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Chocolate Brazil Nut Cookies Revisited
Everyone knows hazelnuts and chocolate work well together in a cookie. But have you tried chocolate and Brazil nuts? These chocolate Brazil nut cookies are delicious with chunks of milk chocolate and crunchy pieces of nut. They're not overly sweet either. Give them a try.
Random Recipes
We are well and truly being kept on our toes with this Random Recipes challenge. For some reason Dom doesn't think we are being as random as we should be. To get around this, he has teamed us up with another blogger this month, who is responsible for selecting the book and page number for us. This reduces the chance to cheat somewhat. NOT, I hasten to add, that I have ever done such a thing.
Dom teamed me up with Miss Cake Baker of What I Baked This Weekend and in a series of exchanges via Twitter she selected Chocolate Brazil soft-baked biscuits from Green & Black's Unwrapped. I'm always terrified I'm going to be landed with something really difficult. But once again, I was lucky.
Chocolate Brazil Nut Cookies
I'd already made these, way back in the early days of my blog but they hadn't turned out quite as I'd imagined. So rather than asking Miss Cake Baker to choose again, I thought it would be good to give them another go. Only this time, I'd use a less dark chocolate and add a bit more milk.
The original recipe stated that the dough should be rolled out. Quite frankly, I couldn't see how that would be possible with all those chocolate lumps and bumps. And in any case, the mixture is too soft for rolling. I used a spoon to dollop the mixture onto baking trays. This method, may not have made the most attractive looking cookies, but it sure sped the process up.
First Time Around
When I made these chocolate Brazil nut cookies the first time, it was for our annual Easter walk. I needed some edible snacks that would carry well over a distance of 11 miles and that could be easily handed around to a group. Biscuits were the obvious choice. I went for the aforementioned recipe in Green Black's*.
Apart from flapjacks, I hadn't made biscuits for years and certainly not in my rather unpredictable oven. So I was a little nervous. I was right to be so; they turned out more like little buns than biscuits. Next time, I thought to myself, I shall be a bit more generous with the milk and they should spread in a more biscuit like fashion. Luckily they tasted good and everyone had second helpings.
Second Time Around
The biscuits didn't spread this time either, despite adding a bit more milk. But I managed to flatten them more than I did in my first attempt and they thus had a better texture. They weren't too sweet and were delicious warm whilst the chocolate was still melted. A definite improvement on the first time. CT only got to try them when they'd cooled down, but he also thought they were delicious. Phew!
Other Recipes for Chocolate Chip Cookies You Might Like
- Chocolate chip avocado cookies
- Fennel chocolate chip cookies
- Malted choc chip cookies
- Matcha spelt chocolate chop cookies
- Oaty ginger chocolate biscuits
- Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
- Tiger nut chocolate chip cookies (vegan and gluten-free)
You can see from my blog that I've made up for my lack of cookie making in those early days. Just check my baking category for biscuits.
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Chocolate Brazil Nut Cookies – The Recipe
Chocolate Brazil Nut Cookies
- 75 g unsalted butter
- 60 g golden caster or granulated sugar (I used vanilla sugar)
- 1 large egg (I used a duck egg)
- ½ tsp vanilla extract (I used ¼ tsp because of the vanilla sugar)
- 175 g wholemeal flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch of fine sea or rock salt
- 2 tbsp milk
- 50 g Brazil nuts - roughly chopped
- 125 g milk chocolate (40% or higher) - roughly chopped
- Cream the butter and sugar until soft and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir together. Add the milk, nuts and chocolate and stir until just combined.
- Place teaspoonfuls (about 20) onto lined baking trays, placing them well apart. Flatten with a fork dipped in water.
- Bake at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4) for 12 minutes until golden. Allow to cool for a minute or two, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
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24 Comments
Dom at Belleau Kitchen23rd October 2011 at 4:29 pm
well they look divine… I'm actually rubbish at making cookies, not sure why, I think I lack patience (believe it or not) but this recipe looks pretty damn fine… thanks so much for taking part and for NOT ever cheating, for which I am eternally grateful xx
simply.food23rd October 2011 at 5:00 pm
These look svrumpticious.
MissCakeBaker23rd October 2011 at 6:46 pm
They look great! There is nothing nicer than warm out the oven cookies. I love it when the chocolate is still gooey. Ummmmm! Thanks for being a good random recipe partner!
Baking Addict23rd October 2011 at 9:14 pm
yum yum yum can I have some please? I remember trying this recipe ages ago and it didnt really turn out as I expected. Perhaps its time to try them again in my kitchen?
C23rd October 2011 at 9:27 pm
They look great – I've remade a couple of recipes recently, and sometimes it's nice to get a second chance at something, and especially pleasing if it turns out better 🙂
thelittleloaf24th October 2011 at 7:25 am
I have the Green & Blacks chocolate book and have this recipe bookmarked! I've not yet got around to trying it so interested to see how yours turned out. Can imagine they are at their absolute best when piping hot from the oven and really squidgy.
A Trifle Rushed24th October 2011 at 8:29 am
They look wonderful, really tasty 🙂
ruth24th October 2011 at 8:30 am
they look really good, I have never used duck eggs in baking before.
Laura@howtocookgoodfood24th October 2011 at 12:05 pm
I shall be making these. One of my favourite combinations is nut & chocolate, especially those choc coated brazil nuts you get at Christmas!
Please Do Not Feed The Animals.24th October 2011 at 1:00 pm
I'm a nut and chocolate fan too. It is nice sometimes to have the time to go back and try to improve a recipe – well done!
Hope you have plenty of time set aside each night for polishing your halo…
Sue/the view from great island24th October 2011 at 3:37 pm
I've never baked anything with Brazil nuts and these look really yummy. For a random choice I think you lucked out, now you get to eat them all.
Chele24th October 2011 at 5:27 pm
These look like my kinda cookies. And brazil nuts too … heaven!
Choclette24th October 2011 at 6:37 pm
Dom – thank you. I might just hold you to that eternal gratefulness 😉
Simply Food – thank you, they were pretty good, especially if you like Brazils.
MCB – It was fun, I enjoyed this although am sorry I didn't pick you something as good as what you picked for me.
Baking Addict – Of course, help yourself 🙂 I think the recipe is too dry. It worked better this time adding more milk and a large egg.
C – I used to have my old favourites which I made all the time. Since starting this blog, I hardly ever bake the same thing twice, so it was good to give them another go.
Little Loaf – mmm, piping hot and squidgy is good. If you do make though, my advice would be to add more liquid than the recipe states.
A Trifle Rushed – thank you.
Ruth – duck eggs are the queens of baking. Do give them a try if you get a chance.
Laura – melting chocolate and crunchy Brazils, you can't go wrong!
Louise – always time for halo polishing 😉
Sue – thank you. I did luck out, but the cookies were sadly eaten long ago.
Chele – your kind of cookies is an excellent compliment. Thank you 😉
Kate@whatkatebaked24th October 2011 at 7:30 pm
Great random recipe Choclette! I really, really must try and get that book- all the recipes sound so delicious. Have they all been a success?
Choclette25th October 2011 at 6:14 am
Kate – Ha ha, no such thing as always successful, but lots of very tasty recipes in there. Have you got the G&B newest book – might be a better option?
The Caked Crusader25th October 2011 at 7:50 pm
I've never baked with brazil nuts but adore them covered in chocolate – especially at Christmas. These look delish
Choclette25th October 2011 at 8:28 pm
CC – mmmm, chocolate Brazils, now you're really talking 🙂
Gloria25th October 2011 at 11:12 pm
delicious cookies!!!! gloria
Choclette27th October 2011 at 6:03 am
Gloria – thank you.
Johanna GGG31st October 2011 at 12:36 pm
blogging is great when you have notes of what worked and didn't work last time – and how strange to have these come back again – I think I would love them
Brownieville Girl31st October 2011 at 4:10 pm
Love the huge chunks of chocolate in there – you got of easily on this challenge!!!
prwilson6th March 2013 at 11:24 pm
These look lovely, not too difficult either.
JaynesDen15th March 2013 at 11:04 am
These look good. These will have a real crunch too when you bite into them.
Cutie Candy Pop30th April 2013 at 11:35 pm
I need these in my life, going to make them this weekend!


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November 19th - via: kickstarter.com
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Week 1, New Team Member, Exciting Collaborations, Where We Are At.
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Think Hawaii and basically you think vacation and paradise–sun, surf, beach, nature, luau, even honeymoon. For the coffee lover, Hawaii means real fancy coffee. Specifically, Hawaiian Kona coffee.
Hawaiian Kona coffee owes its aura of distinction to its history, tradition and Mother Nature. True Kona coffee are cultivated on the volcanic slopes of what is known as the Kona coffee belt. Combining the richness of the volcanic soil with the weather patterns of the Kona district and you have the perfect condition with which to grow this particular type of coffee bean. The result is one of the fanciest and premium coffees in the world.
The history and tradition of Kona coffee is unlike those of other coffee growing regions where the coffee shrub is indigenous and are cared for by their own people. Kona coffee can actually attribute its survival and existence to many different nationalities.
It was a Spaniard who planted the first coffee bean in the island of Oahu. Then, Kona coffee beans became a by-product of beans that were brought in from Brazil back in the nineteenth century by an Englishman. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the crash in world coffee prices almost drove the Hawaiian coffee farms into extinction. Owners leased parts of their farms to tenant farmers, majority of whom were Japanese immigrants. Later on, farm hands originating from the Philippines and Europe would contribute to the growth of this type of coffee. But even before the farms were leased, Hawaiians and Chinese largely made up the work force.
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Grain, water and energy shortages, coupled with an easing of monetary policy in China, look likely to drive up commodity costs
Along the banks of the Yangtze river, the rich mud is cracked. In the rice bowl of the nation, the fields lie parched. China is having its worst drought in five decades — and it could set off a rally in global commodities over the next six months.
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I first heard of The Sunflower Trust through a work colleague, who had seen a presentation on local TV news. She knew that I was becoming increasingly more concerned about Cameron's development at school.
Cameron was a normal, healthy and happy child with a keen interest in all sporting activities. However, quite early on in his schooling it was apparent that he struggled with remembering how to spell, despite repeating again and again, the most simply words and he frequently formed letters and numbers and whole words in reverse. As others around him at school progressed he became more and more dejected about, what he saw as, his failure!
Soon a general low self-esteem was affecting other aspects of his life and reaching into the areas, such as sport, where he had previously succeeded. Reading and writing sessions at home became a horror for him and a stressful time for both of us. He would do anything to avoid writing! As a mother, the awful part was listening to him telling me he thought he was "stupid" and would never be able to read and write.
When we started on The Sunflower Programme, neither of us really knew what we expected to get out of it and it was a learning process for us both at each session. As I would imagine is the case with many things like this, the results are not easy to see in the early days but I am so pleased that we continued. Gradually, rather like unravelling a complicated puzzle, Cameron has become much happier with himself, a calmer, more organised child who is slowly becoming proud of his achievements and more positive about attempting new learning experiences, even "the dreaded writing"!
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Neil studied at the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University and has extensive experience of the design and construction of complex projects using BIM software. He joined Allies and Morrison in 2001 and became a Director of the practice in 2012.
Neil has worked on several large-scale developments including St Martin's Court, a mixed-use office/retail scheme in Paternoster Square, London and The Quadrant, a mixed-use redevelopment integrating office, retail and residential accommodation behind Grade II Listed façades on Regent Street, London, which won an RIBA award in 2009.
Neil has managed the delivery of a 27 storey residential tower, one of the three buildings that Allies and Morrison completed within the St Andrew's residential masterplan in Bromley-by-Bow and the refurbishment and extension of the Royal Albert Hall Memorial Museum in Exeter.
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Medication Reconciliation Meets Patient Safety: Many Cooks in the Kitchen
I hate to be a spoiler, especially amidst all the deafening applause, but I must ask: Just how reasonable is it to expect that most, or even many, patients (or their friends and family) will produce an updated and accurate medication form (much less schlep it around with them)?
The health care field is becoming increasingly fragmented (I mean, specialized), and it is now commonplace to interact with numerous "prescribers." There is a doctor for the lung and a doctor for the kidney and a doctor for the chi, and probably even a doctor for navel lint. canada drugs online
There are outpatient "primary" doctors, many of whom no longer "do" hospitals and thus do not follow their patients into the acute-care setting. If you become really sick and require institutionalization, there are so-called hospitalists (practitioners you've probably never seen before) who meet and greet you at the hospital and manage the intimate details of your care until it's time to go home. And for those less emergent situations when you really need to be seen but the primary doctor can't squeeze in another appointment or when the sun goes down, the weekend arrives, a vacation calls, or the Fourth of July beckons, there are occasional-care docs (like yours truly) who act as substitutes.
So there are a lot of faces and scripts swirling about the modern patient. It hurts my feelings to consider how few people still remember my name, amidst the madding crowd of "providers," even a month after I've seen them for postnasal drip or a throbbing hemorrhoid. And what do they recall about the medications that I might have prescribed?
Let's assume that most patients could be taught to carry around paper or computer files containing their medications (maybe even inserted under the skin by a microchip); how many do you reckon would keep these lists up to date?
Consider how many of us—even those of us with compulsive tendencies—are current with balancing our checkbooks, cleaning the rain gutters on our roofs, changing the oil in our cars, cutting our hair and toenails, dusting, submitting our expense reports, reading our professional trade magazines.
Remaining up-to-date is a tough proposition, even for the most "anal" of us. Add to this the fact that people who take multiple drugs (the truly at-risk population for medication-related problems) often have more than one chronic ailment and might not be feeling well or thinking clearly all the time. Does it really make sense to try to make patients the central nervous system for communicating important medical or drug information?
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Don't get me wrong. I am a patient-safety patriot to the core. I get misty at the mere thought of improving the doctor-patient relationship, making the health care system more transparent for the "customer," and encouraging greater patient participation and shared decision-making (violins, please).
I also love the idea of forcing physicians to consider, with each patient encounter, which drugs patients are taking and whether they should still be taking each one of these. Moreover, as medications may be stopped or started during hospitalization, it is completely logical to have each new caregiver, or the same practitioner for that matter, assess whether the patient should continue to receive each medication, as well as the proper dose, route, strength, and frequency of each one, every time the patient is moved from one venue to another (e.g., from the intensive-care unit to the medical ward).
Finally, it is crucial to make sure that the medications that patients are instructed to take upon discharge from the hospital are the proper ones.
But if doctors write some of their initial orders based partly on less than reliable information from the outset, we may simply be reconciling garbage collected from admission with garbage transcribed on discharge, beautifully compliant with the latest regulations but woefully inadequate in achieving the true goal of improving patient safety. And if we simply rely on patients to take the discharge list to the outpatient "provider," without making sure ourselves that the details of the hospitalization and medication discharge list are delivered to other practitioners, we may in fact be making a mockery of the concept of "continuity" of care.
Furthermore, by focusing on "processes of care" such as documentation, which are relatively easy to measure, we may be missing opportunities to improve patient safety, such as (1) educating patients about the reasons for prescribing each medication on a list and the possible side effects (good and bad) for each one and (2) understanding what drives patients to take or not take different drugs.
Both of these opportunities require time—something, alas, that is in short supply these days. Admittedly, both prospects have more qualitative than quantitative aspects to them, making them less desirable for measurement purposes and less titillating as commandments. Yet if we ignore the power of education and the power of listening, we might be doing our patients a royal disservice and might be merely fooling ourselves into believing that our surrogate measures of patient safety are meaningful.
If we subscribe to the concept that better "compliance" leads to better outcomes, we had better understand the factors that lead to compliance and noncompliance.


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"Sub-emitters must be children of the system that spawns them" error is shown even though sub-emitters are correctly parented
How to reproduce:
1. Open "EmitterIssue" project and "test stage 1..." scene
2. Enter playmode and pause it
3. Observe "Sub-emitters must be children of the system that spawns them" error appearing
4. Double click on the error in the console, it highlights "Debris" GameObject that has two sub-emitters "DebrisSmoke" and "DerisFire" that are correctly parented under "Debris" GameObject
Expected result: Error should not be shown, since "DebrisSmoke" and "DerisFire" sub-emitters are correctly parented under "Debris" GameObject as required in 5.6+ versions
Regression introduced in - 2017.2.0b1
Reproducible with - 2017.3.0a7, 2017.2.0b11, 2017.2.0b1
Not reproducible with - 2017.1.0p2, 2017.2.0a4
Note - Deleting some of the "MediumExplosionFX" prefabs, fixes the issue
Jan 25, 2019
We are currently testing a fix for this issue.
Mar 11, 2019 20:22
Still happening in 2017.4.22f1 LTS version
Nov 15, 2018 08:03
Only device occurs. unity 2018.2.4f1
Nov 02, 2018 09:38
This error is occurring in Unity 2018.2.11f1 too.
Sep 17, 2018 15:29
Also occurs on 2017.4.6f1
Aug 21, 2018 21:00
Its happening to me too!! :\
ITs been a year and its happening on 2018.2.0f2
Aug 19, 2018 17:01
I also have in 2017.3.1f1, even on the standard assets fireworks! Seems to be intermittent though, occasionally they fire off fine.
Aug 03, 2018 04:11
Problem still exists in Unity 2018.2.1f1, it appears to also cause a nasty memory leak. Again when this happens if you click on one of the parent particle systems in the scene and then go under subemitters and click the linked gameobject in the field it will highlight the child emitters location in the scene hierarchy and you can see it will be under the wrong parent and not the expected parent. So somehow they are being jumbled and assigned the wrong parent, this only happens when they are instantiated through code. If you drag them in as prefabs they maintain their correct relationship.
Jul 20, 2018 14:02
I am seeing this issue on 2017.3.1.f1 Personal... It started happening today after I opened up my project. No changes had been made, so I can't give you any helpful steps to reproduce it. It doesn't seem to break anything though, just has an error message.
It it highlighting a regular scene object and the sub-emitters are clearly child objects of the system. Hope that helps.
Jul 12, 2018 12:07
I have this as well in 2018.1.6. Doesn't seem to affect anything. Just displaying a error message.
Mar 28, 2018 13:31
Update: even though these are being instaniated from a prefab, i have found that when many are spawned the children are actually being assigned to the wrong parent which is triggering the error. once they are all spawned while in play mode, if you look at one of the parent particle systems in the scene and then go under subemitters and click the linked gameobject in the field it will highlight the child emitters location in the scene hierarchy and you can see it will be under the wrong parent and not the expected parent.
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Four UM-Dearborn grad programs stand out in latest rankings
U.S. News & World Report recognized one College of Business program and three College of Engineering and Computer Science programs in its annual "Best Graduate Schools" rankings.
In rankings released last week, U.S. News & World Report has recognized four University of Michigan-Dearborn graduate programs as among the state's best. The publication ranked the College of Business' (COB) part-time MBA program as second in Michigan. College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) programs in industrial engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering also were included in the publication's specialties rankings.
Associate Provost for Graduate, Global and Digital Education Ilir Miteza said each of the four programs recognized plays a role in strengthening the state's ability to attract and train a 21st century workforce.
"Professionals with graduate degrees drive innovation and enhance our global competitiveness," he said. "With larger and more complex global challenges, higher education will need to strengthen and advance graduate education, a key source of future human talent. That is the mission of these four exceptional graduate programs."
This marks the 10th consecutive year COB's part-time MBA program has been included in the publication. Part-time MBA rankings were based on five factors: average peer assessment score; average GMAT or GRE score for incoming students; average undergraduate GPA; work experience; and the percentage of the business schools MBA enrollment that is part time.
The publication based engineering specialty program rankings solely on peer assessment.
"That our faculty and programs are held in such high regard by their peers is a reflection of the success of our graduates and of the rigor, relevance and impact characteristic of the UM-Dearborn edge," Miteza said.
Learn more about the methodology and view additional rankings at the U.S. News site.


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In On Heights & Hunger, Josh MacIvor-Andersen writes passionately about working with his brother caretaking trees, his family's rural Christian childhood, and his struggle to witness distressed lives around the world -- all of which brought him both comfort and pain. We asked Josh talk about his influences, his process and his core beliefs.
Trees are at the heart of On Heights & Hunger. Do you still work with trees? Which do you prefer: trees or books?
When I veered away from full-time climbing over a decade ago, I took with me a ground saw, my top-handled climbing saw, all my ropes and harnesses and some rigging gear. Basically, I've made every move since with a small, streamlined tree care set up that I've used to help friends and colleagues, bring in a little beer money, hang swings, rescue cats. There's something comforting knowing that within a few minutes I can safely ascend to the tippy tops of our sprawling back-yard elm. Just in case. And in regards to the preference between books and trees, I've spent my adult life moving pretty seamlessly between the literary arts and hard work with my hands. I've found a fantastic symbiosis there, in a life where stories are sacred (from the stacks of picture books on my childrens' shelves to the Russian novels on ours) and physical labor is honored.
I remember itching to get done with a day of tree work in order to shower, bandage my wounds, and find a cafe to go write. Now, a day of tree climbing instead of grading or editing is like a reset button.
My plan is to continue to cultivate both until my elbows give out, perhaps my eyesight, too. Then: audio books and slow walks on level ground.
How do you think about your spirituality and your writing? Do you feel an evangelical responsibility when writing? Do you feel a political responsibility when writing?
It's hard for me to not write about spirituality and the metaphysical and meaning beyond what we can see or touch or know. I've said this before, but I can start trying to essay about something seemingly concrete and find myself reliably arcing back to God-stuff. It's like a sickness.
The impulse to write, I suppose, is somewhat missional (in as much as we write for an audience, a readership), but I'm not interested in morals or gospel truths. I think the baseline for all of my writing has been the desire to make someone else feel stuff. At first, it was the excitement of travel, of seeing the world through freshly-opened eyes. I wanted readers (mainly my mom and dad) to feel what it was like to arrive in Vilnius on the night train. The book, On Heights & Hunger, toggles between inviting readers into the visceral experience of climbing and the interior experience of faith and its lack.
These days, I'm mainly interested in conveying the absolute terror and elation of parenthood. That's where I'm at. That's where I want to bring readers. That's my mission—not to save anyone's soul, but connect through words over a shared human experience.
Why do you write nonfiction instead of fiction?
In my twenties I was searching for some kind of literary outlet and nonfiction was a natural extension of journaling, something that came easily to me. The more I tested different genres, from poetry to fiction to non, I realized my work benefitted from a scaffolding of facts, some kind of skeleton of verifiable events and characters. It was much more intuitive to put flesh on those skeletons through creative nonfiction than to start from scratch.
Fiction seemed preoccupied with total invention. I was mostly interested in translation, which is where nonfiction shines. As with any genre, the more I practiced, the more fluid the process became until it seemed organic. When I have time to write, I now simply start with something that happened, even a hazy memory, and go from there.
Who are the major influences on your writing? What writers do you like the most?
As a high school dropout, I took it upon myself in my late teens to retrace the literary canon I assumed I had missed out on. I started with Steinbeck, who seemed like required reading, and lost myself in his California and Oklahoma and rail cars and class struggles. He made me feel stuff I never knew I was capable of feeling. I tore through all of his books and had what I guess you might describe as a literary awakening.
When I started to travel and write in my early twenties, I discovered Ryszard Kapuściński who began his reportage with hard fact ("Here I am in Africa during a coup…") but then wove into those facts rich imagery and magical realism and pure wonder. Kapuściński gave me a model for how I, too, wanted to approach writing about real life. And the deeper I got into nonfiction the more important Annie Dillard and Joan Didion and then Dave Eggers became, and these days I'm gobbling up Angela Pelster-Webe's Limber and Lia Purpura's essays and immersion writers like Rebecca Skloot and John Jeremiah Sullivan and Mathew Gavin Frank and Katherine Boo.
But really, questions like this are totally unfair unless I were given more Q & A real estate! This is an embarrassingly truncated list.
What's next? What are you working on now?
Three projects:
1. Editing an anthology of nonfiction tethered to the theme of trees, forthcoming from Outpost19.
2. A book of narrative nonfiction focused on different facets of arrival, including ships and ship wrecks and what it means to dock or land or otherwise complete the leg of a journey, which of course merely leads to another departure. Some see the universe as a great and volatile recycler of all things. And here the iconic arrow bending into the next into the next comes to mind. Yet a competing view suggests that all existence is on some kind trajectory, bound for something closer to completion, be it entropy or a kingdom come.
In the same way I tried to use the visceral experience of ascending trees with a chainsaw to flesh out my thoughts on hunger, I've been using the techniques of immersion nonfiction to explore arrivals, including recently boarding the S.S. Arthur M. Anderson, the ore boat that sought to rescue any survivors of the Edmund Fitzgerald when it plunged to the bottom of Lake Superior in 1975.
I hope to board more ore boats as they criss cross the lakes, filling their bellies with coal or taconite. I hope to immerse myself in the mechanics of flight, particularly in what it takes for a plane to descend, land, and come to rest at the precise place a hydraulic, accordion-like gate is waiting. I hope to explore the migrations of butterflies, Lindbergh's famous trans-Atlantic flight to Paris, and to deepen my knowledge of the life of Bernard Moitessier who failed to complete his bid for the Golden Globe sailing prize in order to simply not stop, to never arrive, which he said would "save his soul."
3. Co-editing a collection of essays from the children of Jesus Movement with sociologist Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick.


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Close to 13,000 high school students received college credit within the Wisconsin Technical College System in 2010. That number rose to more than 22,000 last year. System spokesman Conor Smyth said students and families are putting a premium on affordability.
"If they can walk out of high school with three, six, nine, 18 college credits at no cost to the student or their family, we're talking about a semester or more of college," said Smyth. "They're saving both time and money."
Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College Academic Affairs Vice President Bonny Copenhaver said they signed more than 300 agreements during the 2013-14 school year with 47 high schools so students can receive credit for courses they took.
"They're getting college credit and they're getting high school credit," she said.
Copenhaver said students who get credits early are better positioned to get a job out of high school or seek additional schooling.
In related news, a proposal has been circulated for support among legislators by State Rep. Tom Weatherston (R-Caledonia) and State Sen. Van Wanggaard (R-Racine) to require school districts to inform parents/guardians of graduating 8th graders about opportunities in technical education within their district and programs available through local technical colleges.


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— Greetings, crewmembers,
v0.93h is out! You can download it in the #releases section of the Discord.
This is a major update with brand new interfaces for the Pilot, the Sonar and the Gunner, a brand new tutorial and a new super cool chat system!
Major changes:
-gameplay added a chat/info system
-gameplay redesign sonar actions
-graphics new pilot interface
-graphics new sonar interface
-graphics new gunner interface
-level design Create a tutorial
-bug avoid putting : in the player name
-graphics X/C to change help screen : display directly on each panel
-bug put : after player name in the lobby
-level design add crystal when boss is destroyed
-graphics add light for alarms
-graphics set any UI impossible command in red
-graphics change engineer color in yellow
-graphics make rotating grid (north/south/east/west) for all views
-graphics redo gunner grid, and make it disappear when unzooming
-graphics design front weapon graphics
-gameplay engineer should be unable to unzoom
-gameplay improve tutorial messages
-gameplay add torpedo target distance (not only direction)
-gameplay make new aiming system for gunner
-gameplay set processor=crystal, energy and scrap reserve for engineer
-gameplay 3 rear modules : flare, decoy, bait
-gameplay replace front weapon effect by stun ?
-gameplay find an action for the space bar for the sonar player
-gameplay hook not enough visible
-gameplay improve submarine displacement by pilot
-gameplay replace front weapon by hook (which grabs crystals/scrap)
-gameplay replace dash by emergency mode (acceleration and rotation greatly improved)
-gameplay energy is lost if engineer fills a full jauge
-gameplay energy module upgrade: reserve should be higher (instead of slower decrease)
-bug when go back as pilot as normal, comes back at -1/2
-bug torpedo count is wrong on gunner screen
Detailed changelog can be found here: http://bit.ly/2lhY4UR
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Design and construct a Fire Rated encasement for a smoke extract exhaust and kitchen extract exhaust, together with a suitable supporting frame work that can support the weight of the Fire Rated encasement.
All methods were based upon approved tested systems that have been tested in accordance with Australian Standards. To achieve the scope of works the Fire Rated encasement was constructed using Promat Promatech L500 together with Promat sealants and approved fixings. The L500 was used to encase and form the duct. It was also required to be Fire Rated from both directions. The structural steel supports were clad with Promat P50 to protect it, as they were inside the duct. This was a complex build with many logistic and build ability issues. The project lasted a over 4 months using over 200 sheets of board.


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Título: Score Metrics for Learning Bayesian Networks used as Fitness Function in a Genetic Algorithm
Autores: Santos, Edimilson B. dos; Hruschka Jr., Estevam R.; Ebecken, Nelson F. F.
Resumo: Variable Ordering (VO) information may be used as a constraint to reduce the search space of learning Bayesian Networks (BNs) from data. Several authors have proposed the use of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) to find such an ordering. In this work, a genetic algorithm named VOGA (Variable Ordering Genetic Algorithm) has been applied to this goal. Since the fitness function plays an important role in the performance of genetic algorithms, we present and discuss five score metrics, applied to induce BNs from data, to be used as fitness function in VOGA. The main objective is to investigate the VOGA performance when employing different metrics.
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Código DOI: 10.21528/CBIC2011-38.2
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Administrators in charge of the Robstown Independent School District�s finances and curriculum both resigned their positions on Tuesday, while the district�s superintendent announced his intent to depart from the RISD after graduation.
RISD Superintendent Alfonso Obregon on Wednesday said Business Manager Jodi Schroedter and Cynthia Mellinger n the district�s executive director for curriculum, instruction and compliance n submitted letters of resignation to his office on Tuesday.
The notices were submitted prior to that day�s meeting of the RISD Board of Trustees. The school board unanimously approved the acceptance of both resignations at Tuesday�s meeting.
In her letter, Mellinger praised the work done by Obregon since he arrived at the district in November 2009 in working with educators and administrators at each of the district�s campuses.
�It has been a profound honor to work with you and be a part of a very successful and dedicated team (that) truly has only the best interests of students at heart. I wish to express my profound appreciation for your leadership and guidance,� she wrote. �The central office team, under your tutoring, exemplifies a student-centered professional learning community.�
Schroedter, meanwhile, expressed her hope that the district continues moving forward in a positive direction in her letter to Obregon and the Board of Trustees.
�That you for (giving) me the opportunity to learn and contribute to (the) Robstown Independent School District,� she wrote. �I wish the district nothing but success going forward and will miss working with you and many co-workers.�
Obregon said the departure of both Mellinger and Schroedter would have a significant impact on the school district, adding that discussions have yet to be held on possible replacements.
Mellinger and Schroedter will finish out the school year, with their last days scheduled to be June 24.
�This is a great loss for the school district, especially during these trying times of budget crises,� Obregon said. �They both have been an asset to this district during their tenures and they�ll be missed by all departments based on their prior job performance.�
Obregon submitted a letter of intent to the Board of Trustees on Tuesday, as well, although it was not discussed during the school board�s meeting that night. In the letter, Obregon said he is considering submitting his resignation prior to the end of his current contract, which is set to expire on June 30, 2012.
Obregon wrote that he would be submitting a formal letter of resignation on June 4, the day after the Robstown High School graduation takes place.
On Thursday, Obregon said the letter of intent was meant to give the current Board of Trustees adequate time to look at all avenues that might need to be taken in terms of finding a potential replacement for the superintendent position. The letter submitted on Tuesday was not a formal resignation, but rather a letter announcing Obregon�s intent to turn in an official resignation letter at a future date.
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LAS VEGAS — A gladiator, indeed.
Thomas E. Rothman, Sony's movie chairman, walked into the Coliseum at Caesars Palace here last month and paced on stage as 4,000 movie theater executives watched. He then charged through a presentation intended to convince them that his studio — finally — had a lineup of hits. He called it "the new Sony."
There was sizzling footage from "Baby Driver," a heist thriller and pseudomusical set for release on June 28. Next came clips from "Spider-Man: Homecoming," arriving in July, and an eye-popping preview of a "Blade Runner" sequel. "Netflix, my ass," Mr. Rothman blurted out, to cheers.
Since taking over Sony's struggling studio in February 2015, Mr. Rothman, 62, has worked feverishly to execute a turnaround. He has made some progress, especially in areas like film budgets (now much lower) and the international box office. But Mr. Rothman has yet to deliver a global hit that he can claim as his own — the kind that would cement his leadership in the eyes of Hollywood and at Sony headquarters in Tokyo.
The pressure to find one is increasing. Sony Pictures Entertainment is in the midst of hiring a chief executive to succeed Michael Lynton, who stepped down in January. That person, who will be Mr. Rothman's boss, faces all kinds of fires. Sony's two top television production executives, for instance, have not yet renewed their expiring contracts. But a new chief executive could also decide to tweak the movie division if he (or she, albeit that is unlikely) believes results are not coming fast enough.
The good news, analysts and longtime Hollywood power players say, is that the films Mr. Rothman has lined up — at least on paper and in early footage — look like the stuff of which profitable movie companies are made. Even modest financial improvement would go a long way; in February, Sony took a nearly $1 billion write-down on its movie and television production business, something it attributed in part to the accelerating deterioration in the home entertainment market.
"Here is why I believe that Tom is the right person to be running that studio," Ari Emanuel, co-chief executive of the William Morris Endeavor talent agency, said by phone from India, where he was on a meditation retreat. "He understands that the movie business is not about 2017. It's about 2020. It's about the challenges that are coming."
Mr. Emanuel added, "I don't think you could find anyone better."
What about Mr. Rothman's in-your-face operating style, which irritates some producers and members of his own staff? "He's tough," Mr. Emanuel said. "I happen to enjoy the straight shooting."
Mr. Rothman, who declined to comment for this article, joined Sony in 2013 after being ousted as chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment. Amy Pascal, then Sony's top movie executive, charged Mr. Rothman with reviving TriStar Productions, a semimoribund Sony division. He set about putting together creatively bold, modestly budgeted films like "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," a military parable directed by Ang Lee, and "The Walk," a 3-D thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both were flops.
After a devastating cyberattack on Sony in 2014, Ms. Pascal left the studio, with Mr. Rothman succeeding her as movie chairman. He started slashing and burning — restructuring the marketing group, overhauling the consumer products operation, shifting the studio's priorities to China and other growing foreign markets, tripling animation production, clamping down on lavish payments to stars and emphasizing low-cost, high-profit faith-based films.
Mr. Rothman, a cinema historian, has also been vocal about the need for Hollywood to invest in original movie ideas. Yes, remakes and sequels are a big part of the business. But studios also have a responsibility to make bets on fresh concepts, he said.
"Too much homogeneity will speed up, not stave off, the decline of our beloved art form," Mr. Rothman said in January when he accepted the Producers Guild of America's milestone award.
But recharting an old-line studio's course takes years. Because event movies take so long to plan and produce — visual effects work alone can take a year — some of Mr. Rothman's bigger efforts are only now arriving.
One example is "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," which is scheduled for release in December and stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart.
When it became known that Mr. Rothman and his team were working intensely to revive "Jumanji," a 1995 family fantasy about children trapped in a board game, movie fans groaned: a sure sign of desperation as Mr. Rothman scoured Sony's library for potential franchises. But the tone instantly changed when the studio unveiled comedic "Welcome to the Jungle" footage in Las Vegas. A likely hit? The cheer that erupted from theater owners afterward was certainly a positive sign.
As every studio knows, one megahit can turn the tide. Mr. Rothman's lineup could well have one or more. Spider-Man has been overworked in the last decade, but fan buzz for "Homecoming" is strong, in part because with this one, unlike earlier Spider-Man movies, Marvel Studios is deeply involved. "Baby Driver," which stars a pouty-lipped Ansel Elgort and was made for just $35 million, could be a sleeper smash.
Not every movie on Mr. Rothman's schedule will succeed. One big question mark is "The Dark Tower," a $60 million action adventure adapted from the Stephen King book series and set for release in August. But no one can say that Mr. Rothman — emotional and feisty, a throwback to the movie bosses of old — is not giving a turnaround his all.
During the Las Vegas presentation, which was part of the CinemaCon convention, Mr. Rothman engaged in banter with Ryan Gosling, who stars in Denis Villeneuve's "Blade Runner 2049." They discussed shooting a scene for the $150 million movie (a collaboration with Alcon Entertainment) that involved Mr. Gosling being doused with water — repeatedly.
"You were actually the only person with the power to stop that," Mr. Gosling said, feigning frustration. "And yet you did nothing."
Mr. Rothman laughed and said, "As a matter of fact, I think I was in the back saying, 'You know, I think we need one more.'"


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16 October 2019
The Pharmacy Guild's myCPD learning site has gone from strength to strength over four years and in the past CPD year the site saw 40 per cent growth.
12 December 2018
The Pharmacy Guild has completed the first phase of the 6CPA Community Pharmacy in Health Care Homes trial program with the development of 10 training modules co-designed by Guild Learning and Development and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
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Smith Journal volume three is full of fascinating spaces and the stories of the inspired folks who work, live and think within them.
There are the coffee houses of 18th century Europe where people from different classes and occupations would literally bump into one another to share ideas, and a 100-year-old workshop in Germany's Black Forest where a young man makes cuckoo clocks with his father.
There's a small studio on the top of a record factory where the owner sneaks up to listen to old albums after hours, and the inside of a prison cell where zero resources and a compulsion to ink give rise to clandestine invention. Plus heaps more stories and random coolness.
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