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Understanding If Fasting Is An Effective Strategy For Weight Loss
Fasting, also named as not consuming food for particular periods of time, is a strategy of weight loss you possibly have supposed about making an attempt. Even though minimizing calories frequently results in loss of weight, there are some potential shortcomings of fasting also — which possibly let you surprise if it is actually a decent idea.
Fasting and its link with Weight:
It has been shown by the research that fasting promotes weight and loss of fat, which is helpful if you are obese or overweight. According to a review, it has been reported that irregular fasting, or unbalance between nonfasting and fasting, helps in loss of weight. According to another review, it has also found that irregular fasting definitely helps in the loss of weight. According to one more review, it has been confirmed that irregular fasting leads to weight and loss of fat. The cause that fasting often aids in losing weight is just because it leads you to consume lesser calories all over the day.
Considerations of Risk of Disease:
Additionally, to loss of weight, fasting may offer you with numerous other benefits of health. For instance, according to a review, it has been found that fasting can reduce triglycerides and blood cholesterol. According to one more review, it has been found that fasting may reduce your risk for diabetes and coronary artery disease. Thus far according to another review, it has been found that intermittent fasting lowers arthritis, asthma and blood pressure and has the tendency to postpone the process of aging.
Risks probabilities due to fasting:
Though discontinuous fasting can offer some benefits to health and helps in fat loss and weight, use risk avoidance when obeying fasting or very reduced-calorie diets. Have the permission of your doctor before meal skipping, fasting for an entire day, or consuming no more than one thousand calories every day every time – due to the reason that this kind of dieting should be examined by a supplier of healthcare. According to a research, side effects of consuming very low calories comprises of, nausea, fatigue, gallstones constipation, diarrhea, etc. Also, you may face dizziness, headaches, trouble in concentration, repeated urination, and bad breath when fasting– also fasting for extended time periods sets you at danger for deficiencies of nutrient.
Getting to know if fasting is good for you or not:
If you make a strategy to consume no more than one thousand calories every day for a longer time period, make certain to check with your dietitian or consultant. If you are obese or overweight, Fasting by skipping snacks or meal can aid you to consume lesser calories, help in loss of weight, and also reduce risks of disease. On the other hand, in addition to this, fasting can reason bad side effects, and you do not need to fast to lose weight and lower risks of disease. Just by reducing your existing consumption by five hundred to seven hundred calories every day will also do well for you.
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The General Assembly discusses all kinds of issues that affect member countries. It has representatives from UN members. Each member has one vote. To decide important questions, at least two thirds of the members must agree.

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Friday, September 22, 2017
The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Caterpillar (CAT), Texas Instruments (TXN) and Alphabet (GOOGL). These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today.
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Strong-Buy rated Caterpillar's shares have gained +34.6% year-to-date, outperforming the Zacks Construction and Mining industry which has increased +32.5% over the same period. Caterpillar's August sales rose 11%, driven by improvement in Asia Pacific and construction.
Caterpillar was awarded a five year $663.6 million fixed-price contract from the Pentagon to supply commercial construction equipment. Backed by improved order activity, Caterpillar guides revenue in the range of $42–$44 billion and earnings per share of $5.00 for 2017. The mid-point of the ranges reflects a year-over-year growth of 12% and 46%, respectively.
The Zacks analyst thinks Asia Pacific will continue to be a catalyst for growth, owing to increased infrastructure and residential investment in China. Leading indicators of U.S. construction signal robust conditions ahead that bode well for Caterpillar. Efforts to reduce costs will help boost margins.
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The Zacks analyst expects margin expansion to continue driven by the secular strength in the auto and industrial markets, a stronger mix of analog and embedded processing products, benefits of restructuring initiatives and more than 300mm capacity coming online. Moreover, the recently announced 24% dividend hike and an additional $6 billion share buyback reflect the company's solid cash flow generation ability and balance sheet strength.
The only negative at this point appears to be intensifying competition particularly for auto chips, given recent market consolidation. There is also the question of negative currency effect and a high debt load.
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The Zacks analyst likes Alphabet's excellent execution, which is helped it to maintain its dominant share in a competitive, fast-growing search market. Its focus on innovation, strategic acquisitions and Android OS should continue to generate strong cash flows. Its diversification strategy is also positive, but requires significant investment and involves uncertain payback periods, particularly since these efforts are at the cutting edge of technology. However, increasing litigation issues continues to impact the company's profits.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Review: Night School by C.J. Daugherty
When I first heard about Night School, there was such a buzz about it and I thought it sounded amazing, and I was so excited to read it! Having finished it now, I really enjoyed it, but it wasn't as brilliant as I was expecting.
Night School is very much a first novel in a series. The characters - fantastic characters I have to say, I especially loved Jo - are all set up, the scenario is in place, and then things start to happen. Once someone dies at the Summer Ball, things start to get moving, and the questions start being asked.
However, very few questions are answered, and the ones that are aren't answered fully. So you finish the book very little the wiser to what's really going on. There are some shady chatacters, some links to Night School, and people who we hear about but never see, but nothing concrete. This would normally be really frustrating, but Daugherty keeps things going with the big events of the story - depsite not really knowing anything, enough happens to keep me interested to want to know more.
As I said, there are a few big events - the shock discoveries, the action scenes, and so forth - which make things exciting and build the tension. However, these events have a bit of a lull between them. Although they scare and worry the characters and cause more questions for them to think about, there can be days or weeks in the timeline of the story between the next big event, where things seem to go back to normal and everyday life seems to go on, so the excitement and tension kind of calm down. That's the other reason I didn't love Night School as much as I expected to, the tension didn't keep building enough for me.
The characters are what kept me reading the most. The tagline on the book is "When everyone is lying, who do you trust?", and it's spot on. It seems everyone has something their hiding, and you're never completely sure who is actually on Allie's side, or if they have another agenda. Even those who seem to be against her can be surprising. Not only that, but secrets are being kept from Allie about her. She's more important than she realises, and no-one will tell her who she is. It keeps you guessing, and it's brilliant! However, there is something that happens between two of the characters that absolutely disgusted me, and I cannot believe how the relationship between those two is how it is at the end of the book. Sorry for sounding cryptic, but I don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't read the book - hopefully those who have will know what I'm talking about. I was astonished with how that situation resolved itself, and I don't think I'll ever think well of the character in the wrong again.
Overall, Night School is a pretty awesome book I really enjoyed reading, I just think it could have been a little more exciting. I'm really looking forward to reading the sequel and finding out what's going on, and just who Allie is! I really recommend it!
Thank you to Atom for the review copy.
Published: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Atom
Buy as an eBook on Amazon US
C.J. Daugherty's Website
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great review, sorry you didnt love it as much as you thought you would, I'm definitely looking forward to it though.ReplyDelete
Thank you :) It's a really good first book, and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel. I just thought it could be a little more exciting. I' still enjoyed it :)ReplyDelete
I know exactly who you mean, Jo. I was expecting him to turn out to be evil actually, his behaviour certainly fit! Ugh. I really enjoyed Night School and will read the next one but I hope that this wasn't a set up for an enduring love triangle because well, no!ReplyDelete
Oh, I know! I don't want a love triangle! I would be quite happpy to see another death, to be frank. I do not like him. Just disgusting. But the book was good! Looking forward to the next one! :)ReplyDelete
Amy - Sorry, I had to delete your comment as it was a litte spoilery. But no, I'm afraid I don't know when the sequel will be out. Your best bet is to try asking Chrsit herself. She tweets as @CJ_Daughtery.ReplyDelete
thankyou, and sorry i let the names slip, i tried really hard xDReplyDelete
No worries, it happens :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10 December 2012 at 20:58
The author is my cousin and this was her first novel and I think it was brilliant! I'm still waiting for her to send me the sequel since I'm in the States and it's not even released here at all.ReplyDelete


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In the last few years in Europe, numerous episodes of bullying have sprung up in the news creating serious social alarm.
Pre-adolescents and adolescents belonging to enlarged socio-cultural groups are more and more significantly involved in bullying and the phenomenon is in a continuous state of evolution. Whereas in the past bullying almost exclusively involved young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, today it is dangerously and indistinctively advancing in other social classes.
The reason for this evolution is presumably to be linked to the rasing of new social variables such as: cultural diveristy – due to the growing phenomenon of immigration –, differences in sexual orientation, disability and other forms of diversity which, becoming stereotypes, provide fertile ground for phenomena of violence and juvenile deviance.
Because of this situation, the project "Active and socially constructive methodology to fight against sexual, homophobic and ethnic bullying in schools", co-funded by the European Union in the framework of the Daphne Project, intends to involve all members of the school community along with teachers and students. The aim of the project is to design and put into practice shared paths for bullying prevention, directed at fighting degeneration into such behaviour by intervening in appropriate and effective manner whenever needed.
The project started in January 2010 and is coordinated by the University Ca' Foscari of Venice.
It will last two years and, on the basis of a European survey on bullying, is aimed at setting up a number of training courses for rasing teachers and students' awareness.
The novelty of the project lies in the idea that the prevention and fight of the phenomenon of bullying requires system actions based on 3 pillars.
The first pillar regards the necessity to develop and propose teachers an in-depth training course on the subject. The reason for this choice is the need for teachers and non-formal educators to learn how to use a number of tools, so that content, methodology and quality evaluation requirements can be met and this phenomenon can be managed in a more correct and consciuos manner. Through this training course teachers will have the possibility to acquire not only basic theoretical knowledge, but also a number of useful practices pertaining to this important subject.
The second pillar, a focal point of the project, lies in the awareness that the prevention of bullying goes beyond teachers or education workers' potential competence and that students as well as their parents need to have suitable tools for promoting a better understanding of this phenomenon and preventing such situations.
In order to reach this important objective the project will have a peer-education and problem-solving approach able to actively involve students and their families for giving them a greater sense of resposibility.
The third pillar is based on the intention to set up a community for establishing common practices on the subject of bullying involving professionals of formal and non-formal education. The community will be built throughout the training activities, through the participation of subjects involved in the online discussion forums and will continue through mobility and exchange experiences.
The project also includes cultural initiatives, drama and recreational activities as means for raising awareness on the topic of violence and involving the local community joining the project. The same approach will be applied at European level through the organisation of an international festival on the "Narrative arts on Bullying".
The Mabe project promotes a number of complementary activities helping to reach the goals that are at the basis of its development. After an initial analytical stage, aimed at better understanding the dynamics of the phenomenon of bullying, a number of specifically-designed learning paths will be developed with the goal of involving, raising the awareness of and training all the subjects affected i.e. teachers, students and families.
The survey will consist of a questionnaire on the subject of bullying in its various forms (ethnic, gender, homophobic and disability related) and will be circulated online, in ten European countries to a sample of 10,000 children and adolescents in 100 schools. The questionnaire will be supported by semi-structured interviews and group interviews.
The training courses offered to different target groups are all based on the same method, i.e. on interactive pedagogy – established on the experience of participants –, a problem-solving approach, creativity and the collaborative development of knowledge.
In particular, the learning process is based on the use of Participative Research and Action (PRA) an autobiographic, narrative and socially constructive approach. The added value of this methodology is the opportunity to systematically approach the physical, verbal and gestural violence expressed by students.
The various training activities will be evaluated using a system of continuous assessment. This will include an ex-ante evaluation, aimed in particular at the initial needs analysis of the various target groups; an in-progress evaluation and a final evaluation which will aim to emphasise the skills acquired by participants at the end of the course and the total impact of the learning process.
Master Course
One of the most important products of this training is the setting up of a I level Master Course called "Expert in preventing and combating juvenile violence". The Master Course will have a blended structure and will train a maximum of 60 teachers, educators, social and recreational workers, intercultural mediators and youth centre operators.
The Master's course will allow:
1) in depth knowledge of the phenomenon of juvenile violence;
2) acquisition of a series of methodologically functional tools to prevent and combat juvenile violence;
3) acquisition of knowledge and skills for understanding the different aspects of violence when projecting formal and non formal education courses;
4) acquisition of skills for setting up and putting into practice methods of prevention of conflict and conflicting situations which can involve the school community.
The final outcome of the course intends to provide participants with skills on the theoretical level of in-depth knowledge on the subject and phenomenon of juvenile violence as well as the most up-to-date means of preventing and limiting this phenomenon in the field of formal and non formal education.
From the functional point of view, participants should be able to: (a) systematically integrate the different aspects of juvenile violence into formal and non formal education projects; (b) invent and carry out methods of prevention and combating against violence (Action plans, Declarations, Strategies, Training courses, Animation, etc); (c) evaluate policies on the prevention and combating of juvenile violence.
Training students inside and outside of school might not be enough to combat the phenomenon of bullying. For this reason, peer education actions have been designed in order to train young mentors, that is people able to combat the phenomenon of bullying by supporting weaker students.
Peer-education as used in training subjects in areas of sensitive issues such as bullying, becomes an important educational strategy to activate all those transfer processes, of knowledge, emotions and experiences by some students to others of equal status. This practice as it is used to face sensitive issues like bullying, is able to overcome barriers which usually characterise traditional training to reach a more authentic and significant level of discussion between a group of peers or a school class.
This educational process will have the specific goal of identifying young mentors and training them to implement forms of mentoring applied to the issue of bullying.
The space dedicated to the Best Practices hosts the most meaningful experiences done and the most effective results obtained during the project stages as well as during other kinds of experiences dealing with bullying whose goal is to raise the awareness of the social community towards this important matter.
The intrinsic value of Best Practices lies in the fact that they can be repeated. Hence, this space is an important means to collect meaningful experiences on bullying and, at the same time, to promote their spreading and sustainability throughout time.
The experimentation will consist of two main stages:
The first stage includes a placement and a project work for teachers and educators working in the field of formal and non-formal education and will consist in projecting and experimenting new modules and teaching units in their own classes. These will also include a brief introduction to education to diversity that will be dealt with in an innovative way. [...]
The experimentation activities will be made effective through a dense network of dissemination activities for disclosing results and actions achieved by the project through articles, reports and dissemination meetings both at national and international level.
The primary goal of the fifteen-day European meeting of the narrative arts on bullying is to help raising the awareness of the general public by means of a European festival on adolescent narratives that will be held in Italy.
On the days dedicated to this event, students together with their parents will be the actors and the protagonists of stories that, through their personal experiences, will help raising the awareness of the general public on the importance of this subject.
The initiative intends to present activities ranging from contemporary art workshops, to dance and theatre. The main aim is to deconstruct episodes of violence and channel energies in a significant and constructive way. The event will be an important occasion to promote the exchange of experiences between professionals from the different countries directly involved through experimental activities.
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I'm a big fan of hats, they're my thing – bad hair days are a regular when you have lots of fine wavy hair, or prefer an extra 20 minutes in bed in the morning.
Upon extensive research (a google search of girls wearing hats), the theme seems to be the same – baseball caps look amazing, teamed with the following clothing items:
- Ripped denim
- Sneakers or suede boots
- Leather jacket or coat and a jumper in the winter
- t-shirt or singlet in the summer
Simple style that looks amazing – and an affordable way to change up your look. I have included three caps on ASOS at the bottom of this post that I am loving.


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Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Mar. 18, 2009.
Pick someone up at Pop Life.
Get caught up in Martini Madness (featuring half-price martinis) at Therapy
Live in the lap of luxury (at least for a little while) at Ballantyne Resort
See naked ladies for half the cover price
Take a date to hear the alt-country sounds of Yarn


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Archaeologist discovers another Great Wall in China
December 30 , 2013
Archaeologist Gary Feinman was only hunting for pottery shards in China when he discovered something rattling: An earth wall, reaching about 15 feet high in some places.
It wasn't a known fact that a wall was built in Shandong in around 500 BC but Feinman discovered that it wasn't only built but was also quite well-designed and well-preserved.
The archaeologist suspects that the wall, which was built under the Qi Dynasty, could be many hundred miles long and the NPR explains that it's built with "file-grained soil" and is fairly impressive.
Reports suggest that the "Great Qi Wall" was constructed out of protection from other dynasties in China.
Tagged as: china great qi wall, china great wall, china discovery, recent discoveries, world news


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Common Themes in Literature
A story's plot answers the question "What happens in the story?" This is the action from scene to scene. This is what the characters do.
A story's theme answers the question "What is this story about?" This is the issue or concept explored in the novel. It is not explicitly stated in the text. It is the deeper idea that the story explores. Quick hint; a theme is almost never described in one word.
There are countless themes…as many as there are ideas. But these below are the most broad and common.
1. The Individual in Nature – surviving in a world where man is not in charge.
- Nature is at war with each of us and proves our vulnerability.
- People are out of place in Nature and need technology to survive.
- People are destroying nature and themselves with uncontrolled technology.
2. The Individual's role in society
- Society and a person's inner nature are always at war.
- Social influences determine a person's final destiny.
- Social influences can only complete inclinations formed by Nature.
- A person's identity is determined by rank in society.
- In spite of the pressure to be among people, and individual is essentially alone and frightened.
3. Human relations, loving, hating and communicating.
- Marriage is a perpetual comedy bound to fail.
- Marriage is a relationship in which each partner is supported and enabled to grow.
- An old man marrying a young woman is destined to be a cuckold.
- Parents should not sacrifice all for a better life for their children.
- There are few friends who will make extreme sacrifices.
5. Growth and initiation, finding one's place, coming of age.
- A boy and a girl must go through a special trial or series of trials before maturing.
- Manhood or womanhood is often established by an abrupt, random crisis, sometimes at an unusually early age.
- Aspects of childhood are retained in all of us, sometimes hindering growth.
- A person grows only in so far as he or she must face a crisis of confidence or identity.
6. The power and mystery of death
- Death is part of living, giving life its final meaning.
- Death is the ultimate absurd joke on life.
- There is no death, only a different plane or mode of life without physical decay.
- Without love, death often appears to be the only alternative to life.
7. Alienation, rebellion and standing apart from the crowd.
- An individual is isolated from fellow human beings and foolishly tries to bridge the gaps.
- Through alienation comes self-knowledge.
- Modern culture is defective because it doesn't provide group ties which in primitive cultures makes alienation virtually impossible.
- Going against the normal world to achieve goals, justice. Doing what's right as opposed to whats expected.
Formative to-do challenge…
- Find three works that deal with the theme you have been assigned. You should have at least one novel as well as film, if you like.
- Join the extremethemes wikispace for our class. When you do, use your real names please. Ask to join but do not choose to create your own wiki.
- Introduce the three works in a wiki entry. Describe each and how it explores the theme. Use a visual for each, but not the cover of the book, not a movie poster.


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Great job done on the theatre, I used to work there as a young girl for the Foster's and always go by when I am in town visiting family. I now live in Nova Scotia so don't get there nearly as often as I would like to. Now I have the Web page to keep in touch.
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German research on free papers
A German thesis, "Phänomen Gratiszeitung – Untersuchung zu einem neuen Pressetypus" by Christoph Wolf (Freie Universität Berlin) covers not only the free daily history and several issues concerning free dailies, but also gives a detailed overview of all German adventures with free dailies.
Although there are now no free dailies in Germany, the country was one of the first with free dailies (15 Uhr Aktuell in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich already between 1998 and 2000) while there were several attempts later to start free dailies. The most famous being the Cologne free newspaper war in 1999-2001.
A mail to Christoph Wolf <wolf.christoph /at/ web.de> will probably get you the thesis as a pdf file.


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Color Printing and Studio Practice
Piezography for Beginners
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Digital Negatives that Work: Display to Print matching with PiezoDN
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The Piezography Workshop in Santa Fe
This is the schedule for the 2018 Cone Editions Press workshops. You can click on the calendar week above to get a full description and or sign up to reserve your seat!
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Plant-covered buildings do far more than fit in with this year's leafy green trend; they contribute to environmental health and make urban citizens feel good. According to a report from global engineering firm Arup, living building facades can reduce air pollution by up to 20%. They also play a role in making streetscapes noticeably quieter, as living materials absorb more sound than most urban materials. Another advantage of plants in a city setting is the regulation of internal temperatures, therefore reducing the cost of heating and cooling in high-rise buildings. All in all, plant-covered buildings aren't just about pretty exteriors (though they certainly provide that, too) and should be seriously considered when it comes to sustainable city planning. Here, we explore our top three inner-city vertical gardens that give new meaning to the term 'urban jungle'.
bosco verticale
Quite literally meaning vertical garden, the Bosco Verticale in Milan, Italy, is a pair of residential towers that was awarded the Best Tall Building Worldwide award in 2016 by The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. This means they beat more than 120 skyscrapers, including the World Trade Center in New York City and the Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid Tower in Abu Dhabi. The two towers are 256 feet and 334 feet respectively, and are covered from top to bottom in over 700 trees and 90 plant species. Picture this: if all the trees were laid out flat, the forest would cover a surface area of nearly two acres.
the santalaia
The Santalaia brings a burst of freshness to the city of Bogotá in Colombia. Nine stories high and covering 3 117m², the apartment complex is one of the world's largest vertical gardens. It was created by biologist and botanist Ignacio Solano, and is made up of over 115 000 plants of 10 different species. Not only does the greenery make the city more visually appealing, it also contributes to its health: the plant cover helps offset the carbon footprint for about 700 people, produces enough oxygen for 3 000 people and filters out the pollutants of 745 cars per year.
tao zhu yin yuan tower
Although not completed yet, the Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower is set to be finished later this year. The eco-friendly building, designed by architect Vincent Callebaut, is currently undergoing construction in Taipei. Inspired by the double-helix structure of DNA, the tower is wrapped in vertical gardens, including suspended orchards and vegetable and aromatic gardens, and will absorb 130 tons of carbon dioxide a year. The building will also encourage residents to reduce their energy consumption with additions such as natural lighting and ventilation as well as rainwater recycling and rooftop solar panels.
For more green inspiration, get your copy of House and Leisure's October 2017 issue – in stores and online now.


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Dateline: February 7, 1933. The Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee adopts a special Decree on convergence of the State Joint-Stock Company on foreign tourism in the USSR and the Hotel All-Union Joint-Stock Company. The new organization called the All-Union Joint-Stock Company on Foreign Tourism in the USSR — was known as Intourist.
In 1939 the Decree of the USSR Council of People's Commissars put the All-Union Joint-Stock Company on Foreign Tourism in the USSR under the control of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade of the USSR. During the 10 year existence of Intourist, 1 million tourists visited the Soviet Union.
At the onset of the Great Patriotic War, Intourist had to minimize its activities. Having preserved its organizational structure and part of the staff, Intourist switched over to providing services for the diplomatic missions accredited in the USSR, the personnel of missions of the anti-Hitler coalition countries, and representatives of the neutral states. Many Intourist employees left for the front; some of them didn't come back.
Intourist was the office through which all foreigners had to pass if traveled in the USSR, the country where everything was invented. Intourist was known for producing some stunning posters, albeit in a ideal/romantic style, and some interesting foreign language brochures like this one below.
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Lockport police: Man charged after striking gas pump, driving away
Lockport police: Man charged after striking gas pump, driving away
LOCKPORT, La. —
Lockport police say a man who struck a fuel pump and surveyed the damage before driving away has been charged.
Police say 22-year-old Derek Gaubert of Des Allemands struck a fuel pump at a gas station in the 600 block of Crescent Avenue in Lockport Nov. 5 at about 10 p.m.
Gaubert exited the truck, surveyed the damage which included a broken tail light cover and fled the scene, according to police.
The fuel pump sustained significant damage, police say.
Gaubert turned himself in to police Friday.
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Sometime in the coming month, the Tacoma City Council could vote on a funding proposal to expand Click Cable TV into internet and phone service that won't require any subsidy from the city's general fund.
The proposal is expected to pass easily. It gives the council what it wants by keeping Click publicly operated as the means to get more Tacomans connected to broadband service. And it does it without impacting the city's already cash-strapped budget.
The Tacoma Public Utilities board approved the funding plan Wednesday night as members of the council looked on. Councilman Anders Ibsen applauded when the resolution passed; Mayor Marilyn Strickland took to the lectern to thank the the board for its service.
The board was weighing two proposals to fund the losses Click is expected to incur over the next nine years. On a 3-2 vote, the board picked the plan developed by board member Bryan Flint, which will fund upgrades to Click's networks and Click's operations using Tacoma Power ratepayer funds and rate revenues.
Flint's plan allows Click to upgrade its network using electric revenues, and asks Tacoma Power to give Click at least $6 million per year, but no more than $10 million. In addition, Click would be empowered to offer retail, voice over internet and other commercial services.
"They had a lot of hard decisions to make and every person approached it from the perspective of wanting to do what is best for the residents who are served by Tacoma Power, and I wanted to respect that," Strickland said by phone Thursday, "but I do think this was the best possible outcome, given where broadband technology is moving and given the fact that it's an essential service like water and power."
The funding options the board was considering fell along the lines of a philosophical debate members of the City Council and TPU board have been having for months: One asked the city of Tacoma to contribute money to subsidize Click's losses and left open the possibility of having one or more private operators run Click, and the other recommended Tacoma Power ratepayers continue to help pay for Click.
Click is the outgrowth of a fiber optic network build by Tacoma Power in the 1990s to improve maintenance and efficiency of the power grid. Tacoma Power still uses the network for that. But most of the costs are for providing the cable service that city leaders launched in 1998 to counter a local cable monopoly's limited offerings and spotty service.
Flint said Thursday he had originally favored a plan he viewed as a "shared sacrifice," in which both Tacoma Power and the city's general fund kicked in each year for Click. But he said he knew such a proposal wouldn't have the votes to pass the City Council, and he worked with Strickland while shaping the funding plan that ultimately passed.
"We have to work in a political world, too, so from my perspective not having the general fund contribution was a bit of a compromise," Flint said, "but certainly we can justify Tacoma Power's contribution through the benefits that Tacoma Power gets from having control of this infrastructure and being able to use it and having our customers benefit from it."
After much public testimony Wednesday — the majority of it in support of Flint's funding plan — board members Flint, Karen Larkin and Woodrow Jones offered their support for continued utility support for Click as it moves into a new business plan where it will compete with the internet service providers that now lease space on the network.
I, for one, have some real problems with asking the City Council for money from the general government
TPU board member Woodrow Jones
"You've got a situation where it's general government — you're talking about human services, you're talking about the police department, you're talking about the fire department," Jones said. "I, for one, have some real problems with asking the City Council for money from the general government."
The approved funding plan will allow Click to continue to contract with those ISPs to use surplus portions of its network — as long as doing so won't interfere with Click's operations or its ability to implement its new business plan.
Some audience members worried that could open up the door for a cable company such as Comcast to lease space on Click's wires and then slash their rates, making it harder for Click to do business. Some were concerned that utility management, which has been critical of continuing to subsidize Click with power revenues, might try to undercut its success.
"People talk about privatization, and I think they're correct when they say somebody could come in here and use the network and basically drive everybody else out of town," said Kit Burns, a retired architect who is running for Pierce County Council.
Flint responded that the utility would weigh those contracts to see whether or not they would be harmful to Click's business.
"This does not direct them to sign contracts, it allows contracts," Flint said. "TPU has to sign those contracts and so I don't think — I think it's worst-case scenario, doomsday to think we're going to sign a contract that's going to compete directly with the business we're trying to make successful."
Board members Mark Patterson and Monique Trudnowski, who have said a private operator should run Click in order to shift the cost burden off public agencies, said they did not believe it was legal for TPU to force ratepayers to fund a service that many don't use.
"I'm just very cautious and anxious about what this is going to open up if we continue to subsidize it," Trudnowski said.
I'm just very cautious and anxious about what this is going to open up if we continue to subsidize it
TPU board member Monique Trudnowski
Flint's plan allows Click to upgrade its network with electric revenues, and asks Tacoma Power to give Click at least $6 million per year, but no more than $10 million.
The funding plan preferred by Patterson and Trudnowski would have had Click borrow $12 million to $14 million from the city's general fund to upgrade its infrastructure to gigabit internet service speeds. The city also would have been asked to steadily contribute more to help subsidize Click, starting at about $2.8 million in 2017 and ramping up to $7.5 million in 2025.
TPU's contribution to funding Click would have decreased over time with this option, from $6.1 million in 2017 to $2.4 million in 2025. The proposal called for the utility to seek one or more public-private partnerships to operate Click if Tacoma Power and the city weren't able to find money for the system's expansion, but did not set a deadline for that decision.
Neither option included a controversial provision contained in a previous proposal that gave the City Council a deadline to bless whatever funding plan was sent its way, or risk having Click's operations privatized.
The funding proposals have several features in common: Both authorized Click to provide retail internet, voice over internet phone, commercial broadband and cable television services as part of a new "all-in" business plan. Both plans also suggested negotiating with Click's labor force to achieve $1.5 million annually in savings to make up for some of the losses Click is expected to face.
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Rich Table opened in 2012 to pretty much instant local acclaim. A cute story, a husband and wife team of chef-owners, who opened their first restaurant together. He makes their fancy cultured butter, she makes the homemade bread. A casual, neighborhood environment, but with fairly refined food. Seasonal market focused menu that is constantly changing, with a few unique signature dishes. Reasonable pricing.
I've wanted to visit Rich Table for quite a while, but, reservations are notoriously hard to come by (although, they've never been awarded a Michelin star). I was finally able to visit when invited by a VIP guest, who was able to secure us a table for 4 on a Sunday night, in the 5:45pm seating.
I've wanted to visit Rich Table for quite a while, but, reservations are notoriously hard to come by (although, they've never been awarded a Michelin star). I was finally able to visit when invited by a VIP guest, who was able to secure us a table for 4 on a Sunday night, in the 5:45pm seating.
The Space
Rich Table is located in Hayes Valley, just a few blocks from the Van Ness station. The space is casual but manicured, if that makes any sense, in that it is clearly designed, but designed to feel homey. It is as comfortable as possible, but, the space is small, so the cramped nature does reduce some level of comfort.
|Front Door - Curb Appeal!
|Front Window.
Most tables are just small tables for two, with only a handful of 4-6 person tables.
|Open (Tiny) Kitchen.
|Place Setting.
Our plates and silverware were changed out between courses.
Next I went for the famous sardine chips. Yes, a chip, with a sardine threaded through it. Unique, for sure.
I actually wanted to reach for it first, but, since the doughnuts were hot and it was not, I had to prioritize.
The chip was crispy, but a bit oily, as you can see it glistening here. The sardine was super salty, which was perfect with the chip, but rather chewy, in a way that made it a bit hard to eat.
The chips were served with horseradish crème fraiche, a fun play on chips and dip, although I didn't taste horseradish. There was also a single leaf of ... baby kale? It was at this point that I noticed that every dish came garnished with some kind of fresh seasonal green.
Overall, this was fine, and certainly unique. I'm glad I finally got to try it, but I don't think I'd order it again, as the chewy nature of the sardine was a bit off-putting.
Everything at Rich Table is designed to be shared family style, so we were able to order a selection of menu items, some from all sections of the menu. The pastas and desserts were the weakest dishes, the signature Bites were as unique as I expected, but, besides the steak, we didn't have anything particularly worth going back for.
|Menu Board.
The food menu (top) at Rich Table is broken into several sections. The three main sections are not labelled in any particular way, but if I had to make up names, I'd call them: "Larger Appetizers", "Pasta", and "Main Dishes".
Down the side of the menu ran labelled sections, with "Bites", "Bread & Butter", "Oysters", and the option to feast family style with the chefs picking your menu.
We ordered from all the major sections, skipping only the oysters and bread.
The bottom menu was cocktails, beer, and wine, plus house made soft drinks.
My hosts brought a bottle of wine, so I did not order any drinks, besides sparkling water, from the drink menu.
Ojan however ordered a house made soda, as they sounded interesting. He has the choice of strawberry-verbena, douglas fir, lemon-lime, cherry-lavender, or mexican cola.
|Cherry Lavender. $6
Ojan took one sip and declared, "Woah, that's weird."
Given that reaction, I had to try it. It was very sweet, but the cherry flavor was good. A unique drink, if nothing else.
I knew from my research that the Bites section of the menu is what first brought Rich Table acclaim. The sardine chips and porchini mushroom doughnuts are hands down, the most talked about, blogged about, instagrammed about, etc dishes. But the other Bites also sounded great, so, we ordered every single item from the Bites section (save the avocado since I'm allergic).
The Bites seemed strangely portioned to me. The chips are sold individually. The doughnuts come as an order of 5. The fritters as 4. The spring roll, only one per order, cut in half. It seemed like no matter your group size, these portions would always be a bit awkward. It was also a bit odd that the varied serving sizes weren't mentioned to us. When we ordered the spring roll for example, the server could have asked if we were all planning to try it, and suggested doubling up on it. Instead, we had two pieces of spring roll for 4 people.
The first 3 of our Bites came at once, with a steady trickle of the remaining dishes a few minutes later. This was good pacing, as receiving them all at once would have just covered our table in dishes, been overwhelming, and the hot dishes would have gotten cold before we could try them all. I appreciated the staggering.
In the first wave of dishes, the very first dish I reached for was Rich Table's second-most-famous dish: dried porcini doughnuts with raclette dipping sauce.
|Dried Porcini Doughnuts / Raclette. $9.
Yes, take a moment for that one to settle in. Hot fresh savory doughnuts, with liquid cheese to dip them in? No wonder people go nuts.
The doughnuts were piping hot and fresh from the fryer, not oily. The texture was good, very doughy, in a way that I liked. They didn't scream "MUSHROOMS!", but had slightly earthy tones from the porcini powder they were rolled in. Good, savory doughnuts.
The raclette was actually really fluffy, cheesy, and, like the doughnuts themselves, it was served warm. I'm glad I went for this dish first, while it was all hot.
We all liked this, but, no one loved it enough to go for the 5th extra. I really wanted the molten raclette stuffed inside the doughnuts, rather than as a dipping sauce, like the ridiculous cheese foam injected donut "tanks" from Fill 'R Up Gastro Garaje in LA.
|Sardine Chip / Horseradish Crème Fraiche. $2/each.
I actually wanted to reach for it first, but, since the doughnuts were hot and it was not, I had to prioritize.
The chip was crispy, but a bit oily, as you can see it glistening here. The sardine was super salty, which was perfect with the chip, but rather chewy, in a way that made it a bit hard to eat.
The chips were served with horseradish crème fraiche, a fun play on chips and dip, although I didn't taste horseradish. There was also a single leaf of ... baby kale? It was at this point that I noticed that every dish came garnished with some kind of fresh seasonal green.
Overall, this was fine, and certainly unique. I'm glad I finally got to try it, but I don't think I'd order it again, as the chewy nature of the sardine was a bit off-putting.
|Fresh Spring Roll / Dungeness Crab / Fried Peanut. $11.
Inside the standard spring roll wrapper was crispy cucumber and a generous amount of fresh crab. I got totally distracted talking about local Dungeness crab, and somewhat forgot to take real notes on this. I couldn't stop thinking about crab night at Camino, in Oakland, which I was busy recommending to our fellow diners.
There were two sauces on the plate, a peanut sauce and a chile sauce, that you were supposed to mix together. I somehow managed to just get a big spoonful of the chile sauce, and found it really hot, but, everyone else had them mixed and didn't think there was much spice. Perhaps I got all the spice? The peanut sauce was very chunky, a texture I liked, but made it hard to dip into.
The random green garnish here was a sprig of something. Like I said, every dish had a random green garnish.
The spring roll came as only two halves, which made sharing a bit awkward. Luckily, our group of 4 was two couples, so each couple took one, and did the portioning. In my case, this meant I got first dibs, and my partner took the second half after I was done. The other couple tried to more politely cut their piece in half, but that just squished and mangled the whole thing. The server really should have warned us about this portion size.
Anyway, this was good, a fresh, light, tasty dish, although not particularly novel. It was the dish of the night for one diner.
Our next pile of Bites started with the brandade croquettes. The order came with 4, one for each of us, but I decided to skip it. We had way too much food coming, and they looked kinda burnt and dried out, and were less interesting to me than other things on our lineup.
The random green garnish here was a fresh pea tendril, which also showed up in the next dish.
The others didn't comment much on this dish, so I don't think it was particularly interesting to them either.
Our final Bite was corn tempura.
Anyway, this was good, a fresh, light, tasty dish, although not particularly novel. It was the dish of the night for one diner.
|Brandade Croquettes / Tikka Masala / Pickled Lime. $9.
The random green garnish here was a fresh pea tendril, which also showed up in the next dish.
The others didn't comment much on this dish, so I don't think it was particularly interesting to them either.
|Corn Tempura / Aioli / Cotija Cheese. $9.
From reading reviews before my visit, I knew that this would be individually fried tempura corn kernels, but that is certainly not what I would have expected prior to seeing photos. Everyone else seemed confused by it, expecting something more like a corn fritter.
Anyway. I like fried things. I like tempura. I love aioli. I like dipping fried things in aioli. But ... that was hard to do with this form factor and plating. The individual fried corn kernels meant that you couldn't pick them up. This was not finger food. The aioli was all on the bottom of the plate. It made the tempura bits get soggy, and, I couldn't take a forkful of tempura corn and dunk it in the aioli. I wanted more, separate aioli for optimal dunking. And lastly, the corn tempura was too oily, it left an oily aftertaste in my mouth.
Sadly, I just didn't care for this dish, even though it sounded on paper like one I'd love. Ojan even called it out, noticing that I wasn't polishing off the plate, asking what was wrong, because it was a dish that I should have loved. And I would have, if it were less oily, and had more aioli ...
I'll give a shout out to the fresh pea tendrils on top though. Crisp, peak season, and really delicious.
The Starters section (as opposed to just "Bites"), had 4 items, larger than the Bites. Since we got so many Bites, I would have been fine skipping these, but, one other diner wanted the burrata, and, really, when will I ever turn down burrata? We ordered just that one. The dishes we passed up were grilled asparagus, beef tartar, and chicken liver mousse. Asparagus and chicken liver mousse are dishes I would have ordered on any other day, so this really just a testament to how amazing the whole menu was, that I was able to not select dishes that sounded perfectly appealing.
Our starter came about 20 minutes after the last Bite, and 15 minutes before our entrees, again, good pacing.
Our starter came about 20 minutes after the last Bite, and 15 minutes before our entrees, again, good pacing.
|Burrata / Strawberry Gazpacho / Country Ham. $10.
It was, indeed, a pool of strawberry gazpacho and big chunks of fresh burrata, topped with ham, greens, and furikaki spiced rice crispy rice.
One diner took a bite and said, "its like strawberry greek yogurt!"
The gazpacho was sweet and fruity, yet spicy too. The burrata was creamy and delicious, as, well, it was burrata. Hard to go wrong with fresh burrata. The greens and finely sliced snap peas added freshness and color. I think this was the same garnish as the spring roll? The crumble on top was furikake spiced puffed rice, super crispy, and a fun touch.
It was a very intriguing combination of flavors and textures, and things you'd never expect to work well together, yet, somehow, it did. Although, now that I think about it, fruit and cheese do make sense together, and obviously ham and cheese make sense, so, why not put it all together, and turn the fruit into a gazpacho? The other diners summed it up when they said, "its just confusing". I agree, it was confusing, but, I think I liked it.
I know the porchini doughnuts and the sardine chips get all the credit for being the unique offerings at Rich Table, but this one was far more fascinating to me. Not necessarily more tasty, but, it kept me engaged. It was the favorite dish of one diner.
PastaRich Table is known for their pastas, which I knew, and our server made sure to tell us as well. The menu had four pasta choices, which could be coursed out as a mid or an entree. We opted to order two pastas and one entree, and have them coursed together.
I would have been happy with any of the four pastas, but the carbonara was my first pick, and the lobster tagliatelle was another diner's top request, so, we went with those two, skipping the bucatini (with triple cream!) and the braised duck and cherry lasagna (which, I'll admit, sounds a bit odd, but looked delicious).
I wonder if we just made poor choices, as neither pasta was great, and the pastas are something Rich Table is really known for.
|Chitarra / Ramp "Carbonara" / Aged Gouda / Egg Yolk. $18.
Not that it was bad exactly, but it was really, really boring. The pasta itself was cooked al dente. The sauce was creamy. But ... there was just no flavor.
On top, of course we had a random green garnish, here it was a few leaves of ... baby arugula?
This dish simply had nothing going on. I certainly didn't taste ramps or even gouda. This went unfinished.
|Tagliatelle / Maine Lobster / Corn Bisque / Peach / Caraway. $23.
Again, nicely cooked pasta in a creamy sauce. This time, the sauce, sweet corn bisque, had flavor. I really liked the crunch from the caraway crumble on top.
The chunks of soft, cooked peach mixed in were a bit odd. Peaches and lobster? Peaches and pasta? It didn't not work, but, it was certainly different, and very sweet. Perhaps a bit too sweet as part of a main dish. There was a not a lot of lobster, but I wouldn't expect there to be at this price point. The lobster was nicely cooked, not rubbery.
Overall, better than the other pasta, and I did like the sauce, but, I probably wouldn't get it again.
Ok, a steak is perhaps not the most sharable dish, I know. But, they did say everything on the menu is designed to be family style, and, it was a vary large steak. Amusingly, it was served with a fork and a spoon (although they brought us each a steak knife for our individual place settings).
Main Dishes
The menu had 4 different main dishes. Since we were going so heavy in the other areas of the menu, we opted to only order a single main, which was served at the same time as our pastas.
I was tempted by the halibut, since I really love halibut (and it came with grits!), but, I eat both halibut and grits regularly, so, that didn't seem very special. I was really intrigued by the vegetarian main, a corn cake with "seeded cream cheese", strawberries, and sprouts, but I also had no real idea what that would be like, and no one else in the group was drawn in by that one. So this left the pork chop or the ribeye. Our choice was made not by the protein itself, but by one of the elements: Dungeness Crab Butter. Yes.
It was an excellent choice, and I wonder more why the main dishes don't get more accolades.
|Grilled Ribeye, English Pea, Potato, Dungeness Crab Butter. $34.
I can't say this dish looked like I expected it to. I expected a more classic preparation, a steak, potatoes on the side, scoop of peas, pat of butter on top. Where were the potatoes? And, that promised Dungeness crab butter? I also can't say that it looked ... very appealing. But one bite in I stopped caring what it looked like. It was delicious.
Ojan took one bite of this, and instantly declared, "This dish makes me realize why people like ribeye". Neither Ojan nor I tend to like ribeye, and always opt for filet, as ribeye tends to be chewier, fattier than we like.
But the ribeye was ridiculously good. It was really well prepared, tender and juicy, not chewy, the considerable fat perfectly rendered. It was well seasoned, very salty, in a good way.
The peas came in two forms, a smooth english pea puree at the base of the plate and a chunky pea pistou (or was it a chimichurri?) on top. The peas were fresh, flavorful, and delicious. I really enjoyed both pea elements. Hello, spring!
The potato was crispy fried potato strings perched on top. I loved the crunch they added. I'm not sure exactly where the butter was, I think the steak must have been basted with it, as it was glistening and there was no obvious butter on the plate. I didn't actually taste anything craby at all, but, I didn't care. The dish was good anyway.
Everyone at the table liked this dish. It was the dish of the night for both Ojan and I, although our dining companions happen to be serious steak connoisseurs, and said they can source, and cook themselves, a better steak. We await our invitation, and, in the meantime, we'd gladly get this again.
|Dessert menu.
I avoid chocolate at night due to the caffeine, so we quickly ruled that out. I love pudding, but the panna cotta was lemon, and I don't care for citrus desserts. Still, you know me, I have a serious sweet tooth, and we needed dessert.
It seemed that nothing was jumping out at anyone else either. No strong votes for any dishes, so, we opted to double up on the cake, and added the frozen dessert our server strongly recommended.
The desserts were fine, but, they weren't special nor memorable.
Alongside my dessert I ordered decaf coffee, as always. I love having a bitter coffee to pair with a sweet dessert. Unfortunately, the coffee didn't come until at least 5 minutes after dessert. It was good (Sightglass, served in a french press), but, given that we had one warm dessert and one melting dessert, I couldn't wait for it to arrive, and had to drink it after. Next time, I'd explicitly ask to have that timed differently.
|Pistachio Coffee Cake / Strawberry / Buttermilk Ice Cream. $11.
Now, I'm not really one for cake (its in the same category as cookies for me, generally just meh), but, I do have a soft spot for coffee cake. Not generally for dessert, but, a good streusel topped coffee cake makes a wonderful compliment to a morning cuppa.
Anyway, this was ... not really a coffee cake. We all had the same initial reaction of "um, this isn't coffee cake". I mean, it was cake, and it was round, but ... no streusel? No cinnamon? One diner said it was more like a soft scone. To me, it was just boring cake.
The cake was served warm, which I appreciated. Warm dessert with cold ice cream is a winning combination (although, I prefer the warm element to be a crisp, cobbler, pie, etc). One point for the warm dessert.
The strawberries were glazed and super sweet. They reminded me almost of canned strawberries, the goo surrounding them was that thick. I like sweet, but, I didn't really like these. Ojan told me to think of them like the strawberries my mom uses for strawberry shortcake, macerated with tons of sugar. I almost could see the strawberry shortcake aspect of this dish, as it was cake and sweetened berries, but, the glaze was just too much.
The buttermilk ice cream was tasty though, it had a nice tang to it.
If I composed a bite with all of the elements, warm soft cake, sweet fruit, crunchy pistachios, and tangy creamy ice cream, it was enjoyable, but, overall, this was fairly lackluster. One other diner said it was "not a very desserty dessert", which perhaps explains why it wasn't for me. I like serious desserts, and this almost seemed more like a breakfast item to me. I wouldn't get it again.
Our other pick was the cherry ice.
This was an odd pick, but, when I asked the server if he had a favorite, he got a dreamy look in his eye, and told me the cherry ice. I think he realized how it was a strange pick, particularly when compared to something like dark chocolate ganache. I also recalled a surprised positive review about it when I browsed Yelp too, so, putting the two recommendations together, we went for it. Why not try something totally different?
|Cherry Ice / Sorrel / Almond Milk Ice Cream. $11.
This was an odd pick, but, when I asked the server if he had a favorite, he got a dreamy look in his eye, and told me the cherry ice. I think he realized how it was a strange pick, particularly when compared to something like dark chocolate ganache. I also recalled a surprised positive review about it when I browsed Yelp too, so, putting the two recommendations together, we went for it. Why not try something totally different?
And different it was. Not bad, but, very different.
Cherries and almonds were the primary ingredients, each featured in multiple forms. The namesake cherries made up the light refreshing granita on top, but there were also fresh, tart halves of cherries underneath. The almond milk ice cream was quite good, I found the almond flavor to it lovely, and I was surprised by how well the almond and cherry flavors combined. There was also roasted almond slices as a layer in the bowl, which added more almond flavor and some crunch. On top was chiffonade sorrel, you know, green garnish.
Overall, I enjoyed eating this dish, largely because it was different. I appreciated that they worked the fresh cherry and crunchy almonds in, to boost the flavor of the granita and the ice cream, but also to add some other textures. But, would I get it again? Nah. Again, just not my style of dessert, but it was a really refreshing and light option, so if you are into granitas and fruit, then, I'd recommend.


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This worked for me too.
I had read that thread where SD said to rename the CatRoot folder to CatRoot3, but did not try it since I had just deleted my stock images using the FutureDial usb to serial cable.
When I saw this post, I figured I'd try it.
I put the usbser.sys file in the C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386 and in the C:/WINDOWS/system32 (which I have tried before). But this time I first renamed the CatRoot folder to CatRoot3.
After I rebooted, I could access the shared > audio and pics folders with my Moto usb cable!
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We are pleased to announce the completion of the £650,000 renovation of Woolverstone Marina.
This major redevelopment project, which has taken three months to complete, has enhanced the layout of the marina with all piles and pontoons on piers A to D replaced, giving a completely new look to the marina.
The new pontoons have been configured to fully comply with Yacht Harbour Association recommendations, allowing for extra beam between berths and greater fairway widths, all of which makes the marina more accessible and easier to use for berth holders.
In addition to the new pontoon layout, the fixed pier has been completely refurbished and the existing access bridge replaced to further increase ease of entry onto the marina, and bring them up-to-date and in line with the new layout. A new state-of-the-art fuelling pontoon has also been installed to replace the previous fuelling facilities.
Marina construction specialist Walcon Marine was contracted to deliver the installation of the new pontoons, with Rolec Services providing the expertise for fitting the new electricity and water supplies. The new fuelling facility was delivered and installed by Petroil.
This latest round of investment marks a significant phase in the development of Woolverstone Marina under our ownership. MDL remains committed to maintaining its programme of investment both at Woolverstone and across all of its 19 UK marinas and boatyards.
Trevor Barnes, Marina Manager at Woolverstone Marina, said: "We are delighted to be completing this major renovation work which has completely transformed Woolverstone Marina and brought major benefits to our berth holders. The significant investment MDL has made in this redevelopment underlines our commitment to constantly looking at ways to improve our marina services and facilities for our customers. I'd like to personally thank the whole team who have worked so hard to make this project a success."
Woolverstone Marina is set in 22 acres of glorious parkland on the picturesque River Orwell. As well as 235 pontoon berths, there are 110 swinging moorings with a water taxi service, an on-site caravan park along with a sailing school.
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After my third lot of antibiotics and second lot of steroids, I might actually be starting to improve, yay! I have 2 more days of antibiotics and steroids left, hopefully that'll be it for some time!!
My peak flow is up to 65% , I'm only using my blue inhaler about 2 or 3 times a day (usually after I've been coughing a bit so get tight chest and wheezy) and while I still have a chesty cough, it's clear stuff I'm coughing up.


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Article for St. Catharines Standard newspaper by Peter Youngren.
One of the great success stories in publishing in recent years is the novel, The Shack, by Canadian author, William P. Young. Originally Young wrote the manuscript as a gift for his six children. Several friends read it and encouraged Young to get his book published, but no religious or secular publisher showed any interest. Young and an associate launched Wind Blown Media to publish this one book, and the marketing plan was simple; a $300 website and high hopes for word-of-mouth recommendations. The hopes were realized beyond expectation, as The Shack achieved number one Best Seller success in less than a year, with one million copies sold. It remained the number one paperback in spiritual fiction on the New York Times Best Seller list from June 2008 to early 2010, with 10 million copies in print, and translations either completed or slated for 15 languages.
What was intended for a small circle of family members has become a spiritual message of hope and forgiveness to millions, and not surprisingly a bone of contention among theologians. "The shack is the house you build out of your own pain… a metaphor of the places you got stuck and got hurt", the place "where shame or hurt is centered" explains Young. The central figure of the story is Mack, who takes his three children camping and after a tragic accident he notices his youngest daughter Missy is missing. Soon it is discovered she has been abducted and murdered by a serial killer. Her body is never found. The pain is unbearable. A great sadness ensues, and one day Mack receives a note, signed "Papa", inviting him to a weekend at the shack.
Papa turns out to be Father God, depicted as an African American woman, while Jesus is shown as a Middle Eastern carpenter, and Sarayu, an Asian woman, is the physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit. A series of conversation ensue as Mack seeks to come to terms with the unthinkable tragedy. While millions found solace in the story, including in countries like Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where The Shack became an instant phenomenon, it didn't take long for controversy to ensue. The Shack was criticized for not being sufficiently doctrinally pure, by such evangelical luminaries as Chuck Colson and Southern Baptist Albert Mohler Jr.
Father God presented as an African American woman was simply too much for some.
So can God be described as a woman? According to the Bible, God is a Spirit being, beyond the distinction of male or female. The apostle Paul described God as a father, but also as a mother "that cherishes her young". Long before Young, Jesus described our heavenly Father as a woman, when He said: "What woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!'" (Luke 15:8-9).
The coin, probably the type that made up the strand of coins a Middle eastern woman carried as a necklace, depicts people, while the woman, who made such a fuss about the lost coin, is our heavenly Father, as Jesus indicates in the verse following.
Can you see her? Lamp in one hand, broom in the other, bent over, searching, not giving up, until she finds that one lost coin. It is through the woman's actions that we realize the immense value of the coin. That reminds me of God, who made a lot of fuss about each one of us by sending Jesus to show us victory over every human tragedy. Finally the coin is restored back in its intended place in the necklace. That's the Gospel; God sees infinite value in each person, He seeks and restores us to the place of divine love we were intended to enjoy.
Male? Female? Father? Mother? God is infinitely more than any of these words, and this God lovingly reaches for every person. No wonder the story of Mack, the shack and Papa has met such a response. Never mind the theologians.


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First off, head over to TWC and vote to see the thumbnails from this week :). They are basically scribbly boxes, but they're happy looking?
Ugh, this week's pages took foreeeevvvvvveeeeerrrrrr. But they turned out super cool, so that's okay. Next week's pages are relatively easy by comparison. Keep note the outfits that Malaya and Elias pick out for themselves versus what Vincent and Marisa have picked out, because that'll be relevant lol.
I think half my efforts on this page were just getting Elias's expression right in the last panel. Then, before posting this, I made him bigger because I decided you couldn't see it well enough. You can make up your own mind what it means, but he's obviously charmed as hell. (I apologize that I couldn't show the front of Malaya's dress in that shot, because there was some lacing, but the twirl looked cuter this way.)
Also, Malaya and Vincent's sibling dynamic from childhood obviously continues into adulthood in that first panel. (He looks pissy even when he's being playful, which was hard to pull off.)
Anyway, I know my comic tends to get left off the roster of LGBT comics, which I get. Marin is a lesbian, Marisa's bisexual (and somehow that'll be stated in the comic eventually, just gotta figure out…why?), Elias is gay, and Vincent is…nothing in particular. I think if you asked him to define himself somehow, he'd probably just stare at you til you left. He likes who he likes, and is unenthusiastic about everyone else. (Vincent and I share this.) But, because I'm finally far enough along into this comic that these weirdos can like, socialize and shit, I can finally start establishing this comic's LGBT rep a little more firmly. Considering this chapter is eventually going to get around to Marin and Marisa's origin story, well…that's pretty gay. As it should be. It'll be a little late for Pride month, but it'll be…Pride adjacent.
In other news, my birthday is July 5th, and because that's a good excuse, I'll only be posting one page that week! I need a bit of relief from all these complicated pages lol. And I need to catch up on my to-do list because I'm behiiiiiinnnndddd.


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At a briefing to reporters Georgian Interior Ministry explained the reasons for detention of the oppositionists of the "Georgian Party". According to the "Georgia-News", a law enforcement agency considered them "members of organized gang".
"The Department of Сounter-intelligence of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has detained an organized criminal group, some members of which are associated with the "Georgian Party" - said in a statement of the Georgian Interior Ministry.
The investigation is carried out on basis of article 223 of the Criminal Code of Georgia - the creation of an illegal armed formation, law enforcement agencies have explained.
Recall, on the eve, the chairman of the "Georgian Party" Subari said that the Georgian authorities have started a new wave of repression against the opposition: "About two o'clock in the morning, almost 20 armed policemen entered the house of Terashvili. They ordered the family not to move, then turned off the light and began a search, but after the light went on, they came out the bathroom and brought a firearm" - said Subari.
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Parallels server for Mac underwhelms
Performance is terrific. Running a single instance of Windows Server 2008 as a guest under OS X Leopard Server, Parallels Server for Mac delivers Windows server application performance that is functionally indistinguishable from native (nonvirtualized) operation. I've come to expect this from Parallels, whose Desktop product delivers similarly impressive performance.
I didn't get as much control over that performance as I require from server virtualization. By adjusting the number of virtual CPUs assigned to each guest OS, I was able to crudely balance performance among guest VMs. A single opaque switch in Parallels Management Console claims to optimize overall performance to favor either the host or the guests. I prefer finer-grained resource allocation in the form of weighting, throttling, or caps on CPU utilization.
A nice touch is the built-in console viewer (see screen image), which displays Windows Server's Server Manager. However, it doesn't work with an OS X Server guest.
I expected storage performance to be an issue, but it turned out to be no issue at all. Windows Server 2008 x64 guests take off like sprinters, and even though Parallels Server for Mac has no mechanism for migrating running processes from one machine to another (you wouldn't expect it for $999), suspending and resuming a virtual machine takes only a few seconds. If you suspend a VM in the middle of a task that uses the real-time clock as a timer, you might not be able to resume cleanly. You also have the option of pausing a VM, which happens instantly, but unlike suspend, pause won't maintain the system's state if the host reboots.
Parallels Server for Mac proved highly reliable. Except for VMs that wouldn't come out of suspend mode cleanly, I experienced no freezes or crashes of either a virtual machine or the host server.
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Virtual volumes have advantages that Parallels Server for Mac plays to a unique extent. Because virtual volumes can be located anywhere, Parallels Server for Mac can make your client's optical drive operate exactly like a drive attached directly to the server. You can create a new and completely uninitialized virtual machine, slide an OS boot disc into the client machine you're using to manage the remote server, and the server will boot from it. This is similar to a feature inherent in OS X Leopard, but Parallels Management Console makes it much easier to use for remote server installs.
Using an included utility called Parallels Explorer, you can read or alter Parallels Server's virtual volumes while the virtual machine associated with that volume is offline. NTFS, FAT, and EXT2/EXT3 file systems are supported, and as a bonus, you can read and change Microsoft and VMware virtual volume images using the same tool. Parallels Explorer for Mac also lets you mount a Parallels virtual volume image as a local drive so that you can apply patches, add applications using install-by-copy, and relocate system files without destabilizing a running VM.
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the Government would find space to reward work and enterprise in the upcoming budget.
Speaking at a meeting of the Fine Gael parliamentary party in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Leo Varadkar said high taxes on the middle classes were a cap on aspiration.
He said the Government had taken the decision to merge the USC and PRSI over time.
The Taoiseach said this was a complex and challenging task which would take many budgets to do.
Mr Varadkar said when completed it would mean Ireland would have the kind of social insurance system that exists in other European countries.
He said the change would benefit those on middle incomes who pay the highest rates of tax at very modest incomes.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar indicates that people earning middle incomes may be set to benefit from the upcoming budget - @MartinaFitzg reports pic.twitter.com/YJRUI6ed31— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 14, 2017
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe last week indicated his intention to raise the entry point for the 40% higher tax rate and also to look at widening the tax bands.
Also on the upcoming budget, the Taoiseach said the Government would keep public spending increases modest but sustainable.
Mr Varadkar said where there was scope in the budget it would be used to provide more funding for infrastructure and public services.
The Taoiseach also said his party is determined to restore morale within An Garda Síochána and improve public confidence in the force.
He added that the party knew what needed to be done in relation to the gardaí and was in the process of doing it.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sean O'Rourke, Mr Donohoe said the Taoiseach wants to ensure that those earning a standard wage do not pay the higher rate of tax.
In relation to the possibility that a tax harmonisation plan by the European Commission may jeopardise Ireland's corporate tax rate, the minister said he would not participate in any policy agenda that may change this for Ireland.
"Our stance on corporation tax at 12.5% and how we manage patents is entirely legitimate and a sustainable policy choice for a small open economy like Ireland to take. I won't participate in any policy agenda that changes that for Ireland," he said.
The Taoiseach, meanwhile, said he supported the principles contained in the cross-party Oireachtas Committee report on the health service, which was published in the summer.
Mr Varadkar said Minister for Health Simon Harris was working on how best to move forward with the plan and will publish a roadmap for implementation before the end of the year.
Mr Varadkar said this year's health budget of €15 billion was the biggest in the history of the State.
He said the Government understood the enormous stresses faced by people and families without a home as well as those struggling to buy a home of their own.
He said the Government would bring the same determination and focus to solving the housing crisis as it had done to unemployment.
The Taoiseach said the Government is looking at repurposing NAMA to develop land for building on behalf of the State.
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Bayern Munich coach Carlo Ancelotti aims to start his spell in charge of the Bavarians with a Supercup win over Borussia Dortmund.
Carlo Ancelotti is confident Bayern Munich are fully prepared for Sunday's match against rivals Borussia Dortmund despite a difficult pre-season.
Bayern had to make do without a number of key players as they got ready for the 2016-17 campaign due to their involvement in Euro 2016, but Ancelotti has little doubt they will give a good account of themselves at the Signal Iduna Park.
"It's the first game of the new season and we are ready for it. It will be a difficult, but important game," Ancelotti said at a news conference.
"We are playing for the first title of the season and they are all important to us. We want to win it all. Dortmund have a good team, but we are in a great spirit. We are high on confidence.
"Courage and confidence are very important factors, as is experience. We want to be in control, even if it is an away game in a fantastic stadium. We will not focus on individuals, but on their whole team. We want to play our own game, though.
"The Germany internationals have been here since August 5, but are ready to play.
"I have not decided who will potentially take penalties. It is very important to be confident in such a situation. It is often hard to find five players who are up for it!."
Bayern will be without Jerome Boateng, Arjen Robben and Renato Sanches at the weekend due to injury, but the former two are edging closer to a comeback.
"Boateng resumed training on Thursday, Robben returns to the pitch on Saturday and Renato Sanches will be out a bit longer, he could resume training next week," Ancelotti added.
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I feel a little sheepish blogging about tv, but it appears to be what I want to write about today, so I'll go with it for the few minutes I have.
I'm irritated by the decision to kill off Sybil. Not, surprisingly enough, because of the way the birth process was handled in the drama. I actually thought it was a much more normal and extended (at least in terms of time, though much of it was off screen) depiction of birth than you usually see in entertainment. And I appreciated (as I always appreciate from Downton) the strong support for evidence-based medicine.
But a few things seriously bugged me:
1. The baby is clearly being treated as a useful plot point, not as a reality. Which is a shame from my perspective, given how well Downton has explored so many other realities of the time period. Except for seeing the baby some time after the birth, you only hear a small coo from off stage right after Sybil dies. You could imagine that servants must be tending to the baby, but we always see the servants dealing with things that need to be dealt with, normally. In this case, all we see is every last one of them gathered in the kitchen to hear the terrible news, no baby in sight. Maybe baby was sleeping? (Now that I think about it, the Ethel storyline also contained a hardly-real baby, but it was a realer baby than this one and belonging to a more minor character. I know there's issues with babies and time on set from a legal perspective, but lots of the point could have been gotten across without a real baby.)
2. Similar to (1), why no exploration of the wetnurse-finding process? Who is this person? Where did they find her? How will she fit in with the servants, not to mention the family? We can't get a new kitchen maid on this show without a scene or several and some drama. How do we get a frigging wetnurse with nothing more than a "By the way, you'll be relieved to know they've found a nurse for the baby," from Lord Grantham? Wetnursing would be a very interesting historical and class issue to explore, darn it. (Now, I'm not a sociologist. It's possible this baby will be fed some kind of between-the-wars formula. Maybe the nurse is just a nurse, I don't know. Seems likely to me, though, traditional family like that... Whatever. Maybe we'll find out.)
3. In the end think the show will lose entertainment value. I was intrigued after the second season to see what would become of Lady Sybil and the Irish revolutionary chouffeur. Were they truly madly in love? How much of their attraction came out of her desire to kick off the golden handcuffs of her privileged birth and live a "normal" life? His thrill at breaking through the class barriers? Her desire to rebel against her parents? I was thinking we'd start to see some interesting developments in the new couple's relationship this season based on those potential conflicts. And the baby. I was looking forward to seeing Sybill deal with being middle class and having a baby (of course, the living middle class idea evaporated earlier this season, anyway). Instead, Sybil and Tom been presented fairly blandly as just super sweetly in love... and now she's dead, so — punkt — the end of that potential plot avenue. Meanwhile, her death gives Tom (her husband) little reason to stay much in the picture (yes, the baby, I know, and maybe they'll make it work out that way, but...), depriving us of the interesting juxtaposition of the estate-bound British family and their uncomfortable low-born Irish in-law.
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The nandrolone is active for a relatively long time, which is about 15 days. The plasma levels are also relatively stable for 10 days. It is worth mentioning that if nandrolone injections are shot in the bottom, smoother blood levels provided than in the cases when it has been passed in the delta. Nandrolone is a very popular drug because it is safer than strong androgenic steroids. In studies on HIV + patients the patients received 200mg-600mg of nandrolone, and there was no significant negative change in terms of HDL-LDL ratio, neither the total cholesterol.
It can improve immune functions and may help in the case of joint problems. Of course, the use of nandrolone represents dangers too. Many athletes report water retention (although it will greatly depend on the quantities used), which increases the cardiac load and blood pressure. Another unpleasant side-effect is the nandrolone's impact on the testes.
Deca steroids are relatives to progestins, it's binding ability to the progesterone receptor is around 20%. This means that even 100 mg of nandrolone almost completely stops testosterone production. Due to the above-mentioned actions, it is always worth to combine with some kind of testosterone to replace the androgen effect. After each nandrolone gonadal functions (HCG, tamoxifen) have to be restored. As all doping agents, nandrolone also has its dangers, so be cautious. Breast tissue (gynecomastia) and erectile dysfunction may occur. It may also reduce the number of sperms and increase the blood pressure levels.


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