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This isn't going to be a proper review of a type normally found here – there isn't going to be a report card for the players, there isn't going to be much analysis of the so-called strategies and tactics at work here yesterday, there aren't going to be highlights because there weren't any and there isn't going to be a proper overview - because this wasn't really a proper game.
Having 2 players sent off for one team is bad. Having 3 players sent off and 6 players booked is worse. But having to watch a game that had all that plus a team that is supposedly competing for a spot in Europe that couldn't score with 2 men advantage for 35 minutes and at least a one man advantage for 52 minutes is just eye watering terrible.
Making me want to stab my eyes to stop the burning was the fact that the team with 9 had the best chances to win. By far. By really, really far. And that's wrong on many levels.
And then everyone wonders why Serie A teams aren't doing so well in Europe against competition from England and Spain – more on this later…
Before I begin, let me say this: Yes, I thought our boys did a wonderful job last night rising to the occasion and showing Samp and The Asshole Ref that they weren't be able to steal away 3 whole points. They got 1 – but only because our shooting was really off. They couldn't get the whole Piñata.
Although I would seriously like to say that Cesar is fucking amazing.
But really Samp should have kicked our asses. And I mean but good. When Cordoba was sent off - yes I though that there was a great audition for the Summer Olympics in the Dive Like a Little Girl Competition – I knew that we were done for. I thought, "They forced a close game in Siena, they tried to put us in the hole in Bari, they tried to hold the score down in Milan, they forced us into schedule congestion in Parma, they denied us at home against Juve and they denied us in Napoli and now they are going to sink us at home, just to make sure that we know our place and don't have the nerve to complain again."
But the Samp goal that I was expecting didn't happen. It should have. The teams chasing the top should be hungry and young, possibly more physical then technical. The teams at the top should be players in their prime or just after with the wonderful blend of savvy, technical skill and still ripe physical ability, but perhaps threatened by the younger teams' hunger and limitless energy. There was no hunger. There was no energy.
That was what I was expecting. What I got was meh passing and very little meh shooting. The Samp shooting smelled. I mean it smelled bad.
On the other hand, Inter didn't panic. They defended as anyone who is 2 men down rightfully should: 7-1 formation. But the weird thing was that as the game went along; me, Inter, the old lady watching the game for the first time; we all realized that Samp weren't going to attack, they still left 4 in the back and they were really lucky that they had a goalkeeper who played the absolute best game of his life. And that Eto'o played what might be the worst game I have ever seen him play – which means he still almost scored.
And this bothers me. It bothers me because Inter should lose when they are 2 men down. Samp shouldn't look as impotent as a middle aged man with a beer gut, 16 chins and a full 6 month prescription of Levitra . They should have come across the midfield line like a pirate crew in port after being at sea for 6 years infesting the Bunny Ranch with sacks full of doubloons…
And perhaps Levitra…
And like said pirate crew, they should have scored, a lot.
Not that I am wishing my team defeat. One point, in such circumstances, is quite a feat. Hell, I thought getting a corner kick was a success and I was vocal about it. But Samp should have been more willing to come forward. Samp should have put Inter to the sword. Samp should have had the talent, the will and the ruthlessness to score one goddamn goal on a side with 9 men. We are talking about the 5th best team in Serie A after all. They are exactly 1 point away from Champions League money - currently. They shouldn't be the equivalent of a limp dick. They should be a tough team.
This brings me to Europe and the lack of success for Serie A and what this has to do with this game. I don't hold the Champions League in the same regard most others do, mostly, as I have said repeatedly elsewhere, since it's not really a League of Champions anymore, but a giant money grab and is to be treated as such.
But since the organizations – if not several of the actual players - are still Italian I usually try to support the Italian teams, although some of those teams – including my own - make it hard for me sometimes.
Anyway, given that I would like to see Italian teams do well in European Competition on general principle and given that Limp Samp is now a contender for this competition, I don't see much hope in the near future. In my opinion, there has to be some high competition in the domestic league to provide incentive for the individual teams to spend money on facilities and somehow acquire player talent and managerial leadership. I am not just talking about Inter here, but also the other teams of Serie A. Has there been a significant influx of talent in Serie A to bolster the midtable teams and press the top teams? Maybe one or two like Napoli or Palermo, but really I am not seeing it.
Long and the longer of it, a team like Samp shouldn't be this high in the table. This lack of competition isn't doing anything but weakening the league and ultimately forcing more money and talent to exit the peninisula. As much as I am against the current Champions League on principle, I am all for money and talent preferably siphoned straight to Inter. The general weakness of the league was definitely highlighted Saturday.
Okay, having given my general reaction, overall to the game on Saturday, a quick word on the refereeing that I know we are all still amazed at.
These are only my opinions. I am sure that we all have our own thoughts on the subject matter. Feel free to discuss intelligently in the comments, if you can.
First of all, I don't think I have read too many, if any, comments of the tone that those red cards were not in fact red cards. Even Cordoba's second yellow, theatrically embellished as it may have been, was a dumb play by someone who should have known better. Samuel's straight red, though probably the correct call was a bad reaction by the ref who had painted himself in the corner.
Here's what I mean. If the ref hadn't tried to be John Wayne and clean up this Serie A town, and instead had quiet words with players who made first or early offences, this game would have been about 22 or 21 guys and a ball – the event that we tuned in to see in the first place – instead of about 1 guy and his multicolored cards.
Samuel was a perfect case. Samuel got his yellow by going for the ball, touching the ball and then going through the player. There was no intent to hurt, obviously, or a guy as ripped and built like Samuel could have crippled that clown. If the ref had awarded the free kick and said to Samuel, "Next one is the card or worse, cool it." It might have been more useful trying to calm him down rather than ramping up everyone's tension level.
The same could have been said to Cordoba when he leapt at the free kick. Spirits were already high and the ref could have managed to salvage a decent game by warning Ivan, "Look, you are really in danger of hurting your team. You are too hyped up, so I am going to warn you that you need to take it down a little." Maybe it might have helped to soothe everyone instead of making all the players more anxious?
And there will be people who will rise up at this and complain that Inter don't deserve special treatment. But I am not asking for special, I am asking for same. Or have we already forgotten Sneijder getting a straight red for criticism and Boriello getting a pat on the cheek for the same offence? Have we forgotten Totti telling a ref to fuck himself before finishing the game?
But there's more. Eto'o getting a card for simulation was just funny. Not because he didn't dive, he went down easy as sin, but how many of you here saw the first derby game and witnessed Ronaldinho fall down in the middle of our area – without a touch – and then saw him lecture the ref when no call was forthcoming? Result: no card for Dinho. There are dozens of examples here. ADP comes to mind as well. So does Menez and his lack of cautions.
So I thought that the ref did the product on the field no favors through his own ineptitude. Fine. I can live with that. As I said, it's not that we got calls against us that bother me, we will get our share of calls against us: some good and some bad – as long as we all get them, I don't really care. I think Mourinho is doing the right thing here. There are newspapers that will be scrambling on Monday and Tuesday to make something up for all the space that is normally reserved for Inter. Let the Media get frustrated and put pressure on the league. It's about time someone else gets that pressure. I would like to see the Media blackout last longer, but I don't think Moratti likes these tactics. He's too nice a guy and he likes to see Inter in the news.


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Louisiana Ranks #1 In Worst Drivers
Here we are again, atop a list we would rather not be #1 in. According to data collected by the website CarInsuranceComparison, Louisiana has the worst drivers in the entire country!!!
For the second year in a row, our home state took the title by finishing in the top five for three of the five categories they used to grade each state. The five categories used to grade the states are: fatality rates per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, failure to obey traffic laws, drunk driving, and tickets issued to those driving for speeding & careless operation.
Coming in at number two was South Carolina and at number three it was Mississippi. The state with the BEST drivers is Vermont.
Having lived here my entire life, I can honestly say that I am NOT surprised Louisiana ranks #1 when it comes to bad drivers. Too often we hear about fatalities on our roadways that involve alcohol, and it seems like everyday we read about accidents on I-10. I hope that we soon improve upon this ranking. If there is one list I would not mind being last in, it is this one!! Its time we make our roadways safer in Louisiana.
For the complete list of states in this category, click HERE.

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(updated from 500 followers a month later)
Anyone who's launched a profile on Instagram will know how demoralising it is when you make a huge effort to gain less followers than most teenagers have without trying. So with the hope that I can save others time and research, here's what I've found successful in my journey to 1000 followers.
Find real followers
The key to my strategy has been to find real followers. Don't be tempted with companies that offer to gain you thousands of followers. Followers who don't care, or aren't real (in many cases) won't engage in your posts and that will stop you from growing. For the same reason, I also made a choice to try and organically pick up followers who are interested in my work rather than targeting my friends on Facebook. This strategy can be slow at the start but means that my engagement on instagram is good, and when lots of people like my posts it helps me find new followers.
Use #Hashtags
Popular hashtags are used so frequently that your post will disappear in a flood of new posts almost immediately. Once I noticed this, I stopped using them and went on a hunt for less popular and more relevant tags. My most successful hashtags have been
#under1k #under3kyo #ukphotographer #whyweshoot #creativesontherise #em5markii #45mmf18 #microfourthirds
These hashtags help me connect with other photographers who are either UK based or shooting with similar equipment.
Like similar posts
Now you know how to find people who make similar stuff to you, this leads me on to hands down the most effective part of my strategy has been to like other posts to hashtags that I am using. I don't follow other accounts in the hope that they will follow me, and then unfollow them, and I don't often comment on posts either. All I do is like similar posts- hundreds of them! And since I started doing that I've been gaining 10-20 followers a day.
Post at the right time
As As any quick google search of how to gain Instagram followers will tell you, one of the most important factors is the time you post. This will vary a great deal depending on your target follower but, once you have made your Instagram account a business you can use the insights to discover when the best times are.
You can access your insights by clicking on the graph symbol on your page, then scroll down to the followers graph. This shows which hours (along the bottom) that your followers are most active on. I always aim to post slightly before the peak times, so that my post is at the top of the feed when they first open the app.


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If you need to make a claim for asylum or refugee protection once you are inside Canada, it is recommended that you contact our office for assistance prior to making the claim. Before you appear at a Citizenship & Immigration Canada office to make an inland claim, you will be expected to have completed the Basis of Claim form which summarizes the reasons and details of your claim. There are also several other forms and applications that have to be completed and submitted at the same time. It is very important that these forms are completed in a correct and accurate manner as you will be questioned regarding the contents at the oral hearing of your claim.
Under Canada's new refugee system, you will be given a hearing to assess the merits of your claim within 30-60 days after making the claim, depending on your country of origin. If approved, the PR processing can take several months.


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Allison Rutland "On Animation" interview
Posted on May 13, 2018
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10 years ago I came across Allison Rutland's showreel and was surprised I had never heard about her before. Remember back in those days character animation was very small in UK and studios in London mostly hired people from Animation Mentor / Gobelins and Supinfocom so it was very easy to get to know everyone especially if you were an Animation Mentor graduate. Animation Mentor even got nicknamed the "mafia" by some people at that time since we snapped all the jobs.
I was impressed when I saw her reel and especially that last emotional acting shot that immediately reminded me of the work coming out of AAU's Pixar Class so I wasn't surprised to hear she landed a job at Pixar.
Finally many years later and after she had a very successful career at Pixar I was very happy to hear the story about that shot and I wasn't surprised to hear it was a shot that took her close to 2 years to finish. I also have several shot that have been on the backburner for just as long so I totally relate.
Go check it out it is a very interesting interview where she shares the struggles of her journey and she mentions "There will be blood" which also happens to be one of my all time acting favorite movie featuring Daniel Day Lewis.
Thumb up to "On Animation" for providing all the footnotes you might want to check out.
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Mouth corners in CG animation
Posted on May 13, 2018
Filed Under Acting, Animation, Character design, Education | Leave a Comment
When CG animation came out, it looked so different and so fresh compared to 2d animation that we could get away with a lot but the novelty effect has faded and the bar has been raised very high with CG entertainment. Funny enough, technology is finally enabling us to … go back to the appeal of the 2d aesthetics!
Shaping the mouth corners is one of those 2d tips used in top studios to make the characters look less CG. By moving the outside corner closer inside the silhouette of the character, you will make the mouth shape more stylised and closer to what an illustrator would craft rather than a stupid computer.
Doesn't the tweaked mouth shape look clearer and more appealing on this Sony's "Angry Birds movie" presentation? I am posting the picture twice just so you can flip it and the link to the video is below.
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The medical benefit plan I have requires payment of a certain sum before it begins paying a high percentage of the cost of prescriptions. This sum is called the deductible; it's a sum uncovered by the insurance, deducted from the total expenses before consideration of payment. The policy term is one year, so the value resets every year.
The other day I had to purchase a prescribed drug. The pharmacy had a simple question for me: Did I want them to bill through the insurance company, or did I want to pay cash? If they billed through the insurance company, then the cost of the prescription would be applied to the deductible amount. If I paid cash, then the insurance company, not knowing of the cost, would not apply it to the deductible. One supposes that there's a third option: to pay cash and then report the expense to the insurer.
This question came up because of a difference in the prices between the two methods: $300 more to bill the expense through the insurance company.
No, thank you. I'll pay cash.


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To see more of my radios, visit Ben Martin's Radio Flea Market.
|Set of four OTR shows. Experience the wonderful comedy from a time when radio entertainment was at its best. In this set you will hear John & Blanch Bickerson, Burns & Allen, The great Jack Benny (Forever 39), Fibber McGee & Molly and the always laughable George Burns & the lovable Gracie Allen. Set of four cassettes in a little wooden crate. $12.75. (1020240)
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Whether to entertain a client or close a deal, business meetings are inevitable for the white collar. Dining rooms built for the sole purpose of perusing the wine list and throwing down your corporate card are centrally located near the headquarters of (insert corporation here) . You'll notice similarities between our selections, but also realize that each location serves a purpose. While food is at the top of our criteria, a restaurant's attributes play an integral role in making it worthy of a business expense.
1. Lark Creek – Newport Beach
Ah, yes. Newport. Where the closest island is a
mall lifestyle center surrounded by law firms and doctor's offices. Even The Irvine Company calls this city home. We kick off our list at an easy, breezy newcomer to the Fashion Island family. Their shiny factor draws a business savvy set for health-conscious free-range chicken and white shrimp ceviche (pictured). Soak in some Vitamin D on Lark Creek's patio when the weather is comfortable. Order a bottle of red off their list, which favors California and neighboring West Coast vineyards.
2. The Capital Grille – Costa Mesa
Businesspeople who don't know their truffle fries from their chocolate truffles are content with familiarity. The Capital Grille chain is well within their comfort zone, but this list does contain more personality the further along we go. As you reach the top of the staircase, prominently displayed wine lockers announce resident oenophiles. A quick lunch can be achieved, but South Coast Metro suits enjoy their mahogany booths with Caprese salad and bone-in steaks. Terrace and private dining room seating can discreetly cater to VIP guests. We can't seem to get enough of their truffle fries, either.
3. Nieuport 17 – Tustin
The Continental scene is alive and well in this ode to WWII fighter aircrafts. Nieuport 17 may be an out-of-the-way dining room, but their dinner menu has been upgraded ever since Greg Moro transferred in from his stint at French 75. Have Tommy pour a timeless cocktail from their Barnstormer Bar. Ahi tuna tartar is a perfect starter while you decide what cut of beef to consume. They possess an old-fashioned, yet always classy form of service rarely found these days.
4. Andrei's Conscious Cuisine N Cocktails – Irvine
Standing tall on the corner of Main and Siglo, Andrei's is centrally located, attracting businesses parked around the 405 and Jamboree. Spacious upstairs, their bar scene rivals the dining room, where you'll find cliques of co-workers huddled in the lounge. It's an ideal spot for a discussion, with enough privacy between you and the next party. Coconut ginger clams or one of their flatbreads can make for a quick lunch. Although waitstaff is known to make a disappearing act, so request the cheque sooner than later.
5. Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's – Costa Mesa
A celebrity chef-branded establishment is the kind of recognition professionals can rely on when selecting a place to dine. Possessing an expansive wine cellar and top-notch service, Charlie Palmer knows how to treat guests. We recommend sitting far into the dining room if we're talking dinner, or else the chatter from the lounge will be too distracting. Chef Seakyeong Kim runs an efficient kitchen, serving both land and sea options with precision and elegance.
6. Bistango – Irvine
The OG of power lunches, this mainstay has roots firmly planted in the atrium of an office building. In other comparisons, this would be a liability. Yet their accessibility is the asset, with live jazz and modern artwork keeping us too preoccupied to realize. Their growing love of craft beer, combined with a cigar selection to smoke on their patio, and they've got more reasons to keep you. For those trying to cut down on carbs, Bistango serves an unusually comprehensive salad selection in addition to their protein-driven menu.
7. The Winery – Tustin
What they're known for is in the name, but it's the pairing with Yvon Goetz's vineyard cuisine which makes them one of our preferred spots. Go with a nightly special, and you'll be in good hands. Our favorites include chef's Alsatian pizza and their hearty organic vegetable tower. Or have their sommelier recommend a bottle and sip to your heart's content (with Lyft on speed dial). The Winery operates a perpetually crowded dining room, making them worthy of a second location in the works down the street from our next restaurant.
8. A Restaurant – Newport Beach
Pacific Coast Highway may connect our beach cities, but Jonathan Blackford corrals his own community inside their dining room. Lined with tufted leather booths, A's decibel level increases at the bar as day transitions into evening, while the lighting goes in reverse. Not the optimal combination for dinner, they do serve familiar comforts alongside regional fare during lunch service. Next door, A Market offers impressive sandwich combinations for a more casual meeting spot.
9. The RANCH Restaurant and Saloon – Anaheim
We awarded them with Best Steakhouse last year for good reason: The RANCH knows beef. They also know a thing or two about wine, seafood and ambiance. Despite an unorthodox location (plus being the only entry not offering lunch), the trio of Andrew Edwards, David Rossi and Michael Rossi exhibit what good ol' southern hospitality is all about. The top floor now has a special events facility, decked out for parties of all sizes. What they lack in neighborhood, they make up for in every other way. The main dining area buzzes with a view of the exhibition kitchen, so request a booth close to the private Carolina Room to discuss matters. Their gnocchi with rabbit or deviled eggs make for excellent starters.
10. Pelican Grill – Newport Beach
Location, location, location. What elevated Pelican Grill was not only the ultimate view, but the purest form of social networking: 18-holes at one of Orange County's best courses. Their terrace overlooks the bridge golf carts motor over to reach the first tee. After a long day in the sun, watching the sunset alongside a cocktail will mesmerize any guest– especially the visiting executives. Order the bruschetta trio if it's still on the menu; it's one of the better representations of seasonal cuisine. Resort dining equates to resort pricing, but that's what expense reports are for.
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A contributing writer for OC Weekly, Anne Marie freelances for multiple online and print publications, and guest judges for culinary competitions. A Bay Area transplant, she graduated with a degree in Hospitality Management from Cal Poly Pomona. Find her on Instagram as brekkiefan.


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New Order's classic Blue Monday was released on 7 March 1983, and its cutting-edge electronic groove changed pop music forever. But what would it have sounded like if it had been made 50 years earlier? In a special film, using only instruments available in the 1930s – from the theremin and musical saw to the harmonium and prepared piano – the mysterious Orkestra Obsolete present this classic track as you've never heard it before.
How does it feel? Creepy as hell, that's how. 10/10 would recommend.


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NASHVILLE — Legislation TN SB0598 was filed for introduction on Feb. 5 and would allow alcohol sales at University of Tennessee venues.
TN SB0598 designates any facility on the campus of a public institution of higher education that is designed and used for school-sanctioned sporting events as a sports authority facility for purposes of consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises.
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The bill passed the Senate March 18 (Ayes 27, Nays 4) and the House on March 21 (Ayes 70, Nays 21, PNV 1).
TN SB0598 was signed by the Senate Speaker on March 28 and by the House Speaker on April 1.


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Finding Our Warrick County, IN Ancestors
To order copies of birth records, write the Warrick County Health Dept.
(See below) Birth records start at 1882. The cost for copies of the records
are $10.00. You must have the name of the person and date of the event.
Deaths (from 1882):
To order copies of death records, contact the Warrick County Health Dept. Death records start at 1882. The cost for copies of the records are $6.00. You must have the name of the person and date of the event. The Warrick County Health Dept. is located in the old courthouse building.
Warrick County Department of Health
Warrick Court House
107 W. Locust St., Room 204
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Suite 200
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This year we partnered with Tennessee's Blackberry Farm to create a Thanksgiving menu inspired by new recipes and old rituals. The farm's chefs and artisans brought inventive dishes to the table, each with a personal twist. We talked to each of them about their favorite Thanksgiving traditions, as well as the inspiration behind their dishes — read on to hear their stories.
As the Executive Chef of Blackberry Farm's main dining venue, The Barn, Joseph Lenn works with his team to bring unique guests unique dishes that combine country cooking with haute cuisine. Recently, he was awarded a James Beard Award for Best Chef Southeast. For our Thanksgiving menu, he created these Collard Greens with Lardons and Smoked Onion Jam, a side dish that expertly balances sweet and salty.
Tell us about your background. How did you get started cooking?
I got started in this business about 14 years ago. I was working in a grocery store in Knoxville, and I started cooking at home and entertaining friends as a hobby. I was cooking things I'd never had before, like veal chops, which got me excited about that world. I saw something on the news about chefs, and that opened my eyes — I knew what I wanted to do for a living. I called my dad that day (he's a guidance counselor), and we visited Johnson & Wales in Charleston.
How did you end up at Blackberry Farm?
While I was visiting Johnson & Wales, I asked them what was the best restaurant in town, and they said the Peninsula Grill. When I was leaving the grocery store one of the store's purveyor's asked if there was anything he could do to help. I asked if he knew any chefs in Charleston, and he did — Robert Carter of the Peninsula Grill. I interviewed there but didn't get hired. Then the owner of the grocery store put me in touch with the chef at Blackberry Farm, and I got an internship there over the summer doing breakfast and lunch. After that I went back to Charleston and worked with Sean Brock, who then asked me to work with him at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville. I did that for two years, helping out at Blackberry Farm with the guest chef program periodically. Eventually there was an opportunity here, and I interviewed and got the job. I've been here ever since; I started off as an intern and made my way back.
How would you describe the food you serve at Blackberry Farm?
It's in the moment of the season. We do things backwards than many other chefs; we wait for products to come in and write dishes around them. It's all based on what's growing in the area at the time.
A lot of the dishes we serve are based on traditions — like a homemade dish such as beans and cornbread — and we change it up. People cook beans with bacon and salt pork around here to season the beans. People take beans, crumble up cornbread, and put buttermilk in it. It's about the ritual and process of putting buttermilk into beans. So we make a buttermilk consomme, clarify it and make it smoky so it tastes like bacon and smoked ham hocks, and pour it tableside. The whole dish is vegetarian but since people smell smoke, they think of bacon. It's a really homey dish important to the region, but it's done on an elevated level.
One of my favorite dishes is chicken and dumplings. Here, we do it with guinea hen or duck confit and potato gnocchi and Hen of the Woods mushrooms. We add crispy chicken skin and a poached egg — it's evolved over time. Those are two dishes that are reflective of the region but more refined to suit the place we're in.
What does a typical day in your life look like?
Every day we go to the garden and see what's growing. Then we look at the menu and re-evaluate, seeing what we can change up in the current moment. Right now, tomatoes and eggplant are still growing, but the fall crops are coming in, too, so we're in between seasons until the first frost. The menu is written every day, and we have a staff meal for lunch. By 4:30 the final edits are made on the menu, and by 5 or 5:30 we're checking everyone's mise en place. At 6, dinner service starts, and it's over by 11. We wrap up the day and do it all over again.
How do you work with the other chefs and artisans to create finished dishes?
Usually it's something I have an idea about, and it starts by me asking them about it. For example, I wanted to do a more localized version of charcuterie with sorghum, blackberries and sumac in it, so I talked to Michael [Sullivan, Blackberry Farm's butcher] about it. We have different versions of salamis with different flavor profiles, so this was a more regional style than the classics, which made it unique for the restaurant.
We got some figs for the restaurant and the preservation kitchen wanted them to make a product, so we found a ways to use that in our kitchen. Like their smoked onion jam — we use that all year round in different dishes. It's awesome in corn.
Ryan, the cheese maker, has incorporated some fun things like a beer washed-rind cheese. We did a beer dinner last month and included the cheese.
What's your favorite thing about your job?
Just getting to cook for people and seeing the instant gratification for my hard work. People are happy here; they're coming in to celebrate and have a good time. We see people in the happiest times. Also, we have an awesome kitchen team that works with us every day. And we meet people along the way who are producing great products.
Tell us about your Thanksgiving traditions. What's on the menu?
Years ago we used to celebrate at my grandmother's house in Maryville, Tennessee, which is where I live now. I was pretty plain. Everyone would make different casseroles, and I never wanted that — I wanted Granny to make me green beans. We had turkey with stuffing, a pretty traditional menu, but our traditions were more about sitting around and enjoying the family on that day.
Now, my family is the restaurant. We all get together the night after Thanksgiving or of Thanksgiving, and we do a potluck at someone's house. People bring all sorts of things — even enchiladas! We have two menus here at Blackberry Farm. In the Main House there's a traditional menu, and in the Barn kitchen there's a tasting menu.
What do you look forward to eating all year long?
Sweet potato casserole: that's something I get excited about. It's one of my favorites. And collards or turnip greens, which we use in the menu. I never get tired of eating those.
Tell us about the collard greens you created for the Williams-Sonoma/Blackberry Farm menu. What was the inspiration behind the dish?
Bacon-braised collards are hard to argue with. If I'm cooking traditional food, it's got to have bacon or a ham hock in there. The smoked onion jam, combined with the bacon, adds a sweet-salty element, which I'm finding more and more that people like. With collards, it's a match made in heaven.
Bacon is easy to work with at home, but you could also use smoked chicken or smoked turkey for tons of flavor without the fat.
Do you have any other tips for elevating Thanksgiving side dishes?
We use chopped-up pickles to give dishes a sweet acidity. Anytime you can add that to a dish, it elevates it. I once saw a guest chef make beans, and he added a ton of sherry vinegar, which completely changed it for the better. It was eye-opening for me; that drastically changed the way I cook.
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Moschino revives the arty and rebellious spirit of the '80s in Milan
Moschino's return to the men's calendar in Milan did not go unnoticed on Sunday. As per usual, creative director Jeremy Scott staged a bold and colorful runway show, drawing on the fashion images and illustrations that have forged his fashion culture.
All the right ingredients for a fantastic lineup were present: bright colors, art, trompe-l'oeil, Latin-Hispanic style, military influences, and a dash of S&M. These elements have been featured in different menswear collections designed by Scott for Moschino, the Italian Aeffe-owned brand, and can now be found coming together this season in one single collection.
The common thread? The famous illustrator and fashion photographer of the 1980s, Tony Viramontes. The Mexican-American artists, who died of AIDS at the age of 31 in 1998, created an imaginary world with his images featured in magazines such as The Face that have inspired many designers as well as Japanese artists. Scott was able to draw from the artist's archives to reproduce several of his drawings on clothing. Abstract paint strokes, sketched portraits, patterns and graffiti were seen in technicolor on jackets, suits, T-shirts, sweatshirts, and jackets.
Scott smeared big pink brushstrokes on black trench coats, shirts, black pants, as well as accessories: hats, bags, boots… You name it! Some looks reproduced the creases and folds of the fabric in trompe l'oeil. Others seemed to have been hastily scribbled with colored markers, with fluorescent strokes on chic blazers and biker looks. Several black ensembles sported squares scribbled in white chalk.
For one look, Scott was inspired by the Buffalo movement of the '80s, promoted in the pages of The Face by photographer Jamie Morgan and fashion stylist Ray Petri. This style, revolutionary for its time, encouraged a new sexy, strong, and provocative anti-establishment attitude, in which men wore skirts or strutted around in boxers and Dr. Martens.
This is the spirit that permeated Moschino's new collection, in which models wore chunky boots or tall black leather boots and seville hats or military berets on their heads, at times adorning their look with large leather belts or long black glamorous vinyl gloves.
Pleated skirts were sometimes layered over pants. Coats, on the other hand, appeared to be split in two, like a leather jacket paired with a wrap skirt made in the same material, or a waterproof jacket worn with a mid-length skirt cut from the same camel fabric to form a trench coat.
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The relationship between John Sartain (1808-1897), English-born engraver and publisher, and E. A. Poe is fairly extensively documented. Especially important is Sartain's defense of Poe after the latter's death in connection with a charge of dishonesty involving Sartain's purchase of "The Bells" for publication in Sartain's Union Magazine. Although Sartain acknowledges that he did pay Poe three separate times for the poem, he points out that his doing so involved no dishonesty on Poe's part; rather, Sartain himself considered the three versions of the poem that he received from Poe so markedly different that he gladly paid him separately for each one (1).
As publisher of the Union Magazine from late 1848 to 1852, Sartain was a powerful figure in the literary world. He published several Poe items, including "The Bells" and "The Poetic Principle" (2), as well as works by such well-known figures as Longfellow, Lowell, Bayard Taylor, Harriet Martineau, W. Gilmore Simms, N. P. Willis, and Alice and Phoebe Cary. In addition he published three items by the then little-known Henry Thoreau, including his important essay on "Ktaadn, and the Maine Woods."
Sartain met Poe in 1840, when George P. Graham purchased the Gentleman's Magazine from William E. Burton. Poe assisted with the editing of the magazine, and Sartain was engaged to engrave a plate a month for it. Their friendship lasted until Poe's death (3). During Poe's lifetime, Sartain aided and encouraged his friend in both his personal affairs and in his literary endeavors (4). Poe seems to have been grateful for his help, especially in connection with their last meeting, about which Sartain writes at length; alluding to this last meeting in a letter to Maria Clemm, written July 19, 1849, Poe writes: "To L ——— and to C——— B——— (and in some measure, also, to Mr. S———) I am indebted for more than life" (5). As his use of "Mr." before Sartain's initial indicates, Poe probably never considered their friendship intimate. Nonetheless, after Poe's death, as I have noted, Sartain did defend his reputation, although he may also have overemphasized the importance of their relationship.
An essay on Poe by Sartain which has recently come to my attention is, as far as I can tell, unmentioned in any of the scholarly or critical works on Poe. It appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript for February 25, 1893. [column 2:] Although it seems to be a reprint of an article that appeared earlier in the Philadelphia Record, I have been unable to locate the original.
Like most of the things Sartain wrote about Poe, this one too deals extensively with their last meeting. For the most part, it treats the same material that Sartain treats in his essay in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for 1889 and in his Reminiscences of a Very Old Man ( 1899), which tends to follow the Lippincott's article almost word for word when dealing with Poe. The wording of the Boston Evening Transcript essay, however, is different from that of the other two works More important is Sartain's allusion in the newspaper to some kind of blackmail that Griswold practiced on him. Griswold, Sartain writes, "was a notorious blackmailer, and I myself had to pay him money to prevent abusive notices of Sartain's Magazine." This information, missing from the other Sartain items, shows us that Sartain was fully aware that Griswold was capable of highly questionable acts toward literary men and that his animosity was not directed at Poe alone.
There are several less important differences among the three accounts. Although the section dealing with Poe in Sartain's Reminiscences gives a fuller account of their relationship than does the newspaper or the Lippincott's essay, in the newspaper alone Sartain says that Poe became one of his "dearest friends." In the newspaper Sartain says that Poe concluded his explanation of his unsettled state by asking for a razor; in both other accounts the request comes after a pause during which Sartain says that he thought Poe might have contemplated suicide. Both the Lippincott's and the Reminiscences accounts state that Poe's discovery that he had been hallucinating came "On the second morning" after his arrival in Philadelphia, while the newspaper has it "Three days after." Finally, whereas the Lippincott's essay leaves out any account of Poe's death, both the newspaper and the Reminiscences discuss it but differ on a minor detail: the former says that Poe was found "in a vacant lot," the latter "upon a broad plank across some barrels on the sidewalk." These and a few other slight differences may be the result of careless wording or, more likely, Sartain's imperfect memory.
Because any contemporary item dealing with Poe and Sartain should be of interest to the literary scholar and the student of American cultural history, I give here the entire Boston Evening Transcript essay. That the editors of the newspaper in 1893 should think an item of this sort worth publishing is itself significant. Because it deals with hallucinations and spirits, the editors might have believed that it would interest a late nineteenth-century audience. Even so, the appearance of the article shows that, fifty-four [page 22:] years after his death, Poe himself was still considered "newsworthy" in the popular sense of the term, if only because of some of the more sensational stories associated with him.
His Hallucinations Described by John Sartain, the Venerable Artist.
"It was at the period of the transfer of Burton's Magazine to Graham that I first met Poe, already of much fame as a poet. He became one of my dearest friends. His memory I cherish and honor. He made many enemies, and many harsh things have been said about him, but I never once saw him drunk, and I believe that in everything he was perfectly honest. To be sure, in his criticisms, especially those in the Stylus, he used 'an iron pen,' and no doubt, as has been said, 'sometimes mistook his vial of prussic acid for his ink bottle.' But I believe he intended to be absolutely fair in all that he wrote.
"As an instance of how far he was above meaner motives, he actually appointed as his literary executor a clergyman whom he had once severely criticised, not seeming to realize that such a hauling over the coals could never be forgotten. As a result, his memory has suffered. That same clergyman, whose name is familiar to readers of Poe literature was a notorious blackmailer, and I myself had to pay him money to prevent abusive notices of Sartain's Magazine.
"As for the charge that Poe was dishonest about his manuscripts, it has been said that he sold 'The Bells" to me thrice over. Indeed, he did sell the poem to me three times, but in an honest way. It was accepted first as a poem of two stanzas. Not being published for some time, Poe thrice added to it, and otherwise altered it. Each time he deemed the poem worth more, and so did I, therefore paying him something extra in each case.
"The first instance of hallucination that I ever detected in Poe occurred about a month before his tragic death. I was at work, in my shirt sleeves, in my office on Sansom street, when Poe burst in upon me excitedly, and exclaimed, 'I have come to you for refuge.' I saw at a glance that he was suffering from some mental overstrain, and assured him of shelter. I then begged him to explain.
"'I was just on my way to New York on the train,' he said to me, 'when I heard whispering going on behind me. Owing to my marvellous power of hearing I was enabled to overhear what the conspirators were saying. Just imagine such a thing in this nineteenth century! They were plotting to murder me. I immediately left the train and hastened back here again. I must disguise myself in someway. I must shave off this mustache at once. Will you lend me a razor? '
"Afraid to trust him with it, I told him I hadn't any, but that I could remove his moustache [sic ] with the scissors. Taking him to the rear of the office I sheared away [column 2:] until he was absolutely barefaced. This satisfied him somewhat and I managed to calm him. That very evening, however, he prepared to leave the house. 'Where are you going?' I asked. 'To the Schuylkill,' he replied. 'Then I am going along with you,' I declared. He did not object, and together we walked to Chestnut street and took a 'bus.
"A steep flight of steps used to lead up from the Schuylkill then, and ascending these we sat on a bench overlooking the stream. The night was black, without a star, and I felt somewhat nervous alone with Poe in the condition he was in. Going up in the 'bus he said to me, 'After my death see that my mother (Mrs. Clemm) gets that portrait of me from Osgood.'
"Now he began to talk the wildest nonsense, in the weird, dramatic style of his tales. He said he had been thrown into Moyamensing Prison for forging a check, and while there a white female form had appeared on the battlements and addressed him in whispers.
" 'If I had not heard what she said,' he declared, 'it would have been the end of me. But, owing to my marvellous hearing, I lost not a single word. Then another figure appeared and invited me to walk with him around the battlements. He conducted me to a caldron of liquid, and asked me if I wished a drink. I refused, for that was a trap. Do you know what would have happened if I had accepted? They would have lifted me over the caldron, and placed me in the liquid up to my lips, like Tantalus, and gone away and left me there.'
"By and by I suggested that we descend again and Poe assented. All the way down the steep steps I trembled lest he should remember his resolve of suicide, but I kept his mind from it and got him back safely. Three days after he went out again and returned in the same mood. 'I lay on the earth with my nose in the grass,' he said then, 'and the smell revived me. I began at once to realize the falsity of my hallucinations.'
"A month later he left Washington to meet his bride. A storm deterred him from crossing at Havre de Grace and he returned to Baltimore. Behind him, in the car, even as in his hallucination, sat a number of suspicious-looking persons. When Poe passed down one of the streets they followed at his heels. Poe was well dressed and undoubtedly had money in his Pockets. The next morning he was found in a vacant lot, nearly dead. He was clad in shabby clothes and had evidently been drugged. When, later, beseeched at the hospital to drink a toddy, he put up his hand and waved it off—and thus he died."
(1) See Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, 5 (December 1849), 386-387, for Sartain's first discussion in print of the changing form of "The Bells." See also his "Reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe," Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, 43 (March 1889), 411-415, especially 411-412; John Sartain, Reminiscences of a Very Old Man (1899; rpt. New York: Benjamin Blom, 1969), pp. 202-205; William Sartain, "Edgar Allan Poe—Some Facts Recalled," Art World, 2 (July 1917), 321-323; and Arthur Hobson Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941), pp. 563-564. My thanks to the University of California for Intramural Research Grant Number [page 23:] 1130 which helped support this work, and to Mr. John Bednorz and Professor George Knox who assisted me with it.
(2) For a list of Poe items in Sartain's Union Magazine, see John W. Robertson, Bibliography of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1934; rpt. New York: Krause Reprint Company, 1969), I, 218-219.
(3) J. Sartain, "Reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe," pp. 412-413.
(4) In addition to the items cited above, see F. DeWolfe Miller, "The Basis for Poe's 'The Island of the Fay,'" American Literature, 14 (1942), 135-140, where Miller discusses the relationship between Sartain and Poe's story.
(5) The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. John Ward Ostrom (New York: Gordian Press, Inc., 1966), 11, 455. On page 456, Ostrom identifies the other people mentioned in this sentence as George Lippard and Chauncey Burr.
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Rusko made our end of the year list with his album, Songs. Songs was a fantastic album that showcased his ability to blend old school dub with modern flavor. His follow up release was Kapow, which seemed to disappoint fans. Since then Rusko has been quiet, but he has ended his silence with, Lift Me Up. Everything about his newest EP is brilliant.
While Lift Me Up is only three tracks, all of them are fantastic takes on DnB. The albums opener, Starlight, is a melodic track featuring lovely vocals from Claes Rosen. The breaks in Starlight are infectious and – layered with the chopped vocals – make this the standout track on the EP. Lift Me Up is next and combines melodic vocals with an aggressive drop. The final track, Murda Sound, is aggressive. I really like Rusko's take on Nuerofunk., it has a slight "funk" feel to it.
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It's a bit of a running joke around the office that there are two women I am in love with/who turn me into a gawky teenage boy: the model Constance Jablonski (she is a living, breathing angel) and Caroline de Maigret, who, in case you are unaware, is a music producer and model in Paris. She is also super fucking cool, and the quintessential Parisian woman in that she eats butter and croissants, stays out "too late' sometimes, smokes cigarettes sometimes, wears practically zero makeup—especially none to hide her under-eye circles; they're 'life badges'!—and doesn't own a hair brush, and yet somehow manages to look as if she's stepped out of an Isabel Marant campaign 100% of the time. Anyway, I say all of this to set the scene: coffee at the Bowery Hotel a few weeks ago, this exemplar of French cool—fringe covering tired eyes, dressed in a slouchy white sweater and jeans—telling me she recently hired a personal trainer. That's like Christy Turlington saying she's just ' over' working out. "It was time," de Maigret explained. "But I still hate it," She promised to write me a postcard about her new fitness regimen when she got back to Paris. Here it is.
—Nick Axelrod
I hate sport. I don't like watching it, I don't like doing it. Yes, I like to swim in the sea in the summer or play tennis with friends during my holidays. But that's not "sport," That's leisure once a year, for an hour. See, I've had this great chance in life of being born with good genes. I was born tall, with a pretty face (not to everyone's taste, I concede), and a thin body.
What I mean by "thin' is that whatever I would eat until the age of 30 had no effect on my weight. I could do whatever I want; I'd stay in shape without dieting or exercising. By the age of 31, my man and I decided to have a baby. One year later, Anton was born and I had gained 53 pounds. (Believe me, it's not easy to have nine months straight of chili con carne cravings!) I lost the weight very fast, and the last few pounds were finally gone nine months later. All fine.
One morning, I'd say around my 37th birthday, I saw myself in the mirror and was stunned: my body had changed! I had not seen, at all, the evolution happen, but it was there. That body, with more curves around the waist, the belly, the hips, and thighs. The skin not as toned as it used to be: I had aged.
It wasn't the easiest thing to accept, and it brought other life anxieties along the way. But once it was finally digested and understood, it was OK, and life went on. It goes on because I feel like a teenager in an adult body. I breathe young.
So here I was, having to face my new reality. I had to start exercising. (I am not going to tell you about the different membership gym cards I went through—the ones I never attended and cost me a fortune.) I hated it. Hate hate hate. "What do I care what my body looks like,"; "I'm not a Barbie doll'; "I'd rather be reading books anyway than wasting time at the gym' were going through my mind...
I then realized I was not being honest with myself. I could do both: nurture my mind and take care of my body! I just needed someone to push me because obviously I was not able to do it alone. So I met Bruno, a coach who now comes to my house twice a week. (It's a big luxury, believe me, I realize every day how lucky I am in life— this is Bruno, by the way). And it all changed. Exercising is hard, but it makes me feel so right. My mind feels so alive and sharp; my body feels toned.
That's all I'm asking for: to feel good about myself. I don't feel tired anymore although my schedule is crazy. I wake up better, I climb up stairs faster, I have less anxieties. It's quite magical, really, how good it is for the soul to feel OK in your body. (Oh please, what a cliché! But I had never guessed it was so true.)
I still pray the night before our session that Bruno's gonna call in sick in the morning, and I still have adrenaline rushes when he's five minutes late, thinking that, by chance, he might not show up. But I'm so happy at the end of the hour, to have worked so hard and to feel so good.
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Clipsal by Schneider Electric's Ashley Ralph, General Manager – Partner Programs will run 1000 kilometres (100km a day for 10 days) from Melbourne to Adelaide, with the aim of raising $400,000 to be shared by the two charities.
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Travelling through regional Victoria and South Australia, Ashley will engage with local communities along the way. He is running from Clipsal by Schneider in Notting Hill, Melbourne, to Geelong where he will be met with Patrick Dangerfield, across to Colac, through Port Fairy crossing into South Australia through Mount Gambier. He will then travel up via Salt Creek to Wellington, Strathalbyn and finish on the final day down the straight of the Clipsal 1000 Adelaide track on Friday 3 March.
Ashley is no stranger to a challenge. In 2014, he cycled 2,800km over 14 days from Perth to Adelaide, in 2012 he placed 3rd in the Adelaide Ultra Marathon and in 2006 he cycled 3,000kms over 21 days, raising funds for other worthy causes. He is also an eight-time Ironman triathlon finisher, four-time half ironman finished and four-time 42km Marathon finisher.
Ashley says, "The Club Clipsal 1000 challenge is my biggest physical and mental challenge yet but it is nothing compared to the challenges faced by burns survivors and children facing a life-threatening condition every single day".
Clipsal by Schneider Electric and Club Clipsal members are committed to the Club Clipsal 1000 challenge. "It is because of their generous support that we are well on our way to raising $400K collectively for the Julian Burton Burns Trust and Variety – the Children's Charity, " Ashley said.
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In 2016 we started to define quarterly OKR (Objective, Key Results) to set the Reps program's goals. Last December and early this month we worked closely together with the Community Development Team to define the team's goals for the quarter. These are highly relevant for the Reps program and the Reps' goals are tightly coupled with these. To make it better understandable what this means for the Reps program, we have created our own goals based on the aforementioned objectives. In the following graphic you can see how all these goals play together.
Objective 1 – We start to have a unified approach across Mozilla of recruiting, aligning and investing in mobilizers
- KR 1 – Shared onboarding framework and tools are identified for Reps, Regional Coaches, Club Leads and Resource Leads
- KR 2 – 50% of Reps activities are in support of activities prioritized on Activate mobilizer portal
- KR 3 – Core community sentiment > 11.5 NPS (Net Promoter Score)
- KR 4 – Mobilizer sentiment > 20 NPS (Net Promoter Score)
Objective 2 – We have a strong base in our transformation towards a mobilizer program
- KR 1 – Communication channels have a clear purpose and we have a list of defined content to share on these channels
- KR 2 – 100% Reps watching both Reps and NDA discourse by the end of February.
- KR 3 – We have a clear plan on Coaching in the Reps program in 2017 and the Leadership track is open for applications to run a draft training
- KR 4 – Reps Resources Training is finished and the Resources track is open for applications
- KR 5 – At least 50 Reps have given feedback on the draft Community Participation Guidelines
We will work closely with the Community Development Team to achieve our goals. We will be working together with the Community Development Team, therefore we will use the heartbeat model as well. For the first heartbeat (ends February 11th) we have defined our working packets:
- Prepare the ground for having the Reps as a mobilizers program
- Have a strategy on Mozactivate on next steps while we keep the momentum on the activities
- Have a clear communications plan for NDA Mozillians
You can follow the progress of these tasks in the Reps Issue Tracker.
Which of the above objectives are you most interested in? What key result would you like to hear more about? What do you find intriguing? Which thoughts cross your mind upon reading this? Where would you like to help out? Let's keep the conversation going! Join the discussion on Discourse.


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There is life, and there are thoughts about life. If we see our thoughts as thoughts, we don't become our thoughts; we recognize that we are different from our thoughts. Thoughts just arise and disappear; we can't even say they arise within us. Leave them alone. Do not grab them, do not collect them, do not push them away, do not think about them. Leave them alone. We just have to recognize that thoughts are thoughts, and we are not those thoughts.
In this recognition, we make direct contact with life, we open to life, and as we open to life, life opens to us, life reaches towards us and touches us right in the center of our heart. Our heart breaks open, and another heart is revealed. This is the true heart, the one that knows how to meet life with open arms.
This meeting with life occurs in Silence. In Silence we have no problems, nor are we confused or frightened by life. When we are not confused or frightened, we do not act in crazy ways.
Without this recognition, we become our thoughts, and we begin to have a lot of problems. Trying to solve these problems with more thought only tightens the noose. Soon, we can't breathe, we become afraid, and we start acting out our fear in crazy ways. The only effective way to solve these problems — the ones created by thinking we are our thoughts — is to touch life again, through Silence.
Silence is the recognition that thoughts about life are not life itself. If we stay in touch with life through Silence, life will stay in touch with us. In this way, we become life itself, not thoughts about life. And then the mystery of life, the magic of life, and the beauty of life become our life.
Some people call this meeting with life "awakening" or "enlightenment." I just call it natural. It is natural. It is simple. We do not need to think anything about it. We do not need to do anything about it. We just have to recognize that we are not our thoughts. Then we live naturally, and simply, and beautifully.


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Background: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a cluster of established cardiovascular risk factors that collectively increase predisposition to major chronic diseases, including heart diseases and diabetes mellitus. Young adults can be affected by MS or any of its components which predispose them to its complications later in their life. Hence early detection of MS and its components can be of help in preventing or controlling its adverse consequences among young adults. Materials and Methods: A total of 1354 Saudis aged 18 - 30 was randomly selected from 20 regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Anthropometrics were collected, and fasting blood samples were collected to ascertain fasting blood glucose and lipid profile. Components of full MS and its components according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) were used in this study. Results: Metabolic syndrome prevalence was 12% and was significantly higher among males, advancing age and government employees and unemployed subjects but not according to income or education levels MS was significantly higher among current smokers, subjects with low physical activity level, but not significant according to dietary habits in terms of combined fruits and vegetables consumption. Low levels of High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) were the most frequent component in both males and females. Both waist circumference (WC) and low levels of HDL were much higher among females. Significant predictors included male gender, advancing age, lower level of physical activity and current smoking. Conclusion: The prevalence of MS is 12% in young adults. Low HDL is the most prevalent component of MS in young adults and thus may also be the first detectable component of MS in many young adults. Early identification of MS components could lead to targeted interventions to prevent the development of the syndrome, and thus reduce cardiovascular disease risk in later life.
Metabolic Syndrome, Young Adults, Saudi Arabia
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1. Introduction
Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is morbidity asymptomatic initially with features of hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, insulin resistance and dysglycemia. The person is diagnosed as having MS depends on the definition used which usually includes at least three of the following five components: large waist circumference, elevated triglycerides, low HDL, raised blood pressure, and elevated fasting blood Glucose. Hence the prevalence of MS will depend on which of these components are used and other factors such as demographics, life style habits and other factors [1] [2] [3] [4] . Investigating MS and its components among young adults is a worthwhile project as even the presence of just a single component increases the risk of future MS and cardiovascular morbidity in young adults [5] [6] . Hence early detection of any component of MS will be very helpful in intervention strategies with significant public health benefit. Several studies were conducted worldwide addressing MS using recommended methodology the IDF definition of MS [2] [7] .
2. Materials and Methods
This was a cross-sectional, community-based study that covered the entire population of KSA in 2005. The WHO STEP wise approach to surveillance (STEPS) of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) risk factors was the basis of the conduct of the survey and collection of the data [2] [8] [9] . The STEPS approach focuses on obtaining core data on the established risk factors that determine the major disease burden. The STEPS instrument covers three different levels of "steps" of risk factor assessment. They are: Questionnaire, Physical measurements and Biochemical measurements. The original survey covers all Saudi nationals aged 15 - 64 years from all the 20 health regions of the country made up the study population. Stratified cluster random sampling technique was used to recruit the subjects. Stratification was based on age (five 10-year age groups) and gender (male/female, two groups). All health regions of the country (20 regions) were covered. Based upon the proposed methodology of the WHO STEP wise approach, a sample size of 196 was calculated for each of these categories. A list of all primary health care centers (PHCCs) in each region was prepared; 10% of these PHCCs were randomly chosen and allocated a regional sample proportionate to the size of their catchment population in the sampled PHCCs. To identify the households, a map of the health center coverage area was used to select the houses. Each house was assigned a number, and a simple random draw was made. Data were collected using the WHO STEP wise approach, a tool used for epidemiologic studies to measure NCD in WHO-member countries [8] [9] . It covers three levels of risk factor assessment (steps) which include a questionnaire, physical (anthropometric) and biochemical measurements including fasting serum glucose, lipid profile (triglycerides (TGs), total, HDL-C and low-density lipoprotein (LD)), chronic diseases (noncommunicable e.g. hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, etc.), and risk factors (e.g., obesity, smoking, physical activity, diet). The questionnaire was translated into Arabic by a team of physicians and then translated back to ensure its accuracy. The Arabic instrument was pretested and corrected before being tested on 51 eligible respondents to check the wording and the clarity of the questions. Necessary adjustments were made to the instrument in the light of the pretest. Data was collected by 54 male and 54 female data collectors working in teams. Each field team was made up of four persons: A male data collector, a female data collector, a driver, and a female assistant. The data collection teams were supervised by a hierarchy of a local supervisor, regional coordinators, and national coordinator. All individuals involved in data collection attended a comprehensive training workshop of interview techniques, data collection tools, practical applications, and field guidelines. Blood (5 ml) was collected, from the participants in the morning after an overnight fast. Sodium heparin was used as an anticoagulant, and the samples were centrifuged at 3000× g for 15 min at 20˚C to separate plasma. Aliquots were prepared for storage (−20˚C or −80˚C) until further analysis. Total cholesterol (TC), TGs, and glucose were measured with commercially available enzymatic colorimetric kits from QCA (Amposta, Spain). Seriscann normal (ref 994148) (QCA, Amposta, Spain) was used for quality control. Serum HDL levels were analyzed by an enzymatic method after precipitating serum reagents with phosphotungstic acid and magnesium. LDL-C was calculated according to the Friedewald formula (LDL-C = TC − HDL − [TG/5]). Height, weight, and waist and hip circumferences were measured using standard instruments, according to the STEP wise approach [8] [9] Body weight and height were measured without shoes, using electronic measuring scale. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight in kilogram divided by height in m2. WC was measured, in cm, midway between the lower costal margin and iliac crest during the end-expiratory phase. For the definition of MS, the IDF for MS was used in this study as follows [7] . Central obesity (defined as WC ≥ 94 cm for Europid men and ≥ 80 cm for Europid women, with ethnicity specific values for other groups). Plus, any two of the following four factors:
1) Raised TG level: ≥150 mg/dL (1.7 mmol/L),
2) Reduced HDL: <40 mg/dL (1.03 mmol/L) in males and <50 mg/dL (1.29 mmol/L) in females,
3) Raised blood pressure (BP): Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) ≥ 130 or Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) ≥ 85 mm Hg,
4) Raised fasting plasma glucose ≥ 100 mg/Dl (5.6 mmol/L).
The case definition of MS was generated using statistical analysis system statistical package.
Questionnaires collected from the field were reviewed by the team leaders assigned to each team before submission to headquarters for data entry. A double entry of the questionnaires was done using Epi-Info 2000 software and EpiData software developed by the Menzes center for validation. After entry, the data, was cleaned. New variables were defined by adopting the standard STEPS variables (STEPS data management manual, draft version v1.5, October 2003). Collected data were cleaned, entered and statistically analyzed using SPSS for Windows, version 17.0 (Chicago, IL, USA). The data were given as mean and standard deviation for continuous variables and as frequencies (percentages) for categorical variables. Association between categorical variables was assessed using a Chi-square test. Differences between means were checked using t test or ANOVA or Manwhitnney or Kruskall tests as appropriate after checking for normality. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify predictors of MS and its individual components the level of significance was set at <0.05 throughout the study. Total counts may vary because of missing data from certain variables. The protocol and the survey instrument were approved by the ministry of health, center of biomedical ethics, and the appropriate authorities in KSA. The Institute Review Board (IRB) of King Fahad Medical City approved this study (IRB 19-090 dated 12 February 2019). Informed consent of all subjects was obtained. Participants were assured of confidentiality of data, and that they would be used only for the stated purpose of the survey. For this study only all young adults aged 18 - 30 years of age were selected from all subjects 15 - 64 years of age included in the survey.
3. Results
The young subjects aged 18 - 30 years were 1514 and 160 (10.6%) of them were excluded from final analysis due to missing data and there were no significant differences according to demographic characteristics between these 160 excluded subjects and the 1354 included subjects. Table 1 shows their demographic characteristics and prevalence of MS among the 1354 subjects included in the analysis. MS prevalence was 12% and was significantly higher among males, advancing age and government employees and unemployed subjects but not according to income or education levels.
Table 2 profiles MS according to some life style characteristics. Metabolic syndrome was significantly higher among current smokers, subjects with low physical activity level, but not significant according dietary habits in terms of combined fruits and vegetables consumption.
Table 3 depicts the frequency of each of the five components of MS among the study subjects. HDL was the most frequent component in both males and females. Both WC and low levels of HDL were much higher among females.
There were no significant differences in TGs, fasting blood glucose and hypertension according to demographic characteristics of subjects except age
Table 1. Metabolic syndrome according to demographic characteristics.
and gender for TGs and physical activity for fasting blood glucose. TGs were significantly more in males (24.1%) compared to females (17.3%) and in subjects 24 years of age with fasting blood glucose significantly higher among subjects with low physical activity level. Other results not depicted in tables revealed no significant differences in all these parameters according to education, occupation, income, smoking status and dietary habits concerning consumption of fruits and vegetables. Table 4 shows result of Logistic regression analysis for significant predictors of MS. All variables entered in bivariate analysis were entered in Logistic Regression Model. Significant predictors included male gender, advancing age, lower level of physical activity and current smoking as shown in Table 5.
Table 2. Metabolic syndrome according to some life style characteristics.
Table 3. Frequency of metabolic syndrome components among the study subject (n = 1354).
4. Discussion
About a quarter of the world population is estimated to have MS according to IDF with wide variations according to sociodemographic characteristics among the general population. Prevalence rates of MS among young adults using IDF definition ranged from 1.28% to over 23.0% in different communities [10] - [18] . The IDF estimates that ≈25% of the world's population has MS [3] although this estimate varies widely due to the age, ethnicity, and gender of the population studied [4] . Having a slightly raised value of a MS component at a younger age increases the future risk for MS later in life [5] . Therefore, it is important to establish the prevalence of MS components in young adults (18 - 30 years), as the presence of a MS component could represent a lifetime of increased
Table 4. Parameters of common cutoff points in males and females according to gender, age and physical activity level.
Table 5. Backward Wald logistic regression analysis for predictors of metabolic syndrome.
a. Variable(s) entered on step 1: c1, age, totsmoke, d1_day, d2_day, T_Activity, bmi, b8, edu_rev, work_rev, inome_rev, WHteatio, pulspressure.
cardiovascular disease risk. Moreover, the early identification of MS components could lead to targeted interventions to prevent the development of the syndrome, and thus reduce cardiovascular disease risk in later life. The results of this study revealed that MS affects 12% of young adults aged 18 - 30 years. Prevalence rates of MS among young adults using IDF [7] definition ranged from 1.28% in Romania [10] , to 27% in Russia [11] with prevalence rates in between in many communities. These include prevalence rates of 3.6% in Turkey [12] , 6.8% among young females in Emirates [13] , 6.9% in Korea [14] , 8.7% in India [15] , 12.2% in Brazil [16] , 17% in Canada [17] , 21.6% in USA [14] and 23.1% in South Africa [18] . Variations in prevalence rates can be expected and explained partly by differences in sociodemographic, geographic and life style characteristics. The risk factors and predictors of MS in this study included male gender, advancing age, smoking, and lower physical activity level. Male gender was a significant predictor of MS among young adults in the majority of studies in other communities [11] [19] [20] [21] , Few studies reported that females are more affected than males [10] [12] while a study found no significant difference in MS among young adults according to gender [22] . The inconsistencies can be due to some confounding factors. Smoking and lower physical activity levels were significantly associated with higher prevalence of MS in this study in agreement with many studies worldwide [11] [21] [22] [23] [24] . Education, income and dietary habits were not significantly associated with MS among young Saudi adults in this study in disagreement with studies in other communities [17] [18] [25] . As for the prevalence of the different components of MS in this study lower levels of HDL was the most prevalent component, in both males and females in agreement with many studies worldwide, [10] [17] [19] [20] [22] [24] [26] . This finding raises the possibility that low HDL may be a key marker identifying early pathology associated with the development of MS Prevention of the development of the first MS component may have significant public health benefits as the presence of one component is predictive of the development of MS [6] . An increased waist circumference affected 44% of females in this study. A study reported that central obesity was the highest component of MS affecting 87.0% of all the metabolic syndrome subjects [26] [27] . Abdominal obesity was the most common component MS affecting young adults [10] [17] [19] . Significantly more females (51.9%) presented with increased WC than males (4.6%) [11] in accordance with findings of the present study. International studies reported that Atherogenic dyslipidemia defined as low HDL was the most prevalent MS component regardless of the criteria used (26.9% - 41.2%) followed by raised blood pressure (16.6% - 26.6%), abdominal obesity (6.8% - 23.6%), atherogenic dyslipidemia defined as raised triglycerides (8.6% - 15.6%), and raised fasting glucose (2.8% - 15.4%) [28] .
5. Strengths and Limitations
This study, on a large sample of Saudi adults aged 18 - 30 years provides an analysis of correlates and determinants of MS and its individual components by examining the associations and predictors of MS and sociodemographic characteristics and life-style habits. Such information is hoped to be helpful in intervention strategies in this young productive sector of the community.
The study was cross-sectional in design and thus temporal direction of the relationships investigated is unclear. Given that lifestyle behaviors were self-reported, it is possible that some responses were influenced by social desirability, subjectivity and recall bias.
6. Conclusion
The prevalence of MS is 12% in young adults. Low HDL is the most prevalent component of MS in young adults and thus may also be the first detectable component of MS in many young adults. Exploring the importance and significance of low HDL in young adults may have considerable public health benefit as interventions aimed at improving low HDL cholesterol levels could reduce future incidence of MS and subsequent clinical disease. Waist circumference in females deserves similar consideration as it's widely prevalent. Early identification of MS components could lead to targeted interventions to prevent the development of the syndrome, and thus reduce cardiovascular disease risk in later life.
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Since coming back on the scene in 2000, hitmakers Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have made it a habit to regularly hit the road each summer tour season, a practice that in their earlier years was looked upon with trepidation.
In fact, after some live gigs to support their first album, Steely Dan stopped touring altogether and weren't seen in person for 25 years. Now with a typical sense of irony, they've extended their Rent Party '09 tour with an extended leg hitting 17 cities. And in a sagacious move to add some extra panache to their clever marketing ploy, they've decided to host several two-night stands in order to feature the albums Aja and The Royal Scam in their entirety.
Last night's opening set in Akron was a well-attended affair that got underway with Chicago's Deep Blue Organ Trio as an aperitif. Fagen and Becker are jazzheads, so this was no surprise. Organist Chris Foreman, guitarist Bobby Broom and drummer Chris Rockingham wasted no time getting to the point with tasty solos and blues-inflected grooves. A shuffle beat affixed to Earth, Wind & Fire's "Can't Hide Love" was a highlight of their three-song set.
Carrying the subliminal jazz message even further, set changes would reveal a fine piece of artwork attached to the front of Fagen's Fender Rhodes, which depicted a youthful Duke Ellington leading a band from his piano. For the coup de grace, as Steely Dan would put it, a run-through of Oliver Nelson's "Teenie's Blues" featuring only the horns and rhythm section would serve as the group's opening gambit.
Once Fagen and Becker took the stage, singer Catherine Russell stepped up to a turntable on the side of the stage and placed the needle in the groove, complete with sound effects. From there, the opening strains of "Black Cow" ushered in an authentic but equally fresh run through of Aja.
The highlight of the album's first side is the title track, and this was true last night. Tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf stepped into the solo shoes originally filled by Wayne Shorter and did more than his share to put his stamp on the number. The same could be said for Keith Carlock, who upped the ante in the drum department, taking over a part that is considered one of studio legend Steve Gadd's finest recorded moments.
As "Deacon Blues" wrapped up, Russell would step up to the turntable once again to the flip the record over for the other half of the program. Both "Home at Last" and "Josie" would sport fine guitar solos from Walter Becker, who seemed particularly more animated and outgoing musically than he has been in the past.
Rounding out the evening was an entertaining cross section of the rest of the band's history. Again, Becker would take on a more active role in the proceedings, actually delivering a few lines during "Hey Nineteen" and doing the lead vocals on "Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More."
A welcomed number of more recent vintage, "Godwhacker" mixed in nicely with such iconic trinkets as "Babylon Sisters," "Don't Take Me Alive" and "My Old School." There was also plenty of room for solos from guitarist Jon Herington, saxophonist Walt Weiskopf and trumpeter Michael Leonhart.
At just a wee bit past the two-hour mark, a rousing chorus of applause brought the band back for an encore. With "Reelin' in the Years," the band played their irony card once again. Even Becker marveled at the fact that he and Fagen had been at it for 40 years, and yet the music is as vital and important now as a it ever was. Some reelin' indeed. —C. Andrew Hovan


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New Study: Dasotraline Effective in Treating ADHD in Children
New research indicates that 4 mg of the medication dasotraline effectively treats ADHD symptoms in children aged 6 to 12 years. The medication is not yet available, as the FDA required additional clinical data before evaluating its efficacy and tolerability for the treatment of ADHD.
In May 2020, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., halted its drug development program for dasotraline, withdrawing both New Drug Applications (NDA) for ADHD and BED (binge-eating disorder). "We believe that further clinical studies would be needed to support a regulatory approval for dasotraline in these indications," the company said in a press release.
September 5, 2019
Encouraging new research suggests that the medication dasotraline, a dual-acting dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (DNRI), may be one step closer to FDA approval for the treatment of ADHD in children. The study, published in the Journal of Attention Disorders,1 found that 4 mg of dasotraline is an effective and tolerable treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) in children aged 6 to 12 years.
The research was conducted by dasotraline manufacturer Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc., in conjunction with AVIDA Inc. and the Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in Las Vegas, in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its 2018 request for additional clinical data on dasotraline's efficacy and tolerability for the treatment of ADHD. The FDA said it could not approve dasotraline's New Drug Application for ADHD treatment without additional research like this.
The randomized, double-blind study included 112 children with ADHD, ages 6 to 12 years, half of whom received a once-daily evening dose of dasotraline 4 mg or placebo for 14 days. On days 0 and 15, researchers measured the severity of ADHD symptoms by administering the Swanson, Kotkin, Agler, M-Flynn, and Pelham (SKAMP) rating scale and the Permanent Product Measure of Performance (PERMP) math test.
Participants treated daily with dasotraline had significantly greater least squares (LS) mean improvement from their baseline to Day 15 in the SKAMP-combined score, in the SKAMP-attention subscale score, and in the SKAMP-deportment subscale scores. Despite the potential adverse side effects of insomnia (19.6% vs 3.6% prevalence in the placebo group), headaches (10.7% vs. 8.9%), and decreased appetite (10.7% vs. 3.6%), researchers found dasotraline to be an effective ADHD medication.
Dasotraline has not been approved by the FDA for the treatment of ADHD or binge eating disorder, for which it is also indicated.
1 Wigal, S. B., Hopkins, S. C., Koblan, K. S., Childress, A., Kent, J. M., Tsai, J… Goldman, R. "Efficacy and Safety of Dasotraline in Children With ADHD: A Laboratory Classroom Study." Journal of Attention Disorders. (Aug.2019) https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054719864644


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The 6th annual edition of Solar Asset Management Europe, a two-day conference to focus on the optimization of the operational phase of PV plants and portfolios, is scheduled to take place in Milan, Italy, on October 23 and 24.
The conference, regarded as Europe's leading industry event in its domain, promises to bring together top players active in the European solar market, including asset managers, IPPs, utilities, investors, (O&M) service providers, manufacturers, developers and advisors.
This meeting hub for solar industry professionals in Europe represents an excellent opportunity for participants to gain additional insight into the fundamentals as well as cutting-edge topics related to solar asset management and O&M.
Dynamic developments in Greece's solar PV market captured the interest of Solarplaza, the conference organizer behind the Solar Asset Management conferences.
Konstantinos Tzanakakis, Project Manager at Solarplaza, regards Greece as a key market for developers aiming to grow their portfolio over the coming years.
Highlighting the Greek market's appeal, Florida-based US firm Origis Energy, a leading solar developer in Greece and key player in the global solar energy market, maintains 31 Greek projects – a large percentage of its overall capacity – in its portfolio. Last May, Origis Energy was ranked among Europe's top 70 portfolio owners. Origis Energy has facilitated the construction of over 1 GW of Solar PV in Europe, the US as well as Latin America.
Participating speaker Diomidis Dorkofikis, who works in energy infrastructure investments in Southern Europe for Foresight Group, is listed among the event's speakers. He will share his valuable expertise with a speech on the 'Deployment of Solar PV financing'.
For further information visit www.solarassetmanagementeu.com