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Dr. Stephen Tegarden leads Carmel Clay schools a second time around
By Chris Bavender
Dr. Stephen Tegarden wasn't looking for a job when he was approached by the Carmel Clay School Board of Trustees to act as interim superintendent.
"I told them I'd at least meet with them to see what they had in mind and where it might fit with my retirement," Tegarden said. "Once I did, I felt they were headed in the right direction with their search (for a full-time superintendent) and thought it would be a good fit."
A fit Tegarden is comfortable with. From 1993 to 2000 he was superintendent for the school system. He retired in 2000 but soon found himself back in the role on an interim basis with Washington Township after the departure of Dr. Eugene White.
"There are professional interim superintendents but it wasn't a role I was seeking or had really thought about before," Tegarden said. "But, I found I really enjoyed the role and was there for about six months and then went back to retirement."
He was invited to act as interim for a few other school districts but declined. When Hamilton Southeastern offered him an interim slot he initially turned it down but offered to help with the superintendent search. However, he soon found himself stepping in as interim for eight months.
"Then I went back to retirement. We had a bed and breakfast inn in Chatham Arch in downtown Indy but we sold that least year, and I was really retired this time so I felt the Carmel job would be a good way to spend a bit of it for a few months," he said.
For the school board members, the decision to hire Tegarden wasn't difficult.
"During the seven years he was here he achieved a good balance in the district and had good achievements and that interested us. And, in addition, the fact he had served as an interim and helped in the search process, was the best of both worlds," said Tricia Hackett, CCS board member. "Also, he is just a personable guy. He is trustworthy and willing to talk to a variety of people and the board just feels that will bring confidence to our district during this time."
Tegarden will work with the board and BWP & Associates to find CCS' next superintendent. A search initiated last January yielded three finalists out of 21 candidates but trustees ultimately decided "we had some really talented people but not the one who would be the best leader for our district," according to Hackett.
The Board is exploring its next steps in the new superintendent search and will update the community via its website as details emerge.
"We are looking for someone who is a student centered leader – students must come first. They also need to be a team builder – not just a strong leader themselves but know how to recognize and bring in ideas from constituents," she said. "Also, someone who is an effective manager and knows how to balance students, curriculum, families, etc – all with decreased funding."
Tegarden also has a keen eye for what will make someone a good candidate.
"I think there are starter jobs – where someone has been an outstanding assistant superintendent for a few years in a small district and there are places for those people for their first superintendency," Tegarden said in describing the best candidate. "But, a district like Carmel, with all the issues they are dealing with and the expertise and involvement of the community – they really need a veteran."
Tegarden, who started as interim June 10, will be paid $650 per day.
"That is what he charged four to five years ago at the other school districts and that $650 doesn't include health benefits, life insurance, vacation pay, etc. It is pro-rated and he won't be paid for days he doesn't work," Hackett said. "I think given his love for the district and his experience, we are getting our bang for our buck."
One thing that has changed since Tegarden left CCS is school security – with lockdown drills a common occurrence.
"I left before 9/11 and things have changed dramatically in the way we respond to information we receive or threats that might come in so I am sure this is something I will review with staff as exactly what procedures and responses are in place," Tegarden said. "I remember going to Carmel High School and having a very emotional meeting with a large group of students following Columbine – that incident changed the way everybody looked at going to school. And now, of course we are dealing with the aftermath of Sandy Hook. So, there is just no way you can say we will never have another incident like that and no way you can say we have a system in place that would absolutely keep that from happening so all you can do is be prepared."


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By Joshua Low.
The annual Sand Sculpture Competition, organised by the Catholic Youth Ministry Perth, was held on the 2nd of March at Scarborough Beach and saw over 100 young people from all over the Perth Archdiocese come together for a morning full of entertainment, loads of fun and a chance to publicly witness their faith.
The Sand Sculpture Competition has always been one of the most anticipated Catholic Youth Ministry events every year. This year teams were entered from youth groups in communities and movements, Parishes north and south of the river and also a team from St Charles Seminary.
In the initial rounds, each participating team was given 30 minutes to create a sand sculpture with a Christian related theme, and saw many jaw dropping creations, including the St Peter's Basilica, the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI coat of arms, the Miraculous Medal, The Annunciation and St Michael the Archangel.
The three judges for the day, Sister Bernadette Pike, Beatrice Yong and Eliza McKay decided on which teams went through to the final round, with the chosen teams then proceeding to recreate a 'Thank you' tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the sand. This great public witness saw the shores of Scarborough Beach filled with the image of Pope Benedict and a 'Thank you' message from the youth of Perth.
'Singles for Christ' young adults' group took the prize this year, beating 10 other teams from various parishes and youth groups across Perth to win the coveted Perpetual Shield and a huge prize pack. Bateman Parish young adults reached second place in the competition, and all competitors walked away with individual prize packs for their efforts on the day.
There were also other activities which ran simultaneously with the Sand Sculpting Competition, which included a beach soccer competition and live music provided by Winton Ley and Reuben De Melo.
Participants described the event and day as a whole, as an enjoyable and unforgettable experience, and one which they will definitely be looking forward to reliving at next year's competition.

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Risk-free music is the temper of the times, and Dido provides it in spades, writes Bernard Zuel.
John Howard professed a liking for Bob Dylan (but not his lyrics) and Mark Latham was an avowed Meat Loaf fan, but the real musical heart of the recent federal election may well have been Dido.
Yes, that would be Dido of Thankyou, Here With Me and White Flag. Dido of the 14 million-selling debut album No Angel and the nearly 10 million selling (so far) second album Life For Rent.
Although the singer-songwriter is English, left leaning and lives thousands of kilometres away, understanding who buys her music and why may help understand why the election result was no surprise. This music reflects, as new Labor MP Peter Garrett once put it, the temper of the times - comfortable and relaxed, risk-free and personal.
Half a million copies of each of those albums has been bought by Australians.
If not Dido, then an album by one of a dozen other artists who could be called fellow mellow travellers, such as Delta Goodrem, Norah Jones, such rising talent as Vanessa Carlton and Missy Higgins, hopeful newcomers such as Melissa Talon and even resurrected stars such as Wendy Matthews and actors-playing-at-being-singers such as Minnie Driver - who all will often be found at a piano or strumming an acoustic guitar and tend not to be all that successful at keeping a man. They've been categorised as part of a trend some call "soft girls singing sad songs".
Whatever you call it, and no matter how much it's sneered at by rock bands, critics and those for whom music is meant to ruffle the occasional feather, it's successful enough to drive radio and music television formats, provide the soundtrack to films and advertisements and, most importantly, sell a lot of albums.
By her mid-20s, Dido Armstrong (born Florian Cloud De Bounevialle Armstrong on Christmas Day 1971) was a part-time singer in Faithless, her brother Rollo's band. Faithless offered a softer alternative to the bleaker trip-hop sounds of groups such as Portishead and Massive Attack and sold millions of the 1995 album Reverence.
Her 1999 solo debut, No Angel, sounded gentler and with a woman's perspective. It opened with Dido's mild voice - "I didn't hear you leave, I wonder how am I still here," she sang. "I won't go, I won't sleep, I can't breathe until you're resting here with me."
But No Angel wasn't played on radio until a year later when Eminem borrowed the hook and the voice from Dido's song Thankyou for Stan. Dido spectacularly became a star.
"Dido is not in your face," says Jacob Pablovic, music director of Mix 101.1FM in Melbourne. "You're happy to open your arms up to her. Dido is fresh but she's inoffensive at the same time.
"We could play Dido eight times a day."
Eddie Hribar is music director for Mix-FM in Sydney. The station's audience is dominated by women from their mid-20s to mid-40s. "They find that lyrically she is very emotive," says Hribar.
And unlike Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, she's not manufactured. Nor is there the anger and aggression that accompanied '90s star Alanis Morissette. Norah Jones brought some of the smoothness of pop jazz and a gentle search for love into her songs but played them at a piano. Likewise Delta Goodrem, who dresses conservatively and sings of missing love, with no hip-thrusting dance routine.
As in our own domestic political world, the tumult of the early years of the decade was being replaced by calm and a look back to something safer.
"Dido writes sad songs but they're not angry songs as such," Hribar says.
"From a lyric point of view, I think that really helps her with women. And musically one of the real attractions for someone like Dido, it's something you can imagine a teenager listening to and the parents of the teenager quite comfortably listening to. It's a CD you can put on and listen to without thinking 'right, it's going to get to this track and I'm going to want to take it off or it's feeling too heavy'. It's perfect mood-setting music."
Lacking an edge may be cool, but having the common touch should not be underestimated, says Ed St John, outgoing managing director of Dido's Australian record company, BMG.
"She seems like a very normal person. There's something very prosaic about Dido," he says. "She's not a superstar artist on a pedestal; she's exactly the sort of person you expect to work alongside in the next office, or serve you in a restaurant or be your little sister. She's entirely normal."
According to BMG, Dido's audience is skewed to 25- to 45-year-old women; Delta Goodrem's and Vanessa Carlton's is dominated by teenage girls and their older sisters.
Rob Logan used to work in commercial radio and now is group director of marketing and programming for channels [V] (which rarely plays Dido and Norah Jones but doesn't mind plenty of Delta) and Max (which plays all of them).
"It's not as bland as those singer-songwriter cycles you get every decade," he says. "That whole Groove Armada, Faithless, Moby set, their ballads that actually make it have the dance influence from the younger end, and Dido was on the cusp of that. It wasn't just dirge over a keyboard and a guitar - it actually had a bit of a beat to keep the momentum up.
"Having come out of the Faithless camp for a generation of people who took Es and went to clubs when they were 20 and who are now 35, have had their first child and renovating a house . . . (Dido) has got just enough of that DNA of coolness and history that she's not a boring person from the suburbs herself - she's kind of got a little bit of cool. And the albums have got just enough that it's not completely bland. It's comfortably pleasant but with that slight edge."
And that may be why critics who call many of these singers blancmange and wonder why they're preferred to someone with more inventiveness may be like those who railed against John Howard: missing the point that comfort and safety may mean more than adventure and risk to most people.
"There's a huge number of people out there who just don't like the sort of records that critics like. They just don't want to be challenged that way," says St John.
"Dido is tapping into something we've seen a lot of in the last few years, whether it's Katie Melua or Sarah McLachlan or Eva Cassidy - Norah Jones and Michael Buble too - a huge number of acts who are part of a movement where the large suburban audience they tapped into felt disenfranchised by music at various times and weren't getting anything that appealed to them.
"They represent the final death of the notion that pop music ought to be rebellious. The cycle has come to an end where pop music was meant to challenge the status quo, because none of those acts do."
Or could it be more that pop music no longer needs to be rebellious for an audience who have stopped being rebellious themselves? The couple with a kid, renovating their house, they're not looking to be rebellious in anything. They've got more things on their mind, like a mortgage, schools and bills, than trying to change the world. They like the world the way it is and merely ask, "Can you protect my corner of it please?"
- Additional reporting Andrew Murfett.


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SUSPENSE/THRILLER: Running away from the impending death of her mom and the ongoing heartache caused by her ex-boyfriend, Josh, Amber manages to escape her hometown of Etobicoke, Ontario, for eighteen months. She returns home to help her father, only to end up helping Josh after finding him beaten and unconscious on the side of the road.
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|Would you buy a used car from this man?
If you are of a certain age, you'll recognize the man in the picture above. He never endorsed staying at La Belle Esplanade. He did visit New Orleans occasionally over his career, but this wasn't a city in which he felt at home. He never stayed with us. We're known for making people of all political stripes feel welcome, and we're also known for explaining what makes New Orleans America's Most Interesting City. I bet if Nixon stayed with us, he would have fallen in love with New Orleans. We've seen it happen before.
We went to the movies this afternoon...
...but we didn't see Elvis & Nixon. It wasn't playing at a convenient time. We're not on vacation, after all. It only seems like we have all the time in the world. We do work for a living.
Instead, we went to see something else. We went to The Theaters at Canal Place for a late matinee.
On to other business---
|Your humble narrator
|Frau Schmitt
We were having a late lunch at La Crêpe Nanou. As I've mentioned before, La Crêpe Nanou is a bit out of the way for our guests and the restaurant doesn't take reservations, so a lot of people are hesitant to make the trek out to Prytania Street to chance to take a table. We've never had a problem getting a table to savor a meal over an hour or two. Also, La Crêpe Nanou only serves lunch (brunch, really) on Sundays when most of our guests are at a second line parade.
I'm not trying to paint it like we don't want to have lunch with our guests and that's our main reason for going to La Crêpe Nanou on Sunday afternoons. Our guests, as Mr. Nixon would have learned had he stayed with us, are wonderful company. We enjoy the ambience and the food at La Crêpe Nanou on its own merits, irrespective of who may or may not join us there.
Also, it's fun to say La Crêpe Nanou. It's fun to spell, too.
Let's cover one more subject, since most of these blog installments cover three subjects per post. I'm a trinitarian.
In a month, we're going to have a new website. We like our current website, and it's gotten a lot of compliments. It's just time to move on from big multinational corporate octopi. One particular multinational corporate octopus bought up our website provider soon after we signed on. We hung in for awhile, but, really, enough is enough. We're small business people. We prefer supporting other small business people. We'll announce when the new website is up in this forum, which is owned by Google, and on Facebook, of course.
We're really sticking it to the Man.
We take inspiration from another local business from these parts: River Parish Disposal.
During Jazz Fest, River Parish Disposal is really cleaning up, business-wise. Yes, I know I made a pun there. Their portable toilets are everywhere.
|Portable toilets in City Park
|Truer words were never written on the side of a port-o-let
I am perennially awestruck in New Orleans. We live in a magical city. You'll see when you get here.
À votre santé,
La Belle Esplanade
...where every morning is a curated breakfast salon.
Postscript and just to be clear:
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Poor poor Sreesanth…always getting a dress down from his team-mates, from the crowds and the umpires. Are we being unfair here? Why do we love to hate him sometimes? After all, he only sledges and ocassionally crosses the line but who doesn't? The Aussies do it, Proteas do it, some English players and Pakistanis too. So why is it that we do not support our own? Aren't we tired of being the nice boys of cricket? We've always been the quiet ones. We take everything with a smile on our faces. Nothing wrong with showing some agression on the pitch. Sure, Sreesanth does annoy me sometimes. He comes across as being arrogant and childish. He is ready to give but not ready to take. For eg; when he said something to Bhajji and Bhajji retaliated with a tight slap, he cried and how!!! I mean, if you are ready to abuse people you should be ready to take it aswell. The most interesting part of this whole incident was Dhoni giving Sreesanth a piece of his mind in the dressing room later. Apparently, he did not appreciate Sreesanth abusing Smith's mother and told him to control his errr tongue 😀 Poor li'l chap! I guess, silent aggression is the most productive…like Zaheer's gaze, or a cheeky smile or a gesture but mouthing a few abusive words…I am not sure.
Karan, Karan Karan…where do I start??? I was watching SRK's interview on Koffee with Karan this morning. Karan was curious to know how SRK manages to be happily married inspite of being in a film industry filled with gorgeous women. Apparently, Mr Johar does not believe in the institution of marriage since married people around him just do not seem to be happy. They are either divorced or are persistently faced with marital problems. Why doesn't he just come out of the closet and accept the fact that he is Gay?? I know Indian society doesn't provide enough support system for its gay population to come out and get married but that doesn't mean you sit on your comfortable couch and pass judgements against the institution of marriage. I am not saying marriage is easy but if you really love someone, you over-come any number of obstacles. I know it sounds cheesy but it's true. Mr Johar works in an industry where there is lot of money, lot of choice and less of trust. Most actors have to stay away from home due to their shooting schedules. There is a lot of scope for marital problems to arise but what matters is how you sort them out. These days, when women are more independent and make their own decisions and are not scared to walk out of an unhappy relationship, it does take a lot of effort from both the sides to have a healthy marriage but just because marriages around you (aka the posh localities of Mumbai) are crumbling, doesn't mean the majority of the Indian public is suffering the same fate?
There were just two things I was sure of in my life and one of them was getting married to S. We have our good days and bad, ours lows and highs, but what I cherish most is the companionship we share. He is my strength when I am down and out, my sunshine on a gloomy day. I am most happiest when I am in his arms. No amount of money or jewellery can give me the same happiness. I could not have imagined my life any other way. Life is just more beautiful with him by my side.
Karan Johar reminds me of some of my friends, who in spite of having girlfriends for years and years together are simply scared to commit and instead of addressing their fears, they say marriage is a waste of time. I laugh at such poor souls.
So the Telangana verdict is out and surprise surprise…TRS is not happy because they wanted the report to agree with the 'Telangana Vaadulu'. So what is their plan of action? More burning of public properties, more student killings (I will not call them suicides), and more masala for the NEWS channels. When will we learn to live together in peace? The Sri Krishna Committee report is out and there's no going back. So just shut up and get on with your lives and let us get on with ours!


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Windows virtual machines in Azure
Azure Virtual Machines is one of several types of on-demand, scalable computing resources that Azure offers. Typically, you'll choose a virtual machine if you need more control over the computing environment than the other choices offer.
An Azure virtual machine gives you the flexibility of virtualization without having to buy and maintain the physical hardware that runs the virtual machine. However, you still need to maintain the virtual machine — configuring, patching, and maintaining the software that runs on the virtual machine.
Azure Virtual Machines lets you create and use virtual machines in the cloud. Providing what's known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), virtual machine technology can be used in variety of ways. Some examples are:
- Virtual machines (VMs) for development and test. Development groups commonly use VMs because they offer a quick, easy way to create a computer with specific configurations required to code and test an application. Azure Virtual Machines provides a straightforward and economical way to create these VMs, use them, then delete them when they're no longer needed.
- Running applications in the cloud. It makes economic sense to run some applications in the public cloud. One example is an application that has large spikes in demand. Although you could equip your own data center with enough hardware to handle peak demand, that hardware might be underutilized much of the time. Running this application on Azure lets you pay for extra VMs only when you need them and shut them down when you don't. Or, suppose you're a start-up that needs on-demand computing resources quickly and with no commitment. Once again, Azure can be the right choice.
- Extending your own datacenter into the public cloud. When you use Azure Virtual Network, your organization can create a virtual network (VNET) that's an extension of your own on-premises network and add VMs to that VNET. This allows running applications such as SharePoint, SQL Server and others on an Azure VM. This approach might be easier to deploy or less expensive than running them in VMs your own datacenter.
- Disaster recovery. Rather than paying continuously for a backup datacenter that's rarely used, IaaS-based disaster recovery lets you pay for the computing resources you need only when you really need them. For example, if your primary datacenter goes down, you can create VMs running on Azure to run essential applications, then shut them down when they're no longer needed.
Like other virtual machines, a VM in Azure has an operating system, storage and networking capabilities and can run a wide variety of applications. You can use an image provided by Azure or one of it's partners, or use your own. Examples include various versions, editions and configurations of:
- Linux servers such as Suse, Ubuntu and CentOS
- Windows Server
- SQL Server
- BizTalk Server
- SharePoint Server
Virtual machines use virtual hard disks (VHDs) to store their operating system (OS) and data. VHDs are also used for the images you can choose from to install an OS. The following figure shows this, as well as two of the tools for creating and managing your VMs.
Figure: Azure Virtual Machines provides Infrastructure as a Service.
VMs can be managed using a browser-based portal, command-line tools with support for scripting, or directly through the REST API. Microsoft partners such as RightScale and ScaleXtreme also provide management services that rely on the REST API.
Along with the OS, other configuration choices you have with VMs include:
- The size, which determines factors such as how many disks you can attach and the processing power. Azure offers a wide variety of sizes to support many types of uses. For details, see Sizes for Virtual Machines.
- The Azure region where your new VM will be hosted, such as in the US, Europe, or Asia.
- VM extensions, which give your virtual machine additional capabilities, such as running anti-virus or using the Desired State Configuration feature of Windows PowerShell.
Other benefits to consider for VMs include:
Pay-as-you-go — Azure charges an hourly price based on the VM's size and operating system. For partial hours, Azure charges only for the minutes of use. Storage is priced and charged separately. For details, see Virtual Machines Pricing.
Resiliency — Azure monitors the physical hardware that hosts each running VM. If a physical server running a VM fails, Azure notices this, moves the VM to new hardware and restarts the VM. This process is sometimes called service healing. Azure also protects a virtual machine's data, by keeping redundant copies of the VHDs in blob storage.


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Divisional faculty are involved in a variety of NIH, industry and foundation supported basic, translational and clinical research. Specific areas of investigation include inflammation/ischemia-dysoxia, long term outcomes following pediatric critical illness, bioethics, pediatric disaster preparedness, and continuous performance improvement.
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Spatchcock Chicken
In the past, I have always called this method of cooking chicken "Butterflied" but it turns out there's another name for it called "Spatchcock" that dates back to a time nobody can personally remember. Originally, this term meant a bird that was killed, split and flattened and then grilled on the spot. Today, however, we use this term to describe the bird's preparation, not including how it's cooked, because it's also done in the oven.
For the Spatchcock method, start with a whole chicken, check for anything inside, wash it and pat it dry. Then turn it breast side down. Get out your sharp poultry shears (which can cut through bone by the way, so watch out for your fingers). Cut along one side of the backbone and then the other so you totally remove it. (You can freeze and use that piece later to make stock or to enhance gravy.) Then spread the chicken apart. Some people also make small cuts in the cartilage on both sides of the sternum (at the center of the breast) so it will lie even flatter. This isn't necessary, but I also like to do it. Now flip it over and push down hard to flatten it.
If you like, you can wrap clean bricks in tin foil and put them on top of the chicken to weight it down (also called bricked chicken) but it isn't necessary. If you use them, remove them ¾ of the way through your cooking time so the skin has a chance to brown.
The major advantage of this preparation is that it reduces cooking time. You can finish a chicken in 30 to 40 minutes (at 425⁰F) as opposed to an hour. Plus, it makes a very cool presentation and is much easier to serve, especially if you cook some homemade dressing underneath it. (If you add dressing, you will need more cooking time to bring it to the poultry safe temperature of 165⁰F.) Imagine how much quicker you could carve and serve your meal if you use this method to cook your Thanksgiving turkey! I highly recommend it, as long as you have a cooking pan that is large enough. It also makes a nice presentation for a bird as small as pigeon or Cornish hen.
This method is great for grilling where it's harder to cook the meat of a whole bird evenly. Just stay away from recipes that include a lot of fat that could drip onto the fire, causing flaming and please don't char it. (Both of these things are thought to create cancer causing properties in your food.) Remember, however, that you can push your hot charcoal to the sides of your grill, cover it and basically create an oven where you don't have to worry about that so much.
Beyond that, you can use any poultry recipe you like. If cooking in the oven, you have more options. You can put butter and herbs under the skin, stuffing or herbs underneath or use any rub that you like. Brushing oil on the skin before cooking is the best way to seal in the flavors. I also like to sprinkle paprika on top of the oil, which gives the finished bird a rich brownish color. Give it a try! Add some vegetables and rice and you've got a great comfort meal for any time of the year!


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Scripps Research is an authorized sponsor of J-1 visas as part of the Department of State's Exchange Visitor Program. If you are an incoming international scholar or currently at Scripps Research conducting research, the staff of the International Services Office are here to answer any immigration-related questions you may have. This website is designed to provide general information about immigration sponsorship at Scripps Research, applying for a visa prior to arrival, and maintaining your non-immigrant status during your stay in the U.S.
Eligibility for a particular visa classification is determined by federal regulations. No person(s) at Scripps Research is legally authorized to promise, offer or sign for a visa of any type except the International Services Office staff.
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Long Range Planning Advisory Committee to present on ongoing bond projects
Parents and community members are invited to join the Adams 12 Five Star Schools Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, March 7, at 7 p.m., at Northglenn High School for a presentation from the Long Range Planning Advisory Committee (LRPAC) on the 2016 Bond Program, a discussion about ELEVATE and a presentation about a potential state school funding ballot measure.
- When: Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7–8:30 p.m.
- Where: Northglenn High School, 601 W. 100th Place, Northglenn, STEM Building. Park in lot off of Huron St. and 102nd Avenue and enter through the STEM archway.
Translation services and childcare (for kids who are potty trained and age 3 to 11 years) will be available. Contact Frances Mullins for further information and to reserve space for child care at firstname.lastname@example.com or 720-972-4007.
2016 Bond Program - Longe Range Planning Advisory Committee
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about individual bond projects currently underway, projects planned for summer 2018 and the planning for a new Career and Technical Education campus. LRPAC is a community-led oversight committee featuring parents and community members of Adams 12 Five Star Schools who serve as a bond oversight and accountability committee for the 2016 Bond Program.
In Fall 2017, more than 3,000 people and 49 schools participated in the first phase of ELEVATE, a year-long engagement process bringing parents, community members, students and staff together to develop a five-year strategic plan to elevate student success in the Five Star District. The second phase in Spring 2018 seeks further engagement as we build-on and prioritize what we learned in the fall to create strategic directions for the next five years. Those attending the board meeting will get the latest news about ELEVATE and have a chance to weigh-in on prioritizing those strategic directions.
Potential State School Funding Ballot Measure - Initiative 93
An outside organization has started gathering signatures for a statewide ballot measure that would increase funding for public education. The board will hear a presentation about Initiative 93, also called the Great Schools, Thriving Communities ballot measure. This initiative funds expanded educational opportunities through tax increments on income earned above $150,000 and on corporations. It also stabilizes the volatile local share of education funding by first lowering property tax rates and then freezing the rates.


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Development and Use of a Computer Program "Hyper-N" to Predict the Performance of Air Vehicles Traveling at Hypersonic Speeds
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Aviation Systems
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Peter U. Solies
Committee Members
Stephen Corda, Borja Martos
Abstract The main objective of this thesis was to develop a method than can be used to approximate the pressure forces on air vehicles traveling at hypersonic speed (Mach number > 5). The aerodynamic forces such as lift and drag were calculated from the pressure values on the surface of the airplane. Pitching moment was also tabulated. This work was initiated based on the idea of developing a flow solver proficient and capable of providing aerodynamic data (lift and drag look-up tables) for hypersonic air vehicles that can be fed to a flight simulator (used by the Aviation Systems Department) at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. Several approximation methods are used to solve hypersonic such as shock expansion method. Based on different studies, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) proved to produce very accurate results; however, it is a difficult technique to use. In this thesis work Newtonian Method was adopted as a technique to approximate the aerodynamic forces and hence the performance of hypersonic airplanes, therefore, a computer program (Hyper-N) has been developed for aerodynamic analysis of three dimensional geometries airplane. The program is designed to read in a previously configured list of plates and compute the aerodynamic forces and moments for hypersonic free stream conditions. Programming was completed using MatLab language. The results obtained from the Hyper-N program were for the experimental airplane X-43A which were found to match the results when the shock expansion method is used for the same airplane, [1]. Because of the difficulties involve in using CFD or the complete Navier Stocks equation to obtain the aerodynamic forces on bodies traveling at hypersonic speeds, the Newtonian method is considered to be the most efficient technique to use for preliminary evaluation of the performance of hypersonic airplanes. Modified Newtonian theory and the computational requirement of the code are described. A number of geometric configurations, including the X-43A (experimental hypersonic) airplane, are provided as examples of applications of the Hyper-N program.
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Baalla, Younes, "Development and Use of a Computer Program "Hyper-N" to Predict the Performance of Air Vehicles Traveling at Hypersonic Speeds. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2010.


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General information about the PhD programme
The SDPE - a joint programme
The Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm University collaborate by offering common courses for doctoral students in economics, economic statistics and finance. This joint undertaking is called the Stockholm Doctoral Course Programme in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, SDPE. This means that students at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics have access to the same course programme.
The SDPE at SSE.
The PhD-programme is also part of ENTER.
The course programme
All courses are given in English. During the first year core courses in mathematics, microeconomics, statistics, econometrics, and macroeconomics are taken (in total 60 out of 105 course points). The remaining 45 course points are taken during the second and third years, while thesis work is also begun. The second year courses are often organised in sequences containing 2-3 courses. Each student is advised to take at least one full sequence. Frequently organised course sequences are e.g., macro, finance, labour economics, industrial organisation, game theory, political economy and econometrics. Individual courses in public economics, health economics, history of economic doctrines, international economics and economics of trade etc are organised on a yearly basis.
The thesis work
The work on the thesis starts during the second year and is expected to be finished at the end of the fourth year. Although the PhD thesis can be a monograph, we strongly recommend that students write a thesis consisting of a number of separate articles. These articles do not necessarily have to be in the same field. If all articles are single-authored the thesis typically consists of three articles. The qualitative requirement is that each article should be publishable (but not necessarily published) in a refereed international journal.
Professors and associate professors at the Department of Economics, the Institute of International Economic Studies and the Swedish Institute of Social Studies supervise the thesis work. Assistant professors at the three institutes contribute as assistant supervisors. For students to successfully complete her or his thesis it is essential that there is a good match between the thesis topic and the supervisor.
List of potential supervisors and their respective fields of research
PhD defence
When the thesis is written it is publicly discussed and defended. The discussant, who must have a doctorate in economics, comes from another (Swedish or non-Swedish) University. The committee that sets the marks consists of three persons. At the most one of these may be an associate professor while the rest professors. One person comes from the Department of Economics, the Institute of International Economic Studies or the Swedish Institute of Social Research, the second from another department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University and the third from another economics department. The possible marks are pass or fail.
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The Obama administration has been very forthcoming about their desire to engage in class war in America by targeting the top 5% of income earners for additional income tax while "reducing" the tax burden of 95% of Americans. It is difficult for me to accept, that no matter how far to the left an individual's political pendulum swings, that educated Americans believe they will receive a tax cut from the progressive fascists currently governing our country while they are enacting into law budget appropriations that will bankrupt the nation.
As the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) slithers through the house under the guidance of Henry Waxman the progressive Democrat, who Chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the House, under the explicit direction of the Madam Speaker, with selective recall, Nancy Pelosi, is committed to a bill designed to provide a national health care bill to a President who is anxious to sign it into law, no matter the real cost to American taxpayers.
Among the proposals being considered to fund health care reform will be taxing the health care benefits currently enjoyed by millions of Americans as a benefit from their employer. Members of the House and Senate, have placed the prospect on the table of taxing these benefits at the very least among "high" income earners. In addition a plethora of additional vice and health taxes may be imposed on the usual suspects of alcohol and tobacco, but also on soft drinks and other high sugar content products. A sweet tax is on its way. It will provide the government another opportunity to impose its will on a public who, per our government, are unwilling to make healthy disciplined choices as to what they deem to consume.
Unlike the taxes imposed upon the colonies by a British monarch, these taxes will be imposed upon us by our representatives to satisfy a progressive fascist agenda that is committed to transforming America into a Eurotopian socialist state that assumes a place of equality in the world as a nation that is compliant to the wishes of the world's competitive economies. We as good citizen's are expected to roll over and accept the judgement of "our" elected representatives as they enact legislation and policies that are in the best interest of our people.
America, long the safe harbor of entrepreneurial endeavor and individual freedoms is in peril at this time, on this day, due to the strengthening grip of progressivism around our nation's throat. We are being strangled by those who though they may be of good intent are enacting ill will upon our nation. They suffer from a progressive ignorance and fail to understand the most basic of economic principles and the importance of assuring the rights and liberties of individualism. They are a product of group think that have been well honed by our educational institutions and a compliant media only too willing to promote the progressive agenda.
Oppressive taxation will not yield the societal benefit required to sustain our standard of life, but rather will deter incentive, cause capital to flee and impose further hardship upon those unable to compete in a global market. Barack Obama is correct when he states that we are at a crossroads in our nation's development. The progressive road that Barack Obama has chosen for us is the easy road to travel upon. It is the most popular road. It is the shiny new green road. It is the road for which we have sacrificed our fundamental principles and mortgaged our future. However, if we continue on the progressive path that we are on, in the coming years we will recall the words of the poet Robert Burns and wish we had taken the road less traveled.


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I awoke to the sound of rain dancing against the windows of our home.
I scampered out of the house and made a run through the pounding rain to my truck.
I drove to the Park and Ride while it slashed at my windshield and swooshed against my tires.
I flicked open my umbrella and darted from my truck to the Bus.
I sat in the bus on the way to work while my sodden umbrella dripped against my pant leg.
I clambered out of the bus and splashed into a puddle on my Portland bus stop.
I slogged through the down pour hunkered under my umbrella to the train stop.
I rode the train while my umbrella left a trail of water trickling down the aisle of the train.
I splashed through the rain soaked sidewalk and into my building.
I walked with my umbrella covering my boss and I as we trudged to Starbucks for our morning coffee.
I spent the next 4 hours wiggling my toes in my soaked tennis shoes while I plinked data on spreadsheets on my computer and sipped my coffee.
I tugged on my coat, grabbed my gym bag and hid myself beneath my dripping umbrella as I headed out to the gym on my lunch hour.
I stood under the shelter of my crying umbrella while I awaited the train.
I dropped my iPhone and watched it bounce in a stream of water running along the sidewalk.
I left the shelter of my umbrella to rescue my phone and shook the rain from my hair while I sighed with relief that my phone was unbroken.
I slogged back from the gym to work through the sodden streets of Portland and sat in my cubicle wiggling my toes in my soaked tennis while making a note to wear boots tomorrow.
I exited my work and splashed through the streets to my bus stop.
I stood in a miserable line of umbrella sheltered humanity while we waited for our bus to take us home.
I sat in the bus reveling in the heater blowing on my water logged feet.
I wiped condensation and fog from the window and stared at the water splooshing and splashing on the ride home.
I pulled up and trudged to the front door of my home and stood shaking the day from my shoulders in the entry way.
Now I sit in warm socks while the fireplace is dancing with warm orange flames.
Lord V sits reading while the cat lays curled upon his lap like an orange blanket and the dog lays snoring on the sofa.
The rain slashes against the windows but I don't care.
I wiggle my warm toes against the carpet beneath my feet and I can't help but...
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1445. King Henry VI is married by proxy to Margaret of Anjou. French, beautiful and unpopular, her marriage causes a national uproar.
At the same time, the infant Margaret Beaufort is made a great heiress and suddenly becomes the most important commodity in the nation. Her childhood is lived in remote, echoing castles, while everyone at King Henry's court competes to be her guardian and engineer an advantageous alliance with her uncle, the Duke of Somerset.
With the collapse of Henry VI's hold on France, discord among the English nobles breaks out into civil war. Henry becomes the mad king, and Margaret of Anjou declares herself Queen Regent, left alone to fight for her son's position as rightful heir. Meanwhile, Margaret Beaufort, although still little more than a child at thirteen, has been married twice and given birth to her only son—the future King of England.
Succession is an imaginative and engrossing novel about the events that inspired George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. It's the story of the fall of the House of Lancaster and of the two remarkable women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty. The dramatic plot is supplemented with short chronicles that were written at the time, further rooting readers in the history. (from the publisher)
About the author: Livi Michael is the winner of the Society of Authors Award and a finalist for the Mind Award She teaches literature at the Manchester Metropolitan University and has been a senior lecturer in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She lives in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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29 Dec Zen and the Art of Motorbiking
KRABI. As we think, we are inexorably negotiating our own fragmented consciousness. We live always in two times—the pre-reflective now of experience, and the reflective then-that-is-recalled of possible understanding. Both are always with us, but we tend to give our attention to one or the other in any given moment. Without experience there is no possibility of reflection; without reflection there is no way to give meaning to experience. And all of a sudden, as I write, I'm reflecting on the title of Robert Plant's album, Now and Zen. It should really be Then and Zen.
Where was I? Ah yes.My friend from Shanghai, Geoff, came to spend about a week in Krabi. My parsimonious tendencies were pushed aside as we dined on excellent food and good drink, talked philosophy and academia, and enjoyed Krabi's dramatic application of the four fundamental elements. On his last full day, we decided to take motorbikes out to the Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tham Suea). I was last there in December 1997, on a drizzly, overcast day, with not another soul in sight except for the monkeys and my buddy Eric. It has since become a well-known and heavily visited spot on the tourist track. The gold Buddha statue at the top of the 2,000 foot mountain can be seen from miles around. The only way to get to it is to climb the 1,272 steps leading straight up.
When I warned Geoff about those 1,272 steps, he shrugged it off. Let's go, he said. As I was gingerly trudging up these steps, I thought about that number. There are two ways one could think about it. One could choose to reflect on the object of 1,272 steps, to see it as a whole, to assess what that is and then say "Yes, I can do this." But it's another thing to see it not as an object, but as 1,272 events, each its own challenge to overcome, each its own individual being that must be addressed before moving on to the next one. It's only when you get into the journey that you realize it is the latter. The reflective mind is tricky that way. As a residue of then-now that is now-then, it lies to you, seduces you, tells you stories in the way you want to hear them. Only when you engage in the experience do you come to know what it is that you are facing. This, I suppose, is the point of the journey, that its meaning is realized in the action of undertaking it, not reflecting upon it.
A good example of the pre-reflective versus the reflective mind is from a book I'm reading now called The Phenomenological Mind. The authors describe how one might get into a car after a busy day of work, make the long drive home, and finally arrive at home. But then this person may say to himself "I don't remember the journey." Their question: how can we be unaware of a conscious activity that just occurred? While they don't provide a definitive answer, they point to recent cognitive science that suggests that, essentially, we don't sweat the small stuff. In their words, we can forget what is not immediately pragmatic. And if we didn't forget, we wouldn't be able to have these now moments of significance. Returning to their car analogy, driving along a familiar winding road doesn't remain in our consciousness. But if there is a slow car in front of me, and all of a sudden I have to risk passing him on a blind curve, suddenly my senses come alive and this consciousness is retained, it becomes reflective after it happened.
Riding a motorbike takes this attention—the zen of experience leading to future reflection—to the next level. Driving a motorbike requires constant attention to detail. You are exposed, the air is rushing past your body, the danger is heightened, and there are any number of known and unknown events that could threaten your life at any moment. You must fully live the moment, so you remember the moment. It isn't just the eventual reflection, though; it is always now, a kind of eternal pre-reflective state. This is that awareness of being "alive" that cannot even be said because of the triteness of such a statement. In this, driving a motorbike has many similarities with playing improvised music, except that improvised music has more possible unknowns and fewer threats to life and limb. This is probably why, for me, listening to music while riding a bike is essential. The two flow together—the experience and the soundtrack of the experience. I move in time, hyper-aware of its passage, and the music becomes a kind of synchronous event, an accompanying layer. Add to this the place: The jungle, the earth jutting straight into the sky, and the coastal drives are breathtaking. It makes for an eventful experience.
I'm seriously considering getting a used motorcycle when I get back to the states. I've had this in mind for several years. Now may be the time. I only hope it doesn't become too familiar.


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Jimmy Akin, in an article entitled "Ignorance - Invincible and Vincible," which was published in This Rock magazine (July/August 1999 edition) got it right when he said that, "In moral theology, ignorance is defined as a lack of knowledge that a person ought to have. Ignorance is distinguished from mere nescience, which is a lack of knowledge that a person has no need of. For example, a person who did not know the square root of 1429 would be ignorant of it if he were taking a test that required him to know the answer, but he would be nescient of it if performing a task that didn't require the number.
Moral theology divides ignorance into a number of categories. The two I will consider here are invincible and vincible. Ignorance is invincible if a person could not remove it by applying reasonable diligence in determining the answer. Ignorance is vincible if a person could remove it by applying reasonable diligence. Reasonable diligence, in turn, is that diligence that a conscientious person would display in seeking the correct answer to a question given (a) the gravity of the question and (b) his particular resources.
The gravity of a question is determined by how great a need the person has to know the answer. The answers to fundamental questions (how to save one's soul, how to preserve one's life) have grave weight. The answers to minor questions (the solution to a crossword puzzle) typically have light weight.
The particular resources a person has include (a) the ease with which he can obtain the information necessary to determine the answer (e.g., a man with a good textbook on the subject may be able to find the information with greater ease than a man who lacks such a textbook) and (b) the ease with which he can make an accurate evaluation of the evidence once it is in his possession (e.g., a smart man may be able to evaluate the evidence with greater ease than an ordinary man). The graver the question and the greater the resources available, the more diligence is needed to qualify as reasonable..."
Now, bearing all of this in mind, especially the last sentence in bold, read this article from Joe Sacerdo regarding Father Bryan Hehir and his excuse for having honored Mayor Thomas Menino even though the Mayor's opposition toward Catholic moral teaching regarding homosexuality and abortion are well-known by virtually every citizen who lives and works in and around Boston.
Would such ignorance be vincible or invincible? Come on, you know the answer.
Although Akin doesn't go into it, there is a category of ignorance known as affected or studied ignorance. When a person deliberately avoids knowledge in order to plead ignorance as an excuse, for example, refusing to read material or avoiding those persons who might inform him, this form of pretense is called affected or studied ignorance.
Something to reflect on this holiday weekend.
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Ignorance: Invincible and Vincible
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This is why Sacred Scripture says God will not be mocked. He can neither deceive nor be deceived. Father Hehir is in a position most Catholics are not. He has more resources than most. For him to plead ignorance of Menino's ideology is just ridiculous.
The demagogue employs half-truths, ambiguities, and even outright lies to preserve and augment his power. If truth and honesty get in the way, these are immediately sacrificed for self-glorification in the eyes of the world.
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August 11, 2020 - Latest: What has happened to markets this year? by Darius McDermott
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Pension experts are worried that changes or cuts to pension tax relief will be back on the table for the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.
Jelf head of Benefits Strategy Steve Herbert says a likely downturn in the economy will leave the Treasury looking for revenue at a time when there is also pressure to abandon some of the harsher aspects of austerity.
The issue of higher rate tax relief has been on the political agenda for several years with suggestions that it could be abolished altogether for basic, higher and additional rate tax payers before the last budget or that it would at least be equalised at a lower level.
Herbert says: "The pensions taxation issue was always likely to be back on the table post referendum anyway, but given the likely economic slowdown as a result of a Brexit decision I would imagine this Treasury cost will be under early review by Philip Hammond is his new role.
"Added to this we have the new PM's overt statements about not favouring "the privileged few" in her first speech on Wednesday. This rhetoric may add fuel to the likelihood of a withdrawal of higher-rate tax reliefs within pension schemes. It will be interesting to see if any savings associated with this are redirected towards encouraging savings for the many, or are instead used for other spending options We will be watching this develop with interest."


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It's been a couple weeks since I took off to Abbotsford for my Uncle Peter's Celebration of Life. I've been wanting to write this post since then, but I've been struggling to put everything I am feeling into words, and wanted to give myself some time to process the message I am hoping to send.
I don't want to talk about how or why my Uncle Peter died, because that is a whole different story. What I do want to talk about is what I have been able to take away from such a tragic situation. I want to talk about the sheer number of people that came out to celebrate Peter's life, and the way I have been reconnecting with family members because of it. I want to talk about the fact that life is just too short to take anyone or anything for granted.
All the emotions involved with this situation won't just go away, but I have to say that the other weekend, I finally figured out why a memorial ceremony can be good. Yes, it was sad. Yes, planning a memorial is pretty much the most horrible type of event planning I can think of. Yes, it was at times hard to be there. But also, a ceremony like that is the beginning of the process of healing for everyone.
When I first heard about my Uncle Peter's death, I was shocked. My immediate thought was for my aunt and cousins and how they would possibly deal with this situation. My next thought was about how long it had been since I last saw Peter. It was a few years ago, when he was in Whitehorse on business while my brother and I were still living up there. My family was going through some tough times and the two of us ended up talking some things out with Peter. I don't remember the whole conversation we had that day, but I do remember some words of wisdom that Peter left my brother and I with:
"No one should have to carry anything alone. Sometimes all you can do to make a problem better is to talk about it, and to rely on the people around you to be there when you need a hand picking yourself back up."
These words really helped me move forward, through many of my problems then. And today, I feel that this is what is happening in the aftermath of Peter's death. I'm trying to be there for my aunt and cousins, and so were the 400 others at his memorial that day. So many of those people in attendance offered help and support to my aunt moving forward, and in that, they are helping the family to not carry this burden alone. This was what his wife and sons needed that day, and this is what they will need moving forward.
The major thing that I learned, personally, from Peter's memorial is that you don't ever have the time to wait to get to know someone. Hearing the stories about Peter made me realize how little time I had spent with him as an adult, and what I had missed out on experiencing as a result. This occasion was not ideal for reconnecting with my cousins, but it was the first time that I had seen most of them in quite a few years, and I realized that they had all grown up while I was gone. I really want to make an effort to not put off spending time with anyone to "one day", because who knows if I will ever reach that day. Life always gets in the way, but I'm going to make a conscious effort to reach out more often, to all of my friends and family, and to make myself accessible for them as well.
Thank you, Uncle Peter, for the valuable lessons. We'll miss you.
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Simon Stojanovic's TIKL was bustling with business types from nearby office towers on recent weekday. Though it's only officially been open since September 21, the restaurant's design, menu format and location seem to indicate that it will be a success.
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Whether the food will create repeat customers, however, remains to be seen. Brickell is fraught with bad, overpriced restaurants that seem to survive despite their faults.
Stojanovic joined forces with restaurateur Claude Giordano to create a small plate menu on the ground floor of 1450 Brickell, a gleaming 40-story tower that opened in 2010. Glancing over the offerings you might be reminded of Midtown's Sugarcane, managed by the team by Sushi Samba and headed by chef Timon Balloo.
Short rib "tacos" ($16) came out of the kitchen moments after being ordered. Butter-soft braised short rib meat is stuffed inside a dense bao bun topped with horseradish sour cream. The bun is not quite as hot as we like, and needed a squirt of sriracha. It's not the best, or cheapest, bun in the city but a fine, filling start to a meal.
The tables and walls are covered in greyish wood slabs that seems as though they were sanded and designed to look reclaimed. A false, exposed brick wall sits behind the bar and pictures of under-construction high rises add to the urban feel.
Meanwhile a line of translucent snapper slices ($10), cured for one hour in salt, arrived and was one of the most deceiving dishes. After the first bite, all I could taste was an orange tootsie roll pop. We're not sure whether this was Stojanovic's intent, but the combination of orange zest and an orange-infused oil on the plate overpower the fish and remind one of those childhood lollipops.
Stojanovic is present at all times, expediting food from the open kitchen and craning his neck to see how customers are reacting to the plates. A chalkboard across from the entrance offers daily specials like Hamachi collar and $12 sandwich classics, such as a BLT.
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Lastly came two skewers off the robata grill with perfectly grilled, boneless chicken thighs ($6). As a disclaimer this is one of my favorite proteins, and I'll gush even over a bad portion. Yet TIKL's are good, and come with a hint of smoky flavor from the grill and a slick of tare, a Japanese barbecue sauce made with sake and chicken drippings. The folded up skin could've been cooked a bit crispier, but wasn't chewy.
This one is worth a shot. Frankly, we're just thrilled it's not another soulless sushi joint or Irish pub.
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Some 21 years ago I spent the summer as a bag boy, filling paper sacks with other people's groceries. It was the most boring and demeaning summer of my life. Hidden Variable Studios has somehow transformed these bad memories into a hell of a good time. I might hate them.
I still remember the training video they made me watch in the dirty back room of the Kroger across the street from Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Georgia. "Build the walls!" it demanded of me, referring to the practice of lining the inside of each bag with strong, sturdy items and then filling it with loose, lighter fare. The concept doesn't translate well into Hidden Variable's Bag It!, but damn does it get re-stuck in my head every time I play it.
Like a teenage nightmare given life, Bag It! slaps funny eyes and facial hair on different types of grocery store fare and then grants you the power to destroy it, though that's not really the point. The point, level through level, is to fill a set number of grocery bags with this anthropomorphic food, being careful not to stack the fragile items beneath the heavier ones.
This is a simple enough goal, at least at first. The milk cartoons go down first, the orange juice stacked beside them. Then comes the cereal boxes, followed by the eggs. Get it wrong and the beleaguered items will shake, a countdown indicating the need to move it or lose it.
I must admit taking a rather macabre pleasure as a carton of eggs' eyes turn from happy to pleading. "Don't let us die!" those eyes beg, as I stare haughtily from above my phone, Caesar of the dairy aisle.
As new items are added to the mix, Bag It!'s true nature becomes clear: It's a relaxed version of Tetris with weight limits applied and smiling bags of chips, the latter of which I am sure Alexey Pajitnov would have included in the classic puzzle game had such graphical power been available. And isn't that what bagging groceries is? A food-centric game of Tetris?
For me Bag It! is a lovely mix of the nostalgic, the traumatic, and with its smash-friendly rampage mode, the cathartic. It's also a fine measure of how much I've grown as a person over the past two decades. Back then I wasn't sure if $3.00 an hour was enough to keep me organizing ungrateful customers' comestibles. Now I'd gladly pay $3.00 for the opportunity.
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The Squire Comes to Pigtown
On this day in 1912, Charles Ebbets, "The Squire of Flatbush", announced he had acquired land in the Pigtown section of Brooklyn for a ballpark. Construction would start later that year, and the ballpark would open by Opening Day the next year. The name of the park: Ebbets Field (like you couldn't guess, heh).
From what I've read, he decided to name the park after himself. And after working his way up with the Brooklyn Base Ball Club from errand boy/vendor in 1884 to team president in 1897 (meaning he was there from practically the beginning), I think he earned it. Plus, I'd pity the guy who would've suggested otherwise, Hercules was Ebbets' middle name. Really.
While the Ebbets-inspired, soon-to-open Citi Field in Queens cost $600 million to build, Ebbets Field was build for less than a thousandth of that: $450,000. Today, that would get you close to 5 years of choice season tickets at the new Yankee Stadium.
(Picture inspired by photo in Whittingham's Illustrated History of the Dodgers , and info found on Baseball Reference.com , Whittingham, and the Citi Field page on Ballparks.com .)
Remembering Brooklyn
I have been a Dodgers fan practically as long as I can remember. I think I was 6 years old when my family won a Blue Crew contest. We went in the space between the pavillions, where Orel Hershiser, Dave Anderson, and a few other members of the 1987 Dodgers signed our Blue Crew hats, we got a backpack filled with baseball cards, a nice little baseball card book of the L.A. Dodgers in Topps baseball cards since 1958 (come to think of it, I've gotta scan and share the next time I get down to SoCal), and other goodies. After that, we went on the field with the other winning families and were introduced on Diamondvision. I kept switching between looking ahead and looking back at the screen to see if I could see my face, a 6 year-old exercise in futility. After the day game was over, we headed to Disneyland, and it was the greatest experience ever.
Today, it's near impossible for me to imagine life as anything but a Dodger fan, no matter how angry I get at on-field and front-office decisions (which is why I forgive Paul DePodesta for "ruining" the team by getting rid of LoDuca at a time when he was regarded as the heart and soul of the team). But when I grab for my Dodger hat, 9 times out of 10 it's not an L.A. Dodger hat, it's my Brooklyn Dodgers hat my future mother-in-law got for me when she was in New York. I've had people accuse me of being a Red Sox fan, or look oddly trying to figure out how I got the Dodger-colored UCLA hat. But the best times, few and far between, are when guys come up and ask "Is that a Brooklyn Dodgers hat?" I'll nod, and they'll go into this awesome story about a team I can only read about, in a place I've never been, in a borough that, at the time, was still an independent city at heart.
My favorite story was a guy who I ran into at the community college who looked at me like he had just seen seen a ghost. I was wearing my grey Dodgers hoodie (with just the Dodgers script in the front) and my hat. He exclaimed "THAT'S A BROOKLYN DODGERS HAT!!" I said yeah, and he went into a story about his childhood. "I used to live over by Flatbush, and my father would take me to Ebbets field and we'd see the game for a quarter each…" It was the kind of lesson about your team you'd gladly pay for, but could never buy. Then it went into how brokenhearted they were when they left Brooklyn. His dad got a job over in San Francisco, so they moved around 1960 and he's been a Giants fan ever since.
Don't get me wrong, I HATE the Giants. But if there ever was an excuse for being a Giants fan, that guy had the best one.
To keep the post from being overly long(er), I'll go ahead and split this one in two, writing the more about the Brooklyn Dodgers either tonight or tomorrow.


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Registration Will Re-Open Soon!
The Run to Exile is a one-of-a-kind excuse to drink delicious craft beer cunningly disguised as a road race.
The Run to Exile brings you both a 5K and 10K race through downtown Des Moines on September 19, 2020 at 9AM!
Registration Gives You!
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Once you cross the finish line, we've got your first beer covered! If you're not a beer drinker or under age, we'll have options for you too!
Be sure to stick around for post race awards, food, games, music and the famous STEIN HOLDING CONTEST!
Are you signed up to race? Then you're signed up to participate, if you're tough enough, in the Run to Exile Stein Holding Contest! Hold a 1 liter stein full of beer perpendicular to your shoulder, for AS LONG AS YOU CAN! The top male and female stein holders win a gift package AND their weight in beer from Exile Brewing Co!
We will run the contest with as many heats as necessary to determine the winners! Start working those shoulders! It'll be a test of strength, endurance, and of course, figuring out who you'll share your beer with!
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9/17/20 - 4-7:00pm - Exile Brewing Co: 1514 Walnut St, Des Moines
9/18/20 - 4-7:00pm - Exile Brewing Co: 1514 Walnut St, Des Moines
9/19/20 - 7-8:30am - Exile Brewing Co: 1514 Walnut St, Des Moines
You will receive your race bag, which is the ONLY BAG that can be used at the bag drop, T-shirt, and bib number, and timing chip along with your Exile beer glass. Once we give you the glass, it's all yours. This means no butter finger insurance! We strongly encourage you to pick up your packet on Thursday or Friday!
Distance: 10 KM (6.2 miles)
Start: Exile Brewing Co
The Ruthie 10KM course. Deceptively quick. She might even tell you it's "only a 10k." How hard could it be? Start along with the Beatnik runners, then split at Principal Park and continue on your loop back to Exile. Don't worry, there's beer at the end!
Distance: 5 KM (3.1 miles)
Start: Exile Brewing Co
These are the Beatniks. They normally hang out in Haight-Ashbury, but on June 16, they're going to take you on a quick 5KM loop. You'll get back to Exile, just with a bit more lactic acid than before you left.


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9 Shocking Facts About Skin Care Products
Billions of dollars world wide. That's what women spend on skin care products. But to what end? Do the miracle products merchandisers pitch online, in magazines and on television really deliver on the promise of a healthier, younger more attractive you?
In some cases – no. In fact some products are actually doing more harm than good when it comes to our skin and overall health.
Did you know that your skin is your largest organ? Most adults carry some 8 pounds and 22 square feet of it. It's no wonder that what you put on your skin is equally as important as what you put into your body.
Research tells us that the average woman applies nearly 515 dangerous chemicals daily to her body through skin care products.
From deodorant to lotions, hair spray and makeup, we do ourselves a lot of damage in the name of beauty.
The chemicals that are found in most women's skin care products can result in some serious health issues. Skin sensitivity, allergic reactions even hormonal imbalances can all lead back to what we put on our skin.
Many of the ingredients found in skin care products are also found in cleaning products. Are these the kind of ingredients you want on your skin or your child's skin?
Here are a few common ingredients that have been linked to allergic reactions and health problems.
So What's Your Skin Eating?
- Sodium Lauryl Sulfate– is used in cosmetics and skin products. It acts as a detergent in household cleaning products. It may contain measurable amounts of ethylene oxide a known carcinogen and may harm the nervous system.
- Mineral Oil– is a by product of gasoline distillation from crude oil and is used in lotions, creams and baby products.
- Phthalates– are found in personal care products, plastics, hair sprays, and lubricants. Phthalates have been linked to breast cancer, early puberty in girls, and shown to harm the liver, heart and kidneys in animal studies.
- Synthetic Fragrance– can irritate the body and cause migraines or asthma.
- Triclosan– is registered by the Environmental Protection Agency as a pesticide and is in soaps, deodorants, lotions, cosmetics and toothpaste.
- Propylene Glycol– is used in antifreeze and in beauty products to keep them from freezing or melting. It can be found in lotions, after shaves, mouthwash and toothpaste.
- Isopropyl Alcohol– gives products a quick-drying finish, but is highly drying and erosive to skin.
- FD and C Colour Pigments– are synthetic colours derived from coal tar which contain heavy metal salts that may cause irritation or sensitivity to the skin. Once absorbed into the skin they can deplete the body of oxygen which can lead to health issues.
- DEA (diethanolamine), MEA (monoethanolamine), TEA (triethanolamine)– these foaming boosters are hormone disrupting chemicals and can cause skin irritation and even cancer.
I'm always on the lookout for healthy, natural skin products. Due to chemical and environmental sensitivities I have to be careful what I put on my skin. Fragrances and chemicals from products can result in a migraine or itchy skin for me, so to say I'm leery of trying new skin care products is an understatement.
A few weeks ago I was introduced to Skin Essence Organics, a line of certified organic skin care.
Skin Essence products are certified organic by Ecocert, the industry leader in skin care and cosmetics. Their line of products are derived from only nature's extracts, essential oils and minerals. Made in small batches each and every product is designed to nourish, heal and hydrate the skin. They also consider the environment and use only sustainable resources for manufacturing, packaging, and shipping.
Skin Essence products are packaged in tinted glass, which is recyclable, eco friendly, and protects the product from UV rays.
Twenty years ago creating products with essential oils and natural ingredients was a bold endeavor, but today it's demanded by those who realize that what they put on their skin is just as important as what they put in their mouth.
Here are some of the natural ingredients Skin Essence uses in their skin care line:
- Apricot Kernel Oil– rich in vitamin A and is perfect for all skin types
- Borage Seed– helps to stimulate healing in the skin, promoting a youthful and vibrant complexion
- Calendula– naturally contains healing and anti-inflammatory properties allowing it to calm and sooth skin
- Castor Oil– offers long lasting moisture that helps treat dry skin
- Coconut Oil– has the ability to seal in moisture and prevent damage from free radicals
- Comfrey– encourages healthy and fast regrowth of damaged skin cells
- Evening Primrose– is rich in gamma linoleic acid and omega fatty acids allowing it to rejuvenate and moisturize skin
- Kaolin Clay– is perfect for sensitive skin drawing impurities from the skin, without removing natural oil
- Marshmallow Root– contains high levels of vitamins and minerals that softens and calms skin
- Zinc Oxide– a natural mineral that is healing and soothing with properties that help to shield against UVA and UVB rays.
This winter I've noticed some eczema on my third and fourth fingers. I was thrilled to see that Skin Essence offered a skin treatment E-Cream that addresses eczema, rosacea and itchy skin.
I started using the E-Cream and within 4 days my eczema and dry skin were gone.
I'm also using their facial cleanser and moisturizer at night. I've noticed that my skin looks clearer and is softer to the touch.
My favourite product so far is their Chocolate Mandarin Hand & Body Balm. The fragrance is devine. My husband loves to apply it to my hands and feet. He says it's like sitting beside a healthy box of orange chocolates!
Replenishing our skin with natural ingredients as we age is imperative for healthy skin.
I'm so glad that I found Skin Essence Organic Skin Care Products! They've graciously offered a super discount so that you can experience their amazing products for yourself.
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