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"Paddy, Paddy! you have got to come here at once," called out Briar. Meanwhile Verena took one of his arms, Patty clasped the other, Briar danced in front, and so they conducted him into the middle of the group. "Here's your stool, Paddy," cried Briar. "Down you squat. Now then, squatty-vous." Mr. Dale took off his spectacles, wiped them and gazed around him in bewilderment.
This idea actually occurred to Razumov; his hands being released after a darkly eloquent squeeze, he smiled, with a beating heart, straight at the beard and the spectacles hiding that impenetrable man. This is a duel." Many seconds passed without a sign or sound. "Yes, yes," the great man said hurriedly, in subdued tones, as if the whole thing had been a stolen, breathless interview. "Exactly.
Monsieur Alain gently laid his book, which was much worn at the corners, on a little table with twisted legs, and signed to the young man to take another chair, removing as he did so a pair of spectacles which were hanging on the end of his nose. "Are you ill, that you have left your room at this hour?" he asked.
Since the said wig, like a piece of texture all tumbled and tangled, spread out thick and wide all over his back, it might very well be taken for the cocoon out of which the fine silkworm had crept. The worthy Splendiano Accoramboni stared through his big, bright spectacles, with his eyes wide open, first at his patient, then at Dame Caterina.
And what is very remarkable in my children is, that my three daughters and Tommy, who had the full graundee, had exactly their mother's sight, Jemmy and David had just my sight, and Pedro's sight was between both, though he was never much affected with any light; but I was obliged to make spectacles for Tommy and all my daughters when they came to go abroad.
Has she married again? 'She's revived "The Valley," and she's in New York with it, I told him. "When I wakened in the morning he was gone, but he'd left a piece of paper in a cleft stick beside me, with directions for reaching the railroad, and well, here it is." Bassett took from his pocket-book a note, and passed it over to David, who got out his spectacles with shaking hands and read it.
He banished from Rome all the Jews, who were continually making disturbances at the instigation of one Chrestus . He allowed the ambassadors of the Germans to sit at the public spectacles in the seats assigned to the senators, being induced to grant them favours by their frank and honourable conduct.
And she kept on saying, "having had tea" or "having drunk tea," and it seemed as though the only thing she had done in her life was to drink tea. The bishop slowly, languidly, recalled the seminary, the academy. For three years he had been Greek teacher in the seminary: by that time he could not read without spectacles. Then he had become a monk; he had been made a school inspector.
Queen Anne was at Greenwich, but, according to custom, the few preceding days were to be spent at the Tower; and on the 19th of May, she was conducted thither in state by the lord mayor and the city companies, with one of those splendid exhibitions upon the water which in the days when the silver Thames deserved its name, and the sun could shine down upon it out of the blue summer sky, were spectacles scarcely rivalled in gorgeousness by the world-famous wedding of the Adriatic.
"What's that?" asked the girl, immediately interested. The cobbler looked over his spectacles and smiled. "A Jew, just a plain Jew." "I don't know what a Jew is either," confessed Jinnie. Lafe groped for words to explain his meaning. "A Jew," he ventured presently, "is one of God's chosen folks. I mean one of them chose by Him to believe." "Believe what?"

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It's autumn: the sun is shining, the air is crisp and we've had a conker...I mean corker...of a month!
National Cupcake Week
We started the month in our favourite way - by eating cake! National Cupcake Week is one celebration that we always celebrate because...well, why wouldn't we?! We thoroughly enjoyed tucking in to some tasty treats, and the accompanying sugar high.
European Day of Languages
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Happy Fishaversary to Content Editor-in-Chief, Katie, who has been with us for a whole year!
If you subscribe to our blog, you'll be very well aware that we share loads of awesome tips and resources for recruiters, but what you may not know is that it's Katie who manages all of this. It's no mean feat, and also no coincidence that since Katie took the reigns we've won the UK Recruiter award for Blog of the Year!
Fish of the Month
Our Fish are a brilliant bunch, but when one of the shoal goes above and beyond we like to recognise and reward them. Our Fish of the Month for September is Senior Developer, Tommy.
It's been holiday season but Tommy has really stepped up in helping cover for his colleagues while also working on the complex technical requirements he's responsible for. No matter how busy Tommy is, he's always fun and cheerful, and really lives our values of Strive To Be The Best and Don't Take Yourself Too Seriously! Well done and thank you, Tommy!
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A little late today for a lot of reasons. So today was transfer meeting. And I had to leave obviously. So I am now here in..... VILLEGAS [ward]!! Dangerous, no? Jaja. It is the poorest area in all of the mission but... it is the area that baptizes the most. We have a baptismal date for this weekend and one for the 25th of december. Oh, I almost forgot, my new companion is Elder Carazas from Peru. Pretty cool kid so far. So when we came driving here in a taxi, my comp didnt know how to get here. It was really embarassing and really expensive. 120 pesos!!! The driver was quite upset. I kept my mouth shut because I don't know how to get here. Well now I do but before I didnt.
So this area that I am in has some reputations. Well mainly one, it is the best area in the whole mission and it is Presidents most favorite area in all the mission. All of the "bests" have gone through here including one of my most favorite companions Elder Sabey. I am really excited because I have heard so many good things about this area. Yes, it's in a wee bit of a dangerous area but I know I'll be fine. But it is a little freaking right now because we just barely got to my new area and it is late at night and we are writing in a dark internet cafe. It is like 830 at night right now. It was a long drive from Mariló to Ciudad Evita where the apartment is.
Young man baptized in September
Young couple to be baptized soon
So Sunday night was probably one of the saddest days in the mission for me. I had to say goodbye to my family that I love so much and treasure in my heart. Isabel, Juan, Wager, Karina, Luana and Pamela. They are all my family. I feel kinda of bad because I cried more with them then I did with my own family. Sorry Mom and Dad. I never did cry when I came on the mission. Now that I'm on the mission, I have learned to cherish relaciones.... I don't know how to spell it in English. I was crying and crying like there was no tomorrow. I know that they will be alright but the separation from them is what hurts. I wish I could be with them forever and ever. I was also very sad to leave Cesar and Diana and the family. They were working on their papers to get married very soon. Diana is the only non member, o sea, the kids arent old enough to be in our care. (one is 8 years old.). She is going to get baptized once she gets married. I know that they are in good hands and that the Lord will take care of every single one of them. Now I have to get myself ready to meet new people and develop new relaciones. ( I have tried like 7 times in english and none of the ways seem right so I write in Spanish.) (que bajon!).
Kids from Marilo B
Adios Mamita...
Thank you everyone for telling me how great the First Presidency Christmas thing was. I haven't seen it yet but I am pretty sure that is was cool. I get to see it I think and I hope on the 20th of this month. We'll see. Abuelita y Grandpa, I got really excited when I heard that you two wanted to serve a mission again. I got so excited that I went and told my family down here and they were excited also. Are you going to serve down here? That would be the greatest thing ever. I am glad everything is going well at home. How much snow is there? There is none here... jaja. This week, it's supposed to get up to 38 degrees celcius. O sea, 100 degrees Ferenheit!!! With humidity. That my friends, is hot.
Well, I will leave you here because I need to get running to unpack all of my stuff. I love you all and hope you have a great week this week.
Elder Pickett
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Indian Ambassador to Thailand Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi said 73 bridges in Myanmar, built more than seven decades ago during World War II, were being renovated with funding from India to allow vehicles to cross the highway safely.
When the repair work will be completed in 18 months, the highway could be opened to traffic from all three countries, he said. The planned highway starts in the eastern region of India, from Moreh, to Myanmar's Tamu city. Negotiations are currently underway to conclude a tri-nation motor vehicle agreement for the use of the 1,400-km road that will reach Thailand at Tak, Mae Sot district.
"There has always been a meeting of minds between India and Thailand. Our two countries share cultural, spiritual and linguistic links. With this road we will also have physical connectivity," Bishnoi told PTI.
The road will help in transportation of goods and further development of SMEs in Northeast India, he said, adding that the tri-nation highway exemplifies India's 'Act East' policy. Myanmar's Dawei deep-sea port and industrial estate project near the Thai border is also expected to help further integrate eastern India with Southeast Asian countries. "The planned port can be linked up with India's Chennai port as well as Thailand's Laem Chabang Port on the other side of the ocean," the envoy said.
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India is also preparing to negotiate a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which includes the 10-country grouping, on top of the current India-Asean free-trade agreement (FTA). Thai-Indian trade amounted to $8 billion last year, while more than a million Indian tourists visited Thailand last year. There were also about 300 Indian weddings held here. Among major Thai investors in India are CP Group, Delta Electronics, Ital-Thai and Pruksa Real Estate, while the major Indian firms operating in Thailand are Tata Group, Aditya Birla and Indorama.
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Vancouver's sushi pioneer leaves giant legacy
For months, news of Aki Restaurant's closure circulated foodie blogs and tweets, but never from an official media announcement from Aki management. Only a simple message of appreciation to guests hangs outside the doors of the restaurant. As humble as their notice of closure, Aki Restaurant has been a quiet player in the local sushi scene, but its history leaves a profound legacy in Vancouver's culinary heritage.
After 13 years in the discrete downtown basement location, Aki Restaurant is one of several businesses affected by the 745 Thurlow St. demolition. The clearance is to make way for a 24-storey office tower scheduled for completion in spring 2015.
"We initially received the notice of demolition in 2008 before the Olympics, but the project was put on hold due to the recession, " explained Brian Takeuchi, head of operations and son of owner, Aki Takeuchi. "But the project is back on track now, and the final notice arrived in September of 2011.
"It was a bit unexpected to be honest."
A place to be unapologetically Japanese
Since the rise of Vancouver's sushi culture in the 1990s, the city's culture-seeking foodies have come to embrace Aki's charming, unpretentious atmosphere and Japanese comfort food. For the Japanese community, Aki has served to be much more than a place of gathering, but a space where they could be unapologetically Japanese.
First established in the 1960s, the creation of this family-run business stemmed from an 18-year-old's ambition to bring 'raw fish' to Vancouver.
"At that time, Vancouver only had a couple of Japanese restaurants in the Japantown area. . . . Geisha Gardens and Tokyo Sukiyaki," Brian said. "But they just served the cooked stuff, kind of like Chinese-Japanese fusion."
But then along came his father, Aki Takeuchi.
Born 1935 in Steveston, B.C., he was a regular kid until World War II escalated, and the Japanese Canadian community was enveloped in animosity and racist attacks. The Takeuchi family fled to Osaka, Japan prior to the War Measures Act of 1941 which gave the federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin", regardless of whether they were born in Canada.
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When the war ended, Aki returned to Canada by himself, after losing both parents to disease. Settling into Vancouver, gardening became his profession until a road trip to Los Angeles that changed the course of his life forever.
"My dad and a few of his buddies decided to go to L.A. for a vacation, but the funny thing is, they never actually made it that far."
"They ended up blowing all of their cash at a sushi restaurant in Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, and they couldn't even get back home."
Stranded and broke, Aki decided to take a job at that sushi restaurant. What began as temporary stint resulted in five years of training, and the realization of Vancouver's need for a similar sushi establishment.
"While my dad worked in San Francisco, he noticed travellers from Vancouver would come by and take out sushi to bring back to Canada."
"It sounds a bit ridiculous now, but there was absolutely no where to get sushi in this city."
Vancouver's first raw fish restaurant
So in the summer of 1963, Aki opened the original Aki Restaurant at 374 Powell St, and served Vancouver its first 'raw fish.'
"Dad had a great relationship with the Chinese fisherman who would always get him the freshest catch."
Slicing raw fish to prepare sushi
But the City Council was quick to notice the bizarre activities of this Japantown restaurant.
"Back then, sushi was unheard of, so there wasn't even a license to serve raw fish. In order to convince city officials of this 'unusual' cooking style, dad ended up cooking a complete Japanese meal for all of them. I'm assuming that went well," he chuckles.
Over the decades, Aki Restaurant became a launching pad for many Japanese chefs who eventually set up their own shop in Vancouver, including Chef Koji who opened Koko's on Hastings. Aki has also witnessed Vancouver's sushi restaurant count grow from just one to over 200, as well as the emergence of the fusion-style izakayas.
Yet through the waves of trends and generations, Aki's menu and culture has remained unchanged -- a tribute to their timeless concept of simply being Japanese.
Aki, now 77-years-old, has worked every day since that opening day in 1963. Until the final moments of service on February 15, he has stationed himself in the back-of-house prepping and washing dishes.
"Dad doesn't like to be in the spotlight – he doesn't care who brought sushi to Vancouver, and he hates it when he's asked, 'who really made the California roll first?' He just wants to simply do his job."
Brian hopes to reopen at a location nearby, but the rising costs of downtown leases may force his family's business to come to an end.
"There's no doubt we want to open again, but if the numbers don't add up, we can't afford that kind of risk."
Although the Takeuchi family and its loyal guests remain optimistic for the next chapter, a permanent closure of Aki Restaurant would mean Vancouver has lost a piece of its history, the oldest and longest-running Japanese restaurant remaining.


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OREM, Utah (AP) Marcel Davis scored 17 points and Jarred Shaw scored 12 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to pace Utah State to a 69-63 victory over Utah Valley on Saturday night.
The lead changed hands 10 times, most of those in the first half, before Utah State (6-1) took control.
Utah State shot 54.7 percent from the floor, had a 35-20 rebounding advantage and its bench outscored Utah Valley (5-7) 17-0.
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Jeromy Henry earned a B.A. in English and Art from Drury College in 1997, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia College in 2005. He spends his free time writing, drawing, programming, designing board and card games, reading, and running around after his two munchkins. A number of e-zines have published his work, including Flagship, Fear and Trembling, Resident Aliens, Quantum Muse, Defenestration, and 365 Tomorrows.


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In this RunAs Radio podcast, Richard talks to Rhonda Layfield during Tech Ed Australia about her work with Microsoft Deployment Tools (MDT). Rhonda goes over the relationship between MDT and Windows Deployment Service (WDS) as well as the Windows Automation Installation Kit (WAIK). All of these tools are free and make image-based deployment tools look wasteful and inefficient. The conversation tears off into deployment in virtualization just for fun. Rhonda mentions AppDeploy.com as a key resource for the MDT user, helping with all the details around configuration applications for deployment in MDT.
Rhonda has been in the IT industry for 27 years beginning with 7 years in the US Navy as a communications specialist with a top secret clearance. Since then she has worked with large utility companies owning nuclear power plants as their Sr. Security Analyst and contracted to Microsoft PSS networking group. She is an international speaker who specializes in Microsoft's new deployment tools and Network Monitor. She enjoys showing you how to quickly and cheaply roll out thousands of desktop and Server OSes and troubleshoot them if they fail. With her two day hands on class she will walk you through all the Microsoft deployment tools so you can decide for yourself which is right for your environment. She is currently an NT/2000/2003 MCSE, Setup & Deployment MVP and Desktop Deployment Product Specialist (DDPS). She contributes articles to and Windows IT Pro magazine and has co-authored two books, one on Windows Server 2003 and another on Windows Server 2008.
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Hello! Billie here. Just thought I'd bring your attention to a certain film festival based in Bristol, which goes by the name of Electric December. A film festival which focuses on showcasing the talent of young film makers from all over the world…
The idea is that 24 films are short-listed, and turned in to a sort of advent calendar, featuring on the Electric December website and being shown on Millennium Square on a particular date leading up to Christmas. So yes, just like an advent calendar except you get a short film made by a young person instead of chocolate.
I found out about this not because of my initiative in taking an active interest in my local arts, I'm afraid to admit, but because my film teacher sent me an email saying how he'd entered my coursework from last year, and it had been short listed as one of the 24.
Brilliant! That is pretty brilliant I agree. But I was at first a little mortified by the fact that the film featured my mum playing a homeless man, and pretending to sing to rather terrible dubbing.
Well why cast your own mother as a homeless man in the first place, you may ask?
The thing is the initial casting call was for an old man, and seeing as we were filming on a dodgy old cannon I'd got for my thirteenth birthday, we just didn't have the resources we'd have liked, and quite frankly I don't know that many old men.
So my mum agreed to be in it as long as we didn't show it to anyone other than our film teacher. And I can't fault her on enthusiasm, but bless her, she was meant to be playing a busker ( we were dubbing a man's voice in afterwards), and quite often she'd forget to even pretend to play the guitar, let alone sing anything resembling the right lyrics.
So, after promising her no one but us was ever going to see it, telling her it was going to be on Millennium Square today (my day was the tenth), was rather hilarious. That and all her relatives have been sharing it on facebook.
My film is called 'Fergus', my mum's the bloke in the hat with the guitar.


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Have Your Say! Get Reject!
I'm pretty sure that everyone does visit Brudirect HYS to read people ranting over there. Some post are stupid and some doesn't really make sense when they complained. That is what I hate about the website. Stupid posts are allowed to post on the website and mine got rejected today because I complained about QQ Morange cheating on prepaid user's money which I blog before. The moderate are also somewhat stupid that can't even manage to read properly and allowed double post the same topic again on the website. Not to mention they allowed the user posting a referral link to a rubbished online game site that earned real money which is not related to any sort of complain.
This is my third time same submission got rejected and I suspect QQ probably giving the Brudirect admin or moderate some pocket money to seal off the complainers about their dirty money charging service. How sweet. Looks to me like 'Have no Fear' slogans is just an advertise word for show only. It's a useless place for me now to post the awareness complained about the services. I wanted to bring attention and help the locals and foreigners who are using prepaid to be more careful using Morange. But someone out there is trying to prevent my voice reaching the peoples in Brunei.
Anyway, one words enough for Brudirect HYS. Dissapointed!


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Between 100 and 200 Occupy protesters marched through downtown Oakland, Calif. Friday night, smashing several car windows and the glass front of President Barack Obama's local campaign office, according to media reports.
The protesters had taken to the streets after being denied a permit to demonstrate at a monthly art walk, San Francisco ABC affiliate KGO-TV reported .
Several Obama campaign volunteers were working inside the office when the window was smashed with a brick, according to KGO. No one was hurt.


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The Polka Pirates were founded in 2005 by Duffy O'Neill.
The band did not play out for the first three years, but since then has set the Cleveland polka scene on fire. Cleveland's busiest polka band is the house band at Sterles Slovenian Country House, where it plays every Friday.
The band hosts monthly dances at the Parma Moose, Brothers Lounge and the AMPOL Club in Cleveland.
The band has traveled throughout the Midwest and is always a crowd favorite.
One of few polka bands to entertain at 200 gigs in a year, it gains new fans/friends at every event. Come and "Get Hooked."
The band was nominated for Button Box Band of the Year by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame in 2010, 2012, and 2013.


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One out of every 50 new jobs in the US was in the solar industry last year.
According to the new national Solar Jobs Census 2016, the American solar workforce grew at a historic pace, with employment growth outpacing the overall economy by 17 times.
It increased by more than 51,000 jobs – a total of 260,077 solar workers, The Solar Foundation states.
The workforce grew by 25%, the largest annual growth percentage since the census was released in 2010, with 44 out of 50 states seeing the increasing.
That was due to a "rapid decrease in the cost of solar panels and unprecedented consumer demand for solar installations".
The job growth took place in all sectors, including a 26% growth in manufacturing companies to more than 38,000 jobs nationwide. Installation jobs rose by 14%, project development by 53% while sales and distribution jobs increased by 32%.
Andrea Luecke, President and Executive Director of The Solar Foundation said: "With a near tripling of solar jobs since 2010, the solar industry is an American success story that has created hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs.
"It's clear that solar energy is a low-cost, reliable, super abundant American energy source that is driving economic growth, strengthening businesses and making our cities smarter and more resilient."


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Save the date! Library Advocacy Day is Wednesday, March 1st. This important event is coordinated by NYLA and LTA has a strong presence in Albany on that day.
Each year library advocates from across New York State converge on Albany to voice their support for funding and policies that benefit libraries. Their efforts have resulted in over $7M in additional library aid since 2011. While libraries have many supporters from a variety of professions, library trustee voices are the voices that the legislators most respond to because trustees represent the library patron.
Most activities will take place in the Legislative Office Building (LOB). The LOB is most easily accessed from the Concourse, or through the Capitol Building. Prepare


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Join us select nights in December at The Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels, WV for an unforgettable journey to the North Pole.
A Child's
Brought to Life!
Begin the night trading in your tickets for a cup of hot cocoa and a Passport to the North Pole. You will then be admitted into Santa's Top Secret Navigation Office. First thing's first: Before you can enter the North Pole, Santa's Head Elf must check every family member to see if EVERYONE is on the Nice List this year. So make sure you've been on your best behavior kids, mom's, dad's and even grandparents! Once everyone is cleared, your family will enter the magical portal that takes you straight to the North Pole!
Next, it's up to you to decide which direction to go. The North Pole is full of interactive areas, games, and characters. You can choose to visit the Toy Testing Station to check out new and old toys that the elves are working on. Then you can meet "Olive" the other Reindeer. She will be making appearances all night long in her barn door. You will have to check out Santa's sleigh which is an all new interactive experience this season! Don't forget to stop by and see your favorite character "Crispy" the bakery Gingerbread Man. He's full of jokes, whit, and laughter.
The North Pole wouldn't be The North Pole without a little snow! Let the kids make snow angels and snowballs in our large "Snow Pit". Then head on over to "Elf School" to become an honorary elf. (Elf school usually takes about 99 years to complete, but you can get the 10 minute crash course at Santa's Adventure).
Now it's time to visit Santa and Mrs. Claus. Step inside Santa's North Pole house to have a unique interactive visit with the big man himself. Be sure to tell him what you want for Christmas! Complete your visit by stopping in Mrs. Claus' kitchen where she'll be whipping up some of her famous cookies just for you to try!
Tickets and Tour Times
Santa's Christmas Adventure is a"Timed Ticketing" event which allows us to keep things moving and wait times down. Advanced purchased tickets are required. Tickets can and will sell out. To see a list of Santa's Special Guests, click here.
Tea With Santa
Before you purchase general admission tickets, you can enhance your adventure with the Tea With Santa add-on.
Weekend Package
For the maximum North Pole experience.
Families are invited to create magical memories through this one-of-a-kind, interactive Christmas adventure. Traveling to the North Pole and back in a night can be exhausting- so stay with us at The Resort at Glade Springs.
Judi C.
This was a magical night for my granddaughter as she entered the portal to the North Pole to visit Santa and have cookies with Mrs. Claus. She made an ornament and graduated from Elf School to complete the night's events. We spend the night in a beautiful double queen room and had a wonderful buffet breakfast the next morning. This was a weekend my granddaughter won't soon forget and proved very relaxing for us as well during the bustle of the holidays.
Tonya H.
This was such a wonderful experience! My little boy had an amazing time. So glad they put something like this together for children.
Alison G.
A fun experience for all ages. Love Elf School but Mrs. Claus's cookies are the best part!


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From cookbooks packed with delectable recipes to fancy brownie scoopers (yes they do exist), here is a collection of our favorite cooking and baking related things.
Cooking Light Complete Cookbook- Leisure Arts
Barefoot Contessa at Home- Ina Garten
Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorite- Giada DiLaurentiis
Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes- Giada DiLaurentiis
Everyday Pasta- Giada DiLaurentiis
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients- Ina Garten
A Taste of Aloha, The Junior League of Honolulu
Another Taste of Aloha, The Junior League of Honolulu
Aloha Days, Hula Nights, The Junior League of Honolulu
The Dinner Doctor, Anne Byrn (This cookbook has great, simple recipes using ready-made items)
How to be a Domestic Goddess – Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking, Nigella Lawson
Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, Meredith Books (ALWAYS a classic)
Every Day with Rachel Ray
Food Network Magazine- this is new, check it out!
Everyday Food
Real Simple
Cooking Light
My Life in France- Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School- Kathleen Flinn
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen- Julie Powell
The Story of Sushi- Trevor Corson


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280-by-720 display, and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It features an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and 1.9-megapixel front-facing one. The phone, available in two colours — Pebble Blue and Marble White — weighs 133 grams and is 8.6 mm thick.
- Android 4.0 with TouchWiz
- 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos 4212 processor
- 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720
- 8MP camera with AF, LED flash, BSI sensor and 1080p HD video recording
- 1.9MP front camera with a resolution of 720p for video chat
- 16/32/64GB Internal memory, expandable upto 64GB
- NFC, Wi-Fi, DLNA, GLONASS, micro-USB 2.0, HDMI, Bluetooth 4.0
- 2100 mAh battery
Samsung Claims that the phone is inspired by nature and features 'S Voice', an advanced natural language user interface, which would listen and respond to the words of the user. "In addition to allowing information search and basic device-user communication, S Voice presents powerful functions in regards to device control and commands." This includes asking the Galaxy S III to play your favourite songs, adjust the volume, send text messages and emails, organize schedules, or automatically launch the camera and capture a photos
Enjoy Guys! and don't forget to post your comments. © MyTricksTime.com


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264 pages.
from $28.00
Hardcover ISBN: 9780804754569
Paperback ISBN: 9780804754576
Ebook ISBN: 9780804768115
The late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary writers of our time, Asja Szafraniec argues that the shared feature of literary works as Derrida understands them is a double, juridical-economical gesture, and that one aspect of this notion (the juridical) is more hospitable to Beckett's oeuvre than the other. She then discusses other contemporary philosophical approaches to Beckett, including those of Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Cavell, and Alain Badiou. The book offers an innovative analysis of Derrida's approach to literature, as well as an overview of current philosophical approaches to contemporary literature, and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work.
About the author
Asja Szafraniec obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam.
"Those who live by the word have unfinished business with the achievement of Samuel Beckett. Asja Szafraniec's ambitious study, taking Derrida's elaborations as measures in turn measured by Beckett's corpus, is as clear and comprehensive and illuminating a progress with the complex of these performers as one might ask for. Near initiates of this region of crisscross between what is called philosophy and what literature, as well as experienced warriors within it, should find cause to be grateful for Asja Szafraniec's sure hand and expansive connections."
—Stanley Cavell, Harvard University
"This is a remarkable and valuable work in many respects, in particular because it is not only the first, to my knowledge, to systematically explore the relation between Derrida and Beckett, but also because it puts Derrida's vision of literature to the test in the context of a corpus of writings that does not belong to the canon of literature with which he has been involved."
—Rodolphe Gasché, SUNY Buffalo
"I know of no author who brings to the page such a deep understanding of Derrida's philosophy along with such a delicate, piercing awareness of the singularity of Beckett's text and its place in the literary institution."
—Peter T. Connor, Barnard College
"Szafraniec makes an important contribution to discussion on transactions and interconnections between Samuel Beckett and Jacques Derrida, two writers engaged in very different kinds of deconstructive operations That Beckett may have exposed the exhaustion of literature in order to evade the inevitable delusions that language engenders is an extraordinary thesis, which Szafraniec makes credible."


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We found 1 episode of Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show with the tag "cast member".
Let's Get Very Dangerous!
October 21st, 2019 | Season 7 | 38 mins 5 secs
architecture, cast member, danger, design, disney, disney world, engineering, imagineering, indiana jones, reddit, space camp, theme park, universal studios
Scottye cuts it close. Jim goes for a spin.


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Scrabble & Words with Friends Word Unscrambler
Definition of Jewing
3 Definitions of Jewing
The definition of jewing, the meaning of word Jewing
Is jewing a scrabble word? Yes!
- n.- someone whose religion is Judaism, or who is a member of a group whose traditional religion is Judaism
- n.- a believer in the religion known as Orthodox Judaism, a form of the Jewish religion that strictly follows the laws given in the holy books called the torah, including rules about food and clothes. Men who are Orthodox Jews wear black clothes and large black hats and usually have long beards.
- -.- in the New Testament of the Bible, another name for jesus
0 Synonym of Jewing
Jewing is worth 17 points in Words with Friends
There are 6 letters in jewing: E G I J N W


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HCW, HMA, OLM – Oh My!
I've been working with a few customers lately on integration between Office 365 and on-premises Exchange. My goal in this post is to give a foundational understanding of the technologies that can be enabled for co-existence between Office 365 and on-premises, and new features that can be enabled for your on-premises mailboxes. In this post I will cover: Exchange Hybrid Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) Outlook Mobile … Continue reading HCW, HMA, OLM – Oh My!


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Fiduciary duties are duties owed by a Trustee to the Beneficiaries of a Trust. One of those duties is the duty of Impartiality. Impartiality means that if a Trust has two or more beneficiaries, the Trustee has a duty to treat all beneficiaries fairly. Fairly does not necessarily mean equally; It all depends on the terms of the Trust. The terms of a Trust can state that one beneficiary should be favored over another. For example, when the beneficiaries of a Trust are a spouse and children, the spouse is often favored during her lifetime. If that is the case, then the Trustee must follow … Read the rest
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Lessons for Trustees and Beneficiaries Part III – Investing Trust Assets
A Trustee has a duty to invest and manage trust assets. How to go about investing Trust assets depends upon the goals of the Trust, Ohio law, and the beneficiaries' needs. The goals of the Trust can be determined by simply looking at the Trust language. Ohio law dictates that a Trustee consider a number of factors when making investment decisions: The general economic conditions, the possible effect of inflation or deflation, the expected tax consequences of investment decisions or strategies, the role each investment plays within the overall trust portfolio, the expected total return… Read the rest
Lessons for Trustees and Beneficiaries Part II- Safeguarding Trust Property
A Trustee must take reasonable steps to take control of and protect trust property. Hence, if it is tangible property, property that you can touch and hold like antiques, an art or coin collection, cars, etc., the Trustee must take physical possession of that property and ensure that it is protected. This can mean using a safety deposit box or a secure storage unit when appropriate.
A Trustee must also keep trust property separate from his own property. Trust property should never be intermingled with a Trustee's own property. A Trustee should keep good records concerning all trust property. … Read the rest
Lessons for Trustees and Beneficiaries Part I – What is a Trust and Who Has to Know About it?
What is a Trust?
A Trust is a legal document that sets out the rules for the transfer of property (Ie. When the property will be distributed, How much, To whom, etc.). The person who creates the trust and is seeking to transfer his property is called the Settlor or Grantor. The person who holds onto the property is called a Trustee and the person who is to benefit from the property is the Beneficiary.
Who Has to Know About a Trust?
According to Ohio Law, unless the Trust says otherwise, a Trustee must keep all current beneficiaries of a Trust informed about the administration of the Trust. If a beneficiary… Read the rest


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The well-known telecommunications company, Sprint has officially announced that the highly anticipated touch screen Palm Pre smartphone will hit Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack and select Wal-Mart stores starting June 6, 2009, based on the new Palm webOS mobile platform, enabling users to bring their personal and professional calendar, contacts as well as e-mail together for one centralized view, thanks to its Palm Synergy feature.
"The argument that you need one phone for work and another phone for play, or that you have to make compromises between business and lifestyle productivity, is over," said Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint. "With Pre, compromises of the past are history."
"Pre is truly a new phone for a new web-centric age," said Ed Colligan, president and CEO of Palm. "We're a mobile society, and we want our people, calendars and information to move with us. With Pre's exquisite design and the unique webOS software, running on Sprint's fast broadband network, we're changing the perception of what a wireless phone can be."
"Sprint's Now Network brings you America's most dependable 3G network, the largest push-to-talk community, and in selected markets Sprint is the only national carrier bringing 4G to life in 2009," added by Hesse. "The Now Network is more than just a physical network – it's also data plans that are all-inclusive, eliminating fear of data overages and a perfect fit for Palm Pre users."
The cool Palm Pre smartphone will be available nationwide beginning June 6 in Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack and certain Wal-Mart stores for $199.99, after a $100 mail-in rebate and a new 2-year service contract (Everything Data plan or Business Essentials with Messaging and Data plan). In addition, the innovative Touchstone Charging Kit (includes Touchstone charging dock and Touchstone back cover for Pre) which Sprint claims as the first inductive charging solution for phones, will be available on June 6 for $69.99.


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Derale Tube-Fin Engine Oil Cooler Kit w/ Sandwich Adapter (Multiple Threads) - Class III
I purchased this kit 1 year ago for an 08 Toyota Highlander V6 Sport. The vehicle had a small (and I mean small) trans cooler already installed with the sport, but adding this additional cooler gives us the piece of mind an confidence that when either towing or evening just sitting in temps up to 116F at the drive through in SoCal during summer hours, my family will stay cool. The fans run less and the whole vehicle runs a bit cooler as well. I have verified this with 3rd party OBD readers, actively watching oil temps both at normal operating temps, hill climbs, towing, and when sitting in extreme heat. IT DOESNT BUDGE! I dont have enough good things to say about this cooler. If youve ever thought about it, you should do it. Very easy to install and it flat out works.
Installed this product on my 2013 Ram 5.7 Hemi. Install was simple and straight forward. I hoped there would be improvements in the operating temperature of my engine oil, which there was. Now towing my trailer is no worry about engine oil temp. This cooler works exactly as advertised, and the temp never go above 220. An unexpected result was better gas mileage by almost 2 additional miles per gallon. Also the truck runs much quieter than before and smoother. This noticed by my wife who rides with me always. So I would defiantly call this a win win install and purchase.
This upgrade to my Ram has paid for itself after one year of use by extending the oil life thus reducing oil change intervalEd S - 06/20/2017
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Derale Stacked-Plate Engine Oil Cooler Kit w/ Sandwich Adapter (Multiple Threads) - Class III
Great product
I bought this engine oil cooler so I could pull my 21 foot boat with my 2016 Ford Explorer. I am very pleased with how it works. It was easy to install even with having to remove the bumper cover so I could attach it to the front of the radiator. I would buy another one if I ever needed to. I would also buy from etrailer again, they have great prices and products.
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Derale Stacked-Plate Engine Oil Cooler Kit w/ Sandwich Adapter (Multiple Threads) - Class III
Code: D15605
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Derale Tube-Fin Engine Oil Cooler Kit w/ Adjustable Sandwich Adapter (Multiple Threads) - Class III
Happy to find a system with the adapter. Mounted to my 4runner very easily. Not much confidence in the plastic mounting method will make something else.
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Derale Tube-Fin Engine Oil Cooler Kit w/ Spin-On Adapter (Multiple Threads) - Class III
Recieved item on time, great quality.
To start I gave the product a good rating only because the kit put together by Derale came with the wrong barb fittings. I called Derale directly and they sent out the right fittings. I have not installed the kit yet but it is well made in the USA. If the kit would of came with the proper barb fitting definitely would of got a excellent rating.
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Derale Stacked-Plate Engine Oil Cooler Kit w/ Non-Thermostatic Sandwich Adapter - Class III
I am extremely disappointed in this product. Installation has been a nightmare, even being someone that has automotive experience. From etrailer.com's recommendations to other customers I purchased this oil cooler for my 2010 Dodge Journey. DON'T! Unless you have access to some way to make a custom mounting bracket mounting is impossible. This CANNOT be mounted using the supplied method due to the stock cooling fan mounting shroud. After making my own mounting brackets from aluminum this cooler has done nothing but leak. It uses adapters, attached to adapters to make the connections to the tank, they leak. To attach the lines to the sandwich plate the instruct you to use teflon tape, or a similar sealant. With the temperatures and pressures involved keeping this from leaking took several attempts, not to mention oil sprayed all over the underside of my vehicle, including my brakes, and the front of my brand new trailer. Overall a very, very disappointing experience with this product.


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Re: People I call say they can't always hear me.
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:07 pm
Goose, until you sort out the wiring or service quality, you might want to set the QOS to 0. Ooma can take care of itself for the BW it needs upstream.Goose92833 wrote:I ran the test from a wirelessly connected laptop. The configuration of the system is Cable Modem to Ooma to Router. I have the QoS set on the Ooma to 1350 I think.
I haven't really used my Ooma phone to call but one person. Since the call breaks up, I didn't want to use it to call anyone else until I resolved the issues.
Would it be beneficial to run the test connected directly to the cable modem?


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There is something so joyous about a confetti picture, no? Whether they are planned or take the couple completely by surprise the results are always epic. Especially when there's a confetti cannon involved. The clever cylinder of nitrogen allows individuals to launch and spray paper pretty high into the air producing a beautiful canopy of confetti around you, perfect for creating moments of pure magic for your photographer to capture.
Here's why you need a confetti cannon at your wedding…
Confetti Cannon {Ceremony Exit}
Long has it been a tradition to shower the newlyweds with confetti after they say I do. Originating in Italy (confetti actually means sweets in Italian), but now adopted all over Europe confetti is thought to bring the happy couple fertility and prosperity. Thankfully we've moved on from the British tradition of throwing rice and there are a plethora of less painful confetti options to suit your chosen colour scheme and save you from a few nasty grains in the eye. There are even bio-degradable options to help us reduce our carbon footprint and be more eco-conscious. Or you could opt for a pretty petal, adding fragrance to the moment. Our handpicked supplier, Shropshire Petals can offer beautiful, colourfast options which will not transfer onto your dress even in wet weather, but if using alternatives please do be aware that some can leave colour stains when wet. And whilst we're on the subject of checking, it's always best to ask your venues permission if it's ok to throw confetti. Some venues like to restrict this wedding tradition to certain areas, others are more than happy for you to partake in it wherever you see fit.
Confetti Cannon {Dance Floor}
Couples are no longer restricting the use of confetti to after the ceremony either, many are opting to use confetti bombs to launch their first dance and get the evening reception started. I mean who wouldn't be in the mood to party after their very own ticker tape parade!
You don't have to be bound by the examples we've shown here either, there are numerous opportunities for you to use a confetti cannon on your wedding day, whilst you're cutting the cake, leaving for your honeymoon or entering your wedding reception as the newly married couple.
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Figure 1: Mechanical Properties of Electrospun Silk Scaffolds for Vascular Grafting
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(A) Scanning electron micrograph of electrospun silk. Scale bar = 10 μm. (B) Cross section of electrospun silk (white), demonstrating scaffold porosity (black). (C) Representative amine I Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy spectra of silk prior to electrospinning (red), post-electrospinning (blue), and after cross-linking (black). (D) Proportion of β-sheet crystallinity in electrospun silk prior to electrospinning, post-electrospinning, and after cross-linking. Mechanical properties of silk, compared with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) and fresh rat aorta as control scaffolds. (E) Youngs moduli, (F) ultimate tensile strength (UTS), and (G) percentage of elongation. Data are mean ± SEM; n = 9 to 12 (n = 2 for rat aorta). (H) Macroscopic images of electrospun silk graft. Scale bar = 1 mm. (I) Quantification of the maximum pressure before failure. Data are mean ± SEM; n = 6 (n = 3 for rat aorta). (J) Suture pull-out data of silk graft, with rat aorta as a control. Data are mean ± SEM; n = 7 (n = 3 for rat aorta).


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Growing up in Massachusetts in the late 1980s and early '90s, there weren't as many opportunities for girls hockey, so Katie Guay played with the boys until ninth grade. She always tucked her hair under her helmet. "I did it so when I was going into the boards, I wasn't as easy of a target," says Guay, now 36.
After graduating from Brown University in 2005, Guay began a post-hockey career in officiating. Now when she's on the ice — in stripes — she keeps her ponytail visible, poking out from behind her helmet. That includes this past week when Guay was one of four women to call NHL prospect tournaments; it was first NHL-affiliated event that women have ever officiated.
"People do notice," says Guay, who was in Anaheim where the Avalanche, Kings, Sharks, Ducks, Golden Knights and Coyotes all sent their top prospects. "The hope is our skill won't differentiate us from the guys out there. At the end of the day, you want to go unnoticed, and hopefully the ponytail doesn't change people's perception of our performance."
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Guay points to her own personal paradox: officials, inherently, like to be anonymous. If people don't notice them, that means they're doing their job well. But Guay is also proud of who she is and what she has achieved. She hopes her presence on the ice could inspire the next generation of women to try officiating when their playing careers are over.
"It's just been an issue of exposure," says Kelley Cooke, who refereed for the prospect tournament hosted by the Predators in Nashville. "Women didn't really think of officiating as an option. I didn't [when I was playing]. If you don't see women out there, you wouldn't really think about it."
The NHL is committed to maintaining a talented pool of potential officials, and that has meant expanding recruiting efforts.
"We need great people in hockey, great athletes from hockey, to get into officiating," says Stephen Walkom, the NHL's director of officiating. "If they happen to be women, that's great. We just need the right people."
The NBA and NFL both have female officials in their rotations. The MLB is close, with umpire Jen Pawol becoming the first female to work a spring training game in 2018. The NHL isn't quite there yet, but could be soon.
"Maybe we just haven't attracted the women athletes with great skating skill sets to try it, that's the reason," Walkom says. "It's just a matter of getting the great women athletes out there and trying it and loving to do it. I don't think you can put a timeline on it. But when the right person comes along, and they develop into a top prospect and work in the minor leagues and conquer each league along the way, then we'll have a woman officiating in the NHL. That will happen, it's just a matter of time."
Walkom, a former NHL official himself, has led two big recruiting efforts for officials in his time with the league. The first came after the 2004-05 lockout. "We were getting lots of complaints, at all levels, about what's going on and what we can do to improve the pool of officials," Walkom says. He began reaching out to a lot of Division 1 and CIS schools, asking coaches if any of their graduating players would have interest in trying the profession.
Coming out of the next lockout, in 2013, the NHL implemented a series of rules that made the game much faster. Walkom knew he would have to groom a new generation of officials that could keep up. The biggest criteria for a modern official are hockey IQ, strong skating and athleticism. (Consider, most NHL official work about three games a week; current referee Dan O'Rourke told me in 2018 that he burns about 1,000 calories in a game.) Naturally, former players are excellent candidates.
"I really believe that some of the best officials in the world, male or female, are sitting on benches right now across North America and Europe playing hockey," Walkom says. "One day, should they want to give back to the game in a way that appeals to them, officiating could be a place for them in the game."
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Walkom is constantly recruiting and looking for the right talent; he even put in a pitch to Kendall Coyne Schofield after she amazed in her fastest skating demo at the 2019 NHL All-Star Weekend.
The NHL created the Exposure Combine for Officiating in 2014, which is held annually in Buffalo. Walkom's staff runs the event and they invite officials of all levels (including ones trying it for the first time) to run through a series of on- and off-ice drills — similar testing the NHL puts its officials through.
In its first year, there was one female participant. The next few years, there were two. This past year, 11 women attended. Walkom's staff identified four standouts — along with Gauy and Cooke are Kirsten Walsh and Kendall Hanley, both linesmen — and assigned them to NHL prospect tournaments so they could get reps at a high level. All four played college hockey.
"It's been a great experience," Cooke says. "Here this weekend guys are out there to prove themselves and earn a spot [on the NHL roster], so the compete level is through the roof."
Walkom says that everyone who goes through the Exposure Combine enters the NHL's prospective pool database. "They'll be people we'll be keeping an eye on, and watching their development," Walkom says.
Cooke says over the past five years there has been a "drastic change" in the amount of women interested in officiating. "When I played in college [at Princeton from 2009-13] there really weren't many women doing my games," she says.
Last year, Cooke and Guay teamed up as part of the first all-female crew to work at the NCAA Women's Frozen Four. "Exposure is growing," Guay says. "The path is being created as we speak."
This coincides with an overall growth in women's hockey. Girls hockey is one of the fastest-growing sports in America. According to USA Hockey, there were a record 82,808 registered female hockey players in 2018-19, with increases across all age levels including a remarkable jump of nearly 8% in year-over-year registration at the 9- to 10-year-old range. Walkom, who has two daughters that play hockey, says the talent level has grown significantly
All four of the women got into officiating because they said after graduating college there weren't many professional opportunities, and they wanted to stay involved in the game.
Hanley graduated from SUNY Oswego in 2009 and got an internship at the Dallas zoo. She happened to be at a rink playing in a pickup game when she met another woman who was an official. "At that time I was wondering, 'What am I going to do with my life?'" Hanley says. "I had just finished playing at a high level and I didn't know what to do with myself. I'm so used to being in a team environment, a competitive environment and training every day, and I just listened to her when she told me what this was all about. I fell in love with it. It's kind of like playing. It's challenging and you want to get better at it every day."
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Welsh graduated from Robert Morris University this past spring. She planned to stay in Pittsburgh and began looking for jobs in the oil industry. She landed upon officiating because of Walkom's recruiting. Walkom lives in Pittsburgh and called RMU assistant coach Logan Bittle asking if there were any talented ex-players who might be interested. "If I took a job in oil, it's not a bad route, but I would be starting from scratch," Welsh says. "In hockey, I have 20 years of experience, skating and hockey knowledge."
Welsh is the only of the four women who had no prior experience officiating. At the Exposure Combine, she had to be taught the basic things such as how to drop the puck and where she should be positioned. She thinks she will try pursuing a career in officiating.
"I don't want to be chosen because I'm female, I want to be chosen because I can officiate," she says. "In officiating, you don't need the size and strength to compete with the men. You need to learn how to conduct yourself professionally, and know all the rules, and once you can handle that, I don't know why there wouldn't be an NHL female official really soon. Why not, you know? There's a lot of amazing candidates."
Hanley, too, feels like the NHL is close.
"Being at these events, you can tell the NHL and other leagues are opening up and allowing opportunities for the best officials — whether they are men or women," Hanley says. "Obviously the NHL will look for the best officials. If that happens to be a woman, I have no doubt they'll make that decision when they find that female and give her that opportunity. And I will absolutely be on a flight, or do anything I can to get to the arena, be part of that experience, and cheer her on."


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Are movies with Black casts made to make White audiences feel good?
It's clear that there has been a concerted effort to create and recognize more diverse stories and characters on the big and small screens. Movies like Selma, The Butler and Loving all have told Black-focused stories to both critical and commercial success. While there have been many Black-centered films for years, why are these films just now getting the recognition they deserve? Why weren't similar films made earlier recognized in the same way? In part, it has to do with many films with Black cast being exploitation films.
An exploitation film is a B-movie that was created to specifically appeal to a certain audience. In the 60s and 70s, exploitation films targeted towards Black people, known as blaxplotation, were extremely popular in the hood. Tapping into the civil rights/black power zeitgeist of the era, these movies were the first to show black actors as lead characters and not playing second fiddle to white characters. Some of the most popular movies from this era were Blacula (yes the black Dracula), Shaft and Super Fly. Today you see the genre's influence in films like Eddie Griffin's Undercover Brother, Beyoncé's Foxy Cleopatra in the Austin Powers: Goldmember, and throughout Quentin Tarentino's films, most notably Jackie Brown.
I'm explaining what exploitation films are because it's important to see the evolution of films featuring black actors. 50 years ago, a film like Ride Along with Ice Cube and Kevin Heart would have been regulated to inner-city theaters. But today, it gets a nationwide release, is the #1 film in the country and gets a sequel. While it's great to see that progress, I still have to ask what lead to that change? What have black films done to start getting widespread recognition? While there are many societal factors that can answer this question, I'm particularly interested in one theory. I think that part of White audience's acceptance of black films is because they are the new WHITEsploitation films.
The final cut of a movie is never the writer's pure vision of the film. Throughout the financing and distribution process, many people can influence any number of aspects of the movie. Often these changes happen before filming even starts. If you are a smart filmmaker that just wants to see your film get made, you will adjust your script to better appeal to a financial benefactor. As a result, many movies with Black casts are influenced to appeal to White funders and audiences. If the story is fiction, a white character is usually highlighted as the ally to the black characters. Take The Help, for example, where Emma Stone's character's writings on the mistreatment of Black maids was the focus of the movie. When the story is based on real life, facts may be changed to make the story more dramatic. Take Remember the Titans as an example. In the movie, the school is portrayed as being in a rural Virginia town. In reality, the school is located in Alexandria, a (relatively) progressive suburb right across the Potomac river from Washington DC.
Inevitably in many of these Black movies, a White person is presented as a key factor in helping solve the problem of racism, even if they don't actually solve it. In Hidden Figures, Taraji P. Henson's character was promoted because of a misunderstanding. But thanks to White knight Kevin Costner, he let her stay in the position because he only sees skill, not race. And when he does see race, he'll lead the charge against discrimination. When he noticed that Taraji was absent for large periods of time because the colored restrooms were across campus, he proceeded to take a crowbar to the "Colored Restroom" sign to represent that he would not stand for any more segregation at NASA. Right…because vandalizing company proper is the most effective way to eliminate racism from your work place (PS. The character Kevin Costner played, Al Harrison, is a fictional character. No Al Harrison ever worked at NASA in that role.)
I mentioned earlier that in The Help, Emma Stone decides to write a book about the experiences of black maids. At the end of the movie, Emma Stone's character gets offered a job in New York City for her efforts informing the public about the struggles of the Black maids. However at the end of the movie, nothing really changes for the maids. A couple switched jobs or left the business, but overall the system she exposed was more-or-less unchanged. In both of these cases, White peoples are presented as the savior even though they didn't actually do anything. Maybe this just only happens in Octavia Spenser movies.
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The reason this happened in so many Black-lead movies is the natural White guilt that comes with the humanization of Black characters. It's uncomfortable for people to see themselves as the antagonist/problem so they create characters and situations where they also can feel as if the problem is solved, preferably by themselves. But there are two things wrong with this. 1) It continues to perpetuate the idea that Black people are hopeless to change their situation without the benevolence of Whites and 2) It pretends like the problem is solved when it's not. The issues of racism haven't disappeared since the Civil Rights Era, they've just changed form and become less overt.
12 Years a Slave is the perfect example of how a movie with a supposed positive ending for White audiences could be viewed as a negative one by audiences of color. At the end of the movie, Solomon Northup's White business partner tracked him down, got his freedom and brought him back North to his family. While I was relieved for Solomon, I felt no joy since my mind was still with the slaves back on the plantation he abandoned. What about Patsey who would still be rapped and whipped? What about the other Northern Blacks and Africans who were tricked into slavery and never rescued? What about the millions of slaves who were born into slavery and never escaped? But these movies don't deal with these lingering questions. They just tie a "justice has been served" bow and the end of the movie and leave the audience grateful that we no longer live in that horrible world. That's what makes these mainstream films Whitesplioitation
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Fortunately, a concurrent trend of Black movies and TV shows have also emerged that have addressed current Black issues without the need for White saviordom and pretending racism has been solved. Black-created movies and TV shows like Atlanta, Moonlight and Queen Sugar are more open to leaving ambiguous endings and incorporating the somber tones that better reflect where we are as a country in terms of how we deal with race. Often these projects are done outside of major movie studios and television networks. Moonlight was an independent film. Atlanta is on FX. Queen Sugar is on the OWN network.
I'm glad that we are seeing more Black faces and stories being told on the big screen. These are American stories that deserve to be told just as much as the other historical fictions and biopics. And yes, I'm aware that in every film based on an historical event has details changed in order to tell a more dramatic story. All I'm saying is that in the case of Black films, let's make sure where aware who the story is being told to.


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Midsummer in Sweden is a time to escape the cities and relish the almost midnight sun, in jolly celebrations in which young maidens in ethnic dress and with crowns of flowers on their heads dance daintily as family and friends commune with nature. But what if a community of religious cultists obsessed with reading the runes and practising pagan rituals cut themselves off almost completely from the outside world and every 90 years had a particularly significant ceremony of blackest intent? That is the main scenario of Ari Aster's new film, Midsommar, which is a brilliantly original piece, though not something for the squeamish. There's a prologue in America where a very needy young woman (a great performance by Florence Pugh) is driving her boyfriend (Jack Reynor) to distraction, though when her worst fears about her sister's bipolar condition are realised he rallies round and offers to take her to Sweden along with a fellow young anthropologist friend (William Jackson Harper), and another, rather goofy, college mate (Will Poulter) tags along. One knows as soon as this mismatched quartet pitch up in a superficially idyllic location where little blond children (in real life mainly Hungarian, rather than Swedish, as it happens), run around and the rest of the commune members are engaged in various pastoral and mystical activities that somehow everything is going to turn sour. Indeed, gradually the true nature of the cult begins to emerge and the sinister intentions of its leaders towards the foreign visitors become clear. Clues, like a bear imprisoned in a small wooden cage, are casually laid before the viewer. The rising tension is periodically punctured by some rather good jokes and sexual play. But darker and darker the action gets, despite the bright June light; far from bringing the two lead characters together the Bizarre situation drives them further apart and there are major casualties along the way. Some reviewers have described this a horror movie, but to my mind that is far too simplistic a classification. There are some nasty moments and one empathizes with the growing anxiety of the American visitors. But it is a far more complex work of art than a mere shocker, making one think about relationships, family and the communal discipline of cults. And the ending is positively operatic as a climax.
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Midsommar *****
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On 13 November, 130 people died in attacks across Paris , with three suicide bombs outside the Stade de France where France took on Germany.
French league games went ahead the following weekend without away fans .
The Interior Ministry has extended the ban due to a "lack of police forces available" during the ongoing state of emergency and upcoming climate summit.
A French League (LFP) statement said no away fans would be permitted at the 15th round of Ligue 1 matches and 16th round of Ligue 2 matches this weekend.


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PORTLAND, ORE. — There is a door at Portland State University that doesn't quite lock, and one afternoon in early April, the rapper Aminé walked up to it and gave it a hopeful tug. It popped open with an easy exhale, and he smiled. A couple of years ago, when he was still a student here studying marketing but plotting a music career, he would sneak into this building, make his way to a nondescript beige room on the second floor, and, in the quiet of night, accompanied by no one, work on his songs.
Striving to be a rapper in this city better known for indie rock, roots music and "Portlandia"-level whiteness was "super depressing," he said. The scene was dead. No one replied to his entreaties to collaborate. He couldn't afford to pay for a real studio.
But there was this unassuming room, where, in the fall of 2015, Aminé recorded onto his laptop the vocals for "Caroline," the goofy flirtation — "great scenes might be great, but I love your bloopers/and perfect's for the urgent/Baby, I want forever" — that became a surprise breakout hit last year, and took Aminé from frustrated college student to ascendant hip-hop star signed to a major label, Republic Records. In its video, which has accumulated more than 175 million views on YouTube, Aminé and his friends cavort around the city crammed into the back of a car, or sitting atop it, a high-definition take on low-resolution fun.
Aminé (uh-MEE-nay), 23, has a wonderfully liquid face — bugged eyes, wide smile, exaggerated expressions. The glee he telegraphed in the "Caroline" video immediately marked him as a new but not unfamiliar kind of hip-hop outsider, one preoccupied with brightness, melody and light absurdity, an inheritor of Tyler, the Creator's primary-color exuberance and the earthen emotional presence of the Native Tongues.
His major label debut album, "Good for You," out Friday, July 28, is joyously off-kilter, taking in Southern rap, cheerful pop, indie rock and more. It's amiable, inventive and idiosyncratic, one of this year's most intriguing hip-hop albums and also a bold statement of left-field pop.
It's also part of an emerging hip-hop counternarrative — as opposed to the sensual gloom of Drake, or the narcotic sighs of Future — centered on enthusiasm and occasional silliness, approaches artists like Tyler, Chance the Rapper, Lil Yachty, Kyle and D.R.A.M. have been applying with success. But Aminé sounds like none of them. Instead, he meshes those qualities with the radical melodies brought to hip-hop over the last 15 years by Kanye West, André 3000 and Pharrell Williams.
Hip-hop is moving in a "rebellious, nihilistic" direction, said Rob Stevenson, Republic's executive vice president for A&R, who signed Aminé to the label. "His take was, 'I want positivity, I want storytelling, I want to be clever.'"
From a distance, Aminé (born Adam Amine Daniel) exudes glee and mischief. On the back of his laptop is a Supreme sticker cut up and reshuffled to read "penis." On the cover of his album, he is seated on a blue toilet, naked from the calves up. A few weeks ago, he was selected as part of XXL magazine's annual Freshmen list; on the magazine's cover, he wore a T-shirt with several mispronunciations of his name.
He was determined to release his album during the summer — "When who I truly am as a person shines," he said — but his music, and what comes with it, has been far more complex than mere sunny brightness. Take his single "REDMERCEDES," an ecstatic song about his new car. The video is a parable about privilege: He and his friends wear whiteface and are racially profiled by black employees of a car dealership. "I wanted to reverse stereotypes," he said. Plus, he wanted to emphasize the disquieting phenomenon of seeing white faces rapping a particular racial epithet: "I'ma show you exactly what you like. You look corny."
And then there's the naughty "Caroline," which echoes throbbing, pugnacious Southern rap. When he performed it on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" days after the presidential election in November, he added a searching, devastating verse, concluding with, "You can never make America great again/All you ever did was make this country hate again."
He was so nervous that it took him three takes to get it right. "The crowd is suburban, man," he said. "If I saw people that looked like me, I'd be a little more comfortable saying what I was saying."
It was one of pop culture's first powerful responses to the election, and it marked Aminé as someone unwilling to be pigeonholed. "I had people that didn't even congratulate me for the success of 'Caroline' saying, 'Thank you for doing that.'" he said. "Trump as the president doesn't make sense to me. Someone talking about the country and the people who live in it that way when this country is made up of immigrants, I don't get how that can even resonate with people."
His parents, at home in Portland, watched the performance intently. "We were proud but we were worried," said his mother, Etsehiwot Bekele. His father, Daniel Amine, added, "The country is changing, so you feel, are we secure, really?"
Aminé's parents moved to the United States from Ethiopia in the early 1990s, settling in Portland; his mother works for the post office, and his father has been a teacher and translator. At his predominantly white middle school, he "got called the n-word," he recalled. "I felt like an outsider in middle school. Horrible." At home, his parents spoke Amharic and listened to Ethiopian music, but his mother also exposed Aminé to Tupac Shakur, Michael Jackson and John Mayer, and bought him Kanye West's "The College Dropout" and Outkast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below," which became his creative lodestars.
He went to Benson Polytechnic High School, a more integrated institution, and found both friends and a calling in music. He recorded dis songs about other high schools, and helped out at the school's radio station, KBPS-AM. In April, the day after revisiting his college, Aminé was back at his high school, preparing for a promotional video and catching up with the teachers. A plaque on the wall identified him as a 2012 winner of the Kevin Reilly Award for Leadership and Professionalism.
He remained in Portland for college, but every summer he left for New York, crashing on an aunt's couch in Harlem and taking on internships, including at the publisher Complex and the record label Def Jam. "Def Jam commented on one of my Instagram photos once, and all my friends me hit me up, like 'Yoooooo, you signed to Def Jam?'" he said, laughing.
His quest to get out of Portland was relentless, but at the end of each summer, he returned to the city, dejected. At times his personal frustrations would manifest as depression. "I never really talked about it to anybody," he said. "Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends." He wrote in journals and talked to God rather than his parents. Though he had released a pair of mixtapes before "Caroline," a career in music was no guarantee. One time, he performed a gig for Weiden-Kennedy, the Portland creative agency, and his father suggested he bring a résumé.
Those days feel long gone now. Aminé moved to Los Angeles last summer, and is finding people he's simpatico with: He went trampolining with Tyler, the Creator on Tyler's birthday and once grabbed food with Frank Ocean at a Buffalo Wild Wings.
He doesn't get back to Portland much now, so when he returned in April, he spent a whirlwind few days mixing work, family and pleasure. After leaving his old college campus, he headed over to his parents' house for a home-cooked Ethiopian meal. Later that night he went to a youth basketball program supervised by one of his close friends, posting on Twitter, "Portland kids come to young life in NE tonight and praise God with us." The assembled teenagers played it cool, hovering for selfies, then scattering to watch him from afar.
It was Portland-scale celebrity, but celebrity nonetheless. One afternoon, at lunch at the local favorite Tilt, before he'd even had a chance to fully read the menu, someone slipped "Caroline" onto the restaurant's speakers and Aminé giggled a bit. He'd been talking about the folk-punk duo Girlpool, which he'd tried to track down for a collaboration for a few months before finally reaching them. (They appear, briefly and sweetly, on "Hero.")
He was persistent, finally meeting up with them in Los Angeles, pulling up in his red Mercedes. "They were like, 'You really have a red Mercedes?,' and I was like, 'Yeah!'" It turned out the band members had parted ways with their manager, which had made contacting them difficult. He suggested that maybe his manager could take them on. "I was in their position last year," he said. "If I had someone that was that passionate about me, it would have changed my hope for making music."
He kept talking about the Mercedes, joking about how he could drive it all the way from Los Angeles to Portland just to show off, or at least make a short comedic skit about doing that. Then a man in his mid-20s interrupted to ask Aminé for a picture. He got up from the table, the man grabbed his baby from its stroller and everyone gave the camera a bug-eyed smile.


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The affable Italian chef proves chic seafood and family dining go together like fish and chips
Chef Aldo Zilli is a man on a mission, a mission that combines two of his great loves: family and good food. As a father of two young children, Rocco, five, and Twiggy, two, Zilli believes it is time that we Brits adopted some of the Italian attitude that welcomes children into restaurants. To show his commitment to the cause, he's inviting under-fives to dine for free, while babies and toddlers are treated to his range of organic Baby Zilli. Still, you have to be brave to venture out on a Saturday and put the theory to test, but after a trip to the London Aquarium and a whizz around the London Eye, the children were ready for a hearty meal, and Mummy was ready for a glass of Chianti.
The ambiance at Zilli Fish is convivial and relaxed. When we visited, Aldo was there, doing the round of the tables and chatting to diners, posing for photographs. Taking the lead from the celebrity chef, the staff too score well in the charm stakes. But, of course, it's the food that's important, and the food is very good.
While 15-year-old Grace and I kicked off with starters of Bruschetta Of Tiger Prawns Arrabbiata & Fresh Peas (£7.90) and a zingy Fresh Cornish Crab, Mango & Avocado Salad (£9.90), Joe tucked into his Italian Meatballs & Mash (£4.95). The children's menu also features dishes inspired by Aldo's children, such as Rocco's favourite Potato Gnocchi With Pesto (£4.95) and Twiggy's Penne Pomodoro (£3.95). For our mains, the Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli (£9.90) seemed a better choice than the BBQ Sundried Tomato, Rosemary & Garlic Marinated Lamb Steak with Greek Salad (£13.90), which was a bit on the chewy side. We all, however, loved the Courgette Chips (£4) – moreish tempura-style sticks of courgette; and a rather more decadent way of getting one of your five-a-day.
With Joe starting to falling asleep, sadly there was no time to try the home-made Italian ice cream. Next time, we will endeavour to rectify that one. Let's hope the gelato is good.
Zilli Fish, 36–40 Brewer Street, London W1F 9TB, tel: 020 7734 8649
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