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To help with the meth-making equations on "Breaking Bad," showrunner Vince Gilligan had to call in an expert. That very expert was called to speak at Binghamton University on Wednesday.
Donna Nelson, the president-elect of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the largest professional society for scientists in the world, was the keynote speaker for Binghamton's ACS section award ceremony. Wednesday's event honored students and professors of the Southern Tier who excelled in chemistry.
Among those recognized were Sandy Zhang, a senior majoring in chemistry, who won the Outstanding Undergraduate Senior Chemistry Major Award in the Southern Tier. Megan Fegley, a recent graduate of BU who holds a doctorate in chemistry, won the Zappert Award for Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student in the Southern Tier.
A large portion of Nelson's talk focused on her work with Vince Gilligan, the creator of "Breaking Bad," and his team of writers.
According to her, she was flipping through a copy of Chemical & Engineering News when she came across an article about "Breaking Bad," a show she had previously never heard of, requesting a volunteer science adviser.
"I saw that Vince Gilligan said we don't have money to hire a science adviser but we would appreciate constructive remarks from a chemically inclined audience," said Nelson, an organic chemistry professor at the University of Oklahoma. "I sat straight up and I thought, 'Wow, this is an astonishing opportunity.'"
After watching the first five episodes and realizing the show did not glorify drugs, Nelson decided to apply. She was hired as the volunteer science adviser by June 2008, and was contacted whenever the writers and directors needed a consultation.
Nelson said she saw this as an opportunity to help build a bridge between the science community and the entertainment industry.
"We all know how much influence Hollywood has on the public," Nelson said. "The producers and writers would get to learn about us and the public would get to see correct science information portrayed."
Dan Brennan, associate professor of chemistry at SUNY Broome and chair of the Binghamton ACS section, said the ceremony offered a chance to hear about a unique perspective on careers in chemistry.
"It's an important event because it gives us a chance to recognize local talent and to encourage people to pursue chemistry as a possible career path," Brennan said.
Nelson described her experience working on "Breaking Bad" as fabulous, and said that Gilligan and his writers were passionate about keeping the show as scientifically accurate as possible. Some of her equations and diagrams would appear on Walter White's journal pages and chalkboard.
She said one of her favorite tasks was working out an equation that would answer how much meth, in pounds, could be synthesized from 30 gallons of the compound methylamine.
"I still remember the night this came through in my email, I just sat and laughed because it violated so many things," Nelson said. "We don't use pounds in a lab and I don't think I've ever used 30 gallons of anything."
After receiving her award and hearing Nelson's talk, Zhang said that she planned to go back and re-watch the show with her current chemistry knowledge.
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With the lights out, it's less dangerous: Rose Luckin
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"With the lights out, it's less dangerous": tapping into teen spirit to inform technology design for personal energy consumption understanding.
In this presentation I'll report on a series of research studies conducted with teenagers to develop design ideas for ways in which learning technologies might support young people who want to learn and understand more about their personal consumption of energy. Energy sustainability is prevalent in political and popular rhetoric and yet energy consumption is rising. Teenagers are an important category of future energy consumers, but little is known of their conceptions about energy and energy saving.
Findings from our early studies suggest that teenagers are aware of energy issues at an abstract level, but do not apply this information in the context of their behaviour. We identify indirect energy use and the relative energy intensity of different behaviours as important areas for learning. For example, behaviours of particular relevance to teenagers are use of electronic devices, and choice of food and personal care products. These findings have implications for the design of technology to support learning about energy in informal contexts and have informed the development of an Ecology of Resources model (Luckin, 2010) of the teenage participants' personal contexts, which includes their world resources (people, tools, knowledge, skills, and environment) and their personal resources (conceptions, motivations and concerns around energy consumption). This model is now being used to support the on-going participatory technology design process with groups of teenagers drawn from UK secondary schools.
I'll talk about the range of methods we employed to understand teenagers' personal learning contexts and the manner in which our findings are now being used to develop a mobile phone application with a small group of teenagers in two secondary schools in the South of England.
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Go inside the Phoenix Fire Department 911 call center to learn about what's going on when you call 911 in the Phoenix metro area. Hannah Gaber/azcentral.com
One person was seriously hurt Sunday morning after a motorcycle went off a cliff near Apache Junction, officials said.
The crash happened near Milepost 204 on State Route 88, also known as the Apache Trail, according to a tweet from the Superstition Fire and Medical District. One person was taken to the hospital.
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Pinky and Rex is the perfect series for early readers learning to read and navigate friendships!Pinky really wants to be an actor and is sure he'll get the lead in the school play. Rex, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with being on stage. She's afraid she'll forget her lines—or worse. Everything changes when Pinky convinces Rex to go with him to the tryouts. Will Pinky and Rex still be best friends when the show is over?
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James Howe is the author of more than ninety books for young readers. Bunnicula, coauthored by his late wife Deborah and published in 1979, is considered a modern classic of children's literature. The author has written six highly popular sequels, along with the spinoff series Tales from the House of Bunnicula and Bunnicula and Friends. Among his other books are picture books such as Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores and beginning reader series that include the Pinky and Rex and Houndsley and Catina books. He has also written for older readers. The Misfits, published in 2001, inspired the antibullying initiative No Name-Calling Week, as well as three sequels, Totally Joe, Addie on the Inside, and Also Known as Elvis. A common theme in James Howe's books from preschool through teens is the acceptance of difference and being true to oneself. Visit him online at JamesHowe.com.
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12 Best Curacao Tourist Attractions
|Handelskade waterfront; © Curacao Tourism Board
Cruise visitors to Curacao will find that Willemstad offers more than enough to see and do in one visit. A walk through the city reveals great historical places, monuments and architecture.
But the island has other fulfilling tourist attractions. Tours around the island include the HATO caves and more historical landmarks.
Atlantis Adventures has semi-submarine tours. Curacao Sea Aquarium has 400 species from the ocean around Curaçao and offers dolphin encounters in the water with them. The separate Dolphin Academy has programs allowing visitors to swim, snorkel or dive with the dolphins.
1)More About Willemstad
Willemstad has more than 750 historical buildings with many of them along or near the famously colorful Handelskade waterfront.
St. Anna Bay divides the city into two major districts — Punda on the east and Otrobanda on the west. Visitors will enjoy the Queen Emma Bridge, a swinging pontoon bridge that connects the two districts over the canal. Like many visitors, we especially liked sitting at the outdoor restaurants along the canal and watching the bridge open and close for boat traffic.
A highlight of Punda is Fort Amsterdam, built by the Dutch after they captured the island from Spain in 1634.
It now serves as the Government seat of the Netherlands Antilles. Unlike the orderly grid of Punda, Otrobanda is filled with twisting streets and alleyways, many shops and restaurants and a variety of colorful and historic buildings.
It is here In the 18th and19th centuries that free blacks began to migrate to the city and form its first working class neighborhood and urban center.
|© Curaçao Tourist Board
2) Curacao Sea Aquarium
Located on the oceanfront at Bapor Kibra, the aquarium is an ocean water system because of seawater pumped continuously into it.
Visitors can snorkel or dive with stingray, turtles, fish and sharks among the 400 species at the facility.
Other highlights include feeding shows, a Touch Tank and video presentations.
3) Dolphin Academy
Visitors experience dolphins in six different programs at Dolphin Academy in Willemstad.
Dolphin Encounter allows them to stand on a platform in the water about waist deep, learn about the dolphins and have moderate contact with them. In Dolphin Swim, participants can swim next to dolphins and pet them.
For Dorsal Ride, two dolphins will pick up swimmers and give them rides by holding on to their dorsal fins.
In Dolphin Snorkel and Dolphin Open Water Dive, participants will dive on a reef with the dolphins. Dolphin Academy teaches participants about being a dolphin trainer.
4) Beaches
The island has 17 beaches, most of which are located on the southwestern coast. Note that some charge admission for access. There are no good beaches within walking distance of the cruise port.
Curaçao's longest and whitest beach is on Klein Curaçao, an uninhabited island eight miles off the southeast coast. Kenepa is one of the most popular beaches because of its two coves.
A popular choice for families is Porto Marie, which is about 18 miles or 30 kilometers from the cruise port.
5) Golf
Vacationers will find two 18-hole and one nine-hole golf courses. Curacao Golf & Squash Club is the nine hole course; phone: +(5999) 737-3590. Blue Bay has an 18-hole golf course and resort; phone: +(5999) 868-1755. Hyatt Regency has an 18-hole Pete Dye-designed championship golf course; phone: +(5999) 840-688.
6) Ostrich Farm
The Curacao Ostrich Farm is one of the largest Ostrich farms outside of Africa. Visitors can see more than 600 animals, learn about their habits, hold an egg, pet chicks and paint Ostrich eggs. The farm's restaurant specializes in African food.
7) Hato Caves
The Hato cave covers 4,900 square meters and has limestone formations, pools, waterfalls and a Madonna statue.
It also has a colony of long nose fruit bats. The caves are open seven days a week and have tours on the hour starting at 10 a.m. and going until 4 p.m.
8) Underwater Marine Park
Among the snorkeling opportunities around the island is the Curacao Underwater Marine Park, which extends 12 miles along the southern coastline.
Views include shipwrecks, expanses of hard and soft coral, and massive numbers of fish.
|The island is popular with scuba divers. © Curacao Tourism Board
9) Scuba Diving
Curacao boasts 40 different dive areas with 65 dive sites including plane wrecks and a sunken tug boat.
Barracuda Point is a chance to meet curious barracuda. Playa Piskado, Playa Kalki, Jan Thiel and Kokomo Beach Curacao beaches are popular with divers. Caracasbaai beach also is often used as an access point.
10) Christoffel Park
Christoffel Park is the largest national park of Curacao and is home to wild orchids, the Palabora, the rare native barn owl, Curacao White Tailed deer, and eight hiking trails including one to the top of Mt. Christoffel.
11) Shete Boka National Park
The park has 10 inlets where three species of turtles nest. Boka Tabla is the first inlet and has where large waves that crash against an underground cave.
12) Liqueur Factory
Visitors to Landhuis Chobolobo can watch and learn about the production of the island's famous Blue Curacao liqueur.
Landhuis Chobolobo is a free-access country home located in Salina. Visitors can take a self-explanatory tour in the visitor's' center and receive a free liquor tasting. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Scott S. Bateman is a professional journalist who has traveled widely throughout the Caribbean and the Americas.
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Magician, As far as I can see in recent history no one going by your nickname has posted a question on this topic. Anyways, there is a vector analysis package in Mathematica (found in a 5 sec search) that knows about 14 different coordinate systems and can do the tricks you ask for. If your coordinate system is included you're lucky. If your system is not, you might consider extending the package. That doesn't seem to be too difficult as it is plain Mathematica code and you've 14 examples in it that show you how to set up a new coordinate system. Cheers -- Sjoerd On Mar 4, 2:09 pm, Magician <jadoo.d... at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi!, > HELP! > > I've asked this question a couple of times but never received an > answer. > > I have a new coordinate system to deal with. > x=f(u, v,w) > y=g(u,v,w) > z=h(u,v,w) > (x,y,z) are Cartesian > and it's inverse is known. > How can I program this in Mathematica and compute the gradient, curl, > divergence, laplacian > and other operators in this coordinate system ????


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Earlier in the year, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, hit the headlines for giving American carrier, AT&T Wireless, a $100 million fine for how the company throttled customers unlimited data plans. It has also fined over ten companies $100 million for the Lifeline fracas, but has not collected any of this money for what were high profile cases. And now the FCC has fallen under the gaze of members of Congress for not collecting these debts; it seems that the FCC's Enforcement Bureau is not quick about collecting fines (technically known as "notices of apparent liability, or NAL, rather than a fine). In the words of House telecom subcommittee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.): "If an enormous fine is announced and it's never prosecuted, it makes you wonder what's the purpose? The question is, are they just after headlines or some sort of performance metric? I don't know." The AT&T case is particularly interesting because at the time, the carrier's formal response stated that the fine was "unprecedented and indefensible" and it would be rejected by a court should the FCC decide to levy the fine. The North American carrier sees the FCC has having exceeded its statutory authority in this case – but has increased the throttling threshold for some unlimited data plans from 5 GB to 22 GB of monthly data allowance.
It transpires that when a fine is issued, the business in question typically has a month to pay or challenge the fine. However, the fine is not formally issued until an investigation is complete – and this can take years after the initial announcement, which is on a technicality a proposed fine rather than a notice of apparent liability. The FCC may then rely on the Justice Department to collect the fine should the underlying business refuse to pay. One obvious here is that the industry reports on the proposed fine as though it were complete, when it may be some months or years from being complete. Indeed, a FCC spokesperson explained to the source website that by issuing a proposed fine, this may be about protecting as it may make a company change their behavior during the FCC investigation.
The 2013 Lifeline case brought with it the following statement from the FCC: "Today's actions constitute the most recent step in the Commission's significant efforts to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program and preserve the overall integrity of the Universal Service Fund (USF)." However, none of the NALs have been imposed on the companies found to have abused the Lifeline service and several are still receiving FCC reimbursements for 'phone subsidies. One of the Lifeline providers under fire from the FCC, TracFone, said after the hearing that no fine had yet been imposed by the FCC.
Whilst the FCC has a convoluted way of collecting fines from businesses, the way stories are reported does not help matters: some of the blame is simply that websites report the FCC has levied a fine on a particular business when the reality is that the fine is not finalized. Nevertheless, with headline stories of multi-million dollar proposed fines being leveled at businesses seen as falling foul of the FCC's rules, the disparity between quoted fines and monies received is sure to be investigated.


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Taybeh Oktoberfest to rock the West Bank this weekend
Nadim Khoury and David Khoury, co-founders of Taybeh Brewing Company, announce the 14th annual Taybeh Oktoberfest will take place at the Taybeh Brewery, on Saturday and Sunday, September 8 & 9, from 1 pm until 11 pm on both days.
The festival has been a unique and traditional event in the region since 2005 when it was initiated collaboratively with the community while David Khoury was serving as mayor of Taybeh. The 1 pm opening on Saturday, September 8, will feature Hungarian Music with Live Act Folk, fusion of Hungarian folk songs, modern jazz and beatbox; Raya Palestinian Dance Troup and Special guest Aldo Brasil, singer & composer from Brazil.
"Taybeh Oktoberfest is a distinctive way to promote Palestinian culture and heritage not just the first micro-brewed beer in the Middle East and the new boutique wines with the Nadim label. Music groups in past years from Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil and many others countries reflected a musical cultural exchange," stated David Khoury.
Master Brewer Canaan Khoury will have limited special brews released just for Oktoberfest: Arabic Coffee Nitro Stout; Shatta Ale with locally grown hot pepper; Double IPA; Spontaneous Fern aged in Cabernet Sauvignon Oak Barrel from Taybeh Winery and Palestinian Herbal Lager with za'atar, sage , sumac and anise. The Taybeh Beer competition will continue to be a favorite with the first lady brewer of Palestine, Madees Khoury.
Entertainment will include alternative music with Ghazall from Nazareth; Bashar Murard, pop music; Zaid Hilal Band/Bethlehem, party rock with oriental flavor; Ahmed Marwan, former Arab Idol semi-finals; Rap music by Elie Kawas for new talent and Synaptik-Palestinian-Jordanian rapper. Return all-time favorites: DAM-Palestinian Hip-Hop; MINA Band – Palestinian Traditional Music w/Nazal Zanayed; Ramallah Band w/Jack Tanous and Alrowwad Cultural & Arts Society with several local dance groups.
Children's activities: Puppet making and storytelling with Rinad: face painting with clowns; Meeting with Sponge Bob, Dora and the trolls; Henna body art (tattoos) and variety of games. Visitors can escape the crowds and view Palestinian art exhibited at the lobby of the Taybeh Golden Hotel by prominent Palestinian artists, Sliman Mansour, Nabil Anani, and Tayseer Barakat. Taybeh Oktoberfest is the perfect way to spend your weekend in Palestine. A camping night with campfire is a new addition to the Oktoberfest celebration.
For additional information contact Dr. Maria C. Khoury.
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Palestine Christian Writer, Blogger at St. George Greek Orthodox Church
Maria (Kouremenou) Khoury is the author of Orthodox Christian children's books including Christina Goes to the Holy Land, walking the footsteps of Christ. She is a graduate of Hellenic College (1982), Harvard University (1985) and Boston University (1992) with a doctor of education degree. Born in Tripoli, Greece, she was raised in Denver, Colorado. On Dec 31, 2009 she was included on the top 4 Human Rights Champions list by DC Human Rights Examiner including the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Hilary Clinton.
Maria is the author of Witness in the Holy Land (distributed by www.HolyCrossBookstore.com), a publication reflecting personal experiences living under military occupation with her husband the former Mayor of Taybeh, David Canaan Khoury and three children Elena, Canaan, and Constantine. Her articles have been published world-wide in numerous newspapers and magazines and have been translated to various languages bringing awareness of the Christian presence in the Holy Land.
Maria Khoury has been the Taybeh Oktoberfest organizer since 2005.She divides her time between her homes in Boston and Taybeh, travels throughout the world promoting the Christina Books and making presentations about the dwindling Christian community in Palestine.She encourages people to stay at the new Taybeh Golden Hotel and experience rural life in Palestine.
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This is my last 5 Bengali Words post until the New Year and I'm going to end the year with another obvious theme and go for Christmas words.
After this the plan is to revise the short vocabulary lists that I've produced to date, rather than just churn out endless lists of words that never quite stick in my mind permanently enough.
Holiday n – ছুটি (chuti)
Present n – উপহার (upōhar)
To give vb – দেোয়া (deoya)
To wrap vb – মুড়া (mura)
Family n – পরিবার (pōribar)
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Glasgow, Reinvented
The Scottish city sidesteps its gritty reputation with a slew of game-changing new developments
BY ADAM H. GRAHAM — Spring 2018
Welcome to Glasgow 2.0. — a far cry from medieval "Glas Cau" (Gaelic for "green hollow") founded by sixth-century St. Mungo — where more than 300 development projects will continue reshaping the city through 2025. Here, a look at several projects already changing the local landscape and boosting Glasgow's appeal to travelers.
Cool Attractions You'll Want to See
Projects That Got the Reinvention Rolling
You'll find the most significant changes at Queen's Dock, once home to hundreds of bustling shipyards that opened in response to Scotland's brisk international trade before the city became a 19th-century power port that earned it the title Second City of the Empire. The shipyards started closing in the 1960s as shipbuilding ebbed and new docks opened in the Firth of Clyde, leaving the city's waterfront to fall into neglect. The '80s and '90s saw some growth sputters, but it wasn't until 1997 that the new Norman Foster and Partners-designed Clyde Auditorium (sec.co.uk), nicknamed the "Armadillo" for its scalelike exterior, kick-started legitimate redevelopment.
In 2011, Zaha Hadid's iconic Riverside Museum (glasgowmuseums.com) opened, a massive hangar filled with more than 3,000 vintage cars, trolleys, trains, scooters, and skateboards. But the architecture itself is the real draw, with a white zigzag facade that's a contrast from the late architect's usual curves.
Foster and Partners returned in 2013 with the SSE Hydro (thessehydro.com), a coliseum-shaped arena encased in colorful translucent skin with an interior that's Wi-Fi-enabled and features more than 200 digital screens across the campus.
Lively New Places to Wet Your Whistle
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While developers leading the next generation of Glasgow's builds mostly remain forward thinking, some also look to Glasgow's past for inspiration. In an effort to preserve the city's unique rough-and-tumble characteristics, many new developments aim to restore the city's industrial heritage instead of demolishing it.
Opened last November, Clydeside Distillery (theclydeside.com) helps return a bit of whisky heritage to a city that once had 40-plus distilleries, most of which closed by the mid-1970s. The distillery, a $14.5 million renovation project on the River Clyde at Queen's Dock, is located in a 19th-century blond sandstone Pump House. Executives of Morrison Glasgow Distillers Ltd., the distillery's owner, expect it to draw 65,000 visitors annually with its tours, tastings, interactive historical whisky experience, and retail shop with whiskies from all over Scotland.
Look for Douglas Laing & Co. (douglaslaing.com), another distillery, to open in 2019 directly across from Clydeside on the opposite side of the river in Govan. It will feature a visitor center, archive, bistro, and bar (serving whiskies such as Old Particular and Timorous Beastie, as well as its own single malt made with water from Loch Katrine and Scottish barley).
In 2014, Glasgow Distillery Co. (glasgowdistillery.com) opened in a former warehouse in Hillington on the south side of the River Clyde. The company makes several vodkas and gins, including a signature Makar gin, a juniper-forward expression with rosemary and black peppercorns among its botanicals. It has also bottled a peaty Speyside-style whisky aged for 27 years that retails for $700 a bottle.
The city is also seeing a massive resurgence of microbreweries, gastropubs, and taphouses, with the following crowd-pleasers either debuting last year or touting new developments.
Tennent's Wellpark Brewery (tennents.com), the city's biggest and oldest continually operating brewery (it started brewing beer on this site in 1556), will enhance its visitors' experience with a major expansion debuting in July. Expect a new tasting room, museum, and bar where visitors can finish with a pint of premium Caledonia ale or Black T Scottish lager. In its classrooms and kitchens, the brewery regularly hosts culinary and spirits workshops, tastings, and training sessions.
The craft brewers of Edinburgh-based Innis & Gunn opened a flagship Glasgow locale called the Beer Kitchen (innisandgunn.com) on Ashton Lane in the West End. The three-level facility features a ground-floor microbrewery and a casual dining level with exposed brick walls and caramel leather banquettes where diners can indulge in barrel-smoked beef and house bread with aromatic hop-infused oil.
In the hipster-dense neighborhood of Finnieston, Glasgow's version of London's Shoreditch and home to its best new restaurants, look for the buzzy Taphouse Bar & Kitchen (taphousefinnieston.com). Besides an endless list of beers and ciders, sample heaping burgers, salads, and pizzas.
The stylish gastropub Mallard (themallardbar.co.uk) opened in Kelvinbridge and specializes in homemade cocktails such as rhubarb Old Fashioneds and fresh, local British fare such as braised ox cheeks and glazed pork belly.
In 2016, Shilling Brewing Co. (shillingbrewingcompany.co.uk) opened in the City Centre, making excellent craft brews such as its coconuty Black Star Teleporter, an ideal pairing to its crispy haggis pizza made using its own beer.
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Glasgow's dining scene is having a major renaissance with a nod to traditional Caledonian flavors and a punch of international flair. This culinary uptick is challenging Edinburgh's starred chefs to up their game and giving Londoners reason to be jealous (and journey north for dinner).
Foodies consider the city one of Europe's most vegan-friendly cities, so it's no surprise that In Bloom, a "cruelty-free cafe" that takes its name and inspiration from the classic Nirvana song, opened last fall in St. George's Cross. Menu standouts include vegan haggis and cheese toasties, smoked tomato soup, and chocolate fudge cake. The press-themed Citizen (thecitizenglasgow.co.uk) also fired up its kitchen last fall on St. Vincent Place in the City Centre in the cozy and elegant former offices of the old Evening Citizen newspaper. An instant favorite, it serves up locally sourced fish and meat dishes such as potted oak-smoked salmon and prawns, Shetland mussels, creamy fish pies, and harissa-cured Scotch lamb shanks, slow-cooked for 12 hours.
Although the city may lack Michelin stars, Michelin has recognized 19 Glasgow restaurants and honored two with the Bib Gourmand award, which recognizes restaurants offering exceptional value. You'll find those two — Gannet and Ox and Finch — in the dining hot spot of Finnieston, between the West End and the City Centre.
At Gannet (thegannetgla.com), opened in 2013, the dining rooms offer a pared-back loft ambience. But its satisfying and elegant dishes are anything but minimalist: The duck breast in Hertfordshire cherry and elderflower sauce has hints of pastilla and is served aside salt-baked turnip. Pickled herring comes with apples and horseradish-infused creme fraiche. Smoked Perthshire pigeon coddles a cured yolk, atop a nest of roast hazelnut, bramble, and radicchio. For dessert, try salted caramel fondant with tonka bean and malted barley ice cream.
Chef Jonathan MacDonald, former head chef of the McLaren Formula One team, heads up the neighboring airy and sun-flooded Ox and Finch (oxandfinch.com), opened in 2014. His menu features seasonal sharing plates such as smoked mackerel pate with radicchio and pink grapefruit and chicken liver with orange blossom. Options on an extensive flavor-forward vegetarian menu include grilled haloumi with black-eyed peas and roast garlic tahini.
Another don't-miss spot just a block away, Porter & Rye (porterandrye.com) features a menu emphasizing wild and foraged food, locally sourced dry-aged beef, cured meats, and sausages. The tile-and-cast-iron interiors recall a Jazz Age speakeasy, but the dishes are modern European comfort masterpieces: bone marrow macaroni and cheese, chestnut mushroom Wellington, venison haunch with sweet potato and pickled cherries, and slow-cooked Gaindykehead ox broth.
If you can't decide on one eatery, embark on the Finnieston Food Crawl (theglasgowfood.co), designed by local food blogger Briony Cullin, who structures the crawls so that diners can try one course at each place before grazing on to the next. Cullin is currently organizing a beer and whisky pairing food crawl for this year.
For a lot of variety in one locale, head to Govan on the city's south side and pop into the Big Feed (bigfeedstreetfood.com), Scotland's largest street-food market, which opened last spring. A dozen-plus vendors serve up wood-fired pizzas, Mexican fare, vegetarian options, and more amid guest brewers, DJs, kids' games, and themed events.
Not new, but definitely a must-try: Glaswegian go-to the Ubiquitous Chip (ubiquitouschip.co.uk), which has been satisfying locals for nearly 50 years with dishes such as Scotch Aberdeen Angus beef, Shetland cod fillet, and Laggan red deer haunch, not to mention a hundred-plus selection of whiskies to help whet your appetite or digest your meal. Check out the colorful Alasdair Gray's murals on the way to the loo.
Cozy New Places for a Good Night's Sleep
Glasgow's hospitality scene has also seen major changes with new and upgraded facilities offering a modern, markedly less tweed style. In St. Vincent Place in the City Centre, look for the Anchor Line Hotel to start welcoming guests this summer. Housed in the 1906 art deco Anchor Line Building, it's undergoing a $7.5 million refurb to become a luxurious 64-room aparthotel featuring glazed tiles, terrazzo flooring, timber paneling, and fireplaces. Also coming this summer: the 180-room Moxy (moxy-hotels.marriott.com), Marriott's youthful tech-forward brand, opening in May in the city's Collegelands neighborhood. It will feature an "industrial chic" lounge, video wall, and games area.
Less new, but still fresh and inviting options include the Dakota Deluxe Glasgow (glasgow.dakotahotels.co.uk), which opened in spring 2016 with 83 rooms in subtle gray tones, a cigar lounge, and a discreet champagne room. It's a one-minute walk from Blythswood Square and is walkable to the City Centre.
On a tree-lined street in Kelvinbridge sits the Hotel du Vin Glasgow (hotelduvin.com), which Frasers Hospitality bought in 2015. This stately luxury hotel has 49 rooms in a row of elegant townhouses furnished with Edwardian and Victorian touches such as velvet sofas, clawfoot tubs, flocked wallpaper, and spacious beds dressed in soft Egyptian linen. Don't miss the full Scottish breakfast, with Cumberland sausage, potato scones, haggis, and black pudding.
In another 2015 acquisition, Starwood purchased the Blythswood Square Hotel (blythswoodsquare.com), which opened in 2009 and is considered Glasgow's first luxury property. The contemporary facility features handsome Harris Tweed furnishings and its spa offers Hebridean seaweed treatments and a hydrotherapy pool, sauna, and steamroom.
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With the shorter and colder days, lacing up for a run might be the last thing you feel like doing.
But don't let the winter weather stop you from being physically active and keeping fit.
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Dressing appropriately for the weather conditions will help ensure you enjoy your run.
Consider wearing lightweight layers of breathable clothing, known as the layer system.
The layer system works well for keeping you warm and any layer can be removed as conditions change during your run.
When choosing your layers, remember your body heats up during exercise. You should be slightly cool when you start your run.
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If you go running before or after work during the winter, it's likely you'll be running in the dark.
When running after dark, it's essential that you're visible to other people, particularly motorists.
Your clothes should be reflective or a bright, light color, such as white or fluorescent yellow. Don't wear dark clothes as drivers may not see you.
Warm up and cool down
Easing into your run is a good way to warm-up, especially in cold weather.
Start slowly with some very gentle running or even walking to ready the muscles for exercise.
Gradually increase your pace until, after around 10 minutes, you get to the pace you're going to maintain for most of the run.
Don't stop after your warm-up to stretch. That will cool your muscles down again.
To cool down, reduce your pace or walk for five to ten minutes. This will help your body recover after your run.
Don't stop and stretch outside or you could get too cold. Do some stretches indoors instead.
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Colds are more common in winter, but you don't necessarily have to stop running if you're feeling under the weather.
If your symptoms are not severe and you generally feel OK, then you can go running. If you feel rotten, then it's best not to go.
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'No one likes us – I'm finding out as a Millwall player that is generally the case'
SHAUN Hutchinson praised the "terrific" Millwall fans last Friday – and insisted the side will continue to "thrive" being the "underdog".
There was a season-high attendance of 17,641 at The Den and even though the home fans saw they're side beaten they gave them a standing ovation after the final whistle.
Despite the loss, when they conceded three second-half goals, Millwall stayed sixth and if Derby lose at home to Cardiff on Tuesday night the Lions' play-off fate will be back in their own hands.
"We're enjoying the rollercoaster that we're on at the moment," Hutchinson said. "People ask me if I wish I could find out now rather than at the end of the season but I say, 'nah, I'm enjoying it'.
"It's part of playing for Millwall and overachieving. [Friday] we lost but I'm still enjoying where we are and the challenge. It was in front of the Sky cameras, full house – I thought Millwall fans were terrific.
"In the first half especially they definitely made it hostile for them. They are the games that you want to play in, you don't want to be in mid-table or relegation scraps.
"The gaffer says it as well, they're coming in their numbers because they're supporting us and appreciating what we're doing. The players appreciate them coming, it definitely helps us when they are like that.
"The goal at the start of the second half maybe deflated them as much as us, but we have to make sure if we concede a goal in the next two games we don't deflate like that.
"Everyone seems to be writing us off. Well, it's Millwall and they say no one likes us. I'm finding out as a player that's generally the case.
"But we thrive off it as well, we thrive off being underdogs and enjoy it."
Millwall felt referee Andre Marriner didn't help them against the Cottagers. He blew for a foul before George Saville thought he had given his side the lead, and boss Neil Harris said he gave the visitors too much protection.
"It is frustrating," Hutchinson admitted. "He's in the Premier League and maybe isn't used to the physical aspect of the Championship. It felt as if at times there were just too many [free-kicks]. I'm not being critical of him, it just seems to be the way football is going. It didn't help us.
"Looking back at the goal as well it seemed perfectly fine. There were a lot of fouls that went against us and it was frustrating but at the end of the day it's not the reason we lost the game. We lost because they scored more than us.
"Things went against us but we move on."
Millwall conceded in the first minute of the second half to Slavisa Jokanovic's side, and Fulham added two more to end their opponents' 17-game unbeaten league run.
Hutchinson said: "It's one thing we're normally quite good at, getting going after restarts and on the front foot. That was a sucker punch, the last thing Fulham needed was confidence like that and that's what we gave them. It deflated us a little bit.
"We know they like to keep the ball and it's harder when you're chasing the game. It opened up the game a little bit and fair play to [Kevin] McDonald, he's put it in the top corner [for the second goal].
"They're a tough side. They're the most in-form team at the moment and I don't think anyone wants to play them.
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Millwall face Middlesbrough and Aston Villa in their last two fixtures in the league and Hutchinson added: "They are tough games against teams that have got something to play for, but, as I keep saying, I'd rather that than playing mid-table and relegation games. This where we want to be."
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I am inspired here by a recent article on Luminous Landscape: A Moment of Clarity which I think is members-only, but you can still look at the pictures. I will, as an aside, remark that despite the title and the pictures it is not about simply slamming the Clarity Slider all the way to 11.
No, the piece is about a technique in which you nail your camera down firmly and then take a bunch of pictures of the same thing, doing the usual HDR dance of multiple exposures to capture loads of dynamic range, and then more pictures to get dramatic lighting, and then layering it all together in photoshop to produce a composite. The line that caught my eye was "Skies can be taken anywhere and dropped in" which is a classic bit of Pictorialism (against which the Pictorialist Emerson railed at thunderous length, to be sure). The result is, by the way, invariably a sky that looks pretty good but doesn't quite work. To my eye, David's pictures look like composites, and I think it's because the light doesn't quite work. It's close, but not perfect.
This sparked a memory of a visual artist and photographer who gets talked up a bit here and there, Antti Karppinen who has a variety of weird techniques in his composites, notably hue-matching various random elements. Which certainly creates a strong unifying force, but makes the results look ridiculously fake (albeit very painterly). Note, for instance, places where someone's skin tone is actually the same hue (although different values) as the wall behind them. Say what? That's just odd. Again, this strikes me as philosophically very Pictorialist.
But let's back up a bit and think about Pictorialism more.
In these degenerate times we think of it as mainly just scratching negatives and mashing on gum-bichromate prints until they look like lousy paintings. Maybe a bit of soft focus thrown in for good measure.
Pictorialism is, though, much more than that. It is the idea that photographs might usefully be designed to look like paintings. It is a set of techniques devised for accomplishing that. It is Impressionism re-cast in photographic terms, the idea that the photograph should "give the impression of" whatever you're trying to depict. It is the idea that the photograph should not precisely reproduce the world, but that it should re-create the experience of seeing that world.
This brings us naturally around to a completely different thread of Modern Pictorialism, namely Sally Mann.
I think this reveals an interesting bifurcation in the ideas that made up Pictorialism.
While people like Antti and David are, essentially, using a set of techniques to produce pictures that look cool, people like Sally Mann are using an almost 100% disjoint set of techniques, also recognizably Pictorialist, to make pictures which are.. something else. Perhaps Expressionist. Which overlaps, as nearly as I can tell, with Impressionist but which isn't quite the same thing.
This, I think, faithfully recreates the scope of the original Pictorialist movement.
On the one hand we have work that is, well, how to put this kindly: conceptually thin? Yes yes, I get that it's Cupid and she must be Artemis, but what's the point? Is it really just to cram in classical allusions? I'm going to rudely lump Antti and David in here. Overwrought, in a fairly literal sense, kind of twee. One of more sort of thin ideas, mainly just visual ideas, thrown down onto the page into what boils down to a fairly fake looking pastiche. Cool as hell, but not really something you're going to spend a lot of time with unless you're trying to deconstruct the photoshop methods used to make it.
On the other hand, we have conceptually fairly rich material. Usually less overtly over-worked, presumably because in general when you've got actual ideas and emotional impacts to make, you spend less time screwing around trying to mashing meaning and weight in with your fists.
In a very real sense, I think we're looking at a case of same as it ever was here. It's tempting to, again, throw the baby out with the bathwater and insist that only Straight Photography is worthy, and we certainly see an exuberent school of that line of thinking.
Perhaps, though, we could strike a path based not on the methods and "the look" of the thing, but rather on whether or not the artist is successful in imbuing the work with something worth being imbued with.


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Then I updated my GoTo Palette because I bought two MAC eyeshadows that I've been wanting. Can you see the difference? I switched out MAC Bold & Brazen and Wet n Wild Naked with MAC's Ricepaper (third in first row) and Texture (fifth in first row).
I've been wanting Ricepaper (a frost) since the year 2000...no lie! I finally got it. Ahaha! I think it's now my favorite shimmery highlight.
And then I got Texture (a velvet), which is the perfect above the crease color. I don't buy MAC too often but these two colors are must-haves.
NYX's Sahara looks almost exactly like Ricepaper. What do you think? Even though the texture of Ricepaper is a little better, Sahara is still a very good eyeshadow - and still a favorite.
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And a while back, Stephanie pointed out if NYX Champagne and MAC All That Glitters were dupes. To me, I say that they're close enough. Although on a white base NYX Champange looks more beige-champagne and MAC All That Glitters looks more peach-champagne, on a shimmery beige base, there's not much difference. Both are very pretty lid colors but I think NYX Champagne is good enough.


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First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros:
Our House by Louise Candlish
Every Tuesday I host First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros sharing the first paragraph or two of a book that I'm reading or plan to read soon
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Our House by Louise Candlish
Friday, January 13, 2017
She must be mistaken, but it looks exactly as if someone is moving into her house.
18 Responses to "First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros:
Our House by Louise Candlish"
That first paragraph got my attention. Someone is moving into "her house?" I'd love to keep going to find out what's going on. Love the cover too.
I'm very interested in this story and hope to read is also.
This is a opening is puzzling! What's going on?
I've seen this book featured a few times and I think it sounds really good.
I read this one and really liked it.
I read this too and thought the same as others – what??? How could someone move into someone else's house? Legally? Enjoy!
Just finished this one over the weekend and couldn't put it down.
I wasn't sure about this one when I first saw the premise but the more I read about it the more I want to read it!
I'd definitely want to read. I tried to get this from Netgalley and failed!


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