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It seems that now, more than ever, people are trying especially hard to make their busy lives less stressful and more meaningful. Gardening can help in a subtle way that few other activities can manage, and the guiding principles of Zen gardening can lead to the creation of a truly calming, harmonious, and uplifting environment. These gardens are not designed to excite the senses in the way that Western plots do but are places for the spirit to find peace and tranquility in which to grow. Zen Buddhism requires that every task is performed with love – and it is the love and care that is put into them that gives them a serene and kindly atmosphere. Zen means meditation, and gardens that have been designed along Zen principles are places where contemplation, prayer and meditation are possible and encouraged. This type of garden, therefore, is designed to be a soothing and reflective place that will remain visually the same, year after year. The special style of Zen gardens ensures that by using rocks and plantings in both a symbolic and natural way, by devising pathways that require care when walking upon them, the visitor unwittingly follows Zen ways. This concept of gardening deserves serious consideration since it can become a part of our more traditional practices of landscaping.
Only when you have no thing in your mind and no mind in things are you vacant and spiritual, empty and marvelous. – Te-shan/Tokusan, 780–865
The aim of the Zen garden is to create a perfect harmony of yin and yang. Everything in the universe is influenced by these two forces; yin is the feminine, dark, negative, cold aspect of nature, while yang is the masculine, light, positive, active, hot aspect. All things can be divided into either yin or yang, although everything contains an element of the other: neither can exist alone. In a Zen garden, there is water and land. Water is yin, and land is yang. In a dry garden, the raked gravel or sand represents water and the rocks represent islands or mountains. Without understanding the importance and symbolism of sand and rocks in a Zen garden, many discount karesansui, or dry sand and rock gardens. In fact, this type of garden has an emotional and spiritual depth rarely found in gardens today.
Raking patterns hold symbolic meanings. For instance, the rings around the rock may represent water lapping at an island's edge.
To be enjoyed and fully understood, a karesansui garden requires a very different mental, emotional and even physical approach from that used to appreciate a typical garden. The art of the gardener is to create a garden in which the two elements are in perfect balance. Because the gravel or sand in a dry garden represents water, it is raked into patterns. These patterns are not abstract, but indicate the ripples or waves of water lapping around the island rocks. Those gardens that incorporate shrubs (not all of them do) use azaleas, cut-leaf maples, conifers and bamboos to represent land or yang. Moss is sometimes used as a substitute for yin, water.
Rocks, stones, sand and gravel are the principal components of a karesansui garden. The sizes, shapes, colors and numbers of rocks are important factors to consider. For example, a long vertical rock can be used to symbolize heaven, while a rock placed horizontally may symbolize the earth. In contrast, a rock placed diagonally represents humanity. Three is considered to be an auspicious number, and in this case, the selection of three rocks represents heaven, earth and humanity. Seven and five are also regarded as auspicious and rocks in Zen gardens are arranged with this in mind. To appreciate a grouping of rocks and stones, allowing the imagination and intuition to flow is important. Formations may be composed to resemble mountains or volcanoes, animals or even families.
Zen gardens often use plant material very sparsely. This design principle can focus the viewer's attention more clearly on the simple beauty of small things.
Karesansui was originally designed with the guiding principle that "less is more." Dispensing with any plant or rock that is superfluous to the overall design enables viewers to slow down their thinking and sooth their emotions. If one walks quickly past such a garden, nothing is absorbed from it. Sand that is raked adds a powerful element of texture to a garden. As the sun travels its course throughout the day, shadows are cast in the ridges, introducing an added dimension that would not exist if the plot were smooth. Viewing these gardens in moonlight can be especially appealing since the moon can create an ethereal glow when reflected by the sand particles. The manner in which the sand is raked can help determine the emotions that are evoked upon seeing a dry sand garden. The very act of raking the sand creates a feeling of calm purpose. Wavy lines may indicate fluidity, as in water, while straight, narrow bands can add strength and power to the design. Each viewer will interpret the composition in its entirety with the attitude that he or she has towards the world. This will help determine what he or she understands.
Cross patterns are static; can represent conflict or change
Straight lines can represent journey
Wavy lines represent fluidity and motion
When considering a dry sand and rock garden, you must first decide if the garden is primarily for looking at, sitting in, walking around in, or in conjunction with another garden or living space. A karesansui garden can be the perfect solution for forlorn, neglected places or an unused restricted space, viewed from within a house, office or other place. It could even be used to transform a balcony into an inviting oasis, instead of home to a few sad, potted plants. In city areas that are often shaded by other buildings or structures, a raked sand garden can provide a stunning reprieve from the harshness of traffic, etc. Some gardeners may choose to begin with an area of lawn or flowerbeds they have surrendered to weeds.
Although all of this makes the creation of a true Zen garden a challenging task, there is still one more factor to consider. The finished garden must celebrate nature and even transcend it if possible. Understanding this type of garden requires a change of attitude. It challenges one to answer the question, "What is a garden?" The intent is to encourage new ideas, embrace different concepts and "think outside of the box," but mostly relax, enjoy and be happy. It is an observance of tranquility and evolution. Most gardens (and gardeners) continue to be a work in progress, changing with the seasons, the universe and ourselves. What better way to celebrate the beginning of a new season of gardening than by embracing a practice of simple serenity?
Before you begin, remember...
1. Size of the garden is not as important as location. Will it be for viewing, resting or walking through?
2. A more level area is ideal, but almost any site can be worked.
3. An area free from obtrusive objects works best (no swing sets, dog pens, etc.).
4. Plan on spreading the rock dust, sand or gravel at least 4 inches deep.
5. Choose rocks, stones and boulders carefully. Search for those that have "character" and be sure to vary the sizes. Do not make them too small, though. Remember to choose odd numbers.
6. Proceed slowly, with intent. This is a project that deserves every consideration.
7. The tool that is used to rake the sand or gravel will have impact on the finished effect. It too, must be chosen carefully.
8. You can later decide to add plants, select statues or a water feature that can be incorporated into the design.
9. Free your mind.
(Photos by Claudia C. Swanson & David Liebman)


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Tough Words
In the Wall Street Journal, Mary Anastasia O'Grady got Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher to go on the record about current Fed policy. He talks tough about inflation. "Throughout history, what the political class has done is they have turned to the central bank to print their way out of an unfunded liability. We can't let that happen."
What is lacking is a plan to match the tough words with tough actions. Only when a tough and resolute U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, was matched with a tough and resolute Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker, did the Fed turn into an effective inflation fighter. There is no such match up now in the face of trillion dollar deficits forecast with no end in sight.
Ms. O'Grady describes Fisher as "the lead inflation worrywart" on the Federal Open Market Committee of the Fed. But Fed officials do not act in a political vacuum, and regional Fed presidents cannot on their own stop the Fed's printing money in the face of the deficits. That requires leadership at the top from both the Fed chairman and the U.S president.
The Administration's plan appears to be "to print their way out of an unfunded liability." Thus far, despite tough words from some quarters, the Fed seems ready to accommodate "the political class."


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So I have a Selenium Automation project (using Maven). I'd like to be able to set my tests to run overnight and possibly email a report daily to the team. Which CI would be most suitable for TestNG.xml suites?
I tried Hudson but I couldn't figure out a way to execute TestNG files from the build?
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Did you know that caterpillars are not "transformed" into butterflies? In metamorphosis (the name of the process), a caterpillar is liquefied—nothing remains of its old nature. Only after the creature's death can an entirely new creation, a butterfly, emerge!
But most people's image of the process is more like Eric Carle's classic children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, in which the little caterpillar "makes a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep, only to wake up a few weeks later wonderfully transformed into a butterfly!" (amazon.com)
The Very Dead Caterpillar would probably have sold fewer copies. But it would have been more accurate.
When I was a kid, I used to love going to La Mirada Creek and catching those pudgy little pre-frogs we called pollywogs (you may have called them tadpoles–I forgive you). I would bring them home and dump them into a tub, and then watch with fascination as they shed their tails, sprouted legs, and crawled out like showroom models: "The new Frog!" Now that is transformation ("change of form") and it's majorly cool. But it's not what a caterpillar does.
A caterpillar dies.
After building its own coffin (cocoon), the caterpillar seals itself inside—and dissolves. And then, in a process only vaguely understood by scientists, that stew of free-floating genetic material undergoes a complete metamorphosis ("change of nature").
In other words, butterflies are not souped-up caterpillars, they're entirely new creations made from caterpillar soup!
Not surprisingly, caterpillars and butterflies are used as spiritual symbols in virtually every country on earth. But because the real process is so radical and so little understood, they're nearly always represented as symbols of transformation, rather than metamorphosis. To be fair, many religious teachings do help people become better caterpillars.
According to Jesus, God doesn't want souped-up caterpillars, he wants butterflies. He wants us to die to ourselves (Luke 9:23-24) and become completely "new creations" (2 Corinthians 5:17). Just like caterpillars do.
The Apostle Paul (in the Greek language of Romans 12:1 and 2) describes the process of metamorphosis like this:
"Present your bodies as a living sacrifice (build your cocoon and get in!), holy ('set apart'), acceptable to God (nothing short of metamorphosis can accomplish this)… Don't be conformed by (don't take on the 'shape' of) this world (or 'age' or 'era'), but (instead) be metamorphosed (changed in your very nature) by the renewing ('regenerating' or 're-growing") of your mind (the Greek word for mind is psuche—the same as the Greek word for butterfly!) so that you may be discerning (only by being metamorphosed can you know) what is the will of God (as opposed to the will of a dark, fallen world), what is good, well-pleasing, and perfect ('complete' or 'whole'—in contrast to the incompleteness and brokenness of this world)."
Caterpillars and butterflies are the world's most popular symbol of transformation. But they're also a far more powerful and challenging metaphor than most people realize.
It's the end of one year and the beginning of another. What better time to start over, not just as "the New You!" but as a completely new creation!
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Watching old Avs games – St. Louis at Colorado, April 3, 1996
This is something I'll do from time to time, dusting off an old Avs game on VHS from the basement and popping it in, and offering commentary.
Call it time capsule beat writing. About a year ago, a gift of about 500 Avalanche games from the past – all on VHS – was given to me. So, when I play them here, it's for the first time ever. Most or all of these games, I was at, watching from the press box. Never saw them on TV.
Today's first installment is an April 3, 1996, regular-season game between the Blues and Avs, from McNichols Sports Arena.
As of this writing, I can't remember if I was even there for this game. I'll check in the Post's archives later on that, but for now here's a look back with me, as the tape plays:
We have the St. Louis feed, which back then was called "Prime Sports". Ken Wilson does the play-by-play and Joe Micheletti is the color guy for the Blues, and Bruce Affleck (no relation to Ben or Casey) is the rinkside reporter. Read more…


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ICYDK needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
I need someone to create a reskin for me. It's for M&M's - and will be seen on my site http://www.ICYDK.com on 2/24.
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png)
I need someone to create a reskin for an advertising company of mine. It is for M&M's and will run on 2/24. I need it done relatively quickly - so I can get it approved.
It's a M&M's ad - for the Oscars. As far as direction, : http://www.mms.com/us/academyawards/ (M&M's celebrate the Academy Awards) a generic wall paper with M&M images will do along with the premiere date of the Oscars.
Creative Direction: This premiering on Oscars night. Ms. Green (the green M&M) is their spokes M&M who is covering the Oscars.
The agency's creative agency FTP'd their assets:
Click on directory: dropbox
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All of the images you need are in there.
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Java EE (J2EE) application servers usually
are the ideal choice to host your back-end applications, especially if
your applications require transactions, security or state management.
Running in an application server, your application can easily connect
to external systems provided by Resource Adapters. E.g. if your
application would have to connect to a CRM (e.g. PeopleSoft), to an ERP
(e.g. SAP) or to a system such as JMS, or even to a database (e.g.
Oracle), it would use a Resource Adapter. Through this, the application
would use advanced features such as connection pooling, connection
failure detection and recovery, transactions, security propagation, etc.
As said, EE or J2EE application servers are ideal containers for
hosting business side logic. But it's not the best choice in literally
every situation. There are
cases where you would prefer to write your
application as a stand alone Java program. There's nothing strange
about that: you should always use the best tools for the job at hand,
and no single tool is best in all situations.
Now say that you need to write a stand-alone Java application, and
in that application you would need to connect to an external system.
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use an off-the-shelf Resource Adapter
for this connectivity, so that you would not have to hand-code features
such as connection pooling, connection failure detection and recovery
etc? As I will show, this is not that difficult.
Hacking a Resource Adapter
Resource Adapters are distributed in RAR files, i.e. a file with a .rar extension. A RAR is
nothing more than a ZIP file. When you open up a RAR, you will see a
bunch of jars and a descriptor file with the name ra.xml. In a nutshell, this is
what you need to do to use a Resource Adapter:
- Add the jars to your application's classpath
- Instantiate the Resource Adapter classes (you can find out which
ones by
examining the ra.xml)
- Configure the Resource Adapter by calling a few setter methods (you can find which ones by examining the ra.xml)
- Activate the Resource Adapter (you can find out how by reading the Java Connector API specification, or just read on)
These four steps are basically what the application server does when
it loads a Resource Adapter. There's a lot of logic involved in this,
but in a stand-alone Java application we can take a lot of short-cuts
so that the logic that we need to write is not too involved.
There's quite a big difference in how a Resource Adapter is used to
provide outbound connectivity
versus inbound connectivity.
With outbound connectivity, I
mean a situation where an application obtains a connection to an
external system and
reads or writes data to it. With inbound
I mean a situation where the Resource Adapter listens for events from
the external system and calls into
your application when such an event
As an example we will use the JMSJCA
resource adapter. This is an open-source adapter for JMS
connectivity to various JMS servers.
Outbound connectivity
In a nutshell what we need to do is instantiate the Resource Adapter
class, configure it, instanatiate a Managed Connection Factory, and
from that obtain the application-facing connection factory.
When you open up the ra.xml
file, you can find out class implements the ResourceAdapter interface:
The Resource Adapter class has per the specification a no-args
and should implement the javax.resource.spi.ResourceAdapter
interface. You could instantiate the ResourceAdapter simply by doing
com.stc.jmsjca.unifiedjms.RAUnifiedResourceAdapter ra = new com.stc.jmsjca.unifiedjms.RAUnifiedResourceAdapter();
The drawback of this is that, although the chances of that being
small, if the classname changes in future versions of the Resource
Adapter, your
application would no longer compile. A better approach would be to read
the classname dynamically from the ra.xml. I'll leave that as "an
excercise for the reader".
The Resource Adapter is a Java Bean with getters and setters. This
is how you can configure the Resource Adapter. For example, we could
set the connection URL as follows:
Next, we need to instantiate a ManagedConnectionFactory.
Again from the ra.xml,
you can find the
Again, the ManagedConnectionFactory
must have a no-arg constructor
and is a Java bean, so you can simply instantiate and configure one as
com.stc.jmsjca.core.XMCFUnifiedXA mcf = new com.stc.jmsjca.core.XMCFUnifiedXA();
Next, you may need to associate the newly created ManagedConnectionFactory with
the ResourceAdapter.
Those that require this association
(most likely all of them), implement the javax.resource.spi.ResourceAdapterAssociation
interface. This leads to the following code:
Lastly, you create the application-facing connection factory. In
case of JMS, this is a javax.jmx.ConnectionFactory.
You can find evidence of this in the ra.xml:
This leads to the following code:
javax.jms.ConnectionFactory f = (javax.jms.ConnectionFactory) mcf.createConnectionFactory();
Now, putting it all together, this is what you would need to create
a JMS connection factory from the JMSJCA Resource Adapter:
com.stc.jmsjca.unifiedjms.RAUnifiedResourceAdapter ra = new com.stc.jmsjca.unifiedjms.RAUnifiedResourceAdapter();
com.stc.jmsjca.core.XMCFUnifiedXA mcf = new com.stc.jmsjca.core.XMCFUnifiedXA();
javax.jms.ConnectionFactory f = (javax.jms.ConnectionFactory) mcf.createConnectionFactory();
And that's all there's to it
As I mentioned, one of the advantages of using a Resource Adapter
over using a client runtime directly, is that an Resource Adapter
typically provides connection pooling and other nifty features. JMSJCA
for instance provides a powerful and configurable connection manager
with blocking behavior, time-out behavior, connection failure
detection, etc. It even enlists the connection in the transaction if it
detects that there is a transaction active when the connection is
Not all resource adapters will provide such a comprehensive
connection manager: check the documentation of the resource adapter
that you're planning to use. If it doesn't provide a connection manager
to your liking, you can provide your own connection manager. If you
need to write one, take a look at the one in JMSJCA: you may want to
use it as a starting point.
Inbound connectivity
Inbound connectivity is where a resource adapter is used to receive
messages from an external system; the resource adapter delivers these
messages to a Message Driven Bean. In the case of JMS, this is javax.jms.MessageListener, with
its void
onMessage(javax.jms.Message) method. For other types of resource
adapers, you will find other Message Driven Bean interfaces. Look in
the ra.xml to find out
which one.
Seting up inbound connectivity is a bit more involved than outbound
connectivity. That is because with inbound, you need to explain to
Resource Adapter how it should obtain a new instance of the Message
Driven Bean, and how to obtain a thread that will call the onMessage() method or
equivalent method.
We start with instantiating and configuring a ResourceAdapter object; the
class can be found in ra.xml
as I showed in the Outbound
Connectivity section:
com.stc.jmsjca.unifiedjms.RAUnifiedResourceAdapter ra = new com.stc.jmsjca.unifiedjms.RAUnifiedResourceAdapter();
Next, we need to call start()
on the ResourceAdapter
object. This method takes a javax.resource.spi.BootstrapContext
object. You need to provide an implementation for this class; the most
important method that you need to implement is the public
javax.resource.spi.work.WorkManager getWorkManager() method. As
you can see, this method should return a WorkManager object. This class
has a number of methods that provide access to a threadpool. It would
help at this point if you have a bit of knowledge of the internals of
the Resource Adapter that you're trying to work with: some Adapters
don't use a WorkManager,
and the ones that do, typically only use one of the methods on the WorkManager object. For
instance, here's a WorkManager
that could be used with JMSJCA:
public class XWorkManager implements WorkManager {
private java.util.concurrent.Executor mPool;
public XWorkManager(int poolsize) {
mPool = new PooledExecutor(new LinkedQueue(), poolsize);
public void scheduleWork(Work work) throws WorkException {
try {
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
throw new WorkException(e);
// other methods just throw an exception
Fortunately we can make use
of the java.util.concurrent
tools introduced in JDK 5.0 for a threadpool. Next, we need to provide
an implementation for javax.resource.spi.endpoint.MessageEndpointFactory.
This is an interface with only two methods. One is there to indicate if
the message delivery should be transacted, and the other one to is
there to create a MessageEndpoint.
This is a class that is a proxy around the Message Driven Bean. This
proxy should implement the onMessage()
or equivalent method which should simply delegate to the MessageListener or equivalent
object in your application. The proxy should also implement three
additional methods:
void afterDelivery()
void beforeDelivery(Method method)
void release()
The beforeDelivery()
and afterDelivery()
methods are called just before the Resource Adapter calls the onMessage() or equivalent
method. You could start and commit a transaction in these methods; if
you're not using transactions, you can just leave these methods
unimplemented. The release()
method is called by the Resource Adapter when it's done using a Message
Driven Bean. If you don't implement some sort of pooling mechanism for
Message Driven Beans, and you probably won't, you can leave this method
empty as well.
Now that you have implementations for the BootstrapContext, WorkManager, MessageEndpointFactory, and MessageEndpoint, you can finally tell the Resource Adapter to start delivering messages to your Message Driven Bean. You do that by calling the void endpointActivation(javax.resource.spi.endpoint.MessageEndpointFactory, javax.resource.spi.ActivationSpec) method on the ResourceAdapter. The ActivationSpec object is implemented by the Resource Adapter; you can find the classname in the ra.xml file. It is a Java bean that is used to configure the message delivery. For instance, in the case of JMS, you specify from which queue or topic to get messages.
As you can see, the inbound connectivity case is not as straight
forward as the outbound connectivity case, but still very much doable.
Real examples
For a full sample source listing, take a look at the test suite in JMSJCA You can also look at the
as part of the Open
JBI Components project. This Binding Component uses the JMSJCA
Resource Adapter as described in this blog entry. By doing so, a lot of
development effort was saved dealing with all the idiosyncracies of
various JMS server implementations, connection management, etc.


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Hiring the 20th and 21st century Australian galleries
The 20th- and 21st-century Australian galleries provide an intimate art-themed area. This area has sculptures, paintings and works on paper from the Australian art collection. It is situated on the ground level and entered from the entrance court.
Suitable for:
- Cocktails
- Pre-dinner drinks
Capacity: 350
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Michael Snowhite needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 19 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
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Capture Your Memories of Christmas 24 Ways in 24 Days
November 1, 2011 – Chicago, IL. GeneaBloggers – the genealogy community's resource for blogging – announces the return of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories beginning December 1, 2011.
What started as a bi-annual event December 2007 as a way for genealogy bloggers to capture and document the memories of family holiday traditions has now grown into an annual event with its own blog. Visit the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories at http://adventcalendar.geneabloggers.com and learn how you can participate in this unique online genealogy event.
Beginning December 1, 2011, each day will present a specific blogging prompt such as Christmas Cookies and bloggers will be asked to write about their memories related to the theme and their family history. A new prompt will appear each day through December 24, 2011.
Bloggers who have participated in the past can join in the fun again by either repeating their posts from previous years or creating new posts. Besides creating an on-line journal of Christmas memories, some bloggers have even gone on to create books of their previous Advent Calendar posts to share with family and friends.
Don't forget to check out the list of blogging prompts and get started on capturing your childhood Christmas memories today!
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While You Were Seeping
I hope you're ready for something gross and kind of disturbing because I'm about to take that old adage about not airing your dirty laundry and dropkick it into the great beyond. I am about to literally air my dirty laundry, is what I'm saying. It's not going to be pretty, but it is going to be satisfying—and maybe it'll even be helpful.


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Several segments on last night's The Ed Show were devoted to the "sexting" scandal around New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner. Mike Rogers, the über-blogger and investigative reporter known for outing closeted anti-gay politicians such as Ken Mehlman and Larry Craig, offered some context.
"The Republicans are great about making it about people when it's about principle. And they have no principles. You just heard RNC Chairman Reince Priebius say, 'We don't want to revisit that,' of course you don't, because it will show exactly how hypocritical you are. Anthony Weiner hasn't done anything illegal, like paying prostitutes. David Vitter has. That's why they deflect."
Rogers' work is the focus of Kirby Dick's documentary Outrage, which is a must-see if you already haven't. Watch the clip AFTER THE JUMP ..


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Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1.4.1994 - 128 sivua
Diversity is the spice of life, and the highly regarded Cultures of the World series celebrates just that in fully updated, and expanded editions. As has always been true of these outstanding titles, an abundance of vibrant photographs -- including those new to this edition -- stimulate the imaginations of young readers as they travel the globe. A new chapter on the environment focuses on politics and economics as well as on endangered species and the effects of industrialization. Additional authentic recipes add general interest while new maps offer further, easy-to-find facts in "About the Geography, " "About the Culture" and "About the Economy" sections.
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teoksessa on 87 hakutermiä editions:ISBN0761418466 vastaavaa sivua
Mitä ihmiset sanovat - Kirjoita arvostelu
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Arvest Bank is pleased to announce Paula Wilson has been promoted to commercial loan manager in its Springdale market.
Wilson has more than 30 years of industry experience, having begun her banking career in 1986. During that time, she also worked for the Arkansas State Bank Department. Wilson, who offices at the Arvest branch at 415 West Emma, has been part of Springdale's commercial lending team since 2000.
"I am excited to have Paula step into this leadership role, in which she will continue to work with our team to grow our commercial portfolio, and also work with our strategic partners to deepen existing customer relationships," said Chris Thornton, loan manager for Arvest in Springdale. "We have many exciting things happening in Springdale and Paula has been a big part of that."
Wilson earned a bachelor's degree in marketing at Henderson State University and also completed the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University. She is a member of Springdale Kiwanis, as well as a member of the Springdale Library Board of Trustees and Spring Meadows Senior Apartments board of directors, among other civic endeavors.
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secos needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 124 designs submitted by 51 freelance designers.
I am looking for a logo for my software consulting company, NimbleLogic. This logo will also be used for business cards and, ideally, a favicon could be fashioned from it or inspired by it as well.
Desired Color Scheme:
grays, b/w, green|blue|red accents
Desired Style:
simple, professional, elegant, zen inspired
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Please go to nimblelogic.com and see what the new home will be for this logo.
Some things I would consider:
- Something that works with the whole name NimbleLogic, or the initials NL
- Clean, Professional
- Modern, but not too "flashy" (yeah I know thats subjective)
- Typographically unique
- Would consider a splash of color, blues and/or green especially
- no clip art computers, filing cabinets, etc...
- I would consider symbols and things such as a backlit illustrationThank you so much in advance!
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Last month, I was fortunate enough to have been able to interview Kevin Breel, a comic who travels across the US to share his story about struggling with mental illness. One of the most vexing things he said that night of his performance was in response to me asking him why schools choose to focus intensively on bullying and stress (and their repercussions) but not so much on the topic of mental health.
"[…] [Mental illness] is something that's like, 'Oh you're the problem? That doesn't seem right.' […] For this, it comes down to the individual person, and his struggle," he responded.
At the time, I just recorded his reply down, and that was that. However, thinking back to what he said, I have come to realize that my high school community is not focusing on mental awareness enough. Recently, we have taken a good amount of action towards teaching students about mental health: inviting Kevin Breel to explore the topic through comedy, featuring articles about it in the school newspaper, providing support from counselors as well as links to helpful websites, and also adding suicide prevention to the freshman curriculum. I believe that these actions are beneficial but only to an extent.
Like Breel said, mental illness is an internal battle. Although aids like support groups are available, many students who suffer do not take advantage of this help because they fear judgment from their community. According to Sonia, a high school senior who has been suffering since she was 15, "The worst part of depression is not depression. The worst part of depression is the reaction at [our school]."
During school, I hear people use the word "depressed" without knowing what being depressed actually is or who might be affected by the word. Students go to events like Kevin Breel's talk, but they do not stop and think, "What can I do about this?" They carry on with their lives, thinking that just because they are not affected themselves, mental health is not a big deal, but rather something that can be joked about. Students do not realize that there are people in their classes, on their bus, or even in their close circle of friends who are battling but are too afraid to speak up.
Mental health is a serious topic that we students sometimes take too lightly. Because of this indifferent attitude, close ones who suffer lose someone they can talk to, and more consequentially, they also lose confidence in themselves. We often think of those people as "time [bombs][…] and then never bring up the subject [of mental health] again," says Sonia. Although my school is making progress towards complete mental awareness, students need to also realize that it is okay if people are flawed, and we should want to help them through this time. Rather than just LGBTQ rights and prevention of racism, mental health is something that we need to realize is also a real concern which needs our support as well.
Su Bin Cho
"Tag a friend who has this mental disability."
In just four hours, this Facebook post received 110 thousand likes. I saw the same post copied and pasted onto many other pages appear in my newsfeed because so many of my fellow Korean friends were tagging each other in the comments. It read: "These days, you are disabled if you cant have a boyfriend or girlfriend" This sort of judgment happens every minute of every day.
In South Korea, the social networking service usage has reached a record-setting sixty percent of its population, ranking first in Asia and fourth in the world. Observing the internet landscape gives an idea of how the Korean society at large perceives mental illnesses. A vast majority of Korean 'netizens' (network citizens) do not seem to know that their lighthearted tag-plays are only widening their social distances toward mental illness. What is worse is that these 'netizens' who consider mental illness as a punch line constitute mostly of adolescents and young adults. This alone shows how the country has failed to provide public education on the accurate portrayal of mental health. Ignorant labels that deride people who actually suffer from mental disorders reveal that the stigma against mental illnesses will be almost indelible in the near future. Something must be done not just for a better self-concept of the mentally ill, but also to help progress into a truly awakened nation.
The radical remedy to this problem is examining the mode of thought of Korean society. Many of modern Korea's problems can be traced back to Confucianism, which stresses homogeneity, interdependence, conservatism, and social hierarchy. As Korea underwent extremely rapid modernization and economic development, the clash of Western culture and deeply rooted Confucianism has produced disoriented mindsets of the people. Korea has the highest suicide rate among OECD members; people befriend their smartphones, not real humans; women show an obsessive reliance on plastic surgery to boost their low self-esteem. The society is ill because its people are psychologically unstable despite the extraordinary progress we have made at the national level. Being mentally healthy and embracing those with disorders are foremost virtues laid aside.
The key to reducing the social distance we have toward maintenance of mental health and the concept of mental illnesses is public education. This has to be done both at school and corporate levels in order to prevent subconscious disparaging of mental fitness both


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Manchester United's backroom staff will monitor Darren Fletcher for a couple of days before deciding whether the Scotland skipper will be fit to face Barcelona in the Champions League final.
Sir Alex Ferguson had promised to give Fletcher every chance to recover from the virus that kept him out since the beginning of March.
The 27-year-old completed the full 90 minutes on Sunday as United secured a 4-2 win over Blackpool at Old Trafford and the expectation is Fletcher will play some part in Gary Neville's testimonial on Tuesday night.
And it is how he recovers from that which will determine whether Fletcher has any hope of being involved at Wembley on Saturday.
"Darren has had a difficult time," admitted United assistant-boss Mike Phelan.
"A Darren Fletcher up and running and firing on all cylinders gives us a hard job of picking the team.
"It is never easy to come back when you have been out for so long. Now we will recover him and see where he is at in a couple of days' time."
If Fletcher does not make it, he will be suffering his third lot of Champions League misery.
He was an unused substitute when United beat Chelsea in Moscow three years ago.
Twelve months after that, he would have been a member of Ferguson's starting line-up against Barcelona in Rome had he not been suspended for an innocuous foul on Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas.
Now he could miss out for a third time in four years, although the straight-talking Dalkeith-born player is happy to leave his fate in Ferguson's hands.
"I feel ready to play," he said.
"I have had a couple of reserve games, which I have found even more difficult because other people are trying to make an impression.
"It was important to get 90 minutes (on Sunday) ahead of the big game next weekend but now it is not for me to decide. All you can do is your best.
"The lads who got us there have done really well, so the manager has a lot of decisions to make.
"We have a big squad, everyone is fit and there is competition for places on the bench."


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All new cars sold in the EU should be able to be able to dial emergency services when they are involved in a serious accident. Having all cars equipped with an eCall system could save up to 2,500 lives a year. The European Parliament, which passed the report on this subject earlier this week at the plenary session in Strasbourg, hopes the proposal will be introduced in 2015.
Most EU member states have now signed up to the initiative, but predictably our Tory-led Coalition has not yet backed it. Sadly France is the only other EU member state to share the UK's equivocation.
The British Government's complacency is astonishing. Transport Minister Mike Penning is reported on the BBC website saying, "Britain has some of the safest roads in the world and technology has an important role to play in this, but it is important that each initiative is carefully considered on its merits.
"After considering the results of independent research we are concerned that the benefits of making eCall mandatory in all new cars will not justify the cost of implementing it in the UK. We have decided, therefore, that it would not be appropriate for the UK to support mandatory installation of eCall at this stage.
"However, calls from vehicles equipped with a private eCall system are already supported by UK emergency call centres."
In other words, it's all right if you can afford to pay.
The way the eCall will work is remarkably simple. A damaged car will make a 112 emergency call (eCall) as soon as its sensors (e.g. airbag sensors) register a crash. It could also be activated manually by pushing a special button in a car. The system will automatically transmit data about location and time of a crash to the nearest emergency response centre.
Member States will, however, have to upgrade their infrastructure so that eCalls are efficiently passed on to emergency services.
Currently, only 0.7% of all passenger vehicles in the EU are equipped with automatic emergency call systems. The eCall device is estimated to cost less than €100 per new car to install – a small price to pay for the number of lives which could be saved.
The Con-Dem Coalition defend their position on the grounds that road accidents are low in the UK. Britain may have safe roads, but no roads are free from accidents. The eCall system would certainly save British lives. Unless it revises its attitude, this Coalition Government could well be responsible for deaths on the road which they could have prevented.


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The Nocturnal Tomatoes play a free show tonight at Alma's Only Bar
The Nocturnal Tomatoes, called "the best bar band in America" by Alice Cooper on his nationally syndicated radio show, come to Alma's Only Bar for a free concert tonight. Here, Jonny Nelson (lead vocals, guitar) breaks down what the band is about:
Rock/jam band
The Allman Brothers, Sublime, Johnny Cash – great music from all different time periods. (We're big fans) of Derrick Trucks, Dickey Betts and Dave Grohl.
A few years ago we played at The Goat in Summit County and after the show we were in a hot tub at the hotel with some girls. Our drummer Craig decided to walk out of the water and into an electrical room to find a switch to turn up the bubbles. He opened the door, walked in and fell 10 feet through a shaft in the floor. He was banged up really bad but was okay the next day. We still laugh about that. His nickname is "Shaft."
Great original songs and great cover music. Lots of energy and guitar jams. We might even do a drum jam with members of the audience.
The band just got signed to an independent record deal with Soteria records. We have recorded a single that will be released with a video early next year.
The band has toured all over the country and has an EP on the way entitled "North River Mansion" due out after the single and video are released. The band will be doing a recording on Colorado Rock TV, which will air on Fox TV all over Colorado sometime in late March, early April. We love Summit County and can't wait to be back.
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Fans of black Ford sedans, unisex hair styles, scenic Pacific vistas, and cheesy dialog, will be ecstatic to hear that the entire 1968 first season of television's finest Hawaiian cop drama is at long last available on DVD. While this news was first reported months ago, getting the discs onto the shelves was evidently about as an impossible task as McGarrett telling Danno to check every tire dealership on the island, or everyone that's eaten breakfast at the Honolulu International House of Pancakes since 1966. For those who feel like getting plastered, we have included a link to the rules for the Hawaii Five-O drinking game. Watch for flying hubcaps during chase scenes.
Hawaii Five-O Drinking Game [Sirah Style] <a href=Hawaii Five-O - The Complete First Season (1968)
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hanskainz needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 149 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
I´m a 29 years old blogger from Austria/Europe. I need a new logo / header for my blog at http://iwatchblog.com. Their will also be a new bloglayout (something like this: http://hanskainz.com/testblog). My blog is about fashion, celebs (gossip) and lifestyle. I don't want to stifle any creativity by putting too many requirements, but this logo should be brandable and marketable. Logo should be able to be used in print and on the web.
Desired Style:
elegant magazin style
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
The Basics
Please see my blog at http://vanityblog.com but keep in mind that my new blog layout after the redesign will look something like this testlayout (magazin style) but don´t let you influence by the colors, the actual colors are for another blog.
- The logo/header should represent the blog in style!
- I need a logo that is fashionable, stylish, professional and that wouldn't go out of style in 6 months.
- It should be an elegant, crisp, contemporary, professional logo
- The logo should include the name of my blog "vanityblog"
- The logo can include some kind of symbol / icon (left beside the blogname) but it´s no must-have I'm open to anything creative that you can come up with - so don't feel you need to stick to what I have on my blog at the moment. I'm looking for something stylish and new, so let your creative forces go with the flow.
The Text
As mentioned, the logo should include "vanityblog"
The Symbol / Icon
The logo could have some graphical element (symbol / icon).
Remember that the logo needs to be stylish, creative and more importantly professional.
The Colors
The logo should not have to much colors. And it should even work in black & white and for use in print.
The Feel
Here are a few keywords to describe the "feel" of the logo I'm looking for:
- elegant
- fashionable & stylish
- crisp
- contemporary
- professional
- uniqueThe Logo should have that fashion or/and lifestyle "magazin" style - like the big fashion magazins (thats really important for me!)
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Café owners brew green business plan
Every day dozens of customers flood into Rocket café on Grey St and stream out carrying cardboard cups full of steaming hot coffee.
Every day dozens of customers flood into Rocket café on Grey St and stream out carrying cardboard cups full of steaming hot coffee.
Environment Waikato is funding research into plants that could be used to clean up the region's freshwater lakes.
Environment Waikato is giving $33,000 to the Waikato Royal Forest and Bird Society to help save the critically endangered Maui's dolphin.
Environment Waikato is giving the Waikato River Trails Trust $28,000 towards a walkway that will help people enjoy and learn about the Waikato River.
Environment Waikato has got behind efforts to save the kiwi from extinction by granting $39,000 to the National Kiwi Trust.
Environment Waikato is following up concerns that some farms in the Lake Taupo catchment are beefing up stock numbers in defiance of new land use rules that aim to cap the amount of nitrogen polluting Lake Taupo.
Environment Waikato has granted $20,000 from its Environmental Initiatives Fund to sponsor the construction of a pest-proof fence around the Driving Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.
The latest Environment Waikato aerial operation checking for illegal dairy effluent management practices has revealed more promising results.
Environment Waikato has posted an independent review of the technical aspects of an application to build an asphalt manufacturing plant in Riverlea, Hamilton on its website
Environment Waikato is closer to defining the area of mangroves that will be managed in Whangamata Harbour following a recent survey of ratepayers.
Environment Waikato is to advertise its chief executive's position in March 2008, five months earlier than required by law.
Proposed national environmental standards for electricity transmission would load some of Transpower's current costs directly on to ratepayers, says Environment Waikato.
Ongoing growth in the number of passengers being carried on Hamilton's buses reflects the increased value the public is getting across a range of services.
He's not one for the limelight, but Environment Waikato staff member Jim Price was thrust firmly into it at a recent New Zealand Hydrological Society (NZHS) conference in Rotorua.
Environment Waikato's first attempt at blitzing ship rats, a major tui predator, at its Whatawhata Hamilton Halo site has been a roaring success.
Housing New Zealand has got behind an Environment Waikato push to clean up the region's air.
When Welshman Matt Foulkes moved into the small farming community of Arohena, near Otorohanga, he naturally wanted to know who was coming to pick up his rubbish and recycling.
An Environment Waikato hearing committee has approved resource consents for a new Taupo geothermal power station that will help meet New Zealand's growing energy demands in an environmentally friendly way.
The Waikato region's road fatality toll for this year is already more than 80, compared to last year's 65, and there is concern it could be on its way to matching 2005's "horrific" total of 93.


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Classic Bank Vaults Become Bars and Shops
People are shopping for clothes and antiques in former vaults. They are throwing holiday and birthday parties in vaults. Some are even getting married there. Craig Karmin has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Kevin Arms.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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IMCI adaptation guide
A guide to identifying necessary adaptations of clinical policies and guidelines, and to adapting the charts and modules for the WHO/UNICEF course
This IMCI Adaptation Guide describes a process for countries to use to adapt the generic IMCI guidelines for the care of sick children who come to first-level health facilities. The generic guidelines need to be adapted to ensure that they cover the illnesses that contribute most to childhood mortality in a specific country and that they are appropriate for the local conditions that affect the care of children in the health facility and at home. The guide assists persons in making decisions about what adaptations are needed and in completing the many tasks required to produce adapted materials for training health workers.


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TSA Unionizing
Worst news I've heard lately, via The New York Times:
Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf of the nation's 45,000 airport security officers, although certain issues like pay will not be subject to negotiation.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R‑Miss.) has proposed an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill that would prohibit TSA workers from collective bargaining. Wicker's proposal doesn't go far enough. At the least, the decision to halt privatization of airport security should be reversed. Ideally, the TSA would be scrapped or reduced to merely inspecting the performance of airport security provided by the airports, not the government.
I doubt that allegations of TSA screener abuse are going to be dealt with better in a unionized workplace. I'm reminded of Sal Culosi's murder. The Fairfax, Virginia SWAT officer that had a negligent discharge into Culosi's chest at point blank range received a slap on the wrist, which was too much for the police union. And he killed a compliant suspect in an unnecessary SWAT raid. It seems a safe bet that your complaint about a pat‐down gone too far will face additional resistance from TSA unions standing up for that agency's bad apples.


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Meme over. Mike Michaud has won.
And now I'm thinking about what a nice change it would be to have someone with a level head and a good sense of humor in the Blaine House and representing our state.
Hey @miketipping! It's Mike Michaud looking at #MikeMichaudlookingatthings #MePolitics pic.twitter.com/93xqnzbVBl
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Check out this the Arctic and Earth SIGNs video to explore how climate models are used in climate change research.
Check out this the Arctic and Earth SIGNs video to explore how climate models are used in climate change research.
This activity is designed to introduce students to geologic processes on Earth and how to identify geologic features in images. It will also introduce students to how scientists use Earth to gain a better understanding of other planetary bodies in the solar system.
Students are introduced to the Earthrise phenomenon by seeing the Earth as the Apollo 8 astronauts viewed our home planet for the first time from the Moon. They will analyze a time series of mapped plots of Earth science variables that NASA monitors to better understand the Earth Syste
This investigation is part of the NASA: Mission Geography Module "What are the causes and consequences of climate change?" that guides students through explorations in climatic variability and evidence for global climate change.
This activity invites students to simulate and observe the different effects on sea level from melting sea-ice.
Credit: Modified from POLAR-PALOOZA (National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0632262) and the Office of Science, Department of Energy.
This activity invites students to model and observe the effect of melting ice sheets (from land) on sea level and the difference between the effect of melting sea-ice to that of melting land ice on sea level.
This activity was developed by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) team as an introductory experience to a series of lessons about water resources on Earth.
In Part A of this lab, students will examine a variety of images and maps of the whole Earth in order to identify the major components of the Earth system at a global scale.
Students play the role of nitrogen atoms traveling through the nitrogen cycle to gain an understanding of the varied pathways through the cycle and the relevance of nitrogen to living things.
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H&S Reports, Vol. 10, (1973 autumn), p. 30-33
|Originally published by: Haskins & Sells
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By Wilson Ring
Associated Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Every weekday for a month, 13 groups of University of Vermont students have set up tables on campus as part of a course that helps them learn to become entrepreneurs.
They are selling croissants, cookies, bracelets and other products to give them a working knowledge of what it means to run a business. Each group has about 10 members, and each member is given $1. The students pool the money as the stake in their business.
Each business has to be open three hours a day, and all the work is on the students. They must buy any necessary ingredients, oversee preparation and ensure their tables are staffed. The students are also required to perform community service, such as participating in food drives or walking dogs at animal shelters.
Gwendolyn Child, a sophomore from Cambridge. Mass., is part of a group that has been selling croissants in front of the library for two weeks. They prepare the croissants the night before and bake them in the morning.
"We've been doing really well, surprisingly," Child said. "We've gotten some big donations."
Professor Kathleen Liang has been teaching the course since 2005 through the department of community development and applied economics.
"I want them to understand ... that we can make a difference in the community by helping others one day at a time," Liang said.
In addition to the cash stake, the students can solicit donations. They've been supported financially by a Burlington health food supermarket and the campus food service provider.
Any profit is given to charity. In eight years, the projects have donated more than $40,000 to more than 300 charitable organizations.
Some of the groups have had wild success over the years.
One group bought and resold clothes, books and other small gadgets and made $800 in profit in three weeks, Liang said.
Other groups haven't been as lucky, with two losing all their money by trying to sell T-shirts.
"Most of the people do not purchase multiple T-shirts in a short period of time," Liang said.
This year's class already ranks among the best by making a combined profit of more than $1,000 the first week, a record.
"A lot of times people will think, 'Well, you have to own your business to be an entrepreneur,' but I am a firm believer that everybody can be," Liang said. All it takes, she said, is "a chance to learn and to see what it's like, the challenges and rewards."
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The Video Game Hall of Fame, first class: Reactions from Game On
In case you haven't heard, the Strong National Museum of Play announced its inaugural class for the World Video Game Hall of Fame. The inductees from the class of 2015 are Pong, Doom, Super Mario Brothers, Pac-Man, Tetris and World of Warcraft.
Three Game On contributors decided to give their thoughts on the inaugural class and their picks for games that should make the cut in 2016.
Hugh Johnson: Biggest surprise for me is World of Warcraft. The other titles are kind of expected with games like Tetris, Super Mario Bros. Pac-Man etc. Those games are all titans of the industry and are just the iconic titles you think of when you think of a video game hall of fame. They've been around for decades. With WoW however, that isn't the case but the title is no less deserving. The game really has put MMORPGs on the map like no other title and has given us some precious pop culture moments such as the memorable "Make Love not Warcraft" episode of "South Park" and of course the legendary Leeroy Jenkins, which just turned 10 ironically enough.


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by Paula M. Riley
Chestnut Hill has been battered by several store closings in recent months, but at least one new business is about to open that should breathe a bit of new life into the top of the Hill. Thai Kuu, which will serve authentic Thai and Asian cuisine, will be opening at the Top of the Hill Plaza. It will occupy the former location of Shundeez at 8705 Germantown Ave.
There is little evidence of the former tenant's décor at Thai Kuu. Owner Atchara Cooley, 29, and her husband Steve, 61, enhanced the space known for its large windows and proximity to Chestnut Hill's only state liquor store. With new booths, bar stools, tables and chairs, the intimate restaurant now has seating for 40 people and a room for parties of 14. "We hope to open at the beginning of March," said Steve. "I cannot give you an exact date because we are still dealing with city agencies."
Although the Cooleys recognize that these enhancements, along with new warm paint colors, create great ambience, they believe Thai Kuu will be best known for its food.
Atchara was born in Thailand and has enjoyed preparing food for her entire life. Before coming to the U.S. three years ago, she worked at her sister's restaurant and helped her mother prepare meals for her six siblings.
After securing her U.S. green card, Atchara worked in Thai restaurants in Tulsa and Seattle. She said she wanted to "work as a waitress but look at the restaurant from an owner's eye."
One of the things she learned while waitressing, besides the English language, was that some Americans have misconceptions about Thai food.
"All Thai food is not spicy," she said.
At Thai Kuu, customers will have the option of ordering their food mild or with no spice at all. Customers may even have the spices brought to their table to add their own amount of spice.
Another unique feature of the restaurant comes from an old-fashioned cooking technique in Thailand. At Thai Kuu, meat and sushi-grade seafood will be cooked tableside on a natural stone heated to 300 degrees.
"This is a great, healthy, option since there is no oil used. All we use is sea salt," Atchara said.
Since the stove stays hot for a half-hour, every bite is fresh and warm.
Offering authentic Thai cuisine comes naturally to Atchara, but it is equally important to Steve, who was very involved in setting up the restaurant. Now an engineer for Boeing, he and Atchara first met while he was on a one-year scholarship studying Asian culture and traveling all over Japan, China and Thailand.
He insists on authenticity because he doesn't want Thai Kuu to be one of those "places claiming to be what they are not." He added, "We are open to change the menu and explore more Asian dishes."
When he and Atchara visited Chestnut Hill during a recent Fall for the Arts Festival, they were impressed by the warmth of the residents, the variety of restaurants and the "pretty, quiet town." Although they found restaurant locations with lower rent, they knew that Chestnut Hill was the best place to open their first restaurant.
"We think people here will recognize that we serve authentic Thai food," Steve said. "I think this is what will keep them coming back."
Thai Kuu will be open seven days per week from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. There is a Web site, www.thaikuu.com, but for now it only has very basic information. A phone was not hooked up yet as of this printing.