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Yesterday (February 24), Baidu released the second quarter of 2016 earnings and 2016 full-year earnings, earnings report, 2016 annual revenue of 70.549 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3% over 2015. Baidu 2016 annual net profit of 11.632 billion, far lower than 2015 to achieve 33.6 billion yuan, accounting for only about one-third of its. The Lei Feng network found in Baidu's earnings, the R & D spending this one to invest 10.15 billion yuan, the basic and net profit was flat. This huge R & D investment, and Baidu repeatedly referred to the "artificial intelligence" vocabulary has a great relationship.
Everything around artificial intelligence
In Baidu's earnings statement, Li said:
"Our existing platform products, including search engines and information streams, have been optimized for upgrading through artificial intelligence technology applications and are further enriched by our content and service ecosystems. We are excited about the tremendous opportunities brought about by the opening of the existing platform, and we will actively build a new era of artificial intelligence-driven business in the future. & Rdquo;
Baidu CFO Li Xin also said:
As in the past, we will create the best experience for users while investing in AI-driven areas such as finance, cloud and autopilot. & Rdquo;
In the slowdown in growth and decline in net profit in front of the facts, Baidu with artificial intelligence for their own sketched out a still possible future. Baidu also disclosed further personnel changes: Lu Qi will serve as Baidu company directors and vice chairman of the board; since July 2004 has served as a member of the board of directors of the Greg & middot; Pana (Greg Penner) from the board and Chairman of the board of directors of the board of directors; Lenovo Group Chairman Yang Yuanqing, was appointed Baidu Board of Directors under the Audit Committee members and corporate governance and nomination committee members.
Baidu said in the earnings report, the fourth quarter of major personnel adjustments mainly for the new artificial intelligence for the new channel to speed up the overall upgrade transition.
Everything is around artificial intelligence.
R & D costs: 2 years 20 billion
Baidu 2016 R & D cost is very large: the total cost of 10.15 billion yuan, accounting for 14.3% of total revenue. Such a large proportion, in the global high-tech companies are relatively rare.
A few years ago, Baidu's research and development costs began to soar, starting from 2014, Baidu's R & D costs began to surge.
In 2014, R & D expenses were 6.981 billion yuan, an increase of 70% over 2013,
2015, R & D investment rose to 10.176 billion yuan, an increase of 45.8% over 2014,
2016, R & D costs of 10.15 billion yuan, 0.2% less than 2015
We found that R & D investment soared from 2014, and in 2014 Baidu's most important event is to increase the intensity of the three R & D center talent.
January 2014, the depth of the Institute of Learning (IDL) began to launch "young Marshal plan" for 30 years of outstanding artificial intelligence technology talent selection and training. The first batch of "young Marshal plan" with nine places, selected "young Marshal plan" staff can directly get Baidu T9 to T10 rank, annual salary of millions of yuan start, not cap.
May 2014, the world's top artificial intelligence expert Wu Enda out of Baidu chief scientist, a comprehensive leadership Baidu Research Institute, also announced the Silicon Valley AI Laboratory (SVAIL) was formally established.
In July 2014, Baidu set up a large data laboratory (BDL), in Beijing, Shenzhen and Silicon Valley office. The laboratory is mainly engaged in large data and search core technology-related research work, focusing on large-scale machine learning algorithms and applications, large data forecast analysis and vertical industry application exploration, large data structure algorithm research, intelligent system research and so on.
It can be said that Baidu R & D costs to the extent of today, with the preparation of these three major laboratory closely In response to the crazy growth of R & D investment in the past two years, the official reasons are also very direct:
This growth is mainly due to the increase in the number of R & D personnel & rdquo ;.
Therefore, Baidu's annual research and development of more than 100 billion investment, mainly spent in the preparation and maintenance of talent pool. 2015 and 2016 two years, Baidu R & D investment in 10 billion yuan or so floating, indicating that by the end of 2015, Baidu's R & D team recruitment has been basically completed,To Baidu's financial and physical, to build a complete set of AI talent pool spent two yearsThe
Two R & D center staff
SVAIL laboratory
According to official website information, SVAIL laboratory about 50 people. However, this number is not a lot of R & D team, hired Silicon Valley first-class computer, mathematics, physics and many other areas of top scientists. Most of them come from Stanford University, UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University and other American schools, which is no lack of professors. In addition, there are a lot of people are from the NVIDIA, Google such a first-class North American companies hired over, so Baidu in which the talent into the show.
We can look at the following representatives.
The direct leader of the SVAIL lab is Adam Coates, who will be selected by the "MIT Technology Review" in 2015, 35 under the age of 35. Stanford University Ph.D. in computer science, the main research direction for the automatic driving computer vision, depth learning HPC method, depth learning and large-scale machine learning and other fields.
Patrick LeGresley (research scientist), joined Baidu since 2015. Dr. Stanford Aerospace, before Baidu, he served as a lecturer at the Stanford University Computing Mathematics Engineering (ICME) for three years. The main direction for all aspects of HPC, including algorithms, processors, high-performance networks and storage.
Sharan Narang (Software Engineer), joined Baidu in October 2015 so far. He worked for more than six years at NVIDIA and served as technical director for Tegra SoC. He recently received two papers by ICLR2017.
Sanjeev Satheesh (research scientist), from August 2014 to the present. Graduated from Stanford University, Master, Stanford University CV team assistant researcher (nearly 2 years), when he was in the Imagenet team. Then worked as a development engineer at Microsoft for two years. And then came to Baidu.
Ryan Prenger (research scientist), in August 2014 to join Baidu so far. Doctor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, has five patents.
Andrew Gibiansky (Software Engineer and Machine Learning Scientist), he recently promoted the introduction of in-depth learning of the Ring allreduce algorithm in the HPC field.
Some other researchers also include:
Gregory Diamos (Research Scientist) joined Baidu in August 2014. Main attack HPC training depth learning neural network. Prior to working at NVIDIA for nearly two and a half years, CUDA Software Architect.
Christopher Fougner (research scientist), joined Baidu in April 2015. Stanford University Master of Mathematics in Mathematical Engineering, the main direction of speech recognition.
Carl Case (research scientist), from September 2014 to join Baidu so far. Master of Computer Science, Stanford University.
Eric Battenberg (Research Scientist), joined Baidu in April 2015. UC Berkeley Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Anuroop Sriram (research scientist), joined Baidu since 2015. Previously worked as a data scientist at Twitter, Master of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Jared Casper (Senior Software Engineer), joined Baidu since 2014. Stanford University Ph.D. in computer science, previously served as senior software engineer at Oracle Labs.
About June 2016, one after another wave of R & D personnel to leave the SVAIL laboratory, in the Lei Feng network (public: Lei Feng network) to find the information, these people often flow to Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Amazon AI R & D department , And often in the new company to obtain a more senior position, we can see Baidu SVAIL laboratory experience to their resume to increase the considerable weight. The representatives of these departures are:
Bryan Catanzaro: June 2014 to join Baidu. He led a team of 15 research and development teams in Baidu to explore the field of speech recognition, training and deployment of deep neural network tools and methods. Prior to Baidu, he took office in the British Weida for 3 years, and in September 2016 to leave Baidu, re-joined the British Weida, as the British Weida depth study and application research department vice president.
Erich Elsen: joined Baidu in September 2014. Was an associate professor at Stanford University, worked in Baidu for 2 years, in September 2016 to switch to Google, any Google brain senior software engineer, focused on Tensorflow and enhanced learning.
Jesse Engel, joined Baidu in January 2015. UC Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Berkeley, left in July 2016, joining the Google Brain as a research scientist.
Dario Amodei, joined Baidu in September 2014 and left after a year. Later joined Google as a senior research scientist, joined OpenAI in July 2016 as a research scientist.
Rishita Anubhai, joined Baidu in 2015 as a machine learning engineer. In September 2016 joined the Amazon depth learning department.
We see these researchers repeatedly in Google, NVIDIA, Amazon, Baidu and other companies between the flow, reflecting the North American AI is now fierce competition for talent situation. And Baidu as a Chinese company, to maintain the attractiveness of North American talent, to maintain their own talent pool and attract new talent to join, which to invest in the cost of competition with the talent in the country is quite different.
IDL Research Institute
In addition to Wu Enda, IDL Research Institute is the main person in charge of Lin Yuanqing, senior director of IDL. Lin received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He joined NEC Labs America as a researcher to study feature learning and mass classification. In 2010, he led the NEC-UIUC team to be the first in the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Challenge. Since April 2012, he has been the head of the NEC Labs America media analysis department, focusing on two research directions: 1) large-scale fine-grained image recognition based on mobile clouds, and 2) 3D visual perception of autopilot. In November 2015, he joined Baidu and served as senior director of the Depth Learning Laboratory. His research direction covers machine learning and computer vision. He also served as president of the NIPS conference in 2015.
IDL Deputy Director Wu Zhongqin: Wu Zhongqin the master are studying at the Fudan University Department of Computer Science, in July 2008 after graduation to join Baidu. In Baidu 8 years, he has responsible for the text, voice, image technology R & D team management, had the team won the company's best team, for two consecutive years won the company's highest award. During his tenure at the depth of the lab, he led Baidu's image technology team to achieve leapfrog development, with good technical influence and promoted vice president in 2015. In 2016 he built the AR team from scratch, and now is committed to Baidu AR and Baidu brain research and development.
IDL "outstanding scientist" Xu Wei: responsible for the development of the depth of learning platform and algorithm research. Xu Wei received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1998 and a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. Prior to joining Baidu, Xu Wei worked for the US Facebook, created and responsible for large-scale recommendation platform, and widely used in a number of products for the billions of users to provide personalized service. Prior to Facebook, Xu Wei served as a senior researcher at NEC Lab, where depth learning techniques were applied to image recognition products.
In addition to the above three leaders, Baidu IDL Institute of public information show that nearly 90 researchers. There are several major research projects: product image retrieval, Baidu map, autopilot, three-dimensional computer vision, ImageQA and other fields.
Summary: Lei Feng found that SVAIL laboratory seems to be a new wave of large-scale recruitment work. In LinkedIn, many SVAIL researchers have been in their own home page posted Baidu's job advertisements. Baidu today released the report shows that it is facing a slowdown in growth and profit decline in the harsh facts, while Baidu is still continuing to promote in the field of AI, especially in the field of basic research and development investment, for a very mature business company, In the artificial intelligence of the arrival of the moment, in research and development to make such a big investment, the AI industry has played a very good example and reference.
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Just days after the Mandriva community started its own plans for the next release of the French Linux distribution, its commercial sponsor has formally announced that the community will take the lead on all Mandriva Linux development moving forward.
In a blog post on the Mandriva SA site, CEO Jean-Manuel Croset ceded control of the Mandriva Linux distribution back to the community at large.
"[A]fter reviewing all your messages, suggestions, ideas and comments, Mandriva SA took the decision to transfer the responsibility of the Mandriva Linux distribution to an independent entity. This means that the future of the distribution will not be arbitrary decided by the Mandriva company anymore, but we intend to let the distribution evolve in and under the caring responsibility of the community," Croset wrote.
Mandriva SA will not be completely out of the picture; Croset emphasized that the company will still maintain an active voice within the Mandriva development community. But, given the well-publicized financial troubles the Paris-based company has been enduring of late, it is not at all clear how the company will be deriving revenue from a Linux distribution over which they have even less control.
Mandriva SA hasn't had an easy time of it, even after emerging from bankruptcy in 2006. Formerly MandrakeSoft, the company merged with Brazilian Linux vendor and former UnitedLinux partner Connectiva in 2005.
Even as the Mandriva releases received fairly positive reviews, the company never seemed to have much of a direction, and its developer community continually declined in strength. The company's decision, for whatever reason, to let founder Gaël Duval go alienated the company from its development community. The popularity of Ubuntu on the desktop and the one-two punch of Red Hat and SUSE on the server side has also put a strong squeeze on Mandriva.
In 2011, there were rumors that French open source firm LINAGORA would be acquiring Mandriva, but those rumors turned out to be just that.
By January of this year, it became almost a running saga of announcements from Mandriva executives, one indicating the vendor was in dire straits, followed by another saying that the company wasn't quite dead yet.
This week, the Mandriva community decided to take matters in their own hands, not wanting to wait to start on (presumably) Mandriva Linux 2012. The new community leadership includes, according to the new Mandriva Linux 2012 Development wiki page, Per Øyvind Karlsen, who will be acting as (de facto) project leader for the course of Mandriva Linux 2012 development, with Bernhard Rosenkränzer and Matthew Dawkins as release managers.
Today, that same wiki page is adorned with a new boxed announcement at the top of the page, also from Croset:
"This page--and in general this wiki--will be part of a global move of the Mandriva Linux Project to the community that will be finalized soon. Mandriva SA wishes the project to be managed by the Mandriva Linux community under a proper governance. We (Mandriva SA) will contribute to the Mandriva Linux project in the future and would like to see it grow. We do not wish to comment below the following line and want to emphasize that the present wiki is the community wiki, while being hosted for the time being on a mandriva.com domain."
Also not clear moving forward is the status of the Mageia Linux distribution, a community-oriented distro that forked from Mandriva Linux in 2010 precisely because of issues some in the Mandriva community had with Mandriva SA.
"We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don't think the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project," the initial announcement from the new Mageia community said at the time.
Now that control of Mandriva has been donated back to the community, it's very natural to wonder how this effects Mageia. Will that estranged community come back to the Mandriva fold now that Mandriva SA is starting to let the Mandriva distribution go?
This would be a welcome outcome, I believe, because the two communities would probably be stronger as one.
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This national conference on iETD 2017 is fourth in the series. The first national conference was organized in JNU, New Delhi on March 22nd-23rd, 2012. The second and third national conference was organised at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar from 22nd-23rd January, 2015 and on 5-7 October, 2016 respectively.
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Prof. Kamlesh Joshipura, Hon'ble Governing Board member of the INFLIBNET Centre and former Vice Chancellor, Saurashtra University, inaugurated the programme by lighting the ceremonial lamp in presence of Dr. Nabi Hasan, University Librarian, Aligarh Muslim University. Dr Hasan Jamal Abidi, University Librarian, Jamia Milia Islamia, Mr. Manoj Kumar K, Scientist D (CS), Mr. H. G. Hosamani, Scientist C (LS), and Ms. Suboohi S, STO (LS), INFLIBNET Centre. In his Inaugural address he emphasised on the measures to be taken to improve the quality of research in Universities as well as precautions to be taken to avoid plagiarism which is a major challenge for the Higher Education. He also pointed that draft policy is released by the UGC which may include some of these points.
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Alexandre Burrows, RW: The weirdest complementary player to two bonafide superstars in the NHL. On any other team, Alex is a legit third liner, maybe second, yet on the Canucks he gets you 60 points and makes the Sedins better. He missed training camp last year and took a while to get going. That won't happen again in 2011/2012.
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Alex Edler, D: With Ehrhoff out of the picture, expect Edler to pick up the slack and make plays in the departed German's stead. He has all the talent to get around 50 points or more next season, and will with a clean bill of health.
Ryan Kesler, C: You take him because you love his tenacity and grit, and just want to be able to play him in your lineup. You don't because he has a nagging hip flexor which he tore against San Jose in the playoffs of 2011. Probably a down year for Kes.
Mason Raymond, LW: We're really not sure in Vancouver what's going on with the speedster Raymond. Even if he were healthy he's usually good for about 50 points. With a broken back courtesy of a cheap shot by Johnny Boychuk it remains to be seen if he'll ever lace them up again.
Mikael Samuelsson, RW: This is another player who injured himself in last season's Stanley Cup run. God knows how short this team's work would have been if everyone stayed healthy. Avoid drafting. He's too old to come back from a sports hernia.
Marco Sturm, LW: When Sturm still had cartilage in his knees, he was worth a pick because of his ability to finish. Goodness knows what the Canucks expect out of the 31 year-old who has had successive surgeries and been slowed down to mortal levels. I am very curious to see where he fits.
Cody Hodgson, C: This goes out to the most die-hard Canucks newbies who see the second coming of Crosby in this kid. He's been given the keys to the Porsche, the Mansion and the bank accounts, and he still hasn't proven anything in Vancouver. I still shake my head at anyone who considers drafting him. His days with this team are numbered.
Hattrick Payne says: I wish to set the record straight. After all the hoopla and nonsense surrounding the Canucks coughing up a 2 games to none lead, then later a 3-2 lead to an inferior, albeit healthier, team no one really had a chance to actually have a look at some of the non-calls and silliness that was going both ways, yes, both ways in that series. The Boston faithful, so quick to point out that poor, innocent little Patrice Bergeron's finger was chomped on by the malevolent Alex Burrows, and poor innocent Nathan "look at my pass" Horton didn't deserve an old-time hockey play at the blue-line forget that the Bruins rolled on health, emotion and goaltending towards an improbable upset in the finals. All things being equal, and I mean that, equal, as in equal punishment for Boychuk's dirty hit on Raymond, equal health for all players involved, equal and poised officials and not the ones who let things get out of hand, then we're talking about a parade in Vancouver instead of a pitiful display of fan support in Boston, another American market that only cares when their team actually wins something. In Canada, you see, when we don't win there are riots and passionate debate about the sport. In the good ol' U S of A, if your team misses the playoffs a couple seasons, there's apathy and talk of folding the franchise. The riots were dumb, but the issue is more complicated than many of the simpletons on the internet are making it out to be.
That aside…
Next season will be a humbling experience for the Canucks who had everything go their way, except for one or two games in the finals. The bad luck out of the way in the regular season, with a few bad losses, and players performing sluggishly to start will culminate with a composed and mature run to the playoffs, and a deadly outlook come opening day of 2012's Stanley Cup chase. Vancouver will play possum this year while they lick their wounds and rest up. They're not dead yet. They'll make playoffs, and surprise more than a few teams while Boston struggles to maintain lofty expectations. As long as Luongo holds up, the team will be fine.
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Red Barchetta
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Years ago, my go to cap was usually the on-field cap. However, after they changed the material from wool to the current synthetic material, it seems as though the New Era field caps don't fit as well. The 5150 caps sold in mall stores, New Era cap corner, etc. all seem to be more fashion-based with the high crown, etc. The older wool models, although they shrunk over time, seemed to fit my head better. I remember the original black cap in 1990. That was probably my all-time favorite and got years of use. Before that, the "C" cap and then before that the all Navy blue SOX cap from the Veck era. I never really warmed up to the Montreal Expos inspired red/white/blue caps.
Due to the changes in the 5150 caps, I now lean toward the batting practice caps as my go to caps. I like the way the stretch material fits my head and they have lower crowns.
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They called it the punch card tower. It was the first skyscraper in Denmark and the sign of things to come. The exterior, as well as everything inside, was designed by Arne Jacobsen.
I honestly don't think that Jacobsen would have approved the funky light installation above the bed.
The lobby will give you a little bit of Jacobsen modernism. The iconic Swan
chairs were designed for the hotel in 1958. They are still in production.
Alberto Kappenberger, the hotel's first manager, is smiling mildly from the walls of the Albert K restaurant on the top floor. I only had breakfast here, so please don't ask me about the highlights of their Italian menu.
This is the view. This is Copenhagen through the window of one of the suites.
Even a Swede would admit that from here the city looks quite fine.
I hate myself for not booking room 606.
It's the one room that has been been preserved exactly as it looked like in 1960. And to fully enjoy the Radisson SAS Royal in Copenhagen, I think you'd better reserve that room, or you'll regret it afterwards. Because it's the design of Arne Jacobsen that makes this hotel worth the trip.
In this hotel, which is also Denmarks first skyscraper, Arne Jacobsen got the exclusive rights to design everything – yes, that's everything. Jacobsen created the high-rise profile and exterior as well as the little balls at the end of the curtain cords. Originally, every object in the building worthy of a design was bearing his signature.
They claim it's the world's first designer hotel.
It's probably true. And the Danes are extremely proud of it today. That wasn't always the case. Jacobsen once said the following about the hotel: "Well, yes, they call it the punch card, and it's funny, for that is actually what it looks like when the windows are open on a hot summer's day. It has been called a lot of different things. (…) And many people thought it was a terribly ugly building, and many may still think so. At least, it came in first when they held a competition for the ugliest building in Copenhagen."
And the Danish tourist authorities are certainly trying to make the most out of Jacobsen's punch card tower. No surprise as two of the most recognizable examples of Danish design, the Egg and Swan chairs were designed by Jacobsen specifically with this project in mind.
Keep in mind; this is not a museum.
If you arrive to the hotel expecting to be blown away by having a total architectural overdose you'll be disappointed. I booked myself into one of the suites, and it felt very much like any roomy, modern Scandinavian hotel room with furniture in light maple wood. To me, the most unique thing about the room was the windows stretching from wall to wall. Plus; to my surprise the view of Copenhagen was much better than expected.
Function and convenience has been the focus of some extensive renovation work lately, and that's probably OK for the business traveler that remains the main target group of the Radisson chain.
But I wanted to be blown away by the Jacobsen experience and that didn't happen this time. But the next trip I make to Copenhagen it's room 606 or bust. And when I've stayed there, you'll be the first to know.
Radisson SAS Royal Hotel
Hammerichsgade 1
København 1611
+45 38 15 65 00
Click here to book the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel through TabletHotels.com!


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Donald Trump thanks Kanye West for poll boost
Donald Trump has credited the rapper with doubling his African-American approval rating, saying: "Kanye West must have some power!"
The US president was addressing the annual National Rifle Association convention when he made reference to West's controversial support for him.
He made the comments in a patriotic speech in Dallas, Texas, in which he defended the American peoples' right to bear arms.
Before turning to the issue of gun ownership, he said: "African-American unemployment has reached another all-time-in-history record low.
"And by the way, Kanye West must have some power, because, you probably saw, I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week.
"Thank you Kanye, thank you!
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— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
"When I saw the number I said there must be some mistake, how can that happen?"
He was apparently referencing a Reuters poll which showed his support from African-American men had risen from 11 percent to 22 percent between April 22 and April 29.
West has angered much of his fan base by expressing his support for Mr Trump.
The hip hop superstar unleashed a string of tweets on April 25 in which he called Trump his brother and posted an image of his signed 'Make America Great Again' cap.
:: Kanye: I'll be biggest real estate developer ever
The rapper, who has 18 million followers on the social media site, suggested in one tweet that he and Mr Trump have "dragon energy".
The president retweeted one of West's posts, and wrote: "Thank you Kanye, very cool!"
You don't have to agree with trump but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
West courted controversy again on 2 May when he suggested that the centuries some African-Americans endured in slavery was "a choice".
He told the celebrity news site TMZ: "When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice."
His behaviour has disappointed other musicians and much of his fan base, as West had been regarded as an artist who championed black rights earlier in his career.
In 2005, he criticised the then-US president George W Bush over his response to Hurricane Katrina, saying: "Bush doesn't care about black people."
Mr Trump's rambling speech to the National Rifle Association on Friday was also not without controversy, as he suggested that guns would have stopped the Paris terror attacks in 2015 where 130 people were killed.
He claimed that "if one employee or just one patron had a gun, or if one person in this room had been there with a gun" then "the terrorists would have fled or been shot".
The US president later turned his attention on London and said: "I recently read a story that in London, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital right in the middle is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds," he said.
"Yes that's right they don't have guns, they have knives – and instead is blood all over the floors of this hospital.
"They say it's as bad as a military war zone hospital. Knives, knives, knives. London hasn't been used to that, they're getting used to it."
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Lately, I have been on a serious hunt for off the shoulder dresses for the Summer. So, I have looked online but given there are so many to choose from I never end up buying one. I went to Target and saw this one and ohmygosh I will tell you i'm in love with it. It's not heavy at all because in my opinion most Target dresses are really heavy and that's not my thing. It's light and most dresses like this are considered "mini" and this one is just the perfect length. But then again who knows because I am really short 😦 So here's an #ootd of the cutest dress I have found yet. Now, if you know any good ones or sites that have them please feel free to share because this may or may not be what I plan on wearing all summer….
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The Working Lands Enterprise Initiative Announces over $1 Million in Grants to 36 Vermont Businesses and Service Providers
The Working Lands Enterprise Initiative Announces over $1 Million in Grants to 36 Vermont Businesses and Service Providers
**Editors: please note photos from the press event at Maple Wind Farm can be found here: http://bit.ly/1JYaANm
Today, the Working Lands Enterprise Board announced this year's 36 grant recipients – 24 agriculture and 12 forestry projects – for just over $1 million in both Working Lands and Local Food Market Development grant funding. These projects impact every county in Vermont, and leverage an additional $1.8 million in matching funds. Investments were made to 26 working lands enterprises and 10 service providers for projects that increase production, expand markets, develop innovative technologies, improve water quality, and train the workforce that Vermont's businesses need to succeed.
Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets Chuck Ross, Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lucy Leriche, and Commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation Michael Snyder joined the selected grantees and other program stakeholders at Maple Wind Farm in Richmond to celebrate this year's grant recipients and the success of the program to date.
"These grants fund critical leverage points in the supply chain," said Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Ross. "They remove pinch points and open up commerce so that the economy can grow."
Now in its third year of grant making, the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative has invested over $3 million into Vermont's working landscape, leveraging close to $4 million in matching funds. As of December 2014, 23 completed projects resulted in 25 new jobs and a 25% average increase in total product output. Additionally, 91% of these grantees increased their capacity to fulfill new contracts.
Eleanor Leger, Working Lands Enterprise Board Member and owner of Eden Ice Cider, reflected: "This Board's focus on investing in early and growth stage businesses can take an innovative idea, match it with technical assistance and create an opportunity for sustainable business outcomes which would not have otherwise been possible."
The Working Lands Enterprise Initiative, Act 142, is administered by the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets in partnership with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation and the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development. The Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Board is an impact investment organization whose mission is to grow the economies, cultures, and communities of Vermont's working landscape by making essential, catalytic investments in critical leverage points of the Vermont farm and forest economy, from individual enterprises to industry sectors.
This year Local Food Market Development grant funds, focused on increasing institutional and wholesale market access, were made available through the Working Lands grant process to increase overall program efficiency and impact. These funds aim to increase the quantity of local food available in Vermont institutions by supporting the development of institutional markets and helping ready producers to meet these market demands.
A brief description of each funded project is below. More information on the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative and funded projects can be found at VermontWorkingLands.com.
I. Enterprise Investment Recipients
Enterprise Investments are one of three areas of the Working Lands Initiative, with grants ranging from $3,000 - $20,000 for small and emerging agriculture, forestry, and forest products enterprises. The Enterprise Investment area received 59 applications for a total request of $923,404 in funds, and invested $273,844 in 20 projects (6 forestry projects and 14 agriculture projects), which leveraged $250,000 in matching funds.
14 Agriculture Grant Recipients
Addison County
- Meeting Place Pastures, Cornwall | $13,902 for grazing infrastructure , forage, and fertility improvements to provide custom grazing services
Caledonia County
- Kingdom Creamery of Vermont, East Hardwick |$15,872 to purchase a fluid milk bottling line, packaging, and marketing collateral
- Tamarlane Farm, Lyndonville | $20,000 for the installation of an aerated static pile system for the composting facility
- Walden Heights Nursery, Walden | $12,600 to expand production and distribution of cider and juices by purchasing and installing a pasteurizer
Chittenden County
- Bread and Butter Farm, Shelburne | $7,250 to build a washpack and processing kitchen for vegetable production, on farm events, and educational programs
Essex County
- Peaslee's Vermont Potatoes, Guildhall| $20,000 for facility upgrades to meet Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) certification
Lamoille County
- Sandiwood Farm, Wolcott | $9,950 to build a production greenhouse designed for events
Orange County
- Shire Beef, LLC, Vershire | $7,100 to purchase a compost tea brewing set and a skid-based pickup truck transportable sprayer to increase soil biological activity and retained carbon
Orleans County
- Vermont Hay Company, Orleans | $10,000 for working capital and a used trailer
Rutland County
- Laughing Child Farm, Pawlet | $20,000 for a sweet potato curing and storage facility to cure, store, and wash organic sweet potatoes
Washington County
- Ploughgate Creamery, Fayston | $20,000 for renovations to begin dairy operations
Windham County
- Wild Carrot Farm, Brattleboro | $12,375 for production and sales facility to help meet the growing needs of a modern horse-powered farm
Windsor County
- Green Mountain Sugar House, Ludlow | $15,872 to build a remote sap and pump house
- Windgate Farm, West Windsor | $10,000 to build facilities to develop a beef finishing program
6 Forestry Grant Recipients
Addison County
- Vermont Tree Goods, Bristol | $20,000 for equipment in a new production facility that utilizes an innovative sawmill design to create product from salvage/cull grade logs
Caledonia County
- Vermont Table Company, East Burke | $8,922 for an Epilog Laser Engraving Machine to bring engraving in-house
Essex County
- Timber Gardens, LLC, East Haven | $20,000 to purchase a firewood processor
Lamoille County
- Torrani Studio Craft, LLC, Eden Mills | $5,000 for machinery to expand its cookware product line
Washington County
- Ogelby Woodworks, Waterbury | $5,000 for equipment to open an independent shop
- Vermont Wildwoods, Marshfield | $20,000 for creation of the first commercial wood spalting chamber
II. Service Provider Investment Recipients
The Working Lands Enterprise Board received a total of 41 Service Provider Letters of Intent for a total of $ 1,932,633; 32 Agriculture, 8 Forestry/Forest Products, 1 Ag and Forestry. The Board invited back and received 13 full applications for a total request of $617,196.22 in funds. The Board approved funding for 10 projects from 5 counties for a total of $418,716 in grants (6 agriculture projects and 4 forestry projects), leveraging almost $300,000 in matching funds.
6 Agriculture Grant Recipients
Statewide Impact
- Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) of Vermont, Richmond | $38,361 for collaboration that will grow new farmers in Vermont by expanding two agricultural workforce development programs
- Intervale Center, Burlington | $20,130 to develop and implement workshops and technical assistance for farmers seeking land to lease or purchase
- University of Vermont Extension, Burlington | $40,593 for development of commercial elderberry production, including an enterprise feasibility analysis, a grower coop feasibility assessment and on farm training workshops
- Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association, South Royalton | $22,500 for marketing assistance to modern and web based consumers, including conference workshops, webinars, and one-on-one technical assistance
Chittenden County
- Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition, Middlebury | $33,219 to start a pilot program working with individual farmers to develop and carry out Crop Management Implementation Plans
- University of Vermont Extension Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Burlington | $21,049 to help new Americans establish market presence with a comprehensive market survey, farmer-buyer meetings, marketing education, and educational resources for buyers and farmers
4 Forestry Grant Recipients
Statewide Impact
- Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, Montpelier| $100,000 to strengthen the business acumen of forest sector entrepreneurs by engagement in business development workshops, and in-depth, one-on-one business advising and coaching
- Cold Hollow Career Center, Enosburg | $53,244 to build operator capacity for use with cut-to-length (CTL) harvesting system in Vermont's northern forest by purchasing simulator systems and exposing students around Vermont to these systems through hands-on training
- Vermont State Colleges and Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center, Randolph | $39,700 to provide concentrated learning experiences focused on innovative engineering
- Vermont Wood Manufacturers Association, Rutland | $50,000 for innovation assistance and workforce development for wood manufacturers by use of communications and one-on-one assistance to help enhance the industry's competitiveness in the global marketplace
III. Capital and Infrastructure Investment Recipients
The Working Lands Enterprise Board received a total of 32 Capital and Infrastructure Letters of Intent for a total of $1,070,537; 25 Agriculture and 7 Forestry/Forest Products. Of the 32 letters of intent, the Board invited back and received 10 Capital and Infrastructure Investment area applications with a total request of $626,314 in funds. The Board approved funding for 6 projects from 5 counties for a total of $317,400 in grants (4 agriculture projects and 2 forestry projects), leveraging over $1.3 million in matching funds.
4 Agriculture Grant Recipients
Caledonia County
- Vermont Soy, Hardwick | $25,000 to purchase an automated tofu tray sealing unit to ensure a safer food product by minimizing the potential for contaminants in the packaging process
- Maple Wind Farm, Richmond | $67,400 for upgrades including a blast chiller for poultry, increased freezer capacity, processing equipment, and for a small retail building for their agri-tourism operation
- Scott Magnan's Custom Service, St. Albans| $25,000 for equipment expansion for agriculture and soil health by planting no-till crops by upgrading a John Deere planter, and purchasing a Vertical tillage tank mounted manure injector that would be new to the region
- Harlow Farm, Westminster | $50,000 for the purchase of a vacuum cooler, upgrading loading docks, creation of additional storage, and additional ice making capacity to improve shipping and storage
2 Forestry Grant Recipients
Washington County
- Vermont Greenwood Resources, Co., Waterbury | $75,000 to add chipping capacity and to develop a pulpwood concentration yard to capture additional value from harvested wood products
- Winterwood Timber Frames, LLC, East Montpelier | $75,000 for infrastructure upgrades for a bioregional wood building-material product line, including two dehumidifying kilns, a three phase power grid, an outdoor wood-waste burning boiler system and signage for the showroom
About the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets: VAAFM facilitates, supports and encourages the growth and viability of agriculture in Vermont while protecting the working landscape, human health, animal health, plant health, consumers and the environment. www.Agriculture.Vermont.Gov


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Write Annotated Bibliography Mla Format
The MLA Handbook, Eighth Edition does not include guidelines for formatting an annotated bibliography. However, your professor may assign an annotated bibliography in MLA style. The annotated bibliography contains descriptive or evaluative comments about your sources. Each citation should adhere to MLA guidelines. Begin your comments immediately following the citation. The title might be 'Annotated Bibliography' or 'Annotated List of Works Cited'.
Your instructor may request an annotated bibliography in order to evaluate the types of sources you are selecting for your research. The annotations should show that you have carefully conducted your research and critically analyzed the information you will use to write your paper. The good news is that the 'Works Cited' list will be almost complete before you begin writing. Below is an example of an annotated bibliography in MLA style.
An annotated bibliography is a list of citations for various books, articles, and other sources on a topic. The annotated bibliography looks like a Works Cited page but includes an annotation after each source cited. An annotation is a short summary and/or critical evaluation of a source. Annotated bibliographies can be part of a larger research project, or can be a stand-alone report in itself.
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A summary annotation describes the source by answering the following questions: who wrote the document, what the document discusses, when and where was the document written, why was the document produced, and how was it provided to the public. The focus is on description.
An evaluative annotation includes a summary as listed above but also critically assesses the work for accuracy, relevance, and quality. Evaluative annotations can help you learn about your topic, develop a thesis statement, decide if a specific source will be useful for your assignment, and determine if there is enough valid information available to complete your project. The focus is on description and evaluation.


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Spinach Feta Frittata
August 2, 2016
By: Rita P. Smith, MS, RD, CDE, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
- 1½ cups cholesterol-free egg substitutes or 6 eggs
- 1/3 cup evaporated fat-free milk
- 1 (10-ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- ½ cup finely chopped green onions
- 1½ teaspoons dried oregano or basil leaves
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cups cooked whole-wheat spaghetti noodles
- 4 ounces crumbled sundried tomato and basil or plain feta
- Cooking spray
- Preheat broiler
- In medium bowl, combine egg substitute and milk; whisk until well blended. Stir in spinach, green onions, oregano and black pepper. Stir in noodles and feta.
- Spray a 10-inch cast iron or ovenproof skillet with cooking spray. Heat over medium heat. Add egg mixture and cook 5 minutes or until nearly cooked through, stirring occasionally.
- Place skillet under broiler 3-5 minutes or until just beginning to lightly brown and set. Cut into 4 wedges.
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Like Cheetahs, Lions, and Orcas,
Cougars are major predators
and they are America's symbol of wild places and healthy watersheds.
This beautiful portrayal of the cougar and its mountain world is from
a Big Book created by students of Wilson School
in Wilson, Wyoming.
The book takes us on a journey from headwaters in the Rockies,
through deep canyons in Idaho,
to where the Snake meets the Columbia and flows on to the Pacific Ocean.
Each page unfolds in this magnificent accordion book to reveal
child art and writing that explore history, culture, and ecology
of the entire watershed.
Like any great piece of art, you have to see the book in person
to appreciate its special beauty - but even this small view does
let you look into the eyes of one of its most important pieces,
the cougar staring out from a mountain so connected
to all the rest of the world up and downstream.
Eagle, deer, beaver, people --- all are connected to the cougar
and so,
if we take care of each of their needs,
we can hope for a healthier world, from mountain to the sea.
Thanks to the students, staff, and parents at Wilson School.


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In Conversation: Francine Prose and Rivka Galchen
Wednesday May 21, 2014
07:00 pm
|Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger
Celebrated author Francine Prose read from and talked about her new novel, Lovers at The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, with award-winning Rivka Galchen, author of American Innovations. The event will include readings from the books, a discussion, a Q&A session, and a wine reception.
About Lovers at The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 (Harper)
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.
Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, artists, libertines, and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the Chameleon where the striking Lou Villars, an extraordinary athlete and scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among the club's loyal denizens, including the rising Hungarian photographer Gabor Tsenyi, the socialite and art patron Baroness Lily de Rossignol; and the caustic American writer Lionel Maine.
As the years pass, their fortunes—and the world itself—evolve. Lou falls desperately in love and finds success as a race car driver. Gabor builds his reputation with startlingly vivid and imaginative photographs, including a haunting portrait of Lou and her lover [see photo on left], which will resonate through all their lives. As the exuberant twenties give way to darker times, Lou experiences another metamorphosis—sparked by tumultuous events—that will warp her earnest desire for love and approval into something far more.
"An engrossing literary mystery…Refracting the vivid, villainous life of Louisianne Villars through letters, memoirs, and the recreations of a biographer, Prose coaxes into kaleidoscopic view both a tortured human being and bohemian Paris before and during the Nazi occupation… she cleverly exploits the vain, self-serving nature of memory itself."
— Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
About American Innovations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka's Galchen's American Innovations, a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family.
The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, reimagined from the perspective of female characters. Just as Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar" responds to John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Galchen's "The Lost Order" covertly recapitulates James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," while "The Region of Unlikeness" is a smoky and playful mirror to Jorge Luis Borges's "The Aleph." The title story, "American Innovations," revisits Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose."
By turns realistic, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, these marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer like none other today.
"These ten stories of profound loss and profound joy give the Kantian sublime a Key Lime twist, and reveal what happily haunted space cadets we all are in the echo chamber of our 'ordinary' American lives. You'll feel compelled to read Galchen's sentences to strangers on buses. The delicacy and brilliance of what she is doing doesn't yet have a name."
— Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Time sbestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in New York City.
Francine Prose gave a talk at The Center entitled "Why We Read." Watch the event video here. You can also read her "The Book that Made Me a Reader" essay here.
Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction Writing and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of "20 Under 40" American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Atmospheric Disturbances, was published by FSG in 2008.
Galchen recently told The Center what she was looking forward to reading in 2014. Check it out here.


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Time can change many things, but there is no greater evolution of a sports car quite like the BMW M3. From every handsome front end to full robust exhaust notes, you know it as the Ultimate Driving Machine. An icon of mechanical perfection with the curves of the girl next door, you can't help but fall in love.
Put her portrait on your wall.
Collaboration design by Jacob Brcic & Dylan Sconyers.
19"x13" High quality print on fine art white matte paper with Jacob Brcic Photography stamped on the back. Frame not included.


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Rehabilitation of areas subject to mining is a major focus of Iluka's environmental management activities.
The company has an established record of land rehabilitation over several decades.
Land previously subject to mining has been returned to various uses including agricultural and pastoral usages, native vegetation and in some cases land prepared for residential occupancy.
- Iluka has managed a diverse range of land rehabilitation challenges associated with the restoration of wetlands, native vegetation and areas previously subject to multiple agricultural activities, including cropping and grazing.
Iluka's rehabilitation credentials have been an important component of the company gaining access to new mining areas, particularly where mining has not been a common part of land usage patterns.
Australian Research Council Linkage Program
Iluka formed a partnership in 2011 with the University of Adelaide to research plant-soil-water relations at the Jacinth-Ambrosia mine site, with the funding support of the Australian Research Council Linkage Program. The primary objective has been to provide information to assist rehabilitation at Jacinth-Ambrosia to enable the return of affected areas to ecosystem and landscape functions that will be both resilient and sustainable.
Land rehabilitation is subject to competencies planning and management activities, both pre-mining, during mining activities and at the completion of mining. It is a feature of Iluka's mining activities that land can be restored to topographical characteristics which would not indicate minerals extraction. Rehabilitation can also occur progressively associated with ongoing mining activity.


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A few weeks ago and without much noise I pushed the unimaginatively named WP Instagram widget to WordPress.org. The widget is a no fuss WordPress widget to showcase your latest Instagram pics.
The plugin was written for some client work @ CFTP and is unique in that it requires no authentication against the Instagram API. Instead it scrapes the publicly accessible JSON from the Instagram website.
There is a increasing trend within the world of startups to lock your content away. Twitter taking away RSS is a good example of this and it's not something I agree with. Of course authentication should be required for certain features but making it harder to access my own content is not cool.
In a short time the plugin has proved rather popular so it looks like folk are quite fond of this simple approach too. The popularity is such that I am considering using the same approach in a few more plugins.
The widget has two filters. The first allows you adjust that cache time for retrieving the images from Instagram:
add_filter('null_instagram_cache_time', 'my_cache_time');
function my_cache_time() {
return HOUR_IN_SECONDS;
The second allows you to filter video results from the widget:
add_filter('wpiw_images_only', '__return_true');
In version 1.3 I have also added two new hooks for adding custom output before and after the widget:
You can contribute to the plugin on GitHub or:


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In writing a story the other day for Saveur, about the evolution of my kitchen, I was made aware once again of how much one's work space is a reflection of the person whose domain it is. Over the years I've not only become attached to my batterie de cuisine but so many of the pots and pans and kitchen implements and memorabilia, even my Garland stove, have taught me valuable lessons in cooking.
When I decided that there was a need for a good book on the strategy of cooking for one, I realized that an important part of reducing recipes and making them work in single portions lay in adjusting the pan size. I had to rethink my cooking habits, and gradually I stashed away the big equipment on top shelves. I hung close to the stove, within easy reach, my 4-cup Le Creuset pot, my trusty 8-inch iron skillet, a small wok, an omelet pan, and my father's miniature square skillet. They have become my fellow conspirators in conjuring up new dishes.
The wok gave me the idea of sautéing a leafy green vegetable in a little olive oil and a few slivers of garlic until almost tender, then nestling in an egg (or 2) to steam with the greens. The omelet pan always beckons when I'm looking for a quick supper and can put to use some of the tidbits I've stored in the fridge to make an omelet or a heartier frittata. The small square frying pan that my father left me inspired me to reduce my Potato Dish for Julia to a potato dish just for me; it was just the right size and shape.
My 6-inch iron skillet is probably the pan I use the most. It is the right vehicle for a dinner-in-one-dish because it lends itself to quick searing and then resting in the oven (just remember to use a sturdy potholder when you take it out). It is the perfect pan for making a dinner such as fried eggplant slices with a thin layer of meaty cutlets; you do the frying and layering on top of the stove, splash in a bit of tomato sauce and broth, top with cheese, and then slip it into the oven for a final 10 minutes. I've found that both skirt steaks and fillets of fish are best seared quickly in my iron pan and then left to finish cooking for a few minutes in the oven; when I take them out, the sizzling hot skillet is ideal for making a fast pan sauce. A quick dressing for pasta can also be made in that pan or in the wok while the pasta cooks and then—à la Lidia Bastianich—I fish the strands out of the boiling water with a big mesh spoon and tongs and drop them into the sauce for a final cooking.
Sometimes just seeing a pan in a kitchenware shop can be an inspiration. That's what happened when I first encountered the relatively new popover pan with its separate cups. I had to have it and went right home to experiment with making just two popovers, which worked (and, of course, you can bake them in Pyrex cups). The individual tart pan with its fluted edge and removable bottom sets off my taste memory and I am thinking of all the possibilities of a little quiche.
I remember that when Evan and I returned in 1951 from three and a half years in Paris I was determined to bring home the cocotte I had bought in the flea market there. I had learned to make in that heavy iron pot reasonably good stews and braises and I suspected that I would never find anything like it in those days in New York, where light aluminum for the frail, beleaguered housewife was still the rage. But there was something deeper here: I knew that that cocotte connected me to the French for whom cooking was a pleasure and sitting down to a meal was to be honored, whether en famille or alone (perhaps even more so if you are alone).


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|42"/105 cm
|Freeboard aft
|35"/89 cm
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|6'5"/1.96 m
|Bridge clearance
|4'6"/1.34 m
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|RBI issues draft norms for small Banks, payment Banks
|Written by JPNN
|Friday, 18 July 2014 09:49
JPNN|Mumbai | July 17, 2014|A week after Budget announcement, the Reserve Bank Thursday issued draft guidelines for setting up of 'local feel' small banks, which will disburse small-ticket loans to farmers and
businesses. The central bank also issued draft guidelines for setting up of payment banks, which will cater to marginalised sections of society, including migrant labourers, for collecting deposits and remitting funds. Such banks can be set up with a minimum capital of 100 crore as against 500 crore required for normal commercial banks, according to the guidelines. "Both payments banks and small banks are 'niche' or 'differentiated' banks, with the common objective of furthering financial inclusion," the RBI said while issuing draft guidelines for licensing of payments banks and small banks. The proposed small banks will provide a whole suite of basic banking products such as deposits and supply of credit, but in a limited area of operation, it said. On the other hand, payments banks will offer a limited range of products such as acceptance of demand deposits and remittances of funds. They will have a widespread network of access points particularly in remote areas, either through their own branch network or through Business Correspondents (BCs) or through networks provided by others. Foreign investments in these new category banks would be as per the FDI policy.The existing non-bank pre-payment instrument issuers, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), corporate BCs, mobile telephone companies, super-market chains, companies, real sector cooperatives and public sector entities may apply to set up a payments bank.In case of small banks, resident individuals with 10 years of experience in banking and finance, companies and Societies will be eligible as promoters to set up small banks.
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Earlier in April, the RBI had given in-principle approval to IDFC and Bandhan Financial Services to set up full-fledged banking operations. The RBI is working on the guidelines for continuous authorisation of universal banks and will come out with these separately. At present, there are 27 public sector banks and 22 private sector lenders in the country. Recently, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan had said that the proposed Post Bank could start as a payment bank, making use of post office outlets to raise deposits and make payments. For setting up of payment bank, preference will be given to those applicants who has access points primarily in the under-banked states or districts in the North-East, East and Central regions of the country.
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At least 50 per cent of its loan portfolio should constitute loans and advances of size upto 25 lakh in order to extend loans primarily to micro enterprises, it said. In case of small banks shareholding by promoters in the bank in excess of 40 per cent should be brought down to 40 per cent within three years from the date of commencement of business of the bank. "Further, the promoter's stake should be brought down to 30 per cent of the paid-up voting equity capital of the bank within a period of 10 years, and to 26 per cent within 12 years from the date of commencement of business of the bank," it said. Entities other than promoters will not be permitted to have shareholding in excess of 10 per cent of the voting equity capital of the bank. Suggestions and comments on these draft guidelines should be sent to RBI by August 28. Agency
|Last Updated on Friday, 18 July 2014 11:48


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Yesterday I shared a post Mike Dandridge wrote about customer service and an article Jeffrey Gitomer wrote about the same. Mike wrote about first impressions and Jeffrey wrote about how good service is hard to find. Well I'm happy to say I had the opposite experience today.
I had a morning meeting in Greenville, SC today. We met at a hip little Coffee Shop called Coffee Underground. When I stepped up to order I didn't know what I wanted. The young lady behind the counter made some excellent suggestions, so I told her to go for it. I asked her to include what my friend was having on my bill. She looked up, called him out by name (he frequents the place) and asked if he'd have his usual. Less than a minute later we had our order and this time I was called by name. Cool!
After my meeting I went to see my website provider. I had some questions, and since I was in the area I figured I'd just drop in and see if they could help. My contact dropped what he was doing and walked me into the conference room. When I told him what I needed, he said he could show me some stuff right then, but it would be better if we set up an online training date so he could have a team put together to help me. He also said that they would record the training, burn it to a CD and send it to me so I could reference it in the future. Wow! I told him I'd call him later to set up the appointment and moved on.
My next stop was my customs broker. My brother-in-law lives in China and he's starting an export business. He was looking for some contact info. She got me what I needed and had me in and out in ten minutes. Fast and friendly!
My final stop was the bank. I used to hate going to this bank because the teller was detached and I always felt like I was an interruption instead of a customer. I guess they fired the old teller because there's a new fellow working the drive-through and he's dynamite. I actually look forward to going to the bank now and all he does is smile, calls me by name and says thank you. Real hard huh!?
As you can see, none of these things took a lot of time, but all of them made an impression. I know this is an overused cliche, but it really is the little things that mean a lot. What little things are you and your company doing to make a good impression on your customers?
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