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Every once in a while, Zombchicken will sit down with certain members of the community and ask them a series of questions. This could be questions about their real life, situations in the QZW e-federation, their streaming, video games or just general life questions. Being a Zombchicken monthly subscriber allows you a bigger chance to be interviewed for the website as well! This is a chance to get to learn a bit about some members of the Zombchicken community exclusively here at Zombspawn.com!
Zombchicken: What are your earliest memories of being a part of this community? Is there any specific moment or stream you remember?
Catharsys: I've been around, on and off, I'd say back when you were TVirusZombies. But I believe I really became involved back when you were on instagib. You had been doing wrestling every week, and there was the Dungeon and Painkiller. I had stopped in a few times but was never able to stay the full cast, due to whatever reason, until one day you asked if I was coming. I said yeah, and I had come in, and suddenly a new wrestler was coming out.
I see this beautiful catwoman style girl coming out, and I remember clearly thinking outloud "Wow she's gorgeous! Wish I had a wrestler like that!" Well, she had come out with a blank nametag so we didn't know who she was until the winner was declared. I suddenly see "Keo" on the name and everyone was like OMG that's your girl? And I remember just sitting in my chair going omg… "Apparently so!" I was beyond thrilled, humbled, and you and I have worked on different cosplay looks because, frankly, that was my "fursona" at the time. I even had artwork done, that had me as Moxxi. You have used me as a creative template (not that you had to use me for that, you've done amazing work over the years), and I've just been anticipating and thrilled for every new look.
Zombchicken: Some people still don't know about the transformation from Mistress Keo to CatharsysGaming, what would you publically tell those people?
Catharsys: To simplify it best, I needed a fresh start.
I became miserable with the "Mistress" part of my name, and other things going on outside of casting just, really, became too much to be "Keo" anymore. I made the conscious effort to "retire" Keo, move everything over to a new name, didn't cast for probably almost a year, and when I came back, I will admit, struggled, to return.
When I say struggle, I am not talking about finding a new community, I mean more letting people know who I was.
I had stopped into your channel (as Zombchicken), and got scared I wouldn't get accepted. I honestly just felt I might be in the way, but soon I'd change that.
It would be, I believe, another 5 months before I came out revealing who I was. I never meant to hurt anyone by disappearing, or confuse people. I just really needed a fresh start.
I will share that I have not been more happy, being on CatharsysGaming as Lilly. Yes Lilly is a nickname but I've been called it over the years, and compared to my great grandmother. It is in honor and great respect, I call myself that, and for her.
Zombchicken: If you had to choose between Mistress Keo and Sierra as CAW wrestlers, which one do you prefer the best?
Catharsys: Okay that is a huge toughy for me. I've loved every single CAW made under the Keo name, and I've loved Sierra since day one. But I believe the most favorited of mine, has to be the Moxxi costume. I remember thinking, god if I came back, I wouldn't be able to have that one CAW represent me. I tried for a different look, loved it, but inside I just kept wanting to see your version of Moxxi for me. I'd have to say that one. All were gorgeous, all where beautiful and very creative. That one to this day, and that top hat, ha, are one of my faves.
Zombchicken: What has been your favorite moment so far being a part of the RCWF and the QZW e-feds?
Catharsys: Hm. Favorite moment. Between the very first time finding out the catwoman was for me, and I think honestly, the night I won the Hardcore Belt. I still have the picture of my caw, holding it up, proud as heck, smiling a big smile. There have been others, hanging with the crowd and chat, having chats with yourself, just all and all, I enjoy it, or I wouldn't be a part of it. I have been humbled, when I was able, to help out with every charity you had going. I think the first time I ever did one, I was so scared I'd fail or suck or something, and people seemed to love it (the cast not me being bad, ha!), but it is hard to choose just one.
Zombchicken: You are a streamer yourself on Twitch. What games do you mostly enjoy playing and streaming to your own viewers?
Catharsys: Oh I'm all over the map sometimes. That's what to expect from a variety streamer. I enjoy playing the Mass Effect series, Fallout 4, No Man's Sky, Horizon Zero dawn, Skyrim, The Last of Us, to name more than just a few. I think in the end, anything with exploration in it, add a little fantasy or space, and I'm all in. The one game years ago I was mainly known for was Plants Vs Zombies. So consider just how far I've gone. I also have been known to do pixelarts, and been doing requests on and off since last year.
Lately though, I've been so in love with my PS4 titles, and casting on that platform.
Zombchicken: What do you enjoy doing in your free time when not involved with e-feds or being on Twitch.tv?
Catharsys: As corny as it sounds, I like spending time with my family most, especially my mother and her pup (who I call mine all the time), Skippy. We go for walks, have conversations, and I'm usually brushing him while we have our chats.
If not that, I'm reading. Doesn't matter how old I am, faerie tales and fables are still my forte. Been in love with mythology for years, and just love the creativity.
Zombchicken: When did you first arrive on the streaming scene. Was it Justin.tv first, or was it another streaming website?
Catharsys: Ah not alot of people remember this. I actually dabbled first in Ustream. I literally had three, really really badly done casts. I didn't realize the feedback from having speakers on instead of a headset, the mic would loop the feed, oh my gosh just terrible. That was back in 2009 I want to say of April or May. I spent a month or so in a JTV channel, trying to ask for help or ideas. Came to this one man's channel who was playing snes and other such old titles, all retro. I was in love! I asked for help, within a month, I was on JTV (june) attempting better casts. Would take til mid July before I actually had something worth casting. Very first game I played without issues, was Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. I just enjoyed having people hang out and chat to watch me play a game. I actually wanted something like this in my life since i was little. I was constantly asking my brothers or my mom to sit and watch, and sure they would but, it didn't feel like they connected with the games. Having likeminded people in a great setting like JTV, Twitch, etc, was just the thing I needed. I've been to other sites, but in the end, JTV was my first home, and as Twitch, is still my home.
Come to think of it, I did years ago have a youtube channel, that I would put outtakes or silly things that happened, videos made with Fraps (remember that program guys?) and would just do joke material. If a random thing happened in a game that was a bug or something that made the game outrageous, I had a video of it. I regret to inform if anyone wanted to see these videos (backdated to 2005), the account is long gone. Thank goodness these days for a better highlighting system!
Zombchicken: What has been your favorite game to see played through at Zombchicken, or maybe a let's play that sticks out in your mind?
Catharsys: My first favorite of yours would have to be of Dead Rising. Because of watching you play it, it influenced me to try the game out myself. I was always waiting for you to do some crazy weapon creation or outfit, would laugh when I saw your character in boxers or stuff like that. I just thought back then, you made zombie games fun. Still do.
You know, I never was interested in them, didn't like the type of genre, and since meeting you and several members of the community, it just somehow made sense, and now I love the games.
Zombchicken: How do you feel about the overall status of the gaming stream world as a whole? Do you think it has advanced through the years for the better, or do you prefer the way things used to be?
Catharsys: I think we've evolved over time. In the beginning, at least for myself, I found so many guy streamers threatened at the fact a girl played games. In fact, if I recall I was one of the first female gamers who didn't mind speaking frankly with others, and refused a cam. I still have never been officially on camera for people, and I think I'll remain that way. Over time I've learned the importance of what I should be open about, what not to be, I think its just gone really fast but its been one hell of a ride. There are so many aspects of the gaming world that have advanced just in the last 10 years alone with casting. Obviously at first we all had to suffer the issues, when like say, JTV/TTV had a huge e-sport event, and before they even knew what was going on, half the site if not all is down. I think though with every single issue it had, it had grown the site, helped them help us out, learned what programs available were good for you to use on the pc (or console) and what didn't work out. Over time I have seen so many things advance that I do feel overwhelmed and left behind, but it also gives me room to improve. Change is hard for some people. Change can be very difficult and hard to manage, and for others its the godsend they needed to move foward with themselves, along with the company of their own communities. It's a growth of all sides considered, and going in with a heavy heart or negative attitude will not bring you far. Sure people will not agree, but I'm not here to agree with others or set standards. I'm here to enjoy my time with friends, family (internet or blood), and to share my experiences with anything I do, and hopefully people have enjoyed my evolvement as well.
Zombchicken: Are there any games coming out that have been announced in the future that you are looking forwards to streaming and/or playing?
Catharsys: Actually there's one that comes to mind, that I've been realy looking forward to. Other than The Last of Us 2, that is. That one is just a given. It's called Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. I've seen the last one in a channel years ago (Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch) and just fell in love with the story. Other than that, honestly can't think of a game coming out soon that would fit the bill. I'm sure it will change in time.


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J2EE Project Management: Critical measures when beginning a J2EE project
To be successful with a J2EE project, you must plan and understand a great deal beyond the technologies themselves. There are a wealth of project management challenges you must overcome, such as designing the object model, dividing up your team, and educating your team.
Executive Summary
To be successful with a J2EE project, you must plan and understand a great deal beyond the technologies themselves. There are a wealth of project management challenges you must overcome, such as designing the object model, dividing up your team, and educating your team.
This white paper is a brief collection of J2EE-specific project management best practices, along with links to external resources that you should be considering in your J2EE project. They are taken from real-world experiences, and are intended to help you build J2EE systems. As you read the white paper, you may find project management issues that you may not have considered in the past. If this happens, you should consider weaving these issues into your project plan, or highlight the issues for future reference when you begin a J2EE project. And while we may not be able to answer every question, for each issue, we will point you towards external resources to help you find your own answers.
Get the business requirements down
Before embarking on a J2EE project, you should try to lock down as many of the business requirements as possible. A suggested process is as follows:
Build a complete list of requested features. This is the phase where you should be asking questions about user interface requirements, legacy integration requirements, use-case analysis, and so-on. If your feature list is incomplete, then you should consult with any subject matter experts you can access.
Weight each feature based upon corporate and business goals, as well as anticipated time to implement. Prioritize the list by ordering the list by feature weight.
Gain stakeholder support for the feature list to avoid future bickering.
Secure a committed project budget from stakeholders.
You should now have a fairly complete basis for designing an object model.
Decide whether J2EE is appropriate
Once you have the business requirements down, you need to settle on an architecture. J2EE may be appropriate, and then again, it may not be. It behooves you to spend the time to do the appropriate research up-front about the various alternatives. Table 1 lists external resources to help you make that decision.
Table 1. Resources to help you decide whether J2EE is appropriate
Keeps you up-to-date with various news bulletins and articles about the J2EE space.
Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans
by Ed Roman
Chapter 1 compares EJB, COM+, and CORBA Components.
EJB vs COM+ business & technical whitepapers
by Ed Roman and Rickard OBerg
Compares EJB and COM+ at a business level
EJB vs COM+ Debate
Live transcript of a debate between Roger Sessions and Ed Roman
COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier
Roger Sessions
Complete comparison of EJB and COM+.
Staff your project
When you are building a J2EE project team you will often find that you do not have a sufficient number of people in-house, if any at all, with experience developing with J2EE technology. Dont despair; many organizations are in the exact same position. You have several options at your disposal:
1. Hire full-time experienced J2EE employees. Full-time experienced employees are the most cost-effective way to staff a development team. However, candidates for full-time employment, particularly those with significant J2EE skills, are often difficult to find. To achieve this, you must have a solid recruiting process.
2. Educate existing developers on J2EE. For organizations with existing development teams, a much easier alternative to hiring full-time J2EE experts is to educate your existing staff on Java and J2EE. You can fill-in holes in your staff by hiring Java developers who are eager to learn J2EE, or by hiring computer science majors from college who are eager to learn J2EE.
3. Hire short-term consultants. Consultants can often be hired for several days or weeks to help you with specific issues such as choosing a J2EE application server; selecting tools, standards, and guidelines; resolving internal debates; providing an unbiased architectural review of your project; aiding project initiation/planning; and mentoring in a specific technology. Short-term consultants are a bit pricy, but will provide significant benefit to your project when used effectively for that expertise. Because of their associated cost, you should be engaging these experts for short-term only. All project teams can benefit from bringing in one or more consultants at the onset of a project
4. Hire long-term contractors. Long-term contractors are a happy medium between full-time employees and consultants. Theyre paid more than employees but often significantly less than consultants, are often easier to hire because contracting is perceived as being high-paying yet low risk by most developers so therefore more people choose this career path, and typically have the experience that you require (todays J2EE contractor was yesterdays full time J2EE employee somewhere else). Contractors are an effective way to fill out your project team when you find that you dont have enough full-time employees with J2EE experience and dont want to pay consulting rates for a significant portion of your staff. Skills that you should demand of your contractors is expertise in the specific application server that you are using, experience on one or more projects of similar scope, and ideally experience on one or more projects of a similar nature.
Table 2. J2EE Related Service Vendors
Service Focus
The Middleware Company
Provides training, consultants, and contractors for Java, EJB, J2EE, and XML projects.
Ronin International
Provides consultants and contractors for object-oriented and component-based architecture and software process development.
Design your complete object model
Once your team is assembled and has a good level of J2EE understanding, you are now empowered to flesh out your object model. Ideally you should minimize risk by working hand-in-hand with an external J2EE expert who has built such systems in the past.
Whenever you inject a new object into this object model, all layers should be considered. Ignoring the user interface, the business layer, or the data layer could lead to false assumptions that bite you down the line.
Table 3. Resources for building your J2EE object model
Design Patterns section is invaluable resource for building J2EE systems.
Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans
by Ed Roman
Has a chapter devoted to building J2EE object models.
J2EE Blueprints
Best practices guide for J2EE systems.
Reuse of J2EE components
In our experience, it is a myth that J2EE components achieve high reuse across projects. Components are often times copied-and-pasted, but not reused in the true OO sense.
For large organizations building complex J2EE systems, we recommend investing in a J2EE best practices task-force. This task force enforces coding standards across all projects, enforces that all teams speak the same vocabulary for objects in their system, and enforces that correct design patterns are applied in projects. The benefit of this task-force is to ease communication between projects, and to enable developers to easily transition between projects with minimal rampup time.
Implement a single vertical slice
Once you have an initial architecture defined you need to start building to that architecture. We recommend beginning by implementing an initial vertical slice of the system. A vertical slice is a subset of the use-cases in your system. For example, if youre putting together an E-Commerce site, you might have the vertical slice be the search engine, or perhaps the product catalog. A vertical slice should demonstrate usage of all the J2EE technologies in tandem. For example, you would want to be able to show that a browser can connect to a web server running servlets, which in turn interacts both with EJBs that access your back end database and with JSPs to generate HTML to return to the browser. There are several reasons why you want to develop an initial vertical slice:
1. Gain experience developing J2EE software. By developing an end-to-end vertical slice you learn how to work with all of the technologies, tools, and techniques that you are going to apply on your project. You have to start somewhere, and its better to discover and then address any problems early in your project as possible.
2. Gain experience deploying J2EE software. The first time that you deploy a J2EE application can be confusing. You have several types of nodes to potentially install and configure web servers, application servers, database servers, security servers, and so on. You can safely gain this experience by internally deploying your initial vertical slice into your staging area.
3. Reduce unsoundness risk. By developing an initial vertical slice you show that the technologies you have chosen all work together, thereby eliminating any nasty integration surprises later in your project. Remember the old saying: Everything works well in management presentations, but not necessarily in reality.
4. Prove to your project stakeholders that your approach works. At the beginning of a project your stakeholders may support you because they have faith that your team can deliver what you have promised, but their support will be even stronger if you can actually show that you can deliver. Furthermore, developing and then deploying (at least internally) an initial vertical slice can be incredibly important to your project politically because your detractors can no longer claim that it isnt going to work.
5. Answer the question: Will it scale? The vertical slice is a real working piece of your system, and should demonstrate how well your design scales under load. You can stress test this slice before building the rest of your system. This reduces risk, especially in situations where you may have questions about whether your object model will work (for example: will EJB entity beans scale?).
6. Get the design patterns right early-on. Building the vertical slice will give you experience with what works and what doesnt work with J2EE. For example, youll have an opportunity to compare and contrast different model-view-controller (MVC) paradigms. This leads to discovery of a common technical vision. Once youve locked down that framework, you can apply those best practices to other vertical slices, and enable developers with fewer skills to implement them.
Do You Start Fresh or Evolve Your Initial Slice?
Once you have developed your initial vertical slice you need to make an important decision: do you throw it away to start fresh on future vertical slices or do you continue to evolve it into your system? The answer depends on the quality of your work if it is poor quality, either because you rushed or simply because you were new to several of the technologies or techniques and therefore made some fundamental mistakes, then you should consider starting fresh. Theres absolutely nothing wrong with starting fresh because you still benefit from the major advantages listed above. On the other hand if the quality of your initial vertical slice is good enough for you then you can and should consider keeping the code (or at least applicable portions of it) and use it as a base from which to develop your system. This is something that the RUP refers to as building the skeleton first.
Choose an Application Server
The choice of an application server is an important one to your project. Although your J2EE applications may be portable between vendors, you will find that the differences make it painful to switch vendors. So while it may be tempting to go with the current market leader, it behooves you to spend the time to research whether the vendor youre thinking about using is right for you. This is applicable for both large and small projects.
1. Our recommended process is as follows:
2. List the features you would want in an application server. A consultant can help you build this list.
3. Weight and prioritize the feature list.
4. Eliminate all vendors that dont meet the majority of your criteria.
5. With the 2-3 vendors left, download and deploy your initial vertical slice into those application servers. You can then measure how well these application servers handle your specific business problem, as well as general usability.
Table 4. Resources for choosing an application server
Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans by Ed Roman
TheServerSide.com application server Reviews section
Selecting a J2EE Vendor by Simon Blake
EJB Portal Product & Vendors Directory
Enterprise JavaBeans Supporters (Sun Microsystems)
Flashline.com Application Server Comparison Matrix
App-Serv Central Contenders List
Divide up your team
Dividing up your J2EE team is one of the most critical decisions youll make. When assembling a J2EE project team, you have two basic choices:
Horizontal approach. Have folks specialize in different technologies. For example, youd have a JSP team, a servlets team, an EJB session beans team, and an EJB entity beans team. Members of your team become specialists in specific technologies.
Vertical approach. Have folks specialize in vertical business use cases. For example, youd have a search engine team, a product catalog team, and a payment processing team. Each team would become generalists and gain experience with all the J2EE technologies involved in that domain, such as servlets, JSPs, and EJBs.
You can also go for a hybrid approach, which is a combination of the above. Table 1 describes the vertical, horizontal, and hybrid approaches to team organization and indicates their advantages and disadvantages. Table 2 lists several recommended resources for building project teams.
Table 1. Team Organization Strategies
Vertical Your team is composed of generalist developers who gain experience with every J2EE technology. They focus on a specific problem domain, or use-case.
Smooth end-to-end development on an individual use case basis
Parallel development is easy if use-cases are separated well. Each developer works on his own use-case.
Developers have a concept of ownership of a use-case. They gain a wider range of skills. Good for retention.
Good for educating developers on different technologies used in your system to give them a broader picture
Generalists need to know many technologies, and are typically high-paid and difficult to find
Generalists typically do not have the specific technical expertise required to quickly solve detailed problems
Subject matter experts must work with several developer groups, increasing their burden
Design patterns, paradigms, and frameworks used may change between use-cases.
If use cases are interdependent, it is difficult to partition the team
Horizontal Your team is composed of specialists in particular J2EE APIs. Each developer works on several use cases using that API.
The same team uses the same API across all vertical use-cases. This ensures consistency in design patterns, paradigms, and frameworks used.
Specialists become proficient with their API, yielding rapid application development.
Specialists do not gain exposure to other APIs, resulting in disconnects between layers.
Requires strong planning to achieve parallel development. Need to define rock-solid interfaces between layers.
Retention issues arise. Specialists do not have a concept of ownership of a use-case. They only understand a single part of J2EE, and so their skills grow more slowly.
Hybrid Your team is made up of both generalists and specialists. The generalists have authority over one or more use-cases. They support API specialists who work on many use cases within a particular API.
The same team uses the same API across all vertical use-cases. This ensures consistency in design patterns, paradigms, and frameworks used.
Specialists become proficient with their API, yielding rapid application development.
Individual use cases are implemented consistently
Requires planning and structure early-on in project
Requires an understanding and buy-in from the team that the generalists have authority within their use-cases
Must still spec out interfaces between layers for specialists to develop in parallel
So which approach is better? The answer depends on the goals for your project:
If your goal is to get your project completed quickly, and in a consistent manner our experience has shown us that the horizontal or hybrid approach is superior. Design patterns, paradigms, and frameworks are kept consistent across the board. Specialists build a core competency in their API, yielding rapid application development.
If your goal is to invest in the education of your developers to reduce retention issues or to give them a broader long-term skill set, then the vertical approach works well. Developers gain experience with every technology in J2EE, with the downside as consistency of design patterns across use cases. In a day and age where good software professionals are hard to find, let alone keep, this is an important consideration.
Table 5. Recommended Resources for Building a Project Team
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Edition
Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister, 1999, Dorset House Publishing
This book is the defacto classic within the information technology industry for how to build and manage a software project team.
Constantine on Peopleware
Larry L. Constantine, 1995, Yourdon Press
This book presents a collection of writings about the software aspects of software development, including developer productivity, teamwork, group dynamics, and developer personalities. This is a good book to read for anyone trying to understand how to organize and then manage a bunch of software geeks.
Organizational Patterns for Teams
Neil B. Harrison, 1996, Pattern Languages of Program Design 2, pages 345-352, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
The paper describes a collection of patterns for building a software development team, including Unity of Purpose, Diversity of Membership, and Lock Em Up Together.
The Unified Process Inception Phase
Scott W. Ambler & Larry L. Constantine, 2001, CMP Books, www.ambysoft.com/inceptionPhase.html
This book describes a collection of activities and best practices for the RUP Inception phase, including advice for building your project team.
Next Steps
With your initial vertical slice in place you are now in a position to continue your construction efforts by developing additional slices of your system. For each vertical slice you will effectively run through a miniature project lifecycle fleshing out its requirements, modeling it in sufficient detail, coding it, testing it, and internally deploying it. By taking this sort of an approach you reduce your project risk because you deliver functionality early in the project, if you can deploy your system internally you can easily make it available to a subset of your users to gain their feedback. Furthermore, your development team gains significant lifecycle experience early in the project, giving developers a significantly better understanding of how everything all fits together.
We hope this white paper has been helpful for you. There are a whole host of other challenges for you to consider as well, such as testing tools, IDEs, performance tuning, upgrading live systems, and so-on. Please look towards for links to these and other resources. And feel free to contact us at http://www.middleware-company.com to setup an initial assessment if you would like help with any area your project.
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Nebraska's Centennial Mall
In 2009 the Lincoln Parks Foundation initiated a $9.6 million campaign to restore the historic Nebraska's Centennial Mall. Thanks to generous donations from the City of Lincoln, Lancaster County, the State of Nebraska and many private contributors from across the state, the seven-block mall renovation was completed in 2016. We are especially thankful for a $2 million gift from Hebron native Glenn Korff who sadly passed away in 2013.
A Brief History of the Mall
Built in 1967 to commemorate the state's 100th anniversary, Centennial Mall extends north from the State Capitol seven blocks on what would be 15th Street. This public mall serves as a scenic connection between two of Nebraska's most important institutions: the State Capitol and the University of Nebraska.
Over the years, Centennial Mall has functioned as a gathering space and rallying point for many different events. For example, the mall became a gathering and vigil space as citizens reflected and grieved together following the attacks on September 11, 2001. Every year, 35,000 of the state's fourth graders visit the Capitol and stroll down the mall as part of their field trip focusing on Nebraska history.
Spirit of Nebraska Pathway
The Spirit of Nebraska Pathway is a series of granite and bronze tiles placed along the twin walkways that frame all seven blocks of Nebraska's Centennial Mall. The pathway program is an opportunity to honor or recognize Nebraskans, organizations, businesses and events. All members of the Nebraska Hall of Fame are recognized along the Spirit of Nebraska Pathway. The bronze tiles have interactive Quick Response (QR) codes so stories of individuals, families, leaders and organizations come to life through the use of this technology via phone or computer tablets, which will evolve as new technology is created. Stories can be viewed at NebraskaEducationonLocation.org
Tiles remain available for purchase. To find out more, watch this inspiring video. Click here for a purchase form, or contact our office for more information.


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L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade with NPH, Christmas beer tasting and more!
Find something to do this weekend in L.A. and O.C.
Christmas Beer Tasting, Part I
Taste Christmas beers from Deschutes, Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, Port Brewing, Stone Brewing Co. and The Bruery.
Cost: $5
When: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Pacific Park Market, 27792 Aliso Creek Road Suite B100, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
'The Royce at the Langham's' Chef de Cuisine David Féau
From farming to fine dining
Chef David Féau's long list of culinary accomplishments range from Corporate Executive Chef of the Patina group, former protégé of Guy Savoy, and he was named one of the six best chefs in France under 30 by Le Chef Magazine. Chef David now finds himself as the Chef de Cuisine of The Royce at the Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, CA introducing a new kind of fine dining cuisine to the Angeleno palate. Read More
Dripp, a new boutique coffee bar is opening in Chino Hills later this month. Coffees from a slow drip bar will be complimented with ice cream sandwiches. The coffee selection comes from around the world and they grind all their beans fresh, manually pull all shots, handcraft every espresso drink, and hand drip to order every cup of coffee.
'Cupcake + Art,' a vegan cupcake competition with cupcake-themed art show
Ten vegan bakers competing for the title of 'best vegan cupcake' in L.A.
The ladies behind Urban Food Crawl, a weekly vegan food tour of downtown L.A., are back with another vegan-friendly event called "Cupcake + Art", a vegan cupcake competition where you get to be the judge. The event plans to feature ten bakers from the Los Angeles area competing for the title of the best vegan cupcake around town. The participating bakers include Food Network's Cupcake Wars' Kim Aeck and Kim Thurman of Bake You Happy, Clara Polito of Clara's Cakes, and more. We have details from organizer Jen Bardekoff, and a definition of what makes a 'vegan' dish vegan from the Internet's most infamous vegan blogger. Read More


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Peter and his team have offered quality general contracting services in and around Revelstoke since 1965. Specializing in local home building, garages, decks, car ports, additions and concrete work. Our moto is "Safety First". Nu-Trend was the recipient of the New Building Desgin award from the Chamber for 2013!


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Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) launched the Standards and Labelling programme in May 2006 with the objective of reducing energy intensity of electrical appliances and equipment. By 2010 the S&L programme had resulted in 3336 MW of avoided capacity and 7848 MU of electricity savings.
Twenty-one products, across the building and industrial sectors, are included in BEE's S&L programme. Of these, room air conditioners, frost-free refrigerators, tubular fluorescent lamps and distribution transformers are under mandatory notification and the remaining are under voluntary notification.
The government has introduced schemes to promote the adoption of energy-efficient lighting. Bachat Lamp Yojana (BLY) subsidises the replacement of incandescent bulbs with CFLs and the Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP) is aimed at accelerating the adoption of LED lighting. In March this year Minister for Power, Piyush Goyal, announced that the government would be launching programmes to promote the adoption of energy-efficient fans and air conditioners.
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Woodworkers want something versatile and with the appropriate strength to handle a large number of projects – it would not be appropriate to have many tools doing the same task. One that does all of them is ideal for space saving and overall cost savings.
There are a variety of machines out there, but not all of them are both easier to carry and use. Hobbyists have an excellent use for portability. Where would the fun be if you can't turn your pieces wherever you want? In the following review, we look at one of the best wood lathes for beginners you will find on the market.
Products Description
Several things make this wood lathe one of the best and among them is portability. NOVA 46300 is lightweight and compact making it easier to move around. It is also easier to store, but that does not mean it is a pushover. NOVA 46300 comes with the ruggedness and capacity comparable to larger machines.
The wood lathe also comes with a 3/4HP motor for efficient operation. Its speed varies from very low to very high giving you a choice of picking the right one for your projects. The NOVA 46300 is ideal for a variety of projects such as turning spindles and pens among others.
- Has a strong 3/4HP motor adequate for the majority of projects and delivers a variable speed of 250-4000rpm.
- The NOVA 46300 comes with a forward and reverse button for a top of the range finish. This means you don't have to keep switching off the and manually moving the pieces.
- This wood lathe has a 12-inch swing capacity and the center capacity of 16.5 inches. It is expandable to 41 inches and comes with all the necessary accessories to achieve this. All this expandability ensures you can work on a large variety of projects – no limit for you.
- Has an excellent indexing feature, accurate, easy to adjust and locks firmly into position when working on projects. There are also cam controls that make your adjustment task even more comfortable.
- The wood lathe has a grinding wheel accessory you can quickly attach to make it more versatile – something that professionals love about it.
- You also have the option of picking a bed extension accessory for the expansion of the spindle length.
- Also has a composite guard that is strengthened and reinforced. There is a rapid access latch for quick access.
- An improved on/off switch for efficiency and safety.
- The pulley system provides optimal flexibility as it boasts a variety of speed ranges. This system is three-step with the middle one providing sufficient range for the majority of turning works. The other two just provide more torque when needed –, especially with more demanding jobs.
- Its body is solid iron cast demonstrating a high level of structural strength – critical for rigidity and strength to deal with vibrations and shocks coming from working with hard wooden pieces.
- The motor has an updated die-cast housing for optimal experience in woodturning
- Comes with additional accessories transforming the wood lathe into a total woodworking station – this renders your working space a serious one. These accessories make your machine versatile and the process saving a considerable amount of space, money and time.
- The NOVA 46300 also features a hand wheel for more exceptional finishing
- There is a 3-inch faceplate, and a 6-inch tool rest to take care of variety projects.
- This mini lathe comes with a reverse feature to ensure efficiency and uninterrupted workflow.
- It is also a pretty quiet lathe that will not disturb the sleeping neighbors as you do your early morning turning.
The on and off switch is fitted with a no-vault release not only for efficiency but also for your safety.
There are also other safety features that come with the grinding wheel accessory. More specifically, it has a tool rest, eye safety should and outer case all designed for your safety.
The variable speed adjustment lets you quickly adjust the speed so you can choose the most appropriate for your situation – of course, there's some safety in this.
- Unlike other wooden lathes that boast a high level of portability and lightweight, the NOVA 46300 is quite heavy. It might not be so easy to carry, after all, for some people.
- The wood lathe may not work in some countries with particular power specifications.
Without sugarcoating, this is actually one of the wood lathe reviews. The NOVA 46300 has top of the range features such a powerful and quiet motor for efficient woodturning. It is rugged and has a high level of versatility – this means you can use it on a variety of projects saving you much time, cost and space.
The wood lathe may be a little heavy, but that is a small price to pay for such quality equipment. Whether a beginner or professional, this is one decent wood lathe to have in your tool store.


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I played with a bunch of titles for this post, but as my cursor blinked at me from the title bar, that's what I typed. Because man, oh man, is it the truth.
I don't know if you guys are like this. You may not be. You may be the sort of person who turns in their keys or closes a door for the last time and thinks, "Great run! On to the next."
I am decidedly not that person. I'm more the "turns in her key, sobs, goes to every room and stares lovingly around at all the empty walls and feels an enormous sense of gratitude and sadness for all that took place within them" sort of person.
There's just so much of LIFE that happens in a house. I remember Sarah Jessica Parker always saying that the city of New York was essentially the fifth women in the cast of Sex and the City, and that's exactly how I feel about this house. It's been the fifth member of our family.
When we moved to Asheville, it was July of 2015. We were just shy of our one year wedding anniversary and were moving to North Carolina to "have an adventure," since we had no children and didn't own a home yet. We planned to be here for two, maybe three years (on the very outside). Three years later, our heels are dug in, and, for as long as we can see in front of us, we're Ashevillians. It snuck up on us, like almost all good things do. We moved here with no friends or family in town - a newly married couple striking out on their own to a new state for the very first time. Jordan had never lived anywhere but Alabama, and my longest stint outside the state was a one year stopover in Memphis, during which I practically split my time between the 901 and the 205 in order to visit my then-boyfriend/fiance.
We moved into this house sight unseen. I found an ad on Craigslist, and, like a true and unmitigated psychopath, proceeded to give my personal information to a total stranger in exchange for a 2-year lease on a home I'd never set foot in. I remember making the 7-hour (with many stops, of course) trek from Birmingham to Asheville with four cars and a massive uHaul. Somehow, Tom Hanks and I were the first to arrive in our new home. I met our landlord and my sweet dog and I trotted around the empty craftsman home, stunned that we'd hit the jackpot with what was a beautiful house with a lovely view. The neighborhood we could take or leave, but the house itself was perfectly wonderful.
For the first 4 months or so, we lived like that. No real interactions with our neighbors, no real friendships. Jordan was working at a practice 45 minutes out of town, so I had a lot of time to myself. I took a job at J Crew to make friends (and thankfully, succeeded in making one of my closest in Asheville who started out as my manager and ended up as my dear friend). Soon, construction started on a slew of new homes in what used to be the lot to the right of us where baby bears would frolic in the trees. I'll admit, our initial reaction was to be wildly annoyed and peeved that our landlord had promised us nothing would ever come of those lots - that the builders had been "saying they would start for years - don't worry about it."
"Maybe you'll end up with wonderful neighbors you never even knew you needed," my mom suggested at one point.
"Yeah, right," I scowled back. "Fat chance."
Seven new houses and three years later, things are very different.
The families that inhabit those seven homes are our family in Asheville. They have hosted us, eaten with us, invited us over, celebrated our birthdays and baby. They've cried with us in moments of sorrow and frustration, danced late night, played poker and discussed novels. Their dogs have become our dog's friends.
There's no way to really describe the street we lucked into living on except to say that it is magical in every possible way. I've never experienced anything quite like it, and I know I never will. Though the people will still be very much a part of our lives (we're only moving across town), the luxury of walking out onto the street and running into three, four, five, ten of our neighbors/family members for an impromptu neighborhood street party with babies and dogs and no shoes and cold beers and sunset light is a thing I will miss for as long as I don't have it. If you've been lucky enough to know what I mean, you know what a true heartbreaker it is to leave.
But we had to buy instead of rent. And so we did.
This is the house I brought my son home to. I started this blog on a wing and a prayer from the couch here. I told Jordan we were pregnant in the den. Tom Hanks got stung by a wasp for the first time in the shower the day we moved in. Brand new baby Mac settled into his very first non-hospital nap in the master bedroom. All the big news in my life has been received while standing in the kitchen or lounging in front of the fireplace - babies, engagements, jobs. Some of the things I'm most proud of having written were typed at the desk where I'm sitting now, or the kitchen table.
It is unbearable, if I'm being honest. And I don't think that makes me a wimp. I think it makes a sentimental sonofabitch, and I think that quality makes me a good writer. But these things - what some other more practical peers might find to be mundane and just another part of life - these are the things that gut me.
I am wounded by the thought that the sunrise will still be in Mac's nursery window but I won't be there to see it. Add in any number of lines like that about things that will continue to go on without me in this house. I've thought about them all already. This week, I've perfected the art of the 5-minute sob, wherein I feel the tears shoot up from my gut and stab my sinuses like hot pepper, swell my throat like a bee sting, then slide back down into my stomach and wait to be invited back by the next soul-crushing realization of house-related grief. In the meantime, back to business. Packing, feeding my baby, all the things life demands.
It is a process to grieve the walls within which a load, a bundle, an impossible mass of memories were made.
If you want to cry next time you move homes, give me a ring. I'm around. I'll make sure to tell you your house is proud of you, even if other people think it's ridiculous. The Practicals think almost everything is ridiculous. But they're only seeing the construction. They need a push to be reminded of the magic that's waiting around the corner, like I did, and will again one day. Tonight, though, I'm square in the middle of it. I feel it prickling my skin.
Ah, well. Here's to those of you who manage to get out of this thing without shedding any tears. Write me a manual and maybe one day I'll get a little better at it. Of course, I know this new house will be incredible and I'm so excited and everything will ultimately be fine. Blah, blah, blah. It's always fine with the right attitude, isn't it? We've walked through scary things before and moving, even across town, away from our friends and this house feels scary. We'll do it again, and it'll be great just like it has been every time so far.
But first I have to walk room to room, filled with that gratitude I was talking about earlier, imagining that the house itself is a living breathing thing like I've always suspected, who's watched me grow and chance from a brand new 26-year-old wife into an almost-30 year old mom and all the millions of less significant (but probably equally significant in other ways) changes in between.
I wonder what it thinks about me. I hope it likes me. I think it does. I think it's probably proud of me. I think maybe I confuse houses with the tangible spirit of God, and that's why it feels so devastating to leave. Then again, maybe that's not confusion - maybe that's a lesson that we just aren't ever, ever, ever alone. It's never about what it's about, and this isn't about just the house. It's about chapters of life opening and closing and being written right under my feet with every step and choice, and how fast it all seems to go.
I started this post while the sun was up, watched it set over the mountains for the second-to-last time from this particular vantage point, and now it's time to go make Halloween costumes with my husband. Life just keeps right on rolling.
Anyway. Here's to 22 Thurland Avenue, one of the great loves of my life.
Thank you, friend.


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Tucson College 5151 E Broadway Blvd, Ste.155 Tucson, AZ 85711 Phone: (520) 258-0400
General Information About Tucson College
Tucson College is licensed by the Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education to operate in the state of Arizona. Tucson College is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) to award diplomas and certificates. ACICS is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a nationally-recognized accrediting agency.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
Institution Type
- 2-year, Private for-profit
Special Learning Opportunities
- Weekend/evening college
Student Services
- Academic/career counseling service
- Employment services for students
- Placement services for completers
Credit Accepted
- Credit for life experiences.
- The acceptance of transfer credits are subject to review by the school and cannot be guaranteed.
Religious Affiliation
- Not applicable
Federal Aid
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
Degrees/Certificates offered
- Less than 1 year certificate
Campus Setting
- City: Large
Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 891 Native American 34.0 Asian 9.0 African American 65.0 Hispanic 335.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 450 Enrolled FullTime Graduates


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On 29-30 September 2015 the training workshop "Deep Architectures for Vision and Natural Language Processing" was organized by ENGINE team and chaired by prof. Markowska-Kaczmar. Over the sixty years of Artificial Intelligence, deep learning is the most exploding area of research. It was a big interest of our event – more than 70 participants was registered. We invited world recognizable researchers as lecturers, from the best universities in deep learning area: Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Toronto, Canada,. Roland Memisevic, LISA Deep Learning Lab, University of Montreal and Wojciech Zaremba, New York University, Facebook AI Research. All lectures were recorded and the video will be placed on the Platon platform of scientific television and on YoutTube channel.


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Most think that it is really simple to buy travel insurance but that is definitely not the case. There are so many options that are available. For instance, there is something special available when you look for travel insurance for gap year. It is really important that you are careful and that you purchase really great travel insurance. While so many believe that travel insurance is just a scam as it is not needed, if something bad happens when you are in a foreign country, you really want to be covered by a worldwide insurance policy.
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It is important to acknowledge the fact that there are some countries where you simply cannot travel to if you do not have travel insurance. However, this does not mean that this is always the case. There are various different wonderful destinations where it is not mandatory to buy insurance.
It is normal to think that you are not going to have to buy travel insurance since this is not mandatory. While we cannot deny this, keep in mind that illness may appear without you knowing that it will happen. An accident is also always possible. Be sure that you have insurance when you travel, especially when you go abroad. This is something that you are always going to have to take into account. Travelling without travel insurance is a really bad idea.
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It is a shame to notice that so many travellers stay away from the possibility of buying travel insurance online. This is actually highly recommended because of the many different discounts that are available. However, you should never just go for the lowest price tag without conducting a really good research.
The online purchase will normally be made through low price indicators. As you buy insurance for you and your family, be sure that you analyze much more than just the price tags. If you have enough time to do so, as we already highlighted above, this should not be a problem. You will save a lot and you will be covered.


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George Friedman is an American political scientist and author. He is the founder, chief intelligence officer, financial overseer, and CEO of the private intelligence corporation Stratfor. He has authored several books, including The Next 100 Years, America's Secret War, The Intelligence Edge, and The Future of War.
George Friedman is Chief Executive of STRATFOR, a private global intelligence firm he founded in 1996. Prior to joining the private sector, Friedman spent almost twenty years in academia, teaching political science at Dickinson College. During this time he also regularly briefed senior commanders in the armed services as well as the Office of Net Assessments, SHAPE Technical Center, the U.S. Army War College, National Defense University and the RAND Corporation on security and national defense matters. Friedman's childhood was shaped directly by international conflict: he was born in Hungary to Holocaust survivors, his family fled Hungary when he was a child to escape the Communist regime, settling first in a camp for displaced persons in Austria and then immigrating to the United States. Friedman, who attended public schools in New York City, describes his family's story as, "a very classic story of refugees making a new life in America." Friedman was an early designer of computerized war games. The Center was the only non-governmental organization that was at that time granted access to Joint Theater Level Simulation by the Joint Warfighting Center.
Friedman pursued political philosophy, with his early work focusing on Marxism, as well as international conflict, including examining the U.S.-Soviet relationship from a military perspective. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Friedman studied the potential for a U.S.-Japan conflict, in 1991 co-authoring The Coming War with Japan. He is also the author or coauthor of books examining topics as diverse as the Frankfurt School and warfare, including The Future of War, The Intelligence Edge and America's Secret War.
He received a B.A. from the City College of New York, where he majored in political science, and a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
Friedman is married to Meredith Friedman (née LeBard), has four children and lives in Austin, Texas. Two of their children serve in the U.S. Military.


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Is Domestic Violence a male centred issue? Are acts of Domestic Violence typically carried out by men, or is this an old narrative used to squeeze the last drop of funding by organisations who's relevance fades with changing statistics?
If you've been here before, the answer might not surprise you…
Another day, another opportunity to make friends on Twitter. Still awaiting any sort of targeted response whatsoever to the challenges laid out in our previous article toward Sarah Phillimore , we were swiftly provided a new dose of talking points from everyone's favourite gender issues expert, Coercive Control:
If you're not familiar with our friend(s) over at CC, they're responsible for past hits such as claiming that fathers encounter issues in family court because they fail to make an effort with their children before separation, you know, your usual textbook, rational opinions.
Maintaining the standard, they've now turned their attention to the complicated and delicate issue of Domestic Violence where they have decided that most of it is committed by men and we should thus turn to education to teach men how not to be violent.
I'll repeat that in case you missed it – The claim here is that men need to be taught how not to be violent. The event is actually called "Making respectful men". Making them. Like in a factory.
Before we go on it's important to clarify here what qualifies as "most" when speaking of things like who commits the "most" violence. In essence if you find that 49% of women and 51% of men commit an act of violence, you can still quite comfortably claim without objection that most of the violence is carried out by men, because they have the larger percentage.
What the word "most" doesn't convey however is that in some cases it merely means "slightly more" and not "an overwhelming majority of the time". When it comes to the reality of situations where statistical differences are very close, either percentage can sway dramatically when you consider factors that couldn't be measured – Things like under reporting, for example.
So what's the reality?
Since it's been recognised that men can be victims and women can be perpetrators, many studies have materialised which demonstrate that men can account for up to 40% of overall victims of Domestic Violence, this is without considering how increasingly unlikely men are to report at all. In case you missed it, 40% is almost half – And with the stigma and how reluctant society (and male victims) is/are to recognise men as vulnerable to this sort of abuse, that percentage is considered modest.
So officially do men commit the "most" violence? It sure looks like it, but not in the staggering landslide fashion that an event to manufacture 'respectful' men might imply, it's at the very least a 60/40 split.
In response, our co-founder Peter Morris challenged the perception created by such an event and claim and highlighted that a staggeringly high percentage of DV actually occurred within lesbian relationships (which in case you didn't know, typically don't have men involved), as reported by the CDC.
As you can see, old friends CC, rather than backing the views they shared with their own opinions called for the help of A Call To Men UK, and quite hilariously retorted that the latter 'isn't looking at lesbian women'. Absolutely rib tickling.
But really this is the problem, isn't it? Of course A Call To Men (and the majority of other people and groups focusing on DV) don't want to look anywhere else, that would't be quite as comfortable. Even in the face of conflicting evidence, groups like these will plain refuse to change the narrative they build their services upon, and that decision is no accident.
Fast forward slightly and we get the cavalry! According to the eagerly awaited A Call To Men UK, there's "reams" of evidence and a real lack of any "serious" dispute.
Above you can see one such "ream", which is actually a gathering of statistics from only one police force, dated almost 10 years ago. Isn't it strange how these statistics change greatly when you don't focus just on reporting and ask individuals privately of their experiences? Something to do with aforementioned stigma perhaps?
Or maybe men don't report because when they do, they're more likely to be arrested themselves when the police arrive to investigate the offence. In 17% of cases the offending female perpetrator was arrested, and in 26% of cases the male victim was arrested instead. I think that might be the equality we hear so much about?
As for there being no "serious" dispute on the matter, well that depends what you count as "serious", if you don't think 22,700,000 articles on the topic are serious then you're probably right in your claim:
So to recap, one police force in England focusing only on reports of a highly stigmatised issue is sufficient to be considered part of a "ream" of evidence, and further to that
22,700,000 results on Google have nothing "serious" to say. Gotcha.
Next up in the Twittersphere was Chris Hemmings, who really just doesn't care who does it more and thinks we should focus on men anyway. I mean, why bother trying to work the damn issue out? God, why be such a drag? Let's just focus on what Chris would prefer to and more importantly, whether men are huge numbers of victims or not, lets just end male violence specifically.
Chris – Journalist, producer and all around expert in how to 'Be a Man' while simultaneously not giving a shit about men when they're in need because it's not quite as fashionable as the alternative, is here to sort this whole thing out. Thank Christ!
Having checked out the conflicting viewpoints we've provided, Chris has worked out that studies by places like the CDC (huge centre of information in America which leads the way in research of all kinds) is actually wrong and he is right.
He (quite rightly) asserts that the percentages provided for lesbian violence represent a smaller community, and therefore the whole numbers will be smaller than the smaller percentage of the heterosexual community.
Which is perfectly fine and logical. Except the point here never was about the whole numbers, which Peter understood (and apparently Chris didn't, despite getting all excited and calling Peter 'inept' for missing the exact thing he cocked up himself in his understanding). The point is about prevalence and likelihood.
You see, this entire thing began because of the promotion of the tired, forced narrative of male violence needing correction, the dire implication that men are so inherently violent a large portion of the time because they're not educated enough to behave properly – Whether people like Chris or the CC like to admit it, that is exactly what's being claimed, and they're allowed to make those claims because they hang onto the vague use of words like "most" when pretending to demonstrate where and how the vast majority of violence occurs – And in all reality they're also allowed to make such claims because no one really cares when the media or individuals collectively or separately berate men.
What Chris has missed is that, whole numbers or not, the stats from the CDC show perfectly the ratio and likelihood of lesbian relationship violence as it would apply to the wider population. In their study the CDC used 1.3% lesbian women and 2% gay men within their survey sample – In terms of the actual population you find this is almost exactly right, as (using the US as an example) 1.5% of people are confirmed as identifying as lesbian, and 1.8% of men have confirmed identifying as gay. Meaning the figures demonstrated in as close to real proportions as possible, where a high prevalence of relationship violence occurred.
And guess what? It wasn't with men.


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Trump road plan may help Democrats defend controversial California gas tax hike
President Donald Trump may have offered unlikely encouragement to California voters last week not to overturn the state's controversial gas tax hike that Democrats pushed through last year.
The Trump administration's long-awaited plan to rebuild American infrastructure, released last Monday, turned the federal grant process on its ear and launched a renewed gas tax debate in California.
The feds in the past often chipped in half or more of the money needed to build major projects like freeways. Instead, this plan puts the onus on states and local governments to contribute about 80 percent of revenues for major projects, and do it by coming up with new revenue sources.
California's gas tax hike and vehicle license fee, known as Senate Bill 1 or the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, appears to be that type of new revenue.
Republicans say the new tax is wasteful and unnecessary. They are seeking to have it overturned on the November ballot.
But tax supporters, including SB1 author Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, say the new SB1 funds may now be more valuable for the state than ever.
"The importance of SB1 becomes more significant today because it can provide California with a much-needed source for the meager federal matching grants that are left on the table," Beall said.
Other gas tax supporters took aim last week at House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, for supporting the Trump proposal but opposing the state's gas tax hike. McCarthy has donated money toward the "Stop The Gas Tax" petition drive to repeal SB1.
"The irony of this is that some of the same people like Kevin McCarthy who are given responsibility of trying to move this through Congress are (also) promoting the repeal of SB 1 funding," said Roger Dickinson, head of Transportation California, a group of business, labor and local governments. "We're saying, 'Don't go backwards.' That would be disastrous."
Much of California's new SB 1 funds are designated for basic maintenance, meaning they probably can't be used as leverage to get more federal funds. But the SB 1 law does allocate $5.5 billion, or 10 percent of its total revenues, to major freeway improvements for faster freight movement and to unclog commute corridors, projects the Trump plan could help pay for. Proponents say there may be billions more dollars in SB 1 that can be leveraged.
Democrats signaled their expectations of that last year in the SB 1 language: "It is the intent of the Legislature (to) leverage funding provided by this act ... in order to obtain matching funds from federal and other sources."
McCarthy's office did not respond last week to requests for comment about the potential intersection of SB1 and the Trump infrastructure plan.
But a repeal effort leader, Carl DeMaio of San Diego-based Reform California, dismissed the idea that California would lose out on federal funds if voters kill SB 1. He said his group intends – after the November vote – to get government reforms that will free up more gas pump tax money for road improvements, which will qualify California for federal funds.
And, he took his own shot at state Democrats. "These politicians actually don't like roads," he said. "They are so fixated on climate change, they want to get everyone into transit and onto bikes."
DeMaio said he is confident his coalition will get more than the 585,407 signatures he says are needed by the May deadline to qualify for the November ballot.
A group called the Coalition to Protect Local Transportation Improvements formed last week to campaign to oppose the anti-tax group, and Gov. Jerry Brown, in his State of the State address, vowed to be active in fighting the repeal effort.
Tony Bizjak: 916-321-1059, @TonyBizjak


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I remember when I had no children and a paid job really looking forward to holidays. The chance to sleep beyond seven o'clock in the morning, read more than just the back page of a newspaper and generally do very little for a couple of days. What bliss. Those are all very distant memories now.
By the end of the recent four-day Easter Holiday weekend I was practically itching for Tuesday to come when we would all go back to work. The problem with weekends and especially Bank Holiday weekends - when the expectation to really enjoy yourself is heightened because, well, it's a holiday - is that routine goes out of the window. Routine, in my opinion, is not only the friend of the toddler, but also the really good friend of the stay-at-home dad.
I quickly realised after starting my role as a stay-at-home dad that E-Man and Bell didn't react well or quickly to new situations, or change. Some would say that I'm the same. And if E-Man and Bell are unhappy with anything it makes my job ten times as hard. Change means I have to do more thinking, such as how many buses I have to get on and off with the juggernaut-sized baby buggy I push about, how long it will take me to get home and how much extra running around I have to do.
My father had a 70th birthday party over the Easter weekend and the family met at a local golf club for a celebration lunch. Have you ever been in the situation when you walk into a crowded room with your toddler, everyone stares at you and your child goes wild? Well that's what happened. E-Man had fallen asleep in the car and woken to a world without routine. The same often happens when I drop E-Man and Bell off at nursery at 10am on a Wednesday (I find it physically impossible to get them into nursery any earlier) and they are naturally amongst the last to arrive for the day. All the other children stare at my pair as they walk in which even I find intimidating. (Tip: if you send your child to a nursery get them in as early as possible when it is calm and fewer children are there).
The rest of the long weekend was similarly punctured with stressful situations due to our ad hoc approach to planning. Lazy unplanned mornings used to be the ticket before I had children, but not any more. Finally getting out of the house at 11am for a morning walk sent E-Man and Bell, used to 10am appointments at a playgroup or library session, completely wild. The moral of the story here is planning. Leaving the day's planning until the morning is not the answer. Routine is king. Long live routine.


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Ted Fay Report : November 11, 2015
Rick Cox
The last two weeks on the McCloud River have been great. Silly numbers one day, the largest Rainbow I have ever seen caught another, big Brownies, and fall colors worthy of a portrait. The weather cooled, then it rained, and then the river lit up. It has been excellent fishing since but alas she closes this Sunday, November 15 for a much needed rest. Mark your calendar April 30, 2016 is when she opens again. In the mean time rest well this winter you beautiful living being, those of us who have been seduced by you will be back ... God willing.
The Upper Sacramento River keeps rocking with the upper sections still showing many October Caddis. You are not going to get fish to come up on your big Oct. Caddis imitations on every cast but now is a good time to cast away with a dry/dropper setup. The fish are so anxious after seeing the ovipositing from these guys the last month that they can no longer control themselves. The suicidal fish just gotta have one of these choice bugs and their resistance meter is at zero. The lower sections have also been fishing well but your best bet on getting into fish is nymphing with my favorite choices .... LBS!!! Remember this river is open all winter but regs switch over t catch and release ... no bait, dynamite or hand grenades.
The Klamath River is giving up some very good steelhead days now. The Wild Waters Fly Fishing guys are covering the river from Happy Camp up to Iron Gate Dam and reporting good numbers of fish with fresh fish mixed in. Recent rains are helping things out along with a big temperature drop in the water. If you like this river or have thought about it now is the time to get on it.
The Lower Sac is producing some nice fish as reported by Wild Waters Fly Fishing guides and the "egg bite" is still on. Another excellent choice I must say.
If you have any further questions please call the shop and when you are in the area stop in and give Bob some grief.
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My current goal is to make anything I want to eat, if I'm feeling emotional. Want a cookie? Get out the baking sheet. Want some chips? Grab a potato. This should cut down on too easy junk food eating and also allow me to know what is really in my food, even the emotional food.
How to Turn off Emotional Eating - For Good
By Sheryl Kraft
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A friend recently told me that her 17-year-old daughter is obsessed with The Food Network, and would like to one day run her own restaurant. She's become quite a cook, apparently, and presents her mom, who is a working single parent, with the most elaborate meals at the end of a long day.
But then she told me something that caused me some worry…that her daughter has a problem with food; she binges frequently. Either she starves herself, my friend told me, or she eats everything in sight. I don't know why, but for some reason this surprised me; perhaps because I thought that anyone who loves and understands food this much and is able to study it and create it is also okay with eating it and knowing how to eat it right.
But emotions run deep, I guess, and if being seventeen today is anywhere as difficult as being seventeen was when I was a kid, then they can run deep enough to screw with your eating habits. After all, so many 17-year-olds don't feel fully in control of their lives – far from it – and the loss of control filters down to other behaviors like eating. The compulsion of binge eating leads to feelings of disgust, self-hate and embarrassment. And it usually leads to a vicious cycle of restriction and eventually, even more bingeing.
It's not just teenagers who have this problem. The incidence of eating disorders is on the rise in the adult population, affecting more women than men. Some experts think that it is a drive for perfection, a rush to lose baby weight, an obsession with youth. Others think that genes can play a role.
At the end of October I'll be attending the fitness and healthy weight-loss spa, Green Mountain at Fox Run (), to learn all about healthy living without dieting. I'm fortunate enough not to have a personal experience with an eating disorder, but my life has put me around many, many people who struggle with it every single day. It's a fascinating, complex issue. And just so you don't have to wait until November to read about all I've learned at this unique place I thought I'd treat you to some information about emotional eating, published on their website, in the interim. After all, they're the experts on the subject – they been helping women make attainable lifestyle changes for 37 years.
Stopping Emotional Eating
Break the all-or-nothing thinking of dieters and emotional eaters with strategies that foster normal eating.
Is stopping emotional eating one of your biggest challenges to health and fitness? Or is it your attitude about emotional eating (often the result of dieting) that is causing problems? Take this simple quiz to gauge your emotional eating attitudes.
If you're like many of the women who come to Green Mountain at Fox Run, you answered yes to all these questions. But do you realize that a "yes" answer to the last two questions may be a bigger obstacle to your health and fitness than the fact that you do eat emotionally?
completely is not the goal.
Emotional eating is normal. According to Ellyn Satter, MS, RD, CICSW, normal eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad, or bored, or just because it feels good. Think about it. What could be wrong with a soothing comfort food like hot cocoa after an afternoon of cross-country skiing or snowshoeing? Or the emotional pleasure you get from Valentine's candy from someone special? Or the comfort of a delicious meal after a stressful week at work?
When dieters believe they are being "good," they never eat emotionally. But when they fall off the wagon, they frequently fall prey to emotional overeating or bingeing. That's because they think they have failed - in other words, they emotionally react and turn to food to cope. If, on the other hand, dieters recognized that it's okay to sometimes eat emotionally (and eat foods other than diets usually allow), they would be less likely to emotionally react and turn to self-defeating behaviors, including more diets and disordered eating.
Giving yourself permission to enjoy eating on occasions that have nothing to do with physical hunger is important to avoid feelings of deprivation. If you eat emotionally to excess, however, it's important to explore why, and begin to develop ways to cope that don't involve food. Alternative coping strategies, including new health and fitness behaviors, are key to stopping emotional eating in excess, and to help you become a normal eater.
So enjoy your emotional eating on occasion. It's good for you! But if you tend to take it to extremes, read more about to discover why you may be doing so and how you can begin to change that habit.
Here's to happy, healthy eating!
Want to learn more on binge eating?
Melanie (not verified)
Thu, 2010-09-30 13:09
Sheryl (not verified)
Thu, 2011-03-10 09:25
Melanie, Your response to
Melanie, Your response to this is so clever. Not only does it give you healthy options, but it cuts down on the cravings, I'll bet, since you have to devote time to cooking - and by the time you get around to it, the craving may have disappeared.
marthaandme (not verified)
Thu, 2010-09-30 13:24
Great tips!
Great tips!
Roxanne (not verified)
Thu, 2010-09-30 13:37
I'm an emotional eater, but
I'm an emotional eater, but not a binger, though. So, that's good ... right?
debbie (not verified)
Thu, 2010-09-30 14:31
What an interesting take on
What an interesting take on emotional eating! I've never looked at it that way before (and believe me, I've looked at it *a lot*, for professional as well as personal reasons).
Jesaka Long (not verified)
Thu, 2010-09-30 16:58
I don't think I've ever heard
I don't think I've ever heard that emotional eating is normal. Thank you for stating it that clearly. Like Roxanne said, I'm an emotional eater, but not a binger. Are we good? :)
Sheryl (not verified)
Mon, 2010-10-04 23:17
I think you're safe, Jesaka.
I think you're safe, Jesaka. Sounds like you've got it under control :)
Merr (not verified)
Thu, 2010-09-30 19:12
There are so many intricacies
There are so many intricacies about healthy vs emotional eating, aren't there? I've come to realize that, mostly, the focus is all too often on the food and not on the person and her patterns. I think the solution will be different from each person.
ruth pennebaker (not verified)
Thu, 2010-09-30 20:50
emotional eating
What a solid, well-reasoned post, Sheryl. You're right: Perfection should never be our goal -- and we all tend to get in trouble when it is.
Jennifer Margulis (not verified)
Fri, 2010-10-01 00:17
comfort food
I find food comforting so I guess I do eat emotionally. But I answered no to #2. I really don't think it's inappropriate eating (in my case), though I know this kind of eating can be very unhealthy for some people.
Kristen (not verified)
Fri, 2010-10-01 08:30
I was worried there that you
I was worried there that you were going to say emotional eating is bad. Thank goodness it's normal because when my emotions fluctuate, I definitely reach for the chocolate. Fortunately, I don't go for extremes any many super sugary foods don't appeal to me. When I do have a little extra nibble I try to get out and hike or run to not only make up for the calories but to boost my spirits by being active.
Sheryl (not verified)
Mon, 2010-10-04 23:19
Sounds like you have the
Sounds like you have the extra caloric intake down to a science, Kristen. Being active helps with so much, doesn't it?
Nancy Monson (not verified)
Fri, 2010-10-01 14:13
I like the idea of it being
I like the idea of it being okay to eat because you want comfort or because you're happy. That's a nice take on things. The key is moderation I guess.
PS: Funny Coincidence...Green Mountain at Fox Run is in the town I lived in in Vermont, Sheryl--Ludlow.
Sheryl (not verified)
Mon, 2010-10-04 23:16
Oh! I'll have to say hi to
Oh! I'll have to say hi to your old homestead when I go to visit, Nancy...
Stephanie - Was... (not verified)
Fri, 2010-10-01 14:41
It's hard to stop emotional
It's hard to stop emotional eating when you're small - because you don't have the weight-loss component, it's easier to trick yourself that it's bad for you. But what you're eating is often a good sign. Do I really need that bowl of cocoa pebbles?
Sheryl (not verified)
Mon, 2010-10-04 23:18
Hmmm...cocoa pebbles...that's
Hmmm...cocoa pebbles...that's your go-to comfort food, eh?
sarah henry (not verified)
Fri, 2010-10-01 20:37
This is a good example of how
This is a good example of how something that's perfectly okay in moderation can be quite harmful when taken to extreme.
Look forward to reading your report from the field.
Casey (not verified)
Sat, 2010-10-02 08:52
Melanie, I like that goal! I
Melanie, I like that goal! I guess that's what we end up doing in our house too. While we certainly don't deprive ourselves of what we're craving, eating a small portion of homemade cheese sauce definitely makes more sense than keeping the big tub of queso in the fridge.
Sheryl (not verified)
Mon, 2010-10-04 23:15
And eating your own creations
And eating your own creations is usually so much more satisfying than any store-bought stuff, isn't it?
Rachel (not verified)
Sun, 2010-10-03 20:10
Group/social support is
Group/social support is important when trying to change behaviors. We often think we can do it alone and it's an issue of personal weakness when we fail. But walking with other people in the journey of coping with life without binging is the best way. Overeaters anonynmous is unknown by many, but is such a wonderful resource.
Sheryl (not verified)
Mon, 2010-10-04 23:14
Thanks for your comment,
Thanks for your comment, Rachel. There's something about support from others that really helps get us through difficult times. It's so important to be able to count on like-minded people, I agree.
sherry steiker (not verified)
Thu, 2010-10-21 19:26
I confess! I am an emotional
I confess! I am an emotional eater. I noticed that I have eaten more the last month or so because my daughter is going through issues with her boyfriend of 7 years. I have made a conscious decision not to overeat at night which is the time I tend to eat more. Also, I am not stocking my home anymore with goodies. From now on, its oatmeal in the evening!
Sheryl (not verified)
Mon, 2010-10-25 09:57
Sherry, Stress does it,
Sherry, Stress does it, doesn't it? Maybe you can also do some stress-relieving things at night so you are not tempted to eat, like stretching, yoga, meditation.
Also - I just heard something that resonated with me about snack foods that we cannot resist. DON'T BRING AN ENEMY INTO THE HOUSE. That goes back to what you are saying; that you don't stock your home with goodies. Oatmeal is a great, healthy alternative. Bravo.


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"Presidential Archives of Korea" - Winner, Architecture
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The German Design Award is the top international prize of the German Design Council established in 1953 as a foundation on the initiative of the German Bundestag. Its goal: to discover, present and honour unique design trends. Therefore, every year, top-quality entries from product and communication design are rewarded, all of which are in their own way ground-breaking in the international design landscape. Launched in 2012, the German Design Award is one of the most well respected design competitions in the world and is held in high regard well beyond professional circles.
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Authentic Guacamole
Authentic Guacamole
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An authentic and healthy recipe for the traditional guacamole.
Author: Maria Tadic
Recipe type: Side Dish
Cuisine: Mexican
Serves: 16
- 2 ripe avocados
- ½ jalapeño pepper, finely diced (add more or less depending on your spice tolerance)
- 1 small clove of garlic, roughly chopped
- ¼ cup of finely diced onion
- ½ tsp salt and pepper
- 1 tbsp lime juice (more or less depending on how tart you like it)
- Optional garnish: chopped tomatoes, onions or cilantro
- In a large bowl (or mortar and pestle if you have it) add garlic clove, jalapeño, onions and salt and pepper. Smash together with back of spoon until mushed up and some juices are released. You can also chop these ingredients very finely, but the mashing allows the flavors to come out and permeate through the guacamole nicely.
- Remove the flesh of the avocado discarding the skins and pit. Add avocado and lime juice to onion and garlic mixture and mash until desired consistency. I like a little chunkiness to my guacamole so I stop before the mixture becomes too smooth.
- Serve with baked chips, soft corn or flour tortillas, alongside meals or added to sandwiches as a spread! Will keep in the refrigerator for about 1-2 days. It will turn a darker in color as avocados tend to brown when they are exposed to oxygen to prolonged periods of time.
- Serving Size: 2 tbsp