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It happens, without fail—to me, to you, to everyone. It doesn't matter whether you're a vegetarian or a flexitarian, a carnivore or an omnivore, or any crossbreed of the above: the month of January, for culinarily inclined people, nearly always starts with a great and honest endeavoring towards more healthful, conscious eating, which is also why so many health-related food books show up everywhere at this time of year. But by the third or fourth week of the month (read: now), everyone I know is barreling towards the end zone, managing to squeak in just a teensy bit of duck fat to their grains or just a smidgen of lardons to their hydroponically-grown frisee. What happens when January is out and February is here? You're back at square one with the comfort food. I know I am.
But this year, I tell myself, this year will be different. I will find a way to eat wheatberries and be happy about it. I will learn to cook amaranth, and get all warm and cozy and fuzzy, in that Moosewood sort of way. On a frigid, blustery morning, I will make breakfast porridge of hot quinoa drizzled with agave, instead of having bacon, egg, and cheese on a griddled roll. I will astound and amaze my internist, who will proclaim me a model patient as she reads my plummeting cholesterol report, and excises Crestor from the heart-medication cocktail I take every morning. I will, I will, I will.
Actually, no, I probably won't.
So what am I supposed to do, now that I've made this annual grain-filled, cholesterol-lowering, healthy eating promise to myself, when all I really want to do is make Richard Olney's beef daube and Suvir Saran's Indian fried chicken and Suzanne Goin's pork confit? I stand in my pantry as the snow falls and it's 12 degrees outside, and my partner is begging me to throw out the bulghur wheat and make a gratin (of anything) instead; I stand in my pantry, and I peer at the shelves, waiting for the inspiration to leap out of the bags and the boxes, propelled by the ghosts of my long-dead Jewish bubbies who understood the rationale behind taking something really, really healthy and filling (like grains), and then putting their own flavor-packed spin on them. I can hear them saying it now: "Never mind, mamala. Zoftig is nice! You look so healthy! Here—have another bowl of kasha varnishes."
This is the midwinter comfort food of my dreams that manages to marry grains (kasha or buckwheat groats) and pasta (as in bowties; this is Jew food, folks, so let's not even call it "farfalle") to onions caramelized in butter or, better still, chicken fat. Maybe Mitteleuropean Jews even use duck fat. I have that, too, leftover from when I made a big vat of cassoulet to celebrate the end of 2008. Right before I went on my grain binge.
But kasha varnishkes does (do?) count as a healthy, grain-based dish that manages to be comforting at the same time. What other grain dish do you find people swooning over the way they do over macaroni cheese? There is nothing else, and so that fact alone places a nutty, sweet, chewy, luscious, texture-filled baking dish of this utter goodness into a class by itself. Furthermore, if you do find yourself surrounded by real healthy-eating or kosher types, you can make it vegan by using oil instead of butter or animal fat. If you need to make it gluten-free, go ahead and substitute the wheat-based pasta with a rice-based substitute. Okay, so it involves tossing the kasha together with beaten egg and then toasting it in a dry pan, but you can use just egg white if you're seriously watching your cholesterol intake, or omitting the egg altogether if you or your guests are vegan. It still works.
My only problem with making kasha varnishkes—that annual attempt on my part to combine the need for weighty, midwinter comfort food with the increased grain consumption I promised myself on January 1st—is the same problem that most of us afficionados have when it comes to this dish: one box of Wolff's kasha and a bag of bow ties, tossed together with half a cup of caramelized onion, yields a lot (and I mean a lot) of comfort. Sure, you can freeze it. But trust me: you won't need to.
Kasha Varnishkes
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In a large, heavyweight skillet set over medium high heat, warm the oil until it shimmers. Add the onions and toss well. Lower the heat to medium low, cover, and continue to cook for 10 minutes, stirring often. When the onions have taken on a soft, jam-like consistency, remove from the heat and season to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Place the kasha in a large, dry, heavyweight skillet set over medium heat, and add the egg. Stir the kasha frequently to keep it from sticking together, until every grain is coated with egg and begins to swell in size. Carefully pour in the stock, stir, reduce the heat to low, cover, and cook for approximately 10 to 12 minutes, until all the liquid is absorbed. Remove from the heat and fluff with a fork.
In a large, heated bowl, combine the kasha and half the onions together with the cooked bowties. Turn out into a large serving dish, and top with the remaining onions.
All will be right with the world.
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Value-Add: Data Warehousing & Analysis Services Cube Storage Estimates
A common question I hear from my clients is "how much storage do we need?" Now wait a second, I thought storage was cheap these days right? Wrong, consumer storage is cheap; enterprise storage is still not what I would classify as cheap. Add to this fact that Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDWs) commonly break into the several terabytes range and the matter of planning storage capacities becomes greater. Consulting firms that simply ignore this common client question are missing a value-add scenario. Your clients need to know how much space to plan for and if you simply say "roughly X TB" you are creating two net results. The first is that the client may purchase too much storage or may not purchase enough (very bad). Second, the client will have no idea as to how much storage to plan for in the coming years. Do both yourself and the client a favor; research the storage requirements of the BI solution you have proposed!
Estimating Data Warehouse Storage
To estimate a data warehouse's storage requirements have a dimensional model designed in any number of tools including Visio, Erwin, or Excel. The main point is to have the actual data types required and their storage affecting settings such as variable length string columns designated. When estimating your data warehouse storage requirements make sure you assume the data types have their max allowed values being used for every record. The thinking is that it's better to overestimate then under when it comes to storage (to a degree).
Now, obtain from the client how many records they believe will be processed and stored in the data warehoused based upon business requirements. Note how the storage requirements of fact tables are directly related to their grain definition. If your fact tables must store data by day you will certainly require more storage than if you only need to store the various measures by week. This is why it's very important to have a solid dimensional model phase completed prior to entering other data warehousing tasks such as storage estimates. At this point you should instantiate the dimensional model in a SQL Server relational database.
Populate your schema with a sample percentage of the client's estimates. For example, if the client has said that you can expect one million records per month and you must retain three years worth of data then you can expect to hold a total of around 36 million records. Based upon the estimates populate your fact tables with 1, 5, 10, or even 25 percent of the total records expected to be retained. Rebuild your fact table's indexes. Finally, obtain the data and index spaced used by your fact tables and multiply those values according to the percentage of sampling you used.
Estimating Analysis Services Cube Storage
Clients not only need to know how much storage to obtain for the relational dimensional model but also the cubes (multidimensional objects). Estimating cube storage requirements is a more difficult task; however the same basic logic applies. Design and build your sample cubes as close as you can to how they will be built in production. The most important settings for estimating cube storage are the partition aggregations & storage mode settings. In a development environment you will probably only have a single partition, so there is an error of margin when estimating cube storage requirements since you will likely have multiple partitions with various storage settings in a production environment. Finally, perform a full process on the Analysis Services database once you are done creating the sample cubes and their related settings.
ROLAP & HOLAP w/0% Aggregations incur zero storage overhead excluding the cube's metadata. If you apply aggregations to the HOLAP storage mode the aggregations will occur in the partition files (cube), thus consuming space. If you apply aggregations to the ROLAP storage mode, indexed views are created (and populated) in the underlying relational database (which means ROLAP with aggregations does in fact incur some storage overhead). MOLAP stores both grain data as well as aggregations in the partition files (cube). Finally, remote partitions can be used for placing less frequently access data onto cheaper disks.
With your sample cubes built and processed you can begin the cube estimation process. Obtain the sample cubes' partition(s) estimated size in Management studio. Next, multiply the partition storage estimates according to the percentage of sampling you used (just like we did in the fact table estimates). Note that this method assumes both the storage mode and the aggregations are consistent throughout each cube (which is fairly unlikely in production environments). I spoke about the storage mode margin of error earlier but I should also mention that the % aggregations effect cube partition storage estimates as well. In the real world aggregation designs change, however for estimation purposes it's easiest to assume a static setting of X%.
By using some variation of the methods mentioned above you will have a solid foundation for providing accurate estimates of storage required for both dimensional data warehouses as well as their associated cubes.

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In New York, Hundreds of Storm-Battered Homes Face the Bulldozer
In New York, Hundreds of Storm-Battered Homes Face the Bulldozer
New York City is moving to demolish hundreds of homes in the neighborhoods hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy, after a grim assessment of the storm-ravaged coast revealed that many structures were so damaged they pose a danger to public safety and other buildings nearby.
About 200 homes will be bulldozed in the coming days, almost all of them one- and two-family houses on Staten Island, in Queens and Brooklyn. That is in addition to 200 houses that are already partially or completely burned down, washed away or otherwise damaged; those sites will also be cleared.
The Buildings Department is still inspecting nearly 500 other damaged structures, some of which could also be razed, according to the commissioner, Robert L. LiMandri.
Mr. LiMandri, in an interview late last week, said the city had not undertaken such a broad reshaping of its neighborhoods in decades.
"We've never had this scale before," Mr. LiMandri said. "This is what New Yorkers have read about in many other places and have never seen, so it is definitely unprecedented. And by the same token, when you walk around in these communities, people are scared and worried, and we're trying to make every effort to be up front and share with them what they need to do."
No decisions have been made about rebuilding in the storm-battered areas — a complicated question that would involve not only homeowners, but also insurers and officials in the state, local and federal governments. Some of the houses that are being torn down were built more than a half-century ago as summer bungalows, then winterized and expanded. Current building codes would likely prohibit reconstruction of similar homes.
The Buildings Department expects to have a more precise assessment by early this week of how many buildings must be razed.
And then there is the emotional toll. Many of the homes set to be knocked down are in tight-knit working- and middle-class neighborhoods, where they are often handed down from generation to generation.


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The Erebuni settlement is located on Arin Berd, which is situated between Nor-Aresh and Vardashen districts in the south-eastern suburbs of Yerevan. It was constructed in 782 BC by one of the greatest kings of Urartu, Argishti the First (786-765 / 764 BC). According to the Khorkhoryan inscription, he resettled in Arin Berd 6,600 warriors from the countries of Khate and Tsupany, situated in the western part of the Armenian highlands. In the late 19th century, archeologist A. Ivanovsky took a basalt cuneiform inscription from P. Ter-Avetikyan in Nork. The inscription was interpreted and copied by M. Nikolsky. After some partial excavations by Ivanovsky, the hill remained unexplored for a long period. Regular excavations in Erebuni fortress began in 1950, led by K. Hovhannisyan. The discovery of cuneiforms inscriptions in the first year led to the conclusion that this fortress was constructed by Argishti the First and named Erebuni (Erbuni). There are differing opinions about the origin of the name of Erebuni in professional literature. According to some, Erebuni means "victory" or "capture", while others think that it means city of "free people".
The area around the fortress was partially surrounded with high walls. On the monolith, stonemasons raised huge smooth stone blocks. The socle, which is 2 metres high, is topped with an 8 metre high wall made of mud bricks supported by 5 metre high counterforts every 8 metres. The entrance to the fortress was placed on the southern slope of the hill and was protected with high towers, which led to the square via stairs. The square divided the territory of the fortress into three parts: religious, royal (palace) and economic. The religious part is situated on the south-western side of the square. The temple of the supreme god Khaldi of Van is situated within the tower building with pillared halls. The latter was composed of 12 wooden columns on stone anchors. The walls were decorated with rich wall paintings. There is some uncertainty about the shape of the "zigurat" tower building. It is possible that it consisted of several storeys, where sacrifices and other ritual ceremonies were most probably held. It is also possible that the tower building was just a temple, and the pillared hall was a separate building.
The royal part was located north of the square. The central part consisted of a pillared yard, measuring 17x14 metres. The yard consisted of columns arranged in fives along its length, and in fours along its width. The hall of the palace measured 17 x 7.5 metres. The roof of the hall was smooth and had a wooden cover, while the walls were decorated with multi-coloured wall paintings as well as carpets. It is supposed that carpets were hung using huge round nails, as some holes can now be seen clearly. The pillared hall took a special place. To enter there it was necessary to pass through a narrow and long hall from the pillared yard leading to this royal hall, with the walls and clay benches painted in white. Five consecutive rooms were close to the hall. A Susi temple, dedicated to the god Ivarsha / Iubsha, was on the western part of the palace building. Generally, Susi temples were dedicated to the Urartian supreme god Khaldi, and only in Erebuni and Chavushtepeh were these temples dedicated to the gods Ivarsha and Irmushiny. There are varying opinions about the god Ivarsha. According to one perspective, Ivarsha's worship had its origins in Asia Minor, while according to another; this had been one of the deities of the residents of Uaza, in the territory of Ararat valley.


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Mar-11-09 Green Homes Office and HMFA Announce Return of Popular "Green Building" Seminar
Green Homes Office and HMFA Announce Return of Popular "Green Building" Seminar
TRENTON - The New Jersey Green Homes Office (GHO) and New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) announced today that a popular seminar on green building programs will be held March 16 for anyone interested in learning how to tap into resources to develop sustainable and energy efficient affordable housing.
"Energy efficient homes are important to the future of New Jersey and the nation as a whole. They are better for the environment and reduce energy consumption and costs for hardworking households searching for ways to save money," said Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Joseph Doria. "Governor Corzine has focused considerable attention on finding solutions to New Jersey's energy challenges and it's invigorating to see so many people eager to join the effort."
Participants attending the upcoming seminar will get a crash course in how to obtain HMFA financing for green building projects and how to comply with construction requirements for such projects through the "Green Future" program. They will learn about green building standards under development across the nation and programs such as ENERGY STAR, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Homes, and the National Association of Home Builders' Green Building Program, among others. The training will also touch on green design guidelines for special needs housing.
"Green features can be, and should be, incorporated into new construction and rehabilitation projects in any setting, whether rural, urban or suburban," said HMFA Executive Director Marge Della Vecchia. "Developments that utilize green components not only benefit the individual project, but enhance the quality of the surrounding environment."
A green building seminar hosted by the GHO in January was so well attended and the demand so high that the GHO and HMFA organized the March 16 training session. The event, which will be held at HMFA headquarters on South Clinton Avenue in Trenton, is free and open to the public.
The GHO, which strives to make New Jersey a leader in green residential construction, is now located within HMFA, an affiliate of the DCA. To that end, HMFA is putting a higher priority on financing housing projects that maintain and enhance the environment.
To learn more about the green building seminar and other green building programs, log on to www.nj-hmfa.com and click on the link for the Green Homes Office. People can also call the GHO at (609) 278-7370 and the HMFA at (609) 278-7400.


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Hi, My music computer was fixed recently, everything required to be reinstalled. I have BFD 1 and the upgrade to 1.5 data installed on a dedicated hardisk as suggested, along with XFL, Delux & funk & Jazz. Everything was working perfectly until computer required fixing, BUT I assume I now need to reinstall the operating system/s for BFD back on drive C, and their 'fixes'. I also recently purchased the BFD2 upgrade, and of course want to install that.
I am not sure what to do or how to do this, I am not technically minded. I have always just reinstalled everything, eg.
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then whatever the latest OS update was,
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all the upgrade files 'fixes'
then to whatever the latest OS update was,
then test it worked/works
then add expansion packs, doing that same eg.
all the fixes (there was a lot for XFL), (all installed sequentially)
Do I need do all this installing all over again for every little update and fix thing, or dont i bother just install the basics and go straight to BFD 2? Do i need to have BFD 1.5 to be able to use it with a very old Cubase VST32 5.2Pb, eg. to open songs writtern with that because BFD2 wont work older programs? In other words i just want to know what i need to do to have things working th way they were before computer was repaired, so i can access the 50+songs written in old setup, and have the BFD 1.5 files open work with their originally programming and sounds setup, so i dont loose everything. Sorry i know i am asking a lot of questions, but to me they all seem related to the one question, to having things work properly.
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The ProGen Study Groups are organized to encourage professional and aspiring genealogists. ProGen is a self-study program enhanced by peer-review of assignments based on chapters from Professional Genealogy: Preparation, Practice & Standards, edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills. This program employs an innovative method of collaborative learning focused on developing genealogical writing skills and business practices.
The ProGen Study Program is not based on typical classroom-teacher interactions. Each ProGen study group has either an Accredited Genealogist® or a Certified Genealogist® mentoring the group. These volunteer mentors participate in the monthly discussions to answer questions and offer guidance; they do not review all students' assignments. The strength of the program relies on peer-review and discussion.
Each month group members study one or two chapters of Professional Genealogy and complete a practical assignment relating to the material. They meet online to discuss the topic in small group discussions. Members review each other's assignments and offer constructive feedback. Students sometimes learn more from reviewing each other's work than what they gleaned from completing the assignment. The study program covers all of the chapters in the book, including research procedures and business practices. This program requires a huge time commitment, but provides a unique opportunity for constructive feedback from colleagues.
The ProGen Study Program does not teach basic genealogy research skills. It assumes that participants already have taken a course such as the NGS American Genealogical Studies course, the Boston University Certificate in Genealogical Research course, an intermediate genealogy course at Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), or Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP), or have the equivalent experience researching in a wide variety of original records and repositories. The ProGen study groups are for those who already have strong research skills and are ready to further develop their professional business, writing and analysis skills.
One of the beneficial aspects of the ProGen Study Program is the joint focus on genealogical skill development and professional business issues. Monthly projects include writing contracts, business plans, and client reports; creating research plans and locality guides; analyzing evidence, and constructing proof arguments. Members learn both by completing their own assignments and by reviewing the work of their group members. Participants must complete all the assignments, including the business oriented assignments, even if they are not practicing professional genealogy as a business.
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Enchantress offers Loki a chance to exact revenge on Thor and the Avengers for thwarting his plan to conquer the nine realms, resulting in a powerless group of Avengers helplessly being chased by the mischievous demi-god in control of a destructive Asgardian weapon known as the Destroyer.
The Avengers are vastly outnumbered when they crash land on the Kree home world Hala. Will Earth's mightiest heroes live to fight another day?
The Kree Empire established a wormhole that will directly link Earth's solar system to the Kree galaxy, and the Avengers must journey into space to stop them before the Sun and thus all life on Earth are destroyed. Will Kang the Conqueror's prediction finally be proven right?
When Kang traps the Avengers in a temporal void and once again tries to conquer the world, a new team of heroes is assembled to save the day, but do these unlikely allies have what it takes to work cooperatively and fight off an invasion from the 30th century?
Upon being cleared of false charges, the Hulk is released from imprisonment. However, he's not quite himself, and may no longer even be fit to be an Avenger. When the Red Hulk takes the green giant's place on the team, Captain America isn't ready to give up on his old friend so easily, and takes the initiative to investigate Hulk's strange behavior.moreless
When mysterious fumes spread through New York City, causing the Avengers and many citizens to contract a strange disease that mutates them into disfigured, red-skinned creatures, Iron Man, whose suit of armor protects him from the fumes, rushes to develop a cure, while Secretary of Defense Dell Rusk's team "Code Red" tries to quarantine Earth's mightiest heroes.moreless
After a month of repairs, Vision awakens to a world ruled by Tony Stark and the Avengers. When Vision frees a few of the Avengers from what appears to be worldwide mind control and the small group of heroes attempts to save the world from one of their own, it soon comes to light that Tony Stark, who appears to be controlling the entire world, isn't even in control of his own body.moreless
In the wake of the tragic "death" of Hank Pym, a new vigilante calling himself Yellowjacket arrives on the scene and hunts down the Serpent Society, eliminating each member one-by-one.
One-by-one, the Avengers are attacked and captured by their robotic doubles, creations of Ultron, who has devised a plan to rid the world of the human species, create the perfect body for himself, and construct a female mate. When all seems hopeless for Earth's mightiest heroes, Vision finds himself faced with a decision to make. Will he do what he believes is right and save the Avengers, or remain Ultron's servant and stand by his master's side as all humans are eradicated?moreless
When an army of strange aliens attacks 42 (the supervillain prison located in the Negative Zone), the Avengers are left with no other choice than to liberate and join forces with the very villains whom they fought and locked away, in order to fight off the invasion force.
The Avengers travel to Wakanda to have Captain America's shield repaired as well as attempt to persuade the Black Panther to return to the team. However, the heroes are unexpectedly attacked by a mysterious caped figure who is after both Cap's shield and Wakanda's supply of vibranium.
Feeling betrayed due to the Skrull imposter of Captain America's actions, people around the world have turned against the old soldier. When the Serpent Society interferes with the transportation of Viper and Cobra to prison, Captain America and the equally mistrusted Spider-Man find themselves deep underground trying to keep a group of innocent bystanders safe from some of the most deadly supervillains, which is even more difficult when the group of people being defended think that their protectors are the very ones from whom they need protection.moreless
The entire planet has been overrun by Skrulls, the imposters have played their parts in taking down the most powerful of humans, the Avengers are scattered and defenseless, and Captain America's position of respect is being used to convince the people of Earth to submit to the invaders. It seems as if all hope is lost and the ancient prophecy stating that the Skrulls will conquer Earth is going to be fulfilled. Now, the remaining heroes must do what they can to protect their world.moreless
The Skrull invasion begins in Wakanda. Ms. Marvel tries to protect the nation, but an obstinate Black Panther and a team of Skrull imposters of the Avengers make this a difficult endeavor.
Captain America teams up with other prisoners of the Skrulls to escape their captors, but things are complicated when the group encounters the almighty Super-Skrull!
A mysterious red-skinned Hulk attacks the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier on the Hulk's "day off." As Captain America and Wasp try to defend the Helicarrier from this new monster, who is believed by Maria Hill to be the Hulk, Hawkeye must guard Bruce Banner, who is reluctant to be protected by "his" own teammate.moreless
Thor joins forces with Beta Ray Bill, a member of the alien race known as the Korbonites who proves his worthiness by lifting Thor's magical hammer Mjölnir, in an effort to battle the evil forces of the fire demon Surtur.
Nick Fury finally returns with shocking news. When the Avengers learn that a traitor lurks within the team, the heroes are torn apart by mistrust and fear.
An extraterrestrial being named Michael Korvac seeks the Avengers' protection from "villains" who turn out to be the Guardians of the Galaxy. As the Avengers fight the Guardians to keep Korvac safe, they are unaware that they are protecting the wrong person.
When Hank enlists Luke Cage and Iron Fist to find his stolen suit before someone gets hurt, the three soon learn that there is more to the situation than a few simple bank robberies.
An alien warrior race known as the Kree visits Earth to make a final decision regarding whether to add Earth to the ever-expanding Kree empire or obliterate it.
The Enchantress, after being betrayed by Zemo, seeks revenge on her former teammates, leaving the Avengers in the middle of a clash between supervillains.
An armorless Iron Man fights A.I.M.'s latest creation, the Technovore, while A.I.M. agents go up against Captain America, Black Panther, and War Machine in an effort to steal the armored Avenger's armor.
The Avengers and the Fantastic Four are attacked by the forces of the villainous Dr. Doom, who kidnaps Wasp and Invisible Woman and unleashes an army of Doombots upon New York City. However, there is more to this evil plan than what's on the surface.


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Rating: 3.5 out of 4
378 Victoria Ave. (at Sherbrooke St. )
Phone: 514-750-7534
Open: Sun. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.; Mon.-Wed. 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Thur.-Fri. 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Licensed: Yes
Credit cards: All major
Wheelchair access: No
Parking: on the street
Vegetarian friendly: Fish
Reservations: Essential
Price range: Lunch: starters $6-$15; mains $13-$19. Dinner: starters $6-$21; mains $19-$49
MONTREAL - I was having a conversation recently with a few friends, the subject being – you guessed it – restaurants. Someone piped up with an interesting comment about how there are no more fish restaurants in our city. "I drove past the old, boarded up Desjardins building on Mackay," he said, "and I thought of all the fish restaurants in the Montreal of days gone by, like the Atlantic Pavilion, La Marée and Les Sarcelles. What happened?"
My guess would be two factors: the rise of the Greek restaurant that followed after Milos set the example of being the go-to restaurant for the freshest fish. And then came the rise of the sushi restaurant, where suddenly fish lovers were eating their favourite specimens not pan-fried in butter and doused in cream but sliced with surgical precision and served raw draped over a quenelle of rice. So, yes, there are still fish restaurants in Montreal, but instead of being French or American surf and turf in style, they are Greek and, even more so due to the sheer number of sushi restaurants still going strong, Japanese.
Ah, sushi, the category of Montreal restaurants all the foodies whine about. And there's no denying, rightly so. There's a sort of dreary sameness to a lot of Montreal sushi, and a sort of Kamikaze/Spider/California roll fetish that hardcore sushi lovers scoff at while imbibing their sashimi with fresh wasabi. The maki madness of our sushi scene is in part because our fish selection is limited, and the best stuff is not only hard to come by but pricey.
Yet sushi aficionados, despair not! I'm convinced that the Montreal sushi scene is perking up. There are an increasing number of seriously skilled sushi chefs on the scene, one of whom is chef Junichi Ikematsu at Jun-i; another is Shinji Nagai, who works at the private club 357C, and yet another is Antonio Park, a chef who held Nagai's spot at 357C before leaving to work at Kaizen, and who now is a partner at a fabulous new restaurant named simply, Park.
Located on Victoria Ave. in a sort of industrial/loft space complete with towering cement ceilings, Park's setup includes deep, window-side banquettes and a lounge-like seating area on the sidewalk out front. The restaurant also features two bars, one of which is where the wine, beer, sake and spirits are served. The other is the sushi bar, from where chef Park works his magic. And I kid you not when I say magic. Watch Park in action and witness a chef at the top of his game. From this kitchen emerges the most wondrous sushi, sashimi and all sorts of dishes produced in a style that's part Japanese, part Korean, part French and part North American. The fish arrives several times a week, with some specimens flown in directly from Japan. The quality of the ingredients is impeccable, and their presentation is flawless. Rarely have I seen sushi this elegant, or tasted sushi this fresh.
But hold on, it's not all sushi at Park. The menu also includes beef teriyaki, short ribs and a $49 black angus steak. I didn't taste any of the meat dishes, and I wonder why you'd bother when such pristine fish is available. Even if those ribs are delicious, I'd bet they're no match for a simple plate of Park's sashimi.
Dining there last Tuesday in a room packed with attractive urbanites (including Education Minister Michelle Courchesne, who was dining at the sushi bar), I pushed aside the menu and okayed the chef's offer for an omakase tasting menu. Omakase is a Japanese phrase that means "I'll leave it to you," and Park's choice to launch his menu was a seared scallop served on a bed of spicy kimchi and thinly sliced baby squid. The only word to describe this dish is perfection. The scallop was ideally cooked with its translucent centre and well-browned cap. The squid bits were tender and the kimchi added terrific kick. Everyone at my table raved.
Next up came a wave of nigiri sushi plates, each containing one piece of sushi. The first two, albacore and yellowtail toro, were the best. The prized fat belly flesh melted on contact with my molars, with the well-seasoned and not-too-sticky rice following. Gorgeously garnished and lightly glazed, this sushi didn't require soy sauce, and there wasn't even wasabi on the table. Instead we enjoyed ribbons of pickled ginger and sliced Japanese pickles.
More sushi followed, including a sea urchin nigiri and another made with glazed fresh sockeye salmon. Sea urchin is not my favourite, even super fresh urchin like this, but the salmon was delectable. Following that came a dish of shrimp two ways: tiger shrimp pan-fried and rock shrimp deep-fried, both served with a salad made of julienned apple and green papaya. What a treat enjoyed with a bottle of Greek Atlantis Argyros from Santorini ($43), a wine aromatic enough to enhance Park's repertoire of layered, delicate flavours.
More followed such as a super-crisp soft shell crab, served whole with legs high in the air, alongside quenelles of sweet potato purée. And at the end of the savoury feast, came a dish featuring a twirl of "kamin tai" pink snapper toro served in broth made of tosazu (Japanese vinegar) with sudachi (green citrus fruit), usukuchi (soy sauce) and truffled baby peach oil, with a fan of marinated, sous-vide-cooked and pickled bamboo shoots alongside. Even the lovely shiso flower on top added an extra layer of exotic flavour. What class, what elegance, what a stunning display of technique and balance of tastes! Kudos, chef Park.
I also cannot hold back the praise on the dessert, a course few even order in most sushi restaurants. But, of course, Park is no usual sushi restaurant. Described by our wonderful waitress as a typical Korean dessert, this bowl of textures and flavours included red bean paste, broken butter cookies, lemon curd, fruit, nuts … frankly I'm more or less guessing here because there was so much going on in this dish and the room was dark. But let's just say, don't miss out on dessert.
Park is not a perfect restaurant – from my view at the table I could see the garbage cans in the kitchen, the wines could have been colder and the room is a bit noisy. But those are small complaints. What counts in a restaurant scores here, including the stellar service, the sharp wine list, and the great ambience.
And then there's this magnificent cuisine, no doubt more suited to a more formal setting. But I kind of liked the way these little gems would appear on beautiful plates on the plain black tables with this funky music wafting in the background. The contrasts made for quite the evening. It all just felt so fresh.
And then there's chef Park, working tirelessly in the kitchen all night. I observed him from my seat nearby. His precise gestures. His speed. His concentration. His pride in his work. The sweet way he smiled when speaking to admiring customers. This kid's a star, certainly one to watch, a chef who is taking our sushi scene up not one, but dozens and dozens of notches.
Sound wonderful? And how. But take note: Park will be closed until Aug. 6. Until then, I can hardly wait to return to try his 24-course feast at the sushi bar. Or perhaps more simply, lunch, when I hear he makes a mean bibimbap.
Twitter: @LesleyChestrman
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Building: Dunleith (Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina)
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- The style of the house was "Italian villa." A long path led from the sun porch to Judge Robert P. Dick's law office. In 1917, additions were made to the back of the house to make it function as the entrance.
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Who doesn't want recognition for their hard work and contributions?
Early in my career I wanted to believe that if you worked hard, and added value, that you would be rewarded. I wanted to believe in the utopian ideal that hard work, discipline, and contributions were the fuel that propelled you up the corporate ladder. And boy, was I wrong.
You see I started my career as a shy, insecure, but smart, programmer. I worked hard (almost every weekend), I wrote code for fun when I wasn't working on my work projects (still do actually), and I was loyal and dedicated to my company.
My project should have been judged on merit.
Once, for 6 months I worked on a project with 4 other people – and I felt like my contributions in terms of functionality and hours contributed were in the top of the group. So you can imagine my surprise that at our launch party, the GM of the group stood up and recognized "Josh, and the other team members for their hard work." I stood there stunned, thinking WTF?! How was it that the GM was so out of touch with the team? Didn't our manager look at the checkins and the being resolved? How did Josh, who had probably contributed the second least amount to the project, end up as the being the only person singled out from the group? Not me, not the most senior person on the project, but the guy who seemed to spend a lot of time talking to my boss and the other people on the project.
So many of us have been there though. We work tirelessly, doing our very best to get things done on time, but somehow we get passed over – in favor of someone else whom you honestly believe didn't contribute nearly as much as you had. What happened to meritocracy and being recognized for your work?
Autonomy makes Meritocracy impossible
Fast forward to now in the present day. I work with a team of 18 amazing technologists and it is my job to judge their performance. And only recently have I realized that in many ways it is near impossible to do so.
There is no objective, quantifiable way that exists for me to be able to do this at scale without resorting to micromanagement – which is not something you even want to contemplate with a talented team. If this doesn't make sense to you, let me explain (note that some of these are measurable, but others are more subjective – but all are various ways people have suggested as metrics to judge performance):
- Hours. Ugh. I hate hour watchers. Writing code, at least for me, is like art, and when I am just not in the mood I can't force myself to get things done. To use the measure of time as a productivity measure doesn't fairly represent the creativity and mentation required of a developer. Beyond that, it's not really all that feasible to track hours in a highly virtual environment. I love that people on my team can work from home – or whatever environment where they do their best work (it is the reason we have "no meeting" days) – but how could I possibly track someone's hours if they aren't in the office? Just like beans, counting hours sucks. Don't do it.
- Lines of code. This measure it flawed for many reasons – from the mantra that "the best code is the lines you don't write" to the simple anecdotal fact it once took me 3 days to write a single line of code, while another day I wrote over 10,000 lines of code (although admittedly part of that count included some substantial cut and paste). And of course, deleting code can be very productive too.
- Bug counts. Of course quality is important, but finding bugs in production belonging to developers that otherwise write great code is not rare. This metric is seriously flawed in a profound way — it does not account for the fact your best developers often produce a moderate amount of serious bugs because they have been entrusted to design and implement the most complicated and critical pieces of an application/system. Penalizing your best players for having highly impacting bugs is tantamount to rewarding mediocrity.
- Features. Functionality is key of course, since when it comes to contributions the features that are built or added to the product should be directly tied to customer value. Of course judging on features can get complicated when multiple people contribute to one features. And of course, the details of the implementation can dramatically impact the efforts and hours involved. For example, recently there was a project to add login to an existing site. Implementing the feature using interstitial pages would have taken a few hours, however the design involved using lightboxes, which added some complexity around security that added days to the project to accommodate. It can be misleading even looking at functionality and features if you don't dive into the technical details of the implementation and trade-offs.
- Maintainability. It is hard to measure and track something as subjective as writing solid, maintainable code – but anyone who has had to struggle with legacy spaghetti code will tell you that maintainability is worth the extra time it takes if it it's something requiring long-term usage in production. Coders who spend the extra time to write highly-robust, maintainable code are often penalized for it, simply because their true contributions will not be realized until years later.
- Building skills and knowledge. And how do you measure the benefit of the time invested learning a new technology enough to be highly effective in its use. Researching and choosing the proper tools that optimize your productivity. And the time spent making careful and deliberate strategic choices that ultimately make a project feasible and successful? Obviously these are critically important, but an outside perspective would note that it seems a lot more work could've been done in the same amount of time.
- Helping others. There are many programmers who are great but not for the work they do but in the way they enable others to be great. Just having these people on the team makes everyone else better. Mentoring and selfless assistance to others is critical to building and preserving a highly-productive and cohesive team, but can be an incredibly difficult to quantify an individual's role in this despite the reality of the contribution.
And of course there are probably another 101 things you could look at to judge someone's achievements – including the way they present themselves (having a good attitude for example), being very dependable, or a prime contributor of innovative ideas and solutions. However, very few of these are objective, concrete things you can total up and give a grade to – and it is incredibly difficult to do without diving into the minute details or micromanaging the project.
So if there's no reliable managerial measure of your contributions how do you get noticed?
Really it all comes down to one thing: Trust.
Trust is like a currency, when a manager gives their reports autonomy and independence they are trusting them to complete the assigned task, make wise and strategic decisions along the way while proactively communicating problems long before the become a problem. They are in fact investing their money in you, and when see the returns on that investment they, just like any lucky investor, are quite pleased. Trust, though, takes time, patience and consistency but if you can't build a relationship with your manager all that means nothing. For someone to invest in you, you have to show you are in fact an investment.
- Does your boss trust you?
- Does your team and your peers trust you?
- Have you done a good job to earn their trust?
- How would your peers describe you to someone else?
- How influential are you within your organization?
As a manager, there have been times when I have been very fond of an employee, but then noticed that their peers didn't care for them or held negative impressions of their performance. In these cases, given the trust level I have with my entire team, the opinions of the collective can easily outweigh my personal preferences. Think of trust like a graph and each arc between the people you interact with as a weight – so when it comes to performance those weights really matter.
Projects, products, performance and companies aren't just judged on the output, but how they produce the output.
In my project the one thing Jeff did differently was he didn't just do the work, but he made sure that the management – my boss and the GM – knew what our team was doing. In retrospect, he was the reason our project was recognized in an organization with so many people. At the time I resented Jeff, now many years later I realize that his contributions to our team wasn't just his code, but his communication and the way he did his job.
As an aside though – I think that certain company cultures may reward this more the others. The problem with some people like Jeff that over time they can optimize on 'trust' and create a distorted view of their contributions – and this is what I mean when I say "office politics" – and this isn't good either.
One of my very smart friends told me a story about joining one big company and meeting tons of super-smart, highly functional and productive people who were all about creating trust with their superiors by being hyper-visible."They talked the most at meetings, they interrupted people, they sent extremely verbose emails at 3am detailing the minutia of a meeting that took place the previous day, they cc'd long lists of seemingly irrelevant but high-ranking people on their emails, etc. And their bosses loved them and they got the best reviews, etc. After meeting these individuals and being both amazed and disgusted by their shtick, it started to become clear to us that the whole culture self-selects to this type of person. It didn't take us long to understand why so much "work" happens, but so little gets done."
So what can you do if you are a manager?
As an employee, I want to be judged by my contributions, and have a team that is a meritocracy. I also want autonomy and the ability to own substantial things and not have someone looking over my shoulder.
As a manager I want to give recognition and praise to the people who deserve it, and I don't want to micromanage and spend my days being big brother.
This implies an implicit contract:I will give you autonomy and independence, but it is your responsibility to share status and information with me.
For example, once a team member told me he had worked so hard and really gave it his best, however from my viewpoint his progress wasn't up to the same level of his teammates. When he was leaving the company he told me all these things he had done – and I asked him "Why didn't you share this with me before?" You see, I would have advised him to spend his time elsewhere on priorities that were more important to the business. He responded with "I thought you would know." Don't make that same mistake.
It is also important that as a manager you recognize improvement. This means understanding a person's strengths and weaknesses. If you observe someone's performance and you see they make substantial improvements in one of their development areas then that is definitely worth recognizing. For example if you have an amazing engineer who is typically a poor communicator, but they step up and not just contribute their great coding prowess to a project but also keep other team members abreast of evolving risk factors – then those sorts of achievements are worth praise.
Just make sure you take in all the factors of a person's involvement in the organization. Take steps to ask good questions and solicit feedback from other members of the organization. And let each person know your expectations around communication and progress.
And what can YOU do now?
And so my end conclusion in all of this is: if you want autonomy, and the ability to own and control your own domain and projects – it is your job to push information and build trust with your team members.
In other words, you need to learn and do the following:
- Follow through. Do what you say and consistently deliver on your commitments.
- Proactively communicate when a task takes you longer than you thought, and why.
- Improve your communication skills. In order for others to hear you, sometimes you have to hone the way you deliver your message.
- Volunteer information and make an effort to explain vague or hard to understand ideas and concepts. Make an effort to share the details of your decisions and diversions. This is also important when you make mistakes – letting others know before they figure out on their own will show ownership of the situation and can prevent misunderstandings later.
- Be forthright and authentic with your feelings. Even when you may hold a contrary opinion communicate your thoughts (respectfully and with tact).
- Don't talk behind the backs of others. It is very difficult to build trust if someone knows that you will say something negative about your boss, the company leadership, or another coworker.
- Be objective and neutral in difficult situations. Learn how to be calm under pressure and act as a diplomat resolving conflicts instead of causing them.
- Show consistency in your behavior. Not just in follow through but by eliminating any double standards that may exist.
- Learn to trust them. This is one of the hardest ones, but trust is a two-way street. Giving others the benefit of the doubt and learning how to work with them is essential to a strong mutual working relationship.
In turn hopefully you have a good manager that will be able to ask you good questions and take the time to understand your contributions. And if that is not your situation, then make sure you are sharing information with those around you; such as your peers, your boss, and other stakeholders.
Good leadership is keeping everyone on the same page, and if you want independence, it is on you to make sure people know what you are contributing.
Do you have other suggestions? Thought of other ways to think about judging output or performance?
If so, please leave them in the comments – I would love to hear some other points of view on this topic.
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[And thank you to the lovely Vanessa Johnston for the photo at the top of this post. And a big thank you to Bryce Howard, Jay Bartot, and Reza Hussein for reviewing earlier versions of this post.]


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Food & Wine Classic brings top chefs to Aspen this weekend for parties, seminars
Chefs from around the country rolled into Aspen, Colo. Thursday for the kick-off to the annual Food & Wine Classic, the biggest food party in the nation. While Friday and Saturday are packed with seminars on everything from cooking meatballs to using social media, Thursday night it was all about decadence.
Beginning at 6 p.m., former winners of the Top Chef televised cooking challenge gathered in rooms and patios in the posh St. Regis Hotel, preparing things like lobster rolls and truffled eggs with pork belly.
While he placed microgreens atop small sandwiches stuffed with lobster knuckle, Top Chef Season 8 winner Richard Blais said he was headed out for a run Friday morning with Bobby Stuckey, the owner of Boulder's Frasca Food & Wine restaurant and the winner this year of a James Beard Award.
"You know the guy's a beast, right?" I told him. "He'll win the thing."
"Seriously?" said Blais. "I'm going to have to get my act together."
Then the party moved to a $25 million new house on the outskirts of town, where Washington, D.C. restaurateur Jose Andres hosted a lavish party, with lamb roasting on a spit, "tacos" comprised of fancy Spanish ham topped with caviar, an oyster-shucking station, wine galore, a gin-and-tonic bar, and much more. Denver's Glaze, a bakery specializing in Japanese cakes, provided the desserts for the evening.
Here, Mario Batali moved around like a colorful planet (orange Crocs, purple hair tie, red ponytail) - a cluster of people always seemed held in his orbit. Here, New York restaurateur Danny Meyer could be found wandering the enormous house, ducking into the wine cellar for a spell.
"So we will sit and watch this basketball, yes?" said old-school celebrity chef Jacques Pepin in the basement at one point, plopping down into a chair. The room behind him was packed with people drinking gin and tonics and watching the Miami Heat-San Antonio Spurs playoff game.
Every head turn revealed fresh foodie celebrities.
Tom Colicchio, a restaurateur and the longtime head judge of the show Top Chef, arrived late in the evening, in a blue down vest and bright sneakers. Los Angeles chef and restaurateur Susan Feniger spent the evening smiling and chatting warmly with all who approached. She was a delight.
"I love Biker Jim," she said of Denver's hot dog king. She tried one of his elk sausages a number of years ago, back when Jim Pittenger only had a hot dog cart (he now has his own restaurant), and called it one of the best things she had ever eaten.
San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino, whose whole-animal approach to cooking has been subject to a lot of buzz for the past year, was in his element - the Andres party was a meat-fest, with Spanish hams, lamb ribs, plates of steak in Romesco sauce, sausages, and enormous prawns swimming in garlic and olive oil. While a lamb slowly turned on a spit over a bed of coals - with every revolution the spit made an atmospheric squeaking sound, making it seem even more Game of Thrones - Cosentino talked about his time in Colorado.
"I used to be a professional cyclist, and I lived in the middle of nowhere in Summit County," he said. "In my car. All I did was ride my bike."
He comes to Aspen every year, he said, for the camaraderie.
"Here we are at this house with Jose," he said. "We talk business, we talk shop, it's a lovely place - these mountains are one of my favorite places. Amazing food and wine, great company. It's not often that we can get together as group and blow off steam."


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Any introduction over five seconds is superfluous. This is why when you introduce your girlfriend to a co-worker you don't say, "Richard, this is Sandy. Sandy comes from a middle-class family in Florida, which means her teenage years weren't particularly respectable. But she has risen above all that to realize that happiness is just another way of believing in yourself." Good content speaks for itself.
The same goes for TV shows. For the most part, mainstream television could do away entirely with opening credits and audiences wouldn't blink. (Just ask The Rembrandts.) Take Seinfeld, for example. The intro for Seinfeld was a logo that said Seinfeld, as though you were introducing it to a group of friends. "Everyone, this is Seinfeld." Hilarity ensues.
But every so often you come across a lengthy intro that is so unique and outstanding that you don't mind spending the extra time on it. The long history of television contains but a few, and here are the five best in their respective categories. They certainly speak for themselves. I'll just shut up now.
Best Sitcom: Perfect Strangers
This heroic opening credit sequence tells the story of two cousins from different parts of the world who come together in Chicago to achieve their hopes and dreams. And with the inspirational theme song, you actually believe that people in Chicago have hopes and dreams.
Subtle humor alert: Notice the sign on Balki's carriage as he begins his journey: "America or Burst." Where does he come up with them?! Today, that kind of thing would land him in Guantánamo faster than he could say "Cousin Larry."
Runner-up: Diff'rent Strokes -- Rich white man abducts poor black kids right off a Harlem basketball court.
Best Action: The A-Team
The A-Team intro is a tribute to being a man. The first 20 seconds alone includes the words military, maximum, stockade, escape, underground, and soldiers of fortune. And that's before the gratuitous explosions, flipping cars, and wholesale gunfire. In one sequence, a big machine crushes a car leading to a fiery explosion -- the holy trinity of testosterone. The only way this intro could be more manly is if it sprouted chest hair and won a bar brawl.
Runner-up: MacGyver -- So full of impressive feats it's like a recruiting video for the CIA.
Best Animated: The Simpsons
One can hardly even classify the opening credits to The Simpsons as an introduction. Because the creators had the foresight to change it every episode, the intro was part of the show. It became pop-culture trivia to see what Bart wrote on the chalkboard, what price came up when Lisa was scanned, and how the family plopped down into the couch. The genius is in the details. Of course, it didn't hurt that the intro was followed by a half-hour of quality comedy.
Runner-up: Smurfs -- Epitomized the essence of what it means to be a Smurfy -- cheerfulness in the face of apocalyptic destruction.
Best Current: Weeds
For a show about a hot, single mother raising her children by dealing weed in an upper-class community, the opening credits may seem a little tame. In fact, one viewing of this intro and you would have no idea what the show was about. But you would want to know what it was about. And, more importantly, the producers know the value of a good catch -- during Season Two, each week a different musical guest (ranging from Elvis Costello to Death Cab for Cutie) performed the strangely catchy theme song "Little Boxes." (More versions can be heard here.)
Runner-up: Dexter -- Another Showtime standout asks the question, What's for breakfast? And the answer is murder!
Best Police: Police Squad!
You have to love a show that can't even take itself seriously in the opening credits. Featuring an undercover Abraham Lincoln, a narrator who can't get the episode title right, and a guest start dying before the show even starts, it's the most absurd 50 seconds this side of Twin Peaks. Crime may be no laughing matter, but that doesn't mean law enforcement can't be.
Runner-up: Homicide -- A gritty, cinematic short that did nothing to help the show stay on the air. Like Dick Wolf always says, "Voice-over, voice-over, voice-over!"


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Teen bicyclist involved in accident dies
A teen bicyclist has died from injuries that he sustained when he collided into a vehicle Friday.
Justin Dean Esposito, 17, of 1070 Laurel Drive, North Fort Myers, died at approximately 2:40 p.m. Sunday at Lee Memorial Hospital, where he was taken following the accident in Cape Coral.
Officials reported that an autopsy revealed the cause death was due to blunt force trauma.
At about 5:59 a.m., a Nissan Altima was traveling north in the outside lane of Southeast 24th Avenue in the 300 block. At the same time, Esposito attempted to cross east to west along 24th Avenue on a BMX-style bicycle. Police said he used the grassy medium, not a designated cross walk area.
As Esposito crossed the northbound lanes, he reportedly violated the Nissan's right of way.
The front of the Nissan struck the side of the bicycle. As a result of the collision, the bicycle and Esposito slid northbound along 24th Avenue before coming to a final rest, police reported.
Esposito was trauma-alerted in critical condition to the hospital, where he later died.
According to officials, he was wearing dark clothing and no helmet at the time of the accident.
The driver of the Nissan, Juan Ramiro Martins, 33, of 517 S.E. 23rd Place, was not injured.
It appeared that alcohol or drugs were a factor in the crash, police reported.
"There are 17 traffic fatalities in our city in 2013," Sgt. Dana Coston said in a statement Monday.
"There are three fatalities that are ruled 'medical' and the cause of death is not related to injuries in the traffic crash," he added. "These three 'medical' fatalities are not included in the number of 17."


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HTC, AT&T, and Sprint are all feeling the effects of Apple's import ban win against HTC last December. The One X and Evo 4G LTE, both Android handsets, may be delayed from their May 18 launch date as the devices are currently being held by US Customs officials. Officials are examining both devices for compliance with an International Trade Commission ban on the import of HTC devices violating an Apple patent.
Apple's "thermonuclear" assault on Android began in earnest in 2010 when Apple sued HTC for patent infringement. Along with a federal lawsuit, Apple also filed a parallel complaint with the ITC seeking the import ban. Filing ITC complaints has become a common tactic in patent infringement disputes, as the ITC tends to rule on cases quicker than federal district courts. US import bans are also potentially quite effective since nearly all smartphones and other electronic devices are produced in China.
Though Apple originally claimed HTC infringed 10 of its patents, the ITC ultimately ruled that HTC's Android smartphones ran afoul of a patent related to a feature Apple first debuted on the Mac as "Data Detectors." This is the technology that automatically recognizes certain data types—such as addresses or phone numbers— and turns them into clickable links that perform a map lookup or dial a phone number.
HTC claimed at the time that the feature was a "small UI experience" and that the feature would be removed from future devices. HTC contends that it is in compliance with the exclusion order, and has indeed removed the feature from its latest devices.
"The US availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a standard US Customs review of shipments that is required after an ITC exclusion order," HTC said in a statement to The Verge. "We believe we are in compliance with the ruling and HTC is working closely with Customs to secure approval."
HTC hasn't taken Apple's legal assaults lying down, however. Though the ITC dismissed the company's first ITC counterclaim against Apple, it filed another one in 2011 using five patents that Google gave to the company to aid its legal battle with Apple. Apple is seeking to have those patents excluded from HTC's second complaint, however, arguing that Google, and not HTC, has the standing to assert those patents in an ITC complaint.
As we wrote in 2010, Apple's proxy fight with Android—targeting handset makers like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola—could last for years. Meanwhile, HTC's latest devices are sitting in a Customs warehouse while officials decide if AT&T and Sprint customers will get to use them or not.


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Luxury Condos on the Mediterranean Ask $2M-$20M
Luxury condos on the Mediterranean ask $2 million to $20 million; Larry Ellison lists a Lake Tahoe compound for $28.5 million; a San Diego compound lists for $9.75 million; the Virginia home of the late Alexander Haig sells for $5.18 million. Alyssa Abkowitz reports. Photo: Sotheby's.
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Jean Toomer: Additional Poems
Song of the Son
Pour O pour that parting soul in song,
O pour it in the sawdust glow of night,
Into the velvet pine-smoke air to-night,
And let the valley carry it along.
And let the valley carry it along.
O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,
Now just before an epoch's sun declines
Thy son, in time, I have returned to thee,
Thy son, I have in time returned to thee.
In time, for though the sun is setting on
A song-lit race of slaves, it has not set;
Though late, O soil, it is not too late yet
To catch thy plaintive soul, leaving, soon gone,
Leaving, to catch thy plaintive soul soon gone.
O Negro slaves, dark purple ripened plums,
Squeezed, and bursting in the pine-wood air,
Passing, before they stripped the old tree bare
One plum was saved for me, one seed becomes
An everlasting song, a singing tree,
Caroling softly souls of slavery,
What they were, and what they are to me,
Caroling softly souls of slavery.
Harvest Song
I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All
my oats are cradled.
But I am too chilled, and too fatigued to bind them.
And I hunger.
I crack a grain between my teeth. I do not taste it.
I have been in the fields all day. My throat is dry.
I hunger.
My eyes are caked with dust of oatfields at harvest-time.
I am a blind man who stares across the hills, seeking
stack'd fields of other harvesters.
It would be good to see them . . crook'd, split, and
iron-ring'd handles of the scythes. It would be
good to see them, dust-caked and blind. I hunger.
(Dusk is a strange fear'd sheath their blades are dull'd in.)
My throat is dry. And should I call, a cracked grain
like the oats . . . eoho--
I fear to call. What should they hear me, and offer
me their grain, oats, or wheat, or corn? I have
been in the fields all day. I fear I could not taste
it. I fear knowledge of my hunger.
My ears are caked with dust of oatfields at harvest-time.
I am a deaf man who strains to hear the calls of other
harvesters whose throats are also dry.
It would be good to hear their songs . . reapers of
the sweet-stalk'd cane, cutters of the corn . .
even though their throats cracked and the
strangeness of their voices deafened me.
I hunger. My throat is dry. Now that the sun has
set and I am chilled, I fear to call. (Eoho, my
I am a reaper. (Eoho!) All my oats are cradled.
But I am too fatigued to bind them. And I hunger.
I crack a grain. It has no taste to it.
My throat is dry . . .
O my brothers, I beat my palms, still soft, against the
stubble of my harvesting. (You beat your soft
palms, too.) My pain is sweet. Sweeter than
the oats or wheat or corn. It will not bring me
knowledge of my hunger.
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