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What: The Italian ice
Where: Vinny's Italian Ice and Frozen Custard, 190 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs
How much: $7 as shown
Contact: 760-904-4625; vinnysitalianice.com
Why: It's a tasty, cooling treat.
By this time of year, even the heartiest desert-dwellers are simply done with the oppressive heat.
We all have our tricks for dealing with the 110-degree-plus temps, ranging from 24-hour pool access to constant near-nudity to diets consisting of nothing but cold alcoholic beverages. Well, my friends, I recently discovered another helpful tool in the battle with the summer sizzle: the Italian ice at Vinny's, in downtown Palm Springs.
Italian ice is apparently more of an East Coast thing—I haven't lived farther east than Tucson, Ariz., so I wouldn't know—that's akin to sorbet, in that it doesn't contain any milk, dairy or egg. As a result, it's less creamy, but healthier—and it's really, really cold.
On a recent trip to Vinny's—which also serves house-made custard and gelato, for those of you who like your cold treats with a little more heft—I got a medium-sized cup, which included three scoops. I decided to mix it up with three decidedly different flavors: vanilla, mango and pecan pie. All three scoops were delicious and oh-so-refreshing; the tastiest was the mango, although the pecan pie was the most interesting.
If I have one complaint … it's that Vinny's offerings are rather pricey. I get it; it takes time and money to take quality ingredients and turn them into great, house-made products; it also costs money to pay for rent, employees, air conditioning, etc. However, I also understand that when cash is tight, it might make more sense to go to the store and spend $3 to $5 on a quart and a half of ice cream.
When money's not an issue, and the heat is an issue, I can promise you: I'll be at Vinny's enjoying some cold, delicious Italian ice.
What: Ice cream (specifically, the cookies and kreem)
Where: Kreem, 170 E. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs
How much: $6 for two scoops, as shown
Contact: 760-699-8129; www.ilovekreem.com
Why: It's revelatory … but your favorite flavor may not always be available.
There's something to be said for mass-produced products.
Take, for example, a Snickers bar. If I want a Snickers bar—pretty much any time day or night, and pretty much anywhere in the world—I can get a Snickers bar. It's that simple.
Alas, the same cannot be said for the cookies and kreem ice cream at Kreem.
When I made my inaugural visit to the newish "artisanal ice cream and coffee shop"—located in the part of Palm Springs where Palm Canyon Drive changes from a north-south thoroughfare into an east-west road—I ordered the cookies and kreem ice cream. It beat out flavors including strawberry rose, lavender coffee, vegan turmeric ginger and vegan ube … and it was revelatory. It got better with each passing bite, and when I was finished, I had to talk myself out of ordering more.
Flash forward to several days later, when I decided to take an ice cream break from work. I hopped in the car and made the short trek to Kreem, with my mouth watering the entire way.
I walked in, opened my mouth to put in my order … and then realized cookies and kreem was not on the menu anymore. You see, all of Kreem's ice creams are made fresh in-house, and the cookies and kreem had sold out.
The kicker: I was told more had just been made … but it had not yet set, and was therefore not ready to be served.
So I ordered the chocolate chip ice cream. It's what's shown in the picture above. It was very good. But it was not the cookies and kreem I so deeply desired.
Damn you, artisanal yumminess! Damn you!
We All Scream: Local Culinary Guru Les Starks' New Book Features Recipes for What He Says Is Truly Healthy Ice CreamSeptember 26 2017
Have you ever tried starting your day with ice cream instead of coffee? I have … many times. The cold treat wakes me up, and its sugar gets me going. Hallelujah!
But how about starting your day with ice cream made without sugar—ice cream which tastes good while being good for you? Yeah, sure. We've heard that empty promise before.
However, local culinary guru Les Starks insists the promise is not empty.
Starks—who calls Snow Creek (located off Highway 111, 13 miles west of downtown Palm Springs) home—recently published a new book, Sweet Without Sugar: Ice Cream That's Good for You. The secret, according to the Starks' book, is to make ice cream with stevia instead of sugar.
"Stevia is a plant native to Paraguay," Starks said. "The Guarani Indians of Paraguay have consumed stevia for over 1,500 years. Stevia has zero calories and is super-sweet."
However, the use of stevia itself is not enough to make tasty, healthy ice cream. It took Starks years of experimenting until he found desirable recipes, he said.
"I started in 1992, and finished the book in 2017," he said. "It was all about trial and error—what works and what doesn't—and it took a long time to really get it right, without using one bit of sugar, honey, agave or molasses, and none of the insidious stuff like erythritol or artificial sweeteners."
I first tasted Starks' delicious food at an event held at Cary Grant's Palm Springs estate hosted by Dr. Jane Smith, a noted author of medical books. At that time, Starks was still working and cooking for Eric Burdon, singer/songwriter for the Animals.
"I worked for Eric from 1991 to 2003," Starks said. "When I stopped working for Eric, I got back to the book. He did have a favorite ice cream. It's called chocolate banana cream in the book."
Starks tells me that he also briefly worked for Ringo Starr in the 1970s when they both lived at Los Angeles' historic Savoy Plaza. At the time, Starks was brushing shoulders with celebrities in the L.A. social scene; a close friend was Nancy Andrews, who was then engaged to Starr. He also met someone who influenced his culinary career.
"I met New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne when I was working on Laurie Burroughs Grad's cooking show," Starks said. "He told me I should pursue my interest in food professionally. I admired him and had made many of the recipes in his books."
After moving to the desert in 1985, Starks would find inspiration to begin experimenting and eventually write his own book in the serene setting of Snow Creek.
"I started working on the book after I got my first Vitamix blender," he said. "I have had some variation of the recipes in the book for breakfast every day since. That is how I wrote the book: I made the ice cream, and I ate my mistakes and triumphs every single day until I got it right."
Starks' Eureka moment happened when he started experimenting with stevia.
"In the early 1990s, I experimented with vanilla and chocolate almond milk, sweetened with stevia," he said. "I tried many stevia brands before coming up with my final recommendation, which I didn't really discover until 2010, while putting together varying combinations of fruit, almonds and flavoring, just to see what I could come up with that worked with stevia."
Starks claims the reason his ice cream tastes so good is that it is made of the sweet and tart flavors stevia best complements, as well as high-quality ingredients and fresh or frozen organic fruit. No sugar, though.
"Stevia gives it a light, clear sweetness that accentuates the tartness of the fruit, making it more fresh-tasting than conventional ice cream," he said.
There were excruciating trials regarding the proper measures of ice, but Starks persevered.
"I really love ice cream, but my family's sad history of early death, diabetes and blindness from the disease weighed heavily on my mind," he said. "I knew if I wanted to have ice cream on a regular basis that I was going to have to somehow get around that."
Starks' culinary odyssey eventually led to the book's publication this year.
"My intention in writing the book was to give everyone the rare ability to have absolutely guilt-free ice cream by combining stevia and some soaked, frozen almonds with various common fruit flavorings and virgin, unrefined coconut oil and ice, to make ice cream that's good for you."
The Indy Endorsement: The Strawberry and Cream Paleta at La Michoacana Ice Cream ParlorSeptember 23 2016
What: The Strawberry and Cream Popsicle
Where: La Michoacana Ice Cream Parlor, 27765 Landau Blvd., No. 106, Cathedral City
How much: $2.39
Contact: 760-507-8477
Why: It's tart and sweet.
Not too long ago, I was at a party. It was a poolside potluck sort of affair, and a couple of gents arrived with a plastic shopping bag full of popsicles. Various party-goers started grabbing the frozen treats—and the raves began soon thereafter.
"Where did you get these?!" someone gleefully asked.
"La Michoacana, up near Landau and Vista Chino," one of the gents responded.
For some reason (Lack of hunger? Brain lapse?) I didn't try a paleta (popsicle) that night, but the raves were fresh in my mind when I recently found myself running errands in the Landau-Vista Chino area. I decided to stop by.
La Michoacana has a lot of frozen treats on offer, but I was there for the popsicles. The paletas de crema caught my attention—especially the fresa con crema, known by gringos as strawberry and cream.
I ordered one … and I was very, very glad I did so.
There was a big chunk of strawberry right at the very top of the paleta; I bit it off, and got a mouthful of tart fruit. Then I licked a cream portion, and my taste buds got a nice dose of sweet. Then I managed to get a bite that was, more or less, 50-50.
The combination of strawberries and cream is common for a reason: Tart strawberry and soft cream, both sweet in their own ways, complement each other splendidly—and the paleta is an excellent illustration of this. It really was a perfect dessert: delicious, fun and the perfect size. Plus, it's delightfully cool on a warm day.
I missed out by not having one of these popsicles at that party. Learn from my mistake, and check out La Michoacana.
What: The Grape Nut Ice Cream
Where: Ice Cream and Shop(pe), 1551 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Suite A
How much: $3.50 single scoop (pictured); $5.50 double
Contact: 760-507-4005; www.icecreamandshop.com
Why: Both the flavor and the texture are delightfully unique.
On the Palm Canyon Drive side of Arrive, THE new hip place to see and be seen in Palm Springs, is an ice cream shop, appropriately named (if oddly punctuated) Ice Cream and Shop(pe).
However, this is no ordinary ice cream shop(pe). Here, you'll pay a little more for your ice cream—but in exchange, you'll get scooped-up goodness in a rotation of flavors both expected (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry) and delightfully WTF? (avocado, pomegranate chip, lavender). Sorbet is also on offer for those eschewing dairy for whatever reason.
On a recent stop at Ice Cream and Shop(pe), I decided to get a scoop of the grape nut ice cream. As she dished it into the cute li'l cup, the woman working behind the counter said I'd enjoy the unique texture.
She was right. I didn't know it was possible for a treat to be frozen yet gooey (in a good way) at the same time, but that's exactly how this grape nut ice cream is. The cereal mixed in with the ice cream adds both flavor and texture, creating a frozen dessert that's flavorful—it's sweet, but in a mellow way—and fun.
The ice cream isn't the only fun thing about Ice Cream and Shop(pe); the "shop(pe)" part of the name hints at the fact that this is also a cute little gift shop selling cards, souvenirs and the like. One other element of the place is also fun: It's open late—until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and 11 p.m. the other days of the week.
The portion of Palm Canyon Drive south of Vista Chino and north of downtown Palm Springs proper continues to get more popular and hip—and Arrive and its Ice Cream and Shop(pe) are a big reason why.


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How to Get Rid of a Blind Pimples Fast – Best Home Remedies
You can also apply the juice on the affected area and leave it on for 20 minutes. Wash it off with lukewarm water and finish off with a moisturiser. You can repeat the process three times a day for two days. After that time, the pimple should be much less visible. Make sure you watch your skin reaction to the lemon juice as for some sensitive skins the lemon juice might be too harsh in case of a prolonged use.
Milk has been used as a beauty product for centuries and is now a popular ingredient of many face masks, creams and body lotions. Milk contains alpha hydroxy acids that help remove the outer layer of dead skin cells, which results in unclogging pores. Additionally, the skin treated with milk becomes smoother and softer and regains an even tone.
You can simply apply milk onto the blind pimple with a cotton ball soaked in milk. Leave it on fo 15-20 minutes and wash it off with warm water. Repeat the process 3-4 times a day or until the pimple forms a point and you will be able to remove the puss blocked inside.
Alternatively, you can apply the treatment to the whole face by soaking a clean muslin cloth in milk and placing it over your face. Leave it on for 20 minutes and wash the face with lukewarm water. This will not only unclog the pores, but also leave your skin rejuvenated and smoother.
Aloe Vera
If your skin is too sensitive for some of the above mentioned treatments, like the ones based on lemon juice or toothpaste, then aloe vera can be a perfect solution to your problem. Aloe vera has antibacterial and hydrating properties, thanks to which it can reduce the swelling, the redness and inflammation of the affected area. You can use an aloe vera gel or simply take a leaf of the plant, cut it in half and squeeze the pulp out.
Apply it with your finger or a cotton bud on the blind pimple and leave it on for at least 20 minutes. The treatment should be repeated two to three times a day for two days in order to achieve desired results. After that time, the pimple should become smaller and the redness should be much less visible. Aloe vera will also stimulate the rejuvenation process so the condition of the skin in the treated area will become much better.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Due to its antibacterial properties, apple cider vinegar treatment is very effective when you have to deal with a blind pimple. It not only prevents the infection form spreading, but also improves the blood circulation and makes the pimple form the point much faster. Apple cider vinegar may be applied externally or internally. You can soak a cotton ball in apple cider vinegar and press it against the blind pimple for 5 minutes, then wash it off with lukewarm water. Repeat the process until the pimple forms the point.
Alternatively, you can drink a solution of one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and one glass of warm water. It's best to drink a glass of this mixture before every meal. This improves the blood circulation, stimulates the rejuvenation of skin cells and prevents the existing infections from spreading any further.
Epsom Salt
Epsom salt is another very effective product you can use as a home remedy for blind pimples. It stimulates the blood circulation, relieves inflammation, helps remove dead skin cells and accelerates the formation of the head of the pimple.
Boil half a cup of water and add a teaspoon of Epsom salt to it. Mix it until the salt dissolves completely. Put the solution aside and let it cool down to room temperature. Never apply hot Epsom salt solution directly on your skin as you can burn the epidermis. Once the mixture is cool enough to come in contact with your skin, dip a cotton ball in it and apply it on the blind pimple. Hold the cotton ball against the affected area for a minute and then let the solution dry naturally on your skin. Wash it off with lukewarm water. For best results, repeat the process two to three times a day, but be sure to check the reaction of your skin to the Epsom salt solution. If you notice it's a bit too harsh on the affected area, discontinue its use or reduce the frequency of applications.
Alcohol is the most frequent substance we reach for when we need to disinfect something. If you get a blind pimple, rubbing alcohol on the affected area will help you stop the infection, remove the dead skin cells, improve the blood circulation and dry out the pus. Dip a cotton bud in rubbing alcohol and apply it onto the blind pimple. Leave it on for as long as you want. There is no need to wash it off. Repeat the process three to four times a day. After two days, the pimple should form a point, which will make it easy for you to remove the puss blocked under the skin. If your skin is not very sensitive, you can use alcohol as a means of prevention against pimples. Simply rub the face with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol two to three times a week. Make sure you finish the treatment off with a moisturizer as alcohol might make your skin quite dry.
Other Solutions
If you don't have time to apply any of the remedies described above, you can always reach for some over-the-counter products or speak with your dermatologist and ask him for a prescription-only cream.


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What do Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Billy Crystal, and my father all have in common? At least two things. They will, God willing, all celebrate their 70 1/2 birthdays in 2018 and join the ranks of approximately 25 million others in the United States over this age (assuming, of course, that they all still celebrate half-birthdays). The second commonality is that, as far as I know, none of them pay attention to any of my personal finance advice. There is the possibility that Billy or Steven read the blog but my father definitely ignores all the financial advice, investment advice, tax advice, and general retirement advice from his son who makes a profession providing such advice to others. I believe this is is referred to as payback.
Assuming both these commonalities are true, it implies that none of Arnold, Steven, Stevie, Billy, or my father read this 2017 Astute Angle post about qualified charitable distributions. And that may have been reasonable. The topic of the article – qualified charitable distributions (QCD) – was targeted at a narrow group of individuals over age 70 1/2. Back in 2017, they were all busy enjoying their year of peak lifetime happiness and did not need to be bothered with such trivial tax minimization strategies.
Two important things change or changed in 2018. Celebrate or not, all five will reach the important age of 70.5 at which point they become eligible for the qualified charitable distribution. The second big change transpired on January 1st when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act became law. This new law initiated many consequential changes including the dramatic expansion of individuals who directly benefit from utilizing the QCD. The qualified charitable distribution instantly transformed into a tax-saving opportunity for most of the 25 million Americans over age 70.5 (click here for an explanation of how the QCD works and what it is).
Why the change? The biggest factor in the QCD's newly increased reach was the expansion of the standard deduction on January 1st by 75% for married couples over age 70.5 (technically, for filers age 65 and over) from $15,200 in 2017 to 26,600 in 2018. Moreover, for single filers over age 70.5, the standard deduction increased from $7,900 to $13,600. These changes plus the new limits on property and state tax deductions mean that most retirees will use the standard deduction and, resultantly, get no tax benefit from charitable contributions.
Example 1: Consider the case of a 71 year-old married couple, Jack and Diane, who have taxable Social Security income, dividends, and interest of $90,000 plus another $35,000 of required minimum IRA distributions from Jack's IRA for total adjusted gross income of $125,000. They pay $5,000 of state taxes and $7,000 of property taxes, and have no mortgage or major medical expenses.
This year, they moved $35,000 from Jack's IRA to their joint bank account to fulfill the required minimum distribution. Later in the year, they will write a check from their bank account for $15,000 to their favorite charity. Based on all their income and deductions, they will owe $11,607 in federal taxes.
Example 2: Now, assume everything stays the same except for the way in which Jack and Diane make their $15,000 charitable gift. Instead of moving $35,000 from Jack's IRA to their bank account, they move $20,000 from the IRA to their joint bank account. Additionally, they give the same charity the same $15,000 but these funds come directly from the IRA. That is, the charity gets the $15,000 check directly from Jack's IRA instead of going from Jack's IRA to the bank account and then to the charity.
Financially, nothing changes for Jack and Diane and nothing changes for the charity. Check that – one thing changes for Jack and Diane. Instead of paying $11,607 in taxes in our initial example, they pay $7,557 in the second case. Their tax liability drops by $4,050 or 34.9% simply because they were wise enough to make use of the qualified charitable distribution.
What caused this significant reduction in federal taxes? In example 1, Jack and Diane made $15,000 of charitable contributions but they did not get any benefit from these contributions because their total itemized deductions of $25,000 were less than their standard deduction of $26,600. Had they given away $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000 or zero to charity, they would have faced the exact same federal tax liability.
In the second example, because they made the gift directly from their IRA and utilized the qualified charitable distribution, what would have been a taxable $35,000 mandatory IRA distribution was reduced to a $20,000 taxable distribution. In turn, their adjusted gross income and taxable income in example 2 were both $15,000 lower than in example 1. Yes, their itemized deductions were also $15,000 lower because they didn't get to claim any charitable contributions but that's the whole point. Reducing their income by $15,000 was far more valuable than increasing their itemized deductions by $15,000.
This is going to be the new reality for a lot of people over 70.5. A married couple without major medical expenses or without a primary mortgage interest expense that exceeds $16,600 per year are likely to benefit from utilizing the qualified charitable distribution for the same reasons as Jack and Diane. It is a tax savings tool, unavailable to anyone under age 70.5, that effectively allows for the shifting of charitable deductions from the Schedule A, where they may not be entirely useful, to the front page of the Form 1040, where they're going to be useful for anyone who pays taxes.
Closing Comments
Taxpayers over age 70 1/2 have a unique tax saving opportunity that deserves more attention than it has received. The QCD opportunity was somewhat limited before 2018 but materially expanded with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 so that most individuals above age 70.5 who have the desire to give money to charity would now be well-served to use the qualified charitable distribution.
Maybe you are not yet at an age where you can utilize the QCD opportunity but you may have parents or grandparents for whom this might be particularly useful. And perhaps they will be more apt to pay attention to this tax saving advice than mine.


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A creature from Aztec myth and Equestrian pony tales, the ahuizotl is sort of the leucrotta of the swamps: similarly intelligent and with a similar talent for vocal mimicry, plus a nasty grapple attack (courtesy of a tail-hand) to boot.
The entry also offers a lot of tidbits to help you construct interesting encounters as well. For instance, lair choice: "Flooded caverns" are a dime a dozen in RPGs, but "a sunken mass of trees" might be tricky to map but fun to play/make tactical choices in. Adventure springboard: A mutilated body missing just eyes, teeth, and nails is somehow more terrifying than a corpse missing whole limbs. And monster combos: Ahuizotls often attract will-o'-wisps or bully boggards, lizardfolk, swamp people, etc.
But in the end, it all comes back to the voice. Swamps are dangerous enough, but hearing the voice of a loved one or someone in need is likely to make even those who should know better run heedlessly toward a watery grave.
An ahuizotl has worked out a deal with a cabal of wyrwoods. Disguised as witch's dolls and warning totems, they guard the creature's mangrove home while he keeps outsiders, particularly wizards, from discovering the constructs' existence.
A juvenile black dragon moves into the local swamp…but the marsh's resident ahuizotl is not about to be displaced as the resident top predator. He marshals his boggard neighbors into helping him up his body count, hoping enough mutilated corpses will make him seem more powerful than he is and scare the dragon into leaving. He also drives away as much game as possible, forcing the dragon to hunt in human lands. Either way, travelers near swamp now have much to fear.
A local ahuizotl is renowned for lurking under piers and beside riverboats, memorizing voices it can later use to draw victims into the bayou. Because if its habits, the magical beast might also be the only witness to a murder. When an innocent man is blamed for garroting a local faro dealer and tossing him into the river, he begs adventurers to find the ahuizotl whose eavesdropping might testify to his innocence.
—Pathfinder #34 80–81 & Pathfinder Bestiary 3 10
Scott Purdy's ahuizotl in the Bestiary 3 strikes me as slightly possum-faced. Let me be clear, this is not a criticism; in fact, now I want to see a Revolutionary War-themed Pathfinder campaign…something like The Swamp Fox crossed with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell…with possum-faced ahuizotls menacing the Carolina swamps…
(Speaking of which, one of my now-best friends started out as a random roommate found on Craigslist when I moved to Baltimore. Given all the history here—we could walk to Fort McHenry—the following soon ensued:
Me: "Blah blah blah the Revolutionary War blah blah blah."
British roommate: "Oh, is that what you call it then? We always called it the American War of Independence.
Me: "'The American War of Independence'? That's nice. I like that."
British roommate: "Well, what did you suppose we called it? 'The War of Perfidious American Treachery'?")
I don't usually talk much about the Pathfinder Player Companion books, because they are (by design) very targeted affairs, and your mileage will vary depending on how engaged you are in that month's theme.
But every once in a while one demands some extra attention. (For instance, I gave my two cents on Animal Archive here.) Most recently, The Harrow Handbook made me sit up and take notice. THH devotes its entire 32 pages to the role of the Harrow deck in Golarion, including varying setups for different kinds of divinations, new Harrow-using archetypes for several classes, and (my favorite) a system for using Harrow cards to generate PC backstories.
This book is not for everyone. In fact, it's probably not for most people. I can't imagine using this book with my most recent gaming group, for example. We were an oversized group of 5–6 PCs, with players who loved adventuring but were indifferent when it came to worldbuilding. The Harrow might have been a great excuse to theme a dungeon, but messing with it on a regular basis at the table would have been spotlight-hogging.
But when I think back to my grad school gaming group—four hours of gaming or more every week with just a GM and one other player, all three of us so lore-obsessed that we could spend hours discussing how the Samedi fit into the Cappadocian clan lineage…man, what we could have done with this book! I want to use it for character creation right now.
So. The Harrow Handbook. Not for everyone. But if you even suspect this is a book for you, then it's really a book for you. Plus, I like supporting a book that's taking a risk. Even if I never use it, I'd still rather have THH on my shelf than a safe choice like Elves of Golarion III: The Re-Re-Elvening. Inventiveness like this should be rewarded.
I was a hair late to my show Saturday—a race I didn't know was happening briefly boxed me inside my neighborhood—so there's a minute of dead air at the start of this file. Give it a fast-forward and enjoy! I sound pretty good, if I do say so myself.
(As always, if the feed skips when you listen, try letting it load and then Save As an mp3. Link good till Friday, 6/20, at midnight.)


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PT. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) recently announced that production has already begun at its newly-constructed engine plant in West Java. The Karawang Engine Plant started operations since the end of February, built with an investment of approximately 2.3 trillion rupiah (RM718 million).
The plant, which employs 400 people, has the capacity to produce 216,000 engines per year. Currently, it is producing the 1.3 and 1.5 litre NR engines, some of which will be exported. Toyota models like the Sienta, Avanza, Vios and Yaris employ the NR engine family (depending on market).
The Karawang Engine Plant is part of Toyota's goal to minimise the negative impacts on downstream processes, and thus enabled the inclusion of all steps of the manufacturing process in the same plant. The Karawang plant also produces the Kijang Innova, Fortuner, Etios Valco, Vios and Yaris. It has been rumoured that the Indonesia-spec Sienta will be manufactured at Karawang as well.
Among the production technologies used at the plant include on-site smelting, the first such implementation at a Toyota plant outside of Japan. With on-site smelting, the plant reduces the dangers associated with transporting molten metal during the process of casting major components.
Furthermore, the space required for smelting and casting is significantly reduced by taking the transportation process out of the equation. Fluctuations in demand can also be dealt with more responsively, as the amount of molten metal can now be more readily adjusted to meet demand.
Another technology, which also the first to be implemented at a Toyota plant outside of Japan, is inorganic sand cores. Cores are devices placed in casting moulds to create internal cavities in the final cast component. Once molten metal is poured in and has hardened, the cores are broken.
Traditionally, cores with organic additives are used during casting, due to the need for a combination of ease of disintegration, strength, heat resistance, and moulding properties. However, its usage creates many unwanted by-products like tar and odours to be emitted.
Through the use of inorganic matter additives instead of organic matter, these by-products can be reduced in terms of volume, requiring smaller dust collectors and deodorisers, which further reduces the space designated for casting and thus reduces the initial investment.


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This gift bundle includes one soy wax candle and your choice of soap bars. Perfect for anyone who wants to surround themselves with luxurious scents.
- Two locally made gifts
- 9oz candle in your choice between two scents
- Approximately 3.3oz bar soaps in your choice of three scents
How to Use:
- Carefully light candle and burn for desired time
- Keep away from flammable objects
- Return the jar to Cero to receive a $1 deposit and/or refill your candle
Candle Ingredients: Soy wax, fragrance, cotton wick
Candles by Art Over Order.
Soaps by Wisdom, Body, and Soul.


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The Offering
The House has the offering hour on a weekly basis where anybody may submit himself as a slave to the House. Most are turned away instantly but a few are lucky eough to have a second look by a house master. Nick Moretti is standing the post this week and Dylan Deap conjures enough courage to enter the House. Nick takes a liking to Dylan and decides to give him a full session. Dylan endures the crop, electrified metal cage, the zapper, the heavy flogger, the sharp cane and finally a hard bondage fuck.


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Easy Baked Chicken As most of you know by now, my husband and I love to cook. During the week, I do most of the cooking because I am at home and Christopher doesn't get off of work until later. So, it is only fair that I start supper. During the week, I like to be in and out of the kitchen (especially during the summer) so that we can spend time outdoors before bedtime. This recipe for easy baked chicken is one of my go to suppers because it is quick and easy. This recipe for easy baked ... Read More
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1860 Birthday of Lillian Russell, who becomes the epitome of Gilded Age female sex appeal and stage presence starting in vaudeville at Tony Pastor's Theatre and graduating to a series of frothy musical comedy vehicles including Whirl-i-gig, Fiddle-dee-dee, Hoity-Toity, Twirly-Whirly, Whoop-Dee-Doo, and Lady Teazle. She also appears in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas and, later in life, in Burlesque.
1901 The Girl and the Judge both want what's best for the girl's kleptomaniac mother. Clyde Fitch wrote and staged the drama which stars Annie Russell.
1906 Douglas Fairbanks stars in The Man of the Hour by George Broadhurst. The plot—Fairbanks as a reformer out to expose corruption at City Hall—angers the Tammany Hall politicians and fans the interest of the public. It runs 479 performances.
1910 Composer Alex North, one of the many contributors to Of V We Sing, is born in Chester, Pennsylvania.
1933 Tobacco Road, Jack Kirkland's drama based on the 1932 Erskine Caldwell novel about a family of Georgia sharecroppers, opens at the Theatre Masque. It sticks around for 3,182 performances, making it, at the time, the longest running play in Broadway history.
1934 What do you do when kidnappers move into your boarding house? Lucile Watson, star of Post Road, has 209 performances to find out. The Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell comedy opens at the Masque Theatre.
1986 Neil Simon's Broadway Bound opens at the Broadhurst Theatre, where it runs for 756 performances. The cast includes Linda Lavin, John Randolph, Phyllis Newman, and Jason Alexander. It is the third of Simon's autobiographical plays, which include Biloxi Blues and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
1997 Linda Lavin, Harris Yulin, George Hearn, Sophie Hayden, and Natalie Portman star in a James Lapine-directed revival of The Diary of Anne Frank, notable for its inclusion of personal material about Anne's budding sexuality and her strained relationship with her mother.
2003 The world premiere of the new Cy Coleman musical, Like Jazz, opens at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, starring Lillias White, Patti Austin, and Jennifer Holliday. It is Coleman's final major debut of a new musical before his death in November 2004.
2007 Broadway opening night for Tracy Letts' searing family drama August: Osage County, which wins the Tony Award as Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It runs for 648 performances.
2011 A revival of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Dianne Wiest as Ranevskaya and John Turturro as Lopakhin, opens Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company.
2012 The New York City premiere of Golden Age, Terrence McNally's play about the world of composer Vincenzo Bellini, opens Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club, with Lee Pace starring as the nervous 19th-century Sicilian composer whose opera I Puritani is receiving its Paris world premiere in 1835. The cast also includes F. Murray Abraham, Bebe Neuwirth, and Will Rogers.
2015 Al Pacino returns to Broadway in David Mamet's China Doll, opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The play follows a billionaire who is about to retire and marry a younger woman when his plans are shaken by a phone call.
2016 Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven Levenson's musical Dear Evan Hansen opens on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre, following a sold out Off-Broadway run. Ben Platt stars as a high school student who is thrust into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy. The production wins six Tony Awards, including Best Actor in a Musical for Platt, and Best Musical.
2017 SpongeBob SquarePants, a Broadway musical based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon series, opens at the Palace Theatre. Conceived and directed Tina Landau, it stars Ethan Slater in the title role, Danny Skinner as Patrick, Gavin Lee as Squidward, and Lilli Cooper as Sandy. An impressive roster of pop and rock stars contribute songs for the show, including Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, The Flaming Lips, Panic! At the Disco, They Might Be Giants, and David Bowie. It runs 327 performances.
More of Today's Birthdays: Derek Smith 1959. Marisa Tomei 1964.
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Market Research Reports on Consumer Foodservice. Foodservice Trends 2016. The Mintel Foodservice team of expert analysts have identified five trends set to hit the mainstream in the US Foodservice industry this year.
Intriguing and delighting diners and brands alike, the trends shine a spotlight on how Americans' ever-evolving tastes and sensibilities are propelling customization, dichotomy, authenticity and innovation onto menus and into restaurant kitchens across the country. Behind every trend is comprehensive consumer data, in-depth analysis of thousands of US menus and brand examples that support the future impact of the trends.
Discover how you can stay ahead of the competition in 2016 and beyond: Unpredictable Proteins A rising number of consumers are turning to high-protein diets, and while the use of alternative protein sources is on the rise, an American classic still holds a prominent place on menus. Anywhere and Anytime Consumers are increasingly eating restaurant-quality food outside of "traditional" mealtimes. 15 Food Service Trends for 2015 - Foodservice Equipment & Supplies. Published on Sunday, 02 November 2014 Written by Caroline Perkins It's a take-share market for most operators these days.
To help spur growth, creativity is rapidly becoming the norm. Here we explore 15 trends sure to shape the foodservice industry and their operational impact for the coming year and beyond. Competition in the foodservice industry continues to heat up. Restaurants & Food Service Industry. Restaurant Industry Trends & Statistics. Food Service Industry: Market Segments. ERS research on foodservice outlets—facilities that serve meals and snacks for immediate consumption on site (food away from home)—examines the size of this growing market and the major market segments such as fast food and full-service outlets (see Glossary).
A Large and Growing Market The foodservice industry is nearly equal in size to food retailing: The food marketing system, including food service and food retailing, supplied about $1.24 trillion worth of food in 2010.Of this total, $594 billion was supplied by foodservice facilities. ForecastExecSummary2015 FINAL. Experts Predict the Top Restaurant Industry Trends of 2016 - Open for Business. It's a new year, and there's no shortage of new challenges and opportunities for the restaurant industry.
From minimum wage hikes and tech innovations to guests' evolving tastes and preferences, it seems restaurants are constantly breaking new ground to stay current in an ever-competitive landscape. We asked some of the top chefs, restaurateurs, and experts in the industry to share their predictions for restaurants in 2016. Here are the trends and transformations they expect to see in food, drinks, business, and beyond (and take a look back at last year's predictions to see where experts got it right). "We will see the ground-up restructuring of restaurants as we know it. There are major changes ahead for restaurants legislatively, and with technology, labor, tipping, etc., restaurants will have to rethink operations and how they take care of their customers across the board."
10 Trends Reshaping the Restaurant Industry. It isn't enough to know that the fast-casual brands are eating into the market share of fast-food chains and full-service restaurants; nor is it enough to know that "fresh" has become one of the most bankable words in the F&B industry.
Why? Good question. Understanding (and asking) "Why?" Is essential; and in this article, we take a deep-dive into the 10 trends we see as reshaping the restaurant industry, giving you the "Why?" You're looking for. The Best Tasting Menus in Toronto. The best tasting menus in Toronto offer bespoke dining experiences featuring ultra-fresh, seasonal ingredients, a creative progression of courses, and opportunities to be surprised and delighted along the way.
Less popular than in previous decades, they nevertheless remain a fixture whereby chefs can take full control of the meal. These are the best tasting menus in Toronto. See also: The Best Omakase in Toronto Momofuku Shoto. High Produce Prices Affecting Buying, Eating Habits: Survey - Campus News. Rising fresh fruit and vegetable prices have changed Canadians' purchasing behaviours, from reducing consumption to product substitution to buying frozen vegetables, according to a new survey from the University of Guelph.
The study will be presented today at the annual Food and Agriculture Business Seminar sponsored by U of G's Food Institute. "To our knowledge, no published studies have examined how consumers are coping with the radical change to vegetable and fruit prices in a developed economy," said Sylvain Charlebois, who headed the project while a marketing and consumer studies professor at U of G. 2014 canadian chain restaurant industry review. The Discerning Diner. Restaurants in private homes — sharing economy's latest trend. Nadya Khoja grinds pepper over brussels sprouts sizzling on the stove.
Her roommate, Sarah Lee, mashes feta, butter and parsley in a bowl. The evening's menu was carefully planned: brussels sprout salad topped with apples and walnuts, followed by macaroni and feta cheese with tiger shrimp. But tonight's two dinner guests are largely a mystery. "Complete and total strangers," admits Lee. Sarah Lee (left) and Nadya Khoja cook up a gourmet meal for tonight's guests at Chez Lisgar, the restaurant they run out of their Toronto condo. 5 trends to watch in Toronto's restaurant scene in 2016. So what if Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto cancelled his Toronto restaurant due to construction delays.
Here are five other things to look forward to in dining this year. Greener restaurants Chefs are looking for ways to deflect climate change, like Vancouver's Nico Schuermans. Shifting Food and Beverage Consumption Habits Influenced by YEMMies – Young Educated Millennial Moms. Toronto, ON – Amid the reality of rising food costs, opportunity still exists for Food and Beverage companies to find growth by focusing on shifting consumer needs, priorities and behaviours that are reshaping the marketplace in Canada.
According to Ipsos' 2015 Canada CHATS report released in November, many of these trends are being influenced by YEMMies, Young Educated Millennial Moms. Other key environmental factors like the need for convenience, demands for healthier yet simpler ingredient profiles, the requirement for personalization and the continued quest for enjoyment through experience are also contributing to decision-making among today's mindful and knowledgeable consumers. Below are four consumer trends mined from Canada CHATS that showcase how new food era needs are transforming consumption habits. Year of the YEMMies.
A new breed of decision-maker and eating influencers is emerging from the Millennial cohort, Young Educated Millennial Moms (YEMMies). Food and Beverage Trends in a Transformative Time. This blog post originally appeared in Institute of Food Technologist's (IFT) Wellness Newsletter. In partnership with our global network, we've identified the food and beverage trends that define the industry today. After months of crunching data, observing the marketplace, gathering insights and collaborating with Mintel, we released Edelman's "16 Global Food & Beverage Trends for 2016." Though each trend stands on its own, together they underscore an industry in the midst of unprecedented change. Here are a few key observations:
Top Fast Food Trends to Impact Restaurant Industry in Year 2016 - QSR magazine. We've gazed into our crystal ball, read the stars, and turned over our Magic 8 Ball a few times, all in an attempt to divine what trends will affect the limited-service restaurant industry in the coming year. OK, that's not what happened. We just poured over 2016 forecasts from more than a dozen restaurant experts and research firms and concluded which of the upcoming trends will have the greatest impact on our side of the industry. In some cases, these trends simply indicate a tipping point for matters that have been percolating for several years. 5 Restaurant Trends That'll Change the Way You Dine Out in 2016. For American restaurant culture, 2015 was the year of enthusiastic nautical decor (boat ropes, life-sized buoys, wooden ship's wheels, we could go on), many a smoked dish (finishing everything from briny olives to mashed potatoes over an smoldering flame) and even more uber-elaborate cocktails (rare spirits and hand-cut herbs we understand, but artisanal ice?
Color us impressed). As we turn the page on 365 days of great meals, here's what industry leaders from across the country have to say about what's on deck for 2016. The overarching theme? The continuing shift toward more affordable, more intimate, more collaborative dining experiences. Top 5 Food Trends for 2016. Will 2016 be the biggest year of innovation we have seen in the food world? Times are changing, fast. We're dishing out our predictions for the top 5 food trends in Toronto for 2016. Here's what we see coming to a boil: Everything on Tap: What's Hot. 2016Trends.


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Walker Stalker Convention Postponed
Fanfest has announced plans to postpone Walker Stalker Convention in Charlotte, NC from its original dates of June 25-26 until December 17-18. The reason for the postponement is the passage of NC HB2 and the hope that the bill is repealed or overturned by the new dates. Members who can't attend the new dates will be eligible for a full refund. NC HB2 nullifies local ordinances around the state that would have expanded protections for the LGBT community and in general makes it more difficult to sue for discrimination.


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A Harvard University researcher and longtime special education advocate hired to assess the Palo Alto school district's special education services said in a preliminary report that the district has higher-than-average rates of inclusion and "very promising" practices, yet identified communication, trust with families and lacking data as areas in need of improvement.
The Board of Education discussed the report at an all-day retreat on Monday, June 13, with the researcher, Dr. Thomas Hehir, attending via video conference.
Hehir presented his team's preliminary findings and recommendations, which were compiled after they spent a week in Palo Alto this fall visiting schools and conducting informal observations in classrooms; meeting with parents, teachers and school and district-level administrators; analyzing student data; and conducting online surveys of parents, administrators and teachers.
Hehir, who began his career as a special education teacher in the 1970s and is now a professor of practice in learning differences at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told the board that his team found the district has higher than the national average rates of inclusion in general education classes. Students with disabilities in Palo Alto Unified have scores on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) that are comparable or exceed the state's average performance for students without disabilities, according to Hehir's report.
The district also has some "promising" inclusive practices emerging in its early childhood programs and elementary schools, he wrote in his report.
Hehir was also "encouraged" by the work of the Minority Achievement Talent Development (MATD) committee, which last year issued a set of recommendations around improving equity and access for minority and historically underrepresented students. Hehir and his team recommend including students with disabilities in the district's overarching equity plan, which is being developed as a result of the minority-achievement group's recommendations.
Where the district has fallen short, he found, is in its identification and support of students with disabilities and their families.
"We feel very strongly that the process of identifying kids who have disabilities needs to be proactive and where possible preventative," he told the board on Monday. "In other words, providing kids who are struggling with supports before they fail."
The identification process for Section 504 and Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), which provide students with accommodations, is actually a "barrier to providing targeted supports and accommodation in a timely fashion," the report states.
Forty percent of parents surveyed said that their experiences with the identification process was "not at all positive" or "a little bit positive." Only 13 percent described it as "extremely positive."
He told the board that early identification, strong communication with parents and teacher training are all critical aspects of a successful identification process.
Hehir said that many district parents told him there is a lack of information about the district's special education policies, practices and procedures which in turn can engender "mistrust" between families and the district.
His report also notes that "currently having a disability in PAUSD is associated with academic failure."
"Our culture right now is 'let your kid fail,'" echoed board member Melissa Baten Caswell.
"How are we going to go to the next step?" she asked.
Hehir encouraged the district to be more clear about its expectations for teachers and principals as it relates to the identification process and serving students with disabilities broadly.
Transparent communication with parents about those expectations is also key, he said. His report recommends creating a "parent handbook" that articulates the purpose, policies and procedures around special-education identification, intervention, available support services, accommodations and the like.
Another critical improvement: teacher professional development, he said.
"We saw some very impressive classrooms in the district. It's not like you're starting at ground zero here," he told the board. "But we did hear from teachers, and I think in a very sincere voice, that there needs to be more, and that they want more."
Hehir is a proponent of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), an educational strategy that aims to move teachers away from one-size-fits-all instruction to more flexible and inclusive classrooms.
His report suggests that UDL offers more educational advantages than co-taught classrooms, which the district has invested in over the last few years. Ideally, co-teaching means a regular and special education teacher share lesson planning, instruction and assessment in one class with a mixed population of students. Last year, 27 teachers at Gunn High School and 19 at Palo Alto High were co-teaching classes.
Co-teaching must be done carefully, with the right pairing of teachers and instructional strategies that don't have the effect of watering down curriculum, Hehir said. Co-teaching is a "good evolution" away from segregated general and special education classrooms, but "I would probably start thinking about the next step," he told the board.
The report also emphasizes the importance of data-driven instruction and planning within special education. Palo Alto Unified, however, "lacks data that is instructionally useful in improving educational practices and identifying the impact of practices on students with disabilities," the report states.
Toward the end of the discussion, Baten Caswell became visibly emotional after Chief Student Services Officer Holly Wade said the next steps will be a series of town hall meetings to share the results with families after this summer. Baten Caswell said that special education families will want and need to hear a concrete action plan, not simply a report.
"A town hall meeting that just tells people the report that doesn't do it," Baten Caswell said. "People need to hear what we're doing."
Christina Schmidt, a longtime leader with the parent-led Community Advisory Committee (CAC) for special education, told the board Monday that training in inclusion and unconscious bias, better use of data and parent engagement are all necessary parts of a successful action plan moving forward.
"Every parent in this room knows you cannot have enough parent engagement," she said. "They have to be welcome to the table individually, with their personal families and as advocates."
Hehir will likely provide his full, final report to the district in several weeks, Wade said.
In other business at Monday's retreat, the board discussed an elementary mathematics pilot proposal, new data from the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) and Palo Alto Reality Check survey, as well as the board's own governance practices, procedures and goals for the next school year.
Watch a video of the full-day retreat on the Weekly's YouTube channel.


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I think these are the last of the Andy & George ads. From October, November, December 1966 and January 1967. Is everyone enjoying these ads?
A special shout-out to my brother for finding these ads. Thanks bro.
Here's another classic Joe commercial. I sure would like to hear that record.


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Teach Us Lord
Oh Lord, teach us how to pray,
What to ask and what to say,
Bringing before You our loved ones and neighbors,
Certain problems, aims and strenuous labors.
Teach us to be slow in asking, swift in praise,
To seek in all circumstances Thy precious face.
Then we shall walk secure,
Surviving all the attacks and surely endure.
May we kneel down at home or in a place far away
Speaking the sentences You will teach us how to pray.
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I initially thought Mama was a much better than it actually is… When I was walking out of the theater I was sort of beaming. I love watching a horror movie that actually creeps me out a little bit. But a couple of days have passed, and I slowly started to realize that Mama wasn't a horror revelation of any kind, it was merely just better than most of the terrible horror movies I'm used to seeing.
To put it quite bluntly, Mama is not a good movie. While it delivers on its creepy premise in a few scenes; as a respectable horror movie it falls short in many, many aspects. While this film helps get us a little bit more past the (mostly awful) found footage horror genre, it does so by simultaneously taking us back to the terrible, twitchy, hair obsessed Japanese horror genre. The ghost gargles and moans, and every slow movement involves a bone crunching sound. Things bend in half backwards, and impossibly disjointed arms are a key feature of the antagonistic specter. At one point we are even exposed to the ghost moving around simply as a wad of hair on the ground. A moving wig in which a face emerges and it's clouded by thick black hair. All of the sudden I feel like I'm watching The Ring again and I want to fall asleep. Also, it was unbearably bad CGI. Embarrassing CGI. Dial it back a little, guys.
And the theatrics! Why do ghosts always have to have theatrics?! At one point, the leading lady Annabel (played by Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain [Zero Dark Thirty]) is standing in front of an open doorway, and we see Mama floating around behind her in the other room. We get a loud music cue and the ghost bursts up behind her and Mama's face appears for a second right behind her head. But Annabel doesn't even notice… Other than for a cheap scare, the scene had NO purpose. I mean what was the thought process of Mama to do that action? "Ooooo, there's Annabel…! I'm gonna sneak up behind her and NOT scare her, then disappear…! That'll show… uhh… no one… uhhhh… DOING IT ANYWAY!" Considering that in other scenes, Mama physically assaults (and sometimes murders) people without much thought, the fact that she does these pointless ghost theatrics makes absolutely no sense. It's quite apparent that she hates Annabel for trying to take care of her creepy children, so instead of doing some stupid jump scare that essentially didn't scare anyone in the universe of the film, why not just murder Annabel right then and there? She didn't seem to hesitate when she shoved Annabel's boyfriend down a flight of stairs (it happens early in the film, it's not really a spoiler). Also, why is Mama made of moths? Did anyone pick that up? I don't remember that being explained.
And then there are the flat-out dumb moments. Like the psychiatrist sub plot that is essential for the film to work the way it does, but gets wrapped up in the laziest way possible. Basically, he tries to go and figure out the secret of Mama, ALONE AND WITHOUT A GAMEPLAN, also AT NIGHT, and they wrap up his story rather quickly and unceremoniously. "Oh, well I guess we won't be seeing any more of him." But what did he expect to have happen? Was he hoping to have a rational conversation with the murderous ghost? He didn't even let anyone know where he was going beforehand. Just lazy, lazy writing. The film needed him for the beginning to work, and when the plot didn't need him anymore they wrote him out in the dumbest way possible.
I know I've been rattling off terrible aspects of the film, but there were other things I really enjoyed. The feral children angle was a great one. I almost would have rather just watched a movie about these two weirdo kids, without any ghosts. The creepiest scene in the whole thing was when Annabel gets up in the middle of the night and looks down a shadowy hallway, and peeking around the corner is an eerie silhouette of the younger girl. Just staring at her. Then the little girl scampers a little closer to the edge of the shadow, and just keeps staring at Annabel. Then scuttles away without a word. That was the whole scene, and it was frightening, and it didn't involve the ghost in any way. Probably because it's grounded in the reality that, yes, there are just some creepy little kids out there. So I guess my point is: the weird little feral children were scary enough to be their own horror movie, sans ghost. It was probably this concept alone that even made me consider for a minute that Mama was actually a good movie. Do anything different in the horror genre, and you'll at least *appear* ahead of the pack.
The acting was pretty good from the little girls, but not really from anyone else. Jessica Chastain, riding all the awards buzz she can get, was rather flat in this one. I get that she was supposed to be this "super cool bass player in a punk band who doesn't care about nuthin' (litters garbage, leaves toilet seat up)" but not until the very end did she even show any emotion. There's a bathroom scene in the 2nd or 3rd act when she is talking to the older girl about Mama, and honestly, the 9-year-old girl trounced her in acting ability. The little girl was trembling and looked legitimately frightened, while Chastain delivered her lines with an impeccable wooden quality, "Victor-ia. Who. Is. Mama.? What. Are you. Looking at…?" Maybe it's a case of reading her lackluster lines the best she could, but it didn't sound very good. I just read on Wikipedia that the film was shot in 2011 and was supposed to be released in the middle of last year, but got pushed back to a dreaded January release (it doesn't say why). I'm sure Chastain would have liked it better if Mama came out BEFORE Zero Dark Thirty, but whatcha gonna do? I doubt it will have any effect on her career in any way. Mama isn't a movie that lingers in your head for very long. Also, in terms of actors… Hey look! It's Jaime Lannister!
So I didn't hate Mama, but I also didn't consider it a great achievement in horror. Or even a step forward. Guillermo del Toro produced it (but didn't direct it), and his hand in the film is obvious, but it's also disappointing that he didn't just direct it and possibly make it better. I read that he fought for the ending, which I commend him for, because it didn't take the easy way out. It also didn't end with a jump scare of the ghost lunging toward the camera for no apparent reason like 90% of most modern horror films do. So that was a welcome change. If you go see every horror movie that comes out, you'll probably enjoy Mama more than most of the others, but only because of the great set-up. I was very intrigued by a lot of it, but in the end it's basically just another Japanese horror movie ripoff. And I thought we finished ripping those movies off in 2006.
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Definitely sweatshirt has cozy and relaxed character. It's cotton, soft and wide enough. Ideal garment when the t-shirts are proving "little" in front of fall's dew. Apart from the obvious, namely to wear it with a tracksuit, you can put them with skirts even above dresses..
Where to find good sweatshirt?
In the market there are many types sweatshirt. Oversized, cropped, with large prints, letters or completely simple. If you are considering buying one, check first how you want to wear it, what clothes you can combine it with and which style you can follow. The sweatshirt is an easy garment that can be worn in many ways … suffices you choose the right one.
How to wear it.
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It is the start of September and Raffles City Shopping Center in Singapore celebrating the LEGO in a big way with the largest LEGO Castle display ever assembled in our sunny shores.
It measures a whopping 2m in width and 7m in length. That translates out to a total of 224 baseplates of pure LEGO Castle goodness which is definitely a milestone for LEGO in Singapore.
It is organised by the Bricks User Group of Singapore (BUGS) with the addition of resident LEGO Castle Moccers like Cao Mianyu and Mervyn Song whose constructions are truly a sight to behold.
There is a LEGO Castle Moc (My Own Creation) side contest where you can vote for the your favourite creations by the builders. Details are available here.
The set up will be on display till the 9th of September (yes, I know it is a little short) so if you are in town, do head to Raffles City Shopping Center! There is also a LEGO sale on the third floor of the mall so you could also pick up some nifty deals.
Check out my gallery below for more photos of this amazing display!


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WalrusWALRUS were formed in London, England, 1969, the brainchild of main songwriter and bassist Steve Hawthorn, who'd been inspired by the commercial growth of American rock-meets-jazz counterparts CHICAGO and BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS. Signed to Deram Records (an offshoot of Decca), their debut single `Who Can I Trust' (featuring original drummer Roger Harrison), kicked off their one and only WALRUS (1970) {*7} long-player.
A heavy, ATOMIC ROOSTER/EDGAR BROUGHTON-like number, it showcased the raspy vox of Noel Greenaway and the understated lead guitar work of John Scates. Track 2 (with replacement drummer, Nick Gabb and keyboardist Barry Parfitt) was a segued, three-pronged attack led by an old blues gem, `Rags And Old Iron', while the equally impressive `Blind Man' and `Roadside', sat nicely; one had to check out the interplay of Don Richards (trumpet), Bill Hoad (flute) band Roy Voce (tenor sax). An awesome start. Folky prog-psychedelia reared its ugly head by way of track 3, `Why' (think IAN ANDERSON jamming with The INCREDIBLE STRING BAND or KING CRIMSON), although follow-on cue `Turning' – `Woman' – `Turning', spluttered defiantly in every direction (think BLACK SABBATH or ARTHUR BROWN). With prog-rock on the ascendancy and, with their masterful reworking of TRAFFIC's `Coloured Rain', WALRUS could safely be labelled as nearly men. The appropriately-titled `Tomorrow Never Comes', ended the LP side of things with 60s-like panache.
After another flop single, `Never Let My Body Touch The Ground', put paid to any further recording activity, the band did tour until late 1971, when veteran drummer-to-be Ian Mosley (future DARRYL WAY's Wolf, and MARILLION, respectively) had a brief stint. The eponymous set was subsequently re-issued on CD by retro prog-rock imprint, Esoteric Recordings; the aforementioned, hard-to-get 45 being the bonus feature.
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text: Mizagorn 5 Posted May 3, 2019 Hi folks! I wanted to throw a few thoughts out to both those who have used this site for many years, and to those who might be joining very recently (such as myself). I have a background in group moderation, search engine optimization, web design, and many other things that will just sound egotistical if I share haha. Egotism is anathema to me. My point isn't to brag or draw attention to myself. My point is to draw attention to this wonderful site, and all the help that it can give to anyone who is struggling with cluster headaches while looking for information that they might even not know what to search for. And this relates to search engines such as Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go (and yes, even Yahoo). So, here goes a list of what I would do if I had a say in what individuals might want to consider when posting in regards to how it helps new people. In other words, don't assume anyone knows what you are talking about! 1) Use key words or abbreviations only after explaining the full concept. - In any forum or group, people who have been around a while tend to start using abbreviations, code words, etc. that confuse someone new to the topic. Examples might include "beast", "trip", and many other things that a lot of you are already aware of. It's so easy to do, I totally get it. But, it helps only those who already know what's going on - not those who are struggling to find a resource for the first time. - If someone new is trying to research information, it's a detrimental struggle to try to decipher the codes and key words. - Many of us (and our loved ones) are speed-reading, trying to garner reliable information when this kind of thing first hits our loved ones. If your conversation looks like a bunch of code, and does not contain a bunch of useful information simply yet explicitly explained (no matter how many times you have repeated it) it comes across as a clique (a closed group) instead of a universal resource. - Plus, Google (etc) is not able to process those as far as search results based on relevant content. 2) If you are talking about a product, always provide links and a full product description when possible. And, provide context as to how the product relates to your experience. - We might say "regulator" or "syringe". Be sure to explain (or make sure that the rest of the content explains) what specifically you are talking about. Is it a welding oxygen tank regulator or a medical oxygen tank regulator? Will one work with the other? - You might not (probably will not) know all the aspects of all the options asked about... but, your contribution to the conversation will help others in the future try to collate the info! 3) If you are aware of a time limit on a sale price, or limited stock, or a potentially discontinued item, please state as such. - Not much to explain here, I think. 4) No complaints about this site at all! - I have found clusterbusters.org to be one of the most useful sites I have ever experienced in my 51 years of being alive. Kudos to @CHfather and many others for making this a truly remarkable resource. - My goal is simply to help others helps others with the information I have in my head (when it's not being attacked haha). Cheers to you all, and best wishes in your efforts to conquer. <3 Terry p.s. I have more guidance, if you will, but ultimately the personality of the group as a whole is what will shine. I also want to share my other, newfound experiences regarding needles and masks! Oh my... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I was looking for an Irish pub to watch the Manchester United vs Fulham game. The first Irish pub I went to said they were not planning to show the game, so I landed up in Patrick's. It was a Sunday afternoon 2.30pm and there were agroup of less than 10 people in there watching the 1st Formula One race of the season. They switched channels to football after Alonso had won the race. The group of people left and I watched football in a Ghost town.
Other than the waitress serving us, the other staff have faces like monks in pain and it's no wonder considering the atmosphere they work in. No Irish food on the menu here. "How can you be an Irish pub if you don't serve Irish food," I quizzed. "We serve Guiness" was the answer.
I've had had my share of pub going (Irish pubs included). If you like Irish culture and tradition, DO NOT GO, never, ever, go to this so-called "irish pub". The fact that the tricolor flying inside is actually an Italian flag sums up the Irishness of this place. The only thing Irish about Patrick's is the number of Poles working behind the bar. This sounds awful, but it IS the true truth because I only say it as it is


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Gove's education policy on academies is all about ideology and nothing about improving our schools. Academies are outside local democratic control, lack transparency, increase exclusions, leave parents and students with fewer rights and undermine the rights of teachers and their trade unions. Sponsors gain almost absolute power once a school acquires academy status. They take control of public assets – the buildings and the land – and can be relied on to reward themselves accordingly.
Parents at Roke Primary School threatened with academy status recently received a copy of a letter about this threat from Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Schools, to Richard Ottaway, Tory MP for South Croydon. Wisely not expecting any help from Mr Ottaway, here is the robust and well argued response from the Save Roke Campaign Committee:
"Lord Nash's letter casts Roke Primary as an 'underperforming' school, yet our school is not underperforming under any possible definition of the word and certainly not over a 'long time', which is specified in DfE's own guidance for forced academies. The latest SAT results are above the national average and place the school in the top 20% of Croydon schools. Teaching is regarded by Ofsted, the Local Authority and parents as at least good. Let's be clear forced academy at Roke is NOT about substandard education at Roke.
The reason the school is being forced to academy is that it was placed in an Ofsted category of 'Notice to Improve', mainly due to a lack of data caused by computer problems and leadership/management issues. The Ofsted report was published in mid June 2012. Areas for improvement were outlined and the school, LA and Riddlesdown (as partnering
school) sprung into action and made positive changes very quickly. Yet only 3 months later, in September the DfE informed the head governor that Roke would become an academy.
Factoring in the school summer holiday, the school was given less than 6 weeks to improve. There was no return visit by Ofsted to check on the improvements made and no chance to prove that they could be sustained. This action defeats the purpose of giving a school 'Notice to improve', if they are then denied the chance to demonstrate improvements made.
Lord Nash states that improvement is required in relation to leadership and management. This could happen without removing the school from Local Authority control. It does not need such drastic action as being forced, against the wishes of parents, governors and local community, to become an academy and to be sponsored by Harris.
It would be far more cost effective to simply replace the leadership. Let's make no mistake this is about political ideology not standards.
Lord Nash omits the fact that the Ofsted monitoring visit happened in January 2013, the day after parents launched their campaign and a damning article appeared in The Guardian, stating that Oftsed had not visited before the decision was made. He also omits to make it clear that this was not a full Ofsted inspection and therefore it did not matter what rating for improvement was received it would not lift Roke out of the 'Notice to Improve' category. His letter reads like Roke somehow failed to improved enough to be reclassified which is untrue.
Furthermore, we have been told that the Ofsted inspector said on arrival before the monitoring inspection took place, that Roke would not get a rating better than 'satisfactory' because there was insufficient time between inspections to prove that improvements had been embedded or were sustainable. This is the real reason which, as Lord Nash writes, there is 'limited evidence that (improvements) are secure and sustainable'. It has little to do with the school's efforts but rather with the government failing to give the school enough time to achieve this within its' own inspection frameworks, before rushing to turn the school to an academy.
Lord Nash says, 'Harris has confirmed that it wishes to support notice to improve and bring about the improvement needed' at Roke. Therein lies the crux of the matter. It is highly likely, if a full inspection was to take place today that the school would perform much better, and would come out of 'Notice to Improve' or its new equivalent category.
As it stands, Harris will simply come in and take all the credit for improvements that have already taken place. We believe that Roke may have been targeted as a school where, a relatively small nudge is needed to return us to our previous 'outstanding' status. This will give Harris and academy policy false credibility.
Lord Nash says that the government recognises the 'importance of formal local consultation' and that it is 'a legal requirement before any school can open as an academy'. We suggest that his definition of 'consultation' is different to everyone else. His letter makes it clear that all decisions about Roke, its future as an academy and its sponsor have already been made. To suggest that consultation takes place after the fact is ludicrous. Moreover, to suggest that the consultation is most meaningful when it is run by the preferred Sponsor, in this case Harris, is also ludicrous and bordering on corrupt.
The consultation must be operated legally, and cannot be a presentation or a deliverance of a decision already made – it must be legally meaningful. It must be an actual consultation – you consult and decide as a result, not in advance.
As it stands key decisions about our school have been made behind closed doors before consultation has taken place. The DfE is withholding crucial information about the decision making process, as evidence by failure to disclose information requested by parents under the Freedom of Information act. The DfE has also flouted its own rules regarding forcing a school that is not actually failing. The DfE is not operating by the Principles set down by the Committee of Standards in Public Life (1985) particularly the principles of accountability, openness or honesty.
Put simply, our own British government is breaking all the democratic values that this country holds dear."
We congratuate the Save Roke Campaign Commitee on their rejection of this further extension of academies into Croydon's education and pledge our support for their campaign.
Martin Graham


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A real sleeper effort from the Perse family, the 2004 Pavie has a dense, bluish purple color and a wonderful, sweet kiss of blackberry, licorice, spice box and roasted herbs. The wine is rich, deep, full-bodied and absolutely remarkable for the vintage. This is certainly a candidate for one of the wines of the year and seems still relatively youthful and promising. Drink it over the next 20 years. Robert Parker 94
Good deep fresh ruby. Vibrant, complex aromas of blackberry, violet, licorice, espresso and minerals. Concentrated, spicy and fresh, with lovely clarity and lift to its penetrating dark fruit and mineral flavors. Densely packed and downright palate-staining for 2004 without any impression of heaviness. This has plenty of fat for the year and finishes impressively dense, with ripe, building tannins. Owner Gerard Perse notes that Pavie has the benefit of three different soil types, while Pavie-Decesse is a single block of old vines on calcaire Thus Pavie is always more complex, he adds, and the portion of younger vines at Pavie brings a fruity quality that's sometimes missing in Pavie-Decesse.
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2014 Edmonton International Street Performers Festival
July 4, 2014 @ 11:00 am - July 13, 2014 @ 5:00 pmFree
Come take in the daily fun that is the 2014 Edmonton International Street Performers Festival being held July 4 -13th. StreetFest is open to the public and free.
This fun family-friendly event is now in its 29th year and bigger than ever. The main festival site is Sir Winston Churchill Square at 99 Street and 102 A Avenue.
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Philadelphia Salutes Long-Lost Music Hero with Telemann 360ºBy Fleisher Collection Mon, October 2, 2017
by Anne Schuster Hunter
This month, Philadelphia celebrates one of the biggest "new finds" in old music: German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. A big party to celebrate Telemann's 250th anniversary is underway to take place on October 11 to 16 and organized by Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare and Temple University's Boyer College Music and Dance. Telemann 360º will be a 5-day, multidisciplinary festival; it is a major contribution to international Telemann celebrations taking place this year.
Telemann 360º celebrates all things Telemann and his music, but also all facets of a man with an insatiable curiosity about brewing, finance, gardening, literature, printing, publishing and more. Events include two all-Telemann concerts, a live talk-show, an international scholarly conference, pop-up events in gardens, pubs, museums and boats with a Philadelphia-Telemann connection, broadcasts, and recordings.
This year's 250th celebrations welcome Telemann back from a long period of absence. Baroque music like his—music of the 17th- and 18th-centuries—underwent an eclipse in the 19th century. It was rarely performed and much of it was even lost until musicians began to rediscover it in the mid-20th century. Excitement has been growing ever since. These days, musicians and fans all over the world are digging back into the baroque era like treasure-seekers, finding more and more lost gems.
Telemann is among the biggest and best of all the finds. In his lifetime, he was one of the most admired composers in Germany, if not Europe, much better known than his contemporary and friend, J. S. Bach. Employers fought over him, musicians idolized him, he was praised, published and pirated everywhere. As rediscovery proceeds, masterpieces are re-emerging. Why they disappeared from concert culture for so long is a fascinating question; Telemann 360º will take a closer look with a live talk show—recorded for radio broadcast—exploring the fickle nature of fame.
Telemann never visited Philadelphia but he seems at home here, somehow. Like many of our Philadelphia founding fathers, he was an Enlightenment man, self-made, ingenious, and hard-working. His world in Europe may have been dominated by monarchs, but he felt the same urges toward personal freedom and self-determination felt in the City of Brotherly Love.
In the 1730s, when Benjamin Franklin and his friends began the subscription library that would become the Free Library, "to render the benefit from books more common," Telemann was in Hamburg, Germany, writing that "one who can be of use to many does better than one who writes for a few." He followed his own advice by producing an enormous body of work directed toward every segment of the music-loving public.
He wrote music for all levels and occasions and clients. He wrote for impossibly elegant high-society Parisian salons, for dukes and counts and courtiers, for hard-working music directors at Lutheran churches, for virtuosi, for coffee-house patrons, for amateurs looking for parlor entertainment.
One of his most endearing popular productions was a bi-weekly music magazine that ran from 1728 to 1729 called Der Getreue Music-Meister (The Faithful Music Master). Each issue was a grab-bag of musical treats like flute sonatas in canon (rounds) and a duet based on Swift's popular Gulliver's Travels in which the notes provide a visual for the story—great big slow notes for the giant Brobdingnagians and tiny little skitters for the Lilliputians.
Telemann demonstrated his business smarts as well as musical ones by dividing longer pieces into short sections and scattering the parts over consecutive issues, the way literary magazines release serials; that way, single-issue buyers had to subscribe to get the whole piece.
Canny. You get the feeling Georg Philipp Telemann and Benjamin Franklin would have gotten along just fine.
Telemann 360º Concerts
The Faithful Music Master
October 13
American Philosophical Society, Ben Franklin Hall
8:00 p.m.
Fire & Invention - Telemann's Showpieces for the Dresden Orchestra
October 14
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman Theater
8:00 p.m.
Talkshow (with musical examples):
The Case for Telemann
October 11
Independence Seaport Museum
6:00 p.m.
Georg Philipp Telemann: Enlightenment and Postmodern Perspectives
October 12-14
Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Hall Annex, Temple University
Registration »
For more on Telemann 360º events and further information, visit https://tempestadimare.org/telemann-360.
Major support for Telemann 360º has been provided by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from The Presser Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Funders for the conference include Temple University, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, the Zentrum für Telemann-Pflege und –Forschung in Magdeburg, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).


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Oh I haven't done a pointless online quiz in a while so here goes:
Which finger are you? Hehe And what do you hope you'll be before ya take the quiz?
Post your results in the comments.
You Are the Thumb
You're unique and flexible. And you defy any category.Mentally strong and agile, you do things your own way. And you do them well.
You are a natural leader… but also truly a loner. You inspire many but connect with few.You get along well with: The Middle Finger
Stay away from: The Pinky