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There has never been a better time to buy an audio interface with converters and fairly precise and portable circuits at incredible prices.
The new generation of connections to computers promise to have better faster than the industry standard 2 USB and Firewire.
Meanwhile, people are very surprised with the lack of USB 3 interfaces, compared to the increasing number of interfaces with Thunderbolt connection.
There are good reasons for this, so if you are looking for the difference between the Thunderbolt vs USB 3.0 interfaces have come to the right place.
The USB 3.0 has already been on the market for some years but, to date, have only made a couple of interfaces that use the protocol natively.
The most successful are:
Universal Audio Apollo Twin Duo, which includes DSP processing and modeling of pre-amplification.
Presonus Studio 192, which currently runs on most of the specifications of USB 2.0
The most important reason for this is that even though the USB 3.0 is much faster than USB 2.0, referring to the fact that you can load more information within a certain time, such information does not reach its destination faster.
The latency (the delay between the input and output signal) that is inherent in the USB 3.0 is almost the same to which you can get through the USB 2.0
For this reason is that audio is not in their interest to make the USB 3.0 standard as the latency is very similar to the USB 2.0
The external connection Thunderbolt is currently the fastest available, being able to load the internal connection of PCI Express in a cable.
This is almost as if you'll be able to connect directly to the motherboard of the computer.
If the amount of tracks that you can create in USB 3.0 are already in the hundreds, theoretically the broadband of Thunderbolt technology allows you to have thousands of channels of high quality audio, but that is not really your stellar point of sale.
It is more costly to implement and has licensing costs (the reason why still very few computers have the support of this connection) but there are many benefits that make this connection the ideal for high end interfaces.
The Benefits:
- Reduces latency time of 4.5ms via USB to less than 1ms in Thunderbolt
- enables manufacturers to add DSP without having any type of latency problem
- there are no integration problems with computers
- offers 10 Watts of power through the connection
for these reasons is that large companies such as MOTU, Apogee, Universal Audio, Avid among others have adopted the standard as a Thunderbolt connection, as it allows for a much better quality on its interfaces.
The future of connections
If you are not convinced of the future of the audio in the computers and the role that will take different types of connections, here I share excellent news:
The USB and Thunderbolt are not merging, but are becoming compatible in a certain way, and better than ever.
This is through its recent launches of (USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt 3, respectively), which use the same connector called USB-C.
This is a new development which only a few models of computers, none of which have the connection of Thunderbolt Enabled, but will begin to become available at the beginning of next year.
What this means?
The future seems to be in this way: The economic PCs will have USB ports C can run USB 3.1, to which any USB Interface 1, 2, or 3 can be connected.
The Macs and PC's high end only have Thunderbolt ports USB-C, to which any interface will be connected with the best execution.
Thunderbolt will continue taking advantage in latency and power over the USB, but any sound card of any type will have evidence of consistency in the future.
In short
the differences between the interfaces Thunderbolt vs USB 3.0 are now perhaps a little more remarkable than what will be in the near future.
In either case, the sound quality and performance level of all current models is so high that it is difficult to choose incorrectly now.
So go and acquire the model that best fits your needs and starts producing good music.


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*Oct. 25- 50th day of school. Wear your 50's outfit!
*Oct. 25-Family Fun Night @ Pooler Chick-fil-A from 5-7.
*Oct. 26- FIELD TRIP to Holiday Farms
*Oct. 28- Report cards go home
This Week:
Letters for the week: F
Show and Tell: Yassin on Friday
Math: Ch: 4 We are focusing on numbers between 6-10 with more/less, adding to 10, and ordinal numbers through 10.
Bible: A bride for Isaac
Bible verses: Bible Verse F
(If you misplace your Bible verse list at any time please see the Bible verse tab above for a list of the verses.)
Unit: Pumpkins/Nocturnal Animals
Homework: A new homework packet will go home on 10/28 and is due on 11/4.
Handwriting- We are focusing on line placement, neatness, and correct formation. Please review handwriting activity sheets at home and pay close attention to the D'Nealian handwriting steps.
Reminders and FYI:
Remember to review the letters and letter sounds nightly for practice.
Sight Words: Also please review at home to help your child have a head start with reading. As soon as your child is ready to be tested please send an email or note to let me know.
*Your child will be assessed on the 1st 25 sight words at 2nd quarter mid-term. The 2nd 25 sight words will be assessed at the end of 2nd quarter. Please begin studying to help your child achieve this goal!
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The final instalment of Cryptid Clash!, "Inzignanin", is now available from 18thWall Productions. Lee County Lizard Man versus Third-Eye Man, with mercenaries, scientists and Confederate zombies caught in the middle. Continue reading "Carolina Stomp"
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Tasting the Dark
Weird Ales 3: Last Orders, an inebriating anthology from Theresa Derwin and Lynne M. Cochrane, is now available in paperback. Besides luminaries such as Gav Thorpe, it also includes a nasty little story by me. "Tenebrae Dark" sees a corporate headhunter find more than he bargained for in his search for the secret of the eponymous drink.
It's a fairly quick little story, and one I wrote almost a decade ago. What can I say – sometimes it takes a ridiculously long time to find the right market for a given work.
Weird Ales 3: Last Orders is available in paperback from Amazon.com and its subsidiaries. Why not grab your copy today?
Today is William Hope Hodgson's birthday.
I guess it's appropriate then, that the third and, sadly, final issue of SARGASSO: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies is now available for purchase. I'm proud to say that among the 150 + pages of William Hope Hodgson related essays, review, fiction and poetry is my story, "Corpse-Light". Continue reading "Corpse-Light"
Zibaldone #15: Tunnels
For today's commonplace book entry, we have a thing which, like several previous entries, is relevant to my current project. Continue reading "Zibaldone #15: Tunnels"


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Beyond Dollars and Clapping
It's deceptively simple. Your employee survey says folks don't feel recognized, and so your HR team helps you develop a bonus program. In rolling it out, you tell your leadership team this bonus is for folks who go above and beyond the expectations of their role. Fast forward a few years, and we're horrified to learn that the bonus program is at best ineffective; at worst it became a point of toxic culture itself! We just wanted to help people feel like their work was appreciated, but nearly every reward program contains one of the following mistakes.
Mistake #1: Pure Monetary Reward. Unless the bonus is a very significant amount, bonus reward dollars get lost in the pay stub. As a leader, you owe it to your team to seek out better ways to recognize folks in line with the values of your company.
Mistake #2: Only Manager Visibility. If we are only recognizing the individuals we see, then we are ignoring a large portion of the work (and the individuals) we don't see regularly.
Mistake #3: Above and Beyond. Finally, the criteria often used to define these recognition programs is incredibly subjective. To make matters worse, we often describe it as going "above and beyond" expectations without defining either "above" nor "beyond". As a result, we end up subjectively picking conditions that may not emphasize the culture we want.
None of these by themselves will kill an engineering organization. But here's an actual cause and effect. A company I wager most folks are familiar with built a spot bonus program where the manager had a $3000 use-it-or-lose-it budget to issue bonuses to any employee they felt was "exceeding the expectations" [sic]. Nearly every manager used this system to reward employees in $500 increments for shipping large projects, regardless of the project's success or adoption.
Today, the company is struggling with leverage and a massive culture of Not Invented Here. Asked to dig into why this was happening, I sat down with the engineers to learn why there was so much value placed on new instead of existing solutions. Immediately, the problems with their bonus program emerged.
- The $500 award meant nothing to the employees. The "reward" as engineers saw it was a letter they could include in their promotion application which was the key reference point for career advancement.
- In the larger teams, the extroverted folks were consistently the the ones receiving the recognition.
- The reward considered "exceeding expectations" as building something new as opposed to using existing solutions.
While this company accidentally made all three mistakes, you don't have to. But if you want to roll out your recognition idea well, the process is going to take both research and time. You will need to address The Reward, The Visibility, and The Criteria.
The Reward
The foundation of any recognition program is the recognition, but the vehicle for that recognition is the reward itself. A reward needs to be meaningful, significant, and relevant. If the reward isn't something people actually desire, the program will do a poor job of selling itself. Some of the best rewards reflect the company culture in the award itself.
- Rackspace has a Straightjacket Award, given to only to those who "do whatever it takes to bring Fanatical Support to life."
- A group at Pinterest uses Recognition Coins (pictured at the top of this article) with an antique silver finish, given along with a personal thank you conversation from a skip level manager.
- Blizzard makes sure that employees who stay with the company through the highs and lows of game development take home a piece of the magic they helped create.
There's no real guidelines on cost here, but seriously, don't cut corners.
If you're having a hard time being creative, sites like The Noble Collection, Thin the Herd, and Ichiban Toys are all great places to start the brainstorming. Involve the team, and you'll end up with something that people want to earn.
The Visibility
Getting visibility into your organization means doing more than just asking everyone a few days before the next all hands and hoping for the best. It needs to be systematic, consistent, and low friction.
By far, the most common solution to visibility is to get more people involved in the process. With the increased popularity of Slack, tools like HeyTaco! and Propsboard make it easier than ever to thank someone. As an added bonus, these newer tools give you a log of every person in the company doing amazing work. (Don't forget that you also need to be using these tools if you want them to become a norm at your company.)
One of the coolest solutions to a lack of visibility I've seen over the years is a physical wall at Pinterest where people pinned up weekly achievements, complete with lighting and sound effects. Like The Reward, when The Visibility is something that feels fun to do, you'll see a lot more involvement from everyone.
Finally, I can't stress the importance of keeping first level managers engaged throughout the process. With weekly 1:1s, and sometimes also being hands-on in the code, these folks have a much better pulse on all the engineering happening in the company and why it matters. Find or make the time in your regular organizational meetings to connect with these folks and feed their information back into whatever universal system for visibility you've adopted.
The Criteria
By now, you have something worth earning, and insights into who could be doing things that you'd like to recognize as an organization. It's time for the single most difficult part of the reward system: clear and transparent criteria. It starts with answering the following questions.
- What about this work was significant?
- Who (person or organization) was this work important to?
- If anyone else in the company did this work, would it be just as significant? Why or why not?
What you're trying to do with these questions is identify what specifically is the behavior you are trying to recognize as a company. The number one way criteria systems break down is by rewarding people for going "above and beyond" expectations; it's a vague statement that doesn't consider the value generated or the business importance. The other thing you are trying to do is normalize the criteria. If your company wants to reward leverage, then the criteria for the reward should specifically state that.
Make a spreadsheet f it helps with planning out the criteria. List every criterion down the left hand side. Then, when you evaluate based on this criteria, you can see prior decisions. When (not if) you find a misalignment in your decisions and criteria, flag it, address the difference, and reevaluate everyone with the new criteria.
And if multiple people satisfy your criteria? Then multiple people receive The Reward. The Criteria isn't about playing favorites, but about rewarding the behavior you want to see in your organization.
The Rollout
Once you have The Reward, The Visibility, and The Criteria, you're ready to bring your program to the team. You'll need to select whatever delivery style makes sense for your program and your company. Remember, not everyone wants to be singled out in a company all hands. Test your assumptions by asking a few employees on your team to look over the three pieces of the recognition program, and double check your work with someone outside of your organization.
Done right, you can reward the culture you want to become and begin affecting change.


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Fixie in the Hills
Riding with a fixed gear on the road gives you a feeling like no other. You feel intimately connected with the terrain you are riding on.
Without the use of gears or a freewheel, you must adapt yourself to the terrain, so steep means grinding, descending is spinning, and flats are about rolling through everything.
Words – Dave Edwards Images – Sarah Edwards
I love riding fixed on the road, I feel it makes me a better rider. Each ride involves something different, it is always challenging, physically and mentally, and the intimate connection with the terrain needs to be felt to be understood.
I ride 60-120 kilometres weekly on my fixie, and try to ride on hilly terrain as much as I can. Riding a fixed gear bike is something you get way more credit for than you deserve – people think its harder than it is. It really takes no time to pick it up, you just have to remember to pedal. All of the time. Never stop pedaling. Ever. Naturally at some point you do forget, and you get a VERY sharp reminder of your mistake, as the crank tries to drive your leg up into your hip.
For track cyclists, gearing choice can make the difference between winning and losing. For rolling on hilly roads no matter what gear you have, it'll be the wrong one. Get the right gear for a climb, and riding down the other side will suck-diggety-suck-suck as you need to spin like a sewing machine to keep up. The same if you choose the right gear for descending, you'll be popping veins in your neck with the strain to climb.
I ride with a 42x18 gearing - fairly standard. It's a good choice for rolling around on flats. But take that into the hills, and everything changes. Ride up a moderate hill of 5-8% average, and you will spend most of your time standing up, dancing on the pedals with a low cadence. You get used to that pretty quickly, even a climb of 5 kilometers isn't too difficult if the gradient is fairly consistent.
Things get challenging when it gets past about 15%. The 'hubbard weave' comes into play. It gets to a point where just turning the cranks over becomes impossible, so weaving back and forth across the road becomes the only way to make it up. This feels totally different, more similar to single leg deadlifts, than normal cycling. You will bust your guts, feel like vomiting, and spend the rest of the day with jelly legs, but it's awesome.
Like when you complete anything that you didn't think you could do, it's a feeling of achievement in overcoming the 'impossible'. But climbing fixed is similar to climbing on a regular bike, you just don't have a choice of gears.
Descending is a wholly different story. Descending fixed takes skill, practice, strength, flexibility, endurance and concentration. You cannot just roll down, and brake as you feel. You can't plant your outside foot down, and lean into a corner. The wheels will want to turn fast, and so the pedals will want to turn fast. Really fast. Oh-my-god-will-they-turn-fast.
On a 42x18 gearing I get to over 60kph regularly. Who cares? Most will do that on a road bike on every ride. At 60kph, with 700 cc tyres on a 42x18 fixed gearing, I am turning over at a cadence of 205 RPM. THAT IS NOT A TYPO.
Even at just 40kph you will turn 136 times a minute. But it's totally different to spinning on your normal bike, no way I could turn that with a freewheel. The difference is the cranks will turn themselves, you just need to make sure that your legs can keep up. Lots of work with the hamstrings and hip flexors. It sounds counterintuitive, but to move that quickly, you must relax and stay loose.
On normal descending you can control your direction with body movement. Lock your hips into position, drop your upper body, and feel the 'flow' of the bends. But when your legs are ripping along like lawnmower blades, you just can't do this. On a short hill of a few hundred metres, sometimes you just take a big swallow, brace yourself, and spin your guts out to get down. But on anything longer or steeper, you need to brake whilst pedaling, which feels unnatural. You will likely experience the sensation of your femur driving up through your hip the first few times, as you forget to keep pedaling for a moment...
Even with the smoothest pedal stroke, with your hips sitting atop legs pumping up and down in excess of twice a second, you will not be able to be stable through your lower core. In order to keep your bike steady, your upper body has to take up a lot more of the effort. You want to keep your hands and arms as loose as possible to still be able to control the bike, but you are trying to do this whilst braking. Your hands start to hurt after a while. I tend to alternate through having my hands in the drops, on the hoods or on the tops. Each position offers a little relief to your hands and forearms as you change position.
Every other part of you is occupied elsewhere, so all that's left for stability is your abs. Naturally all of this ads up to mean you descend a lot slower than normal, whilst tearing yourself in half to do so!
Give it a try, it might make you think about riding in a whole new way.


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Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Lúcio's Confession [Lisbon; 1914]
The second Portuguese novel I've read in the past few months, but the first I read in translation. I have a PDF of a first edition in Portuguese (it's in the public domain), and I allowed myself to dip into it occasionally to see whether the translator was being literal or making a choice, but mostly I read it on the bus. One aesthetic experience that will stay with me for a long time is a long description of a Decadent (in the generic, Wildean sense) party in Paris, designed to overwhelm partygoers' senses, and looking up to see the windows of the Gucci store on Michigan in unexpected hot pink, glowing eerily in the early darkness.
The literary comparisons I want to make to Sá-Carneiro are (since it's my background) mostly English-language: Poe and Wilde and the Stevenson of Jekyll, and oddly enough Ben Hecht, which remind me to tell you about some time. But I'm getting my bearings enough in non-English-language literature to be able to note the French influence (of course, since Decadence took flight with Huysmans) as well as seeing lines of influence that follow it, such as Borges and Bioy Casares. I was reminded most strongly of The Invention of Morel when reading, although Sá-Carneiro never gives a full explanation for his (apparently unnatural) mystery.
The story of Lucio's Confession is both unimportant to the ultimate effect and so important that it's worth discovering for yourself, but from a brief scan of the literature available online, interpretations are all over the place. For a hundred-odd page novel in which very little happens as such, it manages to pack in enough thematic content to be (potentially) a major text in queer literature (masc homosexuality and transgender identity are both symbolically broached), a sly portrait of syphilitic insanity, a cutting parody of Sá-Carneiro's literary associates, all of the above, or something else entirely. Genuine eroticism is as difficult to get a feel for at the remove of more than a century (not to mention as dependent on the audience) as genuine humor or genuine sentiment, but even through the double-paned blur of translation Sá-Carneiro's hothouse visions are effective.
The one major criticism I have of the book is purely editorial: Sá-Carneiro threw around italics profligately to draw attention to lines of unusual emotion or intensity. English prose styles are conventionally less demonstrative, and the translator could easily have dispensed with the emphatic italics.
But I really adored this little book, which I hadn't been expecting to be so intriguing. Apparently there's a book of Sá-Carneiro's short stories in English translation from the same publisher; I'm looking forward to tracking it down.
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You will be sent a plan-o-gram, which is simply a diagram showing where the products are to be placed on a store fixture. If you've ever worked in a retail store, you've probably seen or used one to stock the shelves.
Because this is a freelance position, you may want to sign up with a few different merchandising companies. In most cases, you will be treated as an independent contractor, so be sure to set aside some money for taxes (as none will be taken out of your check). Pay varies according to the job, but is generally paid based upon an hourly rate (usually $8 - $15 per hour).
Right now Best Service Merchandising is looking for merchandisers in AL, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MD, MA, MO, NJ, NC, OH, OR, PA, TX, WA and WV.
- Openings for project work in locations for Sams Clubs in the following cities: Metarie, LA Fayetteville, NC Springfield, MO Charleston, WV
- Dicks Sporting Goods in the following cities: Montgomery, Birmingham AL Chino, Laguna Hills, Moorpark, Pasadena, Tustin, Yorba Linda CA Loveland, CO Wilmington, DE Jacksonville, Orange Park, West Palm BCH, FL Augusta, GA Davenport, IA Springfield, IL Dartmouth, MIllbury, Pittsfield, Tauton, MA Hagerstown, Gaithersburg, Columbia, MD Greensboro, Winston Salem, NC Mays Landing, NJ Mentor, Steubinville, OH Hanover, North Wales, Tarentum, PA Bridgeport, Morgantown, WV
- Openings for a one time visit to FRY'S Electronics in the following cities: Concord, Manhatten,Oxnard, CA Wisonville, OR Houston, Webster, TX Renton, WA.
These projects require DIGITAL photos, online reporting within 24 hours of the visit and the ability to read planograms.
I always found merchandising to be a great way to supplement my income (and fund my FUN) along with mystery shopping.
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BE YOU: Compare & Compete/
The world does not need you to jump into a mold. We need you to be you. And, come on, isn't this the easiest possible thing to live out in our real lives? (BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!)
In my prep for a talk last year on the subject "Free To Be Who God Created You To Be," I asked myself this question:
The global, umbrella answer to this is simple. We are different from each other. It is hard to be me when other people are walking around being NOT me. There is tension when we recognize our differences. Paul describes this in 1 Corinthians 12. The eye knows it sees - it is it's job to SEE. But it notices the ear is hearing and there is tension in noticing the other part of the body doing something different. Tension is UNCOMFORTABLE, and for many of us (ME!) our instinct is to react badly to it.
With help from friends, I examined common, unhealthy reactions to this tension and broke those reactions into three areas. First:
A couple of years ago, The B (my seven year old) and I stayed with a friend while her husband was out of town. It was like a grown-up slumber party. This friend is THE most extroverted person I know and as the days went by, I started recognizing how she is connecting by text or phone calls or visits or whatever with 10-15 different people every day. She's coaching and encouraging and helping resolve conflicts, or she's just connecting and keeping those lines of communication open. I'm observing this, and I'm thinking how amazing she is, and I should have stopped with that observation.
But I kept thinking. Should I be doing what she is doing? I'm extremely introverted, so it wouldn't be to her scale of connectedness, but I thought, should I be doing more? And as I thought about doing more, I almost immediately got defensive - even the idea of increasing my level of connection overwhelmed me. Soon, after like two milliseconds of overthinking, I was upset and off balance, feeling a strange combination of guilt and self-pity. I took the tension of being with someone who is different from me and in that tension I chose to compare. In a blink, I felt the tension, reacted to it, and lost my confidence.
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It's bad enough when someone is doing life in general differently from me, but when they are doing the same thing in a different way, comparison can morph into it's uglier and more damaging cousin COMPETITION.
You're parenting differently? You're staying at home while I work? You're doing the same job but making more money? You're writing too, huh? Cue competition.
I tell myself I'm doing it better or "right," and, well, bless your little heart for trying. Or I tell myself you're doing it better and immediately change my methods (only to change them again when I observe someone else doing it even better). Or I come up with a list of excuses for why I can't do what you're doing the way you're doing it - your life is easier, things just go your way, you have resources I don't have, blah blah blah.


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If you remember, a couple months ago we posted about the Best Day Ever. Don't worry, you haven't missed it. A super unique wedding show happening in November here in Ottawa where only two of each vendor will be showcased as we put on two competing "weddings" for your vote.
Well today's session is all about introducing you to the lovely Team Sparks couple, Thea & Jody. We ventured to this river spot in Ottawa to shoot a Save the Date / "Engagement" / Family session.
We also went to the Museum of Nature (where the event will be held in November) to take some photos with their adorable little girl.
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Most people are aware that plastic pollution is a huge problem for the global community. While countries such as Germany and Belgium have developed successful recycling programs in efforts to minimize the amount of waste disposal, Ghana suffers from serious plastic waste management problems. Thousands of plastic bags bottles can be found in the streets and drain pipes; polluting and clogging drainage sewers.
Urban poverty is another significant problem in Ghana. According to a Unicef report, slightly over 10 percent of households in Ghana' s urban areas experience poverty. Where education and health care are limited, a lot of people from slum communities lack the skillset to take on jobs and earn a living wage. Even worse, women and children are more likely to experience poverty at a higher intensity than men.
Concerned with the growing number of children and plastic waste on the streets of Ghana, Kwaku Kyei took a bold step in 2011 to form RECNOWA Initiative, a non-profit social enterprise based in Kumasi, Ghana. The organization sells high-quality fashion-driven goods ranging from raincoats to bags; to furniture made from recycled plastic waste. Any and all plastic is taken out of landfills, neighbourhood streets, and anywhere else that its existence causes serious environmental havoc in the city.
"Every product sold by RECNOWA reduces land pollution, keeps people employed and serves as a very visible reminder that plastic waste can often be put to good use long after its initial purpose has expired," Kyei said. "People get excited [about our products] and wonder how we have been so creative to make our products from plastic waste."
Since their establishment, over 20 million of plastic sachets and other material waste have been removed from the waste stream and up-cycled into useful products. 270,000 plastic water bags were manufactured into 2,000 solar powered backpacks for school children without electricity. Theses backpacks are designed to provide cheap energy sources to help children study at night. They also work to reduce the use of kerosene used at home, which can cause accidents and illness.
While the concept of turning waste into pieces of art is not new, it can be a life-changing opportunity for some street youth in Kumasi, Ghana. As one of Ghana's largest metropolitan cities, Kumasi has a competitive street market scene. Apart from solving plastic waste problems, RECNOWA also focuses on the rehabilitation and vocational training of street children and local artisans. RECNOWA trains and employs people with physical limitations, as well as street youth from disadvantaged communities, in the hope that this opportunity could help build up their future lives and lift them out of poverty.
Photographing a fashion component of the Recnowa Project in Ghana was a task that could easily have been shot in a park amongst some buildings at the university, or in a lush forest of palms. In fact, this was the idea being pushed on photographer and founder of PWB Danielle Da Silva during discussions of the project, but in fashion, we've all seen something to that effect before. "I wanted the setting to be as interesting as the clothing and designers that we were showcasing, all the while emphasizing the beauty and history behind the traditional Kente fabrics, from the Ashanti region, Da Silva said. "Once I had the vision, I had to be un-waivering in its execution, or else it would come across as un-original and stale. We had to find a location that was intriguing and surprising to the viewer. I was adamant that we shoot in was a mechanics shop or a junkyard, in order to have a stark contrast between the subjects and my background. Lucky enough we found such a place, just one hour before the intended shoot. Talk about down to the wire."
RECNOWA has created employment opportunities for more than 130 people who are representing a household with an average of five family members. The domino affect sees approximately 650 people benefiting directly from the profits. In addition, the organization is also teaching people that plastic waste can have an inherent value of its own and should be saved rather than discarded indiscriminately.
Moving forward, RECNOWA wishes to replicate this model across communities in Ghana to benefit more people. However, financing is a huge obstacle. "We need financing to scale up our activities," Kyei said. "We are also looking at a partnership with business, foundations, corporate bodies, bilateral and multilateral institutions who would be buying our solar backpacks for school children in need."
In the battle against waste and urban poverty, RECNOWA continues to help improve our living environment and contribute to the welfare of the residents in Ghana.
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text: Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber and Meryl Streep have joined a raft of celebrities lending support to "Bully," the powerful Lee Hirsch documentary about bullying in schools that's been slapped with an R rating by the MPAA, which means many teens won't be able to see it. Streep will host a screening with her daughter Mamie Gummer and attorney David Boies, along with his daughter, Mary, in New York on Tuesday. Ted Olson, former US solicitor general under George W. Bush, will also host. Sources say Depp could shoot an antibullying PSA. MPAA chief Chris Dodd is hosting a Washington, DC, screening today with a panel including Harvey Weinstein, director Hirsch, DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and Child Health Advocacy Institute head Dr. Joseph Wright. Katy Butler, the Michigan student who's gotten 290,000 petition signatures asking for a PG-13 rating, will also be there, as will three families from the film.


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The PM said the association should request China to abide by international law, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), respecting coastal state sovereignty over the continental shelf and the 200-nautical-mile economic exclusive zone.
China should fully and strictly implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea and work with ASEAN to build a Code of Conduct in the East Sea, he stressed.
PM Dung reiterated that from May 1, China had deployed a deep sea drilling rig escorted by more than 80 armed ships, military vessels and aircraft in Vietnam's waters, and positioned the rig over 80 nautical miles inside the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of Viet Nam.
The Chinese armed ships aggressively fired strong water cannons and rammed into Vietnamese civil ships, damaging the vessels and injuring many crewmen, he noted.
PM Dung said that this was the first time China has boldly planted a drilling rig well inside an ASEAN member country's continental shelf and exclusive economic zone, seriously violating international law, the 1982 UNCLOS, and the DOC, to which China itself is a signatory member.
China's extremely hazardous move had directly threatened peace, stability, maritime security and safety in the East Sea, he underscored.
PM Dung made it clear that Vietnam had practised utmost restraint, showed goodwill, and used all dialogue channels with China at different levels to protest and demand China remove the rig from Viet Nam's waters.
However, China had so far made no response to these legitimate requests and has instead slandered and blamed Viet Nam, while continuing to intensify its violating acts in a more dangerous and serious manner, he noted.
The Vietnamese PM highlighted that Viet Nam attached special importance and always did its best to maintain and strengthen its friendship with China.
Viet Nam had always been sincere and wished to work with China in settling all disputes through peaceful measures on the basis of respecting international law, equality and mutual respect for the interests of the two peoples and for peace and stability in the region and the world, he emphasised.
However, Viet Nam strongly protested China's move of violating its sovereignty and would resolutely protect its national sovereignty and legitimate interests in accordance with international law, PM Dung declared.
He also called on ASEAN members, countries around the world and international organisations to continue raising their voices to protest China's actions and support the legal and legitimate request of Viet Nam.
Ministerial statement on East Sea tension
In a statement on Saturday, foreign ministers of the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) voiced their concern over the escalating tension in the East Sea, and called on the parties concerned to exercise self-restraint.
They reaffirmed the importance of maintaining peace and stability, maritime security, freedom of navigation in and over-flight above the East Sea as well as the ASEAN's Six-Point Principles on the South China Sea and the Joint Statement of the 15th ASEAN-China Summit on the 10th Anniversary of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea.
They also called on all parties to the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) to undertake full and effective implementation of the DOC in order to create an environment of mutual trust and confidence. They emphasised the need for expeditiously working towards an early conclusion of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC). — VNS


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text: xprop [-help] [-grammar] [-id id] [-root] [-name name] [-frame] [-font font] [-display display] [-len n] [-notype] [-fs file] [-remove prop- erty-name] [-set property-name value] [-spy] [-f atom format [dfor- mat]]* [format [dformat] atom]* SUMMARY The xprop utility is for displaying window and font properties in an X server. One window or font is selected using the command line argu- ments or possibly in the case of a window, by clicking on the desired window. A list of properties is then given, possibly with formatting information. OPTIONS -help Print out a summary of command line options. -grammar Print out a detailed grammar for all command line options. -id id This argument allows the user to select window id on the com- mand line rather than using the pointer to select the target window. This is very useful in debugging X applications where the target window is not mapped to the screen or where the use of the pointer might be impossible or interfere with the appli- cation. -name name This argument allows the user to specify that the window named name is the target window on the command line rather than using the pointer to select the target window. -font font This argument allows the user to specify that the properties of font font should be displayed. -root This argument specifies that X's root window is the target win- dow. This is useful in situations where the root window is completely obscured. -display display This argument allows you to specify the server to connect to; see X(7). -len n Specifies that at most n bytes of any property should be read or displayed. -notype Specifies that the type of each property should not be dis- played. -fs file Specifies that file file should be used as a source of more formats for properties. -frame Specifies that when selecting a window by hand (i.e. if none of -name, -root, or -id are given), look at the window manager -f name format [dformat] Specifies that the format for name should be format and that the dformat for name should be dformat. If dformat is missing, " = $0+\n" is assumed. DESCRIPTION For each of these properties, its value on the selected window or font is printed using the supplied formatting information if any. If no formatting information is supplied, internal defaults are used. If a property is not defined on the selected window or font, "not defined" is printed as the value for that property. If no property list is given, all the properties possessed by the selected window or font are printed. A window may be selected in one of four ways. First, if the desired window is the root window, the -root argument may be used. If the desired window is not the root window, it may be selected in two ways on the command line, either by id number such as might be obtained from xwininfo, or by name if the window possesses a name. The -id argument selects a window by id number in either decimal or hex (must start with 0x) while the -name argument selects a window by name. The last way to select a window does not involve the command line at all. If none of -font, -id, -name, and -root are specified, a crosshairs cursor is displayed and the user is allowed to choose any visible window by pressing any pointer button in the desired window. If it is desired to display properties of a font as opposed to a win- dow, the -font argument must be used. Other than the above four arguments and the -help argument for obtain- ing help, and the -grammar argument for listing the full grammar for the command line, all the other command line arguments are used in specifying both the format of the properties to be displayed and how to display them. The -len n argument specifies that at most n bytes of any given property will be read and displayed. This is useful for example when displaying the cut buffer on the root window which could run to several pages if displayed in full. Normally each property name is displayed by printing first the property name then its type (if it has one) in parentheses followed by its value. The -notype argument specifies that property types should not be displayed. The -fs argument is used to specify a file containing a list of formats for properties while the -f argument is used to specify the format for one property. The formatting information for a property actually consists of two parts, a format and a dformat. The format specifies the actual format- ting of the property (i.e., is it made up of words, bytes, or longs?, etc.) while the dformat specifies how the property should be displayed. The following paragraphs describe how to construct formats and dfor- mats. However, for the vast majority of users and uses, this should not be necessary as the built in defaults contain the formats and dfor- A value of 8 means that the property is a sequence of bytes while a value of 16 would mean that the property is a sequence of words. The difference between these two lies in the fact that the sequence of words will be byte swapped while the sequence of bytes will not be when read by a machine of the opposite byte order of the machine that origi- nally wrote the property. For more information on how properties are formatted and stored, consult the Xlib manual. Once the size of the fields has been specified, it is necessary to specify the type of each field (i.e., is it an integer, a string, an atom, or what?) This is done using one format character per field. If there are more fields in the property than format characters supplied, the last character will be repeated as many times as necessary for the extra fields. The format characters and their meaning are as follows: a The field holds an atom number. A field of this type should be of size 32. b The field is an boolean. A 0 means false while anything else means true. c The field is an unsigned number, a cardinal. i The field is a signed integer. m The field is a set of bit flags, 1 meaning on. o The field is an array of icons, packed as a sequence of 32 bit numbers consisting of the width, height and ARGB pixel values, as defined for the _NET_WM_ICON property in the Extended Window Manager Hints specification. A field of this type must be of size 32. s This field and the next ones until either a 0 or the end of the property represent a sequence of bytes. This format character is only usable with a field size of 8 and is most often used to represent a string. t This field and the next ones until either a 0 or the end of the property represent an internationalized text string. This format character is only usable with a field size of 8. The string is assumed to be in an ICCCM compliant encoding and is converted to the current locale encoding before being output. u This field and the next ones until either a 0 or the end of the property represent an UTF-8 encoded unicode string. This format character is only usable with a field size of 8. If the string is found to be an invalid character, the type of encoding viola- tion is printed instead, followed by the string formatted using 's'. When in an environment not capable of displaying UTF-8 encoded string, behaviour is identical to 's'. x The field is a hex number (like 'c' but displayed in hex - most ple, the dformat " is ( $0, $1 \)\n" would render the POINT 3, -4 which has a format of 32ii as " is ( 3, -4 )\n". Any character other than a $, ?, \, or a ( in a dformat prints as itself. To print out one of $, ?, \, or ( precede it by a \. For example, to print out a $, use \$. Several special backslash sequences are provided as shortcuts. \n will cause a newline to be displayed while \t will cause a tab to be displayed. \o where o is an octal num- ber will display character number o. A $ followed by a number n causes field number n to be displayed. The format of the displayed field depends on the formatting character used to describe it in the corresponding format. I.e., if a cardinal is described by 'c' it will print in decimal while if it is described by a 'x' it is displayed in hex. If the field is not present in the property (this is possible with some properties), <field not available> is displayed instead. $n+ will dis- play field number n then a comma then field number n+1 then another comma then ... until the last field defined. If field n is not defined, nothing is displayed. This is useful for a property that is a list of values. A ? is used to start a conditional expression, a kind of if-then state- ment. ?exp(text) will display text if and only if exp evaluates to non-zero. This is useful for two things. First, it allows fields to be displayed if and only if a flag is set. And second, it allows a value such as a state number to be displayed as a name rather than as just a number. The syntax of exp is as follows: exp ::= term | term=exp | !exp term ::= n | $n | mn The ! operator is a logical ``not'', changing 0 to 1 and any non-zero value to 0. = is an equality operator. Note that internally all expressions are evaluated as 32 bit numbers so -1 is not equal to 65535. = returns 1 if the two values are equal and 0 if not. n repre- sents the constant value n while $n represents the value of field num- ber n. mn is 1 if flag number n in the first field having format char- acter 'm' in the corresponding format is 1, 0 otherwise. Examples: ?m3(count: $3\n) displays field 3 with a label of count if and only if flag number 3 (count starts at 0!) is on. ?$2=0(True)?!$2=0(False) displays the inverted value of field 2 as a boolean. In order to display a property, xprop needs both a format and a dfor- mat. Before xprop uses its default values of a format of 32x and a dformat of " = { $0+ }\n", it searches several places in an attempt to find more specific formats. First, a search is made using the name of the property. If this fails, a search is made using the type of the property. This allows type STRING to be defined with one set of for- mats while allowing property WM_NAME which is of type STRING to be name format [dformat] Where name is either the name of a property or the name of a type, for- mat is the format to be used with name and dformat is the dformat to be used with name. If dformat is not present, " = $0+\n" is assumed. EXAMPLES To display the name of the root window: xprop -root WM_NAME To display the window manager hints for the clock: xprop -name xclock WM_HINTS To display the start of the cut buffer: xprop -root -len 100 CUT_BUF- FER0 To display the point size of the fixed font: xprop -font fixed POINT_SIZE To display all the properties of window # 0x200007: xprop -id 0x200007 To set a simple string property: xprop -root -format MY_ATOM_NAME 8s -set MY_ATOM_NAME "my_value" ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY To get default display. XPROPFORMATS Specifies the name of a file from which additional formats are to be obtained. SEE ALSO X(7), xdpyinfo(1), xwininfo(1), xdriinfo(1), glxinfo(1), xvinfo(1) AUTHOR Mark Lillibridge, MIT Project Athena X Version 11 xprop 1.2.2 XPROP(1)


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Jay: I'm Jay Young, originally from Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Hut: And where do you live now?
Jay: Dallas, Texas. I wasn't as motivated, where I needed somebody to help me, come over and make sure that I worked out, because if not it's easy to put it off and I wouldn't work out. I'd work out a couple times a month maybe, because I felt guilty, but it wasn't because I wanted to. Now it's different because now I work out and I want to work out, and I'm ready for John to come over so we can work out together.
Hut: So you found before you started working with us, you lacked consistency?
Jay: Exactly.
Hut: Before you worked with us, what all did you try to do to get in shape from a fitness standpoint?
Jay: I would work out at the gym before. I had another trainer that I worked with but we never could correlate our times together, so it really helps with John's schedule and my schedule – we work out something that's good for both of us. I've always kind of worked out but it's been difficult.
Hut: Let's talk about the results you've achieved. You've been working with us for a year plus. What type of results have you achieved?
Jay: I know that I hadn't worked out as much as I needed to because I thought, I can do all my cardio, and my diet isn't there, but that's my fault. It's not the weight workout – the weight workout has been there, it's been consistent, and I've enjoyed it.
Hut: Do you feel like you've improved strength since you've worked with us?
Jay: Absolutely. I don't know exactly what I have achieved. I didn't bench press before and bench press today to see exactly what the improvement's been, but I feel better about myself and I like it.
Hut: How about muscle – do you feel like that's improved?
Jay: Absolutely. A lot of good exercises that we've put in to the program that is not just concentrating on one or two; it's from your neck to your shoulders to your back to everything.
Hut: Has your flexibility improved since you've worked with us?
Jay: Yes, it has.
Hut: What have you noticed as a result of improved flexibility?
Jay: I feel better about myself and I can also move around better and I like the flexibility. The older you get (I'm over 50) you want to be able to stretch more and not feel so tight. Before I felt tight and now I don't feel as tight because I can stretch and the things that John has helped me with I know I can use on my own or also when he gets here, we can do it.
Hut: Obviously fitness has always been part of your life but with the improved strength, improved flexibility, and just overall consistency, what is life like now as a result of creating that consistency?
Jay: I just feel better about myself. It's not like I'm afraid to wear a t-shirt or something, but it feels better to wear a t-shirt and not hide your muscles, or I can wear tighter shirts or wear something that's not as baggy, and feel good about it.
Hut: Just seeing the overall change, you've put on a lot of muscle, which is great. What would you say to someone that may be on the fence about seeking help from a professional for their health and fitness?
Jay: I would try it. Why wouldn't you? What do you have to lose? I know it's a little bit of money, but if you're looking for improvement, it's hard to work out on your own; people have all tried that. The program is great because as Hut told me from the very beginning, "If you trust me, we'll make this work for you." John is here every night I need him to or whatever time we work together, 2 or 3 times a week. If I want more, he'll give me more, and it always works. There's no question, they need to do it.
Hut: That brings up another question. You've always worked out at gyms. Having somebody come to your home–how much more beneficial is that than going to the gym?
Jay: It's huge because I normally leave the office at 5:30, 5:45. If I get home early I can do my 30-40 minute cardio before John gets here, but if not I can work out at 6:15. I work out for an hour, at 7:15 I'm eating dinner. I walk downstairs and I'm eating dinner instead of having to get dressed, not dressed, drive in the car, do whatever.
Hut: Being here after you work out, how does that benefit you with your family?
Jay: Family is important. I don't want to spend time away and I want to be here. So I get here and I can play with the kids before I work out. I can work out for an hour and I can play with them afterwards. They even come in here and John knows every one of my kids and has played with all of them so they can intermingle, if you will. Not that we want them to all the time, but we don't mind it. It just helps being here.
Hut: Family is key. Seeing you work out is also something that probably means a lot to you because you're setting the example.
Jay: Right, exactly. Yes, I like that. That's good.
Hut: We greatly appreciate your story. It's guys like you that inspire people, especially our other clients, and keep doing it because you're doing it right.
Jay: Thank you.


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Seven tips for staying safe in frigid weather
Taking simple precautions can dramatically reduce your risks in cold conditions and let you fully enjoy being, well, freezing. Here are a few:
☐ Bring and wear proper gear. Big tip: Don't wear cotton! When it gets wet, air pockets in this fabric will fill up with water so that it stops insulating you. And it takes a long time to dry.
☐ Take a buddy and stay close together. If something happens to one of you, the other now can give aid or call for help.
☐ Before you leave home, study a map. Tell a friend or family member exactly where you're going, what you're doing and when you plan to return. Then take the map with you and stick to the plan.
☐ Learn about the weather, terrain and elevation of where you will be traveling. Do this well before you leave. And be prepared for sudden weather changes.
☐ Know basic first-aid techniques, such as CPR, just in case. Free CPR classes are often taught at city recreation centers and American Red Cross centers.
☐ Stay hydrated when you're out. This is important even when it's very chilly. That's because the air you breathe is dry, explains Michael Tipton. He's a cold-weather expert at the University of Portsmouth in England. As your body warms that inhaled air, you will make it damper. In the process, you lose water through your breathing organs, especially your nose and lungs. And keep in mind that you being dehydrated can harm your performance. You can even die from it.
☐ If you're going to be exercising in the cold, pay even more attention to staying hydrated, because you can sweat out some of your fluids as you work. Also wear layers of clothing so that you can take off one if you're too hot, but then put it back on as you slow down – and cool down.
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elevation The height or altitude at which something exists.
fabric Any flexible material that is woven, knitted or can be fused into a sheet by heat.
hydrate (noun: hydration) To restore the proper level of fluids in the body.
organ (in biology) Various parts of an organism that perform one or more particular functions. For instance, an ovary is an organ that makes eggs, the brain is an organ that interprets nerve signals and a plant's roots are organs that take in nutrients and moisture.
physiologist A scientist who studies the branch of biology that deals with the bodies of healthy organisms function under normal circumstances.
risk The chance or mathematical likelihood that some bad thing might happen. For instance, exposure to radiation poses a risk of cancer. Or the hazard — or peril — itself. Among cancer risks that the people faced were radiation and drinking water tainted with arsenic.
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weather Conditions in the atmosphere at a localized place and a particular time. It is usually described in terms of particular features, such as air pressure, humidity, moisture, any precipitation (rain, snow or ice), temperature and wind speed. Weather constitutes the actual conditions that occur at any time and place. It's different from climate, which is a description of the conditions that tend to occur in some general region during a particular month or season
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Cyndi Lauper To Guest Star On Monday's Raw, CM Punk Appearing On Jimmy Fallon, Bret Hart On Ratings Dropping After He Dropped The Title To HBK, Carrying WWE
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WWE announced Friday via Twitter that Cyndi Lauper will guest star on Monday's Raw SuperShow.
Their statement reads, "Girls just wanna have fun … on #Raw! Grammy-winning artist @CyndiLauper guest stars on Monday's @WWE #Raw #SuperShow!"
WWE Hall of Famer Howard Finkel added, "Glad to see @CyndiLauper joining us on Raw this Mon night. She was a major part of the Rock and Wrestling Connection back in the day!"
Lauper made several appearances at the World Wrestling Federation's "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection" events in 1984 and 1985, including the inaugural WrestleMania event. Managing Wendi Richter against Leilani Kai, their entrance music was "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."
– WWE Champion CM Punk will appear a guest on the NBC talk show "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" late Monday night. The show airs at 12:35 a.m. ET/11:35 p.m. CT.
WrestleMania II celebrity Joan Rivers is also scheduled to appear as a guest.
The Score's Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) sat down with Bret "The Hitman" Hart in the final part of his three part interview. Bret touches on Lex Luger, his opportunity to carry "the ball" for WWE and his role as the champion of the company in the 1990's. Highlights are as follows:
WWE's television ratings after dropping the title to Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania XII and Steve Austin: "At the time, ratings plummeted after I dropped the belt to Shawn at Wrestlemania XII. They started losing the ratings to WCW. Shawn did not fill the void like I did and they kinda ended up where it's like 'We're gonna go back to Bret Hart'. The guy that pulled them all out of that was Steve Austin and that was the guy I had a lot to do with helping shape where he was going in his career. I think I had a lot to do with, through the '90s and I think I had a lot to do with the direction the whole company went, and the stars that did make it for WWE, like Austin and even Shawn I had a lot to do with helping get where they were."
On carrying WWE through the 1990s: "[Vince] needed someone immediately, like someone right now to carry the whole thing and not drop it. And thats what I love about my era. It's like 'Here, give it to Bret Hart'. And they gave me all that. And you know I say, guys like Flair and some of these guys say Bret Hart didn't draw money, and thats not true at all. I did draw money. I drew big houses. And I had the tough job of having to carry things, I had to be the big star after Hulk Hogan, who was a failed hero at the moment."
On changing the 'rules' as champion: "The big one was I was never a big fan of the big star on the door dressing room. Warrior had it, Macho Man had it too with Liz, but Liz had to change and it was a different thing with Macho, but I always felt Macho earned it. Hogan had the fruit basket, the flowers and the special room with star on the door too. I always felt Hogan earned it too. I never thought he didn't deserve any of that, he did. I know just when it came to me, you know the limo rides, and the limo service and all that, I didn't want any of that" … "I want to change in the dressing room with the other wrestlers. I don't need the star on the door, I don't want it. Save the "it]s all a big show" for somebody else, I don't want it. I was the first champion to refuse that" … "You see guys like Warrior and Hogan that didn't have the time of day for anybody but themselves. I changed that. I wanted to be not just the peoples champion, but I felt like I was the dressing room champion."
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Gâteau Amizade - Chocolate-Filled Almond "Friendship" Cake
Recently, I hosted some friends over for dinner and felt like I was in a bit of a dessert rut… I have a pretty solid repertoire of desserts but somehow I wanted to prepare something different and innovative. I was also already making a pretty elaborate main course. So, to preserve my own sanity, something "different and innovative" would have to be "simple" as well! I looked in my freezer to see what I had on hand and I found some frozen dough for gateau basque, an almond butter cake filled with pastry cream, typical of Southwest France. I then checked my pantry and found a can of condensed milk, which I usually use to make brigadeiros, a Brazilian treat that I grew up eating. To learn more about brigadieros, check out this post. So I decided to prepare the brigadeiro mixture and use it instead of pastry cream… While my friends all initially requested "just a small slice," they loved this combination so much, that they all had to have seconds and by the end of the night, the whole cake was gone! I decided to call it Gâteau Amizade as a tribute to both its French and Brazilian roots. Gâteau, as you may know, means cake in French while Amizade is the word for friendship in Portuguese. I couldn't think of a name that was more appropriate for a dessert that was conceived for an evening of indulgent food, amusing conversation and heartwarming friendships!
Serves 8
8 tablespoons (120 g) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup (200 g) sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tablespoon (15 ml) kirsch (optional)
2 teaspoons (10 ml) almond extract
1 ½ cups (190 g) all-purpose flour
⅓ cup (35 g) almond flour
1 teaspoon (5 g) baking powder
½ teaspoon (3 g) salt
Brigadeiro filling:
1 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon of almond extract
1 egg, slightly beaten
Use a mixer to beat the butter and sugar together on medium speed until well blended. Add the egg yolks one at a time, incorporating well after each addition. Add the kirsch (if using) and almond extract. Whisk the dry ingredients (flour, almond flour, baking powder and salt) in a separate bowl. Reduce the speed of the mixer to low and gradually add the dry ingredients. Mix the dough until it holds together. Divide the dough into 2 balls and flatten out into disks. Wrap each disk of dough with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator until firm but malleable, about one hour.
To prepare the brigadeiro filling, mix the condensed milk, cocoa powder and butter in a small sauce pan (about 2 quarts) and cook over low heat. Stir the mixture continuously to avoid clumping - condensed milk is high in sugar and will crystallize, and possibly burn, if left unstirred. When the mixture is thick and you can start seeing the bottom of the pan (about 8-10 minutes of stirring), remove from the heat and stir in the almond extract. Immediately pour it into a bowl and allow to cool for at least half an hour.
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line the bottom of a 9-inch (23 cm) round cake pan with parchment paper. Dust the work surface with some flour and, using a rolling pin, roll out one of the disks of dough into an 11-inch (28 cm) circle. Drape the dough over the rolling pin and transfer it to the cake pan; gently press the dough down into the bottom and sides of the pan. If the dough cracks or tear, do not worry. Just patch it up as it will not show when the cake is finally baked. Pour the brigadeiro filling onto the dough and spread evenly.
Roll out the remaining disk of dough into a 9-inch (23 cm) circle. Carefully place it over the cake pan, on top of the brigadeiro filling, to form the top layer of the cake. Press the edges of the dough together to enclose the pastry cream. With a pairing knife, trim off any excess dough. Brush the top of the cake with the beaten egg.
Bake for about 40 to 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool for 10-15 minutes before inverting onto a cooling rack. Cool another 10 minutes before turning the cake right side up and let it cool completely. Transfer to a serving plate and serve at room temperature.
Make it ahead: I frequently make the dough beforehand. I store it in the refrigerator if I'm planning on making the cake in the next two days. Otherwise, I store it in the freezer. It keeps well for up to three months. As for the brigadeiro filling, I usually make it one day in advance. Then I assemble and bake the cake the day I'm planning to serve it.


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The Jerusalem Post reports: Panic ensued when a man wielding a knife ran through Tel Aviv's Shuk Hacarmel market Friday afternoon.
Initial reports showed that the man was known to medical personnel, possibly due to mental health issues.
Fearing a terrorist attack, market goers and workers fled the immediate area in panic. Police arrived at the scene and the suspect was arrested.
No injuries have been reported but two individuals were treated for shock.
Israel has been gripped in a wave of terror attacks emanating from the Palestinian community since September of last year. Though violent incidences have subsided over recent weeks, tensions are still wrought throughout the country.
Read more here.


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Dear Parents and Guardians,
I would like to take this opportunity to say I am honored and excited to be selected as your next Superintendent of Schools. My guiding principle as your Superintendent is based on the belief that every child can and will attain the education and skills necessary to achieve their dreams of a meaningful and bright future. I am humbled and grateful to the School Committee for placing their faith in me, and I intend to work in partnership with them in guiding this district forward.
I have had the opportunity to play many diverse roles over my 20-year career, and those experiences have prepared me to lead our school district to meet the high expectations the community demands and our students deserve. This incredible journey has taught me to appreciate the work of educators and support staff, and to value the strength of a unified School Committee and community.
Our focus in Lenox Public Schools remains constant. We believe all children can learn. We care about each and every student, and we aim to show it by providing our best efforts as teachers, administrators, mentors, and advocates to our entire student population. Our schools must be safe places where students are engaged, challenged to meet the standards necessary for college or a career, and where fun is definitely encouraged. We want students to build productive and sustaining relationships, and know that our sole purpose is to support them as they become the productive citizens we know they can be.
I am excited about the 2018-2019 school year and beyond. Delivering excellence is still our top priority and I look forward to achieving that goal together.
Kim Merrick


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1. sparkling or brilliant, especially in a superficial way or for the moment: a flashy performance.
2. ostentatiously or vulgarly smart; showy; gaudy: flashy clothes.
"people can be flashy for people."
"cars can be flashy."
"graphics can be flashy."
"people can be flashy."
"rings can be flashy."
This list can help you learn new vocabulary more quickly and be able explore other words more easily.
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Beamish Heavy Haulage has a large range of folding trailers, dual axle trailers, tri axle trailers and quad axle trailers all with front loading and unloading full width low angle goose-neck to safely enable rolling machinery to travel up onto deck of the low loader. Our low loader trailers can move a wide range of heavy machinery and over-dimensional loads including; back hoes, tractors, excavators, forklifts, skid steer loaders and bulldozers. We pride ourselves on delivering safely and efficiently throughout Melbourne and Regional Victoria.
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Some of the items we transport on the folding goose-neck Low loader trailers:-
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"Downhearted" is the third single released by Australian surf rock band Australian Crawl from their debut album The Boys Light Up.
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You'll learn to cast on, knit and bind off, plus Yarn + Needles 101. If you're taking this course as a refresher, we can add the purl stitch as well.
Beginner project is either a dishcloth or scarf. For either project you'll need US Size 7 (4.5mm) knitting needles, preferably straight and preferably wood or bamboo.
For the dishcloth you'll need one ball or skein of 100 % cotton yarn in a light or bright color, approximately 120 yards, worsted weight (or "medium" or "4").
For the scarf you'll need approximately 400-450 yards of yarn, acrylic, wool blend or wool, worsted weight (or "medium" or "4").
Date: Monday, Oct 14 2-4pm
Wild and Wooly, 1212 Chuck Dawley Blvd, Mt. Pleasant. 843-881-5588
Class fee is $40/person, ages 12 and up, plus supplies.


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It takes six plus hours to drive from Kisumu to Nairobi through the most glorious landscape imaginable. The first part of the trip was flat as a pancake and we wondered how people dealt with all the rain that Kenya gets. Jackie says that some people just vacate their houses for the downpours.
After a while it all becomes hilly and then mountainous. The trees keep changing with the different altitudes and I fell in love with one variety called something like Bongo Bongo. It's darker than all the others and lifts numerous arms skyward as though talking to the heavens.
Best of all we saw zebras, giraffe, antelope and camels in the wild. I declared the day a success right then and there and we hadn't even gotten to Nairobi for our real business.
Our hero of a driver Yasin was thrilled to see fancy cars on the road and would enthusiastically exclaim, "Look at that Chevrolet! That's a nice ride". His favorite was a sky blue Jaguar that we just went ahead and added to our list of animals, much to his amusement and perhaps dismay as well.
We got to Nairobi later than we had hoped. Jackie couldn't figure out where we were and her phone calls to her sister didn't help much. We finally worked it out, ran into as many fabric shops as possible and got a few things taken care of. Tomorrow morning we'll visit a place that we've been told has fleece after which we'll leave to drive back to Uganda.
We ate dinner at our hotel and laughed as our meals were completely mixed up. I got Jackie's Matoki and Yasin got my Ugali. Phoebe got garlic tea instead of ginger and Jackie got roast chicken as well as another friend's fried chicken. It was crazy but we sorted it out and added it to another wonderful day to remember and giggle about.


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Article falsely claims that Ron Johnson threatens citizens with arrest over town hall meetings
Some Facebook readers flagged as "fake news" a March 2, 2017 article that carried this headline about Wisconsin's Ron Johnson:
Republican Senator Threatens Citizens with Arrest if They Continue Asking for a Town Hall
The article was published by Resistance Report, which describes itself as a "social justice-oriented media company dedicated to providing the bold, combative, thought-provoking journalism that will be critical over the next four years."
So, we thought we'd see whether Johnson made such a threat.
A letter
The article accuses Johnson of dodging requests to hold town hall meetings, but eventually responding to the requests with a "cease-and-desist" letter.
But that letter had nothing to do with town hall meetings.
As we reported on the same day the Resistance Report article was published, Johnson had sent a letter to a Milwaukee man who acknowledged he had called Johnson's office as many as 83 times in a day. The letter warned that if the man visited or called Johnson's office (written communication was OK), staff would call U.S. Capitol Police.
Citizen Action of Wisconsin had cited the letter in claiming that "people who come to" their dissent actions "get a 'cease and desist' letter" from Johnson's office. We rated the group's claim False. The man was involved in some Citizen Action activities involving Johnson. But the letter was based on his personal contact with Johnson's office, not any Citizen Action activities.
(A few days later, Citizen Action posted an apology for making its claim.)
Tom Cahill, an editor for Resistance Report, told us that since the man "had called his senator's office 83 times, it seems as if his goal is for Johnson to hold a public town hall so his senator can answer his questions directly."
But that is complete speculation.
The letter also went to a single person. It was not a general response to "citizens" who may request a town hall meeting, as the article claimed.
Our rating
Resistance Report says Johnson "threatens citizens with arrest if they continue asking for a town hall."
A letter by Johnson's office that was cited by the group warned a man that if he did not stop calling and visiting Johnson's office, the Capitol Police would be called. The letter had nothing to do with town hall meetings.
We rate the statement Pants on Fire.


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Decatur Police Release Thanksgiving Enforcement Numbers
The Decatur Police Department conducted additional traffic enforcement Nov. 16–26, reminding motorists to buckle up and not drive impaired, day or night, as part of the nationwide Click It or Ticket/Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement effort. The Decatur Police Department joined other state and local law enforcement agencies across Illinois to reduce highway deaths by issuing citations to unbuckled motorists and arresting impaired drivers.
During the 10-day mobilization, Decatur Police issued:
21 DUI arrests
1 child car seat citation
2 seat belt citations
1 fugitive apprehended
3 suspended/revoked licenses
12 uninsured motorists
24 speeding citations
The annual campaign may be over in Decatur, but that isn't an excuse to stop buckling up. Not wearing your seat belt is a primary offense, meaning law enforcement can stop you and issue a citation for that alone. All vehicle occupants, regardless of seating position, are required to wear a properly adjusted seat belt.
"Our officers are out year-round. If you or your passengers are caught not wearing a seat belt, you will be cited for the violation," said Sgt. Steve Hagemeyer. "If you drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs, you will be arrested."
The Click It or Ticket/Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement effort is funded with federal highway safety funds administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation.


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JEROMESVILLE — Trey Williams did it all offensively for the Hillsdale Falcons on Friday at Jeromesville Community Stadium as the Falcons rebounded from a tough loss last week to beat the Rittman Indians 48-14.
The senior quarterback set two school records along the way, with five touchdown passes and six total touchdowns for the Falcons.
Trace Stiltner, a wide receiver for Hillsdale, said a key for them was to get back to basics after a tough 22-20 loss to the Northwestern Huskies a week ago.
"Just us following our fundamentals and everything we talked about in practice," said Stiltner on the explosive passing game. "Just coming back from a big loss. ... Usually that has an effect on teams, and we learned that we needed to play better."
The Falcons (5-1, 2-1 Wayne County Athletic League) and Williams wasted no time getting on the board first.
After a Rittman three-and-out, Hillsdale move the ball right down the field in six plays, capped off by a 23-yard touchdown by Stiltner from Williams.
Williams threw his second touchdown of the night when he found Alex Becker for a 36-yard touchdown to make it 14-0.
But the Indians (2-4, 0-3 WCAL) fought back, and on fourth down of their next drive they punted, but the ball hit off a Hillsdale player's helmet and the Indians recovered to keep the drive going.
From there, the Indians made it 14-7 on a touchdown from Sevi Garza.
But the Falcons took care of business the rest of the way, scoring the last 34 points of the contest.
"In our two scrimmages and first five games we felt that we competed really hard all those games," Hillsdale head coach Tom Williams said. "And last week we didn't execute as well as would have liked, but it wasn't for lack of effort. So we just wanted to keep doing what we've been doing and clean up a few of those things. And obviously we did some good things tonight."
The 34-point run started with 3:08 left in the second quarter when Trey Williams scored on a 2-yard run to push the Falcons lead to 21-7.
The Falcons defense forced another punt by the Indians, which gave them great field position on the Indians 34-yard line.
Trey Williams quickly found Stiltner for 34 yards and a score, making it 28-7 heading to halftime.
It was more of the same in the second half, as Williams found Josh Vinsack in the corner of the end zone for a score to make it 34-7. Trey Williams would hit Becker for an 8-yard score with 4:52 left in the third quarter to hit the six-touchdown plateau. He finished with 285 yards on 16 completions.
Hillsdale's defense also did its part by not allowing the Indians to record a passing yard and giving up just 115 yards on the ground.
"We've been on those guys a little bit (defensive linemen)," coach Williams said. "Earlier in the season we were making tackles for loss and things like that, but the last couple weeks we hadn't been able to get that. ... It was nice to see."
For the Indians, it's back to the drawing board as they are now on a four-game losing streak.
"We have to execute better than what we did tonight," Indians head coach Levi Nelson said. "I told the boys we got four games left, and we have to get better and that starts with me. I told them, 'I will get better this week.'"
Ultimately the passing attacks were the difference as the Falcons had 306 yards and six touchdowns while the Indians had no yards and were 0 for 8.
Receiving for the Falcons was spread out as Stiltner caught two touchdowns, Becker caught two scores and Vinsack caught two (one from Williams and one from CJ Tafur).
"I think when you have a good quarterback and good, tall, physical wide receivers like they do, I'd throw the ball a little more, too." — Rittman head coach Levi Nelson on Hillsdale's passing offense.
"You get a (school) record like that, somebody's got to make plays and I thought our receivers did a really good job. And then we had a lot of protection tonight. I thought Trey was able to sit back there for awhile on a few of those plays and find guys that were open. So I thought our offense line did an awesome job tonight." — Hillsdale head coach Tom Williams.
Trey Williams, Hillsdale — The quarterback threw for 285 yards and a school-record five touchdowns, completing 16-of-22 passes. He also set the school mark for total touchdowns in a game (six).
Alex Becker, Hillsdale — The receiver/running back had 89 yards and two scores.
Sevi Garza, Rittman — Led the Indians with 39 yards on the ground and a score.
Evan Ringler, Rittman — The quarterback scored the second touchdown for Rittman with 33 seconds left in the game.
Rittman hosts Northwestern; Hillsdale at Norwayne.


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Mar 25, 2010, by Subhomoy Mukheree, Washington Bangla Radio: Subrata Datta, known as Subrat Dutt in Mumbai, is a powerful award-winning character actor appearing in parallel, art-house as well as commercial films. Subrata talks to Washington Bangla Radio in an intimate and informal interview.
A multi-faceted talent, Subrata was born in Bankura district of West Bengal. He started watching films in huge numbers after graduating from high-school - as many as 25 films in 30 days. He eventually got involved with Jatra - the unique stage-drama form of Bengal, and also learnt various dance forms like Rabindra-nritya (Tagore dance) and Kathak dance. Subrata is also an accomplished artist and painter.
Soon he was selected for admission into NSD - The National School of Drama - which had teachers like Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah, Om puri and other contemporary stalwarts and icons of Indian cinema providing excellent training in the art of drama and acting. Subrat is the first Bengali at NSD with the highest number of main character roles in NSD productions.
After NSD, Subrat travelled to UK and studied at the Central School of Speech & Drama with full sholarship.
Subrata thinks acting is an acquired art and can be perfected with training - prodigies born as great actors are numerically insignificant. He is comfortable with all kinds of roles in commercial and parallel art-house films. He started his career in Bollywood Hindi movie industry, and has started doing Bengali films recently. Bengali movie ACHIN PAKHI with Subrata Dutta and Manali Dey in lead roles was released in theaters in Kolkata on Mar 26, 2010. Ram Gopal Verma's RAKTA CHARITRA starring Subrata Dutta and others is also an eagerly awaited film.
The film Madholal Keep Walking got Subroto Dutta the best actor award at Cairo IFF 2009. Subrata Dutta's prior films include Hitlist (2009), 10:10 (2008), Chaturanga (2008), Tomar Jonyo (2008), Bibar/Calcuatta, Unabashed (2006), The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005), Zameen (2003), Sala Bandar! (2003), 88 Antop Hill (2003), Swapner Feriwala (2002), Lajja (2001), Uttara (2000) and more.
Subroto Dutta is acting with veteran as well as upcoming actresses - he has appeared opposite Indrani Haldar, Rituparna Sengupta, Sreelekha and newcomer Manali Dey (who became famous playing MOURI in BOU KOTHA KAO TV Show).
Watch Subrata Dutta talking about his fascinating experiences in Indian Cinema.
Subrata Dutta and his wife are expecting a baby in summer of 2010. Washington Bangla Radio wishes Subrata even greater success.


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Kerala to produce 'organic milk' with Dutch tie up
Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 18: MILMA, the Kerala Co- operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, is set to join hands with the Netherlands to produce nutritious, high-quality 'organic milk' - without using synthetic feed or antibiotics while rearing the cattle.
As many as five milk societies in Mullankolli, in high range Wayanad, have been identified for implementing the ambitious project, which will begin soon after getting the final clearance from the Dutch government.
Organic milk will be produced by rearing cattle in a thoroughly natural environment, without giving them any synthetic feed or antibiotics.
K T Thomas, Managing Director of MILMA in Malabar region, which manages dairy co-operative societies in six northern districts of the state, said an MoU is expected to be signed in this regard soon.
"We are planning to implement organic milk project with the support of the Netherlands government," he told PTI.
"For this, we have joined hands with Solidaridad, a state-recognised NGO in Netherlands and Transdisciplinary University in Bengaluru which focuses on the promotion of traditional food, culture and treatment systems," he said.
Aluva-based Indocert has been identified as the agency to certify the organic milk, Thomas said, adding that a group of local women have already been given training in ethnic veterinary treatment to take care of cattle under the project.
The official said organic milk production is a time-consuming process and cattle should be reared in the natural environ, feeding only natural grass and fodder, at least for one and half years.
"A group of selected dairy farmers of Mullankolli will be entrusted with the production of organic milk. They will be given strict directions for rearing cattle. We have to change all the current agriculture and dairy practises to produce the real organic milk," he said.
The cattle would be given only natural grass and fodder and all the other synthetic and artificial cattle feed would be avoided.
Pesticide and insecticide-sprayed grass and antibiotics would also be completely avoided.
Even if the cattle would be give antibiotic, 15-20 days would be considered as a withdrawal period and milk would not be taken from it during that time.


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With perfect blue skies almost year-round and a river that wraps itself around two-thirds of the CBD, name a more perfect thing to do in Brisbane City than drink cocktails in the sky and find a moment of peace by the water?
Reap the rewards of your walk by the river (yes, it counts as exercise) by treating yo'self to a cocktail with a view. Getting out of the house and pumping those legs is cause for celebration, and an espresso martini or three should do the trick. Brisbane CBD is topped with plenty of rooftop bars to explore and riverfront to wander. Here's where to go next time you're in Brisbane City.
The city's beloved Riverwalk stretches from New Farm at Sydney Street along an above-water walkway, under the Story Bridge and into Brisbane City. Running right along the waterfront, this flat walkway is popular for easy walks and cyclists. It passes by the long lunch and big deal business district, and continues on into the lush green City Botanic Gardens. You can finish there or wander through the gardens, past the Riverstage to QUT Gardens Points. Follow George Street and you'll be shopping up Queen Street Mall in no time.
The primary category of person walking through Eagle Street Pier? The overstuffed diner. This restaurant precinct is a waterfront gem filled with fine dining restaurants of all cuisines and manicured parkland with river views. Get your food fix at Aria Brisbane, Cha Cha Char, Sake, Blackbird, Madame Wu and more, and walk off that delicious meal by the water to make room for dessert. Of course, you can simply visit the riverfront precinct without dining too, but you would be in the minority.
Catch the elevator to the 30th floor to experience Brisbane's highest rooftop bar. The views? Incredible. Close to Eagle Street Pier, Sazerac offers a curated cocktail, wines, beer and spirits along with a stunning vantage point over the CBD. The obvious drink order is the namesake classic cocktail, a Sazerac. There's also a menu of tapas, burgers and pizzas, where a triple-decker club sandwich or bowl of sesame salt-and-pepper crusted squid has your name on it.
The five-star W Hotel has made one thing clear: it's here to praise our cosmopolitan city and relaxed sun-soaked culture. Sitting in the heart of the city and on the river's edge off George Street, from the large terrace expect epic views over the Brisbane River, GOMA and South Bank. With a funky zebra-like striped roof, heated pool and DJs day and night, the WET Deck is an oasis in the sky for cold drinks and long nights with a resort feel. Your drink of choice? Champagne or something tropical.
Another rooftop pool terrace, this one is perched above Queen Street Mall. The bar embraces tropical luxe, centred around a 20-metre long infinity pool with padded lounges to kick back in day or night, and a cocktail list of signature drinks and classics. Nab a table by the terrace edge, order mojitos or a blueberry gin sour and settle in for the ultimate people-watching experience below. A menu of tapas, pizza, salads and frozen coyo is available until 10pm too.
Peer out over Brisbane City Hall, King George Square and the CBD from this central sky-high bar on the 16th floor. Popular for after-work drinks, grab a cushioned area for your mates and order cheese boards or tapas to share. Behind the bar, craft beer and fine wine is an easy choice, or take your pick from the specialty cocktail menu – the Antler's Forest with vodka, Chambord, creme de cacao, Kahlua and espresso is our pick. The 120-seat bar is located at the top level of the Pullman and Mercure Brisbane.
Treat Mum to Brisbane City's alfresco dining and finish by strolling through Brisbane's arcades. Whether your Mum's traditional or modern, Brisbane offers the perfect itinerary to suit her.
From drinking cocktails on rooftop bars to sinking beers and billiards in underground music dens – Brisbane City offers no shortage of variety in its nightlife. Raise your glass to the 5.01pm club!
Explore the hidden laneways in Brisbane City. With so many alleyways and nooks to discover, make it the ultimate weekend. Plan an overnight stay-cay at any of the hotels in Brisbane's CBD.
Brisbane has exceptional sunny weather all year round. Wine and dine at the city's alfresco restaurants and sunkissed bars tucked away down laneways or perched on a rooftop.
Brisbane City is home to heritage-listed spaces that will transport you to a different time and place. Luckily for us quite a few of these old-world gems serve a solid martini or pop champagne bottles.
Check out our round up of the best burgers and boutiques in Brisbane City. The City is the ultimate burger precinct. Satisfy yourself with one (or two!) of these juicy burgers and burn off the excess energy by wandering through Brisbane's boutiques.