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- Was There Another Reason for Electricity Shutdowns in California? - November 12, 2019
- Reconsidering the Virtues of Recycling - September 26, 2019
In the process of defending the latest round of EPA regulations aimed at coal boilers, Lisa Jackson repeated a talking point that we're hearing more and more from defenders of uber-regulation: those dirty coal boilers are so darn old! As part of an Op-Ed attack on industry published in the L.A. Times Jackson observes:
There are about 1,100 coal-fired units at about 500 power plants in this country. About half of these units are more than 40 years old, and about three-quarters of them are more than 30 years old.
Ignore for a moment the fact that air is so much cleaner today than it used to be. Ignore for a moment the fact that the vast majority of the nation meets the National Ambient Air Quality Standards that the EPA itself says defines clean air. And let's also ignore the fact that industrial sources of all kinds (ie, not just power plants, but all of industry) contributes very little to the total amount of air pollutants that are in the air in the country today. Industry is responsible for less than 20% of all particulate matter in the air, for example – according to — — USEPA's own data. We can ignore all of these facts, because Jackson ignores them, so presumably the Agency doesn't think those undeniable truths are important.
What then are we make of these recurring statements quoting the age of the coal fleet? Let's find out:
Here's the narrative that environmental activists want America to believe: the nation is filled with all of these old, dirty, inefficient, uncontrolled power plants. And why do we have old, dirty, uncontrolled power plants? Because the greedy capitalists who run them refuse to build new, clean, efficient, controlled power plants. Now, since they didn't do that, all we want them to do is make these horrible old plants a little less awful and they refuse to do it!
As stories go, that one will certainly find traction among journalists and much of the public, because it sounds so plausible. Can the "Occupy American Electric Power" movement be in the offing? There's only one problem with that tale: it's not true.
The plants in question are controlled. They have electrostatic precipitators or baghouses. Most use low sulfur coals. They employ various techniques to mee their nitrogen oxides emissions limits. They meet the emissions limits that the EPA has laid down and, as a result, the air is far cleaner today than it was even ten years ago. And, some of these plants are planning to upgrade their controls, making investments of billion of dollars. So it's misleading to call these plants "dirty" as Jackson has. They may not be quite as clean as she has now decided they should be, but they are far from uncontrolled.
It is true that they are less efficient than new plants, so why didn't the utilities and industry build new, modern, more efficient power plants? Well – they tried. But, a combination of the incredibly expensive and clunky system that the EPA operates and the way that eco-activists became experts at manipulating that system to block new projects meant that the coal fleet didn't turn over the way it should have. The Sierra Club was particularly successful in preventing new coal plants from being built. They seem to have taken the page down at their website "Beyond Coal" (at least I can't find it any longer) but the Sierra Club used to proudly display a list of the hundreds of new coal projects that they successfully killed by using the EPA permit process, appeal process and the court system to further their agenda. The developers who should have built the new plants to replace the old realized that they could spend millions in development and permit costs and – after several years – have nothing to show for it. Today, there aren't many people willing to even attempt permitting a new coal plant in this country.
So yeah, we do have a whole lotta aging, less efficient coal plants in the U.S. Lisa, just as we continue to operate an aging fleet of oil refineries. But that didn't happen because industry was unwilling to make the investment in building new, modern plants that would have ultimately made them more money. That happened because the EPA and environmental activists made it impossible to to do anything else.


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- At the Central Criminal Court, Stuart Hazell is currently standing trial for the murder of Tia Sharp; in Wales, Mark Bridger is standing trial for the murder of April Jones.
Although the murders of underage girls - and boys - are fortunately rare, when they do occur they cause both great distress and public outrage.
April Jones
was playing in the street with some friends last October; then she was gone. The body of
Tia Sharp
was found in the loft of her grandmother's house in August several days after she went missing.
Although both were underage girls, the two cases could not be more disparate, but there does appear to be one common thread: in both cases it is claimed that the accused had recently viewed child pornography.
The man accused of the murder of Tia Sharp is Stuart Hazell, the former live-in lover of her grandmother. He is currently standing trial at the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, which is arguably the most famous such court in the world, and where the likes of
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The police came in for severe criticism in this case because they found Tia's body in the loft only on the fourth search of the house where she died.
Stuart Hazell pleaded not guilty to murder
on March 8
, and his trial opened this week with Andrew Edis QC
outlining the prosecution case
during which jurors were shown an image of a naked child lying on a bed. There appeared to be blood on the bed linen, and although the girl's face cannot be seen, the claim is that this was Tia shortly after she was murdered by Hazell.
The police have also released
CCTV of Tia's last movements
when she was seen shopping with Hazell, and of her riding with him on a bus, apparently comfortable in his presence.
At the time of Tia's disappearance, Hazell claimed she had left the house to go shopping. Today, the court heard that he had made
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to two prison officers within hours of each other.
He is alleged to have told senior prison officer Gerald King that Tia had fallen down the stairs and broken her neck, while earlier he had allegedly told another officer that Tia had probably been murdered by a neighbour who somehow managed to place her body in the loft. The pathologist who examined the girl's decomposed body said she did not suffer a broken neck, and although it was difficult to determine the cause of death, she was probably killed by some sort of compression.
Over in Wales at Mold Crown Court, the jury heard from a girl of ten who said the accused, Mark Bridger,
had asked her
if she wanted to go on a sleepover with his daughter. The girl said she thought this was a bit odd, and after their conversation, Bridger left. April's body has not been found, although blood and fragments of bone are alleged to have been found at Bridger's home.
Both murder trials will continue tomorrow.
April Jones, the five year old girl who was snatched off the street as she played near her home in Machynlleth, Wales.
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The email below was sent on behalf of the Edgehill Neighborhood Coalition to Parks Director Monique Odom; Members of the Metro Board of Parks and Recreation; and Council Members Burkley Allen, John Cooper, Erica Gilmore, Freddie O'Connell, and Colby Sledge.
July 5, 2018
Subject: Belmont's lease of more land at Rose Park
Dear Board Members of Metro Parks and Metro Councilpersons:
Councilperson Colby Sledge has filed a new amendment to lease more land at E.S. Rose Park to Belmont University for the construction of a two-story athletics building. The Board of Metro Parks and Recreation will deliberate upon this amendment next Tuesday, July 10, 2018.
This new amendment comes after community members have repeatedly opposed the amendment's previous version (Ordinance No. 2017-662) and asked that community concerns be taken into account. As you can see in the attached document [note: images appended below], changes to the amendment were written and finalized by Belmont University's Jason Rogers, Vice President for Administration and University Counsel.
We oppose this amendment because it fails to incorporate community input. Instead, the amendment allows Belmont to determine the terms and conditions of the university's further privatization of E.S. Rose Park.
This amendment places Belmont University's wants over public interests and community needs. There were no public meetings about this Belmont athletics building before either amendment was filed. Metro Board of Parks and Recreation's Policy Manual specifically stipulates that for public-private partnerships there should be, "in conjunction with the area council representatives, a minimum of two community meetings to ascertain the need for services identified" (Policies 3000.29).
In addition, crucial questions persist, as new issues emerge, about this project's fundamental premises and logistical details. Questions include, but are not limited to: why is public land being leased for a private institution's offices and meeting rooms? By what metrics was the annual lease payment of $5,000 determined for a two-story 80 foot X 135 foot building ($417 per month for 21,600 sq. ft., or two cents per sq. ft. a month)? Since the proposed building would block schoolchildren's pathway between Rose Park Middle School and the Easley Community Center, how is this obstructed access being addressed? Why are trees removed for construction not being replaced? Why has a private institution been able to dictate and write the terms of this lease agreement, while public concerns and input have NOT been considered?
A pattern has emerged in the Edgehill area: public lands are being proposed for private use without due process and community decision making. This has occurred with Fort Negley, Tony Rose Park, Murrell School property, and E.S. Rose Park. We hope that together community members, Metro officials, and councilpersons can work to reverse this pattern and save Edgehill's historic parks for Nashville's public community.
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Referring to previously packaged events which got the crowd stuck to their seats and tumbling in excitement, the coordinator "Naija We Hail Thee", noted that this event will be talk of the town as its going to be an entirely unique event and full of surprises.
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The event will be holding at the Sam Mbakwe Hall of the prestigious Concorde Hotel Owerri, Imo State on November 18, 2016.
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We already have Nikon BSI CMOS sensor patents, with dual pixel CMOS AF technology. Today we have spotted a new sensor patent. The new patent surfaced today suggest that Nikon is working on a Multilayer Stacked BSI CMOS sensor. Type of Sensor that we have already seen inside the Sony A9 camera.
Patent No – No. 6048482 (P6048482) click here
Registration date – December 2, 2016.12.2
Publication date – December 21st, Heisei 28 (2016.12.21)
Image Omitted – Structure of sensor No. 11 is a first layer chip with PD, and No. 12 is a stacked secondary layer chip with memory and A / D converter. Both layers are connected with micro – bumps shown as No. 15.
Nikon do make their sensor but they are very limited, there they are limited FSI Technology. On the other hand Nikon D850 uses 45MP BSI CMOS sensor from Sony. We do hope in the next few years we will sure see Mutlilayer Stacked BSI sensors from Nikon.
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Motorcycle riders must wear helmets.
At roundabout, traffic from the left has the right of way.
It is not permitted to cross a continuous white line.
Driving a vehicle fitted with wheel chains on a public road is permitted only in the case of necessity.
The police phone number is 112.
The capital of Port Vila and the town of Luganville only have the paved roads.
Wearing seat belts is not mandatory, but strictly advised.
The minimum age to rent a car in Vanuatu is 23 years; some rental car companies required drivers be
at least 25 years of age.
Another requirement is any driver must have his valid driver license at least for one year.
In Vanuatu, there are no toll roads.
While driving, drivers must carry their valid driver license, car registration documents and insurance certificates.
In a case of the road accident, a driver must stop immediately and report to police office within 24 hours.
Drive in Vanuatu
Before you do, there are a few things you need to know……


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Are You A Regular Online Poker Player?
What makes poker a popular card game? Poker players recognize that unlike other popular gambling options, poker is considered a unique game of skill rather than a game that relies strictly on luck. As a result, players can become world class poker fanatics capable of going all in at any table.
Greeks to pay online poker tax as Pokerstars acquires gaming license
Greek online poker players are liable to pay up to 20% withholding tax at Pokerstars on their daily profits, starting today. The breaking news came yesterday night through an email sent by Pokerstars and FullTilt Poker to their Greek customers. According to the email and the FAQ page that Pokerstars published for this matter, Greek… Continue reading
Gambling tax will make you quit online poker sooner
Never be a quitter! Winners never quit and quitters never win. A solid advice. But regulations in Europe have introduced a new kind of tax, a gambling tax, which sooner or later may push you away from the online poker world. Europe has been over the top to regulate the online gambling industry for good…. Continue reading
Tailoring Your Den to Play Poker Online
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Is Writing about Gambling better than actual Gambling?
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How to Focus on Investing: Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket!
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Poker is dead. Long live the poker!
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Cydney Crasa wins gold in beam for Ward Melville at state gymnastics
BROCKPORT, N.Y. - In the span of her four years on varsity, Cydney Crasa has sometimes pointed to her eyes and then back at the judges either before or during her beam and floor routines, beckoning them to watch.
It's a cheeky move, and brimming with confidence, but for a second Saturday afternoon at the state gymnastics championship, she faltered. The Ward Melville sophomore sidled up to the beam after having just taken a fall on bars -- a misstep that would very likely cost her the top spot. At first she started to point to her eyes, but then decided to get on with her routine.
Crasa bounced back from a rough beginning with a sterling, simplified beam routine featuring a backhandspring-layout-step-out connection and roundoff 1½ twist dismount, earning her a 9.525 and a tie for first place. Her performance on the final three events, including an explosive Yurchenko full (9.725) on vault, helped pace Suffolk to a second place finish behind Buffalo, 186.600-182.050.
"You have to throw [the bad] away," Crasa said. "Now is new. I felt much better after that beam routine. I knew floor was coming and that was going to be good . . . and vault is my strongest event. No one was going to take it away from me."
Crasa took third in the all-around (37.500), while Miller Place's Jordan Ceccarini, who had third place finishes in beam (9.300) and bars (9.450) was fourth with a 37.450. Bay Shore's Mattea Gravina tied Ceccarini in beam. Nassau finished fifth overall (176.950) behind Bethpage's Sarah Ciresi, the only girl on the team to medal. Ciresi, in her final meet, earned a 9.375 on bars, good for fifth place. The top six finishers earn a medal.
Buffalo's Courtney Bondanza took first all-around with a 38.125.
"I didn't expect to get a medal at all," Ciresi said. "It's crazy here and it's so different [from Nassau] meets . . . It's not that I wanted it to end, but I was relieved when it was over. And then I realized it was my last meet. It was an amazing for me to end on such a good note."
Her senior year -- which included the Nassau all-around title and leading her team to an undefeated regular season - "was a dream," coach Kim Rhatigan said.
Suffolk coach Caryl Crasa was just as happy for her finish. "Buffalo didn't count one fall," she said. "They didn't have one mistake and we had a couple, but we still [got second]. I see nothing but bright things in the future."
Some of that future comes in the sparkplug form of her daughter, who she said insisted on doing her more difficult Yurchenko full, instead of the layout dismount. "She amazes me," Caryl Crasa said. "She said, 'mom, I want to try to win.'"
Crasa had the vault title until the final gymnast, Buffalo's Rachel Filipski, eked out a 9.850 on a Yurchenko full of her own.
It was still to be a day of victories, though. And midway through her final routine -- her 9.500 floor exercise - it was clear that Cydney realized it.
Before her final series, she turned to the judges, grinned, and motioned to them: Hey guys, watch this.


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Dundalk Gardaí arrest ambulance patients en route to Drogheda hospital
Two ambulance patients were arrested in separate incidents in the early hours of Sunday morning.
In the first instance, a 38-year-old male was deemed by paramedics to have become uncooperative as the vehicle made its way to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
The ambulance subsequently stopped and Gardai were called to the scene at the M1's southbound carriageway. Officers deemed him to be drunk and disorderly and he was subsequently arrested.
In another similar but unrelated case which occurred a short while later at 1.40am, another ambulance - which was also making its way to the Drogheda-based facility from Dundalk - was forced to pull over as its occupant became uncooperative. Gardaí were again called, this time to the Applegreen service station.
The female culprit (31) was deemed to be highly intoxicated and was arrested at the scene.


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We have a very special piece that has been over 20 years in the making – Ian Mitchell playing his Father Song, inspired by his good friend Philip Rosheger's Serenade. Keep reading to learn more about the history of this beautiful piece and about Mitchell and Rosheger. Ian plays a stunning 1935 Hermann Hauser I from the Russell Cleveland Collection.
Remembering Philip Rosheger, "Serenade in D" and "The Father Song"
In 1974, Ian Mitchell, an undergraduate guitarist studying under Tom Patterson at Cal State Chico, met and studied with Philip Rosheger, instructor at the San Francisco Conservatory of music and winner of the 1972 Segovia competition in Spain. By 1977 Mitchell had become Director of the Classical guitar program at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, bringing Rosheger in as a regular visiting artist. During this time, Mitchell and Rosheger became close friends and Rosheger's playing was at its most powerful and passionate. His concerts were then at the peak of his performing career. Philip was a guitarist with a sound so rich that it had elicited the admiration and awe of maestro Andres Segovia in his Madrid 1973 Master Classes. Although he studied with many of the great Spanish masters, Rosheger never pursued a formal degree in music.
In addition to performing, Rosheger also composed, and his works slowly began flourishing in the late 1980's. Everyone who knew him agreed that he had a powerful sense of melody. Much of his music came from his dreams, which he wrote down upon awakening. He was a gifted melodic savant, who grew up in a musical household. Perhaps his best known melody is his "Serenade in D" which began as an improvisation in Berkeley in 1993 and later that year was written out in Venice, California at Mitchell's home. Mitchell responded by writing a coda, which Rosheger appreciated but declined to use. James Kline, previously a student and later duo partner of Mitchell, learned the piece using the coda. Kline, now a popular touring performer in Europe, then expanded it for the 11-string "Arch" guitar as a set of Chaconne-like variations at a faster tempo.
Mitchell later adapted Kline's expanded "Serenade" in 2001, re-writing it several times. Rosheger himself in later years would perform Kline's version, arranged back to six string guitar by Tim Hall.
Mitchell continued to search for a way to duplicate the "cascading" effect similar to the effect in Kline's faster version (a natural effect of the 11-stringed "Arch" guitar) on the traditional 6-stringed guitar. Finally, he found a cross rhythm, using 3's over 2's to get a similar cascading effect at a much slower tempo – the original intent of Rosheger's "Serenade". In 2007, Mitchell's second son was born. Putting him to sleep late one night, Mitchell was cradling his baby while dancing around the room, which created a rhythm for the syncopated 3 over 2 middle section. By 2014, he started to experiment with 4 over 3, because the "Serenade" intro and melody alternate between 3/4 and 4/4 time. The use of a complex 4 over 3 Polyrhythm (or cross-rhythm) was inspired by the indirect collaboration with Mitchell's friend, the extraordinary composer guitarist Dominic Frasca, previously a student and close friend of Rosheger. Mitchell figured it out and wrote the mathematical relationship which creates the haunting 4 over 3 syncopation, on a napkin; using the original coda melody in the middle voice, which had begun the collaborative process twenty one years prior in 1993.
These events led to its being named "The Father Song" in this last stage of the composition. Rosheger's "Serenade" is unmistakably American, and some believe there's a reference to "Oh When the Saints…" but in a slower, more evocative manner with the bass line mirroring the one measure melody over four measures. Mitchell's choice of a 3 over 2 cross-rhythm was initially inspired by music of his favorite American Master, George Gershwin.
In the late 1990s, Mitchell helped to get Rosheger's music out to players including David Russell and arranged publishing of several pieces with Guitar Solo Publications. In 2001, Mitchell formed a publishing company, "Serious Music" as a platform for Rosheger and other composers. Rosheger was scheduled to record a CD that captured the full range of his music. He spent time in a recording studio in New York City engineered by Dominic Frasca, but Rosheger was unable to complete the recording due to health issues. Rosheger had decided that he needed a day job and wanted to become Cabbie but few of his friends supported the notion. Mitchell offered him a monthly stipend in an effort to enable him to focus on his music. That business decision didn't work out for the two and the friendship broke down. Rosheger refused to return Mitchell's phone calls and in 2006 "Serious Music" was shut down. Those still close to Rosheger also tried to get him back on his feet but with little success. According to sources close at his side, Rosheger continued to battle personal demons until his sudden and untimely death in 2013.
"The Father Song", an homage to Philip Rosheger based on his "Serenade", after twenty one years of slow evolution through a loose collaboration of friends, was sadly a work that Rosheger never heard in its final form. The piece has been played as a part of Good Friday services, representing the ascension of the soul and simultaneous descending of the body. The ultimate victory juxtaposed with simultaneous sadness is reflected in this poignant musical statement.
It has since become Ian Mitchell's signature piece and a personal dedication to a man whose memory haunts him to this day. Mitchell's future plans include the creation of a film project honoring the maestro, the music and the friendship.
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8 Responses to "Ian Mitchell – Father Song (1935 Hauser I)"
sound beautiful.
Could you please tell me where I could purchase the sheet music for this beautiful arrangement?
Jason Wolf-Williams
Thank you for your kind words. This most recent version (there have been many) is not written out. If anyone would like to assist me in Los Angeles, with access and knowledge to use music composition software, I am happy to hire that person to complete the task. The poly meter layering needs to be written out carefully, possibly in two staffs. I will then share the music with anybody and everybody.
Ian Mitchell
Hi Ian;
This is a Beautifull Music, I would like so much play this versión too.
A Big Hug.
Beatyful music and playing. It's just like listening to an amazing story while watching a ballet while the composer touches all the correct nerves atexcactly the rigth moment, while you are awake and dreaming and fealings streaming like your tears. It is definately an experience that should be felt with all senses. I would love to buy sheet music, so i hope that it might be avaiblé some day.
Amazing to feel this touching music.
I would be interested in buying the arrangement of "Father Song" when it is written.
I would love to have the sheep music to "Father Song" too
Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece! It's always a pleasure to hear you play.


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One thing I neglected to mention about yesterday's episode…and I have to confess, I didn't mention it because it seemed so ordinary that comment never occurred to me. But later I realized that it was ordinary in the real world, and not in Funky Winkerbean. In Funky Winkerbean, it was the proverbial sore thumb, and it shoulda stuck out like one.
Of course, I'm talking about the fact that Becky got a smart-phone app, and she was happy with it. She was pleased with what she got, and looked forward to using it.
It was not, repeat not, something substandard that had foisted upon her by an uncaring school administration. She didn't even moan once!
By way of contrast, look upon the Dozing Dullards out in Hollywood, who upon hearing that the movie they are working might be certain of box-office success, can do nothing but bemoan the extra work that will befall them. Oh, the horrors of success! Oh My GOD I have to work even more?
Well, Pete–and you too, Darrin–there's a very simple solution that will cause all your problems to disappear, and you can leap about in unending joy.
Quit. Go on up to Clay Breakdance (or whatever his name is) and tell him you're tired of all the effort that is expected of you, and that you (so far) seem to have failed to provide. You're both tired of working, and it's really cutting into your nap time, and your nostalgic day-dreaming about Bantom comics. I'm sure his lips will curl just a bit as he accepts your resignations. Clay will be happy to bring in a crew who actually want to work, and don't look upon every suggestion as a knife in the back.
And there's a bonus for both of you! When the movie is released some months hence, and proves to be a box-office smash, you can bemoan the fact that you were cheated out of all that money. And that, no doubt, will trigger even more flashbacks.
Win-win, I say. Now, now, I know those are dirty words in the Funkyverse, but as they say–faint heart never won bitter regrets.
(It kind of makes me wonder what sort of movie Pete and Darin would make if they had complete control–what sort of cinematic turd would satisfy their notion of purity. I should note that it doesn't make me wonder enough to actually see that movie, or hear them talk about it.)
PS: No idea who the very detailed gentleman is, but he sure seems to be someone from Real Life. Perhaps someone who lost a bet–that's my guess, anyway.


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244 Front St., Bath
207-442-8345, saltpinesocial.com
By Joe Ricchio
Photographed by Douglas Merriam
After spending 13 years focused on Mexican food at El Camino, her beloved neighborhood eatery in Brunswick, chef Eloise Humphrey is throwing off the constraints imposed by a single style of cuisine. Salt Pine Social, her new venture with El Camino co-owners (and sister and brother-in-law) Daphne and Paul Comaskey, is a freewheeling plunge into modern American cookery.
With executive chef Jeff Kent, Humphrey has crafted a menu that reflects the owners' well-established enthusiasm for fresh ingredients and local products, while spanning the globe for culinary influences — think dishes like lamb kofta (Turkish meatballs) with the roasted eggplant dip baba ganoush, Portuguese fish stew, and barbecued celery root with locally made blue cheese. The restaurant's name reflects its mission statement: "salt of the earth, reliable, trustworthy, and straightforward; pine after, desire or hankering for the rich and the real; and social, from the Latin socius, meaning friend."
Located in a renovated house with attached storefront, just steps from Bath's Waterfront Park, Salt Pine Social's sprawling dining room wraps around an entirely open kitchen. Depending on where you're sitting, you practically experience the meal from the perspective of behind the line — which finds me resisting the urge to jump in and help expedite chits. Furnishings are sleek, blond-wood tables with black chairs. Soft-gray walls are accented by large, boldly patterned rugs woven by local artisan Hector Jaeger. A cluster of colorful, exotic pendant lights is suspended over the bar.
"Eloise was inspired by similar lights from a café she visited in Paris," Daphne says. "Finding them for ourselves was not an easy task." They pinpointed a source in India, and the ornate lights were delivered in five FedEx crates (only one was broken). To achieve random placement, Humphrey and the Comaskeys each tossed seven wooden discs up into the air and marked their landing points with blue tape. An electrician then used a laser to mark the ceiling above each spot and installed the lamps.
The beverage selection includes austere, classic cocktails as well as fruit-driven Tiki drinks. The wine list is predominantly French, with a slant towards natural and biodynamic producers from all over the world. We choose a bottle of Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme Touraine Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire Valley to drink with our appetizer — slices of crusty baguette spread thickly with sweet butter that's been heavily studded with salty caviar and served with radishes for a nice crunch. The wine is a lively accompaniment, its subtle tropical flavors giving way to bracing minerality and gunpowder-like notes in the finish — considerable complexity for a bottle priced under $30.
There's a little too much going on in our second appetizer — tender sautéed squid with charred Brussels sprouts, pickled vegetables, and sun-gold-tomato sauce. The dilly beans and tomato puree overpower the squid. Far more successful is Salt Pine Social's take on the Japanese comfort staple asari no sakamushi — clams steamed in sake, complemented by rich, crispy pork belly and a dash of chili oil and served in green stoneware bowls. It comes with naan to mop up the aromatic broth.
At Salt Pine Social, co-owners and sisters Daphne Comiskey (top, left), who oversees the front of the house, and chef Eloise Humphrey (top, right), have teamed up with executive chef Jeff Kent (top, center). Among the menu standouts: a rich seafood stew and, off the dessert menu, a perfectly simple pear frangipane tart.
As our evening unfolds, the dining room fills up, and the pitch rises but never overpowers or intrudes. To go with the rest of our meal — smoked hacked chicken — we order a bottle of Frank Cornelissen's Contadino Rosso, a field blend from Sicily made predominantly from Nerello Mascalese, a variety of dark-skinned grapes that grows on the slopes of Mt. Etna. In the realm of natural-wine makers, Cornelissen is regarded as a demigod of sorts for resurrecting the process of aging wines in amphorae that he buries in Mt. Etna's volcanic soils. The result is a wine that cycles through different flavors — black cherry, smoke, oolong tea, and leather — at an astonishing rate as it takes in oxygen.
The chicken, served with baked beans, crunchy slaw, and a cheddar-cornbread stick, is tender, with a pleasant char to the skin that in turn brings out the flavor of the beans, and the coleslaw is crisp with bright, clean flavors. The cheddar-cornbread, unfortunately, has gone quite awry, its texture like sawdust. A warm mushroom salad, consisting of earthy, flavorful hen of the woods, oysters, and shiitakes, packs a nice hit of vinegar in the dressing, and the accompanying fingerling potatoes are perfectly cooked.
Given the high level of service and the overall high quality of the food, I'm inclined to chalk the evening's few mishaps to new-restaurant wrinkles that will soon be ironed out. The outdoor seating and beautiful fire pit will surely be a draw in the warmer months, and I've little doubt that Salt Pine Social will match the reputation of its Brunswick sister.


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In Space, in the Sky and on Land: Lockheed Martin Innovates to Create a More Sustainable Future
In Space, in the Sky and on Land: Lockheed Martin Innovates to Create a More Sustainable Future
NEWSROOM: Lockheed Martin
CAMPAIGN: Mission: Sustainability
CONTENT: Press Release
Bethesda, Md., April 28, 2016 /3BL Media/ – From a system that turns waste into clean fuel, to unmanned aerial systems that help first responders, in 2015 Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] innovated to expand how it's addressing environmental and social challenges. The Corporation shared details about these projects and others with the release of its 2015 Sustainability Report, "Science of Citizenship". The report demonstrates progress on issues that are the most critical to stakeholders and long-term business success. In total, the Corporation achieved 95 percent of its sustainability goals.
"We're a company of nearly 60,000 engineers and scientists," said Leo S. Mackay, Jr., vice president of Ethics and Sustainability for Lockheed Martin. "We're taking our industry-leading engineering capability and applying it to significant resource efficiency and sustainability challenges. Not only are we meeting our own goals for reducing our environmental footprint, we're also creating technology and redesigning processes that will help others make progress."
The report highlights several innovations that helped Lockheed Martin achieve its sustainability goals in 2015:
- Alternative Energy: The Corporation broke ground on a 250 kilowatt gasification plant in partnership with Concord Blue. The plant uses a mix of organic materials to produce synthetic gas that can be used to create electricity, fuels, hydrogen, heat or steam. This reduces emissions and waste going to landfills. To make renewable energy more accessible and affordable, Lockheed Martin also advanced the development of energy storage systems for industrial and utility customers. Safely adding more clean power to electricity grids helps reduce carbon emissions and supports efforts to improve electricity access to the nearly 1.3 billion people (18 percent of the global population) who lack basic energy access.
- Advanced Space Technology: Lockheed Martin assembled the first Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R) advanced weather satellite, which will provide higher-resolution images of severe storms five times faster than NOAA's existing GOES series. These early warnings will allow for better preparation, saving lives and community infrastructure. The Corporation also opened a test facility to help detect, track, and catalog 200,000 objects orbiting the planet more than 1.5 million times a day. Orbital debris threatens telecommunications and military communications infrastructure and the safety of human space travel.
- Enhanced Emergency Response: Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated its K-MAX unmanned helicopter's firefighting and emergency response capability. The helicopter can help mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events and support humanitarian relief efforts. In addition, a single Indago quadcopter was able to survey 2,500 acres of demolished areas of the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu following a massive category five storm with 155-mph winds. The quadcopter completed the search-and-rescue oriented task in just 12 days.
- Optimized Manufacturing: Lockheed Martin expanded use of 3-D printing, which leads to material resource savings, improved durability and shortened assembly time. For example, the Corporation improved the design and production of omnidirectional antennas that fly on all spacecraft. They serve as the main communications link between satellites and ground control. The new antenna, designed specifically for 3-D printing, replaced 12 complex parts and decreased materials necessary for production. Overall, the new approach slashed production time from months to days, cut machine run time, and reduced costs by 50%.
- Reduced Emissions: In 2015, the Corporation activated a 150,000-square-foot solar project in Florida that will produce approximately 3,300 megawatt hours of emissions-free electricity annually. This and other projects have resulted in renewable energy comprising nearly one-fifth of total electricity load used in business operations. As a result of renewable energy credit purchases, we avoided 28% of carbon emissions from purchased electricity in direct operations.
Lockheed Martin is alone among U.S. aerospace and defense companies as a member of the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and recently earned its highest-ever ranking on CR Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens list, placing eighth.
Lockheed Martin's 2015 Sustainability Report was independently assured and compiled in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative G4 core guidelines.
Read more about Lockheed Martin's Science of Citizenship here.
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 125,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.


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Weekly course participation is required for online students. Online students are required to log in and complete weekly assignments. Online students who log in but do not complete assignments are subject to be administratively withdrawn according to the policy as stated above.
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Withdrawal from the college could result in a balance owed to the college for federal aid that is returned to the federal programs and/or lender. No refunds are given once the student has earned 100% of Title IV funds which is calculated based on completion of 61% to 100% of the semester.
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Road Rage – Are you ready! The 22nd is nearly here!
Written by Nik on November 9, 2015
So we're down to the last few weeks in the garages. The Angry Gingers are ready. Two cars that have had their spanner checks and just need fuelling[...]
Nik – not imaginative enough to think of a screen name….
Written by Nik on September 28, 2015
It all started for me with the Third Citadel Compendium at lunch break in the 3rd year. I can remember spending a long time looking at the great figures[...]


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Young Athenians who traveled to Washington to participate in last month's March For Our Lives against gun violence will share their experiences at the Athens-Clarke County Library on Tuesday afternoon.
The 4:30 p.m. event, a meeting of the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement's Teen Social Justice Meetup, is open to the public.
The event will also include a question-and answer-period with some candidates running for seats on the Clarke County Board of Education in the May 22 election.
The trip was life-changing, for at least one of the teenagers and younger students who made the trip.
"It just made me open my eyes a little and think about a bigger picture," said Elijah Massicot, a recent high school graduate. "It changed the way I look at and think about things. I don't just think about myself. This has woken me up."
The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement raised funds to take Massicot and about a dozen other people to Washington, D.C., for the march, where they joined hundreds of thousands of other marchers.
"It wasn't just one race, not just one gender," said Massicot, calling the trip and the march "the best experience of my life." Hundreds of thousands more people participated in sister marches in hundreds of cities across the United States and other countries, including one in Athens. Many were young people like the Athens students.
Older people may feel that younger voices are unimportant, but the March For our Lives showed otherwise, Massicot said. And it's younger people who are most often the victims of gun violence, he noted. He dedicated the trip to a friend, Tremell "Mello" Barnett, who died of a gunshot wound last year at 16.
"I hate the way it came together (with the deaths of 17 people shot to death at a Florida high school)," but "I was so happy that I was part of this," he said. "I loved that I could be a part of history, when teenagers spoke and they had confidence. I feel like this is only the beginning."


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Courtney Conlogue (USA) has won the Maui edition of the ASP GoPro Challenge with a submission showing a joyride down a righthander at Honolua Bay.
After a five-year hiatus, the women's World Championship Tour (WCT) returned to the picturesque Hawaiian island for the Target Maui Pro. The stage was set with glassy rights and an idyllic backdrop and Conlogue's winning video captured Honolua Bay in all its glory. The California native will be awarded US$10,000, not to mention cinematic bragging rights.
The ASP GoPro Challenge asks competing surfers to submit their videos from the contest venue starting two days prior to the contest window, and no later than the conclusion of the competition. Maui's Challenge was the final contest of the 2014 series, following faceoffs at Margaret River, Fiji, Tahiti and Portugal. Judging criteria and previous winners are listed here.
Other submissions included:
Watch all of the Maui GoPro Challenge submissions. Action from the Maui mainstage and beyond is at aspworldtour.com/videos.
Past winners:
Out of the 25 videos submitted for the debut ASP GoPro Challenge at Margaret River, judges selected one of two from Josh Kerr (AUS).
WCT replacement surfer Tatiana Weston-Webb (HAW) topped all submissions from the elite Tour challengers at Cloudbreak during the Fiji Women's Pro.
As if it couldn't get any better than surfing triple-overhead barrels, Nat Young (USA) won the Billabong Pro Tahiti edition of the ASP GoPro Challenge.
Adam Melling finished fifth at the Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal, but scored big without the jersey: His GoPro clip of a perfect sunset barrel won the Portugal edition of the ASP GoPro Challenge.


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Have your pet blessed on St. Francis of Assisi's feast day Sunday, Oct. 4, at Tyler Street United Methodist Church.
The church, Gypsy Dog Ops, the Spay and Neuter Network and the SPCA are putting on a pet-friendly from 12:30-4:30 p.m. There will be food trucks, live music, arts and crafts for kids and a pet parade as well as pet experts and dog trainers.
Many free or low-cost services also will be available, including a spay/neuter clinic, vaccinations and microchips, heartworm testing, dog wash and tail trimming.


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Well, since i was like 7 years old i've had a blocked nose. It's like whichever side i go to sleep on that side of my nose is blocked for the whole day and it's been like this since i was 7-8. Another big problem is i had a really nice shaped nose and when i was 16 years old it started growing huge spots on it and it was on my nose only and nowhere on my face, they came 1 after another but at one time i had 3 in 1 go. This carried on for a year or two and then it finally stopped and they were like the size of a skittle (skittles the sweet). At the same time my nose started growing really big and fat. I am now 20 years old and am left with a big nose with scars all over it. I've looked at pictures of when i was younger where i had a really small nose and I also started taking notice of all my relatives nose's but none of them have a big nose! My nasal structure is still small such as the bone and the nostrils but the cartilage around it seems to have grown.
Does anyone know if it is some type of disease such as rhinophyma? And would you suggest having plastic surgery and microdermabrasion to fix the problem as I find it hard living with a nose like this.


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Have you heard of the newest way to eat avocados?
According to Colette, who is a super talented Amsterdam-based cookbook writer, this year will be all about eating your favourite avocado toast topped with not mashed, but shaved avocado pieces.
Yup, supposedly those beautifully green super thin shavings will make your dish look even more scrumptious than before! The trick is to choose a slightly under-ripe avocado and use a vegetable peeler to create anything from avocado shavings to avocado spaghetti.
I'm sold! You?
P.S: Have you tried avocado pickles yet?
P.P.S: Plus, a few quick and healthy lunch fixes that you might like to try...
(Photos by Food Deco via Daily Mail)


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