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Ground floor extension in Woonona
Master bedroom, ensuite and WIR, music room, living room, laundry and outdoor living
Ground floor extension in Woonona
Master bedroom, ensuite and WIR, music room, living room, laundry and outdoor living
- The Lemme Family – Ground Floor Extension, Bulli
I found 32 Degrees Building via Google and contacted them. I had Alistair, the builder travel down to meet with me to discuss my Church conversion/renovation. I was really happy that the quote was received as promised within 2 days of meeting with him. I chose 32 Degrees Building as the team showed urgency and were responsive to my requests. Time was an important factor for me to complete the build and knowing I would have a Project Manager looking after the project made the decision easy for me. They were able to complete my renovation within 4 months (ahead of schedule) and to budget.
Josette – Church Renovation, Robertson
- Josette – Church Renovation, Robertson
You guys really have gone above and beyond. Thank you so much for working so hard on our house. The house looks amazing, and the finished product is beautiful. It's like a whole new house, it has really come together. I'm so excited to move back in.
The Russell Family – Second Storey Addition, Elderslie
- The Russell Family – Second Storey Addition, Elderslie
We found 32 Degrees Building via a Google search and right from the start, when Alistair came out to meet us we felt confident in choosing him as our builder. He is so personable, nothing was a problem and we were impressed with the level of professionalism and the responsiveness he showed. We wanted an extension that had additional space for my mum to move in and the draftsman was forthcoming with ideas to provide us with a solution and get us what we needed. He was so easy to work with and I love that the rooms are hidden through the pantry door!
During the build, the onsite team were ah-mazing, Anthony and Joel were real stand outs and made us feel like we were in good hands. We are so happy with the build, it all happened so quickly, and now that mum has moved in, we couldn't be happier.
- Danielle & Rob – Ground Floor Extension, Harrington Park
After comparing a few builders online we contacted 6 builders, 3 of which returned quotes. From the start, we were really impressed with Alistair, he was very specific about what he could do for us and provided us with a quote within 48 hours of us meeting. When making our decision, we wanted to choose someone that we could trust and feel secure with being in our home for the duration of the build and a big tick for us was that Alistair had his own team of tradesmen and apprentices. Another important part was the communication between us, Alistair and the team. They were very responsive to all of our questions right from the start and this continued right throughout the build. We always knew what was happening and Denny responded to our questions quickly. The entire build process from start to finish went smoothly, Denny, Adam, Janey and the whole team were excellent, polite and professional and we even enjoyed the guys singing onsite throughout the day! We are really happy with the quality of the build and the timeframes in which everything was completed and have no issues recommending friends and family to contact 32 Degrees Building.
- David & Krystal – First Floor Addition, Claremont Meadows
Hi Alistair, Denny, Cam and the team!
Hope you are all well.
We have really been enjoying our beautiful new home that you built for us and we can't believe how the time has flown! I collected a few images along the way so I thought I would share these with you, I look back and can't believe the chaos and crazy times.
Alistair first said…." oh don't worry a few months after you won't even believe you've been through it!" You were right!….I still pinch myself that this beautiful new space is ours.
We had never done anything like this before but I THANK YOU for making the whole process smooth, enjoyable and fun….I really learnt so much!
Wishing 32 Degrees Building all the best for Sat night at the HIA Awards. We are honoured to be a finalist and believe you guys are so deserving of a big Win so fingers crossed.
Best Wishes,
Nicci, Steve, Livi and Bailey!
- Nicci & Steve – First Floor Addition and Extension, Camden
"I haven't built before and didn't really have any idea of what was involved and I wanted a builder that could look after everything for me, from start to finish without any hidden costs. I found that the reality of the build was beyond my expectations – I didn't have any issues with noise or dust and the 32 Degrees Building Team were brilliant, Denny (Project Manager) in particular was fantastic. The team were very friendly and respectful of multiple people still living in the house. The quality and workmanship we have received is definitely reflective of the price and I would definitely use 32 Degrees Building again and happily refer them to others seeking an addition to their home."
- Rob – First Floor Addition, Harrington Park
"32 Degrees Building have just completed our dream home and delivered on everything we'd hoped for. None of our friends can believe how quickly the project was completed and everyone is in awe of the quality of the build. An absolutely pleasant and professional experience throughout. We have no hesitation in recommending the team at 32 Degrees."
- Deanne & Tim – Custom Home, Thirroul
We were referred to 32 Degrees Building by a friend. We have an older style home and the goal of the project was to increase overall light and freshen up property as the period features were quite dark. We wanted to make the available space more usable and renovate the other rooms.
Right from the beginning, Denny was fantastic. He was so clever and had such great ideas and solutions to make things work how I was hoping they would. There was no problem he couldn't come up with a solution for. The team were very polite and well spoken, always on time and tidy. I felt very comfortable with everybody and they were very trustworthy, which is important when you have your home open to others.
It was such a pleasurable experience working with such an ethical and professional company. There were times when I wished it would be over, but I am so glad I had a great company who took the time to get the finishes just right. The innovations were great, the quality is amazing, the end result just beautiful, and now that they're gone I miss everyone! I would gladly recommend 32 Degrees to anybody looking for a builder.
- Cathryn – Internal Renovation, Pennant Hills
We were referred to 32 Degrees Building by our architect in Wollongong. Everything was prompt and on time from the initial enquiry through to receiving the quote. We checked references and thought the feedback was good so we were happy to proceed, while still having a lot of the regular concerns about building.
We expected the whole thing to be very stressful and a bit of a disaster, but it was actually very low stress. Denny and Cameron were on top of everything and we really felt that we could trust them to manage the project well. The whole team were great overall and always knew what was happening when and we do think that they delivered on everything they promised.
Our tiny 120 year old miner's cottage was originally earmarked to be a heritage extension, but when asbestos removal and demolition commenced it become obvious the existing older parts were severely dilapidated and it became mostly a new home as they were unable to save a lot of the heritage section. We are incredibly proud to have had our new home featured on Australia's Best Houses too!
- Luke & Ange – Heritage Rebuild / Custom Home, Scarborough
To Alistair, Denny and everyone that is part of 32 Degrees,
Where can I start? From the day you were recommended to us, we had such high expectations and a great feeling about you. From the first time you came to our house, you were everything we wanted in our builders – and more!
At every stage throughout this process we have felt very looked after and in VERY capable hands. All of your suggestions turned out to be spot on with our taste and in so many aspects it has turned out even better than we imagined.
For us, this has been years in the planning and as you can imagine it is so much more than just a house. Because of you all, we now have the beautiful home we have dreamed of.
Thank you for being so hardworking, reliable, honest, trustworthy, dedicated, and polite and determined to meet my (extremely!) high standards with an ever growing list of things to check on. To say we are happy would be a massive understatement!
All of your boys have done you proud and we will go out of our way to recommend you to anyone in need of your services. While it isn't enough, thank you so, SO much.
- Trent & Julianne – Ground Floor Extension, Picton
We consulted a number of builders before settling on 32 Degrees. Their price was comparable to the others but first impressions count and Alistair was really likable and great to deal with right from the start. The team were hardworking, friendly and approachable and we were surprised by how easy it all was.
Denny and Adam were fantastic project managers, always communicating with us and providing solutions to any issues along the way. We're so happy with the quality of the finished work and it looks exactly how we wanted it to. We felt really comfortable and at ease through the whole process, and have already recommended 32 Degrees to our friends interesting in building.
- Mark & Hannah – Ground Floor Extension, Picton
We got 5 different quotes before choosing 32 Degrees Building. Alistair was always very responsive and punctual, with the quote being detailed and clear so we felt comfortable going ahead. Denny was really easy going and very accommodating of what we wanted to do, a great project manager. We felt really well informed and everything was transparent and easy to understand.
The boys worked very hard and efficiently, there was always something going on. They were always on time, polite and well spoken. We think the price is a definite reflection of the quality of work and are really happy with the finished extension. We've already referred a couple of our friends to 32 Degrees and would happily use them again in future.
- Peter & Perri – Extension & Deck, Balgownie
We were referred to 32 Degrees Building from a friend who had had some work done by Alistair and the team. From the first time we met him, we liked Alistair. He was punctual and all communication was clear and prompt, and the price was very reasonable.
We were a bit nervous about the build process. Having heard how much of a nightmare doing building work can be, we were expecting the worst but the whole job went really well and was completed in a timely manner. Denny and Adam were a pleasure to have as project managers, they were very approachable, polite and well spoken. There was nothing that was a problem, both were able to come up with solutions to our problems and were innovative in their thinking with regards to design and functionality ideas.
The team were fantastic and always on the go, working quickly and efficiently at all times. They went out of their way to make things easier for our family, and were very respectful of our children as we still lived in our home throughout the whole process.
We would happily use 32 Degrees Building again, they're a great team and we're really happy with our finished home.
- Greg & Emma – Ground Floor Extension, Camden
We had 32 Degrees build a Granny Flat for my parents to live in and we found them to be very professional and just a fantastic team of people. We cannot speak highly enough of Alistair and Denny. They are lovely people and a pleasure to deal with (as was the whole team involved in our project). Nothing was a problem, they kept us informed during the whole process and the building work was completed on time.
We couldn't be happier with the end result! We also want to thank Janey as she was fantastic right from our initial enquiry. This was our first experience with having anything built and we would recommend 32 Degrees to anyone and would certainly use them again if the need arose. Thank you to all involved for building my parents their beautiful home.
- Debbie – Granny Flat, Orangeville
"32 Degrees Building were great. Everything ran so smoothly, the work was finished a lot quicker than we expected and the team were fantastic. Nothing was ever a problem and we always knew what was going on. We love our new addition and would gladly use 32 Degrees Building again."
- Chris & Tony – First Floor Addition, Bradbury


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Stephen Smale
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Stephen Smale was born in Flint in east Michigan, a town famed as the site of General Motors, the automobile company. From the age of five he lived on a farm while his father worked in the city for General Motors. For eight years Stephen attended elementary school about a mile from his farmhouse. This school only had a single classroom, so has teacher had to cope with educating children of all ages under difficult circumstances. Following this, he studied at high school where his favourite subject was chemistry. His interests had moved to physics by the time he entered the University of Michigan, but after failing a physics course he turned to mathematics. He was awarded a BS in 1952 and an MS the following year.
Smale continued to work for his doctorate at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor under R Bott's supervision and he was awarded his Ph D in 1957 for the thesis Regular Curves on Riemannian Manifolds. In his thesis he generalised results proved by Whitney in 1937 for curves in the plane to curves on an n-dimensional manifold. Smale was an instructor at the University of Chicago in 1956-58.
In 1958 Smale learnt about Pontryagin's work on structurally stable vector fields and he began to apply topological methods to study the these problems. He the spent the years 1958-60 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton on a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. The last six months of this fellowship he spent at the Instituto de Mathematica Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro. Here he received a letter from Levinson which led him to study chaotic phenomena; we describe these ideas below.
In 1960 Smale was appointed an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, moving to a professorship at Columbia University the following year. In 1964 he returned to a professorship at the University of California at Berkeley where he has spent the main part of his career. He retired from Berkeley in 1995 and took up a post as professor at the City University of Hong Kong.
Smale was awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress at Moscow in 1966. The work which led to this award was described by René Thom, see [9]. One of Smale's impressive results was his work on the generalised Poincaré conjecture.
The Poincaré conjecture, one of the famous problems of 20th-century mathematics, asserts that a simply connected closed 3-dimensional manifold is a 3-dimensional sphere. The higher dimensional Poincaré conjecture claims that any closed n-dimensional manifold which is homotopy equivalent to the n-sphere must be the n-sphere. When n = 3 this is equivalent to the Poincaré conjecture. Smale proved the higher dimensional Poincaré conjecture in 1961 for n at least 5.
(Michael Freedman proved the conjecture for n = 4 in 1982 but the original conjecture remained open until settled by G Perelman who was offered the 2006 Fields medal for his proof.)
Another area in which Smale has made a very substantial contribution is in Morse theory which he has applied to multiple integral problems. In fact Smale attacked the generalised Poincaré conjecture using Morse theory.
Another discovery of Smale's related to strange attractors. An attractor in classical mechanics is a geometrical way of describing the behaviour of a dynamical system. There are three classical attractors, a point which characterises a steady state system, a closed loop which characterises a periodic system, and a torus which combines several cycles. Smale discovered strange attractors which lead to chaotic dynamical systems. Strange attractors have detailed structure on all scales of magnification and were one of the early fractals to be studied.
Smale's career changed direction in the late 1960s, see [2]:-
By the late sixties Smale had moved into applications. He modelled physical processes by dynamical systems, opening new lines of inquiry. The n-body problem and electric circuit theory were among the applications that Smale framed in the language of dynamical systems. For much of the seventies Steve focused on economics, injecting topology and dynamics into the study of general economic equilibria. Having established the nature of equilibria, Smale began to think algorithms for their computation. While traditional approaches to the convergence theory of algorithms were local, Smale introduced a global perspective to the problems. Was the algorithm reasonably reliable, and how many iterations were to be expected? ...Smale's recent work has been on theoetical computer science. With co-workers L Blum and M Shub, he has developed a model of computation which includes both the Turing machine approach and the numerical methods of numerical analysis.
Smale has received many honours for his work. In addition to the Fields Medal described above, he was awarded the Veblen Prize for Geometry by the American Mathematical Society in 1966:-
... for his contributions to various aspects of differential topology.In 1996 Smale received the National Medal of Science ([2]) for:-
... four decades of pioneering work on basic research questions which have led to major advances in pure and applied mathematics.Smale's contribution is nicely summed up in [2]:-
Throughout his career Smale has approached mathematical problems with the scholarship to learn from others, the audacity to be unconstrained by conventional wisdom, and the power and vision to employ new methods and construct original frameworks. After the fact, a Smale development seems so natural, yet no one else thought of it.Smale has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Warwick (1974), Queens University, Kingston, Ontario (1987), the University of Michigan (1996), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (1997), the City University of Hong Kong (1997), Rostov State University (1999), and the University of Genoa (2004). He has been made an honorary member of the Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro (1990), Trinity Mathematical Society, Dublin (1991), Moscow Mathematical Society (1997) and the London Mathematical Society (1998).
In addition to the prizes mentioned above, Smale has been awarded the Chauvenet Prize by the Mathematical Association of America in 1988 for his paper On the Efficiency of Algorithms in Analysis. In the following year he was awarded the Von Neumann Award by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics who also presented him with their Jurgen Moser Prize in 2005. Then in 2007 he was honoured with the award of the Wolf Prize:-
... for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics.Finally we note that Smale continued as Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong until 2001. He was appointed Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago in 2002. Then in 2009 he was again appointed Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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List of References (10 books/articles)
A Quotation
A Poster of Stephen Smale
Mathematicians born in the same country
Honours awarded to Stephen Smale
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|AMS Veblen Prize
|Speaker at International Congress
|Fields Medal
|AMS Colloquium Lecturer
|BMC plenary speaker
|1969, 1982
|Speaker at International Congress
|MAA Chauvenet Prize winner
|SIAM John von Neumann Lecture
|LMS Honorary Member
|Wolf Prize
Cross-references in MacTutor
- Chronology: 1960 to 1970
- Japanese Association of Mathematical Sciences
- 1962 ICM - Moscow
Other Web sites
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Geometry Center (Turning a sphere inside out)
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
- MathSciNet Author profile
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NEW YORK (AP) Carmelo Anthony scored 20 points to set a team-record with his 30th straight 20-point game, leading the New York Knicks to a 113-97 victory over the reeling Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.
Anthony's scoring tended to overshadow outstanding games by New York big men Tyson Chandler and Amare Stoudemire who combined for 35 points on 17 of 18 shooting from the field against the Magic, who lost their seventh straight and 18th in 20 games.
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It would be a grave error to allow the excitement of Francois Hollande's historic victory on Sunday to overshadow the results of the Greek general election. It was, of course, Greece's sovereign debt crisis which sparked the ensuing crisis in the Eurozone. Moreover, the Greek people never accepted the consequent austerity measures. Whatever your view of those who demonstrated on the streets of Athens, it was always clear they had widespread support.
The short premiership of Eurozone appointee Lucas Papademos did nothing to assuage the opposition to austerity. Now, given the chance to once again elect their government, the Greeks have said no to austerity. Having come second in the inconclusive poll on Sunday, the far-left Syriza Party are incredibly in talks to form a coalition. If they are not successful the baton will pass to the leader of Greece's socialist party, PASOK, former Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos.
Both the Greek and French result aptly demonstrate that austerity on its own without plans for growth, while never popular, is now losing whatever credibility it had for solving Europe's economic problems. Put simply, the people will no longer put up with recession, unemployment and public expenditure cuts seemingly for no gain.
Now that two general election results have delivered this verdict along with local elections in Italy, another country under a Eurozone appointee, it is surely time to re-evaluate the austerity strategy. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday it was of "utmost importance" that the programmes of austerity and economic reform as a condition of the €174 billion Greek bail-out package "continue to be implemented". She also made clear that "The process is a difficult one, but, despite that, it should go on."
Likewise the European Commission would do well to think again as they seem to be taking a pro-Merkel line. A spokeswoman said it was up to the Greek political parties to "work in an atmosphere of responsibility" and continue implementing structural and economic reforms.
The only realistic way out the austerity deadlock with the people on one side and powerful financial vested interests, not to mention the leading lights of the Eurozone, on the other is to seek a middle way. Just as Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has always said, austerity must go hand in hand with measures for growth. Austerity alone causes huge suffering – unemployment and poverty coupled with the absence of hope. The people of Europe need to believe there is a future and a relatively strong one at that. Angela Merkel's regime is providing the exact opposite and the people are making their views known.
While I would never claim the British local election results were wholly based on opposition to austerity measures, they clearly showed that our electorate prefer Labour to the current coalition. On the basis of those results Labour would form a government. We are seeing the Tory-led coalition sinking deeper into the mire as Cameron and Clegg try to revive their flagging fortunes. We should, perhaps, add the UK to the list of those countries who have had enough of austerity and want to feel hope for their future.


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A family who looked on in terror as their beloved pet cat was mauled to death on their driveway say they feel let down by the way dangerous animal cases are dealt with by law.
Vivienne Teakle had just pulled up to her home in White Hart Drive, Adeyfield, when she witnessed two Staffordshire bull terrier-type dogs viciously attack their 13-year-old cat Tumbelina.
The 35 year old, who was with children Shannon, 18, and Jamie, 12, at the time, desperately sounded her car horn to alert husband Martin, 39, to the horrifying scene.
While Martin did his best to try and fend off the unleashed dogs, he sustained a bite to the ankle and was unable to save the life of the puss, who they referred to affectionately as 'Tumble'.
Vivienne said: "It was like watching a horror movie. We shouldn't have had to see that, she should have been able to die of old age. "She wasn't your average cat, she was so affectionate and would literally wrap her paws around you to hug you.
"The house feels weird without her and I feel scared any time I step out onto my drive. It has traumatised us."
The animal-loving family, who have two other cats and three dogs, ensured a 'post-mortem' type examination was carried out on Tumbelina to gauge the full extent of her injuries. It was found she had bite holes on her head and punctures to her chest and abdomen. The vet described evidence of a 'brutal attack', while Vivienne says she has since discovered her cat's fur, claws and scratch marks outside her home.
Though a 39-year-old woman is due to face court on charges of allowing her dogs to be dangerously out of control in public, Vivienne says she is disgusted the two ferocious animals were not seized or professionally assessed.
According to police, the decision to seize dogs is dependent on individual circumstances, and it would be for a court to impose sanctions against the owner.
Vivienne said: "We feel let down that these dogs are free to be kept by their owner or passed on to anyone without them being properly assessed.
"I am a dog lover and would hate to see mine be put down – I wouldn't wish that on anyone – but if they had attacked an animal or child like that I'd take them straight down to the vet."
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Family Coming to NYC? Take Them to These Restaurants
You know how it goes, living in New York—now's the time when everyone you know comes to town. Whether it's friends looking to crash on your couch or your family visiting for their New York vacation, you've got company.
When it comes to eating with family, you want a place that's reliable, reasonably affordable, and low on hassle. There's plenty to worry about before a big holiday. Where to eat dinner on the nights before or after shouldn't be one of them. To that end, here are some solid restaurant options good for eating out with the folks. Most won't require reservations to get in except where noted, though if you have a large group it'd be wise to call ahead.
Near Midtown
If your family wants to see the tree in Rock Center or gawk at Grand Central, you may just have to suck it up and accept you're eating in midtown. Our favorite pre-theater dinner these days is Neapolitan pizza at Don Antonio, some of the best pizza in the city. Farther west on 9th Avenue you'll find some good Thai spots (amid plenty of not-so-good Thai spots). Pure Thai Cookhouse dresses up Thai classics well; if your folks can handle spicy food and want to live it up, take them to Larb Ubol, one of the city's latest, greatest spots for fiery Isan Thai cooking. Inti, a cozy Peruvian spot one block over on 10th, does great (and crowd-pleasing) Peruvian roast chicken and ceviche.
If you're over on the east side, best-in-city Turkish spot Sip Sak is worth the walk to 2nd Avenue, and Hide-Chan does some of our favorite ramen anywhere.
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- Where to Eat Near Rockefeller Center and Fifth Avenue
- Where to Eat Near Grand Central Terminal
- Where to Eat Near Times Square
- Where to Eat Near Penn Station
Near the Natural History Museum and the Met
The Museum of Natural History has some great quick bites nearby—you'd be remiss to ignore the massive, singularly awesome cookies at Levain Bakery for instance—but also some solid restaurants. Jacob's Pickles is a low-key spot for Southern comfort food like biscuit sandwiches, and the pickles are pretty good, too. If you're looking for simple-but-great classic Italian, Celeste will do you right. For Jewish smoked fish and eggs, nothing's better than Barney Greengrass.
You're in dessert heaven over by the Met (Payard, Two Little Red Hens, Lady M, Yura), but there are good restaurants, too. Maison Kayser is a worthy breakfast and lunch spot with great bread, and Shalezeh is a refined Persian spot good for groups.
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You may not spend your days eating bagels and lox (though: why not?), but it's okay to let your family think you do. Should they want the "classic" New York experience, well, they paid to fly here, and the least you can do is give them some pastrami. Katz's has the best but will be a zoo this time of year. For something more low-key, Stage Restaurant, a tiny lunch counter as old school as they come, does very solid pastrami, amazing potato pancakes and pierogi, and a killer turkey sandwich. It's just counter seating though, so it's not best for large groups.
Some more thoughts: you can't skip Russ & Daughters for all things Yiddishe fish, or Gray's or Papaya King for hot dogs, or Kossar's for bialys (though Hot Bread's are even better), or any of these spots for pizza.
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"What All the Hip Young Kids Are Eating These Days"
The best "fancy" restaurants for parents are ones that serve great food, treat you well, and don't break the bank (though still make you grateful they picked up the check). Piora is the latest of these, a tiny West Village spot with excellent food, effusive service, and enough grown-ups that the volume is at a reasonable level. Kin Shop and Perilla do Asian-accented cooking exceptionally well, and Perla is the kind of youthful yet sublimely polished Italian food we wish were even more common in the city than it is. For the city's newfound fascination with Mexican cooking, Empellon Cocina/Taqueria do the best fancy tacos you've ever eaten.
For all of these restaurants, call ahead and make a reservation.
Eating with young kids can be tough in some restaurants. Look for super-casual places that embrace families, or kitchens that don't care, or counter service operations that can handle kids well. Take barbecue hot spot Mighty Quinn's, home to some of the city's best brisket, certainly the city's best pulled pork, and plenty of sides (even good vegetarian ones). Rubirosa is a family-friendly red sauce spot with great pizza, parms, and pasta. Chinatown also has a wealth of options; Shanghai Cafe is approachable and full of simple dishes kids can get behind—and some of the city's best soup dumplings. Middle Eastern restaurant Local 92 does amazing hummus and some solid Mediterranean staples; their chicken schnitzel is the perfect chicken tender upgrade.
Outer Boroughs Eating
If your parents are coming to Brooklyn, you can show them what some of the borough's restaurant scene is like at Lulu & Po, Marietta, or Lot 2. At the latter two there are pretty tasty burgers for more conservative palates. Farther south but a must if you can make the trip, Totonno's makes my favorite pizza in the city, bar none, and you won't have to deal with the massive waits at some of the city's more popular, centrally located spots.
You can have a great time at one of Astoria's many Greek restaurants, from the fancified MP Taverna to more low-key Telly's. Over in Woodside, Woodside Cafe does a fine job of making Himalayan cooking approachable and really delicious, and if the folks are willing to head out to Flushing (a short LIRR trip and a great adventure), take them to Fu Run for some of the city's best Chinese.
But Wait, There's More!
Of course there are plenty more restaurants worth a visit that could have made this list. You can find some of them in this guide from last year (and this updated drinker's edition!), for starters, then tell us: where do you take your family when they visit?
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Further tour details continue to spill out for Chuck's upcoming novel Doomed. Today we have ticket information on Chuck's October 9th event in Houston, TX.
- The event will be held at the Firehouse Saloon in Houston, TX
- No signing at the event
- Tickets are $30 and include a pre-signed copy of DOOMED
- You can purchase tickets here - http://www.murderbooks.com/event/chuck-palahniuk%E2%80%99s-adult-bedtime-stories
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Belated: Goode, Weed hold free forum
NEWS- Belated: Goode, Weed hold free forum
One thing seemed a little odd about the list of seven forums that Fifth District candidates Al Weed and incumbent Virgil Goode scheduled across the state: The only meeting where Charlottesvillians could glimpse the candidates had a $25 entry fee.
That would be a noon October 20 lunch sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. True, there's an October 19 radio show on WVTF where listeners can call in, but it appeared that Charlottesville voters who wanted to see the candidates in the flesh would have to pay for the privilege.
An October 14 forum hosted by the Ruritan Club of Buckingham County seems like a much better deal: free admission and free dinner.
Why do Charlottesville voters have to pay to meet the candidates?
"This sounds like a Chamber sort of thing to raise money," says Weed campaign manager Dave Mills. "Al Weed wants as many people as possible to see him."
Calls to the Chamber last week inquiring if the event was open to the public and if attendees could skip lunch and see the candidates for free were unanswered until October 12. Yes, the public may come and see the candidates without eating lunch, says Chamber spokesman Larry Banner, but they do have to call 295-3141 to reserve a chair in the back of the room.
Epilogue: On October 10, the Weed campaign announced a last-minute Weed-and-Goode forum at the Northside Library October 13. Its billing on the Weed press release? The "Only Forum In Charlottesville Area With Free Admission."
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The Christian Quaker Internet Mission was founded in 2006 by Conservative Friends in Greece. We think that a short history of Conservative Quakerism in Greece would be appropriate at this point. It's said that there was a Quaker Meeting in Athens in the 1970s but this information is not verified. It is true though that there have been individual Quakers (mainly of the Liberal tradition) residing in Greece one time or another. Conservative Quakerism came to Greece at the end of the 1990s.
In 1995 Themis Papaioannou (then a Charismatic Interdenominational Christian) was drawn to Christian Pacifism after studying certain passages in the New Testament, he felt led by Jesus Christ to get in touch with the Quakers but he had no idea where to find them. One day searching in a Christian Library he found the "Journal of George Fox" which he studied. He prayed and God led him to believe in a number of Early Quaker doctrines. Th. Papaioannou and Elias Papaiannis were publishing a publication called "Evangelical Truth" (after a Ministry they started in 1994). Slowly, slowly the publication started preaching Christian Quaker doctrine. In 1998 Th. Papaioannou while attending a course at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, England became an affiliate member of Middleton Monthly Meeting of O.Y.M. (C). He changed the name of "Evangelical Truth"; to "Friends Christian Ministries" and stopped the Ministry in 2003 when Athens Christian Friends Meeting was established. Athens Christian Friends Meeting was an allowed Meeting of O.Y.M. (C) under the care of Rockingham Monthly Meeting and worked with the New Foundation Fellowship (U.K.) and Friends in Christ (U.K.), etc. In the summer of 2012 Themis Papaioannou and his family moved to the UK and Athens Christian Friends Meeting discontinued.
Our goal is to preach the Everlasting Gospel and pure Quaker doctrine worldwide and to help start Meetings around the world. We link to Christian Quaker web sites in English, Greek and other languages which share the same goal.
Why an Internet Mission?
The idea to start an Internet Mission came from the observation that via the Internet Christians can reach the world. We feel that the Internet is a great way to reach people, worldwide, with the message of Jesus Christ. People need to know that God loves them and that if they just turn to the Light of Christ within, Christ who enlightens them will show them their sins and how to overcome. Christ Jesus is alive and there are people today who know Him and who love Him. We feel that the transforming message preached by 1st century Christians and Early Friends (Quakers) is valid for people today and can transform people and lives. The Gospel is the Power of God. As the Apostle Paul wrote, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek" (Rom.1:16).


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Q: I heard you can lose fish during the winter. How do I prevent a winter fish kill?
Jon – Little Suamico, WI
A: Imagine being cooped up all winter long in a room with no ventilation and no fresh air. Pretty claustrophobic, right? Now add the stench of decaying garbage and other waste buildup … it's likely you wouldn't last until spring.
It's a similar situation with your fish.
In colder climates that freeze over the winter, decomposing vegetation and waste beneath the ice layer releases toxic gases that build up, displacing the oxygen that the fish need to survive. When that O2 is replaced with ammonia and other harmful gases, the result can be a winter fish kill.
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For the health of your fish, we recommend you run an aeration system year-round—unless you plan to use the pond for winter activities, like ice skating or hockey, that require a solid and safe sheet of ice. In that case, follow the instructions in your product manual to safely turn off your system.
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One of the many things you have to learn to do when you use a computer is to install and uninstall Flash to iPod Converter . Most of the programs to get you start will already be installed on your hard drive by the manufacturer. However, there will be a point in time when you will need to install Flash to iPod Converter by yourself.
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Look at the following steps. With the fast pace of technology the Flash to iPod Converter and programs on your computer can become quickly outdated. Therefore, it is beneficial to know how to uninstall Flash to iPod Converter from your computer. Many people consider this a very complex and difficult task. This belief and lack of knowledge prevents them from doing it themselves. The reality is that uninstalling Flash to iPod Converter from your computer is a simple task to do.
you should Click on Start - Control Panel - Uninstall Program. The Change or Uninstall Program window will appear on the screen.
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This fiery paste, harissa, is known thoughout North Africa for its fiery and pungent taste and has well crossed its borders. It is served as a condiment, marinade or a dip for warm crusty bread. This is a basic harissa recipe, you can add your choice of spices and herbs such as fennel seeds, fresh coriander, mint and parsley leaves. Instead of using all fiery chillies I have substituted red bell pepper to mellow down the heat considerably. When I prepared harissa for the first time, I used all chillies with no bell pepper and it was so hot that I could hardly use a blob of it in any of my dishes. It gave so much of heat and with such a less amount not much flavour was locked in any of the dishes. So going through some recipes on net, I decided to make a paste using a mixture of red pepper and hot dried chillies. Fabulous, I would say. You can simply stir them in salads, use them to flavour meat, fish, prawns and even soups. It can also be stirred into tagines and couscous to impart a distinctive chilli taste. Harissa paste is now easily available in African and Middle Eastern stores as well some supermarkets and delicatessens. But this is so easy to make, tastes so fresh, why would you want to get one that is processed – My thought.
Preparation time : 10 minutes
Yields about 1/2 cup
- 6-8 hot red chillies, whole (Horn or New Mexico variety, but you can use any dried chilli you have in hand. I used the mild Indian Kashmiri chilli).
- 1 red pepper
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ teaspoon paprika (optional)
- ¼ cup olive oil
1. Soak dried chillies in warm water for about an hour to soften them. Drain a squeeze out any excess water. (I seed them and soak if the chillies are really spicy).
2. While the chillies are soaking, Place the red pepper in a baking tray. Grill/bake the capsicum until skin is all blistered, blackened and wrinkled. Peel them under running tap water, seed them, drain and set aside.
3. Warm a dry frying pan until it's just beginning to show wisps of smoke, then throw in the caraway, coriander and cumin seeds. Remove the pan from the heat immediately, give it a shake and set aside. This helps unlock the flavour of the spice. Pound the seeds using a pestle and mortar or a coffee grinder and set aside.
4. Place, soaked chillies, peeled capsicum, garlic in a blender and blend till smooth or coarse as per your liking adding little oil if necessary. (If you like your harissa paste to be chunky, you can use pestle and mortar instead of using a grinder). Tip it into a bowl and add paprika, pound spices and salt and mix well. Add in olive oil and mix.
Store the harisaa paste in a sealed jar in refrigerator and making sure there is a thin layer of oil on top all the time. This increases the shelf-life of harissa paste. It keeps well over a month and can be frozen.
Caraway seeds are quite similar to cumin seeds, but they are slightly longer than cumin seeds and a bit thinner, have a sweet aroma and is very much different from cumin seeds.


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Xu, Man
posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 8:22 am
I was wondering if it is still sensible to compare model fit such as TLI, CLI when the raw data has been altered slightly.
For example, in likert scale data with response style 1 2 3 4. Most response concentrate on categories 1 and 2, with fewer and fewer for categories 3 and 4. The graded response model for data with 4 categories doesn't fit well.
But, if I recode the data, combine categories 1 and 2 to just 1 category, so now the data has only 3 categories: 2 3 4. I fit graded response model again and this time the model gives better fit. I was wondering if this is evidence that it is better to model the data based on the recoded 3 categories?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 9:09 am
I would hesitate to change the data to fit a model. Also, collapsing is typically done for categories with few subjects, not categories with many subjects - that would seem to lose information.
Xu, Man
posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 10:19 am
Is there a more flexible model than the graded response model?
Based on my limited experience with IRT, in binary data, sometimes one can compare nested models from most restrictive Rasch model with equal loading for all item, to a free model that allows different ladings for all items.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 11:59 am
Well, you can always use nominal. And there is work by Hedeker in the logistic regression context using models that allow (partial) relaxation of the proportional odds assumption behind the ordered polytomus logistic regression model (and the graded response model).
Xu, Man
posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 1:27 pm
Re "use nominal", do you mean that under WLSMV, in CFA models, one can declare all items to be nominal? I tried that but the programme returned a warning for all items:
Nominal variables must be specified with a threshold number
Not sure if that's what you suggested?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 1:35 pm
WLSMV does not handle nominal, but ML does.
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It shouldn't come as a surprise to you, dear reader, that the District is undergoing a bit of a craft beer renaissance. In 2011 there were no breweries operating in the city… since then, four production breweries and several brewpubs have opened in the District, and even more have sprung up in Virginia and Maryland. Even better, a new law allows breweries to sling suds by the pint on the premises, which opens up new worlds of imbibing. With so many breweries, beer bars, and brewpubs, where does a thirsty traveler go to enjoy a local pint? Here are five of our faves.
DC Brau
3178-B Bladensburg Rd., NE
DC Brau was the first craft brewery to open in DC since the Christian Heurich Brewing Company shut down in 1956, and it's by far largest. The sprawling facility is open Saturday afternoon (1 p.m. – 5 p.m.) for tours, tastings, growler fills, and now pints. The flagship brau is The Citizen, a bright, hoppy pale ale. It's a favorite around the District and we love it. And look for limited releases like the famous On the Wings of Armageddon IPA, the Penn Quarter Porter, and their first-ever Oktoberfest, coming in September.
Atlas Brew Works
2052 West Virginia Ave., NE
DC's newest production brewery, Atlas Brew Works has some of the best and most creative brews you can find. Their mainstays, the Rowdy Rye ale and the District Common lager, are bright, crisp, and refreshing, but we're partial to their more unique offerings, like the NSFW black IPA and the La Saison des Fetes. The Ivy City brewery is open Friday – Sunday for tours, tastings, and pints. Keep an eye on the Atlas website, too, as they're known to host special events.
1200-1216 Bladensburg Rd., NE
Bardo originally opened 20 years ago in Arlington's Clarendon neighborhood. The beloved brewpub closed its doors before the current craft beer craze was a glimmer in anyone's eye, but it's reopened in a big way near the trendy H Street corridor. The 15,000 square foot beer garden has plenty of room for cornhole, dogs, outdoor movies, and of course some of the best beers around. Right now, Bardo is celebrating its return to the scene by selling beer at 1994 prices. Until "at least September," we're told, pints are $3.45, pitchers or $9.91, and growler fills are $14.11.
Denizens Brewing Co.
1115 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
Denizens Brewing Co. opened up their upstairs taproom and beer garden just a few minutes from the Metro in Silver Spring this summer. Right now they're offering two brews (the Southside Rye IPA and Lowest Lord Extra Special Bitter) and a small menu of food from the pitmasters at BBQ Bus (think one the best pulled pork sandwiches around). When their ground floor opens up in mid-September, they'll have a full lineup of five regular beers and five rotating seasonal offerings, as well as an expanded food menu. Outside, the beer garden boasts cornhole (we're sensing a theme here) and lots of seating.
Right Proper Brewing Company
624 T St., NW
This Shaw brewpub is less than a year old and it's already a neighborhood institution. Where most breweries tend to focus on hops and malt, Right Proper brewer Nathan Zeender loves playing around with different techniques, fermentation methods, and especially yeasts—yielding a unique lineup of fresh, funky, fruity suds. You'd be wise not to overlook the food here, either. We love the southern fried chick-filet, the lamb French dip, and yes, the fried chicken livers. Don't knock 'em 'til you've tried 'em.
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At the risk of sounding like Navin R. Johnson in "The Jerk," let me rejoice in telling you that the new bond statement is here. The most informative and legally accurate snapshot of the state's financial status does not paint a pretty picture. The state's short-term finances improved in small ways over the last few years, but the long-term prospects are grim and are not getting better.
One of the great problems for your average concerned citizen is finding accurate and dependable information about our government, which supposedly works for us. Most government statements are governed by politics, not accuracy, and they place a greater premium on spinning than informing.
My favorite exception to this information fog is the state's bond statement. Periodically, the state borrows money by issuing bonds in the market. These are essentially loans from investors to the state government. To accompany the bond offering, the state includes a 130-page statement which explains in great detail all the financial underpinnings of the government.
Because these documents are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a bond offering, they are held to a different degree of accuracy than are the political communiqués that form the basis for too much of our information, or lack thereof.
During a typical budget cycle, we focus on the immediate-term budget balance and ignore the long-term implications of many actions. The bond statement presents an accurate picture of both the long and short terms.
The state's short-term finances have improved dramatically. The current administration is fond of maligning the two-year budget passed in 2011, but it served as the basis of everything the Hassan administration has done since. A binge of borrowing and one-time federal bailouts had eaten up the state's surpluses, increased the state debt dramatically, and left an $800 million hole to be filled.
The 2011 Legislature took the common-sense step of limiting spending to the amount of revenue coming in. Therefore it had to cut state spending for the first time since the Merrill administration — and by the largest amount in modern history.
Tellingly, even with the House and Senate controlled by different parties, the 2013 Legislature adopted exactly the same principle and limited spending to existing revenues. Although total spending did increase, it was able to only because of the previous cut.
Further, we find in the bond statements that the maligned 2011 budget produced a $75.7 million surplus. That is the largest surplus since the $82 million Craig Benson surplus of a decade ago. It is only because of that surplus that the current budget is balanced. The restraint of 2011 created excess funds that allow the current budget to spend $57 million more than it expects to raise.
But the long-term picture continues to erode. State debt, after more than a decade of stability, skyrocketed from 2007 to 2011. The increase in just four years from $654 million to $939 million was roughly the same as the increase in the prior 20 years.
Even after budget cutters took over, the state's debt increased by 2.5 percent from 2011 to 2013, although that is a tiny fraction of the previous explosion. Someone thinking long term (which probably rules out most elected officials) might propose limiting new debt to 80 percent of the retired debt in any given biennium.
But the biggest nightmares come from the state's unfunded pension and other retirement obligations. New Hampshire has one of the worst-funded pension systems in the country. The state retirement system alone faces an unfunded liability of $4.638 billion plus an additional $710 million medical subsidy shortfall. On top of that, the state maintains another $1.857 billion unfunded OPEB (Other Post Employment Benefits) obligation outside of the retirement system. These liabilities of $7.2 billion dwarf the state's general obligation debt.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Word comes this week that lawmakers are going to issue credit cards to help with the pension problem. If their optimistic estimates are met, the state might generate $500,000 each year from people who for some odd reason or another want to have a Retirement System brand credit card.
After four years, the state might generate enough to lower the pension liability from $4.638 billion to $4.636 billion. Another 2,318 ideas like that one and the problem is solved. Well, except that the unfunded liability grows every year and the system is not designed to address that.
I was going to close by recommending that you read the bond statement, but you might want to wait until the new year. It's a little depressing.
Charles M. Arlinghaus is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank based in Concord, New Hampshire. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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All organisations need to have in place strict policies and procedures to deal with data information requests by individuals and to be able to provide such information in an easy to understand format. Such data may have been collected from third-party organisations rather than directly from the data subject, and the GDPR principles have an obligatory list of the types of information that should be made available upon request regardless of where the data originated.
Principle 2: Processing personal data for specified purposes
It is imperative that organisations have a policy on the collecting of personal data and that personal data is not collected except where it has been provided with explicit consent, and for the purposes, it was collected for, that purpose being specific and known by the data subject.
Principle 3: The amount of personal data you may hold
Many organisations collect and hold enormous amounts of data for various purposes, be it monitoring behavior, marketing purposes, research and often data may be sensitive.
Regardless of the size of the organisation or the type of data stored, the principle advises that organisations need to evaluate the relevance of the data that stored and that any data held has to be limited to only that required by the organisation for specific purposes.
Principle 4: Keeping Personal Data Accurate And Up-to-date
Organisations must have a comprehensive policy and procedure for regular reviews to enable GDPR principles compliance with this principle. All personnel will be required to keep and maintain an accurate database of all customer and employee data information.
Principle 5: Retaining personal data
According to this principle, data may only be retained for the period that it is necessary for the particular purpose it was collected. To be compliant with this principle, organisations will have to ensure strict control over the retention, storage, and movement of personal data and it would be necessary to draw up a comprehensive list of rules for determining when, and for how long, data may be retained.
For example, in the case of a contract, fulfilled or ceased, between the organization and a client, the original may be retained for a period of, say, 7 years or in terms of a potential legal claim, a length of time that corresponds with any relevant statute of limitation on the bringing of a claim. Also, organisations will have to understand, in the case of a data breach, how a data subject could be identified, hence the requirement for careful deletion or anonymising of data once retention is no longer required.
Principle 6: The rights of individuals
In line with the desire for transparency, the GDPR principles have expanded the rights of individuals to include the right to obtain from organisations exactly what data is stored about them, how this data is used, to what purposes and where. Organisations now must provide, upon request, a copy of the data in electronic format, free of charge for portability.
Furthermore, the right to be forgotten or the right to erasure is putting more power in the hands of the individual to control how his or her data is being manipulated or stored. Organisations are obliged to ensure GDPR principles compliance and focus on policies and procedures to make sure all personnel are aware of the stages of request handling.
Principle 7: Information security
There is no excuse when it comes to protecting and securing the data and the privacy rights of individuals. Security measures are imperative in the implementation of this principle, and to be compliant organisations are required to put in place adequate protection using methods such as data encryption and anti-malware and ransomware software.
Keep only what data is required, keep policies and procedures up to date and in line with the GDPR principles requirements, educate and provide GDPR principles training all personnel accordingly and ensure all physical areas, hardware, and software have security and protection. Security measures need to be taken against innocent as well as malicious breaches and incorporated within the overall security measures to ensure that all access to data is secure and controlled.
Principle 8: Sending personal data outside the European Economic Area
Personal data to be transferred outside the EEA needs to be protected. Within the EU there is deemed to be an "adequate" level of protection allowing for the transfer within the EU, but outside many countries are considered by the European Commission not to have this adequate protection. There is a list of countries that are acceptable which do not include the US. Since the inauguration of the most recent President, any transfers to or from the US should be considered carefully.
Countries who do not have adequate levels of protection such as China, Japan, Brazil and the Middle East and appropriate safeguards will need to be put into place such as the obtaining of explicit and informed consent or by specific and approved contracts with guarantees by way of Model Contract Clauses. Other methods of transferring legally are by the use of Binding Corporate Rules, which allow multinational organisations to transfer data outside the EEA.
GDPR Summary of the Eight GDPR Principles
The eight GDPR principles are in place to ensure that a clear and transparent process is followed and enables a level of protection and security to individuals, but also a checklist and methodology for organisations to assist with compliance. Safeguarding the individual should be at the forefront of any business that collects, stores and manages personal data. Ensuring GDPR principles compliance is an obligation and is not difficult if you are prepared to put in the time and effort that is required.


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This is a soulful pop song that would be difficult to guess is about panic attacks and extreme stress by the laid back nature of the sound. Using rhodes and wurlitzer electric piano sounds and acoustic guitar it has an acoustic yet soul feel to it with full kit and bubbly trippy electric guitar in the choruses. The choruses almost have an RnB feel to the rhythm of the lyrics. The middle 8 reaches a climax back into a screaming guitar solo. The end choruses almost have a motown riff throughout the outro. Uplifting and moody at the same time.
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(Reuters) - An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted to recommend approval of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk's new ultra-long-acting insulin degludec, despite signals of possible cardiovascular risk.
The panel of outside medical experts unanimously recommended that the company undertake a large study, possibly after the basal insulin is approved, to verify heart safety of the once-daily drug.
Panel members said during an all-day meeting that they were concerned about a trend toward higher incidence of cardiovascular events with degludec than other drugs in 16 large clinical trials, even though the difference was not statistically significant.
But they expressed enthusiasm for degludec's 24-hour duration of action, saying it was perhaps unmatched by other drugs and would allow patients to take the insulin at a different time of the day if they missed taking it at their usual time.
"Currently available basal insulins are imperfect and don't last 24 hours," said Dr. David Cooke, a panel member who is an associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
"A true basal that gives constant coverage for 24 hours would make a difference," Cooke said.
Dr. Kenneth Burman, chief of endocrinology at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., said the drug's duration of action "seems unique. Instead of a 12-hour half life, it's probably 24 hours."
But Sanford Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson said degludec's sales potential was "meaningfully impaired" by the panel's concern about the drug's cardiovascular risks and the likelihood they will show up in its package insert label.
"An approved label in the United States is highly likely to call out the unknowns about the cadiovascular signal seen," Anderson said in a research note.
The panel began weighing the benefits and risks of the medicine two days after FDA staff members said combined data from the 16 studies suggest degludec may increase the risk of cardiovascular death, non-fatal heart attacks and strokes and unstable angina, compared to standard insulins.
Moreover, FDA staff reviewers had suggested degludec may offer no strong advantage over other drugs in avoiding hypoglycemia -- dangerously low blood sugar levels that are a common side effect of insulin. Some members of the FDA advisory panel echoed those concerns on Thursday.
But the panel voted 8 to 4 to recommend degludec's approval, despite concerns about heart safety, saying its benefits appear to outweigh its risks. The FDA usually follows the recommendations of its advisory panels.
The stakes are high for Novo, the world's largest insulin maker, because Wall Street deems the medicine capable of generating annual sales of $1.5 billion by 2016 if it is approved in the United States.
It would compete with Lantus, Sanofi's dominant long-acting insulin, which had sales last year of about $5 billion. U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly is developing a similar medicine that is a few years behind in development.
The company's many completed studies of degludec did not enroll enough patients, or last long enough, to ascertain heart risks. A large trial with thousands of patients could reliably assess its safety, but could take a number of years to complete.
The panel did not vote on whether the trial should be conducted before, or after, degludec is approved.
Novo officials on Thursday, speaking at the advisory-panel meeting in Silver Spring, Maryland, said they were committed to working with the FDA on a post-approval cardiovascular outcomes trial.
The negative commentary from FDA staff members on Tuesday sent shares of the Danish drugmaker sharply lower. It plans to sell degludec under the brand name Tresiba.
The European Medicines Agency last month recommended degludec's approval, and it has already been approved in Japan.
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XBMC in Windows 7 on Acer Revo 3600 HTPCSunday, June 13th, 2010
This post is a guide to setting up XBMC (XBox Media Centre) on an Acer Revo 3610 running Windows 7. I've already blogged about why I chose the Revo as a HTPC and how to install Windows 7 on it.
XBMC is the best HTPC software available. It's free, highly customizable, lookgs good and supports loads of codecs and is great for navigating large collections, even using a remote control… did I mention it's free and open-source? Awesome. XBMC is great for playing movies, TV shows, music and viewing photos. It manges libraries well and is skin-able with loads of slick eye-candy interfaces.
Setting up XBMC
You can install XBMC-live if you want to boot directly into it, but if you've got the Revo 3600 you've more than enough power to run it from within Windows 7 which is what I recommend. This way you have the benifit of running other windows software which I'll mention later in this post.
Here's the steps I took to set things up:
- Install XBMC, well duh of course, this is straightforward right? err, no it isn't actually. The latest stable release for windows doesn't support hardware accelerated HD video playback. So if you plan on watching some sweet blu-ray rips you'll need to get a nightly build from svn. It's officially unstable and dangerous but I've had no major problems and need HD video playback.
- Install the nvidia ion audio drivers. This will enable 8 channel sound output over HDMI. My Revo already had the latest video drivers after installing Windows 7.
- Install flash 10.1
- When you run XBMC in the video settings set it to use DXVA so that high def movies play smoothly.
Other useful HTPC software
If you like to get your TV shows via torrents then there's two programs that are essential.
- utorrent: marked as 'a very tiny BitTorrent client' and indeed it is, but good things come in small packages. It's the best torrent client. Free, light, configurable, easy to use and no bundled crapware – Azureus I'm looking at you.
- Torrent Episode Downloader: TED is great idea and I'm not even talking about the awesome TED or even better Ted. You select what TV shows you like and it checks for new epiosdes and downloads them as they become available. The app is nice and user friendly. It's light and easy to add the shows you like specifiying at what episode you want to start downloading. It still doesn't work perfectly though, it rejected some of the proposed downloads for me, but it's the best I've seen for this purpose thus far./li>
Remote Control
It's a pain using a keyboard and mouse to control your HTPC. Even if they're wireless they still don't belong on the couch in my opinion. The best solution is a dedicated remote control. I found a good budget one in the Empirex 3009URF. It's 16 quid and RF not infra-red so you don't need to worry about line of sight to your Revo. It's designed for controlling Windows Media Centre but using the excellent free Event Ghost application you can use it for XBMC.


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Friday was a kale salad with a soft egg and a Pierre Franey recipe for clam sauce and fresh fettucine, and the 2010 Benaza Godello, Really satisfying for the money- sweet peachy fruit, but it?s crisp and dry on palate. Refr eshing, minerally, buy again. B+
Saturday we lit the Hannukah candles at sunset, had a glass of the NV Caste
llroig Cava. Light, refreshing, herb and licorice over lemon. Crisp and lig
ht. Good length. B/B+
Then we went to a Nikolaus party (luckily, rain held off and temps were mod
erate- Roger is a German traditionalist, and the party must be outside!). M
ostly cookies and mulled wine, but I carried along a bottle of the 2007 Tri
mbach Pinot Blanc. Sweet pit fruits, a hint of Riesling-like petrol, citru
s, not especially long, but hey it was really cheap! B-
Home for latkes and ?Atlanta? brisket (recipe includes Coca-Cola), win
e was the
2010 Texier Cotes du Rhone (this is the basic CdR, with the busy/colorful l
abel). Solid red fruits, good acids, light tannins, quite nice. B
Sunday we had chicken breast with soy, lime, and sesame oil, baby bok choy,
some assorted leftovers, with the 2011 Terres Dorees (Brun) ?Cuvee Premi
ere? Beaujolais. OK, I believe this is supposed to be a Beaujolais Nouvea
u, but it doesn?t taste like that. Moderate red fruits, but some light bu
t apparent tannin. The confounding part is it improves on night 2 and 3. Pl
enty of crunchy red fruits, good acids, herb and earth. Fun stuff. B+
Recently got some corn smut from Oregon Mushrooms, and beans from Rancho Go
rdo, so invited some friends for meatless Monday- huitlacoche/mushroom ques
adillas, vegetarian tacos (cheese, guacamole, kale). roast kabocha squash,
and a vegetarian chili with Sangre de Toro beans.
NV Pinon Vouvray Brut
Sweet apples, good acids, fine mousse, beautiful for $20 bubbly. B++
2009 Descendientes de Palacios "Petalos" (Bierzo)
Red fruits, a little vanilla edge, not bad but would prefer more sense of a
place than good internationally styled wine. B-
2010 Baudry Chinon
excellent length, black cherry and raspberry, earthy, good. B/B+
2009 Wind Gap Pinot Gris
Skin contact (orange) wine I assume, looks like a rose - a darker rose at t
hat. I really didn?t like this at first- seemed austere and overly herby.
But improved a lot with air - smoky, cranberry and red plum. full, long. B
-/C+ day one, B on day 2.
Tuesday we had leftovers- brisket (over egg noodles that weren?t leftover
), a kale stew, kabocha squash. Wine was a half bottle of the 2006 Havens B
ourriquot. From 375ml this is fully mature, no real tannins left, dark slig
htly horsey fruit with some red kirschy stuff after some air. a bit dull. I
?ve enjoyed other bottles and half-bottles of this much more. B-/C+
Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine
, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a p
arty where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectiv
ity, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.
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Thank you ZvezdanD. The doubleslash did the trick.ZvezdanD wrote:I am not sure that understand what you exactly want, but you are wrong that MagicNodes won't let you include the backslash in the "Right of" local qualifier. You just need to escape it with the same character, i.e. you should specify it twice. If you are using GUI and type string directly into the Right of text box, the script would automatically add one more "\" character into the mask.Viper21 wrote:However, MagicNodes won't let me include the backslash in the "Right of" local qualifier so as to hide it.
My node now contains a list of folder paths. Each folder path maps to an album in this naming convention: <artist> - <album> (<year>).
E.g. 1: ABC - Greatest Hits (2012)\
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Happy Belated Canada Day: Crown Royal XR Waterloo
Damn, I missed Canada Day. I always mean to do a Canadian Whisky review for Canada Day, and I always seem to miss it. Maybe it's just too close to July 4th to enter the American consciousness. Well, let's consider this a belated Canada Day post.
Crown Royal XR Waterloo. Crown Royal's XR (Extra-Rare) series are blends that include whiskies from closed Canadian distilleries. The Waterloo was the first edition of the XR and includes whisky from the Waterloo distillery in Ontario which was closed in 1992. Crown Royal just released the second edition, featuring whisky from the shuttered LaSalle distillery in Quebec.
Crown Royal XR Waterloo, 40% abv ($130-$180)
The nose immediately gives a nice rye spice, so much so that tasting blind, I would easily mistake this for a straight rye. It's got good vegetal aromas. The palate is syrupy sweet with rye undertones. If Monin made a rye syrup, for rye cafe mochas or something, this is what it would taste like. The rye continues into the finish. While a bit on the sweet side, the rye and the sweet notes play well together.
I don't think of Crown Royal expressions as having much in the way of rye, but this one clearly does. It's quite pleasant and definitely worth drinking. In fact, it's probably the best thing I've had from Crown Royal, though for the price, I'd be more likely to opt for one of the Canadian straight ryes, like WhistlePig or Masterson's, that cost half as much.
Happy (belated) Canada Day!
3 comments:
- Tim Read said...
Glad you enjoyed! I will note that while this has a normally ridiculous asking price, a little hunting can net you a bottle for about the same as some Whistle Pig.
- July 16, 2012 at 7:36 PM
- Adam said...
OMG the Waterloo distillery is closed?! I am TOTALLY getting some of this!! I just don't understand why they're not charging more. I'd pay it!
PS: Got a VOF '69 today for under $1k. Woohoo!
- July 16, 2012 at 10:15 PM
A best left unnamed southern California purveyor is offering it on their website for $160. I think I'll miss out on this one at such prices, but thanks for the review Sku.
- July 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM
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Leaders of the House and Senate will fight the ongoing subprime meltdown by demanding that President Bush appoint the weakest of government figureheads: a czar. American czars have guided failed federal policy on energy, food safety, borders, drugs, AIDS, and the Iraq war. The appointment of a mortgage czar might be the strongest signal yet that all is lost; recession, if not a crash, a near certainty.
Democrats say they will offer a plan for increased funding for foreclosure prevention, and will seek to temporarily lift limits on the portfolios of government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could help the housing market if they were allowed to handle more expensive mortgages.


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Charlotte Hays thinks feminists are going to turn on Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert because Gilbert's new book is about the ultimate crime against feminism: Getting married!
Wait, what?
Will Ms. Gilbert's fans now spend their book-club meetings plotting to find a man? Or will they be plotting revenge on the supposedly strong, single woman who betrayed them?
Getting married = betraying your feminist readership, apparently. (And/or inspiring them to desperately pursue their own weddings.) I guess that makes sense, if your research into contemporary feminism consisted entirely of a Sex and the City marathon on TBS:
[Gilbert] is a giddy girl with lots of giddy girlfriends. And they are, in the way that feminists always seem to be but hate to admit, boy crazy and sex crazy. When a chipper Ms. Gilbert, having just met Felipe, gives a New York friend with boy troubles some happy-talk advice, the friend replies: "Spoken like a woman who already had four orgasms today."… Such women rarely remain single—even if they profess to be feminists.
And because of that:
loyal readers may well feel that their heroine has deserted them for a man. But women have been doing this to their girlfriends since time immemorial. Sisterhood is powerful, but not that powerful.
What the fucking fuck? I don't even know where to begin. Fortunately, Anna North at Jezebel has done a pretty thorough takedown, so I don't have to.
All of this is actually kind of difficult to pick apart, but what Hays seems to be saying is that feminists equate strength with singlehood, and view anyone who couples up as a traitor. But all feminists really want a man (lesbians don't exist in the Hays universe), and would cheerfully abandon their feminist values should they find one. Of course, this is based on an outdated and wrongheaded notion of feminist values. Only a very few people still demand that feminists eschew men, and most feminists I know accept the notion that whether or not a woman is in a relationship doesn't determine how "strong" she is. It's true that the idea of taking a husband for "male protection" raises my feminist hackles, but the fact that Gilbert didn't need such protection while traveling the world makes me more sanguine about her marriage, not less. She seems to have gotten married because she wanted to, and because she was in love, and "such women" seem pretty happy to me.
Yep. Pretty much.
Or, as Indiebride.com editor Lori Leibovich told Tracy Clark-Flory back when Jessica Valenti's engagement was totally! shocking! news!:
I think the people who take issue with feminists like Jessica getting married are the same people whose perception of feminism is completely warped. They are the people, mostly conservatives, who think that being a feminist means that you love having abortions, you hate men, and you do vaginal self-exams for fun, therefore you shouldn't want a wedding.
Adds Tracy: "In this skewed view, of course Valenti is a hypocrite, because they haven't the slightest clue what she stands for in the first place." Yep. Pretty much.
I would write more, but I have to go meet my giddy, boy-crazy girlfriends for our monthly vaginal self-exam party. Oh, wait, who am I kidding? I'm married! My single friends all hate me now! The truth is, my schedule for the day looks like this:
1) Iron Al's shirts.
2) Clean toilet.
3) Spend hours preparing complicated dinner.
4) Clean up kitchen after complicated dinner.
5) Think of England while Al soullessly bones me in hopes of making a baby that will give my life meaning.
6) Take tranquilizer and go to bed.
In fact, that's been my schedule every day since December 26, 2008. You'd think that as a feminist (formerly, obvs) I would have seen that coming, huh? But no, I just stupidly went ahead and got married, betraying everything I stood for and all of my feminist readers and single pals. I'd apologize for that, but frankly, I'm not sorry. I've got a man! And a ring! YOU KNOW YOU'RE JEALOUS.


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Andrew Luck signed his new contract with the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday, officially kicking off a new era for the franchise.
You can make the argument that the Colts had the best 2-14 season in NFL history. They had to edge away from Peyton Manning eventually, and his neck injury smoothly set it all in motion. As luck would have it -- no pun intended, seriously -- the best QB prospect since Peyton Manning was waiting for them at Radio City Music Hall.
So how good can Luck be? Kurt Warner compared the QB's skill set to an NFC South star.
"Probably a guy I liken him to a little bit is a guy like Matt Ryan," Warner said Thursday on NFL Network. "A guy that maybe doesn't have the top-notch physical skills, meaning that great arm. But he's a very timing-oriented quarterback and he gets back and sets his feet, he's very accurate, can make all the throws across the field.
"And so, coming in, I'm not sure I expect him to wow us so much as I expect him statistically to be a good player," Warner went on. "He's very much like a Matt Ryan, who at this point hasn't necessarily blown us away, but he's come in he's won a lot of games, very consistent, makes a lot of plays, maybe doesn't have the wow factor of somebody like a Cam Newton or an RG3."
It might not seem like glowing praise at first, but Matt Ryan doesn't get enough respect. The No. 3 overall pick of the Atlanta Falcons in 2008, Ryan has thrown for 95 touchdowns against just 46 interceptions with an 88.4 passer rating in four seasons as the starter.
No, he hasn't won a playoff game in three tries, a stink that will continue to follow Ryan. But let's not forget it took Manning six seasons to finally win his first postseason game.