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An overnight flight to Istanbul with one of our airline partners. Complimentary drinks and meals served on board.
Upon arrival at Istanbul Airport, change terminals for your connecting flight to Izmir. FLO USA representative meets you at Izmir Airport and escorts you to transfer to your hotel. Your hotel is located in Kusadasi which is a small town on the Aegean coast. After check-in, you can rest in your room or you can take a walk around the hotel. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in Kusadasi. (D)
After breakfast we drive to the ancient city of Ephesus and first visit the Temple of Artemis, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Ephesus was undoubtedly one of the most important cultural centers of the ancient world. Impressive structures we will see include the Library of Celsus, Temple of Hadrian, Theatre and Odeon. We also visit the House of the Virgin Mary We stay overnight in Kusadasi. (B,L,D)
After breakfast depart for Pamukkale - which means "Cotton Castle" - a Mineral Water Spa since ancient times. Arrive in Pamukkale and visit ancient city of Hierapolis. Then swim in the world famous calcium deposited pools called travertines. Overnight in one of the thermal hotels in Pamukkale. (B,L,D)
This morning drive north through Taurus Mountains to Antalya, En route stop at Aphrodisias, the Ancient City which was dedicated to Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love. The Temple's theater and stadium are excellently preserved. Visit the Museum and tour the ruins some were restored by the National Geographic Society. Then drive to Antalya where our hotel is located. (B,L,D)
Antalya, first a Pamphylian, and later a Roman city. This morning visit the Antalya Regional Archaeological Museum and an orientation tour of the city. Then continue to explore the ancient Pamphylian, Hellenistic and Roman cities of Perge and Aspendos. The theater at Aspendos has a capacity of 15,000 people and is the best preserved in the Mediterranean Basin. Overnight in Antalya. (B,L,D)
After breakfast we will drive through mountains to Konya ; an important Roman city, and later the Capital of the Seljuk Turkish Empire. Visit the Mevlana Museum, a 13th century whirling dervish monastery. Dinner and overnight at our hotel in Cappadocia. (B,L,D)
A full day to tour the riches of this incredible "moonscape" of Cappadocia including the Goreme open-air Museum, with its dozens of painted cave-churches. The surrealistic geological formation of Cappadocia is one of the wonders of the world. It is the result of the natural forces during the intense volcanic activity. Then we will continue to the pottery making village of Avanos where you watch clay turning into a form of artwork. Later on visit a world famous Turkish hand-made carpet factory. Dinner and overnight. (B,L,D)
Today we visit the Kaymakli Underground City, a place early Christians hid from persecutors. Another highlight of today will be the Soganli Village, a remote community famous for dolls and housing some more rock churches. We will have our lunch at the village and spend some time with the villagers. You may ride a donkey on the narrow streets of the village or may experience a traditional wedding ceremony if there is one on that day. (B,L,D)
Day 10 - CAPPADOCIA / ANKARA
After breakfast depart for Ankara via the salt lake which is the second biggest lake of Turkey. Today we discover Ankara that was once a Hittite town, then a Roman city, and now the capital of Turkey. Then visit the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, which is housed in a restored Caravanserai, seeing its Hittite treasures and artifacts. Later on visit the great Mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. Dinner and overnight in Ankara. (B,L,D)
Day 11 - ANKARA / GORDION / BURSA
After breakfast, drive to Gordion. This is where Alexander the Great cut Gordion Knot and then conquered Asia. Gordion was the city of King Midas, as well as being the capital of Phyrigians. We continue our drive to Bursa that was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire. Dinner and then overnight at our hotel in Bursa. (B,L,D)
Day 12 - BURSA / ISTANBUL
Today you will visit the beautiful Green Mosque and Green Tomb. Now enjoy your stroll through Bursas colorful bazaar, where you can shop for silk and beautiful Turkish towels. Then we drive towards Yalova for our ferry to Istanbul. Afternoon is at free at leisure. (B,L,D)
Day 13 - ISTANBUL
After breakfast you will depart for a full-day tour of Istanbul. Our first stop will be the Hippodrome, where chariot races were held and competitive athletic events took place during the Roman period. Then world famous St.Sophia - the great Byzantine Basilica built in the 6th century - following the Blue Mosque famous for its six minarets and magnificent interior blue tiles. Then you will enjoy a traditional excursion by boat along the waterway separating Europe from Asia. The shore is lined with old wooden villas, palaces of marble, fortresses, and small fishing villages. During the excursion you will pass the magnificent Dolmabahce Palace, and further along, the parks and imperial pavillions of Yildiz Palace. (B,L,D)
Day 14 - ISTANBUL
Today you will visit the Topkapi Palace, the residence of Ottoman sultans housing richness of 700 years. Later on you will be browsing the Grand Bazaar. Afternoon is free at leisure to explore the city on your own. Tonight there will be a farewell dinner. (B,L,D)
Day 15 - ISTANBUL / USA
Departure transfers by FLO USA representative to the Istanbul Airport for your flight back to the USA. (B)
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Acknowledging it's an "imperfect" bill, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he will accept a $410 billion spending package that includes billions in earmarks like those he promised to curb in last year's campaign. But he insisted the bill must signal an "end to the old way of doing business."
The massive measure funding federal agencies through the fall contains nearly 8,000 pet projects, known as earmarks and denounced by critics as pork.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Monday cleared the way for a significant increase in federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research and promised no scientific data will be "distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda."
Obama signed the executive order on the divisive stem cell issue and a memo addressing what he called scientific integrity before an East Room audience packed with scientists. He laced his remarks with several jabs at the way science was handled by former President George W. Bush.
WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.
Both figures were worse than analysts expected and the Labor Department's report shows America's workers being clobbered by a wave of layoffs unlikely to ease in the coming months.
NEW YORK (AP) - A stunning 48 percent of the nation's homeowners who have a subprime, adjustable-rate mortgage are behind on their payments or in foreclosure, and that's not the worst of it, new data Thursday showed.
The reckless lending practices in states like Florida, California and Nevada that were the epicenter of the housing crisis are no longer driving up the nation's delinquency rate. Instead, the foreclosure crisis now is being fueled by a spike in defaults in states like Louisiana, New York, Georgia and Texas, where the economies are rapidly deteriorating and thousands are losing their ...
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But in the same speech to Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., he revealed that the vast majority of those involved in the pullout will not leave this year. He also said that tens of thousands of U.S. personnel will remain behind afterward.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Handing the new administration a big win, House Democrats passed President Barack Obama's $787 billion plan to resuscitate the economy on Friday despite a wall of Republican opposition.
The bill was approved 246-183 and sent to the Senate, where a vote was scheduled late Friday afternoon. That vote was to be held open for hours, waiting for Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, who was attending a memorial service for his mother and then flying back to cast the deciding vote.
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Charter, which is controlled by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, said it has reached an agreement in principle with holders of $8 billion in debt who will give up repayment of their debt. In return, they will receive common shares, or warrants for rights to get common shares, that translate to nearly owning the entire company after bankruptcy.
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With music and words of over 300 songs, this hymnal reflects the diversity, and the religious center, of the Religious Society of Friends. It is easy to use with historical notes and Biblical, topical, song title and first line indices.
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Thieving hipsters, take note.
American Apparel will be tagging every neon legging, velvet bodysuit, V-neck t-shirt and iconic hoodie with an RFID sensor, the RFID Journal reports. The sensors will track items from the time they are shipped from American Apparel's factory in downtown L.A. to when a customer purchases the item from one of its 280 stores, helping the chain to keep better track of inventory and disappearances.
Since entering the retail market in 2003, American Apparel has succeeded wildly by imparting its cotton basics with alternative appeal. The company supports progressive issues like gay rights, pays factory workers $12 to $14 per hour -- far above minimum wage -- and regularly incites the uptight with skin-filled ads.
Yet American Apparel has long been targeted by shoplifters, many of them indistinguishable from the chain's loyal customers. The company's stores initially lacked anti-theft sensors, inciting a series of plunders whose history is documented on various Facebook groups and blogs. Former employees allege that in its early years, American Apparel had a pro-shoplifting policy, explicitly asking managers to turn a blind eye so that the right type of person would have easier access to the clothes and become an unwitting spokesperson for the brand.
Whether or not these claims prove true, the fact that the company has made its money by catering to rebellious,anti-corporate youth has infuriated more than a few members of its target market. Arguably, shoplifting from the store was a way for some to subvert the commercialization of counter-culture. Free clothes were, naturally, a perk.
"This is a true story about stealing from a corporation," Tao Lin wrote in the Vice Magazine story that inspired his 2009 novella, Shoplifting from American Apparel. "American Apparel is a corporation. ... Don't hate me for stealing from an independent clothing company, because then you'd be basing your hatred on something that isn't real."
Of course, irony-tinged theft is a bad thing for any company, "independent" or otherwise. As American Apparel expanded, opening 133 stores between 2007 and today, it equipped its locations with EAS (Electronic Article Surveillence) devices, or those hard plastic sensors that get removed at cash registers. In 2007, it launched a pilot program that tested the more sophisticated RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags, which track the movement of each item and help prevent merchandise from getting stolen internally, by employees.
In stores with both kinds of sensors, "shrinkage," or the number of items that mysteriously disappear between a factory and a store, has dropped as much as 75 percent, Stacey Shulman, American Apparel's VP of technology told the RFID Journal in April 2011.
Once it finishes installing the devices in every store, American Apparel -- now the largest clothing manufacturer in America -- will also have the second largest network of RFID sensors of any retailer, after Walmart. Other retailers are running trials of RFID, though the technology has yet to become an industry standard.
Still, theft is but one item on a long list of business problems for American Apparel. The company teetered on the edge of bankruptcy for much of last year, due to declining sales and falling stock. It is in the process of resolving a lawsuit from a former employee that accuses CEO Dov Charney of sexual harassment.
With demand for American Apparel's clothing so low, it's hard not to wonder whether the company longs for the days when attractive thieves flocked to its locations. Whether American Apparel manages to pull itself up will be an interesting test of how long a corporation can continue to sell "cool," when one of the only constants in its shoppers' idea of "cool" is anti-corporate sentiment.
For more information, visit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/19/american-apparel-shoplifting_n_1285313.html
Walmart is taking a 51% stake in Yihaodian, a leading Chinese e-commerce website, in a significant move by the U.S. retailer to boost its online presence in China.
Walmart did not disclose financial details for the partnership, which Neil Ashe, president and chief executive of Walmart Global e-commerce, said would help deliver a "superb customer experience" to consumers in China.
"This is testament to how seriously Walmart is developing their e-commerce platform in China. Having a controlling stake obviously gives them a much more direct say in how Yihaodian expands," said Torsten Stocker, an analyst with the Monitor Group.
Founded in 2008, Yihaodian is one of the fastest growing companies in China, selling more than 180,000 products ranging from grocery items to consumer electronics and apparel. Yihaodian, in which Walmart already held a minority stake, runs logistics centers in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu and is able to offer same-day and next-day delivery. The Chinese consumer e-commerce market is dominated by homegrown online retailer Taobao.
Walmart remains a relative novice in e-commerce in the United States where the market is led by Amazon. Online sales account for a tiny percentage of Walmart's total U.S. revenues, but in the past year it has sought to boost its in-house expertise by acquiring two U.S. technology companies: Kosmix, which specializes in organizing information from social media sites such as Facebook, and Small Society, which develops apps for mobile shopping.
While Walmart's website sells dried and packaged food as well as general merchandise for delivery across the US, its only involvement in selling fresh food online is a small pilot program launched in San Jose, California, last year.
Walmart has more than 350 stores in China, where it has been making steady progress. In the three months to the end of October it reported a 16.1% increase in China sales from the previous year, but although individual shoppers were spending more money on each trip, visitor numbers were down 7.1%.
The company this month appointed Greg Foran, a 30-year industry veteran, as the chief executive of its China business. Mr Foran will take over next month. His predecessor, Ed Chan, stepped down in October, the fourth senior-level departure for the China business in six months.
In October, Walmart China closed its stores in Chongqing for a fortnight after the local government found it had mislabeled ordinary pork as organic. "Monitoring Walmart is as effective as punching cotton," Tang Chuan, head of enforcement at the Chongqing Administration of Industry and Commerce, told Xinhua news agency at the time.
Mr Ashe said that, in addition to helping Walmart's e-commerce goals in China, the increased investment in Yihaodian would "further contribute to China's domestic consumption, help stabilize prices, and advance expansion in the middle and western regions" of China -- a nod to Beijing's oft-repeated desire to make progress on these goals in the current Five Year plan.


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Love 2013, Love Doctor Who!
2013 is just around the corner, and next year we can look forward to Doctor Who Series 7b and the show's hugely anticipated 50th anniversary.
All we've got to whet our appetites at the moment however are a couple of trailers. You should have already seen the first, the "Coming Soon" clips that followed The Snowmen, but now the BBC has launched a new "Love 2013″ promo campaign which features its various highlights for the coming year – including, of course, Doctor Who…
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We're getting to the thin section of content now. We've got a handful of things to do with level 14 toons (Wiz King, Chains of Flame, Lordsmarch1, Necro3 finale, maybe Invaders, maybe Relic of a Sovereign Past) that most likely won't get us to level 15 like we "need". Then it's on to Lordsmarch2 and Gianthold walkups.
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Minimum Wage Bill Passes Test, But Final Hurdle Awaits — A bill that would raise the minimum wage in Montgomery County to $11.50 per hour by 2016 made it out of a Council Committee and bill supporters claim it has the five necessary votes to pass the full Council on Tuesday. But County Executive Isiah Leggett now says he's in favor of raising the wage to $10.75 per hour by 2016. The $11.50 number would tie the wage to a price index to keep price with inflation. Bill supporters said Prince George's County is waiting to see what Montgomery does with the measure. [The Gazette]
Questions On The New Zoning Ordinance? — There will be a public information meeting (not a public hearing) about the county's proposed zoning ordinance rewrite from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 25 at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center (4805 Edgemoor Lane). Planners will answer questions about the ordinance and the Council's proposed revisions. [Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center]
Second Graders Flood Strathmore For Field Trips — This week, all MCPS second graders attended (or will today attend) performances by the National Philharmonic at the Music Center at Strathmore. The field trip student concerns have become an annual event and include a teaching component at the schools before the trip. [MCPS]
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Excellent. I was skeptical, but the mint and lemon flavor with the lamb is perfect. The beans were perfectly cooked and all enjoyed it and asked for more.
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 284
- Calories from fat: 33%
- Fat: 10.3g
- Saturated fat: 4.3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 4.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.7g
- Protein: 24.8g
- Carbohydrate: 23g
- Fiber: 6.3g
- Cholesterol: 53mg
- Iron: 3.1mg
- Sodium: 442mg
- Calcium: 51mg
- 4 cups shelled fava beans (about 8 pounds unshelled)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons extravirgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 2 tablespoons water
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- Cook fava beans in boiling water for 1 minute or until tender. Drain, and rinse with cold water. Drain. Remove tough outer skins from beans, and discard skins.
- Combine olive oil, chopped mint, lemon rind, lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper in a medium bowl, stirring with a whisk. Heat 2 tablespoons water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, and add beans to pan. Cook 2 minutes or until beans are thoroughly heated. Add beans to juice mixture, and toss to coat.
- Prepare grill.
- Thread lamb onto 12 (8-inch) skewers. Coat lamb with cooking spray; sprinkle evenly with remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Place skewers on grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 7 minutes or until lamb is done, turning occasionally. Serve with salad and lemon wedges.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder will have three picks in the upcoming NBA Draft, which will take place June 27. The Thunder will have the 12th, 29th and 31st overall picks.
The Thunder have started working out players for the draft. Below is a list of who is known to be working out for the Thunder, via The Oklahoman:
Steve Adams, Pittsburgh
Vander Blue, Marquette
Robert Covington, Tennessee State
Gorgui Dieng, Louisville
Mouhammadou Jaiteh, France
Ray McCallum, Detroit
Kelly Olynyk, Gonzaga
Mason Plumlee, Duke
Adonis Thomas, Memphis
Janis Timma, Latvia
Cody Zeller, Indiana
These are all players the Thunder should have a chance to draft with their current picks. There is a chance that Adams or Zeller could be off the board by No. 12 but everyone else should be available at one point or another for the Thunder.
Adams has been gaining the most steam as a potential draft pick for the Thunder along with Olynyk, Zeller and Dieng.
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This first installment will deal with the biggest contributor to bad application design — the dreaded bad query. I've actually had busy systems crash because a developer unleashed a query that performed a full tablescan too many.
Welcome to the 7th edition of Log Buffer. As always, there's lots to take in, and in fact, I cut more than I covered this week. Maybe I should make LB a little longer?
I just read this excellent review by Matt Asay of an excellent interview by Guy Kawasaki (of garage.com and apple fame) of MySQL CEO Marten Mickos.
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Mike Kruckenberg has published the sixth edition of Log Buffer. Excellent post Mike, thanks!
Welcome to the fifth edition of Log Buffer. There's lots to cover this week, so here goes.
Recently, I was doing some performance analysis for one of our clients, using STATSPACK and found that they were not using a consistent method for control. STATSPACK was installed on most instances but some instances had scheduled cron jobs for STATSPACK gathering, while others had dba_jobs. In addition, there was no cleanup implemented for some of the instances. This situation led me to think about finding a consistent, integrated and simple way of setting up and configuring STATSPACK.
Log Buffer #4: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Today is SysAdmin day, don't you know. Right up until last year, DBAs were included in this global movement to celebrate systems administrators. The Internet Wayback Machine gladly shows us how the site looked last year, clearly including DBAs right in the home page. This year? No mention of us!
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Cool stuff... I bummed an old World Famous "Mont Blanc" Pack and have stripped it to the frame and plan to build a pack around it with various materials. I'd like to make it possibly a modular system, with various bags that can be attached on depending on the load. I am considering trying to make some of it with taped tyvek and make it a no-money project. I am interested to see what kind of solutions you come up with in your project. Frame packs are great fro carrying a big load, and provide great ventilation. One thing they do is often put most of the load much higher, I suspect this is an advantage in tranferring more of the weight to the hips vertically, rather than pulling back on the straps when the load is lower.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Brian Hartline was eager to exit Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday after perhaps the worst performance of his career.
The normally sure-handed receiver caught just two of the 10 passes thrown his way and had three crucial drops — nearly doubling his season total — in the Dolphins' 19-0 loss to the Buffalo Bills.
Hartline dressed quickly and left the visitor's locker room before many of his teammates left the showers.
During a brief interview session at the doorway, Hartline gave a succinct explanation for his drops.
"I didn't catch it," he said.
Dolphins coach Joe Philbin defended Hartline after the game, saying, "It wasn't our best day on offense," when asked specifically about the receiver's play.
"He's a guy that's busted his tail every single game," Philbin added.
"He goes out to work every single day at practice, wanting to get better and working to get better."
Hartline's biggest drop came on a long third-down pass in the first quarter.
With the Dolphins trailing 3-0, Hartline beat Bills cornerback Stephon Gilmore down the left sideline and might have been on his way to scoring an 83-yard touchdown had the ball not bounced off his chest.
Hartline wasn't sure if he would have scored on the play.
"I couldn't tell you," he said. "I need to see the film. I didn't know where I was at the time."
Hartline had caught 64 percent of the passes intended for him coming into the game, but missed all eight of the passes on which Ryan Tannehill targeted him Sunday.
"As an offense, we didn't play well the entire game," Tannehill said.
"In every aspect of the game we failed to step up to the plate."
After Tannehill left the game with a knee injury early in the fourth quarter, backup Matt Moore completed a 50-yard pass to Hartline for the Dolphins' only third-down conversion on a pass play in the game.
Hartline caught a 3-yard pass from Moore later in the game and wound up accounting for more than half of the Dolphins' 103 total yards.
The two receptions were a season low for Hartline and snapped a streak of six games with at least five catches. He has had at least four receptions in 12 games this season and caught at least half his targets in all but one game before Sunday.
The last time Hartline caught just two passes was in last season's Week 16 loss to Buffalo.
In the eight previous games Hartline has been targeted at least 10 times in his career, he has never had less than five receptions.
Through the season's first 14 games, Hartline had dropped four passes, according to ProFootballFocus.com.
Hartline's day appeared to get worse when he limped off the field holding his left knee late in the fourth quarter. He returned a couple plays later and said afterward his knee was "fine."
Hartline wouldn't blame the wind nor rain for the Dolphins' offensive struggles.
"We've played in weather before, so we should have handled it better," he said.
So what went wrong?
"Everything," Hartline said. "We didn't take care of the ball, we didn't protect our quarterback, we didn't run the ball well, we didn't catch the ball well."


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2012 American Chef of the Year: José Andrés
Looking across the American culinary landscape, one chef in the US stands higher above the rest this year
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In his recent review of the new minibar, Tom Sietsema criticized it for not being innovative enough, and for serving "food that places the intellectual above the delicious — the head before the heart." Did you think there were any truths to the review? Do you think the review was fair? Is there anything you would take issue with?
I have always respected Tom. And we spoke soon after his review. He knows that I felt it was unfair for him to come once and make his rating only a few days into our new opening. We treat every guest and every experience, whether its day two or day 2,000 just the same, giving it our best. There are always things to learn and improve upon, and there are also places where we will have to just disagree, and that's OK. I believe restaurants like minibar are a conversation, how things are shared between our chefs, our guests, and the person sitting next to you.
I want to believe the rating he gave minibar was not a comparison against any other restaurant. I want to believe he's rating it against minibar and I want to believe that he is pushing me and my team to be better. Personally, I think minibar is one of the most unique menus you can have anywhere, and there are many people coming after the review saying so.
We expect you'll be involved with many new projects and exciting things for years to come, but if you were to reflect now on what you wish your legacy will be as a chef, what would you say that is?
We are creating a course at George Washington University called "The World on a Plate" that will focus on how food touches every aspect of society. I'm really excited about this class because I think this is the start of building a food institute right here in Washington, D.C. where chefs and food experts can gather with scientists, economists, doctors, lawyers, politicians, NGOs, military leaders, and teachers, all coming together to discuss ideas for addressing the food issues we face, improving the food system, helping small farmers, getting better foods into people's hands, making sure children are fed to be ready to learn at school, or how we can come up with cleaner technologies for cooking in developing countries. The possibilities are endless, but I think this will help put food on the global agenda. This is something I hope will really become a reality with or without me.
And what else would you like it to be?
Really, your legacy shouldn't be described by you, but by others. Hey, I'm only 43! When I'm 60, we'll talk.
What's your assessment of the state of food and dining in America? Is food exciting in the States right now or are the most interesting things happening elsewhere?
I think food in America is truly unique. We are such a vast country with such a variety of regional ingredients, traditions, and stories. Many friends in Europe make assumptions about what they think American food is. I always tell them they have no idea how rich and also refined it really is. The America Eats Tavern we opened last year in celebration of our collaboration with the National Archives was astonishing for me. Our research peeled back layer after layer of amazing stories and peoples that have shaped the cooking of this country. I wanted to celebrate that. We shouldn't lose those stories or connections. And I am inspired by what so many chefs are doing now on each coast and throughout the country. From Dan Barber in New York and Katie Buttons in Asheville, N.C., to my guys Chris Cosentino in San Francisco and Michael Voltaggio in LA. So many talented, passionate chefs, pushing, learning, and creating amazing things.
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I went to see Nicole Peeler on Saturday at the Orbit Books Summer signing at Forbidden Planet, London. I also met Simon Morden.
Nicole is a fabulous woman, so genuine, funny and warm!! :)
We gave her a couple of presents and in return she gave me a hug and a photo. As I said she is the nicest woman you'd ever ask to meet. Shame she goes back to the US today :(


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AU: Harry is taken and raised by Bellatrix Lestrange, who no longer worships the ground Voldemort walks on. Most of the story takes place in Harry's fifth year. Harry/Lavender
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(#) blade87 2008-01-16 01:52:11 AMEhh....? someone should update? Lol?
Well that or let someone els keep it going, I liked the plot so far.
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(#) ROBERT_1958 2008-02-07 01:15:38 AMGreat plot.
Hope to see an update soon.
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So the headline probably isn't leading into what you think, but bear with me, it's a cool story . As you know the Cowboys opened up the season last night and the stars were definitely in attendance. Among them were George Strait, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Hulk Hogan and Lebron James. In case you aren't up to date on celebrity Cowboys fans, all of these guys are supporters.
Lebron threw a few passes from the sideline during warm ups to
After each home game the Cowboys open the field for a few VIPs and special guests to run around, throw the ball and take photos. Shortly after security cleared the field and let guests on, Lebron came onto the field with about 15 members of his entourage to throw the ball around. About five minutes in, he decided to play a pick-up game (of football, I know, that sounds weird). He picked about eight random people on the field to play against him and his buddies.
I stood around for about 20 minutes and watched as Lebron ran routes, played defense and manned the reigns at QB. It was a pretty cool scene and a moment a few lucky fans will never forget.
If you're wondering, Lebron did score a touchdown. What did he do after he scored? Ran over to the goalpost and dunked it over the crossbar, what else would you expect?


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McCain for WESTMARC
Senator John McCain made an appearance and spoke at WESTMARC�s 2014 Annual Meeting and Education Forecast. Topics he went over were issues going on in Kiev, Ukraine and immigration reform.
Education supporters
WESTMARC President and CEO Michelle Rider and John Huppenthal, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state, interact after the breakfast.
On higher education
Eileen Klein, president, Arizona Board of Regents, talks about higher education and how it can improve for the state.
From Arizona Senate members and House of Representatives to West Valley mayors and councilmembers, well-known community members were in attendance for WESTMARC�s 2014 Annual Meeting and Education Forecast Feb. 21 at ASU West�s Campus.
First to speak was Joseph R. Carter, Avnet Professor of Supply Chain Management, Associate Dean of W.P. Carey School of Business, and Vice Provost of ASU. With the 30th anniversary approaching, Carter provided a brief history of ASU West.
Glancing back through 30 years, just by stepping foot on ASU West, residents can see lots of growth. Buildings that were once non-existent are sprouting up. Residents who have not been on campus in two to three years can see progression, which is a major point Carter brings up because it is a group of people, such as those attending the annul meeting, who were instrumental on helping build the campus.
Following Carter�s message from ASU West, WESTMARC President Michelle Rider introduced special guest Sen. John McCain, who addressed two key issues � what is going on in Ukraine, as well as immigration reform and how it relates to citizens and education. McCain said he was grateful for everyone�s involvement in the community and state and their support of education.
Brad Wright, 2013 Chairman of WESTMARC and president of Nations, handed the gavel over to Sharon Grambow, who is the 2014 Chairman of WESTMARC, and the vice president and CEO of Sun Health Senior Living.
�I am so pleased to be the new Chairman of WESTARC board of directors,� Grambow said. �It is a great place and we are doing great things here in the West Valley, and I look forward to carrying on that tradition.�
Grambow presented a plaque to Wright and thanked him for his service.
Following Grambow and Wright, Roger Freeman, superintendent of Littleton Elementary School District, took the stage. Freeman introduced two speakers, John Huppenthal, superintendent of Public Instruction for the state; and Eileen Klein, president of Arizona Board of Regents.
As for as the education forecast, here is what Huppenthal and Klein had to say:
Huppenthal talked about what has been happening educationally in the entire United States and around the world and brought it down specifically to what is happening in Arizona. He discussed transformative ways to improve education and what is being done in Arizona.
�We need to affirm the school teachers are doing good job. We need accurate measurement,� Huppenthal said. �We are for the very first time holding schools accountable on academic growth.�
Besides calling for accountability on the school and district level, Huppenthal also called for more technology in the classroom, and highlighted five initiatives for improving education in Arizona:
Structured English immersion
Career and technical education
Foreign languages � Students� learning improves when teaching in two languages
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Civic engagement initiative � teaching our constitution, Declaration of Independence and how city government works
Klein�s focus was on higher education.
�We know two-thirds of our jobs in the future are going to require some sort of post-secondary education training, and our universities need to be at the position to be able to deliver to the students who are qualified to take job,� Klein said, �If they can be successful in the workforce, then clearly they can have the quality of life that we all strive for here in Arizona.�
Klein took a look at the university system.
She said, �If you look at our university system, you would see a lot of similarities across our three universities. Today, our universities are much more differentiated. We have three universities, each one dedicated to a specific focus. University of Arizona, medical school; ASU is a comprehensive research metropolitan university; and NAU has a specific focus on undergraduate education with a higher degree of specialized research. We think that those three sets are the right way to be focusing right now. Because higher education is becoming more competitive we want to be sure that each one of these institutions is really building on its core capabilities.�
Klein also addressed affordability of community colleges. Community colleges are key to hitting the state education goals. Klein said by 2020, they hope to increase to a production of 30,000 graduates per year in Arizona. She said, without the community college partners, it can�t be done.
Klein said, �We have more STEM graduates, but we also know it is important not to leave behind humanities and the liberal arts. Many of our liberal arts students graduates have quickly out-earned our STEM graduate students.�
Klein stressed reinvestment, reinvigoration, and recommitments as keys to higher education.


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Indian slang for a really skinny person.
"That kid's a shtick."
di BakedGoods 10 febbraio 2003
the sound that happens when u rip a jonny off your wang
Dude! Take the paiiin!
Dude! Take the paiiin!
di buttsauce Mcgee 29 gennaio 2004
the sounds made by juveniles when describing the act of fist fighting.
"he hit that bitch, and it was like shtick... shtick! im tellin you, he jacked that succa up!"
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One of the most rewarding conservation initiatives I've been involved with in recent years is supporting the efforts of friends, colleagues, and members of the Friends of Kinangop Plateau (FoKP)to halt the conversion of natural grasslands around Nairobi (Kenya) – home to the rapidly-declining and Endangered Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei – into cropland.
I've posted many times about the project and the work I did on visits to the Kinangop Plateau over the last few years and have created a 'gateway page' which explains the project, looks at the participants, and goes into more detail about the very real threats to the beautiful Sharpe's Longclaw: please go to http://www.talking-naturally.co.uk/fokp/
The following is a report written by Dominic Kimani, a Kinangop local and a good friend of mine who is doing remarkable work in local schools funded – in the main – by a grant provided by FoKP supporter David Fox.
Dominic Kimani (National Museums of Kenya, Zoology Department and Friends of Kinangop Plateau (FOKP): April 2011
Lessons covered during interaction with the student and local community
Water conservation and Harvesting – World wetland day
As most of you would agree with me, Kinangop has changed a lot especially in the last two decades and it has become very dry in most part of the year. Water conservation and harvesting is therefore inevitable.
This year's World Wetland Day was commemorated on 2nd February 2011. We selected Ndaracai-ni Primary school to host the event. The schools within this area came here for the day's activities. This event attracted the parents, teachers and students of this area to mark this important day worldwide. The occasion was used to create public awareness on the importance of wetlands in the area and how they are connected to the large water bodies like Lake Naivasha and even oceans.
The farmers and general public expressed their worries about the declining treads of waters quality and quantity in the nearby Turasha river. We used the event to explain the alternative water harvesting techniques that people could use. Roof and small ponds catchments were highlighted as the most applicable in the area.
Threats facing the riparian land in the middle catchment where Kinangop plateau is found were explained to the people gathered. The threats are mainly caused by poor cultivation close to the river banks. Results from previous research that we have been involved before indicates that the Sharpe's Longclaw prefers nesting close to the river riparian land especially in Ndaracai-ini area. The conservation of riparian will protect the soil erosion and preserve the habitat for the Endangered Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei among other biota.
Teaching conservation in Kinangop grassland must be holistic, touching most of the life aspects that affect people in Kinangop. Having worked in Kinangop before, I have realized that the problems here need local solution that are well integrated with best examples and practices that have worked well in other parts of the world.
Mugumoi-ni and Murungaru Primary school after the world wetland day event.
Sustainable Agriculture: an example of Kimuri secondary school.
Action in Kimuri secondary school
Students are the best ambassadors and vehicles through which conservation messages get to reach a wide coverage. Together with their teachers they have a higher multiplier effect because they interact with many people. Teachers especially in Africa scenario command respect among their communities.
In our teaching, we are targeting the issues that affect the local people in Kinangop, and the most prone i.e. the farmers. In Kimuri secondary school, we are liaising with wildlife club patron and his counterpart from the young farmers club (YFC) to demonstrate the best practices in farming. The main practice is the organic farming, this is because it utilizes small piece of land for maximum yield. This helps the majority of the students who come from the Kinangop farming community to learn the best farming techniques that are sustainable.
By so doing we are able to explain why it is important to leave some patches of grasslands for soil conservation, livestock grazing fields and for birds' habitats. We are also engaging the students in comparisons of the economic aspects of cultivation and livestock rearing based on Kariuki Ndang'ang'a's findings, two years ago in his social economic studies in Kinangop.
Livestock rearing is proving to be more economically viable especially in spreading and coping with risks that farmers face in their undertakings. Our goal as stipulated in the proposal is to change the behaviour and general perception o the local people (farmers) and enable efficient sustainable land-use.
Kimuri School has set aside a portion of land for demonstrations. The school has also allowed other schools and group of farmers to use it. This will ensure that once the students learn the best practices, they will teach their parents and the whole population will change for better. In this activities, Mr. Andrew Mwangi, who is the Sharpe's Longclaw reserve manager is helping in coordinating and making follow-ups of the demonstrations in Kimuri.
Dry season grassland birds monitoring in Murungaru with selected school's students
On 19th February 2011, the selected students form various schools, participated in this years' dry season grassland monitoring. The schools were; Murungaru, Kimuri, Hajo and Ndaracai-ini. 7 students from each school were selected.
The students learnt the monitoring techniques and census methods that FOKP monitoring team uses during the biannual grassland birds monitoring. This kind of teaching is aimed at passing basic research principles to the youngsters who will be helping the FOKP group to ensure sustainability of this important activity.
Three sites were visited, namely; Kirima, Githunguri and Ndaracai-ini. The result of the census will be made available to the blog after the FOKP office finalizes compiling the report. The next monitoring exercise will be done in August this year.
Launching of the Important Bird Area (IBA) book in Kinangop.
A book titled: A Review of local conservation groups in Africa. This book was launched on 8th April 2011 in Sharpe's Longclaw Nature reserve. The launch ceremony was led by Mourad Amari of Tunisia and Mark Anderson of Birdlife South Africa, Paul Matiku of Nature Kenya among others. Details of the book and the Launch can be found at Birdlife International website.
FOKP was honoured to host this important event. The same occasion was used to launch the third nature Reserve for Sharpe's Longclaw. David Fox has been an ardent supporter of World Land Trust (WLT) which together with others has helped to purchase this new nature reserve. The reserve is called Leleshwa. On behalf of the group and the schools that we work with, we would like to thank WLT and its entire supporters for this bold initiative.
During the event, the neighbouring schools notably the famous Mugumoi-ni primary school that has previously received support from David and Family, Hanjo and Murungaru primary schools coloured the occasion with poems, dances and songs. This provided and opportunity to showcase the group's activities for instance; wool spinning, Environmental education, conservation agriculture among others.
Mugumoi-ni primary school with the area councilor Mr Kariuki Muchiri after presenting a traditional dance during the IBA book launch.
FOKP members during the Launch.
From Left Mungai, Paul, Ruth, Wachira, Monicah, Shiru, Chege and John.
Environmental Game
As mentioned in the introduction, most of the activities in School were conducted outdoors. Environmental game was introduced in three schools namely; Murungaru, Kienjero and Wheatland secondary school.
This game is an improvement of a traditional game called "Bau" which originated initially from central Africa but has been improved by University of Leicester and tried in Bogoria schools in Kenya's Rift Valley. Two or more people playing using beads/ grains and dice. The beads or grains represent different natural resources. The game demonstrate how resources to be utilized sustainable without depleting others.
The students in these schools liked the game and its meaning hence more schools will be involved in future and do regular evaluations to measure the effectiveness on the game as a teaching aid.
I would like to register my appreciation to all people who helped in one way or the other.
I know that I was supposed to give this report earlier but due to unavoidable circumstances most of them beyond my control, I delayed, and I regret this and assure you to try my best to be timely.
This work would not be possible without you immense support especially the financial support from David and Luca. I salute you and thank you for everything, you support is highly appreciated by my entire family who are the primary beneficially and the entire community that I serve. Dr. Muchai has always been there to ensure that all is going on well and providing the institutional support and facilitating the timely stipend for this fellowship, I thank you sir. Charlie, whenever we need your assistance you have always been there for us and making Kinangop known globally, I say Asante sana and thank you for the beautiful Talking Naturally website. I also want to thank my colleague Sammy Bakari for always working closely with me especially this time when I was facing some personal problems.
Last but not the least I thank all the schools that we work with, for sure you make my life comfortable and I feel indebted to you in everything.


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Joe, Thank you so much for sharing these words! I was amazed and so encouraged this morning as this could not be a better summary of what the Lord has been whispering all year to my very soul. I asked for encouragement from Him and He gave it through you and your wife. Thank you for being willing to be used! Indeed the King is coming and I know to my very core that it is in MY lifetime, and the time is NOW.
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