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2009 Dakar Rally, Argentina-Chile
Stage 13: La Rioja to Cordoba
For the penultimate stage of this year's Dakar Rally, the theme was preservation and, for the winning driver in the car class, redemption.
The car class standings saw no change as the Volkswagen team banded together to run the shortened special (137 miles) as a group. All three VWs finished in the top 10, with German Dieter Depping in fourth, American Mark Miller seventh and overall leader Giniel de Villiers of South Africa in eighth. The VW strategy allowed de Villiers to maintain more than a two-minute lead over Miller in the standings.
Spain's Nani Roma, who dropped out of the top five in the overall standings after having engine problems in his Mitsubishi in Stage 12, earned his first stage win. Roma finished 7 minutes, 18 seconds ahead of the Nissan of Polish driver Krzysztof Holowczyc.
NASCAR star Robby Gordon, above, remains third overall in his Hummer despite finishing 16th Friday, 22:49 back of Roma. According to dakar.com, Gordon stopped for about 20 minutes because of mechanical problems early in the special. He now trails de Villiers by 1:27:13.
In motorbikes, Spain's Marc Coma maintained his very comfortable 90-minute lead with a second-place result Friday. Coma's main rival, Cyril Despres, won the stage, but only by 1:45 over Coma. It was Despres' fifth stage win of this rally and 21st in his Dakar career.
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I usually feel like Daddy Warbucks from the musical Annie whenever I treat a mate to a birthday cocktail.
However, the way Jay-Z handles bestie birthday drinks makes my happy-hour 'Sex on the Beach' look like a truly paltry offering.
Shawn Carter took Manhattan in a way the muppets could only dream of on Sunday, (February 18); spending over $110,000 for Roc Nation Sports president Juan 'OG' Perez's b-day celebrations.
Jay Z tab at Playroom last night. I'm just gonna cry in poor for the rest of the day. ? pic.twitter.com/q2OhOoi3YS
— Vic (@MisterClasico) February 19, 2018
The 48-year-old rapper and businessman splashed $13,000 at the high end Japanese restaurant Zuma in Midtown where the party feasted on lobster, steak and sushi.
Seriously, the Zuma Instagram page is a thing of pure splendour for sushi buffs; boasting sumptuous images of Siberian caviar, wagyu beef and daikon & black truffle.
Just a shame I'd probably have to sell a kidney to afford the tap water alone, which might well hamper the enjoyment somewhat.
With their tummies full of luxury delicacies, the plush pals headed uptown to Made in Mexico, Inwood, where they knocked back $9,000 worth of booze. This epic bill – of course – included Jay Z's premium D'Ussé cognac.
Excited onlookers snapped pictures and videos of their idol living the high life, before posting them to social media; starry eyed and dazzled to be up close and personal to the hip-hop idol on a night out.
However, the real party had yet to begin:
According to Page Six, the celebrations continued at the elite Playroom nightclub – it was here where Jay-Z and friends really decided to loosen the purse strings.
The lavish bill included 40 bottles – half gold and half rose – of the hip hop legend's Ace of Spades Champagne – I can only imagine this fizz was a darn sight more palatable than the Wetherspoon's prosecco I knocked back over the weekend.
Generous Jay was clocked sharing the fun, giving away bottles to other tables in the club. What an absolute gent.
Jay Z dropped more on bottles in Upper Manhattan Sunday night than I've made in my lifetime lol pic.twitter.com/Na2pBuX8dV
— Tate Frazier (@tatefrazier) February 19, 2018
This is Jay Z's bar tab from last night vs the wholesale price of the booze. That's it, I'm opening a bar pic.twitter.com/UbcgQdiK0i
— kevinbiegel (@kbiegel) February 20, 2018
A flabbergasted Playroom server Snapchatted the final bill; which amounted to a preposterous $91,135.
This included an unimaginable tip of $11,000.
People on social media were left astonished by Jay Z's big night on the town; left to imagine whether or not a disgruntled Beyonce would be banging loudly while doing the washing up the following morning.
Imagine Jay Z randomly comes to your work 1 day and leaves you that tip, Jesus be my inhaler I would actually pass out. https://t.co/1WTMuBhJsm
— YT: The Focus Group (@manlikekofii) February 19, 2018
However, the tip in particular has proved to be a real sticking point for many people, with some accusing the extravagant spender of being a tad stingy.
One person scoffed: 'Yeah, Jay-Z left a $11,000 tip on a 80,000$ tab. That's not even 15%.'
Another tip critic tweeted:
Jay-Z is worth half a billion dollars, he should tip more than 15%, and again, I'm willing to bet that he got the best service the establishment could give, which would have been worth more than 15%.
They wouldn't let just anyone serve him..
Yeah, Jay-Z left a 11,000$ tip on a 80,000$ tab. That's not even 15%. pic.twitter.com/iBCZpH09jV
— Gwen Salami (@chelsalame) February 20, 2018
jay z tips like shit no wonder he cheats
— sosa (@chulomang) February 21, 2018
If Jay Z is only tipping 15% I'll never have enough money to tip 18-20%
— ZACH (@Hans_on_dec) February 20, 2018
That's only a 13.87% tip, Jay Z. pic.twitter.com/v4cMkKKwSQ
— Rudolf E. Havenstein (@RudyHavenstein) February 21, 2018
Jay Z is worth half a billion dollars, he should tip more than 15%, and again, I'm willing to bet that he got the best service the establishment could give, which would have been worth more than 15%. They wouldn't let just anyone serve him..
— Matt W (@ChinLovesIowa) February 20, 2018
To be fair, I wouldn't be complaining too much about such an astronomically unexpected tip.
Somewhere out there in Manhattan, there's a deliriously happy drinks server still jumping up and down, pinching themselves on the way to the travel agents…
Jules studied English Literature with Creative Writing at Lancaster University before earning her masters in International Relations at Leiden University in The Netherlands (Hoi!). She then trained as a journalist through News Associates in Manchester. Jules has previously worked as a mental health blogger, copywriter and freelancer for various publications.


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Greynolds Park
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Greynolds Park is a 265-acre (1.07 km2) urban park in metropolitan Miami, just north of North Miami Beach, Florida, United States.
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In 1933 A. O. Greynolds donated the tract of land, originally used as a limestone quarry, to Dade County.[1] The park was developed between 1936 and 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps as a part of the New Deal public works program.[2]
In 1979, the Youth Conservation Corp constructed the Oleta River Nature Trail and wooden footbridge on the shallows of the Oleta River through the mangroves.
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The park offers various amenities, including picnic and recreation areas, a golf course, a bird rookery, a boathouse, and a 42-foot (13 m) mound, the highest point[citation needed] in South Florida.
The boathouse features a nature exhibit and offers interpretive programs including guided (or unguided) nature walks, lectures, campfires and more. Kayak, canoe and paddleboat rentals are available on weekends and holidays.
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- ^ "Greynolds Park is Given 100 Acre Addition". Miami Daily News. 29 July 1934. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ Buddy Nevins (1 January 1989). "Passive Greynolds Park Needs Active Life, Study Says". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
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New Music: Danny Matos – "New Genre" (Prod. by Rusty Mack)
December 20, 2015 · Posted in Music, Uncategorized · Comment
Budding NYC-emcee Danny Matos introduces us to a "New Genre."
The track is the first single off of Danny's forthcoming The Hangar EP, which he'll let loose January 8th.
Danny's uninhibited lyricism is a breath of fresh air. He fearlessly annihilates the mic with emotion, conviction and honesty – the key component of his new genre – over suave production, courtesy of Surf School's Rusty Mack and the Red Walrus.
His authenticity and relatability make him an artist, and just a person, that you want to see "make it" – however he's defined that.
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Greenmount OTB Receives Approval
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The Maryland Racing Commission the evening of Nov. 29 approved an application for a license to operate an off-track betting facility adjacent the Greenmount Station restaurant in Hampstead in Carroll County.
When the OTB begins operating, most likely before the end of this year, it will be the fifth such facility opened by the Maryland Jockey Club over the past several years. The others are at Hollywood Casino Perryville, the Boonsboro Event Center, the Maryland State Fairgrounds at Timonium, and Horseshoe Casino Baltimore.
MJC also operates a betting parlor at the Riverboat on the Potomac, which is located on Maryland waters just off the coast of Virginia. The MRC Nov. 30 approved the transfer of the Potomac OTB license to the MJC in light of plans for the owner to sell the entertainment facility.
MJC also offers year-round full-card simulcasts at its three tracks in the state: Laurel Park, Pimlico Race Course and Rosecroft Raceway.
The Hampstead OTB parlor, in keeping with other facilities in the state, will be a partnership among MJC; the owner, in this case Greenmount Station; and the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association.
MJC President Sal Sinatra said he estimates the Hampstead facility to generate $4 million to $4.5 million a year in pari-mutuel handle, a range similar to those in Perryville and Boonsboro. Work has been ongoing in vacant space in a strip mall on MD-Route 30.
"It should be open by the end of the year," Sinatra said. "We're targeting the week (between Christmas and New Year's Day), which should be a busy time at Greenmount Station. The restaurant is a full service sports bar, so we may get more play than usual on Sundays and Monday nights."
The community of Hampstead enthusiastically welcomed the new venture at the Maryland Racing Commission hearing which was attended by the Mayor of Hampstead Chris Nevin, Carroll County Commissioner Richard Weaver and other elected officials in addition to MJC and MTHA representatives.
"The town of Hampstead very much looks forward to working with Maryland Jockey Club and Greenmount Station restaurant to attract new businesses to our town and help existing businesses grow and thrive," remarked Mayor Nevin at the hearing.
The facility, strategically located about 7 miles from Westminster along the busy Route 30 corridor just north of Hampstead, looks to lure bettors from not only Carroll County but from nearby Hanover and York in Pennsylvania. These customers usually frequent the Penn National OTB facility located in York.
In a related matter, the MJC continues working with MGM National Harbor, which plans to place a race book on its second floor. The wagering area is expected to be ready by Memorial Day weekend, Sinatra said, but in the interim he is working with the casino to equip a ballroom so it can take bets in time for the Triple Crown series.
"They were happy with that (temporary) proposal," he said. "The race book will have a state-of-the-art television wall. The design of the race book has to be approved by (corporate officials in Las Vegas)."
MGM National Harbor opened late last year and is a major contributor to the Purse Dedication Account.


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Our Kenyan coffee grows on the slopes of Mount Kenya, an extinct volcano. At 17,000 feet, it's Africa's second-highest mountain, after Mount Kilimanjaro. Our coffee grows at an altitude of about 5900 feet, where rain is plentiful and the temperature is fairly steady all year, varying only about 35oF. The volcanic soil is deep, well-drained and fertile. It's an ideal environment for growing coffee.
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Kenya's coffee is planted, grown, harvested and processed under a uniform system to ensure consistency and quality. The industry is regulated by the Coffee Board of Kenya, which requires all coffee mills and coffee marketers to submit coffee samples from each lot of coffee for quality analysis. The Board also provides analysis to growers to help them make informed decisions about marketing their coffee.
In Kenya, coffee is sold for export via open auction. Licensed exporters and their customers are given the opportunity to sample and assess each lot of coffee up for auction. Exporters bid on the coffee they want, and the highest bidder wins the lot. The system is simple, open, and competitive, which encourages and rewards coffee producers who place a high priority on quality.
To stay on the cutting edge, Kenya's coffee industry relies on the Coffee Research Foundation. Funded by coffee growers, the Foundation has a mission "To research, develop and disseminate modern and innovative technologies through efficient utilization of resources for the prosperity of stakeholders in the Coffee Industry." Research and development projects focus on the production, processing, and marketing of coffee.
The "dissemination" part of the Foundation's mission is largely carried out by its Kenya Coffee College. The College's main objectives are "to develop and organize a sustainable and efficient information management system for the coffee industry through training, production of teaching and reading materials and provision of hospitality services. It also provides an information exchange forum for students, researchers, farmers and other coffee service sectors."
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Do you feel you are missing out of life in general and cannot seem to pinpoint why? It may well be that you have vital dreams that have remained unfulfilled. Through Strength to Deliver, life and career coach, Tolu Adeleye, PhD, shows you how to breathe new life into old dreams and accomplish them. Using powerful imagery, you will learn how to remap new action steps towards those vital dreams, overcome obstacles that may be in your way and realize those dreams in your present circumstances. Enriched with many examples of individuals who realized career, relationship, personal development, leisure and legacy dreams despite huge obstructions and interruptions, you will be inspired to look beyond past failures. You will be motivated to take a second chance at realizing an important dream. Strength to Deliver empowers you to have new zest for life!
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Would you try another book written by Tolu Adeleye Ph.D. or narrated by Angelina Will?
No, I would not. This author is having a laugh: how on earth did it get published? This is the biggest load of garbage I've ever forced myself to sit through. Actually I couldn't even finish it or I would have thrown the computer across the room.
The narrator was kind of OK I guess except she has that kind of earnest, insipid American-ness that makes me want to give her a good shake (sorry).
What was most disappointing about Tolu Adeleye Ph.D.'s story?
This book contains no useful information or insight whatsoever. Anyone with half a brain could have written it. Basically he/she just lists dreams one may have ('you might dream of winning the lottery! You might dream about getting a promotion!' Really? wow, I could never have imagined what my dream might be) - this takes up about 3 chapters. Then for the next 3 chapters she lists reasons why you haven't fulfilled your dream yet. (Maybe you became ill? Lost your job? Got pregnant?) as if you are sitting there wondering why you haven't carried out your own plans. For goodness sake! This is drivel!! ANYONE buying a book like this has a dream, knows what it is, knows why it hasn't happened and is looking for an inspirational way to go about moving it forward, NOT spend hours of their precious time listening to someone musing about what their dream could potentially be, as if it was a 'Let's see if I can guess what the problem might be!' book. AAAAARGH!!
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There are some decent books out there within this genre. I thought this was something a bit different....I like the concept of being 'pregnant' with a dream and nurturing it until it's time to give birth. It's a good analogy. But now I've mentioned it, no need to buy the book. Absolutely nothing else of use, or even entertainment, in here.


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The steamy summer days have me drawing at a snail's pace, but the Kitties have been enjoying the sunshine!
|(Illustration Friday: June 20, 2014)
This drawing is an update from last year's summer snapshot:
Since then, Tyrone has joined our family, though I'm not sure he likes the heat as much as the rest of us. He's a winter guy.
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For a long time now on this blog I've been trying different things with respect to training logs. It's a funny thing; I started this blog as a training log for me and my students and it quickly became a whole lot more. For a while now I've stopped posting training logs because although they are helpful to me and my students, they are mostly meaningless to all my other readers.
But they are so helpful to me that I really want to keep doing them. I've thought about doing a different blog just for training logs, or perhaps microblogging the training logs on FB or Twitter, but I think that'd be just one more thing for me to have to keep up with and I don't need that.
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According to Hillary Clinton, businesses do not create jobs.
I know Clinton is a Leftist (or a power-hungry climber who finds support in Leftist rhetoric), but I still can't believe she said it:
"Don't let anybody tell you, you know, it's corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics? That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.
"You know, one of the things my husband says when people say 'Well, what did you bring to Washington,' he said, 'Well, I brought arithmetic'"
How can a rational person respond to a slogan that is so delusional? It signals that speakers and applauding listeners are engaged in their own fantasy and are at war with anyone who would remind them of reality. The pretense that Bill Clinton was loyal to arithmetic is just a pretense coating a daydream. (See this NY Times story for the context of her remarks.)
[See also: "CNN Whitewashes Congress, Dems; Pretends Government Creates Wealth."]
First of all, if "trickle down" is so wrong, then why does Hillary endorse it? Pushing interest rates through the floor so that Wall Street can make lots of money in the hope that the people on Wall Street will invest in jobs is precisely the policy that the Federal Reserve has been ardently pursuing. This has been the economic suicide policy under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. See George Will's stellar analysis on this point.
Obama's speech denounced "trickle-down ideology" and deplored growth that "has flowed to a fortunate few." But the monetary policy he favors — very low interest rates, driving money into equities in search of higher yields — is a powerful engine of inequality. Since the Dow closed at 7,949 on Inauguration Day 2009, it has doubled , benefiting the 10 percent who hold 80 percent of directly owned stocks. The hope is that some of this wealth will trickle down.
If a tenth of the people own four fifths of the directly-owned stocks, then Quantitative Easing and Below Zero interest rates are a way of directly dumping money into their pockets.
Hillary is of the same kind of faithful Wall Street bulldog. She is obviously and openly bought and paid for by the big banks. The way the media and the Democrats obscure the issue (in an obvious and transparent way that no one has any excuse for believing) is by pretending that all wealthy people get and maintain their wealth in the same way. But there is a super-rich subculture that would be more than happy to pay a pittance in higher tax rates while continuing to get "economically stimulated" by the Political-Banking complex. A handful of welfare benefits are just a bribe to allow them to continue to destroy the economy and enrich themselves.
Technically, of course, it is customers who create jobs. But someone has to foresee the customers' desires. That is a risky prediction to make. So many of those who think they can forecast consumer demand will find out that they were wrong and lose money. Someone has to be willing to take a risk and make an investment in production. Thus, while customers create jobs in the abstract, in practical experience the role belongs to entrepreneurs.
This brings us to another issue that Clinton's delusional speech can't explain. From the time a business opens until it closes in bankruptcy, the employees continue to get paid. Amazon was not a profitable company for years and years, but the employees were still paid a regular salary. So not only do businesses create jobs, they even do it at a loss in some cases. Of course, it only lasts as long as they can hope and try to turn a profit, but most of that risk never touches the employee—again, it only affects them at the point of layoffs or business closings.
Clinton seems to think that government creates jobs. But that would be the ultimate trickle-down economics. The government gathers all money and power to itself on the theory that prosperity and empowerment will trickle down to the middle- and lower-classes.
That "trickle-down economics" ought to be rejected.


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The ZinFest Cooking School + Chef Ruben's lamb cutlets & saffron allioli
Where there is great wine, there is intense appreciation of the culinary arts; especially at the annual ZinFest Wine Festival, where you will be able to experience the finest wines produced by over 50 Lodi Wine Country wineries.
At this year's ZinFest – taking place Saturday, May 18, 2013 (12-5 PM) at Lodi Lake Park – the ZinFest Cooking School will be anchored by two of Lodi's own: Chef Ruben Larrazolo of the acclaimed Alebrijes Mexican Bistro, and Gerardo Espinosa, winemaker of Viñedos Aurora.
Chef Ruben and Mr. Espinosa have recently teamed up to open Viñedos Aurora at Pamplona Tapas in Downtown Lodi – a smart, contemporary style wine bar where Spanish inspired foods are offered right alongside the outstanding wines grown by second generation Lodi growers, the four Anaya brothers: Victor Jr., Ramon, Armando and Gerardo. (Please see recipes for Chef Ruben's two dishes at the end of this blogpost).
This year's ZinFest Cooking School will also feature the debut of John Hitchcock, the newly appointed Executive Chef of Lodi's Towne House, the stunning wine country restaurant located in the 3-star Wine & Roses Hotel & Spa. The Towne House stands on the recognized historic site of the original home built by Burton and Alice Towne at the turn of the last century.
The ZinFest Cooking School will begin at 1 PM under its own tent alongside the beautiful Lodi Lake. The Cooking School schedule:
Chef Ken Landis, Proprietor of Landis Shores Oceanfront Inn in Half Moon Bay, CA, demonstrates his Oxtail Stew, matched with the stupendously full and rich 2010 Michael David Earthquake Lodi Zinfandel.
Chef Mark Berkner, Proprietor of Restaurant Taste in Plymouth, CA, demonstrates his Deconstructed Potato Salad, matched with the unusually refined, sleek and minerally 2012 Uvaggio Lodi Vermentino.
Chef John Hitchcock of Lodi's own Town House Restaurant in the luxurious Wine & Roses Hotel, will demonstrate his Stone Fruit Salad (matched with the ultra-fine and airy fresh 2012 Bokisch Vista Luna Vineyard Borden Ranch-Lodi Garnacha Blanca), followed by his Tuna Tartare (shown with the bright, bouncy 2010 Bokisch Terra Alta Vineyard Clements Hills-Lodi Garnacha).
Chef Ruben Larrazolo (Alebrijes Mexican Bistro) teams up with Winemaker Gerardo Espinosa (Viñedos Aurora) to show off dishes and wines from their exciting, new joint project, Pamplona Tapas in Downtown Lodi: Salt Cod Fritters with Saffron Allioli (with the zesty, flinty/fragrant 2011 Viñedos Aurora Lodi Albariño), followed by Grilled Lamb Cutlets with Burnt Butter (perfectly matched to the sinewy, sensuous 2010 Viñedos Aurora Lodi Síntesis).
Chef Ken Landis comes to us from California's Half Moon Bay, where he is the Chef/Proprietor of Landis Shores Oceanfront Inn (which he owns with his wife, Sommelier Ellen Landis CSW, CS, who will be presenting her own seminar under the ZinFest Wine School tent). Landis Shores has been named among the Top 15 Inns for Wine Connoisseurs in North America, and Chef Landis' feel for wine country cuisine has been influenced as much by his partnership with this Ms. Landis as the couple's extensive culinary travels throughout North and South America, France, Australia, Spain, Italy and Portugal (tough life, but someone has to do it!).
Chef/Owner Mark Berkner of Plymouth's acclaimed Restaurant Taste – the winemaker hangout in the Sierra Foothills of Amador County — makes a back-by-popular-demand return to the ZinFest Cooking School. Mark, like his wife, Sommelier/Co-Proprietor Tracey Berkner (who will also be presenting a seminar in the Wine School tent), is an Adjunct Instructor of Culinary Arts at San Joaquin Delta College. There are few restaurateurs as wine savvy as the Berkners, and Chef Mark promises that the match of his Deconstructed Potato Salad with Uvaggio's sleek, snappy Vermentino will be a knock-out.
So please be sure to circle May 18, 2013 on your calendar for the Lodi ZinFest. Advance tickets are available for $45 through zinfest.com ($55 at the gate), or by calling Lodi Wine & Visitor Center at 209.365.0621.
Chef Ruben's Salt Cod Fritters with Saffron Allioli
For the allioli:
2 organic free-range egg yolks
Pinch salt
3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
Juice of 1 lemon
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil
20 strands of saffron, soaked in 1 tbsp. boiling water
For the fritters:
9 oz. salt cod
1 cup mashed floury potatoes
4 tbsp. milk or cream
3 scallions, finely chopped
2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley
3 free-range eggs, separated
salt and freshly ground pepper
vegetable oil for frying
To make the saffron allioli, place the 2 egg yolks in a bowl and add salt, garlic and lemon juice. Whisk to combine. Dribble in the oil, as slowly as you can possibly can, whisking continuously. Continue to whisk until both oils are incorporated. You should end up with a thick, unctuous, garlicky mayonnaise. Stir in the soaked saffron, including the water in the strands were steeped in. this can be kept, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
Soak the salt cod in cold water in the refrigerator 12-24 hours in advanced, changing the water halfway through. Drain the water, rinse the salt cod, than place in a pan, cover with fresh water, and bring to boil. Turn off the heat and leave for 5 minutes. Remove the fish from pan. Peel off the skin and flake the fish, removing any tiny bones. Add the mashed potatoes, milk, scallions, parsley, egg yolks and salt to taste. Mix well. Whisk the egg whites to soft peak and fold into the mixture. Heat a sauce pan a third full of oil until a bit of bread sizzles and browns in a minute. Add the salt cod mixture in tablespoonfuls and fry until brown all over. Drain for 2 minutes on paper towels, then serve with the allioli on the side.
Chef Ruben's Grilled Lamb Cutlets with Burnt Butter, Rosemary & Capers
1 rack of lamb
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
½ tbsp. olive oil
4tbsp. sweet butter
1 small spring fresh rosemary
1 heaping tbsp. capers
Juice of ½ lemon
Carve the lamb into thin individual cutlets. Season with salt and pepper and rub with the oil. Heat a griddle pan on high heat until smoking. Cook the cutlets for 2-3 minutes on each side, remove from pan, and let rest.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter and add the rosemary. When it starts to foam, it will start to turn a nutty color. Add the capers, fry for 30 seconds, and then pour in the lemon juice. Remove pan from the heat and season with salt and pepper. Place the lamb in a serving dish and pour in the juices and burnt butter sauce.


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Lucaya 3 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms Townhome!
- Townhouse 3 Bedrooms / 2 Bathrooms.
- Accommodates up to 8 people comfortably.
- Free Wi-Fi.
- Electronic lock. You do not need to get the physical key to open the door, just use the code provided in your voucher.
- The condo has a nice resort style zero entry pool.
- All rooms have flat-screen high-definition TV.
1º Floor:
- Sophisticated kitchen brings other rooms of the house together such as the living room and dining room.
- Multifunctional environment enables cooking and socializing with friends and family.
- Spacious living room with flat screen high definition TV.
- Granite counter tops in the kitchen and stainless steel appliances such as refrigerator, stove, microwave and dishwasher.
- Sets of pots, dishes, cutlery and glasses are included in the house.
- Next to the kitchen a modern dining room with 6 chairs at the table and 2 stools by the kitchen counter.
- Tiled floors throughout first floor with carpet in the master bedroom.
- Master suite with one king-size bed and flat screen high definition TV.
- Master suite bathroom has a spacious walk-in closet for added convenience to the couple.
2º Floor:
- The second bedroom has a spacious king size bed and flat screen high definition TV.
- The third bedroom has 2 single beds.
- The second bathroom has a bath to relax after long days at the theme parks, or for moms to conveniently give their babies a nice bath.
- Full laundry with washing machine and tumble dryer (see photo).
- Complete set of bed linen and extra towels
- Hair dryer
- Free local calls
- Iron & Ironing board
- Vacuum Cleaner
Arrival time is any time after 4 p.m | Departure is by 10 a.m
You can also add extra services such as: mid-stay cleaning, Crib / pack & play, early check-in, late check-out for an additional charge (subject to availability.) ***if there is pool heating available, the cost is ($35/day minimum of 5 days) Request must be made at least 4 days in advance.
*** Guest MUST complete our rental agreement that we will send via DocuSign to your e-mail and sign rental terms before the check in date. If you fail to send it back by fax or e-mail we will not be able to honor your reservation. ***
Please note that this accommodation requires at least one member of each group to be above 18 years of age.
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Please review our Rental Agreement carefully with a full description of our house rules and procedures.
This property strictly enforces: NO PETS and NO SMOKING
Disclaimer: Exact décor may vary
Have a safe trip and enjoy your vacation.
Nearest Points of Interest
Disney's Magic Kingdom
15 minutes / 9 miles / 15 km
Disney's Animal Kingdom
12 minutes / 7 miles / 11 km
Disney's Epcot
9 minutes / 5 miles / 8 km
Disney's Hollywood Studios
12 minutes / 6 miles / 10 km
Disney's Springs
10 minutes / 5 miles / 8 km
Sea World
18 minutes / 8 miles / 13 km
Universal Studios
27 minutes / 15 miles / 24 km
Premium Outlets
9 minutes / 5 miles / 8 km
The Mall at Millenia
25 minutes / 18 miles / 29 km
ESPN Wide World of Sports
11 minutes / 5 miles / 8 km
Downtown Orlando
28 minutes / 23 miles / 37 km
Orange County Convention Center
18 minutes / 10 miles / 16 km
Orlando International Airport
29 minutes / 23 miles / 37 km
** For estimating purposes only, travel time and exact distance may vary.
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The place was perfect for our family vacation with 5 adults and 2 kids. The owner was responsive and provided all we needed to check in. When we had questions the owner was very responsive. Also, the place was clean and 15 minutes from Disney. You will need to bring your own toiletries, cleaning supplies, trash bags, toilet tissue and all food and drinks. The place is very spacious. We would definitely stay here again.
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la casa es tal cual se ve en la fotos, muy espacioso y cómodo. Fuimos 5 personas y nos sobraba espacio. Muy limpio y ordenado. los datos para el check-in fueron precisos y a tiempo. Lucaya es muy lindo lugar y con muy buenas instalaciones. Desde ya que lo recomiendo para poder disfrutar de unas muy lindas vacaciones en cercanía de los parques Disney.
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This was a fabulous experience.. truly a place away from Home that make you feel AT HOME.. just wish it was more paper goods like tissue and paper towels.. 4 star for that and yes I will book again !!
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The property is on a gated complex. House was lovely and furnished to a high standard. Could comfortable sleep 8. Great location about 15 mins from Disney Parks
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This was a fabulous experience.. truly a place away from Home that make you feel AT HOME.. just wish it was more paper goods like tissue and paper towels.. 4 star for that and yes I will book again !!
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This vacation home was better than we expected! We had a last minute booking and within a matter of hours we received our confirmation and booking details. When we arrived the home was very clean, everything was just as it was pictured. The only thing it didn't have was blinds on the patio doors, so people could see right into the living room and kitchen area. Fidelity sent someone out immediately to install the blinds so that we could have our privacy. I would definitely rent from them again!
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Todo fue fantástico y la casa estupenda.
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La experiencia con el anfitrión fue excelente, desde antes de mi llegada ya tenia las claves de acceso a la villa y a la casa, lo cual dio mucha tranquilidad, la casa muy bien ubicada muy cerca de los parques de Disney de Walmart de los outlet y de restaurantes, la casa estaba en muy buenas condiciones, aseada, buenas cama, almohadas en general todas las instalaciones, recomendable 100%
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Amazing unit it's beautiful and clean like just in the pictures. Couldn't be more satisfied with the stay. Parks,stores and restaurants all very close by. I will defitinely be returning!
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The place was everything that we had anticipated it to be. The host does a good job with accurate photos and descriptions. Awesome location, easy parking. The complex was nice and spread out as well, we didn't feel like anyone was crowded on us. The neighbors were a bit noisy late one night, but this wasn't the host's fault. Just bad luck. That was the only thing that was left to be desired I guess.
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Emin Kuliyev
Born in Russia, Emin moved to New York City in 2001. Currently, he lives in The Bronx. A self-taught photographer, Emin credits WPJA and the WPJA photographers for inspiring him to become a wedding photographer. He says, "WPJA helped me to create a vision and grow as a photographer. When I photograph a wedding, I am motivated to do it better, to be more creative."
Emin, the only person to ever simultaneously win Photographer of the Year for both WPJA and AG|WPJA, is clearly a competitive force. However, he says he doesn't try to win in any competition. "I started my own competition in my head." he says. As such, he claims he is never nervous about results, and credits the organization as a mentor through the many inspirational images he finds there.
Emin's foundational philosophy about his work is that a photographer's images are directly tied to their own personal experience. He attributes successful images as "luck, multiplied by your experience," and, of course, your camera skills. "It the camerashould be just an extension of your hand or eye." He believes that pressing a shutter button will not create an exact replication of a moment. Rather, the ability to capture moments is shaped by one's own individuality, and thus the creative process renders an image as a vicarious expression of self and subject. As he explains, "Merely holding a camera does not mean the gods will give you the shot. You must have something inside you. If so, it will be immediately visible within the photo."
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Dear Emin, Thank you a million times over. You have such a unique perspective and heartwarming sense of humor—our wedding photos are unlike others we've ever seen. We so appreciate the care and thought you put into each image to give us such a special collection. Thank you, too, for going above and beyond (literally spending extra time) to makes sure you captured our complete story, and for being so reliable and responsive along the way. We would whole-heartedly recommend you, and wish you all the best.
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Remove TinyWallet ads (Virus Removal Instructions) - Updated Guide
Why do I keep seeing TinyWallet ads while browsing the web?
Regardless of what the program's creators may preach, you should remember that TinyWallet virus is a potentially unwanted application [1] attributed to the category of adware [2] viruses. Initially, this program gets installed on the computer as a browser extension which should supposedly assist users with online shopping by providing price comparisons, e-vouchers and best deals [3]. Unfortunately, this extension slightly exceeds the functionalities that it claims to provide. Of course, none of its features will damage your computer, but some of the unauthorized activity that the extension implements on your computer will surely annoy you. TinyWallet hijack all the web browsers installed on the computer and then starts displaying commercial advertisements regardless of whether you want to see them or not. TinyWallet ads, pop-ups and banners may randomly appear on various sites while you are reading the news, playing games or simply surfing the net. It is especially annoying when you're not planning on buying anything. In such case, the best option is to perform TinyWallet removal. Software like Reimage Reimage Cleaner that can execute the elimination in minutes, so you can enjoy undisrupted browsing faster than you think!
TinyWallet adware installs on the computer as an online shopping extension, but instead of providing relevant information stuffs the user's browser with numerous ads as shown above.
Remember, ads by TinyWallet and other related notifications may redirect you to unwanted and possibly unsafe websites that seek to increase visitors' traffic, sales, etc. as well. Beware that cyber criminals will not miss the chance to make the best of TinyWallet redirect potential and use it to display dangerous links leading to the infectious websites. Not to mention, this extension may work as a tracking cookie [4], collect non-personally identifiable information about your browser and browsing habits and share this data with third parties. The problem is that this information can also be sold to cyber criminals. If such situation would occur, you may be flooded with tons of spam or run into serious problems. To diminish the chances of this happening, remove TinyWallet from your computer.
How did I acquire this adware?
In most of the cases TinyWallet infiltrates computers alongside free programs [5]. Various download managers, video converters, PDF creators, games and other questionable programs are bundled with third party advertisements and potentially unwanted programs. This way developers of free programs earn money, whereas third parties gain opportunity to distribute their products. For this reason, you should avoid visiting questionable websites and downloading suspicious-looking free programs. If you do not have any other option but to download unknown software from a website with poor reputation, be very careful during its installation. Our security experts suggest keeping away from "Recommended" or "Quick" installation modes as they give automatic permission to install additional tools. Instead, opt for "Advanced" or "Custom" installation option and follow the process carefully. If you spot an offer to install extension, add-on, plug-in, or toolbar, beware that it might be TinyWallet or other adware-type program. Deselect it and end the process without additional programs on your computer. If you have failed to install a free software and Ads by TinyWallet appears on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers every time you open it, you should not waste time and remove it.
Things to know about TinyWallet removal:
When trying to remove TinyWallet virus from infected web browsers, you can choose between automatic and manual removal methods. In case you decide to eliminate the virus manually, follow the instructions below this article. Nevertheless, you will save more time and ensure that TinyWallet removal goes by without any disruptions by choosing automatic elimination option. There are numerous software out there that offer cleaning and optimizing your computer so we recommend conducting a small research before you obtain such a utility. Make sure you select a software that best suits your needs and is compatible with your system.
You may remove virus damage with a help of Reimage Reimage Cleaner . SpyHunter 5Combo Cleaner and Malwarebytes are recommended to detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.
To remove TinyWallet ads, follow these steps:
Get rid of TinyWallet from Windows systems
Though automatic virus removal is the recommended option, you can also exterminate TinyWallet adware manually. Here is how you should do it:
- Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).
- If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.
Uninstall TinyWallet and related programs
Here, look for TinyWallet or any other recently installed suspicious programs.
- Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
Remove TinyWallet from Mac OS X system
- If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
- Wait until you see Applications folder and look for TinyWallet or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Delete TinyWallet from Internet Explorer (IE)
Since TinyWallet does not only invade your system but implements itself on the browser, you must carry out its cleanup as well. Remove unfamiliar extensions and add-ons and then reset your browser.
Remove dangerous add-ons
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons.
- You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for TinyWallet and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of the browser and select Internet Options. Stay in General tab.
- Here, remove malicious URL and enter preferable domain name. Click Apply to save changes.
Reset Internet Explorer
Click on the gear icon (menu) again and select Internet options. Go to Advanced tab.
- Here, select Reset.
- When in the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset again to complete TinyWallet removal.
Uninstall TinyWallet ads from Microsoft Edge
After you remove TinyWallet from your PC do not forget to delete its extension as well! Then reset your browser.
Reset Microsoft Edge settings (Method 1):
- Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
- Click Settings to open more options.
- Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
- Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
- Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
- When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
- Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can't see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
- When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
- Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
- Find this folder on your computer:
- Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
- Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
- Right-click the Windows PowerShell entry and choose Run as administrator.
- Once Administrator: Windows PowerShell window shows up, paste this command line after PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> and press Enter:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml -Verbose}
Once these steps are finished, TinyWallet should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.
Eliminate TinyWallet from Mozilla Firefox (FF)
You will remove TinyWallet from your Mozilla browser with the help of these instructions:
Remove dangerous extensions
Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions.
- Here, select TinyWallet and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information.
- Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete TinyWallet removal.
Erase TinyWallet from Google Chrome
Google Chrome will be clean from TinyWallet only after this extension is eliminated from the extension list and the browser is reset. The instructions on how to achieve these steps are provided below.
Delete malicious plugins
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions.
- Here, select TinyWallet and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
- Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
- When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
Reset Google Chrome
Click on menu icon on the top right of your Google Chrome and select Settings.
- Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Reset browser settings.
- Click Reset to confirm this action and complete TinyWallet removal.
Get rid of TinyWallet from Safari
Remove dangerous extensions
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences.
- Here, select Extensions and look for TinyWallet or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
Reset Safari
Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari....
- Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete TinyWallet removal process.
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- ^ Why browser extensions can be dangerous and how to protect yourself. How-toGeek. For Geeks; By Geeks.
- ^ Tracking cookie definition. Symantec. Global Leader In Next-Generation Cyber Security.
- ^ Dangers of free downloads. NortonSecurityOnline. Computer security blog.
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I don't know about you, but Instagram is the one and only place I get all my outfit inspiration from. So many pages post some of the coolest styles around and once you set your eyes on something that good, you're going to try your level best to get the look.
Since December is also rightly known as party month, there are events and occasions almost every week to dress up for. So instead of just staring at your closet for hours and screaming, "I have nothing to wear!", let these #InstaOotds inspire your next look.
Since red is the obvious choice this season, how about adding in some leather goodness like this?
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I've been reading through Dwelling on the Threshold, a book full of essays from A Forest Door, and a lot of what I've read so far rings true – on various levels – to my experience and life. I haven't discussed it much on Patheos, or really anywhere, but I've been doing this religious and spiritual work and Work since I was around twelve. Which makes people uncomfortable – so young! I couldn't really have started that little! (I started younger; I had an idea of what modern Paganism was around twelve and only learned of non-Wiccan-influenced paths much later.) And I did sacrifice a lot due to my pursuit of religious goals and work. I didn't have much of a social life, if at all, and most of my teachers were aware that I was religious but not in a traditional Jewish-Christian-Muslim fashion. I didn't have anyone to discuss religion with, at least not without being witnessed at, and I realized that friends that identified as Pagan actually had much different viewpoints than I did, to the point that discussion was once again rather useless. (I wanted to discuss gods and possession work and faeries and theology, while they wanted to discuss magic and Maiden/Mother/Crone archetypes and levitation. It was simply a difference of what we were practicing.)
My first two years in high school I spent a lot of time being witnessed to by an evangelist who took interest in saving my soul. I got cornered in bathrooms and passed notes in the halls and told that all my pain would go away if I just turned to Jesus. The worst time was after a friend of ours had died in a car accident and I was dragged off, alone, and told that I was full of sin and all my suffering would leave if I just turned to god.
I give thanks to the gods I do worship that I somehow found the strength not to punch that person in the face. No one considered it religious harassment, so I would have ended up in more trouble than it was worth.It could be easy to say that was suffering or a part of the path I chose to walk, but I think those things were just a part of life. They certainly helped me be more suspicious of friendly people who drop the J-bomb all the time, for better or worse. And they helped strengthen my faith, in the end. In the hardest parts of my life – sobbing over death, being in the hospital, being sick for the rest of my time in school – it was my gods and spirits I turned to. That was never a question.
Nostalgia time over, though, I'll return again to Dver's book. What hit me again and again as I read was that spirit workers put the Work first. A point that especially stood out to me was:
Why must the spiritual vocation always be the "luxury that must be fitted around daily life"? Why not see the obligations and rewards of home, family, and career (not to mention the elaborate trappings of a modern Western lifestyle) as the luxury, that (if desired at all) must be fitted around the spiritual vocation? Surely there must be some pagans out there who value the latter above the former.
My path isn't Dver's, and it has room for my returning to school to pursue a practical degree so that I can hold down a hopefully stable job, but her point still stands for me – my Work has room for that mostly because the gods, spirits, and I know that having a stable job will allow me to do the Work. I am not planning on returning to school because it is a great dream that conflicts with my spiritual work. I'm returning to school so I can help further and support my spiritual work. And I'm also aware that if school or a stable job begins interfering with the Work, those things have to go. The Work comes first.
The Work has always come first, for me.


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TROOPER, a Redbone/Walker Hound mix, saved the life of his owner, Ross Benway, when a fire completely destroyed his farmhouse. Trooper jumped onto Benway's bed, clawing and barking until he awoke, choking from smoke inhalation. Hearing the roar of the flames, Benway threw Trooper through the nearest window and was blown through the window himself as the fire exploded into the bedroom. The house burned to the ground.
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JACKIE, a small Terrier, had been partially paralyzed after a fight with a much bigger dog and was about to be put to sleep. However, the Connolly family couldn't bring themselves to have her put down. Ironically, two years later Jackie saved her owners by alerting them to a fire that destroyed their home.
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SCAMP, a five-year-old female farm dog, was honoured for attracting the attention of passersby to her owner, Jack Ruttan, whose tractor crashed down a steep 40-foot heavily wooded embankment on a lonely farm road.


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Shailene Woodley Defends Miley Cyrus, Reveals That People Think She's a 'Total Pothead'by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Shailene Woodley is totally channeling Marilyn Monroe on the cover of the July 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, trading the classic movie star's iconic white dress in for a sparkly, sultry ruby red number in the same style.
While the 'Fault in Our Stars' actress undoubtedly reveals quite a few gems in the issue, she also spoke her mind on topics that didn't make it into the mag, like her defense of Miley Cyrus, why people think she's a pothead and her reaction to overzealous fans.
"Miley isn't rude or mean or cruel to anyone in her actions. She just does herself," Woodley says on the topic of Cyrus. "And regardless of whether you agree with what she's doing or not, it's none of your business what she does."
"She's not in the world doing mean things. Why are all these parents or all these people freaking out about Miley being herself?" she continued. "If you don't want your kids to watch it, you know, you can change that situation at home, but don't make a big deal of what she's doing. Make a big deal about the bullies at school who are beating kids up."
She may defend Miley, but unlike the 'Wrecking Ball' singer, Woodley doesn't share her same affection for marijuana — despite her crunchy, hippie-like lifestyle.
"I actually went on a hike the other day with somebody that I had just recently met, and we were talking, and he was like, 'So you smoke a lot of hash, smoke a lot of pot?' And I was like, 'What? . . . No, actually,'" Woodley revealed. "And he's like, 'No?' And I was like, 'No.' And he goes, 'That's so funny.'"
The actress also opened up about her feelings on fan frenzy, admitting that the obsession is something difficult for her to wrap her head around.
"The whole fan thing is very strange to me, because I've never had anybody that I have gone crazy for, like whether it was an actor or a musician. And so it's a weird thing for me to relate to, especially the screaming sort of young fandom, the 'Twilight,' 'Hunger Games,' 'Divergent' world caters to. So I kind of actually try to like actively remove myself from the situation," Woodley explained.
"I've met people where I'm like, 'Hi, I'm Shai,' and they can't even see me because they're screaming, and I'm making eye contact with them, but they're not there," she said. "And that, to me, is weird. So I don't know how quite to do that except remove myself from the situation and live my life, and if that inspires people, then I guess that's what a role model is."


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Garrett Freightlines Miscellaneous Collection
Scope and Content
This is a very small collection that came from the Idaho State Historical Society consisting of two boxes containing various company paraphernalia, photographs, memorabilia, and route regulations.
Garrett Freightlines was established in 1913 in Pocatello Idaho by Clarence A. Garret t and his brother Oscar. The first Garrett truck was a 1913 Reo. As the single truck grew to a fleet, so did Garretts route from local to the Pacific Northwest. Expansions were totaled to 67 Terminals and 3500 units throughout the Western United States by the early 1960s.
Clarence Garrett
Clarence Garretts dream of opening a transport company began when he arrived in Pocatello from Virginia at the age of 19. When the hauling of his baggage had cost him fifty cents, he realized at that moment there was more money to be made in the hauling and baggage business. He and his brother Oscar started a small grocery store in 1910 which closed in 1913 after only a short run to allow Clarence to realize his transporting dreams uninhibited. With the help of his brother Oscar, cousin, Leonard, and a small bank loan, Garrett bought his first truck. The 1913 Reo truck was a one cylinder half ton at the cost of $525 plus freight. Although the truck was used entirely for local hauling, they were the first to do so in a truck. His loads soon spread to Blackfoot and American Falls by 1915. As the diesel engine grew in popularity, Garrett became fascinated by the invention. He decided to purchase an engine dropping it behind the wheel of a Kissel Truck, Garrett made his first trip from Pocatello to Salt Lake City. The trip took him 44 hours. The business slowly but steadily expanded to include Idaho Falls in 1920, Twin Falls-Burley Area by 1927, and from there, Garrett Trucks were headed out of state. Salt Lake City was the first out of state port in 1928 followed by Butte Montana in 1930, and finally Garrett Freightlines reached a huge milestone in transportation with routes to Los Angeles in 1934. BY the early 1960s , the Pacific Northwest Highway was lined with truck from Garrett as San Francisco-Oakland area, Denver, and New Mexico were added to the routes. New Terminals also added to the Garrett family in this time period as Garrett bought previously established transport companies in Spokane, Seattle, Great Falls, and Los Angeles. Expansions soon equaled 67 terminals and 3500 units out to serve the western United States.
Headquarters have always been in Pocatello but a brand new building was built in 1951 at the Idaho location Idaho at approximately $850,000, located on what is now Garrett Way named so in honor of the company that first graced the area and sat alone for a long time before other business began to develop nearby. The Garrett Company was an immense benefit to the local area providing jobs for her residents.
Garretts advertising was a big part of building the company. Appearing in an ad for Firestone tires and other ads with a character named Mr. G. Slogans were catchy and memorable such as Look before you Leap, Look to Garrett and We Do Care is seen all over the reports, memorabilia and notepads used by Garrett employees and clients. Clarence A. Garrett was named Idaho Business Leader of the Year and received an award in 1961 in Boise.
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The brand new Dolphin Kastraki Studios & Apartments complex of three buildings that is located in Kastraki, on Naxos island, between Mikri Vigla and Alyko. It is 16km (10 miles) from Naxos Town and 80m (262ft.) from the lovely beach of Glyfada, a 3km (2 mile) long beach, with crystal clear waters and endless sand. An ideal choice for relaxing holidays by the sea.
The Dolphin Kastraki Studios & Apartments are built according to the traditional architecture of Naxos and offer their guests luxirious studios and apartments than can accommodate from 2 to 6 persons. All units are fully equipped, tastefully decorated and independent. The complex also has a swimming pool with a children's part surrounded by a lush garden , breakfast area, pool bar and all the comforts to offer you a pleasant stay.


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Chirawa is a small village in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan in the Jhunjhunu district. Temperatures are known to soar above 48°C during summers and then dip to subzero levels during winters. Conditions are pretty much similar to the neighbouring city of Churu, which lies at a distance of 81 km west of the village. Tourists passing through the village should not expect much other than a few roadside dhabas.
Places to Stay
Hotel options are not available in the village. However, the city of Churu will offer good options among which Rathore Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 750), Hotel Natraj (Tariff – Rs. 700), Chirmi Churu Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 300) and Hotel Sawan Bhado (Tariff – Rs. 900) are worth trying.
The official language of the area is Hindi.
The important festivals celebrated are Holi in March, Hanuman Jayanti and Dusshera in September-October and Diwali in November.
Places of Interest
There are no places of tourist attraction in the village. However, some of the places which are worth visiting in the neighbouring Churu are Fresco Painted Havelis, Sethani Ka Johara, Mansa Devi Temple, Kanhaiyalal Bagla Haveli and others.
How to Get There
The nearest airport is the Sawai Mansingh International Airport in Jaipur at a distance of 292 km.
The major railway station nearby is the Churu Railway Station at a distance of 78 km.
State transport as well as private buses from neighbouring cities and towns such as Pilani and Churu serve the local populace. Ticketgoose.com is one of the best portals from where you can book bus online.


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District 197 special election is May 6
Levy, bond would increase student access to technology, upgrade facilities
Third-graders assembled Legos last week at Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights, building a robot they can then program on a computer to perform certain tasks.
"They live in a digital world," said Shannon Lawson, a teacher at Somerset Elementary. "If we don't meet that at school, they won't want to be there."
The kids were among more than a dozen students demonstrating how technology can be used in and outside the classroom at an informational meeting April 22 on the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan Area School District's special election, which is May 6.
Two questions will be on the ballot next week.
Voters will consider:
• Renewing and increasing the school district's designated technology tax levy to $1.7 million annually for 10 years, as the current $490,000 annual levy is set to expire in 2014
• A request for a $11.2 million building bond for an early-learning center and security upgrades
The technology levy would cost $43 annually in property taxes for households at the $200,000 median home value. The building bond would cost another $14.
The total property-tax impact would then be $57.
'Digital learning'
The boost for technology would bring "digital learning" into more classrooms, meaning students would have access to tablets or laptops in class to view educational resources online, such as videos, research and news.
Lawson said the new gadgets have already been tools to motivate and engage some students with "hands-on learning," while actively working towards certain learning standards.
The levy would make that access more equitable, according to Superintendent Nancy Allen-Mastro.
"We want them to take that tool and do things they can't do with a paper and pencil," she said during a presentation.
The bond would also help the district simply maintain its current technology systems.
"Right now, we're hanging on by our fingertips in some ways," Allen-Mastro said.
Upgrading facilities
Of the $11.2 million building bond, $3.2 million would be used for security upgrades, such as more lock-down buttons, putting security cameras in every school and constructing secure entrances. About $7.5 million of the building bond would construct an early-learning center next to the Heritage E-STEM Magnate school.
Allen-Mastro said the district tried to find room in other schools for the program (it's currently in the elementary schools), but enrollment projections already put most facilities at capacity in the next few years.
Enrollment declined from about 2004 to 2009, but has drastically increased in recent years, especially at the elementary level.
From the 2008-2009 school year, K-4 enrollment jumped from 1,640 students to 1,971 this school year, an uptick of more than 20 percent. Overall enrollment has increased by more than 9 percent in that time, according to the district's numbers.
"This is really what's driving our need for that added space in early learning," Allen-Mastro said.
Allen-Mastro said one of the district's goals is to help students get ready for college and careers. Part of that is to teach kids to work together and solve problems, skills often learned using technology to build, design or program something.
"The workplace does not want people who don't apply high-level thinking to tasks," she said.
Jim Nyquist, who's been in the community for around 50 years and had three kids graduate from Sibley, said he doesn't mind spending an extra $50 annually on schools.
He said he'd like engineering, math and science pushed in District 197 classrooms, because that's where kids will get jobs. He said test scores in these subjects need to go up.
"I'm absolutely astonished the technology that's accessible to high school students," he said at the meeting. "I hope they're taking advantage of it."
Polling locations can be found at http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us. Learn more by calling a hotline at 651-403-7557, emailing email@example.com, or visiting www.isd197.org/referendum (where there's absentee voting information).
Voters can register to vote, or check if they're registered, at https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us.
Kaitlyn Roby can be reached at 651-748-7815 and firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her at twitter.com/KRobyNews.


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Surplus cash in the global financial system has a history of leaving havoc in its wake and quantitative easing may be making the situation worse.
There is a lot of cash sloshing around the international financial system at the moment. Central banks are still buying heaps of bonds and there are few places in the actual economy where people are willing to invest money. Not having cash around in the financial system can make life very difficult as shown by the credit crunch where lending by banks ground to a halt and the global economy came close to collapse. But too much cash in the financial system can cause its own troubles. Cheap credit is one of the causes of the global financial crisis. More recently, emerging markets have been tested by the coming and going of a massive tide of global funds. What can be done to ensure that more of the world is not drowned in an excess of cash?
It may seem strange but there is a lot of spare cash around at the moment but no one wants to use it. Companies are hoarding money as business people are not confident in being able to make money through new investments, and consumers are paying off debt while being worried if their jobs are safe. Adding to this, banks are reluctant to lend as new regulations are prompting banks to be more cautious about the amount of loans on their books.
Central banks have tried to alleviate this problem by making it cheaper to borrow, firstly, through reducing interest rates to close to zero, and when this has not worked, printing more money with which to buy bonds. The bond purchases also serve to further lower borrowing costs, but businesses and consumers currently seem averse to taking out fresh loans no matter how cheap it is to borrow. Nevertheless, the bond buying continues with the Federal Reserve alone buying US$85 billion in bonds each month. The extra cash is not going into the actual economy as there is no demand for it and it is free to be moved to anywhere in the world.
So this money is not like a still pool of cash where money can be drawn as necessary, but rather more like a tidal system where funds will flow in one direction for a certain period of time before switching to another direction depending on the alignment of economic factors. Any free funds will always move in search of higher returns and the flows shift as economic circumstances change. The transient nature of the funds creates economic problems due to the temporary effect of lowering interest rates and creating a surge in lending, only for the money to flow out again at the first signs of trouble. These flows of cash now dominate the world economy like never before and can leave havoc in their wake (for more, see Where is all the money going?).
This ebb and flow of funds is given as one of the reasons behind the global financial crisis. The size of the pool of cash had swelled due to a glut of savings in Asia which were invested in the United States. The resulting lower borrowing costs spurred on excessive lending which extended to sub-prime loans, eventually causing the near collapse of the financial system. Almost the reverse has been the case in previous weeks. Extra cash generated by the bond purchases by the Federal Reserves and other central banks had found refuge in emerging markets which had continued to grow in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. But the tide turned with the paring back of quantitative easing in the United States, which is expected to result in higher returns from investments in the US markets.
The worst of the effects have been experienced by India, Turkey, and Indonesia who had grown more reliant on the money coming in from overseas due to imbalances in their own economy. But emerging markets have shored up their defences after having often been caught up in the wash of global finances. Countries with developing economies often build up large foreign exchange reserves which are used to counteract the outflow of funds (which was ironically behind the glut in savings in Asia seen as responsible for the global financial crisis). The use of controls which restrict the movement of funds have also become commonplace and are even somewhat sanctioned by the IMF (who are typically ideologically opposed to any limits on the free movement of resources). Even the new range of banking regulations in the United States and elsewhere, such as rules on higher levels of capital buffers, can be seen as a buttress against the swirling forces of global finances.
However, the new measures being adopted in developed countries and in emerging markets have the goal of merely preventing the symptoms of the problems created by the surplus funds. Furthermore, foreign exchange reserves and capital buffers come with their own costs – this money could be put to better use when the economy actually needs the extra funds. Would it not be better to deal with the problem itself? Central banks could come up with a way of soaking up the surplus money in the world's financial system. Considering the global scale of financing, this might require a new role for an international organisation such as the IMF. It would also involve a rethink of quantitative easing and the tools available to central banks since the freshly printed cash from central banks has added another deluge of funds and has created problems of its own (see Perils of doing too much for more detail). It would be a sad day for economists if the aggressive policies from central banks to revive the economy from the latest crisis sow the seeds of greater instability in the future.


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Just how smart are our smart phones? In the not too distant future, according to computer researcher Arlindo Oliveira, that question may launch an unprecedented intellectual and social revolution. For Oliveira, what makes us human, what makes us persons with minds, is how we process information. But the physical substrate that supports this data processing need not be biological. To the contrary, human brains, biological cells and computer transistors all work analogously: They execute algorithms, series of instructions which permit them to perform their functions. How they perform these tasks is Oliveira's paramount interest. The first nine chapters of his eminently readable book include detailed, often fascinating accounts of how neurons and whole brains work, and how digital transistors and neural networks might emulate brain functions. These burgeoning veins of research, "where biology meets computation," he predicts, will soon permit the creation of "neuromorphic intelligent systems," synthetic digital intelligences capable of whole brain emulation.
To qualify as digital minds or -- more strikingly -- as persons potentially warranting moral rights, such intelligences would need to prove, in the parlance of artificial intelligence researchers, Turing Equivalent: In their interactions with us, we would need to be broadly unable to distinguish their information processing from human thought processes. At the same time, the author notes, traditional formulations of the Turing Test are notably anthropocentric. For Oliveira, nothing about the human brain's biological function in principle precludes researchers' ability to replicate its information processing capacities in silica. Indeed, studies of how electrochemical activity in the brain encodes thoughts suggest that two of the three primary challenges to developing digital minds -- the raw computer processing power and the energy resources such whole brain emulators would require -- are entirely technical. The author does not downplay those challenges; even with "exponential technological growth," adequate computer processing power may still be several decades in the making.
The third challenge in developing such minds -- how poorly researchers currently understand human brain function -- may prove a stronger constraint. How might researchers develop "whole brain emulators" when so much of how we think is still opaque to us? Oliveira considers this vital question at length in the book's last few chapters, yet raises an even more intriguing point. The digital minds he envisions will likely admit subjective experiences radically different from their human counterparts. Moreover, as such minds become increasingly self-teaching, the information processing techniques they develop may prove as mysterious as our own. Will we then say that they, too, exhibit consciousness, intelligence, personality, or even agency? Conversely, if we deny such alien minds personhood, will we radically re-define what we mean by that term and the rights that attend it? The book's consideration of these questions is well detailed and well resourced; written clearly, concisely, and accessibly for a general audience, it offers a tantalizing and informative over-view of what the future may hold should our smart phones come to out think us. Highly recommended.
© 2017 Lisa Bellantoni
Lisa Bellantoni, Ph.D., Albright College
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