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Imagine moving from a studio apartment to a classic six. That seemed to be the notion as Francine Stephens showed off the new Franny's, which has just opened in Park Slope, Brooklyn, across Flatbush Avenue from the original. "We're kind of growing in every way: the space, the kitchen, the menu," she said. There are now more than 100 seats instead of 32; a kitchen three times the size of its predecessor, with two wood-burning ovens; more wine storage; a bigger bar, and an expanded menu. Because of limited space, the old Franny's had to say no to a lot, including reservations; now it will take them for parties of eight or more. (In the original, which Ms. Stephens and Andrew Feinberg opened nine years ago, a table for eight was nearly impossible to assemble.) The new place is done in light and dark wood, with some furnishings from the old. Patches of colorful tilework enliven the look, alternating with subway tiles. The chef John Adler's menu is basically the same, focusing on pizza in more than a dozen varieties, like one with flowering greens, garlic, chiles and pecorino Romano. A nonpizza menu has whole fish and family-style platters for those who book a downstairs private room that seats 30: 348 Flatbush Avenue (Sterling Place), Park Slope, Brooklyn; (718) 230-0221; frannysbrooklyn.com.
Looking Ahead
LA GOULUE Jean Denoyer opened his New York version of a Parisian brasserie 40 years ago on East 70th Street. It eventually moved to Madison Avenue and 65th Street without losing an iota of chic. It closed three years ago, displaced by Italian cashmere, but as Mr. Denoyer promised, it will be back, with luck by Christmas, decked out in the artifacts that Mr. Denoyer has kept in storage: 29 East 61st Street.
PINCH The empire of Alain Ducasse, the French chef and culinary impresario, is all over the map: Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Monte Carlo and Yonkers. Yes, Yonkers. That is where Ducasse Studio, his consulting service, is creating the marquee restaurant in the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway. And since Mr. Ducasse already has a place in Las Vegas, why shouldn't he dip his whisk into this vast gambling emporium, with 5,400 slots? The name is a playful take on pintxo (pronounced PEEN-cho), a type of Basque tapa, as well as a hint that the menu mixes a bit of this and a bit of that. Pinch is scheduled to open in late May when work is done on the renovation of the casino; it has an open kitchen and 250 seats on the building's upper level. The Ducasse team is devising the international menu and providing some of the staff, including Fabienne Eymard, the executive chef, who will turn out short-rib tacos, a signature mac and cheese and an eight-ounce burger: Empire City Casino, 810 Yonkers Avenue, Yonkers.
BURGER JOINT New York greets a gimmicky new burger chain every other day, but this one has a track record of simplicity. It started 10 years ago, in vest-pocket speakeasy style, tucked behind a velvet curtain in the lobby of Le Parker Meridien. It had no name, but eventually Burger Joint stuck and was trademarked. Today, Steven Pipes, the president of the company that owns the hotel, calls it "the secret that everybody knows" as it prepares to open its first branch, in plain sight in Greenwich Village. The space is big enough for three of the original, with more effort at décor, a huge bar, more commodious booths and tables, and a generous kitchen. The menu has a five-ounce griddled burger made with beef that has no special pedigree, served on standard buns, with condiments and fries. A Burger Joint opened in Korea last month; another is set for Dubai in June. (Opens Wednesday): 33 West Eighth Street; (212) 432-1400; www.burgerjointny.com.
SPREADS SANDWICH SHOP The owners of the Dishes take-away food shops in Midtown have added this sandwich shop, serving creative, overstuffed combinations like chicken schnitzel with kale-slaw on ciabatta, all made to order: 441 Park Avenue South (30th Street); (212) 758-5555; spreadsny.com.
ROTI MEDITERRANEAN GRILL There are already 16 of these mix-and-match spots, in Washington and Chicago, where various ingredients can be combined in a basic pita sandwich, on a salad or over rice. The 17th is opening in the financial district (the first in New York) with another to follow this summer in Midtown, at 142 East 43rd Street. (Friday): 100 Maiden Lane (Pearl Street); (646) 494-3359; roti.com.
TRES CARNES Forget border fences. Mexico meets Texas in the kitchen for slow-cooked barbecue seasoned with the likes of achiote and adobo, on a plate or tucked into tacos. Three meats, as the name implies, means a choice of beef, chicken or pork. Fany Gerson, "La Newyorkina" of the outdoor market paletas, is handling the desserts (Tuesday): 688 Avenue of the Americas (22nd Street); (212) 989-8737; trescarnes.com.
UNCLE BOONS Matt Danzer and his wife, Ann Redding, who both worked in the kitchen at Per Se, are now channeling Ms. Redding's Thai roots, naming their new place for her uncle and serving home-style recipes that have been kept in the family. Hens on a spit, pork ribs with shrimp paste, and a pork offal soup are on the menu: 7 Spring Street (Bowery); (646) 370-6650; uncleboons.com.


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Celebrate Smokey's 75 years of wildland fire prevention!
Smokey Bear celebrates his 75th year of wildland fire prevention this summer. To celebrate, celebrities like Stephen Colbert, Al Roker, and Jeff Foxworthy have lent their voices to help spread Smokey's message: "Only you can prevent wildfires."
Learn more about Smokey's history, find wildland fire prevention tips, children's activities, and watch historical public service announcements alongside the new PSAs on Smokey Bear's website: https://www.smokeybear.com/en (en español: https://www.smokeybear.com/es).
Celebrate Smokey Bear's 75th Birthday with us!
- Many forests and partners will host "Smokey's 75th birthday" events this summer. To find special events in your area as they are scheduled, check out https://www.smokeybear75th.org/.
- Students in grades 4-8 are invited to take part in a special "Smokey Bear LIVE!" learning event this fall. Find details at https://www.smokeybear75th.org/event/smokey-bear-live/.
- Visit the Mt. Baker Ranger District offices on Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest June 3-16 to see historical Smokey Bear artwork on display (via replicas on loan from the National Agricultural Library). Details: https://www.smokeybear75th.org/event/historic-smokey-portraits-on-display-at-mt-baker-snoqualmie-national-forest/.
- Individuals, groups, and classrooms are invited to take part in Smokey Bear's 75th Anniversary Birthday Banner Challenge on social media! Find out more, at https://www.smokeybear75th.org/event/smokey-bear-birthday-banner-challenge/.
Source information: USDA Forest Service and the Ad Council

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The Christmas Night Murder: A Christine Bennett Mystery
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Written By: Lee Harris
Narrated By: Susan O'Malley
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: September 2009
Duration: 6 hours 52 minutes
It's a snowy Christmas at St. Stephen's Convent, where a cheerful party awaits an old friend and former confessor, Father Hudson McCormick. But he never reaches his destination.
Christine Bennett, a former St. Stephen's nun, arrives to investigate the disappearance. But the nuns are mum until an old scandal involving the priest and a St. Stephen's novice rears its ugly head. Has Father McCormick, unable to face the scene of his sins, gone underground? Or has someone taken belated revenge, ensuring that the truth will never be known?


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Excavator grapples are used in many industries for forestry applications. They are used to simplify various processes, which may not be possible otherwise. Mechanical and hydraulic grapples are used in different applications. It is important to understand how they are different from each other in terms of functionalities and features.
Uses of two grapples
The major difference between these two grapples is their uses. Mechanical grapples are used where no precision is required. They are mostly used for easier jobs. On the other hands, hydraulic grapples are used on the jobs, which require speed and precision. This is because; these grapples are much easier to use and get the job done in a faster manner.
Performance of grapples
You must understand how they are different in terms of performance. Mechanical grapples operate with a fixed thumb resulting in a limited range of movement. The hydraulic grapple offers more control on the motion. It offers better performance as it is easy to use. The thumb can easily be manipulated giving the best range of movement up to 180 degrees.
Price of the grapples
One of the major buying decisions is the cost of every grapple. It is imperative to know that mechanic grapples are cheaper than the others are. One of the reasons why it is less expensive is because it requires less maintenance and care. However, hydraulic grapples are expensive because they need proper care and maintenance.
Choosing the right one?
As we have gone through the differences, it is also vital to know which one to choose. If budget is an issue with you, it is a good idea to go for a mechanical grapple. However, they are not efficient in terms of performance. They are not easy to use and require a lot of time and efforts. If they are not to be used often, mechanical grapple can be the best option for you.
If you need to use a grapple a lot, hydraulic ones should be your best option and investing in this grapple will give better results. This is because; the job will be done in a faster manner. This way, you will be able to make extra money in terms of fuel and operator costs.
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Bennington Story Night
Building on incredible podcasts like the Moth Radio Hour, and RISK!, Story Night at Bennington Center for the Arts is a show that delivers a night of raw truth from local people without the help of notes and props – only a microphone and a little courage. There have been stories leaving the audience stunned in quiet anticipation, laughing uncontrollably in their seats or with tears in their eyes at this monthly event. Local craft brews, mixers and appetizers are available. Shuttles available for those who need it; message [email protected] or call 802-430-2008 to make arrangements. The show begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, August 18; doors open at 6:15. Tickets are $16 in advance at storiesvermont.brownpapertickets.com or $24 at the door. Proceeds benefit the Bennington Arts mural program. Bennington Center for the Arts is located at 44 Gypsy Lane in Bennington.


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Theresa May
Theresa May celebrates abortion in Ireland. What was she thinking?
Downing Street was deeply misguided in celebrating the prospective deaths of thousands of unborn children
Theresa May under pressure to impose abortion on Northern Ireland
The move would likely cause significant political difficulties for Britain's minority government
The 'Windrush' scandal shows how callous the government can be
Theresa May and Amber Rudd seem to have forgotten the virtue of charity
Theresa May: Britain should 'take pride' in its Christian heritage
The prime minister praised 'Christian values of love, service and compassion'
If we want to fight Britain First, we need to learn something about religion
More religion, not less of it, is the answer to the problem of extremism
Criticising Theresa May for a choking fit is not punditry. It's just plain nastiness
The response should have been empathy and respect, rather than hyena-like schadenfreude
The Tories want to nationalise your bodily organs
'Opt-out' organ donation undermines the principles of a free society
Government to introduce 'opt-out' organ donation in England
Authorities would automatically assume people are organ donors under the new system
Are the Tories about to betray Catholic voters?
The government could be about to ditch its commitment to scrap the faith schools admissions cap
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/09/17
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The most important forms will be given to you in hard copy or in an email from your Parent Instructor. Some copies can be downloaded here.
Scholarship Application MEP Application 2015
We follow the Seattle Public School vacation schedule but hold class during inservice or early dismissal days. See the calendar on the SSC Co-op Preschools website. Check your Standing Rules in your enrollment package for details.
Each quarter a new calendar of Parent Education classes is posted on the SSC Co-op Preschool.
These Home and Family Life seminars are FREE for adult members of SSC Cooperative Preschools. You may attend as many as you like! Partners welcome! Adults only please unless noted on the class description. REGISTER BY EMAILING YOUR PARENT INSTRUCTOR.


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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Glimpse of the High Line
I'd normally have described this as a scraggly specimen in need of a drastic pruning. But this planting makes me see it anew. And quite striking it is, with its awkward pompons stretching toward the open sky, and the contrasting low perennial surround. (And note there are several more in the distance.) The High Line is doing interesting, creative work, delightful horticultural accents to the Oudolf-designed plantings, and obviously entertaining park goers. These eye-catchers are capturing the public's attention and making them want to know more. A good thing.
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Cloud pruning without pruning? Does it grow like that, or is that a deliberate effect?ReplyDelete
If not cut back, they do have a tendency to develop bare stems like this one, but I'm sure some intentional "cloud pruning" was used to get just this effect.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMonday, May 23, 2011 7:18:00 AM
In our neck of the woods (Zone 4-5ish) the smokebush isn't totally reliable so many of last year's branches don't leaf out or only leaf out partially. I have always found this annoying, and like you say often cut the shrub down to the ground to get a shorter, more dense bush (unfortunately, though, this can forfeit flowers). But this quirky show, as you say James, puts it all in a new light.ReplyDelete
It's interesting when you see an element in an obviously well-designed landscape that doesn't fit according to our expectations. I find it often makes my mind go, "Does not compute" for a while! ;c)
We have a similar problem here in zone 6. But I always prefer the larger leaves and more intense color I get from cutting them down. If I want the flowers, I'd use the American smoketree (Cotinus obovatus), which has massive clouds. But I don't have a place to plant one.ReplyDelete
I did a double take when I saw the High Line photo. Then realized how much I liked it. I'm guessing this new "display" tack is the idea of Patrick Cullina, the High Line's VP of Horticulture and Park Operations.
It could be a happy mistake, oversight, but I tend to agree with you, that's been allowed to happen.ReplyDelete
I was reading about the Oudolphs over at Noel Kingsbury's blog. They've closed the nursery now, how I would have loved to have gone.
Rob, the High Line is so meticulously maintained, I don't think anything happens by chance. Maybe occasionally planned chance is allowed to happen. And, speaking of Noel Kingsbury's blog, can you imagine Piet Oudolf's garden without the wavy hedges?ReplyDelete
No, those wavy hedges are key. I'll spell Oudolf with an 'f' this time. Ever swim with the dolfins?ReplyDelete
I have read from several sources that this should be a cut-back shrub. So I have religiously done so every year, but now a pom pom or two may be in my future.ReplyDelete
I'm going to cut mine to the ground anyway (already did). If I had a High Line with a big sky, I might give it a try.ReplyDelete
This got me thinking that all of the most pleasing things in a garden happen from neglect, but you may be right that this is intentional. Although it might be under the heading of just let the plant do what it wants to do for the first few seasons. This garden really does seem to have people looking at plants a bit differently, learning to appreciate some new aesthetics.ReplyDelete
Ryan, I agree that a certain measure of neglect (serendipity?) can make pleasing things happen in the garden. I hope the High Line plantings are successful in helping people see plants differently (and the unusual environment on an elevated rail structure "removed" from the street life of the city is certainly as much a part of that as the plants, I think), but how do we know? We have only anecdotal evidence. I guess the best they can do is "put it out there" in a dramatic or unusual way, and hope to spark interest.ReplyDelete


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Webber Road Community Centre Boys and Girls Clubs offers a wide variety of child care and recreation programs to children and families throughout West Kelowna.
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Webber Road Community Centre
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Times: 7:00 AM to School Start and School Dismissal - 6:30 PM
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Halong Bay Tour 3 Days 2 Nights Itinerary is an ideal package offering you the chance to discover Halong bay in depth. Halong bay Vietnam is about four hour drive from Hanoi. Halong Bay offers beautiful kayaking tours and boat cruises.
Day 1: Hanoi – Halong Bay.
Transfer from your hotel to our departure point will be arranged by yourself. At 8:00: get on our sharing shuttle bus & depart for Halong bay (with guide). Enjoy the journey through the scenery of rice fields, water buffalo and everyday Vietnamese village life. Arrive in Halong around noon and board the Bai Tho traditional sailing junk (or similar junk). Whilst cruising the exquisite waters sample the regions fresh seafood. Round over Thien Cung cave (palace of heaven), Dau Go ( grotto of wood ), Tuan Chau island, Dog island, Dinh Huong, Ga Choi (fighting cock mountain), Turtle island. Visit Sung Sot cave and enjoy one-hour kayaking trip or have a swim at Titop beach or Soi Sim beach. Watch the sun set over the bay whilst enjoying a delicious dinner. Overnight on board junk.
Day 2: Halong Bay Scuba Diving.
Breakfast on board junk. At 9h00, will will be picked up at the boat-house by our Diving Team and transferred by another wooden boat to our first divesite – Chim Island. Enjoy 01 dive before having lunch on board. In the afternoon, we will move to another divesite – Me Cung Island. There we will enjoy one more hour diving before being dropped off back at boat-house for overnight. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 3: Halong Bay – Hanoi.
Breakfast on board. Then we continue our cruise while the boat is going back to shore. Arrive at Ha long wharf about 11h00 and join our vehicle again for journey back to Hanoi (sharing shuttle bus; with guide). Arrive in Hanoi about 15:00. You will be dropped off at the place where we picked you you on day 1. Transfer from this place to your hotel will be arranged by yourself. End.
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We swept the Eisners and we're having a sale to celebrate
This was a landmark year for Drawn & Quarterly at San Diego Comic-Con International's Will Eisner Awards. D+Q authors were nominated in five categories and swept all five of them, with wins for Kate Beaton (Best Humor Publication for Step Aside, Pops), Shigeru Mizuki (Best American Edition of International Material - Asia for Showa 1953-1989), Jillian Tamaki (Best Publication for Teens for SuperMutant Magic Academy) and Adrian Tomine (Best Short Story for "Killing and Dying")! Beaton was the first solo female cartoonist to win in the humor category, a deserved and significant win.
In addition to all that wonderfulness, two of our legendary and defining authors, Lynda Barry and Tove Jansson were inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. We in the office are still starry-eyed with delight at the many honours that have been lavished upon our authors this Comic-Con season, honours which reveal the breadth of D+Q's publishing mandate.
And since we owe so much of this success to you, our readers, supporters, retailers, journalists, and fans, we wanted to share the transcript of publisher Peggy Burns's speeches inducting Tove into the hall of fame and accepting the Best Anthology award for Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five years of contemporary comics, cartoons, and graphic novels. Sadly we do not have a video of Lynda Barry's Hall of Fame speech, but there is a snippet you can watch on our instagram. Photos from the ceremony have been generously provided by ace photographer Jody Culkin.
We also want to thank you with some sweet deals! We're announcing a 40% off sale, which you can access by clicking on the image below or accessing our shop here. The sale will end next Tuesday, August 2nd.
Happy reading! And thank you again, we truly couldn't do this without all of you.
For many years, the Moomin comics strips by Tove Jansson held a mythical status in the world of comics. People would tell a friend, "There's a midcentury strip that ran in a British newspaper. It's funny, melancholy, enchanting. It's drawn by a woman who wrote all of these books with the same characters, and she turned them into comics and they're amazing." But the strip was nowhere to be found in English, or any language outside of Northern Europe.
The Moomin strip was published in the London Evening News for twenty years. Tove eventually hated the grind of a daily comic strip. She quit and gave the strip to her brother Lars. Once it ended, the strip disappeared although Tove's reputation as a world class novelist remained intact. The novels that made her famous were printed all around the world and she won the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She turned down an offer from Walt Disney. She was and still is Finland's most acclaimed writer.
Yet, Tove's status as a master cartoonist went unnoticed for decades. At home in Scandinavia, the comics were reprinted in paperbacks, without much thought or care. The attention was always on Tove the writer. She is the rare writer who can write for adults, and can write for kids, because it doesn't really matter, she writes for all of us. She is also the rare artist who understands storytelling so well, so thoroughly, that she can skillfully move from prose to comics without skipping a beat.
When D+Q started publishing Moomin in 2005, everyone was rushing to reprint vintage comics. The success of Peanuts had shown us that people wanted a historical document of their favorite comics. Every strip in North America seemed to be dusted off and reprinted, but Moomin went unnoticed.
Our editor Tom Devlin envisioned the series as sturdy oversized portrait books, a size that could easily fit in the hands of both children and adults. In ten years, we have sold almost 300,000 units. Once never licensed outside of Scandinavia, the Moomin comic strip is now reprinted in 25 countries.
The world of Moomin is filled with magical characters including Moominmamma, Moominpappa, Little My, Snorkmaiden,and more, characters whose foibles mirror our own society. Through Moomin, Tove celebrates individualism, she challenges norms, she says it is ok to be alone, to be different. Moomin teaches us to love life and that we shouldn't take things too seriously. A reminder that seems especially potent today.
When you are a Moomin fan, you see Tove in all of the stories. You recognize her distinct, carefree individualism mixed with playful cynicism. The Moomins can be selfish, cruel, and petty but more often than not they are generous and nurturing—just like all of us.
We have published ten volumes of Moomin strips and are reissuing them in paperbacks. I have read the strips a million times and I love them even more with every reading. We just published Club Life in Moominvalley, where Moominmamma is rejected from a boys' club, and makes her own damn club. My coworker remarked that Tove Jansson's stories are "universal and feminist in their bones."
Female comics professionals know what it feels like to be denied admittance, we know that it's an industry that is inherently a boys club and that the canon-making of great cartoonists is seen through the eyes of men, sadly, more often than not. Many of us make our own damn clubs.
So tonight's induction is especially important, and we thank the Eisners, San Diego Comic-Con, and all of the voters for widening the comics canon beyond dudes, superheroes, and North America.
Most of all, we thank you for recognizing one of the best cartoonists the world has ever seen and one of the best comics strips to have graced the medium. I am proud to be part of this community tonight that recognizes Tove Jansson -- the cartoonist.
Thank you.
While making this book I would often remark that our history is quite boring. We're not RAW, we're not Fantagraphics. Our story is that a nice Canadian man set out to publish great comics and he succeeded. But in so doing, Chris Oliveros founded the most artist-friendly comic book company in the history of comics. A company where an artist doesn't have to settle for freedom over sales. Where an artist doesn't have to choose between production values and a royalty. Chris also has built the most employee friendly company, and I know this from working with him for 13 years. And as we know, the bar in comics is quite low for either of those criteria, and only more so together. Chris Oliveros is the most humble man in comics and we are better for it.
We would like to thank our authors. We publish the best cartoonists in the world, cartoonists who believe in small business, who believe in artistic freedom, who believe in Drawn & Quarterly, who believe that success lies in a small Canadian publisher, and who believe in David over Goliath. I want you all to know that we never take your faith in us to publish your comics lightly.
We have had three authors pass away in our D+Q family during the last year or so. Yoshihiro Tatsumi in March 2015 at the age of 80; Shigeru Mizuki last November at the age of 93; and two weeks ago, Geneviève Castrée, who passed away from stage four cancer at the age of 35, leaving behind her husband and baby daughter. We would like to dedicate this Eisner to Geneviève, who in many ways exemplifies D+Q. A proud Canadian, a proud Quebecker, a feminist, a parent, a good friend, and a fully formed artist right out of the gate. I urge you to read her piece in this anthology and her memoir Susceptible.
Thank you Geneviève. We miss you so much.


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What good is a deck if you don't have a place to dine? I'd begun the process of finding a patio set for the deck, but everything was too expensive or just didn't feel right. Then, there was a promising table on sale at The Home Depot. When I went back to purchase it, it was gone! So, back to square one. At that moment, I decided I was just going to build a set.
I began looking at Google images for inspiration, and then I ran across a table I really liked here: http://www.thriftyandchic.com/2012/10/diy-outdoor-farmhouse-table.html. I was sold on the look of the table. I liked the design. I didn't care much for the size or a couple of design elements, but the building blocks were in place. So, on a beautiful Saturday, I built a table.
I wanted to top to look a bit older and rustic and experimented with a finishing idea, which I think turned out stellar! I was super-thrilled with the way it came out.
The bottom and side of the table boards where slathered with Thompson's and then I spray-painted cheap, $.97 white paint on the top. Once that dried, I attached the boards to the legs. I ran the orbital sander over the paint and edges to expose wood, without removing all of the white paint. A dark walnut stain was lightly added and rubbed in to the wood. Then, a coat of the clear cedar Thompson's was applied. BOOM! Beautiful.
I'm happy with the way it turned out and am going to build two benches to match. The Emery clan should have many great years of dining out on this beast.


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Business Transformation Change ManagementData Analysis & Results
Course description
Business Transformation Change Management course
This Business Transformation Change Management course prepares you to lead and participate in efforts that benefit from focused application of Change Management Best Practices to achieve your desired results.
The course and the senior consultants and instructors who deliver it address the challenges of adopting and opportunities provided by proactively guiding the change process for projects and operations improvement efforts.
Oftentimes, Change Management is not planned or emphasized. Organizational, Business, Group, or even Team Changes or Projects should be planned and executed using Change Management.
Learn how to plan and implement your Change effort right the first time! If you have seen prior efforts that just do not 'stick' regardless of their possible benefit to the organization, you will likely need to apply Business Transformation Change Management strategies and tactics.
The course has communication and hands-on practice on proven Best Practices to help your sponsored efforts get far better results through greater adoption and participation. Through discussion, lecture, and team exercises, we will mine the group for both their successes and challenges, working through several portions of a case study.
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On average car batteries have a lifespan ranging anywhere from 3 to 5 years. When car batteries die some of the many causes are due to the following;
- Leaving your headlights on without the car running
- Low water levels in the car batteries
- Sulfate build-up on the plates
- Overheating
- Undercharging / Overcharging
If a car battery does happen to die, correct safety procedures should be taken in order to jump-start the battery again. There are also a few precautions you should take to avoid serious injury or death.
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- Making sure that you know the Positive (+) and Negative (-) sides of the jumper cables before you apply them to the car batteries
- You want to turn everything off; A/C, blinkers, radios, and headlights; jumpstarting your car battery can potentially send over 300 volts through your systems and destroy electrical equipment.
- Cleaning off and removing corrosion of the terminals makes charging the car batteries more efficient; otherwise corroded posts may prevent the flow of power to the battery.
- Make sure the booster car is off
Now that you know the precautions, it's time to jump-start your car.
Step 1: Connect the red cable to the Positive (+) side of the discharged battery.
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Step 4: Connect the other end of the black cable to the solid metal ground on the engine or frame. (a metal ground is any unpainted clean piece of metal preferably on the chassis or engine block)
Step 5: Start the jumper car and wait a few minutes before trying to start the dead car.
Once the dead car is started you now want to remove the cables in reverse order.
Step 1: Remove the black Negative side (-) cable from the ground.
Step 2: Remove the black cable from the Negative side (-) of the booster battery.
Step 3: Remove the red cable from the Positive side (+) of the booster battery.
Step 4: Remove the red cable from the Positive side (+) on the battery that was discharged.
It is important to keep the engine running on the dead car in order to have the alternator fully charge the battery.
It may be required to have your foot lightly on the gas for about 5 minutes. Then, let the car idle for about 10-20 more minutes to be safe.
If your car continues to die you may have a dead battery or a malfunction with the alternator.


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Your message is touching and bright at the same time. It will long remain in the hearts and minds of people who have read your words.
Farewell from Jaimie
This will be the last of my Watercooler blogs on the SKINS website.
I am devastated to announce that today SKINS has filed for bankruptcy with the Swiss Court. A Trustee will be appointed to assume responsibility for the company with almost immediate effect.
My management team and I have left no stone unturned in an effort to avoid this. I apologise unreservedly to all those affected by it.
I am enormously regretful and sad that it has got to this point. Even as late as yesterday, it looked like there was an option for avoiding this action but events conspired against us and left us with no option at all.
SKINS as a brand will not disappear; the brand will merely change ownership; and those of you who love and already wear SKINS will still be able to buy the products.
SKINS is a genuine pacesetter. We led the creation and manufacture of sports compression wear, and we pride ourselves on continuing to lead the sports performance category in terms of innovation and performance.
I bought into SKINS about 17 years ago because I wanted to get into sport. I was so thrilled to be owning a brand where they not only made something innovative, bold and ambitious – garments that improve sports performance and aid recovery – but it was also an opportunity to do and contribute to something 'bigger', and help make sport better.
Our entire brand positioning was around 'changing the world through sport'.
It is what we set out to do; to help level the playing field on-and-off the field through championing important issues and holding sport to account for being everything we love about it – competitive, fair, based on teamwork and good sportsmanship, dedication, commitment, integrity. They were all traits that were – and are – important to us.
We worked to help bring sport back to its basic tenets, fuelled by the spirit of pure competition. As a brand, we wanted to make a difference, and we like to think that we have.
So the question you're probably pondering is how did it get to this.
It's a fair question, and I can't point to one thing and one thing alone. There have been many contributing factors, as well as mistakes I've made along the way. I've been open about some of those mistakes and I will not recount all of them, but they have nonetheless compounded one upon the other to get to this point.
Roll-on effect of GFC
What has brought us to this point really started 11 years ago. When the global financial crisis (GFC) hit in 2008, I sold a portion of SKINS to a private equity firm. I also made a lousy deal.
When the GFC was over, I had to get out of the private equity arrangement. To do so, we borrowed heavily, and with the help of a Japanese partner we managed to buy out the private equity shareholders.
To my enormous regret, those borrowings have become unsustainable and while we have been working for some time now to try to avoid what is happening today, in the end there was no choice.
Making a difference
During this 17 years, SKINS has been proud to stand-up for sports people and the ideals of sport too.
We helped change world cycling governance.
We helped bring attention to the issue of drugs in sport, and how sport should deal with it.
We highlighted the hypocrisy of FIFA's sponsors in supporting a World Cup that would be built on the back of migrant labour.
We helped call out the dodgy decisions of FIFA, long before the FIFA arrests.
We helped bring greater awareness of homophobia in sport through our #RainbowLaces campaign in Australia.
We helped champion greater gender equity in sport, and focus attention on the importance of fans as people, not just 'metrics'.
When others were not willing to hold a light to organisations such as the IOC, WADA, FIFA, the UCI and the IAAF, or the people who wield power inside them, we did.
We made a lot of enemies. And also a lot of friends.
Everyone at SKINS has been enormously proud of our work in these and other areas.
Thank you
Throughout all of this, I also had the honour and privilege to meet some wonderful people. My team and I have enjoyed working with them. Sports people, journalists, whistleblowers, MPs, academics and social change activists.
I want to pay tribute to the staff and partners of SKINS around the world who have worked diligently, astutely, loyally, tirelessly to bring the SKINS brand to life in every way.
They are a fantastic team, all of whom I have loved having as part of the SKINS family.
I thank you all from the bottom of my heart, and wish you all the best for your futures. I am so, so sorry that this has happened and am simply devastated.
Please be assured that I have tried everything possible to avoid having to take this action today. Absolutely everything.
In sporting terms, I left nothing out on the park.
Thank you again to everyone who has bought SKINS, enjoyed wearing SKINS, worked with SKINS, and supported SKINS.
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If you want to stay in touch, please do so via Twitter: @jaimiefuller
61 comments on "Farewell from Jaimie"
Thank you Jamie. Godspeed! 🙂❤🙏🏼
deeply shocked..
10years cooperation over;
left not only a deep financial hole..
Sebastian & my Team from studio drehmomente.de/Germany
Absolutely shocked by this news. I proudly wear skins in my career. Great products. What a company and what a CEO. Lucky to have crossed paths.
I've always loved your product and have the closet full of them. Very sad to see you go and really hope you'll get back in the game again, as there's no other brand doing what you've done.
Good luck in the future!
So sorry to hear this. I really admired your products.
I loved your products and as I have several pieces I´m absolutely not responsible for this situation 😉
Anyhow, great products, it´s a shame! Thank you for making a difference! all the best for you guys!
Merci ..
un grand merci d'avoir pu goûter au plaisir de l'effort musculaire avec Skins pour le VTT, le Vélo de course et depuis peu , la course à pied.
merci de tout le travail accompli
Bonne continuation
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Very sorry to hear that 🙁
I've made thousands kilometers with the first compression gear I ever bought.
So a thousand thanks for your work that helped me run that far 🙂
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What is Purple day?
Purple day is the international day for epilepsy and falls on 26 March each year. On this day, people across the globe come together to raise awareness of the condition and make a difference to the lives of people affected by epilepsy.
Purple day was created in 2008 by Cassidy Megan, a young girl from Canada, who has epilepsy and wanted to get people talking about the condition. Cassidy not only wanted to raise awareness but also assure people with epilepsy that they are not alone.
A global event
Over the past 8 years Purple day has grown to be a global event and at Epilepsy Society we are proud to be an official Purple day partner (opens in new window). But, why purple? Cassidy chose the colour purple because lavender is recognised as the international flower of epilepsy.


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Words Starting With Alphabet U"U" is twenty-first alphabet and last vowel letter of the modern English alphabet, it can be used to represent twenty-first (21st) position in a series or row. "U" is the English language vowel alphabet after constant letter "T" and before letter "V". Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter u. An example of "T" is the letter that ends the word Cpu or the letter that starts the word University. "U" is pronounced as a vowel in modern English and is written as "u" in small letters and "U" in capital letters. "U" represents a grade that indicates an unsatisfactory status. In chemistry "U" is the symbol for the element uranium. In physics "U" is the symbol for internal energy.
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Why do libertarians and leftists hate the police?
52 Answers
- 6 months ago
There have been incidents where local police were abusive
- Anonymous6 months ago
Many people don't feel comfortable around psychopaths and if you Google various websites about the top professions that psychopaths go into you will always find police work in there....."Here are the top ten jobs that attract sociopaths, according to author Kevin Dutton:
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- AVDADDYLv 76 months ago
You are committing the fatal logical fallacy of assuming facts without supporting evidence.
- Warren TLv 76 months ago
- NickLv 56 months ago
They accuse them all of being racist.
- davidLv 76 months ago
I dislike police because of my years of paying attention. As a teen an acquaintance was the son of a cop. The cop always drove around with an open bottle of liquor on the seat beside him. === Then came the cop who abducted his ex-girlfriend. This was reported and when 2 other cops went to stop the car they were in and found out they were chasing a cop, they turned around and went for donuts. The cop killed the ex and himself that same night. === Or the whole station of cops having a drunken party and a neighbor called to ask them to hold it down, so they went over and beat him until he had to be hospitalized. Next comes the divorced cop who was remarried, but still 'claimed' his ex as property. She started dating a guy. The cop stoppe him for a 'moving violation' and beat him so badly that he died 3 days later in the hospital. --- need more?
==== The BS about cops being heros is just that ... BS.
Cool story Bro
- Anonymous6 months ago
How can leftists hate the police if they want to use the police to create a communist welfare state. ???


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Karachi is much like Bombay (as we have always called it) in many
respects. Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan on a visit here once commented
that it reminded him of Bombay thirty years ago. One of their similarities, besides the Arabian Sea lapping their shores, is being home to hordes of migrant workers, like Ahmed Sher.
Ahmed Sher came to Karachi from his impoverished native village in
southern Punjab some thirty years ago in order to earn and send money
home, working as a gardener at several officers and private
residences. "Bohot burra hua (it's terrible)," he says, his craggy
face sad in response to how he felt when he heard about what happened
in Mumbai. "They are also human beings... killed while going about their business, without even knowing why."
Many grieve about the Mumbai tragedy while also making a connection
between what happened there and what happens on a daily basis in Pakistan. "We are ourselves the targets of such violence," said Abdul Razik, a fresh-faced Pathan who sells used shoes at a bustling Itwar (Sunday) Bazar in Karachi.
We're conversing two days after a bomb in a market in Peshawar,
capital of his native North West Frontier Province (NWFP) killed
close to forty people. "The people who got killed in Mumbai were not
made of gold or wood, they were human beings of flesh and blood, just
like us... Who knows who is behind it? All I know is that it is the poor who always suffer."
A woman haggling in Pashto with another shoe salesman made a similar
connection. "We feel for the people in India, for those who died and for their families. We suffer in the same way too. So many people were killed in Peshawar just the other day," she said.
"It's a game of the great powers," interrupted a man in an embroidered Bohri cap. "We are all just pawns in it. They are playing this for their own gains." The woman quickly moved away, clearly unwilling to be drawn into a public debate on the issue.
A third typical response combines these reactions with scepticism about the identity of the captured gunman and allegations of his and his slain companions' backgrounds and links.
"It was terrible what happened in Bombay," said Abdur Razzak, a jacket salesman. "We all felt the horror. But the next moment, we knew that the blame would come to Pakistan. They always blame us anyway for whatever happens there."
Asked about the possibility of war, he was emphatic that it should not come to that. "It will be bad for the people of both countries. Yes, we all have to die some time, but it should not be like that."
"Yeh inn donon ki mili bhagat hai (elements from both countries are in it together)," said Mohammad Ali, selling trendy belts and chunky beaded accessories. "I have been to Bombay to visit relatives and the dargah there. They are so strict with the visas and passport control.
How could those people have gone there with so much ammunition
without some collusion from people there, getting through the Indian
navy and patrols? Just like in the USA, they are so strict about
passports and security, how could those people (the hijackers) have
got onto planes with so much ammunition and destroyed those towers
without help from insiders?"
"I was shocked and saddened by the attacks in Mumbai," says well
known musician Rohail Hyatt. "But then I also felt angry when they
immediately blamed Pakistan. Now the media on both sides is hyping up
the conflict. That should not happen. We don't want war. I think the artists will form some joint response against the kind of war-mongering that is going on especially in the media on both sides," he added.
These responses are fairly typical of the mood in Pakistan: grief for the tragedy in Mumbai, empathy as fellow-victims of terror, scepticism about the origins of the attackers, conviction that the gunmen were acting in collusion with from elements inside India, and anger at being blamed for the event. There is also a conviction that it is ordinary people on both sides who are the losers in any kind of conflict and that they should come together against knee-jerk responses and war-mongering.
The Pakistani media reflects these views, certainly, but what
dominates are the elements of resentment and anger, hostility and
efforts to discredit India in one way or another. In one recent talk
show, a well known current affairs host held forth about the invasion
of Indian films in Pakistani cinemas, including as one of his studio
guests ('specimen' to be psycho-analysed rather) the 15-year old
Nasir Sultan who had run away to Bollywood and ended up in an Indian
prison before being returned to Pakistan some months later.
Much of the criticism of India in the Pakistani media is correct. Many Indian journalists and anchors have allowed their anger and 'nationalism' (or 'chauvinism' as the well known linguist Dr Tariq Rahman put it in a recent op-ed criticising the Pakistani media - the cap fits both heads) to overtake journalistic ethics. But as the old sayings go, 'people in glass houses should not throw stones', and 'first set your own house in order before trying to sort out your neighbour's'.
Both sayings fit both heads. Some say that the Pakistani media has
been 'less jingoistic' than the Indian. This may be so, but the media
on this side of the border has been more obviously in a state of
denial about the Mumbai attacks and their links to Pakistani elements.
If the media in India has played up the Pakistani connection, the media here has played it down, for the most part ignoring or discrediting reports emerging from India that provide details of the captured gunman's Pakistani origins. The dominant attitude seems to be that the information has been fabricated in order to bash Pakistan - even after a British reporter (of Pakistani origin) dug out information about the captured man's parent's from the electoral register in Faridkot village in the Pakistani side of the Punjab and other details.
On the whole, the media on both sides has focused on the hawkish voices rather than those who provide a more nuanced view urging restraint and a deeper look at the causes and consequences of the Mumbai tragedy. The mainstream media plays up fiery statements threatening annihilation while sidelining peace demonstrations like the recent rally of some 15,000 in Delhi organised by the Communist Party of India, which the television channels there virtually ignored, according to newspaper reports.
The results of the recent state elections in India indicate the maturity of the electorate, which chose to retain the Congress in key states rather than voting it out or voting the BJP in despite the latter's inclusion of fear and terrorism a part of its election rhetoric. In Pakistan too, despite the television anchors' vocal disapproval of the crackdown by the beleaguered civilian government on the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and its leadership, there appears to be widespread approval of this move.
There are clearly elements on both sides attempting to push Pakistan
and India into a conflict-a more dangerous game than ever before
given the nuclear-armed capacities of both countries, a game in which
there will be no winners, only losers. "We can't afford to fall into this trap," says Faisal, a young software engineer in Karachi. "Otherwise there will be only cockroaches left to reap the results."
The writer is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker in Pakistan.
(This article appeared in www.mailtoday.in on Dec. 16, 2008 under a different headline)


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Demystify Async and Await (Part 1 of 2)
After seeing so many confusion speed abroad the industry,
I had came to conclusion to write this post and demystify
the behavior of async and await.
To many people is having to many wrong conceptions and
theories about the functionality of async and await.
It lead to great confusion and bad practices.
In order to explain async and await I must go back to
the basic and demystify Task.
Part 1 of this 2 part series will explain what really is Task and
the confusion almost everybody in the industry has on its real nature.
Part 2 of this series will demystify async and await.
I strongly recommend to read part 1 before part 2.
So what is Task?
Task is nothing more than a data structure.
Really, I'm not joking.
As simple as it seems, this is where its strength come from.
Many developers are thinking of Task as Thread, but this is
wrong conception which lead to many mistakes.
Task is nothing more than a data structure, which represent the context of execution.
It have the following structure:
– Status (the status represent the Task's stage which can be WaitingToRun, Running, RanToCompletion, Canceled or Faulted)
in general it represent different stage of the execution.
– Pre execution data:
* AsyncState: arbitrary object which can be store on construction time
* Delegate: a method which may be invoke by a task's scheduler.
The decision of when and how to invoke the delegate
is usually taken by the Task Scheduler (which is external to the Task)
and never taken by the Task itself.
In matter of fact in some cases the delegate won't contain value at all.
* CreationOptions: some flags which may read by the Task Scheduler.
– Post execution data:
* Result (in case of Task<T>): hold the execution result in case of success.
* Exception: Faulted state information (in case that the Task represent context of
faulted execution).
actually Task can represent failure of execution without ever running nor having a delegate.
Why is it so confusing, Why Task do seem like a Thread?
The code snippets ahead will use the following method in order of
writing the Thread information to the console..
- private static void WriteThreadInfo(object title)
- {
- var currentTread = Thread.CurrentThread;
- int id = currentTread.ManagedThreadId;
- bool isPool = currentTread.IsThreadPoolThread;
- Console.WriteLine($"{title}: Id = {id}: Is Pool = {isPool}"); // C# 6 syntax
- }
It is so confusion because at first glance, Task functionality do seem equivalent to Thread (or Thread Pool).
considering the following code snippet this is a most logical conclusion.
- static void Main(string[] args)
- {
- WriteThreadInfo("Main");
- var trd = new Thread(WriteThreadInfo);
- trd.Start("Thread");
- Task t1 = new Task(WriteThreadInfo, "Task 1");
- t1.Start();
- ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(WriteThreadInfo, "ThreadPool");
- Task t2 = Task.Factory.StartNew(WriteThreadInfo, "Task 1", TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning);
- Task t3 = Task.Factory.StartNew(WriteThreadInfo, "ThreadPool");
- }
Considering the code above, you're likely to come to conclusion that Task equals Thread.
so why do I argue that Task is not equivalent to Thread?
Like a good magician Task is hiding something which cause the illusion of Thread duality.
It's happen that Task's overloads shown at the above snippet is actually hiding the Task Scheduler.
When you don't pass Task Scheduler to a Task, you're actually using TaskScheduler.Current
(not TaskScheduler.Default which lead to different confusion, which I may write about on future post).
The following snippet is showing the missing piece:
- Task t1 = Task.Factory.StartNew(WriteThreadInfo, "Task 1");
- t1.Start(TaskScheduler.Current); // run on the thread pool
- Task t2 = Task.Factory.StartNew(WriteThreadInfo, "Task 1", TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning);
- t1.Start(TaskScheduler.Current); // run on new thread
- Task t3 = Task.Factory.StartNew(WriteThreadInfo, "ThreadPool",
- CancellationToken.None,
- TaskCreationOptions.None,
- TaskScheduler.Current);
Lines 2,5,11 suggest that the execution of the Task many not be its own responsibility at all.
The scheduler is what actually running the Task.
The Task responsibility is to reflect the execution context.
It may represent execution aspects like:
– Has it run?
– Does it complete and having value?
– Did it failed and having exception?
– Did it cancelled?
Line 2 may run the Task's delegate on the thread pool while
line 5 may run it on a new thread (not pooled).
The Task Scheduler can read the Task's data and decide to open new thread rather than
thread pool (for task that marked with TaskCreationOptions.LongRunning).
Furthermore Task is data structure and it many not be running at all.
Take a look on the following code snippets.
- // completed task which never run
- Task<int> t4 = Task.FromResult(1);
- var tcs5 = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
- tcs5.TrySetResult(1);
- // completed task which never run
- Task<int> t5 = tcs5.Task;
- var tcs6 = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
- tcs6.TrySetException(new ArgumentException("Execution failure"));
- // completed task which never run
- // and represent failure state
- Task<int> t6 = tcs6.Task;
- var tcs7 = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
- tcs7.TrySetCanceled();
- // canceled task which never run
- Task<int> t7 = tcs7.Task;
- var tcs8 = new TaskCompletionSource<int>();
- // non completed task which never run
- Task<int> t8 = tcs8.Task;
All the Task above don't even have any valid delegate, They're only indicating
the execution state, even though non execution happened at all.
What's so special about Task being a data structure?
Being a data structure enable to use the Task in broader context, much beyond simple threading.
For example, take common cache scenario where you have to do real asynchronous call
on the first time and return cached data on the following call (until the data became stale).
Task as data structure help you to abstract this functionality from the client.
The following snippet demonstrate the concept:
- {
- private readonly string _url;
- private Task<byte[]> _localCache;
- public Proxy(string url)
- {
- _url = url;
- }
- public Task<byte[]> GetData()
- {
- if (_localCache == null)
- {
- using (var http = new HttpClient())
- {
- _localCache = http.GetByteArrayAsync(_url);
- }
- }
- return _localCache;
- }
- }
On the second call, GetData will be execute synchronously, yet it still return a Task.
The client don't have to be aware of the caching implement within the method.
Parent / Child semantic is another feature which Task as data structure sine on.
Traditionally if you start new thread from a running thread, it don't have any affinity to the original
thread it was start from. The new thread is a new execution root which isn't aware of its origin.
On the other hand, Task does enable Parent / Child semantic. because Task is data structure, it can
maintain the affinity to child Tasks.
In matter of fact, Task don't limit you to direct descendants.
You can have as many descendant's level as you like, parent / child / grandchild / etc..
The following code demonstrate the idea:
- Task t = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
- {
- Task t1 = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
- {
- Task t2 = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
- {
- Thread.Sleep(1500);
- }, TaskCreationOptions.AttachedToParent);
- Thread.Sleep(1000);
- }, TaskCreationOptions.AttachedToParent);
- Thread.Sleep(500); // don't use sleep from task in real-life code
- // it will cause ThreadPool starvation (use await Task.Delay)
- });
- t.ContinueWith(parent => Trace.WriteLine(parent.Exception),
- TaskContinuationOptions.OnlyOnFaulted);
The Tasks at lines 3,5 attaching to their parents (lines 10, 8).
This mean that the ContinueWith at line 14 will trigger only after 1500 milliseconds (which is the longest
duration of on of the Task descendent ).
Another benefit of the data structure shown on the above code snippet is the ability to scheduler
conditional execution. As you remember Task don't responsible of its execution. It's the responsibility of
the TaskScheduler to do so. On line 15, we schedule conditional continuation.
The TaskScheduler will check the state of the Task when it complete and schedule the continuation
only if the origin Task is in faulted state.
Be aware that replacing Task.Factory.StartNew with Task.Run on the above snippet won't
be a good idea, because Task.Run will deny attaching of child Task (more about the
difference between Task.Run and Task.Factory.StartNew on future post).
Task is the foundation for modern async execution on .NET.
This post demystify Task while the next post will goes one step further
and demystify async / await.


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We're a hawk on the issues.
De Blasio Spokesman After Trump Tower Evacuation: 'We'll Send You the Bill'
A spokesman for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joked on Tuesday that the city would send President-elect Donald Trump the bill for the recent evacuation of Trump Tower.
No problem. We'll send you the bill. https://t.co/mxbUqzgHds
— Eric Phillips (@EricFPhillips) December 27, 2016
The Hill reports:
After the evacuation, Sean Spicer, whom the president-elect named as his White House press secretary, tweeted that the Trump team was back to work at the Trump Tower after a "false alarm."
"Thanks NYPD," Spicer tweeted.
"No problem. We'll send you the bill," Eric Phillips, spokesman for de Blasio, responded, sharing the tweet.
The lobby of Trump Tower was briefly evacuated Tuesday afternoon after reports of a suspicious package.
New York Police Department spokesman J. Peter Donald tweeted that the department's bomb squad was responding to the report "out of an abundance of caution." The spokesman soon tweeted an "all clear."
Law enforcement later said the suspicious package was a bag of children's toys, according to multiple reports.
Last month, de Blasio asked the federal government to help foot the bill for Trump's round-the-clock security detail. A report last month said protecting the president-elect and his family was costing New York City more than $1 million a day.
Trump is spending the holidays at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.
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I have been trying to eat healthier, exercise daily and lose weight for the last three months (27 pounds lost so far!). I am finally seeing some results which has me excited. One of the downsides of this new lifestyle though is not being able to eat some of my favorite desserts.....so sad. But I have found a cookie recipe that let's me have a little (or, on a bad day, a lot of) sweet during the day without any worries. These delicious cookies have only 10 calories a piece so you can eat quite a few!
The recipe is from Taste of Home and is very easy. There is some wait time so start these a few hours before you need them and you will be fine!
Vanilla Meringue Cookies Recipe
- 3 egg whites
- 1-1/2 teaspoons clear or regular vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- Dash salt
- 2/3 cup sugar
- Place egg whites in a small bowl; let stand at room temperature 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 250°. Add vanilla, cream of tartar and salt to egg whites; beat on medium speed until foamy. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high after each addition until sugar is dissolved. Continue beating until stiff glossy peaks form, about 7 minutes.
- Cut a small hole in the tip of a pastry bag or in a corner of a food-safe plastic bag; insert a #32 star tip. Transfer meringue to bag. Pipe 1-1/4-in. diameter cookies 2 in. apart onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
- Bake 40-45 minutes or until firm to the touch. Turn off oven (do not open oven door); leave meringues in oven 1 hour. Remove from oven; cool completely on baking sheets. Remove meringues from paper; store in an airtight container at room temperature. Yield: about 5 dozen.
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About the Exhibition
Award-winning, internationally-exhibited visual artist Claire Morgan has created stunning new pieces for the Horniman, including a dramatic installation in Gallery Square.
Claire's thought-provoking works draws on the theme of waste and the impact that humans have on their surroundings.
Her pieces include thousands of fragments of colourful waste polythene frozen in time, and nature combined with plastics.
As I Live and Breathe features new pieces specially commissioned by the Horniman. A dramatic large scale installation suspended from the ceiling and descending over two floors captivates visitors as they enter the Museum. The three forms are composed of thousands of fragments of colourful waste polythene, torn by hand from used shopping bags. These suggest a dramatic movement, being pulled by gravity from overhead down to the ground below, but here the movement has been halted in order to freeze a fleeting instant in time.
Inside our Natural History Gallery will be a display combining plastics and nature, featuring four taxidermy specimens of prolific residents of urban London: grey squirrel, red fox, carrion crow and rose-ringed parakeet. A conical form – made from fragments of torn black polythene from bin bags - protrudes from the mouth of each animal.


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Tenterfield Show
Event dates to be confirmed: February 2020
Come and enjoy the Tenterfield Show. There is so much to see and do.
There are bar and barbecue facilities are available, and a band and rodeo on Saturday night. Enjoy the sheep dog trials, the dog show and Tenterfield Pony Club Sporting Day.
There is great food at side show alley, or have some retail therapy. There are lots of rides for all ages including the Hurricane, Dodgems, Cha Cha, Skyflyer, Rockwall, Mini Jeeps, Cup n Saucer, Giant Slide, Pirate Ship, Circus Castle, Giant Worm, and Ball Crawl Elephant Castle.
Don't miss the Pavilion with the prize winning cakes, jams, and produce. Stand in awe and admire what the local talent have done with their paintings and photos. Marvel at the beautiful needle work and knitting that would have taken hours of work.
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There are two things I cannot get enough of. No, not my children (although this is – mostly – true of them, I have often had my fill by around 7.30pm), it is baskets and pom poms of which I speak.
So imagine my excitement when I spotted this array of pom-pom-basket-age at Yonder Living.
Pondicherry basket, £16.50
The. Cuteness. They would be perfect for storage in my little girl's room.
And these…
Nassau shopper, £30
And then my little girl could have a little one to match…
They also offer splendid cushions (I love the grey with white pom poms) and how great is this Breton blanket?


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Burke Confident about Disney Talks
Comcast President Steve Burke is optimistic that the third-largest cable operator will complete carriage talks with Disney in two or three weeks, he told the Washington Metro Cable Club last week. The two have been in tough negotiations over whether Comcast systems have to carry Disney's new SoapNet channel and add the Disney Channel to basic tiers. Burke also outlined the rebuilding of the third-largest cable operator: "Nearly 95% of our company will be rebuilt by next year." Besides rebuilding, the company is focusing on four product offerings: Comcast Digital Cable, high-speed Internet access, Comcast@Home and video-on-demand. In 2002, Burke expects the company to focus on interactive television and advanced set-top boxes with electronic commerce capabilities. Comcast also is working toward closing by year-end its purchase of Home Team Sports, which airs Baltimore and Washington-based sports programming, particularly Orioles Major League Baseball.


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Suldrun's Garden
Lyonesse Book 1
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The Lyonesse sequence evokes the Elder Isles, is a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, magnanimous, and cruel pursue intrigue among their separate worlds . . .
Prince Aillas of Troicinet is betrayed on his first diplomatic voyage and cast into the sea. Before he redeems his birthright, he must pass the breadth of Hybras Isle as prisoner, vagabond, and slave, an acquaintance of faeries, wizards, and errant knights, and lover to a sad and beautiful girl whose fate sets his bitter rivalry with the tyrant Casmir, King of Lyonesse.
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From Cambridge City comes a story which should burn into the collective consciousness of all football supporters. It is a very modern parable, about a struggling smaller club whose ground occupies land in a prospering city of rocketing property prices. And about deceit and dishonesty, perpetrated on the club by a property adviser to increase profits for a developer who, in the course of negotiations, bribed the club's chief executive.
For the Blue Square Conference South club's fans, a steadfast battle to unravel that deception culminated last month in a triumphant high court decision in which the judge, Mr Justice Briggs, set out the facts in stark, grisly detail.
In common with clubs at all levels, City had overspent to fuel their football ambitions. The Football Association's financial advisory unit noted the club's "parlous financial position" in a February 2003 report, but the directors, who had recently been appointed, did not even read it. By then, Brian York, a local property developer who is heavily involved in Cambridgeshire football, had joined the board, the idea being, according to the judge, that he and Arthur Eastham, who became chief executive, would "contribute their considerable business experience towards turning the club around".
The directors decided the club had no financial option other than to sell its Milton Road ground, near the centre of the thriving university city. York was asked initially to advise the club on a sale, and he lent it more than £100,000 to pay bills and stay in business. Then, having received no particularly generous offers for the ground, York decided to buy it himself, and resigned as a director. On September 28 2004, he bought Milton Road for £1.3m, agreeing that his company, York Developments, would share any increase in value equally with the club once planning permission to build houses on the site had been obtained.
"Mr York obtained leverage in the negotiations," the judge noted, "by lending to the club and then, at critical moments, threatening to call in his loans."
However, the judge found nothing improper with that agreement. The legal case centred on false statements made by York's principal property adviser, Paul Harney, in the months leading up to October 2005, when York's companies - by then registered in the Isle of Man to save tax - bought out the club's 50% share of the ground's development value.
City's core of loyal fans knew nothing about any of this until December 2005, when they learned that their club was to "merge" with its bigger local rival, Cambridge United, and effectively cease to exist. They were livid, and at a subsequent fans' forum they put Eastham under pressure. At that meeting they heard for the first time that the ground had been sold.
Helped by the government-backed Supporters Direct initiative, a group of fans formed a trust and attracted 200 members. As their protests grew, Eastham resigned and the remaining directors, including Kevin Satchell, who, with other shareholders, helped to fund the subsequent legal action, invited the trust's representatives to join the board.
Once installed in the boardroom, they tried to determine what had happened, but Eastham had taken documents away and he did not rush to return them. Rab Crangle, 45, a policy adviser in Whitehall for the Department of Communities and Local Government, was one fan who emerged as a fighter, becoming convinced, as he pieced the dealings together, that the club, as Crangle describes it, had been "diddled".
The court judgment, which followed a seven-day hearing in July with QCs on each side, vindicated that view. The judge found that York himself had not actively participated in the deception, but his adviser, Harney, had lied and made "fraudulent misrepresentations" in order to make the most money possible for York - and for himself in commission - and short-change the club, from the sale of its own ground.
In April 2005, Harney offered the club £500,000 to buy out its 50% share of Milton Road's development value. That was based, the judge found, on an assumption that once the stadium was bulldozed the land would have 150 housing units on it and be worth £7.8m. Total costs of £6m would leave just £1.8m profits, to be split between York and the club.
City's adviser, Edwin Lee, asked Harney for more details about the research undertaken to inform this valuation and offer. Harney's reply, on May 25 2005, contained, the judge found, "deliberate and dishonest misrepresentations", made to emphasise a lower value for the land.
Harney stated that "130 dwellings could be achieved" on the site, when in fact he believed 200 could be built. He told the club he was working on 50% of the homes being less profitable "affordable housing", when in fact he was expecting the limit to be 30%. Harney, the judge said, "seriously misrepresented" the cost of ensuring access to the site, and "deliberately concealed" favourable advice about it.
"Finally and most blatantly", the judge ruled, Harney told Lee he had no other reports that would help the club form a view about the land's value. That was "a complete falsehood", because Harney had obtained three very useful sets of professional advice, which in fact led him to believe the development value of Milton Road was higher than £7.8m. Only a few days later he was advised the true value was £13.1m.
Unaware of the truth and desperate for money, the club accepted an offer of £900,000 for its half of the development value, and even agreed a new lease which meant it could be evicted at six months' notice. York's agents said in September 2005 that they planned to allow the club to stay for "as long as possible", then, only two months later, gave City notice to leave.
Crangle and the other directors, picking through all this, also discovered that in June 2005, in the middle of the negotiations over the half-share, York, via his property company, had paid Eastham, the club's chief executive, £10,000. The new directors claimed it was a bribe. The judge noted that bribery is an emotive word, but in fact it does not necessarily involve an improper motive or intent. Legally, it would occur where a person is dealing with a company, and pays money to its chief executive, without the company's knowledge and consent.
At Cambridge City, the judge ruled that the payment put Eastham in a conflict of interest and did, in law, amount to bribery. There was, the judge added, no evidence that York intended to take advantage of having paid Eastham the £10,000, but "[Mr York] gained at the very least by doing Mr Eastham the favour of making £10,000 available to him ... the prospect of calling in that favour at some later date".
Because of that, and the lies Harney told, the judge ruled that the £900,000 deal should be cancelled and the club given another opportunity to achieve a fair value for its ground. To the fans' disappointment, however, the judge did not overturn the original £1.3m sale to York's company. The club is considering appealing against that decision, on the basis that the necessary relationship of trust between it and York has completely broken down.
Neither York nor Harney returned calls this week to ask them about the judgment. Crangle, now cautiously optimistic for the club, drew from this local scandal a wider warning.
"People said I was a conspiracy theorist when we began," he said, "but the judgment says it: the club was the victim of fraudulent misrepresentation on behalf of a property development company with whom we were supposed to be in partnership. Fans of clubs in financial trouble, but sitting on valuable land, should understand this, and be very careful about the deals directors do in their name."


text: Greg Fleet is an actor, comedian, broadcaster and author. Born in Michigan, USA, his family moved to Victoria when he was aged four. He studied at Geelong Grammar School for twelve years and then attended NIDA for a year before being expelled. His acting career began opposite Nicole Kidman in 1984 and he went on to star in Prisoner (as 'Delivery Man No 2'), Underbelly: Squizzy (as Richard Buckley – Australia's most violent prisoner), and Neighbours (his character killed the much-loved character Daphne), as well as treading the boards as Feste in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night for the Melbourne Theatre Company and developing a stand-up career that saw him acclaimed all over the world. Both here and in the UK, his comedy across TV, film, radio and theatre, and the honesty with which he speaks about his long-term drug addiction, has made him one of the most respected, beloved and in-debt stand-up comics around. Greg Fleet's hilarious and harrowing memoir, These Things Happen, will be published in 2015 by Pan Macmillan.


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Will McDermott's defense hurt his NBA draft stock?
Over the next few months McDermott will be among the most polarizing prospects in draft meetings. The results of his combine drills will be dissected and tape of McDermott defending more athletic players will be studied closely. McDermott will be on an NBA roster next season. It remains to be seen what the expectations are going to be for him when he gets there.