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The first Consultative Committee to meet in Parliament this year was the Education Committee, and it went on for over two hours. This was heartening, because it suggested a high level of interest amongst Members of Parliament. However it was also sad that much time was spent discussing specific problems, such as the transfer of Principals and Officials, and individual admissions to schools, since these take away from what should be the main purpose of Consultative Committees, namely policies and general principles, leading where necessary to legislation.
There is of course need for Members of Parliament to raise such issues, and the Minister made some valuable suggestions in this regard. He proposed to have consultations with regard to particular areas, and I hope he will do this in small groups, since it makes no sense for officials and parliamentarians from all over to waste time listening to parochial problems.
Interestingly, Parliament has I think taken a step in the right direction in decreeing that not more than 25 officials come to meetings of Consultative Committees. Though it was pointed out that this was inadequate, given the range of officials needed to discuss Education, it would make far more sense for meetings intended to discuss details of educational administration in particular districts to take place at the Ministry, with only officials and parliamentarians from the district or the province. Four or five meetings in each of the two weeks per month during which Parliament meets would cover the whole country, with opportunity to go into detail without time being wasted by the generality.
The Minister had another very bright idea in suggesting that local Members of Parliament be consulted when appointments are made to schools in their constituencies. Though obviously one needs to be aware of connivance in corruption, I believe the Minister was right in suggesting that all members would be committed to educational improvement in their areas of responsibility. Certainly the sharp questioning of my colleagues suggested that they would be more likely in general to limit corruption rather than increase what there is where contracts are concerned. Given too their accountability to the people of the area, they would be the best resource to ensure proper coordination of services with the needs of their constituents.
For this purpose however it would make sense to have limited responsibilities for all members. This is yet another reason for going back to a constituency system, as has been done for local government bodies. The present electoral system leads to overlapping areas of responsibility, which means that committed MPs have to spread their energies thin, while others steer clear of developing close relationships with relevant officials in areas of great concern to constituents. Having one MP with an obligation to check on all schools in the constituency, and ensure close coordination with officials, would facilitate a better service.
I need hardly add that there should be similar practices with regard to Health and some other areas, but most important in this regard is Education, because that is what almost everybody is concerned with all the time. It is also the area in which improvement is essential, given the enormous amount of money that parents expend now with no accountability as to results. My staff, I gather, spend over Rs 5,000 a month on tuition along with the concomitant transport costs, and there is little effort or incentive to ensure good teaching in what is meant to be a free education system.
Given the pressures – even when there is no guarantee of good teaching – to get children into prestigious schools, the Minister highlighted another problem, namely that some schools had no room for Scholarship children at Grade 6. This was because their primary classes had been filled to overflowing, and no more could be admitted.
His solution was very sensible, namely to open high quality secondary schools for scholarship children in urban centres where existing good schools were oversubscribed. It would be good if he combined this with another initiative he is promoting, which is contributions by parents to school structures. At present this happens informally, and in contrast to good work in this regard in two Muslim schools he described, we were told of how such an initiative had been stopped by the Educational Office in Moneragala.
Input by parents into education should be encouraged, but this should be accompanied by mechanisms to give them a monitoring role into school activities. Recently I came across a mother anxious to admit her child to a Colombo school, because the place at Keerawella he attended did not provide opportunities to play cricket. While this sort of deficiency might be resolved by the plan of the Ministry to make extra-curricular activities compulsory, to ensure effectiveness the parents should be given formal status with acknowledgment of the financial contribution they might make. And if they have the right to demand value for their children, they will be saved the horrendous expenditure on tuition, with all its concomitant evils, that the present system demands.
Ensuring stakeholder responsibility would help with improving standards. A crucial element in this would be the local Member of Parliament, along with any local government representatives for any sub-area. Working together with Divisional Secretaries – assuming the Ministry decision to strengthen Educational Divisions goes through, and these are coterminous with the Secretariats – they will be able to build up teams that are creatively responsive to the needs of parents.
The Minister, the Deputy Minister and the Secretary were fully engaged at the meeting, and this bodes well for the next meeting, later this month, which is to finalize the proposals for reform and restructuring. I hope that, once these are agreed, they will be implemented swiftly, without waiting for legislation. Many changes, including improved counseling services as well as those I have mentioned above, can be achieved through administrative regulations, and this should be done quickly, given our commitment to improving equity in education.
Daily News 18 Jan 2013 – http://www.dailynews.lk/2013/01/18/fea04.asp


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From Vegas to Myrtle Beach?!
I must admit this Allergic Traveler is not a big fan of Myrtle Beach. I do not mean any disrespect; I just find it over populated, both with people and commercially. I know this seems kind of ironic as I was just in Vegas and I also spend a lot

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Now, almost a year after the series finale of the show that made her a household name, Montag, 24, wants to take a different route to reality TV.
"From now on, I'm going to keep my life a little more private," Montag told PEOPLE at the grand opening of Lemon Basket restaurant in West Hollywood, where she promoted her latest project, VH1's Famous Food. "I think I was just doing The Hills for so long and I just needed a break [from Hollywood]. Plus, I enjoy my privacy."
On Famous Food, Montag will appear alongside other familiar faces – including The Bachelor's Jake Pavelka and Real Housewives of New Jersey's Danielle Staub – as they re-launch the new restaurant.
"These people are a little bit older than me, so it's different," Montag says. "It's been pretty crazy. It's definitely different than [The Hills]."
And there is more to gain: "At the end of the process, one of us will end up with a stake [in Lemon Basket]," Pavelka told PEOPLE. "This isn't TV to me. This is a show about us trying to open a restaurant. It's just coincidental there are cameras there."
But it's still a TV show, and the attention suits the new, privacy-loving Montag just fine: "Everything's good," she said, refusing to comment on Spencer Pratt, her mom or any potential drama on the show. "I'm just kind of getting my feet back into Hollywood."
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What follows is by no means intended as a conventional plot summary. Since the Sondheim-Wheeler-Prince Sweeney Todd is a "musical thriller," it would be inappropriate to give away all aspects of the plot. There are also important musical clues that will remain undisclosed.
During the Prologue two gravediggers are seen digging a burial place at the front of the stage. A man in a white smock, a foreman perhaps or a supervisor of the gravediggers, enters and starts the machinery whirring and humming. The machines make their own special music. An organist begins to play a prelude. A piercing whistle sounds, and workmen tear down the British Beehive as if to suggest the disintegration of an ordered society.
A crowd gathers around the grave and begins The Ballad of Sweeney Todd. It is a grim yet rollicking piece and contains a doom-laden musical adaptation of the opening notes of the Dies Irae, which, of course, is part of the Mass for the Dead in the Roman Catholic Church. This motif is first heard with the words, "Swing your razor wide, Sweeney." At that point a corpse is brought in and placed in the ground. Then out of the grave slowly rises the demon barber protagonist. He admonishes the audience that it is watching a play.
The carefully wrought choral writing, the close relationship between music and dramatic action and the subtle use of the Dies Irae (which, to this listener, evokes the grotesque, parodistic world of the finale of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique), so vivid here, continue throughout the score.
As the work progresses, the thematic and harmonic relationships, the splendid use of leitmotifs, the bold and adventurous writing, whether it be for solo voice or in three, four or six parts, indicate a sensitive and knowing musician at work. All the reverberations and associations that reveal themselves on rehearing and deeper involvement with the score will, I think, convince the listener that here is one of the finest of all scores for the theater.
The Prologue ends; morning light fills the stage, and the tin wall at the rear of the set rises, uncovering a panoramic backdrop of a London dockside complete with chimneys, factories and small craft. Anthony Hope, a young sailor, and Sweeney Todd alight from a boat. Anthony sings robustly of his adventures but proclaims that there is No Place Like London, a positive statement of the glories of the great city. A beggar woman interrupts their conversation with an anguished appeal for alms, which is followed by a salacious offer of sexual favors. She approaches Todd; uneasy, he chases her away. He answers Anthony's paean to London with a more callous assessment in which he warns the young man that the cruelty of man is as wondrous as Peru, then drifts into an almost trancelike state, recalling his past in The Barber and His Wife.
We next meet Mrs. Nellie Lovett, an amoral, pragmatic seller of meat pies. When Todd arrives, seeking out his former home above her shop, she describes her wares as The Worst Pies in London. She bustles around worrying about the flies and her competitor, Mrs. Mooney, who has been thriving of late by "popping pussies into pies." She declares that times are hard, even harder than her pies. Todd inquires about the room upstairs and hears Mrs. Lovett's account of The Barber and His Wife, which dwells not on the beauty of the wife but the beauty of the barber, Benjamin Barker. Todd asks her to tell him more, and in Poor Thing she relates the terrifying story of how the barber's wife, Lucy, was coveted and seduced by lecherous Judge Turpin aided by the villainous Beadle Bamford. The Judge sent Barker to prison in exile for life, on a trumped-up charge, and then Lucy was lured by the Beadle to the Judge's house, where a grotesque masked ball was in progress. This episode, acted out on stage in pantomime, culminates with the Judge disrobing and raping the girl to the music of a minuet. Todd's outcry at the end of her saga convinces Mrs. Lovett that he is Benjamin Barker. He asks about Lucy and his daughter, Johanna, and learns that the former took poison and the latter was made a ward of Judge Turpin.
It turns out that the ever far-seeing Mrs. Lovett has kept Barker's razors all the years of his absence, and now she happily restores them to him. He addresses them in the poignantly rhapsodie My Friends, singing to them as if he were pouring out his heart to a lover, oblivious to Mrs. Lovett's expressions of affection. Barber and razor are reunited. He is whole again and has become a machine no less pernicious than the complex machinery around him. The London denizens underscore his fate with their searing cry, "Lift your razor high, Sweeney!"
We then see Johanna at her window. She sings Green Finch and Linnet Bird, which reflects her own captive, caged status. Anthony comes down the street - and falls instantly in love with her (Ah, Miss). He is overheard by the Judge and the Beadle, who threaten him, but he determines to win the girl's hand (Johanna).
In St. Dunstan's marketplace a crowd, including Todd and Mrs. Lovett, gathers around the caravan of Adolfo Pirelli, a mountebank who claims to be "the king of the barbers, the barber of kings." His drum-beating assistant, Tobias, tries to interest the men in Pirelli's Miracle Elixir. Todd smells a bottle and declares it to be nothing but a concoction of "piss with ink." Pirelli enters in mock Italian-opera style, and Todd promptly challenges him to a contest to see who can give a closer, quicker shave and pull a tooth with more dexterity and swiftness. The contest, judged by the Beadle, is won by Todd, who then invites the Beadle for a shave at his barbershop over Mrs. Lovett's.
Back at the pie shop, Todd, waiting anxiously for the Beadle, is exhorted by Mrs. Lovett to be patient. What was the first word of her entrance number becomes the theme of the song Wait. It's not long before Pirelli visits Todd. Having recognized Todd's razors and realized his true identity, he threatens him with exposure. Rather than submit to Pirelli's blackmailing demands for half his earnings, Todd kills him, while downstairs Mrs. Lovett charms young Tobias.
The Judge, realizing that Johanna has reached womanhood and he can no longer keep her captive, unleashes his guilt-ridden lust for her (Johanna). Desperately trying to hold her, he decides to marry her. The next day Johanna and Anthony plan her escape. The lovers' duet (Kiss Me) becomes a quartet when the Beadle suggests that the Judge visit Todd's barbershop to make himself more appealing to Johanna (Ladies in Their Sensitivities).
Judge Turpin's arrival gives Todd the chance to take his revenge. But the barber waits a bit too long (Pretty Women), and Anthony bursts in with the news that he and Johanna will marry Sunday. Enraged, the Judge storms out of the shop. Todd's ire at his missed opportunity is expressed in Epiphany, in which his frustrated loathing for Judge Turpin becomes a cry of vengeance on all mankind. The change in Todd, which began when he was reunited with his "friends," is completed. He is "alive at last" as he resolves to slaughter indiscriminately until he has another chance to kill the Judge.
Mrs. Lovett, practical as always, sees the need to dispose of Pirelli - and the promise of more bloody deeds by Todd - as just the right stimulus to give her business a lift and make her the envy of all the Mrs. Mooneys (A Little Priest). "What's the sound of the world out there?" Todd asks. He and Mrs. Lovett know it is "man devouring man" or, as Todd puts it, the question of "who gets eaten and who gets to teat." Together they sing with riotous black humor, imagining all the characteristics that various persons and professions would give if made into meat pies. Industrial England might have its inequities, but the rampaging duo, concluding that "everybody goes down well with beer," will take any customer they can get.
The worlds of barber and pie-maker are tellingly intertwined as the second act opens. Mrs. Lovett's shop has added an eating garden, while Todd's primitive upstairs room is transformed into a tonsorial palace. And there is young Tobias drum-beating for the pies to the same music to which he had hawked Pirelli's bogus elixir.
Mrs. Lovett and her customers take up Tobias' song, she bustling about tending to pies, patrons, Todd and his newly arriving barber's chair and the ever-present, intrusive Beggar Woman. A capitalist with a vengeance, Mrs. Lovett has found the formula to drive Mrs. Mooney out of business (God, That's Good!).
Anthony's fervent search through London for the now-missing Johanna and Todd's plaintive thoughts about his daughter become the engrossing Johanna. It is made even more intense by the arrival and disposal of customers in Todd's shop via the new chair, which has a trap door leading to the bakehouse, and by the ensuing nocturnal smoke from the chimney. The more evil the deed, the more lyrical the music.
Mrs. Lovett's prosperity takes tangible shape in her redecorated parlor, where she adds up the week's receipts. New wallpaper, a harmonium acquired from a gutted church and other fruits of her business are manifest. Now she is determined to persuade Todd to share a better life with her away from the city. But the monomaniacal Todd is out of reach. He is virtually impervious to her ruminations on the childhood joys of the August Bank Holiday, to her remembrances of toes "wiggling around in the briny" and to the possibility that some day they might have a home of their own By the Sea. Even her suggestions that he could bring his "chopper" and do in a guest once in a while fall on deaf ears.
Anthony finds Johanna at Fogg's Asylum, where the Judge committed her as wrongly as he had committed Todd to prison many years before. The sailor enlists Todd's aid in freeing the girl, and the barber turns Anthony into a wigmaker, someone who would be allowed into the asylum to look over the hair of the inmates. But Todd helps only to use Johanna as bait to trap Judge Turpin. He writes the Judge a letter informing him that Johanna will be at the Fleet Street shop that evening.
Tobias shows not only his affection for Mrs. Lovett but also his suspicion of Todd in the warm, flowing Not While I'm Around. Mrs. Lovett distracts the boy's simple mind by offering him a chance, quickly implemented, to work in the bakehouse itself.
While Todd is out delivering his letter, the Beadle pays an unexpected call at the pie shop to investigate complaints from neighbors about strange odors. The Beadle sits at the harmonium and plays and sings while Mrs. Lovett tries to explain Todd's absence (Parlor Songs).
This leads to the Final Sequence, with more Grand Guignol effects, killings and dramatic escapes. Sweeney Todd reaches its climax, with Sondheim's masterful musical resolutions enhancing the torrid pace of the drama.
The melodrama is over. The cast returns to the stage in an Epilogue to sing once again The Ballad of Sweeney Todd, this time reminding the audience that in a world full of Sweeneys revenge begets revenge.
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Brazil and Latin America's next challenge
Large-scale protests in Brazil have rocked one of the largest and most prominent emerging economies.
On the face of it the cause is a small rise in bus fares, which has mushroomed into a range of complaints - including corruption and a lack of investment in social services compared with spending on the World Cup and Olympics.
The real cause is likely to run much deeper.
Brazil's economy has slowed down considerably over the past year, expanding by less than 2%. It feels worse by comparison with a strong decade of growth - helped by the commodity boom of the 2000s - and relatively low inflation.
For years Brazil has been feted as one of the major emerging economies - one of the fabled Brics, alongside China, India and Russia.
To top it off, it was chosen to host both the football World Cup and the next Olympics.
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Brazil became a destination for money seeking a better return.
Its key interest rate has averaged 8-10% in the past decade, which has offered the highest returns in the world (after taking into account inflation) for many of the years since the global crisis.
This inflow of foreign money and the country's success selling commodities led its currency to surge, which helped to keep a lid on inflation (although it did pose other problems).
But, now the picture has changed. With a few words, the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, has raised the prospect that the US central bank's cheap cash injections - which have fuelled billions of dollars of inflows into emerging economies - could begin to taper off in the next few meetings.
This has caused money to leave emerging economies (see my posts on the Great Reversal part I and part II). And Brazil has been hard hit.
The country's stock market has fallen by more than 20% and become a bear market. Its currency, the real, hit the weakest level in four years, at around 2.14 per US dollar.
This cheaper currency makes imports more expensive and tends to be inflationary. So much so that the central bank has just raised interest rates to combat price rises - despite the slowing of the economy.
It's a difficult economic position to be in.
Plus, when growth slows, the signs of fracture become more apparent.
One of the enduring difficulties for Brazil and other Latin American countries is that they have the most unequal societies in the world.
As measured by the Gini coefficient - where 0 is perfect equality and 1 means that one person has all of the money - Brazil's inequality has fallen during the past decade. But it remains above 0.5, which is the wrong side of the 0.4 level that is associated with instability.
Perhaps Brazil is now confronting the next challenge for these successful emerging economies that have grown well during the past decade or so.
There are now more than 130 million people in the middle class in Latin America (and I'll be writing more about that in my post tomorrow). This larger middle class tends to demand more from the government, particularly social services and re-distribution of income.
Brazil - and other countries - are likely to find that it is easier to satisfy those demands during a boom. It's much more challenging now.
But, with the worst protests on Brazilian streets in decades, it may be that this is the right time to grasp that potentially painful nettle.


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Newport Mayor Harry F. Winthrop looked into an audience of more than 150 people in the council chamber and up in the two galleries of City Hall on Wednesday night and knew opposition to the proposed $6.8 million state plan to repair the Cliff Walk was the driving force for the big turnout.
�I think this is the first time so many people turned out for something that everyone in the audience and on the council is in total agreement,� he said. �You�re getting support from all over the world, but you are also getting the full support of the Newport City Council.�
Speakers told the council that residents of 49 states, all except South Carolina, had signed online petitions opposing the project, as well as residents of dozens of countries on five continents.
Many in the audience wore black T-shirts that said �Save Ruggles,� referring to the well-known surf break off Ochre Point, near Ruggles Avenue. Led by Sid Abruzzi, the owner of Water Brothers surf and skate shop, members of the local surfing community have organized the protests because they believe the project would negatively change the surf dynamics of the area.
Erin Greco, now of Middletown, told the council she is at least a fifth-generation Newporter, and her father, Eddie Burke, grew up on Merton Road near the Cliff Walk.
�Ever since I was a child, I have heard of the legend of the surf break Ruggles,� she told the council. �Watching my dad surf there over the years has been awesome, let alone surfing there with him. It would be tragic if my children only heard about the break and had no idea what it was, except from pictures and stories.�
She said she and her husband recently moved back to Aquidneck Island from Southern California and bought a house here because of the Ruggles surf.
�Newport and Aquidneck Island will lose a valuable portion of their population if this break no longer exists,� Greco said. �I know I would consider relocating.�
Before she and other equally passionate speakers addressed the council, Winthrop called for a vote on a resolution urging the state Coastal Resources Management Council �to review its plans to ensure that the Ruggles Avenue surf break remains uninterrupted, and that the reef habitat is not harmed during or after Cliff Walk repairs.� It passed unanimously, 7-0.
CRMC is reviewing a plan submitted by the state Department of Transportation to shore up the Cliff Walk with 4-ton armor stones at key locations. When superstorm Sandy hit the coast on Oct. 29, 2012, it washed away sections of the Cliff Walk, a 3.5-mile scenic ocean walkway, and caused other sections to collapse.
The walk restoration plan calls for the construction of four �temporary causeways� so that barges with cranes could dock at them and lift large armor stones to the cliff. The causeways, which people are calling �jetties,� would be 200 feet long and 40 feet wide, according to a CRMC document.
State DOT and CRMC representatives are meeting with representatives from the city and opponents of the project in the council chamber of City Hall on Friday beginning at 1 p.m.
Winthrop announced the upcoming meeting to the audience and encouraged people to attend.
Many of the speakers Wednesday night were knowledgeable about details of the proposed repair project and its possible impacts.
Drew Carey of Eustis Avenue asked the council members to amend their resolution to make it stronger and more detailed, so �we do not end up with a Rip-Rap Walk instead of a Cliff Walk� and to convey a �full breadth� of concerns to the state agencies.
�As a coastal scientist and surfer, I want to also emphasize the unique coast habitats, geological exposures and historic cultural properties that are uniquely aligned on the Cliff Walk,� Carey said. �Preserving the quality of this cultural resource is just as important as preserving the walk itself. The current plans are overly aggressive in the use of armor stone and will forever remove critical resources from our shoreline.�
Tom Vars of Portsmouth said he was born and raised in Newport, graduated from Rogers High School in 1972 and now is an environmental planner at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
�For my whole life I have enjoyed the many splendors of the Cliff Walk through swimming, picnicking, hiking, surfing, diving and spearfishing,� he said.
The rock reef off the Cliff Walk is a �hard bottom habitat,� Vars said. �This habitat is important for the viability of many fish species including commercially important species.�
This essential fish habitat �is protected and any activity that may affect it requires consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service,� he said.
�We must protect this habitat and ensure that the repair work does not destroy or adversely affect it,� he said.


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Midland, Va.-based Easi-Set Industries has announced that its proprietary precast components will be produced by StructureCast in Bakersfield, Calif. An NPCA-certified plant founded in 1974 as Bakersfield Pre Cast, the producer sold its first Easi-Set building for summer delivery to Caltrans within two weeks of licensing. Easi-Set components will augment the licensee's existing structural and architectural precast product line, including in-ground vaults, storm water units, prestressed bridge girders and slabs, StoneTree security and sound walls, and units for multistory architectural precast buildings.
Fabricated as separate wall, roof and floor panels, Easi-Set buildings feature a patented post-tensioning system in the roof and floor, a turn-down roof that caps the walls, and a step-down floor panel to eliminate the possibility of water migration into the building along the bottom of the wall panels. Though we do manufacture the smaller precast buildings from time to time, notes StructureCast General Manager Brent Dezember, we felt it was a good time to partner with Easi-Set Industries and more effectively capture the precast building market throughout California.


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To estimate how much losing Messi might hurt, I ran some simulations and compared the expected points for Real Madrid and Barcelona over their next seven matches. … At full strength, Real is favored to take about one more point than Barcelona in the next seven matches — Real has slightly better stats and a slightly easier schedule. If losing Messi makes Barcelona's attack about 30 percent worse, then the gap jumps to about four points. If Messi makes them 20 percent worse, Real should take about three more points over the next two months, and at 10 percent the gap would be two points.
This helps explain why it is so hard to identify Messi's value from the time he is off the pitch. Because La Liga is so unequal and Barcelona so good, Barca remains strongly favored in most of its matches even if the club is significantly weakened. The expected point gaps can be measured on the fingers of one hand, even in scenarios where Messi's effect on his team's quality is legitimately massive. Unless the loss of Messi causes an unexpected, utter disaster, Barcelona should be easily within striking distance of the title when its superstar returns.


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1. In a large bowl, whisk all the gelatins and citric acid together.
2. Separately, stir ¼ cup honey or agave together with the chilled fruit juice; then, whisk it into the gelatin until everything is thoroughly combined.
3. Set the gelatin mixture aside to soften, or "bloom", while you reduce your tincture.
4. In a large, non-stick sauté pan on low heat, reduce your tincture until almost all the alcohol has evaporated, creating concentrated MagicalButterOil (MBO). It should look like molasses.
5. Add flavor extract, 2 tablespoons of honey or agave, and swirl the pan in a circular motion until the MBO mix again resembles molasses; then add the gelatin mixture.
6. Whisk the gelatin mix into the pan with the MBO mix, and begin to simmer the gummy cannfection over medium-low heat.
7. Stir constantly for 7-10 minutes, or until the gelatin has completely dissolved.
8. Using a large measuring cup with a pour spout, transfer the mixture into your molds, and refrigerate them for 45-60 minutes.
9. Remove your Magical Gummies from the molds, serve, and enjoy!
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New evidence of Voter fraud being committed by the Democratic party have enraged Voters, and incited authorities to apprehend criminal figures who may be involved.
The one year undercover investigation involving James O'Keefe called "Project Veritas Action" Uncovered allegations of illegal Immigrant's being used to commit Voter Fraud. Ice Authorities in all of the States are on High Alert. Arrest are already being made.
Information turned over to authorities by O'Keefe was accompanied by documentation of false names being used by illegal Voters. Police and others are on the lookout as widespread Voter fraud is beginning to happen.
There is also information that large amounts of illegals are being bussed to different Counties to commit Voter Fraud. The DNC has not responded to request for comments. The new pressure did incite Top Hillary advisor Bob Creamer to step down today in lieu of new allegations.
Here is a link to
Rigging the Election – Video II: Mass Voter Fraud https://d1sb17b1leotpq.cloudfront.net/rigging-election-%E2%80%93-video-ii-mass-voter-fraud.html
Ice Agents believe that by arresting illegals at the polls they will stop widespread Voter Fraud. Some may disagree but at least there are attempts being made. If you know of any incidents of Voter Fraud please report to your local authorities.


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5G and edge add speed, reliability, and flexibility to enterprise applications by bringing compute closer to its source or where it delivers the greatest business impact.
Not all enterprise applications have the same requirements. When computing extends across cloud, network, and edge with 5G, businesses will have choices around where and how to handle each application. One option, the cloud data center, provides high-volume processing and storage. On the other hand, the edge—which processes data closer to its source and the point of service delivery—provides ultra-low latency to help boost efficiency, improve service quality, and generate actionable insights faster.
Distributed computing gives businesses the flexibility to process application data in the location that delivers the most value. In many data-rich and time-sensitive use cases, that may not require a remote data center. 5G connectivity makes the division of computing resources along the cloud-network-edge continuum possible, and its ultra-reliable low-latency capabilities make the shorter connection between the device and the edge even more efficient. In fact, Gartner predicts that 75% of enterprise data will be created and processed outside the cloud by 2025 when 5G networks will be fully deployed.
The high speeds and ultra-low latency of 5G networks and edge processing will enable businesses to act on data insight in near real time and eliminate intolerable application delays.
Businesses will be equipped to grow and test new markets by expanding compute wherever it makes the most sense for business and TCO—at the edge or in the 5G-connected cloud.
Leveraging the increased bandwidth and reliability of 5G and edge computing, businesses will be able to deliver seamless customer experiences and unlock entirely new services for their industry.
Roadside units use 5G and the edge to route traffic in real time, inform driver trend analysis in the cloud, and support ultra-reliability for critical safety systems.
High-bandwidth 5G and edge computing merge the benefits of online and in-store retail for real-time personalization and efficient sensor-fed inventory systems.
5G and on-premise edge processing decrease production downtime by scaling technologies such as computer vision and enabling fast, data-driven decisions.
5G networks enable immersive gaming with fast streaming of high-quality video game content with the same, consistent experience of a gaming console.
The convergence of Intel-powered cloud, network, and edge will enable applications with varied requirements to be distributed at the place of highest value. This cloud-network-edge continuum unlocks opportunities for enterprises to capitalize on massive amounts of data. Discover the qualities of 5G and edge computing and why they should be a part of your business plan.
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Meet the Aesthetic Project in South Chennai
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"A Perfect location to live". Nest Builders Presents Series of Projects on customer demand in Sholinganallur near Sathyabama University in the midst of IT Corridor. All the Blocks are 2Floors Apartments, Uniquely Designed Private Terrace Flats, With Minimum Maintenance and Additional Cost.
Big Reasons to Buy
Located in Heart of Sholinganallur, OMR.
60 Feet Access road, which connects to OMR Highway in 800Mts.
A boon for middle class home buyers/80% of customers from IT/ITES.
Surrounded by 25+ Schools, 10+ Colleges, 10+ Hospitals, 20+ Software Companies
Plenty of buses /Share Autos. As Bus Terminus is located just 1KM Away.
Best Suited for Investment/ Living
Area under Chennai Corporation City Limits [198th Ward of Sholinganallur]
High Potential for appreciation
Chance of fetching bigger rentals.
- Rock Bottom Pricing as Nest Builders is Hallmark of affordability combined with Luxury.
- Low Cost Flats with No Maintenance Cost.
- Nest Offers Price of Panchayath Properties in City limit.
- Since 5 years we are maintaining Same Price and trust.
- Awarded As Best Affordable Home builder consistently.
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- Structural design done by professionals with abundant years of experience.
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I bought a flat in the "NEST IPPO" project of Nest Builders, They offered with affordable cost with less extra cost etc. The response from office and executives was wonderful and submissive.
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It is time to think HOLIDAYS! I love this time of year. Watching my small children enjoy these traditions makes this time so special. In the upcoming months, take a moment to reflect and slow down. Yes, it takes effort to slow down - especially with the impending holiday rush, but how else can you treasure the memories being made if you are too busy to enjoy them? Let's try and be intentional, put our phones away, gather together, and be present!
Are you as excited as I am about the warmer weather and summer months ahead?! We hope you are each planning trips, as well as staycation opportunities in the months to come. Don't forget to look just a few miles down the road when considering a weekend getaway. Check out the Travel Guide in this edition to learn more.
I have three small children (Gatlyn (7), Georgia Lee (4), & Guy David (6 mo)) and we love to make the most of the lazy days of summer, which generally are anything but lazy. To help pass the time, I have included some of our favorite healthy treats which your kids can help you prepare. Read the fruity popsicle concoctions in Cool Summer Treats (page 70).
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Our family has been in the publishing business over 35 years and we couldn't be more excited about the premier issue of Duncan Lifestyles! These pages personify 'hometown living at its best' and offers a glimpse of the people and organizations that make Duncan a truly special place to call home.
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Level up your next summer barbecue blowout by trying out Embers Ajax Punch recipe featured in Nashville Scene's latest piece titled "Drink Up Summer: Your Next Barbecue Will Be a Blast With These Recipes" by Chris Chamberlain. Nashville Scene highlighted the easy-to-make cocktails, punches, and boozy melons created by Nashville's best bartenders from Embers Ski Lodge, Nashville Ice Lab, Lockeland Table and many more.
"Batched cocktails and punches are all the rage, and for good reason. Ain't nobody got time to fix a drink for each delicate little snowflake at a summer throwdown. Pick one (or more!) of these recipes from some of Music City's most talented and beloved spirits professionals," – Chris Chamberlain, Nashville Scene
Ajax Punch
courtesy of Embers Ski Lodge
(20-25 servings)
You'll need:
1 ½ liters Bacardi Silver Rum
2 liters Ajax syrup (see recipe below)
Chilled sparkling wine
Mint sprigs for garnish
Ajax syrup
Ajax syrup
Make 1 liter of simple syrup by adding 4 ¼ cups of white sugar to 4 ¼ cups warm water. Stir until sugar is dissolved and set aside to cool. Mix 14 cups pureed watermelon together with 7 cups pureed cucumber (save the watermelon rind for garnishes), and then combine the melon/cucumber puree with the simple syrup. Yield will be roughly 2 liters.
In a large punch bowl, combine the Bacardi Silver Rum and the Ajax syrup and stir. Add ice to individual glasses and fill glasses three-quarters of the way with punch. Top off the glass with chilled sparkling wine and stir quickly. Garnish with watermelon spear and mint sprig.
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Board Member — Rancho Santa Fe School District
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Jee Manghani
- Find Common Ground and Consensus in our community...
- Balance the Budget
- Improve the curriculum and increase school safety
Ben B. Brown
- School Saftey and Student Well-being
- A Balance Budget
- Bridging the Gap and Rebuidling Trust in the Community
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Find Common Ground and Consensus in our community for our kids
- Balance the Budget
- Improve the curriculum and increase school safety
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Jee Manghani has been in the software and technology field since 1996, after graduating UCSD with a Computer Science degree. He currently runs a software business, focusing both on products and services.
He has also been a General Partner for a Value Investing Group since 2003, focusing on investing in quality companies in the vein of Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham.
Political Beliefs
Political Philosophy
Bringing the community together to form a cohesive school board is the biggest issue facing our district at this time. I am compelled to run for the school board so that I can bring people together to solve the issues facing the school and our children. My form of leadership is to listen to differing ideas, to find common ground, and to provide thoughtful leadership to the community. I believe this skillset is needed in the school district. I have already discussed many issues with residents across the wide spectrum of opinions and have formed a set of principles that we can all agree on. For example:
We need to immediately balance the budget. Thanks to state-level actions in Sacramento, local school districts are facing pressure to contribute more to pensions. Just four years ago, we contributed 11 percent to pensions. Now, we sit at 18 percent and by 2023, it will be 28 percent. If we don't take action now, our flexibility to prioritize spending in the future is at risk. This means making hard decisions today and looking ahead 10 years. I am opposed to tax increases, and this will always be my guiding principle.
Improving our curriculum and programs requires prioritizing within our existing budget to focus on those programs that would make our district attractive to new residents. We need to do this as a team. Our district has a unique advantage in that our small size allows us to be nimble.
I will also continue the current work by the board and parents to ensure school safety. Proper emergency protocols need to implemented and reviewed yearly.
I believe our school district is excellent, yet we can "do better", and I am committed to making this school the shining example for San Diego County. Please see more at jeemanghani.com.
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My Top 3 Priorities
- School Saftey and Student Well-being
- A Balance Budget
- Bridging the Gap and Rebuidling Trust in the Community
Proven/Determined Leader: All America Lacrosse Player at Torrey Pines High School. As 2-Year Captain of Providence College Lacrosse Team, led team to first time D-1 Conference Championship and NCAA Tournament Play. Proven and decorated U.S. Army Ranger, Platoon Captain in Iraq for 1 1/4 years, received Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Battalion Operations Officer. Managed $9,000,000 budget with 100% accountability.
Proven Bottom Line Results Executive: As Account Executive w/ Ventana-Roche Medical Systems-Medical Devices Capital Equipment Cross-Functional Team Leadership Pharmaceutical Sales Territory Management Selling Skills Product Launch. New Business Results 105%, Capital 202%, Consumables 100%
Service Oriented: Co-Founder of 9 Week Warrior Non-Profit Corporation. Veteran and First Responder Case Management, Fund Raising, Speaking Engagements, Client Relations, Personal Training, Coaching, Motivational Leader.
School Focused: Volunteers every week in all grade levels. co-chair for Study Buddy Program, Coach for Adrenaline Lacrosse and RC Girl's Lacrosse, Boys and Girls Basketball Junior Dunkers RSF, Speaker in PAC on different occasions on many topics including self-care, making mistakes, responsibility, building trust, loyalty and team building. Volunteer for "Free to Breathe 5k Run/Walk, bringing support to fight lung disease. Volunteer for "Fresh Start" program w/ surgeons and anesthesiologists to provide underprivileged children with access to medical care.
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Ben Brown leads by doing. He brings dynamic motivational skills to the Rancho Santa Fe School Board through decades of experience managing, coaching and motivating teams to success. He is an award winning coach, speaker, leader and sales professional with a record of success in the biomedical industry, in high battlefield conflicts, in safety engineering and through academic training in biology and international business and governmental experience.
Having grown up in The Ranch, Ben is fond of his childhood memories here, and wants to provide some of that for his own 6 children, and more. Knowing that tomorrow is never the same as today or yesterday, Ben is open to change, knowing that none of us has all the answers. Former U.S. President and U.S. Army Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is quoted as saying, "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." Ben agrees. He also agrees with U. S. Army General George Patton, who said, "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."


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Factories in China have begun replacing humans with robots. The appetite for European-made industrial robots is rapidly growing, as rising wages, a shrinking workforce, and cultural changes drive more Chinese businesses towards automation. Recently, China showcased its burgeoning robot industry at the 2016 World Robot Conference in Beijing. This was part of a national effort to promote the use of more advanced technologies in Chinese factories and create high-end products that redefine the meaning of "Made in China."
China's goal to upgrade their factories and production lines heavily relies on the use of advanced robots; industries are facing rising labour costs and slower growth in the workforce due to the "one-child" policy era and aging of the population. While China is some ways behind other nations like Germany and Japan in the robot revolution, the Xiao I bot has already been ranked as number one among all the robots shown at the conference. The Xiao I bot can decipher human language as well as how people think. The exhibitors showed how the bot performs its analytical skill of decoding massive data, allowing the robot to respond to instructions very well. Other top bots among this one were Apple's Siri, Amazon's Echo, and Microsoft's Cortana.
The industrial robot, however, can greatly help in solving one of China's constantly growing problems: the diminishing supply of cheap labour from people with little expertise. For decades, this was one of the key aspects to making China's economy the second largest in the world. Millions of labourers left the countryside and flooded the industrial cities in hopes of moving their children into the middle class. However, there are no longer enough workers being recruited, and their population is aging. Many protest the work being labour intensive and tiring, resulting in wage increases aimed at luring and keeping more people at factories. As young people continue to dismiss opportunities in this field, it only feeds this problem.
The shift from human to robots
The shift from human to robots is not just a business move, it is a fundamental shift in labour for one of the world's largest manufacturers. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a "robot revolution" as the government has promised generous subsidies. Thousands of factories in southern China's industrial centres, usually manned by low-cost migrant workers, are now turning to robots. China has become the world's top consumer of industrial robots and will soon have the most commercial robots in operation of any country.
According to the International Federation of Robotics, China was already the world's biggest market for industrial robots in 2013. In 2014, Chinese factories accounted for 25% of the world's industrial robots, a 54% increase over the previous year. Last year, Chinese manufacturers bought 68,000 of the 248,000 industrial robots sold globally. China's leaders are further pushing to become not just the world's largest robot buyer, but also a leading producer as another large factor is the market cost of robots. Robotic technologies that were once prohibitively expensive are now cheap enough that it has become feasible for Chinese factories to produce them.
Many of China's factories still have human workers, but more and more factories will have partially automated production lines, with human workers interspersed at certain points. While China still has more than 40 per cent of its population living in the countryside, many in poverty, the government is sure that the benefits of promoting cutting-edge manufacturing will outweigh the damage from the potential jobs lost. The industrial strategy announced by Beijing last year, known as "Made in China 2025", is designed to not only improve the technological capabilities of its factories, but also to support the development of Chinese brands internationally.
Robots can work more quickly than humans with a higher degree of consistency and precision for longer periods of time. With China's high job turnover rates, investing in robots may help companies survive longer and allow for more complex tasks to be carried out. China's robot revolution may ultimately bring a stronger economy and stronger markets, all of which can help China's factories and people.
Post by Alina Punjani.
Source: China's Impending Robot Revolution
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'A Dictionary Of The Sussex Dialect,' is where I got the term 'Looker' from back in 1999; it states:
Looker (east Sussex from Anglo Saxon to 'look'). A shepherd or herdsman; a man employed to look after cattle in the marshes.
Lookering. The occupation of a ëlookerí in the marshes.
Below, is an additional piece I found on the web, plusother info. http://www.hunnisett.org.uk/tree/richard1748.php
"Richard Hunnisett (1748 – 1827). Richard was a 'looker' in the Wartling and Herstmonceux area. A Marsh Looker was someone who looked after sheep and cattle on the marshes to the south of these villages, on the Pevensy Levels and was often provided with a cottage and a small amount of land and often owned some livestock of their own. Checking the cattle is still known in the area as 'lookering.' Whilst it doesn't sound very glamorous Richard apparently made a good living."
Traditionally, many local farms would own a small area of the Pevensey Levels and in the days before the car, paid/shared men to keep a day to day watch over their livestock. Exceat Farm near Seaford for instance, then owned 47 acres of the Levels. Today, the word has come to the fore within conservation grazing circles around the country. Wildlife conservation would not be able to manage without volunteer lookers.


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There are many ways our children can fall behind in school. One of the best ways you can keep your child focused and on track is by hiring an online tutor. If you notice your child is struggling in math, online math tutors can help them regain con...
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July 12, 2020
willingness to work with us to allow work from home and advancement in math has been great!
July 10, 2020
The child enjoys the lessons.
July 5, 2020
Milliceni Mosby
my son has improved
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July 12, 2020
willingness to work with us to allow work from home and advancement in math has been great!
July 10, 2020
The child enjoys the lessons.
July 5, 2020
Milliceni Mosby
my son has improved
June 6, 2020
Irina Kanter
My 8 year old daughter likes going there, and that alone tells me a lot about this place!
May 27, 2020
It's helping my kids to advance in Math
April 12, 2020
Thank you so much!
February 1, 2020
My son had just 5 weeks of preparation at Mathnasium for the HSPT, and he ended with a 96 National Percentile. Because of that, he entered in the Honors Programs in the 3 well known high school where he applied. He got merit-schlarships in all 3. Schools indicated he will get the Honors status in all his transcripts, which will help at the time of college. Thank you Dan! And thank you to all the great instructors at Mathnasium Blue Ash. You are simply AWESOME! A++ (Please DON'T disclose my name, neither my last name)
November 26, 2019
My child was able to achieve her goals quickly with the help from Mathnasium.
November 8, 2019
katie Martin Sorrell
great atmosphere
October 31, 2019
I was really impressed with Mathnasium. My daughter was falling behind in math but now is 100% more confident and excelling in Math. She loved coming to the program and working with the teachers. I hope to get my younger daughter in the program soon she is eager to learn more in math. Although she is not falling behind she would love to advance her skills and knowledge to be an expert among her peers.
October 27, 2019
Tom Holland
The tutor and lessons are very helpful! However. I wish that they would be open a little later than 7:30 pm. 8:30 pm or even 9 pm would be great. The core hours are in the middle of dinner time and sports practice times. An additional hour or two on Saturday would be great as well in addition to being open on Sunday. I understand this means more cost to the business, but perhaps there's a way to make this a win-win. Be open more days and longer hours and in turn sell different levels of tutoring packages based on the hours available to the customer to use them. Basic package gets certain time window and a premium package gets more hours available. That would help cover the cost and make it more appealing to the parents. Or, make the lessons or some of them available online with paid service. The current limited hours is the biggest sticking point for me. I have often thought of canceling the service because of the limited hours and how often my child misses sessions due to the limited hours simply because other things come up, etc. Missed too many sessions and my net cost per session per month is high.
October 21, 2019
Leigh Standley
My son is already making progress and gaining confidence.
October 9, 2019
Good follow-up and my daughter likes to go!
September 13, 2019
Great experience this far for my high school freshman who has always struggled with math. I wish we would have found out about Mathnasium sooner!
August 8, 2019
Paula Ammann
July 22, 2019
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Prakriti Dhakal
We love mathnasium... My first one 3rd grader going to 4th, loves doing math & enjoys coming to mathnasium... & second one Kindergartener going to 1st grade, just started from this summer & loves doing math too...
June 13, 2019
The kids have been having a great time coming, and hopefully they have been learning a lot. They really liked the STEM program on Fridays too!
June 12, 2019
Ethan and the tutors work well with my son who lives on the autism spectrum and learns differently. They encourage him patiently and professionally.
April 19, 2019
Travis was great and trey likes to go
April 17, 2019
Travis and Evan always responded to my concerns re the student I am sponsoring. We have kept a continuous dialogue to help increase the student's success. I will be in contact iwith Evan and hopefully a new placement to help me and mathnasium to help this student achieve her potenial
April 9, 2019
Beena Rajani
My daughter Neeva 3rd grade loves Mathnasium. Her Math skills have improved a lot.
April 2, 2019
Rashmi Tadiparthi
Everyone does a great job, wish you could be open on fridays as well due to high demand 😄👍
April 1, 2019
Great center when my daughter truly enjoys going to learn math
April 1, 2019
Shena Jaffee
Maya is loving learning new techniques and deepening her math skills.
March 28, 2019
Great team that has got my student into double accelerated math and the highest score on their MAP! Thank you to the Mathnasium team! They work wonders!
March 22, 2019
Harshana Patel
My son enjoys learning in a positive environment where he doesn't have to bring homework home. He acknowledges that some sheets take longer but he then pushes himself to get quicker at them. It's an environment that doesn't feel like a traditional environment but rather an environment conducive to harboring a positive journey in mathematics. It is great for building confidence and knowledge.
March 17, 2019
We've had a positive experience so far at Mathnasium. I am hoping that my daughter can get caught up to her grade level and gain more confidence!
March 12, 2019
Quick to start process and evaluate current level... kind and supportive tutors. Like the location with plenty of parking and easy to access.
January 19, 2019
My daughter's confidence in Math has increased exponentially and she enjoys her sessions with Mathnasium.
January 8, 2019
Duttu Vallabhapurapu
Mathnasium, Blue Ash is a great place for kids to learn math. Travis designs curriculum according to the needs of individual students and constantly measures student's understanding and accordingly designs course and teaching. Excellent place for math development and kids love to spend their time at Mathnasium. Duttu
November 6, 2018
It's a very good place my child is doing so much better in math. His self esteem has increase. We're very pleased with his progress.!
October 3, 2018
Mathnasium is my sons happy place! Thank you :)
September 27, 2018
Heather Joseph
The kids love Blue Ash Mathnasium and want to go back every summer. They are challenged and we notice improvement in their school scores as well as motivation for learning math. Travis runs a great program!
September 7, 2018
Nicole Heard
Travis and the team are doing an awesome job helping my daughter who is doubling in honors math her sophomore year, she is actually making her schedule and committing to 4 times per week!!!!!
September 3, 2018
Malgorzata Imade
The atmosphere is conducive for learning and the instructors are very professional. My son has learned a lot from the summer programs.
August 24, 2018
Great staff
August 7, 2018
Travis and his team helped my daughter understand math in a way that my child understood. Their program worked! We're very thankful for all they did!
July 22, 2018
My daughter has had a great summer. She finds the summer program fun and loves Friday afternoon activities. She loves the fact that the work in done in the center and no homework.
July 20, 2018
Dimple Joshi
I loved them and more important my kids loved the learning environment. Travis is great and kiddos love him!
July 8, 2018
Great progress with our daughter
July 7, 2018
Mathnasium helped my daughter gain confidence in her ability to do math and improved her math grade at school. She likes going to Mathnasium, too. It's a win-win!
July 4, 2018
Beena Rajani
My daughter never njoyed math. But after joining Mathnasium, she has been looking forward everyday to attend it. Thank you - Beena
July 1, 2018
Great stuff!
July 1, 2018
Our experience at Mathnasium was extremely positive. We would definitely recommend it to others.
June 30, 2018
Our son has learned alot while at Mathnasium and has enjoyed his experience.
June 29, 2018
Kelly Barnett
Mathnasium is a powerful summer tune up that helps build confidence in learners.
May 24, 2018
My son self esteem has gotten so much better.
May 18, 2018
Great job Mathnasium Blue Ash team! Thank you for all your hard work with my child!!!
April 2, 2018
Janina Cambizaca
Love the place, the instructors and my son's grades have improved. Math makes more sense to him :)
March 27, 2018
We love Mathnasium so much, we just enrolled my younger son! My daughter has been attending for years and both kids are doing fantastic.
March 17, 2018
My son really enjoys Mathnasium and it has not only helped to fill in the "gaps" in his learning, it has also brought his math grade up to an A.
March 15, 2018
My child enjoys going to Mathnasium. Instructors are very friendly and works with kids well. My child is become confident in Math which use to be her week subject. They also help with homework as needed. Travis is very helpful and is always available to discuss progress of your child.
March 1, 2018
My daughter is improving in her math class. Let's keep it up! Great job!
February 6, 2018
Travis has a great set up at Mathnasium! Our daughter has been with Mathnasium for 6 weeks and we could already see the difference.
January 14, 2018
My son has improved alot but I feel the sky is not even the limit anymore.You guys are doing a good job.
November 19, 2017
Our son has enjoyed his experience so far and has been very motivated to come and improve his math skills.
October 29, 2017
The instructors are kind and attentive, and the program is well-structured. Having an hour set aside for math has greatly improved my son's performance and confidence at school and home.
October 19, 2017
My child has a great attitude about Math after only attending Mathnasium a short while!
October 4, 2017
It has been working for my daughter, she is gaining confidence while learning math. I'm very happy, after many many year of math frustration. Thank you :)
September 28, 2017
Great way to keep skills intact over the summer months. My children enjoy going and are happy when the school year begins as they have a bit of a jump start on material covered.
September 26, 2017
My 10yo son loves going to Mathnasium in the summer. He just finished his third summer. I notice him getting excited to see his progress and to work toward goals. He seems more confident starting the school year and I think it's because he knows he has advanced his math knowledge.
September 24, 2017
Lexi was not doing very well in math. She did not understand it, and did not have the fundamentals down. She is currently doing very well in math, and her confidence is getting stronger! Mathnasium has helped her grow in ways where the classroom has failed. Thank you!
September 19, 2017
Emma looks forward to summer math with you. Please offer year-round Math &/or STEM events so I can get my other daughter to see that math is relevant & fun! ;)
September 18, 2017
My daughter went in hating math, and by time she finished she enjoyed it like it wasn't even class but a game!
August 14, 2017
My daughter loves coming. She has really improved in her math skills and confidence. She has a sense of accomplishment and pride when she gets a prize there. We are so glad to be here!
July 31, 2017
My daughters grades have improved and she actually understands her math assignments! It's great!
July 9, 2017
great teaching, environment and ease of use
July 9, 2017
My daughter is excited about going for new challenges and experiences. She continue eager to learn and have gain more confidence in her math skills.
July 9, 2017
Travis is a class act. He seems to really care about the kids and his job. We're really happy here
July 9, 2017
Kelly Barnett
Consistent and responsive.
July 8, 2017
I really enjoy that you can drop off any time that is convenient for your schedule. With multiple children, it is difficult to always plan on a certain time each week. I love the flexibility. The only bad thing is the price. I'd like to put 2 kids in Mathnasium moving forward, but there is no way I can afford both! I hate having to choose who needs it more!
July 8, 2017
My kids are both enjoying Mathnasium very much. We appreciate the hard work of your employees. This is a very exciting opportunity, and we're very glad to have started it.
July 4, 2017
Kate Brauer-Bell
Travis is extremely personable and obviously cares about the kids as individuals and their growth as math students. My kids enjoy going to Mathnasium and like the incentives and the relaxed atmosphere.
July 3, 2017
Mathnasium has had an amazing impact on our 15 year old son. This is his 2nd summer.
July 3, 2017
Emma loves going. STEM Fridays are a great idea!
July 1, 2017
It is very well organized, nice environment, great facility and flexible schedule!
June 13, 2017
Extremely responsive, individualized support & attention when required, flexible ways of making it work for your child. Result? = Loves math & excellent progress in math skills!
May 7, 2017
Araceli Jimenez
My daughter started with a D in math in the first quarter at school and is ending with an A plus in the 4th quarter. Her instructor has helped her a lot with her homework and the program really helped her to cover all the basics to better understand more complicated problems. She likes going to mathnasium. It was worth the 45 minutes driving from KY to Blue Ash 2 or 3 times a week. Thank you Mathnasium!!!!
April 23, 2017
Travis is so responsive and willing to help with any issues the kids are working on in school. He is easy to talk to and great with the kids, and provides the right incentives and encouragement so that the kids enjoy learning and succeeding. He is also willing to work with teachers at the school to make sure the Mathnasium experience supports the school's curriculum.
April 17, 2017
My son enjoys going
April 16, 2017
Lisa Schreiber
The teachers are excellent... they explain in an easy way that my child understands! The practice material is very helpful. My child is gaining confidence more because she is actually understanding math! Great job!
April 14, 2017
My children love to come here. It's incredible how kids here go from dislike math to love it.
April 13, 2017
Tricia Stethem
Our daughters have been attending regular sessions at Mathnasium for most of the year and we have noticed a significant improvement to their mathematical abilities and their overall attitude towards math. They have achieved greater confidence and never complain about going to Mathnasium, even after a full day of school work. Highly recommend this program!
March 31, 2017
My son has only been enrolled in Mathnasium for a few weeks, but so far so good! I am looking forward to seeing the progress he makes.
March 27, 2017
I like mathnasium my son like it too.I like the way the instructor speak to children.
March 24, 2017
The tutors at Mathnasium have helped my son regain his confidence in his math skills after he had the misfortune to have a very inattentive and ineffective math teacher. He enjoys coming regularly to the homework sessions so much that he asked to extend his time with the program through the entire school year.
March 23, 2017
Mathnasuium has made my son much more confident in math, and has really pushed him ahead so that the content he learns at school is not new, and he therefore becomes much more successful at math.
March 23, 2017
Mathnasium is awesome place for learning. My son likes it. The instructors are helpful and nice.
March 8, 2017
My daughter has been going to Mathnaisium for a year now and she isn't bored!! That shows she is enjoying and learning there!!
February 6, 2017
We are so pleased with the experience so far! Stella loves coming and has really improved! It's been great! Open a studio in Hyde Park please!!!
January 12, 2017
My son, who complains about any duties after school, attends the Mathnasium everyday without any complains. He really learns math.
October 15, 2016
It is a very nice facility. The instructors are great. My daughter really enjoys every bit of it. Travis is very cooperative and takes care that all the issues are handled at the earliest and the very best way.I would really recommend it to anyone who is wanting their child to accelerate in Math.
October 12, 2016
Doris Walker
My granddaughter's loves going to Mathnasium they have helped her a great deal, she has gone up two grade levels within a very short period of time, the staff is very courteous knowledgeable and interact with the kids very well in order to get them to where they need to go. Would tell anyone if their kids need help mathnasium is where they need to be.
October 3, 2016
Our son had a very positive experience at Mathnasium over the summer. The instructors were uniformly helpful and patient and he actually enjoyed studying math over his summer vacation!
October 1, 2016
Great Staff and Great Students!
September 27, 2016
Test scores much improved! Great environment and staff to enhance learning . Thank you!
September 15, 2016
My son hated Math before he started going to this place but now he thinks Math is fun and he is improving his grades in school, I simply love this place All the staff is so cooperative and helpful and Travis is so understanding and helping , this center is very lucky to have a director like Travis.
September 11, 2016
Elizabeth Hardman
My granddaughter went from failing math to making A's and B's ! She said the Mathnasium tutors help her understand what her teacher could not.
August 31, 2016
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Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah Coded Arms Contagion. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
No, you haven't stumbled upon an IGN copy editing mistake, I just couldn't think up a better way to introduce a game as mundane, as vanilla, as run-of-the-mill as Coded Arms Contagion from Konami. It's not a bad game or a broken game, but it is a completely sterile first-person shooter.
You'll play through 13 levels as Maj. Jacob Grant, a special agent trained in killing and computer hacking. Grant gets involved with an elite force set to test A.I.D.A., a government combat simulation program that has gobs of top secret data in it. Grant puts on a funny little headset and gets kicked into the virtual world of A.I.D.A.
So, yeah, it's The Matrix with a military spin.
Once Grant's in the Matr … er … A.I.D.A., his training exercise quickly deteriorates into a rescue mission that has him shooting constantly spawning bad guys, hacking computers and upgrading weapons.
All that sounds fun, and you can see where it could be. The controls are -- for the most part -- responsive. The face buttons change your POV, the nub moves Grant around the levels and the d-pad locks on, switches weapons and reloads. It's pretty much the same setup every FPS has on the PSP, and it makes for a solid enough experience. As I popped into new areas in A.I.D.A., I had no trouble locking on to the machine gun-packing bad guys, pumping them full of virtual lead and watching their bodies disappear in a cloud of green 0s and 1s.
My problem was when this process began to repeat level after extremely boring level.
All this title is running into different areas and blasting these bad guys. After a few rounds of generic, darkly dressed guards, pink crabs show up. Then, some blue crabs show up followed by guards in a redder look.
Perhaps the same ol' enemies wouldn't be such a bore if I wasn't running through the same ol' objectives. You enter an area, kill the enemies in front of you and hack a turret or a door to get to the next area and do the same thing again. Now, hacking a turret to turn it against its masters sounds nice, but there's no fun to it -- "hacking" consists of staring at two lines of numbers and picking the number that appears in both. Sometimes there will be up to three separate "hacks" to go through, but they all come down staring and having the basic ability to see pairs. Although this game and Die Hard with a Vengeance would lead you to believe differently, hacking is not this easy.
The game tries to give you a reason to keep playing via Plugins -- weapons that you find in the levels and can then upgrade to make more powerful -- but it doesn't work. Coded Arms is very particular about when it'll let the next level of power be made available to your firearms, so expect to be ready for more bullets long before the title will give you the option of actually adding them.
So, your objectives suck (search the area), the enemies suck (lock-on and move to avoid getting hit while you fire away), the story's practically nonexistent (you're in A.I.D.A. to train for something somewhere and people are trying to steal the data inside A.I.D.A. that refers to stuff), and the upgrade system is no fun (not yet … not yet …). Is this one of those games where the multiplayer functionality saves the ho-hum single-player romp?
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Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT), announces that it has signed a three year revenue earning deal with deltatre, a leading supplier of digital and broadcast services in the Sports market, for the use of its Forscene cloud video platform.
The three-year deal is for the use of Forscene for one of deltatre's long term clients.
deltatre commercial director, Hugo Sharman, said:
"Forscene's capabilities are unrivalled globally, and have consistently helped us to grow our market and deliver a superior digital sports solution. I look forward to continuing our productive relationship with Forbidden for many years to come."
Chief Executive of Forbidden Technologies, Aziz Musa, said:
"deltatre has been a key customer of ours for a number of years in the Sports market. The signing of this three year deal with deltatre is a clear indicator of the strength of our cloud solution in the demanding digital sports sector."
Forbidden Technologies plc
Aziz Musa, CEO
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About Forbidden Technologies plc
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT, www.forbidden.co.uk) floated in February 2000.
The Company develops and markets a powerful cloud video platform with multiple applications which can be used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, post-production houses, other mass market digital video channels, corporates and consumers. The platform applications help customers improve their time to market on time sensitive content, and efficiently exploit the full value of their content.
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Out of all of the American foods that I share with my friends and co-workers, this is pretty much the most popular. Right behind Twice Baked Potatoes.
Everyone loves coleslaw, but for some reason, to people from outside of America, it seems rather difficult. I give them my recipe and tell them to make it themselves.
I don't think they ever do, and they should! Coleslaw is deceptively easy to make and it is delicious.
The coleslaw that I make is blended into small bits and has tons of flavor in each bite. I inhale it. shoveling it in without thought, just to keep that flavor coming.
So hopefully this step by step post will help people see that it truly is THAT easy to make and hopefully they will try to make it themselves.
To start with, I use one head of white cabbage. If you want to use purple or a mixture of white and purple, do it. This is for you to eat and enjoy, use what you like to eat.
I wash it and take off the outer leaves.
I have a small Russel Hobb food processor that I got for about 16 euro, many years ago. If you do not have a food processer, use a box grater, or a knife or mezzaluna or whatever you have.
So I chop it rather big and then use my processor. I am stupendously lazy and this works well for me.
But I have done the box grater before and the knife alone before, and it was no trouble.
Use as many carrots as you want. I like a lot of carrots in mine.
Chop them up just like you did your cabbage.
Put the cabbage and the carrots in a big bowl together and stir them up to mix well.
Chop up a couple of medium to large onions, your choice.
I have to use a mezzaluna to get them chopped tiny. I have zero knife skills.
Put them in the bowl with the cabbage and carrots and mix in well.
At this point, you would make your sauce, recipe below, and pour it in with your mixture.
Once mixed, I cover this with cling wrap and stick it in the fridge for at least a few hours if not more, as much as you can. Overnight makes it wonderful!
When it comes out of the fridge, it is done. Grab a spoon!
However, I do a step that is not necessary, but just something that I like.
I like my coleslaw to be really melded with flavor and really easy to eat. (Because I will practically inhale it)
So I put it through my processor again.
This is not at all necessary, and is extra work, but I like the texture, so I do it.
So yeah, as you can see American Cole Slaw is really easy and I only use ingredients that I can find at the regular Austrian grocery stores.
American Cole Slaw Sauce Recipe:
1/2 cup, approximately 120 ml. full fat mayonnaise
1/4 cup, approximately 60ml. buttermilk
1/4 cup, approximately 60ml. regular milk
1/4 cup, approximately 35 grams, white sugar (there is a difference in dry and wet conversion)
2TBSP – Ess Löffel – distilled white vinegar
1 tsp- Teelöffel – salt
1/2 tsp- Teelöffel – pepper
That's it! Stir it up and pour it in with your chopped veggies. If you want or need more, make some more…. I've done that before.
And that really is all there is to making American coleslaw.


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Different types of footwear are needed for different situations. When it comes to doing things around the house, nothing will serve you quite as well as a nice pair of slippers. Slippers offer the comfort and ease that you don't get from a regular pair of shoes, but you get the warmth and protection that will keep you safe and comfortable. For a great pair of fur slippers that come at a low price, consumer should consider the Tamarac women's Jupiter slipper by Slippers International.
Features of the Tamarac Jupiter slipper
When you go shopping for a new pair of slippers, you will probably notice that you have a great range of options. You can choose from slippers that are just for light usage or you can buy a well-designed pair of indoor/outdoor slippers that will go anywhere around the home. If you want to get a slipper that will fit your needs, it is important to look into the features.
- Genuine suede leather uppers
- Soft faux fur lining for added warmth
- Durable rubber indoor/outdoor sole
- Memory foam cushioning
- Nice closed-design with stitching
- Reliable, comfortable and versatile
Pros and Cons of the Jupiter slipper
Consumers will love the Tamarac women's Jupiter slipper for a variety of reasons. This slipper offers great comfort from the very first wearing and the memory foam cushioning means that they will only get better with time. The soft furry interior also makes for a really comfortable piece of footwear and it also is very effective at keeping your feet warm. The rubber sole is tough enough for some limited outdoor wearing and it has solid traction that will keep you stabile on your feet. The suede leather with stitching also makes for a really pleasing appearance. This is a pair of slippers that you won't be embarrassed to wear in front of guests.
One point that should be mentioned is that these slippers seem to run a little small. If you buy your regular shoe size, the fit will be a little snug, so some people might prefer to go up a size. These slippers are great but if you want to check out similar slippers, look at the Bobs from Skechers Women's Keepsakes Postage fashion slippers which also provides a a fur slipper feel for women.
Who will like the Tamarac Jupiter slippers for women?
This is a pair of women's slippers that covers all of the points that you look for in a good piece of footwear. They offer a high degree of comfort that will leave you wanting to wear them all the time. These slippers are especially good for wearing when it is cold. The furry interior will keep your feet warm and toasty when you are doing things around the home. The indoor/outdoor sole will make these especially good for consumers that want a pair of slippers that they can use for doing housework. They are comfortable and tough, which makes them pretty versatile.
A good pair of slippers can be one of the best comfort items that you own. They will protect your feet when you are just hanging out around the home and some pairs can even do a little outside work. If you want a pair of slippers that look good while getting the job done, you should try the Tamarac women's Jupiter slipper .
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The official Twitter account of the game just let loose the fact that Volume will be going physical in a limited edition run.
That's right folks, physical lovers, limited edition buyers, and the needers of memory card space rejoice! Stealth title Volume has been announced to be coming out as a limited run physical version, released via the good people over at Limited Run Games.
✨Vita means life. @mikeBithell totally announced Volume is going boxed on Vita w/ @LimitedRunGames. More info soon!✨ pic.twitter.com/I6vIwpxhK6
— Volume (Now on Vita) (@VolumeGame) March 17, 2016
With Breach & Clear, Saturday Morning RPG, Oddworld: New 'N' Tasty, and Futuridium EP Deluxe under their belt (that we know of), we're confident that Limited Run Games will do it the justice it deserves.
For now however, we play the Volume Vita waiting game… again. 😉


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Agape Strong – From Adversity to Opportunity
This Friday is the annual Agape for Youth, Inc. fundraising gala, Agape Strong – From Adversity to Opportunity. There are still a few tickets left to attend this years event.
We are featuring stories of former foster youth, foster families and families served through our Reunification Services program.
Here are just a few of the items available to bid on during the live and silent auctions that are a part of the event.


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Chengdu J-20
Xian J-20
In the late 1990s, China initiated the J-XX program, aimed at developing a fifth-generation fighter. The Chinese revealed the first product of the J-XX program, the J-20, to the world in 2011. It is designed for high-alpha control and supercruise performance.
It uses internal weapons bays capable of carrying both short and long-range AAMs, and an advanced HUD and glass cockpit has been mounted on the aircraft. The prototypes were flying with Saturn AL-31F engines, allowing for flight testing to proceed while the planned WS-15 engines were under development.
The Chengdu J-20 is a fifth generation stealth, twin-engine fighter aircraft prototype developed by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. The J-20 made its first flight on 11 January 2011.
Wingspan: 14 m / 46 ft 11 in


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My Squarespace address is bbracke.squarespace.com which is neither good nor really bad. I have another address www.bracke.dk which is better and the obvious solution would be to perform a DNS redirect but the basic Squarespace account does not support that.
DNS redirection and SquareSpace Pro
Well, now I have upgraded my Squarespace to 'Pro' which supports DNS redirection. With the help of the free DNS service gratisdns.dk and a few changed settings in the Squarespace setup, I performed the redirect. Now bracke.dk and www.bracke.dk both point to bbracke.squarespace.com.


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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Competition in Agriculture Symposium: Comments of Kyle Stiegert
Posted by Kyle Stiegert (University of Wisconsin, Agriculture and Applied Economics)
Over just 15 years, the development of seeds for corn, soybean, and cotton farmers have changed from a traditional breeding approach to a system that involves breeding with the insertion of numerous combinations of genetically modified seed traits that offer specific on-board services to the plant. These traits are patented by just a few biotech firms, which have accessed the seed sector through both vertical integration contracting.
Seeds are developed to perform within different regional agro-climactic zones. When a biotech firm owns a downstream seed subsidiary, the strategic considerations of the spatially differentiated market become quite complex. For example, perhaps the biotech firm wants to control a regional market in which they own a high-performing seed with their own GM traits. To achieve success, the GM firm could just work hard to fairly market the seed while licensing their GM traits to any other firm that would in turn produce a strong competing seed. Alternatively they could:
control which combinations of GM traits are allowed in competitor seeds,
- limit how their GM traits are stacked with competitor GM traits.
- limit the use of their GM traits in higher performing competitor seeds
- set the technology fee on licensed traits high enough that their subsidiary seed company has a price advantage in the final goods market.
These and other possible strategies open the door to many legal and economic questions about limits of patent rights, abuse of dominance, and market foreclosure. I expect that the DOJ/USDA hearings will begin to unravel many of the complex issues involving GM technologies and their evolving markets. I believe we need to look at the welfare effects on farm producers in this case and not on consumers. Consumer welfare effects would be extremely difficult to measure with any accuracy.
Kyle: I am interested in your claim that we should look at farmer welfare to measure competitive effects. I raised a question in response to Jeff's post (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/antitrustprof_blog/2010/02/competition-in-agriculture-symposium-jeff-harrison.html#comments) relating to this to which I wanted to draw your attention.
Mike and Jeff: Indeed, this is a great point. I see it as an important starting point for addressing Kyle's claim at the end of his post that we should look at farmer welfare rather than consumer welfare in assessing competitive effects of seed manufacturer conduct. He claims that consumer welfare effects would be hard to measure. Given this point, however, I'm not so sure farmer welfare effects would be any easier to measure (and, as an aside, I would note that looking for one's keys where the light is better because it's hard to see where they were actually dropped is rarely a good strategy). Thoughts?
Posted by: geoff manne | Feb 11, 2010 9:13:28 AM
My point about consumer welfare has a lot to do with understanding transmission of pricing at the ag input level through the supply chain and to the retail market. One could certainly envision that such transmissions for permanent structural price shocks would eventually work their way through the system to the point that all products containing the output of biotech seeds (most importantly; meat and farm fish products, and cotton clothing) would have a price impact. However, in the short-run, these effects are likely to be difficult to nail down and will vary greatly from product to product. In the short-run, pricing of these commodities are by and large insulated from the input costs associated with producing them (Hsieh, Mitchell, and Stiegert, Agribusiness:an international J., 2009). The pricing of commodities are heavily infulenced by the supply conditions that are determined by a variety of factors including weather. Thus, unless there is a supply response with respect to seed pricing, farmers bear most or all the short-run burden associated with market power in these markets.
Posted by: Kyle Stiegert | Feb 13, 2010 12:07:19 PM