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#truBatonRouge: Annual Reviews Are a Source of HR Angst
03.02.15 | Devin
What do you get when you put a bunch of recruiters and HR people in a room together to talk about performance management? A frank, eye-opening discussion.
Last week, the Success Labs team hosted #truBatonRouge, a #tru unconference, which is an HR event designed to break the conference mold with roundtable discussions and no projector presentations. During the event, I hosted a discussion on succession planning and Sandy Michelet, director of human resources at Sparkhound, a Baton Rouge IT services company, tackled the touchy topic of performance management.
To start off the conversation Sandy asked attendees "Are you the only one who cares about performance management?" And chuckles erupted around the room.
Annual Reviews Are a Hot-Button Topic
Performance management is a broad term that covers management tactics such as coaching, discipline, and goal setting — but the biggest concern in the room was annual performance reviews. The attendees agreed that annual reviews often get overlooked and set aside by managers.
"It's a struggle to get them done," said one HR professional, discussing managers' resistance to complete annual reviews for their team members.
Diving further into the issue, attendees discussed metrics and numeric-based annual reviews as a tool for compensation review and granting annual wage increases. People were divided over whether this is a good idea or not.
"All you have to do is show up and the company gives you something" said one HR manager, who seemed to believe the "old-fashioned" method of rating an employee is detrimental when tied to annual rate increases.
Another participant said their company allows each employee to create individual goals that are then reviewed by the employee's manager. The goals are reviewed and adjusted quarterly, and at year-end the manager determines if those goals were met. Ultimately the process concludes with decisions about a bonus and merit increase.
A third participant discussed a company that has a performance management system in place for new hires, which includes reviews of their progress at two weeks, five weeks, four months and six months to determine training needs and competencies.
Why Do Managers Resist Doing Annual Reviews?
With discussions about the structure of different employers' annual reviews out of the way, the question remained as to why managers are hesitant to complete annual reviews. Managers who are committed to ongoing coaching perhaps feel the annual performance review is a redundant waste of time. Yet some managers give their teams little to no feedback unless they are compelled to complete an annual review process.
Perhaps the answer lies in the annual review system employers choose to employ and whether or not it fits within the organization. Attendees said many managers feel the reviews don't add value to the organizations. And some said HR has "over-complicated the process" of doing annual reviews.
Around the room many cited performance reviews being outdated, bulky and/or not applicable to employees' job functions. Some attendees said performance reviews focus too much on rating employees against the organization's values, while managers are more concerned with operations and productivity.
Wrapping up the discussion most attendees agreed performance management, should evolve based upon an individual organization's culture and needs. "If you're building performance reviews, incite your managers to help develop the system," said one participant who revamped her organization's performance management system.
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Event: The Factory Workshop: Portrait Photo Editing
When:Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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You will learn photo composition and editing in order to make your photos look like the pros. This is a beginner class with professional tips on photo composition and manipulation.
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- Number of seats: 8
- Date: October 9, 2017
- Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
- Location: Discovery Park Library, Room B112
Registration is not required, but recommended due to limited seating.
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Welcome to the Open Forum, hosted by Kotaku's reader-run blog, TAY. Feel free to join in the topic discussion, or comment about anything. Feel free to check out the other articles on TAY, AniTAY and TAYClassic. Is this is your first time on TAY? Then check out this TAYTorial!
Hi TAY! How's it going? How has the week been thus far? Why are there so many questions...
It's been over a year since I started hosting the forum on a regular basis. During that time, in conjunction with fellow hosts (and those of Open Forums, TAY Time Chats, Graveyard Shifts and articles over two years of TAY as it is now), we've covered a wide range of topics. It's staggering and amazing.
I was thinking about this when I saw this little 30 Days of Gaming exercise (from 2011, maybe?). I was thinking it'd be fun for us to do a daily challenge. But then as I looked at the questions, we've exhausted so many of these topics over the course of two years and more. It's true that we do have new people, and getting some new ones all the time. But still...meh. I'll pull one and alter it for the forum. Dazzling you with a new question that's as old as heck. 2011 old as heck.
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- Are you opposed to replaying games?
- Thank you, TAY. Thanks for all the articles, reading, fun, questions, discussions and the like. You guys are great and sometimes, it's nice to just say thank you and hear it. So there you go. But no thanks for making me feel for the first time ever in over a year, that I've exhausted topics and I am having a hard time thinking of one for today. And so, Talk Amongst Yourselves, punks! You brought this on yourselves!
Don't forget that the IRC Channel is always around for you to carry out discussions as well. If you wanted to give an admin, author, and/or friend a shout: You can find them on the DirecTAYry.
Speaking of celebrations, anniversaries and things getting older... isn't this just the sweetest card I got for my sister Swan's birthday?
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Jimmy Tau scored just the third goal of his career – and surely the most important – to secure a 1-0 victory for Chiefs over Swallows in the 'other' Soweto Derby.
The victory sees Amakhosi move into second place on the Premiership standings and cut Orlando Pirates' lead at the top of the log to just two points.
There was little to report in the first half, as both teams looked to play an attacking game but simply did not show enough quality to produce a goal.
The hosts dominated through the middle of the park, with wide men Siphiwe Tshabalala and Mthokozisi Yende playing narrow and offering ready support to Reneilwe Letsholonyane and Tinashe Nengomasha.
Yet strikers Sthembiso Ngocob and Kaizer Motaung Jnr were not given good service and the pace and invention of the absent Knowledge Musona (suspended) was sorely missed.
Swallows, for their part, had good width through Koketso Mmotong and makeshift left-wing Keegan Ritchie, but their crossing left a lot to be desired.
Even their set-pieces – and the Birds had plenty of corner-kicks in the first half – merely handed Itumeleng Khune some straightforward catching practice.
The second half saw an improvement, particularly from the away team, but they failed to capitalise on their chances and were duly punished.
Swallows should have opened the scoring in the 50th minute. Mmotong whipped in a good cross from the right, Bongouta Cisse's attempt to get on the end of it was stymied by Dominic Isaacs, but the loose ball rolled kindly for Siyabonga Nomvete.
However, 'Bhele' thundered his close-range effort off the crossbar.
Chiefs then had a good chance via Ngcobo on the hour mark, with the striker running onto a good diagonal ball from Tshabalala, but he was unable to direct his header on target with only Greg Etafia to beat.
On 68 minutes Khune was called upon to make his first save, palming away a stinging effort from Nomvete after the speedy striker had cut inside the challenge from Isaacs.
Swallows seemed to be building a head of steam but in the 70th minute they were stunned by Jimmy Tau.
Yende played in a dangerous low ball from the right of the area, Ramahlwe Mphahlele failed to clear the danger and Tau pounced from close range to head the ball home.
The Birds almost came up with a reply just four minutes later when Giorgi Nergadze powered a header on target from a corner, but Khune acrobatically tipped the ball over his crossbar.
In the 84th minute Swallows threatened through a free-kick from substitute Gareth Ncaca that left Khune flat-footed for sheer power, but the ball flashed just over the angle of bar and post for the final real chance of the match.


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"The most damaging phrase in the language is, 'It's always been done that way.'"
– Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, United States Navy
This year Hortonworks was a Gold Sponsor at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference in Houston, Texas. This conference is named in honor of Grace Hopper, a pioneer in the field of computing who invented the first programming language compiler.
I have attended this conference twice before, but this was the first time I attended with 12 Hortonworkers. As technology innovators, we set out to join Grace Hopper's flourishing community of like-minded and diverse women who are innovating at the forefront of technology and organizational change.
We attended primarily to learn – to see what others are doing to empower women in the workplace, to attract more women to open source, and to further encourage a younger generation of women to pursue degrees in STEM.
Some of the highlights of the event included:
Besides the keynotes, we attended a wide variety of sessions that ranged from technical to career-oriented, with an entire track on open source. This was a great opportunity for us to interact and exchange ideas with the broader community (including other open source enthusiasts!).
We came back from the conference energized and very hopeful for the future, and we are looking forward to continuing to participate in this great event.
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We Have Witnessed The Beginning... We Have Seen The Apocalypse... Now We Face Extinction...
Rating: 6.3/10
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The beginning of the end.
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I loved Expect, but I hated TCL, so I wrote this 100% pure Python module that does the same thing. Click here for more details:
Pexpect -- An Expect-like module in pure Python
Free Python software
You can find other free software I wrote (mostly in Python) here: Free Software
.vimrc for Python
I like VIM. This is how I set my .vimrc file. I never liked the built-in indent folding for Python because it folds EVERYTHING. For code folding I like things to be pretty flat -- I just want to see class names and method names. I don't need every single nested loop folded many levels deep... In this .vimrc see the section on "folding using /search/ pattern". This maps the normal mode key sequence, 'zff' to set the search pattern to find all class and method names. This also maps '\z' to refold every search pattern. The neat thing is that this pattern also works on PHP code! The '\z' mapping is also handy for editing other documents.
Python Cookbook
I have a few recipes on ActiveState's fun and useful Python cookbook.
This will test for primality with a regular expression. No, I'm serious...
import re def is_prime (num): return re.match(r"^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$",'1'*num) is None
Pages in category "Python"
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Having been out of the XP fray for some time, I just stumbled across Fit. It has always bothered me that almost all of the XP practices are very prescriptive in nature, but nobody seems to have anything useful to say about Acceptance Tests. While the dogmatists argue about what to call it (1,2,3) it's nice to see that someone has also been trying to do something to come up with a generalized solution.
I'm not sure they're there yet, but there are some things about this that really appeal to me. Perhaps most notably is the fact that they are using a document as the data source for a test suite. While you document a requirement, you're also coding an automated test suite for the requirement. I've always liked the idea of "executable requirements", though it lives in my (and others') mind as an ideal, and I have yet to see it really implemented. Unfortunately, it looks like you still have to write actual code to accompany each set of test cases you create, but I'll consider the jury to be out until I see Dave's Ruby version. I haven't thought too much about it yet, but deep inside I want to believe that there is a way to create a framework that would enable this kind of thing with no coding required.
At any rate, I'm glad to see some movement in this area. And it's got me thinking a lot about other opportunities for executable documentation.


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MSIG Will Use Yodil's Business Intelligence (BI) Platform Across the Enterprise
CHARLOTTE, NC--(Marketwire - Feb 15, 2012) - Yodil, Inc., a provider of business intelligence (BI), data analytics, and operational and management reporting to the insurance industry, has signed an agreement with Mountain States Insurance Group (MSIG), an insurance carrier specializing in commercial insurance coverage. Mountain States will subscribe to the full complement of Yodil's business intelligence platform in a multi-year Software as a Service (SaaS) agreement. MSIG's product portfolio includes more than eight commercial lines of business ranging from BOP and Commercial Package to Workers Compensation, Inland Marine, and Auto.
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Adelaide Strikers
For Strikes, Brad Hodge and Ben Dunk have been the players who have been amongst the runs in this edition of Big Bash League. The rest of batting has not done well as there has been too much reliance on Dunk to provide good starts to the innings. Travis Head and Kieron Pollard have not been up to the mark while bowling has seen Billy Stanlake and Chris Jordan who have been leading wicket-takers for the side. The batsman to watch out for in this game is Ben Dunk as when he does perform the side has done well in the Big Bash League.
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The Renegades have been heavily reliant on their Captain and opening batsman Aaron Finch to provide them brisk starts in the innings. Cameron White has been good in few games but not been consistent enough to be deemed as a threat for the opposition. Finch will be again the batsman who is tipped to score big in this game while Tom Cooper is another who has done well in the last game. Among the bowling lineup, Brad Hogg is tipped to do well here as the surface at Adelaide does provide help to slow bowlers.
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Collecting and appreciating the Criterion label and the hundreds of works of art it represents is something that a fair amount of film lovers do. Many people do it indirectly, often in the auspices of generating a healthy disc collection that include many other labels on the shelf. Collecting all of the titles in the Criterion Canon can get you disinvited from a lot of parties that normal people go to. You can also get a lot of blank stares from family and friends, as well as a generous dollop of derision from film lovers on the Internet who mistakenly castigate you for being a collector above film appreciation.
Being a Completionist will always be a marriage of two things: love of quality film and the strong desire to collect something. As with any marriage, there are things that you need to come to terms with and accept. A Completionist deals with disparities all the time.
On the one hand, a love of film allows you to have this on your shelf:
On the other, a Completionist owns this:
So how does one classify and/or become a Completionist? While I'd like to draw a line in the sand and say you must have every edition of every disc of every format to be sanctioned, that would disqualify me and I'd have to hand this blog over to some other Obsessive Compulsive. Over on my Facebook Group, we've come up with a few definitions for varying levels of Completionists. Obviously you can draw Venn diagrams all through this stuff and find yourself in various groupings, if you're into that sort of thing.
The connoisseur is very aware of the Criterion Collection and loves many of the movies and what the label stands for. In the good old days of 2012 and prior, this person rented a lot of CC discs from Netflix and the like, typically keeping them long enough to watch the movie, listen to the commentary, and plow through the supplements before tossing the disc back in the post.
In 2015 the connoisseur is still alive and seeking titles. However, the best bet for this is going to be Hulu. Great movies but very few supplements. That last statement is still the best argument for physical media I will ever hear.
Hundreds of films for 8 bucks a month. Some discs are not represented, but there are hundreds more that aren't on disc to more than make up for that. The connoisseur collects films alright, but only in his or her head (or maybe on a spreadsheet).
This is where things start to get interesting, and spendy, and sorta weird, and really quite wonderful.
What kind of collectors can there be? Mix-and-match at will:
- Laser Disc – This collector has a closet in the basement full of these 12″ discs from CC's first golden period of 1984-1998. Anywhere from 1 disc to 300+ just itching to be played one more time. Bonus points for them all being in mylar sleeves.
- DVD – This collector got in during the heady decade of the format. Dozens if not hundreds of these discs still sit on the media shelves. Typically mixed in with all the other non-CC discs, but definite bonus points for spine number adherence.
- Blu-ray– The truly modern collector. Many people consider themselves Criterion Complete from a Blu standpoint exclusively. I like these people. They find a manageable subset and make it happen. Fulfills a collecting bug while having some really amazing art at their constant disposal.
And now, the reason we are all here. The beautiful world that could only be described by a made up word. I truly hate the words nerd and geek, but it certainly is the reasonable equivalent to Completionist. For the purposes of my own self-aggrandizement, I see two very distinct categories here:
- Every Last Edition of Every Disc of Every Format – I'm not sure I've ever met one of these. This involves a level of focus, intensity, and cash reserves that cannot have the best ROI from any measure. This means you have every laser disc (CLV AND CAV), every DVD and its Blu equivalent or upgrade, every title from the ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE line, every Merchant Ivory Collection disc, the Criterion Television line, the flippin' VHS TAPES for Pete's sake, the Janus 50 films book/set (even though you have most of them already), the Kurosawa box (even though you have most of them already), and maybe even the Voyager and HVe discs for good measure. If this is you please, please comment below, I want to know you and pick your brain.
- The Best Version – This is me. This category makes me happy. It allows a reasonable interpretation of the Completionist mantra that makes sense in my mind. In my world, you focus on the titles before the spines or format. By starting with a list of titles that Criterion has released since 1984 and only getting the best version, you have a manageable and very workable situation that is very satisfying for both the love of film and the collecting obsession. In this scenario, Criterion has about 1500 titles available to me. These are then collected in the best available format whether that is laser disc, digital versatile disc, blu-ray, Hulu or iTunes. DVD is upgraded to Blu? Get rid of the DVD. Laser disc title makes it to DVD or Blu? Get rid of the LD. There are always tweaks and decisions to be made with an individual title, but it is a very workable framework
I'm still about 100 laser discs away from this style of Criterion Completion, but until then, I fit all sorts of categories above. Where are you at? Comment below and let me know. I bet there are other definitions that I haven't even thought of. I'd love to add to the categories over time.


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*38 yo female, daily exerciser (even when chubby)
*always had a diet that could be described as healthy
*current weight 163, weight at start of SCD 173
*heart disease runs in both sides of my family
My previous test results from 6 years ago were overall cholesterol 190, triglycerides 60, LDL 80. I remember being freaked out about the total number but my doc said he'd kill for my breakdown and not to worry about it.
My current test results are overall cholesterol 153 (<200 good), triglycerides 43 (<150 good), HDL 63 (>40 good), LDL 81 (<100 good). The only thing I find troubling is that my LDL seems a little high. It bears monitoring.
Now that I have my own evidence, I have a lot more confidence in the health benefits of avoiding sugar and starches for cardiac health, even while eating more red meat and eggs. I believe the science behind the old school heart healthy diet (high carb, little to no meats, very low fat) is likely flawed. I'll probably be sticking to this diet for good. Given my family history, I also plan to keep track of my numbers.


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Nationwide Campus Injector Razor
July 26, 2006
When I first got hooked on shaving with old safety razors, I started out with the classic double-edge DE. And I loved this type of razor to death until my pal Gordon (not this Gordon — this Gordon) turned me onto the other classic safety razor from wetshaving's golden era — the almighty Schick Injector.
At which point I went on a serious, serious bender with these things. Wouldn't shave with anything else, yoinked as many off eBay as I could, and marveled at how a single-blade safety razor could have zero learning curve compared with a DE and yet shave just as well and maybe even better (actually, so ungodly close my face tingled for an hour and stayed stubble-free till well after I finally went to bed after staying up late to make bloggedy fun of guys who need to ask other guys how to get your face wet with water).
The Injector I love the most is the early version from the 1940's, with the big brass head and the bakelite handle. These 40's Injectors look cooler and show more blade than the later Schicks — feed them with modern Schick or Personna Injector blades, or better yet, cut-down Feather disposable straight razor blades and you'll get a shave so close and so easy it almost takes the fun out of it.
By the mid-'50's, though, the Injector took a serious aesthetic nose-dive. The stylish brass shaving head was replaced by a generic stamped-metal assembly, and the cool-man bakelite handles gave way to plastic, and it's that embarassingly cheap, low-rent plastic that doesn't age well at all and never quite gets clean no matter how hard you scrub it, so there's always that sinking feeling as you try not to think about who may have used that razor and where they might have shaved themselves before you wound up with it. I've tried boiling these things and they just melt like snowflakes. Hit 'em with bleach and the cheap metal plating on the head corrodes. You can boil and scrub the hell out of an old Gillette DE till it looks brand spanking new, but funky Schick Injectors from the 50s/60s/70s/80s stay funky for life.
Gordon, our pal Andy and me all have our stashes of vintage Injectors and we swap interesting specimens back and forth for kicks, but we keep having the same conversation about how insanely great it would be if someone came out with a really upscale Injector, something along the lines of the luxurious chrome-plated DE razors Edwin-Jagger makes in the UK. Something really beefy and elegant, as nice to hold as it is to look at.
So imagine my surprise a few months ago when I learned that an outfit called Nationwide Campus was planning to sell newly-manufactured reissues of the 1965 Schick Adjustable Injector and the 1999 "Type O" non-adjustable Injector sold primarily in Japan for the last few years before Schick finally pulled the plug entirely. These razors are officially available today, for $15.99 and $14.99 respectively (plus $5.88 S/H). So for twenty clams you can have a brand new, mint condition Injector. Sounds good, yes?
Nationwide Campus didn't ring any shavegeek bells, though. Frankly, I'd never heard of them till I caught wind of their planned reissues. I figured that if someone was going to come out with a new Injector, it would be one of the established high-end manufacturers like Jagger or Merkur. They certainly have the tooling in place — all they'd need to do would be to make an Injector-compatible head and screw it onto one of their thick brass handles, and then hold out a big net to catch all the shekels raining down on their heads from the four corners of Planet Shavegeek.
So who's Nationwide Campus? Well, it's not a high-end manufacturer of upscale shaving tools. This much I know. The rest is a little murky. From all outward appearances, Nationwide Campus is a kind of "jobber" web site that sells commodity-type items like NBA fan jerseys, batteries, disposable douches, bar stools, cheap perfume, and classy chairs. It's sort of the online equivalent of a truck stop in Oklahoma that's got shelf after shelf filled with driftwood Jesus clocks, or when you find yourself on the wrong side of town and there's all these dollar stores that stretch for entire city blocks with Tazmanian Devil beach towels piled up on the sidewalks next to enormous oil paintings of naked black women lolling around with leopards like that one above Scatman Crother's bed in "The Shining". You know the drill.
I called Nationwide Campus a few weeks ago and spoke to Jay, the VP of Sales. Ordinarily I'd applaud a man's gruff disinterest in shavegeekery and the fetishization of a grooming tool designed to remove facial hair, but jeez, I don't know, I guess I was hoping for a little more zazz from a guy who was about to relaunch the Injector.
"So how did this project come about?" I asked him.
"I sent some razors to a factory and had them copy them," Jay replied.
"So where are they made?"
"So, China or India?"
And that was pretty much that. A man of few words, and many units to move. But I was curious, and a pathetic Injector fanboy, so I pre-ordered one of the non-adjustable razors and tried to keep an open mind about it.
I don't mean to pick on Jay and Nationwide. He's a warehouse jobber, after all, not a Kool-Aid chugging happytime shavegeek. And more power to him — there's a hell of a lot more people in this world who need these than need quality razors. God knows Schick was never a high-end boutique brand, and neither was Gillette. Only a fool like me constructs elaborate fantasies about old Italian artisans hunched over workbenches of golden oak, holding a loupe to their good eye as they carve endless, perfect ridges into nickel-plated razor handles while Verdi hangs softly in the Florentine air.
So last week I got the new NatCamp Injector in, and took it for a few test shaves. But first, I want to show you something:
This is the lowliest non-adjustable Schick Injector I've got — it's a "Type J1" from the early '60s, with the rancid off-(i.e. once)-white plastic handle and the generic stamped-metal head that always jiggles loosely on these handles due to nobody giving a shit by this point. But despite all this, it shaves like a dream, like all the Injectors do, even the fugly ones. Because when it came to tooling the blade mechanism and exposure gap — where the rubber meets the road — Schick got it nuts-on. And it's something you can feel no matter what Injector you shave with.
Now here's the new Nationwide Campus reissue:
Tell me something: which razor would you rather load a sharp blade into and scrape across your face? The Schick looks straight as an arrow while the NatCamp's got "cheap Chinese knock-off" written all over it. From the bent safety bar to the ragged metal edges to the cheap rubber handle insert to the unacceptably loose tolerances all around, it's a disgrace. Only a callow, easily-impressed chump would be taken in by this kind of cheesy build quality. Even with a new Schick blade installed, the middle part of the head assembly moves side to side, taking the blade along with it.
Still, my Type J1 Injector isn't a prize pig at the county fair either, and it shaves like a madman. Sometimes looks are deceiving.
Except when they're an excellent indicator of the road ahead, which they definitely are in the case of this reissue. Right off the bat, despite my usual lather o' the gods courtesy of Nancy Boy's shaving cream and Simpson's Wee Scot shaving brush, the NatCamp nicked me something fierce on my neck and left me with a nice red ingrown hair bump — my first in well over a year. It's still there as I type this, and probably has a few more days to go. The next morning I decided to give the razor a second chance, and I got a second ingrown for a matched set. Lovely.
As far as the rest of the shave went, it reminded me less of a real Injector and more of how a Mach3 or a Quattro cuts. Like you're scraping your face something fierce, but then after you rinse off at the end and feel your skin, you can still feel stubble. That's the kind of shave I got from the reissue.
I've got dozens of genuine Schick Injectors, and even my least favorite of the bunch shaves circles around this Nationwide Campus razor. From the earliest all-brass "scissor handle" Injector to the gaggle of 40's bakelite jobs to the alloy-handled "Type F" to the boring but shaveworthy "Type L" (I've even got a few "Lady Eversharp" gam'n'minge razors that to be quite honest are excellent men's razors, pink handles and all), there's a certain face-feel to the classic Schick Injector shave that carries over from version to version. Sadly, there isn't even a hint of this quality in the knock-off.
Now, I don't have a real "Type O" to compare it with, so it's entirely possible that the Nationwide Campus reissue is simply a perfectly executed clone of a lousy razor. But if that's the case, why choose a lousy razor to knock off in the first place? Why not reissue a good Injector like the '40s bakelite model? My suspicion is that the Type O wasn't the best-ever Injector, but neither was it as rough or cheaply manufactured as this Chinese knock-off.
It's a real drag, because I was hoping against all odds that this new razor might be something I could recommend to guys who are itching to try an Injector without going the eBay route. But it doesn't even come close to delivering the classic Injector shave. Honestly, I get better shaves from cheap Bic single-edge disposables. It's fitting that Nationwide Campus's reissue doesn't actually have the name "Injector" anywhere on it. It's not a worthy representative of the breed.
My advice is to avoid this thing at all costs. Until someone more quality-minded (Jagger! Jagger!) decides to take a stab at it, your $20 is better spent buying a real Injector on eBay and getting the shave you deserve.


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The permanent settlement of Saratoga occurred in 1776 after a British soldier, fighting in the French Indian Wars, was brought by Native American Indians to the healing springs of Saratoga. It was not long before a vibrant trade business and hotel trade began to develop around the infamous springs, starting with the first hotel built by Gideon Putman still in existence today. With the progress of trade and infrastructure the settlement grew into a formal township and, in 1819, Saratoga Springs was officially established. Not long after, in 1863, the country's first horse track was built in its current location providing the basis for further growth of the town. Today, the racing season in August brings multitudes of horse afficiandos to Saratoga Springs.
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Organized in 1986, Saratoga Arts Center offers its community diverse workshops, art education, art placement programs, a gift shop and exhibit gallery and is a core sponsor for events such as Saratoga's New Years First Night festival http://saratoga-arts.org/ In addition to the Arts Center, the main downtown street, Broadway, offers four additional galleries featuring the works of local, regional and international artists.
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A more recent development in the arts of Saratoga is nearby Beekman Street's Art District. Beelman's Street turn-of-the-century homes have been converted into Saratoga's art district with several bistros, artists coops, and artist studios to offer its visitors along with a calendar of events such as Arti Gras (April) and first Saturday Art Walks. http://www.saratoga.com/HotSpot_Beekman-Street.cfm
Throughout Saratoga are several museums. The Saratoga Museum houses historical relics and documentation of Saratoga's founding http://www.saratoga-museum.com/. The National Museum of Dance located in Saratoga is the country's only museum solely committed to the history of dance http://www.saratoga-museum.com/ There is also the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame http://www.racingmuseum.net/ , the New York State Military Museum http://dmna.state.ny.us/historic/mil-hist.htm and Saratoga Auto Museum http://saratogaautomuseum.org/.
http://tang.skidmore.edu/index.php/ , which I had the pleasure of attending the opening of the Alumni Invitational exhibit this afternoon. The exhibit incorporated innovative pieces such as welded coin functional furniture, mixed media collage works, and photography. The upstairs level housed a special African themed exhibit showcasing works that explored the interrelationship of humans and their impact upon their environments.
Though Saratoga was once considered a "summer town", it has over the years developed the foundations for being a more year round destination with a host of activites, outdoors and indoors, to offer its visitors. It is definitely a town worth putting on your "must see" list when traveling to New York state.
Tomorrow, A. Paul & I head to Boston then, alas, Monday we arrive back to Provincetown. I leave you this evening scenes of Saratoga with a few images from the opening exhibit at the Tang Museum.


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The Placement Office is headed by the Placement Chairperson, selected from among the faculty and is managed by the Placement Committee. The Placement Committee is a student driven committee and is guided by the Placement Chairperson & Placement Secretariat. The committee coordinates the Summer Internship Program and the Campus Recruitment Program. It approaches prospective employers, arranges Pre- Placement Talks and Personal Interviews on campus. It arranges and provides for the facilities required by visiting organizations.
Placement Chairperson:
Mr. Aswathanarayana
Phone:+91 20 27204011
Placement Officer:
Dr. Vaishali Bhambure
Phone: +91 20 27204060


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CALFED Archives [1]
The CALFED Bay-Delta Program, the predecessor of the Delta Stewardship Council, was a unique collaboration among 25 state and federal agencies that came together in 1995 to improve California's water supply and the ecological health of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. In 2000, CALFED released a Record of Decision (ROD) that outlined a 30-year Plan to improve the Delta's ecosystem, water supply reliability, water quality and levee stability. The CALFED ROD remains in effect and, although many of the state, federal and local projects begun under CALFED continue, future direction likely will be coordinated through the Delta Stewardship Council and the Delta Plan.
To review the archived records from the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, please visit these various web addresses:
http://www.calwater.ca.gov [2]
http://science.calwater.ca.gov/ [3]
Draft End of Stage 1 Report [4]
- Attachment: CALFED Bay-Delta Program Performance Assessment [5]
- Attachment: Draft CALFED Bay-Delta Program End of Stage 1 Statement [6]
Draft CALFED Water Quality Program Stage 1 Final Assessment (9.64 MB) [7]
- Transmittal Memo to Bay-Delta Public Advisory Committee (1-4-2008) [8]
- Appendices [9] (9.84 MB)
Transmittal Memo - Clifford N. Dahm, Ph.D. [10]
Water Quality Final Assessment and Peer Review [11]
The State of Bay-Delta Science 2008 [12]
EIS/EIR: July 2000 [13]
Record of Decision [14]


text: Original Icon Snowskate bag. At 36"(92 cm) x 9"(23 cm) x 5"(13 cm) it can easily fit 4 concave 33" snowskates, or just one snowskate or skateboard, and a lot of gear. Made of strong 600 x 300 Denier Poly, laminated to PVC, with black webbing for the shoulder strap, and wrap-around handles.


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Cindy Chinn: Artist, Carver, Muralist, Creator
It's funny where a small side project can lead me. It all started with a need to add some glass blocks to fill in an area around a window mounted air conditioner. I thought that plain glass blocks would be a little boring, so I created a fairy prison by sculpting fairies and placing them inside the blocks.
Birdcage Walk Top Hat:
What's more practical than a top hat with a birdcage on top it? Inside the cage is mechanical bird that moves and sings when motion is detected.
Bats in the Belfry Hat:
This was my first hat and I had a lot of fun designing it. Inside the attic there is a light that glows an eerie blue (the switch is on the front).
Time Machine Guitar:
I have seen a lot of really cool custom guitars online and always thought that it would be fun to build one. It was! :D
Time Out Chair:
This was a project I did for the Tabitha Health Care Group in Lincoln Nebraska. The idea was to take a rocking chair and modify it.
Captured Fairies:
Sometimes ideas can take a tour into the dark side. These fun diversions evolve over time and the 'captured fairy' series was an enjoyable one.
The Masks We Wear:
We all wear masks at one time or another. Sometimes is fun to capture these moments in clay. This is an ongoing project.
Pencil Lead Carvings:
Sometimes I work on a fifty foot mural, sometimes I'll carve a train that that is 3/16 of an inch tall. Have a look at my pencil lead carvings.
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After this project, I started to create more fairies in various states of 'capture'...
My "Captured Fairies" became quite popular. Maybe it was the fresh look at fairies, perhaps it was my dark take on the fairy world... I'm not sure.
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And then I started catching the smaller fairies and locking them up in pocket watches.
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The perfect quick treat – cool and refreshing. Takes care of my sugar cravings in a relatively healthy way. Never ceases to bring an immediate smile to my face. What's quick to bring a smile to your face?
Recipe (serves 1-2)
2 frozen ripe bananas
2c Almond Milk
2t vanilla extract
2T raw cacao (I imagine you could use regular cocoa powder)
(optional) agave, stevia, or other sweeteners if additional sweetness is desired
(optional) raw cacao nibs – I add these when I want a smoothie with some texture, the nibs break down but not entirely
(optional) superfoods or powders for a extra nutritional value
Place all ingredients in your Vitamix/blender and blend until smooth, usually around 30sec in my Vitamix. If you're using a less powerful blender, you may need to break the banana into smaller chunks before blending.
Tip: It's easy to keep all the necessary ingredients on hand so this treat is always only 3 minutes away, simply keep frozen bananas in the freezer and use packaged almond milk that doesn't have to be refrigerated until open. Also, the riper you let the bananas get before freezing, the less extra sweetener you'll need to add which is a good thing.


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FINALLY, the nicer weather is making an appearance. I am so looking forward to this winter being over.
Slowly we are starting to see spring clothing making it's way in the stores. Last week, I picked up this beautiful cream and blue striped blazer to add to my spring collection, and I absolutely love it!
Having at least 1 blazer in your wardrobe I find to be very important. It's great for spring and summer to replace a jacket. You can wear it for an afternoon lunch date with friends, or a date night out with your significant other.
I purchased this at Target. I think it was $35 – 20%, not 100% sure on the discount, I forget, lol! I think it looks great paired with either blue or white jeans and a cute pair of pumps.
Since Target is now in liquidation, I am not sure what locations still have this blazer, so I linked a few other favourites of mine below!


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Pixagility provides a turnkey service including a high availability transcoding service to process 10 hours of daily programs and an express publication's platform towards all ISPs.
The solution is based on Pixagility's MAM which automatically receives orders from L'Équipe 21 and ensures files' publication to ISPs in less than 150% the programs duration.
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This solution integrates watermarking during transcoding stage that enables Médiamétrie to take audience's measures into account.
The programs watched in "replay" are now taken into consideration in the same way as linear programming.


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A few days ago, a 26-year-old bodyboarder named Alexandre Naussance was killed by a shark on Réunion Island. It happened in an area where authorities had banned water activities and was the twentieth incident involving sharks since 2011. Eight of them were fatal. Somewhat surprisingly, Kelly Slater weighed in on Instagram, calling for a cull. He was quickly hit by a shit storm of epic proportions, which he is currently still weathering. Michel Bourez, though, just threw his hat in the ring, and he's in Kelly's corner.
"What would you do if going into the sea just 2 metres from shore put your life in danger?" Bourez wrote on Facebook. "Nobody wants to kill sharks, they are in their element. But right now, the situation is getting out of control. Bull shark populations are out of their natural balance and still rising. Bull sharks don't attack to 'taste' like the Great White or the Tiger… they attack to kill whether the prey is edible or not… Don't be too quick too [sic] judge what Kelly Slater and Jeremy Flores have said."
A few days after Kelly posted his thoughts, Jeremy Flores jumped to his defense. "For those who criticized Kelly Slater's comment," he wrote, "I just want to say none of you have ever done as much as him for the protection of the environment. Can you stop 1 minute and think why would he position himself on such delicate subject? Instead of judging, please try to at least understand what is going on in Réunion island. It's too easy to judge from far away without even knowing the nightmare that is happening here. It's like nowhere else in the world, the numbers of attacks comparing to how many people go in the ocean is unbelievable. Nobody is talking about erasing the sharks. We are talking about regulating a non-protected shark, the bullshark, who happens to kill everything including many other species of sharks, turtles etc… when it gets too close to our shoreline."
It's a complicated subject–the bull shark population around Réunion Island is undoubtedly larger than it's supposed to be. Although researchers have given many different explanations (rising water temperature, falling deep water fish populations, etc), the vast majority agrees that the spike is related to humans. What to do about it, however, is even more complicated. It's been proven that shark culls don't work as well as many believe. Netting, too, is a viable option, as are total bans in certain areas. Maui, in fact, has had more shark attacks than Réunion in the same period of time (although less have been fatal), but because of the higher death rate on Réunion, it's become a scapegoat of sorts for those calling for a cull.
While many (understandably) see it as choosing sharks over humans, what it comes down to is this: are we actually proposing killing thousands of vitally important creatures just so that we can slide around on top of waves? Because that makes no sense. What does make sense, though, is if bull shark populations are indeed far higher than they should be in the area and it's because of humans, they do need to be managed, much like axis deer on Maui or wolves in Alberta.
Whether we like it or not, our presence on earth is hyper-destructive to nearly every other species. Although culling is, for the most part, an extraordinarily dumb idea, in certain situations it needs to be looked at on a case-by-case basis. Réunion Island has a problem, and people are dying. If all other options have truly been exhausted, and we're to blame for a damaging spike in bull shark populations, then perhaps a cull is something to be considered.


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Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural
5/26/2007 - 5/26/2010
For the first time since 1992, Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural will be shown in its entirety. The permanent installation of the mural will be accompanied by a small, rotating group of Regionalist prints from the permanent collection.
The mural was initially donated to the Art Center in 1986 by Tower Properties, Ltd., but when the corporation went into bankruptcy in 1989, the courts made the donation invalid and ordered it to be sold at auction. In 1995, this auction was held at the Sioux City Art Center, and the mural was purchased by Sioux City attorney Alan Fredregill for $80,000. He spent the next year looking for a permanent home for the Corn Room, ultimately donating it to the Art Center where it was accessioned into the permanent collection.
Corn Room is a significant transitional work for Wood's development. His conception of Regionalism, the only Modernist art movement to come out of the Midwest, emerges in this mural. We can see his embrace of the local subjects and native landscape familiar from Wood's mature, Regionalist works of the 1930s, but the mural is executed in an earlier, painterly technique where he created his imagery by removing paint from the prepared canvas. This subtractive technique resulted in severe damage to the canvas when it was covered in the 1950s. The conservation process saved the mural, but the resulting damage has dimmed the imagery and shifted his colors towards the golden-brown visible today.
The mural, when seen in the context of the other works in the exhibition by Wood, provides visitors with the opportunity to see how Wood matured as an artist, developing the style that brought him national and international recognition. The Fredregill Fund, established by the Sioux City Art Center's share of the auction selling price, has allowed the acquisition of a number of Regionalist prints by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton that will be on display with Grant Wood's Corn Room.
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Grant Wood (1891-1942)
Grant Wood is the only artist born in Iowa with an international reputation. His best-known painting, American Gothic (1930), has become an iconic image of rural America. Wood spent the majority of his art career living and working in Cedar Rapids. He was the head of the Iowa section of the Public Works of Art Project which ran from 1933-1934.
Wood was the most prominent artist in the Regionalist art movement in the 1930s, and he remained a proponent of its approach to art for the remainder of his career. This movement was a democratic art accessible to everyone and reflecting local, rather than imported from Europe or elsewhere, interests and traditions. The ideas Regionalism describe are connected to the immediate, local audience for the art.
The Corn Room Mural is a typical example of the kinds of landscape visible in the surrounding countryside, and its genesis -- as one of four murals commissioned by a local businessman, Eugene Eppley, for hotels in Council Bluffs, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Sioux City -- describes the types of relationship between artist and audience Wood hoped Regionalism would foster everywhere in America. This close connection between artist, community, and locale was an essential part of the broader agenda of Regionalism.
the process
Wood's technique in painting this mural was subtractive -- his assistant Carl Eybers would put a thin layer of paint on a prepared section of the canvas, and Wood would then wipe away from that paint to create the corn stalks, buildings and other imagery visible. The mural is faded today both because of this subtractive technique and because it was painted over. The lengthy conservation process to remove the paint and wallpaper that covered up Wood's painting could not restore it to its original brightness.
This mural was originally painted as a decoration for the Martin Hotel in Sioux City. It was one of four murals commissioned by Eugene Eppley for the dining rooms of his hotels in Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Cedar Rapids and Waterloo. Painted around 1927, The Corn Room Mural is an important early example of Wood's emerging Regionalist approach. It is one of his first works to be drawn specifically from local concerns, and it prefigures his shift towards a more highly detailed realism following his 1928 trip to Munich, Germany, to supervise the manufacture of the Memorial Window for the Cedar Rapids Veteran's Memorial Building.
the historical context
Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural is historically important because it shows that Wood was developing the ideas and approaches that would become Regionalism several years before he produced his first clearly-Regionalist works and achieved critical success with his invention: Woman with Plants (1929) and American Gothic (1930). Both these paintings have their origins in the specific landscape of the Midwest, but fuse their local subjects with formal concerns drawn from seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Wood's concerns with landscape, visible in the Corn Room Mural, remain a constant reference point for his Regionalist works: it appears as the background to Woman with Plants and in the famous house seen behind the couple in American Gothic. The central imagery in one of the main panels -- conical piles of harvested corn -- reappears in his later work, notably as the central focus of his lithograph, January (1937), in the painting Iowa Cornfield (1941), and in his last known work, an oil sketch from 1941 called Iowa Landscape.
This mural was papered over in the early 1950s and forgotten
until it was rediscovered in 1979 by Leah Hartman, an interviewer for the
Siouxland Oral History Program. Her interview with Carl Eybers, Wood's assistant
in painting the Martin Hotel mural, led to its being removed from the Hotel
and conserved by the Sioux City Art Center. Tower Properties Ltd., the owners
of the Martin Hotel donated the mural to the art center in the 1980s after
its recovery, but when they filed for bankruptcy in 1989, the future of
the mural in Sioux City was uncertain. Alan Fredregill purchased the mural
at the auction and donated it to the Art Center so it would remain in Sioux
Grant Wood's Corn Room mural
The permanent installation of the mural has been underwritten, in part, by Bill Turner.
Eugene Eppley commissioned this mural from Grant Wood in 1927 as a decoration for the dining room of the Martin Hotel in Sioux City. It is one of four murals commissioned by a regional businessman, Eugene Eppley, for hotels in Council Bluffs, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Sioux City.
The mural is a typical example of the kinds of landscape visible in the surrounding countryside. It was originally painted so it filled the room, creating an environment that had the effect of standing in a corn field in Iowa. Its installation reproduces some of this effect.
Grant Wood was the main promoter of Regionalism, the American art movement that emerged in the Midwest in the early 1930s and continued into the early 1940s. Like Wood's mature, Regionalist works of the 1930s, the Corn Room employs subject matter drawn specifically from local concerns, and it prefigures his shift towards a more highly detailed realism following his 1928 trip to Munich, Germany, to supervise the manufacture of the Memorial Window for the Cedar Rapids Veteran's Memorial Building. While some critics considered these rural, predominately agrarian subjects to be stylistically native to America, others argued they were signs of a hopelessly provincial approach to art. Regionalism was both praised as the source, or damned as a backwater to American art.
Click here to to view the gallery guide for the exhibit.
(above: gallery view of Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural)
(above: gallery view of Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural)
(above: gallery view of Grant Wood's Corn Room Mural)
Editor's note:
Resource Library readers may also enjoy these earlier articles and essays among 178 Resource Library texts referencing the artist:
Resource Library articles on "American Scene" painting and "regionalism":
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Niger is in need of more than three million doses of meningitis vaccines in order to avert a possible epidemic.
The west African country is in dire need of immunizing millions as some 75 cases have been reported and one death recorded in half of the country's eight regions including the capital Niamey this year.
''The (Nigerien) health authorities estimate that they need 3.2 million vaccination doses in case of a meningitis epidemic," said Niger's UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The (Nigerien) health authorities estimate that they need 3.2 million vaccination doses in case of a meningitis epidemic.
Niger lies in the "Meningitis belt" which stretches from Senegal to Ethiopia. The disease is said to be most common in the dry season.
In 2015, the country suffered a serious outbreak that left more than 500 people dead and thousands contracted the disease.
The strain was not the common meningococcal meningitis which causes infection in the brain and the spinal cord but the Neisseria meningitides serogroup C.
It was the first large-scale meningitis outbreak caused by the strain to hit any country in Africa's meningitis belt.
Transmitted from person-to-person through droplets of respiratory or throat secretions from carriers, the bacteria's incubation period is four days. Symptoms include fever, agitation, vomiting and headaches.
Last year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had relayed fears of meningitis outbreaks in 2016 in Africa.
The international body particularly singled out Niger and Nigeria.


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Brown's Orchards and Farm Market
Brown's Orchards and Farm Market is nestled among the rolling hills of Southern York County. Plenty of delightful shopping awaits you along with specialty foods, charming gifts, fresh deli items, delicious baked goods and a welcoming sunroom flower shop. Don't forget the candy counter with everything from fudge to nostalgic candy. Enjoy lunch from The Brown Bean Café or the Shiver Shack BBQ Pit.
Turkey Hill Experience
See how Turkey Hill ice cream is made, sit in a milk truck, milk mechanical cows, and learn about the people and culture of Turkey Hill Dairy. Create your own virtual ice cream flavor, ice cream package and a commercial. Then visit the Turkey Hill Taste Lab and bring your virtual ice cream creation to life as you make your own pint of ice cream! Of course, there are plenty of unlimited free samples of ice cream and iced tea products, too.
John Wright Restaurant
Enjoy casual dining in a restored warehouse along the Susquehanna River. The Four Seasons Dining Room, a timbered structure that extends from the warehouse and is enclosed on three sides with glass, has a breathtaking view of the River at one of its widest points. Looking for something more private? The River Room on the second floor offers a unique event space for up to 180 people with the same stunning views. The menus include fresh, locally produced foods which vary with the seasons. In the summertime, some are grown on the premises.
Stauffer's Factory Outlet
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Memory Lane Sweets
Where can you find your favorite candy from your childhood in downtown York? Memory Lane Sweets has the classics - from Pixy Stix, candy necklaces, and Tootsie rolls to root beer barrels, Necco Wafers, and Zagnut Bars, plus so many more! You can buy by the piece or some candies are offered in bulk, by the pound. Of course your trip to this nostalgic candy store won't be complete without some York Peppermint Patties!
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Revonah Pretzel
This small, family-owned operation produces pretzels made from Grandma's original sourdough recipe. Each batch is rolled and twisted by hand, salted to perfection, then baked in the 70-year-old hearth brick and stone oven before being hardened in a 160 degree heated kiln for hours. The result is a delectable golden brown pretzel with the perfect amount of crunch!
Martin's Snacks
The tour at Martin's Snacks starts where the potatoes are unloaded and ends with your group eating fresh popcorn and potato chips directly off the production line. In between you will tour the 75,000 sq. ft. facility which produces over one million bags of chips each month. Don't forget to pick up a bag of famous Kettle Cook'd Chips in the outlet store! Low-heeled, closed-toe shoes are required for factory tour
Central Market
Standing at the corner of North Beaver and Philadelphia Streets for over 125 years, Central Market is a reminder of York's storied history and the anchor of the revitalization of Downtown York. Market shoppers enjoy the finest in locally grown flowers and produce, baked goods, fresh seafood, meats, deli products and many specialty items. Visitors will find fresh local flavor at the many prepared food vendors.
York City Pretzel Company
Located in the heart of downtown, the York City Pretzel Company proudly serves customers a German-style soft pretzel with a fresh, local twist. Their old-Bavarian-style recipe might sound simple (made with just flour, water, yeast, salt, brown sugar and butter), but this isn't your ordinary soft pretzel. You can learn how they make their product and see how their pretzels get their signature twist.
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Gilmore Girls Revival first look: What's Lorelai and Luke's big surprise?!
Our latest Gilmore Girls revival first look is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma set at the... legendary Black-White-Read Bookstore/Theatre!
The above image from Netflix's forthcoming four-part revival finds Lorelai and Luke returning to the Stars Hollow landmark to attend a screening of (your guess is as good as ours!) alongside at least a dozen fellow residents (including Lane). But the big question posed by the photo concerns Lorelai's cell phone — specifically, who's on the other end of it and what surprising/shocking news is he/she relaying to her? (The fact that Luke is pointing to himself strongly implies the maybe-bombshell involves him).
Photo cred: Netflix
Also, how is Kirk (aka the venue's militant box office attendant/bouncer/head of security) not tossing both of them out on their hindquarters for violating the establishment's no tolerance policy on using smart phones or engaging in idle chit chat?!
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Newly appointed Minister of State (independent charge) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal Tuesday said he would ensure transparency in the working of the key energy ministries brought under a single head."In my opinion, if we set the processes right and we follow procedures and policies, if we're able to work within the system which is laid down without discretionary exceptions being made to government working, we can ensure transparency in the working of the ministry," Goyal said on taking charge of the ministry."I'm fairly confident we can set a lot of things right, so that as we go along things are rationalised, simplified and more honest than in the last few years," he added.
As per Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision, the three ministries of power, coal and renewable energy have been brought under a single minister as the these sectors have "a lot of synergy"."Keeping in mind the composite nature of the various departments and ministries related to the power sector, he (prime minister) has made a beginning in bringing the power, coal and the new and renewable energy under an umbrella," Goyal told media persons here.
He refused to call this measure a reorgnaisation."I do not say that this is some reorganisation. They have been brought under an umbrella so the ministries can work in tandem", Goyal said, adding this would help in removing bottlenecks in their functioning.Asked about coal block allocations that dogged the UPA government's final years in office, the minister stressed the importance of following procedures.
To a question on privatisation of the sector, Goyal said he intended to study the best practices of the Gujarat model and the overhaul of the energy industry in the state under Modi when he brought state utilities back to profit and eliminated blackouts.Goyal, a chartered accountant and investment banker, was treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has served on the board of the State Bank of India.
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By Colby Hamilton
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — City Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito appears headed to become the next speaker of the City Council.
As of Wednesday night, 31 City Council members pledged to back Mark-Viverito, who also has the backing of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio — more than the majority she needs. That tally came after a tumultuous 48-hour cycle that pitted de Blasio against Democratic Party leaders in Queens, The Bronx, and Brooklyn, who had said they want Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick as speaker.
Mark-Viverito's ascent was made possible after the Brooklyn delegation abandoned its earlier commitment to stick with the Queens and Bronx Democratic Party leadership — and ditched Garodnick in favor of a deal with the Progressive bloc, which also backs Mark-Viverito, sources said.
If the deal holds for the next three weeks, Mark-Viverito will have enough votes to become speaker of the City Council.
"I am humbled to have the support and confidence that my colleagues have placed in me," Mark-Viverito said in a statement Wednesday night. "Today is the culmination of over two decades of my work at the grassroots, in nonprofit organizations, in labor and as a public servant. I know that my fellow members will work with me in the City Council to create a more inclusive legislative body where every member's voice is heard and validated."
If chosen, she would be "the first Puerto Rican woman, the first Latino, and the first member of the Black Latino and Asian Caucus" to hold the seat, her supporters said in an email.
In a statement, onetime speaker candidate Jumaane Williams, a city councilman who represents Brooklyn and is a co-founding member of the Progressive Caucus, said he was withdrawing his name from the race in order to back Mark-Viverito.
"Though there is approximately three weeks left before the official vote, I believe that Council Member Mark-Viverito will prevail," Williams said, adding that his bloc came to a decision on Mark-Viverito independently of a round of phone calls made in her favor by Mayor-elect de Blasio on Monday night.
"This decision is not a result of pressure, including phone calls from anyone, to support a specific candidate," Williams said, adding that he was not among the people who got a call from the mayor-elect.
A number of news outlets reported Wednesday that, despite the deal that seems to lock up Mark-Viverito as the next speaker, Garodnick remained in the race.
One of his allies — and a former candidate for speaker herself — Bronx Councilwoman Annabel Palma, released a statement Wednesday afternoon in support of Garodnick's candidacy.
"Dan has been a close partner of mine in the Council, and a true friend of the Bronx. I know we will do great work together next year under his leadership," she said.
However, a source close to the Progressive bloc and Mark-Viverito's team, said that Garodnick's decision to stay in the race was little more than a ploy by the Bronx and Queens county leaders to gain leverage.
"It's now out there that county leaders are propping Dan up in order to go to the powers to be and say, 'We'll stop this nonsense if you give us x, y or z,'" the source said.
Garodnick's team said Wednesday that he was still a viable candidate and would remain in the race.


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But Bennett has angered Tea Party activists and other conservatives by voting in 2008 for the bailout of the financial corporations and for cosponsoring a bill to require individuals to purchase health insurance. He was solidly rejected at the convention in Salt Lake City, finishing a distant third in the second ballot, with less than 27 percent of the vote. The two finalists, businessman Tim Bridgewater and Attorney Mike Lee, will face off in the June 22 primary.
Speaking with reporters after the voting, Bennett said some of his Senate votes were politically "toxic" and possibly fatal to his career. "The political atmosphere obviously has been toxic and it's very clear that some of the votes that I have cast have added to the toxic environment," he said. "Looking back on them, with one or two very minor exceptions, I wouldn't have cast any of them any differently even if I had known at the time they were going to cost me my career." Bennett, 76, left open the possibility that he will run as a write-in candidate, creating a three-way race in the general election, the Associated Press reported. Texas Senator John Cornyn, chairman of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, immediately announced the committee will support the winner of the GOP primary.
Bennett's poor showing came despite the endorsements of the National Rifle Association and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who came to the convention and urged the delegates to stick with Bennett. "Today, he faces an uphill battle at this convention," said Romney, who was greeted with a mix of cheers and boos when he made the introductory speech for the three-term Senator. "Some may disagree with a handful of his votes or simply want a new face. But with the sweep and arrogance of the liberal onslaught today in Washington, we need Bob Bennett's skill, and intellect and loyalty." The argument held little sway with a large majority of the delegates.
"The bailout bothers me. That in and of itself is unforgivable in my opinion," delegate Scott White, a 58-year-old general contractor from Taylorsville, told the A.P. Indeed, Bennett's vote for the Troubled Assets Relief Program bill was unpopular enough to gain him the nickname "Bailout Bob" from some of his critics on the Right. About two-thirds of the 3,500 delegates identified themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement, according to Salt Lake Tribune poll last month.
Bennett tried at the convention to convince voters that he was the reliable fiscal conservative candidate. "You want to get deficits under control. I have authored bills to rein in the entitlement spending that now makes up two-thirds of the federal budget," he told the delegates. "I've already voted for a balanced budget amendment three times and I will again, while making certain that it won't be turned into a tax increase for Democrats. Our tax burden is already too high," he said. Making a final plea just before the second round of voting began, Bennett tried to turn his 18 years in the Senate to his advantage. "Don't take a chance on a newcomer," he said. "There's too much at stake." But as Bennett pleaded for a fourth term, some delegates recalled that he had promised to serve only two terms in the Senate when he first was elected in 1992.
The atmosphere that Bennett found "toxic" is not merely the result of anti-incumbent sentiment, however. Utah's Republican Governor and two Republican Congressman are not facing serious challenges within the party. The state is overwhelmingly Republican and the party's nomination is considered a virtual lock on a general election win in November.
The rejection may instead reflect a national surge of conservative activism that has seen been evident in races in other states. Florida Governor Charlie Crist, now running as an Independent for the U.S. Senate, recently dropped out a Republican primary in which he was running far behind his conservative rival, former state Speaker of the House Marco Rubio. In Arizona, John McCain is facing a tough primary battle with right-wing talk-show host and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth. Last November Republicans running anti-tax-and-spending campaigns won gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. And in January Republican Scott Brown, campaigning against the Obama healthcare plan, stunned the political world with his victory over heavily favored Attorney General Martha Coakely in the special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Edward M. Kennedy. The Tea Party movement was especially noticeable in its support the Brown campaign, even as it was conspicuous in its opposition to Bennett. At the Utah convention, David Kirkham told the Associated Press his opposition began with Bennett's vote on the bailout bill.
"The whole reason I started the tea party (in Utah) was Sen. Bennett," Kirkham said. "He was the next one up for reelection."
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Some people wait for that warm spring day when summer dresses and tank tops come out on the streets of New York all at once. Me, I cherish a particular day in the fall, a day that some years sadly never comes. But when it does come, it's a beautiful and unmistakable thing:
the day the Yankees caps all disappear at once
Before I first moved to New York, I hadn't fully understood what sad, wretched front-runners the legions of Yankees fans really are. I always knew they were awful people, the most obnoxious fans in sports, but I hadn't grasped how weak-hearted they were. When the Yankees lose, there is no defiance, no residual pride, no we-want-a-rematch resolve. (The closest the Yankees come to that is their annual scheming to
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winner—and when the Yankees are losers, it blows a hole in their identity. They didn't sign up for this to root for a loser.
And so the caps vanish, overnight. They always tell you, when you're growing up, that a bully will cut and run the first time you punch back. Most kids are skeptical. Bullies are bigger and stronger than you. That's why they're bullies! It doesn't make sense that they would just cave like that.
But at least for the Yankees, it's true. The fans fled Yankee Stadium before the games were even over. The manager panicked and started handing out intentional walks. Robinson Cano jogged out a ninth-inning grounder. Alex Rodriguez stood frozen for the season-ending strike three. The first baseball cap I saw at Fairway today was a San Francisco Giants one.


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