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The Intrigue of Aaron Barthel, Master of the Ephemeral Chocolate Truffle
by Kristy Leissle
October 2013
On every visit to Intrigue Chocolates in Seattle's Pioneer Square, I am greeted with a bit of truffle on a toothpick. It might be one of the house flavors—Jamaican Hot Chocolate (dark rum, honey, vanilla, nutmeg, habanero chili) or Mocha, made with direct trade coffee beans. Or perhaps a seasonal offering that founder Aaron Barthel has dreamed up—Hot Toddy (whiskey, honey, lemon zest, cloves) or the simpler but unexpected Carrot. When I finish the first, I'm invited to sample the rest of the day's lineup, usually eight or nine flavors out of a possible one hundred fifty, and counting.
And I want to taste them all. After eating a lifetime's worth of chocolate in every form, even earning my PhD by studying it, I have yet to find Aaron Barthel's equal as a master of flavor. His truffles are intoxicating; locked in a room with a limitless supply, I would never stop eating them.
Though the company name suggests otherwise, there is little mystery in a visit to Intrigue. Aaron himself—a shyly smiling, Santa-like man—offers samples from behind the stainless steel worktable where he conceives, makes, and sells his confections. Jars of ingredients are on full display: peeled pods of cardamom, fluffy flower heads of chamomile, strips of dried porcini. And unlike the jeweled confections locked beneath glass cases at many chocolate boutiques, Aaron's truffles are not bedecked with transfer art or luster dust, or molded into fantastic shapes.
Instead, Intrigue truffles are identical, pleasingly thick rectangles dusted with dark cocoa powder, each one wrapped in elegant brown paper with its name typed in simple font: Rosemary & Sea Salt, Jalapeño & Lavender, Cassis, Toasted Coconut. Their modest form belies the complexity of both the maker and his purpose, which is, at its heart, to unveil all the nuance and spectacle of flavor.
Intrigue's ethos calls attention to the fact that each truffle ingredient came from the earth, and was once alive and growing. Moreover, the earth that produced the herb, spice, or fruit might not be any I will ever tread upon. And that is OK, because the truffles themselves will take me there. Eating his creations, Aaron believes, is a way to experience the many destinations, exotic or mundane, that his customers may never visit. "We can so easily forget there is a world outside our path between work and home, outside our city, our lives," he told me. "Intrigue's flavors are a way to remember there's a wide world beyond what we see in our everyday."
He recalled a conversation with a friend who, upon trying his early truffles, told Aaron that his flavors were intriguing. "At first, I thought, 'That's awesome, intriguing flavors!' And then I realized, 'Oh—intrigue.' Like Murder on the Orient Express. Like steamer ships—people leaving England and sailing around the world, trying new things. My truffles are a way for people to experience that without having to travel anywhere."
A new spice had just arrived, one of the rarest in the world. "The Romans used this pepper," Aaron told me, handing me a jar to sniff. "It was their king of spices. You can't grow it on a commercial plantation." I smelled musk and woods. Aaron went on a different journey.
"It smells like the colors of an old-growth forest, with angled sunlight peaking through the branches. It doesn't make me want to go camping in that forest," he smiled, "but it does makes me want to read a story about going camping there. It's very idyllic."
The irony is that while their flavors evoke far-flung locales, Aaron's truffles do not travel easily and their existence is, by necessity, fleeting. Aaron works exclusively with ganache, which he makes by infusing hot cream with flavorful ingredients and blending this with chocolate. Early on, he made the unusual decision to craft French-style truffles from this ganache, hand-dipping the rectangle shapes into cocoa powder. Most confectioners enrobe or mold ganache within a tempered chocolate shell, which allows the confection to keep for longer. I asked if there was anyone else whose sole product was a cocoa-dusted truffle.
"Nobody I know of," he replied. "Usually just chefs in restaurants make them."
Because they are not encased in sturdier chocolate, Intrigue confections must stay refrigerated and have a shelf life of about three weeks. While Aaron does sell his truffles online, no nationwide chain can stock them. Each mouthful flares briefly into flavorful life, and then disappears.
Aaron grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota and never had formal culinary training, learning mostly from cookbooks. Even now, his method is to repurpose techniques he already knows—like making tea. When a new ingredient arrives, Aaron first steeps it in hot water, and from there works out proportions for infusing it into ganache. While he trusts the method now, and generally crafts recipes to his satisfaction on the first or second try, his lack of formal training made him nervous to bring his truffles out in public.
"The first chocolate event I went to was the Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon, and I was terrified," he remembered. "I was afraid people were going to taste my truffles—or even just look at them—and say, 'You don't know what you're doing! Why did you do this? We never do this!' Well, by the end of that festival, I'd taken away a couple of awards. That was very validating, and allowed me to relax."
Unlike many of his artisanal peers in the bean-to-bar business, Aaron considers chocolate a medium, not a flavor goal in itself. "I sometimes refer to chocolate as a matrix for delivering flavor," he explained. "When chocolate sets, the cocoa butter crystallizes and traps the volatile flavor compounds, but it traps them in an easily melting matrix. When you put a truffle in your mouth, you get this burst of intense flavor." Because there is no hard chocolate shell to bite through, Aaron's soft, cocoa-dusted ganache delivers the flavor experience immediately.
And that flavor can be anything from black lemon or basmati rice to rosé wine. Intrigue's diverse truffle line is born of Aaron's addiction to novel flavors and his careful study of their origins. He can tell me something interesting about every ingredient. When I tasted Heather & Honey, he remarked, "Heather was the bittering agent in beer before they had hops. It's a preservative, keeping things from becoming moldy and weird."
Or one that made him grin: Fakin'. Though he will try virtually any other ingredient, Aaron doesn't believe that meat should be combined with confectionary—but he could not resist creating a faux bacon truffle in homage to his second favorite food. I tasted barbeque and wood smoke, with a hint of salt. Aaron explained that he derived the flavor from black cardamom, handing me a jar of seeds that smelled of molasses and pork sausage.
"It doesn't exactly taste like bacon," he said, "just evokes it."
Aaron's genius for making ganache lies with his synesthetic approach to taste, whereby his sensory perceptions become imbricate and intertwined. When he eats, he tastes colors, sounds, textures. Flavors often evoke a sense memory or an imaginary scene.
"Every flavor tells a story," he explained. "If you allow yourself to be synesthetic, you get the colors, the shapes."
A large part of Intrigue's business revolves around pairings, which brings the truffles into an even more complex synesthetic realm. Weekends often find Aaron explaining to fascinated groups how to pair his confections with beer, tea, wine, sake, coffee, champagne (tricky, he says), or even music. Though his truffles cannot travel easily, Aaron's reputation as a pairing maestro has, and he receives many requests to match his chocolates with various things, some of them not even foods. An artist asked him to pair Intrigue truffles with her paintings. A "convention for creatives" in Chicago approached Aaron about pairing confections with the five themed sections of their artistic program.
I had been working my way through the day's samples, which included Pink Peppercorn and Lemon—made from zest, not juice, which added tiny bitter notes of citrus rind at the finish. I had enjoyed both separately, but Aaron had an inspiration: let's pair them. I put the two bits of truffle in my mouth. The peppercorn prickled my tongue while a bouquet of lemon zest bloomed above. Together they made a new flavor, unnamed and untasted until that moment: bold, bright, fruity.
"That," Aaron said, "is the flavor of hot pink."
Even when a confection involves an ingredient I have eaten many times, tasting it in Intrigue truffles feels like a moment of first greeting. An educator at heart, this is for Aaron the most gratifying part of his work. To illustrate: Intrigue's best selling truffle, Basil.
"People see that I make a basil truffle and they'll say, 'Oh, awesome, savory chocolate!' And I always want to say, 'Listen, basil is not savory at all. Thyme is savory, basil is sweet.'" Ninety percent of people, he laments, "have never tasted a thing in their lives, no matter how much they've eaten."
But Aaron does not need to lecture about flavor, because his pedagogy lies in the eating. When I tried the Basil truffle, I felt I had never before tasted either chocolate or basil properly. The flavors were exquisitely contrasting, each the perfect foil: the basil tasted green and sunny, the chocolate foundation dark and earthy; I could see pointed emerald leaves pushing forth from loamy soil. As the sweet basil lingered, I understood why this herb is often found in savory dishes: it's a contrast element for Italian meatballs, tangy tomatoes, or salty mozzarella cheese.
Aaron speared some Basil truffle on a toothpick and closed his eyes. "Basil's a string quartet," he said, "nuanced and smooth. It's big, it's lush, it's green. I feel like I'm sitting on an overgrown lawn under a big old tree on a hot summer day, enjoying the breeze."
Trying for some of Aaron's synesthesia, I sampled Wintergreen—fresh, barely there mint—and saw the sparkle of stars in a Christmas sky. South African Honeybush was a dusty riverbank, the scent of honeysuckle on a dry breeze.
Customers ambled into the workshop and inevitably lingered. Many were obviously regulars. A young suited businessman wanted to discuss the flavors he had purchased on a previous visit. A lanky blonde woman in tight black pants arrived trailing a couple of friends, to whom she announced, "This is my favorite place in Seattle." Nearly everyone who came in went away with a full box.
Watching Aaron sample out his confections reminded me of a party I'd been to, where a mixologist created individualized cocktails based on guests' personalities. I asked Aaron if he could do the same with a truffle. His face lit up.
"Absolutely!" he said. "I've never done it for a person before . . ." I could tell that he wanted to. His assistant, Walter, went first. After a brief consideration of Walter's likes and dislikes, Aaron pronounced his special truffle: blackcurrant, raspberry, and black pepper.
"I like your style, sir," smiled Walter. Then it was my turn. Aaron asked what foods I enjoyed, besides chocolate. I told him cheese, chicken, and medium-rare steak. He contemplated these, and then said, "For you—a cumin, lime, and sea salt truffle."
Wow. I never would have thought of combining those flavors with chocolate. But as I imagined its taste, I knew I would love that truffle. Walter and I decided that when Aaron created a personalized truffle, it would be akin to a painter capturing their model's inner light.
"But Aaron," said Walter, "would capture their flavor light."
|Kristy Leissle , sometimes called Dr. Chocolate, is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer who studies chocolate. Kristy is faculty at the University of Washington Bothell and Education Director of the NW Chocolate Festival, the world's largest gathering of bean-to-bar chocolate makers and confectioners. Her writing on chocolate has appeared or is forthcoming in Gastronomica, Bittersweet: The Chocolate Show, yes! magazine, and the Journal of African Cultural Studies.


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HIGH workloads are crippling Lothian family doctors, according to a "damning" new report into the state of general practice.
A national survey, compiled by Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, revealed that more than 50 per cent of Lothian GPs found their workload unmanageable compared with 38 per cent nationally.
Thirty-seven out of 125 Lothian GP practices were analysed as part of the report, titled The crisis in Scottish Primary Healthcare.
The news comes as NHS Lothian was forced to take over the running of Leith Links Medical Centre, due to a lack of doctors.
It is the fourth GP practice within Lothian to come under health board control.
Mr Rennie said: "The results are damning. The finding that more than three in ten GPs would not opt for general practice if they were making a career choice now reveals the depth of the crisis."
Almost half of the respondents nationally were unaware of the Scottish Government's primary care plan to tackle the strain on GPs.
He said: "It is to be regretted that the Scottish Government was unaware of the looming crisis in primary care and the government appears to continue to deny that the crisis even exists. The impact of this crisis is being felt far and wide and the problems that have been allowed to develop are deep-rooted."
Mr Rennie said the government had published an "under-whelming plan" in June – seven months after it announced it would – and that GPs felt that it was "insufficient to meet the challenges." Medical leaders called for wider investment in general practice, which could save NHS Scotland money in the long term through better use of resources.
Dr Miles Mack, chair of Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland, said: "These survey results are certainly worrying. We are repeatedly getting stories of increasing workloads and difficulty recruiting GP partners and salaried doctors from across Scotland."
The organisation is working with doctors who have other specialities to develop new ways of working to make the health service run efficiently.
Health Secretary Shona Robison has admitted that more needed to be done to tackle the looming GP crisis, despite a £60 million cash boost from the Scottish Government earlier this year.
She said: "We will go on working with family doctors to meet the undoubted challenges the profession faces over workload and recruitment."

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Advances in Mechanistic Approaches to Quantifying Biophysical Fire Effects
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Purpose of Review
The search for causal mechanisms in fire ecology has been slow to progress for two main reasons. First, many fire ecology investigations often occur after fires, with no detailed information on fire behavior. These fire effects are then used to infer both fire behavior and the subsequent effects themselves. Second, that fire behavior is heterogeneous at many scales both spatially and temporally, and that heat transfer occurs in three dimensions is only now being appreciated. Spatially and temporally resolved measurement of heat and mass transport in fires is difficult; and even when fire is measured, it is often measured in ways that are not relevant to the effects of interest. General measurements like flame length, rate of spread, and consumption are only approximate descriptors of a complicated energy transfer environment and are of limited use when linking fires to their effects.
Recent Findings
We review both progress in biophysical fire ecology and present recent advances in technology and analytical techniques used for measuring the fire environment. We discuss not only how models of fire-induced injury can be partitioned into belowground, stems, and crowns but also how understanding synergy among these injuries will be necessary to improve our understanding of fire effects. We also present how there are emerging opportunities to apply computational fluid dynamic models to address issues of scaling in biophysical fire effects.
The conceptual linkage of fire energy release to mechanistic fire effects has value beyond simply understanding post-fire tree injury, function, and mortality. It can guide investigations that identify and isolate mechanisms driving other fire effects such as soil heating, organismal population dynamics, and biogeochemistry.
KeywordsFire behavior Fire ecology Fire effects Tree mortality Wildland fire
The authors would like to thank Dr. Marty Alexander for the opportunity to develop this review article and recognize his helpful reviews for its thoroughness and clarity. We also recognize two anonymous reviewers for their improvements to drafts of this manuscript.
Funding was provided by Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL, and the USDA Forest Service Center for Disturbance Science, Athens GA.
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Conflict of Interest
The authors declare they have no conflict of interest.
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This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.
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Cleared man seeks public inquiry
A man who spent 18 years in jail for a murder which he did not commit has called for a public inquiry into the case.
George McPhee, from Lincolnshire, was jailed for life in 1985 for the killing of Elizabeth "Totsie" Sutherland at her home in Culbokie on the Black Isle.
His case for justice was supported by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC).
Appeal judges said he was the victim of a "grave miscarriage of justice".
Mrs Sutherland was known as "Totsie" because she was only 4ft 9in tall.
The 30-year-old mother-of-two had been repeatedly stabbed in the chest and had her throat cut.
I feel great now but a bit disappointed that we don't know what happened, how it came about that I was in prison for 18 years
George McPhee
Her body was discovered by her 10-year-old daughter when she returned from school.
Mr McPhee, 50, had been brought up a few miles from the scene but was living in Lincolnshire at the time of the murder.
He was convicted following evidence from Detective Superintendent Andrew Lister, which has since been discredited.
The police officer, who died five years ago, told the original trial that a footprint in Mrs Sutherland's garden matched Mr McPhee's size nine shoes and that it had been confirmed by forensic scientists.
However, a laboratory report on a plaster cast of the footprint was found to state that the interpretation of size was "impossible".
The document was withheld from the trial.
'Serious questions'
The appeal judges also dismissed the evidence of Colin Hawkins, who was with Mr McPhee on the day of the murder, and prisoner Trevor Proudfoot who claimed there had been a prison confession.
Accompanied by his wife Pauline and sons George, 24, and Andrew, 23, Mr McPhee demanded a public inquiry after hearing the appeal court judges' ruling in Edinburgh.
He said: "I feel great now but a bit disappointed that we don't know what happened, how it came about that I was in prison for 18 years.
"I want a public inquiry to find out exactly what happened.
"I hope they get the person that committed the murder because he is still out there or she is still out there."
His solicitor, Robbie Burnett, added: "George is entitled to know exactly what happened, how he was wrongly convicted of this crime.
"There are very many serious questions which remain unanswered here."
A spokesman for Northern Constabulary said they did not intend to reopen the murder case and added that they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the killing.
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From The TimesMan cleared after 18 years' jail
December 7, 2005
Man cleared after 18 years' jail
By Shirley English
A MAN who was wrongly convicted of murdering a young mother after a detective lied at his trial has demanded a public inquiry into why he spent 18 years in jail.
George McPhee, now 50, was jailed for life in 1985, and ordered to spend at least 25 years behind bars for the murder of Elizabeth Totsie Sutherland, 36, at her home in Culbokie, Easter Ross.
The mother-of-two disturbed intruders ransacking her home in September 1984. She was stabbed several times in the chest and her throat was cut. Her body was found by her ten-year-old daughter when she arrived home from school.
Mr McPhee, of Immingham, Lincolnshire, was convicted of the murder but always protested his innocence. Yesterday his conviction was quashed at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh. Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Gill, sitting with Lord Nimmo Smith and Lord Osborne, said that he had suffered a grave miscarriage of justice, and had not had a fair trial. The judges said that evidence given by Detective Superintendent Andrew Lister, the senior investigating officer, had been crucial to Mr McPhees conviction, and that evidence had been untrue.
Speaking outside the court, Mr McPhee said that it would be hard to forgive those who had put him behind bars. He said: I feel great now but a bit disappointed that we dont know what happened or how it came about that I was in prison for 18 years. I would like a public inquiry to find out exactly what happened. I hope they get the person that committed the murder because hes still out there, or shes still out there somewhere.
Mr McPhees case was referred back to the appeal court after an investigation by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Its findings cast serious doubts on the evidence of witnesses, including the police, and Mr McPhee was freed on bail in July 2003 pending a ruling.
He had been brought up in Culbokie but had moved to South Humberside by the time of the murder, and only returned during 1984 and 1985 for several housebreaking raids. At Mr McPhees trial at the High Court in Inverness, Colin Hawkins, his housebreaking partner, testified that Mr McPhee alone had broken into Mrs Sutherlands house. Another witness, Trevor Proudfoot, who shared a cell with Mr McPhee, claimed that he had confessed to the killing.
Yesterday the judges concluded that both were unsavoury individuals with serious problems of credibility, and that it was Mr Listers evidence that had proved crucial to Mr McPhees conviction. Mr Lister, who has since died, had claimed that forensic experts believed footprints found in Mrs Sutherlands garden and in her house were made by the same person, and matched a shoe worn by Mr McPhee when he was arrested. However, laboratory documents not seen during the trial proved that this was not the case. The judges said: The Advocate Depute submitted to us that the overall impression was that Detective Superintendent Lister was not acting in bad faith. We find that difficult to accept.
Yesterday Northern Constabulary said that it did not intend to reopen the case, and was not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder.
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Villa Arbitus in Latchi is a holiday villa on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Sleeping 6 people in 3 bedrooms - 2 double bedrooms and 1 twin bedroom. One of the double bedrooms and the twin bedroom are en suite. With another family bathroom being available.
Villa Arbitus has a satellite TV & DVD player. With Wi-Fi provided too. Air-conditioning is also provided free of charge at Villa Arbitus. There is a washing machine, dish washer, oven, hob, fridge/freezer and coffee machine all provided too.
Outside the paved area has outdoor dining and a heated swimming pool.
The nearest restaurant, bar and cafe are all ½ kilometre from Villa Arbitus. With the resort of Latchi being 3 kilometres away.
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Former hedge fund manager Rengan Rajartnam's recent acquittal ended Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's untarnished winning streak of insider trading cases.
"This defense verdict sends a powerful message that juries are willing and able to reach a not-guilty verdict if they don't believe the government has presented enough evidence to convict," said White & Case partner and former SEC Trial Attorney Greg Little.
Prior to this verdict, the US Attorney's office secured 85 convictions and it appeared that any case brought before the federal courts would conclude in a guilty verdict.


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Melbourne is in Craig's blood and few can match his specialised knowledge of the bayside and surrounding property market. Craig has a reputation for negotiating some of Port and South Melbourne's best property sales and works tirelessly for his clients to achieve the best results possible.
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Tauby began her career working with Air India, travelled the world and chose Nagpur as her home ! Her hands on training in baking was in assisting her sister a trained Chef working with the Taj Hotels Mumbai. In Nagpur Tauby started baking as a hobby and on requests from family and friends. She came to appreciate and enjoy the smiles she was able to put on people's faces when they got the cakes she had prepared. And so began her love affair with baking which soon became her passion. She loves baking because of the combination of flavors , the simple origins of a seemingly complex recipe and importantly, the happiness it brings out in each of us!
Soon Tauby could not handle her baking from home & in the backyard of her beautiful home in Civil Lines Nagpur established a large Bakery with the very best ovens and state of art baking equipments . Chef Ramendra joined and together they put together a team of skilled bakers each specializing in their area of production. Taubys emphasis on quality innovation and strict standardization soon saw demand continuously growing. But she still maintained the same recipes and home style baking. Taubys naturally became a brand and soon had to keep adding outlets in Nagpur to cope with the increasing demand .


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I framed these paper cut butterflies to put in the raffle for Dillon's leaving party tomorrow at Pre School. The back ground paper is from a book printed in 1909. I like the way it smells.
Today he asked me if his friend Ashley was leaving. Yes I said, and soon you will be too. He thought about this and said, I will still come back sometimes… in my school uniform.
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Maciej Wota
The pianist was born 5 December 1992 in Jarosław (Poland). He started piano playing at the age of four. He is a student of piano playing at The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw with Jerzy Sterczyński and organ playing with Jarosław Malanowicz. He participated in many piano master classes with professors such as: Andrzej Jasiński, Józef Stompel, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Boris Petrushansky, Rem Urasin, Nikolai Demidenko, Ludmil Angelov, David Dolan, Paolo Giacometti, Andrzej Tatarski and Karol Radziwonowicz. He performed in Poland, Germany, Norway, England, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Hungary, also in Australia and USA. Maciej Wota is a laureate of many national and international piano and organ competitions. The most important of them: First Prize and a special prize for the best performance of Chopin mazurkas in X International Chopin Piano Competition in Antonin (2008), Second Prize in IV International Chopin Piano Competition in memoriam G. Ferenczy in Budapest and prize for the best performance of Chopin Polonaise (2010), Fifth Prize and Chopin Prize in IX International Competition for Young Pianist Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam in Bydgoszcz (2011), Special prize of Chopin-Gesellschaft Rheinland-Pfalz on X International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt (2013), First Prize in 5th Academic Organ Competition "Romuald Sroczyński in memoriam" (Poznań, 2016). The pianist is also a Semifinalist of 2nd Australian International Chopin Piano Competition (Canberra, 2014) and a Semifinalist of 2nd International "Kurt Bossler" Organ Competition in Freiburg (2016). From 2008 to 2011 he was a scholar of Polish Childrens's Fund.
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Week 4 in the NFL has come and gone. I drafted David Johnson and Dalvin Cook in my league. Good thing Fantasy Basketball is starting soon! I've compiled two different cheat sheets for you guys this year. Have a look – updates will be coming as we get closer to the start of the season!
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Georgetown University has recently experimented with turning one of its digital-only courses into a hybrid course. Usually, this process occurs in the other direction: a physical class slowly spins off portions into online sections. This means a lot of the class can occur online, but it is still constrained by scheduled, physical meetings instead of fully taking advantage of the digital format.
By moving from a conventional online class, more helpful, innovative ways of addressing online learning can be addressed. Georgetown's system is based on holding the same class twice a week at scheduled times- students only need to tune into one of the two. Attendance is done entirely remotely. Students teleconference in and participate in a live discussion just as they would in a traditional setting. Their webcams and microphones are utilized to give the illusion of physically being present. In this way, the digital classroom experience is raised beyond the typical list of tasks and readings and becomes a personally engaging system. Interactivity even includes a method of virtually raising one's hand, and splitscreen conversations between professor and pupil. Perhaps UW Bothell could adapt this system to let more students participate in each class while preserving the same small-class feel that has become its trademark.
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- The Alpha Remote includes a 196.8″ (5.0 m) cord, and features a remote release button and shutter lock button.
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Ryan took the boys to his dad's house for the night... possibly the weekend. I need some ME time (and if you read my blog you'd know exactly why). Not that I'm going to be sitting here eating bonbons and watching tv. I have a case study and two final papers due for my class on Sunday plus 3 sessions to edit and tons of photography bookwork to catch up on. Oh and I still need to unpack and do laundry and clean/organize the basement. *sigh* Do mom's ever really get a vacation?
We were cracking up because the boys have a birthday party to go to tomorrow at noon. I told Ryan "Just bring them back around 11 and I'll take them to the party" and we laughed and said we sounded like a divorced couple trying to share time HAHA!
Is it weird I'm kind of nervous to stay home ALONE? I don't think I've ever stayed home completely alone... without at least the boys... since moving here. I'm tempted to call a friend to come over to hang out with me LOL! But then I wouldn't get any work done.
So, off to my to-do list. I'm hoping to get a lot accomplished before 9 or 10 so I can veg out for a few hours before heading to bed.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Mama Only
Labels: my thoughts, parenting
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I know the feeling...I used to love alone time, but I don't think I've had any since our little lady was born. I don't know that I would really know what to do with myself!ReplyDelete
Good luck with your to do list!
Enjoy your mama Only time!!!ReplyDelete
I would love it, seriously love it! I can't remember the last time I stayed at my house alone??? I hope you enjoyed it!ReplyDelete
I LOVE time alone, although it is SO rare! Take advantage of it and do whatever you want to do! :)ReplyDelete
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January 21, 2018
Rutland Station 4: The department responded to two calls.
Call 1: Rutland was called lifting assistance on State Route 124 with Meigs EMS. Rescue 44 and Engine 42 responded to the call, while Engine 42 was enroute they were deferred to another call. Total of 11 members on scene for approximately 15 minutes.
Call 2: Engine 42 deferred from call one to Meigs Elementary School for a landing zone set up as requested by Meigs EMS for MedFlight 3. Rescue 44 also responded to the call with a total of 11 members on scene for approximately 30 minutes.
January 23
Columbia Township Fire Department Station 12: The department responded to a tree down on Salem School Lot Road in Columbia Township. Unit 1205 removed the tree without incident.
Pomeroy Station 1: Firefighters responded to a tree across the roadway on State Route 833 near Rose Hill Alley in Salisbury Township. Pomeroy Pumper 1 and Rescue 4 responded to remove the tree and debris from the roadway. Crews were on the scene for approximately 15 minutes and reopened the roadway shortly afterwards. No injuries or damage was reported by crews on scene.
Olive Township Fire Department Station 9: Firefighters responded to a one car MVC on State Route 124 near the Shelly Materials plant. Rescue 94 responded and once on scene advised that all patients were out of the vehicle. Crews assisted Ohio State Highway Patrol with traffic control.
January 26
Pomeroy Station 1: Firefighters responded to a landing zone assistance request with Mason Fire Department and Mason County EMS in Mason, WV at the Wahama High School. Pomeroy Pumper 1 and Rescue 4 responded. Crews established a landing zone and were on scene for approximately 20 minutes.
Meigs EMS Station 11 Public Notice: At 10:33 p.m. there was a fiber optic line cut in the Albany area, that caused widespread phone outages in Meigs County. The appropriate agencies are working to resolve the issue.
January 27
Meigs EMS Station 11 Public Notice: At 3 a.m. the issue with the phone lines was corrected at the EOC/911 center.
January 28
Scipio Fire Department Station 13 At 1:39 a.m. Sunday morning units responded to a possible structure fire. Upon arrival crews found a small single-wide trailer that was fully involved. Responding units from Scipio Fire Department were Rescue 1351 Engine 1352, assisting units from Rutland Station 4 were Engine 42 and Squad 44, and the Meigs County Sheriff's Department. Contact was made with the State of Ohio Fire Marshall's office, cause of the fire has yet to be determined.
Rutland Station 4 responded to 2 calls.
Call 1: At 1:39 a.m. a structure fire on State Route 684 Pomeroy with Station 13 Scipio Fire Department. Upon arrival units for that a trailer was fully involved. Units extinguished the fire and were on scene for approximately one hour before returning to quarters. Engine 42, Rescue 44, and Squad 44 responded to the call with a total of 9 members.
Call 2: At 10:23 a.m. for a tree down blocking the road on Smith Run Road in Rutland Township. Upon arrival units found that the tree was already removed from the road way and returned to quarters. Units were out for approximately 20 minutes. Engine 42, and Rescue 44 responded to the call with a total of 11 members.
January 31
Pomeroy Station 1: Pomeroy responded to a two vehicle crash on East Main Street in Pomeroy village. The crash was the result of a high speed pursuit that was ended by a Meigs County Sheriff's deputy to protect the public from potential injury.
Pomeroy Pumper 1 and Rescue 4 responded to the call to extricate the driver of the vehicle. Crews assisted with securing the vehicles and containing the fluids that leaked from both cars.
Also responding was Meigs EMS, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Meigs County Sheriff's office, Pomeroy Police, Middleport Police, 33 Auto Towing, and Riverside Towing.
Both patients from the vehicle were flown via helicopter for treatment of injuries.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is leading the investigation.
Racine Station 2: At 6:06 p.m. responded to a gas leak on Barringer Ridge Road in Lebanon Township. On arrival Engine 27 determined the gas tank was leaking and called the gas company, units turned the scene over to the gas company. The gas company determined the tank had quit leaking and was dispatching a truck to offload some of the gas in the morning. Units were on scene approximately 1 hour.
February 4
Pomeroy Station 1: Firefighters responded to 3 accidents due to the road conditions.
Call 1: Station 1 was alerted to a one vehicle rollover with entrapment on Darwin Road in Bedford Township. Pomeroy Pumper 1 and Rescue 4 responded to the scene along with Meigs EMS, the Meigs County Sheriff's office and the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Upon arrival of first responders, the driver was able to self-extricate. Minor injuries were reported and Station 1 remained on scene for approximately 1 hour.
Call 2: While en-route to the Darwin Road call, responding units found a vehicle off the roadway on Union Avenue in Salisbury Township. No injuries were reported but due to the vehicles position one unit stayed on-scene until the Meigs County Sheriff's office arrived. Minor vehicle damage was reported and units were on-scene approximately one hour and fifteen minutes.
Call 3: While en-route to quarters from the Darwin Road call, Pumper 1 and Rescue 4 responded to a one car accident on State Route 833 in Salisbury Township. No injuries were reported and minor vehicle damage was noted. Crews cleared the scene in approximately 20 minutes and returned to quarters.
February 5
Pomeroy Station 1: Firefighters responded to a three vehicle accident on Nye Avenue in Pomeroy Village. Pumper 1 responded and found all occupants out of the vehicles. Crews removed the vehicles from the roadway before returning to quarters. Responding to the call was Pumper 1 and Rescue 4, Meigs EMS and the Pomeroy Police Department.
Syracuse Station 3: At 8:15 alerted to a 1 car MVC on Pine Grove Rd near the Amberger Rd intersection. Upon our arrival firefighters found a SUV had lost control on the icy roads. It then struck a culvert on the right side of the road and continued through an electric fence and small embankment on the left side of the road. There were no injuries due to seatbelts and airbag deployment. Syracuse was assisted by Meigs Medic 2 and the Ohio State Patrol. Syracuse responded with Engine 31 and Truck 30 with six firefighters. They were on the scene for approximately 1 1/2 hours and return to quarters.
February 7
Pomeroy Station 1: Firefighters responded to a report of a tree down across the roadway on Naylors Run in Salisbury Township. Pomeroy Truck 6 and Pumper 3 responded to the scene and cut the tree from the roadway. AEP was contacted as the tree falling caused a pole cross arm to break and lines to come down onto other lines. Also at the scene was the Salisbury Township maintenance truck. No injuries were reported and crews were on-scene approximately 20 minutes.
Racine Station 2: Firefighters responded to a service call, units went to a residence on Barringer Ridge Road Lebanon Township and replaced smoke and CO alarms, units were out for approximately one hour.
February 8
Rutland Station 4: Firefighters at 5:45 p.m. were alerted with Station 6 Salem Center on State Route 325 for a structure fire. Upon arrival units found that a camper on top of the hill was fully involved. Units worked to extinguish the fire. While extinguishing the fire, personnel found a body in the mobile home. Meigs County Sheriff's was notified along with the Meigs County Corner and State Fore Marshall to start an investigation. Units were on scene for approximately six hours before returning to quarters. Engine 42 and Rescue 44 responded to the call with a total of 11 members. Station 6 brought there tanker and had a total of seven members.
February 9
Racine Station 2: Firefighters were alerted to a one car MVC rollover on Stiversville Road Lebanon Township Engine 23 responded searched the area for 30 minutes, no accident found. Units returned to quarters, Also responding on the call was Meigs EMS Medic 5, and Meigs Sheriffs Department.
Pomeroy Station 1: Firefighters were alerted for a lifting assistance call with Meigs EMS on Union Avenue in Pomeroy village. Pomeroy Rescue 4 responded to assist by carrying the patient from an upstairs bedroom down the stairs, and outside to the stretcher. Crews were on-site approximately 15 minutes to assist and returned to quarters with no damage or injuries to personnel or equipment.
February 10
Pomeroy Station 1: Firefighters responded to a gas odor on Rock Springs Road in Bedford Township. Pumpers 1 and 3 along with Rescue 4, responded to investigate the origin. Upon arrival, crew members investigated two oil wells where the odor was originated from and Meigs 911 contacted the well tender to respond to the scene. No injuries or damage was was reported and crews returned to quarters.
Pomeroy Station 1 Training
Over the last two months, 14 members of the department have been participating in a Firefighter 1 transition class at Station 1 through the Wellston Fire Department Training Academy. Since December, members have completed approximately 80 hours of classroom training, with 50 more hours over the next 4 weeks before taking the state practicals and final exam. The last month of the class will allow firefighters to apply their classroom learning to field applications in various evolutions. On Feb. 11, 2018 members completed practicals in fire hose loads and use, forward and reverse hose deployment, water shuttle, and hose care and cleaning.
Racine Fire Station 2 Smile Campaign
Following up on some 2017 news, the firemen decided to organize a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit using the name Racine Firefighters Association. This enables the department to use funds raised through BBQ's and such for tax-exempt purchases, allows donations made to Racine FD to be deducted from income taxes to the maximum extent allowable by law, and provides oversight and accountability of their finances, as they are required to file a return with the IRS on an annual basis. Additionally, it opens the department up to even more grant opportunities available from private foundations. They have a GuideStar profile, which verifies tax exempt status, and provides some information on the association. Racine Firefighters Association is now listed on Amazon Smile! This allows you to do your Amazon shopping through this link, and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the total amount (on eligible purchases) to the association. Money raised will be used to purchase and maintain the fire department's equipment. Here is a link to the Smile FAQ, which explains eligibility criteria, and answers other questions you may have. If you still need information, contact board Trustee Ian Wise at email@example.com for an answer to your question.
Columbia Township Station 12 Photo Share
The Brickles Insurance Agency is holding a photo share contest. The department with the most shares will be awarded $1,000. The fire department is asking their photo be shared via the Brickles Insurance Services Facebook page. More information is available there as well. It runs through the end of February.


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Google is working on a feature that would push stories relevant to a user's location direct to their smartphones and tablets in order to build greater community bonds and encourage people to take a greater involvement in their neighbourhoods.
Google Now was one of the standout features of the latest version of the Android operating system (Jelly Bean) and is a contextually aware program that understands a user's likes, dislikes, routine and physical location and uses that information to automatically push relevant information to his or her device.
Since its launch a year ago, it has already received a number of updates: it already has the ability to analyse e-mail messages and calendar appointments in order to automatically serve up a weather forecast or traffic news that could mean being late for an appointment.
Earlier this month, it also rolled out beyond Android devices as a standalone app for Apple's iPhones and iPads. And now Google is planning to add local news into the already growing mix of features its offers.
Already being tested in closed beta — meaning that only Google employees and invited individuals are trying it out — Johanna Wright, Google's vice-president of search and assist, says that if the feature is officially rolled out, it will serve up news on a "hyper-local" level. That could mean a report specific to a street corner, rather than to an area code or city.
As she explained in an interview with Quartz, its ultimate goal will be to teach people more about their neighborhoods and maybe even get them actively involved in their communities.
"It teaches me things about my neighbourhood. For example, I found out Miss Mexico came to my son's school, I saw that [the local] Chipotle was giving out burritos, and someone was stabbed in the park near my house. It's very, very targeted to you and your interests."
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I succeeded at business
during the twenty years I worked at it.
but 9/11 was a standout day for me;
I was on the plane
one hour before the one that
went down in Pittsburgh.
five years later I decided
it was now or never
why wait
be the artist I am
because I had
I needed to say.
trying to use
my tools:
a curiosity to analyze
disparate sources of information
to give
something new
to look at or
to think about.
not holding myself back
I use words
quick and dirty
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Free agent center Kendrick Perkins is taking his, um, scowl to New Orleans.
The Pelicans have reportedly come to terms with Perkins on a one-year deal at the veteran's minimum of just over $1 million.
#Pelicans agree to terms with C Kendrick Perkins to per sources
— Scott Kushner (@ScottDKushner) July 21, 2015
#Pelicans add Perkins as third center to go alongside Asik and Ajinca. He is being brought in primarily for veteran presence and toughness
— Scott Kushner (@ScottDKushner) July 21, 2015
After being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers last season, the 30-year-old big fella played sparingly, and averaged 2.6 points and 2.4 rebounds in 17 games.
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Seldom-used center Kendrick Perkins has reached an agreement with the New Orleans Pelicans on a one-year deal worth the veteran's minimum.
The Cavaliers acquired Perkins in February after he was bought out of his contract with the Utah Jazz. The plan at that time was to use him in a backup role to Timofey Mozgov and to add some toughness in the interior.
However, he was never able to gain the trust of Head Coach David Blatt and only appeared in 17 games. His value to the team ended up being solely in the locker room as veteran presence that has seen it all. He knew he would not be retained.


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Beach Equipment Rentals and GearPlaya Grande Surf Shop
Sun Tent and Cabana Rentals
Our quality beach equipment rentals include a range of pop-up beach shade tents provide protection from the sun. They are comfortably sized to accommodate 2 adults, with space for one or 2 kids too… at a squeeze. Umbrellas have not been too successful here, with the strong Papagayo winds playing havoc on umbrella construction. The tent is the way to go!
We also have Sun Sail Cabanas, which you can view at this link: www.sunsailcabana.com These are great in a consistent wind that blows in the same direction. They fly like a sail and don't blow away. However if there is no wind, you need to erect it like a lean-to. Pockets for the sand to hold it in place and with a little finessing, you will have sufficient shade.
As per our rental procedure, please be patient while the shop assistance erects the tent for you, and checks the condition of the tent with you for any damages/ tears. Observe and listen to how the tent is set up (easy, no strings, no cords, just pops right up).
There are three available to rent. Reserve yours now!
Beach Chair Rentals
We have standard height beach chairs, low-sitting beach chairs, and, newly added, we have fold-out lay-flat beach chairs for the chaise-lounger in you. All are portable however the loungers are a little heavier.
Cooler Rentals
Keep your drinks and food cold while you hang out on the beach!
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Surfboard Rentals!
We were three families renting a variety of boards for a week ranging from SUPSs to Thrusters. Corynne and Ian were very accommodating and helped us with our selection for all our different riders. The service was outstanding and really made for a great surf vacation.
Bob M / TripAdvisor