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The welcoming atmosphere of Hotel Valley Ho's Café ZuZu is more than complemented by its menu.
Hotel Valley Ho lured Chef Charles Wiley from the San Francisco Bay Area when the hotel reopened in 2005. It gets its name "ZuZu" from the wife of the original owner's nickname. The menu too is homage to her style. It's comfort food that takes into account what healthier and more cosmopolitan travelers consider comfort food is not the mac n'cheese of days gone by. Menu items include things like "Roasted Brussels and Spinach Salad" and "Cornish Hen".
Consider too that much of Café ZuZu's clientele are local foodies who have put Café ZuZu on their map. Interestingly, one of the ways this local clientele was acquired was in creating a Girl's Night Out destination for football widows. Vineyards come to monthly dinners as guests of honor and the menu is advertised well ahead of time. There might be a theme of soft shell crabs one month and steak dishes the next. You can check their website ahead of time to see if a special dinner coincides with your Scottsdale travel plans.
From a diverse sampling menu here is what we can report—
We started with a half portion that was still quite healthy sized of "Orange and Ginger Seared Ahi". The soy mustard vinaigrette was flavorful without being overpowering. The Asian slaw gave it a welcome crunch.
(Note: Most pictures in this article show a 1/3 sized portion.)
The chef whipped up a second course of yellow and red beet salad with baby arugula, candied pecans, a touch of goat cheese and a light touch of balsamic vinaigrette. We especially liked the texture of the cheese and the way flavors were augmented by being barely cooler than room temperature.
The "Sage and Mustard Salmon" that is a menu feature item also had the oomph of lightly cooked vegetables. It comes with brown rice on the side, distinct from other restaurants that tend to serve fish on the side of rice.
Spaghetti squash a favorite? Yes. This dish would make a totally satisfying vegetarian meal and is something carnivores will probably savor too. It has a tartness from braised greens and an earthiness from pine nuts. Whatever you order, it's highly recommended to make this dish part of your meal.
The "Braised Beef Short Rib" with mushroom reduction featured a tender beef that we could and did cut with a fork. The sweetness of the creamy grits and crisp string beans offset the beefiness of the dish.
Even at 1/3-size portions this was quite the large meal.
You probably won't have room for dessert but you'd be well advised to make some space for the "Classic Lemon Tart". It is one of sixteen regular and liquid dessert items on the menu.
Café ZuZu is not to be thought of as an experimental restaurant. Yes, they do experiment in getting it just right. Chef Wiley said that it took six iterations to get the Parker Rolls to ZuZu standards. However, the menu choices don't require you to do a gymnastic workout to take in the flavors.
Its straightforward food, mostly locally sourced, cooked with sensitivity to how to bring out the best in each ingredient and their combinations. This is a recommended spot for any Scottsdale sojourn.
Café ZuZu
For reservations call 480.421.7997 or visit the Café ZuZu website.
Hotel Valley Ho
6850 East Main Street
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<strike>Friday</strike> Sunday mid-day the forums will go down for about an hour, depending on how things turn out. This date is tentative.*
Why? When I put in the forum server, I goofed and put where the forums store the posts et all in the wrong place. Ooops. Tight fit! Going to move them to another HD where it's larger.
Meanwhile, I'll be upgrading some items on the server itself durring the move. If it all turns out well, the forums will be up and good.
(( * Tenative because Friday I had to dig the family out of snow, and my mood went sour today, and may move to Monday, because my sister and her family's pulling everyone down, and it's souring my mood already. I don't admin when I'm "mallet happy". ))

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Karoo Ashevak
Canadian, 1940–1974
Shaman, 1971
whale bone, plastic, stone, sinew
49.8 x 27.4 x 15.5 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from The Winnipeg Foundation
In the early 1970s Karoo Ashevak developed an expressive style of carving, employing aged whale bone as his medium and depicting angakkuit (shamans) and spirits bursting with powerful emotions. His figures have wild, asymmetrical eyes, flaring nostrils, and gaping mouths. These subjects were inspired by the many stories told to Ashevak as a child by his father. The WAG work represents a particular shaman who had a perpetual supply of caribou meat. Round balls representing meat were placed in the mouth and a plug was inserted into a hole at the base of the neck. When the plug is pulled, the five pieces of meat slide down and out the back of the throat, where they are ready to be eaten again the next time the shaman has the desire to eat caribou.
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New oil sheen in Gulf worries BP, lawmakers
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is causing new headaches for BP and has prompted coastal communities and members of Congress to call for more oversight from the U.S. government.
Confirmation that an oil sheen reported last month is consistent with oil from BP's blown-out Macondo well comes at a crucial time, just as talks intensify about resolving penalties and fines from the disaster in April 2010.
Scientists have said that residual oil from the well and the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon rig and equipment on the seafloor that was used to cap the well could be dredged up for months and years to come.
The Sept. 16 discovery of the sheen, which the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed late Wednesday, correlated to oil from BP's Macondo well, has renewed attention and concern.
"As bad as the spill was and as great as a catastrophe as the Deepwater Horizon explosion was, I don't think we can underestimate anything," Orange Beach, Ala., Mayor Tony Kennon said Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, a top Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, is calling for a full undersea survey of the Macondo site to be carried live on the Internet so independent scientists can see what is going on. A camera focused on the gushing well after the April 20, 2010, disaster, and when a massive cap halted the flow almost three months later.
"One can only hope that the nightmare well has not come back to haunt the people of the Gulf," said Markey, a frequent oil industry critic.
Scientists say that the find is not surprising, even more than two years later, especially if the oil is coming from the equipment on the seafloor.
"It's like after a ship sinks, it continues to leak long after it sinks," said George Hirasaki, a Rice University engineering professor who was involved in oil containment efforts after a Shell platform in the shallow-water Bay Marchand field caught fire off Louisiana in the 1970s, killing four workers.
BP, meanwhile, has been in on-and-off talks over the last year with the Justice Department and others about resolving remaining claims and addressing civil and criminal fines and penalties.
BP could face up to $21 billion in fines related to Clean Water Act violations alone, but it has been seeking to reduce its exposure by settling for a smaller figure and getting cement contractor Halliburton and rig owner Transocean to contribute some of the money.
No deal soon
While talks continue between BP and the Justice Department, several people briefed on the situation say they don't expect an announcement on a deal before the November election. BP also likely would want to make another run at its partners to see whether they are willing to share in paying for any settlement that is reached, and has not had such discussions with Transocean and Halliburton for months, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Halliburton and Transocean have argued they are not liable for damage from the well, and a court ruling in February bolstered their position.
BP has spent or committed tens of billions of dollars to clean up damage and compensate victims, and the total amount it pays could balloon when fines and penalties are factored in.
The company has reached a proposed class action settlement covering individuals and businesses claiming health and economic damages, but that deal doesn't cover fines and penalties.
The new oil sheen in the Gulf has given all the players something new to think about.
May not be active leak
A statement from the Coast Guard on Wednesday gave no indication of any active leak. It said the source of the sheen is uncertain but could be residual oil associated with debris left on the seafloor after the disaster.
BP said Thursday it believes the oil came from equipment associated with the blown-out well and not the well itself. It said it has been working with the Coast Guard and other government officials to investigate the source of the oil. The company said flights over the area and vessel surveys suggest that the integrity of the cap on the Macondo well and the associated relief well are sound.
"The size of the sheen, its persistent point of origin and other factors indicate the most likely source is the bent riser pipe that once connected the rig to the well head, where a mix of oil, drilling mud and seawater were trapped after the top kill operation," BP said.
The top kill, which involved pumping material into the wellhead, was an early, unsuccessful attempt to stop the flow.
Matt Dundas of the environmental group Oceana said the news about is troubling.
"Here we are, two years and 5 million barrels of spilled oil later, and we're still dealing with BP's inability to keep oil out of the ocean," he said.
Eleven rig workers were killed when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and, according to the government, more than 200 million gallons of oil was discharged.
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How to password-protect a directory using .htaccess
The .htaccess file is a configuration file for the Apache HTTP server. .htaccess includes a series of directives that control how the server responds to requests. (A "directive" is just a text command/keyword followed by its value.) One of the more common usages of .htaccess is to enable a directory to be password protected. By adding appropriate directives to .htaccess, when a web user accesses a file in that directory or a subdirectory, they'll be prompted for a username and password.
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Here's a look at each directive individually.
AuthType directive is the method used to authenticate the user. Basic sends the username and password in the clear over the network. If you want to protect the username and password over the wire, use SSL (mod_ssl) with your Basic authentication.
Use the
AuthName directive to identify to the user which password they should enter. Multiple independent directory trees in the same realm can be protected by a single password. Once a user has entered a password for a realm, they won't be prompted again, provided the server name part of the URL doesn't change.
As might be inferred, the
AuthUserFile defines where to look for passwords. You create the password file with the htpasswd command. There is also an AuthGroupFile directive that allows you to define groups of users. You can then protect the directory by group name instead of having to identify individual users.
Require group admin
groups.file file is a text file that would consist of a list of groups and usernames like the following, where the password for each user is maintained in the specified password file from the
AuthUserFile directive.
Require directive is how you are identifying who has access to the directory tree. The basic usages are to control access for any valid user, a list of users, or list of groups.
Require user userid1 [userid2] ...
Require group group1 [group2] ...
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Require is insufficient for your needs, review the other directives.
Use basic authentication via .htaccess with care. It may work fine for small sets of users but does not scale well. Consider something like using an OAuth server for a production environment with large numbers of users.
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Pacifica Hotel Co. Pursues New Coastal Development Deals
Monday, May 6, 2013
When Pacifica Hotel Co. recently sold the 73-room Empress Hotel in La Jolla, company leaders said the sale would open up opportunities for the growth-focused firm to pursue new coastal hotel development deals.
Matt Marquis, president of the Santa Barbara-based company, says San Diego County remains on the firm's radar for long-term development and acquisition opportunities in "water-centric" locations, as the local and national tourism economies continue to improve.
"Places like San Diego have high barriers to entry, so the competition tends to be limited," said Marquis, whose company operates 25 coastal hotels, mostly in California.
However, Marquis and other experts predict that new construction of hotels will remain at a slow pace for the foreseeable future, despite a hospitality climate that is nearing full recovery from the recessionary depths of 2009-10.
They point to factors including a still tough financing environment for new projects, a glut of room inventory that still exists in some markets, and the potential for federal budget cutting to reduce hotel stays by government agencies and their associated contractors.
"Banks are very skittish to lend right now," said Jan Freitag, vice president of global development for STR Global, formerly known as Smith Travel Research Inc. He said large resort hotel construction remains scarce nationwide, and the hotels getting built tend to be smaller, limited-service properties in previously underserved suburban markets, overseen by local rather than national developers.
Local Market Lags
STR data indicates that San Diego County's hotel market tracked ahead of overall U.S. first-quarter figures for occupancy (67.5 percent), average daily rate ($126.74) and revenue per available room ($85.55). However, the local market lagged the nation in year-over-year percentage growth for the period on all of those metrics.
Local hotels posted $447.8 million in revenue during the first quarter, up 1.8 percent from the same period of 2012. U.S. hotel revenue rose 7.2 percent, to more than $27.1 billion.
Robert Rauch, president of hotel consulting firm R.A. Rauch & Associates in San Diego, noted that the local region has seen just a sprinkle of new hotel construction amid the overall tourism recovery. The few openings of 2012 included the Hilton Carlsbad Oceanfront Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, and a Hyatt Place mid-service hotel in Vista.
Following the recent debut of a 250-room hotel at Legoland California Resort in Carlsbad, the only notable large opening expected this year is a Residence Inn by Marriott, currently under construction in Carmel Valley. Rauch said there are several projects in the pipeline in places like San Marcos and downtown San Diego, but they are unlikely to move forward anytime soon.
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Long before Don Draper and Justin Timberlake brought sexy back to the fedora, hats were once as common on a man"s head as socks on his feet. Simply put, a man was not properly dressed without one.
But along the way, hats faded into the back of men"s closets, and the baseball cap eventually took over the pate.
Fast forward a few decades: Tradition has reared its well-coiffed head again. Wide-brimmed, high-crowned, feather-adorned hats are resurgent at a time when celebrities and nostalgia-inspired TV shows such as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Mad Men" are telling men it"s acceptable to care about their clothing — including the accessory on their head.
"Young people are driving the trend right now," said Anthony Andler, owner of Heimie"s Haberdashery in St Paul, Minn. "They are seeing the benefits to dressing better. The job market and the girl market are both tough, so they want an edge that will help them compete."
Celebrities such as Timberlake, Johnny Depp, Bruno Mars and Brad Pitt are routinely spotted wearing old-school men"s hats. The styles include the fedora, flat caps, gatsbys, even the top hat. Andler said customers often come into his shop referencing hats they"ve seen on the heads of their favorite actors or musicians.
While pop culture is giving traditional hats their moment, Andler said a classic hat also serves a practical purpose. Coupled with an overcoat, a nice pair of shoes and gloves, a hat completes the package of a well-dressed man.
In 1940, there were 180 independent major manufacturers of hats in the United States, according to the New York Times. In 2011, there were only 10.
Since 2004, Heimie"s has been one of the few Twin Cities stores where men could find a dedicated inventory of old-school hats. The local hat market has been heating up with the September opening of Goorin Bros. in Uptown.
That shop is the 26th location for a San Francisco-based company, a sign that the hat trend might be here to stay (again). Goorin-branded hats also are sold at Nordstrom and other stores.
Ashley Foucault, Goorin"s Minneapolis store manager, said people often come in asking for Al Pacino"s famous "Godfather" Homburg hat, but other customers have no idea what they want.
"I tell them, "Let"s play for a little while,"" said Foucault, who then experiments with different hats to find the perfect fit for her customers.
Men often come in looking to pair a hat with a specific outfit, especially a suit. She recommends bringing in the actual suit to properly match the hat.
She also tells customers to bring in their significant others. They have "the biggest veto power," Foucault said.
A similar fitting experience can be expected at Heimie"s.
"People always reference "Mad Men,"" Andler said. "They also say, "I want a gangster hat," and I tell them, "No, you want a gentleman"s hat." Gangsters are all bums."
With prices ranging from $50 to more than $300 in both stores, the right fit is key to ensuring that men feel confident with their purchase.
"There is definitely the right hat for every face," Andler said.
Andler said some men often do not have the confidence to wear a hat.
"Guys are still intimidated by putting on a hat with a wide brim and a high crown," Andler said. But once a man feels comfortable in it, "their confidence increases and they are more likely to reach for their fedora over a baseball cap."
In the end, wearing a hat comes down to one thing, according to Andler.
"You just want to own it," he said. "Have some hattitude."


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The power of Prospect Lust is an amazing thing, as the last post clearly indicates people will go well beyond the bounds of reasons to express their affection for prospects. It doesn't matter If the prospect is average or exceptional, they just have to be what that fan thinks their team needs, or in some cases just belong to their team. This lust can and should be harnessed.
Empty seats are kinda a big deal. Even if the tickets are sold, people who aren't their don't buy concessions, sorry its just physics. The NHL and the various North American Junior leagues can do something about that. It's actually pretty simple.
A seven game prospect tournament with teams picked by the two organizations with the lowest home attendance percentage. Both teams would be made up of recently undrafted players. Training camps in their home arenas, lowered ticket prices for the tournament. Hell, add in special jerseys for the series.
Key points:
- Winning organizing/host team gets 10 days to draft any two of the players with standard 1st round contract rights.
- No player drafted from these two teams would count towards the 50 contract limit until their second year in the NHL.
- Ideally to be held between the NHL entry draft and July 1st or alternatively in late August prior to NHL and AHL camps opening.
- Locally and nationally televised.
- Local teams coaches, players and prospects placed where they can be seen frequently.
- 50 local fans in each city win free NHL Center Ice for the next season.
- 5 Winners of 2 seats in a 10 game pack in each city during tournament.
- After the winning and losing team, all other draft ordering would be random
Last season despite all the hoopla, Winnipeg was one of the lowest teams, but others have been Phoenix who have a nice large arena that can be filled with sufficient excitement. Those two to three extra dates in each city by themselves will make an impact on the bottom line, and one or more of those prospects could turn into major names in the sport.
Some undrafted players you might know:
- Dan Girardi of the New York Rangers
- Niklas Backstrom of the Minnesota Wild
- Stephane DeCosta of the Ottawa Senators
- Ruslan Fedotanko of the Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers, New York Islanders, and Tampa Bay Lightning
- Rich Peverley of the Boston Bruins, Atlanta Thrashers, and Nashville Predators
- Teddy Purcell of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Los Angeles Kings
- Marty McSorley of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, and others
- Andy McDonald of the St Louis Blues and Anaheim Ducks
- Josh Gorges of the Montreal Canadiens and San Jose Sharks
- Jonas Hiller of the Anaheim Ducks
- Curtis Glencross of the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, Columbus Blue Jackets and Anaheim Ducks
- Geoff Courtnall of the Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Vancouver Canucks, St Louis Blues, and Edmonton Oilers
- Dan Boyle of the San Jose Sharks
- Adam Oates, Hall of Famer, Washington Capitals head coach and alumni
- Martin St Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Calgary Flames
Clearly there is a lot of talent that is overlooked in the draft, and some excitement that can be generated for teams in need. Killing two birds with one stone, and possibly putting the All Star Shinny in its final resting place all in one fell swoop? A game that harnesses prospect lust, tags the love of the underdog, and fills arenas? Sounds like a win.


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The Malvern Swimming Association (MSA) is looking for a part-time assistant swim coach to start in September or October and continue coaching through the entire winter season. MSA is a USA Swimming Registered Swim Club and is a part of The Malvern Preparatory School which is located in Malvern, PA. Our team runs from September through July giving employees the opportunity to continue coaching almost year round. Practices are held Monday – Friday evenings after 5:00 and Saturday mornings. Candidates should be available for most practices and some weekend meets. Hours are flexible depending on candidate's availability. There is opportunity to work with different swimmer groups ages 5-18. In addition to a year round competitive swim team, Malvern has a large lesson program and clinic which provides the opportunity for additional income and experience. Interested applicants should contact Nikki Hinsdale, MSA Administrator at firstname.lastname@example.com . Qualifications At least 18 years or older 1 year of coaching experience, swim lesson instructor, and/or collegiate swimming experience. Be able to complete clearances and background checks to work with children If not already CPR Certified/ Registered USA swim coach, candidate can complete certifications upon hiring
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Chapter 1: So You Want to Be a Bondholder 11
Chapter 2: Developing Your Investment Game Plan 23
Chapter 3: The (Often, But Not Always) Heroic History of Bonds 35
Chapter 4: Sweet Interest Is the Name of the Game 49
Part II: Numerous and Varied Ways to Make
Money in Bonds 71
Chapter 5: "Risk-Free" Investing: U.S. Treasury Bonds 73
Chapter 6: Industrial Returns: Corporate Bonds 91
Chapter 7: Lots of Protection (and Just a Touch of Confusion): Agency Bonds 105
Chapter 8: (Almost) Tax-Free Havens: Municipal Bonds 117
Chapter 9: Le Bond du Jour: Global Bonds and Other Seemingly Exotic Offerings 131
Part III: Customizing and Optimizing Your Bond Portfolio 149
Chapter 10: Risk, Return, and Realistic Expectations 151
Chapter 11: The Science (and Pseudoscience) of Portfolio-Building 169
Chapter 12: Dividing Up the Pie: What Percentage Should Be in Bonds? 179
Chapter 13: Which Kinds of Bonds Make the Most Sense for You? 197
Part IV: Bonds Away! Navigating the Fixed-Income Marketplace 211
Chapter 14: Strategizing Your Bond Buys and Sells 213
Chapter 15: Investing (Carefully!) in Individual Bonds .229
Chapter 16: Picking a Bond Fund That Will Serve You for Life .245
Part V: Bonds As Replacements for the Old Paycheck... 271
Chapter 17: Fulfi lling the Need for Steady, Ready, Heady Cash 273
Chapter 18: Finding Comfort and Security in Old Age 291
Part VI: The Part of Tens 303
Chapter 19: Ten Most Common Misconceptions about Bonds 305
Chapter 20: Ten Mistakes That Most Bond Investors Make 311
Chapter 21: Ten Q & A's with Bond Guru Dan Fuss 317
Appendix: Helpful Web Resources for Successful Bond Investing 321
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The Central Connecticut baseball team kept its post-season hopes alive with a 7-4 home victory over Mount St. Mary's on Friday afternoon. Central is now 26-24 overall and 14-15 in Northeast Conference play. The Mount is 10-35 overall and 5-24 in the league.
The Central win, coupled with a pair of Bryant wins and a Monmouth win, keeps the Blue Devils alive for the fourth and final NEC Tournament spot next week. CCSU needs to win its last three games, and also needs a Bryant win on Saturday and two more Monmouth wins over LIU Brooklyn this weekend.
The Blue Devils struck first with a run in the first inning. Central used four walks and a wild pitch to take the 1-0 lead. Mount tied the score with a single run in the top of the second inning.
Central took a three run lead with one swing of the bat in the third inning. Following a pair of walks senior Mike Washburn hit his second home run of the season to right field to score three and give the Blue Devils the 4-1 lead.
The lead reached 5-1 on an RBI double from junior J.P. Sportman in the bottom of the fourth inning. He drove in classmate Dylan DelaCruz who had doubled to lead off the inning.
Mount scored one in the fifth, one in the sixth and one more in the seventh to cut the lead to 5-4.
Central answered with two runs in the bottom of the seventh. DelaCruz singled up the middle to drive in two runs and push the Blue Devil lead to three.
Sophomore lefty Cody Brown picked up his sixth win of the season, improving to 6-5, by pitching 6.2 innings and allowing 12 hits and four runs. He struck out six Mount batters in the game.
Sophomore Dominic Severino picked up his first save of the season pitching the final 2.1 innings without allowing a run. He struck out three.
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Richard Sandoval's La Sandia restaurants launch healthier menus this month
Mexican food, at least the way it gets interpreted in the United States, is not usually something to seek out when you are looking to eat healthy. Plates of fat-saturated beans and rice, with piles of animal proteins and fried corn tortillas, all blanketed in shelves of orange cheese, are ubiquitous and they help keep antacid manufacturers and cardiologists in business.
This month Top Chef Masters contestant Richard Sandoval's La Sandia restaurants in Colorado – at Northfield in Stapleton, and Park Meadows – hit the reset button. The restaurants launch a new "Latin Light" menu, featuring 13 menu items under 500 calories, including things like Harris Ranch hanger steak taco platter, chile relleno trio, and shrimp al pastor flatbread. In addition, the menu has a pair of cocktails – a margarita and a watermelon drink – that clock in at fewer than 150 calories.
Dishes like this have got to become more the norm in American-style Mexican food, don't you think? The prospect of a menu packed with nothing but commodity meat, fried things, and cheese probably isn't going away anytime soon, but it doesn't exactly sing to an expanding (in population, not waistline) chunk of Americans, and it keeps some of us away from run-of-the-mill Mexican joints. With menus like La Sandia's Latin Light, some of us might return to cantinas, rather than just making Mexican food at home (minus the cheese shelves, mountains of ground beef and lard-heavy beans).


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Powder Keg: Seasonal winter beers lift spirits and warm cockles
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Much as fall gives way to winter, Halloween pumpkins get replaced with turkeys and baseball fans turn their attention to football, beer, too, has its styles that come and go with the seasons. While nowadays we can get pretty much any variety of beer at any time, in the past brewers were more bound to cycles of growing, brewing, harvesting and weather. From this sprang many styles of winter beer, each with its own flavor, composition and history.
History tells us that the first winter beers can be traced back to pagan traditions. The winter solstice was a time of festival and celebration, when cattle were slaughtered (so as not to require feeding during the lean winter months) and when beer and wine, prepared earlier, were finally ready to be tasted and enjoyed.
While the pagan traditions became a thing of the past, the brewing tradition continued, and later it was the monks at the abbeys who brewed and imbibed of the winter beer varieties. Many monks took it upon themselves to brew special beers to celebrate the birth of Christ. These are often called noel beers, or Christmas beers.
Many of these winter beers also served another purpose – that of nourishing the drinkers. Back during medieval times, indoor heating was a smoky fire at best and food was often scarce during the winter months. Beers brewed for this time were thick and bready, with plenty of nutrition. Monks, particularly, made use of this during times of fasting when eating (but not drinking) was forbidden for certain periods of time.
Though now we have plenty of ways to stay warm during the winter, it's still fun to partake in those special winter drinks. While some of the winter beers do have higher ABV values, that is not a necessary component and there are plenty that have similar ABV counts as "lighter" beers while retaining that special dark winter feel.
Common flavors found in winter beers include chocolate, caramel, malt, coffee and cinnamon. Not only are these common flavors of the season (just take a look at a Starbucks winter menu, for instance) but they are richer, darker flavors, in contrast to lighter, crisper flavors that you might crave during the summer.
Many of these flavors can be found in winter warmers. These are usually old or strong ales, which in England refers to dark, malty brews with mid to high alcohol content. Craft breweries in Europe and the U.S. now brew special winter warmers specifically for the winter season, which are usually only available for a limited time.
Rather than the lighter refreshing beers we drink in summer, winter beers are meant to be sipped and savored. Take your time with them, not only because they may be higher ABV value, but in order to taste the unique spices and flavors they have to offer. Consider pairing them with a bitter chocolate, or letting the spices complement a slice of pie.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We need our mainpage redesigned. It really just needs a refresh, something new, but have the general layout be the same. Please include our new logo, the link is below
I like the current boxes and layout, I just don't want as much pink, and I want it to be a little more chic and unique. My jewelry is really antique style, so I would like the website to reflect that design.It is uncoded, but it must be fairly easy to implement onto the website. I would like to use simple and easy to use fonts, but fonts that still reflect my comapany style. I prefer the redesign to be done on photoshop, so that I can use the layers and implement them onto my site.
Here is a link to the new logo:
- I would love for the theme to be similar to that of anthropologie.com, very chic but also very easy to use and simple.
- Please use the new logo. Also not too many colors, more of a theme. I love the use of antique items such as compasses, antique maps, and lace
- Please use earth tones for the color scheme
- Please keep the logo either black or gray
- too bold, difficult to implement on the site.


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The City of Brea's 22nd Annual Wellness Festival will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2019 from 9 am - 1 pm.
The Wellness Festival offers both the clinical side to wellness, including comprehensive medical screenings, nutritional supplements and an integrative approach such as pet therapy, aromatherapy, and various mind-body methodologies. We also include the "fun factor," providing a live DJ with cutting-edge fitness demonstrations, free mini massages (compliments of the Brea Fitness massage therapists), heart-healthy samples from various local restaurants, and much more.
The intention of the Wellness Festival is to expose the community to the various dimensions of health and wellness, including Physical, Social, Intellectual, Spiritual, Emotional, Environmental and Occupational. Our goal is to offer the community an innovative and informative event featuring interactive booths that the whole family will enjoy.
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Last Summer I posted one of my all time favorite "Summer" recipes - Classic Cucumbers & Onions (pictured below). It is one of those recipes that I grew up with- one of my Dad's favorites. In honor of Father's Day (this coming weekend), I decided to revisit the old favorite.
This time, I've added pasta to the cold, crunchy, sweet and sour salad (pictured above). Not only is it tasty because all of the lovely vinaigrette soaks into the pasta, but it stretches the dish along way making it great for serving a crowd.
This salad does take a bit of time - you slice the cucumbers and onions thinly, then salt them and let them sit, which brings out the water from the cucumbers. Then you rinse them and add a simple vinaigrette made of only white vinegar and sugar. Pictured above is the classic version pre-salting.
Cucumber & Onions
Pasta Salad
4 cucumbers
1 onion (red or white)
3 tablespoons of table salt
3/4 cup of white vinegar
3/4 cup of sugar
1 pound of pasta
Peel and slice the cucumbers and onions. Coat with salt, cover and refrigerate for an hour or 2 (or more). Rinse the salt off of the cucumbers and onions. Place in a large bowl.
Cook pasta 1 minute short of the time according to the package - just until it is al dente. Drain from the cooking water and rinse with cold water. Add it to the cucumbers and onions.
Combine vinegar and sugar. Pour over cucumbers and let them soak in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.


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Photos of Beyonce & Jay-Z celebrating their anniversary in Cuba.
Jay-Z & Beyonce celebrated their 5-year anniversary (which lands on April 4th) by taking a trip to Havana, Cuba, this past week.
The couple celebrated their anniversary in Cuba as tourists (although that's not techinically legal for U.S. citizens, it is Queen Bey & Hov), meeting local fans, touring colonial Old Havana, and dining at the famous Havana restaurant, La Guarida, where they were joined by Jay-Z's mother as well as Beyonce's.
Check out photos of Bey and Jay's time in Cuba above. Beyonce rocked braids, and Jay-Z wore a fedora while he smoked a cigar and toured the local surroundings.


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The recent acquisition of the former Fitzsimons U.S. Army Garrison in nearby Aurora gave the CU School of Medicine a 217-acre campus on which to build a state-of-the-art health sciences "city." Over the next decade, the University constructed a remarkable and visionary medical center for the 21st century. A 160-acre private bioscience park adjacent to the campus will enhance scientific collaboration. Some of our 42 affiliated institutions around Colorado include:
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Pod2G is working hard.
Remember Pod2g? He's the guy that made a successful iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G unethered jailbreak for iOS 5 just within the past couple of weeks. Now, as he promised, he is working hard to get the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered so that the rest of us using newer devices can be happy too. The untethered jailbreak is the one that you can use even after rebooting your iPhone. Whilst in a tethered jailbreak, you cannot reboot your iPhone at all until you connect to a computer and use software to reboot it. There is a semi-tethered option which allows tethered jailbreak users to reboot their iPhone except without and jailbreak features - only the functionality of stock iOS features.
Pod2g is shifting into top gear and attempting an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S completely disregarding the tethered jailbreak; but that's what we wanted anyhow so there aren't any complaints. What we know about Pod2G's jailbreak so far is that it will be untethered for A4 devices such as the iPhone 4 and iPod touch 4G running either iOS 5.0 or iOS 5.0.1. At this point in time the iPhone 4S doesn't have any jailbreak; not even a god-given tethered jailbreak which most of us would give an arm to have on our iPhone 4S at the very least right now. Pod2g is on the case though.
So what's the update for the iPhone 4S? Well, if you refer to the image above, you can see that Pod2g has reported on his progress for the iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak. In case the image doesn't load for you, the message reads:
The cache issue could be very large or very small. It could be fixed in a matter of hours, or as Pod2g explained, maybe days or weeks. The problem depends on chance. It depends on whether or not Pod2g finds the problem or not, albeit he did promise us that he would inform us of his progress again tomorrow so that we can see how it went after today with his processor cache issue. The processor cache issue is keeping the jailbreak from being untethered at this moment in time and hopefully if he can bypass that issue we can have an untethered jailbreak for all devices up to date.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
R.A. Knuckles A Win for Mets!
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lets go mets! keep it up joe.ReplyDelete
Fantastic start to the Terry Collins era. Now comes the real test: Phillies on TuesdayReplyDelete
Great to see the Mets' season start in "color", unlike last season.ReplyDelete
And, while everyone touting the first road series win (which is great, don't get me wrong), everyone seems to forget that the Mets didn't take their first series of the season until Apr 22, last year.
I forgot that . You are right. I should have read my book. LOLReplyDelete
LoL Energizer Dickey!ReplyDelete
Like Dickey I see you also have picked up where you left off without missing a beat.
You been pretty busy Joe with the Jets going deep into playoffs the Knicks now making the playoffs and with a little Met Magic maybe we can have the triple play and have the Mets make the playoffs.
- AnonymousApril 4, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Never thought I'd tell another man this, but you've deserved it...ReplyDelete
Nice dickey.
Gosh, I love Dickey. If Pelfrey starts seeing a shrink, we may have a pretty good starting rotation.ReplyDelete
Joe - it's so good to have you back! Keep up the good work, we love it! Hopefully the Mets will defy expectations and make your job a ton of fun! Ya Gotta Believe!ReplyDelete


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- Abundant mineral resources (platinum, gold, diamonds, nickel)
- Agricultural wealth (maize, tobacco, cotton)
- Tourism development potential
- Member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
- Normalisation of relations with the international community
- Shortage of cash
- Economic and financial position damaged by long period of hyperinflation (2000 to 2009)
- Underinvestment in infrastructure (particularly energy)
- Precarious food and healthcare situation: majority of the population depends on international aid; one of the highest rates of AIDS infection in Africa and in the world
- Arrears with international backers
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Back to the future: risk of stagflation in 2019
In late 2018, the economy was hit by severe inflationary pressures caused by the country's liquidity crisis. These pressures are expected to intensify in 2019. After the decision in 2009 to abandon the Zimbabwean dollar in favour of foreign currencies (mainly the US dollar), the monetary stability that the country experienced was unable to withstand the challenges of bringing foreign exchange into the country. To overcome these difficulties, in 2016 the government issued bond notes at a rate of USD 1 for a bond note of 1(zimbollar). This measure, which was supported by a USD 500 million loan from Afreximbank, did not have a lasting positive impact. Worse still, widespread mistrust about the real value of these notes led to a rapid depreciation in their real exchange rate, resulting in the rise of a black market for foreign currencies and the government's authorisation, at the end of 2018, to open different bank accounts for US dollars and bond notes, thus recognising the difference in value between the two. Growth, still calculated by the government using the official parity, will be lower than that shown in the budget due to the continued depreciation, and could even be negative when expressed on a per capita basis. Electronic payments through the EcoCash solution, which are used to make up for the shortfall in banknotes, will be subject to a 2% tax. This measure, combined with soaring inflation and the very high unemployment rate, will have a negative impact on the contribution of private consumption to growth, which should, even so, remain slightly positive provided weather conditions for agriculture are favourable. Driven by the cotton and tobacco sectors, agricultural production is expected to just exceed the level reached 20 years ago – after which it plummeted due to expropriations of white farmers – and contribute to export growth. The expansion of the mining sector should also contribute to export growth, but its positive effect is expected to be more than offset by higher import prices. This will likely precipitate the depreciation of the bond note and encourage inflation, further stoking the fears of investors, who were already worried by how the 2018 general elections unfolded. As a result, the impact of investment on growth in 2019 is expected to be virtually zero, as the government has also committed itself to a policy of fiscal austerity by reducing its investment spending. Public spending could even make a negative contribution.
Efforts to alleviate the large twin deficits
Expenditure related to holding the elections, as well as the 17.5% increase in civil servants' salaries (31% of total expenditure), contributed significantly to the deterioration in the government deficit in 2018. The government has therefore decided to pursue a policy of fiscal austerity to consolidate the public accounts. If it is successful, international donors, with whom the country is still in arrears, would be willing to restart a dialogue on releasing budget support funds. According to the 2019 Finance Act, revenues are expected to decrease by the equivalent of 2% of GDP (but increase in nominal terms), while expenditure is expected to decrease by almost 9% of GDP. Risks to the economy could threaten these budget targets (5% deficit), as could the depreciation of the Zimbabwean bond note against the dollar, which is the unit used by the budget. To finance its deficit, and as the international capital market is closed to it, the government will mainly go into domestic debt with commercial banks and the central bank, which will negatively impact its reserves and thus fuel liquidity pressures.
The current account deficit will widen in 2019. Due to the lack of foreign exchange, which limits the increase in imports, the widening trade deficit (13.3% of GDP in 2017) will be contained. South Africa's slow growth could also have an impact on remittances from expatriates, most of whom live in that country, reducing the transfer surplus (11.5% of GDP). The counterpart to the current account deficit will be provided by official transfers and FDI.
Emmerson Mnangagwa wins after contested elections
The general elections of July 2018 saw Emmerson Mnangagwa win a close victory (50.8%). His ZANU-PF Party, which has held power since independence, also secured a majority in the Assembly and Senate. President Mnangagwa had previously taken power at the end of 2017 during a "military-assisted transition", which the army insisted was not a coup d'État and which led to the resignation of his former mentor Robert Mugabe. The event that triggered the move was Mr Mnangagwa's dismissal as Vice-President with the aim of appointing Grace Mugabe, the former President's wife, to lead the country. The opposition, mainly led by Nelson Chamisa (44.3%), strongly contested the outcome of the elections, protesting numerous irregularities, and was the victim of a repression that killed at least seven people, in which the Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is suspected of being involved. The elections represented a real test for Mr Mnangagwa after the announcement of measures to improve the business environment. However, investors were not reassured. The country is ranked 189th on the World Bank's corruption indicator and 155th in the Doing Business rankings.
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Project Description
Dry Bones
TITLE: Dry Bones
LENGTH: Unknown
PARTICIPANTS: Jay Harris, Jovan Taylor
SUMMARY: Dry Bones is 1 of six short movies in a series about horror, friendship and the bridging of two worlds. In this final installment of the series we see the ultimate showdown between good and evil. Who will triumph and ultimately win the game. What will be the cost!
Background: This film and all of the films in this series will be a co effort between the newly formed company Morning Sun Productions and the established Reel Z Productions. The two companies will work together in a team effort to produce and direct these films. This will be Reel Z's first "co joined" production (or series of productions).
Yes! Absolutely Yes. If you can travel, afford to live and work alongside our crew then you are all welcome. You should have SOME interest in the arts and the making of our craft, and never come just for the paycheck. Everyone who wants to gain more experience is perfect for this as we all will be learning. We should not say this but despite how well we are prepared, this is the director's first TV show project. With that said however, he has more than a few aces up his sleeve from the 11 month scouting trip we conducted. If you are new or just hungry for credits (and pay if we sell of course) then you will find a home with us in this crazy adventure!
It is not for the crew, however you will have a much better experience if you at least can move around with it. Without it you will be dependent on the other crew, and they may not always be able to help you. We suggest you learn basic Spanish NOW! before you even go. You can get a free app, or find a friend to give you some pointers.
For the HOST, It is a requirement to speak and understand the language as part of the function on our show.
We have several key positions on this project, please note a lot of the secondary positions one would find on a general crew have been eliminated or doubled up to maintain a small crew.
- Host. This position ranks at the top even above our director. We did this because without this person we would not have a show. the host is a charismatic, attractive to the eye, bilingual person who enjoys travel and new adventures
- Director. Top of the heap. Our director is the person who controls the entire project, oversees on the ground operations, and makes sure the crew is safe and functional in country.
- Assistant Director. This is the directors right hand man/woman. This person works closely with the director for schedules, crew assignments, location management, and anything that would allow the crew to function more smoothly while on the project.
- Director Of Photography. This position handles the camera work on our project. The director and the DP work closely to create the look and feel of the project through the cameras lens. The DP will also most likely handle cinematographic duties on the shoot. There is the likelihood the DP will also assist with sound at one time or another. Again multiple roles will be worked by multiple crew members.
- Aerial Pilot. We had our primary pilot walk out on our shoot at the last minute. This position is ideal for someone who owns and understands aerial drone technology. While not a required position on the shoot, we were looking forward to having this position on the shoot.
- Makeup Artist – Production Assistant. Our Makeup artist would double with our project as a PA. She would be in charge of making sure the hostess was camera ready, and most likely would not be needed as much should our host me a male actor. She would double duty as a production assistant.
- Key Production Assistant. This would be the top dog of the PAS on our shoot. This role would perform the needed duties of the crew to keep it functioning on the project. This role is often considered the lowest role on a shoot, however we realize these are very important team members and will always be treated as such.
- Production Assistant. This position is for a basic production assistant and will be under the watch of the Key PA. The production assistant will play an important role and work on the PA team to make sure the shoot flows smoothly at all times.
- Relief PA. This production assistant will be used to change out if another crew member gets tired. We will be running hard on this shoot, sometimes as much as 12 hours a day/5 days a week. This position will allow a crew member a chance to take a break should the need arise. The Relief PA will also be on hand to assist the BTS lead should they need any help.
- BTS/Social Media Lead. This person will be independent of the lead camera crew. Their primary job will be to document the "making of" this project. They will conduct interviews with the host and crew from time to time, be the lead on locations, and also handle any camera/video stills for gathering this material. The secondary and other important focus of this position is the maintenance, updating, and interaction of the projects social media channels on a frequent daily basis, as well as updates to the projects website while the crew is on the shoot.
If you think you would be a fit for any of these positions, please contact us today. Our pay rates have been calculated to provide a very competitive wage for these positions. We look forward to working with you soon!
Yes, we will segments talking about the local food. Please be advised that unlike other shows before us, we have no intention of the host "making love" to the food, and our show is not food porn. We know that there are far more interesting things to focus on in a foreign country besides the food. We give a nod to those shows that practically make food the star, but this is not the focus of our show!
If you see us filming, stop by and say hi. If you want you can also check out Uncharted on your social media. Follow, Like, Subscribe, Pin. you know all that social stuff helps out a lot. Our goal is to allow our travels to build an audience that is interested in what we hope to accomplish.
If you see us filming snap a pic, selfie with the cast and crew, or just hang out. We will have a dedicated Behind The Scenes/ Social Media guru with us. Look for the following.
A host on camera
A camera crew behind them
A second crew behind the main crew. That is the crew you want to approach should you wish to be in our BTS material.
You need three things to come to Cancun!
- A valid united states passport (with at least 6 months left until expiration, however 1 year is preferable). If you do not have this we advise you to IMMEDIATELY go to this link to start the process. it can take up to 6 weeks to process an application, but they usually do come sooner.
- A valid airline ticket. This one we recommend Southwest Airlines. We do so after years of travel with this airline. The reason is that they have no change fees, no reassignment fees, and you cancel a flight up to 1 hour before it leaves the runway. Keep in mind whatever airline you choose (if not southwest) that the longer you wait to book your ticket the more expensive it will be. The crew needs to be in Cancun on September 25th 2017, no later arrivals will be accepted on our crew. Also remember that Central America is always changing. Should you need to leave the project at the end (or before with termination of your contract), Southwest flies out of Cancun, Belize City, and San Jose, Costa Rica only. Other airlines may have different options.
- A solid well made backpack. This one is important folks. Please do not bring carry ons with rollaway wheels, or suitcases on this trip. We will be traveling overland with the backpacker circuit. We want to blend in and travel quickly. We recommend REI as a great retailer to get good gear. if you go to a local REI and tell them what you will be doing, they will make sure you get something that has quality and will last far longer then this trip. Although not required, we highly advise a daypack as well, you will thank us later!
You can do that, that is your choice , however…
You should know that our project has strict guidelines (that do change) and you will be required to complete a large amount of paperwork as well as your contract.
If the crew members are not in Cancun on September 25th 2017, those members will not be invited on the project and their contracts will be void. Any financial losses from a crew member that occur and that crew member does not show up will not be reimbursable by the company in any form whatsoever.
If you are going on this trip, pay attention to all communications in a timely manner.
If you choose not to communicate your position may be replaced without warning, as seen fit by our director.
If you listened closely to the whole filming you will notice the host is bilingual. As soon as the Spanish conversation was finished, the host would have immediately summarized to the camera in English. Our hope is we will reach a much more diverse audience this way.
If you see us filming while you are on your trip, it never hurts to ask.
Seriously though, Our show has a specific format structure, and one of them includes a guest for the day. You would of course have to sign the appropriate releases and legal forms. If you want to be a guest and see us filming, feel free to approach the crew.
The completed show has a three tier distribution plan.
We will most likely primarily be seen on a cable tv network in the USA.
Also we will have the show available on demand at the Vimeo PPV service.
The show will also be able to be downloaded at our website
All behind the scenes clips will be available for free on various forms of social media.
We will also have a "making of" documentary for sale, should anyone want to learn how we accomplished the project.
You mentioned interest in the project, can you specify which networks/producers might have expressed any?
There is interest, but a DEFINED interest is a whole notha story. I cannot give anyone names of producers, network executives or anything like that. The reason is because I refuse to compromise the integrity of what this project is with a lie. I will honestly say at the beginning (a year and a half ago) we were in talks with a liaison of a large network. Those talks went nowhere and we went our separate ways.
We will make this project independently, and then shop it to various networks/distributors.
This goes back to a two part answer.
- equipment/footage confiscated. This is highly unlikely as we are not doing anything political on this trip. We are not filming anything that could be construed as a safety violation, and we will almost always ask before we shoot any military or police interaction. The governments of these countries are not likely to allow us to see anything that we shouldn't. Our focus is not humanitarian and we are not Micheal Moore (as much as I love the guy) so I think this one is a safe bet.
- equipment/footage broken. This is more likely possible. We will be travelling in places that are not always hospitable to electronics. We will have backup sources that we will continuously use to protect the assets of the project. We will have a failsafe plan in place should the primary equipment no longer be usable, but we do not anticipate this to be an issue with the quality and reputation of the equipment we have chosen.
I always chuckle when I read the word "safe" in these things. One of the primary focuses on our show is to show people that Central America (and travel abroad) is indeed safe. Obviously you want to keep a sensibility about you and use common sense and safety in your daily travels. I do not consider (after almost 15 months) Central America to be anymore dangerous then a Chicago street, a Brooklyn alley, or an LA park after dark.
If you have an unknown fear of unknown places, then our project probably is not for you. We aim to send a message that travel is fun, exciting, and can enrich peoples lives.
This question is split into three, so we will take them one at a time.
- The right equipment is a highly subjective term. We do not have an Arri, Red, or massive camera system. We have what the project feels is right for us and our mission. Again these are pilots, not full series episodes. We are gathering this material as a sales pitch, nothing more, nothing less.
- Enough equipment. We do have enough that we will not be slowed down to much, and not to much that we will be overloaded. The focus on this project was to compromise between form and function. A ton of heavy equipment could produce great results, but at the expense of draining the crews resources quickly. We have gone over the list with some qualified people, and although we could have used "different" choices, we have their blessing that what we have will do the job we came to do.
- backup equipment. Again with zero budget, zero investors (besides our director who put everything on the line) we had to say no to this. The equipment would have doubled the cost on everything (maybe tripled). The equipment we have is solid and should stand the test of the project.
Again No! This is not Hollywood, we did not attach Bullock or Clooney to this. Our host will most likely be an unknown that is qualified in all the ways we need them to be. If you are looking to play with the stars, you should hang out in LA. Maybe on a set there you will be lucky enough to get someone coffee, or a newspaper.
You might even get an autograph!
At the time of this writing, our crew roster is extremely fluid. We need a base crew of 5 people minimum for our project to launch. Ideally we would like to see a base crew of 10 members, but anything between 5-10 will work.
The more people involved in this project makes it a double edged sword. On the one hand more people means a better production, but also more pay for the crew. A smaller crew means we work harder, but can travel swifter, and less money is paid overall, allowing the crew to reap more benefits.
As for the crew, our director knows what we need to make this be a success, and we will not launch without it!
Again, YES! This is a crazy undertaking that is being placed on your plate. Pack up your life, go to some foreign country for over a month, film god knows what and god knows where and hope that it is a success. Any "Vanilla" play it safe person in the world should stay at home and wait for their phone to ring with some cushy set they can go get paid at the end of the day. The likelihood of that however, we all know is rare.
This project is not for the timid, it will take guts and courage and most of all a lot of faith. Faith in the project, faith in the crew and faith in the director.
The rewards if we succeed are going to be amazing, but that is only IF we succeed. We need a crew and host that can believe this from day 1, if that is not you, we thank you for your interest!
In all honesty, Yes! Our Host and Crew will be travelling along paths that are known as the "gringo trail", and they are well traveled. At other times we may be in remote places that are not known to the public as of yet. If you see our camera crew along the trail feel free to stop by and say hi, and offer them a beer!
Uncharted is a project that has been two years in the making. Instead of waiting forever to secure funding (that might never come) we went ahead after waiting a solid year. It has undergone two host changes so far.
Our "set" as you will call it will be the location we are filming in. This could be a jungle, a river, a village, or a volcano. It could be a beach, A reef, A bus station or a city street.
Traditional movie sets have craft service tables and all those pretty things, on this shoot the craft will be in the ability for the crew to service themselves.
THIS IS NOT A HOLLYWOOD SET, There will be no pampering here!
Uncharted will be shot in roughly 48 days in Central America. It will span 3 countries and close to 20 locations.
Uncharted received no external funding. Our director put forth a considerable amount of money to make this a reality. Right now the project is known as the dreaded "deferred" project. Simply put everyone goes in with their own money in the hopes the project will sell. If it does everyone is paid their hours at their rate given in their contract. The pay rates are posted. if you are a crew member ask for the password.
That is a reality, one we are not unaware of. we could take the crew the equipment and the time and never sell anything. We look at it like the last time you went on vacation and did not have to pay was… right exactly never. We will be visiting amazing locations in the Caribbean and at the very worst you will end up with a working vacation in some of the most beautiful places on this earth!
hey great. A few things will happen. First the budgets and hours from the project will be tallied. Also all documented expenses put forth by the crew will be calculated. Once we have a buyer a couple things will take place. First everyone who worked on this thing will get a check for their earnings, then they will be asked to go back out to film the full show, paid upfront this time (or at the least while on the project).
This is a great opportunity but we will not sugarcoat it and tell you it is a sure thing, because it is not.
You have some we can borrow, Awesome! Just joking. The crew will travel with close to 200 pounds of equipment. everything from state of the art cameras, to high flying drones. The list is always changing but suffice it to say we have the gear we need!
Good question LOL. No but seriously we went through two hosts as of this writing. The co-creator of our series was supposed to host, and her name was Bobbi Gould from Phoenix. She was replaced with Peter Himmelman , A traveler from New York City in 2016. Himmelman resigned on July 24th 2017 citing personal reasons.
The production is now interviewing dynamic and engaging hosts for the project.
So you too huh, always wanted to travel the world and get paid for it. Lol its not all its cracked up to be but if you want to you can submit a screen test. You just have to be able to do the following
- be able to afford to survive in central america on a shoestring budget for almost two months
- be able to speak and understand spanish at almost 85% fluency
- Have a valid passport and be able to work on a team
- have the passion and drive to help us make a great show
Sounds simple doesnt it!
If you want to become our host, try out today. You can contact us on Facebook or email us using the contact from on our homepage!
Ideally we wanted this to be small, very small. Honestly though to make a good product we need good people. We expect the crew to be between 8-10 people when all is said and done. Perfect size for a private transport!
The crew will be made up of people that can see the "forest through the trees". If a person thinks about money first, last and always, then they probably wont be on the crew.
We seek die hards, people who believe in a vision, not just in the paycheck.
We have several positions we need to fill, and we are going to have a diverse crew!
Are you some sort of stalker, got it in for movie types? LOL
Just kidding, the filming will take place in the countries of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.
Right now the list for the cities by country are as follows (this could change at any moment)
|Caye Caulker
|Isla Mujeres
|San Ignacio
|Santa Elena
|Cahal Pech
|Samuc Champay
|Punta Allen
|San Juan La Laguna
|Isla Blanca (tentative)
|San Pedro La Laguna
|Mahahual (tentative)
|Santa Cruz La Laguna
|Seca La Laguna (Tentative)
That is great but this gig is probably not for you. One reason is we have no guarantee that anyone will be paid, and this is truly for the adventurous. Also we find most professionals laugh at the craziness for our idea to be a success.
We thank you for your time and your welcome to read all the details, but we caution you when applying.
Actually yes. One of our directors former DP's had some things to say about the director and the project itself, feel free to read below
Can it be done?
It depends on what kind of person YOU are. If you're like Jay or like me then this is ENTIRELY doable the way Jay is suggesting. It just takes people with a ton of ENTHUSIASM (like Jay), a fearless attitude, and some balls! (And I've worked with plenty of women who have these kind of balls.)
Its all about the best equipment right?
Getting what this show will need will have almost nothing to do with equipment – it will have EVERYTHING to do with WHO is out there in these amazing places making it happen. This proposed show is ALL about getting into the less-traveled locations and getting up-close and personal with the people you all will find there. That's HEART! HEART is what will be up there on the screen with this show, not technical specs.
Can The Director Pull It Off?
El Director Jay absolutely HAS the passion, the ENERGY, the enthusiasm, and the clear vision to make a project like this happen. Of that there really is no question. All he needs is a half dozen other people who also have that drive and passion up in them for this kind of work. Like you'll hear everyone high up in the TV industry these days say – "Content is king". And a unique show idea like this can fly because its content goal IS unique in the world of travel shows.
Dane Paul Stewart – DP , Envelope


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Pesto Shrimp Pizza Recipe | Homemade Pizza Party | Easy Entertaining
For the Pizza :
On a floured board, shape dough into a round disk.
Top with Homemade Pesto. I like a lot of pesto - a thin layer would probably be more "Italian."
Bake at 425 degrees for 8 minutes (longer for a bigger or thicker pizza).
Top the pizza with 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese (or more or less... up to you). Bake for 2-4 more minutes to melt the cheese.*
*You can put it on "broil" to get some nice color on top and to melt the cheese.
Top with more parmesan cheese to serve. This is one of my favorites... enjoy!
This recipe is part of my Homemade Pizza Party - a $40 Dinner Party Menu. Get the shopping list here :
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Labels: Dinner, easy entertaining, pesto shrimp, pizza, pizza party, Recipes, shirmp
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- Anonymous4:59 PM
We have os much homemade pesto sitting in the freezer -- this might be an ideal way to use it, love the shrimp on pizza.ReplyDelete
This is a another way on how to prepare your pizza , another way to present your pizza to your Family and friends, and how yummy it is, especially the peppermint.ReplyDelete
What a dish,ReplyDelete
pizza is awesome.My brother loves it very much. in other words he is mad for it.i will surely prepare i for him.
Thanks for sharing this recipe it's definitely a really good reward for my brother who got his Alcohol Server Certification last week. But still work on the dough first. I'm not really the cook-type but I'd like to do something special for him.ReplyDelete
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The Joffrey Ballet's 25th Anniversary of The Nutcracker is a treasured and enchanting holiday tradition.
Is there any Christmas tradition that is more magical and endearing than taking in a performance of the "Nutcracker" Ballet with your family? The Joffrey Ballet brings the famous children's story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), to life in their fabulous Silver Anniversary production at the Auditorium Theatre. The story of the Christmas Eve party, Clara and the Nutcracker, and the fantasy dream world that comes to life after midnight is sure to enchant both the young and young at heart.
As the curtain rises, the audience is invited into the luxurious Victorian parlor, where we meet Clara, her family, friends and relatives, and watch as the evening festivities unfold. The adults celebrate the holidays with warmth and good cheer, while the children prance around the parlor in eager anticipation of the presents they expect to receive. Clara's godfather, Dr. Drosselmeyer arrives a little late, with gifts for young and old. He presents Clara with a nutcracker in the shape of a handsome prince that she treasures instantly. As the evening festivities come to a close, the guests make their exit and the houselights dim. At this point, the magic starts. The nutcracker comes to life, as well as the toy soldiers and dolls, and a full out battle ensues with the chimney mice. From here the action moves to several exotic locales, where Clara, Dr. Drosselmeyer and the Nutcracker prince have a series of adventures in the Land of Snow and the Kingdom of Sweets, and meet some strange and wondrous characters.
This Nutcracker is a feast for the senses, a beautifully choreographed ballet performed with grace and style to some of the most beloved music ever composed. The sumptuous sets, elaborate costumes and imaginative use of special effects draw us into this magical world. The ballet troupe is in fine form in this production with highlight performances by Dylan Gutierrez in the role of the Nutcracker Prince, Christine Rocas as the Snow Queen, April Daly as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Mauro Villanueva as Dr. Drosselmeyer, Clara's mysterious and magical godfather.
There were also many excellent performances amongst the supporting cast. In particular, the dancers who performed as the Nougats from Russia( Jacqueline Moscicke, Derrick Agnoletti, Yoshihisa Arai, John Mark Giragosian), the Chocolate of Spain (Amber Neumann), the Coffee from Arabia (Christine Rocas & Rory Hohenstein), the Tea from China (Anastacia Holden, Ricardo Santos) and the Snow Prince (Ricardo Santos) brought their characters vividly to life. In addition, the corps de ballet dressed in breathtaking costumes danced exquisitely during the Land of Snow and the Waltz of the Flowers scenes.
This production of the Nutcracker is very special in that it includes a cast of 118 young dancers. Their roles as party boys and girls, snow angels, dolls, soldiers, mice and other characters added to the merriment. (We sat next to a woman beaming with pride, as her daughter performed as one of the little angels in the Land of Snow.) In addition, a children's choir performed the choral accompaniments during the magical snow scene.
The music of this ballet, composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is well-known for its beautiful melodies, and the The Chicago Philharmonic conducted by Scott Speck performed the score with great sensitivity and style.
I have seen The Nutcracker many times, and am always moved by this story that combines an old fashioned Christmas celebration with a highly imaginative children's tale. It has become a cherished part of my holiday traditions. See this ballet with your family and create a holiday tradition of your own!
The Nutcracker continues through December 27th at the Auditorium Theatre at 50 E. Congress Parkway. Tickets are $31-$132 and are available for purchase at the following places: online at www. joffrey.org/nut ,the Joffrey Ballet's official Box Office located in the lobby of Joffrey Tower, 10 E. Randolph St. as well as theAuditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University box office, all Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, by telephone at (800) 982-2787 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
A Ballet in Two Acts based on E.T.A. Hoffman's
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816)
The Joffrey Ballet Company
Music by The Chicago Philharmonic, the Official Orchestra of the Joffrey Ballet
Robert Joffrey (Conceiver, Director); Gerald Arpino(additional Choreography); Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky(Composer of Music); Scott Speck (Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet) George Verdak and Scott Barnard(Original Staging); Ashley C. Wheator (Artistic Director); Christopher Clinton Conway (Executive Director);Oliver Smith (Scenery); Jack Mehler (Lighting); Willy Shives, Katie Garwood (Children's Ballet Masters); Kermit Love (Puppet Creative Design);
All Photos by Herbert Migdoll


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Tracking the transition of early-universe quark soup to matter as we know it
(Phys.org) —Ever wonder how the hot soup of subatomic particles that filled the early universe transformed into the ordinary matter of today's world? Nuclear physicists exploring this question can't exactly travel back 13.8 billion years to watch what really happened, but they can recreate matter at the extreme temperatures and densities that existed just after the Big Bang by smashing together ordinary atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). At peak performance, this extraordinarily versatile atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory reproduces the primordial soup thousands of times per second. Using sophisticated detectors to track what happens as exotic particles emerge from the trillion-degree collision zone and "freeze out" into more familiar forms of matter, scientists are turning up interesting details about how the transition takes place.
"RHIC gives us the ability to explore what happens over a very wide range of collision energies," said Zhangbu Xu, spokesperson for RHIC's STAR collaboration, one of two groups of physicists conducting experiments at RHIC using house-sized particle detectors. In a paper just accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters, STAR data suggest that the type of transition changes depending on the energy the particles have when they collide.
Scientists expected to see different phases of nuclear matter at RHIC, based on their understanding of the strong force, aptly named because it is the strongest force in Nature. The strong force is what normally binds the constituent building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei—quarks and gluons. At ordinary conditions of temperature and density, it keeps quarks confined in composite particles known as hadrons (protons and neutrons are both hadrons). But as the temperature or density rises, the hadrons "melt" to free the quarks. Freeing quarks so scientists could study their unbound interactions was one of the main reasons RHIC was built.
Mapping out the process of melting (and refreezing) nuclear matter can be likened to mapping out the familiar phases of water—solid ice, liquid, and gaseous vapor or steam. Just as you can plot points on a graph of temperature and pressure to show which phase of water exists for each combination of these variables, and lines that delineate the change that takes place between the phases (melting/freezing, evaporation/condensation), physicists have drawn up a tentative "map" of the phases of nuclear matter.
But plotting the actual points and transitions on this nuclear phase diagram—and understanding what happens at the boundaries between phases—requires conducting experiments that produce a wide range of extraordinary temperatures and densities. RHIC has the versatility to do just that, colliding two beams of gold nuclei (each made of 197 protons and neutrons) at energies from 7.7 billion electron volts (GeV) per colliding hadron pair to 200GeV. Results from this "beam energy scan" as analyzed by STAR are revealing the varying nature of the nuclear phase change.
At RHIC's highest energies, where the colliding particles produce temperatures around 4 trillion degrees Celsius, there is a smooth crossover transition where distinct phases do not exist. So, unlike melting ice, which happens at a particular temperature where some molecules exist distinctly as solid ice and some as liquid water during the transition, the transition between normal nuclei and a hot soup of free quarks occurs in a more gradual, continuous way.
Think of a substance like honey: If you store the jar in a refrigerator, the honey is essentially solid; but when you place the jar on the counter, the honey softens and eventually liquefies as its temperature gradually rises. The change between solid and liquid doesn't take place at a distinct "melting point." Instead, the phases smoothly transform from one to the other.
Because the phases are "smeared" in a crossover transition, scientists don't even draw a solid line on the nuclear phase diagram to delineate a border between ordinary nuclear matter and the superhot "quark-gluon plasma" of the early universe created at RHIC's highest collision energies. But at lower energies, where quark-gluon plasma is created at relatively cooler temperatures, the STAR data show signs of a sharper border—what is called a first-order phase transition analogous to the familiar transitions between the phases of water.
The defining characteristic of a first-order phase transition is "latent heat"—a large amount of energy going into or being released by the matter as molecules or particles are transformed from one phase to another at particular combinations of temperature and density.
"If you think of a pot of water on a burner," said STAR physicist Jamie Dunlop, "the temperature goes up until you reach the boiling point—100 degrees Celsius under normal atmospheric pressure. The liquid water will stay at exactly that temperature as long as there's water to boil. Even though the stove keeps adding heat, all that energy, the latent heat, goes into moving molecules of water from the liquid to the gaseous state until all the molecules have gone through the transition. So the phase change from liquid water to gas shows up as a temporary stop in the rise in temperature, which resumes once all the water molecules are in the gaseous state."
In the case of the matter at RHIC, the first-order phase change shows up as a temporary disappearance of a particular kind of particle flow observed coming out of collisions.
Telltale signs of change
"When we collide gold nuclei at RHIC, we observe particles flowing in a variety of ways from the point of the collision," said Yadav Pandit, who produced these results as a graduate student at Kent State University. Pandit is one of hundreds of young scientists who have earned PhDs in physics by conducting detailed studies of RHIC collision data—in his case, by analyzing STAR data on one particular type of particle flow, called directed flow, that is due to the residual motion of the particles that make up the colliding nuclei.
You can think of directed flow as similar to drag: If two gold nuclei collide off-center and heat up the surrounding area, pressure from the sudden expansion produces a twist in the momentum distribution of the particles as they continue on their way in opposite directions.
"When the collision takes place at an energy close to a first-order phase transition, the expansion and the resulting deflection of the emitted particles is 'softened,'" said Pandit, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois. "Energy that would normally expand the system is instead going into changing the state of matter—melting the hadrons to free the quarks and gluons."
The STAR data show that directed flow is strong at both the lowest and highest RHIC energies. But somewhere between 10 and 20 GeV, STAR observes a sudden switch in the twist of particles. The directed flow disappears, allowing other types of flow previously masked by the strong effect of drag to show up in particle distribution patterns. That disappearance, or collapse, of directed flow—when the expansion stops and then resumes once all the matter has gone through the change—is the "latent heat" signature of a first-order phase transition the physicists were looking for.
A critical point?
As the scientists continue their analysis of directed flow, they are also searching for signs of what is called a critical point.
"Critical points exist where a phase transition transforms from the abrupt, first-order kind to a continuous crossover," said STAR physicist Gene Van Buren of Brookhaven. "You can think of these as endpoints on the lines that delineate phases in the phase diagram.
"When matter exists in conditions near critical points, its behavior becomes erratic, leading to increased fluctuations in measurable quantities that are generally stable during phase changes. In the case of the transition from hadronic matter to quark-gluon plasma at RHIC, we are looking for large fluctuations in particle production patterns emerging from the collisions."
Fortunately, says STAR's Dunlop, these signals and the observed disappearance of directed flow appear to occur in a region of the phase diagram where RHIC physicists have the potential to produce more collisions. More collisions should narrow the variability of the data and provide more definitive answers.
Two improvements, one to the RHIC accelerator and the other to the STAR detector, will make this possible.
The first, called electron cooling, will keep bunches of nuclei in RHIC's two beams more tightly packed. Tightly packed nuclei are more likely to collide when the two beams cross; more collisions will help scientists see how strong these signals are and narrow the errors associated with their findings.
The other improvement is a proposed upgrade to increase the "acceptance" of the STAR detector—its ability to measure particles coming out at angles closer to the direction of the colliding beams.
Right now STAR has good particle detection at angles up to 50 degrees off vertical (straight up and down compared to the beams' horizontal direction). The upgrade would open the "window" for measuring particles another 15 or so degrees in each direction, forward and rearward. That larger window gives scientists access to more particles, again decreasing errors. It also decreases the scientists' need to extrapolate from what they observe in the particles they can detect to infer what happens with particles emerging closer to beam.
These upgrades are just two examples of the continuing vitality and versatility of RHIC. With each experimental run, intriguing findings raise new questions—and RHIC physicists develop and employ innovative approaches to explore the subtle details of physics phenomena that were previously out of reach.
You could say the machine itself continues to evolve as physicists delve deeper into the evolution of the unique early-universe matter they are creating at RHIC.
History of the Search for Signs of Latent Heat
The search for signs of a phase transition in hot nuclear matter like the one that happens when water boils (a first-order phase transition) has a history going back at least two decades. In the 1990s, theorists predicted a phenomenon called "softest point collapse," where the pressure of the excited nuclear matter would show a sudden drop and then increase again as nuclei were collided over just the right narrow range of energies. Experiments at Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) searched without success; the energy of the AGS was too low.
When RHIC began operating in 2000, the opposite problem obscured the search—the full RHIC energy was too high to see any sign of the softest point. Beginning around 2009, accelerator physicists at RHIC developed ways to run the collider at lower energies than it was initially designed for, but still higher than the top AGS energy. For the first time, this opened up the sweet spot in energy where there is the best chance to discover the elusive first-order phase transition.


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"Get Your Act Together!"
Most kids dream of growing up and moving away from home, but what happens when your adult children still haven't flown the coop? Dr. Phil gives family freeloaders a wake-up call.
Heather is frustrated that her mom and stepdad have been supporting her sister, Amanda, her husband, Mike, and their baby. Her mother, Brenda, says she can't bear the thought of her grandchild living on the street.
Brianne has dated Greg for nine years and says he's the biggest mooch she's ever seen. Greg sits home all day playing video games, has never paid rent and admits he's had between 50 and 75 jobs in the last six years. Brianne's Aunt Terri says Greg is a lazy loser.