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IT is difficult to eat well in the theater district, even if you're in on the game and have Esca on speed dial.
Joe Allen is a treat after a show, for lounging amid the posters advertising first-night flops. Sardi's is best during one, empty and sweet, with Rialto lawyers arguing Guettel versus Sondheim over cannelloni au gratin.
You can do well with charred meat at Frankie & Johnnie's, or with fried shrimp at Gallagher's, along with a steakhouse pour from the bar. For fine French home cooking, there's Chez Napoleon. For garden-party tarrying, there's Italian at Barbetta. A curry at Pam Real Thai? Sure, though you could end up looking like Elphaba if you're not used to the heat.
But the bulk of the pretheater restaurant scene is grim banquet food on polyester tablecloths: block after block of steam-table pastas and Diet Cokes; industrial salads; not-from-scratch chicken dishes; pound after pound of Sysco fries. Come in from Tinton Falls to see "Chicago" with friends, and it can be hard, if you haven't conjugated all the malarkey or know someone who has, to figure out quite where to eat.
Here is one place: Toloache, a Mexican bistro on 50th Street off Eighth Avenue. It opened in 2007 and looks terrible from the street, a cube-shaped restaurant under spectacular green-and-purple neon signage. You could easily walk by the place chuckling at the awning reading "Bistro Mexicano."
But nothing on Broadway is ever what it seems. Toloache is worth a second look. Julian Medina, the chef and an owner, is from Mexico City, classically trained in the kitchen, with a rich history in New York. He is a graduate of Richard Sandoval's restaurants, a former kitchen boss at Maya and Pampano. He was the founding chef at Zocalo. (With Giovanny Campos, he also has the terrifically loud Yerba Buena restaurants downtown.) He is a marvelous interpreter of guacamole, of ceviche, of finishing-school tacos and wood-oven quesadillas. In Toloache (pronounced toe-lo-AH-chay, a kind of Mexican flowering herb), he has built up a nice restaurant.
One of the great pleasures of the summer season in New York is to sit at its comfortable tiled bar, drinking a fine house margarita or a tequila off the restaurant's long and luxurious list, while eating a bowl of guacamole with the assistance of some tortilla chips, fresh, warm and salty. Follow this with a few tacos or quesadillas, cold beers and ceviche (the best is yellowfin tuna tuned up with jalapeño, Vidalia onion, radish and watermelon, in a dressing of Key lime juice). Suddenly, taking Aunt Miriam to "Phantom" doesn't seem all that much of a chore.
Three versions of the guacamole are offered. There is plain, of course, a fairly traditional mixture of roughly mashed avocado with some onion and Serrano chilies, a small dice of tomatoes and a sprinkling of cilantro leaves. A more fiery recipe offers chipotle and more tomatoes, a hint of queso fresco, some red onions.
Best, though diners can happily argue the point, is the fruit-spiked version, in which the avocado slips around on bits of ripe mango and peach, with studs of pomegranate seeds here and there, the occasional crisp sliver of apple, of Vidalia onion. Thai basil offers a note of grace; habanero pepper a hint of sweet, serious fire. (A sampler plate brings all three.)
The quesadillas are prepared in an ample wood-assisted oven in the middle of the dining room. It is the restaurant's hearth and centerpiece. Two stand out, though all are fairly strong in flavor and execution: a manchego one with black truffles that takes on a doubly funky note from the addition of huitlacoche, a corn fungus; and a sweet and fiery shrimp-and-Chihuahua-cheese number with pineapple salsa and chiles de árbol.
Tacos are likewise elegant and modern, fairly spare. You might try one with a filling of braised veal cheeks, onion, cilantro and a salsa spiked with chiles de árbol; another with maitake mushrooms and more huitlacoche, cactus and queso fresco. Some diners are keen on the Oaxacan-style filling of nutty dried grasshoppers with onion and jalapeño; more-vanilla tastes will run toward guajillo-marinated pork with grilled pineapple, or fried tilapia with jicama slaw and guacamole. The carne asada, with its grilled and salty skirt steak, is splendid.
Entrees — what the restaurant calls platos principales — are less successful, too large and unwieldy for joy. Braised short ribs with an ancho glaze and celery-root purée, for instance, is muddy and wan; salmon with more of that huitlacoche-maitake mixture has almost the texture of pudding. You can do well, though, with a grilled skirt steak served with a cheese enchilada drenched in credible mole, with potato gratin (huh?) and a dab of guacamole on the side, or with shredded suckling pig from the oven, with a habanero-sour orange salsa, cactus avocado and a chicharron-spiked salad.
Or simply stick to guac, tacos and quesadillas, and tweak the end of your meal with dessert — crepes with caramelized goat's milk, Marcona almonds and banana ice cream is best, though many tables appear to stick to chocolate, scooping up a warm molten cake with dulce de leche ice cream before calling for the check.
Reservations are an absolute must at Toloache, at least if you're on your way to or from a theater. The restaurant has, in the three years since opening, built up a loyal following of customers who pack its main dining room and mezzanine in the minutes between 6 and 7:30 p.m.
One reason for that is the food, of course, those entrees excepted.
But it is also the service the restaurant provides, kindly and attentive to a degree that would be notable even in a business charging much more. The crew on the floor of Toloache works as well together as a bunch of old Broadway hands. They put on a good show, worth attending with a margarita in hand.
251 West 50th Street (off Eighth Avenue), theater district; (212) 581-1818, toloachenyc.com.
ATMOSPHERE If bistros were Mexican, and vin rouge were made with tequila and lime juice, Toloache could be in Paris.
SOUND LEVEL Crashingly loud during the pretheater rush.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Guacamoles, hamachi ceviche, quesadilla with shrimp, tacos, quesadilla with huitlacoche and black truffles.
WINE LIST Limited, though a selection of roughly 100 tequilas makes up the difference.
PRICE RANGE Appetizers, $9 to $17; entrees, $20 to $27.
HOURS Daily, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; daily bar menu, 3 to 5 p.m.; Sunday to Thursday, 5 to 11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 5 to 11:30 p.m.
RESERVATIONS Call at least two weeks in advance for pretheater reservations.
CREDIT CARDS All major cards.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS The restaurant has two levels, one accessible from the street, the other up a steep flight of stairs. Restrooms are on street level, but not large.
WHAT THE STARS MEAN Ratings range from zero to four stars and reflect the reviewer's reaction to food, ambience and service, with price taken into consideration. Menu listings and prices are subject to change.


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What Can This Lynyrd Skynyrd Song Teach Us About Economics and Kindness?
Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Mr. Banker" is a tale of woe worthy of being re-recorded as a country song. It features a gentleman who is down on his luck who is attempting to convince a banker to lend him the money to bury his father. He has no house. He has no car. He asks the banker: "how much does money mean?" He offers him his 1950 Les Paul guitar. The banker has refused his request, and by the end of the song, there's nothing to suggest that he has changed his mind.
Should he have reconsidered? Should he have granted the loan?
While economics cannot tell us what is moral and immoral, it can help us understand that there's more than meets the eye (or more than tugs at the heart) when we're talking about buying and selling or borrowing and lending. Economics shows us the trade-offs associated with the loan. At first glance, it seems like the answer is obvious: of course he should grant the loan even though it's high-risk and even though the hero of the song might not be able to repay. You've probably lent money to someone that you've never seen again. Maybe (perish the thought!) you've borrowed money and never paid it back. If the banker has a heart, then it seems like he should grant the loan. He must be pretty cold if he is willing to turn down a desperate man.
This isn't the banker's situation, though. First, we have to ask about those to whom the banker has a fiduciary responsibility. Second, we have to ask what happens if the banker uses their money to make a risky loan. Finally, even the answer to the moral question is still ambiguous.
If you were asked to lend money to a friend who is down on his or her luck, it might be virtuous to do so. In this case, the banker isn't being asked about what to do with his money. He is being asked what to do with the money the bank's depositors have put under his care. Years ago, Milton Friedman argued that corporations are morally and socially obliged to increase their profits as long as they don't tread on the rights of others. The down-on-his-luck hero of the song is asking the banker to risk his depositors' money on a loan that has a pretty high probability of not being paid back. He ultimately offers the banker his guitar, which might be worth enough to pay for the burial but which might be very difficult for the banker to sell. When a banker makes a loan, he is taking a risk with money that isn't his. It is money his depositors expect to be able to access on demand or money they expect to see grow as interest accumulates. It's money people have deposited in the bank in case of emergencies--the death of a loved one, a blown transmission, any of a number of other things--or as a way to grow their wealth.
There are downstream consequences that we have to consider, as well. Banks that make bad loans will cause their own depositors (and their depositors' friends, families, suppliers, and customers) to suffer. If the banker lends the money to the song's hero and it isn't paid back, it's less available for someone who wants to grow his business, buy a house, or bury his own father. A banker who makes risky-to-the-point-of-being-imprudent loans jeopardizes not only an abstract thing called "money," but also the health and wellbeing of everyone with whom the bank does business, and everyone with whom the bank's customers do business, and so on.
The Forgotten Man
Let's motivate and then consider a concrete example. In his short and excellent book Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, Thomas Sowell talks about how economics is the art of asking "and then what happens?" about any proposed change. In Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt wrote that "The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate effects but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups." Finally, William Graham Sumner urged us to consider "the forgotten man:"
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together and decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.
There are a lot of forgotten men when we are thinking about what other people should do with their money. What happens if the banker grants a bad loan for $1,000? That's $1,000 the bank doesn't have to lend to the butcher, the brewer, or the baker who might want to expand his business. The butcher, brewer, and baker and their families are worse off because they have to make do on smaller incomes. The charities they support have fewer resources. Their customers (actual and potential) are able to enjoy less meat, beer, and bread. That's probably not a big deal for people who have the luxury of reading and writing articles like these, but it can be a very big deal for people on the brink of poverty.
The odd charity loan here and there probably wouldn't be enough to sink an otherwise-well-functioning bank, but if the banker gets into the habit of running the bank as a charity then the bank won't be long for this world. The ultimate victims would be the bank's employees, depositors, and potential customers. The irony is that in order to do a good thing for the hero of the song, the banker would have to make his depositors' lives and employees' lives a bit more precarious. He would have to make it more likely that they ultimately find themselves in want of charity.
Again, economics as such cannot tell us exactly what the banker should do. It can highlight the difficult-to-see but still crucially important trade-offs associated with the banker's options. It would certainly be commendable for the banker to refer the song's hero to a church or his favorite charity, or it would be spectacularly generous of banker to pay for the burial or lend the money to the hero out of his own pocket. Taking big risks with depositors' money, particularly given that we trust bankers to protect and grow our assets, is a different matter.Photo Credit: Jon Callas

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Anil Menon is the author of Half of What I Say (Bloomsbury, 2015), which was recently shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize. Known for his speculative fiction, Menon feels that science can help us choose between preferences, but it can't give us preferences. "Science deals with things that aren't necessarily false. Art deals with things that aren't necessarily true. Neither can speak about truth directly," he says. About his latest polyphonic novel, he says, "There are two ways to write such a story. One is an austere minimal approach in which the author pursues silence. This is the road taken by Beckett and contemporary French minimalists. The other is the carnival, in which the author drowns the reader in noise. This is the road favoured by Bollywood and the great Russian novelists. It is also the road I chose for this novel.
Excerpts from an interview with The Punch:
THE PUNCH: How central have words and stories been to your professional and personal evolution?
ANIL MENON: Aren't we all in the grip of stories? It starts with belting out nursery rhymes and before we know it we're riding off on various idiotic quests.
THE PUNCH: You're a computer scientist. What drew you to fiction? How did your workshop with Clarion West shape your writing?
ANIL MENON: I worked in software for quite a few years. It was great fun but after a while, it stopped being interesting. Computers can't really deal with ambiguity, the immeasurable, or lack of closure. Fiction can't do without these things, and I found myself thinking more and more about writing stories rather than designing algorithms. I went to Clarion West to see if I would be any good at it. I've realised a good writing workshop doesn't really teach you to be a good writer. It makes you a "bad" reader. You suddenly start to see that stories are designed, that there is a subtle logic to fiction. It spoils reading, but in return you become a better writer. At CWest, I also discovered that I had something to say, and when I returned, I told the missus I'd give this writing thing a year. Well, it has been a very long year.
THE PUNCH: How conscious, if at all, are you of the genre (speculative fiction, sci-fi or sub-genre, mundane SF) you write in — and your target readers — when you write?
ANIL MENON: The genre doesn't matter much. For me, the genre label only applies to the story, not the writer. I work on a story and only after finishing do I worry about where to place it. Occasionally, I get invited to submit something, and then of course I have less play. These days, most of my short stories are very much in the here and now.
THE PUNCH: Your stories, even though SF, remains in the realm of possibility, of things that seem credible. They seem to convey the idea of "near future" as against "distant future". Is that deliberate to make stories credible and do you have to work on this purposefully? Do you consciously avoid tropes like time travel or aliens or parellel dimensions?
ANIL MENON: Well, I don't see how it is possible to write a story about the far future. That's because I don't believe the far future will have humans. I mean, as a species, it is highly likely we will transform our biology radically. The signs are all around us. But the moment we write a story, we introduce humans one way or the other. We have no choice. We cannot imagine a story without humans. So, science-fiction can no more bridge the gap between today and that distant tomorrow anymore than a chimpanzee can bridge the gap between its thoughts and the Shakespearean sonnet.
THE PUNCH: Is short fiction more liberating or harder to write than novels?
ANIL MENON: For me, short stories are definitely more fun. Both for reading and writing. The best are stories
such as those by Naiyer Masud; they are short stories that feel like novels.
THE PUNCH: Let's talk about a few of your short stories. A short story you published in 2008, "Into The Night", tells the story of 82-year-old Kallikulam Ramaswamy and his last days with his daughter Ganga on an artificial island. An elegy for a man's life, it's also a reflection on our ways of grappling with the future, of how, in the end, we realise that there is no way of dealing with the future, except perhaps to learn to adapt and ultimately allow ourselves to drown into its waves. Could you tell us about its genesis?
ANIL MENON: I know quite a few bewildered Ramaswamys in the US. It is staggering to consider the amount of change they've seen in their lives. Their wives are creatures of situation; they adjust. But the men, they tend to be creatures of place in the way the Bodhi tree is a creature of place. You can't uproot them and expect them to remain whole. In the end, their refusal to be happy is all the resistance they can offer in utopia. I was glad to be done with the story. It took me to some dark places.
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My Mom took our pup to the vet and left us this note. For some reason, in addition to telling us how well-behaved our dog was, she felt the need to remind us to clean up the dog "poops" in the yard "so the gardener doesn't make a mess."
Important to note is the solid black line that visually separates the two thoughts . . .
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With adding pork to our Ranch we do feed a pelleted mix made local since pigs need a higher protein diet that grass can not sustain for them.
Alhambra Valley Beef and Pears is made up of two neighboring ranches. The Sindicich Ranch and the Seven V Ranch. They came together in 1941 when Emma Sindicich married Edward Pereira . The family ranches the have been in the family for generations.
While we are refugees from the urban life who are proud to be part of the "slow food" movement. We got involved in grass-fed beef when we started raising beef for our own consumption. As friends became interested once they tasted free range grass-fed beef, we were off and running with Silver Springs Ranch, and Alhambra Valley Beef and Pears.
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Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live at Providence Performing Arts Center June 15, 2014: A Concert Review
Last summer I was lucky enough to see one of my favorite musicians of all time live in concert...he also happened to be a former member of my favorite band and the best band in the history of rock music. Yes, it was Paul McCartney, formerly of the Beatles! This past Monday, I was lucky enough to see another Beatle in concert when I saw Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band live in Providence, Rhode Island at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC). As a venue, the PPAC was gorgeous, in the heart of downtown Providence and just a beautiful, ornate, old-fashioned art-deco styled theatre. The environs of the PPAC were warm and welcoming and the sound was great, which is a good thing because it was a night of fun music played by a tight and excellent band of musicians!
|It's Ringo!
The set list they played is below:
It Don't Come Easy
I Saw the Light
Evil Ways
Bang the Drum All Day
Don't Pass Me By
Yellow Submarine
Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
Honey Don't
You Are Mine
Oye Como Va
Love is the Answer
I Wanna Be Your Man
Broken Wings
Hold the Line
Act Naturally
With a Little Help From My Friends
Give Peace a Chance
There were many highlights of the show. First off the bat, as with Paul, Ringo seems ageless. He's very active and engaging on stage, dancing and singing and jumping around...I had to remind myself and my mum (who I went to the show with) that he'll be 74 next month! He also spent half of the show playing drums and providing the legendary rocksteady backbeat (along Bissonnette's incredible lead drumming) that he's known for, and I have to say that I did spend a lot of the time just watching Ringo play the drums. Not only was it great to see his technique and style in person, but as with Paul last summer, I was watching a Beatle playing right in front of my eyes! And it was more than cool to see Ringo do his trademark head bop from side to side as he played...add longer hair and it's like watching him play with the Beatles in concert during the 1960s.
As for the set, the Beatles songs of course got the biggest cheers, with Ringo making several funny jokes about them. Before "Boys," he said "here's one we used to play in the band I used to be in..." *massive cheer from the crowd* "That's right...Rory Storm and the Hurricanes!" He also mentioned before one song that "if you don't know the words to this one, you must be at the wrong show...perhaps you're waiting for Sly and the Family Stone?" Then they started playing "Yellow Submarine." He told his band that there was no need to reveal the name of another song, which ended up being "With a Little Help From My Friends." Over the entire show, Ringo was in a funny mood, interacting with the crowd, even joking when he played a couple of his recent solo songs that he wanted to thank the people in the audience who bought his last album..."both of you!" He also mentioned after "Don't Pass Me By" (where he even played the intro on keyboard!) that after he'd written it, "I thought to myself, look out, Lennon and McCartney."
Speaking of his band, I can't stress enough how tight and good they were...they have chops to spare and it was obvious not only from listening to their playing but from watching them that they were having an absolute blast onstage, which was infectious and was given right back to them by the crowd. Several times during the concert, they mentioned how they've become a band of brothers and how much they enjoy each others company. I'd knew everyone in the band before the concert except for Warren Ham, and he is absolutely on the same level as the rest of the guys. He sang fantastic lead and backing vocals and brought the house down with several incendiary tenor and soprano saxophone solos. The crowd itself was made up of a range of ages, from twelve year old kids all the way up to seventy year old grandparents, yet everyone sang along to the songs and clapped and danced and had a great time. I went to this show with my mum, just like last summer's Paul show, and just like that concert, it was great to be able to share the experience with her not only because she's my mother and I love her, but because it's because of her and my dad that I'm a musician and obsessive music (and Beatles) fan myself. One thing that struck me is when Steve Lukather mentioned between songs how he was honored that he now gets to play with one of the guys who is the reason he is a musician; for me, seeing Paul and now Ringo in concert is the same thrill...it's because of them (and my parents) that I have the relationship with music that I do. Seeing Ringo completed the circle started by seeing Paul last summer, and for any Beatles fan I would highly recommend it...it's an experience you will enjoy immensely, and I know that if given the opportunity, like Paul McCartney, I'd go see Ringo Starr again in a heartbeat.
|The stage set up before the concert
|Ringo and the All-Starr Band take the stage and start the show!
|Todd Rundgren takes a turn leading the band
|Gregg Rollie leads the band in one of three excellent Santana songs
|Richard Page leads the band through one of his songs from Mr. Mister
|Ringo drumming and singing...legendary
|Ringo kicks off "Don't Pass Me By"
|Steve Lukather leads the band in a Toto song and played incredible guitar throughout the show
|Give Peace a Chance!


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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimates 35 thousand Ohioans will get more than 1.2 million dollars in refunds from insurance companies because of a provision in the Affordable Care Act.
Lewis Wallace of member station WYSO in Yellow Springs reports.
This refund is the result of a clause in the Affordable Care Act aimed at limiting the cost of health insurance.
The law requires insurers to spend most of the money they take in from premiums on actual care, as opposed to overhead.
For individuals and small businesses buying health insurance, that spending ratio is 80 to 20meaning insurers must spend at least 80 percent on care.
If they dont do that, they owe their customers a refund.
About $1.2 million dollars in refunds were issued for premiums paid in 2013 in Ohio.
The majority of that will go back to employers who purchased small group insurance for over 30,000 consumers.
A handful of insurers in the individual market also owe money backfour companies serving 3,500 people in the state
Health and Human Services estimates the average per-family refund in Ohio is 69 dollars.


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Are homeowners in the Town of Goshen aware that if Legoland becomes a reality, homes within a 3-mile radius will lose 25 percent of their property value, according to local real estate experts. Approximately 400 homes will be affected. This means the residents of Arcadia Hills, Arcadia Road, Reservoir Road, Lower Reservoir, South Street, South Church Street and homes on old Chester Road - all for a mega corporation to seek enormous profits regardless of the disastrous effects on homeowners.
Legoland has already asked for a 30-year non-payment of property taxe, which is unheard of today. They have already been granted by New York State grants, non-repayable of $10 million. Can anyone envision millions of people coming to Goshen on a daily basis? Surely such numbers would wreak havoc on all levels of traffic, water, sewage and will ultimately destroy our way of life as we know it.
To accommodate Merlin Entertainment, our town board has to change the zoning on the 523-acre site where it wants to build its theme park on 153 acres. The town board would have to change the zoning from residential to commercial on that site. Also, the board would have to change a law that prohibits amusement parks. How ironic! Why do they enact these laws in the first place, to protect its citizens and then are so readily willing to change them for outside interests, like Merlin.
I firmly believe that the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages of Legoland building in Goshen.
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Yeah you read that right. Overwatch uses a directx 11 based engine and therefore the chances of ever getting a native linux port are close to zero. So the only way to ever play that game on anything else than windows is wine. But even wine can't help you with dx11 games. Or can it? A while back I searched around about whether or not the game was playable through wine and only found that since it was using directx 11 it won't be possible anytime soon.
Wine is pretty good at running windows software and even games on linux and MacOS. It even is so good that supposedly the mac version of sims 3 is just the windows version running through wine. Older games using directx 9 run almost perfectly with it, but once again Overwatch uses one of the latest iterations of directx, which is a collection of APIs used for creating games.
A few days back I once again searched to find out whether or not Overwatch was playable through wine and to my surprise there actually was. I stumbled upon some videos by djazz which show him playing the game on linux. From there on out I found out about lutris, which is somehting like playonlinux but in my opinion better. I followed the rather simple installation process and there we go: Overwatch running on linux through a custom version of wine which contains patches for Overwatch.
Sadly it seems that with my current setup it performs very poorly but if you have a decent PC you might be able to play it without needing windows. So if you want to give it a try first get lutris from here. Then head over to this page and click install. This will open up lutris which will guide you through the installation. If you already have Overwatch on another hdd (Maybe because you play it on windows) you can save some time by either copying it or using a symlink.
If you encounter problems installing it you can also join the discord and ask your questions in the #lutris channel. Also if this works for you, then you should go ahead and thank strider, djazz and (I think) gamax92 on the discord because they're the ones who made that possible. You can also give the lutris devs some money on patreon, because they did an awesome job creating an open source gaming platform.


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The Jets 2013-2014 coaching staff is almost set.
The team officially announced the firing of offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo in a Tuesday release. DeGuglielmo will be replaced by former tight ends/assistant line coach Mike Devlin.
In addition, the Jets hired Louie Aguiar as their assistant special teams coach, Steve Hagen as their tight ends coach, Ron Heller as their new assistant offensive line coach, Pierre Ngo as their assistant strength and conditioning coach and Jeff Weeks as their assistant defensive line/linebackers coach.
Former assistant tight ends coach Lance Taylor accepted a position with the Carolina Panthers as their assistant wide receivers coach.
The Jets still need to hire a new linebackers coach.
Here's a look at the Jets current coaching staff:
Rex Ryan (head coach)
Ben Kotwica (special teams coordinator)
Marty Morhinweg (offensive coordinator)
Dennis Thurman (defensive coordinator)
Louie Aguiar (assistant special teams)
Mike Devlin (offensive line)
Karl Dunbar (defensive line)
Justus Galac (head strength and conditioning)
Steve Hagen (tight ends)
Ron Heller (assistant offensive line)
Sanjay Lal (wide receivers)
David Lee (quarterbacks)
Anthony Lynn (running backs)
Tim McDonald (defensive backs)
Pierre Ngo (assistant strength and conditioning)
Paul Ricci (assistant strength and conditioning)
Brian Smith (assistant defensive backs)
Jeff Weeks (assistant defensive line/linebackers)
Below are full bios of the new hires:
Aguiar (Utah State/Livermore, CA) begins his NFL coaching career after previously overseeing the Aguiar Kicking Academy that holds a pro/free agent camp for draft eligible and free agent athletes every spring. Entering the NFL in 1991, Aguiar spent time with the Jets (1991-93), Kansas City (1994-98), Green Bay (1999) and Chicago (2000). He played in 152 games and recorded a gross average of 41.2 yards on 758 punts. He was named a second-team all-pro in 1995.
Devlin (Iowa/Blacksburg, VA) moves over to coach the offensive line, after spending the previous five seasons as the tight ends/assistant offensive line coach. He initially joined the team in 2006. Prior to joining the Jets, Devlin served four seasons with Arizona, first as offensive quality control (2000) and then as the assistant offensive line coach. A former fifth-round selection by Buffalo in the 1993 NFL Draft, he played in 101 games over seven seasons, contributing to the Bills (1993-95) and the Cardinals (1996-99).
Hagen (Cal-Lutheran/Forest City, IA) joins the Jets after spending the previous four seasons as the tight ends coach for Cleveland. He also coached tight ends for the Browns from 2001-03 before moving to quarterbacks coach in 2004. Coaching primarily on the college level since 1984, Hagen's stops have included North Carolina (2007-08), Fresno State (2006), California (1999-2000), San Jose State (1997-98), Wartburg (1996), UNLV (1990, 1994-95), Nevada (1992-93), Kent State (1991), Notre Dame (1989-90), Northern Arizona (1987-88), Kansas (1985-86) and Illinois (1984). A wide receiver at Cal-Lutheran University, Hagen earned NAIA All-America honors as a senior.
Heller (Penn State/Miami, FL) joins the Jets after spending the previous season as the offensive line coach for the Omaha Nighthawks of the UFL. A Farmingdale High School graduate, Heller won Newsday's Thorp Award in 1979 as the best player in Nassau County. Beginning his coaching career in 2004, Heller has coached in NFL Europe (Amsterdam Admirals), the CFL (Toronto Argonauts), the NFL (Jacksonville Jaguars) and the UFL (Omaha). Initially a fourth-round pick of the Buccaneers in 1984, he played 12 seasons in the NFL with Tampa Bay, Philadelphia and Miami.
Weeks (SW Oklahoma State/Bartlesville, OK) returns to the Jets after spending three seasons with the team's defensive staff as a defensive assistant (2009), the outside linebackers coach (2010) and the assistant defensive line coach (2011). Prior to joining the Jets staff, Weeks has coached on both the college and NFL level since 1987. Weeks graduated from SW Oklahoma State (1985) after spending four years at NW Oklahoma State (1981-84), where he played wide receiver and received All-Oklahoma honors in 1982.


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Okay. Just validated my manuscript, and…I won! I won! I won! I wrote 50,000 words and won NaNoWriMo!
The dust settles, I calm down, and…now what?
One piece of advice given to WriMos is to silence your inner editor and just write. If you keep stopping to fix things, to edit, you'll likely get stuck and not cross the finish line by November 30th.
So now, knowing you have a number of places where you said to yourself, "I'll fix that later," and you kept writing, per advice, you KNOW it needs editing. Or, you may be like I was after my first NaNo experience. I was convinced what I'd written was drivel and was poised to hit "Delete." But my NaNo buddy from that year persuaded me not to do that. She said that it just needed some judicious editing.
So, I took a deep breath…unsquenched my eyes and started reading it. And you know, it wasn't that bad. Oh, sure, there were places that made me cringe, but I thought, "She may be right. It may just need some editing."
I'm glad I took her advice. That book is my best seller online.
You first-timers who've never before written a novel may be feeling overwhelmed at the idea of all the editing ahead of you. Take heart. Other writers have lived through the edit/rewrite trauma, and you will, too. But I thought I'd share some tips that might help you as they helped me.
So, sharpen that red pencil, and let's get going.
First, if you're not accustomed to editing fiction, you might want to get a couple of books that I found immensely helpful as I learned to edit my works. The first is "Self-editing for Fiction Writers" by Renni Browne and Dave King. The second is "The First Five Pages" by agent Noah Lukeman. There are other good books on the subject, but I found those two most valuable.
Be prepared to spend however much time it takes to make your novel the best it can be. Spend time assessing character arcs, storylines, and other underlying nuts-and-bolts issues of good storytelling. Good editing takes time. A lot of time.
Make several passes through your novel, reading it with your eye focused on one issue each time. I make passes looking for unnecessary words. And other passes ferreting out the overuse of adjectives and adverbs. And searching out redundancies. (You'd be surprised how many times you find over-used words. I sometimes get stuck on a certain word and it crops up continuously.)
When you're sure you've fixed everything fixable, do another read through looking for typos, misspellings and grammar mistakes. There aren't any of those, you say? As many times as you've read through it (and you're thoroughly sick of the story by now), there couldn't be one mistake left in it.
Oh yes, there can. And there are. Just try to make sure that YOU are the one who finds those lurking problems, not a reader.
And after you've done that…it's time to discuss what you plan to do with your clean, polished, shiny new manuscript. But that's a topic for another time…
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On Your Mark
2013 – Happy New Year!
The new year starts of a bit brisk and white, with southern Ontario getting the biggest snow fall in about 2-years. It wasn't a devastating snowfall as with other years, but it's definitely a calling card from old man winter!
The year seems to be starting of rather well, the Grape has been recruited to do a couple of video and still photography sessions. Within the first week of the new year, we've shot some behind-the-scenes production stills and video for a work-in-progress feature length film-project. This is a project that we've been involved with for a few years and it's finally in post-production. This job entailed shooting ADR work at one of Toronto's best audio-post facilities. ADR is an acronym for Additional Dialog Recording. ADR work is necessary for most commercial movies to help correct and fix dialog that was not captured correctly. If it's done correctly, you wouldn't realize it.
Another project Grapevine Graphics has been commissioned on is to help shoot a live 'unplugged' musical performance for musician Angela Saini. A location survey was done to scope out the shooting requirements. We're looking forward to the shoot for Forward Motion Productions at the end of January.
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Cambodia Attends the CLMVT Forum 2018 in Bangkok
Cambodia's Secretary of State for Commerce H.E. Chhuon Dara led a delegation to attend the CLMVT Forum 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand late last week, according to the Ministry of Commerce's news release.
The event, taking place on Aug. 16-17, was held under the theme Taking Off through Technology and the participants from five countries � Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand � shared new knowledge and information related to digital economy and e-commerce.
The forum's main objective is to strengthen shared prosperity in line with sustainable development principles and to build regional networks.
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Americans continue to get fatter and it's delivering a huge blow to the country, both in higher health care costs and undercutting military recruiting, according to a huge new study.more here.
The 14th annual State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation bluntly reported that 70 percent of the nation is obese or overweight.
And while the rate of obesity growth is leveling off, the costs aren't. The report, for example, said additional health care for obese adults and children is $150 billion a year and billions of dollars more in lost worker productivity.
It is also costly to the military, said the report. Nearly one-quarter of military recruits are rejected because they are obese and it costs the Pentagon $1 billion a year in added health care costs for obese troops and their families.
September 2, 2017
Our Self Indulgent Nation
6 comments:
- Curmudgeon said...
Thank you to your daughter for her service.
As someone who has struggled with weight issues before I can tell you having commercials popping up on our televisions depicting succulent treats and having fast food restaurants on every corner doesn't help those with a weakness for food.
People don't realize how years of reckless abandon can affect their health. Their so-called "comfort food" can turn their lives into a healthcare nightmare.
Don't believe me? Ask anyone with diabetes. They'll set you straight.
- 9/02/2017
- Curmudgeon said...
Incidentally, the article you linked to described blacks and Latinos as being disproportionately more obese than other ethnicities. These two demographics also have a 40 to 50% higher incidence of diabetes.
- 9/02/2017
- DUTA said...
We are, indeed, heavily surrounded by food and chefs in restaurants, eateries, TV programs/TV contests,you name it. It doesn't help us stay healthy. Dieting is not for the weak of character; it's a long, demanding process.People get frustrated and choose what looks like a short way: surgery, but this has its risks.
- 9/02/2017
- Kid said...
Americans have had a non-laborious lifestyle for a good long time. I think something else is at play here. GMO's? Don't know.
- 9/02/2017
- sig94 said...
My weight problem started when I stopped smoking, gained 50 pounds. Curse you heart attack! Once my sense of smell returned I discovered that my wife was actually a really good cook. The pounds just don't come off like they used to.
She and I both go on and off diets ... yet we know it is a matter of changing your life style that does the trick. I don't have three babies and a c-section to blame though.
- 9/03/2017
- Undergroundpewster said...
Pictures of my late father's generation in their first uniforms show a bunch of underweight depression era teenagers not fit to fight. In June 1956, President Eisenhower created the President's Council on Youth Fitness with cabinet-level status so that we wouldn't be caught off guard if the Soviets blitzed us. After Vietnam, physically fit youth, ready for battle, became quite unpopular. Now we have a generation of overweight, out of shape kids unfit for combat, the opposite of the situation in the 1940's. Now we have to dedicate resources for weight loss. My nephew was once put in command of the "Fat Boy Platoon" to get them in shape for Basic Training.
- 9/03/2017


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Assemble the sliders before dinner. Or, consider showcasing a slider assembly station for your family or friends to make their own.
How to Make It
Sprinkle pork with pepper. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork; cook 3 minutes on each side or until browned. Transfer pork to a 3-quart slow cooker coated with cooking spray. Add 1 cup water and next 4 ingredients (through garlic) to slow cooker. Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours or until tender.
Remove pork from slow cooker; place in a bowl. Shred pork with 2 forks. Pour cooking liquid through a sieve into a bowl, reserving shallots and garlic. Add 3/4 cup strained cooking liquid, shallots, and garlic to pork; toss well. Discard remaining cooking liquid.
Combine mayonnaise and horseradish in a small bowl. Spoon about 2 tablespoons pork mixture on bottom half of each bun. Top evenly with arugula. Spread 1 1/2 teaspoons mayonnaise mixture on cut side of each bun top. Cover sliders with bun tops.
Chef's Notes
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Bramstons winners after all
It has now been two months since Carole and Russell Bramston narrowly missed out on the top prize in House Rules but the Boya couple certainly haven't been wallowing in their defeat.
The Perth Hills pair made it to the final two on the Seven renovation show but it was Melbourne lovebirds Adam Dovile and Lisa Lamond who ultimately had their mortgage paid out.
While Russell went straight back to work in his administration job after the finale, it took Carole longer to work out what her next move would be.
But the grandmother has now taken up a job at Swan District Hospital and is putting her passion for design into use in her spare time by helping others revamp their homes.
"I think I went a bit flat after the show compared to Russell because he went straight back to work," Carole admitted to AAA.
"The next day he was gone and I was like 'I'm here, now what?' I went quiet for a little while because I needed time to collect myself and find a direction. Now I am out of it and every day I feel luckier and luckier."
After the show wrapped, Carole was surprised to find she was inundated with requests from the public to offer her design advice.
She is currently finding furniture for a woman who lost her home in the Hills fires and recently found a note in her son's letterbox from another viewer asking for help choosing wallpaper.
"I phoned her and asked if she wanted someone's name to do the wallpapering and she said 'Actually, would you and Russell come', and I said 'Of course'," Carole smiled. "We had a few glasses of red wine and had a really lovely time with these people."
Russell is also shocked how many local fans he and his wife have, saying they are regularly stopped on the street to chat about their experience.
"Even kids from four years old who watch the show, they get more hooked on it than the parents," he said.
"A few schools have asked us to come back and say hi afterwards because the kids just love it."
Carole added: "We were in their lounge room for three or four months entertaining them. We had that opportunity and it showed us who we really were so we don't mind chatting about it."
Having their house made over on the series still feels like a dream for the Bramstons, even though they didn't win.
"All these people go through these reality shows and when they get booted off they might get nothing," Russell explained.
"We spent six months of our lives (on House Rules) and we did really well out of this."
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More phone calls between Allen Andrade and his girlfriend days after the killing of Greeley transgender woman Angie Zapata were aired this morning.
The two calls, between Andrade, 32, and his girlfriend at the time, Felicia Mendoza, detailed two people regretting a future they may never have.
In one portion of one of the calls, however, Andrade spontaneously says, "Gay things need to die."
Mendoza said she could offer no reason why he'd say that.
Andrade is on trial for first-degree murder of Zapata, 18, after meeting her on a social networking Web site last summer.
Public defenders have said Andrade reacted to a deception, while prosecutors state he knew of her gender 36 hours prior to killing her.
Audio records aired Monday revealed Andrade had been visiting the bisexual chartroom of the networking site. And A Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent also reported that Andrade's DNA was found on a vibrator that was found in Zapata's apartment.
On the stand Tuesday, Mendoza said she had no reason to believe Andrade was bisexual, and she had never known him to say derogatory remarks against homosexuals.
Prosecutors believe they'll rest their case today.
Andrade is on trial for first-degree murder, but the jury may have the option of convicting him of second-degree murder. In that event, the Weld District Attorney plans to introduce habitual offender charges against Andrade, meaning he would be sentenced to four times the sentence he'd receive in the case. The habitual offender charge will not be introduced if he's convicted of first-degree murder.


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Roast Tomato Poblano Cheese Dip $9.55 – Oven roasted tomato, poblano peppers in a creamy cheese sauce. Served with house made corn chips & crispy wontons with blackened spice.
Thyme Fries $8.55 – Yukon & Sweet potatoes fresh cut with our house spice & fresh thyme.
Mozzarella Sticks $9.55 – House mozza sticks with a southern twist. Served with a Spanish tomato sauce for dipping.
Return of The Mack – Maple boar Bacon & Cheese $9.55 – Our Creamy mac & cheese topped with homemade cheddar jalapeno cornbread crumbs & maple Tennessee whiskey candied whild boar bacon. *vegetarian option available.
Country Grammar Cornbread Cupcakes $7.55 – Aged Canadian Cheddar & jalapeno cornbread served with our delivios house made smoked honey butter
Up In Smoke Big Boy Chicken Wings $11.55/7 or $17.55/12 – Marinated for 24 hours, house smoked for 2.5 hours, devoured in no time! Sauces: Kansas City Grilled, Honey Garlic/Ginger, Jimmy Dusted House Buffalo Sauce, Smokey Dry Rub, Suicide, Hot & Honey, South of Thailand.
Ms Jackson Smoked Turkey and Brie Salad $17.55 – House honey smoked turkey breast, blackened corn, marinated chickpeas, egg & mixed greens tossed with our white balsamic vinaigrette.
The Capone Brisket Sandwich $18.55 – 6oz of smoked Black Angus Brisket piled high on our toasted rustic bun, topped with monterey jack & drizzled with 55's own vegan smoked maple BBQ sauce & smoked horseradish Alabama sauce.
The Bayou Gator & Shrimp Po Boy $19.55 – A New Orleans Classic with a 55 twist. Cornmeal crusted shrimp on a classic French baguette with lettuce, red wine vinagrette marinated tomato slices, creole mustard & drizzled with our Kansas City peach BBQ sauce.
Turkey Club Grilled Cheese $18.55 – Tender smoked turkey, candied bacon, tomato & lettuce piled between thick cut toast with melted Brie & Gouda.
Chicken and Waffles $21.55 – Butter milk dipped crispy friend chicken on a house made belgium waffle. Served with smoked honey butter, country gravy & real Canadian syrup.
Baby Back Ribs 1/2 Rack $19.55, Full Rack $31.55 – Marinated for 24 hours & slow smoked with 6 hours with organic cherry & sugar maple wood. Served with house fries & coleslaw.
Swiss Beats Piri Piri Smoked Chicken $22.55 – Our half chicken is marinated for 24 hours, smoked for 2.5 hours, brushed with our house Piri Piri sauce & served with Saffron mashed potatoes & country slaw.
8oz 28 Day Dry-Aged Sirloin – Our very own sirloin cut steak is grilled to your liking & served with house fries, smoked horseradhish Alabama sauce & chimichurri sauce. Add Blackened Shrimp $8.55.
O.D.B Bucket of Chicken $26.55 – 4 pieces of buttermilk southern fried chicken served with house fried, country gravy & side of Kansas City peach BBQ sauce.


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Frequently Asked Questions by Manufacturers on the FDA's New Nutrition Facts Label Change
The Brand Leader's FDA Nutrition Facts Label FAQ
Now is the time to act to ensure a thoughtful approach to the FDA nutrition label change. It impacts the entire ecosystem of food, beverage and supplement manufacturers and their supply chain partners. It also impacts shoppers' decision-making and how brands might position themselves.
These are the top 3 questions leaders should be asking in order to take full advantage of this change.


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Winning the SEO Battle at Every Step of the Purchase PathBlog Post: October 14, 2009
excellent post rand.
We often overlook the entire purchase funnel and pay attention to all the generic keywords and aim to get ranks only for those terms.
It certainly makes a lot of different to optimize a site using keywords which searchers use at each stage of the buying cycle. It certainly changes my dimension towards the way we do keyword research.


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In the distance, the mostly oak forest on Manomet Hill has shed its leaves and is peppered with the spikes of green pines. In the foreground, a deserted White Horse Beach enjoys a strong surf on a windy and cold day.
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If you do not have a internet connection at home or while travelling using laptop. You will have no options right! Not to worry. If you have smart phone with a internet connection (2G, 3G, 4G) then you can use your mobile phone as wireless hotspot. This is called "Mobile Tethering".
You can connect your laptop, another mobile phone, IPAD or any tablets which has WIFI capability and access internet.
This could be a life saver when you are travelling and wanted to connect to internet from your laptop.
I will show the options available in my Samsung phone (Android OS). This steps may vary based on the handsets that you are using.
Enable internet access in your phone (incase if it is not enabled)
Tap on Wireless and network
Tap Tethering
Tap mobile AP
Tap Ok
See if the green checkbox is checked.
Tap Configure mobile AP
Tap WPA2 PSK for setting password for your WIFI hotspot.
Enter a name in Network SSID and give a password and tap Save.
You are all set. In your laptop or your tablet, check if the wireless hotspot is displayed (Network SSID) connect to it and provide the password.
If you have good data plan, then I guess you can switch over to this instead of broadband connection. But still it may have its own limitations. Check if your service provider is charging for Tethering data.


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Annandale, Virginia
Annandale is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County , Virginia , United States . [ 3 ] The population was 41,008 at the 2010 census , down from 54,994 in 2000 due to the splitting off of the western part of it to form Wakefield and Woodburn CDP's.
Annandale is located at 38°50'3?N 77°12'41?W ? / ? 38.83417°N 77.21139°W ? / 38.83417; -77.21139 (38.834134, -77.211277) [ 4 ] . Annandale is mostly traversed by the Capital Beltway and Virginia State Route 236 . The center of town is considered to be where Route 236, Columbia Pike, and Backlick Road meet around two miles (3 km) east of Interstate 495 on Route 236.
According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 13.8 square miles (36 km 2 ), of which, 13.8 square miles (36 km 2 ) of it is land and 0.17% is water. The area is part of the coastal plain located just east of the Fall Line separating the coastal plain of Virginia from the piedmont. It is characterized by rolling hills, stream valleys, and heavy red clay soils.
The Annandale region is bisected by Accotink Creek, which in Colonial times was a primary link for ocean-going ships that would load tobacco and other goods where Little River Turnpike - Annandale's oldest road and the first toll road in America - crosses it. Accotink Creek was dammed in the 1960s to create Lake Accotink, a water supply for the U.S. Army's Fort Belvior Proving Ground located just downstream. Today, Lake Accotink is now a popular recreation area with fishing and boat rentals, and the Proving Ground is closed.
Also along Accotink Creek runs the Fairfax Cross County Trail (CCT) which provides uninterrupted hiking, biking, running and cross-country skiing for 20 miles (32 km) in Annandale. The CCT meanders through parks and forests filled with deer, fox, geese and numerous species of native birds. In the spring, Accotink Creek is stocked with trout and fishermen are often seen wading in its waters
As of the census [ 1 ] of 2000, there were 54,994 people, 19,927 households, and 14,088 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 3,984.5 people per square mile (1,538.6/km 2 ). There were 20,243 housing units at an average density of 1,466.7/sq mi (566.4/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the CDP was 64.50% White , 5.86% African American , 0.30% Native American , 19.36% Asian Americans , 0.07% Pacific Islander , 5.94% from other races , and 3.96% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14.49% of the population.
There were 19,927 households out of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.8% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% were non-families. 21.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the average family size was 3.18.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 22.6% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 32.4% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males.
According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the CDP was $90,711, and the median income for a family was $111,514. Males had a median income of $50,628 versus $39,360 for females. The per capita income for the community was $31,623. About 4.5% of families and 7.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 8.9% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.


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I admit I cannot resist this — the level of implausibility of Mr. Hassan's recent statements — on the Russian market — simply demands a good Fisking (demands to be clearly outlined). So, here goes:
If, as I established in my last post, it would take 48 to 43 billion Roubles of new Russian sales to fill Schering's 2008 EPS "gap" — then, according to this summary research report, Schering-Plough will need to take home, to America, one Rouble out of every seven spent in Russia this year on pharmaceuticals, or about 15 percent of the overall Russian spending in the category. As many have cogently observed, Pfizer is big into Russia, especially lately — so that kind of share seems a stretch, at best.
Can Schering garner 15 percent of all Russian pharma Rouble expenditures, in 2008?
I think not.
In any event, here is a relevant snippet from the above report, on Russian pharma market sizes — I've allowed for 15 percent growth over 2007 levels, in the middle of the more optimistic scenarios outlined in the report:
. . . .According to BMI's latest estimate, Russia's pharmaceutical market reached a total value of US$11.7bn in final consumer prices 2007, representing 20% year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in dollar terms and bringing total per capita annual spending on medicines to US$82.3, twice 2004 levels. This is broadly in line with the growth rate recorded by local research groups DSM (20.2%) and RMBC for 9M07 (21%). More modest local currency growth rates of 11.2% reflect the distorting effect of the weakness of the US dollar. Looking forward, BMI's five-year forecast, extended to 2012, sees annual average dollar growth of 10.9%, a lower but potentially more sustainable growth rate, in particular if the rouble continues to appreciate against the dollar through the forecast period. . . .


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JP Soars and the Red Hots is a South Florida Blues/Jazz band headed by 2009 International Blues Challenge winner JP Soars.
Band members: JP Soars – Guitar, Vocals
Chris Peet – Drums
Steve Laudicina – Guitar
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Katherine Heigl: Evanovich Movie Franchise a 'Dream,' Not 'Reality'
Katherine Heigl carries her cutie pie daughter Naleigh as they visit a friend's place on Sunday (October 23) in Studio City, Calif.
Following close behind was Kat's husband, musician Josh Kelley.
Kat recently answered fans' questions about her upcoming movie One for the Money, including whether or not more movies from Janet Evanovich's series are in the works.
"I would love the chance to make the second book into a movie and team up with Morelli, Ranger, Lula, Vinnie and Grandma once again, but we'll have to wait and see how the first one does. So as of right now it's more a dream than a reality," Kat explained.
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Photo editor, curator and professor Fred Ritchin has joined the International Center of Photography as dean of the School at ICP. In his new role, Ritchin will oversee the education of more than 5,000 students each year.
"ICP is an incubator for great ideas, projects and innovation," Ritchin tells TIME. "The key word is experimentation, and having a safe and challenging place to innovate and try out new ideas."
As dean, Ritchin will work to ensure that ICP students (and faculty) creatively address the countless challenges photographers face in today's frenetic, ever-changing media landscape.
"With billions of images uploaded every day, how do you make sense of it, and how do you make meaningful images?" he asks. "What's the difference between an image and a photograph? What's the difference between multimedia and hyper-photography? How can fictional and non-fictional photography [work together]? How can you authenticate what is credible and what is not credible? How do you deal with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's ability to define its own image? How do you make sense of all that?"
The number and the scale of the challenges are enormous, he says, but Ritchin also believes ICP is uniquely placed to tackle them. "We have lots of different programs where the idea is to help people become media literate; to teach them how to consume images."
In the months to come, Ritchin will evaluate the School's programs with the goal of adding more "cutting-edge" artists and documentarians to the mix. "ICP has been fantastic in the 20th century," he says, "and now there's a chance to add to that while respecting the older traditions."
Mark Lubell, ICP's Executive Director, says that Ritchin "has a deep understanding of the possibilities present in the medium today and a demonstrated commitment to the ideals of 'concerned photography' that are at the heart of ICP."
Ritchin's arrival at ICP will result in Phillip Block's reassignment in weeks to come. The Director of Education, who has been at ICP for 32 years, is expected to be transferred to another area of the school where, Lubell says, his "expertise and enthusiasm ... will prove invaluable as we plan for our vibrant future."
In recent months, Lubell, who joined ICP in November 2013, has been advocating for the center to embrace the dramatic changes that have redefined the role of photographer.
"There are 880 billion images taken in one year. We are all documenting and taking pictures through these new vehicles," he recently told the New York Times. "But who is making sense of that? You still need to have a professional eye being an arbiter of this communication, and that is the role I see ICP playing."
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The 2007 vintage saw the Command vineyard produce an exceptionally low yield resulting in only 20% of the normal average production. Although very little was made the quality of the 2007 Command is up to it's usual exceptionally high standards. The wine was matured for 34 months in a combination of American & French oak and then given a further 12 months bottle age before being released.
Opaque black dark red colour with deep dark red hue – a little more advanced than previous vintages. The nose displays excellent intensity with top notes of mocha and liquorice followed by some ripe blackberry, confectionary and vanilla. Full bodied, super rich and opulent the palate displays lavish flavours of dark plum, liquorice allsorts and mocha followed by some dark chocolate and vanilla overtones. Silky smooth tannin structure. Superb depth with long persistent aftertaste of mocha, liquorice, vanilla and spice.
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2007 was a hot, dry, challenging year in the Barossa but the 1894 plantings that go into the Command Shiraz have seen a lot of innings. The roots of these vines go down an estimated 2+ meters, a factor that goes a long way towards stabilizing yields through thick and thin. Still, this was a relatively small vintage producing around 1000 cases. The 2007 Shiraz Command Elderton Estate gives a medium garnet color and very earthy, intense black cherry and blackberry aromas with some loam and iron ore over spice box and espresso, vanilla and licorice. The full-bodied palate is very concentrated juxtaposed by steady crispness and firm fine tannins. This wine is still very youthful with the oak still standing apart in the long layered finish, yet it's a great example destined for the long haul. Consider drinking it now to 2024+.
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Paella is a rice-based dish, typical of the Spanish cuisine and which has its roots in the community of Valencia. There are different types of paella: Valencian paella, seafood paella and mixed paella. This is my gluten-free version of the Paella Mista (Mixed Paella). Ingredients: 4 chicken wings/thighs 1 belly slice 4squid 2 spring onions 1… Continue reading My Gluten Free Paella Mista
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Windows: As good as camera phones are these days, they can still produce some blurry images, especially of moving subjects or in low light. While you could try to sharpen them up in a feature-rich app like Photoshop and futz around with a bunch of sliders and settings to get decent results, SmartDeblur does a great job with a lot less fuss.
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If you need to fix a lot of photos, a batch process in Photoshop will be faster, but SmartDeblur is still handy when you just want to sharpen a photo or two. It's also a great app to send to any of your friends who don't own or aren't comfortable using full-featured image editors.
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Rumors and Leaks related to Fuji X100T successor is coming from past few months that Fuji X100F will arrive as X100T successor over many websites world-wide. But today a anonymous source told us that the upcoming Fuji X100T successor will carry same sensor as of X-Pro 2 and X-T2. The same source also told us that Fuji is preparing to announce a new compact camera with 1 inch X-Trans Sensor.
As we all know the X100T Successor name is X100F so Fuji may keep it's upcoming 1″ compact camera name as Fuji XF2 or may be Fuji X40, however the Fuji XF2 name look more feasible to me.
Fuji already created a big-bang in mirrorless market by announcing Fuji X-Pro 2 and XT2 camera in the year 2016. The Fuji X-Trans II sensor, X-Processor Pro Engine and advance core specification created a new benchmark of performance in mirrorless world. So we do expect Fuji give big surprises to it's users.
So the list of camera that Fuji will announce in near future
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But we shouldn't forget that Fuji XT10 successor arrival is accustomed. We have published earlier that Fuji will announce a trim-out version of Fuji X-T2 camera as Fuji X-T20 in 2017. You can see Fuji X-T20 Rumor here
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Together in real life, now Lorrie Morgan and Sammy Kershaw are together in recording as well. Don't be put off by the overly lush soft pop title cut courtesy of Marvin Hamlisch, Barbra Streisand, Bryan Adams & Robert "Mutt" Lange." It gets better from there.
The pair sing six songs together and each has three on their own. Morgan has a particularly supple, smooth voice, adding the right vocal touch throughout. She scores on "Big Time." But is Kershaw's "What a Wonderful World" really unique enough to merit being recorded? Combined, they turn in a good effort on the give-and-take vocals of "He Drinks Tequila," a Mexican sounding funny song about a man who drinks tequila, while his woman "talks dirty in Spanish." The pedal still infused lover's ballad, "That's Where I'll Be," which they co-wrote, shines as well.
On the humorous side is "Three Seconds," about a straying couple where the man takes up with a brunette after his car broke down and he took wrong turn, and her damage comes after stopping at a mall.
When they sing together, however, their voices don't always mesh. Kershaw's vocals tend to overpower the softer Morgan. >Kershaw and Morgan aren't rivals for country's best duets in history, but it's still generally a good effort on this lovefest.


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Do you want to know how to avoid looking like a flower girl or bridesmaid in your pink prom dress? Presumably you want to exude sophistication and elegance, not look like a little girl. If so, please read on to find out exactly what you need to do.
Why pink?
Pink prom dresses are highly sought after at the moment and the right dress (prom dress outlet)can transform you from school girl to grown woman in an instant. The color pink is quite easy to wear as it goes well with most skin tones and hair colors making it a top choice for prom night. But pink can be associated with really young girls so you need to dress it up to add a bit of sophistication while keeping the aura of young and vibrant. Being so popular, pink dresses for prom are also a bit cheaper than other colors. You should be able to find a good selection online for between $50-100.
Which pink?
The shade of pink that you choose for your prom dress is quite critical. Steer clear of baby pink and other lighter shades so you do not look like you have just come from a wedding. Veer toward the bolder end of the spectrum with fuchsia and lipstick pink to send out a more grown up message. If however, you really fancy a lighter shade, make sure the dress style tells your story with classic long lines rather than a Cinderella style. To really stand out from the crowd and show off your fun loving side, catch everyone's eye with a hot pink number. This will ooze both spice and style.
Which style?
When choosing your dress style, make sure you consider your body shape and go for a cut that flatters your figure. Top choices are the sleeveless and full length variety but choose something you are comfortable in. If you are worried about how you look, it will show. A dress with a long full skirt and short, well fitted bodice will look amazing and will suit most body shapes.
How to add sophistication and elegance
As well as with the shade of pink and the style of dress that you choose, you can make a pink prom dress look that much more grown up by choosing the right accessories.
Silver jewelry is a must. It is mature and works well with the pink fabric.
A lipstick matching the shade of your dress will make you look smart and well coordinated. For eye makeup go back to the silver jewelry tie in with metallic shades.
Keep the metallic theme going with your shoes, but try and find some high heeled sandals for a very feminine yet stylish look.
So if you want to wear pink to the prom, consider the shade and style of your vestidos de fiesta 2012 carefully. To make a bold, eye catching statement go for something in hot pink. But most importantly accessorize with silvery metallic jewelry, make up and shoes for a more sophisticated look.


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Peter Barlow is guilty of a lot of things such as bigamy, cheating, being somewhat of an unreliable father, heavy drinking and looking a bit like Al Pacino. But one thing he is not guilty of, unless you're on the jury deciding his fate, is murder. In true soap fashion it was therefore inevitable that he would be convicted, much to the dismay of Ken, Tracy and Carla and to the short lived relief of true killer Rob Donovan.
Rob has blood and fake tan on his hands and, despite Peter now being officially framed for the crime, he is falling apart at the seams. And Carla, who has dealt with her fair share of liars and killers in her recent history, is beginning to smell a rat. Why is Rob so sure Peter is guilty and why does he hate him so much? Why, at the same time, is he assuring young Simon that his dad hasn't done anything wrong? And why is he constantly looking shifty and sneaking covert looks of menace at the cameras at every opportunity? These puzzle pieces are beginning to slot together for Carla who, now more than ever, knows that her incarcerated husband is innocent.
The same can't be said for the rest of the locals, with Eileen commenting that if Peter didn't want to do the time, he shouldn't have done the crime (forgetting that much of Weatherfield had her accused of killing Fireman Paul's wife Lesley with a toaster), Foghorn Fiz claiming to have known Peter was guilty all along (forgetting that she stood trial wrongly accused of the murders of John Stape's victims) and Gail suggesting that justice has now been done for Tina (forgetting that she once stood trial falsely accused of killing her husband Joe).


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The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra have an evolutionary design and that could come back to haunt them.
Reuters is reporting the trucks won't be able benefit from an extensive weight reduction program until they are redesigned in 2019. This means Ford will beat them to the punch with the 2015 Ford F-150 which is expected to weigh as much as 750 lbs (340 kg) less than its predecessor. As a result, the F-150 could have significantly better fuel economy than the Silverado and Sierra for next four to five years.
When asked about the situation, GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson told Reuters "We're going to look at all the levers we can pull - materials, aerodynamics, powertrain - to continue to improve fuel efficiency, both on an interim basis and as we go to the next-generation trucks." He declined to go into specifics but sources suggest the company could introduce an aluminum-intensive Silverado as early as next year. The variant could weigh 250 lbs (113 kg) less than the standard model and have fuel economy gains of up to 20 percent.
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Deadly infection claims teen surfer's life
Adam Clegg, 16, of New Plymouth died in Auckland's Starship Hospital this morning after being rushed to hospital at the weekend with a severe infection from Staphylococcus aureus, said New Plymouth Boys High School headmaster.
The bug usually colonises in the nostrils and respiratory tract, and if it travels beyond the skin's surface, it can be fatal.
The teen's condition started with influenza which then led to the infection, Doctors insisted.
The bug affected Adam's body at an extremely rapid rate, they said.
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English Word: ceilings
Spanish Word: cubrir
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The first song I ever heard Miriam Makeba sing was Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released." It was off of a scratchy old album I found at a friend's house and, for me, it was a life-changing experience. I'd never been much of a Dylan fan, but Makeba's soulful rendition summed up in three short verses everything I understood about living with someone's foot on your neck.
Waking up Monday morning to the news that Makeba had died overnight in Italy, I took it as a personal loss.
Makeba began her career in the 1950s with the Manhattan Brothers, a South African version of an American doo-wop group, and then quickly moved to form her own group, the Skylarks, who performed a blend of jazz and traditional South African music. She stepped onto the international stage in 1959 when she appeared in the anti-apartheid documentaryCome Back, Africa
That led to a meeting with Harry Belafonte, who brought her to the States where Makeba became famous for the novelty cut "The Click Song" (a tune that included the 'clicks' used in her native tongue, the South African language Xhosa). Soon after, Makeba had her South African citizenship revoked for her statements, artistic and personal, against apartheid. Her recordings were banned in her home country and she was not allowed home for her mother's funeral.
In 1964, she appeared before the UN General Assembly and later that year married South African jazz trumpet player Hugh Masekela. In 1966, Makeba and Belafonte won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording for An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba, which dealt with apartheid. She divorced Masekela and went on to marry, then divorce, Black Panthers leader Stokely Carmichael.
She performed at the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" prizefight between Muhammad Ali and Houstonian George Foreman, and in 1986 won the Dag Hammarskjold Peace Prize for her work as a delegate to the United Nations. In 1987, she appeared on Paul Simon's Graceland tour, along the way she battling cancer and losing her only daughter.
During her years in exile, Makeba never stopped working to expose apartheid and the suffering of black South Africans. As a singer, activist and author (1987'sMakeba: My Story
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By 1990, apartheid was officially over and South Africa was a different place; Nelson Mandela was president and he brought Makeba home. Many of her countrymen had never seen her perform live, but the country celebrated her return. A couple of years later she appeared in the film Sarafina! about the Soweto uprisings. At the time, the young cast said the highlight of making the film was meeting "Mama Afrika," as Makeba had become known.
In the years since then, with her voice past its prime, Makeba slowed down – a little. She had reportedly been suffering from severe arthritis for several years, and cut back her concert schedule to a few select shows a year. But she kept performing right up to the end.
Monday, Makeba was in Italy performing in a concert supporting Roberto Saviano, a writer who exposed the
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(a mafia-like organization). Shortly after the concert, Makeba collapsed and was taken to the Veneto Verde hospital near Naples, where she died of a heart attack.
Nelson Mandela was among the first to offer his condolences: "She was South Africa's first lady of song," he said. "She was a mother to our struggle and to the young nation of ours."
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Silicon Valley Bank is one of seven U.S.-based banks to receive a 2012 Greenwich Associates Excellence Award for international service to mid-sized companies.
Others named for the Excellence in Middle Market Banking award for international service were Bank of America, Citi, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, RBS Citizens and Wells Fargo.
The award ranked the banks based on perceptions in nearly 14,000 interviews with executives nationally at companies with sales of $10 million to $500 million, reviewing more than 750 national and regional institutions, Greenwich said. The award went to those with the highest percentage of excellent ratings, in response to a question about which institutions those surveyed considered leading providers of international service.
Greenwich is a research firm for the financial services industry.
Silicon Valley Bank and its affiliates within SVB Financial Group provide industry knowledge and connections, financing, treasury management, corporate investment and international banking services.
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When a woman falls to the ground, bystanders rush to help her to her feet, but how can a simple wardrobe change affect peoples' willingness to lend a hand?
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