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We departed at 6:00 a.m. from Portosín port. We headed towards an unnamed seamount located quite near the Villar de Fuertes mount. We want to get there early to avoid the north winds that pick up in the afternoon and force us to stop working. The seamount is very steep on its southern slope. Here, we find a sandy bottom first, then a rocky bottom harbouring a wide variety of species: holothurians, sea urchins, sponges, various types of fish, including a monkfish on the prowl, streaked gurnards, scorpionfish, bluemouth rockfish, etc. The rocks seem to be completely covered in brachipods and red, white and even green jewel anemones (Corynactis viridis). And a lot of black coral (Antipathes sp.), which has practically disappeared from all of its shallow habitats because it is harvested to make jewellery. We also spot a dead common dolphin, in advanced state of decomposition, covered in sea urchins taking advantage of the meal. After we finished with the ROV, we submerged the CTD, a machine that allows us to measure salinity, light, chlorophyll, turbidity and water temperature.
At last we were able to get some work done. After two days in port, we were beginning to get nervous. We fixed the crane and are working on the ROV. The divers are documenting some fantastic gorgonians at 40m depth, at last. Bottlenose dolphins, common dolphins and even a basking shark measuring over 4 meters (Cetorhinus maximus) has escaped our cameras, so we have to be much quicker next time.
Although the weather predictions said we were going to have three bad days due to strong winds, this morning is totally calm. We decide to head towards Salvora again and dive on the south side of the island, off a rock known as "piedra Pegar".
We spot a group of common dolphins on the way (Delphinus delphis), as well as some yellow-legged gulls (Larus cachinnans) and gannets (Sula bassana) that seem to be having a fish feast as they dive head-on into the water.
We woke to strong winds coming from the northeast, but we attempted to go out anyway to verify if the seas were calmer outside the estuary. As we were heading towards Salvora, we notice that the conditions are good inside the estuary, in case we can't go out to sea. Luckily, the island affords some protection so the seas are quite calm and we are able to get some work done.
We are doing very well with the filming. We've found amazing sea bottoms comprised of laminaria and maërl, harbouring as much life as any tropical forest. It's worth it, even though we've worked 12 hours straight, without resting, only taking 15 or 20 minutes for lunch. Yesterday we had to postpone our work for more than one hour because a dolphin fell in love with the ROV and we couldn't continue filming. The cameras did film the dolphin, though, and it was love at first sight.
We had a good day today, two divers in the water and two in the ROV searching for two emblematic species, the sea horse (Hippocampus ramulosus) and maerl, a prairie of free floating red calcareous algae, both very typical in the estuaries in Galicia.
Last night we went to sleep believing today would be completely different than what it turned out to be. The weather predictions made us believe we were not going to be able to film at all. The predicted force 5 winds meant the conditions would be unsafe for both personnel and equipment. Handling a 150 kg robot on board a catamaran is not easy.
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We received the dry suits, because you can't dive in these waters without them, departed from the port of Sanxenxo and headed towards Ons Island (in the National Park of the Atlantic Islands). We were delighted to find the seas were calm. During a one-hour dive, the 4 divers were able to document a wide variety of species facing Melida beach in Ons. These included, amongst others:
After an 8-day crossing and 3 days in port preparing the ship in Vigo, we finally took the first images of what promised to be very interesting sea floors.
We departed from the Real Club Nautico in Vigo at midday, after having received and distributed all the material necessary for the campaign: diving equipment and cameras, books and guides about undersea nature and the ROV itself, as well as the divers, scientists and technicians in charge of handling all of this. The team consisted of 14 people, each one with specific responsibilities. The desire to enjoy ourselves and work hard was shared by all, though.
We quickly fell back into the routine of the Ranger after a daylong respite in Gibraltar. While at sea, the ship requires 24-hours-a-day maintenance and if not for a strict schedule, it simply would not be able to operate.
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|Iran defeats China in Asian Senior Handball Championship
Iran beat China in Group A of the 16th Asian Senior Men's Handball Championship on Wednesday.
The Iranian handball team defeated China 34-27 in the match held at the Khalifa Sport City in Manama, Bahrain.
Iran drew with giant South Korea and Saudi Arabia respectively in its first two matches in the competitions.
South Korea also beat Uzbekistan 32-19 in the group.
Iran will face Uzbekistan in Group A on Friday. South Korea will play Bahrain and Saudi Arabia faces China.
Group B consists of Qatar, Japan, the UAE, Kuwait, Iraq and Oman.
The top three finishers all get a place in the 2015 IHF World Men's Handball Championship which will be held with the participation of 24 teams in Qatar.
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Politicians, officials and business executives are wrecking the English language. Look how shamelessly they convolute phrases, especially when they are trying to fool all the people all the time.
I blame the Americans. It's usually a pretty safe thing to do these days – unless you're an oil-producing nation, then it's best to shut up.
But because of the extraordinary amount of junk words that the US feeds hourly into the television service, it may be too late to save the English language from becoming overwhelmed.
Buzzwords (dammit, there I go with an Americanism) such as "proactive" and "bottom line" and that awful "win-win" have, unfortunately, become ingrained.
Years ago that great friend of the Stoep, Don, an American (ah yes, despite what I say, some of my best friends are American), introduced me to Office Bingo. It's a weapon used in the defence of good English.
John Humphrys, British journalist and broadcaster, described the game in his 2002 book Lost for Words. The book was about the "mangling and manipulating" of the English language. He suggested the game be played at conferences and seminars.
Take a sheet of paper, draw four lines down and four across (to make 25 squares) and fill each square with a currently hackneyed word or irritating cliché – in any order.
Examples: synergy, strategic fit, levelling the playing fields, bottom line, paradigm, 24/7, benchmark, value-added, proactive, win-win, think outside the box, fast-track, result-driven, empower, going forward, learning curve, touch base, at this point in time, mindset, client-focused, ballpark, game plan, leverage, road map…
You tick each box when a speaker uses one of these words. When you have five consecutive squares ticked off – down, across or diagonally – you stand up and shout "Bulldust!" (Humphrys suggests a more agricultural word.)
The first to call it out wins.
Humphrys said it enormously enhanced people's attention span at conferences. Imagine the tension during a conference when, maybe, a dozen people are waiting to fill in just one more square.
Humphrys roundly criticised George W Bush's mangling of the language (Example: "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
He also flayed obfuscating politicians who seem incapable of giving straight answers – "One has the feeling there is a ventriloquist behind the curtain".
George Orwell had a similar jaundiced view of the way English was going. Mercifully he did not live long enough to have to listen to Bush or the current presidential hopefuls.
But he could well have been describing them when he wrote of watching… "some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy".
Orwell wrote: "As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse."
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You mentioned the good old days. When I was a kid my mom would send me down to the shops with R1 and I'd come back with a bag of potatoes, two loaves of bread, three bottles of milk, a big piece of cheese, a packet of tea…
Hoooooo! You can't do that now! Too many security cameras.
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Today Sun unveiled the Sun 7000-series Unified Storage System. Three models were announced: the low-end 7110, the midrange 7210, and the high-end 7410. All are built on OpenSolaris and ZFS, and the 7210 and 7410 leverage SSD technology to speed up I/O. Luckily, I happen to have a 7210 in my lab currently and will be publishing a full review of the unit in the very near future. For now, however, I can talk a bit about what these units actually represent.
The 7210 is built on the Sun x4500 "Thumper" platform, which incorporates 48 SATA drives in a 4U chassis alongside a server mainboard running OpenSolaris. The 7210 isn't technically a server though, it's an appliance -- no shell or root access to the system is possible for the moment, and thus you won't be running any custom applications on the device. What the 7210 and its brethren provide is an elegant storage framework that includes the best-of-breed ZFS file system coupled with read- and write-biased SSDs, support for CIFS, iSCSI, NDMP, FTP, (and others) driven by a truly breathtaking interface.
The SSDs are used explicitly for caching and logging, and only the 7410 offers both -- the 7210 has read-biased SSDs, and the 7110 doesn't have SSD support. In discussions with Sun engineers, they claimed that the addition of the read-biased SSD caching in conjunction with ZFS' predictive caching algorithms means that 7,200-rpm SATA drives perform just as well, if not better than 10K SAS drives. In fact, they're conducting trials to determine if they can use 4,200-rpm SATA drives in these devices without sacrificing I/O performance. If that's possible, then the price point, power consumption, and heat generation drops across the board. Either way, I have to say that I've been a fan of ZFS for some time now, and it's only getting better and better.
I'll get into the specifics of the 7210 in my review, but as far as the interface goes, it's really impressive to be able to quickly pull up real-time user- and file-level throughput statistics complete with live graphs.


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---- — GLOUCESTER — A fatal collision with a delivery truck on Essex Avenue in May was the fault of the motorcyclist, according to a report released yesterday by the district attorney's office.
However, Joseph Orlando, attorney for Stephen Bennett's widow, Tammy, and her four children, said a "satisfactory" settlement was previously reached between the family and UPS, the owner of the vehicle with which Bennett's Harley-Davidson collided. Tammy Bennett and her son Hunter, who was 12 at the time, were following directly behind Stephen Bennett's motorcycle as they headed toward their home in the nearby Heights of Cape Ann.
The accident occurred as the UPS truck was entering Essex Avenue (Route 133) from Fernwood Lake Avenue.
According to the State Police Collision Reconstruction Report, Bennett's error was his decision to pull parallel to a truck directly ahead of him as its driver signaled for a right turn onto Fernwood Lake Avenue, "steered" to the right and "partially entered the breakdown lane (preparing) for the right turn."
Tammy Bennett yesterday referred questions to Orlando, who said he had not yet received his copy of the accident report. Carrie Kimball Monahan, spokeswoman for District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett, said the office had been informed by the Gloucester Police Department that the Bennett family and its representatives had been notified and given copies of the report.
After he received a copy via email from the Gloucester Daily Times, Orlando said he had only time to read the conclusion, which held Stephen Bennett, 43, responsible for the accident.
"It is very clear," he said, that the conclusion "was written by someone who had not witnessed the accident."
He said he would have been prepared to put Tammy and Hunter Bennett on the witness stand to challenge any conclusion that Stephen Bennett caused the accident.
But he said the settlement with the UPS truck, driven by Jeffrey S. Goldstein of Wenham, obviated the need for a trial.
"The suit has been settled, it is covered by a confidentiality agreement, but we can say it was settled under satisfactory terms," Orlando said. "UPS wanted to do the right thing — my respect for UPS has gone up enormously. For the sake of the Bennett family, I'm pleased we have been able to come up with a satisfactory resolution of the suit that will help the family."
UPS declined comment, according to its case attorney, Tom O'Connor of White Plains, N.Y. Goldstein could not be reached yesterday.
The state police report found that Bennett was traveling about 23 mph at the moment of impact with the UPS truck.
The report quoted from the state law requiring that, on a divided two-lane road, "the operators of motorcycles ... shall ride single file when passing and shall not pass any other motor vehicle within the same lane, except another motorcycle.
"Therefore, the (UPS) truck driver in this scenario had no expectation of a motorcycle passing (the preceding) truck within the same lane on a two-lane roadway separated by a double yellow center lane, which defined an area as a no passing zone," the state police report indicated. "The cause of this collision and the resultant fatal injuries suffered by Stephen Bennett was his illegal passing of the (preceding) truck that obscured his vision of the roadway ahead on Route 133 while in the eastbound travel lane.
"Witness statements reveal that Mr. Bennett did in fact pass the (preceding) truck in violation of Massachusetts General Laws linking a chain of events that resulted in his fatal injuries," the report said.
The Bennetts were high school sweethearts in Streator, Ill., a coal-mining town about 90 miles southwest of Chicago. They married there, and all four of their children were born there. Stephen Bennett was hired by Gloucester Engineering in 2001. He was a machinist.
At the time of his death, Bennett was employed at Ophir Optics LLC of North Andover, a major manufacturer of precision infrared optical components.
"We were raised on Harleys, all the way down the line," Tammy Bennett told the Times in the days following the accident. "He died doing what he loved most."
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By George Bremer
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---- — ANDERSON — Thanks to Jon Gruden, no play is more associated with Andrew Luck than Green Right Slot Spider 2 Y Banana.
That's the formation the former NFL head coach had the Stanford quarterback draw on the whiteboard last spring during an episode of ESPN's "Gruden's QB Camp." The Super Bowl championship coach asked Luck to take the viewers through his read progressions on the play.
After the quarterback had finished, Gruden re-emphasized that the fullback was the No. 1 read and received Luck's confirmation. Moments later, the coach rolled tape of a 2011 game between Luck's Stanford Cardinal and USC.
The Cardinal ran Spider 2 Y Banana, and Luck ignored the open fullback. He threw instead to his "alert" route, the "Venus" receiver, and the pass was intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
The play has become so famous, it's spawned its own parody account on Twitter. But if Luck knew it so well, why did he make the wrong read at a crucial moment?
Later in the show, Gruden suggested the cause was familiarity with the Venus receiver — Luck's roommate Griff Whalen. He showed footage of the two hitting the alert route for big gains in previous contests and suggested the quarterback might have gotten a little too greedy.
Visitors to Indianapolis Colts training camp this summer understand why. It seems as though Whalen is always open.
The former Stanford walk-on is in his second training camp with the Colts and his college QB. Whalen led the team with 12 catches and 125 yards in the preseason last year despite suffering a foot injury in the second game at Pittsburgh that ultimately landed him on injured reserve.
Healthy now, Whalen has picked up right where he left off and taken the early lead in the race to be the Colts' No. 4 receiver to start the season. That spot once belonged to LaVon Brazill, but he will start the year with a four-game suspension after a second violation of the NFL's substance abuse policy.
On the football field and off, it appears, whenever Whalen sees a seam he bursts through it and finds clean air.
"Yeah, Griffer," Luck said after a recent practice. "He's always surprised people. I remember (him) coming in as a freshman, as a walk-on, we thought (Stanford) had the best scout team in America because sort of throw the ball up to Griff and he would go run and catch it. He's always surprised people. He ended up earning a scholarship. He's just a good, solid, steady guy, and he's working his butt off. So it's good."
It's not just Luck singing Whalen's praises. And it's not just Luck he's catching passes from.
Whalen has been equally effective whether he's working with backup Matt Hasselbeck, third-stringer Chandler Harnish or getting a rare rep with the first unit.
"He is just a reliable guy," head coach Chuck Pagano said. "He studies his craft. He's a gym rat. He's here all the time. He's working. He knows what to do. He doesn't make mental mistakes. It's going to be really hard to get rid of a guy like that. So he is going to make it hard on us to try to get rid of him. So he is doing a great job."
Whalen joined the Colts as the NFL's version of a walk-on — an undrafted free agent. Now he's drawing comparisons to a young Wes Welker, Julian Edelman or Austin Collie from Pagano, and he's turning heads on the practice field.
It's a familiar position for the 23-year-old from Sylvania, Ohio, who has played the underdog role for most of his football life.
"Yeah, you could say that," Whalen said. "In certain situations, especially going into college the first few years there, absolutely, and then again right now I kind of have that feeling. I don't really have all the hype and the big name. So I feel like I have to work extra hard."
One thing he does have is a familiarity with new offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton and his scheme. Hamilton began his time at Stanford as the wide receivers coach before taking over offensive coordinator duties when then-head coach Jim Harbaugh left for the San Francisco 49ers and took Greg Roman with him.
So Whalen has a comfort and rapport with Hamilton that is rare for young professional athletes. And Hamilton has a healthy respect for the young wide receiver.
"I've been watching Griff play football since he was 19 years old, and he's having a good camp so far," Hamilton said. "He still has a ways to go, but we're excited about Griff."
This is another area where Whalen and his coordinator are on the same page.
As happy as he's been with his work in camp so far, he understands there's still a lot more to be done. At the same time, Whalen already feels like a winner this season. Just by getting back onto the field.
"For me it was just big, psychologically, that I am back where I want to be," he said. "That whole offseason, there was a little bit of worry like, 'Am I really going to be back? Is my foot going to be OK?' But everything feels great. I'm happy with that."


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I began thinking and writing about this subject weeks ago, but life happened and I couldn't finish the post then. Life continues to happen, but I don't care. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it, so I have to stop and write it down.
It started simply enough. In an Open Thread, snotboogie posted this link. It's about the long toss debate. Several folks made comments along the lines of Osfan21's "nobody really knows yet whether certain mechanical traits are more likely to result in injury." That's true. But I thought 'why not?' It seems like an empirical question with an on-going natural experiment. Some organizations are using 360' toss, others not -- compare the outcomes. There are too many uncontrolled variables for something that rough to lead to any conclusion, but if there is a significant difference it could be a pointer toward the value in studying it more.
This glance toward experimental analysis would likely have passed in a moment, if a day or two later 2632 hadn't linked to Jon Shepherd's Camden Depot post on the Science of Baseball. I was pleased to see that some folks are thinking in a scientific way about injury, but noticed that the subjects are all at the HS and college level. Why isn't MLB injury the subject of scientific study? Publication of such studies would give away a lot of proprietary information, so realistically I don't expect to see it such things show up in journals. But I don't hear anything that leads me to think it happens at all.
The moment that fixed this subject in my mind came when, in response to my last pitching post, the right honorable higgins pointed me to Buzz Bissinger's 2007 Times article on Kerry Wood. I was just knocked out by this quote:
To get a better idea of how much time pitchers lose to injury, consider that 244 of the pitchers who played in the majors in 2006 have been on the disabled list at least once in the past five years. Their injury time adds up to 27,351 days, the equivalent of 149 lost seasons.
149 seasons! To me, that says one thing. The money to improve the situation is stacked all over the table and falling down onto the floor. Given the average 2011 player salary is $3.3 million dollars, that's roughly $492 million wasted over 5 years. Call it $3 million per team per season.
So try to avoid wasting some of that money. Invest some comparable amount of money in developing an improvement program to reduce your injury losses on pitchers. Say it's your extra 2%. If you have $100 million payroll, set aside another $2 million toward a science of pitching injury.
Since we're starting from "nobody really knows," the initial investment would be all about data collection. I'm thinking that you would want to collect the following, for each pitcher at each level of the minor leagues:
Throwing program information - kinds of throwing used (long, short, bullpens), frequency of sessions and number of throws
Training habits - have players or training staff record the types, reps and frequencies of non-pitching workouts
Pitch f/x data - if these cameras are not constantly running in the minors, they should be
Data on mechanics - this would be the hardest. But I think you could crack it by videotaping every pitcher in every outing from standard camera angles. Then have trained staff play the video in slo-mo/freeze frame on touch screen computers, using a stylus to tap-enter the positions of the pitchers joints at standard intervals through their delivery. Resource limitations would determine how much of this data you could input, but you would at least have mountains of primary data available.
Pair those input variables with outcome measures of the type and severity of the various injuries (e.g. exactly positions where the fabrum bear nested and the depth of his den in millimeters) and have statisticians run regressions like mad. Somewhere in there you'd have to find inputs that appear predictive of increased injury.
I'm sure some of you are thinking 'sure, and you'd have a list of correlations, but nothing about causation.' Exactly right. The predictive variables would be starting points for experimental manipulations in your farm system. Can you change, in a controlled fashion, the mechanics or training programs of pitchers of similar build and see a change in injury rates compared to the historical baseline? I have no idea how such experiments would actually be designed. I'm sure nobody in an MLB front office does either. So you would need to partner.
Imagine a city where there is a research-oriented university hospital within walking distance of the major league stadium. If it's not too hard to picture, imagine baseball fans use their parking lot. The MLB club offers access to this injury-science program to that university's physical medicine department to use in teaching research methods. Undergrads in the primary data collection practicum are tapping your computer screens in the basement. Grad students are writing up the results for simultaneous submission to the front office and the prof. The prof is shaping the design of the trials by suggestion to the grad students in the experimental methods class. And the cost of the whole program, especially the mechanics data, comes down a bit. $2 million plus a supply of free labor would get a lot done.
To me, it's an article of faith that careful observation like this would yield actionable knowledge that would save valuable arms and lower team ERAs. Maybe not, but if you run it for a decade and there's no indication of that, then you've spent what we're paying Brian Roberts to be dizzy for a year and you cut bait. If my faith is warranted, it could go radical places. Cue the fuzzy-screened dream sequence.
Once you had the pitching mechanics technology in place, you could push it both up and down from the minors. On the upstream side, when a pitching coach is scratching his head about a pitcher's struggles and can't eyeball any change in delivery from video, taking new data points and running them against historicals could improve in-season corrections. Or someone monitoring changes to tell you when a pitcher is compensating for soreness even while succeeding. On the downstream side, take James F's CamdenCast suggestion to videotape a lot more work by prospects before the draft. Use this same process and maybe you would draft smarter.
The biggest benefit of all could be that by reducing injury, you not only protect your current investment in your pitchers, but also make pitchers cheaper over time. Those 149 lost seasons inject a lot of scarcity into the pitching market, driving up prices. Reduce it and, fantasy of fantasies, maybe Kevin Gregg's price starts to align with his value. Maybe he can't get a job at all. Isn't that a goal worth investing in?


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A long-time Kinston native and Negro League Baseball player releases his autobiography. Thursday evening Carl Long signed copies of his book "A Game of Faith."
Long says the story serves as an inspiration for young men who need guidance. For many years, Long dedicated himself to meeting with groups in the community and fears one day, he won't be around to share his story.
So to ensure it lives on, he wrote a book. "Good things have happened to me because of the way I brought up. I was born in Rockhill SC on a farm picking cotton. At the age of 14, I went off to play baseball. Baseball is my life." Long said.
His publisher and co-author Diane Taylor says she is amazed by his story. This is the first book her company has released and it's been very successful. In the last two weeks, they've sold 150 books.
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Best of Toronto
The Best Japanese Restaurants in Toronto
The best Japanese restaurants in Toronto offer the full dining experience. We're not talking about quick sushi here, but warm bowls of ramen, fresh Okonomiyaki and tasty Takoyaki. While there's something to be said for prompt, friendly service and an authentic overall vibe, the places on this list don't necessarily boast those characteristics across the board.
Restaurants such as the two Guus and Kaiseki Yu-Zen Hashimoto indeed have the ambiance thing pretty well refined, yet others boast laminated pictures and plastic trays, yet still manage to feed their way into our good graces. In that sense, it seems, the best Japanese in Toronto really comes down to the quality, freshness, and preparation of the dish presented on your plate.
Shoji screens or not, here is the list of the best Japanese restaurants in Toronto.
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The best AYCE sushi in Toronto
The best cheap sushi in Toronto
The best splurge sushi in Toronto
Guu Izakaya
For years Vancouver had fantastic beaches, beautiful mountain scenery, a superior laid-back vibe, and great Japanese restaurants over Toronto. Now it just has fantastic beaches, beautiful mountain scenery, and a superior laid back atmosphere. Guu came to Toronto in 2009 and brought with it consistently fabulous salmon tataki, yakiudon, and gyu tongue (for the adventurous). Sakabar came a couple years later, rivaling the cool atmosphere and conversation (noise) you'll find at Guu on Church. More »
Sushi Kaji
If you want the best of the best--creative pairings, experimentation with flavours, striking presentations, you treat yourself to the Omakase menu at Sushi Kaji on the Queensway. Needless to say, chef Mitsuhiro Kaji doesn't busy himself with "sushi pizza" or plain old California rolls, but rather, creates a five, seven, or nine course tasting menu of unique appetizers, raw fish, soups, deserts, and more. Of course, at $80-$120, originality doesn't come cheap. More »
Kenzo Ramen
Kenzo Ramen is the perfect remedy when winter rolls around. A warm bowl of freshly made ramen in a pork bone broth becomes exponentially more desirable after the first snow, which explains the lineups at Kenzo Ramen during the lunchtime or evening rush. Specialty dishes include Nagasaki Champon, Tonkotsu ramen, and Ji Su Men. And like Guu they have a second location in the Annex. More »
Manpuku is a bit of hidden gem serving straight-up Japanese comfort food. In the middle of the Village by the Grange, udon in various forms is probably the easiest sell at Manpuku, along with weighty plates of Takoyaki for those who aren't deterred by octopus. Plus, can't get much better thank black sesame ice cream. More »
Izakaya Ju
The prospect of fresh meat cooked over a charcoal grill makes the venture to Markham for Izakaya a little bit less painful. If you don't let the name get to you, Izakaya Ju's pork cheeks are some of the best-reputed in the area, along with its chicken skin Yakitori. More »
Fin Izakaya
Fin Izakaya favourites are its shareable plates, which include its Octopus Wasabi Takowasa, Blowtorched Mackerel, and Chicken Tatsuta. Don't expect the same type of noise here as you're bound to encounter at Guu, but you will find a similarly impressive drink menu with countless sake varieties, Sho-Chu, and Fin Izakaya original cocktails. More »
Okonomi House
Just look for the red lanterns if you in the mood for some quality Okonomiyaki. (Or, you know, the big name on the sign, it's a dead giveaway). The menu is small but what they offer, they offer well, including soups, salads, rice and noodle dishes, as well as pork, chicken, beef, shrimp, seafood, or veggie Okonomiyaki. If you're pining for sushi, expect to be disappointed. More »
Cafe Green Tea
Cafe Green Tea offers nothing in the way of ambiance, which, I suppose, is just a testament to the authenticity of its fare. Another Markham spot in the J-Town complex, Cafe Green Tea serves fast food Japanese in a cafeteria-style setting with plates of chicken and rice omelettes, pork cutlets, soba noodles, and Japanese curry. Green tea, of course, is flowing and plentiful. More »
Kaiseki Yu-Zen Hashimoto
Inside the Japanese Canadian Cultural Center in North York, Kaiseki Yu-Zen Hashimoto offers more than just dinner. Rather, it's the whole Kaiseki experience. That experience, a nine-course meal of dishes made from entirely imported ingredients, will cost you $300 per person before tax and tip. But don't worry, you'll get your money's worth in the form of Wagyu strip loin, Unigohan, gold flakes on your dessert, and a closing tea ceremony. And, most importantly, bragging rights. More »
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Hashimoto and Fin shouldn't be on there though, and better replaced by Mikado, Le Cafe Michi and Zen even if they are outside of downtown core.
- best sushi is Kaji as anyone knows, who knows, but even he's fighting a poor fish distribution to Toronto
- for izakaya (pubs): Guu or Ema-tei, but that latter costs more than it should
- Kaiseki Hashimoto imports everything from Japan, totally nullifying the importance of 'terroir' in 'kaiseki'
- Manpuku's ambitions are modest, but it meets them well
- there is no good ramen in Toronto
But because all these three are not cheap, I often end up ordering a take out from Sushi Marche (very good)!
Kenzo is okay, but nothing's special. Comparing the price and the quality, I would not go back.
I agree we are talking about the cuisine not the ethnic background of the chef/ower,
but sushi chefs trained in Japan are typically good because they must be trained at least 6yrs to make sushi for customer (so I heard).


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1. What is DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ?
DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ is a unique masterplanned city in the Kingdom of Bahrain offering a range of housing options and quality lifestyle for all strata of society. Situated on the northern shores of Muharraq, its amenities will include over 40 kilometres of waterfront, together with sandy beaches – among the most extensive publicly accessible waterfront.
As the master developer, DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ will offer plots to developers, but will also elect to develop some plots themselves.
DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ is project for the long term. By being the first development with a dedicated focus on providing reasonably priced housing, it will open up new and exciting opportunities for a group of society previously excluded from real estate ownership.
It will draw on Arabic culture and traditions, blending them with modern design and lifestyle requirements. For the first time, Bahrain will have a community where visitors and residents will benefit from the many beachfront and landscaped recreation areas and marinas, as well as all the elements one expects from such a community including schools, medical facilities, and commercial outlets like shopping malls, banks, hotels and a local services infrastructure.
2. What is the scale of the project?
DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ is a new development built as an extension of the island of Muharraq. Its boundaries extend over an area of 12 square kilometres. The development is a cohesive mix of residential and commercial properties with a wide selection from high-rise to single-storey villas.
There is the potential for around 30,000 dwellings which will include a mix of housing and commercial properties in a wide range of plot sizes and prices – the majority within highly affordable price brackets.
3. What is the total investment in the project?
The urban development's anticipated total investment value is US$ 3.2 billion (BHD 1.2 billion)
4. Who is financing the project?
The main investor is Kuwait Finance House (KFH), as well as a group of private investors.
5. How was the location chosen?
The area was chosen for a variety of reasons:
- Muharraq is a place of great significance in both historical and cultural terms. We wanted to drive a revival of the area to ensure that Muharraq retains its status and continues to thrive.
- It is near the capital Manama and therefore an easy commute for many residents.
- There are several existing or upcoming major commercial and industrial ventures (Bahrain International Airport, Khalifa bin Salman port in Hidd and the Bahrain Investment Wharf) located around Muharraq, which will provide employment, so it makes sense to have more housing nearby.
6. Who do you see as the potential market for the homes in such a project?
Everyone is welcome to buy – all local people, Gulf nationals and expatriates. Properties will be available on a freehold basis as per the regulations set in place by the Kingdom's freehold legislation, and provided an expatriate buyer satisfies those regulations, they can buy a property in DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ.
7. What is the timeframe for the project?
Dredging and land reclamation began in 2006 and the first 6 square kilometres was completed end of 2009. Infrastructure for the same area will be completed by 2013. The first elements of the development are expected to be ready for use by late 2011 and DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ expects to offer investment opportunities to developers during 2010-2011.
8. What is the proportion of planned housing in the different plot sizes?
DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ will offer plots in equal proportions across the small, medium and large sizes to ensure housing is reasonably priced across the income groups.
9. Would there be differences in what is being planned and provided in the different areas of the development?
All residential islands in the development will have access to the same high standard and wide choice of facilities available for use by the whole community. It is only the plot sizes and property designs that will differ.
10. With so many other new developments, what makes DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ stand out?
- The sheer scale of the project. DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ will represent a new city with all the supporting network of infrastructure and facilities that one would expect on this scale including local government services.
- DIYAR AL MUHARRAQ is not driven purely by economic motives. We are building to support the government in a long-term housing strategy for the ultimate benefit of the people of Bahrain.
- The pricing of the properties will offer a large amount of housing at prices reasonably priced to many Bahrainis and expatriates.


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Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan descends from a distinguished line of elders who reigned supreme in the world of music. He is the direct descendant of the great Abdul Karim Khan and Abdul Wahid Khan, the founders of the famous Kirana lineage. His father, the great sarangi player, Shakoor Khan was the grand nephew of Bande Ali, Beenkar, while Mehboob Baksh Khan and Aajiz Pia were Mashkoor's great grandfathers.
Mashkoor was initiated into music and trained by his father for fifteen years and secured a place in the world of music very early in life. After his father's demise, he joined the ITC-Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata, as a scholar, to polish and hone his undiluted style of Kirana gayakee (singing). Now, as a Guru of both the Sangeet Research Academy, and the American Academy of Indian Classical Music, he nurtures numerous vocalists and scholars under his able wings. His recitals reveal great imagination and vocal agility. An erudite musician, he possesses a keen understanding of the characteristic styles of Kirana gayakee, emphasizing the numerous permutations of musical phrases, known as "Khandmeru."
With his celebrated lineage, Mashkoor has inherited a veritable treasure trove of "bandishes" (compositions) and an insight into rare ragas that few musicians can boast of. A true heir of his renowned forefathers, Mashkoor still continues to collect rare compositions with passion.
An A-grade artiste of All India Radio (AIR), Mashkoor has performed in national programs on All India Radio and Doordarshan, as well as in Radio Sangeet Sammelans. He has taken part in numerous festivals and conferences of classical music all over India. His superb performances have kept his audiences enthralled in Canada, USA and Europe.
Mashkoor Ali Khan's career is studded with numerous awards, like the Abhinav Kala Sammelan (1993), Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Award (1994) and Swaranjali Award (1997). In Kolkata the Bharatiya Sanskriti Samsad has conferred on him the Best Vocalist Award. The Salt Lake Cultural Association honored him with the title of "Bandish Nawaz" (Prince of Song) in 1998.
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Robert Guerrero continues his delusional conquest towards a major fight, along with his endless challenges. We ALL know that calling out the big names is part of the sport, but when is enough, enough?
He pretty much shoots down Mayweather's fight with Cotto in May, when it would be good idea to try and land a fight on that card with somebody else for some type of exposure. Of course he went into the "leftovers" talk in regards to Mayweather first facing Marquez a while back, and now preparing to face Cotto.
Honestly, and this is my honest opinion, nearly EVERY fighter that steps in the ring with another fighter, is somebody's leftovers. If you wanna look at it that way, then Oscar was the leftovers of Shane, Tito, B-Hop, amongst a few others...before Floyd got in the ring with him. Cotto was Margarito's leftovers, as well as Clottey's (if you want to look at like that), before he stepped in the ring Manny, and now Floyd.
He even went on talk about he "hasn't heard a peep" from Ortiz's side, about the challenge he issued him. Isn't he the leftovers of Maidana and Mayweather? Guerrero hasn't fought in almost a year, and his last fight was against Katsidis, who happens to be everybody's leftovers. He hasn't done anything above 135, and that fight against his bowling buddy (Casamayor) at 140, proves nothing...did I mention that he's done nothing above 135?
Im ready to see him in the ring with somebody...anybody. Pleeeease!


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No in depth substance here, just some rivalry talk. When considering the reserved, cautious, preliminary hype surrounding Willson after the Rookie camp, one can envision the possibility of Luke Willson having the superior career as a TE over Vance McD.
That would make me so very happy, not just because of the awesome rewards we would reap from Willson's production, but because of the little victory over the 49ers in draft savvy.
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Updated 9:16am Friday 3rd January 2014 in News By Katie Bond, @SwindonAdver007
THREE stones lighter, two half marathons completed and a full marathon dream in the pipeline.
Chris Bunce, 26, from West Swindon used to believe that running a half marathon would be an impossible task, but thanks to Slimming World and a lot of hard work, it is now an accomplished fact.
It all began when Chris decided to walk into his local Slimming World group last March and begin his weight loss journey.
Nine months on, and he is relaunching the Purton Slimming World group as a consultant.
"I had never really seen myself as an overweight person, but after seeing photos of myself taken on recent holidays combined with the frustration of never being able to find nice clothes in my size, I finally realised something had to be done.
"So in order to help me lose weight, I decided to take up running. I set myself the goal of completing the Cardiff Half Marathon in October.
"I also understood that I could not lose weight by running alone. I needed to change my diet, and this is where Slimming World came in."
Chris realised his running goal. He ran the Cardiff Half Marathon on October 6 in less than one hour and 45 minutes, having not been able to run at all at the beginning of the year.
"Having heard of Slimming World and all the wonderful food you can enjoy while on plan, it seemed to be the most logical step.
"I have always been someone who has enjoyed food. Depriving myself of the foods I love and cutting down my portions was simply not an option."
After making such monumental changes to his life, Chris has decided to help his fellow slimmers by becoming a Slimming World Consultant.
He relaunched the Purton local group yesterday.
"A year ago I would be at home doing nothing on a Thursday evening, now I am about to help other people change their lives," he said.
"My group has been instrumental in who I have become, and it's going to be a fantastic opportunity to be able to give something back.
"Their constant support has motivated me during the weeks when I have been finding it tough.
"2013 was an incredible journey. It started with a shirt not fitting on New Year's Eve, and it ended being at my Target Weight, with a full marathon in the pipeline.
"I am sure that my 2013 started in the same way that some people will feel going into 2014.
"I hope they can draw inspiration from me. Look what you can achieve in a year with Slimming World."
n The Purton group meets at 7.30pm on Thursdays at the Purton Club, Station Road, previously the Purton Working Men's Club. Contact Chris for more details on 07803 807855.
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New Stuff Tuesday
Friday and Saturday are usually everyone's favorite days of the week. But knowing that there is something NEW on Tuesdays could change your mind!
Here is some of the New Stuff being released on Tuesday, October 15:
Scotty McCreery, 'See You Tonight'
Winner of the 10th season of American Idol, Scotty McCreery is releasing his third album. He helped write 5 of the 13 songs on this CD.
Willie Nelson, 'To All the Girls'
The productive Willie Nelson continues his run with ladies like Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crowd, Carrie Underwood, Loretta Lynn and Alison Krauss.
Pacific Rim
As a war between humankind and monster sea creatures continues, a former pilot and a trainee try to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. (131 mins.) Stars Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnmam, Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day. PG-13
The Heat
An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a drug lord. (117 mins.) Stars: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Michael McDonald and Demian Bichir. Rated R
Weird Science
Back from 1985, two nerdy boys attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that. (94 mins.) Stars Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock and Bill Paxton. PG-13
The Colony
Forced underground by the next ice age, survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature. (95 mins.) Stars Bill Paxton, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Zegers and Charlotte Sullivan.


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MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A new bike trail is now open for cyclists. The ribbon cutting ceremony was today for a trail that runs through the ULM Campus.
Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo, went racing down Bon Air Drive in hopes to beat 93 year old Miles Luke with Monroe Advocates for Safe Streets.
Mayor Mayo says, "I've raced him each and every year, and he wins each and every year, and so I'm certainly going to do everything I can to try and beat him this year but more than likely he'll probably defeat me again."
The City of Monroe, ULM, and the Monroe Advocates for Safe Streets all enjoyed being able to cut the ribbon for the bike trail that runs from Northeast and Bon Aire to Diamondhead, and Cypress Pointe.
This is the fifth bike trail to open as apart of the City of Monroe's "Master Bike Plan" to develop multiple bike and pedestrian paths within the city.
While today's ribbon cutting was fun for everyone Mayor Mayo says it also helps fight a problem we have in Louisiana.
Mayo says we have one of the highest obesity rates in the country, and trails like this could help fight it.
Mayor Mayo says, "it's very important to make sure that we have opportunities to get exercise, and certainly having bike paths is just another opportunity to do that."
The City of Monroe hopes to continue this public/private partnership to build more bike trails.
The five bike trails combine for a total of 30 miles for bikers to ride on.
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Date of News Release: 05/13/2009
(Madisonville, Ky.) -- On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, Kentucky State Police Post 2 Network Analyst III Ron Dozer was presented with the Certificate of Excellence for his outstanding job performance during the recent ice storm that crippled western Kentucky.
Due to the ice and snow, the KEWS (radio) towers were not functioning properly, causing Post 2 to lose its radio system on several occasions. Mr. Dozer volunteered to travel to the tower sites and replace the dead batteries in order to keep the system functioning. Since the batteries were only good for 8 to 12 hours, Mr. Dozer continued to replace them until KEWS technicians could install generators at the sites. He then assisted in keeping the generators fueled. Mr. Dozer worked endless hours for several days through miserable conditions to keep the post's radio system functioning.
Captain William Marks, Commander of the KSP Madisonville Post stated, "Mr. Dozer went well above and beyond the call of duty. His actions were exemplary and brought great credit to both he and the Kentucky State Police."
Mr. Dozer resides in Central City with his family and has been employed by the Kentucky State Police since March of 1996.


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HOLLYWOOD, FL, March 6 - It could have been the biggest super middleweight fight of 2008, a pitched battle between a former world champion and perhaps the most exciting warrior in the game today. But despite offers to hold the bout in a neutral location and significant offers from both HBO and Showtime for the television rights to the bout, Mikkel Kessler seems to have decided to tuck his tail between his legs and walk away from a lucrative showdown with the feared Pantera, Edison Miranda.
Viking Warrior? asked Miranda, referring to the former super middleweight champions nickname. Kessler should turn his horned helmet in after disgracing such a tribe of true fighters. He talks like a fighter, has tattoos like hes a tough guy, but when it comes down to being a real fighter, hes not even worthy of carrying my gloves.
The fight between Miranda and Kessler was originally pitched for the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, but that location was turned down. Seminole Warriors Boxing, Mirandas promoter, immediately acquiesced and offered a neutral location for the bout again, Kessler refused. Even extreme interest from HBO and Showtime couldnt convince the Denmark native to fight the Colombian standout, even though a win over Miranda would help erase the memory of his decisive loss to Joe Calzaghe last November.
I have a message for Mikkel Kessler, or Kessler the Kitten as I call him after he gave away his belts without a fight last year, said Miranda. Joe Calzaghe is not going to fight you again. What more does he have to prove after he slapped you around for 12 rounds? The only way youre going to erase that loss from the fans memories is if you beat a legitimate fighter like me, but you know you cant beat me, thats why you wont take this fight. So my advice to you is to retire and leave the fighting to the men. I challenge any of the so called top supermiddleweight contenders to step up and fight Pantera, but I doubt any of you have the guts.
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A new volunteer fire department facility may cut the Lead Fire Department's response time in half.
The new $2.8 million building has 15,500 square feet. Lead Volunteer Fire Department Coordinator Dennis Schumacher says before their new location, they had equipment scattered throughout the community and their response time could be as longs as half an hour in some cases. He says having everything under one roof has made the Lead first responders jobs so much easier. "Our last building was four trucks and you couldn't even open the door, this building holds all ten of our trucks plus the states trucks up above and you can work on your truck without running into stuff and that's the best part about it," said Schumacher.
Schumacher says plans for the new building began about two years ago, and they started moving in just after Christmas.


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MECHNICVILLE, N.Y. – The Mechanicville community's support for 26-year-old Lance Corporal Anthony Denier was evident from the moment his body arrived American Legion Post 91 Monday afternoon.
Tuesday morning, a funeral service will be held for Denier at 11 a.m. followed by a burial with full military honors at the Gerald Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery.
Many who turned out for calling hours at the American Legion Post in Mechanicville Monday afternoon didn't even know Denier personally, but felt the need to come regardless.
Don Haran, a veteran of the Vietnam War, is a proud member of this strong community. He came to Denier's wake with his daughter-in-law and grandson, telling NEWS10 it's touching to see the patriotism.
Joe Cappucci drove three hours to pay his respects. His son went through infantry training with Denier, and was in the same firefight that took Denier's life. He said he's grateful his son served with Denier, and the thought that this is something that could face him weighs heavily on his mind.
Denier's body arrived from Dover Air Force base to Albany International Airport at 11 a.m. Monday. The arrival ceremony took place on the airfield at the Million Air hangar located on Jetway Drive.
Denier's arrival at the airport was followed by a procession to his hometown. His casket was escorted by the Mechanicville Fire Department and Police Department as well as the Patriot Guard Riders.
The Pentagon says Denier died Dec. 2 after getting hit by enemy fire while fighting in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
Governor Cuomo directed flags be flown at half-staff Monday in Denier's honor.
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After its successful debut last year, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and 12 business associations in the county will be holding the on Wednesday at the Cobb Civic Center.
The East Cobb Business Association is once again participating in the Summer J.A.M., which is slated from 5 to 8 p.m.
The cost for members of the ECCA or other participating associations is $20 at the door. The general admission price is $30 at the door.
Tuesday's monthly ECBA luncheon takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hollycrest Hall, 2235 Sewell Mill Road. The guest speaker is LynnMarie Earl, Speaker and Author at Realm Ministries Inc. and Marketing at Earl Marketing, LLC, who will offer "Business Tips for Life."
The cost is $15 to ECBA members and $20 for guests and visitors.


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Prep Time: 4 hours 20 min
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3 cups diced fresh pineapple
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1 yellow bell pepper, diced
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The title explains it all. Please share your stories below and please don't demean anyone else's reasons for loving Martial Arts and MMA.
My story is convoluted. It began with my dad, he fought professionally during the late Eighties and early Nineties in Pancrase-style fights in North and South America, as well as in Britain and Ireland. Following several nasty injuries, broken shoulder (twice), snapped ankle, and a variety of other issues, my dad was forced to stop competing in 'real' fights. He turned to professional wrestling and dabbled in it for my early childhood years. I was the reason why his kids were never allowed to attend a match of his again because I spat in a little girls face (I was three and didn't realize the pro wrestling was fake. And no, it's not real to me anymore dammit). Later on, after being rear ended by an eighteen wheeler while driving his Daihatsu and having a second shoulder surgery overall, my dad was forced to stop competing period, turning to other avenues of work.
While my dad had a huge part in my eventual love of mixed martial arts, what really influenced me was...Dragonball Z. I was reminded of this rather recently (like ten minutes ago), when I was watching some old videos from Revenge of Cooler. Pretty much the strength that the protagonist(s) like Goku and Trunks had in their cause and belief in themselves thanks to their martial prowess helped me maintain some kind of sanity in a childhood wracked with racial hatred and self esteem issues that have led to other troubles today. I don't know if it's odd or not to everyone else, but that anime show put in an innate love of martial arts and fighting, and good versus evil.


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2. Blogs: Use an RSS reader like "Google Reader" to feed all your favourite blogs/article based sites into. This eliminates the need to visit each site individually, and gives you a quick overview of what topics are new and interesting.
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- Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
- Poke the Box by Seth Godin
Another GREAT way to feed on all this information is an iPad app called Flipboard. You can port Twitter feeds, RSS feeds-just about anything-and you flip through it like a magazine. Just amazing!
Consuming information is great but being able to regurgitate it is life changing. I use Evernote to keep track of bits and pieces of information that I want to recall or that will be useful at some point down the road.
Take a look at your life and see if there are any time gaps that can be filled. Then choose a method of consumption that best suits your available time. Whether that's a little audio snack, or a three course meal of reading, writing and video watching completely depends on how hungry you are.
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NET Alliance Issues New E-Book on Neuroendocrine Cancer
NETrospectives, a new e-book produced by The NET Alliance, is "a journey through the past and a vision for the future of neuroendocrine cancer." The e-book presents patients, patient advocates, and physicians talking about the diagnoses of these rare diseases, imaging techniques and treatment options, raising the standard of care, and connecting with others in the carcinoid/neuroendocrine tumor (NET) community. Read more
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Join carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumor patients on Sunday, May 4, 2014 for a unique opportunity to have lunch with three medical experts. Share your experiences with others who have similar concerns and hear from the physicians on issues ranging from NET cancer treatments and surgery to carcinoid heart disease to follow-up testing and new developments. Read more
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Eugene A. Woltering, MD, The James D. Rives Professor of Surgery and Neuroscience and Director of Surgical Research at LSU Health Sciences Center in Kenner, Louisiana, has been selected to serve as Chair of the Neuroendocrine Tumors Expert Panel for the American Joint Committee on Cancer's (AJCC) Cancer Staging System, 8th Edition. Read more
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The online survey closed on May 31, 2014. Thank you to the nearly 2,000 NET patients around the world who completed the survey!!!
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FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Gallium-68 DOTATOC for Neuroendocrine Tumor Management
BREAKING NEWS – The radiopharmaceutical Gallium-68 (DOTA0-hel-Tyr3) octreotide (Ga-68 DOTATOC) has been designated as an orphan drug by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the management of neuroendocrine tumors. This designation is significant because it may lead to faster approval of the agent, which would greatly benefit carcinoid/NET patients in the United States. Read more from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and from Josh Mailman, chairman of the Society's Patient Advocacy Advisory Board and president of the NorCal CarciNET support group in California. From the FDA, here's information about how drugs are designated as an orphan product, read more.
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If you ever wanted to stab your friend but, you know, not actually hurt them, here's your chance.
The Northwest Fencing Center in Beaverton is hosting Stab Your Friend Night on Friday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Instructor Vince Camillo will give the basics on the sport of fencing in the 90-minute session.
All stabbing equipment will be provided, but attendees are asked to bring a bottle of water and a towel and wear indoor tennis shoes and sweatpants.
The Northwest Fencing Center is located at 4950 SW Western Ave. You can RSVP to the event at the Facebook event page.
Oregon, unbeknownst to many, is somewhat of a hotbed for fencing. Mariel Zagunis, from Beaverton, has won two Olympic gold medals in the sport. She carried the U.S. flag in the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Zagunis is not associated with the event.
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East Side blueberry farming on the rise
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By Bloomberg:
New York Times shares fell yesterday the most in almost three months after Lazard Capital cut its recommendation for the stock to sell from neutral.
The stock dropped 6.1 percent to $8.33 at the close, the biggest one-day decline since Nov. 7. Shares of the company had climbed 10 percent last year.
New York Times Co. is expected to continue its streak of shrinking annual sales this week when it delivers earnings results.
The company has been trying to combat an industrywide decline in newspaper advertising by getting online readers to pay up for digital subscriptions.
The company cut about 30 newsroom jobs last month out of a total of 1,150 because of declines in ads. The business side of operations has already been reduced by more than 60 percent in the past few years.
"These are financially challenging times," Chairman Arthur Sulzberger said in a December memo to employees. "The advertising climate remains volatile and we don't see this changing in the near future."
Nobody likes a liar, and certainly nobody likes a newspaper that openly advocates tossing out the Constitution.
At least most other newspapers have some truth on the comics page, the NYT won't even allow that much.
Corrupted MSM, yet another violation of our rights. The gov't constantly violates our rights.
They violate the 1st Amendment by caging protesters and banning books like "America Deceived II".
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by allowing TSA to grope you.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars.
Impeach Obama.
Last link of "America Deceived II" before it is completely banned:
Yep. The NYT, still printing all the news that's fit to shove.


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Screening probability forecasts: contrasts between choosing and combining
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