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BRADFORD, Pa. – Rick Nelson, associate professor of business management at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will retire at the end of the Fall semester.
A native of Warren, where he still lives with his wife of 44 years, Susan, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Central Connecticut State University and his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Connecticut.
He was a commercial bank auditor in Connecticut and an investment researcher for Citicorp Inc. before he started teaching at Pitt-Bradford in 1985. In 1985, he inherited the leadership of the business management program from his good friend, the late David Blackmore, who had created one of the first four-year majors at Pitt-Bradford. Nelson led the program through 2011, overseeing creation of the areas of specialization within the major, which became the most popular on campus, and establishing ties with a variety of businesses across the region.
His teaching has focused on the area of finance, and he is not only a Chartered Financial Analyst, but also has served as a senior grader for the CFA Level III examinations since 1997. Currently he is a curriculum consultant for the CFA.
Earlier this year, he was added by the Educational Testing Service to the committee of academics who develop finance questions for the MBA assessment test to be used for the next three years, beginning in 2013. He wrote about half of the finance-related questions in the new text.
He has written articles published not only in the academic world, but also in The New York Times, The Hartford Courant and Gentleman's Quarterly.
Nelson has enjoyed teaching abroad on several occasions, including serving as a visiting professor at the Shanghai Institute of Technology in Shanghai, China, in 2006; as a visiting lecturer at Can Tho University in Can Tho, Vietnam, in 2009; and as a visiting professor and lecturer at Heilbronn University in Heilbronn, Germany, in 2011.
During his time in Vietnam, he was able to revisit some of the places where he served from 1968 to 1970 during the Vietnam War. He served in the 198th Brigade of the Combat Infantry Company and was discharged as a sergeant.
Nelson will return to Heilbronn in June 2013 to teach Security Analysis. He was instrumental in setting up the exchange agreement between Pitt-Bradford and Heilbronn, which began when he became friends with a German professor, Dr. Mathias Moersch, through the CFA Institute.
The Nelsons plan to remain in Warren and visit their two daughters, both of whom live in the Pittsburgh area, on a regular basis.


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This Friday there will be having our regular Troop meeting in Lower Church Hall @ 7:30pm. All scouts are to be in Class A uniform with handbooks.
Backpacking Merit Badge Trip Scouts: Assemble at Church Parking Lot Shed Friday @ 4:00PM
Bring Signed Permission Slip {Click here to download}
- Class B uniform (troop red polyprop shirt and Scout pants)
- hiking boots
- Full pack with full water bottles & trail mix for 2 days
- Cookware, meals and tents to be provided by troop
Troop 37 Family & Alumni Canoe Trip Friday – Jun 20th – Jun 22nd : {CanoeTripFlyer2014}
- The required Liability Form {Click Here} MUST BE COMPLETED FOR EACH PERSON CANOEING and signed by Parents of those under 18 yrs of age and Permission Slip {Click Here} for all Scouts
- All payments, Signed Permission Slips, and Release of Liability forms must be returned No Later than June 6, 2014 in order to reserve canoes, purchase food, and arrange for transportation. No replies necessary please, just payment and forms in order to attend.
HMSR Summer Camp:
- Merit Badge Selections are Due. Cooking and Welding Merit Badges are closed out, so if you had been planning to take either of these please submit your alternate selections. Mr. Liu (email@example.com) and I (firstname.lastname@example.com) will accept selections via email this week as well.
- Currently, we are missing the selections of 4 scouts. Please email or bring your choices to this Fridays meeting.
- All merit badges that have pre-requirements and need Leader sign off should be brought to a meeting and reviewed with an available leader. Please have a completed form letter filled out and ready for the Leaders signature. {Click here to download Form Letter}
- Medicals: We are accepting completed medical forms, OTC Medication form, Dietary Needs forms and a copy of the scouts health insurance card (Front and Back) . They must be in duplicate AND stapled in order for us to accept them. If you have these already completed, please bring them to any meeting to provide to Mr. Nadal or myself.
June 7th – Keep Staten Island Clean Service Hours:
- On Saturday, June 7, 2014, in conjunction with the Parks Department, Bay Terrace Civic Association, Yellowboots, and others, there will be a clean up of Buffalo Street from Hylan Boulevard to Durant Avenue. Currently, the clean up is scheduled to begin at around 9/10 AM and last until1 PM.
- Anyone who has need of service hours and wishes to help should email myself (email@example.com) and Mr. Steve LoBaido (firstname.lastname@example.com) to inform us that you will be in attendance.
Upcoming Events
· May 31st – Car Wash
· Jun 6th – Regular Troop Meeting – $$/Permission Slip cutoff for Canoe Trip
· Jun 7th – Car Wash
· Jun 13th – Flag Retirement Ceremony – Summer Camp Medicals Due
· Jun 20th – 22ndCanoe Trip
· Jun 27th – Court of Honor
· Jun 28th – Car Wash
· July 13th – 19th – Hawk Mountain Summer Camp

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The Feminist Chronicles - 1953
The Second Sex by French feminist writer Simone De Beauvoir, was published in the United States. The phrase "women's liberation" later adopted by the more radical wing of the feminist movement, was first used in this book. (1953)
For the 20th successive year, the Connecticut State Senate debated retention of a law forbidding the use of contraceptives by both married and unmarried women. (04/18/53)
The Kinsey report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was published. The study was based on interviews with 8,000 women. (1953)
Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to pilot a plane faster than the speed of sound, flying an F-86 Saber jet at 760 miles per hour over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base in CA. In World War II, Cochran had been the first woman to ferry a bomber to England. (1953)
Doriot Anthony Dwyer, descendant of Susan B. Anthony's brother, was appointed first flute in the Boston Symphony Orchestra-a male preserve. (1953)
Playwright Clare Boothe Luce, former member of Congress (1943-47), was appointed Ambassador to Italy, the first woman to represent the U.S. in a major diplomatic office. (03/03/53)
Oveta Culp Hobby, who organized and directed the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, became the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. (05/11/53)
Eleanor Roosevelt publicly allied herself with the National Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW) by shifting her original stand on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to favor complete equality. Katherine St. George of New York, the ERA's congressional sponsor, sought to put the bill on the first docket before the 83rd Congress. (01/02/53)
The Backlash
Phyllis Schlafly did research for Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the "McCarthy era," which lasted from 1950-54.
Praised by Better Homes and Gardens for not attempting "to become an intellectual," First Lady Mamie Eisenhower was glowingly depicted in the Woman's Home Companion as "no bluestocking feminist." (07/53)
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Over the years I've written quite a few books and many more articles, columns, and blogs on the topic of programming. I think there has always been an idea that if something is in print, it is probably right. But I've noticed a recent paradox. Obviously, I can create a website and promote my idea that everyone should learn to whistle modem tones to reduce the barrier to human/machine interfacing. That doesn't make it a good idea, but simply my opinion (and, just to staunch the flow of incoming e-mail, no, that's not really my opinion). My point is that in years past things you read were usually subjected to some review and fact checking before it was published. With the Internet, anyone can publish anything (and they do).
The paradox is this: For some reason, it seems to me that people have begun seeking validation at every turn from some authority figure. I first started noticing this when design patterns became popular. Don't get me wrong, patterns are a useful tool. They help you capture things that work and present them to other people. But real design requires you to evaluate patterns and, if none are suitable, figure out the best answer for your specific problem. So as the quality of published information has probably decreased (taken as a whole), our willingness to assume it is right seems to have increased.
This came to the forefront of my thinking this week when someone waved a 3-year-old article from another magazine at me. It is a fine magazine, and the article – which was talking about how to make better embedded system code – was well written and I agreed with most of what was in it. But there was an admonishment against using "clever" techniques. The author forbids the use of templates, inheritance, goto statements, and the ternary operator (as in x=y>10?1:2). He claimed that only the original programmer will understand such a "clever" solution and then will forget how it works.
I thought this was a stunning example of just what I was talking about. I understand goto isn't a popular choice, but no templates? No inheritance? The ternary operator is not that hard to understand. Even if I were inclined to agree on all of these, I wonder how many people use an article like this as a reason to forbid the use of these in every situation? I've seen it before. Yet, I know that there is almost no rule like this that should be iron clad. Our job as engineers is to find the right solution where "right" is a fuzzy concept based on trading the various things we can change and weighing them against requirements.


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Critical Mass is a fun, free and pro-bicycle ride that takes place in Sheffield (and many other cities around the world) on the last Friday evening of every month. It is a self-organised movement, in other words it happens with whoever turns up. Come and enjoy a nice evening ride around Sheffield for an hour, then off to a pub for a drink and a chat.Critical Mass Sheffield Critical mass on Wikipedia
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Southpark hype
Most hypes suck. This one is cool. This is me. And this is me interpreted by a friend of mine. Or something… :-).
GStreamer's fun
So, Thomas and Benjamin touched upon some of the difficulties in getting GStreamer 0.9 rolling. This is a difficult topic, not in the least because on the one hand, I'm indefinitely thankful to Fluendo for paying me so I can work on GNOME all the time, but on the other hand, I have seen some issues in this process so far, too. It doesn't make the topic any easier, though.
The truth is, we indeed face issues.
- Wim did all the design way before our February meeting in Barcelona. Actually, most of the design was done by then. Most criticism on it was discarded as "you don't have something better". That is painful, and possibly unfair in hindsight, especially to people who had really good ideas back then.
- Seriously, the two meetings were very different. The one two years ago was in a very relaxed atmosphere, and I don't think we ever did more work in a single week than back then. The thing is, we had tens of things to work on and thus everybody got to do something useful and it was all put together in the end. The environment, location, wheather, everything was perfect. The meeting in February just wasn't perfect. There was some measurable tension already, we were in an office (which just isn't the same), and most of the week was discussion rather than coding. And discussion wasn't "how do we get this perfect", but a lot of defense for this plan vs. that. It's just not the same.
- We were very focussed on deciding on a design within only four days. With this environment and pressure, it just didn't feel all right.
Right now, though, it appears that most of the design is very flaky and subject to change. That's both crap (because we agreed on working stuff already, or at least supposedly) but also good (because now we get to improve it). I try to make the best of it, giving feedback on proposals and the like.
Some parts of the process annoy me, though. Some are because of earthwaves and cannot be blamed on anyone, and most aren't even targetting specific persons or companies. However, they are very tough issues that I don't like talking about, but they are feelings nevertheless, and have to be said:
- For the past half-year, I've been the sole and only developer spending considerable time on GStreamer 0.8. I dare say that more than 50% of all work is mine, and possibly up to 2/3rd or even 3/4th of all commits are mine. That is seriously a lot. I feel really happy that applications such as Totem are working out so well, and am happy to be given this option. But I'd love for others to help me a bit more. It really feels lonely. I have little to no time to comment on 0.9 stuff, because 0.8 sometimes takes full days to keep up with. Some fixes are yet unreleased, and some features still unimplemented. Totem is getting there, but is not there yet.
- Having said that, even though I spend considerable attention on getting Totem user-ready and am, as arrogant as that may sound, fairly succesful at that so far, my opinions on 0.9 design as far as I have time to comment on it are pretty much discarded. Annoyingly, not by the developers, but by non-developers. Wim takes considerable time to take notice of my comments and adapt design to it. I regularly get doubt-founded comments on design proposals of mine from others, however. Seriously, if I were stupid, GNOME 2.10 would be media-player-less. It'd be nice if we didn't endlessly try to discuss, proove and FUDify and otherwise make development boring and even downright annoying. I don't give shit about the 1% of finetuning if we're currently 90% wrong and I can make it 90% right. I won't even consider suggesting 10% improvements if I spend 90% of my time on explaining and defending them. I have a life, I prefer to spend it otherwise, and I will spend it otherwise. Screw the design. Scheduling indeed needs design, but that doesn't mean everything does. Most stuff gets there by mere, mortal coding. Design is currently heavily overrated in the GStreamer camp. This makes stuff boring.
- Also, I regularly get no comments at all. I mostly get told that the SMTP of Wim is broken then, but god… This seriously sucks. If Wim is the only one able to give any useful comments on my emails which do not only consist of questions and downright false statements, then we're in some serious trouble.
- GStreamer suffers from the same communication problems as GNOME itself does. Mailinglists are hopelessly failing, with discussions usually endlessly moaning about unimportant points, where the main issue is disregarded and ignored. IRC works, somewhat, but lacks archives and requires better timing coordinations, which is hard in a free software hacker community where not all of us live in the same timezone or work on this fulltime. Yarrr may fix it, but is unfinished, leaving us with a black hole right now. I'd rather fix this yesterday than today. Until then, we need to learn to stop moaning about details; they're irrelevant. Until then, we need to learn to focus on the main point we're discussing.
Christian and Thomas asked for more comments on and help with Wim's work. I'd love to, and I would do so even more than I do now, if only it was fun. Keep it fun for me. Stop talking, just let me (us) do it.
That said, GStreamer is still a lot of fun, even if only because of the many thankful emails I get from users telling me (or Bastien) how happy they are with Totem and its continuously improving media support. Thank you, you make my day. As always, the next version will blow your eyes out with support for ALAC (via gst-ffmpeg), QDM2/WMV9 (via PitfDLL) and a lot more.
Discussionless work
GNOME-media is slowly but steadily advancing without endless discussions. Right now, we're down to 60 bugs alltogether, or 20 if I omit gnome-cd (which I still plan to ditch at some point in the near future) and all enhancements (which aren't bugs). Explicit thanks for this goes to Nirmal and Madhan, who did some excellent work on this while doing their internships, although many other contributors also deserve thanks. Like in the previous cycles, I'm positively confident that GNOME 2.12 will feature a more enjoyable user experience than 2.10, which was pretty good already.
Totem, too, is getting nicer and nicer. While GStreamer is slowly finishing complete DVD playback support (including language support (finished), DVD subtitles (half-finished, patches in bugzilla) and menus (in progress), Totem itself is getting more and more finetuning, too. This flower has some serious power.


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There's plenty to enjoy in all parts of Japan. In Tokyo, feast your eyes on a high tech cityscape with a wide array of shopping malls and exquisite restaurants. Whether it's branded apparel or Michelin star cuisine, you can find it here. Then there is Kyoto, an ancient city that is sure to tug at heart strings of culture seekers and history buffs. Here visitors can explore Buddhist shrines, historical buildings and dine on more traditional foods in quaint shop houses.Things to see
Travellers in Tokyo can start browsing the modern architecture and landmarks like Tokyo Tower, which provides an excellent view of the surrounding city and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building, which is the highest spot in Tokyo. Then there's the Rainbow bridge in Odaiba that contributes to a spectacular night view, appreciated by many photographers everywhere.
Those having a family vacation in Osaka will love sights like Kaiyukan, one of the world's largest aquariums with a respectable collection of sea life, including a whale shark, dolphins, otters, seals, sharks and plenty of underwater creatures. During weekends, musicians and street performers provide added entertainment just outside the aquarium. Spa World is one of those attractions that delights the entire family, with gender-separated European and Asian themed spas and a pool for the entire family, with water slides for the kids. This place is open 24 hours and has an outdoor onsen and a bar that boasts a massive TV screen. Perfect for a refreshing beer after the spa treatment.Hotels in Japan
In Japan, hotels are by no means rare, numbering by the thousands. They come in all shapes, sizes and most importantly, cater to all budgets, allowing both penny-pinchers and luxury lovers to find their ideal accommodations. Most of the budget and mid-range hotels are well equipped for a comfortable and fairly luxurious stay, and some are very conveniently located. The excellent infrastructure in Japan allows visitors to get around without a car, so convenience shouldn't be a major concern. Service here is one of the best you can find in the world, so no worries about that aspect in Japan.Where to stay
Shinjuku is the district for you if you're looking at wild nightlife, futuristic skyscrapers and maximum retail therapy. There are hundreds of shops here, with some of the biggest camera stores you'll ever find. You can even find one of Tokyo's remaining geisha districts in Kagurazaka, as well as highly reputable French and Italian restaurants.
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Citizens of several countries can get into Tokyo without a visa, for stays of up to 90 days. Selected European countries can stay for up to 180 days if proper notice is given. Most international flights can be served by airports like Narita Airport, Kansai Airport and Haneda Airport. The cities are well connected via rail, so moving between cities is easy if you're exploring the entire country.
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Clutch Basics 101
Clutch Installation Guidelines
If youre a racer, you know that the clutch is the vital linkage between the engine and the transmission. If you dont have it installed or adjusted correctly, you can lose horsepower and wear out the clutch prematurely. To help you get it right, Circle Track magazine installed a clutch in a racing car to show you how its done. With some help from Quarter Master Industries, lets get to it.
The first step in installing our clutch is to attach the 7--inch button flywheel to the flexplate on the back of the crankshaft and torque it into place.
Next, the clutch assembly is put together. This particular clutch assembly is a 7--inch, three-disc pac Pro Series set from Quarter Master. The inside contains three separate clutch discs and their attendant floater discs that are sandwiched together inside the housing and a clutch cover (same as a pressure plate) that is on the front. The three clutch discs are designed with two end discs that go on each side of the assembly with a center disc in the middle. The end discs need to be installed so the splined center extends outward from the middle. The center disc can face either direction.
The assembled clutch is then placed onto the bolts extending from the button flywheel. Before the assembly is bolted in place, the starter ring is also slipped onto the studs.
The end of an input shaft from an old transmission can be cut off and used as an alignment tool. We insert this alignment tool through the clutch assembly into the pilot bearing on the end of the crankshaft and hold it centered while the bolts holding the clutch assembly are torqued down.
With the clutch assembly in place the clearance between the throw-out bearing and the front of the transmission needs to be checked. If there isnt enough clearance when the bellhousing is bolted on, it will push on the clutch cover and partially release the clutch. To check this clearance, the bellhousing first needs to be bolted in place.
Next, we take a measurement from the outside edge of the bellhousing to the throw-out bearing. In order to get an accurate measurement, the throw-out bearing needs to be held in the normal operating position against the clutch cover. Second, a measurement from the front surface of the transmission housing to the outside (front) of the bearing retainer is taken. The bellhousing-to-throw-out-bearing measurement needs to be greater than the retainer on the front of the transmission. If it isnt, then the retainer will push on the throw-out bearing, partially releasing the clutch and creating slippage. This results in a horsepower loss.
In our case, the clearance is off by an eighth of an inch. The clearance should be between .063 and .125 inches.
To correct the clearance, we needed to remove three shims (at a sixteenth-of-an-inch each) between the throw-out bearing and the hydraulic release housing. The three-sixteenths inch we gained by removing the shims gave us one sixteenth-of-an-inch clearance.
The bellhousing is then bolted back on the engine and the measurements are retaken to verify the proper clearance.
Now, your new clutch is installed and adjusted with plenty of clearance so there is no chance of slippage. No slippage means no loss of horsepower. Follow the guidelines we stressed here, and youll never have problems with your clutch.


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text: CultureGQ Eats: The 10 Best New Restaurants in AmericaBy Alan Richman December 16, 2009FacebookTwitterPhoto: Hannah Whitaker/New York Magazine1/101. Marea, New York CityIn a year when fine dining seemed barely able to survive, Marea did more than just bravely open for business. It effortlessly established itself as one of New York's top restaurants. Prices are high (Adriatic Seafood Soup, $45). The room is snazzy, steely, and slick (onyx bar, glowing walls, bright red lampshades). All quite sumptuous, but primary credit for the glorious ascension belongs to Michael White, now America's top Italian chef. (Not bad for a fellow from Wisconsin.) Not only has he never met an Italian recipe he can't cook; he's cooking them all at the same time. In addition to Marea, featuring Italian seafood, he and partner Chris Cannon operate Alto (Northern Italian) and Convivio (Southern Italian). Marea's the best of the three, for this reason: White is unrivaled at fresh pastas, and seafood with fresh pasta is incomparable—like steak and potatoes. His homemade pastas are inexplicably exquisite, both delicate and substantial, a seemingly unattainable combination until now. Fusilli with octopus and bone marrow is profound, the marrow melting into a sauce. Should you weary of seafood pastas, unimaginable to me, his sausage-and-minced-vegetable rag is a lighter—yes, lighter—alternative to fish. There's more not to miss: sirloin with bone-marrow panzanella, basically crazy croutons. I was irresistibly drawn to a crudo of striped marlin with caviar, which probably broke every rule for eating sustainably, locally, and ethically. The food at Marea is so heavenly, I don't mind going to hell. RELATED: Behind the World's 50 Best Restaurants, the Only List That MattersPhoto: Courtesy of Craigies2/102. Craigie on Main, Cambridge, MassachusettsSome might call it a Best Moved Restaurant, not a Best New Restaurant. Tony Maws's old Craigie Street Bistrot, nearby, was nearly impossible to get into. Now that he's at a new location more than twice the size, his place is still nearly impossible to get into. The current spot doesn't have an open kitchen; it has an open-door kitchen. Walk in the restaurant and the cooks are right smack in front of you, working hard and fast. It feels like you're entering a home kitchen through the back door, although Maws's childhood probably wasn't the inspiration. "My mother can't cook worth beans," he told me. The restaurant offers a little of everything—French, New England, homestyle, Asian, Mediterranean, locovore. It succeeds at everything. The terrines are gorgeously fatty. The arctic char is lean and mi-cuit, barely cooked at low temperature. A friend said of the ethereal mushroom salad, "It looks like something fairies would eat." Even a dessert of sweet French toast is special, made with corn bread. Could this be Boston's Best Restaurant, period?Photo: Courtesy of The Bazaar3/103. The Bazaar, _Los Angeles _The first time you go, you'll find yourself deliriously lost. The Bazaar, in the SLS Hotel, is magically absurd, a fun house of possibilities, absolutely delicious and visually decadent. You drift. You circle. You won't know the Rojo room from the Blanco room, and you surely won't understand the half-hidden Saam room (tasting menu, fancier service). The food, by America's greatest Spanish chef, José Andrés, isn't the rustic dishes he learned to make back in Catalonia. It's Spanish food that's lost its exotic ethnicity, become whimsical, playful, and even molecular—mad-scientist stuff. Andrés prepares dishes that are absolutely accessible to American tastes; he's decoded our dining DNA. His traditional tapas include_ ibérico_ ham, sheep's-milk cheese, and piquillo peppers, all Spanish staples, but no smelly, fishy stuff, which is fine with me. There's what he calls new tapas, including a play on cheesesteak made with thin baked pita, Cheddar foam, and rare Kobe beef, a combination I never encountered in my South Philly days. There's a slew of liquefied, bite-size doodads that taste (and sometimes look) like cherries, mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, and olives but are actually science fiction versions of them. Once, long ago, in a place only a few miles away, Wolfgang Puck made fancy dining informal. José Andrés has made it insanely, totally fun.Photo: Bruce Wolf4/104. Ping, _Portland, Oregon _Chef Andy Ricker and his partners took over a building previously occupied by a Chinese restaurant with one of the best names ever: Hung Far Low. Ping is way far better, so ambitious its mere presence is revitalizing Portland's Chinatown. Ricker has assembled a menu that's multi-Asian, not Asian-fusion, the dishes rigorously ecuted and tasting uncannily authentic—there isn't much kowtowing to the West. The room has an industrial ceiling with exposed pipes, but every new restaurant in Portland has that. Here's where it gets interesting: walls made from crappy old wood, shelves filled with vintage radios scavenged from a repair shop that used to be next door. And then there's the food: stewed duck leg in a sweet broth with a side of sour chili sauce for dipping—have this once and you'll be back. Pork bun stuffed with dried, shredded, caramelized meat, a challenge to David Chang's preeminent version. Tried pork-bone tea? That's boiled ribs in pork broth, served with Chinese crullers and spicy soy. I became so excited eating at Ping that I calmed myself with wide flat rice noodles sautéed in garlic oil with chicken and veggies, then topped with mild, toasted chilies. To me, stir-fried rice noodles are the ultimate Asian comfort food.Photo: Courtesy of Anchovies and Olives5/105. Anchovies Olives, _Seattle _The best empty restaurant I've ever seen. Anchovies Olives stays open until midnight in a city where everybody is in bed by 10 p.m. I arrived an hour before closing time. I not only ate alone, I also drank alone—even the bar was vacant. The place, as you might expect, was dark, quiet, and still. I expected to encounter Edward Hopper painting a West Coast version of Nighthawks. All the same, chef de cuisine Charles Walpole was on the job, and his food was everything the ambience was not: bright, vibrant, and lively. So-called Soft Boiled Eggs, hard enough to pick up, the yolks gorgeously creamy, topped with house-smoked tuna. Whole fried baby hake presented on a platter like the one your mother saved from Hickory Farms. Wonderful pastas, some pristinely Italian, like bigoli (thick whole-wheat strands) with garlic, chilies, and artichokes; some exuberantly American, like gnocchi with chunks of swordfish, celery, escarole, and salsa verde. Finally, a real reason to stay sleepless in Seattle.Photo: Jason Verney6/106. Aldea, _New York City _Here you'll find the stupendously well-trained (David Bouley, Alain Passard, Roger Vergé, Alain Ducasse, Martín Berasategui) Georges Mendes, New York's breakout chef of the year, finally graduated to a restaurant of his own. Mostly he prepares Portuguese cuisine for the best of reasons: He grew up eating it. If you've never had the slightest interest in such cooking, that will change once you try his upscale version. Consider the Arroz de Pato, a kind of paella but with duck cracklings, socarrat (pan scrapings), duck confit, chorizo, a scattering of olives, and rare duck breast. Nobody has ever prepared a better version of shrimp alhinho—briny-iodiny creatures with an intense, glowing sauce made from garlic, smoked paprika, and those delightfully intense flavors extracted from shrimp heads (the part you're always told to suck but never will). The dining room is near genius: modern, airy, textured, stylish, sleek, and minimalist. The 3-D touches, such as white birch saplings, remind me of the pop-up books I loved as a kid.Photo: Matt O'Hara7/107. Bibou, PhiladelphiaBibou (technically Bibou BYOB) is the latest and most improbable reason to head down to traditionally Italian and now somewhat Latino South Philly. It's pure French. Chef-owner Pierre Calmels is French. The hostess (his wife, Charlotte) is French. The butter is French. The music is French. The menus adorning the wall are French. The recipes are, of course, French. Dishes include such rustic favorites as braised pigs' feet stuffed with foie gras, and hanger steak with green-peppercorn sauce. 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Not quite an outright pop heartthrob, not quite a household name, not quite cool enough to get the seal of approval from discerning musos: it's safe to say that Tom Odell is a musician firmly plonked at the crossroads of his career.
After winning the BRIT Critics' Choice Award in 2012, it seemed like the Chichesterborn songwriter had one foot in the pop trench, the other snared in the "serious songwriter" one. He has been gently ribbed by comedian James Corden about his uncanny resemblance to one-hit wonder Chesney Hawkes, but on the other hand he has already clocked up support slots with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden, been named 'Songwriter of the Year' at this year's Ivor Novello awards, and next week will open for "The Modfather" Paul Weller in Dublin. Pop star? Heartthrob? Earnest songwriter? Is it possible to be all three?
Chatting from his East London apartment, Odell is polite, wellspoken and sincere – yet he's also slightly awkward with his answers, stumbling over words and trailing off midsentence to start a new one. It's hard to tell whether it's down to the snatched nature of the brief encounter, or the fact that he's just not that exhilarating a conversationalist. In any case, you get the impression that all of this kerfuffle and hype sits somewhat uneasily with him. He never set out to be a pop star, he says; while his friends were taking up guitars and drums and forming bands at school, he was the one who begged his parents for piano lessons.
"I really just wanted to play the piano and my grandmother had one, so I used to play it every time we went over there," he says. "Some of my earliest memories are of playing that piano. I had this very strange attraction to it. I think it had something to do with this particular type of piano; it was like a pianola, so it played itself if you pumped the keys. I guess I was just sort of fascinated by it."
He has cited Billy Joel and Elton John as influences in the past, and says that the latter's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album was the first he ever remembers being captivated by. Conversely, his youthfulness comes into play when he describes Arcade Fire's Funeral as a formative influence. Still only 23, he was 13 when the album came out and it generated a creative spark in him.
"That album came out around the time that I really started listening to records and getting into music," he enthuses. "I never really followed what other people my own age were into – I was always seeking out music on my own. Some of my earliest teenage memories are going to parties and putting on some obscure Arthur Russell song, or something, and everyone getting pissed off at me because I didn't put on 50 Cent, which was what they wanted to hear," he chuckles. "So my music taste definitely alienated me a tiny bit from my friends."
Odell spent some time fronting a band – Tom and the Tides – with little success before embarking on a solo career, honing his craft at open-mic nights in London. It was around this time that he caught the ear of Lily Allen, who compared him to Bowie in terms of his onstage energy and presence.
"I remember driving away from that [initial] meeting and thinking 'OK, that was probably quite important; I'm pleased I met her'," he recalls. It was. Allen signed him to her Columbia Records imprint In the Name Of, and things started getting a little crazy. Before his debut album, Long Way Home, had been even released, he had bagged the BRIT Critics' Choice award and matters were taken out of his hands, to a certain degree.
"The thing is, I don't think even my label were really expecting me to sell loads of records before it happened," he says. "And suddenly there was this award, and if I didn't sell loads of records it would have been seen as a huge failure – but neither of us ever intended on selling millions, and none of us ever thought we'd win that award. So I dunno; I think it was a huge honour to win it, but I wonder what my career would be like now if I hadn't won it . . .". He pauses.
"I don't know what it would be like. I'm not sure what the right road is. I know that you need these things, and it got me a lot more attention and a lot more people started listening to my music – but I think that award is so mainstream that you naturally put yourself in the spotlight to be critiqued in a way that you didn't necessarily want to be in the first place, if you know what I mean."
The Ivor Novello, on the other hand, was admittedly "a very big moment."
"I don't think it's good to lose sleep over awards and that sort of thing, but that award was voted for by people I grew up listening to and actually inspired me to songwrite in the first place," he agrees. "So it did mean an awful lot to me, that award. I guess you constantly aspire to be listened to with that sort of respect and for your music to be taken seriously. I started out writing songs and it was always a dream of mine to be recognised for doing that, so I almost feel undeserving of it. But I'm also hugely proud of that award, at the same time."
He has struggled a bit with the "celebrity" aspect of being a musician, something he was exposed to after having a casual drink with Taylor Swift led to a frenzy of tabloid speculation (none of it true, he says). He also became the subject of temporary ridicule last year when it was revealed that his dad placed an angry phone call to the NME upon reading their "zero-star" review of his son's album. Fame, he is learning, comes with a price.
"I'm naturally not someone who goes to these kind of shows, and stuff," he says, with a glum sigh slightly unbecoming of a 23-year-old with the musical world at his feet. "But I guess it's part of it, so I have to do it."
He perks up when the conversation becomes less focused about his career prospects and more about how he goes about making music. He never went to university, he says, although he is a graduate of the Brighton Institute of Modern Music. Because he never read much at school or furthered his academic education after his A-Levels, he has been trying to verse himself in literature over the last few years.
"I read a bit [at school], but I was always rebelling," he explains. "I was a typical kind of kid: I didn't really like being told what to do and I think that led me away from books. I didn't go to university, so I just had this great desire to educate myself through literature. I really like the idea of working through books that have been key over the past 200 years – so I'm reading Tolstoy at the moment, which is quite intense. I have this weird sort of desire to get through every classic book that's ever been written. Just in case that I don't know something that everything else knows about."
He says that his songwriting has "absolutely" been informed by his newfound love of literature.
"My one piece of advice for a songwriter would be to read. It's incredibly overlooked as a tool to use for your songwriting," he says. "I've met some songwriters that I really admire, and they all read as well. It makes you think of new words and gets that whole part of your brain working. I can only really write songs when I'm reading; I can only really be creative when that part of my brain is engaged."
If the songs on Long Way Down are anything to go by, he spent a lot of the years preceding 2013 reading love and romance novels: the track titles – Hold Me, Another Love, Grow Old With Me – are a
"I don't think even my label were really expecting me to sell loads of records . . . And suddenly there was this award, and if I didn't sell loads of records it would have been seen as a huge failure"
dead giveaway of his intentions. Isn't he wary of being written off as just another lovelorn balladeer?
"It's funny; I look back to something I wrote four years ago, before Long Way Down, and they weren't really love songs at all – and then I listen to Long Way Down and it's just packed full of them," he says. "I think love songs tend to make great songs, and you tend to feel very impassioned, but I'm writing a lot of songs about different things at the moment. So I'm very excited about that."
Work on album number two is continuing apace since he began writing during a stint in New York earlier this year. "I got an apartment in January and just sat there for three weeks and went through what I had," he reveals. "I record everything on a Dictaphone and my phone; I had a thousand ideas on there, or something. I went through them all and ended up coming out with a load of songs in about two weeks. We're halfway through at the moment and we're working with some really cool people, and working really hard. I've learned so much about songwriting over the last two years, and about performing. I listen to so much more music, and I feel more inspired than I've ever been, so I'm really excited about making this next record. I'm looking forward to moving on."
Tom Odell plays support for Paul Weller at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on June 24th, and the Belsonic Festival, Dublin, on August 18th


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Zeihan, who spoke at South Texas Money Management's annual Energy Symposium at the San Antonio Country Club, said that no place else in the world has the combination the U.S. does – the capital, engineers, geologists, chemists, a legal system that recognizes mineral rights, pipelines, midstream infrastructure and a ready market.
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Zeihan said that shale drilling has made the U.S. functionally energy independent.
Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director of energy and sustainability at the University of California, Davis, disagreed and said that the U.S. will be importing oil for the next five years. But she said energy independence isn't the point – the main thing is that shale oil in the U.S. has helped prevent supply disruptions (and price spikes) that would have otherwise happened because of turmoil in places such as Iraq, Libya and Nigeria.
Jaffe also expects to see crude oil exports from the U.S. "We are a global power. We want a world that is what I call a status-quo world," she said. "As a global power we support global institutions and therefore it's not in our interest to hold our oil and gas inside our borders."
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Hmmm∑ Well I'll start with the complaining first since I'm a supposed shit talker, but really, anyone that knows me knows, I'm just trying to make all of you laugh because a lot of you are uptight, especially for riding little kids bicycles. I'm just speaking what is real. You can't have a website that just talks about fake stuff all the time and fake like everything is all good.
But really the weekend was good and that damn course is the same since the first race hosted in Tremblant back in 1975, as expected. Tremblant knew there was a national (event) coming way in advance so they were waiting for us with their damn rules and money seeking. That's the top ten favorite complaint. "Didn't this track know there was going to be a national here with some great flat, muddy and grapy uphill section with no flow that stop you up if you don't hammer??
Okay, complaining like this makes me feel better as I've sucked every year in Tremblant, and I sucked this weekend too. I just can't ride those sketchy, wet, off camber slick rocks. I've tried so hard during the practices, tried and tried again but I keep doing it wrong. It's just not my kind of riding skill. When will Tremblant build a course with some good rhythm section with some good flow?? Oh yeah, could it be any drier please?? I don't like the wet!! I can just thank Norco big time for the downhill bike they provided me because it definitely helped me so much to stay on top of the game.
So I came in 8th position, about 4 seconds behind the second place (Mike Jones). I stopped 3 times to avoid some crash, I felt so sketchy. I crashed big time in my last run the night before the race, hurt my back, finger and leg. I didn't want to crash in the race and be out of the top ten so I played it safer then my grandmother would. I was hoping to get at least one win.... whether in Bromont or Tremblant. Next year maybe∑
Now, lets talk about what happened to the other good racers we have in Canada:
Eric Goss was the man this weekend. Won by 7 seconds so no one could touch him. When you earn a weekend, you earn the weekend. Good job buddy !!
Kwanah did good with a 4th position, he keeps the Canada Cup leader's jersey. Pendrel came 9th about half a second behind me. After the race, Geoff said: Hugo you remember last weekend in Bromont when I said there was no rocks in the course? well this weekend there were big rocks all over!!! Let me say that Brant Lyon is strong as hell, he crashed, got a flat and still came 6th. Olivier Markon won the practice run once again. Seriously, he looked too good every time I saw him going by but where is he when final comes?? Did I say anything about Mike Jones preparations? He probably spent most of his mental energy, trying to make up some new engineering set up on his bike, calculated every single angle of all the tubes on his bike, played with the geometry, changed air and oiled pressure in his suspension(s), just about to buy a new laptop so he can push the science further∑ aaah Mike, we only ride our bikes for fun don't we?
Well we've spent hours Saturday doing runs together and I had a good time, I like you buddy.
M. Laurin or if you prefer "mister World Cup" showed up this weekend before he head out to Europe for the first World Cup round. Everyone was expecting a win from Math and I'm sure with a big margin as well, which doesn't happen when there is too much of expectation. Same scenario when Dustin Adams came to race Tremblant in 2002 after he came 3rd at the Big Bear Norba the week before, mister "World Cup" kicked his ass by 2 seconds and the crowd went crazy. I can remember like if it was yesterday, I had shivers, standing beside the finish line and looking up to the scene∑aaah I love it.
Giant Canada has Danika Schroeter who wins the CC all the time, they got E. Goss on the podium all the time, Brant who can win Nationals, on top of their grass roots program with Justin Brown who wins or comes second in the junior, so I'm wondering when will Giant show up with a tech support on site like Norco does?? I'm thinking it should be time, don't you think. Kona could do same, with Rocky Mountain, Cove and why not Oryx so the Canada Cup can grow bigger someday. I'm bored to see all the potential riders who despairing to get some tech support because they trash their bike on a course that pushes the mechanics to the limit. Please, next year I want to see some more companies supporting the racers on site.
I'm racing twice next weekend. Saturday will be a downhill Quebec Cup, and Sunday is a BMX provincial.
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Michael Holst is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at UC San Diego.
He is a core faculty member in both
the Center for Computational Mathematics
the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
He works broadly in numerical analysis, applied analysis,
partial differential equations, and mathematical physics,
with a particular focus on mathematical and numerical general relativity.
He grew up in Colorado,
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and received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1993.
He was a von Karman Instructor and Prize Research Fellow in Applied
Mathematics at Caltech from 1993-1997, and was an Assistant Professor of
Mathematics at UC Irvine from 1997-1998, before moving to the Mathematics
Department at UC San Diego in 1998.
He was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2000,
to Professor of Mathematics in 2003, and
appointed as Professor of Physics in 2009.
He is the recipient of an
NSF CAREER Award
and a
Hellman Fellowship,
and is coauthor of a graduate textbook
on applied analysis and partial differential equations with Ivar Stakgold.
He holds a
Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair at UCSD, and became a SIAM Fellow in 2016.
Prof. Holst directs the Mathematical and Computational Physics Research Group (MCP) within the Mathematics and Physics Departments at UCSD, and is the lead developer and architect of the Finite Element ToolKit (FETK). He serves as Co-Director for the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM) within the Mathematics Department, and co-directs the interdisciplinary M.S. and Ph.D. Programs in Computational Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (CSME) that span a number of departments at UCSD. He is involved in a number of interdisciplinary research institutes and research training programs on campus, including the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM), the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences (CASS), and the NIH National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR). His research is supported by NSF, NIH, DOE, AFOSR, and DTRA, as well as by industrial sponsors and private foundations. While at UCSD he has been the primary supervisor for more than forty doctoral and postdoctoral students, as well as more than a dozen undergraduate honors thesis students and REU summer research students.
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As a result, I was interested in reading Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine. The book tells of Irvine's experiences living in Monticello and Long Canyon as an advocate for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.
The book was published in 2008 by North Point Press. Irvine has been heavily promoting the book, which has earned several positive reviews by a number of regional and national publications.
With heavy marketing and dust jacket endorsements by the likes of Robert Redford and Terry Tempest Williams, the book is likely to sell quite a few copies.
Irvine moved to Monticello soon after the suicide of her estranged father. She seeks to find meaning and solace in the canyon country and reconciliation, of some type, with her Mormon heritage.
Irvine is a competent writer, with an intriguing perspective.
She draws interesting contrasts between the prehistoric inhabitants and current inhabitants of the Colorado Plateau. She posits that the hunter and gather culture is inheritantly more sustainable on the Colorado Plateau than agriculture-based cultures, such as the Anasazi.
She also draws interesting parallels between the Mormon residents of the West and their sworn enemy, the coyote.
It is where Irvine makes a foray into the current culture in San Juan County that the book breaks down. Local residents are little more than caricatures, used as foils to reinforce Irvine's worldview.
While the residents of Monterey were upset at John Steinbeck for his brutally honest portrayals, the residents of Monticello will likely be only disappointed with Irvine's attempts. It is hard to be upset with a monochromatic cardboard cutout.
A recurring scene is of Irvine laying low while interacting with an unsuspecting local resident, then figuratively ripping open her shirt, ala Clark Kent, to show SUWA emblazoned on her chest.
I understand the need to allow writers some literary license. It is often necessary in order to move the narrative along. However, Irvine uses literary license simply to reinforce her worldview.
One brief example is a story she tells of the late Bluff writer Ellen Meloy, who apparently came to speak at a book club meeting in Monticello, only to find an empty library and an apologetic librarian. Irvine writes that the book club had boycotted Meloy's work.
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Irvine's attempts at interacting with the residents of Monticello were shallow and superficial. The result is an analysis of the culture that is similarly shallow and superficial. This is particularly unfortunate considering she portrays herself as a sixth generation Utahn with a Mormon orientation toward the world.
While Irvine understands, on an intellectual level, some of the skeleton of Mormonism, she clearly has little understanding of the flesh and blood that makes it a vibrant culture to its adherents.
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