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The Basics of Leadership
Leadership Basics
There are three basic aspects to leadership:
– Control of or undisputed access to resources
– Proactive intervention
– Ability to control, direct or inhibit the behavior of others
Behaving like a leader means that you must demonstrate – to the dog's satisfaction! – that your behavior is that of a higher status animal. Each dog will have different criteria for what constitutes adequate leadership skills on your part. And his expectations may change considerably as he grows & matures, requiring that you also make shifts in your approach.
Directing, Controlling & Inhibiting Behavior
From the dog's perspective, only someone they respect has the right to control, direct or inhibit another dog's behavior. Turned around the other way, this means that if you can't control, direct or inhibit your dog's behavior (especially at critical or highly exciting times), your dog is making it quite clear that he does not consider you higher status – in other words, he doesn't respect you, a clear sign that your leadership is inadequate for that dog (though it may be quite adequate for another dog with a different personality.)


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NanoViricides, Inc. Retains AES Clean Technology, Inc. for Design, Engineering and Construction of the Cleanroom Suite in its Previously Announced cGMP Production and Laboratory Facility
WEST HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC) (the "Company") announced today that it has retained AES Clean Technology, Inc. ("AES"), for the design, engineering, and construction of the Cleanroom Suite for its laboratory and cGMP pilot production facility project. The Cleanroom Suite comprises the main cGMP manufacturing sections of the pilot plant. This Suite provides for walk-in, process scale, Class 100 laminar hoods; walk-in, process scale chemical fume hoods; Class 1,000 and Class 10,000 work areas; entry airlock and egress systems.
AES is the leader in turnkey design, manufacturing, and construction, of modular cleanroom systems (www.aesclean.com). Modular cleanroom technology delivers more speed, cleanliness, quality, and repeatable performance to the cleanroom project. AES is the leading vendor in cGMP-compliant manufacturing facilities for Pharmaceutical and BioPharma Manufacturing industries. Their pharma client list comprises several industry leaders and can be found at Leading Industry Leaders in Pharma, Biotech, Medical Device, Semicon, Micro AES (http://www.aesclean.com/aes-portfolio/industry-leaders).
"AES has the industry expertise in designing and building modular, validated, cGMP manufacturing suites for pharmaceutical industries," said Anil R. Diwan, PhD, President, NanoViricides, Inc., adding, "We are very pleased to have such experts working with us to enable this project in a cost effective fashion without compromising on quality or performance."
As previously announced, this facility will be built by renovating an existing 18,000 sq. ft. light manufacturing plant on a 4.2 acre lot in Shelton, CT. AES will be responsible for the critical cGMP manufacturing suites space. In addition, NanoViricides, Inc. has retained ID3A architects as the Principal Architect for the project and integration of the separately constructed Clean Room Suite for cGMP production. Ms. Kathyann Cowles, AIA, of ID3A joins Mr. Phil Mader of MPH Engineering, LLC (MPH) , and Mr. Andrew Hahn, to complete our architecture, design and construction management team. As previously announced, Mr. Hahn continues to provide overall stewardship of the project, while Mr. Mader is responsible for detailed project management, and his firm, MPH, is providing engineering services.
The Company has previously reported about the Shelton light industrial building that will house the cGMP pilot production plant, research laboratories, and offices. The cGMP pilot plant is being designed for the production of sufficient quantities of the drug needed for human clinical trials for each of the various nanoviricides® drug candidates as they advance into the clinical pipeline.
The light industrial building at 1 Controls Drive, Shelton CT was purchased by Inno-Haven, LLC. Inno-Haven is a private company that was founded by Dr. Anil R. Diwan, the Company's CEO, and financed by himself and certain of his friends and associates, with the specific purpose of enabling clinical cGMP manufacturing capabilities for NanoViricides, Inc. drug substances. Acquisition of this 18,000 sqft building on 4.2 acres of land was previously announced by NanoViricides, Inc. in September, 2011. Renovation of the building is to be performed as per the requirements of NanoViricides, Inc. for the production of the nanoviricides drug candidates for clinical trials under cGMP processes. The drug substance produced in this facility will then be delivered to a third party for final processing and labeling, as required, for human clinical trials when ready. NanoViricides, Inc. expects to lease this facility. No lease has been signed yet and no terms of lease have been finalized as of now.
NanoViricides, Inc.(www.nanoviricides.com) is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for antiviral therapy. The Company's novel nanoviricide® class drug candidates are designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles and to dismantle them. The Company is developing drugs against a number of viral diseases including H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu, seasonal Influenza, HIV, oral and genital Herpes, viral diseases of the eye including EKC and herpes keratitis, Hepatitis C, Rabies, Dengue fever, and Ebola virus, among others.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors. Certain statements in this release, and other written or oral statements made by NanoViricides, Inc. are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Company's control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include, but are not limited to, those factors that are disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in documents filed by the company from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory authorities. Although it is not possible to predict or identify all such factors, they may include the following: demonstration and proof of principle in pre-clinical trials that a nanoviricide is safe and effective; successful development of our product candidates; our ability to seek and obtain regulatory approvals, including with respect to the indications we are seeking; the successful commercialization of our product candidates; and market acceptance of our products.
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Nancy and I are very happy to send our warmest greetings and best wishes to all those who are celebrating Christmas. We join with Americans everywhere in recognizing the sense of renewed hope and comfort this joyous season brings to our nation and the world.
The Nativity story of nearly twenty centuries ago is known by all faiths as a hymn to the brotherhood of man. For Christians, it is the fulfillment of age-old prophecies and the reaffirmation of God's great love for all of us. Through a generous Heavenly Father's gift of His Son, hope and compassion entered a world weary with fear and despair and changed it for all time.
On Christmas, we celebrate the birth of Christ with prayer, feasting, and great merriment. But, most of all, we experience it in our hearts. For, more than just a day, Christmas is a state of mind. It is found throughout the year whenever faith overcomes doubt, hope conquers despair, and love triumphs over hate. It is present when men of any creed bring love and understanding to the hearts of their fellow man.
The feeling is seen in the wondrous faces of children and in the hopeful eyes of the aged. It overflows the hearts of cheerful givers and the souls of the caring. And it is reflected in the brilliant colors, joyful sounds, and beauty of the winter season.
Let us resolve to honor this spirit of Christmas and strive to keep it throughout the year.
Nancy and I ask you to join us in a prayer that prudence, wisdom, and understanding might descend on the people of all nations' so that during the year ahead we may realize an ancient and wondrous dream: "peace on earth, goodwill toward men."
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Jay Z easily led Grammy Award nominations announced Friday with nine, but left-of-center rappers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kendrick Lamar were among a group of new stars who took many of the major nominations.
Macklemore and Lewis' gay marriage anthem "Same Love" was among song of the year nominees and the Seattle rap crew joined Los Angeles rapper Lamar with seven nominations apiece, including best album and best new artist of the year. Pharrell Williams had four major nominations among his seven and Justin Timberlake also had seven.
Macklemore and Lewis dominated a nominations TV special from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles that also included performances by nominees Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Lorde and Robin Thicke. They opened the show with a colorful, high-energy version of their hit "Thrift Shop," featuring Wanz, and immediately picked up a song of the year nomination for "Same Love."
Two nominations later, Ben Haggerty, the rapper known as Macklemore, was noting it was a "very surreal moment," during an on-air interview with host LL Cool J. "It's like we're not supposed to be here, but we're here with LL Cool J."
Recording Academy favorites Timberlake and Jay Z teamed up for two nominations apiece, but they only had one major nomination between them this year and that came for Jay Z's participation on Lamar's album of the year nominee "good kid, m.A.A.d city" instead of his own "Magna Carta … Holy Grail."
Williams, who seemed to be everywhere in 2013, is up for producer of the year and faces himself in three categories, including record of the year for "Get Lucky" with Daft Punk and "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke, and album of the year entries "Random Access Memories" by Daft Punk and Lamar's "good kid."
Drake and sound engineer Bob Ludwig were next on the nominees list with five apiece.
Joining Lamar, Macklemore and Lewis and Daft Punk in the album of the year category were Sara Bareilles' "The Blessed Unrest" and Taylor Swift's "Red." Swift is among five acts with four nominations apiece along with Daft Punk, Bruno Mars, Lorde and Kacey Musgraves. British musicians James Blake and Ed Sheeran round out the best new artist category with Musgraves, Lamar and Macklemore and Lewis.
Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive," Lorde's "Royals" and Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" join "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines" are up for record of the year. The Lorde and Mars entries also are up for song of the year with Pink's "Just Give Me a Reason," Katy Perry's "Roar" and "Same Love."
Perry said of "Roar" in an emotional moment before a pre-taped performance: "I didn't think that it would take on such a life of its own, and so I hope that the song has inspired you guys and it will bring out that kind of self-strength that you need a little bit to go through your days when they get a little bit hard."
Jay Z and Timberlake teamed for two nominations: best rap/sung collaboration for Jay Z's "Holy Grail" and best video entry "Suit & Tie." Jay Z is competing against himself rap/sung with "Part II (On the Run)," featuring his wife, Beyonce, also nominated. And he's up for best rap performance for Tom Ford. He also grabbed a best music video nomination for "Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film" and again teamed with Timberlake in that category for their video for "Suit & Tie."
Timberlake picked up a handful of nominations in pop categories, including pop vocal album of the year for "The 20/20 Experience." Other nominees in that category include Lana Del Rey's "Paradise," Lorde's "Pure Heroine," Mars' "Unorthodox Jukebox" and Thicke's "Blurred Lines."
"The Heist," "good kid" and "Magna Carta" are also on the best rap album list with Drake's "Nothing Was the Same" and Kanye West's "Yeezus," which was mostly shut out of the nominations. West also got a nomination for best rap song for "New Slaves."
There were six rock album of the year nominations, meaning there was a tie in the category. Nominees were Black Sabbath's "13," David Bowie's "Next Day," Kings of Leon's "Mechanical Bull," Led Zeppelin live album "Celebration Day," Queens of the Stone Age's "… Like Clockwork" and Neil Young and Crazy Horse's "Psychdelic Pill."
Swift's "Red" is up for country album of the year with Jason Aldean's "Night Train," Tim McGraw's "Two Lanes of Freedom," Blake Shelton's "Based on a True Story …," and Musgraves' "Same Trailer Different Park." The country newcomer also faces herself in the country song of the year category where she helped pen her own "Merry Go 'Round" and Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart."
The major nominations were an acknowledgement of 2013's top hit-makers. "Get Lucky," "Blurred Lines" and "Royals" took turns ruling the pop radio airwaves this year. Macklemore and Lewis had two hits — "Same Love" and "Thrift Shop" — that led to nominations.
And Lamar seemed like he was everywhere, managing to keep his profile high with a number of hits, guest appearances and moments of bravado that helped voters forget his album came out 14 months ago. Lamar called himself the greatest rapper in the game earlier this year, calling out Drake and several others in verse, and voters mostly backed him up.
West may have suffered the most from the large hauls of Lamar and Macklemore and Lewis. His "Yeezus" is already making many year-end lists, but had no hits and spawned controversy among some listeners.
Others who might consider themselves snubbed are 2013's most visible country stars Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line, who were both shut out.
The show featured some of the year's top songs. Lorde performed a starkly different version of "Royals." Swift performed her hit "I Knew You Were Trouble" in a performance pre-taped in Australia. And Thicke, T.I. and Earth, Wind & Fire teamed on "Blurred Lines."
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With every innovation comes new complications. Containers made it possible to package and run applications in a convenient, portable form factor, but managing containers at scale is challenging to say the least.
Kubernetes, the product of work done internally at Google to solve that problem, provides a single framework for managing how containers are run across a whole cluster. The services it provides are generally lumped together under the catch-all term "orchestration," but that covers a lot of territory: scheduling containers, service discovery between containers, load balancing across systems, rolling updates/rollbacks, high availability, and more.
In this guide we'll walk through the basics of setting up Kubernetes and populating it with container-based applications. This isn't intended to be an introduction to Kubernetes's concepts, but rather a way to show how those concepts come together in simple examples of running Kubernetes.
Choose a Kubernetes host
Kubernetes was born to manage Linux containers. However, as of Kubernetes 1.5, Kubernetes also supports Windows Server Containers, though the Kubernetes control plane must continue to run on Linux. Of course, with the aid of virtualization, you can get started with Kubernetes on any platform.
If you're opting to run Kubernetes on your own hardware or VMs, one common way to do this is to obtain a Linux distribution that bundles Kubernetes. This does away with the need for setting up Kubernetes on a given distribution—not only the download-and-install process, but even some of the configure-and-manage process.
CoreOS Tectonic, to name one such distro, focuses on containers and Kubernetes to the near-total exclusion of anything else. RancherOS takes a similar approach, and likewise automates much of the setup. Both can be installed in a variety of environments: bare metal, Amazon AWS VMs, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack, and so on.
Another approach is to run Kubernetes atop a conventional Linux distribution, although that typically comes with more management overhead and manual fiddling. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has Kubernetes in its package repository, for instance, but even Red Hat recommends its use only for testing and experimentation. Rather than try to cobble something together by hand, Red Hat stack users are recommended to use Kubernetes by way of the OpenShift PaaS, as OpenShift now uses Kubernetes as its own native orchestrator.
Many conventional Linux distributions provide special tooling for setting up Kubernetes and other large software stacks. Ubuntu, for instance, provides a tool called conjure-up that can be used to deploy the upstream version of Kubernetes on both cloud and bare-metal instances.
Choose a Kubernetes cloud
Kubernetes is available as a standard-issue item in many clouds, though it appears most prominently as a native feature in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP offers two main ways to run Kubernetes. The most convenient and tightly integrated way is by way of Google Container Engine, which allows you to run Kubernetes's command-line tools to manage the created cluster.
Alternatively, you could use Google Compute Engine to set up a compute cluster and deploy Kubernetes manually. This method requires more heavy lifting, but allows for customizations that aren't possible with Container Engine. Stick with Container Engine if you're just starting out with containers. Later on, after you get your sea legs and want to try something more advanced, like a custom version of Kubernetesor your own modifications, you can deploy VMs running a Kubernetes distro.
Amazon EC2 has native support for containers, but no native support for Kubernetes as a container orchestration system. Running Kubernetes on AWS is akin to using Google Compute Engine: You configure a compute cluster, then deploy Kubernetes manually.
Many Kubernetes distributions come with detailed instructions for getting set up on AWS. CoreOS Tectonic, for instance, includes a graphic installer but also supports the Terraform infrastructure provisioning tool. Alternatively, the Kubernetes kops tool can be used to provision a cluster of generic VMs on AWS (typically using Debian Linux, but other Linux flavors are partly supported).
Microsoft Azure has support for Kubernetes by way of the Azure Container Service. However, it's not quite "native" support in the sense of Kubernetes being a hosted service on Azure. Instead, Kubernetes is deployed by way of an Azure Resource Manager template. Azure's support for other container orchestration frameworks, like Docker Swarm and Mesosphere DC/OS, works the same way. If you want total control, as per any of the other clouds described here, you can always install a Kubernetes-centric distro on an Azure virtual machine.
One quick way to provision a basic Kubernetes cluster in a variety of environments, cloud or otherwise, is to use a project called Kubernetes Anywhere. This script works on Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, and VMware vSphere (vCenter is required). In each case, it provides some degree of automation for the setup.
Your own little Kubernetes node
If you're only running Kubernetes in a local environment like a development machine, and you don't need the entire Kubernetes enchilada, there are a few ways to set up "just enough" Kubernetes for such use.
One that is provided by the Kubernetes development team itself is Minikube. Run it and you'll get a single-node Kubernetes cluster deployed in a virtualization host of your choice. Minikube has a few prerequisites, like the kubectl command-line interface and a virtualization environment such as VirtualBox, but those are readily available as binaries for MacOS, Linux, and Windows.
For CoreOS users on MacOS, there is Kubernetes Solo, which runs on a CoreOS VM and provides a Status Bar app for quick management. Solo also includes the Kubernetes package manager Helm (more on Helm below), so that applications packaged for Kubernetes are easy to obtain and set up.
Spinning up your container cluster
Once you have Kubernetes running, you're ready to begin deploying and managing containers. You can ease into container ops by drawing on one of the many container-based app demos available.
Take an existing container-based app demo, assemble it yourself to see how it is composed, deploy it, and then modify it incrementally until it approaches something useful to you. If you have chosen to find your footing by way of Minikube, you can use the Hello Minikube tutorial to create a Docker container holding a simple Node.js app in a single-node Kubernetes demo installation. Once you get the idea, you can swap in your own containers and practice deploying those as well.
The next step up is to deploy an example application that resembles one you might be using in production, and becoming familiar with more advanced Kubernetes concepts such as pods (one or more containers that comprise an application), services (logical sets of pods), replica sets (to provide self-healing on machine failure), and deployments (application versioning). Lift the hood of the WordPress/MySQL sample application, for instance, and you'll see more than just instructions on how to deploy the pieces into Kubernetes and get them running. You will also see implementation details for many concepts used by production-level Kubernetes applications. You'll learn how to set up persistent volumes to preserve the state of an application, how to expose pods to each other and to the outside world by way of services, how to store application passwords and API keys as secrets, and so on.
Weaveworks has an example app, the Sock Shop, that shows how a microservices pattern can be used to compose an application in Kubernetes. The Sock Shop will be most useful to people familiar with the underlying technologies—Node.js, Go kit, and Spring Boot—but the core principles are meant to transcend particular frameworks and illustrate cloud-native technologies.
If you glanced at the WordPress/MySQL application and imagined there might be a pre-baked Kubernetes app that meets your needs, you're probably right. Kubernetes has an application definition system called Helm, which provides a way to package, version, and share Kubernetes applications. A number of popular apps (GitLab, WordPress) and app building blocks (MySQL, Nginx) have Helm "charts" readily available by way of the Kubeapps portal.
Navigating Kubernetes
Kubernetes simplifies container management through powerful abstractions like pods and services, while providing a great deal of flexibility through mechanisms like labels and namespaces, which can be used to segregate pods, services, and deployments (such as development, staging, and production workloads).
If you take one of the above examples and set up different instances in multiple namespaces, you can then practice making changes on components in each namespace independent of the others. You can then use deployments to allow those updates to be rolled out across pods in a given namespace, incrementally.
The next big step beyond these kinds of exercises is learning how Kubernetes itself can be driven by tools for managing infrastructure. Puppet, for instance, has a module for creating and manipulating resources in Kubernetes, while HashiCorp's Terraform has early but growing support for Kubernetes as a resource. If you plan on using such a resource manager, note that different tools might bring vastly different assumptions to the table. Puppet and Terraform, for instance, default to using mutable and immutable infrastructures respectively. Those philosophical and behavioral differences can determine how easy, or difficult, it will be to create the Kubernetes setup you need.


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I do not read the Wall Street Journal and know nothing about Eric Gibson, the features editor of its "Leisure and Arts" section. My comments are restricted to this article (May 28) about the recent fire in a London warehouse that destroyed a large collection of contemporary art. Neither do I know anything about the specific art works for which Gibson expresses his particular scorn (the usual kind of philistine skepticism), although I will say it's an especially cheap device to pick out just two of over one hundred works and implicitly hold them to be representative of the whole.
What's really objectionable about this article is the attitude it betrays toward not just contemporary art but toward the nature of art in general, an attitude, I'm afraid, shared by all too many self-appointed arbiters of contemporary art (and literature) given all too much space in "mainstream" newspapers and magazines. (In this case I am able to say that it is an attitude most academic critics have abandoned, although in many cases an equally extreme and unthinking attitude in the other direction has been adopted instead.) This view of art is pretty much encapsulated in this statement: "It's not that I think incinerating art is a good thing. It's just that the work of these artists--as of all contemporary artists--is too new and untested to have acquired the cultural heft that makes it seem an indispensable part of one's existence. I regret the fire happened, but I can't quite see it as a body blow to civilization."
The key words here are "cultural heft" and "civilization." According to the definition of "art" apparently being used by Gibson, art is about "culture," and a work of art becomes a part of culture by acquiring "heft." It would indeed seem that a work of art doesn't necessarily reveal this heft upon initial examination since new art is too "untested" to have it. It's a weight that, presumably, subsequent critcs load onto it. (Now you know why all those "great works" of art and literature you were exposed to in school seemed so heavy on the spirit.) Related to this is the art work's relationship to "civilization." Civilization, one has to conclude, is that ponderous institution wherein all of that great mass of art can be stored, and such lightweight fare as was being kept in that flimsy warehouse burned through lack of time to bulk up.
A little later in the article Gibson also pronounces on the role of critics: "Criticism used to be about detachment, discernment and making rigorous judgments about artistic quality. Critics used to refrain from applying the word 'masterpiece" to any work less than a few hundred years old." Putting aside for now the questionable assumptions behind the description of what criticism "used to be," there seems an elemental lapse in logic here. How can criticism be about "making rigorous judgments about artisitic quality" if you have to wait around several hundred years to say anything at all?
Art is not for culture or for civilization. Art and literature are for the enjoyment and edification of people, individual people, artists, writers, viewers, and readers who live now and can't really hold off until someone three centuries from now says its okay to call it art. "Civilization" may not have suffered from the London fire, but it's quite likely that potential viewers of this art have suffered a loss, the loss of a possible experience of some worthy art that can't be replaced by going to a museum to look once again at certified "masterpieces." Not to mention the loss felt by the artists themselves, which is real enough despite the "perspective" Gibson appeals to at the end of his article.
Nor is true that criticism has always been about "detachment, discernment and making rigorous judgments about artistic quality." Detachment and discernment (the latter predicated on the former) were indeed qualities valued by certain kinds of modern critics, but they were mostly attempting to show how works of art and literature that seemed alien and unconventional (not unlike the works Mr. Gibson disparages) could be judged artistically accomplished if you regarded them in the appropriate ways. Actually very few of these critics were known for "rigorous judgments" about inferior art, as the consideration of such works added nothing to their broader goal of enlarging our understanding of what "art" could be. Only certain newpaper-based critics interpret the requirements of their job in this way.
We'd all be much better off if critics in Eric Gibson's position, able to discuss art with a relatively wide audience, would forget about culture and civilization and making rigorous judgments about quality and stick to describing and explaining the works of art they actually encounter. Consigning it all to the "bonfire of the vanities" only makes them look silly.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday issued emergency authorization for a Zika diagnostics test from Swiss drugmaker Roche, skirting normal approval channels as the regulator moves to fight the disease's spread. Zika virus, detected in Brazil and elsewhere last year before spreading to the Americas, is associated with microcephaly, a birth defect characterized by an unusually small head and potential developmental problems. Through last week, the United States reported 2,517 Zika cases, 29 of which were likely acquired locally in Florida through mosquito bites and the rest brought in by travelers, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Some 9,000 additional cases have been reported in U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico. With FDA approval, Roche's test now can be used to screen patients exhibiting Zika symptoms that meet CDC criteria, including fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes. Samples will be sent for analysis to specially-certified U.S. laboratories with the appropriate equipment, a Roche spokesman said. "The LightMix Zika test is an easy-to-use molecular diagnostic test that enables healthcare professionals to quickly detect the virus," said Uwe Oberlaender, the head of molecular diagnostics at Basel-based Roche. The FDA issues such Emergency Use Authorization during public health emergencies, to quickly deploy unapproved medical products for as long as they are needed. As Zika cases caused by local Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida mount and travelers from elsewhere continue to arrive with the disease, the FDA last week recommend universal testing of donated blood across the United States. In March, Roche won separate investigational approval from the FDA for its Cobas 6800/8800 testing system to be used to test blood at U.S. blood center including in Puerto Rico, where about 1 percent of donated blood has so far tested positive for the virus. In Brazil, Zika virus has been linked to more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly, and U.S. officials expect as many as 270 cases in Puerto Rico.
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Gun control advocates in Delaware are rallying to urge state lawmakers to approve a bill that stalled in the General Assembly last year.
The bill, which is being pushed by Attorney General Beau Biden, expands the ability of Delaware authorities to prohibit people with mental health issues from having guns.
The measure, which establishes a process to keep people declared to be a danger to themselves or others from having access to guns, was defeated in the state Senate last year after winning overwhelming passage in the state House.
Supporters are expected to try to revive and pass the bill next week when a new session of the General Assembly convenes.
The Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence scheduled a news conference Thursday in Wilmington to urge passage of the bill.


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Mumma is here since 2 months and will return to Mumbai on Saturday. In her last three trips to my house, no not house, let's focus – my kitchen, in Dubai; she has had one complaint that my food processor does not grind dry spices/mixtures.
I make do with a mini-chopper which grinds it coarse and not fine. However mumma-the perfectionist, refuses to accept that coarse mixture. From the day she has landed, her only aim has been to find me a mixer that is similar to the one we get in India a-la Sumeet type.
The region known for famous brands in electronics and home ware appliances does not seem to have the kind of mixer she wants. So finally after a month of hunting, we came close to buying a Kenwood one which resembled the one she had in mind.
It was taken,brought home and inaugurated. Much to her chagrin the arrangement of the blade and the grinding vessel was exactly reverse to the one she had in mind.
So now it has been a further one month and she has still not stopped complaining. Her sole aim remains to buy me a one that can grind dry spices/mixtures. Well I've not given up either – trying to convince her that she comes here for 2 months in year and it's fine not to have those kind of curries done, I manage to survive with my arrangement.
An Aquarian and a Capricorn are at loggerheads over a mixer and people wonder why I'm stubborn! Well now you know – it is in the genes – it is hereditary! So all of you, who know me – stop complaining – the stubbornness is not going away even if I try!


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Is your phone filled with a library of orange-hued photos? Do you see a potential vintage effect on everything around you? Do you catch yourself thinking things like "This bubble gum wrapper would look much more interesting with a Lo-Fi effect on it?"
Then repeat after me: "Hi, my name is [insert name here], and I am an over-Instagrammer."
Good job. We all know that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. And now, with the admission out of the way, we can start looking at ways to fix the problem.
Believe it or not, most photo editing requires nothing more complicated than the tools available in even the most basic image-editing programs. But learning which tools to use and when to use them requires a little trial and error.
Give it a shot–and before you know it, you could be pumping out your own, preset-filter-free photos without subjecting your friends to an endless deluge of tired Instagram-style effects.
Step two on the road to recovery: understanding the problem.
Instagramming: It's Not All Bad
The great wilderness photographer Ansel Adams once said "A good photograph is knowing where to stand."
It's good advice. Photography is, after all, just a frozen glimpse of what we see every day. And of course anyone who visits Yosemite National Park (one of Adams's favorite locales) can see Half Dome in all its glory from any number of photo-friendly standpoints.
But Adams is also known for saying "Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships." In addition to being a master of exposure and composition, Adams was one of the great darkroom magicians of the photo-film age.
Just as Adams used the technology available to him to make the most of his images, smart photographers today–both amateur and professional–know that what they do after releasing the shutter is integral to achieving the results they desire. And that's true whether that shutter is on a camera or on a smartphone.
What happens when image-editing technology becomes available to masses of untutored, would-be photographers? We're finding out the painful truth now. The prime offenders are photographers who overuse smartphone apps like Instagram, which applies preset effects to mobile photos.
Though these effects can work very effectively for a precious few images (an old rake standing against a garage might look fantastic with a vintage effect laid on it), an important step to recovering from an indiscriminate addiction to Instagram is to limit your use of these filters.
In fact with so many hazy and grainy images from Instagram jerks flooding our photo feeds, a naturally edited photo–free of preset effects–really stands out.
The Instagram app (available for Android and iOS) does deserve some credit. It's a great way to get people to think photographically about the objects and scenes around them. In a world where anyone can snap a photo at any time, Instagram provides an easy-to-use entry into the world of image manipulation. But once you begin to get serious about taking pictures, you need expand your horizons and move beyond using preset filters.
Editing on the Small Screen
Photo editing on small smartphone screens presents some challenges, but a few apps on the market make the process much easier–and even enjoyable at times.
One great option for natural, preset-free photo editing on the go is the Adobe Photoshop Express app, available for free in Android and iOS versions. This surprisingly powerful app packs many of Photoshop's industry-standard photo-editing features into an easy-to-use touch interface, including adjustments for exposure, saturation, contrast, tint, cropping, and more.
Adobe Photoshop Express also provides shortcuts for sharing your touched-up photos to Facebook, Twitter, and Photoshop.com.
Another option for iOS users is PhotoForge 2. This app will set you back $3, but it supplies the same basic editing tools as Photoshop Express. PhotoForge 2 also provides a number of relatively advanced features such as layers and masking, giving you more freedom to doctor your photos. Like Photoshop Express, PhotoForge 2 has built-in social media support for sharing your photos on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and more.
The HDR Camera app for Android devices and the HDR+ Camera app for iOS devices–both made by developer Almalence–offer yet another tool for making your mobile images look great. Each app lets you combine multiple photos into one HDR image, which is great for photos taken outdoors, where numerous differences in lighting may affect a shot.
HDR works by keeping the best details of each image and throwing out the rest, thereby ensuring that you won't lose any details due to over- or underexposure. Both HDR apps also include some basic tools for editing your HDR images, but the apps mentioned earlier in this section offer better editing options.
Move Away From Smartphone Editing; Break Free of Presets
Now that we've covered some smartphone-related remedies for over-Instagramming, let's talk about editing images taken with a nonsmartphone camera.
Though photo-editing presets and filters are less common in nonmobile digital photo editing, professional programs such as Adobe Photoshop and the free image-editing program GIMP offer an vast array of options for tweaking images.
Not everyone can afford the hefty price tag associated with Photoshop, however–or the time required to learn such programs. Luckily, most people would rarely want to use many of the advanced features found in Photoshop and GIMP.
That's why nonprofessionals who do their photo editing with easy-to-use free programs like Windows Live Photo Gallery and Google's Picasa have little reason to feel deprived.
Ultimately you can produce great, natural-looking photos with the basic editing tools found in every program, even the most simple. Here are some of the most important variables to consider when editing images.
Why lighting is important: If a photo's lighting is off, you may lose valuable detail in people's facial expressions or in landscape features.
How to manage lighting in your photos: ou control lighting in a photo by adjusting exposure, highlights, and shadows. Adjusting the exposure enables you to simulate how your image would look if it had been taken at different shutter speeds; as the image becomes lighter or darker, you may notice details that were previously hidden. Adjusting exposure isn't foolproof, since you can lose detail as you brighten or darken your image, but it's great for making small improvements when this isn't an issue.
Adjusting highlights and shadows lets you control the light and dark tones in an image independently, to bring out details. Such alterations can make a big difference when one part of an image is much darker or lighter than the rest.
For example, if you've taken a portrait and your subject's face is in the shade, adjusting the highlights and shadows will often reveal hidden details without affecting the rest of the image.
Why contrast is important: Adjusting an image's contrast is a great way to make the photo pop, but be careful: Few things look worse than an unnaturally overcontrasted photo.
How to manage contrast in your photos: Your photo editor's contrast tool makes lights lighter and darks darker. The goal is to enliven a photo whose low contrast makes it to look dull and boring, while refraining from imparting so much contrast that the image looks look oversaturated and unnatural. To avoid going too far, it's a good idea to try out different incremental contrast levels, and see which one works best for a particular image.
Why temperature is important: A photo's temperature helps determine the image's overall feel or mood. Most digital cameras provide options for controlling white balance; this entails adjusting photos' color temperature to achieve a neutral value for white in different lighting environments.
How to manage temperature in your photos: A white-balance photo-editing tool allows you to change the temperature of your images after the photo is taken. Adjusting your photo to make it cooler combats harsh, orange lighting. Conversely, making an image warmer can help photos taken in environments with prevalent blue or fluorescent light look more natural. As with adjusting contrast, a trial-and-error approach to adjusting an image's temperature makes sense.
And there you have it. The road to recovery may be paved with vintage barns and orange-tinted cats, but with a little work you can kick your Instagram addiction and take your photography to the next level.


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Three Aksha Dance Company will bring Indian culture to Penn State Berks on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, at 8 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form that began in ancient Hindu temples, was performed in royal courts, and currently exists far beyond the temple and the court, speaking to modern themes. It celebrates the eternal universe through the beauty of the material body. Dancers wear deeply symbolic costumes, including unique jewelry, anklets, and bells. Three Aksha Dance Company preserves and promotes Indian culture through the movement language of Bharatanatyam, adhering to the lines of the body, angles, and geometry.
This presentation is part of the Arts and Lecture series. For more information, contact the Office of Campus Life at 610-396-6076.


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Happy Ugadi to those who celebrate Ugadi! Even though I bake a lot of sweet stuff I usually prefer savory snacks. So when Red Chillies (RC) posted a recipe for savory onion crackers (nippatu) I wanted to try it immediately. She had prepared this from Ramya's blog. So I would like to thank both of them for this awesome recipe. RC mentions that Nippatus are very famous in Bangalore but I have never heard of it until now, even though there are a lot of Bangalore Iyengar bakeries in Chennai, where I grew up.
The procedure for making/baking these cookies is as simple as kneading dough for rotis but the taste is too good for such a simple process. The taste is really addictive. These crackers have a melt-in-your mouth texture and you can't stop with even 2 or 3.
I made two batches of the recipe as in RC's blog. I was sending it with my husband (who was traveling to India) for my mother and in-laws. Everybody there loved it so much. I wish I remember how many crackers I got for the 4 cups of flour I used! It definitely made a huge batch of cookies. I made one batch at a time.
I wanted to try substituting half the flour with whole wheat flour but did not want to mess it up. So I will be trying it the next time. I would also try reducing the amount of oil and butter.
Changes I made:
1. Used red chili powder instead of green chillies, white onion instead of red onion.
2. Also I used "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter's" cooking and baking blend instead of real butter. The ICBNB has 50% less saturated fat than butter, and 0mg cholesterol.
3. I didn't use the entire 1/4 cup of warm water mentioned in the recipe. Use little by little as needed.
4. I omitted the sugar too.
This is my entry for this month's MBP – Snacks and Savories event hosted by Ashwini. MBP originally created by Coffee.


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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Friday, December 17, 2010
I'm still busy playing catch-up with housework and various projects and haven't blogged as much as I'd like to! I've been dying to bake, but I'm trying to lose weight as well, so I've been holding off until I have company. I hadn't quite got into the Christmas spirit yet, but we attended a great Christmas concert on Denman last night, put on by the Denman Is. Elementary and Community School and the "Rock Club" (as in "rock'n'roll"!). Half the island came and we all had a ball-- what talented kids (including 2 of my grandaughters!).
I wanted to share this favorite cookie recipe with you for the holidays before we head off to Vancouver for a few days to visit family and friends, and see my stepson Laurence play with his Celtic/rock band at a concert in Kitsalano.
UPDATE: Dec. 2014. If you prefer, you can use 1 ¼ cups of one of the many vegan sweetened condensed milk recipes on the internet instead of my own version (included in this recipe)-- just do a quick search and you'll find lots.
In any case, if you are allergic to soy, you will have to use one of the traditional-type recipes in which you cook down the milk of your choice slowly (may take an hour) until it is reduced and thickened.
Easy Sweetened Condensed Soymilk (just enough for this recipe):
5 comments:
- Sat Dec 18, 10:01:00 AM PST
- Vic Robinson said...
these look great! i might even coat them in chocolate! :0
- Sat Dec 18, 04:33:00 PM PST
- sheryl said...
Can i make these without the soy protein powder and soy and soy milk powder?
- Tue Dec 21, 12:36:00 PM PST
- Carin said...
Thank you Bryanna:
This has always been one of my favourite Pre Vegan cookies. Now I can have them again!!
- Tue Dec 21, 01:32:00 PM PST
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Cheryl, I really don't know. I used ingredients that I use in my sweetened condensed soymilk. You could try using rice milk powder and rice protein powder, but I don't know if it works the same way. You definitely can't just leave it out!
BTW, if you don't have a soy allergy and are just scared of eating soy because of all the bad hype, please read the info here:
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text: This story was updated to inlclude additional reporting. To read the latest story, click here.\n\n\nDespite warnings to businesses about the dangers of skipping Windows Vista, many IT managers and CIOs are standing firm that the risks of migrating to Vista outweigh the benefits.The recent press coverage regarding performance efficiencies seen in the Windows 7 pre-beta (delivered at Microsoft's recent Professional Developers Conference) has dimmed the spotlight on Vista a bit. Also, Vista sales have fallen short of expectations lately: For the fiscal first quarter of 2009, Microsoft's Windows client division revenue increased a mere 2 percent in year-over-year growth, while operating income dropped by 4 percent.Mike Nash, corporate VP of Windows product management, was asked recently if he expects users to bypass Vista and wait for Windows 7. He referenced the progress made in Vista SP1, but added that "customers are going to make their own decisions."Yes, they are. Whether they are spitefully, wholeheartedly skipping Vista or doing it for straightforward budgetary reasons, the decision on what to do (or not to do) with Vista still weighs heavy on the minds of IT managers. IT pros and CIOs we talked to for this story have some old concerns regarding Vista, starting with its ROI, and some new ones, such as how they'd handle a Vista upgrade for users who've now decided based on months of negative publicity that Vista's a bad choice. What they have in common is clear: They're sticking with XP, at least until Windows 7 arrives.XP Works Just Fine, Thank YouThe old expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", rings true for IT managers. Many do not see enough demand for Vista at their companies and XP is giving them everything they need. To upgrade would be to unnecessarily complicate their infrastructures, they say.John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School, says he has not been able to justify upgrading to Vista for his user population of doctors and nurses, citing the PC hardware requirements of Vista and the stability of XP."The hardware lifecycle in health care is five to seven years, and Vista requires more modern hardware then we have," Halamka says. "Simplicity, ease of use and performance are key drivers for us. XP addresses these needs better than Vista."Steve Berg, VP of IT at Taser International, heads up an XP shop and plans to stay that way until Windows 7. "My rationale is that XP is running our applications very well and is extremely stable on our hardware," he says.Taser rolled out a few Vista installs internally, Berg says, and saw "instability issues and applications running much slower than they run on XP."Another big concern Berg has with Vista: Significant training would have to take place to get his users comfortable with a different look and feel, he says.Hard to Justify Vista ROIAny upgrade is an investment, and like any new Microsoft operating system, the Vista upgrade comes with multiple costs including new hardware, new drivers, possible compatibility problems and training of staff. Will there be a sufficient return on these IT budget investments? Some IT managers are still dubious.Aron Smetana, CIO of Headlands Asset Management\/Paul Financial in San Francisco, questions the tangible benefits of upgrading to Vista. "The features don't justify the costs of upgrading to Vista, which include upgrading and replacing hardware, the user learning curve, and the initial maintenance," Smetana says.His IT team tried out Vista, Smetana says, and although no one disliked it, "no one kept using it on a daily basis ... there wasn't a compelling case for individuals to keep using it."Having key business applications that are not certified on Vista is often a roadblock as well. Gasper Genovese, VP and CIO of Republic Media, a media consulting company in Phoenix, says he can't implement Vista because of application certification. But he adds: "Even if that was not the case, there is no ROI on the training and disruption cost of making the change [to Vista]. Given the state of the economy, we need to focus on projects that will move us forward, not allow us to do the same thing differently."Stephen Laughlin, Director of IT at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, says he feels no pressure to upgrade because, "XP will be able to be used for a long time." Laughlin feels an upgrade to Vista would be too elaborate for his company's needs."It means also upgrading to Office, and possibly Exchange, and now Windows Server\u2014there's too much cost, time and energy," he says.Negative Vista Press on my MindWhether Windows Vista deserves all of the negative press it's received is debatable, and even now, you don't have to look far to see that debate unfold on any tech news site or blog.But the public perception of Vista, true or not, is that it's a failure. This perception tends to get into the heads of IT managers and affect purchasing decisions. Smetana of Headlands Asset Management contends that Vista has been worn down by being knocked hard in the press."While my feeling is that it's not as bad as people think it is, that's hardly a glowing endorsement," he says. "I can also tell you that lots of people, from power-users to Microsofties on my team, really wanted to like it, but no one felt compelled."Smetana adds: "When an end-user would ask us what was different or cool about it, almost everyone pointed to the Aero screen flipping and the new built-in desktop wallpaper. When that's the biggest thing you can show someone, it makes for a tough sell to provision the budget to upgrade to Vista, and combined with the bad press, it's a major uphill battle."Berg of Taser International also cites negative perceptions of Vista and says he doesn't want to deal with the potential risks."We are on an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft, so it wouldn't cost us anything extra to upgrade. 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Philadelphia, PA – After his win on Sunday at Michigan International Speedway, Joey Logano is in the thick of things in fighting for a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Logano moved up three positions in the point standings to 13th. He trails 10th-place Greg Biffle by 17 points. Logano also climbed to third in the wild card rankings. Kasey Kahne and Martin Truex Jr. presently hold the two wild cards. Just three races remain before the Chase begins.
After the 26-race regular season concludes next month at Richmond, the top-10 drivers in points as well as two wild cards will be in the Chase field.
Logano is in his first season as driver of the No. 22 Ford for Penske Racing. He spent the last four years with Joe Gibbs Racing before Matt Kenseth replaced him in the No. 20 Toyota. Logano has found a home at Roger Penske's team, and he's now very optimistic of making the Chase for the first time.
"We're close," Logano said. "This is a hard-fought win throughout this whole Penske team, this 22 team in particular. We've gone through a lot this season."
It's been an up-and-down season for the 23-year-old Logano. After a fourth- place finish in the June 29 race at Kentucky, he jumped to 10th in points. But Logano had a setback from there, posting back-to-back 40th-place finishes at Daytona and New Hampshire. He dropped to 18th in the standings. Logano's victory at Michigan marked his first top-five run since Kentucky.
The Sprint Cup Series will run at Bristol on Saturday and then head to Atlanta on Labor Day weekend before the regular season wraps up on the second weekend in September at Richmond.
Logano's team is preparing for the next three races the best it can, in hopes of making the Chase. They are scheduled to test at Richmond on Tuesday.
"We came out with kind of an aggressive testing program leading up into the Chase," Logano's crew chief, Todd Gordon, said. "We'll continue to focus on closing up the 17 points we need to 10th, and that starts with a test at Richmond and on to Bristol."
Logano also has dealt with more than his share of adversity this year. He first had his run-ins with Denny Hamlin at Bristol and Tony Stewart at California in March. Then his and Brad Keselowski's teams were severely penalized by NASCAR for illegal parts found on their cars during pre-race inspection at Texas in April.
In its final appeal, Penske had the suspensions for seven team members reduced from six points-paying races to two, but the loss of 25 points for both Logano and Keselowski remained. That could come back to bite them in trying to make the Chase. Keselowski, the defending Sprint Cup champion, is currently eighth in points but has yet to win a race this season. He's only eight points ahead of 11th-place Kahne.
Logano claimed his third career Sprint Cup win but his first since June 2012 at Pocono. He knows another win within the next three weeks would be crucial in his attempt to qualify for the Chase.
"We need to try to figure out how aggressive we need to be," Logano said. "That's a conversation we'll have throughout this week. Right now, as long as we're consistent, knocking off top-10s like this team has been doing, if we get another win, yeah, it's going to help us get in the Chase."


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2012 Dining Hall of Fame
This year, Orlando magazine honors restaurant owners and chefs, a wine educator and a bartender as Dining Hall of Fame inductees. Our Hall of Fame recognizes individuals and establishments with lasting ties to the local dining scene.
Living and loving the business that brought him to Orlando.
Time is flexible at Armando's, a new restaurant in Winter Park's Hannibal Square district. At night, tables fill and empty at a dizzying rate, the crowd is varied and noisy, and orders and waiters fly. During the day, lunch-goers linger, the waiters are older, and Italian pop music plays in the background. It becomes a restaurant that could be found on almost any corner of Naples or Rome. Owner/chef Armando Martorelli would be satisfied with a typically Italian, leisurely ristorante—in fact, he has one, Trattoria Toscana, just down the road on Park Avenue. But he wouldn't be happy.
Martorelli, 46, started running restaurants in Italy when he was 19. His father had worked at the strategically important U.S. naval base in Naples, exposing the young Armando to an idealized America. Given the chance to move to Orlando in 1996, Martorelli jumped. "I couldn't speak a word of English," he says. "It was a disaster."
And yet he pressed on, opening five local restaurants since then. The namesake Armando's is the one closest to his soul. "It suits me," he says. "This place indicates who I am." Martorelli inhabits this restaurant; he wears it like a coat. "I chose the colors, I chose the bar, I picked the lighting. I feel like it's a prize from God. This is what 16 years of struggle brings you."
He has always strived to present the honest food of central and southern Italy, of his homeland. He believes there should be a separation between something you can have at his restaurants and what you can have everywhere else.
"I came here not to be cute," he says. "I know exactly what I'm doing."
›› Restaurants: Bravissimo (1998), Babbo (2002), Aroma (2007), Trattoria Toscana (2009) and Armando's (2011). The last two remain open; Aroma now operates under a different owner.
›› Armando's custom-designed wood-fired oven can reach 1,000 degrees and cook a pizza in two minutes.
FRANK JUGE, Ph.D.
He's only too happy to educate UCF students about wine.
On the Rate My Professors website (ratemyprofessors.com), where students give honest and sometimes scathing reviews of their teachers, one Rosen College of Hospitality Management student offered this succinct observation of Frank Juge: "Dr. Juge is a very smart man and knows a lot about everything."
Juge, 71, does indeed know a lot about everything. He is more versed in wine than most so-called experts, and talks about digital cameras and computers with equal fervor ("When the new iPad is available," he says with excitement, "I'm buying it.").
He has a doctorate in organic chemistry and is an emeritus professor of chemistry and professor of hospitality management at the Rosen College. In 1974, Juge developed the first science of wine course at UCF. When Orlando Sentinel headlines proclaimed, "Professor Luring Kids into Science With Wine," Juge knew he'd hit the right note. "I get to teach about, and taste, five Rieslings before lunch," he says, "and I'm being paid for it." Juge figures he's taught more than 2,500 students the ins and outs of wine.
At the Rosen College, the largest hospitality school in the world, Juge teaches students about service, wine selection and pairing knowledge, and how to pass that on to restaurant staff. "A good story sells wine," he says, "and I have a story
for every wine."
In his quest to educate, he invests students with practical information, but also makes them question common wisdom. Are tastings even valid, he asks them, and does describing wine as having notes of saddle leather and horse manure really help anyone?
This native of New Orleans is a certified sommelier, but not a wine snob. "There are truly miraculous wines that are priced out of reach of most humans, but I also enjoy an $8 bottle of Mouton Cadet."
Juge is a remarkably happy person—one might even use the vintage word "chipper." Maybe it's the constant exposure to good wine. Or maybe he just loves what he's doing.
›› Longest-serving UCF faculty member, joining the college in 1968, three months before the campus opened.
›› Has served as dean of graduate studies, associate vice president, acting vice president for research, vice provost and acting provost.
›› At Rosen College since 2003
They make a great couple—of excellent chefs.
James and Julie Petrakis are partners in all things. Twice nominated as "Best Chefs, South" by the James Beard Foundation, the Oscars of food, it's telling that they've been the only chefs nominated as a couple.
They have an interesting split in The Ravenous Pig kitchen: Julie is in charge of pastry and tweaking the ever-changing seasonal dishes on the menu; James does everything else—"except make any comments about the pastry," Julie says.
"Where else would we want to work?" James asks. "Yes, they're 15-hour days, but if one of us was a banker, we'd never see each other."
Opened in 2007 in Winter Park, "The Pig" has garnered acclaim and prestige for the two chefs, and the Orlando food scene as a whole, making it easier for other adventurous chefs to experiment on local taste buds. Their new Southern eclectic restaurant, Cask & Larder, will open in August in the former Harper's Tavern location on West Fairbanks Avenue.
Restaurants are a family affair for the Petrakis clan. James' Greek grandfather opened several diners in Gainesville; his father, John, owns several McDonald's in Central Florida; and his brother, Brian, owns the Greens & Grille chain.
"Our parents live nearby," Julie says. "We both grew up in Winter Park. This is our neighborhood; it pushes us."
The chefs, both 34, went to the University of Florida at the same time but didn't know each other. They met at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in New York. James has cooked at Atelier in New York City, Seasons 52 and Luma on Park; Julie was in the kitchens at the Bacchanalia restaurant in Atlanta, New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, Capriccio Grill at The Peabody Orlando, and opened the acclaimed Primo Orlando in the JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes.
"Take pride in being a cook," James says.
He and Julie have every reason to be proud.
›› Both were nominated twice, James Beard Foundation "Best Chef, South"
›› James nominated twice, Food & Wine Magazine "People's Best New Chef"
The bartender is on a first-name basis with everyone.
In the Bösendorfer Lounge at the Grand Bohemian Hotel, guests wearing jackets and ties, women in little black dresses, obscure lawyers, working musicians and famous NBA players all stand around the bar and wait for Ivy.
"I am a bartender," Ivy says. "It's hard. It's not all glamour. But if I had to work in an office with just two or three people, I'd go nuts. I'm at my best with the rhythm and flow of a busy bar."
Ivy's been at the Grand Bohemian for eight years, and in that time has served the famous, rich and powerful as well as the ordinary who either live here or are just passing through. "I try to figure the customer out, what I can get them that they'd really like. Really like." How does she do that? "I don't want to give away all my secrets,"
she laughs.
Blonde, perky and outgoing, and constantly aware of her surroundings, she is a very private person in a very public profession, and doesn't share her last name or personal details. "Cher is Cher, Madonna is Madonna, I'm just Ivy."
Now in her 40s, she has sold shoes and cleaned out horse stables, but it was a bartending job while in college that started her career. "I was waiting for the skies to part and someone to tell me what to declare as my major, and the day that happens I'll go right back to school and finish."
Behind the bar, she is an efficient explosion of constant motion. She has a good smile and a great laugh, her eyes always scanning the bar, even when she's muddling mint for a mojito or pulling a draft beer. She recognizes drinks by the dregs in a glass, and she serves a generous pour.
"Can I get you a drink?" she asks, leaning across the bar, and her eyes light up.
There's no pressure—she'll figure out what you really want. Just call her Ivy.
›› Bartender, 23 years
›› At Hard Rock Café, 6 years
›› At Grand Bohemian, 8 years
Their funky business model is a recipe for unconventional success.
Take two American cuisine restaurants serving sushi with a side order of cross-dressing waitresses, a diner with a Drag Gospel brunch, a Southwestern steak house and a downtown Italian bistro, and add two bold restaurateurs who have literally built their business by hand, and you have a recipe for unorthodox success.
Eddie Nickell (left) and his partner of 23 years, Nicholas Olivieri, both 45, took $40,000 of their own money and cast-off bar furniture from Morton's Steakhouse, and opened Funky Monkey Wine Company on Mills Avenue in 2008, hammering shelves and rewiring ovens in their off-hours. The second FM location in Pointe Orlando soon followed, with Bananas Diner, Prickly Pear and Nick's Italian Kitchen the latest additions to the lineup.
"I consider myself the last of a dying breed of tuxedoed fine dining," Nickell says. Given the tone of Funky Monkey and Bananas, that might seem like an odd statement, but Nickell has standards. "We still have real linens, and crystal on the tables." Nickell gives the impression of being the dryly humorous, no-nonsense partner, while Olivieri laughs and leans into a conversation to fill in details.
"Eddie started designing Funky Monkey, from menu to design," Olivieri says, "seven years before it opened."
Nickell has been in the restaurant business since he was 15, working at a Howard Johnson's in Middletown, Ohio. Olivieri sold air filtration systems before moving into hotel management in Dayton, Ohio. Relocating to Orlando, Olivieri was opening manager at the JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes, where
Nickell opened Primo in 2003 and later became hotel sommelier and general manager of Dux at The Peabody Orlando.
The pair doesn't take success for granted. "Every day I wake up in awe," Nickell says. "I look at what we've done and it's pretty amazing, going from a $40,000 investment to $6 million in sales. And it's still just the two of us—no partners, no loans and no debt."
The FMI restaurants reflect Nickell's and Olivieri's long-standing dreams. Bananas is a re-creation of the old HoJo days; Nickell's quest for a Southwestern-concept restaurant is answered by Prickly Pear; Nick's satisfies Olivieri's yearning for a place to serve prized Italian family recipes.
"We're at every Friday night drag show at [the Funky Monkey at I-Drive's] Pointe Orlando, every brunch at Bananas, and at every wine dinner at the restaurants," Nickell says. "Every night is a dinner party; we just invite everyone to sit at the table."
›› Funky Monkey opened on Mills Avenue in 2008, with a second location on International Drive in 2009; Bananas Diner, 2010; Prickly Pear and Nick's Italian Kitchen, 2011
• Minimum of five years in the local restaurant industry
• Reputation for quality food and/or service Criteria For Lifetime Achievement
• Contributions to local industry


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VIDEO: The trailer for Zeno Clash
Both art and story alienate and disorient you — Zeno Clash explains almost nothing about its fantasy universe. The game plops you down in the middle of a plot point and you hit the ground running. You're Ghat, a normal-looking human in a world full of bird humans, mutated humans, dinosaur-like monsters, and other beings that defy description. At the outset, you discover that you've just killed your Father-Mother, the hermaphrodite bird-human hybrid (just go with it) who spawned you. Your conveniently human-looking love interest, Deadra, takes your side and follows you as you go on the run from avenging siblings. Her main purpose appears to be exposition: she asks questions about your behavior, and that helps, because otherwise you would never know why Ghat does anything. But you'll find yourself wishing Deadra would ask more questions, because the plot makes about as much sense as a bad dream.
Zeno Clash starts out hard and gets harder. Your first "real" battle after training is against three of your siblings, who gang up on you. The fighting style is melee combat from a first-person perspective, with the occasional gun or piece of health-providing fruit lying around. You'll come across a few monster bosses and crazy persons in the woods (there's a blind guy riding a giraffe dinosaur who throws exploding rodents), but your recurring foes are your pissed-off sister and her cohort. Once you get the hang of blocking and dodging, the techniques will stick with you, but the battles will grow increasingly difficult as more and more people gang up on you.
You could focus on honing your up-close melee combat, or you could take advantage of the game's few guns. These weapons are made out of sticks and shells, and they have an extremely slow reload time. They do well enough if you manage to hold onto them, but if someone punches you once, you'll drop your weapon. If you prefer sniping in your shooters, though, you can still do that in Zeno Clash. You'll have to run and find new cover if your enemies get close enough to punch your gun away, but you can beat the game and the bosses just by gunning if you choose.
If you play through the four to six hours of story and still want more, there's a Challenge Mode that involves battling your way up a tower against various creepy combatants. Challenge Mode is both more difficult and more addictive than Campaign Mode, and ACE promises to continue to release free add-ons to it, so you can get more bang for your buck.
And, yes, the buck: Zeno Clash is only $20. True, it's short, but some major developers publish games of this length and try to sell them to you for $60. Given that it's the first title released by a completely new independent company, Zeno Clash is quite impressive. So don't download it illegally — these guys deserve your money.
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I picked up my local newspaper this morning and there on the front page were three headlines so wonderful I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't still sound asleep dreaming up a complete fantasy fulfillment!
Here are the headlines from our front page:
1. Dems control Congress!
2. Rumsfeld resigns!
and--Drum roll please . . .
3. Low-carb OK'd for women: new study shows diets high in fat and low in carbohydrates do not pose added risk of heart disease to women
If this keeps up, my blood sugar is going to be dropping just from a lack of things to get infuriated about!
November 9, 2006
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Today's young designers are impressively versed in the art of branding across many different forms of media. Whilst in Milan recently for the annual Salone Internazionale del Mobile furniture fair, the stands dedicated to graduates and students were populated as much by new products as they were by videos, animations, cartoons, illustrations, graphics and sophisticated branding to promote them.
Designing a chair is only half the story for a student these days – designing the message and story that comes with it is seemingly as important a part of the process. I've returned with a small forest of printed material, a library of CDs and USB sticks. And going through it in an attempt to file it all I'm struck by how obscuring it is of the designs it's all intended to promote. I have a 32-page manga comic devised around a single chair but I can't remember what the chair looks like. I have a rather cheesy fashion magazine promoting a love story around a toilet. It's not even tongue in cheek.
Sophisticated branding is of course brilliant. But I'm a little worried it's getting out of control as far as young designers are concerned. Does a table really need a book and a short film to explain why it's good design? The notion of good design is that it should speak for itself.
It's not just that there's a lot of material to wade through that's the problem, it's that young designers feel it's necessary – and enough – to sell their design. After watching a mildly amusing animation about some dancing cutlery I asked one young graduate why his cutlery was an improvement on what exists already? That might sound harsh but he couldn't answer. And if he couldn't answer to me, how on earth would he persuade a flatware manufacturer to invest its precious budget in putting his cutlery prototype into production. What on earth is the point of the animation and printed matter, the logo, the packaging, if the designer himself can't speak simply about why his design is valid?
Clever, creative branding should be supporting material, not a substitute for human communication, not something for designers to hide behind.
I mentioned this to a friend of mine somewhat further along the chain. He's a successful designer who has recently launched his own company that's taking the global furniture industry by storm, working with five different nationalities of designer, craftsman and producer in as many countries. And after less than a year, sales in all five continents are incredibly successful.
"Where's your animation and coffee table book which explains the idea behind what you do?" I asked. He agreed collateral material and branding has got out of control. Instead he credits his time spent at the San Francisco Academy of Art University where instead of learning graphic design they were given acting and performance classes. At the time he said he hated it and thought it was a complete waste of time. It's taken 20 years for him to understand what a blessing it was – granting him the gift of the gab – the power of the pitch.
What he might be lacking in the finer nuances of Apple Final Cut Pro, he makes up for in being able to talk straight about what he's creating and why it's important. And that translates to success.
Young designers take note – if your chair doesn't speak for itself and if you can't speak for it, an accompanying manga comic is unlikely to do the talking for you.


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A zygote process is one that listens for spawn requests from a main process and forks itself in response. Generally they are used because forking a process after some expensive setup has been performed can save time and share extra memory pages.
More specifically, on Linux, it allows to:
ContentMainRunnerImpl::Initialize(). With the above, this saves up to ~8 MB per process. See Appendix C.
Security-wise, the Zygote is responsible for setting up and bookkeeping the namespace sandbox.
Furthermore it is the only reasonable way to keep a reference to a binary and a set of shared libraries that can be exec'ed. In the model used on Windows and Mac, renderers are exec'ed as needed from the chrome binary. However, if the chrome binary, or any of its shared libraries are updated while Chrome is running, we'll end up exec'ing the wrong version. A version x browser might be talking to a version y renderer. Our IPC system does not support this (and does not want to!).
So we would like to keep a reference to a binary and its shared libraries and exec from these. However, unless we are going to write our own
ld.so, there's no way to do this.
Instead, we exec the prototypical renderer at the beginning of the browser execution. When we need more renderers, we signal this prototypical process (the zygote) to fork itself. The zygote is always the correct version and, by exec'ing one, we make sure the renderers have a different address space randomisation than the browser.
The zygote process is triggered by the
--type=zygote command line flag, which causes
ZygoteMain (in
chrome/browser/zygote_main_linux.cc) to be run. The zygote is launched from
Signaling the zygote for a new renderer happens in
You can use the
--zygote-cmd-prefix flag to debug the zygote process. If you use
--renderer-cmd-prefix then the zygote will be bypassed and renderers will be exec'ed afresh every time.
Measured on a Z620:
$ LD_DEBUG=statistics /opt/google/chrome-beta/chrome --help runtime linker statistics: total startup time in dynamic loader: 73899158 clock cycles time needed for relocation: 56836478 clock cycles (76.9%) number of relocations: 4271 number of relocations from cache: 11347 number of relative relocations: 502740 time needed to load objects: 15789844 clock cycles (21.3%)
56836478 clock cycles -> ~56 ms/GHz
$ readelf -WS /opt/google/chrome-beta/chrome [Nr] Name Type Address Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al ... [25] .data.rel.ro PROGBITS 0000000006a8b590 6a8a590 5b5500 00 WA 0 0 16 ... Note: 0x5b5500 -> 5.98 MB
Actual impact in terms of memory pages that get shared due to CoW:
$ cat /proc/.../smaps 7fbdd1c81000-7fbdd2233000 r--p 06a5d000 fc:00 665771 /opt/google/chrome-unstable/chrome ... Shared_Dirty: 5796 kB
$ cat /proc/$PID_OF_ZYGOTE/smaps | grep Shared_Dirty | awk '{TOTAL += $2} END {print TOTAL}' 8092 # KB for dirty pages shared with other processes (mostly forked child processes).


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The Kent County Sheriff Department gave out its annual awards to department personnel last week. Among them were individual awards for deputy of the year—law enforcement, deputy of the year—correctons, and civilian employee of the year.
2011 deputy of the year—law enforcement
Deputy Timothy Erhardt
It is with great pleasure that the Kent County Sheriff Department names Deputy Timothy Erhardt the 2011 Deputy of the Year.
Tim began his career on May 10, 1999 at the Kent County Sheriff Department as a County Patrol Officer, providing services to the residents of Kent County by enforcing laws and traffic regulations, investigating crime, and utilizing crime prevention techniques.
Deputy Erhardt has been assigned to the Secondary Road Patrol Unit for over 10 years. He has worked traffic enforcement on almost every secondary road in the County and educated the motoring public on the benefits of safe driving. He has investigated hundreds of serious and fatal crashes throughout his tenure as a 416 officer.
Throughout his career, Deputy Erhardt served as a member of the Kent County Honor Guard, participated in dignitary motorcades (including President George W. Bush), was named 2009 Secondary Road Patrol Deputy of the Year, and received the 2010 Community Policing Association of Michigan's Special Project in the Field of Crime Prevention Award.
Deputy Erhardt spearheaded Kent County's Distracted Driver Awareness Program in 2007 and has since spoken with thousands of high school students and staff, earning him the 2011 Governor's Traffic Safety Advisory Commission Award for traffic safety. Deputy Erhardt has also been instrumental in launching the same program in Ottawa and Barry Counties.
Deputy Erhardt's constant commitment to his profession is overwhelming evidence of his dedication, teamwork philosophy, and enthusiasm for his patrols, investigations, and willingness to help others.
2011 Deputy of the year—corrections
Deputy Donna Brown
It is with great pleasure the Kent County Sheriff Department name Deputy Donna Brown the 2011 Deputy of the Year—Corrections.
Donna began her career on July 20, 1998 at the Kent County Sheriff Department as a Corrections Officer. While assigned to the main jail facility, Donna worked virtually every duty station. Her responsibilities included conducting inmate searches, transfers and investigations regarding alleged incidents, admitting visitors, conducting inmate counts, inspecting living quarters, and assisting in the Inmate Services Program.
Donna brought management experience from a previous job and quickly became someone you could count on to do the job right. She is a leader among her peers, well liked and respected. Donna's strong work ethic and communication skills assisted her in becoming a classification officer in 2003 and she continues in this job assignment today.
As Classification Officer, Deputy Brown conducted more than 5,500 inmate moves within the facility and conducted 970 face to face interviews during 2011. It is easy to get complacent and cut corners when interviewing and making this many decisions, but that is not the case with Deputy Brown. Her interviews are detailed and she makes good judgment in her decisions on inmate housing assignments. Her sound decision making is vital to the Sheriff Department interests as well as the County of Kent's.
Deputy Brown attended several training seminars on gangs. She interviews and identifies inmates involved in gang activities. She has been able to gather information on activity occurring within the facility as well as on the street. This information assisted local agencies on a variety of crimes including but not limited to murder, armed robberies, and drug related offenses.
Deputy Brown's commitment to doing her very best and going above and beyond makes our facility and community a safer place.
2011 Civilian employee of the year
Brett Hulliberger
It is with great pleasure that the Kent County Sheriff Department name Brett Hulliberger as 2011 Civilian Employee of the Year.
Brett began his career at the Kent County Sheriff Department on October 12, 1998 as a part time Emergency Communications Operator in the Dispatch Center. On January 4, 1999, he was hired full time. His duties include receiving and processing emergency calls, dispatching equipment or personnel, maintaining two-way radio communication for police, fire or other departments, and serving as a Communication Training Officer (CTO). As CTO, he has had a part of training the majority of the current Dispatch staff.
On November 29, 2010, Brett was promoted to Emergency Communications Supervisor I, a technical lead position providing work direction for operators engaged in responsible public safety communications and dispatching.
When dealing with a variety of calls including emergency situations, Brett maintains a level head and calm demeanor and goes the extra mile when assisting the needs of the public. He has great social skills and works well with everyone. Brett is knowledgeable in the many different computer systems that Kent County has and he plays an integral part in the implementing and training of the new CAD system.
In 2007 and 2010, Brett was recognized with Letters of Recognition awarded for services characterized by outstanding ability, alertness and devotion to duty.
In 2011, Brett stepped up to assist the Records Bureau clerks learn the warrant entry process. He was always considerate and very patient in his teachings. Brett went so far as to compile a "warrant book" including samples and instructions for the many different kinds of warrants.
Brett provides valuable input and leadership as the Kent County Sheriff Office continues to move forward with new technology. He comes to work each day prepared and with an exceptional attitude that consists of compassion, patience, commitment, and competency.


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A girl thought to have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her family after being found alive nearly a decade later, her parents said Friday. Raudhatul Jannah was just four when she was swept away as the disaster struck Indonesia on Boxing Day in 2004. After a month, her relatives assumed she was among the more than 230,000 killed. But in June, her brother spotted someone who appeared to be his long-lost sister walking down the street, according to German news agency DPA.
Now 14 years old, Jannah was being raised by an elderly woman, named Maryam, almost 80 miles south of her family. She now lives with her biological parents, father Septi Rangkuti and mother Jamaliah. "This is a miracle from God," her mother told DPA. Her relatives do not plan to carry out a DNA test. "It's a mother's instinct," Jamaliah Jannah told Reuters. "I knew she was the one and we also saw her photos from childhood when we picked her up, that's her."