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For years, dog owners in Glen Cove had taken their pets to Garvies Point for off-leash runs. It wasn't an official dog park, and city law doesn't allow dogs off-leash, but police looked the other way.
Then last month, the city closed off the open space area along Hempstead Harbor to make way for construction of a housing, recreational and commercial development.
"I was really upset because she loves it there," said Ava Skelly, referring to her German shepherd-black Labrador mix, Halo. "She'd run around for hours. When they closed it, people didn't know what to do."
But last Friday, Halo was frolicking with her buddy Max, a Rottweiler she knows from Garvies Point, at the city's first official dog run area, within Dennis Brian Murray Park. City workers had finished installing black fencing for the dog park hours earlier.
The park came about after dog owners asked Mayor Reginald Spinello for an alternative to Garvies Point.
"It's great, because it was an underutilized park, and it's going to become very utilized now," Spinello said.
On Friday afternoon, more than a dozen dogs and their human companions were socializing in the two dog enclosures.
Max's owner, Frank DeLaRosa, said his dog had become more hyperactive at home because he wasn't getting as much exercise as he had gotten running around Garvies Point twice a day.
"He missed his friend a lot," DeLaRosa said, gesturing toward Halo and Max as they wrestled in the grass.
Until Thursday, dogs were banned from all city parks. The City Council on Oct. 13 voted to allow them at Murray and at Big Ralph Park, although for several weeks before, the city allowed people to bring their dogs to the parks if the animals were leashed. Big Ralph will require that dogs be leashed.
The next step, which Spinello said would be taken at the Oct. 25 council meeting, is to enact a law allowing dogs to run off-leash in the fenced-in area at Murray, and to create rules for the dog park. Until then, the dog park is not officially open, but Spinello said police would not ticket residents who use it.
The city plans to run water pipes to the park to create a spigot for drinking water for the dogs, Spinello said. Dog owners are starting to raise money for play equipment such as a ramp and tunnel, and for benches for owners, said dog owner Maribeth Graf, who helped lead the effort for a dog park.
Jessica Sinacore is overjoyed at having a dog park a block from her home. Sam, her golden retriever, barked and wagged his tail as dogs arrived at the pen on Friday.
"He's so excited to be here," Sinacore said. "He loves to socialize with other dogs and meet and greet."
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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine, USA.
Editor of Andean Past, published by Cornell University.
He teaches courses on South American Prehistory, Archaeology, Peoples and Cultures of South America and Paleo-environmental Archaeology.
His research focuses on prehistoric coastal adaptations, primarily in Peru. Topical interests include the effects on cultural development of climate change, particularly the prehistory of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, and environmental change, particularly rising sea level during the last deglaciation; also the development and organization of complex societies in the coastal setting.
Methodological interests include the analysis of molluscan remains from archaeological sites.
Current projects include evaluation of evidence for mid-Holocene climate change on the north Peruvian coast; investigation of Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene maritime adaptations at sites in southern Peru; study of northern Peruvian beach ridge sequences and their relation to El Niño and tectonic activity.
Research Projects :
Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime Adaptations
Sandweiss, D.H. 1986. "The Beach Ridges at Santa, Peru: El Niño, Uplift, and Prehistory." Geoarchaeology 1:17-28.
Rollins, H.B., D.H. Sandweiss, U. Brand, and J.C. Rollins. 1987. "Growth Increment and Stable Isotope Analysis of Marine Bivalves: Implications for the Geoarchaeological Record of El Niño." Geoarchaeology 2:181-187.
Sandweiss, D.H. 1992. "The Archaeology of Chincha Fishermen: Specialization and Status in Inka Peru." Carnegie Museum of Natural History Bulletin 29.ix + 162 pp.
T. Heyerdahl, Sandweiss, D.H., A. Narváez 1995. The Pyramids of Túcume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City. Thames & Hudson, London.
Sandweiss, D.H. 1996. "Mid-Holocene Cultural Interaction Between the North Coast of Peru and Ecuador." Latin American Antiquity 7:41-50.
Sandweiss, D.H., J.B. Richardson III, E.J. Reitz, H.B. Rollins, and K.A. Maasch 1996. "Geoarchaeological Evidence from Peru for a 5,000 BP Onset of El Niño." Science 273:1531-1533.
Sandweiss, D.H. and E.S. Wing 1997. "Ritual Rodents: The Guinea Pigs of Chincha, Peru." Journal of Field Archaeology 24:47-58.
Sandweiss, D.H., J.B. Richardson III, E.J. Reitz, H.B. Rollins, and K.A. Maasch 1997. "Determining the Early History of El Niño: Response." Science 276:966-967.
Sandweiss, D.H., H. McInnis, R.L. Burger, A. Cano, B. Ojeda, R. Paredes, M.C. Sandweiss, and M.D. Glascock 1998. "Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime Adaptations." Science 281:1830-1832
Sandweiss, D.H. 1999. The Return of the Native Symbol: Peru Picks Spondylus to Represent New Integration with Ecuador. Society for American Archaeology Bulletin 17(2): 1, 8-9.
Copson, W. and D.H. Sandweiss 1999. Native and Spanish Perspectives on the 1578 El Niño. In The Entangled Past: Integrating History and Archaeology. Proceedings of the 1997 Chacmool Conference, edited by M. Boyd, J.C. Erwin, and M. Hendrickson, pp. 208-220. Calgary: University of Calgary.
Sandweiss, D.H., K.A. Maasch, R.L. Burger, J.B. Richardson III, H.B. Rollins, A. Clement 2001 Variation in Holocene El Niño frequencies: Climate records and cultural consequences in ancient Peru. Geology 29:603-606.
Sandweiss, D.H., M.E. Moseley, J. Haas, W. Creamer 2001 Amplifying Importance of New Research in Peru. Science 294:1651-1653.
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PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today awarded former Sabah chief minister Harris Salleh RM600,000 in damages for defamation over the "Double Six" tragedy where then chief minister Fuad Stephens and 10 others on board an aircraft died in a crash on June 6, 1976.
Chief Judge of Malaya Ahmad Maarop, who delivered the judgment of the five-man bench, said the defendant, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Yong Teck Lee merely published a statement by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah but with some embellishment.
"The defendant could have invoked the Reynold's privilege of responsible journalism, but did not verify the facts of the allegation," he said in reinstating the judgment of the High Court in 2012.
However, Ahmad said the apex court reduced the RM1 million damages awarded by the High Court as it was excessive.
Ahmad said Harris's appeal was allowed on different grounds compared with the one delivered by the then High Court judge Abdul Rahman Sebli.
The bench chaired by Chief Justice Raus Sharif also ordered eight per cent interest to be paid on the judgment sum from the date of the High Court ruling.
Raus also ordered Yong to pay Harris RM200,000 in costs.
Other members on the bench were justice Hasan Lah, Abu Samah Nordin and Aziah Ali.
The Court of Appeal on Nov 18, 2013, allowed Yong's appeal.
Abdul Rahman had then said he found that Yong had "crossed the line" when he insinuated that Harris had "blood on his hands" though, he added, there was nothing wrong for Yong to call for a re-investigation of the air crash.
He also found that the use of the words "crime" and "assassination" by Yong were defamatory to Harris, and had provoked speculation that Harris knew in advance that something sinister was going to happen to the aircraft and that he had left Fuad to die so that he could take over as the chief minister of Sabah.
Harris had filed a RM50-million suit against Yong and the SAPP, for allegedly insinuating that he (Harris) was involved in causing the plane crash.
Abdul Rahman said: "When he (Yong) insinuated that the plaintiff had blood on his hands and should be investigated for a possible criminal act, without making any attempt to verify the truth of the alleged new information revealed by Gua Musang MP Razaleigh, the defendant had crossed the line separating fair comment and malice."
On Nov 16 last year, Harris said, Yong made an inaccurate statement, in fact an interpretation, when Yong asked for a re-investigation into the air crash to remove all doubts about the true cause following Razaleigh's account of how he (Harris) had left the ill-fated aircraft at the very last moment and that had saved his life.
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Have you ever heard about APU? It's an auxiliary generator commonly found on large aircrafts to run their electrical systems even with engines are switched off.
Having been trained in the Aeronautical Construction sector, I personally found it interesting to expand the application and the use of two devices frequently found in the aeronautical sphere which are APU and GPU
Auxiliary Power Unit.
The use of APU has been banned in many airports due to the noise they generate once activated. Imagine all the operators approaching the aircraft for the various activities, using ramps, unloading luggage, assistance services, and for many hours they must be near an APU in operation!
GPU, Ground Power Unit is in effect an electric generator. . It is used in airports to power an Airplane or a Helicopter when it is stationed on the ground with the engines turned off.
It is characterized by a range of voltages, currents and frequencies that are not used in other applications 28VDC o 115VAC, 400Hz depending on the type of aircraft
Why using the GPU
Keeping the engine running on an airplane has very important costs even when it does not produce the necessary energy for take-off.
To understand the difference between the consumption of a diesel-powered GPU and the engine of an airplane, a Boeing 757 for instance, powered by Kerosene, we consider that the latter will consume in 1 hour what the GPU will consume in 24 hours. Approximately 270 liters
I'm starting the APU. When a generator set saves lives
US Airways Flight 1549 - 15: 27: 21.3 HOT-1 "I'm starting the APU"
An APU produced by Honeywell has contributed with Captain Sullenberger's intrepidity in saving the lives of US Airways Flight 1549, which with both engines in failure, made an emergency landing on the Hudson River.
The 131-9A Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), friendly called U9A, is installed in the tail section of the Airbus A320.
After both engines got stuck due to the impact with a flock of Geese, U9A intervened by feeding the on board devices to temporarily hold in position the flight controls, displays and other sensitive and necessary equipment on the fly.
Had it not been for the APU, Captain Sullenberger could not have landed in the Hudson River at the lowest possible speed and saved all those lives.


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I love red hairs! It's something I was always attracted to, not in the sentimental way but in an esthetic sense. This woman is not only a red hair but has also a figure that could perfectly match a model. She is tall, thin and beautiful.
But who is this red hair? Taylor is the style and accessories director for US Marie Claire magazine and former accessories director of Teen Vogue. She is considered one of the trend setters of the industry, the kind of person everyone likes to follow and copy.
- Taylor was in the list of the Best Dressed of 2012. Check this video:
- You need to see these pictures from her wedding. Stunning wedding dress designed by J. Mendel in a soft grey color. Amazing!


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The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of all 55 countries on the African continent, extending slightly into Asia via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. It was established on 26 May 2001 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and launched on 9 July 2002 in South Africa, with the aim of replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, with 32 signatory governments. The most important decisions of the AU are made by the Assembly of the African Union, a semi-annual meeting of the heads of state and government of its member states. The AU's secretariat, the African Union Commission, is based in Addis Ababa.
1. Achieving Agenda 2063
2. Conflict in Africa
Chair: Nina Fairbrother (McGill University, Faculty of Arts)
Assistant Chair: Camille Cockerton (Carleton University)
Assistant Chair: Laura Ospina (McGill University, Faculty of Arts)


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Situated on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, the Novotel Abu Dhabi Al Bustan may seem a far cry from the more lavish hotels that are dotted around the city. But despite its somewhat innocent exterior, this hotel still manages to deliver an absolutely outstanding level of service in every way possible.
Despite being a fairly new property, the Novotel Abu Dhabi Al Bustan has plenty to offer to the discerning traveler. A regiment of courteous staff are on hand to help you with anything you may need, and any suggestion or minor complaint is almost immediately rectified. The hotel has an excellent swimming pool for those who desire an early morning swim, as well as a fully equipped gym and steam room. There is also a versatile breakfast offered each morning, with plenty of options on offer to help fuel you through the day. The rooms are spacious and well lit, and while you won't be necessarily excited about the views, you can absolutely guarantee a good night's rest.
But by far the best experience for me at the hotel was the Choice Cut Steakhouse on the lower floor. Offering a great selection of cuts and meats, you'll enjoy some impeccably cooked steaks paired excellently with a good selection of wines and other drinks.
The Novotel Abu Dhabi Al Bustan is not the flashiest hotel you'll come across, but it offers a pleasant stay and great levels of service for any business traveler.
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For this Op-Doc video, we visited a small community in Florida known as "Miracle Village," where more than 100 registered sex offenders have settled since 2009. Surrounded by sugar cane fields, the community has become a rare refuge for them as they try to rebuild their lives in one of the only communities that will have them: stringent residency requirements make it almost impossible for them to live anywhere else.
We come to this documentary from two very different perspectives. Lisa has spent years examining sex crimes from the victim's point of view, making documentaries that try to de-stigmatize the survivors and argue for their access to justice. David spent his years as a public defender in Brooklyn, Harlem and the Bronx, defending people accused of doing the victimizing. These contrasting perspectives have made for a lively collaboration in which we have found common ground.
We live in a society that is terrified of sex offenders, sometimes with good reason. But in some cases the perpetrators, and not just the victims, are denied justice. Every high-profile sex crime spawns a rush to do something about the "predators" among us. Unfortunately, these so-called solutions are doing more harm than good. In the past 25 years, the laws governing sex offenses have gone from punitive to draconian to senseless. The term "sex offender" simply covers too wide a range now, painting the few truly heinous crimes and the many relatively innocuous ones with the same broad brush. This overly broad approach wastes resources that could be better spent, for instance, on clearing the huge and unforgivable backlog of untested rape evidence kits.
We see even deeper problems: the explosion of sex offender registries, stringent yet demonstrably ineffective residency restrictions, and the bizarre world of "civil commitment," where we punish what someone might do rather than what he or she has done. All of this suggests that our entire approach to dealing with sex offenders has gone tragically off the rails.


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As the French and English fought over control of the New World, the French eventually gained control of Nova Scotia, which then included the St. John River Valley. Between 1672 and 1700 the French King assigned land grants, and in 1692, Joseph Robineau de Villebon established a fort at the point where the Nashwaak River drains into the St. John. The handful of settlers who lived near the fort became prosperous fur traders. When Villebon died, his successor was sent to Port Royal in Nova Scotia to help rebuild the fort there. That same year spring floods destroyed Fort Nashwaak, and the people there moved to Port Royal as well.
The Fredericton area was resettled again in 1732 by a group of French Acadians, fleeing the British forces who had taken possession of Nova Scotia following the Treaty of Utrecht. 83 people settled in the area where Old Government House stands today, and called their community Ste. Anne's Point, which was the Capital of Acadia from 1692 to 1698.
The area came under English jurisdiction in 1758, when British Forces captured Louisburg. The British swept through the St. John River Valley, burning homes and expelling Acadians. When a group of English tried to settle at St. Anne's Point in 1762, they were stopped by the Indians, and relocated down river in Maugerville, and in 1768, three English trading families were able to settle permanently at Saint Anne's Point.
Following the American Revolution, in 1783 about 34,000 Americans loyal to the British crown fled the former colonies for Nova Scotia and 14,000 settled in present-day New Brunswick, with 2,000 Loyalists settling around Ste. Anne's Point. Because only a few were able to build log shelters before the long, cold winter, many of the settlers who tried to survive in tents did not and were buried at Salamanca. (you'll find it on The Green at the end of Waterloo Row).
The surviving Loyalists petitioned Governor Parr in Halifax to make the area north of the Bay of Fundy a separate province in the spring of 1784 and New Brunswick was born. Thomas Carleton, who had helped the Loyalists evacuate New York, was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the new province and arrived at Ste. Anne's Point in January 1785 and with Dugald Campbell conducted a land survey. On February 22, 1785, renamed the settlement "Frederickstown", in honour of Prince Frederick, second son of King George III. Its positioning 112 km from the Bay of Fundy on the St. John River, made it safe from sea attacks. Its central location, surrounded by excellent farming land and forests had Governor Carleton choose Fredericton as provincial capital on April 25, 1785.
Because of Fredericton's importance as capital, and its proximity to the American border, it was decided that military personnel should be stationed here. The 57th, 54th, and 104th Foot Regiments all served in this area and The Royal Canadian Regiment was raised here on December 21, 1883. The Guard House, Barracks, and Old Officers' Quarters (now the Museum) still standing downtown are tributes to the army's importance to Fredericton's early life.
The province's first election was held in November of 1785 and took three months to complete. Those elected held their initial meetings in Saint John. The Legislative Assembly did not actually meet in the capital until 1788.
Fredericton High School is the oldest English High School in Canada (est. 1785) and was once the largest in the British Commonwealth with a student population of more than 3,000 (much smaller today, because of redistricting to serve the recently built Leo Hayes high school). Also founded in 1785, the University of New Brunswick is tied with the University of Georgia, as the oldest universities in North America. The Brydone Jack Observatory was established at King's College (now UNB) in 1851, is one of the oldest astronomical observatories in Canada. The first engineering school in Canada was established at UNB in 1862. The Old Arts Building at the University of New Brunswick is the oldest university building still in use in Canada.
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Dr Edna Yolani Bátres is a member of the Gavi Board and an MTR Champion. In 2016, Dr Bátres oversaw her country's successful transition out of Gavi support to fully fund its own immunisation programme. In 2017, Honduras took over the cost of its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine programme. Here she reflects on her country's experience of transition, and shares lessons learned and her hopes for the future.
In 2018, as a Gavi Champion, Dr Bátres will help raise awareness of the Alliance's achievements in the build-up to its mid-term review (MTR) meeting in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 December.
Hosted by the United Arab Emirates, the MTR will take stock of Gavi's progress towards its ambitious goal to immunise 300 million additional children by 2020, saving 5-6 million lives and securing economic benefits of US$ 80-100 billion globally.
Immunisation in Honduras is the best tool that we have to prevent disease, to prevent mortality. It is the tool that we have for life. To bring life, and quality of life to all Hondurans.
That was something we always wanted to do but we didn't have the resources. When this vaccine came to the market, it was too expensive for Honduras. The only families who vaccinated their girls, were those who could afford to pay about US$ 100 in the private sector. But this cancer is more frequent among the poor.
During the transition, one of our main goals was to introduce the HPV vaccine. For us, this was very important because cervical cancer is the second biggest cause of death among women. During the introduction year, Gavi financed 50% of the doses while we paid for the other half. From the second year onwards, 100% of the doses are financed by the Government.
We did it in the months when the schools were open – in the public schools first and then the private schools. The challenges we had were not in the public sector; it was in the private schools. Some parents had read that this vaccine wasn't a good experience in other countries.
But overall, we had very good acceptance from the population of this vaccine. So, for us it was a dream come true – and it is something I am proud to have done under my leadership.
Transition for Honduras was very successful because we were involved in planning from the beginning. Transition brought us the opportunity to introduce new vaccines, and the opportunity to make these programmes sustainable into the future.
Gavi brought not only financial support to immunisation programmes in Honduras, but technical support. This technical support brought a lot of knowledge to health workers, knowledge they can share, knowing the importance of vaccines and how vaccines can save lives. Gavi has helped us a lot, particularly with updating and broadening the law that guarantees free vaccines for all the population, to make sure that we avoid shortfalls in the future.
But just because we are in transition it doesn't mean that our work with Gavi is over. In transition we can still do a lot of work, and we can still introduce new vaccines. And I think one of the lessons is that Gavi's work and communication with the transitioned country should never end.
I hope Gavi can share our good experience and our voice with other countries. In Honduras, we have some big hospitals that are sentinels, which report to us on their challenges and their successes. I like to think Honduras can be a sentinel country for all transitioning countries.


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It's been 12 hours since your last bite to eat. Your stomach growls angrily as you meet the host who will take care of all your needs while you prepare to sign a big contract with his company. He takes you out to dinner at a nice restaurant--please tell me you didn't just order a steak!
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Southbound I-35 reopens after multi-car accident
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A multi-car accident briefly closed southbound I-35 just before 20th Street in Kansas City, Mo., Monday morning.
Two lanes of southbound I-35 were shut down while crews worked to clear the area.
No serious injuries were reported.
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Looking for Volunteer Opportunities Abroad? This Online Community is the Place to Be
When it comes to traveling full-time, there are many people out there who think it just isn't a possibility for them, who sit and wonder how anyone finds the time or money to make that kind of life possible. But the truth is that in today's connected world it's actually easier than ever to jump the 9-5 ship and head overseas for as long as you'd like.
You don't have to be rich or a trust fund baby or anything like that. No, you just need to be able to pay for a one-way plane ticket, set aside the "vacation mindset" and let the adventure begin by finding work/volunteer opportunities abroad. I suppose a pinch of spontaneity and wanderlust are required, too.
But how do I do this, you ask? Well, friend, as the title of this post would suggest, I just happen to know about this online community where opportunities abroad abound. They call it Workaway and it can help you travel to more than 170 countries across the globe, if you're willing to work a few hours a day in exchange for room and board, that is.
The good people over at Workaway call themselves "a global team of culture seekers and innovators, passionate about travel and finding the path to change." They believe in travel with a meaning. Sometimes, that meaning is getting your hands dirty in a permaculture garden on an island off Honduras; other times, it's tending to horses on a farm in Belgium or conducting project-based learning in Vietnam.
Workaway operates primarily as a platform to connect volunteers to hosts in other countries, not as an actual travel agency. Volunteers, or Workawayers, as they are known, can visit locations for a few days up to a few months, depending on what works for them. And, as is oftentimes the case, multiple Workawayers from different parts of the world will run into each other at host sites.
That was the case, anyway, when a friend of mine became part of the Workaway community just last year and made his initial international trek as a Workawayer to Sweden, Poland, and Germany. As that friend, Jared, told me:
"I went to Sweden for three weeks where I worked two to three hours every other day. The work was on a campsite in northern Sweden, owned by a Dutch family. I worked alongside other Workawayers from other countries. Then I was in Poland, which was a similar setup. I got my own room to stay in and I ate with the family and we worked on a second house.
"(In) Germany, I was with a family in Berlin helping their son getting a tile patio made. With all the places I went to, they gave me tons of free time to explore the areas, even took me out to the town/city to experience the culture (in some instances)."
It costs $34 for individuals to join the Workaway community and get connected with hosts the world over for one year ($44 for those registering as couples/friends planning to travel together). Once you sign up, the number of trips you take is only limited by your imagination, as you can connect to as many hosts and arrange as many exchanges as you'd like throughout the year.
So now, allow me to ask the cliché question: what are you waiting for?


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With over 100 Societies in NUIG you are sure to find one for you.
The Society Awards 2019 take place in the Ardilaun Hotel on March 28th. Societies go to this link to enter for an award. For info on the BICS Awards go here. The deadline for Best Intervarsity, Best Mental Health Event and Best Green Initiative is March 14th
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CHICAGO (AP) — California goalkeeper Jonathan Klinsmann, the son of fired U.S. national coach Jurgen Klinsmann, is among 20 players on the American roster for CONCACAF's Under-20 Championship.
Eleven players are from Major League Soccer teams, with the rest from clubs in England, Spain and Mexico, and from college.
The tournament in Costa Rica serves as qualifying for the Under-20 World Cup. Coach Tab Ramos' team opens against Panama on Feb. 18, plays Haiti three days later and closes the group stage Feb. 24 against Saint Kitts and Nevis.
The roster:
Goalkeepers: Jonathan Klinsmann (California), JT Marcinkowski (Georgetown).
Defenders: Marlon Fossey (Fulham, England), Justen Glad (Salt Lake), Aaron Herrera (New Mexico), Erik Palmer-Brown (Sporting Kansas City), Tommy Redding (Orlando City), Auston Trusty (Philadelphia).
Midfielders: Danny Acosta (Salt Lake), Tyler Adams (New York Red Bulls), Coy Craft (Dallas), Luca De la Torre (Fulham, England.), Jonathan Gonzalez (Monterrey, Mexico), Jeremiah Gutjahr (Indiana), Jonathan Lewis (New York City), Sebastian Saucedo (Salt Lake), Eryk Williamson (Maryland).
Forwards: Jeremy Ebobisse (Portland), Brooks Lennon (Salt Lake), Emmanuel Sabbi (Las Palmas, Spain).
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Yes Virginia, there is a snowman
Iranians build snowmen too. There is more than two-feet of snow in our garden right now, and it's still coming down. Our neighbors have snowmen in their gardens, and their kids are out right now having snowball fights to celebrate a snow day! Hurray!
Men wander the streets with shovels offering to shovel roofs, sidewalks, and driveways. They can earn more shoveling snow in a couple of hours than most Iranians do in a day.
The mountains are white. The sky is white. If you drive 15 minutes down from our house, the snow turns to rain.
The little stores have run out of deli-meat and baguettes: emergency cold-weather food.
It's great here. I love snow. But it does interfere a bit with out internet connection, which is why this is a few days late. Still, the snow is still coming


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Episode #48 - Spider-Man
Allen Christian
Happy Anniversary, babies! A year of podcasting brings us to that time Sam Raimi cracked the web-slinger's cinematic code with 2002's Spider-Man. Hosts Allen Christian, Steven Granger, and Gerald James are once again joined by John Hall as they dive into the movie, the bad soundtrack, a bit about the source material, and the awful music made in the wall-crawler's name (and even make a litter of their own). Also discussed: Randy Savage. Surprise.
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Eid 2017 CRLC
There is a lot suffering out there in the world this Eid. Many families are in mourning around the world.
What is needed now is not more hatred. Dig deep for the empathy. Remind yourself and those around you that it is not faith, but inhuman conditions that cause inhuman actions.
Wish your Muslim neighbors well on this most important of holidays. And ask for forgiveness, as is the custom. For we can all do more to bridge the divides.
Eid Mubarak from the community at Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre.
For our Indonesian Friends.
Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri, Mohon maaf lahir dan batin.
#crlcfamily #students #eidcelebration
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0656 GMT October 23, 2019
An Iranian official said Tuesday Switzerland has prepared all requirements for an independent payment channel aimed at keeping trade ties with Iran.
Sharif Nezam-Mafi, the head of Iran-Switzerland Chamber of Commerce, told IRNA that the financial mechanism is ready to be launched.
Nezam-Mafi said the clearing house will be used to facilitate Iran's oil transactions with its major Asian crude customers namely India, China and South Korea.
"Currently there is no money belonging to Iran in Europe. Most of Iran's money is in India, China and South Korea which import Iranian crude," he said.
According to Nezam-Mafi, once the Iranian oil money flows from Asia to Europe, the Swiss financial channel will start to work immediately.
The official said no time has not been set for the Swiss payment mechanism to go operational. "There is still no clear date, but everything is waiting for Iran's money to enter the financial mechanism."
He noted the transfer of money requires an approval from the US Treasury Department and the matter that has been the focus of negotiations between the Swiss government and the US government in recent months.
Nezam-Mafi said the Swiss government has designated an operating bank, but has not yet formally announced its name.
The payment channel is designed to bypass US sanctions imposed on Iran after Washington ditched the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran earlier this year.
The European Union is also working on a system to ease non-dollar trade with Iran to circumvent US sanctions. The EU hopes its special purpose vehicle announced in September will keep the nuclear deal alive and persuade Tehran to stay on board by giving companies a way of trading with Iran without violating Washington's sanctions.
But Brussels is struggling to find a host for the SPV and many EU companies are fearful of repercussions from the Trump's administration.


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Sep 12, 2007
Vini, Vidi, Bardem
Yesterday night, O dear mortals, I had the privilege of attending a live interview with Javier Bardem, who is a magnificent actor and one of the most wonderful interview subjects I've ever seen. It is to his enormous credit that despite the very tepid, asskissing questioning and understandable but completely inappropriate flirtiness of Lynn Hirschberg, Bardem generously delivered very interesting information about his craft and his approach as an actor. She kept interrupting him with silly, giggly comments but he kept going back to his line of thought, gently bent on making the points he started out with. That he is one of the most effortlessly charming, intelligent, sensible and divine beings that ever graced this Earth also helped.
It has happened to me several times when attending this kind of events, that when otherwise fine reporters and intelligent journalists get to interview a famous subject in front of an audience, they become starstruck and squander everybody's time by fawning shamelessly. In Miss Hirschberg's case, she wasn't as terrible as that monster of brownosing, James Lipton, but she was gossipy and flirty and not serious enough. Bardem saved her from ridicule with his charm. People were saying she made him feel at ease, and it may be true to a certain point, but I think it was the other way around. Healthily acknowledging he has a huge ego, he was also charmingly self-deprecating. Utterly winning.
Now, it drives me crazy that she was obsessed with the fact that Bardem didn't speak English when he did Before Night Falls. It is an amazing feat, particularly since not only did he act flawlessly in a language he didn't master, but he used a pitch perfect Cuban accent on top of it, which she was too ignorant to even acknowledge. But how much time can one spend reminding the guy that he didn't speak English? She tried to save it with protestations that she can't speak Spanish (stupidly making him say things in Spanish so she could swoon) and that her French is bad, but it seemed childish and provincial. Get over it.
Bardem really spoke of his work as an actor with great openness and passion and he shared part of his approach. It struck me that either he is even a better actor than we all think, or he is not one of those actors who are tortured by their profession. He seems to enjoy it and respect it deeply, and his commitment is extremely serious. He spoke candidly about the envy actors of his caliber sometimes get in their countries of origin and was very generous, and seemingly totally sincere, with his praise for Antonio Banderas, who he claimed, correctly, paved the way for the international careers of people like him.
Thinking of his movies, it is worth pointing out that he has not yet sold himself out to stupid choices. His is a pretty solid resume and one can only hope he will not easily succumb to bad Hollywood temptations.
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Kerry Kilpin was appointed as the Executive Chef at Steenberg Farm's Bistro Six-teen82 in 2014.
Kerry graduated from Silwood in 2002, joined La Colombe as Chef de Partie in 2003, and was appointed Sous Chef in 2004.
In 2006 she left with Franck Dangereux to help open the Foodbarn restaurant in Noordhoek, "a farmstall serving toasted sandwiches" when she arrived. "This didn't last long!" comments Kerry, "and the start of many changes which saw the Foodbarn Restaurant being born."
Named after the year in which Steenberg was established, Bistro Sixteen82 first opened its doors in 2009. An innovative and interactive wine and food destination, the Bistro sits adja-cent to Steenberg's winery, and spills into its surrounding indigenous gardens, with a ter-raced dining area leading to reflective water features, unfurling into views of the magnifi-cent stone mountains and expansive winelands.
Kerry grew up on a farm in Grahamstown, and her love of food was there as a little girl. "I love to bake, and at month end my father would pay all the staff wages. I would bake cakes and sell them to the workers. This little business continued when I went to boarding school and on the weekends I would come home and bake to sell to my class mates. By matric there wasn't a doubt in my mind that I wanted to go to chefs School and learn to cook!"
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Posted 18 April 2009 - 12:22 AM
There's got to be a step that's omitted to add the files to boot.wim or wherever they are supposed to go. I really miss the days when you could just add an MBR save/restore program to a bootable Dos disk!! Why is this so complicated? Sheesh!!
Any help appreciated. I've found a few things about using imagex but they only seem to work half way through the tutorial. I can never seem to get the drivers to embed in the boot image.
I have Vista64 Home Premium with one of those "fake RAID" controllers, which doesn't help to make things easier.
Posted 18 April 2009 - 01:08 AM
Posted 18 April 2009 - 01:22 AM
... Unfortunately, the instructions amount to "copy the drivers to the Driver/Disk folder and create a new boot CD."
It sounds like peimg.exe is used to install drivers. The driver files must include an .inf file.
What do you mean "fake RAID"? Software RAID?
Posted 18 April 2009 - 04:27 AM
Anyway, I set up on a USB key. It still won't automatically recognize the hd but at least I can use drvload to load the .inf from the USB key. I found MbrFix to save and restore MBR,. At least now I don't have to do the dummy partition trick. Although I'll probably leave it that way until I want to use the partition for something.
Just reading through the stuff MBR related today I found out why that "fixmbr" stuff does no good if you have a hosed partition table. All over the world people with hosed partition tables are booting the install disc and doing "fixmbr" and just sit there agape when it still doesn't boot!!! Sheesh!!
Posted 18 April 2009 - 05:01 AM
Anyway, I set up on a USB key. It still won't automatically recognize the hd but at least I can use drvload to load the .inf from the USB key.
If WinPE is loaded from CD and booted from writeable RAM, it ought to be possible to use drvload to add the driver to the online WinPE with the driver files on the CD (or x:\ RAM wherever the Driver/Disk is found).
The mbr stuff ... that sounds like it should be handled very carefully.
Posted 18 April 2009 - 05:07 AM
The MBR stuff used to be a simple matter of a Dos boot diskette. Looks like everything that used to be easy using a diskette has to be done with USB know, since it's read/write and CD isn't. Don't understand why we don't have cheap standard 100 MB floppies in these PCs.
Posted 18 April 2009 - 05:31 AM
It's not possible because the RAID controller also runs the DVD drive.
OK. Sorry. Such (unusual?) complications take a while to sink in. My motto - 'Keep it simple, stupid!" ... ...
If the driver files could be copied to the mounted Windows directory, they'd be available in RAM.
Tho' it seems you have worked around the issue.
Posted 18 April 2009 - 03:46 PM
Only thing I can think of is they saw some benefit to setting the thing up so that all the drives run as some SCSI emulation or something. The HD performance is fairly good for an off the shelf system. Just a bit disconcerting when you can't get any info from a drive information or system information program other than 750 GB Sata.
Thanks for the replies.
Posted 18 April 2009 - 04:50 PM
You have imagex. Do you have the Windows AIK?
You found a .wim file. Have you tried to mount it with imagex?
First run from the cmd:
imagex /info <your wim>
How many images sre in the .wim? One of them should be described as the boot index or boot image ... ...
Try to mount the boot image with:
imagex /mountrw <your wim> 1 <some mount directory you create say c:\mount>
where the number 1 is the number of the boot image.
Then try (assuming you have the WAIK tools which include peimg):
peimg /inf=<your inf> /image=<say c:\mount\windows>
To finish off:
imagex /unmount <your .wim> /commit
While the image is mounted, you can add whatever you need to the mount directory and it will end up in RAM x:\
Posted 18 April 2009 - 10:48 PM
Posted 19 April 2009 - 01:16 AM
Thanks for the succinct instructions. The RAID driver loaded with no manual intervention.
That's good to hear.
I trust you picked up the error in the unmount code ... ...
imagex /unmount <c:\mount> /commit
Uses a path to the mounted image, not the actual .wim file.
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Learn four simple tricks to protect yourself from home automation hackers in 2018
According to Gartner, more than 11 billion smart home devices will be in use in 2018 and up to 20.4 billion in 2020. What does this mean? That everyone (including you) will have at least one smart home device in the following five years.
As the number of smart devices increase, so does the concern about the security of our smart homes. Fortunately, we are getting used to writing longer passwords and setting security patterns on our phones. But we still have some leaks we need to solve.
Before getting into our home we pick up the key from our pocket (we try to never lose it), then we turn the key and we open the door. After that, we get in and we never forget to close the door. We don't lose the key (well... it can happen), give it to anybody we don't trust or let them get into the house if we aren't there and we don't know them, right?
I want you to imagine that the key is your WiFi password, that the lock is your network and that opening the door is giving access to your smart home devices. Why would you give your home key to someone you don't know? Why would we allow unknown people to access our WiFi network when we have smart home devices that could be vulnerable?
The truth is smart homes are no more or less secure than regular homes. But we can make our homes safer with this four simple tricks:
Use a VPN
Our first advice is not to expose anything directly to the Internet if possible. To do such thing we recommend using a VPN to access the Internet. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, which allows users – whether they are individuals, or part of an organization, or business – to send and receive data while maintaining the secrecy of a private network.
Here is a list made by TechRadar on the best VPN services out there.
WiFi Security
I can't stress it enough. You should be careful of giving the WiFi password to people you don't know. In the same manner as we don't allow unknown people to enter our home, don't let them get into your WiFi network.
One cool trick you can do if you invite people to come to your home is to create a dedicated network for your Smart Home devices and another one for you and your guests. This way they can't get access to your smart devices. And don't forget to change your Wi-Fi password afterward! We recommend using WPA2 as it offers the strongest security.
The Internet is not your enemy
Don't be afraid to connect to the internet but also, don't be naïve about it. Know the risks and the benefits. Connecting your devices to the internet will let you control your house even if you are not there. You won't worry anymore about if you forgot to turn off the lights or not. But remember, use only your private net for your smart devices and use trusted apps to control them, such as the official app for each brand or Yeti, if you own different brands.
Update your smart devices' firmware
There are a lot of people that don't like to upload their devices firmware since they think it is a waste of time and will make their gadget slow. They couldn't be more wrong! It is strongly recommended to update your devices regularly because if there is any breach or exploit in the firmware security, developers will fix it through an update, leaving us exposed if we don't do it.
Change default passwords
Our last, but not least important trick is the easiest one to do. Change your password! Most smart devices have a preset password by default. Hackers know this and will use it to gain easy access to smart device accounts. If a hacker wants to break through your security, he/she will probably be able to do it, but at least you should make it difficult for him/her. Is the same as with a traditional burglar, the least we can don't leave the key at the door.
It's true we can't be completely safe but we can always improve the way we manage the smart home security. I hope you found it interesting and let us know if you have any other trick related to security!
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Along Via Emilia, Modena stands out for its Romanesque complex, built around Piazza Grande, which includes the Cathedral and its tower Ghirlandina. This is already a world heritage site, declared by UNESCO in 1997.
The city does not speaks only Romanesque style. It is a casket that encloses high-level artistic and literary experiences. In the Estense's Gallery, the taste in art of the Este's family is revealed in the works of Correggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Diego Velazquez, to name just a few.
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Again the life and the works of Alessandro Tassoni, a famous man of letters, could be a great opportunity for knowing more about Modena and its story.
Your love of beauty could lead us to visit the work of Guido Mazzoni, one of the most important sculptors of the realistic Renaissance; As well as the sculpture of Antonio Begarelli in Sant'Agostino and that's not all.
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2017 marked our 5th year of hosting the Restore Worship Conference.
This conference was conceived and launched by the creative team at Calvary Monterey from a heart to serve and support the local church leaders on the Central Coast.
This year we placed a special emphasis on training. There were over 20 workshops and sessions on topics like:
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- Tech Team Roundtable
- Should Your Church Use Social Media?
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It took the Trashkids no less than two decades to bring out their first longplayer. No wonder it has become a "Best Of" compilation, bearing the name "05651″ – the pre-dial of their common hometown Eschwege in Germany.
The album was initialized by Martin Bartscher, producer and drummer of the band Bitune. The self-confessed "Super-Fan" wanted to conserve his worn down Trashkids demotape by inviting the guys to his studio – providing the identical conditions as on the original recording – except for the digital capturing, of course.
When more and more unreleased material came to light, the album was perfect. 15 songs – composed at the age of 15 to 35 years – were produced within only five days in April 2011.
Unadorned first-takes and no application of sound cosmetics could awake the spirit of the old days. The four grown-ups sound like teenagers and the different songs of a piece.
This album is not modern nor progressive. On the contrary it cultivates the retrospective and reflects – above all – what kept the guys going: the passion for music and a genuine friendship.
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By BRIAN JENNINGS
Southington sent five athletes to the state 2016 CIAC Boys and Girls Indoor Track and Field Open Championship at Hillhouse High School on Saturday, Feb. 20 to compete amongst the state's top athletes.
Four of those five athletes were part of the girls 4x800m relay team, who continued to break barriers as they have been doing multiples times throughout the season.
Erin Angelillo, Taylor Hubert, Kate Kemnitz, and Gabi Napoli not only broke another school record, but broke their own record for the fourth time this season when they finished sixth out of 18 relays with a time of 9:57.98. The group smashed their seeded time (10:09.35) by over 10 seconds. Three of the four girls in the relay finished with season-best splits in the relay.
"Erin Angelillo led off with a 2:25, which was an eight-second season best. She set us up and set the tone for the rest of the ladies," said Southington coach Dan Dachelet. "When Erin handed the baton off in first place, we had separated from the rest of the race, except for [Haddam-Killingworth]."
Dachelet said that Angelillo's great start allowed the competitiveness of Hubert, Kemnitz, and Napoli to focus on a race with one school. What seemed for the entirety of each leg of the 4x800m relay was a battle between Haddam-Killingworth and Southington, featured with a few lead changes.
"It got us out of the larger group of girls," the coach said. "It wasn't about the time. It was about a dual between Haddam and Southington. They eventually beat us and took the win in that race, but we pushed them to a six or seven-second season best."
The team was seeded 16th coming into the open and advanced to the open by finishing seventh out of 16 relays the week prior at the Class LL state meet.
"That pace and competition between the two teams ended up making the difference by getting us to qualify by time out of the slow heat," said Dachelet. "On that given day, a lot of teams that had run faster than us didn't do what they had done in the previous class meet. It's great to see the girls peak at the right time."
The 4x800m relay team from New Milford (9:30.08) won the race, followed by Glastonbury (9:31.76), Weston (9:33.46), Ridgefield (9:49.57), and Haddam-Killingworth (9:56.33).
Sean Garrison finished 14th in the 3200m with a time of 10:01.55. Garrison was seeded 17th coming into the open and advanced to the open by finishing 10th (9:49.38) at the state meet. Garrison might have been after a personal record on Saturday, but he had another goal in mind as well.
"He was running the pace that he needed to run," said Dachelet. "He had a goal of going after the school record. He did what he needed to do on the front end to set himself up for that pace. It was a weird race."
Eric Vanderels (9:29.22) of Brien McMahon won the race, followed by Jack Adamski (9:30.32) of Danbury, and Michael Rautter (9:33.66) of New Fairfield. Vanderels' third race of the day came in the 3200m.
"For him [Vanderels] to win that race, he needed to take it slow," the coach said. "So the pace was pedantic from the beginning. People that were trying to go for a faster time actually were hard-pressed to do that. Then the pace shifted and dropping that surge midrace took the wheels out of Sean a little bit."
Dachelet said that the shift during the race disrupted Garrison's pace.
"Sean runs a very nice, consistent pace, and when he gets on pace, he can hold it," the coach said. "But I think that shift from a moderate pace to a fast pace midrace took it out of him a little bit. And he wasn't able to finish that last half mile like he wanted to."
Garrison may not have qualified for the open, but he still managed to qualify for the Eastern State Championships, which will be held on Tuesday, March 1 at the Armory in New York City, which is arguably one of the fastest tracks in the country. Garrison will be joined by teammate Amanda Howe, who will also be throwing at the meet in the shot put.
The indoor track school record in the 3200m is 9:45.90, set by Brian McKernan in the 1999-2000 season. Garrison's time of 9:49.38 was his personal best in the 3200m on an indoor track.
Windsor (57) won the girls' open, with Bloomfield (56) finishing as the runner-ups and Tolland (47) finishing third. On the boys' side, Danbury (56) took home the gold, followed by Brien McMahon (50) and Wethersfield (32).
As results were pouring into the official's table at the open on Saturday, the CIAC discovered issues during its review of all the entries from the meet.
A National Federation of State High School Associations rule limits athletes to competing in a total of three events, including individual events and relays. According to the CIAC, the rule was not understood by all coaches, and as a result, several entries were ruled as illegal and were disqualified. This was the first time the rule was enforced this year.
It was reported that entry violations were not detected until late in the meet on Saturday. Teams and media were told that the CIAC and timing officials would review all entries to insure the final results were correct, and would release them as soon as possible, with the possibility of not being released until Sunday.
However, all entries were reviewed in two hours following the meet, and the final results were then verified and released. A total of three girls teams and four boys teams were affected. The final results from ten boys and girls events (total of 20 events) were updated.
"The situation with the entries was unfortunate, and CIAC regrets the confusion and disruption that accompanied the conclusion of the Open Championships," CIAC Indoor Track and Field Committee chair Steve Wysowski said in a CIAC press release. "We addressed the issue as quickly as we could to provide corrected results, and will certainly
review everything that took place to insure similar issues don't take place in the future."
The CIAC later released finalized individual and team results for the meet through email and on CIACsports.com. Pomperaug's team finished sixth in the girls 4x800m relay race, but was disqualified, due to entry violations. Southington had originally finished seventh in the race, but was bumped up to sixth because of the disqualification of Pomperaug. Pomperaug was seeded fourth (9:49.45) coming into the open. Immaculate finished after Southington in the race and was also disqualified.
Southington's 4x800m relay team will travel to the Bob McIntyre Track at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Facility in Roxbury Crossing, Mass. on Sunday, Feb. 28 to run in the 29th annual New England Interscholastic Indoor Track and Field Championships. The 4x800m relay race is scheduled to start at approximately 1:30pm.


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Country you go…Coffee you taste
With egg yolk, pepper or – why not? – cardamom… Here are some of the strangest coffee recipes found around the world
Who said real coffee is just espresso?
Throughout history, different people, seduced by the famous dark drink, have personalized coffee and adapted it to their tastes. Though some combinations might seem a bit, well… whacky to us, coffee has always been a ritual, synonymous with community and sharing.
Let's discover some variations:
- Austria: the Wiener Melange consists of one part espresso [Mokka] and one part milk, with a topping of milk foam. It differs from the classic cappuccino in that it has a longer coffee base and lighter roasting;
- Argentina: with a particular evocative name, Café lagrima is prepared with hot milk and a teardrop of coffee;
- Cuba: intense and sweet tasting, Cuban Café is a blend of brown sugar and ground coffee, prepared in the classic coffee moka pot of the country.
- Finland: kaffeost is a word composed of kaffe [coffee] + ost [cheese]. The drink consists of pieces of leipäjuusto, (a typical Lapland cheese made from cow's or reindeer's milk) dissolved at the bottom of the coffee cup.
- Germany: the Germans are divided between the specialists of Eiskaffee, a dessert prepared with coffee, cream, vanilla ice cream and cocoa, and the drinkers of Pharisäer: coffee with a serious shot of rum.
- Japan: canned coffee, or in the local language Kan Kōhī, is very fashionable both hot, during the winter and ice cold, during the summer;
- Ireland: the famous Irish Coffee is a hot, sweetened coffee, complemented with Irish whiskey and finished with a layer of cream on the top;
- Mexico: Cafe de Olla is prepared in a clay pot [olla] by infusion of large or whole ground coffee beans in hot water. It gets its woody flavour from cinnamon sticks (and sometimes with star anise and orange peel) and it's sweetened with piloncillo;
- Scandinavia: Karsk is a Norwegian coffee cocktail mixed with moonshine or vodka and sometimes with a tablespoon of sugar.
- Senegal: Touba coffee is flavored with cloves and jarr, known as Guinea pepper, according to a very ancient tradition. It was once believed to have medicinal properties.
- Turkey: Türk Kahvesi has a thick, syrupy consistency and is enjoyed by adding various spices, such as cardamom.
- U.S.A.: the true American Coffee is extracted by infusion from a particular blend, obtaining a long coffee, that's very intense and rich in caffeine.
- Vietnam: Cà phê trứng, or egg coffee, contains chicken egg yolk, sugar, condensed milk and strong coffee.


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How can 20,000 polystyrene bricks stop a tunnel collapsing?
What can you do with a disused tunnel that's starting to crumble – and putting a key road bridge at risk?
Engineers in Scotland decided on a novel solution – they filled a Fife tunnel with more than 20,000 polystyrene blocks.
The tunnel runs under the approach to the Forth Road Bridge and was originally part of the Dunfermline to North Queensferry railway line. It was a link to the ferry, until the opening of the Forth Bridge in 1890. After that it was used for freight, until it closed in 1954.
When the tunnel was inspected in 2016, structural engineers found that parts of the tunnel were degrading and they needed to put a plan in place to prevent further issues.
Both ends of the tunnel are sealed and the only access is via a vertical shaft. The advantage of polystyrene is that the blocks can be carried by hand, so workers were able to handle the lightweight material very easily.
A similar density to the packaging material in the picture above, the large, white, pre-cut polystyrene blocks are highly manoeuvrable. They were moved into place in the tunnel using a specially designed sliding rail.
The beauty of this solution is that if the tunnel ever needs to be reopened, the blocks can be easily removed.
Engineers used lightweight expanded polystyrene for this unusual project, and it demonstrates the usefulness of polystyrene in engineering and construction.
We've used foamed concrete in projects where the concrete may need to be removed at a later date. Polystyrene balls within the concrete make it lighter and easier to take out, and it can work well in foundations where loads are spread.
Foamed concrete can also be used to fill voids, and while it's easier to remove than conventional concrete, it's not quite as simple as carrying a polystyrene block out of a tunnel.
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On Friday, Fairfax Indonesia correspondent Michael Bachelard reported on another ordeal at sea, over ten days between 27 April and 7 May. The story as we know it so far raises disturbing questions about Australia's adherence to its rescue-at-sea obligations.
On 27 April, a boat left from an unknown location in Indonesia carrying 48 Iranian asylum seekers. They included 12 women and five children aged under six bound for Christmas Island.
Thirty hours out, the engine and pumps failed. Then they drifted for nine days, bailing by hand as the boat filled with water. On the third day, the (Indonesian) crew abandoned ship, swimming to other fishing boats nearby.
The passengers were left to drift for seven more days. Their food and water ran out. They suffered from sunburn, vomiting, and low glucose. It is a miracle that none died.
By the eighth day — 5 May — they were so desperate that two male passengers Sajad and Meisam set out for help in a makeshift raft. These men are presumed drowned.
Finally, on the tenth day at sea — 7 May — the passengers saw a surveillance aircraft overhead. Just three hours later they were rescued by an Indonesia-bound cargo ship, MV Aeolos. Their condition was described by their rescuers as tired, weak, dizzy and distressed.
They are now in detention in Merak. Bachelard met and interviewed them there. He also spoke with Dan Posadas, the chief officer of MV Aeolos.
Bachelard was advised by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA, which manages Rescue Coordination Centre Australia) that:
At approximately 6:15pm on Tuesday 7 May, RCC Australia received notification via Border Protection Command that a surveillance aircraft had detected a vessel that was stationary in the water 110 nautical miles north of Christmas Island.
RCC Australia issued a broadcast to shipping for vessels in the area to provide assistance. MV Aeolos was the closest available asset to respond to the distress broadcast. MV Aeolos responded to the RCC Australia's broadcast and proceeded to the vessel's location, arriving at 9:30 pm that day.
At approximately 2:00am on Wednesday 8 May, the master of the MV Aeolos reported to RCC Australia that all 47 people had been recovered from their vessel, which had been listing and was taking on water. The rescue occurred 110 nautical miles north of Christmas Island.
AMSA advised Bachelard that this information had been sourced from both AMSA and the Department of Customs and Border Protection, which runs Border Protection Command (BPC). AMSA later confirmed that the first notification it had received from Customs of the vessel in distress was at 6.15pm on 7 May.
Based on my previous research into rescues of asylum seekers at sea, I find this whole story disturbing.
My guess is that the boat must have left from somewhere on the south western coast of Java. After 30 hours at an average speed of about 5–8 nautical miles an hour, it would have perhaps got halfway to Christmas Island, possibly as close as 110 nautical miles from Christmas Island. Conditions were calm.
This area is under regular surveillance by Australian aircraft — high-flying RAAF Orions, or Dash 8 Customs aircraft — and possibly by Australian radar, looking for incoming suspected irregular entry vessels. I find it hard to believe that, before 7 May, Australian Customs did not have some human or maritime sourced intelligence of this vessel's plight during the nine days the vessel was drifting 110 nautical miles north of Christmas Island.
Customs had had a good asylum-seeker boat rescue record over the past four months. Media releases by Minister Jason Clare show that at least 27 boats in distress have been assisted at sea by BPC vessels since 3 February. I have to ask how Customs could have missed this particular boat for so long. If they missed it, this would seem to be an operational failure. If they were aware of it before 7 May, this would raise other questions.
Finally why was it 'detected' by a low-flying BPC surveillance aircraft? How is it that the desperate people — by now near death — were finally rescued just three hours later by a conveniently close north-bound cargo ship?
I sense from my previous research into such incidents that there is a large back story yet to be told. We have not been advised that Customs' first knowledge of the boat was on 7 May. If Customs had earlier intelligence of the boat's presence, the failure to conduct search and rescue operations sooner would be reprehensible.
Our country's obligations to rescue people in distress at sea should have nothing to do with policy to deter asylum seekers. Every person in distress at sea deserves prompt rescue action within our resources. Something went badly wrong in this case. It is incumbent on Clare to ask his Departmental secretary Michael Pezzullo for a full briefing on all prior Customs and Border Protection knowledge of this boat in the ten days before 7 May.
We can see from a photo taken from MV Aeolos that the boat was displaying an SOS sign on its roof.
Clare needs to ask Pezzullo why Australian search and rescue action was apparently delayed for so long — possibly, it would seem, until an Indonesia-bound cargo ship was conveniently nearby?
Only two people died, but the toll could easily have been far worse. This life-threatening history of an apparently mishandled rescue at sea needs to be held to public account. An election is only four months away. Whoever then takes government needs to inherit a border protection system that has clean hands.
Tony Kevin's most recent book is Reluctant Rescuers (2012). His previous publication on refugee boat tragedy — A Certain Maritime Incident — was the recipient of a NSW Premier's literary award in 2005.
Topic tags: Tony Kevin, asylum seekers, refugees, Christmas Island, rescue, Indian Ocean
If there's one thing that the recent election campaign and its outcome demonstrated, it's the depth of the divisions that exist in our Australian community.
Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these? What are the values that unite us?
Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in our country and our world; a conversation marked by respect for the dignity of ALL human beings.
Importantly, it's a conversation that takes place in the open, unhindered by paywalls or excessive advertising. And it's through the support of people like you that it is able to do so.
The cops would have known when they left, the boat is in good condition and there is no way an INdonesia boat was 110 nm north of Christmas Island.
Again they wanted them all to die and leave us alone.
And we don't need a border protection system, we need a rescue at sea system that is not driven by lazy politics of deterrence.
And those people should have been landed on Christmas Island, not Merak.
Marilyn | 19 May 2013
This asylum seeker issue is one of the most controversial contemporary ones in this country. It is a moral and practical minefield. I think, on a practical level, we need a discreet Coast Guard, separate from the Navy, as exists in the USA and Canada. Special expertise is needed here both to keep our borders secure and to prevent ill planned and unwise expeditions like this ending in disaster. The people smuggling industry is corrupt and exploitative and we need to do all we can, with the assistance of neighbouring countries, to crush it. Allied to this is a more proactive approach to bringing the most needy refugees, who may possibly not have A$12,000 to pay people smugglers, living in abject conditions in refugee camps on the borders of Burma (Myanmar) and other such places. We also need to treat detained claimants to refugee status better. Being anti people smuggler but advocating a more generous, but sane, approach to refugees is not a contradiction.
Edward F | 20 May 2013
Tony , way off the mark again. No criticism off the cowardly smugglers who took the money and deserted desperate people at sea, no cry to track down these people and take them out of the system, no it is all the fault of the men and women of customs and defence who have the job of trying to find these wooden boats at sea, the needle in the haystack. Even sadder once again no hint of how to fix the problem of the boats, just criticism based on no evidence.
John Crew | 20 May 2013
Tony, have you ever talked to the Customs crews who rescue these people? My experience is that they are committed to their task, are sympathetic to the plight of the refugees and are greatly affected when 'things go wrong'.
Are you suggesting that there is a conspiracy within Customs, AMSA or the government to ignore boats in distress? To deliberately put peoples lives at risk by ignoring Australia's rescue-at-sea obligations? These are very serious accusations, do you have a clear conscience about traducing the actions of Customs officers on the ground?
As John Crew has pointed out, where is the criticism of the smugglers? Where is the proferred solution that does not encourage more people to risk their lives and their families lives?
Marilyn's comment that 'they wanted them all to die' is beneath contempt; I am actually surprised it was published as I would have thought feedback moderation would block such an accusation.
chris g | 20 May 2013
I don't understand why the issue of our border protection system's obligation to protect all human life known or suspected to be in peril at sea, in its operational areas and within its resources, continues to be confused in some people's minds with other issues. One can argue endlessly about whether people smugglers are evil people or are simply commercial ferrymen meeting an existing demand from asylum seekers desperate to find new safe homes. One can also argue about in what circumstances the deliberate disruption of such voyages - the stated policy of both Labor and Coalition governments - might itself become a crime. Those arguments - in which I do not nowadays take part - do not, it seems to me, allow people of conscience to decline to confront the question: would you leave to die a drowning man, woman or child whom you could have saved? Eureka Street readers can see the evidence and questions that "Reluctant Rescuers" and my articles in Eureka Street are addressing.
Under whatever government, Australia needs a border protection system that never leaves people to drown who could and should have been saved. The questions raised by this latest incident - a boat left drifting around 110 nm from Christmas Island from 28 April to 7 May, with 48 people at risk of dying on board - are as important as the questions raised by previous incidents involving around 1300 deaths at sea in Australia's maritime approaches, since SIEV X in 2001. See
for full details of what is known of these incidents. We cannot allow ourselves as a nation to become desensitised to these matters, it seems to me.
tony kevin | 20 May 2013
You state Mr Kevin, "My guess is that the boat must have left ... " How do we know that everything you write on this matter, which is clearly quite an obsession, is not a guess? There is always a conspiracy isn't there? And never a good word for the numerous lives saved by our navy and never a criticism of those who are in truth responsible for these deaths at sea.
john frawley | 20 May 2013
Thanks to Chris G for his good questions, which I must try to answer. Last year I sent my book 'Reluctant Rescuers' to the then head of Customs and Border Protection Michael Carmody, and offered to take part in seminars with his officers on the issues it raises. I hope that the new Secretary Michael Pezzullo might take me up on that offer. I have talked to some retired naval officers and I remain ready to talk with whoever wishes to talk to me. From my research as recorded in my two books on this, I agree with Chris G's experience that the Customs crews who rescue asylum seekers are generally committed to their task, are sympathetic to the plight of the refugees and are greatly affected when 'things go wrong'.
And no, I am not suggesting any conspiracy within Customs, AMSA or the government to ignore boats in distress. Please read my Reluctant Rescuers and articles in ES to see how things can sometimes go wrong – and clearly have sometimes gone wrong – in a layered secret intelligence-based system of collecting and interpreting various kinds of data on incoming boats. The crews of Customs vessels and aircraft must operate within the operating instructions they receive. They can only look for the boats they are ordered to look for and in the areas they are ordered to surveil.
I do not know how they can have missed this boat drifting in fine weather 110 NM north of Christmas Island for nine days. I can only ask Mr Pezzullo to address this question of public importance.
It is precisely because I do value and honour the people who work in border protection that I do not want the system damaged when there are failures that cause deaths. I value the fact that 40,000 boat people have arrived here safely – a tribute to the border protection system's respect for life. But the fact of 1300 deaths starting with SIEV X in 2001 – a seriously disturbing statistic - shows there is sometimes a problem. I am trying within my limited capacities to help address it.
tony kevin | 20 May 2013
Why not use the existing maritime resources to safely bring the unfortunate and maligned asylum seekers to Australia - that would put people smugglers out of business! But political rhetoric needs 'people smugglers ' and 'queue jumpers'.........etc
krisee | 20 May 2013
They do it Tony because both major parties have convinced them, along with our lazy media, that we own the oceans and seas and the people who sail on them when we do not.
They refuse to accept that we are talking about human beings with the same human rights as them and prefer to think of them as criminal invaders when we are the criminals who invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan and made both countries infinitely worse.
Law, rights and respect matters not a jot to the likes of Frawley so I am convinced he is a very small man with a wery small scared mind who is afraid of people on boats who lives in the centre of Australia somewhere.
The fact is that everyone is equal and has the same rights.
And again, there are no smugglers, no-one is being smuggled into Australia and here is the only country we control.
If they pay to get to safety that is none of our business and should be applauded instead of demonised.
Marilyn | 20 May 2013
You criticise us because we confuse your issue with other issues ,I see it very differently .You take one part of the issue in isolation ,I take the whole issue of refugees . Yes I am strongly affected by the Sudanese who waited in camps for years to come with approval to this country ,no money to short the system for them .It is unacceptable to me that you take a narrow part of the total picture and make a crusade out of it with NEVER a hint of a solution .
john crew | 20 May 2013
but a different story with lone round-the-world yachtspersons where no amount of time or money is ever enough until the rescue...
walter p komarnicki | 21 May 2013
Tony, you write, in answer to comments on your article: "Under whatever government, Australia needs a border protection system that never leaves people to drown who could and should have been saved." In another comment you say: "Last year I sent my book 'Reluctant Rescuers' to the then head of Customs and Border Protection Michael Carmody, and offered to take part in seminars with his officers on the issues it raises. I hope that the new Secretary Michael Pezzullo might take me up on that offer." Mr Pezzullo may, or may not, take you up on that offer. I guess it's up to him to assess what expertise you have in this matter. Preferably special expertise no one else in his advisory network does. The particular incident you wrote about in this article is regrettable because two people drowned. However, I don't think you can necessarily slate the blame for this up to Customs or anyone else in Australia. There may well have been some sort of operational failure along the line, but, to suggest, as you appear to, that it might be due to premeditated delay amongst Customs, or anyone else in the bureaucracy, is, I think, going a bit too far. Only a non-prejudged enquiry can answer this question. I suggest you have already loaded the dice in your own mind as to what its finding should be. That, in itself, would, I think, be a fair reason for Mr Pezzullo to be a wee bit wary of taking up your offer.
Edward F | 21 May 2013
Edward, the delays by us are well and truly documented in there horror on sievx.com
I suggest you go and read all about it because I can guarantee that if a bunch of nice white tourists were sinking they would not wait 41 hours to send out a search and rescue as they did with a group of Afghans in June last year.
They let them drown in the meantime and now use that as an excuse to torture those who didn't drown.
Marilyn | 21 May 2013
I think you're being unnecessarily emotive here, Marilyn. Sieve X was a long time ago. The debate has moved on.
Edward F | 22 May 2013
The 'debate' may have moved on, but the avoidable drownings continue. See
tony kevin | 22 May 2013
By focussing on the gut wrenching, emotive side of the issue, Tony, I think you ignore the big picture. It's people smuggling that's the cause of the deaths.
Edward F | 24 May 2013
There is no people smuggling. People make the free choice to leave danger and freely pay for transport.
That is not smuggling. Never will be smuggling and it is not the fault of the boat crews if there are accidents and Australian governments know about them and do nothing.
Marilyn | 26 May 2013
"Edward, There is no people smuggling. People make the free choice to leave danger and freely pay for transport. That is not smuggling." I refer to this free online dictionary Marilyn http://www.thefreedictionary.com/smuggle. Section (2) of the first definition of "smuggle" sums it up viz. "to bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth".
Edward F | 27 May 2013
Edward, the only point of time that matters in this context is how people enter here and they do not enter covertly and never have because they want to appeal to the authorities here for help.
As we have nothing to do with the borders of any other country your point is meaningless.
Marilyn | 28 May 2013
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Adventures in the Pirate Continent: Episode 6 - A Place of Magic and Wonder!
"Welcome to the center of the pirate continent, Port Allesandro, a place of magic and wonder," said Jay. Dylan was in shock. The place felt old. Very old. Suspiciously old. Then she eyed a girl walking seven tigers.
She thought, "Why is she walking seven tigers? Oh, my god! Why is she walking seven tigers? Are they about to eat her? No. Oh, my god. That's her job. She's the equivalent of a dog walker. Oh, my god, Jay."
He was saying something. Jay was, indeed, saying something. He was going on and on. On and on. "I'm still not entirely sure what's going on here. I should really pay attention," Dylan thought.
"And that's when Glenn Miller declared ...," said Jay.
"Oh, my god, he brought up Glenn Miller. Why did he bring up Glenn Miller? Oh, my god. You're so stupid. This is why you keep failing things; because you don't pay attention. Now, now, don't say that, Dylan. Don't say that. You have your own sort of intelligence." Dylan continued to think.
"So you're fine if I leave you here for a minute?" said Jay.
"What?" said Dylan.
"I just have to go to a college. I have to go to a college. You're fine if I just leave ...," said Jay.
"Wait. What? Why? Why?" said Dylan.
"Got to go to my college," said Jay.
"Wait, your college? What's going on?" said Dylan. And just like that, Jay was gone.
Evansville, Ohio.
the plane was great fantastic
the funeral home once agian was full of bullets
"You guys thought I was dead?" said Dylan.
The set really was quite beautiful, and as Dylan ran through it
Who's familiar with West Coast Jazz?
Dylan woke to an impossibility.
didn't live in what you would call a traditional apartment building.
a phone that was ringing.
The continent itself is a pirate
"Well, I hope you don't assume I'm coming along," said Dylan.
The Quest Begins.
Oh, Eliza and Jay go way back
The sharks surrounded Eliza and Dylan.
Dylan and Eliza ran as fast they could from the violent angry Vikings.
They're goanna do worse. They're goanna kill you, right?
"were back" Welcome to the center of the pirate continent, Port Allesandro a place of magic and wonder.
Dylan quietly dangled her arms over the ship
"Why are we not moving?" said Dylan.
The sea monster looked like a whale and a shark had had a baby
Dylan looked out at the endless ocean and came to a very important decision
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Three men will face court for allegedly pointing a green laser beam at a police helicopter in Perth.
The chopper crew was able to pinpoint the home where the beam came from while it was patrolling the Butler area about 1am on Saturday.
A 28-year-old man has been charged with causing fear with a laser or light to people in conveyance, and possession of a controlled weapon. He is due to appear at Joondalup Magistrates Court next month.
Two other men, aged 23 and 26, are due to face court at a later date for possessing an uncontrolled weapon.