest are very normal practice. So is sideways rain, is this not normal rain behaviour in the states?ReplyDelete
I sit back, crack my knuckles and decide to read all of your blog's. I really like your writing style!
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