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Kansas City, Mo. – October 1, 2010 – Grantham University and its partner site, MyBlueStarFlag.com, announced today that it will offer one lucky Blue Star Flag supporter a full scholarship to Grantham University. The recipient may use the scholarship, which covers tuition costs, required textbooks, software and fees, to earn an undergraduate or graduate degree at Grantham.
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The Blue Star Flag first appeared in 1917, when an Army captain who had two sons serving on the front line designed it as a tribute to their dedication and service. The flag quickly became the unofficial symbol of a child in the service. Today, families who have a loved one serving in the military display a blue star flag in the inside front window of their homes to show the family's pride in their loved one who is serving and to remind others that preserving America's freedom demands much.
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Bestselling author and former soldier, Steven McLaughlin, has just returned from his latest adventure – training with the sailing charity Turn to Starboard.
The charity, based in Falmouth,helps former veterans of foreign wars readjust to civilian life by teaching them sailing techniques and tutoring them in the ways of the sea.
A lot of former soldiers fall through the cracks when they return to civvy street and can have real problems adjusting, given the horrors they've seen and the traumas they've faced
Lytham-based Steven said: "A lot of former soldiers fall through the cracks when they return to civvy street and can have real problems adjusting, given the horrors they've seen and the traumas they've faced.
"They can also desperately miss the friendship of dear colleagues, some of whom are sadly no longer with us.
"Turn to Starboard helps them get over that by introducing them to the comradeship and purpose of the sea, which is a great leveller and gives men their pride and self-esteem back, literally healing old wounds."
Turn to Starboard offers free sailing courses and professional training to former soldiers who feel they'd benefit from time at sea, with the only proviso being they must have served on an operational tour.
The courses are taught by highly-qualified sailors and former soldiers who voluntarily give their time, teaching the Royal Yachting Association syllabus and sailing out of Falmouth Marina on a Bavaria 32ft cruising yacht.
Steven plans to continue sailing and strongly encourages any former soldiers to get in touch with Turn to Starboard and begin their own journeys at sea.
He added: "I did the Competent Crew course which involved living on board and sailing the yacht for an entire week at sea.
"The instructor was superb and the banter with the crew, who were all beginners like me, was even better. It felt like being in the army again and I can honestly say it was one of the best experiences I've ever had.
"The tranquillity of the sea is awe-inspiring and the boat is far more than a plastic tub – it feels primal and alive in the same way that an ice-capped mountain or horse is, and I can understand how sailors fall in love with their craft.
"I only spent a week on board but it felt like a month and saying goodbye to the boat was like seeing off a long lost friend. Sailing is very hard work; the wind burns your face, the sea-salt stings and the ropes singe your hands, but at the same time it's an intense and captivating experience that everyday life can't compete with.
"I'm proud to sail with and to support this amazing charity and I'd urge other soldiers to do the same."
In his previous life Steven, 44, was a nightclub doorman in Blackpool before becoming a member of the elite Royal Green Jackets and serving on military operations in Iraq and Northern Ireland. He has since written of his action-packed life in two successful memoirs, Clubland UK and Squaddie: A Soldier's Story, is regularly called on by broadcasters for expert opinion on military matters.


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The Duncan Demons soccer team is just one game into the season, but it can already say it's faced one of the year's biggest tests.
Matched against 2012 Class 6A state qualifier U.S Grant in its regular season opener, the Demons rose to the challenge, but fell victim to an agressive Generals offense in a 3-1 loss.
"We battled the whole time," Williams said. "Even though we gave up three goals, we still didn't stop fighting. That's a positive."
The Generals wasted little time getting on the scoreboard, taking a 1-0 lead in the 13th minute on a goal from Conrado Carpio.
After applying more pressure on the Duncan defense, U.S. Grant built its lead to 2-0 when Carpio created some separation between the defense and blasted a shot into the top left corner in the 49th minute.
"Last year around this time, they beat us 10-0 so tonight we wanted to go defensive and try to grind it out," Williams said. "We have to do a little more on finishing. We've done great moving the ball around but we're not getting enough shots off."
Duncan earned some momentum at the start of the second half when Justin McCall took the Demons' first possesion down the field and was fouled inside the penalty box in the half's opening minute. Josh Adamson made the Generals pay for the foul, placing the penalty kick into the top right corner to cut the lead in half.
Just four minutes later, the Generals reclaimed their two goal lead when Martin Mata took a pass from Carpio and squeezed in the team's third score into the bottom left corner.
"I thought we were going to come back and fight and then that last goal they scored kinda set us right where we were to start the second half," Williams said.
The second half was not without opportunities for Duncan, with Markwae Sanders and McCall putting the team in position to score more than once. Despite multiple breakaway chances, offsides fouls and missed shots prevented the team from notching its second goal.
The Demons will try to bounce back Tuesday when it faces Lawton on the road with kickoff set for 8 p.m. from Cameron Stadium.


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Utilizing low-pressure, low-energy membrane technology, Oasys Water is setting out to change the way people think about desalination. Competing technologies — including evaporation and reverse osmosis (RO) schemes — are inherently energy-intensive, and therefore cost-intensive. In this Water Online Radio interview, Lisa Marchewka, VP of strategy and marketing for Oasys, explains how forward osmosis shifts that paradigm.
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In order to get Elwell ready for winter wheat it has already had one dose of herbicides, two lots of cultivation, and one dose of organic (in the scientific, not Soil Association sense) manure. We are now halfway through.
The next step is to boost nutrient levels in the soil further with a fertiliser containing phosphate and potash. This will give the seedling wheat a strong headstart so it can better fight off attack by pests such as slugs. Both phosphate and potash are found in naturally occurring rock deposits which are mined and then purified to produce agricultural fertilisers.
This was then mixed into the soil by lightly cultivating it with a 'cultivator and press'. This implement consists of two parts – a spring tine harrow, which breaks up larger lumps, and a flexicoil roller, which is a sort of spring-shaped roller which gently presses the soil to squash the smaller lumps.
Having now carried out SIX separate processes, the field can finally be planted. Elwell was 'drilled', which means that the seed is poked into the soil rather than just being dropped on top of the ground. This gives it a better start and protects it against animals such as birds and mice that might eat the grain. You can learn more here. Seed was planted at 60kg/acre.
But that isn't the end of it! The final stage uses a 'heavy roller ('flat roller') to compact the soil. By the end the surface was really quite smooth.
This serves three purposes. It
- ensures that all the seeds are fully in contact with the soil so that they are able to absorb moisture and germinate.
- retains moisture by reducing the surface area of soil exposed to the air.
- deters slugs as the air spaces they would crawl about in are eliminated. This protects the sprouting seeds: otherwise slugs may eat them before the shoot even emerges from the soil.


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Performance Evaluation at Falcon Inc.
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Please refer to the attached case study and answer the following:
1. What are the costs associated with a bad PES system? Relate your answer to Jack Welch's quote from the book. "Winning".
2. How is the controllability principle being broken in the case? Is Tanaka a good/bad manager? Is Bogage a good manager?
3. What are the consequences and risks of using the PES just as they are presented in the case?
4. What do you propose to improve the PES at Falcon?
5. Please comment on the following quote: "We can have good a good subsidiary and a bad manager. Or we can have a bad subsidiary and a good manager. Each of these two combinations can occur at the same time and space".
Gujarathi, M. R., & Govindarajan, V. (2007). Falcon, Inc.: Performance evaluation of foreign subsidiaries. Issues in Accounting Education, 22(2), 233-245.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 10, 2019, 7:54 am ad1c9bdddf
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1. According to Jack Welch, an effective performance evaluation system relies not only on honest feedback but also on meaningful differentiation among employees (Vollmer, 2005). He implemented a forced ranking system at GE where employees were divided into three distinct segments: the top 20 percent of performers, the middle 70 percent and bottom 10 percent. He said that an organization's job is winning.
A poorly designed performance evaluation system results in many indirect costs like loss of productivity that happens when performance problems are not addressed properly. The receiving side of performance evaluation can get upset, angry, demoralized and de-motivated. Hence, a bad PES is worse than having no PES at all.
2. In appraising the performance of divisional management, no account should be taken of matters outside the division's control. However in practice the controllability principle is often ignored. As a result managers are held accountable for areas over which they have little or no control (Merchant, n.d). In ...
Solution Summary
The response discusses performance evaluation system as it relates to Falcon Inc.


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If you want to be inspired by beautiful images
Thursday, January 1, 2015
If you want to be inspired by beautiful images
7 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
Gorgeous projects, very autiful flowers. Welcome back to blog land. Have missed your blogs/photos. I don't Josue new year resolutions either, but, have goals set in my mind. Have a great year.
- January 1, 2015 at 11:19 AM
- Leeanne said...
No pressure my friend but I too have missed your blog posts! Oh to go to France! That would be amazing. Lovely stitching yumminess............and the garden is oh so delightful! Look forward to hearing more from you and the adventures the New Year will bring.
- January 1, 2015 at 6:34 PM
- Christine Barnsley said...
Hi Jenny! Have a great New Year. Your projects are beautiful and I can't wait to see what you have in store in 2015+
- January 1, 2015 at 11:56 PM
- shirley flavell said...
Hello Jenny, Happy New Year. It is great to see what you have been doing, it all looks wonderful. How marvellous to go to France, it wouldn't take much for me to be persuaded either. My son, DIL, and GS went there June last year and did a cycling trip around in the south. They loved it. This is the second time they had been to France. Best wishes and look forward to your next blog post Shirley
- January 2, 2015 at 11:06 AM
- Deb said...
Hi gorgeous Jenny, you certainly have had an extremely productive year last year. I love reading the updates on all of your stitching as it is always so beautiful and feminine. How wonderful to go on the trip you went on, such a dream of mine also. Your garden is looking beautiful and its such a time of serenity spending time in it. All the very best for 2015.
- January 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM
- kendi modaniz said...
çok güzel gerçekten
kadın giyim,elbise,abiye,kıyafet, tunik,elbise,
bayan ceket,takı aksesuar,kolye,otantik kolye,etek,sexi iç giyim,sexi çamaşır,
yüzük,fantezi iç çamaşır,
takı,gümüş küpe,günlük elbise,fantezi kıyafetler, gömlek,uzun elbise,
bayan ceket,takı aksesuar,kolye,otantik kolye,etek,uzun tunik,sexi kostüm,
yüzük,fantezi iç giyim,
- March 29, 2015 at 12:17 AM
- CAESAR SHOP said...
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Book Review - Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star
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I really like the sound of this book it sounds intriguing and a different read to my norm which is always a good thing to have a change. It is going on my to read list.ReplyDelete
I like stories about family, especially sisters. This one sounds good.ReplyDelete
I am the youngest of four girls and I love reading stories about siblings. This sounds intriguing:)ReplyDelete
This book sounds interesting :)ReplyDelete
Nancy is a new author to me and I'm looking forward to reading Sisters One, Two, Three.ReplyDelete
It sounds like they have a large complicated family.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the review!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2017 at 6:30 PM
This sounds exceptionally engaging!ReplyDelete
- Burma TurnerJanuary 25, 2017 at 7:03 PM
I have been hearing a lot of good things about this book. It sounds amazing!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great read.ReplyDelete
Sounds great. I've already read your GD review and I'm loving it.ReplyDelete
I suppose all families have secrets, but we seem to muddle through somehow.ReplyDelete
This sounds like an emotional read! I enjoy reading family sagas, so this one sounds like my cup of tea. :)ReplyDelete
I love sister stories, I am the youngest of three girls and my sisters and I are very close. Secrets, emotion, tension... it sounds like a winner!ReplyDelete
I love sister stories, I am the youngest of three girls and my sisters and I are very close. Secrets, emotion, tension... it sounds like a winner!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great read. Hearing great reviews, must add it to my listReplyDelete
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Stone Cold Touch by Jennifer L. Armentrout
So I kinda bought this book twice, hehe, on my kindle the day it came out and the real version. This is the second book in the Dark Elements Trilogy so if you want to find out more about this amazing series read my White Hot Kiss review, I wrote it in August.
yeah, I just posted a review on this one. And I uh, bought this one twice too. Alex, I've bought all of your TDM books twice, that's how much I love your books. In the Afterlight is the last book in the Darkest Minds Trilogy, click the Darkest Minds Category. so I got up at 4 in the morning to read this book after a late night studying, let's just keep it at I didn't get a lot of sleep for this book and I didn't play to well in Field Hockey that day.
I've already read this book and the review should be coming out tomorrow. I LOVED THIS BOOK. You have to read it, but more on that tomorrow. Here's the summery:
After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek's counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else's family drama.
Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain--people you care about leave without a backward glance. A football scholarship would finally give her the chance to leave. So she pours everything into winning a state championship, until her boyfriend and star quarterback betrays them all by joining their rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires trusting Derek—someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and win it all?
This is the last book I've already read (just finished it like a few hours ago), though, I'm about to start the next one I'm going to talk to you about. So Split Second is the second book in Kasie West's Pivot Point dualogy. It was really good. I love Kasie West. If you want to hear what I thought about Pivot Point, I read it in October (2014).
I bought a lot of contemporaries this time around.
Sixteen-year old Jackie Howard knows nothing about her new guardian Katherine Walter when she moves from New York to Colorado. After discovering that Katherine has twelve boys, Jackie fears that living in the Walter house isn't going to be easy. It's just icing on the cake that the boys look like Abercrombie models...
Yeah, she's the one who wrote Rebel Belle. I've heard good reviews for this book, so I'm excited to read it!
Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tag-along ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.
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No, just because it has magic doesn't mean it's Harry Potter, calm down.
IDK I just kept getting drawn back to this book at the bookstore so I bought it. I guess I'll see whether or not I like it, I think it has a romance in it ? But I'm looking forward to the characterization in this book, I hear it's good.
What does it mean to do wrong, when no one punishes you? A smart and unflinching look at friendship, the nature of entitlement, and growing up in the heartland.
Paige Sheridan has the perfect life. She's pretty, rich, and popular, and her spot on the homecoming court is practically guaranteed. But when a night of partying ends in an it-could-have-been-so-much worse crash, everything changes. Her best friends start ignoring her, her boyfriend grows cold and distant, and her once-adoring younger sister now views her with contempt. The only bright spot is her creative writing class, led by a charismatic new teacher who encourages students to be true to themselves. But who is Paige, if not the homecoming princess everyone expects her to be? In this arresting and witty debut, a girl who was once high-school royalty must face a truth that money and status can't fix, and choose between living the privileged life of a princess, or owning up to her mistakes and giving up everything she once held dear.
Yay! I've been wanting this book for a while now, so I finally bought it.
The Pre-Sloane Emily didn't go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn't do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell.
But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. No note. No calls. No texts. No Sloane. There's just a random to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-selected-definitely-bizarre-tasks that Emily would never try… unless they could lead back to her best friend.
Apple Picking at Night? Okay, easy enough.
Dance until Dawn? Sure. Why not?
Kiss a Stranger? Wait… what?
Getting through Sloane's list would mean a lot of firsts. But Emily has this whole unexpected summer ahead of her, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected) to check things off. Who knows what she'll find?
Go Skinny Dipping? Um…
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
I've heard so many great reviews about this book and I love To All The Boys I've Loved Before, so I figured I had to buy this book.
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer--they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.


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Today, Colleen Coover is the Eisner Award-winning creator best known for comics including "X-Men: First Class," "Gingerbread Girl" and the ongoing series "Bandette," written by Paul Tobin and drawn by Coover, which saw its third print collection published by Dark Horse Comics late last year. Coover's first comics project, though, was a little different. "Small Favors" was an adult comic originally published by Fantagraphics' Eros Press imprint from 2000-2003, and is now coming back to print in a deluxe hardcover edition -- titled "Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection" -- from Oni Press' Limerence Press imprint, the publisher's erotica and sex education line.
"Small Favors" tells the story of Annie and a spite named Nibbil, who's assigned to watch Annie by her conscience. Nibbil does not keep Annie's libido in check, and over the course of the series the book manages to maintain a tone that is fun, sex positive and playful -- and by the end, also surprisingly moving and romantic.
In a new interview with CBR, Coover makes it clear that was the goal from the beginning. In our conversation she talks about the challenges of making a comic without drama, why she ended "Small Favors" and why she views the book as her "grad school dissertation."
CBR: I had heard of "Small Favors" before this, but I never had a chance to read the series until this new edition. Was this your first comic?
Colleen Coover: It was my first major project. I had some stuff with Paul [Tobin] earlier. He was doing an independent comic for a small press called "Attitude Land" and that came out first through Caliber Press and then Slave Labor in the '90s. It was a kind of punk rock anthology book. Paul was writing everything and there were a couple artists that drew shorts for that, and I drew a few.
"Small Favors" was the first thing that I sat down and said, "I'm going to make a series and I'm going to work on it until there's something that can be published as a series of comics." I worked on it for a couple of years before I sent it to Fantagraphics. I had 100 pages of completed comics -- which I copied and sent in a package through the snail mail to Eros and Fantagraphics to see if they would take it -- and they did.
What was your initial goal?
I was working at a comics shop at the time in Iowa. I noticed that a lot of the adult comics were not very much fun to read. There was sex in them but they weren't very sexy -- a lot of times they would be very dark or humorless or just vulgar. I noticed that a lot of the women who came into the store, who weren't regulars after their pull boxes of "X-Men" and what have you, were coming in looking specifically for adult comics. Stuff that was more mature or grown up. There wasn't really anything there for a lady who just wants to read a sexy comic book and have fun reading something sexy, so I decided to create that comic.
I read very few Eros Comics, but I always had the impression that the line was heavily influenced by underground comics.
Exactly. It was more about counterculture or drug culture than it was about being sexy entertainment. And so "adult" in those comics seemed to be more about being stuff that's not for kids. It would include sex but it would also include violence and ultra-violence and drugs or whatever. A lot of them, frankly, were specifically for dudes. I wouldn't want to paint too broad a brush, but it was definitely heavy in that way.
So was the goal for you in part to make a book that you found sexy?
Yeah. As part of that, I made it a rule that everybody was going to have a good time. I figured that if everybody in the comic book was having a good time, then anybody reading the comic book was having a good time. I made a conscious decision that the most conflict anybody ever had was: "Are we going to have sex?" "I don't know... OK." [Laughs] That kept things fun.
On some level, making it fun doesn't seem like a very high bar and yet so few comics or other media do that.
If you set yourself a restriction like that then you have to find something to keep the readers' interest. That was the challenge. That's part of where the fantastical element comes in -- Nibel being a sprite, the size change, the queen of the conscience. Having a setup outside of the bedroom was important to give it some sort of context other than hey there's these people having sex. Otherwise why even make a comic? Why not just make sexy illustrations?
You managed to get that tone right and you took this idea very seriously.
I did. That was important to me because another thing that I sometimes would see in adult comics was people just saying, well, we've got sex in here, so I guess my job is done. This was my first big comic and I wasn't setting out to be a porno comics artist, I was setting out to be a professional comics artist. I was taking my craft really seriously. Another reason that I was doing an adult comic was it was my way of learning the discipline of creating a comic book over time. One of the hardest things you learn as a creator is starting a thing and not stopping. I figured that this wouldn't get boring. [Laughs] That worked out nicely. I churned out eight issues over the course of the series and that was a time when it was like, OK, I've done all the positions I can think of. [Laughs] I've achieved a mature romantic relationship with the main characters and now it's time to move on and do something else. That's when we started to do an all-ages comic, "Banana Sunday."
I think one of the tests of an artist as you said is creating a book, setting a schedule, working on the project over time.
That's why I finished 100 pages before I approached publishers. That's almost four issues worth of comics, and by the time the first issue was actually in shops I had even more pages done. That was a real conscious effort. I've always tried to be very up front about what my speed is. I've always felt that an important part of being a professional creator is being mindful of that. When something is going to print you have to make that deadline because there's other people involved -- printers and distributors and truck drivers -- who have to make a deadline, so you have to make your deadline.
And I would imagine that was part of the learning experience, that this is how fast you work, this is what you need as an artist.
Definitely. It's a hard job. [Laughs] Especially when you're working on your own and you're figuring out how to work on your own. I didn't go to school for this. I had to figure it out on my own. I had to figure out what worked for me. I didn't have computers at the time even so I was hand lettering and it was a real learning process. It was basically my grad school dissertation. It was the project where I learned how when bodies are interacting with each other, where do the legs go? [Laughs] A lot of the lessons that I learned in "Small Favors" about how arms and legs intertwine I applied later on when I was working at Marvel and drawing fights. It's a different context, but it's all the same stuff.
Looking over the comic again to prepare this new collection, what did you think?
Well, I thought some of the art was pretty old. [Laughs] Which is a problem that I think every comic artist runs across when they look at their older work. I also thought it was pretty good. I'm really pleased with the place where I started and where it wound up. I actually drew a new story that I wrote years ago and never drew it, but I dug it out and edited it and drew it for this collection. It was very odd revisiting some of these characters with my more mature art. It was interesting to see how they were still totally recognizable to me and totally familiar, but drawn in my current state of being.
Reading "Small Favors," it's possible to see your evolution as an artist.
When I talk about grad school dissertations, I think that was a pretty big leap from the very earliest stuff to the eighth issue. I learned how to refine and scale down and cartoon and act and not always refer to photo reference. I just learned a lot about storytelling and everything you need to tell a comic book story. I hope I still continue to learn. I've always felt that a comics artist should never feel complacent, that their work has reached its peak. Once you've reached your peak, that's when you start going downhill. I never want to do that.
One decision you made in the book was that you didn't have any guys appear in the book, not even in street scenes. Why?
That was inspired by an adult video that I saw in a store. There was a VHS tape of like "Hotel Lesbos Volume 2" -- something like that. Right on the cover it said, "The only man in the room... is you!" I was like, wait, me? [Laughs] I thought about how that really puts the reader or the viewer into a box that they don't necessarily fit into. If a lesbian woman wants to read "Small Favors," I don't want to make the assumption that the person reading is a dude. I feel like a lot of the adult comics at the time made the assumption that everybody who read these comics was a dude. I knew that wasn't true. By removing men from the comic I felt like I was removing the contextual male voyeurism of reading an adult comic book. I mean voyeurism is part of porn. If nobody's looking at your porn, then why are you doing it? [Laughs] I didn't want to make an assumption of who the voyeur was. I didn't want to exclude men. I don't think I ever did. I wanted to make it inclusive to all.
You made the point before that you didn't want to draw porn comics, you wanted to draw comics. Was that one reason why you ended the series?
It is somewhat. I talked to another adult comics artist years ago back in the early 2000s when I was most of the way through the series. He had been doing some adult comics under an assumed name and he said, after a while you just run out of stuff for them to do. [Laughs] I was like, well, I haven't got there yet, but I can see your point. I didn't want it to get stale. I didn't want to introduce drama to prevent it from getting stale. Also I wanted to work on stories that did have some conflict in them. The first short story that I did after "Small Favors" was for an all women anthology that Diana Schutz put together called "Sexy Chix." The story I did was called "The Boogeyman" about a woman who is basically in trauma after the death of her husband in a car crash that she survived. It was the saddest thing I could think of. It was about six pages long and I was bummed out by the end of it. At the same time, I thought, this is a really good palate chaser after all the sugar that I had with "Small Favors." A little bitter salt to chase that sweet flavor out of my mouth and be ready to do something else. I wanted to continue to challenge myself and I just didn't want to be in a pigeon hole.
You followed "Small Favors" by making "Banana Sunday" with Paul, and I would guess that making an all-ages book was a very deliberate decision.
Absolutely. We had been working on that for a few months before we showed it to Oni and got it approved. That was definitely something that we wanted for my career and also for his. That was the direction that I wanted to go. I like kids and I want them to read comics.
Reading "Small Favors" and then reading "Banana Sunday" and "Gingerbread Girl," it's very much of a piece with where your style was at the end of the series.
Once a reporter about the different styles that I use, but I always use the same style. It's just me. Sometimes I'll change the technique but it's the same style.
You've always had this cartoony style, though I dislike using that term, because of how people tend to use it.
Yeah, cartoony as a derogatory term has always been confusing to me. Cartoon just means that you're drawing not from life. If you're drawing you're usually looking at a model or a photograph and recreating what you see. With cartooning you're building a character. I generally prefer cartooning to drawing.
Have you always preferred cartooning to drawing?
I don't think so. In my comic book work I have, but in the early "Small Favors" I was still referring to photo reference to figure out how the body was put together. I think my big breakthrough was getting a copy of "Cartooning the Head and Figure" by Jack Hamm. It's one of these perennial art books and it's just got pages of how to cartoon feet or how to cartoon a fat guy or a lady. Referring to that taught me a lot more about how to build a figure than a lot of the life drawing that I had done before. They're both valuable, it's just that I rely on one more than the other.
Right now you're working on "Bandette" and is that it for the moment?
Right now my main comic work is "Bandette." This is artisanal comics so it comes out on the occasion that it comes out. I think we're making a graphic novel each year and a half? That's how often it comes out in print after it's serialized digitally on comixology. That's my full time gig and I occasionally take some commercial work on the side to pay some bills. That's really it. The art is all me, which takes time. I've always been sort of a control freak when it comes to lettering and coloring, so it's a very very inefficient production line of one.
Do you want to write more comics?
I enjoy writing short pieces. Which is one of the reasons why most of the "Small Favors" stories were short. It's not my main passion. Occasionally I'll think up a story. It usually springs fully formed out of my skull and then I'm compelled to make that story.
Right now I really like working with other writers. Particularly Paul. We occasionally co-write, which is nice. We prop each other up when we're co-writing, but writing for myself for the long term, I don't think I would do that. That would be a frustration rather than fun.
"Small Favors: The Definitive Girly Porno Collection" is scheduled for release on April 26 from Oni Press.


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Health insurance premiums rise in 2009
The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance rose modestly again this year, but researchers predict a return to bigger increases that may eventually produce crippling premiums if left unchecked.
Meanwhile, more workers with single coverage are facing high-deductible plans that make them pay $1,000 or more out of pocket before coverage starts, according to a report released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, a nonprofit research organization affiliated with the American Hospital Association.
The average annual premium -- the amount charged for a fully insured policy -- rose 5 percent for the third straight year to surpass $13,000 for employer-sponsored family health coverage.
Employers picked up about 74 percent of that cost, while workers paid the rest. Single coverage remained relatively flat at an average of $4,824, with employers paying 84 percent.
The 2009 increases represent much smaller growth than just a few years ago. Premiums increased anywhere from 10 percent to 13 percent from 2000 to 2004.
But the 2009 numbers still outpaced inflation, which actually fell less than 1 percent, and Kaiser Chief Executive Officer Drew Altman said the slower growth likely will not last.
"We've historically seen these peaks and valleys before, and we always have a bounce-back effect," he said.


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Is it OK/advisable to run both IIS6 and Apache on the same box in a live environment? Our developers want to use our live web server to install SVN using apache and I'm not to happy about it.
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Is it OK/advisable to run both IIS6 and Apache on the same box in a live environment? Our developers want to use our live web server to install SVN using apache and I'm not to happy about it.
It's certainly possible; we do it on a couple of our dev boxes; as long as you can manage two sets of ports (if you don't have a separate interface for each service to bind to) and keep them both secure, there's no practical reason why not.
I'm more troubled by the fact that it looks like you're going to have a copy of your SVN repository on your production webserver when you finish, meaning that anyone who manages to compromise either IIS or Apache could potentially access it all.
In my experience, giving developers installation rights on your boxes is a bad idea - I've personally seen one of our servers left compromise-able by a badly-secured, out-of-date install of PHPMyAdmin that nobody told me about.
We do it and haven't run into any problems. Obviously they can't both use port 80 so you have to move one of them to a different port.
I'll add to what the others have said by saying that in a dev environment it's absolutely fine - just bind IIS and Apache to different ports. (In fact, the installer for Visual SVN Server doesn't use port 80 or 443 by default IIRC.) Just view them as two completely separate bits of software, just because they both happen to be HTTP servers doesn't mean there will be any kind of "conflict".
However like the others, I would not recommend putting source code on your live web server for security reasons (namely IIS or an app running on it being compromised)
I agree about not storing source code on a public live server, but nevertheless, if you want to run both servers on port 80:
When configuring both IIS and Apache to run on port 80 using different IP addresses, then see Setting metabase property DisableSocketPooling has no effect if your IIS 6.0 simply claims all available IP addresses. Adobe has some notes on this in How to configure Breeze and IIS to use port 80 on separate IP Addresses.
To have both IIS and Tomcat (the Java container; not Apache HTTP Server) available on port 80 on the same IP address (but using different domains, or different paths within the same domain), I've set up quite a few instances of Tomcat sitting behind IIS, using the ISAPI IIS-Tomcat Redirector. I can imagine something simular would be available for IIS and any other HTTP server. However, I doubt you want to do this to combine a production server with a SVN server.


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Solo Exhibitions
2018, Still, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto ON
2018, Whatever Form This Moment Takes, solo exhibition, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal QC
2017, A Certain Silence, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto ON
2016, Impermanent Horizon, solo exhibition, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal QC
2014, Afterimage, solo exhibition, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal QC
2013, Untitled (Weights and Measures, from the ongoing series...), solo exhibition, Artspace, Peterborough ON
2012, Untitled Installation ((I see your point, and I understand your perspective...) solo exhibition, Convenience Gallery, Toronto ON
2012, Still, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal QC
2011, One and Two, solo exhibition curated by Anne-Marie Ninacs, Galerie B-312, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montreal QC
2010, Portrait Study, Video Installations by Jim Verburg, Nova Scena, Prague National Theatre, Mezipatra Festival, Prague
2009, For a Relationship, solo installation, widmertheodoridis, Zurich Switzerland
Art Fairs (solo and group exhibitions)
2018, Untitled Miami, Jim Verburg with Laura Moore (Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto), Miami
2018, Expo Chicago, Jim Verburg with Lili Huston-Herterich (Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto), Chicago
2017, Art Toronto (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal and Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto), Toronto
2016, Untitled Miami (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Miami FL Art Toronto (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Miami
2015, Texas Contemporary Art Fair , solo booth/exhibition Light Becomes Form, The Horizon Rests into View, (Galerie Nicolas Robert), Houston
2015, VOLTA NY, solo booth/exhibition What is missing / What is seen, (widmertheodoridis, Zurich), New York City
2015, Feature (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Toronto ON
2014, Papier (Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal), Montreal
2013, Art Basel Miami (Art Metropole, Toronto), Miami FL
2009, Hot Art Fair Basel (widmertheodoridis, Zurich), Basel Switzerland
Special Projects / Commissions
2018, Upcoming book/multiple project and exhibition, hosted by Fw: Photography, Gallery TBA, Amsterdam NL
2018, The shape this takes to get to that, Public Art Installation, Ottawa ON
2016, Shape and Light #1 (from the ongoing series reflected/repeated), a commissioned choreographed work for the Toronto Dance Theatre, part of the program Singular Bodies, Performed by Justin de Luna, Toronto ON
2015, A New Relationship Between Reflective Sides, book launch and signing, MoMA Ps1, New York City
2013, 0/ Divided/Defined, Weights, Measures, and Emotional Geometry, book launch and exhibition, Art Metropole, Toronto ON
2012, Similtudes/Similarities, (influences of Jim Verburg) featured screening curated by Karl-Gilbert Murray, International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal QC
Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank Art Collection (Toronto), Hudson's Bay Art Collection (New York City), Hydro Quebec Art Collection (Montreal), Various private and corporate collections in New York City, Austin, Houston, Zurich, Toronto and Montreal.
Selected Group Exhibitions
A Present Abstract, curated by Alex Bowron, Cydonia Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
Obsolescence, Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary AB
For you / And me, curated by Ashleigh Bartlett, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary AB
Sans Titre, Battat Contemporary, Montreal QC
Forme / Édition / Expérimentation, Colectif Blanc, Montreal, Gatineau and Toronto
Chroma, Inman Gallery, Houston TX
The Extent of What's Already There, visiting artists exhibition: Sasha Pierce and Jim Verburg, Open Studio, Toronto ON
Far Away So Close, curated by Kimberly Phillips, Access Gallery, Vancouver BC
Primeiro Estudo: Sobre Amor curated by Bernardo Mosqueira, Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), curated by Micah Lexier, The Power Plant, Toronto ON
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, curated by Jon Davies, Oakville Galleries, Oakville ON
Scenes from Here, with Eamon Mac Mahon, curated by Claire Sykes. Feature Exhibition, Contact Festival, Toronto ON
So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up curated by JJ Kegan McFadden, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg MB
Domestic Queens, curated by Evergon, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA). Concordia University, Montreal QC
Long Live McLaren: Contemporary Canadian Queer Animation, curated by Blaine Allan, Grand Theatre, Kingston ON
That's So Gay, curated by Sholem Krishtalka, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON
Four Hikes, curated by Silke Otto Knapp, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff AB
Works on Paper, with Mark Clintberg, Jeff Kulak, and Ryan Crouchman, Papeterie Nota Bene, Montreal QC STEM Cell: Experimental Docs 1:
Variations on the Home Movie, Metro Cinema, Edmonton AB IM/POSSIBLE WORLDS, curated by Jason St-Laurent, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton NB
PROOF 16, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto ON
11th Annual FairyTales International Queer Diversity Film Festival, Calgary AB
Mixed Up in Philly, The Flickering Light Film Series, Philadelphia PA, USA
Reel 2 Real International Film Festival, Vancouver BC
Soup and Screen, Articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal QC
Mein schwules Auge 5, Werkstattgalerie, Berlin Germany
MIX 21 NYC, New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York NY
Queersicht Film Festival, Bern Switzerland
Mix Brasil, 14th Festival da Diversidade Sexual, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Pink Screens Film Festival, Brussels Belgium
South by Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Albuquerque and Santa Fe New Mexico, USA
LGBT Short Film Festival, Univeristy of Wilwaukee Film Department, Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA
International Competition, Queer Lisboa 12 Film Festival, Lisbon Portugal
Recovering Agnostic, curated by Mark Clintberg, Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery, Montreal QC
Make Out, curated by Malin Arnell, Studio 44, Stockholm Sweden
Shout Out, curated by Erik Martinson, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON
Outfest, Los Angeles International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Los Angeles CA
Frameline, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco CA
Fully Flared Films, International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Vtape Screening, Oberhausen, 54th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
All The Reel Boys, NewFest 2008, New York LGBT Film Festival, New York NY
Montreal mon amour, curated by Jason St Laurent, Inside Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto ON
Verzaubert 17, Interationales Queer Filmfestival, Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne and Berlin, Germany
Voice Over, Da Sodoma a Hollywood 23, Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino, Italy
2014, Visiting Artist Residency, Open Studio, Toronto ON
2010, Figure in a Mountain Landscape (Reprise), Residency with Silke Otto-Knapp, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff AB
2009, Visiting Artist Residency, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto ON
2008, Hothouse 5, Production Residency, National Film Board of Canada (NFB/ONF), Montreal QC
Grants and Awards
2017, Chalmers Fellowship Research Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2015, Research and Creation Grant to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2014, National / International Residency Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2012, Research and Creation Grant to Visual Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2011, Dazibao Award, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011, Montreal QC
2010, Research and Creation Grant to Media Artists, Canada Council for the Arts
2009, Best Short Film, Audience Award, 11th Annual FairyTales International Queer Diversity Film Festival, Calgary AB
2008, Short listed for the Iris Prize for Short Film, Cardiff, Wales UK
2008, Colin Campbell Award, Best Canadian Short Film, Jury Prize, Inside Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto ON
Formal Education
2008, Bachelor of Fine Arts (with Distinction), Major in Photography, Concordia University, Montreal QC
1999, Independent Studies, Sociology/Religious Studies, Queens University, Kingston ON
Publications, Reviews, and Articles
Review, A Certain Silence, Jim Verburg at Zalucky Contemporary. Alex Bowron, Esse Magazine, May 2017
Quand la peinture se donne des allures de photo, Les oeuvres monochromes de Jim Verburg évoquent les anciens procédés photographiques. (Painting in the guise of photography: Jim Verburg's monochrome works evoke old photographic processes), Nicolas Mavrikakis, 17 septembre 2016, Le Devoir, Montreal
Singular Bodies, Pairing visual artists and dancers delivers mixed results in Toronto Dance Theatre's Singular Bodies, Kathleen Smith, NOW Toronto, April 20, 2016
Singular Bodies beautifully exploits the overlap between dance and visual effect, Martha Schabas. The Globe and Mail, April 15, 2016
A New Relationship Between Reflective Sides, Jim Verburg, 2015, Sternthal Books, Montreal, ISBN 978-0-9921337-5-7 including the text Light Becomes Form: The Work of Jim Verburg by Alex Bowron
Canadian Highlights at New York's Art Fairs, Bill Clarke, Canadian Art Magazine online, March 12, 2015
2014 Far Away So Close Part 1, 2014, Exhibition Catalogue, Access Gallery Vancouver, 71 pages, Edition of 75, ISBN 978-0-9866688-5-2
Hidden Image: A Panel Discussion on Photography and Abstraction, with Jim Verburg, Sheree Hovsepian, Jerome Nadeau, moderated by Bill Clarke and organized by G44 for CONTACT 2014, The Drake, Toronto ON
Jim Verburg at Galerie Nicolas Robert, review by Susannah Wesley on Akimblog. April 22, 2014, Montreal QC http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=852 2013 More Than Two (Let It Make Itself), Micah Lexier, The Power Plant, 2013, Toronto ON ISBN: 978-1-894212-38-0
O/ Divided/Defined, Weights, Measures and Emotional Geometry, Jim Verburg, 2013, Dazibao, Montreal QC, 102 pages, colour offset, hard cover, ISBN 978-2-922135-41-1
A Numbers Game, Pamala Meredith, IN Toronto Magazine, p 30-31, September 2013
Overlaps and Meeting Places:The Work of Jim Verburg, Hilton Bertalan, p51-57 Hello Mr. Issue One, 2013, New York City, ISSN 2201- 8220. 2012 Five Notes: CONTACT Photography Festival Favourites, Jim Verburg at Circuit Gallery/Gallery 345, Magenta Magazine Online
Review, Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Various Locations, Tess Edmonson, Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2012, p 134
So Many Letdowns Before We Get Up, JJ Kegan McFadden, chapter in Haven't We Been Here Before, p 45-48, 56, 2011/2012 Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, ISBN:978-0-9697675-7-2
Haven't We Been Here Before? Mary Reid, Review, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, June 9- July 23, 2011,
C Magazine 112, International Contemporary Art, Winter 201, p 54-55, ISSN 1480-5472
The Domestic Queens Project, Erin Silver, Review, C Magazine III, International Contemporary Art, Autumn 2011, p 39-41, ISSN 1480-5472
Wanting to See, Anne-Marie Ninacs, chapter in Lucidity. Inward Views, Edited by Anne-Marie Ninacs, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2011, Pages 64-71, 199, 269 and 331, ISBN 978-2-9808020-3-4
The Domestic Queens Project , Mark Clintberg, Catalogue, Pages 20-23, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal QC, ISBN 978-0-9868715-0-4
That's So Gay! The Review by Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City, JULY 13, 2010, http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/07/13/thats-so-gay-the-review/
Frottage: Love affairs in Photography (Part 2), Mark Clintberg, Blackflash Magazine, Art Photography New Media, Summer 2010, p 14-15, ISSN 0826-3922
Relevant Work Experience
2007-08 Co Director Visual Arts (VAV) Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2006-07 Co Producer and Artistic Director, Art Matters Festival, Concorida University, Montreal QC
2001–03 Director of Programming, Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival, Kingston ON
2005–10 Graphic Designer, Freelance, Montreal QC, Toronto ON
2003–10 Photographer, Freelance, Montreal QC, Toronto ON
2003 Community Art Facilitator, Circulation, Art in the Streets Project, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston ON


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Sunny Afternoon
Sunny Afternoon is a hit musical that first graced the stage on 1 May 2014 at the Hampstead Theatre. The musical includes lyrics and music from Ray Davies and is based off of a book by Joe Penhall. The Kinks, an English rock band, is the basis for the play.
Songs from The Kinks are featured in the musical with the main hits, including: "Lola" and "You Really Got Me." The Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" is also a part of the musical and is the basis for the musical's name.
The musical is set in a time of social and political change in the 60s. The music featured has a lot of experimentation in the sound, with the initial failure of the ground as well as major success after Dave Davies' older brother wrote "You Really Got Me."
The song boosted the band's popularity, shooting them to the top of the UK charts.
Success quickly followed for The Kinks, with several of their next releases being major hits. The musical encompasses the life and passion of the band and even goes into intimate details of their lives. There is a bit of sibling rivalry, which is perfectly portrayed in the musical.
There is also the death of the brothers' sister and the heartache that follows a doomed marriage.
The musical is broken down into two main Acts.
The production has done very well with the honor of being awarded the 2015 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Several of the show's actors also won awards during the 2015 production. The musical also won the Outstanding Achievement in Music award.
The show's theatre performance has drawn interest for a movie adaptation. The screenplay is slated to be written by Joe Penhall, while Dexter Fletcher is being tapped as the movie's director.
Musical genius at its best, fans of The Kinks will discover a rich history behind the band. You'll learn how the band found their iconic sound. A live performance is also demonstrated. The band's name also is explained in the show, with fans learning every intricate detail behind the rise of The Kinks.
You'll even uncover what happened during the band's American tour.
And the musical also goes into the band's comeback that helped solidify their name in music history. Sunny Afternoon is as much of a musical as it is a story of passion, music and the will of the band to become music icons no matter the struggles.


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Smoked garlic on pizza
Smoked and slow grilled garlic atop smoked and grilled tomato, sun dried tomato, and home smoked mozzarella on top of pizza.
a little olive oil drizzle, thick ground black pepper and black sea salt.
Garlic top chopped off, slow grilled with hickory and cedar chips to accentuate taste and slow cook. Result: a sweet and yet smokey pungent garlic taste.
He also had this comment about it:
I find every preparation garlic develops a different taste - this one being complex and yet retaining the best qualities of garlic.
I didn't know how to smoke garlic, so I asked him, here is his reply:
Every way of cooking and preparing garlic will yield different results, different flavors, whether pungent, sweet, etc. Grilling, baking, smoking, etc. will bring out more of a sweet taste and less of a strong pungent garlic taste like with fresh garlic.
To smoke - chop up finely and put into a rolling paper. Light. Just kidding.
Chop top off of entire clove - so that the individual cloves are exposed. Put onto wood plank so that garlic is not exposed directly to flames or grate of the grill - unless you want to dramatically reduce cooking time and lessen smokey flavor.
For even greater smokey flavor put wood chips, pine cones, etc. under grate, wood plank on top of grate and then place garlic on top of wood plank.
I prepare the smoked tomatoes and artichoke the same way.
Since garlic will have shrunk from cooking, just peel off outer layers to expose garlic, then place on pizza and cook - as in photo - or spread on bread or mash and combine with olive oil.
Haha, funny and delicious.
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California Sushi Rolls
Making sushi is a lot easier that it seems. The real key to well-presented sushi is having good utensils, such as a sushi mat and a sharp knife. Each ingredient can be prepped in advance and assembled when you're ready to serve, and when you make it at home, it's a fraction of the cost!
Though there are many wonderful forms of traditional makizushi, or rolled sushi, feel free to experiment with the ingredients you have on hand. I got my inspiration for the sushi pictured above from ingredients native to California; I used Hass avocados, goat cheese and baby Persian cucumbers. I wrapped these ingredients in the traditional combination of nori sheets and Japanese rice.
In standard California roll fashion, the rice is on the outside of the nori. If you've ever wondered why this is the case, the story goes that Japanese immigrants who came to the US turned the sushi inside out to hide the nori from culinarily unadventurous Americans. I don't know if that's true, but it's the story a sushi chef told me once. It certainly is a great tale!
I served the sushi rolls with wasabi paste, homemade pickled ginger and soy sauce. It may seem daunting, but a sushi dinner is really as easy as 1-2-3.
Yields: 40 sushi rolls2-2/3 cups Japanese short-grained sushi rice
2-3/4 cups water, cold
3-½ tablespoons rice vinegar (or any white vinegar)
1-½ teaspoons light sesame oil (optional)
2-½ tablespoons superfine sugar (or granulated sugar)
1-½ teaspoons salt
11 small toasted nori sheets, 1 for rice seasoning
2 Hass avocados
juice of a lemon
3 Persian cucumbers, seeded and cut into matchsticks
1 (3-ounce) package goat cheese, cold
1-½ teaspoons sesame seeds
3 tablespoons wasabi paste, ready-made
2 cups ponzu soy sauce
¼ cup pickled ginger
6 Romaine lettuce leaves, large center vein removed, for garnish
Making furikake rice seasoning:
In a wok, dry toast the sesame seeds for about 1-2 minutes. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
Finely chop one small nori sheet.
In a bowl, combine the chopped nori, salt, sugar, and sesame seeds. Toss well.
Cooking sushi rice:
Wash and rinse the jasmine rice thoroughly in several water baths. Unlike basmati rice, no soaking time is needed. Drain as much water as possible.
I placed the rice in a rice cooker with water and waited for about 20 minutes. You could also cook the rice on the stove. Just follow the instructions on the package or use the same procedure as for cooking jasmine rice.
Once the rice is cooked, sprinkle with rice vinegar and light sesame oil (if used). Using chopsticks, gently stir the rice without breaking the grains of rice. Allow to cool to room temperature.
Cut the goat cheese into long strips.
Peel the avocados, pit them and cut into long strips. Drizzle them with lemon juice to avoid oxidation.
On a large platter, arrange the cucumbers, avocados, goat cheese and 5 handfuls of rice.
Assembly time:
Line 2 sushi mats with plastic-wrap on both sides.
Place one small nori sheet on one mat. Sprinkle with furikake seasoning. Wet your hands with warm water and take one handful of rice. Divide it in half. Put one half in the nori sheet and spread it evenly., stopping ½-inch before the end of the rectangle. Cover with the other sushi mat. Gently press so the rice adheres to the nori sheet. Flip the whole thing over so the rice is facing down over the mat.
Remove the mat on top. Place long strips of avocado, the cucumber matchsticks and goat cheese in the center of the nori sheet. Using the sushi mat as a guide, tightly and slowly roll the sushi mat away from you until the rice meets the other end of the rice to seal the sushi. Press gently with both your hands for about 10 seconds. Remove the rolled sushi and transfer to a cutting board, seam side down. Dip a very sharp kitchen knife in hot water, wipe it clean. Cut the California roll in half, then cut each half in half one more time. You'll obtain 4 pieces. Repeat the same procedure with the 9 remaining nori sheets, wiping the knife clean after slicing each roll.
Line a large platter with the lettuce leaves. Place the sushi rolls on the lettuce. Garnish with rolled pickled ginger on one side of the platter and wasabi paste on the other side.
Serve immediately with ponzu soy sauce on the side.
Finish the meal with an avocado shake.
I added smoked salmon for the non-vegetarians in the house; it was absolutely delicious. You could also add strips of pan-fried of tofu if you like, but I thought the use of goat cheese was sufficient.
If the flavor or goat cheese is too strong for your taste, simply substitute cream cheese.
For flavor reasons, our family prefers the (seaweed) nori sheets sold in small packages. They're small nori sheets, sold in (6 x 0.17-ounce) packages. Look for the Wang brand. We always have toasted nori sheets in the pantry. It's a great source of protein and iron. The girls love munching on it as a snack.
I prefer using superfine sugar, also known as caster sugar. It is a fine-grained sugar and it dissolves more quickly than regular granulated sugar.
Making pickled ginger is very easy and inexpensive.
You can find all the ingredients listed above in Korean / Japanese markets.Published By: on February 24, 2010.


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Oracle Buys Taleo for $1.9 Billion, Will Build HR Tool
Oracle on Thursday announced that it will acquire cloud-based talent management company Taleo Corporation for $1.9 billion.
Taleo's technology is designed to help companies attract, develop, motivate, and retain human capital, and boost growth.
"Together, Oracle and Taleo expect to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee careers," Oracle said in a statement. "The combination is expected to empower employees and managers to effectively manage careers throughout their entire employment, enable organizations to retain talent and optimize costs, and improve the employee experience through faster on boarding and better collaboration with team members via social media."
The acquisition is set to be finalized this summer, and until it closes, Taleo and Oracle will continue as separate entities.
"Human capital management has become a strategic initiative for organizations," said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of Oracle Development. "Taleo's industry leading talent management cloud is an important addition to the Oracle Public Cloud."
This follows Oracle competitor SAP AG's December announcement that it will acquire human-resources software company SuccessFactors Inc for $3.4 billion, in order to help it delve into the cloud-computing industry, Reuters said.
Both companies began making acquisitions last year to ramp up their offerings in cloud computing, strategies Reuters said are an effort to compete with Salesforce.com.
For more on Oracle, see PCMag's Q&A with the Oracle Racing Team and the slideshow below.
For more from Leslie, follow her on Twitter @LesHorn.


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|by Giuseppe Provenzano*
|EPOS Insights
After the ending of the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli confrontation, few would have predicted that the border between Lebanon and Israel could have become one of the quietest fronts in the area, but against commonly held fears, it did. This outcome cannot be attributed merely to the pragmatic way the UNIFIL operation is run, but relies mainly on a rather unstable equilibrium that has been reached between the two hostile parties, an equilibrium constantly deteriorating and readjusting through crisis, like the one that unfolded between January and February in the Occupied Golan Heights.
This unlikely loose ceasefire rests on a deterrence effect, which should be rather unlikely according to classical political analysis as it is expected to originate from rational actors like states, while it is rarer for it to stick when the other side is not a formal government but a religious party-cum-militia.
I argue that certain indigenous and exogenous conditions have rendered Hezbollah a very rational and politically disingenuous actor capable of self-restraint and long-term strategies. Such features are not to be lost to regional analysis, as any effort to build a working path to peace in the Levant will have to take into account all the players of a certain political (and military) weight as pragmatically as possible.
In the political discourse, Hezbollahâs leader Nasrallah is able to differentiate discourses and tools for mobilization. Ethnicity and religious affiliation play obviously the greatest role for rallying core constituencies to Hezbollahâs banner, but the official discourse is not limited to that. On the contrary, it is sometimes downplayed in order to underline the national, Muslim and solidarity (towards Palestine) arguments. Their national formula of âthe people, the army, the resistanceâ does not even compute the Islamic dimension of the latter. Even the current (and dead-end according to many) dialog with the Future movement, a leading Christian group, accounts for a certain ability to reach out of merely Islamic boundaries. The existence itself of Hezbollah in political coalitions in Lebanon further accounts for this ability.
The mere structure of Hezbollah frustrates in a certain sense the ability of the Lebanese state to strengthen itself and become the main decisive actor inside its own borders as it fails the Weberian rule of monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force. Being both posed as a representative of Lebanese resistance against foreign threats and a partisan contestant in the political arena, the Party of God is increasingly becoming the Kingmaker in Lebanon, especially since the topmost governmental institution is constitutionally assigned to the divided Christian demographic. The internal political strife, the external military challenges and the constant looming fear of reignition of the devastating civil war is exposing Hezbollah to a huge number of contrasting challenges that could make or break the group.
I argue that the centrality of the leadership in the organization, the systemic constraints, the homogeneity of its constituencies contrasted by hostile âothersâ and specific historical features and contemporary innovations in Shiâa Islam have given the leadership significant leeway that have fostered flexibility and pragmatism as long as they didnât endanger the groupâs goals. This casuistic approach, essentially adopting a day to day approach to events and decisions according to its own values and goals, has made Hezbollah able to survive in the constant turmoil of the region while avoiding a complete meltdown of the Lebanese state and, hopefully, a new plunge into violence.
The best exemplification of this stance is the de facto loose stabilization of the south border. By allowing UNIFIL to operate in Lebanon as a buffer force and by abiding to unwritten rules with Israel, Hezbollah has avoided a new war after 2006, because both sides came to realize that it would have meant a high price to pay for both of them.
By minding its position as a Shiâa minority in a predominant Sunni region, the group has had many reason for trying to appeal to a wider Islamic identity postured on solidarity with Palestine and unity against terrorists, which are, according to Nasrallah, mainly Jabhat al-Nusra and Daâesh (ISIS). The group leader has recently called for all regional states to unite against them in Syria, trying to use the common cause against the âtakfiriâ forces (i.e. Muslims accused of apostasy by other Muslims) in the same way he has used Israel as a common cause for all Muslims.
A focal point in how Hezbollah is changing at the regional level is that these new enemy forces are not winning many sympathies for them among the Arab public, or at least not as many Israel did. By choosing to (and being forced to, pragmatically speaking) take sides in the Syrian civil war and by fighting Islamist forces, Hezbollah is increasingly being seen as a partisan actor and it has dissipated its political capital among Sunni forces that have approved of its resistance against Israel in 2006. While violence is slowly trickling down in Lebanon as movement of people in and out of Syria brings back home resentment among the different sects, the dialogue with the Future movement can be seen as a very rational way to try and avoid contamination of violence.
As comparatively small force, even if effective and properly trained, as it is the case for Hezbollah, this involvement could actually be its undoing. More than 5,000 of its fighters are reportedly fighting in Syria, and are especially active in the Golan front. On this regard, we can interpret the strong Shebaa Farms counterattack to Israel (after the killing of an Iranian general and some Lebanese fighters) as a way of expressing that it still retains its offensive capabilities against the Jewish state, even if it is currently occupied on an additional front.
Some worrisome trends seems to be mounting and putting Hezbollah in an increasingly dire environment: a small trickle of violence among the fault lines between Shiâa and Sunni areas in Lebanon, the effort led by Saudi Arabia to create an anti-Iranian coalition and its effect on the Syrian civil war and the possibility of an overreaction by Israel to a possibly unified front from the Golan to the Mediterranean sea.
It remains to be seen if the group will be able to jostle between its dues with the Axis of Resistance and its strategic geopolitical imperatives, and the need for maintaining peace and stability in Lebanon. If the scenario gets too ugly, Hezbollah could actually succumb to it, especially given the relatively small number of its main constituencies (Shiâa Arabs in Lebanon), but the pragmatic and evolving approach displayed by the group in the recent years hints that this war might not be the end for the party-cum-militia of God. It will just be a turning point, for better or for worse.
*Giuseppe Provenzano has an MA in International Relations of Asia and Africa and is currently an MA student of the School of Government at LUISS University. He is an expert in MENA affairs and "Shia Crescent" issues. Additionally, he manages a news page on Facebook, named Focus MiddleEast
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article are the authorâs own and do not necessarily reflect EPOS WorldViewâs


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Cat-Opoly Is Basically Monopoly For Cat People
Cat-Opoly is Monopoly for cat lovers. You can buy the game on Amazon for just $19. So! Uh, a cat version of Monopoly… Have we gone too far? Not at all, actually! That was a trick question. TBH, I don't think we've gone far enough.


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Any person attending the event who is under the age of 18 MUST get a parent or guardian to sign on their behalf.
I wish to attend and participate in a event organised by TeamGreen Airsoft and sign this form to confirm that I have read the above mentioned documents and that I FULLY understand the following;
1) The games can be both physically and mentally intense and a certain degree of physical fitness may be required to obtain the best experience. There may also be LOUD BANGS & SMOKE during game play.
2) I agree to wear any safety clothing provided by TeamGreen Airsoft, in particular FULL FACE protection masks, which I will wear and
ONLY REMOVE when instructed that it is SAFE to do so.
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