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Approaching the cement basketball court as the sun is setting opposite the East End Community House in Mildura, it's a hive of activity but only a few people are shooting hoops.
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Around 30 kids are standing in front of an instructor, almost in a military fashion, but it's nothing to do with the armed forces, they're learning hip hop dance moves from Patsy Fangaake.
Young locals from the area are cautiously drawn towards the booming music, and start to crowd around to see what's going on.
Sitting on the grass after the classes with kids sitting all around; all eyes fixed on the microphone, Patsy explains that it's nothing more than a group of people who love dancing.
"We're just a bunch of kids who are interested in dancing pretty much.
"Around Mildura there's a lot of talent out there, especially hip hop dancers that haven't been found, she says.
Once Patsy Fangaake had established the hip hop dance interest in Mildura she says it was just a matter of getting them all together to guide them in the right direction.
"So I thought maybe why not bring out talent from Mildura and see where everyone is at," she says.
Another dance instructor Mayla Rabana, is enthusiastic and positive about the kids potential and talent that is being displayed.
"It's good for the kids, something to do and show what the kids have. It's potential talent really, learning form us older one's so they can get out there and show others what they can do," she says.
As the kids sitting around Mayla on the grass egg her on with her answers she explains how hip hop dance arrived into her life.
"I grew up with a lot of people that were into dancing, like with different culture, because we're Polynesians we do Polynesian dance and we're into reggae and hip hop.
"I guess that's where my hip hop talent came from just from the people that I grew up with," she says.
Mayla says even though her culture did influence her dance choice 'it depends on you, if you love dancing then that's where it leads you'.
Through the laughing and whispering on the lawn, Patsy Fangaake talks about where the hip hop journey started for her.
"Well I started really young but then it sort of build up when I came to Mildura from Sydney.
"I studied dance at Mildura Senior College and that's where it pretty much left off from there," she says.
Even though Patsy is now instructing classes, Patsy says when performing she still gets nervous but she has her own way of dealing with it.
"I get nervous when I perform, there's just something that comes to me like 'oh you've got to do it, this is what you love', so then I just go for it, and give it my all," she says.
So what do the kids get out of this? Patsy says it's just great to find all of the talent that is around the region, and bringing it out is something that she really enjoys.
"It will build up their confidence, show themselves more by expressing themselves by dancing and just seeing talent.
"It's great because they'll feel positive about themselves, have confidence just to bring out who they are," she says.
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Religions 2011, 2(4), 676-692; doi:10.3390/rel2040676
Hinduism in India and Congregational Forms: Influences of Modernization and Social Networks
Department of Sociology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97326, Waco, TX 76798-7326, USA
Received: 30 October 2011 / Accepted: 2 December 2011 / Published: 8 December 2011
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AbstractIn light of increased scholarly interest in the scientific study of non-Christian religions and societies, I review sociological research on Hinduism. Specifically, I focus on Hindu congregational forms, a phenomenon noted in social scientific literature. Drawing on existing theories from the sociology of religion, this article illuminates possible social sources of Hindu congregational forms. Two preliminary sources are proposed and possible mechanisms elaborated: (1) modernization and (2) social networks. I conclude by proposing several new directions for research on Hindu congregational forms. These arguments and proposals offer directions for expanding understanding of how theories in the sociology of religion might operate beyond Christianity and the West. View Full-Text
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Osteria Napoli has been serving hearty Italian homecooking for over 23 years.
Mrs. C and I were on the prowl for Italian, and I remembered this place was near the T&T in East Van. It seemed like a good opportunity to try a new place.
The restaurant itself didn't look like much. It was rather run down and the tables were too close together. The w/c was reasonably clean. On the plus side they had live entertainment in the form of a guy playing the keyboard near the bar section. Very home-style.
We got a table and menus quickly. I noticed they had a decent selection of entrees including a set dinner with an appetizer, main, dessert and coffee for 34 bucks. I saw that the deserts were all from one of those gelato factories though, so I decided to go with a la carte ordering so I could get exactly what I wanted.
I went with a veal parmigiana and penne pasta with tomato sauce and my beloved dining companion had prawns in Alfedo sauce with pasta. I also had a small glass of the house red for 8 bucks more.
The server seemed like a nice guy but the manager/hostess (who had a really strong accent) was a different story. She took our orders and told me I had a choice of veggies or pasta with my veal. I said pasta please, and even asked what kind, etc. She said penne with tomato sauce. After about half an hour our orders arrived, and for some reason there was no pasta on my plate. I mentioned this to our server and he apologized and brought me a side dish of pasta right away. Just as I was about to plunge my fork into my coveted pasta, the manager came over and started to berate me for "changing my mind" and said I definitely ordered the veggie sides. I politely reminded her about our previous conversation about the pasta, and she yelled "you are wrong" and stomped away. The server apologized when his boss was out of range, explaining that she was French (as if that explained anything) but the damage was done.
I also noticed at the neighboring table another couple had ordered the set dinner and I overheard them tell the server they had not received their pasta or one of their desserts. Once again the server apologized, and he was offering an adjustment when the same manager stormed over to the table and began arguing with the couple like they were trying to cheat the restaurant or something. The man left the restaurant red-faced, but his female companion stuck around for a while and tried to explain what happened. I couldn't help but watch the way you would when you see a car crash. I just could not believe how out of control the manager was. I left the place with the shrill rantings of the crazy manager ringing in my ears. Perhaps she should consider a career change.
It was a shame because the food wasn't too bad.
Definitely not recommended, except for the masochists out there.
I had dinner here with my dad on a thursday night, when we showed up the place had about 1 table besides us. We saw the Naples Special in the menu, $70 for 2 people for 4 courses, looked like a great deal so we ordered it.
1st course: Mussels & Clams in sauce - generous portion, kind of small mussels, decent sauce.
2nd course: Trio of pasta - Linguini Al Pesto, Penne Arabiata & Tortelloni alla Panna - The pasta was good, I liked the penne arabiata the best (tasted more like a tomato sauce then arabiata to me but still good, next was the pesto, then the tortellini.
3rd course: Trio of Veal - 1 with tomato sauce, 1 with melted cheese, 1 with mushroom sauce. I enjoyed them in the same order as mentioned. It came with potato and vegetables.
4th course: Dessert - I had the creme caramel and he had the tiramisu. Both were pretty great, the tiramisu was one of the better ones I've had.
This was pretty good, too much food though. I didn't eat my potato or veg on the 3rd course to save room for the dessert. Overall a good meal and we would both return here. I rate the food here a 3.5 out of 5 but there is no button for that so I put 3.
Came here tonight with a friend of mine tonight. Upon arriving, we saw liked the Ambiance of this place, as it was like a really nice typical looking Italian restaurant.
We were seated immediatly by the owner (well his wife) she seemed like a really nice lady. We enjoyed small talk with her.
Anyhow, after being seated, my friend ordered some white wine, and I ordered a Shirley Temple. We were asked if we wanted an appetizer, and decided to order a ceasar salad. The ceasar salad was good no problem there. They did bring us some bread too (and cold hard rock butter....I mean seriously, how can we spread that on our bread, when the butter is the same texture as a rock)
Later on we ordered our entrees, My friend had a chicken breast with penne in cream sauce, and I ordered a Fettucini Alfredo with chicken. The food came out, and they had forgot to put chicken in my pasta....the waiter apologized and brought it back with chicken....It didn't take long.
The pastas we had weren't bad or anyhthing, but it didn't really wow us ither. I can almost say it was kinda on the bland side with some flavour...nothing exciting
Anyhow, some where during the meal, my friend ordered an additional glass of wine....when they brought the bill they had added the chicken that they had forgotten earlier (but I ended up getting....so no problem)
but afterwards, the waiter noticed that he only charged my friend for one wine after we were almost ready to pay, and made the adjustment.
I was thinking "Ok, so back to the chicken.....no problem paying for it, because I did get it.....even though some restaurants as a good gesture will take it off the bill......but after you realize that the wine was missing, you go out of your way to add it? could had compenstated at least for the chicken part, since in reality you can't give booze for free"
Anyhow, the food wasn't anything great (ceasar salad was the high light of the meal....it was just ok though) My friend wants to come back though, even though we agreed that the food wasn't that great, but I am a little bit reluctant, as I would rather go somewhere better, Like Zeffereli's or Anton's.. The prices here are the same, but the dishes there are bigger and better
I had to throw in my 2 cents as the previous respected reviewer gave this restaurant a lower rating due to service, but admitted the food was good.
I've lived in Italy, albeit for far too briefly and am familar with the food's there. After returning home I had a severe case of homesickness for Italian food. I could recreate some dishes at home but I wanted to enjoy the restaurant experience as well.
After researching and eating my way through many Lower Mainland Italian restaurants, I stumbled across Osteria Napoli because of a piece written by the CBC food critic Don Genova.
The hidden secret about Osteria Napoli is their Porcetta theme nights, where they roast a whole pig. This is an awesome deal as it includes the appetizer, pasta course, main entree and dessert. Also included is entertainment with a live musician. They also sometimes offer a seafood themed night but I haven't tried that.
The roast pig is simply delicious, as it's prepared with herbs. The meal is really fun as well as because it's essentially a feast meal and it's a long leisurely meal so take along dinner companions you want to spend time with. The portions are huge, by the time the roast pig entree arrived most of us were stuffed.
I hope the owner and management do listen and takes steps to rectify customer complaints about the service. However service misunderstandings aside this place is well worth a visit for the food. All of the food is freshly prepared with quality flavourful ingredients and it's well worth a visit for the tasty food and for that smidge of real Italian homecooking essence.
I think I also had a different experience because I speak French, and I found that the Quebecois server was fine.
On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, my husband and I went to Osteria Napoli Ristorante (1600 Renfrew St., Vancouver) for dinner. It was our first time there and it was the Groupon that prompted us to give it a try. The Groupon worth $50 for anything on the menu. We arrived at 6:20pm. The waiter told suggested, politely, that instead of using our Groupon we might want to consider keeping it for another day of the week. Reason being, on Wednesday nights they offer your choice of any pasta dish (except seafood) for roughly half-price ($9.99) and deeply discounted house wines ($12 for a half-litre). We understood that conversation to mean… "You should capitalize on our low Wednesday night prices by using cash and save your Groupon for a more expensive evening like a Thursday, Friday or Saturday. You'd get more bang for your buck then". NOTE: Those are my words, not his, but that is how we understood the conversation.
Nonetheless, we decided to redeem the Groupon that night rather than risking holding onto it for a 2nd night when we it might turn out that we didn't enjoy the food or service.
Here's the key point, in our two conversations (on arrival and when placing our order) at NO TIME did he indicate that if we used the Groupon that we were not eligible for the special Wednesday prices and instead we would have to pay full price for the meal, i.e. - the pasta dishes became $17+ each instead of $9.99, and the wine became $18 instead of $12.
Our order was taken promptly and we received our appetizer in a reasonable amount of time. Once the appetizer was done, the main course never came. The tables around us were being served but not us. One table of 4 arrived after us, got through their entire meal, paid and left and we were still waiting for our meal. We had tickets for a play to attend at 8pm so at 7:25 we got up to leave and asked that our meal be boxed. We weren't in a huff… we just had to go… and we didn't think a pasta dish was going to take so long to prepare. Even if the food came out that minute we wouldn't have had time to eat it and drive to the theatre. The person at the cash (the owner we believe?) was apologetic, as was the server. We were told: "We are so sorry, we told the kitchen about your order, we don't know what happened with your meal but we are going to make it up to you, we will cancel your appetizer".
The server said loudly: "I went to the kitchen 3 times asking where is the food for Table 33 !?!"
I think he said that more for "The Boss" to know where the fault lay and not so much for our benefit.
The Boss repeated 3 times… "Don't worry, we'll take care of you. Peter, (or whatever the waiter's name was) take the appetizer off the bill."
We waited for our boxed meal to come out of the kitchen and eventually it came, but with a bill with two extra surprises on it:
1) All the dishes and wine were all at full price… about $69 instead of $49.
2) The appetizer had not been cancelled and we were charged the full $17. The explanation was that because we used a Groupon they would not cancel the appetizer. They would have cancelled the appetizer if we were "Cash customers" but not for "Groupon" customers.
Wow! We are business people and we know about margins, profit, etc., and we understand that their profit on a Groupon meal is less than normal. Still, the whole point of issuing a Groupon is to attract new customers, impress them with your product & services, and expand your user-base and future business volume. Instead, we were treated like 2nd class citizens… it even gave me a taste of unwarranted discrimination… For them, Yes, but for you, No!
The whole experience at that restaurant was a disaster and left a very bad taste in our mouths. By the time we got home from the play it was 10:30pm we went to bed and did not eat the pasta. When we re-heated it the next day, the food was quite good. But it won't matter, we would never go back to this place and we will advise our circle of friends never to go as well. Too bad, as it is right in the vicinity of our theatre house/stage which we frequent about 15 times per year!
A Groupon should be a marketing tool to get new customers to try your restaurant. In this instance, it was clearly treated as a nuisance by the merchant and we the users were not treated as "real" customers.
I would appreciate it if Groupon could acknowledge my complaint and pass it on to the restaurant owner or manager who signed on to your program.
PS – To think, all the waiter had to say was, simply, "You can use your Groupon for anything listed on our food & beverage menu. However, please be aware that if you apply it to our pasta and house wine specials you are not eligible for the Wednesday night pricing and would need to pay the regular price."
That is clear… and even justifiable… but it needs to be said!
This hidden gem is a really great restaurant with amazing dishes. Our waiter was great, he was attentive and very nice and genuine! They have a special on the front page of the menu where you get your choice of appetizers (the mussels and clams was really yummy), pasta trio, veal done 3 ways with delicious roasted potatoes, grilled tomato, peas, red pepper and broccoli!! After your meal, you get a choice of dessert (the home-style Tiramisu was really well done!) and coffee or tea is offered after. There were a lot of food and I even had take out from each course to bring home!! We would definitely come back to order off the regular menu. Very pleasant dinner and great service, it was amazing from start to finish.
We brought our Mom for her birthday to Osteria Napoli Ristorante. Called ahead and made a reservation and confirmed that we had a Groupon. Upon arrival, our server was rude, rushing us through our drink order. We weren't ready so he left abruptly. He came back a few minutes later, still weren't ready, he rolled his eyes and left. After ordering two carafes of wine, mussels, garlic prawns, and a bowl of clam linguine to share, the cook/owner comes out with his voice raised so the entire restaurant can hear him- "Did you buy a Groupon? And only ordered one pasta? We're losing money here! You need to leave!" Grabs my partners AND my mom's partner's glass and ushers us to leave without giving us the courtesy to decide whether or not we wanted to stay and pay the full meal, even though there were no discrepancies with our Groupon. I interrupt saying that we've ordered two appetizers, wine, pasta, and were planning on ordering dessert for our MOMS BIRTHDAY DINNER, he apologized with "kisses" and brought us complimentary bread, excusing himself because "He is from Sicily". He blamed the server for telling him that we ONLY ordered pasta between the four of us and were using a groupon. Shortly after, our server returned and asked us, "Have you sorted it out?", instead of apologizing for the inappropriate behavior towards us. We explained how rude we thought the situation was handled, and he replied "That's unfortunate." I was so embarrassed I couldn't help but cry, I had to leave the table to compose myself. Mid way through our meal our server left. Another server took his place. I felt rushed through our meal, our server came to take our pasta away and we asked him to pack it for us. They charged us for the full meal and made a point of stating the original bill ($87) in order for us to tip appropriately. I work in the service industry, I know how Groupons work. I've also NEVER been as humiliated and disrespected in my entire life.
My friend and I went there here for dinner and we both ordered Ossobuco and the main waiter asked if I want my in lamb or veal. I never had lamb Ossobuco so I selected lamb. We also ordered two appetizers and wine. We arrived there at 7:30 and our main course arrived at 9:00pm. The place was full and there were three waiters but it seems like only one waiter taking orders. Our waiter is tall with salt and pepper hair. Right away both my girlfriend and I didn't feel right by his energy, he was very short with us but clearly not with other tables. He was very friendly with other guess and I hate to say this but they are all Caucasian and mixture of males and females. We decided not to order dessert because we afraid it would take another half an hour for it. We asked for the bill and handed our Entertainment coupon to our waiter. He looked at us with an annoyed face expression and walked away. Shortly he came back with the bill and told us that we can't use the coupon because we ordered the special. I asked what special, he said the lamb Ossobuco. I told him when I order the Ossobuco he asked me if I want it in lamb or veal without telling me that the lamb was special, I thought it was a choice. He just ignored my comment and said that it was a special and we can't use the coupon. He also said that we should be thankful because we got serve faster than others. OMG!! I could not believe he said that! At that point I had enough of it so I paid the bill and left. Later on I found out that Ossobuco is always served in veal and not lamb. The dish I got was lamb shank with tomato meat sauce!
Needless to say I will never go back there again and I WILL tell all my friends about this. I noticed that someone wrote here that is non white had a similar poor service.
Last December my coworkers and I continued our annual tradition of going out for dinner in December for a nice time catching up with each other, having a good meal and exchanging gifts. We decided to try a new place and one of the girls suggested Osteria Napoli, having had good meals there before and others had heard good things too. The night was bitterly cold and I and another friend were there early. The place was virtually empty except for some people in the back area. True, it was a weeknight, but if a place is good, one does not expect it to be virtually empty. I felt that was an omen and how right I was.
My friend and I were shown to a table by the front window and we both sat on the side with the window, with out backs to it. While we waited for the rest to arrive, we almost froze to death as it was bitterly cold right next to the window. It wasn't until our group was complete that the entirely non-busy waiter remembered there was a base board heater under the window and offered to turn it on for us. We were so relieved as the welcome heat thawed our frozen bodies.
My friend and I, who had the full view of the goings on in the restaurant couldn't stop giggling about the waiter who, while ostensibly polishing cutlery (or something) kept staring at us very much in the manner of a jailer. It did not make us comfortable that we had to endure that miserable, awful food while under the unblinking stares of the rather menacing looking waiter. We were brought menus and things got started. The waiter began taking our orders and was partly through, when one of the girls asked for separate bills. We really got the stink eye then and he told us in a flat tone that no, we could not have separate bills as he had already started writing our orders. We were finding the situation, while awful, droll and were biting our lips to not laugh out loud. It was hard not to leap up, with a stiff-armed salute and shout "Jawohl, Mein Kommandant!!" Orders taken, we had some laughter at the behaviour of the jailer/waiter and got down to chatting and catching up.
My friend and I played it safe and also didn't find the food fairly priced, considering what it was, so we both ordered linguine with pesto sauce, thinking, well, there's not a whole lot that can go wrong with that. Well, at Osteria Napoli, apparently it can. Very wrong. The rest of our friends ordered various dishes with tomato based sauces and I could see from the appearance of the 'sauce', how poorly prepared it was (I know how to cook Italian food very well, so have high standards). It pretty much looked like tomato paste out of the can, thinned a little with water to make it more 'sauce-like'. Not one of my friends had any praise for the food and they all found their dishes mediocre. My friend and I, who thought we had been clever with the simple order of linguine with pesto sauce, were served anaemic looking linguine, with a faint, watery hint of something green. It was so barely-there it was hard to tell it was pesto sauce. It was completely unseasoned so she and I made an effort to get some flavor in it by adding some salt and pepper. I was the worst linuine with pesto sauce I'd ever been served anywhere. It was an insult to be asked to pay for this mediocrity. Our friends' dishes were also very pedestrian, poorly seasoned and the entire dinner a huge disappointment. I think some of my friends ventured on desert, which was brave of them, considering the dreadful quality of the food.
This taught me to be very cautious when someone recommends a restaurant because they had a good meal and others had 'heard' it was 'supposed to be really good'. I only venture to places now after doing quite a bit of research and reading about other people's experiences before considering going to a new place.
Stay away from this dated looking, has-been place, with poorly prepared, grossly overprice food and very mediocre (though entertaining in its bizareness) service.
If you do venture, despite this warning, bring a little container of basil pesto in case you plan to order linguine with pesto sauce, you will need it.
I've been attending this place for years, and have become great friends with the owners and staff. Joe the owner is top notch, and his food outstanding. The staff, although there have been many are great, one of which has been there when the original owner was around. I have become friends with Joe over the years and this is why i still go. I am hoping that he reads this and does something to save his business. He needs to address the management situation, which will be difficult because she is his wife. Obviously this is the only restaurant in which she has worked. I have sent many people to this locale only to be told that the french speaking woman is totally rude. The night was very busy and she was running around in a panic trying to create space by placing tables together and cramming people in. My friends decided to stay and found the food excellent and service to be good as well. They did however complain that the price of cetain things is ludicrous 3.50 for a splash of pop in a glass full of ice and no refills for instance as well as other things. Ive also noticed price changes for things that I already consider over priced.
So on this note I hope Joe reads this and does something, cause the problems his manager cause will be his demise. I myself am embarassed and will no longer send any more people to his place because of these complaint from people in which I already sent.
just say no - i have gone to this restaurant for years and recently went there while it was under new ownership. The smell of the cigarettes wafting in from the kitchen was overwhelming. The waiter, from Quebec, was great and so friendly but had a bit of trouble pronouncing menu items to customers but kudos to him he would ask people at other tables how to say it which I think is totally ok.
The food tanked - the veggies included those nasty bleached machine tumbled carrots that are all white and frosty on the edges.
The meat, veal, was good - however, the osso had a huge bone and way too much gristle and very little edible meat on it.
I just can't get over the smoking or the scary carrots
We came for the dine-out event with an early reservation. The restaurant is divided into two parts, the front and back. When we arrived only one other table was occupied and yet they placed us right in the passage between the front section and the back - next to the entrance to the kitchen. Whenever a waiter would want to check if the other table in the back was doing fine they would just poke their head around the wall right next to us, essentially over the shoulder of two people at our party. Then the cook would come out of the kitchen and stand on the other side of our table chatting with the waiters. Throughout the entire meal we felt like we had someone hovering around us. Never a moment of privacy.
At one point a table of 6 in the back turned into a table of 9. This meant that the waiters had to carry a smaller table from the front to the back. Since we were right in the middle they lifted it up over our heads. Thankfully not over our food. The most entertaining part was that now, with the addition of the extra table, the waiters had no way to get to the table at the far back where a couple was sitting. Thankfully, there was a back corridor that led to the restrooms so the waiters did not have to jump over the tables and instead served all the food for the couple via the "restroom" corridor.
As for food - at most it was average. The "original" ceasar salad was horrible. An ordinary ceasar would would been better. The antipasto was average. The tomatoes and bococcini was the only good appetizer. For the main entre everyone at our table ordered veal - 2 different kinds. None were exceptional - they were covered in sauce with some steemed vegies on the side - essentially identical to anything I could prepare at home, except the sauces at home would be better. For desert I ordered the tiramisu which tasted store bought.
To top of the experience, the ladies restroom had a large container of digestive tablets - just in case the food you had been served was not sitting well with you.
Overall, even though I can't comment on their non-dine-out meu, I will not be coming back.
Pops and i do this trip once a year before Giants games and it is always a favourite.
Theplace is always empty though (out by 6:30/7).
Food always stands up, nothing to blow you away, nothing to lament. The polenta with the veg sides- so good. Service is always friendly, though the lady can be demanding...
Veal tends to be bland so I try something else and its good. Sauces are hit and miss, just skip the boring/ mainstream ones as these i have found to be a weak point, the others are always good, some outstanding, had a gorgonzola special last time, yummy.
Went here with my husband earlier this month on a weeknight. From the outside, the tables looked nicely decorated with white tablecloths and candles at each table. When we walked in, the place had an "old musty house" smell (the building was kind of old) and the floor on the front half of the restaurant looked grungy - the grout between the (vinyl?) tiles seemed to have some black stuff stuck to it. I give the ambiance a 2 because of the nice table cloths - otherwise I would give it a 1.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to stay, but since there were no other customers, we felt it was rude to walk out and go to some other (cleaner-looking) restaurant. At least the food and service were better than the ambiance.
Their complimentary bread was nice and warm - great for a rainy night. Unfortunately, the butter was almost frozen. We had eggplant in tomato sauce for the appetizer. The tomato sauce was reasonably tasty and we soaked it up with the bread. For our mains, I had fish in a tomato sauce (with capers) that was a bit on the sour side. The fish was cooked to a good texture, though. My husband had the lamb chops in brown sauce. The lamb chops were cooked medium (that's what he asked for) and I thought the sauce was just OK. We didn't feel like dessert that night. Portion sizes were reasonable. All in all, the food was solid, but nothing to write home about. There was no "wow" factor to it, although it's nice that the food came out hot and fresh and both entrees came at the same time. I've had food that was about the same quality at other restaurants for a few dollars less, so it wasn't the best value (then again, it wasn't the worst either.) Drinks were also pricey - we both had juices and they were $3.50 each for a tiny glass.
Service was polite and solid - nothing outstanding but nothing bad either.
Overall, I'd give this place 2.5 stars if I could (but barring that, I'll give it a 2). Unless they renovate the place, I won't be going back.
The crazy old waiter shouted at us for no reason standing in the middle of the restaurant. My friend and I wanted to happily celebrate our one year anniversary but the waiter totally ruined our day and our mood. We already told them we were using an offer purchased from Groupon when we made our reservation. However, when we got there, the waiters acted like we never told them and started screaming at us saying we should have let them know ahead of time. I never seen such ill-mannered and unprofessional services at a restaurant before. The only word I can use to describe uncultured this restaurant is horrible.
Dined here on Saturday night, February 25, 2012. We had a reservation for 7pm. The restaurant was 3/4 full but there seemed to be only one waiter. He apologized at the beginning telling us that he was the only one on. So we ordered a bottle of wine right away and it came quickly. We received our appetizers when the first bottle of wine was finished so ordered another. We waited an hour for our meals. I ordered the gnocchi. They should have been little soft pillows. They were chewy balls of rubber with a bland tomato sauce. It was exactly like frozen gnocchi with Ragu sauce poured over for $18! My friends both ordered veal parmesan and and received hard, thin pieces of crusty veal and bland pasta.
Thoroughly terrible food, bad service and a dirty bathroom.
The only thing half decent was the singer with the electric piano.
The atmosphere is so good, live performance throughout the dining. The performer even walked to our table and played a song at our request. Waiter is very friendly and has a sense of humor. Food is delicious and portionis huge comparing to other Italian restaurant! I would go back again and recommend to my friends.
The restaurant was recommended by my Italian friend who, like me, is a foodie. I lived in Italy for three years and have an idea how good Italian food tastes like. I love Osteria Napoli's fresh food and staff that made us feel at home on our first visit. Franco, the waiter, has great sense of humor and took his time to talk to us. On our two visits, we had a pleasure to talk to the hostess and she also made us feel special. The portions are pretty big and I always take some food home in order to have some room left for their dessert. Crème caramel is truly something. Ravioli in Alfredo sauce – amazing! I tried their three veal dishes and all are to die for. Washrooms are very clean. Clean white table cloths and napkins. The restaurant is like many restaurants in Italy, cozy and authentic one.
Dine Out Vancouver 2009 - Table of 6
4 of our table had chossen to have Dine Out Vancouver, and from the first moment our server understood that, we noticed a cold shoulder and poor service right away.
It was more then fair that he mentioned the portion size of Dine Out Vancouver was smaller then normal. He is not responsible for portion control, but instead for our experience. However, we do expect courtesey and appreciation, neither of which we got.
It was funny, they other 2 of our table decided to order from the regular menu, and the 4 of us couldn't understand why the waiter was willing to engage only half our table. Putting our plates down on the small table seating 6 people can be a challange, but come on, you dont need to bang the plates on the wine glasses and bread plates everytime.
We had to ask twice to even get a wine menu, the server continously rushed our plates, putting his hand on our plate asking to remove before we had finished. Even the other 2 where getting rushed, the server 'forgot' to server them they Pasta Course (thats a joke) but at least remembered to bring it to them to go.
Portion control was a concern. All of our desert sizes where extermely different, 3 different sizes of Tiramisu? And the portion size for the caesar salad looked similar to what they serve at Wendy's for 1.59, in those plastic to go containers. Sure it was good tasting, but after seeing the HUGE by compairison bocochini salad and Antipasta (and I am only talking about portions of the 4 Dine Out Van) it was a joke.
The main course has decent all around the table, but as the server forgot the other 2 were not on Dine Out Van, I had the feeling he did not serve them the correct poriton size (and of course neglecting their Pasta course).
Offering us coffee after desert is finished is a little too late in my opinion, I though they are suppose to be served together, mind you, i am no expert. But at least be willing to serve us a second cup of coffee.
Quality and taste of food was very good.
Ambiance was decent. Lower marks for putting our big table between a narrow path of the restaruant. Table of 4 could have gotten away with it, but a table of 6 (with a reservation over a weak old) should have been reconsidered.
This is my all-time favourite restaurant. I have been going there for years and have never been disappointed.
The live music is a bit cheesy, but I go there for the delicious food. I tend to stick to the chicken dishes which always turn out perfect. It's served with your choice of pasta or veggies. The veggies are absolutely wonderful, especillay the roasted potatoes. Generally, I don't even like roasted potatoes, but I just love them here.
My friend always orders pasta dishes and has always enjoyed them. He's half italian and is fussy about pasta, but he proudly compares the food here to his grandmother's cooking.
It tends to get busy here on weekends, so be sure to make reservations.
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Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.
Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called Tiktaalik roseae and described last week in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds.
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, said: "Our emergence on to the land is one of the more significant rites of passage in our evolutionary history, and Tiktaalik is an important link in the story."
Tiktaalik - the name means "a large, shallow-water fish" in the Inuit language - shows that the evolution of animals from living in water to living on land happened gradually, with fish first living in shallow water.
The animal lived in the Devonian era lasting from 417m to 354m years ago, and had a skull, neck, and ribs similar to early limbed animals (known as tetrapods), as well as a more primitive jaw, fins and scales akin to fish.
The scientists who discovered it say the animal was a predator with sharp teeth, a crocodile-like head, and a body that grew up to 2.75m long.
"It's very important for a number of reasons, one of which is simply the fact that it's so well-preserved and complete," said Jennifer Clack, a palaeontologist at Cambridge University.
Scientists have previously been able to trace the transition of fish into limbed animals only crudely over the millions of years they think the process took place. They suspected that an animal bridging the gap between fish and land-based tetrapods must have existed - but, until now, there had been scant evidence of one.
"Tiktaalik blurs the boundary between fish and land-living animal both in terms of its anatomy and its way of life," said Neil Shubin, a biologist at the University of Chicago, and a leader of the expedition that found Tiktaalik.
The near-pristine fossil was found on Ellesmere Island, Canada, which is 960km from the North Pole.
Scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, the University of Chicago and Harvard University led several expeditions into the icy desert to search for the fossils.
Farish Jenkins, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, said: "This represents a critical early phase in the evolution of all limbed animals, including humans - albeit a very ancient step." Tiktaalik also gives biologists an understanding of how fins turned into limbs. Its fin contains bones that compare to the upper arm, forearm and primitive parts of the hand of land-living animals.
"Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish," Professor Shubin said.
Dr Clack said that, judging from the fossil, the first evolutionary transition from sea to land probably involved learning how to breathe air. "Tiktaalik has lost a series of bones that, in fishes, covers the gill region and helps to operate the gill-breathing mechanism," she said. "The air-breathing mechanism it had would have been elaborated and having lost the series of bones that lies between the head and the shoulder girdle means it's got a neck, it can raise its head more easily in order to gulp the air."
H Richard Lane, director of sedimentary geology and palaeobiology at the US National Science Foundation, said: "These exciting discoveries are providing fossil Rosetta stones for a deeper understanding of this evolutionary milestone - fish to land-roaming tetrapods."


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Night of pranking leads to charges
Published 2:05 pm, Friday, July 29, 2011
By KIPP ROBERTSON
and RICHARD WALKER
North Kitsap Herald
KINGSTON - It was intended to be a night of pranking, some harmless fun, they said.
But their mischief led to a month-long police investigation, arrests and trial dates being set.
The suspects include Jasmine Campbell, 22, a former Miss Viking Fest; her boyfriend, Dietreich Rios, 21, a former Olympic College basketball player who may play pro ball in Argentina; George Hill III, 18, who has a full-ride basketball scholarship to Washington State University; and a 16-year-old who plays basketball for the Kingston Buccaneers.
On Monday, Poulsbo Police Detective David Gesell said two other juveniles were arrested and booked into the Juvenile Detention Facility.
According to a statement of probable cause from the Kitsap County Prosecutor's Office, dated July 19, the suspects are charged with assault, theft, aiming or discharging firearms, and malicious mischief.
"We don't have records," Campbell told the Herald. "We don't want it out there that we were out to hurt people. It's never going to happen again and we all want to apologize to everyone we hurt."
According to the Prosecutor's Office, the mischief on June 15 started with the shooting of Airsoft rifles out of a vehicle in the parking lot of Central Market in Poulsbo.
Then, at about 10 p.m. the suspects went to the Poulsbo Walmart parking lot. Campbell said that as she drove the car, her companions fired pellets at some North Kitsap High School students in the parking lot. Airsoft guns are replica firearms that shoot plastic pellets.
Next, they went to the Burger King in Poulsbo, ordered $53.75 worth of food and drove off, according to the statement.
Then, they attempted to steal food from a drive-thru window at Wendy's in Silverdale, according to the statement.
Finally, they went to a Taco Bell in Silverdale. They paid for their food but, as the server reached out of the take-out window with their order, one of the suspects had exited the car, ran by and snatched it from the server's hands, Campbell said.
One of the occupants of the car made a video of the night's pranking and posted it on YouTube. But, Campbell now says, "It wasn't so funny."
Turns out, some of the girls who were hit with Airsoft pellets got bruises. Burger King reported the ditched order to police. And the server's arm was hurt in the food snatching.
The mother of one of the shooting victims notified police the next day, which prompted the investigation, according to the statement of probable cause.
Gesell said incidents like this do not happen often in the area, but they happen more often then they are reported.
Campbell said she, Rios and Hill were arrested July 18 in her Kingston apartment. After rejecting a bail of $30,000, the court ordered the suspects to house arrest, Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Barbara Dennis said.
Pre-trial dates have been set, Campbell said: Aug. 5 for Hill; Aug. 15 for Rios; Aug. 23 for Campbell and Aug. 25 for the 16-year-old.
Court dates were not available for the others.
Campbell said she first knew she was in legal trouble when a police detective went to her workplace, White Horse Golf Club, when she wasn't there. She said she wanted to turn herself in and hired a lawyer.
This article was originally published in the North Kitsap Herald on July 28, 2011.


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skeleton CPAN distribution?by wumpus (Sexton)
|on Feb 01, 2011 at 21:10 UTC ( #885614=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )
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wumpus has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I would like to post a distribution to CPAN for the first time, and after reading all the docs, I haven't seen an example 'skeleton' distribution that follows modern practices and in which I can plonk down my single .pm file.
I know I could use any existing module as a skeleton, but I have no way of knowing which ones are considered up-to-date.
module-starter and Dist::Zilla look perfect, thanks!
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The secret to a great team? Let them play!
I remember attending a dress-up party when I was seven years old. The theme was 'princesses and pirates'. As a young girl easily influenced by my older brother, I decided on a pirate. With a patch on my left eye, a jingling pocket of coins and a hook in my left hand, I was practically … Read More


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Archive for 'Portfolios'
Posted: September 12th, 2013 under fine art, illustration, Portfolios.
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little hobo project
littlehoboproject.com was built entirely by hand (literally – sticks, rope and more), with a lot of love and oh so much inspiration.
Read Sprout Daily's write-up: here
See The National Grid's behind the scenes: Here
"In order to create an identity & deliver a website for LHP, it needed to be designed to reflect a company that doesn't need to pride itself on its polished looks, but more on the quality of the projects that it creates & the people it brings together…[thus] we stripped our ideas back to basics. We decided to build the website by hand, out of [real] sticks, [real] string & a whole lot of [genuine] love." The National Grid
"Simply, Little Hobo Project has grown out of a grassroots approach to communication. Its focus is connecting individuals with individuals, causes with organisations, organisations with businesses and concepts with the people to action them. 'Wandering Ideas. Made.'
check out: http://littlehoboproject.com/
LHP Overview (as featured on Sprout Daily):
"Creative individuals and independent thinkers are more empowered then ever to realise ideas and pursue dreams. So…bring together the right people, those you respect and trust – and anything is possible.
Thus we are based on the collective concept. We highly value the members of our Collective as a creative arsenal. With entwined roots in sports, fashion, travel, music and the arts, we offer diverse opportunities for project management but most importantly we love when ideas don't get put on the shelf but get brought to the table – and we can bring the right people together to make them happen.
Our underlying requirement is that any client, collective member or brand we work with, must have a genuine interest in supporting the philanthropic community as part of their professional strategy. Philanthropy – from the ancient Greek understanding of – the desire to better man kind, NOT just giving away money." Little Hobo Project
Posted: June 27th, 2012 under Film, photography, Portfolios.
Tags: collective, hand made, little hobo project, STUART SMYTHE, the national grid, webdesign
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Sam Wolfe Connelly
Sam Wolfe, a talented young illustrator. Check out his portfolio.
Posted: July 4th, 2010 under Portfolios.
Tags: art, portfolio, Portfolios
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Reverse design Lab
With the end of the year approaching, many design students will soon be out looking for work, or perhaps you are to graduate further down the track and want to know how to make the most of your studies before you venture into the world.
We had a chat with Antonio of Reverse Design Lab about his experience in getting out into the world, post- study.
Click here to read the interview.
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under graphics, Portfolios.
Tags: antonio, design, experience, graduate, interview, reverse design lab, study
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Mark Peckmezian
Mark Peckmezian was born in Toronto, Canada in 1985. He is currently pursuing his BFA in Photography from Ryerson University in Toronto. His photographs have been published in Prefix Photo and Function, and have been selected for inclusion in Flash Forward, touring internationally. He is presently working as a research-assistant on the historic Black Star photography collection.
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under photography, Portfolios.
Tags: lifestyle, photography, portrait
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Dallas Maurer
Dallas Maurer takes some really nice pics on old expired film some times weathered and aged, giving a beautiful atmospheric feel to nice compositions. With a large arsenal of vintage cameras he is set to take many more chemical exposures. He has a nice graphic ••PORTFOLIO•• ••BLOG•• Dallas is currently looking for some fun design work around Sydney
Posted: August 9th, 2009 under photography, Portfolios.
Tags: Exposure, Film, graphic, poleroid, vintage camera, weathered
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Frau Grau
Frau Grau, is a talented cheeky, quirky and modern illustrator from Berlin. See more , including photography here, and don't forget to become a facebook fan.
posted by Tabitha
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under illustration, Portfolios.
Tags: berlin, frau grau, illustration
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Neil Krug
Neil Krug, was interveiwed recently on Fecal Face. Which helped open my mind a little more to veiwing the world differently. With his influences of old illustrators like Robert Mcginnis, Tanino Liberatore and cult film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky his work really speaks nostolgia, deathly romance and cult fiction. ••Check his flickr page out here••
Posed by Stuart
Posted: July 25th, 2009 under photography, Portfolios.
Tags: cult, expired film, fiction, old camera, poleroid, summer
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Joakim Jansson
Joakim Jansson is a Swedish graphic designer . Living and working in Oslo, Norway.
His work encompasses many areas related to design including art direction, graphic design, typography, illustration, branding and web. His work is fun bright and playful.
posted by Tabitha
Posted: July 21st, 2009 under graphics, Portfolios, typography.
Tags: bold, cd, colour, cover, design, graphic, Joakim Jasson, Swedish, typography
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Mark Alsweiler
The man they call "Alsweiler" has had a heap of successful shows one of which i saw last year at China Heights gallery. With his fun, playful darkish style, Mark is an all round great guy and is currently lurking around New Zealand somewhere skating and painting.
posted by Stuart
Posted: July 8th, 2009 under exhibitions, fine art, Portfolios.
Tags: houses, new zealand, painting, san fransisco, skate
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MySQL User and Password Management
As you manage your dedicated server, you will invariably come across times when you need to reset passwords, add or delete accounts, or generally perform maintenance on your database users. When working with MySQL, there are a couple of simple ways to manage user accounts. The first involves accessing it from the command line, while the second involves using a graphical interface, such as phpMyAdmin.
Today, you will learn how to create users, change passwords, and grant privileges from the MySQL command prompt.
To create a user in the current version of MySQL with the username "porlion" and the password "duct543", you would type the following from the mysql> prompt:
CREATE USER porlion IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'duct543';
By default, the new user will have no privileges in any database. To grant the user "porlion" privileges in a database named "lucky_db", type the following:
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON lucky_db.* TO 'porlion'@localhost';
If you need to grant all privileges to the same user, type this:
GRANT ALL ON lucky_db.* TO 'my_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'my_pass';
To change the password of a current user named "porlion", type:
SET PASSWORD FOR 'porlion'@localhost = PASSWORD('newpassword');
Replace "newpassword" with the actual new password for the user.
In the next post, we will look at ways to manage MySQL users from within phpMyAdmin.


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Five in a Row
Roger Black is a lucky guy. He's also pretty clever. When he decided to set up his vacation home in a remote West Texas location, he decided to take a linear approach to its construction. Five cabins in a row, made from shipping containers and connected by a walkway. Brilliant.
Camp Cinco, as it is known, is a home divided into five units: one for a kitchen, one for living, one for storage, and two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms. Each is kept pretty spartan and entered through sliding glass doors which keep critters out while human inhabitants watch the sunset.
It's remote, 200 miles from the nearest airport and only accessible by four-wheel-drive, but the storage cabin is wired to the hilt, so Mr Black is never out of touch with the rest of the world.
The cabins were realized by architect Mark Wellen, using whole shipping containers placed on hand-dug piers. The project cost about $200,000, double what it would have cost had the location not been so remote.
Earlier this year, Black's cabin won a 2009 Residential Architect Design Award for small custom home. Well deserved. RM
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So... apparently WalMart has a large majority of employees full-time. Didn't know that.
Apparently WalMart is one of the better places to work in retail. Didn't know that.
This is ludicrous and, at least in my area, is DEFINITELY not the case, here's a quote:
He also said that employees can get health insurance for roughly $17/week. Anyone know if that's true?Tovar stood his ground, saying that full-time associates on average make $12.40 per hour, or more than $25,000 per year, about $10,000 more than the poverty-level figure cited by Costello. "We've got some of the best jobs in the retail industry and our associates appreciate that," Tovar said.
Quarterly bonuses? 82% of eligible employees got the bonus, according to him.
I especially loved this one:
Tovar told Costello in the interview that the complaints were coming from a small group of workers and that "the vast majority of our associates like working at Walmart." The retailer took home $3.63 billion last quarter.


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(Historic Lives: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Article abstract: Roman historian{$I[g]Roman Republic;Sallust} Sallust's most important accomplishments were influential works of history composed after his retirement from a checkered political career. The tone, style, and subject matter of his writings reflect the perils and disenchantments of his earlier career.
Early Life
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, or Sallust (SAL-uhst), was born in 86 b.c.e. in the town of Amiternum in the Sabine uplands, some fifty-five miles northeast of Rome in the central Italian peninsula. Though likely a member of a locally eminent family, Sallust was in Roman terms nonaristocratic, that is, a plebeian. As a politician, he was thus a nouus homo (new man). Although by the first century b.c.e. plebeians regularly attained political office and senatorial rank, the highest offices—the praetorship and especially the consulship—remained almost exclusively the preserve of a few wealthy, aristocratic families and such men as they chose to support. To fulfill his political ambitions, the new man needed skill, sagacity, tact, perseverance, luck, and, most particularly, powerful friends. This helps to explain both Sallust's general dislike of the entrenched conservative aristocracy and his affiliation with Julius Caesar.
Sallust was elected quaestor (a junior official with financial responsibilities) around 55 and tribune of the people in 52. In the latter position, he was involved on the side of the prosecution in the murder trial of a notorious right-wing politician (defended by Cicero) who habitually used intimidation and mob violence. This involvement, along with various other anticonservative actions, gained for Sallust numerous political enemies, who retaliated by having him expelled from the senate in 50 on apparently trumped-up charges of sexual immorality.
Hoping for a restoration of status, Sallust sided with Julius Caesar against Pompey the Great in the civil war that broke out in the year 49. He was rewarded with a second quaestorship (c. 49), a praetorship (47), and various military commands. His service in these posts was undistinguished and occasionally incompetent. He failed to quell a troop mutiny, for example, and was not entrusted with a battle command during Caesar's African campaign. Caesar did, however, see fit to appoint Sallust as the first governor of the province of Africa Nova in 46, a fact that implies at least minimal faith in his administrative abilities. After his governorship, Sallust was charged with abuse of power—extortion and embezzlement—but saved himself from conviction by sharing his spoils with Caesar, who was by then dictator. Still, the scandal severely limited Sallust's political prospects and forced him into an early retirement, from which the assassination of Caesar in 44 made it impossible to return.
Life's Work
Sallust's inglorious political career was marred by factional strife, sensational scandals, sporadic ineptitude, and outright misconduct. Whatever he may have lost in public esteem, however, Sallust handsomely recouped in property and possessions. The wealth he amassed in office ensured an opulent style of retirement. Sallust purchased a palatial villa at Tivoli, said to have been owned at one time by Caesar himself. At Rome, he began construction of the famed Horti Sallustiani (gardens of Sallust), in which an elegantly landscaped complex of parklands surrounded a fine mansion. The loveliness of this estate in the capital city later attracted the attention of Roman emperors, whose property it eventually became.
Sallust did not, however, simply settle into a genteel life of disillusioned and indolent leisure. He used his knowledge of the dynamics of Roman government as a lens through which to examine the gradual disintegration of the political system in the late republican period.
The personalities and events in Sallust's historical works are typical of a period of decline and fall. His first work, the Bellum Catilinae (c. 42 b.c.e.; The Conspiracy of Catiline, 1608), is a historical monograph devoted to the failed conspiracy of Catiline, a disgruntled, impoverished aristocrat who intended to make good his electoral and financial losses by resorting to armed insurrection. The planned coup d'état was quashed by the actions of Cicero during his consulship in 63. The story of the exposure of the plot and of the measures taken by consul and senate to eliminate the threat—ultimately in battle—is familiar from Cicero's four Catilinarian orations.
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Nitrous Supply just released what they are calling the Power Valve for all nitrous applications. It is equipped with a safety pin that is spring loaded to prevent accidental bottle opening as well as many other features.
Official Release
The Power Valve from Nitrous Supply was an immediate hit with hard-core racers when it was released. The Power Valve's revolutionary design offers maximum nitrous flow with none of the bottlenecks or restrictions normally associated with bottle valves. The on/off lever lets you know whether the valve is open at a glance even in low-light conditions aiding in real-time situations at night races. Additional safety features include a spring loaded safety pin that prevents accidental bottle opening. This valve is the latest in innovations brought to you by Nitrous Supply, and its President, Mike Thermos, one of the original founders of NOS. If You Are Serious About Making Big Power With Nitrous, This Is Your Next Purchase.
• Highest flow rate of any valve on the market
• Quick, 1/4 turn for full on or off position
• Over twice the flow of super hi flow valves
• Fits 5-20 pound bottles and carbon fiber bottles
• Spring loaded safety pin (prevents accidental opening)
• Accepts extra large 5/8 threaded siphon tube
• Two 1/8 NPT gauge ports
• Racer safety blow off
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Հայ-թուրքական հարաբերությունների շուրջ
The story of one of the most significant political leaders in the 87-year history of the Turkish Republic began in February 1954, when Erdoğan was born in Kasımpaşa, a tough, poor neighborhood in Istanbul. His family was originally from Rize, a conservative town on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea and returned there when Tayyip was still a baby, but came back to Istanbul again when he was 13. The future prime minister spent those years attending Istanbul Religious Vocational (Imam-Hatip) High School and selling lemonade and simit (sesame rings) on the city's streets to make extra money – a background that instilled in him both an Islamic piety and a business-minded pragmatism.
While studying business administration at what is today Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and playing semi-professional football, Erdoğan also engaged in politics by joining the National Turkish Student Union, an anti-communist action group. In 1976, he became the head of a local youth branch of the Islamist National Salvation Party, or MSP, led by Necmettin Erbakan, who would later go on to found the Saadet (Felicity) Party. This was the beginning of Erdoğan's long career in Islamic politics.
A rising star
After the 1980 coup, Erbakan's movement regrouped under the Welfare Party, or RP, and Erdoğan gradually became one of its stars. In 1991, he became a candidate for Parliament on the party's ticket and won a seat. But the higher election board cancelled his election due to a technicality, initiating a long chain of events that would convince Erdoğan that he has been wronged by the establishment.
The big year for Erdoğan, however, was 1994, when he was elected mayor of Istanbul to the shock of the city's more secular citizens, who thought he would ban alcohol and impose Islamic law. Instead he emerged over the next four years as a pragmatic and successful mayor who tackled many chronic problems in the city, including pollution, water shortages and traffic.
Meanwhile, politics was growing tense in Turkey, as the Welfare Party came to power in June 1996 in a coalition government with the center-right True Path Party, or DYP. RP head Erbakan, who became Turkey's first defiantly Islamist prime minister, infuriated the secular camp with his radical rhetoric. Six months later, in February 1997, the military initiated what was later dubbed the "post-modern coup." Soon, Erbakan was ousted from power and many Islamic groups were the subject of a crackdown as part of a series of court cases opened by prosecutors who were openly "briefed" by the generals.
Erdoğan was caught up in this crackdown in 1997, when he made a public speech in the southeastern province of Siirt denouncing the closure of his party and recited these lines of a poem from the Turkish War of Liberation: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
The judges considered this speech an attack on the regime and sentenced Erdoğan in September 1998 to a 10-month prison term, of which he served four months. "Erdoğan's political career is over," some mainstream newspapers wrote at the time. "From now on, he can't even be a local governor."
Winds of change
Scorning such speculation, Erdoğan became convinced that there was an alliance between the military, the judiciary and the country's secularist media against him, his party and his values. He believed the press was showing disrespect toward him by insistently referring to him solely by his first name, something it did not do with other politicians.
In the aftermath of the post-modern coup, Erdoğan also came to believe that a new political line, different from Erbakan's age-old anti-Western demagoguery, was needed. This was something he even hinted at in the Siirt speech that netted him a prison term. As part of that speech, Erdoğan also said: "The Western man has freedom of belief; in Europe, there is respect for worship, for the headscarf. Why is there not in Turkey?"
This Western-oriented line would be the new vision of Erdoğan and the more open-minded members of the Erbakan movement, such as now-President Abdullah Gül, who would soon join forces to found a new party. In their vision, authoritarian secularism in Turkey should not be considered an extension of the West, as religious conservatives had done for decades. The West should rather be seen as a way to create a more liberal Turkey that would respect religious liberty as well. Erdoğan had personal reasons to make that choice: He could thus send his veiled daughters, Esra and Sümeyye, not to Turkish universities, where there is a headscarf ban, but to American ones, where the coverings can be worn.
Erdoğan and his colleagues thus put European Union membership, and EU-promoted political reforms, at the top of their agenda – at the expense of being accused of "treason" by their old comrades who stayed loyal to Erbakan.
The birth of the AKP
In 2001, Erdoğan and Gül established the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, which had many visible differences from its Islamist predecessors. The party chose as its emblem not the Islamic-looking crescent but a modern light bulb, and Erdoğan asserted that the AKP was "not a political party with a religious axis," but rather one that could be defined as "conservative." Its message concentrated on political liberalization and economic growth gave the party a sweeping victory in the general elections of November 2002.
Even though his party won the elections, Erdoğan could not became prime minister right away, as he was still banned from politics by the judiciary for his speech in Siirt, and Gül thus became the prime minister instead. In December 2002 the Supreme Election Board canceled the general election results from Siirt due to voting irregularities and scheduled a new election for Feb. 9, 2003. By this time, party leader Erdoğan was able to run for Parliament thanks to a legal change made possible by the opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, and its former leader, Deniz Baykal. The AKP duly listed Erdoğan as a candidate for the rescheduled Siirt election, and he won, becoming prime minister after Gül subsequently handed over the post.
Only four years had passed since newspapers declared Erdoğan could not "even be a local governor." Instead, he was destined to become one of the strongest Turkish prime ministers ever.
© 2009 Hurriyet Daily News


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Condo well equipped with everything you need. Kitchen had everything to fix meals for family.
The Condo was perfect for our family of eight. (2 kids on the sofa bed) Perfect amount of restrooms. The condo was clean. The kitchen was well stocked for all our cooking needs. It was a pleasure working with the management company. We would definitely stay again.
We had some problems with the 3rd bedroom. However, the rental company Maui Condo and Car were so helpful in resolving our problem. We really appreciate their service during our visit.
We rented this Condo for 7 people. The condo was very nice, had a great view and made us all feel like we were at home. The beds were comfortable, it was very clean and the washer and dryer made the stay really easy for us. The only negative was that the smaller bedroom with the queen bed off the living room had no AC unit in it and it was hot and miserable for the kids that slept in there. We bought a fan and left it for the next person. It helped a little. Other than that, it was great and we would definitely rent this unit again even with the lack of A/C in one room.
This condo was nice! We booked this condo for 7 and the beds got changed to singles in the bedroom that had full size beds. They accommodated us with a blow up mattress, which was not ideal! The bedroom off the living room has no privacy! The glass doors did not shut properly and you had to leave them open for the air conditioning to cool the room. Other than that the condo fit our needs and the management was very easy to work with.
Our group of 8 had a great time in Maui staying at Maui Banyan. The condo looks small when you first walk in, but we were surprised at how big it actually was. Each bedroom has a balcony. The only things we did not like about the condo was that the middle bedroom right off of the living room did not have its own air conditioner. That room was always warm and we needed to keep the doors open to the living room to get some of the living room air. The fan did not do too much. Drinking out of the tap was not an option either. The water tasted like Chlorine. You will need to buy bottled water. The condo was right next to one of the pools which also had a great grilling area and hot tub. It is a short walk to lots of good restaurants, and it is located right across the street from Kamaole Beach II which had great snorkeling and lots of Sea Turtles! The condo was very clean and gave us instructions about places to eat, things to do, etc. Overall we had a great time and we were happy we went with T-305.
We had a great family vacation in Maui at the Maui Banyan T-305. Pro's: The condo is in the perfect location just across from a great strip of beaches, the road has many lighted crosswalks as all hotels in this area are across the main drag. There was good snorkeling just out front of the hotel and one beach over to the left we saw turtles as well. It is a great location as this side of Maui has the best weather and the least amount of wind. Great home base to do day trips to other parts of the island. Also close to Makena park and beautiful beaches there as well. The kitchen was great and the BBQ by the pool along with covered area with tables to eat at was made well use of. Having three bathrooms was a big plus. There are also three balconies. The pictures are accurate depictions of the condo. The complex was also nice and quiet at night and having a key code access was great for swimming. Con's; The third bedroom has frosted glass sliding doors that separate it from the living room. This was fine for us as everyone was going to bed at about the same time. But might be problematic for some as light in kitchen and living room will shine into the bedroom along with noise. Some black out blinds for the sliding doors would be helpful. Again not a big deal as the other two bed rooms do have their own T.V's. and can be separated off so people can have their own spaces to minimize this problem. Unless an early riser decides to unload the dishwasher:) The unit was clean and in good shape and ideally located, we would definitely come back. .
We had a great trip. Appreciated the beach chairs and comfortable space. Easy to get to the beach and we enjoyed the pool. Would come again!
The condo was spacious, clean and nice. Kitchen had everything we could ask for, had kids beach toys, mats and chairs which came in handy. All the staff on location was friendly. It's across the road from a nice beach and short walk to restaurants etc. The pool had way too much chlorine in it we couldn't take the boys in, it burnt all of our eyes too much. We would go back to this condo.
Overall the condo was nice. Disappointed in the middle bedroom. It did not have an air conditioning unit in it & it had sliding frosted Glass doors opening to living room so no privacy. The air conditioning units were on 4 Hour timers. So can't sleep thru the night without having to reset. May be ok for different time of year but it was HOT when we were there. There were a few lights & fans not working & door locks. We were home late one night & our card to outside door didn't work. Fortunately a security guard was there to let us in.
This was a great location and great facility. I would highly recommend this unit, we had 3 grown children and ourselves, but it could accommodate 6 or 8 easily.
We enjoyed our stay. It was relaxing and very conveniently located. It was clean and just the right size. Thank you.
This rental was spacious and had plenty of room. We had a group of 6 which worked perfectly with this unit as it is 3 bedroom 3 bathroom.The only things I would recommend is for all the doors in rooms (ie: closets, kitchen pantry closet, the middle bedroom privacy doors)need to be repaired, when we stayed here they did not open and close properly. The bed in the middle room needs new mattress as it is not very comfortable to sleep on. I would note that if anyone has issues with stairs that they look for a different unit, as there is no elevator in this building.Overall we enjoyed this unit and would recommend to our friends.Mahalo
We enjoyed 15 great nights at the Maui Banyan. Our suite was perfect for all 7 of us, with lots of room for everyone and plenty of privacy. I loved the view from the balcony over the tops of the palms and toward the sea. The pool was wonderful and we enjoyed cooking dinner at the patio barbecues. This was definitely good value for the dollar. Thanks!
Condo was good. Could use a bit of an update though. Was really convenient to have beach chairs and umbrella on hand. Not having to purchase, or rent that stuff was great.
Generally enjoyable. Kids enjoyed the pool. We like the close access to the beach. We appreciated the way the barbecues were maintained and the grounds kept up. The condo needs a little maintenance, particularly to the sliding doors. Some of the utincels need replacing.We would use Maui Car and Condo again.
Good amount of space with lots of seating for eating, condo company was very helpful and quick in responding to any needs we had. Could have used a few more kitchen tools like a cookie sheet or pizza sheet, garlic press, bbq brush and flipper. There were also NO spices or anything left from previous tenants. Beds were on the soft side. View was lovely and everything is well maintained. No boogie boards or beach toys in unit but lots of beach chairs and a mat. Nice kitchen with good appliances and great bathroom fixtures too. Toilets are separated from vanities by pocket doors. Bedroom off living space has pocket doors with obscure glass which isn't great from privacy. Close to the pool, further from beach but a beautiful walk as the grounds are rife with hibiscus of all colours and bougenvilla and palms!
The layout of the condo was great. A solid sliding door between guest bedroom and living room would provide more privacy. Didn't realize there was no elevator, so it was a little difficult getting large pieces of luggage up the stairs. All of the lanais had a peek-a-boo ocean view which was nice. Great kitchen!
We have stayed at the Maui Banyon a few times but this was the first time through a private company. overall they were great. Closet and bathroom doors all need work as they do not close properly but that is really our only complaint. Otherwise the condo was great and a great location.
We truly enjoyed our stay. The condo location is very convenient. Center of the island, walk to beach and restaurants. Place was clean. I suggest they give more paper towels(1) and toilet paper (2). One more of each would have been sufficient. No air conditioner or tv in the third bedroom was disappointing.
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We mentioned last week that in honor of the MTV camera crews, the front desk at Wenner Media had been emblazoned with a Rolling Stone logo, despite the fact that Us Weekly and Men's Journal both work in that very space. Now, some visual proof and a reminder to the editors of those other, lesser magazines: you really need to put down those drafts and get to work. The Rolling Stone assistants need their coffee.
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Obituaries for Monday, February 16, 2008
Published 7:00 pm, Sunday, February 15, 2009
Mildred E. Dumaw, Jerome M. Jock, Dawn Tyonia Morton
Mildred E. Dumaw
Mildred E. Dumaw, 93, formerly of Bad Axe passed away on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009 in New York.
Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bad Axe. Interment will be in the Colfax Mausoleum.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday at Kaufman Funeral Home in Bad Axe and from 10 a.m. until the service time at 11 a.m. on Thursday at the church.
A complete obituary will be published in Tuesday's edition of the Huron Daily Tribune.
Jerome M. Jock
Jerome M. Jock, 69, of Filion, died Saturday morning, Feb. 14, 2009 at Covenant Cooper, Saginaw, following a long illness.
He was born Dec. 3, 1939, at the home of his parents, the late Roman and Loretta (LaLonde) Jock and lived in Huron County most of his life.
Jerome served in the armed force for six years being honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1963.
Jerome had worked as a Lab Tech at Warren Memorial Hospital several years and also at Hubbard Hospital, Bad Axe. He worked pipeline construction from more than 20 years, at Active in Elkton three years and most recently was a meter reader for Detroit Edison, retiring in 1992 for health reasons.
He loved riding his motorcycle, farming, fishing and working on cars. Jerome also enjoyed cooking and canning all those vegetables he grew in his garden. He loved spending time with his kids and grandkids.
Surviving are eight children, Michele (Patrick) Kibue of Bridgeport, Jeremy Jock of Port Hope, Nathaniel Jock of Gagetown, Ashley (Michael) Mazure of Belleville, Zachery Jock of Bad Axe, Loretta Jock of Bad Axe and her fiancée, Joshua Mazure, Daniel Jock of Bad Axe and Lillian Jock of Saginaw; three grandchildren, Jayden, Christian and Emily; two brothers, Clifford Jock of Roseville and Lawrence (Peggy) Jock of Port Hope; and three sisters, Geraldine Rolph of Elkton, Maxine Heilig of Bad Axe and Ann (John) Shepherd of Harbor Beach.
Preceding him in death was a son, Joshua; a brother, Roman; four sisters, Rosalia Peyerk, Jeanette Lawless, Jean and Loretta Jock; and a nephew, Gary Peyerk.
Funeral Mass will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Rapson with burial and military honors in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. at the Champagne Funeral Chapel, Elkton and after 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church.
Memorials may be directed to the family.
Words of condolence may be shared at www.cfcElkton.com.
Dawn Tyonia Morton
Dawn Morton, 42, of Pigeon, formerly of Caro, passed away on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 at her residence.
Dawn was born on April 17, 1966 in Cass City.
She lived much of her life in the Thumb with the exception of a period of time in Midland. She was a high school graduate. In addition to being a mother and homemaker, she worked as a high-low operator at Huron Casting Inc., in Pigeon. Dawn was a member of the Women of the Moose and thoroughly enjoyed her grandchildren, work, and of course, bingo.
She is survived by a son, James Jackson and Heidi Davis of Fostoria; a daughter, Samantha Jackson and Jeff Martin of Pigeon; five grandchildren, Rylee, Rian, Reece, Nicole and Merik; her mother, Bonnie Lee Morton and James Spencer of Caro; her siblings, Bonita Weihl of Caro, Jessie Weihl and Julie of Michigan, Jodi (Randle) Mills of Paragould, Ark., and Julie; her significant other, Ronald Novak of Pigeon; and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 the Collon Funeral Home in Caro with Pastor Don Cleaver officiating.
Cremation will follow the service.
Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. on Monday and from 1 p.m. until the time of service at 2 p.m. on Tuesday at the Collon Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to the Dawn Morton family discretionary fund, c/o Samantha Jackson.


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I hate to criticize my fellow conservatives but I was very surprised by the furor over the ad that MoveOn.org bought in the New York Times. Although I disagreed with the content of the ad, which attacked the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq General David Petraeus and featured the offensive tagline "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?," I don't understand why conservatives attacked the Times for accepting it. Aren't we conservatives supposed to be in favor of making buck, even if it means we have to compromise a few principles here and there? And don't we believe that money is free speech and that the more money you spend, the more free speech you deserve?
Some conservatives not only criticized the Times for running the ad but also attacked the newspaper for giving MoveOn a hefty discount, charging only $65,000 instead of its usual rate of $181,692 (a rate they subsequently offered to Rudy Giuliani as well). Confederate Yankee, who has made it his mission to cast suspicion on liberal media outlets even before he has gathered all the facts, which would require a lot of tedious reporting, denounced what he called a "rather sweet deal." One milblogger, Uncle Jimbo at Black Five even went so far as to snitch on the Times by filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. This seems especially ironic in light of the fact that Uncle Jimbo once said that he won't support the John McCain for President because of "one monumental mistake, the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act," which he called "the most damaging act of free speech violation and Constitution-gutting I am aware of." Now suddenly, Uncle Jimbo is running to the FEC himself to suppress free speech that has been bought and paid for with American dollars that our soldiers are giving their lives in Iraq to defend from precipitous currency devaluations. What's more, he is currently running an ad on his own site paid for by the campaign of the very man responsible for gutting our Constitution--John McCain! It seems to me that it is just a tad hypocritical to say of the New York Times "I hope they burn" for accepting MoveOn's ad and then to turn around and accept John McCain's filthy lucre. If this represents the courage of Uncle Jimbo's convictions, I must say I am very disappointed.
Unlike Uncle Jimbo, however, I have no problem with the New York Times or anyone else taking large amounts of money from people advertising messages I disagree with no matter how repugnant I think those messages are. That is why I have decided to break with some of my fellow conservatives and demonstrate my solidarity with the New York Times' capitalist agenda by offering my own discount to anyone who wants to run an ad on my blog. For a limited time only, I am offering premium ad space on my blog for a special discount of just $65,000 to anyone regardless of their political affiliation. And I mean anyone. I'll accept ads from MoveOn.org or some other traitorous liberal organization. I'll even accept one of those gay ads that always depict shirtless men with perfect bodies, which apparently are designed to entice young men into homosexuality by making them believe that there is no such thing as old, fat gay men. I don't care who you are or how reprehensible your message is, as long as you have $65,000, I'll run your ad, and not just for one day like the New York Times, but for three whole months. Just go to this BlogAds link. And as a special added incentive, I promise to do everything I can to drum up a blogstorm of righteous outrage in the conservative blogosphere about your ad, which will just bring even more attention to it and help spread your message far and wide. I may even write a post denouncing it myself. That's the kind of publicity that money, even $65,000, can't buy.
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
MoveOn.org and Other Traitors Are Welcome To Advertise Here
I hate to criticize my fellow conservatives but I was very surprised by the furor over the ad that MoveOn.org bought in the New York Times. Although I disagreed with the content of the ad, which attacked the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq General David Petraeus and featured the offensive tagline "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?," I don't understand why conservatives attacked the Times for accepting it. Aren't we conservatives supposed to be in favor of making buck, even if it means we have to compromise a few principles here and there? And don't we believe that money is free speech and that the more money you spend, the more free speech you deserve?
Posted by Jon Swift at 9/15/2007 07:55:00 AM
Labels: Blogs, Conservatives, Giuliani, Internet, Iraq, Journalism, Politics
11 comments:
- kathleenmaher said...
Oh that I could, Jon! You know I would. But I'd do my best not to offend anyone. Is that possible? Are there any conservatives so old-school that they might suppose I don't need to take sides because I'm a woman and as a group we haven't even been voting a century yet?
I guess that's a stretch. And then, too, my fantasy ad would be an ad for ME. Not vote for me, not give me money, just recognize ME. I'm one of the multitude of those not-famous for not-being-famous.
- kathleenmaher said...
PS I occurred to me I might try to negotiate a nefarious bargain from you. But that wouldn't be fair: you're offering a public service at a very reasonable rate. Then, too, were you to show any favoritism to us unknowns, it wouldn't help. We just got laid off.
- Mark said...
MoveOn.org is just another example of knee-jerk liberalism, which is unable to comprehend that a decent surge takes years for its effects to be felt, while anarchy would break out instantly, INSTANTLY, the moment American troops left. A surge is like making out to a Barry White song, building slowly but surely toward a result, while leaving early would.....would....where was I going with that?
- Kevin Hayden said...
I would please to like ad buying. My late Uncle who is dying asked I to post a cashier check in the sum of $65,000,000.00 into your PayPal account. But the transfer cost of $50,000,000.00 American dollars must be paid by your mama, please and thank you.
This is the real deal.
I'm John McCain and I approve this message.
PS: my uncle digs your research work on hypocritical Jumbo very much yes.
- damozel said...
Excellent, as always: stumbled AND dugg (digged)?
- Bukko_in_Australia said...
But NO lie-beral group would advertise on your blog, since it's only read by conservatives...
- Red said...
Your blog is so good it isn't even a blog.
- Chuck Butcher said...
If only you'd made this offer in early 06 when I was actually running for office. I suppose it would be too .........
- Grace Nearing said...
Silly MoveOn.org. Full-page ads in the NYT are worthless, despite the price.
The well-established protocol is to "research and write" a "book" that is "funded" by uber-wealthy "true-believers" and then "published" by fellow travelers who actually own a font chart and who call themselves "publishers," the "sales department" of which will then arrange for "bulk purchases" calculated with amazing mathematical precision to get "the book" listed on the NYT's Best Sellers List and thus to get "the authors" interviewed on all the morning shows, afternoon shows, early evening shows, and finally The Daily Show.
A one-off, one-page, black-and-white advocacy ad in the old newspaper of record is just a slap in the face of democracy.
- mw said...
heh. I am reminded of that old joke. A little girl is selling lemonade. "How much?" asks a kindly grownup passing by. "One million dollars," she answers. "Well, you won't sell many of them," chuckles the grownup.
"I only need to sell one," responds the little girl.
heh. heh. Cause you are not really expecting anyone to pay $65,000 for an ad on your blog ... right? I mean ... um - "you only need to sell one" right? Because $65,000 is a lot of money and you don't think that anyone would actually...
In this special blog comment offer you can get an unbelievable one-time advertisement placed at the Divided We Stand United We Fall Blog for only $49,999.99!! Send no money now,- well - send half of it now, and pay no more for two whole weeks! For that low low price you can run your ad continuously for six months! Thats right! Twice the time offered by the parsimonious Jon Swift!
For this unbelievable price you will also get one year of naming rights for the blog. Imagine your pride clicking that bookmark and seeing the "YOUR NAME HERE - DWSUWF Blog."
If you act in the next two days, we'll throw in the whole f***ing blog! Thats right, it's all yours! The front page, the archives, the crappy blogger templates, the psycho commenters! They are all yours!
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TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 09/21/12 -- The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) took critical steps at its meeting this week in St. Petersburg, Russia (September 17-21) to bring fishery management into the 21st century, seizing an important moment for stock recovery as well as a burgeoning market for sustainable seafood.
The recovering ground fish stocks such as yellowtail flounder on the Grand Banks and cod on the Flemish Cap is an encouraging sign of progress. However, early stock recoveries are fragile and depend on smart, science-based management to achieve their potential. NAFO's move to strengthen its science-base, by addressing the long and overdue issue of inaccurate catch estimates, will guard these gains and enable further recovery. The commitment to improve data collection, triggered by NAFO's independent performance review, will also bolster the sound conservation plans and rebuilding strategies for stock such as the iconic Grand Bank cod.
Despite these positive steps, there is still resistance from some contracting parties to important science-based management decisions such as closing vulnerable marine areas that play a critical role in broader ecosystem health. The blocking of these important decisions demonstrates that an outdated mindset-one focused on short-term business gains instead of long-term, sustainable opportunities-still hampers the potential of our oceans.
'By taking steps to improve data collection and reporting, NAFO will be better equipped to make sound management decisions. Accurate catch data is critical to the recovery of fish stocks and will ultimately underpin the fishing industry's ability to capitalize on a lucrative sustainable seafood market. However, we still need to get all parties involved to see the bigger picture. And that means making decisions to close areas that we know are critical to broader ecosystem health.'
--Bettina Saier, Director, Oceans Program, WWF-Canada
To view WWF's Recommendations for NAFO's Annual Meeting visit: http://www.wwf.ca/conservation/oceans/approach/
- Data collection and reporting was significantly improved through standardizing observer protocols, availability of vessel monitoring system data and tow-by-tow catch data to the Scientific Council.
- Mostly consistent with the scientific advice, total allowable catches were set for 10 stocks while 3 stocks (3M shrimp, 3LNO American Plaice, 3NO witch flounder) remained under moratorium.
- 5 of 12 contacting parties have ratified the amended NAFO convention that allows for a greater focus on conservation, ecosystem science and rebuilding of depleted fisheries in the Northwest Atlantic.
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