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Achieving Gender Justice & Reconciliation - Koketso Moeti
On 22 November 2017, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) in partnership with LEAD SA, will celebrate 10 young African activists (between the ages of 18 – 35), who are doing exceptional work in the Gender Justice Field.
Since the year 2000, the IJR hosts the prestigious Reconciliation awards ceremony where individuals or organisations are recognised for their contribution in advancing reconciliation across different spheres of society.
Building on from last year's successful introduction of the Rising Shaper award where three young people who made an outstanding contribution to achieving nation-building and reconciliation were recognised, this year 10 young activists were chosen from 47 public nominations.
Koketso Moeti, **South Africa **
Koketso Moeti has worked for range of international and national organisations. She currently serves as the Founder and Executive Director of amandla.mobi a community of over 128, 000 people working to turn every cellphone into a democracy building tool.
She is also the Deputy Chairperson of the SOS Coalition and a 2017 Aspen Institute New Voices fellow. Koketso has a long background in civic activism and has over the years worked at the intersection of governance, communication and citizen action.
When she's not working, she can be found peddling words and has been published by the Mail & Guardian, City Press and Al Jazeera among others. Most importantly, Koketso has no sense of humour so don't bother trying to make jokes with her, it's a waste of both yours and her time.


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The Macallan distillery was founded in 1824 by Alexander Reid, a barley farmer and school teacher. Now owned by the Edrington Group, The Macallan prides itself on its Six Pillars, which include its curiously small stills, very narrow 'cut' of new make spirit and exceptional cask management. It is the most sought after whisky for collectors, regularly setting records at auctions all round the world.
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Apple didn't disappoint with its Sept. 9 product announcements, unveiling a largest-ever 12.9-inch iPad Pro table for the enterprise, revamped and updated iPhone 6s models, intriguing updates for Apple Watch, the new version of Apple TV and a long-rumored iPad Mini 4.
The new devices were announced during a two-hour media event in San Francisco where Apple CEO Tim Cook and a who's-who list of Apple executives paraded out new features and improved capabilities for the company's products.
"Huge morning for us," said Cook in a presentation that was also streamed live on the Internet.
The updates to the iPhone 6 line are impressive, but probably the biggest news of the day is the big-screen, business-aimed iPad Pro, which has been rumored for some time as a device that could help the company capture a larger foothold in business computing.
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To add emphasis to this point, Cook said that Apple is "partnering with IBM and Cisco to redefine how people work in the enterprise" with the new iPad Pro. "We asked ourselves, how can we take iPad even further? Today, we have the biggest news in iPads since the iPad. It's the most capable and powerful iPad we've ever created."
Instead of just making the iPad with a bigger display, Apple has given the new business-targeted machine more power and performance than any iOS device the company has ever made, said Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple.
Running the new iOS 9 operating system, the iPad Pro has a 12.9-inch diagonal display made up of 5.6M pixels, which is more pixels than a 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, he said. "It's an amazing experience. This is the most advanced display we've ever built."
The latest iPad includes Apple's new third-generation 64-bit A9X chip, which has two times the memory bandwidth of previous versions, helping to make the machine faster than 80 percent of the portable PCs shipped in the past year, he said.
The iPad Pro also includes 10-hour battery life, Apple's first-time-ever four-speaker audio system and a weight of 1.57 pounds. It also features an 8 megapixel iSight rear-facing camera, a 5MP FaceTime HD camera, Touch ID and superfast 802.11ac WiFi.
Also available are two optional accessories–a snap-on physical "Smart Keyboard" for users who desire the feel of real keys and the new Apple Pencil, which allows users to "draw" on the iPad with a stylus for accurate inputs.
When they become available in November, the iPad Pro will come in silver, gold or space gray and will be priced at $799 for 32GB with WiFi, $949 for a 128GB version, or $1,079 for a 128GB model with both WiFi and LTE cellular. The accessory keyboard is priced at $169, while the Pencil is $99.
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3D Touch is the latest generation of Apple's established multi-touch input system, said Schiller. It not only recognizes familiar gestures, but also the amount of force being provided by a user on the screen.
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Much of the bleeding edge work that goes on in the global high performance computing community takes place in federally funded supercomputing centers and laboratories around the world. These are the places destined to get the first petascale supercomputers, where grand challenge applications can be pushed to their grandest limits. But now that high performance computing is firmly entrenched in all types of organizations — commercial, academic and government — it's safe to say that mainstream HPC is much more common than high-end supercomputing.
This democratization of supercomputing means cluster computing machines have become the de facto HPC architecture for people without deep pockets, i.e., most of the world. This is the reason the cluster model has become the dominant force shaping the industry, and the reason why the number of departmental and workgroup cluster systems are growing at double-digit rates. Since the way people use capability supercomputers is rather different from the way they use cluster computing, this dichotomy tends to split the HPC community in a variety of ways. One of the most important ways this manifests itself is the different ways HPC software is developed.
The legacy applications and libraries of high performance computing are almost entirely written in Fortran or C, with MPI thrown in to provide the parallelism. This level of technology almost always requires a software engineer to be in the room when any non-trivial application is developed. This is a workable arrangement for supercomputing centers and the national labs; programmers can be sequestered on demand. In this environment, plenty of time is devoted to squeeze the last bit of performance from the application. Such are the advantages of federally funded enterprises (at least when they're properly funded).
Once you leave the rarified atmosphere of supercomputing centers and national labs, the situation changes. As I've implied in previous articles on the subject, not every department or workgroup is going to be able to afford their very own software engineer. It's a simple numbers game. So if these groups are planning to develop their own applications, rather than just using someone else's, then another programming model must be considered.
One promising development is the emergence of high-level parallel languages like UPC (Universal Parallel C), CAF (Co-Array Fortran), and Titanium (parallel Java). Also in process is the development of the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) language being pursued with DARPA money. Currently there are three HPCS languages: Chapel, X10, and Fortress. Eventually DARPA will whittle these down to one. In general though, this entire group represents third generation languages (3GLs) with built-in constructs for parallelism.
By increasing the level of abstraction for parallelism, these languages promise to increase productivity for HPC development. But by themselves, they won't be able to deliver high performance computing to the small developer.
Why not?
Because they are high-level languages in name only. The term is applied to any language that rises above the abstraction of assembly code. This includes all 3GLs like C/C++, Fortran, Java, etc. To be honest, true high-level programming languages don't exist yet. I mean this in the same sense that high-level human languages don't exist either. Is Mandarin high-level? Certainly not to me. All these "new" parallel programming languages will still be dependent on software engineers.
There are other programming models that may come to play a very important role in high performance computing. They fall under the general categories of domain specific languages (DSLs) and fourth generation languages (4GLs). As compared to a general-purpose language, DSLs attempt to be expressive for a specific subject matter or domain, while 4GLs emphasize higher level of abstraction. For both types, the execution model is often interactive, rather than compiled. Much of this technology is built on 3GLs, making use of both the older language environments and 3GL libraries.
In practice, the features of these DSLs and 4GLs overlap quite a bit, and are often just referred to as "very high-level languages". Because these languages target rather large domains and usually provide greater abstraction, they are accessible to a wider audience. Specifically, they are targeted to people without formal computer science training.
Example of these languages include MATLAB for scientific and mathematical computing; SQL for database applications; and Excel for financial and other numerical business applications. Today, all three of these have parallelized variants. The MathWorks and Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) have their own versions of a parallel-enabled MATLAB. In this week's issue we discuss ISC's version with Bill Blake, the new CEO. Parallel versions of SQL have been developed by a number of vendors. For example, both Microsoft and Oracle have built platforms that can distribute SQL database queries across multiple machines. Finally, Microsoft is combining an Excel Services front end with Microsoft Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003 to parallelize spreadsheet computations. A prototype was demonstrated at the SIA (Securities Industry Association) Technology Management Conference last June.
While parallel programming languages like UPC may help increase productivity for the HPC elite, my money is on the parallelized versions of the DSLs/4GLs to help spread HPC to the masses. At least until we get to the 5GLs.
As always, comments about HPCwire are welcomed and encouraged. Write to me, Michael Feldman, at [email protected].


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Want to know just how in the tank MSNBC's Dan Abrams is for Barack Obama?
On Thursday's "Verdict," the network's former general manager actually tried to deflect criticism from Michelle Obama by bringing up statements John McCain made concerning his experience as a Vietnam POW making him realize how much he loves America.
This is how Abrams began the program: "Tonight: We have uncovered comments from John McCain on camera that could undermine the steady right-wing attacks against Michelle Obama."
Is that Abrams' role as a journalist: to undermine attacks against the wife of a presidential candidate?
Readers are warned that the following transcript is likely to offend them in a fashion that might not be desired on a Saturday (video embedded upper right, use scrollbars to center, h/t Hot Air via NBer Thomas Stewart):
DAN ABRAMS, HOST: Hi, everyone.
Tonight: We have uncovered comments from John McCain on camera that could undermine the steady right-wing attacks against Michelle Obama. For weeks, Mrs. Obama has been blasted by the right for her comments in February that, quote, "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."
This morning, Cindy McCain said she's always been proud of her country. Well, are Mrs. Obama's words really that different from this comment we found from John McCain on FOX earlier this year?
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, ® PRESUMPTIVE PRES. NOMINEE: I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company.
ABRAMS: "I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company." And our research shows McCain has repeatedly made similar comments through the years. In fact, it appears it was a running theme in his campaign in 1999.
First, here is the full context of the comment McCain made in March on FOX News. Sean Hannity asked him about his time as a POW, asking quote, "What does that do to a person to spend that much time in solitary confinement?" John McCain said, "I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company. But probably the most important thing about it, Sean, is that I was privileged to have the opportunity to serve in the company of heroes."
In 1999, Mr. McCain launched his campaign for president saying this -
MCCAIN: I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.
ABRAMS: And then again in December of 1999, McCain said, quote, "I was not in love with America until I was deprived of her company."
Look, I think McCain's comment is eloquent, it's even inspiring. No one should pass judgment on his time as a heroic POW. But is that statement that McCain has repeated so often about only coming to love America really that different from Michelle Obama's comment that the right and now even Cindy McCain are using, to question her patriotism?
Mrs. Obama has repeatedly tried to clarify it, that hasn't made a dent in the right-wing assaults. Her comment was in the context of her pride in the political process, her desire for change. So, won't these McCain comments that we've uncovered, blunt the attacks on Michelle Obama?
Can you believe this nonsense? Is McCain's comment really that different than Michelle's?
A young man is held prisoner for five years, withstands unthinkable tortures, and comes away with a love for his country that he hadn't felt before. And that's akin to a $400k a year lawyer saying that she's never been proud of her country until her husband's success on the presidential campaign trail?
Furthermore, did Abrams really ask on national television, "So, won't these McCain comments that we've uncovered, blunt the attacks on Michelle Obama?" Is that what qualifies as journalism now over at MSNBC?
Alas, there was more. Pay particular attention to the demeaning way Abrams talks to his conservative guests, and how Newsweek's Jonathan Alter considers criticism directed at Mrs. Obama as clearly racist:
ABRAMS: Joining us now: The editor of "The Nation," Katrina Vanden Heuvel;
"Newsweek's" Jonathan Alter; Republican strategist, Brad Blakeman; and, right-wing talk show host Lars Larson.
All right. Thanks to all of you for coming on. Appreciate it.
All right. Brad, this seems to me to be a pretty big development among those people who've been trying to smear Michelle Obama.
BRAD BLAKEMAN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: It's not a development at all. John McCain was a POW for five years. I've traveled abroad to many third world countries and never appreciated America more than when I came back to America. It's the little things that you miss and I'm sure John McCain felt the same way when he was a prisoner of war.
ABRAMS: But, Lars, what Brad is doing is providing context to John McCain's comment. And as I said, I had no problem with John McCain's comment but people like you, Lars, had been on the air smearing Michelle Obama on this sort of notion that she doesn't love America, et cetera. John McCain said, "I didn't really love America until I was deprived of her company."
You can take that comment out of context the same way you've been taking Michelle Obama's comment out of context for weeks now. You tell me how that's any different.
LARS LARSON, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: I'll tell you how it's different. I think there is a different context. Michelle Obama is an amazingly, fortunate individual. She's well-educated, she's well-compensated. She's married to a presidential candidate. That's about as high as you get in America and, yet, here's a woman who stands up and gives speeches on behalf of her husband and goes beyond talking about being proud.
She says America is a place, as a country, that's just downright mean, that average people can't make it, that the country does horrible things. She and her husband are friends with what-a terrorist, Mr. Ayers, a criminal, Mr. Rezko. I mean, you know, put it in that context.
ABRAMS: But this is when you start in the nonsense, all right? This is when you start with the nonsense.
LARSON: Why is it nonsense? Dan, why is that nonsense?
ABRAMS: Because, look, the notion-Jonathan, it's like champing at the bit here. I let you respond to it if you want.
JONATHAN ALTER, NEWSWEEK: Yes, you're say he's just talking trash and nonsense and it's a slur. And you know, it's really, it's actually, frankly, it's kind of appalling that you and -
LARSON: Jonathan, why is it trash and nonsense to quote somebody?
ALTER: Because it's not true, you don't know Michelle Obama, you haven't spoken to her as I have. To many of her friends, black, white, many different people -
ALTER: Let me just quickly try to dispenser this. You're taking it out of context intentionally to try to twist her words for your own political purposes.
LARSON: I'm not. I'm not taking her out of context.
ALTER: It's below, and it's borderline racist. I'm not saying you're a racist but the comments are borderline racist.
Astonishing. So, anyone that criticizes Mrs. Obama for this statement is racist? Talk about nonsense.
But there was more. Pay particular attention to the Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel actually referring to Lars Larson as a "right-wing nut":
ABRAMS: All right. But here's what I want to ask, Katrina, right? I want to-coming back to this comment from John McCain because here's-
Lars Larson and I wanted to go to him early just to make sure you understood what the right and the far right have been doing with regard to Michelle Obama. They take these comments, they take them out of context. OK, look, they want to do that, more power to them, it's a free country.
My problem is, that when you hear what John McCain said, that's why I was so stunned by these words from John McCain, saying, "I didn't really love America until I was deprived of her company." You can take that just as out of context as you can Michelle Obama's comment.
Hang on one second and I'll let you respond. Lars, hang on one second.
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL, THE NATION: Absolutely. And I think that those comments of John McCain should blunt the right-wing attempt to demonize and smear an honorable woman who has a great family, who is inspiring, and there is a reason that Barack Obama campaign has set up a smear unit to defuse what we've just heard.
It is a scandal that we have politics like this when there are great issues roiling this country. Someone out there that one of the right-wing nuts just said, "Average people can't make it," and said that that was a slur on our country.
Breaking the news to you-there are thousands of people today who lost their jobs, there are thousands who can't drive to a job because they can't pay gas prices, or who lost their health care insurance. We can do better in this country, we can.
Yes, there are thousands of people that have recently lost jobs. However, with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, that means the overwhelming majority of average people are employed and are making it.
Of course, facts and statistics are unimportant to folks on the left:
ABRAMS: But, Lars, I challenge you, if Michelle Obama had used the words -
LARSON: Dan, I'll tell you what -
ABRAMS: Wait, if Michelle Obama had used the words, "I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company," and let's say it was in the context of something totally different. You would be out there taking it out of context and saying, "Michelle Obama doesn't love her country," you'd be on the radio every day. "Michelle Obama doesn't love her country, et cetera." And John McCain used those words.
That's absurd. If Michelle Obama had served in Desert Storm for example, and was a hostage of Saddam's forces before being rescued, a claim by her that she really didn't love her country until she was a prisoner would be viewed exactly as McCain's comments: that the horror and terror of captivity made her realize just how much she loved her nation.
As such, for Michelle and McCain's comments to be at all similar, Mrs. Obama's adult life would have to be the equivalent of being a POW for five years, which is certainly not the case.
On a lighter not, Larson deliciously replied to Abrams' non sequiturs with the best line of the night whilst pointing out just how absurd the analogy being made was:
LARSON: You know what, Dan, unfortunately, you couldn't qualify as one of my producers. Let me tell you a couple of things-first of all, America is the land of opportunity. Millions of people around this planet recognize this and apparently, your lefty guests don't recognize -
ABRAMS: Yes, thank you. Thank goodness we have Lars Larson here to inform us about that, OK.
LARSON: Listen, there are people-listen.
ABRAMS: Let him finish. Go ahead, Lars.
LARSON: Dan, do I get to respond or not?
ABRAMS: Yes, you do. Go ahead.
LARSON: Do I get to respond or not? Listen, this country is a land of opportunities. When Michelle Obama says average people can't make it, yes, people lose their jobs. But for the most part, America is a land of wonderful opportunities which, apparently, Michelle Obama, even with all her education, doesn't see. And the smear that you put on people like me is, the minute I mention, the minute I quote her words -
ABRAMS: But see, but you're not answering my question, Lars. Lars, you're not answering and I'm going to ask it to Brad.
I'll ask you the same question, Brad. If Michelle Obama had used the words we've uncovered from John McCain, "I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company."
LARSON: But she didn't.
ABRAMS: But you're missing the point, Lars. Lars, John McCain said it. John McCain said it. That's the point. I want to get Brad in here for a second.
BLAKEMAN: But, Dan, not only didn't she say it, not only didn't she say it, but she certainly would have never said it in the context that John McCain said it.
ABRAMS: The context matters now.
BLAKEMAN: It's two totally different things, two totally different things.
ALTER: Yes, right.
VANDEN HEUVEL: I disagree with almost every policy of John McCain's, but anyone who runs for president and you can disagree with where they want to take this country, loves this country. Why would they run to lead a country they hate?
The right-wing wants to make Barack Obama and his wife that to be like the Manchurian candidate. They love this country, they have benefited from the opportunities of this country, they want to lead it in a new direction after the damage done-seven years of plundering and looting this country. Now, we're going to give it all to the oil companies in Iraq?
ABRAMS: Here's Cindy McCain this morning, OK, and part of the reason we're really talking about this tonight and why this is so important. This is how we uncovered this in the context of our research, was listening to Cindy McCain answer a question on "Good Morning America" about Michelle Obama.
CINDY MCCAIN, SEN. MCCAIN'S WIFE: Everyone has their own experience. I don't know why she said what she said. All I know is that I've always been proud of my country.
ABRAMS: I mean, the problem here, Jonathan, again, is these taking out of context. This has become a gotcha election. Look, everyone has to accept that. You may hate it and rightfully so. But the bottom line is, guys like Lars Larson are out there, everyday, taking Michelle's comment and either fairly -
LARSON: Hold on a second. Dan -
ABRAMS: I'm not saying you inaccurately stated it. I'd just said you're - let me finish the sentence.
LARSON: No, but hold on a second. I quoted her accurately -
ABRAMS: Lars, you're going to wait. Lars, you're going to wait. And I said people like Lars Larson take comments from Michelle Obama, and they then go on the air, and they, you know, they'll make an entire segment, two segments with a sentence that Michelle Obama said. He'll say she said it more than once, et cetera. And he'll even say that it's a theme. But again, looking at these comments from John McCain -
LARSON: It is.
ABRAMS: Listening from these comments from John McCain, the 1999 campaign, he said it, he said it again on FOX News this year, and I don't begrudge him for it, but what I do is I use it to say-this is insanity what's going on here.
ALTER: Well, look -
LARSON: Dan, can I add something -
ABRAMS: Let me let Jonathan. Go ahead.
ALTER: Look, I have great respect for the McCains, affection. In fact, I'm attacked sometimes from the left because I like both John and Cindy McCain very, very much. But I think that Laura Bush had the right approach on this. She wrote, she wrote Michelle Obama a note after these comments were taken out of context and she recognized that -
ABRAMS: Let me play that sound. I think I have the sound of Laura Bush talking about it. Let me play that sound.
LAURA BUSH, AMERICA'S FIRST LADY: I think she probably meant "I'm more proud," you know, is what she really meant. You have to be really careful in what you say. Everything you say is looked at and in many cases, misconstrued.
ABRAMS: I mean, you've got to give Laura Bush credit.
ALTER: Absolutely. She's a classy lady, Laura Bush. And the idea, you know, that these folks, you know, want to just pull our politics lower and lower and lower -
VANDEN HEUVEL: Yes, into the mud.
ALTER: It's not even mud, it's stupidity is what it really is.
LARSON: Hey, Dan, Dan, the ad hominem attacks deserve a response.
ALTER: Come on, look. Let me ask you this, Lars-have you ever actually met Michelle Obama? Have you ever spoken to her? Have you ever spoken to anybody who knows her?
LARSON: No. I've taken her in her quoted words.
ALTER: Do you think that's the totality of Michelle Obama? Do you believe that's the way to assess what she believes about the world?
LARSON: No, I don't. Hey, listen -
ALTER: Do you think that's the way to assess what kind of human she is and what she thinks about America to snip a couple of quotes (INAUDIBLE) out of context?
LARSON: Dan, I'm not going to get a chance to respond, am I?
ALTER: Let me finish my point, Lars, you don't know Michelle Obama, you have no right to judge her in this passion.
LARSON: I don't claim to.
ALTER: And it's contemptible that you do.
ABRAMS: Go ahead, Lars.
LARSON: I think this is wrong. Trent Lott was judged based on one sentence he said at an old man's birthday party and the left didn't apologize for that. The fact is that this woman went out and gave this speech four different times, she knew a reporter was following her, she was speaking on behalf of her husband. I'm not taking her out of context and the minute I quote her words in context, the first thing you bring up is her skin color.
Now, I think as that's contemptible because what you're trying to say is, if I quote her actual words and context, the fact that she has black skin, that's her immunity from being quoted. That's racism on your part.
ALTER: You're trying to turn her into a stereotype of an angry black woman. We know exactly what you're trying to say.
LARSON: No, I'm not. I'm quoting her words.
ABRAMS: Hang on one second.
VANDEN HEUVEL: I don't know your name, but this country -
LARSON: I don't care what color she is.
VANDEN HEUVEL: This country was founded in sin and, also, in greatness. And it's that fusion, which I do think, if we don't talk about, is dishonest to where we might
ABRAMS: Hang on a second. Brad, I'm going to give you the final word on this, but, again, John McCain's words, "I really didn't love America until I was deprived to her company," people are going to take it out of context and I can assure you that if Michelle Obama has said those words in any context, Lars Larson and people like him would be all over it.
Brad, final word on it.
BLAKEMAN: OK. Let me put this into context. The reason why Michelle Obama was not given the benefit of the doubt is because it became upon the heels of outrageous statements by her pastor and by others close to them who spoke for them. And people like Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger and others, gave more power to Michelle Obama's words that maybe should have been given credence to but that's the way it was.
ABRAMS: It seems to me, on the one hand, you say it's important to put it into context, and on the other hand, it's important to take it out of context.
But anyway, all right. We're going to continue, thanks to our great panel. Everyone is sticking around.
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I'm a copycat. You know how it goes in the blog world….especially the food blog world. You see what someone is making that is just awesome to you and you decide you have to make it too. Heck, you might even have to post about it yourself. You also can go in streaks where you cook from the same person's blog one thing after another….I've had it happen to me with several blogs out there. Today I made something else Katrina of Bakng with Boys made. Yeah, I changed it a little, but not much. But my, oh my, are these cookies ever good!
It was a long weekend for me. We went back north, visited family and friends, I bought some cherished Jernabi Coffee, had dinner with the family at Little Italy, and made it home before the snow started to fall. I did laundry, caught up on some of my reading, watched some TV and of course, made these cookies. When I was mixing the batter Grumpy came to the kitchen and informed me that I wasn't supposed to be baking because he needed to be on a diet. Well duh, who said the cookies were for him? ;o) ha. So, instead of throwing white chocolate in, I tossed in dark chocolate and then decided to top the cookies with some grey sea salt. Grumpy saw the dough in the fridge chilling and said "I thought you were making macadamia cookies?" Well, I said, I did make them. I just threw in dark chocolate. After a little grumbling I heard "well, just so you know, the dough is pretty good." He also promptly wanted to know what it was with the sea salt and although he made a big show of being Grumpy about it all, he still ate two – with me the whole time hollering at him to get out of the kitchen and leave "my" cookies alone. Hey, he said it….he was dieting! :-p
BTW, if any photos of me in my nightgown yelling at Grumpy to get out of my kitchen and away from my cookies show up on the internet….I will deny them to the max. They won't look like ME. lol
To read Katrina's story about her cookie venture, make sure you read her blog post on White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies. Below is the recipe, from Katrina's blog, which she got from Ashley's blog eat me, delicious who got the original recipe from Bon Appetit! See how we roll around here? ;o)
Dark Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies with Grey Sea Salt Sprinkles
I halved my recipe and have given you the measurements I used below. This gave me about 2 dozen cookies.
1-1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract (yes, this is correct, not a typo)
1 large egg
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped macadamia nuts, roasted
Grey sea salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In small mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, macadamia nuts, and white chocolate chips. Set aside.
In medium mixing bowl, with hand held mixer, blend butter and sugars together until creamy. Add vanilla extract and egg. Mix until blended. Stir in flour mixture until no longer dry and crumbly. Refrigerate at least 2 hours. Scoop, shape, sprinkle with sea salt and bake 5-7 minutes or until just lightly browned.
Note – My cookies baked longer than Katrina's but I believe mine are probably smaller than hers were.


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Kaoteon Signs To Osmose Productions For Release Of "Veni Vidi Vomui"
Lebanese metal act Kaoteon has issued the following announcement about inking a deal with Osmose Productions:
"Kaoteon joins the line-up of one of the most respected labels throughout Extreme Metal History - Osmose Productions. From early Samael, Immortal, Marduk, Dark Tranquility, Vital Remains, Extreme Noise Terror, Angelcorpse, Rotting Christ, Enslaved, Melechesh to the Latest releases of Shining, Benighted, Black Witchery, Absu, Revenge, Imapled Nazarene & more."
Kaoteon will release the "Veni Vidi Vomui" album through Osomose Productions on February 21st, 2011. The cover artwork can be viewed here.
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Gain insight on molecular biology, imaging, and current standard of care in resectable, unresectable, and metastatic pancreatic cancer. This activity features expert faculty video presentations with downloadable slides from our Expert Practice℠ in Pancreatic Cancer meeting.
Interactive Presentation
Downloadable Slides
Release Date
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Expiration Date
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Setting the stage: Key milestones and challenges in the management of pancreatic cancer
Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD
Hot topic debate: Should every patient with resectable pancreatic cancer receive upfront chemotherapy?
Yes: Christiane Bruns, MD, PhD
No: Gabriela Chiorean, MD
Keynote Lecture 1—Advances in molecular biology of pancreatic cancer: Understanding genetic complexity and molecular heterogeneity
Volker Ellenrieder, MD, PhD
Imaging of pancreatic cancer: Current state of the art and future trends
Maria Antonietta Bali, MD, PhD
Case #1—Resectable pancreatic ductal carcinoma
Part I: Advances in surgery
Christiane Bruns, MD, PhD
Case #1—Resectable pancreatic ductal carcinoma
Part II: Current and emerging adjuvant therapies
Part III: Managing borderline resectable pancreatic cancer and follow-up strategies
Teresa Macarulla, MD, PhD
Case #2—Locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer: Evaluating treatment options
Stefano Cascinu, MD, PhD
Selecting the primary endpoint for neoadjuvant and adjuvant clinical trials
Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, and Faculty Panel
Keynote Lecture 2—Targeting the tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer
Gabriela Chiorean, MD
Case #3—Metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Selecting an optimal first-line approach
Philip Agop Philip, MD, PhD, FRCP
Case #4—Progressive pancreatic cancer: Optimal sequencing of systemic therapy?
Gerald Prager, MD
Pancreatic cancer management in the coming year: What can we expect?
Philip Agop Philip, MD, PhD, FRCP
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Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD
Maria Antonietta Bali, MD, PhDInstitut Jules Bordet
Free University of Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
Christiane Bruns, MD, PhDUniversity of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Stefano Cascinu, MD, PhDUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena, Italy
Gabriela Chiorean, MDUniversity of Washington
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington, United States
Volker Ellenrieder, MD, PhDUniversity Hospital Gӧttingen
Gӧttingen, Germany
Teresa Macarulla, MD, PhDVall d'Hebron University Hospital
Barcelona, Spain
Philip Agop Philip, MD, PhD, FRCPWayne State University and Karmanos Cancer Institute
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Gerald Prager, MDMedical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhDUniversity Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
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- Select the most appropriate therapeutic approach for metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma based on patient and disease characteristics, both in the first-line setting and beyond
- Assess supportive care measures to ameliorate disease symptoms and treatment-related adverse events throughout the course of pancreatic cancer management
- Describe emerging treatment strategies in pancreatic cancer, including the role of immunotherapy
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Cultivating connections between farmers and food buyers
That gap was bridged last week for a group of 25 small, beginning and ethnic farmers when the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) at UC Davis and the Sacramento County UC Cooperative Extension hosted a day-long bus tour that began in Sacramento early Tuesday morning. Farmers boarded a bus bound for the Bay Area, where they met wholesale food buyers.
"Many buyers are eager to meet small-scale farmers who can supply the rapidly expanding market for locally grown food," said David Visher of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis.
Emma Torbert of Cloverleaf Farm was pleased to find that to be true.
"It was nice for farmers to hear how much interest there is in San Francisco," she said. "It can be nerve-racking to try to sell something to someone you don't know. This was great, because the tour created an environment to talk about this sort of thing."
Doors into the Bay Area market have already opened for Emma.
"I've had people calling me back already to buy my produce," she said.
Interest in locally produced food is growing nationwide, according to Gail Feenstra of the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, a program within ASI. "Food is an important part of our concept of community. People want a relationship with local growers because their food nurtures us. They feed our sense of community and also steward the land in our region. I think people are searching for ways to connect around food because it benefits our personal, economic and environmental health."
As the group headed west toward their first stop at the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market to hear from various buyers, Visher and fellow tour organizer Chuck Ingels, a UC Cooperative Extension advisor and the interim county director for Sacramento County, shared a food safety self audit CD created by UC Cooperative Extension. The project staff also helps farmers create an action plan for marketing their produce and works with them one-on-one to write a profile about their farm.
"We can help growers tell their stories and make good-value propositions to buyers, but it's really up to these business people to make their own deals," Visher said.
The Agricultural Sustainability Institute, Laura Tourte, a UC Cooperative Extension advisor for Santa Cruz County, and Aziz Baameur, UCCE advisor in Santa Clara County will host a second tour Tuesday, Nov. 5. Farmers on Tuesday's tour will leave for San Francisco from Watsonville at 5:15 a.m. and San Martin 6:15 a.m. The group will visit a wholesale distributor, food hub, distribution/processing facility, grocery store and Stanford dining services, where they will have lunch.
The Small Ethnic Farmer Tour Project is funded by CoBank, a national cooperative bank, and three farm credit associations: Farm Credit West, American AgCredit, and Farm Credit Services of Colusa-Glenn.
To register for the tour out of Watsonville and San Martin call (831) 763-8040 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Space is limited. There is a $20 fee to hold a space on the tour. That fee is fully refunded upon boarding the tour bus. Spanish language translation is available.
Tour agenda
One more way to 'know your farmer'
A ranch dog "friended" me on Facebook the other day. Yep, a dog on Facebook. To be specific, this is a working dog on a ranch that produces meat and sells it directly to consumers like me.
Apparently when Suki isn't herding cows at Scott River Ranch, she's surfing the web.
And exactly how is a ranch dog on Facebook related to food?
More and more people are interested in connecting with farmers and ranchers who produce the food we eat.
If you buy fresh produce at a farmers market, you can also ask farmers (or their employees) questions about which variety is ripest right now, how the produce was grown, how the meat was processed, and what the farm is like. Proactive eaters can sign up for CSA harvest boxes to receive seasonal produce, know exactly who is growing their food, and pledge support to a particular farm or group of farms. We can visit farms to participate in agritourism by buying from farm stands, taking ranch tours and even getting into the fields to harvest "U-pick" berries and other fruit.
"Local is hot" was on one of the opening slides of Kathleen Merrigan's presentation at UC Davis last week. The USDA's deputy secretary was visiting campuses to discuss the agency's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" campaign, which focuses on local and regional food system support.
And now we have another way to know a farmer, without even leaving the office: Anyone can like their favorite farmers on Facebook, follow them on Twitter, subscribe to their blogs, sign up for their email newsletters, and more.
Hearing about Suki the ranch dog's antics, with photos of her bathing in a water trough or videos of her chasing a field's pivot sprinklers, is another way for consumers to get a glimpse of ranch life from behind the scenes. Likewise, hearing from a farmer on Facebook about how today's rain might affect the cherry harvest is another way for me to feel connected with the farmer who is raising food I will soon be eating.
Chris Kerston of Chaffin Orchards put it this way: "If I'm walking along the field and I see a weird-looking bug, I'm going to stop, take a picture of it with my phone, put it on Facebook and ask 'Anyone know what this weird bug is?' ... It's just another way for people to see what it's like out on the farm."
Don't take it just from me: National companies are taking notice too. This month the editorial board of The Packer, a newspaper that specializes in the fresh produce industry, suggested that local is also about something else:
"While some national suppliers may look skeptically at the buy local trend, a component of local is consumers' need to connect with where their food comes from.
"Social media is often the solution."
You can connect with the farmers and ranchers who produce your food — whether you buy it at a farmers market or in a supermarket — and receive updates from the farm or ranch through social media.
You can start by asking your favorite farmers or ranchers if they're on Facebook, and here are a few other networks for finding farmers online:
- Know A California Farmer is a website that shares updates, blog posts and videos from participating farmers and ranchers.
- Find farms near you with the Local Harvest directory and see if they are online too.
- I also maintain a list of California farmers and ranchers on Twitter.
Join the discussion: So, what would you like to know from the people who grow and raise the food you eat?
Bonus video: Connecting with social media goes both ways; farmers want to connect with consumers who buy and eat their products. Staff and academics with UC Cooperative Extension and UC Davis have offered social media workshops to help farmers connect with consumers online (next one for me will be in Marin County, June 1). Here's a video after one UC workshop a few months ago:


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So, I initially stopped posting "In My Mailbox" because documenting all of the books that Oshie and I buy, trade, download, or are given, was an overwhelming task. My computer is busting-at-the-seams with photos already.Tweet
But, I'm going to give "In My Mailbox" another shot. Mostly to show appreciation to the blogs and giveaways that I win time-to-time.
But, I'm going to give "In My Mailbox" another shot. Mostly to show appreciation to the blogs and giveaways that I win time-to-time.
From my awesome secret Santa via Goodreads College Students :)
This is going to help with my Downton Abbey fix!
In January, I won The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith from Miss Print! Also love the bracelet, I wear it to the gym.
From Subway, I was absolutely tickled-to-death to win one of their Hunger Games prize packs! Eat fresh, may the odds ever be in your favor!! It included the Catching Fire Official Illustrated Movie Companion by Kate Egan.
In February, I found several good buys at Books-A-Million, they included:
I finished Cook This, Not That. It has a really good masala recipe in it. I'm currently reading Seraphina.
From Better World Books, I also bought:
I've purposely avoided Flowers In The Attic for a long time. Several of my old high school friends liked it, but I couldn't get past the creep factor. Because of the new TV movie, I decided to finally see what the fuss is about.
Phew, I'm exhausted from all that listing!


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Hamstring Injuries and Rehabilitation
Hamstring Injuries – what does the latest evidence show.
In this blog, I will focus on a recent research article that looks at hamstring injuries. The systematic review looks at treatment and rehabilitation following hamstring strains.
Hamstring injuries are very common on the sporting population. In sports such as rugby and football 12-16% of all injuries are to the hamstring. A quick and safe return to sports are important and we will look at the most evidenced ways to achieve this.
The study shows that eccentric hamstring exercises, progressive running and a trunk stability/agility programme enabled athletes to return to play quicker.
Eccentric hamstring exercises
There are lots of different eccentric hamstring exercises out there. This study uses supine heel slides. In this exercise, a bridge is performed and the knees are slowly straightened, then returning to a bent position. The further the knees are straightened, the harder the exercise. The exercise can be further progressed by doing on one leg as pain allows. 15 repetitions daily should be performed. You could also do eccentric hamstring curls on a gym ball.
Supine Heel Slides Gym ball hamstring curls
Other eccentric exercises for the hamstrings include dead lifts (single leg and 2 legged) and Nordic hamstring curls.
Nordic Hamstring Curls Single Leg Dead Lifts
Progressive Running
The running drills that are most effective involve an acceleration phase, a maximal sprint phase and a deceleration phase. The maximal sprint is gradually increased as pain allows. Each running session consists of 18 runs with a gradually decreasing acceleration and deceleration distance. The maximal sprint distance is kept to 20 metres.
Progressive Agility and Trunk Stabilisation Programme
This programme includes many different exercises. The agility exercises include short distance shuttle runs, side to side shuttle runs and fast feet work. The intensity at which the exercises are done is gradually increased as pain allows. The trunk stabilisation programme includes exercises such as bridging, prone and side planks and single leg balance. The difficulty of these exercises gradually increases.
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Professor Bannister is a Greenlandic evil scientist and the nemesis of C.O.W.C.A. Agent Lyla Lolliberry.
C.O. Bannister is originally from Greenland, but grew sick of its national anthem and lack of national pride. His jealousy of Canada led him to plot his evil scheme there by posing as a Canadian evil scientist and building his own evil company, Bannister Evil Enterprises. He also joined the villain organization L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. (though it was against the rules for their members to misrepresent their countries of origin, as stated by Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz). After hiring three burglars to steal some parts from Seattle, Bannister built two magnetic robotic versions of himself. Two months later, he plotted to steal Canada's symbol of national unity: Albert the Moose. Doing so, he would cause Canada to crumble, then annex it to Greenland and put in a new national anthem and reinvigorate its national pride to a peak. He even got Doofenshmirtz to assist him in his scheme as part of their U.S.-Canadian evil scheme exchange program. However, he was found by Lolliberry, as well as Doofenshmirtz's nemesis, O.W.C.A Agent Perry the Platypus, who were able to defeat his androids. He attempted to escape via parachute, but Perry managed to contact his old friend Peter the Panda, who managed to capture Bannister with his jet. Following the end, Bannister and his cronies are arrested.
Despite being an evil scientist, Bannister comes up with a plan that even Doofenshmirtz thinks is implausible and enormously complex, even more than his own evil schemes. He has a strong love for his homeland and jealousy towards Canada.
Physical Appearance
Bannister is extremely thin, a fact that was hidden during his initial encounter with Perry and Lyla due to the androids under his lab coat. He has a large afro and wears round glasses. He also wears a shirt designed like Greenland's flag, a metal belt with loops, and black slacks.
- He is one of the two members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. to be officially arrested and taken into custody for his crimes (the other is their leader Aloyse von Roddenstein for his notorious attempt to send the Earth into a new Ice Age).
- "Sidetracked" (First appearance)


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Police have launched a criminal inquiry into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the Labour Party.
Met Police chief Cressida Dick told the BBC her officers were assessing online material because it appears "there may have been a crime committed".
It comes after LBC Radio obtained what it said was an internal Labour document detailing 45 cases, involving messages posted by members on social media.
Ms Dick says the Met had a duty to assess the material and not dismiss it.
She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her officers were seeking advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.
But she insisted the Met was "not investigating" the Labour Party itself.
LBC handed the dossier to Ms Dick in an interview in September.
It had previously passed the material to ex-police officer Mak Chishty, who said that 17 instances should have been reported to the police for investigation, and another four were potential race hate crimes.
LBC said the allegations included threats against MPs, including a message on Facebook that a female Labour MP was a "zionist extremist…who hates civilised people" and is "about to get a good kicking".
'Full force of law'
Ms Dick said she hoped to be able to conduct the investigations quickly.
"We would always want institutions and political parties and similar to be able to regulate themselves.
"However, if somebody passes us material which they say amounts to a crime we have a duty to look at that and not just dismiss it.
"We have been assessing some material that was passed to me, in a radio studio of all things, about two months ago and we are now investigating some of that material because it appears there may have been crime committed."
Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson said anyone connected to Labour engaging in such behaviour had no place in the party and must have the "full force of the law" applied to them.
He told Today that the police investigation would hopefully "silence" once and for all the minority who still believed that anti-Semitism did not exit within his party.
It is understood Labour has not been contacted by the police and has not been told of the exact nature of the allegations being investigated.
"The Labour Party has a robust system for investigating complaints of alleged breaches of Labour party rules by its members," a spokesman said.
"Where someone feels they have been a victim of crime, they should report it to the police in the usual way."
In September, Labour's ruling body agreed to adopt in full an international definition of anti-Semitism, after a long-running row about the leadership's handling of the issue.
It vowed to incorporate all the 11 examples of anti-Semitism cited by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance into its code of conduct.
But Jewish groups criticised an accompanying statement which the party said was aimed at protecting free speech.


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When Jeff Bowen's off-Broadway musical "Now. Here. This." closed last year, he and his collaborators were left with some great things - plenty of good reviews, some new fans and memories.
That was great, but what they really wanted was a cast album.
A recording would be both a great marketing tool and a souvenir. But "Now. Here. This." wasn't a blockbuster Broadway show and it had already ended its run. Major record labels weren't exactly beating a path to his door to get it recorded.
So Bowen, who starred in the show as well as wrote the songs and lyrics, turned to the show's fans via crowdfunding, an idea that more people in the theater community are embracing.
Crowdfunding is a tool in which donors contribute small sums of money to get a project off the ground. Usually, the contributors get something in return - like a ticket to a concert or a programmable watch. In this case, they would get a CD or a download of the album.
Bowen went to Kickstarter - a popular website where people can finance all sorts of projects, from an animated Web series to a volunteer mission to leather wallets - and asked for $75,000, the bulk of which was to be spent on musicians, studio time, engineers and to get the CDs made.
A month later he got more than he asked for - $89,833. Elated, the team went to work.
"There was really no other choice. I don't have a rich aunt who's like, `Here, baby. Here's $80,000,'" says Bowen. "I don't have that. None of us do. There was nobody we could call and say, `Will you give us $80,000?'"
At a Times Square restaurant with the finished CD sitting beside his cup of decaf, Bowen offered a peek at how his experience with crowdfunding went.
"It was a great adventure. I'm so proud of it," he says. "I think anyone can really do it. It just depends on what scale you're trying to do it."
"Now. Here. This." represented the second time Bowen teamed up with fellow performers and writers Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff. They had previously taken their Obie-winning "(title of show)" on a Tony-nominated Broadway run in 2008.
The new musical, a bubbly exploration of self-realization, friendship and evolution, ran during March and April last year at the Vineyard Theatre and the team hopes to further develop and license it. If folks could actually hear the songs, those hopes would get a boost.
"Without a cast album, a show is forgotten. It's as if it didn't exist," says Kurt Deutsch, who co-founded Sh-K-Boom Records and Ghostlight Records and has been a pioneer in nurturing theater talent and giving them an outlet.
Deutsch, who says the cost of recording these days is out of whack, has also embraced crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, RocketHub and Indiegogo. He helped Bowen get the "Now. Here. This." cast album made.
"If there are enough people who care about these recordings and who love this community and love these artists and will pay whatever it takes to get these things recorded, and there are tools to do that, then why not use them?" he says. "It's a blessing."
Crowdfunding has been previously used to create cast albums for artists with strong if small fan bases, including one for Ryan Scott Oliver's "35mm" and for Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk's "Our First Mistake."
The technique has also been used to raise funds to mount the actual show itself, including $67,000 successfully pledged to create a workshop production of the musical "One for My Baby" that spotlights songs by Harold Arlen and a $50,000 pledge drive to get "Coffee: The Musical" off the ground.
Requests for funding just in New York range from rapper Baba Brinkman asking for $20,000 to rent out the 200-seat Player's Theater in Manhattan, to the Brooklyn theater company Colloquy Collective hoping to raise $8,000 to mount a revival of "Wine in the Wilderness" by Alice Childress.
The power of the new social tool was revealed when Kickstarter said it was on course to fund $150 million in 2012, or $4 million more than the National Endowment for the Arts' 2012 operating budget. Of course, not all Kickstarter projects are arts-based, but the message has been received: Crowdfunding is a new way to finance theater projects.
Bowen decided he wanted to handle the "Now. Here. This." request by the book: All the musicians and engineers would be paid their usual union wages and everyone from producers to interns who brought back doughnuts would get a cut.
Biding online lasted from Aug. 3-30 and was all-or-nothing, meaning if the team failed to reach its $75,000 goal, it got no money at all. Bowen booked the studio and crossed his fingers.
Two things helped: Bowen and his collaborators are heavily into social media and they had a cult following after "(title of show)." Those were key to attracting what turned out to be 1,248 backers who pledged everything from $10 for the digital download to three people who bid $5,000 for the album, autographed memorabilia, attendance at the launch party and executive producer credits.
"There's a trust that came onboard with us with `(title of show),'" says Bowen. "We sort of tapped into that trust. It wasn't easy because we didn't want to exploit it and we didn't want to take advantage of it."
Pledges came from as far away as Australia, Japan, India and Morocco. Bowen would nervously check the updated numbers every morning, but the team reached its goal a few days before pledges had to stop.
"The campaign ended on my birthday so it was very nice to have it succeed right before," he says. "It was good to have it done. Then we were like, `OK, now we have to make this thing.'"
Once they'd reached their fundraising goal, credit card orders were processed - a small amount were eventually declined - and fees were paid to Kickstarter and Amazon, where the CD is also available.
The album was recorded in a single day - the singers were in the studio from 9 a.m. to midnight, some of the engineers for longer - and then Bowen himself later put together a lush booklet with lyrics and photos.
The album came out Dec. 18 and Bowen dutifully began mailing each CD to the fans. Though it was a lot of work, Bowen says he'd do it all again. For him, it's a win-win.
"It gives the fans what they want, which is to see more of the artist's work. And you get to do your work," he says. "There's no middleman. There's no rich lady in the middle who just took 75 percent of it. That's a huge thing."
Album: https://sh-k-boom.com/nowherethis.shtml
Video: https://vimeo.com/54689215


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Concerts are listed in chronological order so you can look at today's date and choose where to go. Download as a PDF.
BSP = Bryant Square Park, 31st and Bryant Ave. S., Minneapolis (Uptown)
FHB = Father Hennepin Bluffs, 420 Main Street. SE, Minneapolis (southeast bank of the Mississippi River at the Stone Arch Bridge)
LHB = Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 Lake Harriet Parkway, Minneapolis
MCM = Mill City Museum, 704 South Second St., Minneapolis
MHF = Minnehaha Falls, 4801 Minnehaha Ave. S., Minneapolis
MNH = Minnesota History Center, 345 Kellogg Blvd. W., St. Paul
NOR = Northrop Plaza, University of Minnesota main campus, Minneapolis (concerts move inside Northrop if it rains)
SAM = St. Anthony Main, Minneapolis Riverfront District
TCJFM = Twin Cities Jazz Festival, 10th and 11th Sts. and Nicollet Mall, downtown Minneapolis
TCJFS = Twin Cities Jazz Festival, Mears Park, 5th St. E. & Sibley St., downtown St. Paul
Sunday, June 15, 2 p.m., LHB: Ticket to Brasil. Bossa nova, samba, and Brazilian jazz.
Monday, June 16, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Salsabrosa. Latin sounds by musicians from Cuba, Honduras, and the USA.
Thursday, June 19, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Café Accordion Orchestra. French musette, Latin, and swing from a band that never disappoints. (Their 7th CD is due out July 15.)
Thursday, June 19, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., BSP: Dean Harrington Trio. Gypsy, Latin, and traditional jazz.
Friday, June 20, TCJFS (Mears Park):
6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.: Salsabrosa. Latin sounds by musicians from Cuba, Honduras, and the USA.
8:30 p.m.–10 p.m.: Jerry Gonzalez and The Fort Apache Band. Gonzalez was a member of Dizzy Gillespie's band. Expect authentic, exhilarating Afro-Caribbean jazz.
Saturday, June 21, TCJFS (Mears Park):
12 p.m.–1 p.m.: Walker West Music Academy Young Artists Showcase.
2 p.m.–3 p.m.: Acme Jazz Company. A 19-piece big band.
4 p.m.–5 p.m.: The Bill Crutcher Group. Jazz, funk, blues and R&B.
6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.: Tanner Taylor Tribute to Oscar Peterson. Read a preview of Taylor's recent dates at the Artists' Quarter.
8:30 p.m.–10 p.m.: Ravi Coltrane Quartet. The amazing young saxophonist/composer's splendid quartet is one of the big gigs at this year's jazz festival, and it's free. Coltrane played the Northrop Jazz Season earlier this year.
Sunday, June 22, 2 p.m., LHB: Minnesota Jazz Orchestra. Big band music from the 1930s–60s.
Monday, June 23, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Seven Corners Quarter. Jazz, funk, and blues. (Saxophonist Jason Parvey is studying for his bachelor's degree in music performance at the U.)
Tuesday, June 24, 7 p.m., MHF: Westside Trombone Quartet. Classical, jazz, Latin, funk.
Wednesday, June 25, 5 p.m. This is billed as part of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival but it's the only event being held on the front lawn of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Bloomington (8600 Fremont Ave. S.). Connie Evingson, pianist Jon Weber, the George Maurer group, and more will perform. Bring a lawn chair? I have no clue.
Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Divine Diva Dames. Vocal jazz/blues/Broadway/spirituals.
Thursday, June 26, 7 p.m., MHF: Late for Lunch. Acoustic jazzy style.
Friday, June 27, TCJFM (Peavey Plaza, 11th St. & Nicollet Mall):
4 p.m.–5 p.m.: Neoterik. Students from the Manhattan School of Music, the Brubeck Institute, and Northern Illinois University.
5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.: Jon Weber & Friends. One of my favorite pianists and a jazz festival regular.
7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.: The Tuesday Night Band (of Artists' Quarter fame) with Bill Brown on B-3 organ.
9 p.m.–10:30 p.m.: Tribute to Brother Jack McDuff featuring Tony Monaco (B-3 organ) and the Heatin' System (Andrew Beals, John Hart, Rudy Petschauer).
Saturday, June 28, TCJFM (MacPhail Center for Music/Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education Stage, 10th St. & Nicollet Mall):
12:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Student jazz bands play all day, including the Dakota Combo (directed by jazz musician and MacPhail educator Kelly Rossum) starting at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 28, TCJFM (Peavey Plaza, 11th St. & Nicollet Mall):
1 p.m.–2 p.m.: Dave Hagedorn. One of today's great vibists teaches at St. Olaf College.
3 p.m.–4 p.m.: Skyway Jazz Orchestra.
5 p.m.–6:30 p.m.: Moore by Four. Twin Cities legends.
7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.: Amina Figarova Sextet. Figarova is a jazz pianist based in Rotterdam.
9 p.m.–10:30 p.m.: Charmaine Neville. The famous New Orleans singer, daughter of Neville Brothers sax man Charles.
Sunday, June 29, TCJFM (MacPhail Center for Music/Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education Stage, 10th St. & Nicollet Mall):
12:30 p.m.–6 p.m. The Jazz Vocalists of Minnesota start the day, followed by the Totino Grace High School Jazz Ensemble and a MacPhail jam session. MacPhail faculty perform with the winners of the recent Schubert Club/Dakota Foundation Jazz Piano competition starting at 5 p.m.
Sunday, June 29, TCJFM (Peavey Plaza, 11th St. & Nicollet Mall):
2 p.m.–3 p.m.: Dan Musselman. The pianist and trumpeter won the first-ever full-tuition Diana Ross Scholarship.
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.: Red Rock Swing Band. A 17-piece swing band from Woodbury. Classic big band sounds.
5 p.m.–6:30 p.m.: Salsa del Soul. Some of the finest musicians on the Twin Cities' Latin music scene wrap up the free part of this year's jazz fest.
Monday, June 30, 7 p.m., MHF: Urban Cadence. Jazz, funk, R&B.
Monday, June 30, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., FHB: Frank Boyle and His Eminent Acoustic Entourage. Swing, jazz, folk originals.
Monday, June 30, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Jazz on the Prairie Big Band.
Tuesday, July 1, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Seven Steps to Havana. Led by Doug Little, seven musicians from five countries play salsa and jazz.
Wednesday, July 2, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Christine Rosholt Quintet. Swinging jazz vocals and band.
Wednesday, July 2, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Batak. World jazz fusion.
Saturday, July 5, 7:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., SAM: Axis Mundi. Contemporary world beat jazz.
Sunday, July 6, 2 p.m., LHB: Southside Aces. Traditional jazz.
Tuesday, July 8, 7 p.m., MHF: Celebration Brass. Jazz, Dixieland, ragtime, golden oldies.
Wednesday, July 9, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Laura Caviani Jazz Trio. Smart, soulful jazz including originals.
Wednesday, July 9, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., FHB: The Willie August Project. Melodic jazz.
Sunday, July 13, 2 p.m., LHB: Late for Lunch. Acoustic jazzy style.
Tuesday, July 15, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Phil Hey Quartet. Hard bop from a master drummer and his award-winning quartet.
Tuesday, July 15, 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m., MNH: Brasamba. Brazilian music.
Tuesday, July 15, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., BSP: Celebration Brass. Classic, contemporary, jazz, Broadway, marches.
Tuesday, July 15, 7 p.m., MHF: Ingo Bethke. Jazz, Latin, rock fusion. This is jazz tubist Stefan Kac's new band, with Snowblind's tenor saxophonist Shilad Sen. Should be good.
Tuesday, July 15, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Stan Bann Big Band. Original and contemporary big band jazz.
Thursday, July 17, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Lee Engele. The smoky-voiced singer specializes in jazz, blues, and lounge.
Thursday, July 24, 12 p.m.–1 p.m., NOR: Tropical Zone Band. Salsa and meringue. Hot hot!
Saturday, July 26, 7:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., SAM: Jack Brass Band. Jazz, blues, funk.
Sunday, July 27, 7:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., SAM: Gypsy Mania. World beat jazz.
Tuesday, July 29, 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., MNH: Red Rock Swing Band. Classic swing from Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, and the modern revival. (Check out the displays of WWII gear and vintage clothing.)
Tuesday, July 29, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., BSP: Wild Honey & The Locusts. Jazz/gospel combo.
Wednesday, July 30, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Bend in the River Big Band. Jazz and swing.
Thursday, July 31, 7 p.m., MHF: Dean Harrington Trio. Gypsy, Latin, and traditional jazz.
Friday, August 1, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Gypsy Mania Quartet. Hot Club swing with a Latin twist.
Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Honeysuckle Rose. American jazz and Gypsy folk.
Monday, August 4, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., FHB: Wild Honey & The Locusts. Jazz/gospel combo.
Thursday, August 7, 6 p.m.–8p.m., MCM: Salsabrosa. Latin sounds by musicians from Cuba, Honduras, and the USA.
Thursday, August 7, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., BSP: Rennieworks. Jazz fusion and rock.
Thursday, August 7, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Willie August Project. Melodic jazz.
Saturday, August 9, 1 p.m.–6 p.m. 10th Annual Freedom Jazz Festival. Minnehaha Park Bandstand, 4801 Minnehaha Ave. S., Minneapolis. As of this writing, this festival—probably the most diverse and community-oriented event of its kind—is still a bit tentative, but mark your calendars anyway. We'll let you know more as the time nears.
Saturday, August 9, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Michael Monroe. Acoustic folk reggae, jazz
Tuesday, August 12, 7 p.m., MHF: Sonic Love Child. Country, blues, jazz, vintage pop.
Tuesday, August 12, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Honeywell Concert Band. Show tunes, swing, jazz, and old favorites.
Thursday, August 14, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., BSP: Back Alley Boys. Blues and jazz.
Thursday, August 14, 7 p.m., MHF: Honeysuckle Rose. American jazz and Gypsy folk.
Friday, August 15, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Twin Cities Hot Club. Robert Bell, Reynold Philipsek, Gary Schulte, and Matt Senjem play Hot Club jazz, Gypsy jazz, and swing.
Sunday, August 17, 2 p.m., LHB: 1st Things 1st. Vocal swing of the 1940s and '50s.
Monday, August 18, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., FHB: Urban Cadence. Jazz, funk, R&B.
Tuesday, August 19, 7:30 p.m., LHB: River City Jazz Orchestra. Big band jazz.
Wednesday, August 20, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., FHB: Robert Bell & Friends Featuring Nichola Miller. Gypsy, swing, jazz originals and standards from the guitar player and vocalist who moved to New York, then moved back home.
Thursday, August 21, 6 p.m.–8p.m., MCM: Jelloslave. Bach, Led Zeppelin, jazz, and improvisation played on cello, drums, and tabla. This may actually be free free jazz.
Thursday, August 21, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m., BSP: Yo Yimbo. Straight-ahead jazz sextet.
Thursday, August 28, 7:30 p.m., LHB: Dean Harrington Trio. Gypsy, Latin, and traditional jazz.


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It was the early '90s, and legendary Pittsburgh soul singer Billy Price was headed to a gig when the radio murmured a soft bass line, offset by fluttering violins and a deep, full voice. WYEP's Rhett Witherspoon was spinning Joe Simon's "Your Time to Cry," and Price was transfixed.
"This song knocked me in the solar plexus," Price laughs. "I pulled off the highway, and I went to a phone booth, called up and said, 'Rhett! Rhett, what was that record you just played?'" That was all it took for Price to fall for the song; he would later record his own version, which ended up on his Soul Collection album. It's just one example of the station's impact on local listeners and musicians alike.
Though it's inspired some grand endeavors, WYEP's genesis was hardly a lofty one. The first cracklings over 91.5 FM on April 30, 1974, came from a few friends, a grand idea, and a basement.
When he suggested building an archive to celebrate WYEP's 40th anniversary, music director and Midday Mix host Mike Sauter met with some opposition: The project was deemed too hard, too time-consuming. Still, he persisted, collecting newsletters, reel-to-reel tapes, and interviews with founders Jeff Smith, John Schwartz and Ellory Schemp. Through it, he's gained a feel for the climate in 1970s Pittsburgh and the urgency with which WYEP was conceived — and preserved.
"If we waited for another milestone, like the 50th anniversary, who knows how much history is going to be lost in that time?" Sauter points out. He shares discoveries with the public daily, through WYEP's "Time Capsule" segment.
As Sauter explains it, WYEP was a very different place in the beginning, and not just because of its decrepit Oakland location at 4 Cable Place. "Almost all of the people who were going to be on the air had no experience doing any kind of radio whatsoever." A sounding board for community announcements, WYEP was not terribly formal. There are accounts of impromptu station keg parties, someone getting mugged on the air, and a DJ almost being electrocuted because of a flash flood.
This early period also made WYEP its own time capsule. Investigative programs were recorded from remote events like a KKK rally, and Sauter has found interviews with folk singer Pete Seeger, science-fiction writer Issac Asimov and Monty Python member Graham Chapman, all now deceased. His research has given Sauter a glimpse into 1970s "society at large, and broadcasting as well."
Schwartz and Smith poured savings into the station, tirelessly securing grants from organizations across the country. Schemp, a University of Pittsburgh professor, got involved mostly because he was the only one of the bunch who owned a suit. Schemp, Schwartz and a rock-climber friend would eventually install WYEP's first antenna atop the Cathedral of Learning.
By 1982, WYEP had improved its signal from 850 to 18,200 watts. But a new transmitter in Hazelwood increased costs, since Pitt was no longer footing the bill. "At the time, we thought: You increase the power, you increase the listenership," recalls former treasurer Bruce Mountjoy, who still hosts the station's weekly Bluegrass Jam Session show.
Ensuing events proved otherwise. "In 1985, we had raised $12,000 for the whole year," remembers former president of the board Peter Rosenfeld. "Even back then, a station with our power had about half-a-million-dollar budget. $12,000 wasn't enough to pay the light bill." It was a fact that Duquesne Light made very clear. In one instance, Rosenfeld was able to temporarily stave off the bill when an attorney from the power company realized he'd be a guest at Rosenfeld's wedding. (The attorney, it turned it, was related to the bride.)
It seemed 1970s WYEP had done something better than 1980s WYEP. "It wasn't just happy hippies on the air," Rosenfeld reiterates, citing the founders' ability to secure foundation support. "In public radio, if you're doing really well, 10 percent of your audience will support you financially." Support from 10 percent of the station's estimated 1,000 listeners wasn't going to cut it, and Rosenfeld says in the '80s, the do-it-yourself vibe at WYEP made the staff hostile toward grant-seeking.
And with disjointed programming — an Arabic Heritage Hour, an American Indian Hour, Irish music and jazz — listeners weren't going to tune in all week, let alone support the station. Mountjoy and Rosenfeld found themselves meeting at Silky's in Squirrel Hill each week, writing a check to the company most likely to shut off their service.
Though WYEP needed a revamp, the idea of bringing in outside help met with resistance from a group accustomed to a DIY mentality. Seated around a table at the old House of Chang, in Oakland, the board considered handing its license over to WQED, the University of Pittsburgh or even a religious broadcaster from Virginia Beach. Eventually, the board dissolved itself, appointing a committee to construct new bylaws. It was better than the alternative, Rosenfeld explains. After all: "We had demonstrated that we weren't good stewards of the license."
With permission to renovate from the FCC and a handful of volunteers still dedicated to the cause, WYEP hosted a fundraising event featuring Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band. Eventually, the station was able to outfit a completely new studio at Chatham College.
The basement studio was "like the Starship Enterprise compared to what we had at Cable Place," Rosenfeld says with a laugh. It featured new equipment, two spaces for live performances, and — Mountjoy emphasizes — air conditioning. By gathering representatives from Chatham into the mix, as well as professionals in marketing and accounting, WYEP found the support it had been missing from the community.
"It was probably in the late '80s and early '90s when the station started really becoming the tastemaker on the national music scene," says current general manager Abby Goldstein, who had corresponded with the station in her days as a music promoter. She laughs upon hearing Mountjoy's characterization of WYEP: "the station that refused to die."
"I think it's very accurate," Goldstein says. "People probably underestimated the passion of the city to keep the radio station around."
Former general manager Lee Ferraro "knew they turned the corner, and were doing fairly well," when he arrived in 1996. He was also aware of a high turnover rate among general managers at the station in the early '90s. "But I knew there was a passion for the station," Ferraro claims. "I knew I wasn't coming into a happy family, fully mature, but I knew Rosemary [Welsch] was very good at her job, and some of the board members I'd talked to were very committed to the station."
WYEP needed to consolidate its brand to become a uniquely Pittsburgh asset. Instead of being "the granola station, or the lesbian folk station," Ferraro realized "we had to be more about great music, and building great community."
During the late '90s and into the 2000s, WYEP would cement its current format: adult album alternative, with a mix of contemporary indie rock (especially in prime time) and roots music. Most of the daytime blocks adhere to a regular rotation with DJs adding in their favored songs; overnight, the station still has free-form DJ blocks.
Soon after being hired, Ferraro got in touch with the producers at NPR's syndicated live-music-and-interview show The World Café. The idea was to bring a broadcast to The Andy Warhol Museum, after which the bands would move to an outdoor stage and serenade tailgaters. The nationally broadcast program could bring attention to the Warhol, as well as Pittsburgh's other cultural offerings. During The World Cafe's Warhol run, from 1997 through 2007, WYEP's Summer Music Festival expanded from the museum parking lot to North Shore Riverfront Park, and finally to its current location in Schenley Plaza, where attendance tripled. (The 16th Summer Music Festival takes place Saturday, June 28; see info box.)
Under Ferraro's leadership, WYEP was gaining recognition on a national level, and it needed a true home base. As the station began planning to build a new studio, green architecture was on the rise, especially in Pittsburgh, where the new convention center was built to be environmentally friendly. As a progressive organization, a green structure "was in our DNA," Ferarro says. "We were leaders, and our listeners would expect us to do that."
WYEP had already been in the South Side for eight years when planning began in 2002. The goal was to begin broadcasting from Bedford Square as WYEP entered a new year, but winter of 2005 found the station scrambling again. Though the capital campaign had been successful, receiving endorsement from Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato and former Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann, "We weren't quite sure if all of the equipment was going to work properly," remembers content director Kyle Smith. "But it all went off quite well." After its completion, the building would receive a LEED Silver rating, the first time a radio station's home was certified green.
In February 2006, the widely recognized voice of WYEP, Rosemary Welsch, announced the first song played out of the new studio: "Radio Radio," by Elvis Costello.
Its home base firmly situated in the South Side, WYEP was about to become an even bigger force. When mostly-jazz NPR affiliate WDUQ went on the market, administrators at WYEP realized they had the funds to take on a sister station.
"Pittsburgh really deserved an all-NPR news station," Ferraro explains. The new affiliate, WESA, now runs NPR programming along with two hours of local news per day, and a Saturday-night jazz program.
WYEP still plays a meaningful role in the education of its inspiring musicians. Last fall, the station launched Reimagine Media, a site written and curated by students. WYEP will release a compilation album of local student acts later this summer, and invite each contributor to perform at a station-sponsored concert.
As Ferraro attests, "I don't think people realized how mature WYEP was, or just what a sophisticated organization it had become over the years." With 90,000 weekly listeners, it's not just the station that refused to die: It's the station Pittsburgh kept alive.


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Re: Using Select
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg76226] Re: Using Select
- From: Albert <awnl at arcor.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 06:08:13 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <email@example.com>
Hi, > > I'm working on a small application and I'm searching for a way to > Select a subset of rows from a list based upon a list of criteria > chosen by the user. Here is small (hypothetical) example. Say one > has a data set of consisting of a list of as follows: > > { {1,A,Blue,"Hello",10.5},{7,D,Green,"Goodbye",9.4}, > {6,S,Yellow,"Hello",6.9},{3,A,Blue,"Hello",8.0}....} > > The user will specify a letter and a color and the program should > Select[ ] the appropriate rows, e.g., if I pick Color=Blue and Letter > = A, then it will return > > { {1,A,Blue,"Hello",10.5},{3,A,Blue,"Hello",8.0}....}, etc. Thus one > can enter Select[myData,(#[[2]]==A && #[[3]]==Blue)&] and get the > appropriate records.Note that The actual data set has about 20,000 > records (lists), each with about 20 fields, and can select 7 or 8 > different attributes, so the Select statements get fairly long. > > My question involves an efficient way to code the Select statement if > a user wants to chose records that correspond to any value of a > particular field, e.g., All of the Color=Blue, regardless of the > Letter choice,e.g., > > Select[myData,(#[[3]]==Blue)&] > > More precisely, is there a way to pass Select the user choice of any > letter using some sort of 'wildcard' value that represents any value > for the specific attribute, i.e., > > Select[myData,(#[[2]]=='Wildcard' && #[[3]]==Blue)&] > > My motivation is that if I have may possible selection criteria, I > can still use a single Select statement. Not sure about that is of much help, but wouldn't Cases do what you want more easily, there you have the standard _ as wildcard: Cases[myData,{_,A,Blue,_,_,_,_}] and: Cases[myData,{_,_,Blue,_,_,_,_}] Another idea that comes to mind is to use MatchQ instead of Equal in the Select, if for some reason Cases is not what you want: Select[myData,(MatchQ[#[[2]],_] && MatchQ[#[[3]],Blue])&] not sure whether pattern matching with such a large dataset can be considered very efficient though, but if you want to handle wildcards, there is hardly an alternative. If your data consists of strings, maybe using RegularExpression is more performant, but you would have to test... hth, albert


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Seven Troughs is a local distillery that hand crafts small-batches of artisanal spirits utilizing a mid-19th century fermentation and distillation process. Come learn about the whiskey making process and sample some of their selection of whiskeys and other spirits.
Seven Troughs is located at 1155 Watson Way (off Glendale), Ste 5, Sparks, Nevada 89431


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Potos Car Rental S.A. was started in 1988 with 10 cars from one office in Potos on the beautiful Aegean island of Thassos, northern Greece (Macedonia).
By careful management, great client care and support from our international customer base, the company has grown to be the largest independent car rental company in the North of Greece. We now operate a fleet of over 250 vehicles, including economy cars, mid-range cars, four wheel drive jeeps and people carriers, out of 11 locations – 7 branch offices on Thassos island plus Thessaloniki (Macedonia), Kavala (Megas Alexandros) and Alexandroupolis (Democritus) airports. We also provide cars for customers who are staying on the Halkidiki peninsulars.
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This is a beautifully detailed, laser engraved and precision cut topographical Map of Agency Lake in Klamath County, OR with the following interesting stats carved into it:
- Surface Area: 9,298 Acres
- Average Depth: 3 Ft
- Max. Depth: 7 Ft
- Water Volume: 28,172 Acres
Personalize your own map by choosing 3 options from the links below. Each option you choose will be engraved where the corresponding number is shown on the map in the image. Once you've made your selection, hit the back button and go to the next option. Add names and dates as a message during checkout. We will send a graphic proof for approval prior to production. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Interesting factoid: Agency Lake is a natural lake located west of Chiloquin in Klamath County, Oregon. It is actually the northern arm of Upper Klamath Lake, connected by a narrow channel. Its primary inflow is the Wood River, while its outflow is Upper Klamath Lake. The lake has a surface area of approximately 9,000 acres. The lake is very shallow, and experiences high winds.
(Not all of this information made it onto the map, we just love to read up on the lakes we design).


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Hopewell Promotions inc.
Roadshows and promotions in Wal-mart, Sam's Clubs, BJ'S Clubs
- Stage $1M in TTM Revenue
- Industry Fashion
- Location Pikesville, MD, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded April 1990
- Employees 3
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We do in store sales promotions in Wal-mart, Sam's Clubs, and BJ'S Clubs, for jewelry, scarf clips, and other consumer products. We create a lot of excitement in the stores. our sales percentage goes right to the bottom line for the stores at no cost to them.They are only giving up a little space. Our customer base is anyone over the age of 18.
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The Commuter tote merges modern minimalist styling with utilitarian function. The Commuter tote is spacious enough to carry all of your daily essentials while on travels and errands. Designed with a focus on durability and simplicity, this tote is perfect for every situation, every day.— Four exterior pockets
— Two interior pockets
— Laptop compartment with velcro closure (fits up to 13" laptop)
— YKK Zip with Paracord Zipper Pull
— Nylon Seatbelt Webbing Straps
Dimensions: 41cm (H) x 35.5cm (W) x 12.5cm (D)