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Now is a great time to get out and play Wachesaw Plantation East! The course is green and playable. These kind of conditions do not happen by themselves or overnight. On this edition of Tee It Up Grand Strand we take a look behind the scenes at some of the work that has been done recently to help get the golf course ready to show off during the spring golf season.
PGA Head Professional, Mike DeLuca took us behind the scenes to see what the management and staff have done to get the course in the shape that local and visiting golfers alike have come to expect when they tee it up at Wachesaw East. He gave incite to some of the planning and preparation that superintendent, Harold McCuller, and his staff go through. Getting a golf course in great shape is not something that is done at the last minute or with minimal planning. Most of the work is done months in advance and on a schedule that is specific and followed closely.
"One of the big things we did for this golf season was to remove over 200 trees from several holes around the course" Harold told us. "The reason for that is that the trees had matured and created a shade issue. That means they had grown so tall and full that they were shading too much of the grass and not allowing it to grow and thrive."
Another thing that the large old trees affect is the cart paths. Roots from some of these trees had started to come up under the carts paths and create cracked areas and uneven parts to the paths. If not kept in check these problem areas become worse to the point where golf carts almost cannot drive over them. This in turn makes for a bad experience for golfers riding around the course. Nobody wants to ride on beat up and broken cart paths.
"All the hard work and long hours that Harold and his crew put into the golf course on projects like this are invaluable to the course" says DeLuca. "They work hard enough as it is on the regular day-to-day maintenance and upkeep of the course, but it is these types of projects that can make a world of difference to the golfers that play here."
To make a tee time click on the tab at the top of the page or call the golf shop directly at 843.357.5252.
Tree Removal and Cart Path Maintenance
Always trying to improve our course, we have removed over 200 trees and started the process of fixing the damaged cart paths. Here is a short video explaining our progress.Posted by Wachesaw Plantation East Golf Club on Wednesday, March 14, 2018


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About COLLABORATE
The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest) present COLLABORATE: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community. As an educational conference, COLLABORATE helps users of the full family of Oracle business applications and database software gain greater value from their Oracle investments.
Created by and for customers, COLLABORATE offers an expert blend of customer-to-customer interaction and insights from technology visionaries and Oracle strategists. Expand your network of contacts by interacting with Oracle customers, solutions providers, consultants, developers and representatives from Oracle Corporation at COLLABORATE.
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Your paid registration through the IOUG entitles you to enjoy the educational offerings of all three host organizations to obtain the latest education on Oracle applications and database technology. You can choose to attend one organization's educational sessions or benefit from other tracks being offered by the other organizations and meet new professional contacts.
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The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) represents the voice of Oracle technology and database professionals, serving database administrations, developers, application and infrastructure architects, business intelligence specialists and IT management. The IOUG is dedicated to providing education and access to its membership of more than 20,000 international Oracle professionals, with special focus on: Business Intelligence, OBIEE, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Content Management, APEX, RAC, Disaster Recovery, Exadata/Exalogic, Fusion Middleware, High Availability, Linux, MySQL, SOA, Security, Storage, Virtualization Manageability, Cloud Computing and more.
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Her not-so Hollywood story.
While the celebrity mum is far from camera shy – the ex-supermodel currently features on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – like her daughters, Gigi and Bella Hadid, when it comes to dealing with her all-consuming family health battle, Yolanda has struggled from the sidelines.
"Today is a good day," she told US Weekly about the recent release of her new book, Believe Me.
Yolanda wrote about the health struggles her family have endured with Lyme Disease, with the hopes it raises awareness about the little-known illness and acts as a helping hand to those suffering in silence.
"It's the first time in my life that I live authentically to who I am, and in full truth. It's a good place, an empowering place."
But she's not the only Hadid who has been affected by Lyme Disease. Yolanda's son, Anwar Hadid, and youngest daughter Bella Hadid, have also been diagnosed with the illness.
"When I see the pictures of spirochetes on [Anwar's] Fry Labs results, my anxiety goes from one to a hundred in mere seconds. My baby! How could this be possible?" Yolanda writes in her book.
Image credit: Getty Images
Hadid also touches on other sensitive matters in her book, including Bella's DUI.
She writes, "My 'what if?' button goes from one to ten in a split second because my greatest fear has always been the thought of losing one of my children in a car accident the way I lost my father. I'm devastated by Bella's choices, but she is safe."


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This turned out to be just what I wanted in flavor, texture, aroma (yes, aroma is so important!) I simply multiplied the Cheese and Wine Bread recipe 8 times, put it in a loaf pan and this is what came out. It's hard to let you know just how high it rose in a picture. So I took a picture of it in the pan so you can see it from that perspective as well.
You can see how it just rises above the top of the pan. It is more like a banana bread size.
The texture is very close to a real sandwich bread. If you like bigger slices you can cut it in half, then set the half sliced side down, and slice lengthwise. I don't think you'll come out with 16 slices then, but you will have larger slices, so it's a matter of your preference.
8 eggs
1/2 cup *marsala wine -- (dry)
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (edit, 1/4/2017 - I no longer add the oil. I find it does not need it)
1 cup parmesan cheese
1/2 cup almond flour -- (honeyville is what I used)
3 tablespoons psyllium seed husk powder
3 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes, NOW brand (see note below)
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 packets Truvia -- (or 1 tbsp other sweetener)
Preheat oven to 350F. Line bottom of 8 x 4-inch loaf pan with parchment paper and spray pan with non-stick cooking spray.
In medium mixing bowl, add wet ingredients: eggs, wine, and oil. Beat together well. Add dry ingredients: Parmesan cheese, almond flour, psyllium powder, nutritional yeast, baking powder, and Truvia OR other sweetener.
Mix with electric beaters for 2 minutes or until smooth. Pour into loaf pan. Bake 30 minutes, then place an aluminum foil tent over the top and bake another 30 minutes. Remove from oven and turn out of pan onto a wire rack to completely cool before cutting. An electric knife helps to cut nice even pieces. I got 16 good slices out of this.
*Helpful Hints: If you don't have wine, you can use cooking wine, or if you choose not to use wine, you can try buttermilk. The wine does seem to add to the flavor and texture and rise, and I haven't tested it yet with buttermilk, but that would be what I would try first, myself.
*Editing this to say I have made it now with buttermilk and I baked it 15 minutes longer and it came out fine. It did not rise as high with the buttermilk as with the wine but it wasn't that much of a difference.
NOTE: For more information about Nutritional yeast, how it is made, and the health benefits - http://www.truthnhealth.com/2011/10/nutritional-yeast-and-its-benefits/
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16 Slices/Per Serving: 122 Calories; 8g Fat (63.2% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 4g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber
NOTES : 1 useable carb per slice


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It's not too late to treat yourself!
Consider joining us at Ferry Beach for the Summer of Love and our retreat, LIGHT UP YOUR SOUL'S PATH: SOUL COLLAGE AND SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY. There are still a few seats at the retreat if you are ready to treat yourself to a gift of "self-love" which of course really does ignite the Soul's Path in so many ways.
Join us – Gail McMeekin and Deb Knox – as we gather together August 20th – 23rd to envision the Path more clearly. We'll be using the powerful tools of Soul Collage (R) and Spiritual Autobiography for insights and guidance for moving forward into a magnificent Fall.
You will:
- emerge centered and excited about your life and your work,
- experience new visions for self-expression and fulfillment,
- learn to use your Imagination, Intention, and Intuition to create these special collages and realize new adventures, and
- discover your spiritual storyline, the underlying thread that imbues your life experience with meaning and purpose
This retreat will be interactive and varied using combinations of writing exercises, SoulCollage® Card Making, visualizations, journaling, meditative walks, etc. We recommend that you bring your personal journal.
Ferry Beach is a unique gathering place, right on the ocean, where the sunny skies and cool breezes will hopefully be at play along with us. Gail and Deb have been friends and colleagues almost since the original Summer of Love 1967. Here we are 50 years later and grateful to share some enlightening time with all of you.
You can register here!


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Aiming to be the leading building solutions provider in wood construction
Stora Enso promotes open Building Concepts based on various building components and products like CLT and LVL. The building concepts are driven by a cost competitive analysis. This competitiveness is the main priority to be successful. This exercise is done with our customers and specifiers in key markets. We also develop all our Building Concepts together with a recognized 3rd party, well known by customers or specifier.
The first Building Concepts are for residential multi-storey buildings, which cover construction with panels and modules. These concepts allow construction until 8 storeys as a standard version and could be made until 12 storeys with some adjustments. This is also the first time in the wood industry where we have an architectural guideline linked to a building system. It allows specifier to understand the way of building with wood systems and to find options feasible for wood construction.
The Building Concepts are explained in various manuals emphasizing different chapters:
Today the focus is on 6 main countries: Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden and United Kingdom. It means that our concepts include country specific details according to domestic regulations like fire safety or acoustic requirements.


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On the last day of the third year of YONA, we gathered as one big group to reflect together on our year! We watched a beautiful slideshow created by Ms. Jacquie, and took time to reflect on "what YONA means to me", writing our thoughts on pieces of paper, sharing them out loud, and dropping them into a time capsule box that we'll re-open someday in the future.
One by one, the students, teachers, and volunteers shared beautiful memories and feelings, and were rewarded with Freezies once they'd done so (which served a double purpose - they cooled us down AND kept our mouths quiet while others were sharing!). Then we took to the playground for break, said goodbye to our teams from this year, and joined up for one giant final-day picture.
What struck me throughout this day was how much of a family YONA is. "Family" was the most-used word by the students when talking about what YONA means to them, and it got me wondering why they (and we, the staff) feel that way. I realized that, just like any family, we sometimes have our disagreements or difficulties, but in the end we know that we love each other deeply and unconditionally. I hope that this love comes across in these photos - I'm so grateful that I get to feel it every time I'm with this amazing group of people.
Thank you for following the YONA story this year! We'll be posting a couple of student profiles throughout the summer so you don't miss us too much, and we'll be back up and running in the fall - stay tuned, and have a great summer!
post by Alyssa Paterson, YONA Manager
photos by Carmyn Joy Effa


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Drama, music and dance are all represented in this week's picks of the tix in southern Maine.
Under the rubric of drama there's the New England premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People," the season-opening show at Portland's Good Theater. And "Good People" is way more than good; it's great.
Two top-notch musical events are slated for this weekend. Laura Kargul, one of Maine's favorite classical pianists, plays a recital of Romantic sonatas in Gorham on Friday. The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra opens its 2012-2013 season with a pair of concerts in Lewiston on Saturday and Topsham on Sunday.
And looking ahead to the end of the month, Portland Ballet will offer two performances of its annual "Halloween Spooktacular" in Westbrook on Oct. 27.
'Good People'
Engineers tell us that the triangle is the most stable geometric form, employing terms such as "invariant under stress." But writers and dramatists have long known that the romantic triangle is one of life's most unstable forms, prone to messy collapse under stress.
The tensions caused by an unusual romantic triangle in extremely stressful economic and social circumstances is the driving dynamic behind David Lindsay-Abaire's latest drama, "Good People." Portland's Good Theater, the city's top-notch professional company, has mounted a fine production of this excellent script as the opening show in its 11th season.
The two contrasting settings reflect the social and economic tension: the gritty neighborhood of South Boston and posh suburban Chestnut Hill. The principal character is a single mom who has lived in Southie all her life, while her former high school lover has become a very successful doctor who now lives in a big house in the wealthy suburb. After a hiatus of nearly two decades, the two confront each other. Plus there's a major complication: the doctor's strained relationship with his elegant black wife, who hails from an equally posh background in Washington, D.C.
Emotional fireworks explode, ignited by fine performances by the three principals: Denise Poirier and James Noel Hoban, who both hail from southern Maine, and Noelle LuSane, a New York actress. Plus there's excellent support from three others: Jesse Leighton, Suzanne Rankin and Amy Roche. Director Brian P. Allen, Good Theater's co-founder and artistic director, helms this production admirably.
Good Theater presents "Good People" at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. (top of Munjoy Hill) in Portland through Nov. 4. For ticket info and full performing schedule, call 8835-5883 or visit goodtheater.com.
Laura Kargul
One of my personal red letter dates on Maine's performing arts calendar is the almost-annual recital given by Laura Kargul, longtime professor of piano studies at the University of Southern Maine School of Music.
Kargul is a virtuoso performer with wide experience in this country and Europe. Her 2012 recital will be part of the school's Spotlight Series, scheduled for Oct. 19 in Gorham.
Kargul's specialty is the Romantic Era, and for this Friday's concert she's picked two of the biggest and best-known masterpieces from that rich tradition: Franz Schubert's Sonata in B-Flat Major and Frederic Chopin's Sonata in B Minor.
"I have chosen these particular works because they so fully embody the mature styles of Schubert and Chopin, two composers with whom I feel an extremely strong connection," Kargul explained. "These are their last sonatas, and they were written within only 16 years of each other. But Schubert and Chopin are so vastly different in character, culture and their use of musical language that these works seem worlds apart. What they do share is a profound metaphysical quality, manifested in meditative, highly expressive passages, contrasting with dramatic outbursts of great exuberance and fire.
"It's always interesting to hear how post-Beethoven composers handled the sonata, that most classical of forms. Beethoven's impossibly high standard cast a shadow far into the nineteenth century. Some composers were intimidated, but not Schubert and Chopin. They embraced their innate Romantic sensibilities and made the sonata truly new and fascinating, poetic, exciting and stunningly beautiful. Hearing these two monumental works back to back can be enlightening, inspiring, and, most of all, moving."
Catch this concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 19 at Corthell Hall, on the University of Southern Maine's Gorham campus. Call the music box office at 780-5555.
Midcoast Symphony Orchestra
The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra opens its 21st season this weekend with two performances of a program intriguingly titled "Arabian Nights and Parisian Afternoons."
Music director Rohan Smith will be on the podium and guest artist George Lopez will be the piano soloist on the showcase number, which is Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Lopez and Smith are frequent collaborators; the former is the artist in residence at Bowdoin College. Beethoven wrote the concerto for his own performance. Its trills and arpeggios remind us that he was a virtuoso performer as well as the greatest composer of his time.
Two pieces from the 19th century's Romantic-Nationalistic tradition follow. Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" is adapted from the "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights," and tells the story of a young princess who mesmerizes a sultan with her storytelling abilities. It also illustrates Rimsky-Korsakov's amazing abilities at orchestration. French composer Claude Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun" is characterized by lush melodic sensuality.
Two performances are scheduled: Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's (corner of Chestnut and Oxford) in Lewiston, and Oct. 21 at 2:30 p.m. at the Orion Performing Arts Center at Mt. Ararat Middle School in Topsham. Call the MSO at 846-5378.
Portland Ballet
Terpsichorean witchcraft and some "cadaverous costumes" are on the bill of fare when Portland Ballet presents its annual Halloween Spooktacular Oct. 27.
Six original dances are slated, all with Halloween or "creepy" themes. Five were created by Nell Shipman, associate artistic director of Portland Ballet, while one was choreographed by Andrea Tracy. All promise a humorous, offbeat and family-friendly view of Halloween traditions.
Selections include "Masquerade," with music by Dmitri Shostakovich, and "In the Witches' Classroom," based on a composition by Modest Mussorgsky. Performers comprise students and faculty at Portland Ballet. Student dancers include some of the company top pre-professionals, members of the CORPS program.
Children are emphatically invited, and a scary costume parade is scheduled at intermission.
Portland Ballet presents "Halloween Spooktacular" at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center (at the new middle school), 471 Stroudwater St. in Westbrook. Call PortTix at 842-0800 or Portland Ballet at 772-9671.
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Denise Poirier, James Hoban and Noelle Lusane form a very unconventional romantic triangle in David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People," which opens the 2012-2013 season at Portland's Good Theater.
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Come shake and groove with LaTissa ChaNellé! This class blends hip-hop basics with jazz and funk to create a carefree dance style suited for all ages and levels. Students will learn pop video-style choreography after a vigorous warm-up, body isolation work, and stretching. Class is geared toward beginner and intermediate levels, but ALL dancers will feel comfortable in this dance-party style class. Ages 12 and up (including adults).
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A chimney swift hunts along the Juniata River as it flows past Riverside Park in Mapleton, Pa., on June 15, 2019. In 2018, the park received a non-motorized boat launch, primitive camping, restroom, parking, rustic shelters and an American Disabilities Act-accessible fishing pier. The park also has a motorized boat launch. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Sybil and the AMP 103.7 crew will be at Fat Rabbit in uptown Dallas for Ladies' Night. Bring your girls to 2533 McKinney Ave. for free champagne, MiniLuxe gift bags, $200 gift cards toward Botox and facials, jewelry, cupcakes, concert tickets and more!
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"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still."
- Exodus 14:14
I'm not sure what the past two years have been like for you and your community, but the past two years for our community have been heartbreaking. Red Sea Road is one of those songs that I had to write because I needed to sing what was true. I remember sitting down with my dear friends and co-writers, Christa Wells and Nicole Witt. I cried my way through catching them up on the year, and the tears were for the pain and the struggle and the loss we were walking through with several dear friends, but they were also for the way I kept being surprised by God's faithfulness to draw near to our breaking hearts and make a way for us to carry on, even when the grief and the pain felt unbearable.
I told Christa and Nicole about our friends who carried to full term a precious baby boy they knew would have a very small chance of living due to a rare genetic disorder. I told them about how our friends never got to bring Blake home from the hospital because they lost him the day after he was born. I told Christa and Nicole about another precious family, who had been struggling through infertility for two years when they were asked to consider a private adoption. They were moving forward in that process, thinking that this might be God's way of bringing healing to the pain of infertility, when the birth mother tragically lost the boy they were going to adopt at 29 weeks, before they ever got to hold little Judah in their arms.
As this friend packed up a box of gifts that people had given them for the baby they never got to hold, it felt to her like packing up a box of broken dreams. She was about to put a little pair of shoes that a friend had given her as they were walking through infertility on top of everything else she had already put away. The shoes had a note attached to them that said this: "A faith statement to remember you have a team of support behind you. Sometimes it takes a village to see a dream fulfilled. " As she laid those shoes on top of the other things in that box of broken dreams, she felt like God spoke to her:
"I didn't tell you to pack away your hope."
She took a deep breath, and with tears streaming down her face, she lifted those little shoes out of a box of shattered dreams. Because in the wake of all the grief, God was gently reminding her that Hope doesn't belong in boxes. Hope rises up from an empty grave. Hope helps us stare into the face of everything we've lost and every pain we've endured and every pain we've caused, and it says, "There's more than this. Healing is ahead."
Christa and Nicole listened. Tears streamed down their faces. I didn't have answers and I couldn't make the pain go away, but I did feel confronted with a choice that night. I could choose to despair, or I could choose to hold onto hope. I was seeing God draw near to our breaking hearts, but everything was so broken and sad, and the grief was overwhelming. I needed to write a song that would help me choose hope, a song that would help me choose to believe that "healing is ahead".
When the Israelites had an army behind them and the ocean in front of them, an impossible situation, God says this through Moses in Exodus 14:14 , "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." And He opens up the Red Sea, making a way where there is no way. I don't know about you, but if I am there with the Israelites, I'm thinking, "Imminent death is behind me and I'm definitely going to die if I stay here, but trusting God and walking through the middle of an ocean seems terrifying & may kill me as well." It is so scary and so hard to take God at His word some days, especially when you feel that grief will crash over you like the waves of an ocean and swallow you whole. So we wrote this song to remind our souls that God is with us. He is faithful. He goes before us. He goes behind us. He fights for us, and we can trust that He will bring us through even the most unbearable moments because He is in the business of making a way when there is no way.
Christa was the one who mentioned this beautiful blog post by one of our friends and favorite authors, Ann Voskamp. We read through that post together and marveled at the beautiful story Ann was telling about God making a way. She said it like this, "…we believe that an unseen Hope makes a Red Sea Road when there seems to be no way." That is exactly what I was seeing God do for me, and for our community, so we wrote Red Sea Road to remind ourselves that we have good reason to hope. We left Ann a Voxer message. We sang the chorus of the song , and explained that her words had helped inspire us, and she immediately sent a message back. She was crying and thanking God. She told us that the words of the song were exactly what she and her husband needed to hear on the journey they were facing.
We will sing to our souls
We won't bury our hope
Where He leads us to go, there's a Red Sea Road
When we can't see the way, He will part the waves
And we'll never walk alone down a Red Sea Road
One day, I believe Ann will tell their Red Sea Road story, but suffice it to say for now that I have watched God make a way for me, for our community, and for many others through some seriously difficult circumstances. I wish I had time here to tell you all of the stories, and I hope you'll take time to tell me your Red Sea Road stories of how God has shown up in the middle of your most broken and desperate places. My prayer for this song is that it might help give you eyes to see Him making a way for you to hope, to sing, to carry on, even when the way ahead seems daunting. I don't know when the suffering will end, but I do know that God is with you in the middle of it all, and that there will be healing and restoration one day, whether it's this side of glory or the next. I don't have all the answers for you, but I do know that singing to my soul and holding onto hope have been like a healing balm for the ache, and I'm so grateful that we don't have to bury our hope because he was already buried for us, and Hope himself walked out of the grave.
If you'd like to read more about my friends' journey of infertility, loss, and adoption, she shares the powerful and beautiful way God has met her in the middle of the deepest grief she's ever known here.


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|Urban population dynamics
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|Superlinear scaling (Bettencourt 2013)
To summarize briefly, the relationships between the sizes of contemporary cities, and various social, economic, and spatial phenomena, conform two two basic power law patterns called superlinear scaling and sublinear scaling. Superlinear scaling has been found for diverse social outputs, from economic productivity to crime. It means that as the population of cities increases, the level or frequency of these traits (per capita) increases faster than the rate of increase of the population. Sublinear scaling means that the level or frequency of other traits increases more slowly than the population does. This has been found for two types of urban phemonema: infrastructure, and the area or footprint of the city. The infrastructure pattern is pretty obvious: if you have twice as many people, you don't need twice the length of roads or cables (per capita). As for area, the pattern indicates that larger cities have a higher density than smaller cities. What is fascinating and important about these patterns is that the rates of increase (measured by the slope when plotted on a log-log graph) conform to a narrow range of values. In other words, these processes follow trajectories with similar quantitative parameters.
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The new paper focuses on this latter factor. The authors ask whether the area of Prehispanic settlements in the Basin of Mexico increase at the equivalent rate as in modern cities; do the data conform to the same power laws? The answer is yes. The authors analyzed a mass of settlement pattern data from the surveys of William Sanders, Jeffrey Parsons, and others. Not only do larger settlements have a higher density than smaller settlements, but the increase in density occurs at a predictable rate. Why is this so revolutionary? Because it suggests that not only do ancient cities follow the same quantitative laws of growth and change as modern cities, but non-urban settlements conform to these patterns as well.
As my students are probably tired of hearing, I think urban scaling is a really important topic of study for archaeology right now. I am in the process of measuring a bunch of Mesoamerican urban maps, and before long I'll be able to test whether they exhibit super-linear scaling. Actually, I should say that I have a talented undergraduate, Alexandra Norwood, measuring the maps! And I know Scott Ortman is working on other data, as are a few other colleagues.
I approach this topic as a convert, and they say that converts are the biggest fanatics. When physicists Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt announced that finding power laws of urban scaling meant that they had found "a unified theory of urban living (Bettencourt and West 2010), and could point for the first time to a "science of cities," I was highly skeptical. My skepticism came more from these grandiose claims than from the content of the scaling research (which I didn't understand at the time). If there is to be a science of cities, it will have to be considerably broader than finding a few power laws.
Then I was invited to spend a week at the Santa Fe Institute to discuss ancient cities: In what ways were they similar or different from contemporary cities? Can we expect scaling laws to work for ancient cities? How could archaeologists test these models? In preparation for my visit, I read a bunch of literature in economic geography and urban economics. It seemed clear the the processes of urban growth are at the heart of the scaling relationships, and urban growth is the major theme of these disciplines today. I found that the key processes identified for contemporary cities center on agglomeration effects. The spatial concentration of labor, firms, and information in cities is synergistic, and creates economies of scale and increasing returns, and many authors suggested that these are responsible for regularities like the scaling effects. But premodern cities did not have capitalist economies, and agglomeration effects either did not exist, or else existed at a much smaller scale than in contemporary cities. Urban growth in the past was a quite different phenomenon than urban growth today.
So when I arrived in Santa Fe I had two propositions in mind:
- IF agglomeration economies are the cause of scaling laws today, then ancient cities should not exhibit similar scaling patterns, because they lacked agglomeration economies.
- If ancient cities DO exhibit scaling laws like contemporary cities, then the causes must lie at a more fundamental level than agglomeration economies.
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If it is indeed the case that social interaction generates scaling effects, this opens up new avenues of research. Scaling should work not only for premodern and ancient cities, but also for non-urban settlements as well. Processes of rural-to-urban migration, and settlement nucleation become central to these dynamics. I wrote a paper on these processes, now under review at World Archaeology. One of the conclusions is that in premodern societies, spatial movement (within and among regions) was quite common, including nucleation and urbanization. There were few barriers to people moving into settlements, and thus there were few barriers to settlement growth. One implication is that urbanization and nucleation dynamics in the past could generate interactions and growth comparable to the agglomeration economies of the modern world.
|Jeff Parsons
I think research in urban scaling has the potential to illuminate basic human processes of social interaction and their effects on society. Those effects include urbanization, economic change, and a host of other social phenomena. Ancient cities were different from modern cities, and the specific urbanization processes were different, yet several kinds of end result (such as the amount of infrastructure, or the level of social outputs) were quite similar. This situation is nothing new to those who work with complexity theory, but it is something that the rest of us need to learn. And for me, the important implications lie not in the abstract realm of scaling parameters and network structure, but in the on-the-ground realm of human behavior and social processes. I wonder if Jeff Parsons ever thought his survey data would be analyzed and discussed by physicists.
When is the last time scholars from other disciplines came knocking on your door, saying they need archaeological data in order to answer fundamental scientific questions?
Bettencourt, Luís M. A. (2013) The Origins of Scaling in Cities. Science 340:1438-1441.
Bettencourt, Luís M. A. and Geoffrey B. West (2010) A Unified Theory of Urban Living. Nature 467:912-913.
Ortman, Scott G., Andrew H.F. Cabaniss, Jennie O. Sturm and Luís M. A. Bettencourt (2014) The Pre-History of Urban Scaling. PLOS-one 9(2):e87902.


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Christmas 2014/
What a joyful Christmas!
On Christmas Eve our children shared the message of the birth of Jesus Christ.
And now, KidZone is taking this message of hope and peace into the New Year. Children 5th grade and below join us at 10am every Sunday where we will find out just who Jesus is and how we can draw closer to him. We begin in the MegaZone with skits, movies, song and games that help us understand the Scripture. Then we gather into small groups where our leaders continue the teaching at age-appropriate levels.
We are so excited about sharing the love of Jesus with our children in 2015!


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Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer-songwriter, fashion designer and occasional actress born October 3, 1969. Stefani is the co-founder and lead vocalist for the rock and ska band No Doubt. Stefani recorded Love. Angel. Music. Baby., her first solo album, in 2004. Inspired by music of the 1980s,[2] the album was a success with sales of over seven million copies.[3] The album's third single, "Hollaback Girl", was the first US digital download to sell one million copies.[4] Stefani's second and final solo studio album, The Sweet Escape (2006), yielded "Wind It Up", "4 in the Morning", and the highest-selling single "The Sweet Escape". Including her work with No Doubt, Stefani has sold more than forty million albums worldwide.
She won the World's Best-Selling New Female Artist at the World Music Awards 2005. In 2003, she debuted her clothing line L.A.M.B. and expanded her collection with the 2005 Harajuku Lovers line, drawing inspiration from Japanese culture and fashion. Stefani performs and makes public appearances with four back-up dancers known as the Harajuku Girls dancers. She married British musician Gavin Rossdale in 2002 and they have two sons: Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, born May 26, 2006, and Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, born August 21, 2008. Billboard magazine ranked Stefani the fifty-fourth most successful artist and thirty-seventh most successful Hot 100 artist of the 2000–09 decade.
Early life
Stefani was born and raised in Fullerton, California,[8] and grew up in a Roman Catholic household. She attended Loara High School in Anaheim, California.[9] She was named after a stewardess in the 1968 novel Airport, and her middle name, Renée, comes from The Four Tops' 1968 cover of The Left Banke's 1966 hit song "Walk Away Renée".[10] Her father, Dennis Stefani, is Italian American and worked as a Yamaha marketing executive.[11] Her mother, Patti (née Flynn), is of Irish and Scottish descent and worked as an accountant before becoming a homemaker.[11][12] Gwen's parents were fans of folk music and exposed her to music by artists like Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris.[9] She is the second oldest of four children: she has a younger sister, Jill Stefani, a younger brother, Todd, and an older brother, Eric.[9][12] Eric was the keyboardist for No Doubt; he left the band to pursue a career in animation on The Simpsons on the Fox TV network.[8]
Many of the women in Stefani's family were seamstresses, and much of her clothing was made by them or her mother. In school, she was diagnosed with dyslexia.[13] As a child, Stefani's musical interests consisted of musicals such as The Sound of Music and Evita. After making a demo tape for her father, she was encouraged to take music lessons to train her "loopy, unpredictable" voice. Stefani made her onstage debut during a talent show at Loara High School, where she sang "I Have Confidence", from The Sound of Music, in a self-made tweed dress inspired by one from the film.[1][3] Stefani was on the Loara swim team in an attempt to lose weight.[14] She first worked at a Dairy Queen and later manned the MAC makeup counter of a department store.[15] After graduating from high school in 1987,[1] she began attending Fullerton College before transferring to California State University, Fullerton.
Music career
1986–2013: No Doubt
Main article: No Doubt
Eric introduced Gwen to 2 Tone music by Madness and The Selecter, and in 1986 he invited her to provide vocals for No Doubt, a ska band he was forming.[8] Finally, in 1991, the band was signed to Interscope Records. The band released its self-titled debut album in 1992, but its ska-pop sound was unsuccessful due to the popularity of grunge.[17] Before the mainstream success of both No Doubt and Sublime, Stefani contributed guest vocals to "Saw Red" on Sublime's 1994 album Robbin' the Hood. Stefani rejected the aggressiveness of female grunge artists and cited Blondie singer Debbie Harry's combination of power and sex appeal as a major influence.[18] No Doubt's third album, Tragic Kingdom (1995), which followed the self-released The Beacon Street Collection (1995), took more than three years to make. Five singles were released from Tragic Kingdom'; one of them, "Don't Speak", led the US Hot 100 Airplay year-end chart of 1996.[19] Stefani left college for one semester to tour for Tragic Kingdom but did not return when touring lasted two and a half years.[9] The album sold more than sixteen million copies worldwide,[9] and received several Grammy Award nominations.[20]
During the time when No Doubt was receiving mainstream success, Stefani collaborated on the singles "You're the Boss" with The Brian Setzer Orchestra, "South Side" with Moby, and "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" with Eve. No Doubt released the less popular Return of Saturn in 2000, which expands upon the New Wave influences of Tragic Kingdom.[21] Most of the lyrical content focuses on Stefani's often rocky relationship with then-Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale and her overall insecurities, including indecision on settling down and having a child.[22] The band's 2001 album, Rock Steady, explored more reggae and dancehall sounds, while maintaining the band's New Wave influences, and generally received positive reviews.[23] The album generated career-highest singles chart positions in the United States,[24] and "Hey Baby" and "Underneath It All" received Grammy Awards. A greatest hits collection, The Singles 1992–2003, which includes a cover of Talk Talk's "It's My Life", was released in 2003 to moderate sales. In 2002, Eve and Stefani won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Let Me Blow Ya Mind".
2004–08: Solo career
Following No Doubt's hiatus, Stefani sought out her bandmate Tony Kanal to discuss the possibility of a solo career. The idea was to make a quick dance record, but this became a large collaboration with other artists, producers and various non-ska influences.
Stefani's debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. was released in November 2004. The album features a large number of collaborations with producers and other artists, including Tony Kanal, Linda Perry, André 3000, Nellee Hooper, The Neptunes and New Order. Stefani created the album to modernize the music to which she listened when in high school, and L.A.M.B. takes influence from a variety of music styles of the 1980s and early 1990s such as New Wave and electro.[26] Stefani's decision to use her solo career as an opportunity to delve further into pop music instead of trying "to convince the world of [her] talent, depth and artistic worth" was considered unusual.[2] As a result, reviews of the album were mixed, and it was described as "fun as hell but [...] not exactly rife with subversive social commentary."[27] The album debuted on the US Billboard 200 albums chart at number seven, selling 309,000 copies in its first week.[28] It sold well, reaching multi-platinum status in the United States,[11] the United Kingdom,[29] Australia,[30] and Canada.[31] At the 2005 Grammy Awards, Stefani was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "What You Waiting For?",[32] and at the next year's awards, Stefani received five nominations for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.[33]
The first single released from the album was "What You Waiting For?", which charted outside the US top forty,[34] but reached the top ten on most other charts.[35] The song served to explain why Stefani produced a solo album and discusses her fears in leaving No Doubt for a solo career[36] as well as her desire to have a baby.[37] "Rich Girl" was released as the album's second single. A duet with rapper Eve, and produced by Dr. Dre, it is an adaptation of a 1990s pop song by British musicians Louchie Lou & Michie One, which itself is a cover of "If I Were a Rich Man", from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. "Rich Girl" proved successful on several formats, and reached the US and UK top ten.[34][38]
L.A.M.B.'s third single "Hollaback Girl" became Stefani's first US and second Australian number-one single; it was less successful elsewhere.[34][39] The song was the first US digital download to sell more than one million copies legally, and its brass-driven composition remained popular throughout 2005.[4] The fourth single "Cool" was released shortly following the popularity of its predecessor, but failed to match its chart success, reaching the top twenty in US and UK.[34][38] The song's lyrics and its accompanying music video, filmed in Lake Como, Italy, depict Stefani's former relationship with Kanal.[40] "Luxurious" was released as the album's fifth single, but did not perform as well as its predecessors. "Crash" was released in early 2006 as the album's sixth single in lieu of Love. Angel. Music. Baby.'s sequel, which Stefani postponed because of her pregnancy.
Stefani's second solo album, The Sweet Escape, was recorded by Guy Charbonneau's Le Mobile Remote Recording Studio and released in December 2006.[42] Stefani recollaborated with Kanal, Perry, and The Neptunes, along with Akon and Tim Rice-Oxley from English rock band Keane. The album focuses more heavily on electronic and dance music for clubs than its predecessor.[11] Stefani commented that it differed from L.A.M.B. because "I just wasn't inspired to do another album and…I was a lot more relaxed making it."[43] Its release coincided with the DVD release of Stefani's first tour, entitled Harajuku Lovers Live. The album received mixed reviews by critics, who found that it "has a surprisingly moody, lightly autobiographical feel... [but] Stefani isn't convincing as a dissatisfied diva"[44] and called the album a "hasty return" that repeats Love. Angel. Music. Baby. with less energy.[45]
"Wind It Up", the album's lead single, was panned by critics for its use of yodeling and an interpolation of The Sound of Music,[46] but was moderately successful, reaching the top twenty in most markets.[47] The title track was well received. To promote The Sweet Escape, Stefani was a mentor on the sixth season of American Idol and performed the song with Akon. It became Stefani's most successful song of her solo career and earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.[48] In November 2006, the club single "Yummy" was released as a three-track maxi promo single and as a 12" vinyl single,[49][50] both featuring a radio edit, an instrumental and an a cappella version of the song. "4 in the Morning" was released as the album's third single. The album's fourth single was a hybrid version of "Now That You Got It" which featured Damian Marley. "Early Winter" was released in February 2008 with initial success on European charts. To promote the album, Stefani embarked a worldwide tour, The Sweet Escape Tour. The tour covered North America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific and part of Latin America. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly on June 6, 2011, Stefani stated that she had no plans to continue work as a solo artist, adding, "That was a moment in time [...] It went on a little longer than we all thought it would, because it was inspired and you have to go with wherever you're at in that time in your life... [But] everything works out how it should."[51]
2008–present: Return to No Doubt
With Stefani promoting her second solo album, No Doubt began initial work on a new album without her[52] and planned to complete it after Stefani's The Sweet Escape Tour was finished.[53] In March 2008, the band started making posts concerning the progression of the album on their official fan forum. Stefani made a post on March 28, 2008 stating that songwriting had commenced but was slow on her end because she was, at the time, pregnant with her second child.[54] The Singles 1992–2003 became available on December 9, 2008 for the video game Rock Band 2.[55] All members of No Doubt except for Stefani served as Scott Weiland's backing band on the album "Happy" in Galoshes. No Doubt announced on their official website they wanted to tour in 2009[56] while finishing their upcoming album, which was set for release 2010.[57] On November 24, 2008, it was announced that No Doubt would be headlining the Bamboozle 2009 festival in May, along with Fall Out Boy. The band completed a national tour in the summer of 2009.[58] In 2010 they resumed writing their record which was recorded in 2011. The leading single "Settle Down" was released in July. The album Push and Shove was released on September 25, 2012 in the United States.
Non-music work
In late summer 2007, Stefani launched a perfume, L, as a part of her L.A.M.B. collection of clothing and accessories. The perfume has high notes of sweet pea and rose.[59] In September 2008, Stefani released a fragrance line as a part of her Harajuku Lovers product line. There are five different fragrances based on the four Harajuku Girls and Stefani herself called Love, Lil' Angel, Music, Baby and G (Gwen).[60] As of January 2011, Stefani has become the spokesperson for L'Oréal Paris.[61]
Acting work
In 2004, Stefani showed interest in making film appearances and began auditioning for films such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith.[62] She made her acting debut playing Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator in 2004 and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture the following year.[63] Scorsese, whose daughter was a No Doubt fan, showed reciprocal interest in casting Stefani after seeing her picture from a Marilyn Monroe-inspired photo shoot for Teen Vogue in 2003.[64][65] To prepare for the role, Stefani read two biographies and watched eighteen of Harlow's films.[9] Shooting her part took four to five days, and Stefani had few lines.[66] Stefani lent her voice to the title character of the 2004 video game Malice; before completion, however, the company opted not to use No Doubt band members' voices.[67]
Clothing line
Stefani made most of the clothing that she wore on stage with No Doubt, resulting in increasingly eclectic combinations. Stylist Andrea Lieberman introduced her to haute couture clothing, which led to Stefani launching a fashion line named L.A.M.B. in 2004.[9] The line takes influence from a variety of fashions, including Guatemalan, Japanese, and Jamaican styles.[68] The line achieved popularity among celebrities and is worn by stars such as Teri Hatcher, Nicole Kidman, and Stefani herself.[69][70] In June 2005, she expanded her collection with the less expensive Harajuku Lovers line, which she referred to as "a glorified merchandise line", with varied products including a camera, mobile phone charms, and undergarments.[71][72] In late 2006, Stefani released a limited edition line of dolls called "Love. Angel. Music. Baby. Fashion dolls". The dolls are inspired by the various costumes that Stefani and the Harajuku Girls wore while touring for the album.
Personal life
Soon after Stefani joined No Doubt, she and bandmate Tony Kanal began dating.[16] Stefani stated that she was heavily invested in the relationship, commenting that "...all I ever did was look at Tony and pray that God would let me have a baby with him."[1] During this time, the band almost split up because of the failed romantic relationship between Stefani and Kanal.[74] Kanal ended the relationship.[75] Their break-up inspired Stefani lyrically, and many of the album's songs, such as "Don't Speak", "Sunday Morning", and "Hey You", chronicle the ups and downs of their relationship.[76]
During mid-1995, No Doubt and rock band Goo Goo Dolls went on tour opening for alternative rock band Bush. Stefani met Bush guitarist and lead singer Gavin Rossdale.[18] They married on September 14, 2002, with a wedding in St Paul's, Covent Garden, London. A second wedding was held in Los Angeles two weeks later.[77] According to Stefani, it was held so that she could wear her custom-designed wedding dress by John Galliano twice.[78] A paternity test in 2004 revealed that Rossdale had a daughter, Daisy Lowe (who was fifteen years old then), from a previous relationship with model and designer Pearl Lowe. Stefani was "devastated and infuriated" at the discovery, leading to a rocky patch in her relationship with Rossdale.[79] Though Rossdale remains Daisy's godfather, he has severed all ties with the Lowes.[80][81] Stefani's song "Danger Zone" was widely believed to be about the discovery and its aftermath,[82] which has proven to be impossible because the song was written prior to the incident.[11]
In December 2005, Stefani and Rossdale announced that they were expecting their first child together. The pregnancy was first reported by Us Weekly, and Stefani confirmed the pregnancy by shouting, "I want you to sing so loud that the baby hears it!" during a concert in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after her press agent stated that it was untrue.[41] On May 26, 2006, their son, Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, was born via Caesarean section at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.[83] Kingston weighed 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz).[84] In January 2008, it was confirmed by her father-in-law that Stefani would be expecting her second child.[85] The couple's second son, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, was born August 21, 2008 at 12:46 pm.
Vocal ability and influences
Stefani's unusual and dynamic vocals have been noted for their "deep vibrato"[87] and Stefani has been described as having a "unique vocal prowess".[88] The Chicago Tribune stated that Stefani had a "brash alto."[89] In the single "Cool", her vocal range covers close to two octaves.[90] Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times joked that as Stefani grew as a musician, she kicked her "addiction" to vibrato.[91] Stefani received five nominations at the 2006 Grammy Awards, including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album.[33] Stefani has been influenced by and compared to pop singer Madonna. In 2007, she told Elle magazine, "A lot of my influence came from her early work, like directly, like a Xerox."[92] However, Madonna told a reporter that Stefani was a copycat and said that "she ripped me off", to which Stefani responded, "Some people say that I copy her. But show me one girl my age who was not influenced by her."[93] She has been referred to as "the new Madonna" by publications such as The Hollywood Reporter and People.[94] Some critics also saw the 1980s music style of Love. Angel. Music. Baby. as another way which Stefani was imitating the singer.
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How to Make Boring Food Taste Good
Sometimes I try to follow a recipe on a weeknight.
I alternate between my phone's tiny screen and my spice cabinet, searching for the items and wondering why this cabinet never stays organized. I then begin to dig for my measuring spoons before realizing they were hijacked by my "helper" and are now at home in her play kitchen.
By the third time I've said, "hold on, I'm trying to make dinner," I'm feeling flustered and impatient (to put it lightly).
Bottom line, most recipes require more focus than I can spare on a weeknight.
But how can you add flavor to basic ingredients without following a recipe? It's hard to know which spices go together and how much of each to use. Most marinades take time and most sauces have a lot of additives.
So instead of spice rubs and marinades, I rely on a few go-to flavor trios to dress up basic meals, fast.
Here are three of my favorites.
1. Tomato + Basil + Olive Oil
You'll recognize these flavors from your favorite Italian foods. This combo works hot or cold and makes foods taste fresh and summery. I use about 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil per cup of tomatoes and then add basil, salt and pepper to taste.
2. Cilantro + Lime + Jalapeño
You'll recognize these flavors from your favorite Mexican foods. If you're not into spicy, you're not my friend. Just kidding, you can use green or red bell peppers instead of the jalapeño. Just a small amount of each will go a long way.
3. Ginger + Garlic + Scallions
You'll recognize these flavors from your favorite Asian foods. Ginger can be intimidating at first. Just peel off the outside with a spoon or vegetable peeler and use the golden part inside. Use equal parts ginger and garlic and three times as many scallions (scallions are also sometimes called green onions). For example 1 tablespoon each of ginger and garlic per three tablespoons chopped scallions.
Let's test this out.
Early in the week you bake or grill chicken with salt and pepper, you roughly chop raw broccoli, and cook brown rice. You make extras because you plan to use it for several days.
This takes you ten minutes of hands-on time and thirty - forty minutes more while the chicken and rice cook and you do other things.
Meal One: Tomato-Basil Chicken & Broccoli
You chop basil and tomato and you mix it with olive oil, salt and pepper. You put more olive oil in a skillet, add the raw broccoli and heat for five minutes until soft. You add the cooked chicken and rice and reheat for another five minutes. You put everything in a bowl and top with the cold tomato/basil mixture. You're enjoying Tomato-Basil Chicken & Broccoli in less than fifteen minutes.
Meal Two: Jalapeño Chicken & Broccoli
You chop a jalapeño and some cilantro and you quarter a lime. You add oil to a pan and heat the jalapeños and broccoli for about five minutes or until soft. You add the chicken and rice and heat for a few more minutes until warm. At the very end you add lime juice and the chopped cilantro. You mix it together and you have Jalapeño Chicken & Broccoli in under fifteen minutes.
Meal Three: Ginger-Garlic Chicken & Broccoli
You chop ginger, garlic, and scallions. You heat oil in a pan (I like sesame oil for this combo) and then add the ginger, garlic, and scallions stirring for about one minute. You add the broccoli and heat for five minutes or until soft. You add the chicken and rice and heat for five more minutes. In less than fifteen minutes you have Ginger-Garlic Chicken & Broccoli.
Now you're feeling like a culinary genius because you've managed to turn boring chicken, rice, and broccoli into three completely different meals in barely over an hour of total cooking time. And you've used only one pan and one cutting board per meal.
Now imagine the possibilities - next week you use a different grain or protein. You add parmesan cheese to the Italian combo or avocado to the Mexican combo. And suddenly you're cooking without recipes.
Becoming that person who can build meals without much effort in the kitchen is what Improv Cooking is all about and it's a beautiful thing.
Happy cooking,
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Dozens of rosés have come my way in recent weeks, and in my latest MSNBC column I highlight ten outstanding wines from Spain, France, Portugal, Austria, Washington and Oregon, where they are making some superb rosés of pinot noir in the Willamette Valley. I was struck by the inherent value of these ten wines. They pack a lot of complexity for $20 or under (just one of them had a suggested price of $20) and they demonstrated again that rosés are not only great aperitif wines, but are highly versatile food wines that can be enjoyed with everything from fish to grilled meats. I have always thought that rosés can and should be enjoyed throughout the year, although most people view them as a rite of spring and summer. Most rosés currently available are from the 2011 vintage, but those from 2010 I tasted were just fine. Because there are so many good rosés available, I'll have another list of standouts later in the summer.
Sips: Some of this summer's best new rosés
Sips: A visit to the Loire Valley and some first notable wines
For the next week, I'll be traveling through France's Loire Valley, trying to deepen my understanding of this large and highly diverse region along with four other American wine writers. As I customarily do on such trips, I'll begin with a word about how I got here. I was invited to the region by two of its trade organizations, Interprofession Vins de Loire and Interprofession des Vins du Centre Loire, which are paying for my travel to and accommodations in the region. The arrangements were made by a U.S. public relations and marketing company, Benson Marketing Group. There was no agreement with these organizations about my coverage of the wines or the region for either this blog or for my weekly column for MSNBC.com, although I have no doubt that I will have plenty to say about my tastings and travels.
Now, on to some of the first wines I tasted after arriving here. At our first dinner at the Brasserie du Theatre in Angers, we decided to order two very different white wines, as most of us were ordering fish or shellfish. And both were outstanding in their own ways. Domaine Pellé's 2010 Menetou-Salon "Morogues" is quintessential sauvignon blanc and was wonderful at both the beginning and end of my dinner – with a variety of oysters on the half shell and then with a little goat cheese. There's lots of gooseberry here, some lime, a bit of cream and a nice smooth texture. I found a briny note as the wine opened up. A balanced, refreshing and fairly complex sauvignon with alcohol at 13 percent. It retails in the U.S. for about $25 or so.
The second white was almost a world away in taste, Eric Morgat's 2008 Savennières "L'Enclos," a chenin blanc from this small appellation famous for the variety. I was happy to see at least a few years of age on this one. On first tasting, there was a good deal of wood in the mix, but as it breathed over the next couple of hours and its temperature warmed up, the oak influence receded nicely and its considerable complexity and opulence emerged (alcohol is 14 percent). It had a core of rich pear and apple, some orange and a beautiful (but not cloying) creamy quality. Later in the evening I detected a little licorice on the nose. It had enough backbone to hold up to my main course, an assemblage of salmon and two other local fish, one of them smoked, served with boiled potatoes on the side and over a bed of sauerkraut. Somehow it all worked quite well together. From what I gather, the wine sells for about $40 in the United States.


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Things have been pretty pinchy around here, financially speaking, for quite a while. I'm willing to make some sacrifices in order to work as little as possible and (up until recently) pay for house cleaners, but sometimes it just grates on you, y'know?
Anyway, I think things are unclenching their butt cheeks a little. Hubby started a little ebay side business, and while nobody's going to be quitting their job anytime soon, it seems like it will be moderately successful. We might have some room to breathe in the sort-of-near future.
Which, as far as I'm concerned, resulted DIRECTLY in the conversation we had the other night:
Me: "Night, hon."
Hubby: "Night."
Me: "....what is that noise?"
Hubby: "What noise?"
Me: "That really loud humming, and some clunking."
Hubby: "The fridge."
Me: "That's our FRIDGE? The one on the other side of the house? With the closed door between it and us?"
Hubby: "Yeah."
Me: "...."
"....we're going to need a new fridge very soon, aren't we?"
Hubby: "Probably."
Me: "Stupid balanced universe with it's stupid balance."
Hubby: "...Night, hon."
(Stupid balanced universe.)


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The executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Braulio Dias, has called for 'continuous partnership' to enhance access to biodiversity data, following the framework of the Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook, coordinated by GBIF.
Dias made the appeal during his opening statement to the CBD's Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA), meeting this week in Montreal, Canada.
He challenged the governments represented at the meeting to ask themselves how often they hid behind a perceived lack of knowledge, data, baselines and monitoring information to explain lack of progress towards meeting targets for reversing biodiversity loss.
"Yes, access to credible data is a challenge everywhere," Dias told the meeting. "But have we really done enough to mobilize data that is available, but hidden in various institutions; or for which only partial or aggregated published information is accessible, when raw data is needed for additional analysis and modelling?
"Are we really collaborating with organizations and networks that maintain regional and global databases, and contributing systematically to these databases? And are we really investing in efforts to link our national datasets with those from other countries?"
Braulio Dias referred to the "landmark" conference organized by GBIF last year in Copenhagen, leading to the GBIO document proposing to enhance access to biodiversity data from different sources, such as collections, literature, remote sensing, DNA sequencing and field surveys, among other sources. "I would like to suggest that we transform this into a framework for a continuous partnership or initiative to help the implementation of Aichi Target 19 [on enhancing and sharing biodiversity knowledge] and benefiting implementation of all the other targets," Dias concluded.
During a panel discussion in the opening plenary session of the SBSTTA meeting, the GBIF executive secretary, Donald Hobern, also commended the GBIO as an achievable approach to deliver fundamental data for biodiversity in all parts of the world.
"This report is offered as a roadmap for us all," Hobern said. "We urge governments and funding bodies to support the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity by investing resources in mobilizing biodiversity information as part of a globally coordinated activity. The most critical need is for governments to legislate and provide incentives for all stakeholders to contribute their biodiversity data as part of a shared knowledgebase from which we can all benefit."
During the plenary discussion, several national governments expressed support for the GBIO approach, including Colombia and the United Kingdom, which described it as "a significant step forward".
GBIF Secretariat is organizing a side event on the GBIO during the SBSTTA meeting, on Wednesday 16 October at 6.15pm, in the International Civil Aviation Organization building in Montreal.


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In the 1950s, as a founder of rock 'n' roll, Mr. Diddley — along with
His original style of rhythm and blues influenced generations of musicians. And his Bo Diddley syncopated beat — three strokes/rest/two strokes — became a stock rhythm of rock 'n' roll.
It can be found in
Yet the rhythm was only one element of his best records. In songs like "Bo Diddley," "Who Do You Love,"
So were his live performances: trancelike ruckuses instigated by a large man with a strange-looking guitar. It was square and he designed it himself, long before custom guitar shapes became commonplace in rock.
Mr. Diddley was a wild performer: jumping, lurching, balancing on his toes and shaking his knees as he wrestled with his instrument, sometimes playing it above his head.
Still, for all his fame, Mr. Diddley felt that his standing as a father of rock 'n' roll was never properly acknowledged. It frustrated him that he could never earn royalties from the songs of others who had borrowed his beat.
"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob," he told The
He was a hero to those who had learned from him, including the
In 1979 Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of the Clash asked that Mr. Diddley open for them on the band's first American tour. "I can't look at him without my mouth falling open," Mr. Strummer, star-struck, said during the tour.
For his part Mr. Diddley had no misgivings about facing a skeptical audience. "You cannot say what people are gonna like or not gonna like," he explained later to the biographer George R. White. "You have to stick it out there and find out! If they taste it, and they like the way it tastes, you can bet they'll eat some of it!"
Mr. Diddley was born Otha Ellas Bates in McComb, Miss., a small city about 15 miles from the
He was 6 when the family resettled on Chicago's South Side. He described his youth as one of school, church, trouble with street toughs and playing the violin for both band and orchestra, under the tutelage of O. W. Frederick, a prominent music teacher at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Gussie McDaniel taught Sunday school. Ellas studied classical violin from 7 to 15 and started on guitar at 12, when a family member gave him an acoustic model.
He then enrolled at Foster Vocational School, where he built a guitar as well as a violin and an upright bass. But he dropped out before graduating. Instead, with guitar in hand, he began performing in a duo with his friend Roosevelt
The band, first called the Hipsters and then the Langley Avenue Jive Cats, started playing at the Maxwell Street open-air market. They were sometimes joined by another friend, Samuel Daniel, known as Sandman because of the shuffling rhythms he made with his feet on a wooden board sprinkled with sand.
Mr. Diddley could not make a living playing with the Jive Cats in the early days, so he found jobs where he could: at a grocery store, a picture-frame factory, a blacktop company. He worked as an elevator operator and a meat packer. He also started boxing, hoping to turn professional.
In 1954 Mr. Diddley made a demonstration recording with his band, which now included Jerome Green on maracas. Phil and Leonard Chess of Chess Records liked the demo, especially Mr. Diddley's tremolo on the guitar, a sound that seemed to slosh around like water. They saw it as a promising novelty and encouraged the group to return.
By Billy Boy Arnold's account, the next day, as the band and the men who were soon to be their producers were setting up for a rehearsal, they were idly casting about for a stage name for Ellas McDaniel when Mr. Arnold thought of Bo Diddley. The name described a "bow-legged guy, a comical-looking guy," Mr. Arnold said, as quoted by Mr. White in his 1995 biography, "Bo Diddley: Living Legend."
That may be all there is to tell about the name, except for the fact that a certain one-string guitar — native to the Mississippi Delta, often homemade, in which a length of wire is stretched between two nails in a board — is called a diddley bow. By his account, however, Mr. Diddley had never played one.
In any case, Otha Ellas McDaniel had a new name and the title of a new song, whose lyrics began, "Bo Diddley bought his babe a diamond ring." "Bo Diddley" became the A side of his first single, in 1955, on the Checker label, a subsidiary of Chess. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart.
Mr. Diddley said he had first heard the "Bo Diddley beat" — three-stroke/rest/two-stroke, or bomp-ba-domp-ba-domp, ba-domp-domp — in a church in Chicago. But variations of it were in the air. The children's game hambone used a similar rhythm, and so did the ditty that goes "shave and a haircut, two bits."
The beat is also related to the Afro-Cuban clave, which had been popularized at the time by the
Whatever the source, Mr. Diddley felt the beat's power. In early songs like "Bo Diddley" and "Pretty Thing," he arranged the rhythm for tom-toms, guitar, maracas and voice, with no cymbals and no bass. (Also arranged in his signature rhythm was the eerie "Mona," a song of praise he wrote for a 45-year-old exotic dancer who worked at the Flame Show Bar in
Appearing on "The
For decades Mr. Diddley was bitter about his relationship with the Chess family, whom he accused of withholding money owed to him. In her book "Spinning Blues Into Gold," Nadine Cohodas quoted Marshall Chess, Leonard's son, as saying, "What's missing from Bo's version of events is all the gimmes." Mr. Diddley would borrow so heavily against projected royalties, Mr. Chess said, that not much was left over in the final accounting.
Mr. Diddley's watery tremolo effect, from 1955 onward, came from one of the first effects boxes to be manufactured for guitars: the DeArmond Model 60 Tremolo Control. But Mr. Diddley contended that he had already built something similar himself, with automobile parts and an alarm-clock spring.
His first trademark guitar was also handmade: he took the neck and the circuitry off a Gretsch guitar and connected it to a square body he had built. In 1958 he asked Gretsch to make him a better one to the same specifications. Gretsch made it as a limited-edition guitar called
On songs like "Who Do You Love," his guitar style — bright chicken-scratch rhythm patterns on a few strings at a time — was an extension of his early violin playing, he said.
"My technique comes from bowing the violin, that fast wrist action," he told Mr. White, explaining that his fingers were too big to move around easily. Rather than fingering the fretboard, Mr. Diddley said, he tuned the guitar to an open E and moved a single finger up and down to create chords.
As his fame rose, his personal life grew complicated. His first marriage, at 18, to Louise Woolingham, lasted less than a year. His second marriage, in 1949, to Ethel Smith, unraveled in the late 1950s. He then moved from Chicago to
Separated from his wife, he was performing in
During the late 1950s Mr. Diddley's band featured a female guitarist, Peggy Jones (stage-named Lady Bo), at a time when there were scarcely any women in rock. She was replaced by Norma-Jean Wofford, whom Mr. Diddley called the Duchess. He pretended she was his sister, he said, to be in a better position to protect her on the road.
The early 1960s were low times. Chess, searching for a hit, had Mr. Diddley make albums to capitalize on the twist dance craze, as Chubby Checker had done, and on the surf music of the
But Mr. Diddley was not willing to move to
His recording career never picked up after that, despite flirtations with synthesizers, religious rock and hip-hop. But he continued apace as a performer and public figure, popping up in places both obvious, like rock 'n' roll nostalgia revues, and not so obvious: a
His last recording was the 1996 album "A Man Amongst Men" (Code Blue/Atlantic), which was nominated for a Grammy. He was inducted into the
Since the early 1980s Mr. Diddley had lived in Archer, Fla., near Gainesville, where he owned 76 acres and a recording studio. His passions were
The last of Mr. Diddley's marriages was to Sylvia Paiz, in 1992; his spokeswoman, Ms. Clary, said they were no longer married. His survivors include his children, Evelyn Kelly, Ellas A. McDaniel, Tammi D. McDaniel and Terri Lynn McDaniel; a brother, the Rev. Kenneth Haynes; and 15 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Mr. Diddley attributed his longevity to abstinence from drugs and drinking, but in recent years he had suffered from
Mr. Diddley always believed that he and Chuck Berry had started rock 'n' roll, and the fact that he couldn't financially reap all that he had sowed made him a deeply suspicious man.
"I tell musicians, 'Don't trust nobody but your mama,' " he said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2005. "And even then, look at her real good."Continue reading the main story


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I had a fabulous time at the Quilt Show on Saturday, and I feel like I haven't stopped since!
Yesterday with the family was so nice and relaxed, after Owen's nap in the afternoon, we headed down to Salt Lake all together. Family outings can be a challenge, but we all enjoyed ourselves. The Gateway is a nice outdoor mall, and we simply strolled. I wandered through Anthropologie and found these – I was due for a new set :) I love all the linens they have in there. A nice dinner out concluded our evening in the valley and we were on our way into the hills! I love living up away from the city. My Mother's Day flowers:
This week marks the beginning of "birthday season" for our family. Over the next 6 weeks we have 4 birthdays, mother's day and father's day play into the equation too. Wednesday Ella will be 9, I have a little project for her, and my parents are on their way – we should see them tomorrow. . . I have a gift to make for my mom too!
So here's my list =
= laundry, laundry, laundry
= make Ella a monster
= birthday cake
= birthday treats for school
= make Mom a Bible Cover (shhh!)
= declutter my desk
= plan a menu
= blog about the HMQS – I met people and have a couple of fun purchases
= clean up the house, more and again, really it never ends :)
= finish up another project, and get it in the mail
= get some decent sleep!
I'm really behind in my email – thank you so much for your comments, I read them all as they come in but often don't have the chance to sit and respond as I would like to. I hope your week is off to a great start-


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Best Art Supply
The Art Store
The Borders of art supply stores, The Art Store is good for the inquisitive and budding amateur as well as the "I've arrived" professional. 1844 India St. 619-687-0050. www.artstore.com
Best Auto Dealer
Bob Baker Ford
Used or new, rental or lease, Bob Baker Ford's got it all, including online financing and "design-your-Ford" services. 730 Camino Del Rio North. 619-297-5001. www.bobbakerford.com
Best Bike Shop
Mission Hills Bike Shop
Bikes, sales and service can be found at any bike shop, but Mission Hills Bike Shop has the knowledge as well as the know-how. 141 W. Washington St. 619-296-0618.
Best Comic Book Store
Ducky Waddles Emporium
Ducky Waddles is a kitschy little joint run by a '50s bohemian, Jerry Waddle. 414 N. Coast Highway 101. 760-632-0488. www.duckywaddles.com
Best Cellular Store
Verizon Wireless
It's gotta be their superstores, where cell phone users can find all the accessories and services, as well as the phone that is just right-it's as if they read your mind. Locations throughout San Diego. www.verizonwireless.com
Best Eyewear
Insiders know that Costco's membership fees include a lot more than bulk cereal. Eight locations in San Diego. www.costco.com
Best Headshop
Woody's Smoke Shop
This small (like photo-mat), but legendary head shop in Normal Heights is the center of the known universe for headies. Owner-operator Ruben is an area icon who's known to spread his flava at virtually every hip--hop show that rolls through town! 3214 Adams Ave. 619-528-1020
Best Limo
San Diego Limo Buses
You see them everywhere and now you know why-hire a Cadillac to cruise in style or a Moon Bus to party on wheels. 3333 Midway Drive. 619-225-8466. www.limobuses.com
Best Independent Bookstore
Warwick's has been family-owned since 1875. Today, it's known as a reader's home base with author events twice weekly-past visits include Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter and Anne Rice. 7812 Girard Ave. 858-454-0347. www.warwicks.com
Best Independent Record Store
Lou's Records
When musicians like Jack Johnson and the members of Pearl Jam come to San Diego, they know the best shop to jam in is Lou's Records, where the indie bands kick it. 434 N. Coast Highway 101, 760-753-1382, www.lousrecords.com
Best Independent Music Equipment Store
Guitar Trader
Here's an idea-staff a guitar store with guitarists. Guitar Trader's staff can help cut the jargon for beginners and talk shop with the old pros. 7120 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. 619-583-9751.
Best Used Record Store
Beat everyone else to the best albums by diving into the loosely organized "New Arrivals"-unopened $5 to $8 hidden treasures are plentiful. 1220 Garnet Ave., 858-270-8833. www.secondspin.com
Best Chain Record Store
Tower Records
While the other behemoths are crashing, Tower keeps on keeping on with celebrity performances, free shipping, special orders and a Ticketmaster sales booth. 3601 Sports Arena Blvd. 619-224-3333. www.towerrecords.com
Best Music Equipment Store
Guitar Center
Guitar Center has been in San Diego since 1973, and frankly, if they don't have it, nobody does. Two locations. 8825 Murray Drive. La Mesa. 619-668-8400.
712 Center Dr. San Marcos. 760-735-8050. www.guitarcenter.com
Best Thrift Shop
With all the thrift stores converting to vintage boutiques, it's refreshing that Amvets still has the goods at prices you want to pay for used clothing and housewares. 3441 Sutherland St., 619-297-4213.
Best Piercing Place
Dr. Jefe's
A return of the real, Dr. Jefe's is in Ocean Beach, away from all the spring breakers looking to piss-off mom and dad with a new piercing. 4944 Newport Ave. 619-223-1771. www.drjefes.com
Best Independent Video Store
Kensington Video
They don't have 60 copies of How to Loose a Guy in Ten Days, but they have all the new releases and everything else, including all the classic and cult films no one else seems to have space for anymore. 4067 Adams Ave. 619-584-7725. www.members.cox.net/ kenvideo
Best Vintage Clothing
Wear it Again Sam
Wear it Again Sam gets its good reputation from the racks of early 20th century gowns, hand-beaded and running up to $300 and more. Halloween is a busy time of year at Sam, where the kids go to get all retro. 3823 5th Ave. 619-299-0185. www.wearitagainsam.com
Best Pet Store
The title sponsor of the Padres' new stadium, Petco is the Gap and the grocery store for pets. More than 30 locations in San Diego. www.petco.com
Best Vet
ABC Veterinary Hospitals
ABC Veterinary prides itself on treating all pets as if they were their own. Seven locations in San Diego. www.abcvet.com
Best Smoke/Cigar Shop
Fumar Cigars
The greatest little shack on Garnet Avenue, Fumar has smoke to meet your flavor. 1165 Garnet Ave. Ste. A. 858-270-9227
Best Skate Shop
Emerald City Surf 'n Sport
Emerald City goes deep with the Sector Nine longboards every summer. Street skaters can find all the trucks and accessories to build a custom deck at their two locations. 3126 Mission Blvd. Ste. G. 858-488-9224. www.ecboardsource.com
Best Toy Store
A San Diego tradition for 30 years, Geppetto's deals in traditional and classic toys, from books and crafts to games and trains. Four locations in San Diego. 7850 Girard Ave. 858-456-4441
Best Lingerie/Adult Novelty
F Street Adult Video & Gifts
You know F Street-they're a frickin' San Diego icon. There are eight gift shops and bookstores in the area, so if you're in that certain mood, you have no excuse. 2004 University Ave., 619-298-2644.
Best Retail Wine
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's has locations throughout San Diego; their claims to fame are their $3 dollar bottles of wine and discounts on all the best of California's wine country. 1092 University Ave. 619-296-3122. www.traderjoes.com
Best Hair Salon (Men's and Women's)
Hip Hair Salon & Piercing
Fun and funky-in Hip Hair you'll rock out to employee tunes and kick it in colorful digs with colorful people. 1039 Garnet Ave. 858-270-7022.
Best Chiropractic
David Knepp (San Diego Chiropractic Group)
David Knepp, D.C. is the vice-president of the Greater San Diego Business Association and a staunch advocate of getting to the problem before the problem gets to you. 5252 Balboa Ave. 858-560-5022.
Best Gym
24 Hour Fitness
If you can't find a 24 Hour fitness in your neighborhood, you aren't looking hard enough. The nice thing about 24 is instead of going to bed after drinking beer, you can run off the calories. Fifteen locations in San Diego. 800-432-6348. www.24hourfitness.com
Best Surf Shop
Hansen's Surfboards
Since they opened in 1961, Hansen's has grown from surf bum shop to a full-scale retail and rental shop with gear for winter sports, too. 1105 S. Coast Highway 101. 760-753-6595. www.hansensurf.com
Best Skatepark
Ocean Beach Skatepark at Robb Field
The OB Skatepark is by far the best in the region, but don't take our word for it-the riders themselves have voted it to the top twice before. 2525 Bacon St. 619-525-8486
Best Tattoo
The Avalon community of tattoo parlors is by far the standard for body art in San Diego. 3039 Adams Ave. 2nd Floor. 619-280-1957. www.avalontattoo.com
Best Yoga
Yoga One
This was another landslide pick for voters who believe that Yoga One helps them find balance like none other. 1150 7th Ave. 619-294-7461. www.yogaonesandiego.com
Best Hospital
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
Scripps La Jolla and Scripps Mercy were the only hospitals in San Diego recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the best hospitals in the county. 9888 Genesee Ave. 858-457-4123. www.scrippshealth.org ©


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Location: CRBC
Time: Sundays, 9:30am


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great weather for MEDIA is delighted to return to Beyond Baroque to celebrate the publication of our fifth annual anthology, The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker, with contributors and guest poets and writers.
These writers are the boneshakers. Let their impact rattle, rise, and wrap itself around you.
Featuring contributors and special guests Chanel Brenner, Alejandro Escudé, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Richard Loranger, John J. Trause, AJ Urquidi, plus great weather for MEDIA editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod.
The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker is a fearless and dynamic collection of contemporary poetry and short fiction by established and emerging writers. The anthology also contains an interview with musician Thurston Moore.
Submissions for our next anthology open October 15 2016.
$10 general admission, Students/Seniors/Children $6, Members Free


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If you are thinking about buying used kitchen equipment for your restaurant, you might have looked everywhere for options. After all, as you probably already know, there is always used commercial kitchen equipment out there to be purchased if you know where to shop. However, if you are thinking about buying from an individual — such as a restaurant owner — then you might want to reconsider your decision. Instead, consider buying your certified equipment from a restaurant supply store that specializes in selling used and refurbished equipment. These are a few reasons why.
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Another good thing about buying from a restaurant supply store is the fact that you can help ensure that you buy equipment that actually works. An individual who is selling equipment might not have much incentive to tell you about any problems that are present. In fact, he or she might have gotten the equipment himself or herself and might not even know about these problems. However, good restaurant supply stores that sell used equipment often check out the equipment before putting it up for sale. Some stores even make repairs themselves or send equipment in to the manufacturer to be refurbished. This can help you guarantee that you are buying equipment that works.
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If you're just starting out in the restaurant business, you might not know that much about restaurant equipment. Buying from a supply store will allow you to talk to knowledgeable professionals who can tell you more about the various types of equipment and who can help you ensure that you are buying what is right for your restaurant.
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As you know, this week Anka and I are cruising through Tuscany but last week was a productive one regarding my project. I photographed 6 people and some were from fairly remote countries! I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the participants for their kindness and awesome personalities!
Now I don't want to show the pictures as I wish to keep some kind of surprise for the day I release them all but my good friend Steve suggested I post small bits of the pictures as a teaser.
So, in no particular order, here are the countries I photographed last week:
- France
- Russia
- Solomon Islands
- Croatia
- Chile
- Tonga
And here are the bits of these pictures:
I also would like to mention I've posted all the information on a page rather than a post. This page can be found at this address: http://joshfassbind.com/project-geneva.
Please share it as much as you can as there are still many people I need to find.
Happy Wednesday to all!


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By: Maddie Christy
"So what do you like about journalism?" one of the ECHO interns asked me last week.
"I love that I get to write about a million different things. I get to become a mini-expert in so many different areas," I said.
And now, thanks to ECHO, I am adding sustainable farming to my repertoire.
I am from Sioux County, Iowa, which happens to be some of the richest farmland in the state if not the country. But I don't know the first thing about farming. I am not a farm girl by any definition! I always manage to kill my succulents. My family has never had a garden—unless you count the rhubarb that grew wild in our backyard. The only 4H club I was part of growing up was a baking club. I went to the Clay County fair one year and hated the smell of the cows and their 5 a.m. wake-up call asking us to milk them.
I desperately wish I could grow a lush garden or that I knew a teaspoon of what the interns know, but farming is just not something I grew up learning.
In my first week at ECHO Global Farm, I have felt out of place. Who am I to be writing about an organization that specializes in farm techniques and technologies? How could I possibly cover this topic that I know nothing about?
But that's exactly the beauty of journalism. I get to learn as much as I possibly can while I am reporting for ECHO. I get to become a pseudo-expert on farming.
And it's the beauty of the environment of ECHO. It's a teaching and learning space. The Global Farm is a lab. Every day something new is happening and people are learning. The StrengthsFinder "learner" part of me is thriving here. With so much to explore at ECHO, I can't help but get excited about all the new things I'll discover in the next 5 weeks. In fact, I actually feel like I may not have enough time to dip my toes into everything I'd like. There is too much to learn and not enough time to do it with all that's happening on the farm from growing crops, herding goats, composting, beekeeping and everything in between.
But I am beyond excited to absorb what I can with the time I have been given. ECHO's vision is simple. It's like the Chinese proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". It may seem like a simple proposition to teach people to farm. But the answer to ending world hunger just might be to equip and empower people so that they can produce food to sustain their families and support a livelihood.
I love the simplicity of what ECHO is about. I want to keep diving into this unknown, complex, totally-out-of-my-comfort-zone area. I am going to learn as much as I can from the sliver of the operation I am seeing. And hopefully along the way I'll glean enough to tell meaningful stories about the incredible work that ECHO is engaging in all around the world.