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I am changing my review since I have been using this product now for about 10 days. It does help one lose weight. I lost almost a pant size in a week but now I am noticing that it is causing serious shortness of breath....TWO DAYS LATER - I cut this out almost 48 hours ago and I am still having shortness of breath. I contacted a research place I found on line and they said that the fact that it says Powder instead of Extract means that there would be almost anything else in it besides Raspberry Ketone. He said that it has probably caused my blood vessels to dilate which makes me short of breath. I am going to push water and try to flush this out of my body. He said the fact that I lost a lot of weight in just a few days means that there has to be other things in this product besides the Raspberry Ketone. The fact that the price is reasonable also means that it isn't pure Raspberry Extract. I'd say "don't buy this". 2 WEEKS LATER - I HAVE JUST SPENT NEARLY TWO WEEKS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. I HAD TO HAVE MY HEART STOPPED AND RESTARTED ELECTRICALLY. I WAS PERFECTLY ALRIGHT BEFORE TAKING THIS PRODUCT. MY ADVICE IS DON'T TAKE IT. ADDENDUM - I found a review on Amazon where someone actually called this company and they said that this is not real Raspberry Ketone but is, in fact, a synthetic because the real thing is far too expensive. I see that another person is reporting shortness of breath after taking this product. That is the first thing I noticed. My advice is to go at once to see a doctor and have an echocardiogram done. I had damage to two upper chambers of my heart.
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I also had shortness of breath after taking this product and have stopped taking it.
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Kept weight normal
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These did not make me loose weight but maintained my weight and I did not feel unwell while taking them.
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Fat reduction
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Hard to tell, but I think this product helps reduce the fat absorbed into my body as advertised.
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Too soon to rate
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Sorry, I have not had the opportunity to use this yet. I start this product next week.
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The best advice we can offer about City Cafe is this: If you have long dismissed it as an okay sandwich and brunch spot or an evening haunt with over-loud music and dated décor, it's time to give it another try.
During the summer, the cafe went through a major renovation ($700,000 worth, we're told). Gone are the black-and-white-checkerboard floor tiles and the ever-changing color blast on the dining-room walls (purple on Ravens game days). Cafe chairs have been replaced by molded plywood "ant chairs" (a la Arne Jacobsen). Banquettes have been re-upholstered in Eames-designed gold fabric with a mid-century atomic particle motif.
The awkward staircase to the second level has been relocated, and now, instead of taking spillover diners to a space that felt like an afterthought, it leads to an elegant and intimate dining room with the latest floor covering of woven vinyl (which resembles bamboo), brown leather dining chairs, and strategically placed spotlights.
Mind you, City Cafe was never really broken. Since it opened in 1994 as a corner coffee shop—and expanded over the next few years, adding a restaurant and then a bar—it's been plenty reliable.
But even with these changes, the critical addition is in the kitchen. After all these years, City Café has a chef. The able-and-hard-working lineup of cooks has been succeeded by a guy with a vision—and an attitude.
Chad Gauss—who seems to be creeping southward (he moved with Daniel Chaustit from Christopher Daniel in Timonium to Crush at Belvedere Square, where he was second in command)—brings his fine-dining cooking skills to his new job. And while we didn't meet Gauss in person, we could feel his personality and sense of fun simply by reading the menu.
There's a droll irony, for example, in the "TV Dinner," a long plate equally divided into portions of Salisbury steak topped with deep brown gravy, shiny mashed potatoes, and a vegetable medley. But any comparison to Swanson ends there.
The beef is Kobe, hammered to a crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth texture. The mashed potatoes are creamy, and the vegetables—corn, green beans, diced carrots, and edamame (meant, we guess, to resemble the cardboard-flavored lima beans so commonplace in the 1960s)—taste like, well, vegetables. There's even a wedge of brownie balanced on the side of the plate.
And the $15 price was as much a throwback to a bygone era as the moniker. (Truthfully, we're not sure if, even if we'd been aware of dining trends in the '60s, we would have had a clue about Kobe beef).
Equally amusing are the "Three Little Pigs": a grilled pork loin topped with a healthy dollop of pulled pork, crowned by strips of crisp bacon, and "The Usual Suspects," a petit filet and crab cake (surprise).
Not all of Gauss's derivatives work so well. We ordered the iceberg wedge salad because it seemed like the right choice with a dry martini in a Danish modern setting. The simplicity of the classic dish was compromised by the addition of balsamic vinaigrette, tangy sweet and fighting with the creamy bleu cheese and salty bacon. A small matter easily remedied.
The menu has plenty of options for 21st century diners. There's seared tuna with grated beets and truffle mashed potatoes, the seemingly ubiquitous lobster mac 'n' cheese (here with plenty of meat, but lacking lobster flavor throughout the dish), and meal-sized salads—beef tenderloin, Caesar with chicken, shrimp or salmon, Asian-inspired "Chicken Fun." There's a flatbread pizza, a Baltimore club (with crab cake and shrimp salad), and steak frites with truffle-parmesan fries.
Gauss, we're told, plans to change the menu every month or so to keep up with all that's fresh and seasonal. He grows herbs in flower boxes that line the restaurant's big windows. In late summer, the appetizer list featured bruschetta with tomatoes, watermelon, and feta, as well as fried green tomatoes peppered with generous hunks of crabmeat. A friend who had recently been to N'awlins was all over those tomatoes—better than K-Paul's, she gushed. Indeed, the batter was crisp, and the beurre blanc luminous and tangy with lemon.
City Cafe's waitstaff is professional and well informed. Our affable waiter was spot on in his recommendations for martinis and wines. On another visit, we observed him training a recruit and felt satisfied the newbie was in good hands.
If you go to City Cafe looking for familiar territory, you're still likely to find it (new floors and furniture notwithstanding). Scrambled eggs are available for breakfast and a curried chicken-salad sandwich for lunch. You can stop in after the theater and see the same array of bakery cakes—double chocolate, coconut-frosted white cake, and red velvet—in the cafe's case.
But we recommend you step into the dining room or retreat upstairs and order from the new and improved restaurant menu. There you'll find a flourless chocolate cake, oozing with warm melted chocolate with a miniature bowl of frozen cappuccino on the side, or a spongy bread pudding with a sweet Heath bar brickle topping and caramel sauce.
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The Palestinian Authority wants EU countries to help draft a resolution that would admit "Palestine" as a non-member state in the UN General Assembly in an effort to gain EU support for the move, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat met with the heads of EU missions in Jerusalem last month and asked them – either as individual countries or collectively as the EU – to help draft the resolution that will be taken to the world body.
So far no country has expressed a willingness to do so.
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PA President Mahmoud Abbas said at his speech to the UN last week that he had begun intensive consultations with regional organizations and UN member states about the step. One idea that has been floated would be for the move to be brought to the General Assembly on November 29, the anniversary of the day when the UN adopted the Partition Plan in 1947 – a move that was accepted at the time by the Jewish community, but rejected by the Arabs.
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When the Palestinians gained entrance as a state into UNESCO in November, the EU countries split, with five countries voting against, 11 voting for, and 11 abstaining.
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Whether your child is starting kindergarten, going from middle school to high school, going to a new school district or going back to the same school he or she went to before, the start of the academic year is a time of transition for everyone. And the first day of school can be as stressful for your child as the first day on a new job might be for you.
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- If your child is starting school for the first time, a little role-playing can help them handle their fears. The key is to let them be the teacher, while you play the role of the student; as they "teach" you a thing or two, ask them how they feel about starting school, and find out what concerns they may have. Answering questions from a position of authority -- even if it's just pretend -- may make children more confident about voicing their fears.
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- Go over all school-related routines. Will kids be going to school earlier once school starts? Will they have to lay their school clothes out the night before? Make their own breakfasts? Pack their own lunches? Walk or bike to school by themselves? Take the bus? Practicing without pressure will help make these routines second nature by the time school is well underway.
- Get your kids' input. "Being organized and getting up and out on time are big challenges," Wacker points out. One way to make things go more smoothly is to let your kids have a say in the way they have to wake up for school. "One of our kids likes to get carried to the kitchen and placed in a chair," Wacker says. "Another uses an alarm clock while another wants the shades opened up." If your child's teacher has given out a last-minute wish list, let your child be involved in the shopping-it'll make him or her feel invested in the process, and keep excitement levels high.
- Establish a routine for yourself. Do you know what you need to do to get everyone out of the house on time? Does making lunch the night before really save you time in the morning? If you don't know, try doing it for a few days before school starts. It's better to discover that you need more time in the mornings before you actually need more time in the mornings.
- Don't turn breakfast into a battle. Plan back-to-school breakfasts for the week, if possible, and make sure the menu is made up of things they will actually eat, Wacker suggests. "Our youngest two want macaroni and cheese and chunky soup for breakfast, so we let them eat it. It is a warm meal (and fairly healthy) and we feel better knowing they have something in their stomachs," she says. "Especially with young teens - if they want pop tarts or something they can eat standing up, fine. Using logic about energy and concentration only leads to a battle in our house."
- Pencil in some down time after school. It's easy to think "they're just kids," but school is their job right now, and a dealing with circle time and new teachers and homework can be as stressful for them as back-to-back meetings, a new boss, and your overflowing email inbox are for you. Let them blow off steam before settling down to do homework, especially during that first week back.
- Ward off after-school meltdowns. Stock up on healthy snacks -- a tired kid with low blood sugar is an explosion waiting to happen.
- Learn how to handle homework. Breaking the nightly assignments down into manageable steps can help your child avoid feeling overwhelmed, and having a dedicated study station can help older kids stay focused. If you have younger kids who don't have to deal with homework yet, try giving them something busy to do while you work on dinner. It doesn't have to be complicated -- coloring a picture, leafing through a favorite book, or sorting blocks by color will do the trick, and establishing a homework-type step in their routines now will make it easier for them to transition to the task when they're older.
- Don't stand on ceremony. "The perfectly groomed first grader wearing sensible new shoes with perfectly cut hair smiling for cameras on the first day is too stressful," Wacker says. "We buy items based on when they are on sale not necessarily for back to school. Label their treasured clothes so they're less likely to end up in the Lost and Found and skip the first day ceremony."
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President Barack Obama's pick for the nation's top fiscal job won support with a 71 to 26 vote.
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A dozen faculty members from Virginia colleges and universities will receive the 2013 Outstanding Faculty Award.
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Poland, South Florida defeat George Mason 61-57
Jawanza Poland scored 16 points as South Florida beat George Mason 61-57 Saturday night in a game that saw a scary injury involving Bulls' point guard Anthony Collins.
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Local jobs a casualty if Congress fails to act
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Petraeus' Downfall May Have Grown Out Of Jealousy
The downfall of CIA Director David Petraeus appears to have grown out of jealousy. He had been having an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, and she allegedly sent harassing emails to a woman in Florida she thought was too close to Petraeus. Now the discussion is turning to what people knew and when they knew it and why this explosive story came out just days after the election. Audie Cornish talks to Dina Temple-Raston.
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We have more details now on the resignation of former CIA director David Petraeus. His downfall appears to have grown out of jealousy. Petraeus had been having an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, and she allegedly sent harassing emails to a woman she thought was too close to Petraeus.
The question now is whether officials notified the appropriate people about what was going on. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston has been following the story and joins us now. And, Dina, the FBI says they were not investigating General Petraeus. How, then, do they get involved in a simple harassment case? Why did it happen?
DINA TEMPLE-RASTON, BYLINE: Well, probably for two reasons: The first is that this woman was being harassed in Florida, Jill Kelly, was friends with an FBI agent and apparently told him that she was worried about these anonymous emails that were telling her to quote, "stay away from my guy," unquote. So she had this connection. And then this crime, cyber harassment, is actually a federal offense, so that's why the FBI would get involved. The case was originally opened as a cyber harassment case.
CORNISH: And so they essentially traced the emails?
TEMPLE-RASTON: Yes. Our sources say it took weeks to trace these emails to Paula Broadwell. They came from a dummy account. And the FBI basically had to figure out what cities they were sent from, and then they ended up matching those cities to Broadwell's whereabouts. So that would actually take the investigation to the summer.
What really changed was when they discovered that these explicit emails that not only suggested that there was an affair but made FBI agents think that someone had hacked into Petraeus' personal account. And the investigators just couldn't believe that Petraeus would be writing these kinds of emails, so it must have been some hacker, and that's what they were looking for. And that's when the investigation went from a plain vanilla harassment case to a natural security one.
CORNISH: So is there any sense that there could have been a security breach?
TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, the law enforcement officials I've talked to have said no. But there's certainly some grey area here. I mean, Paula Broadwell gave a speech at the University of Denver last month. And in that talk, she addressed the Benghazi attack from September. And she talked about details that suggested she had some inside information. So it raises a question of whether Petraeus may have revealed classified information to her.
And you can see how anything Broadwell said with regard to national security over the past year is now going to be scrutinized in a new way. There's another thing that's important. The case which we classified as a natural security case this summer, our sources tell us that that would mean that the Justice Department was probably notified at that point.
CORNISH: So what have you learned at this point about what the attorney general knew about the case?
TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, we actually don't know exactly when he learned about it. The former Justice Department officials that I talked to said that it would be inconceivable that this case didn't go up to the highest levels of Justice as soon as it was clear that David Petraeus was involved. The Justice Department isn't saying exactly when the attorney general, Eric Holder, learned about all of this. We're trying to find that out.
CORNISH: And now you have members of Congress, the intelligence committees, who are saying that they should have been notified too.
TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, the people I've spoken to are less certain about that. I know that Senator Dianne Feinstein of California said that the administration should have told Congress about anything that was a major intelligence activity. But several former officials I talked to, both Republicans and Democrats, said they're not sure that the Petraeus affair qualifies. And if the FBI felt there wasn't a security breach, they wouldn't necessarily brief members of Congress. My understanding was that this was incredibly closely held for obvious reasons.
CORNISH: Was there any requirement for the FBI or Justice Department to inform the White House sooner than they say they did?
TEMPLE-RASTON: You know, everyone is saying that the White House wasn't informed until after the election. And on one hand, there are those who think that there is an obligation to inform the White House as soon as possible if a key official is under investigation. But on the other hand, there's been this tradition of insulating these kinds of investigations so there aren't attempts to influence them, so this kind of cuts both ways.
CORNISH: NPR's Dina Temple-Raston. Thanks, Dina.
TEMPLE-RASTON: You're welcome.
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I am writing for a friend of mine. He is 27 and paralyzed by an infection which left him without the use of his legs.
Being young, he has no money but really wants to contribute to his community. The area where he lives, Stansbury Park UT has no small coffee shop and he would really like to run one.
His problems are:
No idea how to start looking
No source of money for the startup
Limited access or knowledge about computers. This is why I got into this.
Are there grants available for handicapped to start up a service business?
What are the steps we need to take to get a business going?
I apologize for being long winded but I am a novice at handicapped, business and getting grants or loans to start a business.
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On Sunday, April 25, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Emerita Joyce Appleby will participate in a panel discussion on the U.S. economy. Appleby is the author, most recently, of "The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism" (Norton, 2010). The discussion on Sunday will take place at 11 a.m. in Haines 39.
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On Sunday, April 25, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Richard Baum will participate in a discussion on "China: The Next Super Power? with three other panelists. Baum is the author, most recently, of "China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom" (University of Washington, 2010). The discussion on Sunday will take place at noon in Young Hall CS 50.
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In less than 400 years, capitalism has generated unprecedented wealth and new forms of power, altered prevailing wisdom about human nature, and spread itself far beyond its improbable original setting, a process that the eminent historian Joyce Appleby describes in "The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism" (Norton, 2010). Running all the way to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, the history pauses on the lives of industrialists, adventurers and pamphleteers.
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Playa del Rey, Los Angeles
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Playa del Rey (Spanish for "Beach of the King" or "King's beach") is a beachside community in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California. It has a ZIP code of 90293 and area codes of 310 and 424. As of 2005, the district's population was estimated at 8,600.[1]
Playa del Rey is a coastal neighborhood and a district of City of Los Angeles. The rolling hills are the result of ancient, wind-blown, compacted sand dunes which rise up to 125 feet above sea level originally called and often referred to as The Del Rey Hills or "The Bluffs". These dunes run parallel to the coast line, from Playa del Rey, all the way south to Palos Verdes.
The community is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Marina del Rey and Ballona Creek to the north, Playa Vista to the northeast, Westchester to the east, Los Angeles International Airport and El Segundo to the south.
The northern part was originally wetlands, but the natural flooding was halted by the concrete channel which contains Ballona Creek. Before 1824, the harbor was the mouth of the Los Angeles River, before its course shifted to its current outlet at San Pedro.
In the 1870s, Playa Del Rey was the location of the first attempt at a dredged harbor in Santa Monica Bay. Under contract with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Moye Wicks' syndicate spent $300,000 to dredge "Ballona Harbor", for shipping to the Orient. Within three years, winter waves brought flooding, but what remained of man's early efforts became the Playa Del Rey Lagoon, now a regional public park.
Palisades del Rey (also, Palisades Del Rey) was the name of the original 1921 neighborhood land development by Dickinson & Gillespie Co. that later came to be called Playa del Rey. This area of sand dunes was the last stretch of coastal land in the city of Los Angeles to be developed.[2] All of the houses in this area were custom built, many as beach homes owned by Hollywood actors and producers, including Cecil B. Demille, Charles Bickford, and others.
Construction in Playa del Rey surged in 1928 with the development of the Del Rey Hills neighborhood in the Eastern part of the community (to the East of Pershing Drive), and the move of Loyola University (now Loyola Marymount University) to the adjacent community of Westchester.
The southern portion of the original Playa del Rey development, which came to be known as "Surfridge," is now vacant. Between 1966 and 1975 the houses that were once there were either moved to new locations or were demolished to facilitate the expansion of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and to address concerns about the noise of increasing jet plane traffic. The noise from the flights made it less desirable to live on the dunes above the ocean under the LAX flight path. The City of Los Angeles condemned the southern section of Playa del Rey under the power of eminent domain, and purchased all of the homes.[3] Today one can see only barbed-wire fences protecting vacant land and old streets where houses once sat. Recent LAX rejuvenation plans call for the city to finally remove the old streets that still line the empty neighborhood. The condemned areas of the community are now a protected habitat of the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly.
Playa del Rey in the 1950s and early 1960s was known as a great Los Angeles area "surfing spot", but due to the many rock jetties that were built to prevent beach erosion, the good surf is mostly gone. The beach at the northernmost end of Playa del Rey is still known as "Toes Over Beach", "Toes Beach" or just "Toes" by the local surfing community, a name derived from the toes over or Hang Ten surfing maneuver. Most surfers now flock south of Dockweiler Beach, to "El Porto", the most northern part of beach in the city of Manhattan Beach. The lifeguard and park services are uniform across the entire twenty-mile stretch of beach.
One danger for beachgoers is the uncontrolled water runoff from the creek, and the occasional overflow from the giant Hyperion treatment plant to the south.
Locals refer to the small area of housing south of Culver Boulevard and closest to the beach as The Jungle, a nickname given to a group of closely built apartments built in 1956, within the bounding streets Trolley Place and Trolleyway Street on its east and west respectively, and including the streets Fowling, Rees, Sunridge and Surf. The small sidewalks between homes had/have deep green overgrowth, which added to the name.
Today a bridge between Playa Del Rey and the jetty between Ballona Creek and the Marina is accessible to foot traffic and bicycle traffic, but not to automobiles. Bikers, skaters and joggers probably have the best chance of traversing the sidewalks of the beaches north to Santa Monica, and to the South Bay, here at this bridge. Both UCLA and LMU have crew teams that practice on the Ballona Creek channel and Marina del Rey.
In 2009, the Los Angeles Times's "Mapping L.A." project supplied these Playa del Rey statistics: population: 9,755; median household income: $91,339.
According to data from the Los Angeles Times's "Mapping L.A." project, the demographics are White (72.6%), Asian (7.7%), African American (3.9%), Latino (10.0%) and Other (5.8%).[4]
The vast majority of land in Playa del Rey is zoned for residential purposes only. Only portions of Manchester Blvd, Pershing Drive and Culver Blvd have businesses—mainly restaurants and a pharmacy—and offices mixed in with residential buildings.
Government and infrastructure[edit]
Los Angeles Fire Department Station 5 (Westchester/LAX Area) is in the area.
Los Angeles Police Department operates the Pacific Community Police Station at 12312 Culver Boulevard, 90066, serving the neighborhood.[5]
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Playa del Rey.[6]
Playa del Rey is within the Los Angeles Unified School District. The area is within Board District 4.[7] As of 2009 Steve Zimmer represents the district.[8]
Area schools include
- Paseo del Rey Natural Science Magnet (K-5)
- Choice of Loyola Village Elementary School or Kentwood Elementary School and (1-5)
- Orville Wright Middle School (6-8)
- Westchester High School (9-12)
- St. Bernard High School is a private school in the area. Del Rey Christian Children's Center is a private preschool.
Notable people[edit]
- Mel Blanc, voice actor, comedian, and musician. In the 1940s he resided on Ellen Ave., now absorbed by LAX
- Jerry Buss, former owner of the Los Angeles Lakers
- Dawn Robinson, original member of supergroup En Vogue.
- Phil Jackson, former coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.[9]
- Anissa Jones actress
- Carmen Twillie, actress/singer
- Donda West, late mother of hip-hop artist Kanye West.[10]
- Anthony Michael Hall actor
- Benny Mardones, singer/songwriter
- Charles Bickford, film and TV actor, primarily in the 1940s-1950s[11]
- William C. deMille film director.
- ^ Groves, Martha (2005-01-20). "Line drawn in sand over Dunes project". CalCoast News. Retrieved 2008-06-17.[dead link]
- ^ Del Rey Hills ( Now Playa del Rey ) 1928 - Los Angeles, California Scripophily.net
- ^ The Argonaut: Top Stories
- ^ "Playa del Rey" entry on the Los Angeles Times "Mapping L.A." website
- ^ http://www.lapdonline.org/pacific_community_police_station
- ^ "About Us." Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Retrieved on March 18, 2010.
- ^ Board District 4 Map. Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on November 24, 2008.
- ^ "Board Members." Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on September 16, 2009.
- ^ Ding, Kevin. "News: Jackson accepts Lakers extension." The Orange County Register. Friday November 30, 2007. Retrieved on June 13, 2009.
- ^ "Donda West dies at 58; local resident and mother of hip-hop artist Kanye West." The Argonaut. November 15, 2007. Retrieved on June 13, 2009.
- ^ Film Stars of Playa Del Rey; Charles Bickford, by Duke Dukesherer, Examiner.com.
Further reading[edit]
- "Playa del Rey: Speed Capital of the World, The Los(t) Angeles Motordrome, 1910-1913" by John Crosse
- http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-board-track-opened-at-los-angeles.html
- Beach Of The King: The Early History of Playa Del Rey, Westchester, Playa Vista, California by D J Dukesherer.
- Playa Del Rey: California by D J Dukesherer.
External links[edit]
- http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-board-track-opened-at-los-angeles.html
- Video: Surfridge and Palisades Del Rey - What Remains
- Surfridge: A Los Angeles' Ghost Town. Photos of the condemned area of Playa del Rey.
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I'm a music educator, trombonist, photographer, amateur guitarist and technology aficionado. I enjoy thinking and learning about an incredibly wide range of subjects, from astrophysics and biology to geology, politics, volcanology and zoology. As a result, I have an incredible ability to get completely lost on the internet.
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Should I retrain myself to be a right handed drummer?
As long as you CAN play either way, then you should train to do each equally well. I've known one person who played the way you mention, and it was a struggle for him to constantly swap equipment around. If you can do either, you'll be a stronger player for it. If you can't do either, and you commonly play other folks' kits, you should make sure you play in the traditional manner. |
Oct 24 |
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What are the objective differences between the guitar and the piano?
At first I agreed with you on the dissonance comment, but after fooling around on my guitar, I think it depends on your ear… what you find pleasant, and also on the quality of the guitar, strings and tuning. I played on two different guitars, and my good one had some pleasant-sounding whole-step dissonances, whereas my dad's old chinese beater sounded terrible. In both cases, the dissonances needed to be on the highest three strings to not sound muddy, but the piano (for me) is the same way. |
Oct 14 |
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What is the best way to work on my fret hand finger independence?
@UlfÅkerstedt, I've found that technique useful on every instrument I've ever played. It prevents you from getting hung up on difficulties related to the rhythm, and it also better trains your muscles to play other phrases that are similar in the future. |
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Why isn't there a reed aerophone with valves?
+1 I already knew this in a simple sense, but this explanation is great! Simple and clear, yet hits every point, including the tuning combinations. |
Oct 10 |
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Capturing music in my head
grammar/spelling. |
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How to keep practicing to compose music when you're too picky to listen to yourself playing
Sometimes I'll walk away for a week or more… it helps me be more fairly critical, without having any attachment to the work. Usually, I end up liking it more than I did while I was creating it! |
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I want to learn how to sing. Where do I start?
@bobobobo, I agree with you to a point. But you don't want to wait long before seeking a lesson or three from a teacher. Certainly don't begin heavy practicing in earnest without seeking a teacher's advice. I don't think it'd be good advice to NOT practice… but take it easy, so you don't harm your voice. |
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Attacking lower notes on trombone
@NReilingh, that's been my experience as well. Mixing around equipment just spells disaster for me. I can get adequate results out of any matching equipment (adequate by my standards), but as soon as I vary just one component a bunch, everything starts to unravel. |
Aug 16 |
answered | Attacking lower notes on trombone |
Aug 5 |
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Why does conventional playing style give the string manipulation to the left hand?
Just a point to add… I think that fingers on either hand are often (nearly) equally dexterous, it's the wrists, alignment, and as @VariableLost mentioned briefly, spatial coordination that differs so greatly. For example, I can type equally well with both hands, and though I can play the piano slightly better with my right, it's not a large difference, and that does require wrist movement/spatial coordination as well. Both hands have difficult to work to do, but they're difficult in different ways. |
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How can I avoid making unpleasant facial expressions when playing difficult chords?
@NReilingh, Yes, Alessi eyebrows. Completely worth it with his playing though… As with her faces… I've seen videos of her before, but the singing is worth it! |
Jul 25 |
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How can I avoid making unpleasant facial expressions when playing difficult chords?
A pretty famous trombone player makes many facial expressions, especially with his eyebrows, while playing. The way he has said it, it's because he's concentrating so much on the tiny variations in his embouchure and the aperture in his lips. As Dr. Mayhem said, you'll be forgiven a lot of things once you can play well, and he's one of the best in the world. |
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Jul 18 |
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How can I establish myself as the creator of a given work
I know as a photographer, there is nothing I need do. As soon as I press the shutter, I am legally the copyright owner of that image. This is supported by metadata encoded by the camera and software I use, and I am of course, careful where I display my photos. As a musician, I don't need to worry about it, and as a composer I haven't gotten far enough to have to yet, so I'm not sure how it differs with compositions. I'm assuming you're referring to distributing sheet music for performance purposes, not a recording/video of the work being performed? |
Jul 14 |
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Is there a defined note for the triangle?
In general it's an non-pitched sounding tone, I find. With the overtones present in the sound of most triangles, It's difficult to pin down to a single pitch without another reference. You can certainly tell whether one triangle is lower or higher… but by how much is getting too fine, in my opinion. As NReilingh said, there's no standard note, and I would say that most triangle manufacturers try to get as far from a defined "note" as possible. |
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6 August 2013
Srinath Chandrasekharan
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In the last few years, Agile, and especially Scrum, has moved from the periphery of software development to the mainstream. Many organizations have already started to adopt Agile for all of their projects. Many of those who haven't have plans to do so in the future.
In this scenario, it is obvious to look at the challenges of scaling, and many books have been written on this topic. In my experience, scaling Scrum really means two types of scaling:
In the first scenario, the number of teams adopting Scrum or Agile in an organization increases. Each team could be relatively small in size (10 to 20 people). However, each team is, by and large, independent in terms of working and does not usually step in on other applications or products. An example is an IT services vendor who has many clients, each of whom want to do Scrum/Agile in one form or another.
In the second scenario, large teams (50+) adopt Agile. These teams are working on a single application/product and are usually broken down based on module or skill (database, designers, architects, etc.). Usually these teams have a fairly large amount of work related to integration; such types of projects can be found in a product organization or an organization that wants to enable its operations using IT. For example, a bank, health care clinic, marketing company, etc. In many cases, the IT vendors as mentioned in scenario 1 help these organizations.
Most of the scaling-related challenges are written for scenario 2. This is because they are far more complex and usually at an enterprise level.
Still another scenario, which is many individual teams adopting Agile, poses different types of challenges for which I feel there is not much content available. Hence I would like to share my thoughts on the same, based on my own experience.
In my organization, we have clients:
With different levels of maturity in Agile practices.
With different experiences of what works and what does not.
Each of them evolves a set of practices or defines a process that is suited to their ways of working. I have seen that many of our clients do not have a common Scrum process implemented across their landscape. Also, as an IT vendor with experience across domains, technologies, cultures, time zones, etc., the vendor (like us) is expected to have a well-defined process that has been created from the best practices across the spectrum. This process is expected to provide an answer to many of the situations faced by the clients.
As examples, I have seen clients working on the same floor but having:
Different tools (despite same technology being used).
Different team composition (from completely onsite a to a mix of offshore and onsite).
Different sprint lengths.
While there is nothing wrong in this way of working, there is usually an expectation from senior management (both client and vendor) to compare the health of different teams in terms of product quality, process effectiveness, profitability etc. As one person asked me recently, "How do I know which team is doing well compared to others?" Those familiar with Waterfall would be able to come up with metrics that can be used to compare projects and so get an idea of which team is doing well and which not. However, there is no one common set of metrics that can be used for Agile projects.
Due to this need for comparison, we came up with some metrics related to defects, code coverage, stories delivered against stories planned, clients satisfaction with software delivered, stories accepted versus stories rejected in sprints, etc. The data points gave us some sense of progress, while still not completely answering the question of comparison across projects.
However, we faced many challenges in getting the data points. Some of the questions for which we have found answers after a lot of struggle and discussion within the teams are:
When do you measure defects? Within the sprint or after it is delivered? What if a defect is reported a few months after the release? Can we tag it back to a sprint and see its effectiveness?
Is code coverage a good indicator of quality?
If the client tests the software at a release level, sometimes it is difficult to differentiate acceptance and rejection at a sprint level. So do we track metrics at the release level?
How do we measure the success of sprints when the feedback is received late (after a few sprints)?
Each team has its own solution that is correct in its context. In addition to this, we are also expected, as an organization, to give ready-made answers to questions like:
What's the ideal combination for a distributed team?
Which roles should be present at onsite and which ones at offshore?
What tools should be used?
What will be the teams velocity (especially when it comes to RFPs)?
In such a situation, the question that comes up is: Should we standardize the Scrum practices and make sure that every team follows a written process so the comparisons can be easy? This seems against the very idea of being Agile, where we allow teams to take decisions and react in a way they think is best for them, both operationally and in terms of process.
The approach we are adopting is to strike a balance between the two approaches, which is quite hard to achieve. The biggest pitfall we should avoid is creating practices that are written in stone. Even if we do write down some documented processes, there should be a focused, periodic (maybe every month) review of these, and modifications based on feedback from the teams implementing these processes.
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It may not work for clients based projects because of tons of reasons like compliance, cost, their own processes and tools, etc. Apparently, it's a common practice for internal projects, so i would be surprised if it does not work for your internal projects.
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The Beijing business sign allegedly contains the phrase 'We're so cool, aren't we?' in Chinese, but Google translate cannot confirm that for me.
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Mediaite.com writes that using Obama's likeness to sell fried chicken could be considered "unacceptably racist," but this isn't the first time such a thing has happened.
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And KFC itself used an Obama lookalike in a television commercial that ran in Hong Kong. In that clip, KFC even borrows a sentiment from Obama's 2008 campain … "Change is good."
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No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Comments about Tron Identity Disc:
This is a piece of plastic that looks like a hub cap. It is only one sided and not totally round, which was disappointing. The pictures of it on the website are really deceiving. The outfits are better than expected, but this is regular Halloween costume garbage.
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