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May 29, 2014
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Update: China is
building pyramids
. Sort of. Well, they're tall and pointy. The concept is similar.
You hated my idea of building canals all across America. And you don't trust the company that claims to harvest usable energy from the atmosphere. But you'll love my pyramid idea.
Imagine an enormous pyramid in the middle of a desert, miles wide and reaching miles into the sky. The purpose of the pyramid is energy production. And it does so in a variety of ways.
For starters, the inner core of the pyramid is hollow from the ground to the sky. Air enters through holes in the base and is drawn up through the hollow center because warm air rises. That gives you enough airflow to generate electricity.
If you put some scrubbers in the device I think there's a way to deal with pollution and climate change too. I saw some sort of tube-to-the-sky concept that was supposed to do that but I'm too lazy to search for the link. So let's say we fix climate change with our pyramid as a bonus. Perhaps that requires a separate hollow tube in the same pyramid.
We'd also cover the sunny sides of the pyramid with motorized mirrors to reflect sun down to generate solar-steam power on the ground. I think that's more economical than using photovoltaic cells but maybe not.
If it's possible to collect ions from the air in useful quantities (which most of you doubt) then we know there is a higher concentration at high altitudes. So perhaps someday we have ion antennas near the top of the pyramid too.
And let's not forget the temperature differential between the desert floor and the top of the pyramid. That difference could power Stirling generators.
And I would expect lots of natural wind a few miles up, so maybe we can have windmill-type generators on whichever side of the pyramid gets the least sun.
If your desert is within pipeline access to the ocean, I think that turning salt water into steam gets you desalinization. I would think you could make fresh water with the byproduct of your solar steam generator.
None of this works if building the pyramid is too expensive. So I wonder how hard it is to fashion suitably strong bricks out of sand. If it's only a case of heating the sand until it becomes hard as glass, all we need is giant magnifying glasses aimed at our brick-making oven on site.
We'd need robot laborers, and lots of them. Their job would be moving and placing each brick of the pyramid, which isn't terribly complicated work. That seems feasible with current technology.
To power the robots, you need to start your project by first building a solar power plant on the desert floor. That too would be the type that concentrates the sun to create steam power. And the solar power plant wouldn't go to waste because if the first pyramid works, you can keep building more nearby and power the robots continuously. When you're done building pyramids, the power plant connects to the grid.
When aliens helped the early Egyptians build the original pyramids perhaps they were leaving a clue for future generations. That conversation probably went like this:
: We need to tell future generations of humans about pyramids. It will save them.
: I can write a message on a wall.
: I've seen your hieroglyphics. They're shit. Look at that one. (Points at wall.) I can't tell if that guy is winning a war or trying to date his ox.
: I just realized you guys are made of meat. And if I'm not mistaken, you're boneless.
And that's why the pyramids exist but there is no evidence of aliens.
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Jun 14, 2014
The data approach is the right one. Here's my approach:
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Jun 5, 2014
This sounds a lot better than the canals!
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May 30, 2014
Not the worst idea, but if you build it, do it in New Mexico. That place is miles and miles of nothing.
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May 30, 2014
FFS will you please write a science fiction novel? Is it so much to ask?
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May 30, 2014
It sounds crazy. But I love it.
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May 30, 2014
>>Speaking of killing birds, thermal solar is a great way to do it: Birds going up in smoke at Ivanpah solar project
The pyramid provides lunch too! Where can I get one of those cool pointy hats?
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May 30, 2014
For those that thought desalinization was a bad idea, or too expensive, here's a country-sized solution that is actively working today. The quality of life benefits alone seem to make it a bargain.
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May 30, 2014
- Building a hollow pyramid does not work. Build an igloo instead. Or by cutting off the roof, a chimney.
- This igloo/chimney will need to have increasingly thick walls towards the bottom, just like a dam
- You need proper founding. Many kinds of ground are inadequate. E.g.:
- You can harvest thermal energy once. Whatever you divert by mirrors won't heat the pyramid. Whatever you use to heat the air to harvest updraft will be lost for the Sterling generators. Historically it's been better to use one way of harvesting energy properly, either solarthermal, updraft or Sterling. But combining solar cells with updraft might work?
- Turning the chimneigloo into a shaft for a giant windmill might work.
- Maybe it's possible to melt sand into a block of stone using solar energy from a field of mirrors.
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May 30, 2014
Enjoyed the post, but enjoying the great links in the comments even more. Sun-Sinter looks AWESOME!
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May 30, 2014
Funny post, but somehow I think you had better ideas, even that of the channels. At least you tackle the important question, that is already halfway to solve it.
The issue with all these ideas is the benchmarking.
In a sunny place, you put this magical flat thing called solar panel, and kind of magically, you get electricity in DC form. If you put it in California, and oriented like 20° inclination and south, you get over the year about 360kWh out of each m2 (if you use Panasonic HIT or Sunpower technology, about 20% less if you go for cheap standard panels). The "good" ones will go for about 200$/m2, plus supporting structure and labor. Cheap ones for half of that (panel cost, the rest is more expensive than for high-efficiency panels).
If you want payback in 10 years, that makes (no compound interest rate) 3600 kWh produced for about 400$ (always 1m2), if you take 200$ for panel and 200$ for the rest (real prices in power plants today are well below that, even for those top-of-top brands).
You end up in 10 years paying back and having a maintenance-free power plant that generated for about 10 US cents/kWh during the first 10 years.
Your pyramid cannot compete with that. Thermodynamics are a !$%*!$%*!$%*!$% are basic (=fundamental) problems with getting energy from natural heating processes.
1- efficiency is low, so you need huge areas (land use)
2- areas are huge, so you need expensive construction
3- heat-cold processes are hard on materials, so you need maintenance (OPEX)
4- you need water or other coolant for solar thermal big plants. You do not have that in the desert or other sunny places
Wind energy is also nice, you get energy, even with all those "expensive maintenance" arguments for below 10 cent/kWh. Less predictably than solar, with more visual impact and some animal impact, but on the same area of cost.
If you want to solve "humanity"'s energy problem, we have the technologies. But you need to displace current status quo of energy generation; companies who will not go away without fighting.
You also need to displace fossils in transportation, which is not easy (Tesla is going there though)
You need to displace fossils in maritime transportation (not easy either).
But at the end you are trying to make some kind of machine that acts as a generator of energy from the environment without fuel- we have those already. You have to tackle the economies of it, if you want to do it right.
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May 30, 2014
And this is why I keep reading Scott's blog - for the crazy, beautiful nerd mind output.
Best one in awhile!
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May 29, 2014
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May 29, 2014
Seriously? Not a SINGLE person pointed out that Scott is now trying to rope us all into his pyramid scheme??
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May 29, 2014
I did like the part about the edible aliens.
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May 29, 2014
Nice idea, but in Central Europe we have had something similar for quite a long time:
it's a whole chain of pyramids, hundreds of kilometers long.
The main difference with your idea is that,
instead of creating energy with solar steam power and using it to pump water up the pyramids,
we evaporate the water with solar power and then create energy letting it flow down the pyramids.
They are called Alps, and they work pretty well also for tourists.
It was not even very expensive to build them: Africa is currently giving a push to support
the intercontinental effort of making them higher.
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May 29, 2014
I've been having a rough day, and then read this: You hated my idea of building canals all across America. And you don't trust the company that claims to harvest usable energy from the atmosphere. But you'll love my pyramid idea.
I laughed out loud.
Scott, thank you so much.
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May 29, 2014
This guy built a 3d printer to use the sun to make stuff out of sand:
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May 29, 2014
Why don't we just shove an anode as wide as Nebraska right up the Earth's [a]{s}[s] turning it into one giant battery that powers everything. You're welcome.
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May 29, 2014
Randall Munroe of XKCD postulates that it is unlikely we can easily build a building higher than 3km (see "billion storybuilding" in his What If feature). Not sure if boring a mountain would be as bad as the ones we are stripping the tops off of, but it seems like it may also have a down side.
The idea didn't totally suck until you threw in a water slide and everything else. And this from the cartoonist who literally named one of his characters the "Feature Creep!"
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May 29, 2014
Speaking of killing birds, thermal solar is a great way to do it:
Birds going up in smoke at Ivanpah solar project
A new report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has labeled BrightSource Energy's Ivanpah project a "mega-trap†for insects and birds that may get singed or in some cases, burned alive flying through the intense solar radiation reflecting off the thousands of mirrors surrounding three solar towers at the plant in eastern San Bernardino County.
The Center for Biological Diversity posted the report to the California Energy Commission website on Monday as part of its testimony opposing BrightSource's 500-megawatt Palen project, located east of the Coachella Valley, which would use similar technology — soaring solar towers surrounded by thousands of reflecting mirrors.
Read the report
"Although not analyzed in detail, there was also significant bat and insect mortality at the Ivanpah site, including monarch butterflies,†the report said. "It appears that Ivanpah may act as a 'mega-trap,' (original emphasis) attracting insect-eating birds, which are incapacitated by solar flux injury, thus attracting predators and creating an entire food chain vulnerable to injury and death.â€
Solar flux is the intense radiation coming off the reflecting mirrors. At Ivanpah, the radiation is so intense it creates what look like small clouds around the boilers at the top of the project's three 459-foot-tall solar towers. These clouds appear to be attracting the insects which in turn attract the birds.
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If you were around Murphy's Irish Pub [1] last Saturday evening, you probably noticed a cloud of laughter wafting from the Snug Room, and thought to yourself: "Gee, there must be something funny happening in there! I wonder what it could be." And, more importantly, "Why wasn't I invited?"
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First of all, Thank You.
Thank You for even finding me. There is not an ounce of sarcasm in my voice when I say that I'm impressed with your tenacity. I'll just leave it at that
I've decided to blog here for the time being instead, at least until MLBlogs gets it's act together. It's Opening weekend, and I've got better things to do than wade through this sea of eleventh hour impositions. I imagine everyone who cares about their own
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Update March 31 — Comment from Sox Angst on MLBlogosphere site:
Personally, I like to browse other blogs every now and then just to see what people are saying. Compound the loss of that feature with the loss of my links, I really don't have anything to work with.
Ha! You sound high maintenance, angst. Look, you wanna be a baseball writer? This is how it works ;- )
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Matt,Matt,Matt-the official MLBlogs line is "You want to be a baseball writer? Welcome to how this works!" You should be enjoying this "Opening day craziness". instead of wanting to write about opening day itself.
Thanks for making me laugh, Russell. (I laughed just before approving your comment).
We hear all the time, and rightly, about how MLB is a business, but can you imagine anyone in the real business world "responding" to a customer base in this fashion (ie your quotes above)?
I cant.
Matt, I definitely feel your pain. I was just getting used to how everything worked and now I know nothing again. I cried.
Then I found a pretty girl on your site. And things are a little better now. And it's opening day, and it's raining in Chicago… and did I mention that Alyssa is on your site…???
We'll get through this.
What's really irritating is that I JUST put links to other blogs, writers and sites like Baseball Reference on my blog. And the Site Meter (which I added a few weeks ago) was giving me a good sense of my traffic. Speaking of traffic, there was a link to my blog on a Atlanta Journal Constitution website Braves blog, posted by one of my most loyal readers and the traffic I got from that was HUGE; of course our site went offline a couple of hours later thereby running the risk of destroying a potential new block of readers. They've get great traffic over there, by the way. The link's still there, but the damage has been done. Here's the link: Press CTRL-F to find the word "rational" and it should hit the link, if anyone's interested.
Hey Russell, I tried to comment on your "tag cloud" post but this new "beta tag cloud" gambit said I "do not have permission to comment on this [your] blog". Ouch, I've been getting denied commenting privileges left and right since the switch over. Do I smell or something?
Dude, I *am* high maintenance… and getting more more so each passing day of working with this!
It says I don't have permission to comment so I'm testing it.
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The WSU sanctioned matches at Great Championship Wrestling had all the trappings of being pretty vanilla affairs. Even though title changes have happened at non-WSU shows in the past – for example, the Belle Saints lost the Tag Team Championship to the Boston Shore at Pro Wrestling Syndicate show in Elmhurst, NY in May – the storylines leading up to next March's 5th Anniversary Show seem to have been delicately planned out, so few people would have been expecting Sassy Stephie to have lost the Spirit Championship to Rain at the show at Levittown, PA on Saturday. That's what happened though.
Despite interference from her Midwest Militia cohorts Jessicka Havok and Allysin Kay – thanks to a chair-weilding save from Brittney Savage – Rain managed to nail Stephie with her Raindrop reverse DDT to claim the championship – her first in the promotion. However, the story arc would continue into the next scheduled contest, as well as the unscheduled match which followed later, which would see Rain hold the belt for no more than a couple of hours…
Stephie's MWM teammates Havok and Kay were up next to take on Savage and Alicia in a tag team affair, but both Stephie got involved in the affair, only to be neutralised by Rain, who came out to have the back of Savage, who helped her out earlier in the evening. With the outside interference thwarted, Rain then swung the advantage to the babyfaces by taking out Kay with the Raindrop so Alicia could get the pin and put the Militia at 0-2 for the evening. The furious Havok then demanded revenge against Rain, challenging her for the Spirit title. Rain accepted, but only on the provision that everyone was banned from ringside, making it a one-on-one affair.
Of course, Kay and Stephie ignored that agreement, showing up in the aisleway during the match. While the ref and Rain told them to go, Havok recovered to deliver an Emerald Frosien and bring the Spirit title back to the Midwest Militia.
The match between Rain and Havok reportedly lasted around 20 minutes, and was a stormer of a contest. We will be able to find out for ourselves when the matches are released on DVD in the future.
All of these antics lead up to November 19's Breaking Barriers 2 iPPV, where the Militia will take on Savage, Alicia and WSU Champion Mercedes Martinez in a War Games match in the main event. One would expect the Militia to get the victory to give Havok v Martinez at the 5th Year Anniversary a boost, but as has been proven by Saturday's shows at GCW, nothing can really be assumed with WSU's booking.
Of course, with the Spirit Championship changing hands, this means changes in the match lineup ahead of March. Stephie was meant to defend the Spirit Championship against Brittney Savage, but considering she no longer holds the belt, that match is now scrapped. Likewise, now that Havok holds the belt, it has made her match against Martinez is now a title for title affair.
WSU has released a number of promo videos following the GCW show, with the Militia throwing down a challenge to Savage and Alicia, as well as Savage responding and upping the stakes, and former champion Rain discussing how she trusts few, and is looking forward to Jetta returning to the promotion in November.
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This theater was originally a large single-screen theater ABC/Interstate opened in 1965 as the Westwood Theater. The shopping center that contained this theater was known as the Westwood at the time.
In 1970, a second, smaller auditorium was added, and it was called the Promenade Theater, as the shopping center had been renamed the Promenade Shopping Center. Within a couple of years, the theater was simply known as the Promenade I and II.
All of the big blockbuster films from the late-1960's and the 1970's that had extended runs usually played in the big auditorium. However, in the early-1980's, the Plitt chain took it over and it became a discount dollar theater.
In 1984, the theater was remodeled for the worse. The big screen was split into four screens, and the smaller auditorium was split into two screen. The remodeling job was poor, and the smaller theaters had an awkward access and were not very clean.
Somehow, the theater stayed in business until 1994, but the Promenade Shopping Center got a major facelift, and the theater was demolished. A Kroger grocery store stands at this location.
Note that there is a new Promenade Theater in the same shopping center but north of the movie theater's location, which is only used for live theater.
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Northeast Mississippi Community College's baseball team will not play as scheduled today due to the inclement weather.
"Our game with Wallace State-Hanceville scheduled for today for noon at Harold T. White Field has been postponed to a later date," said head coach Kent Farris. "We will notify everyone whenever we get a new date set."
The Tigers' next game is scheduled for Saturday, February 26 at Muscle Shoals, Ala., where they will face Central Alabama in game one at 2 p.m. and will play Northwest Shoals in game two set for 5 p.m.
Northeast post an overall record of 1-3 on the season after dropping its first two games to Calhoun back on February 15 in Booneville and split games with Wallace State in Hanceville on February 20.
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That is a shadow of a coyote that you have been seeing at Oak Hollow Marina and Campground. And for good reason, too.
The cutouts are placed around the dock area to control the number of geese and seagulls in the area and to keep them off of the docks. The cutouts, given to the marina by Larry Edwards, started out as an experiment, but they seem to be working.
"We had an issue with both the geese and seagulls for some years. They would continually mess up the docks and we wanted to look at alternatives to dealing with the problem," said Park Supervisor Brad Mendenhall.
Medenhall said the mess the birds left behind became a daily maintenance chore, where crews had to brush and sweep the docks. While the docks still have to be cleaned from time to time, the cutouts have reduced the time and money spent cleaning them.
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Suit brought against ArmstrongThe Associated Press | February 08,2013USTIN, Texas A Dallas promotions company sued Lance Armstrong on Thursday, demanding he repay $12 million in bonuses and fees it paid him for winning the Tour de France.
SCA Promotions had tried in a 2005 legal dispute to prove Armstrong cheated to win before it ultimately settled and paid him.
Armstrong recently acknowledged using performance-enhancing drugs, and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in 2012 detailed a sophisticated doping program by his Armstrongs teams. Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France victories and given a lifetime ban from sports.
Now, the company contends in its lawsuit, Armstrong and agent Bill Stapleton conspired to cheat SCA out of millions.
The lawsuit notes that Armstrong repeatedly testified under oath in the 2005 dispute that he did not use steroids, other drugs or blood doping methods to win, all of which he now admits to doing.
It is time now for Mr. Armstrong to face the consequences of his actions, the lawsuit said. He admits he doped; he admits he bullied people; he admits he lied.
The lawsuit names Armstrong, Stapleton and Tailwind Sports, Inc., the teams management entity, as defendants.
Tim Herman, an attorney for Armstrong and Stapleton, did not immediately return telephone messages. Herman has previously noted that SCA previously settled its case with Armstrong and said it should not be allowed to reopen the matter.
SCAs lawsuit counters that the case was settled only after Armstrongs lies under oath prevented it from proving he doped.
The lawsuit seeks to recover $9.5 million in bonus money and another $2.5 million paid to Armstrong for other costs and fees.
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USADA extended its original Wednesday deadline to Feb. 20 to work out an interview with investigators under oath.
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We understand that he does want to be part of the solution and assist in the effort to clean up the sport of cycling, Tygart said in a statement. We have agreed to his request for an additional two weeks to work on details to hopefully allow for this to happen.
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Chef Daniel Boulud has been honored by the French government, he and his restaurants have received four James Beard Foundation awards, the Oscars of the food industry, and his culinary journey has taken him from France to New York and beyond.NY1's Budd Mishkin filed the following One On 1 profile.
At 6 p.m. in the kitchen at Daniel, one of the most acclaimed restaurants in New York and the country, and Daniel Boulud, award-winning chef, entrepreneur and author, is at home.
"It's OK, but I would love to have a little cube of beets inside," he tells one of his chefs.
"In what I do, there are a lot of things I hate, but the only thing I don't hate is to be in the kitchen with my chefs, that I never hate that," he said. Daniel Boulud is one of the food industry's success stories, with restaurants in New York, including Daniel, Cafe Boulud and DB Bistro, among others and in Beijing, London and cities around the world.
He is the author of several books, most recently, "Daniel, My French Cuisine," showcasing recipes from his signature restaurant.
Honors for the restaurant and Boulud poured in, including the James Beard Foundation Award for Chef of the Year, the industry's Academy Award.
Then Boulud took another leap of faith, reopening Daniel on the site of the old Le Cirque in 1998.
It was a happening, but it was far from a sure thing.
"I took the biggest financial risk in my life and I don't think I will ever take that risk again ever and it has been good, I think it has been a safe journey, thanks God."
Pan French or Fusion are not found on his menus.
Among food aficionados, Boulud is known for sticking to his gastronomic guns.
"I think we never really create restaurant because it's a trendy thing to do at that moment," he said.
NY1 followed Boulud to a few of his restaurants, trying out new recipes.
"I think with this dish, when we did it at the beginning, we didn't have the contrast also of the little smoked eggs," he said. "And we felt it was a little flat."
"Just dig in."
Suffice it to say, any initial problems with the dish were long gone.
The menus at Daniel or Cafe Boulud are not for everyone.
Boulud's famed original DB burger at DB Bistro costs $32.
But Boulud said his restaurants are not just for the wealthy.
"The advantage of having six restaurants in New York, and every one is for a different budget, I think I can afford sometimes to take ideas from Daniel and trickle them down into DBGB or DB Bistro," he said. "But also, I mean, you know, if you can't afford truffle, don't think about eating truffle, that's the main thing."
Daniel Boulud grew up near Lyon, in a region of southeast France known worldwide for its food.
His early education came at home on a farm.
"I always enjoy spending time in the house cooking with my grandmother and preparing the meal for the family every day, lunch and dinner. And when I had a little bit of time off and that was my favorite pastime, and I guess that's why I became a chef."
Boulud worked in some local restaurants, but for a brief moment, he considered another career as a jockey.
"I had a friend who had a lot of racing horse in the local track and she said maybe you should try and when I learned that I had to get up at four o'clock in the morning to clean the horses, I said no, that's not for me."
Boulud initially went to Denmark but eventually left for America.
He worked for two years in Washington D.C., then arrived in New York with a job at the Westbury Hotel.
"There were the old guard of French restaurateur here and there was this new generation coming in, and I think very exciting time in New York."
Boulud was hired at Le Cirque, a coveted, yet demanding job.
"I was living four blocks away and I would take a cab to go home because I couldn't walk at night anymore, I was just exhausted at the end of my day."
The pace has hardly slowed down.
Boulud lives in an apartment, right above Daniel.
His glass-enclosed office looks directly down into the restaurant's kitchen.
"It is very hard to compromise and say, 'Well maybe I should quit this job and do something else so I can really spend more time with my family.' My choice of being in the restaurant business was my choice number one and has always been my choice number one and so whoever decide to share the life with me and be with me, understands this is my first choice."
Boulud got married for a second time in 2013.
At this point, Daniel Boulud is not just a name, but a brand at the heart of all of his restaurants.
"At the end, it's about me, not only me, but what I believe my restaurants should be and what we believe the strongest association will be."
It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Boulud.
In the mid 2000s, Boulud and his restaurant were accused of discriminating against and failing to promote non-white employees at Daniel.
These types of lawsuits are not uncommon in the restaurant industry.
Boulud fought the charges, but eventually settled out of court.
"We learned to manage maybe better," he said. "I think, you know, we aren't responsible for what's wrong in the system sometimes, but we will adjust."
Boulud's world extends beyond his restaurants. He is co-president of City Meals on Wheels, which provides meals to homebound, elderly New Yorkers.
Boulud is especially passionate about his involvement in Bocuse d'Or, the so-called Olympics of Food, an intense competition held every two years in Lyon featuring chefs from around the world cooking for an audience of devoted foodies.
"They are like gladiators in the ring and there is the fans, there's 2,000 people or more, 3,000 people watching and every country has a delegation of fans joining the team."
Boulud is still French to the core, but he chose to pursue his passion here. For thirty years, he has called New York home.
"I almost went back home when I wanted to leave Le Cirque to start my own business, at one point I was thinking of going back to Lyon and do that and my daughter was just born and I thought maybe that would be a good time, but I felt New York was, I couldn't detach myself from New York."
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An Albuquerque woman has admitted to handing out abortion fliers on Halloween.
Anti-abortion messages cover the front of her house, which is in northwest Albuquerque.
Some believe the woman took her beliefs too far, by handing out anti-abortion notes to trick-or-treaters.
She said she plans to do it again next year and eventually put up more signs.
Residents have said it wasn't the material, but rather the timing and manner in which the messages were handed out.
The woman said if parents are upset, they should have avoided the house with all of the anti-abortion signs.
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I spent all weekend feeling sorry for myself and was just dying for this board to have some sort of activity to keep myself distracted.
It's been a week since my separation and today is the first day that I feel okay. DS went out of town with the babysitter for the day since she wouldn't be back on time to pick him up before I go to work. So, I am listing a crapload of stuff on spot's.
This board seemed to slow down a bit since the facebook group started. Not complaining, just observing. Maybe people are playing over there. I'm not on fb as much so I'm not entirely sure.
As for me, I've been cleaning, planning, packing and chasing after Camila.. Her birthday is in two weeks, and we move in three weeks, then baby is due three weeks after that. MIL just threw me a sprinkle for baby boy so I have some stuff to organize/wash. Plus my 4 year old step-son is no longer in day care so I have even less time to bump the last few weeks.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author William, Mack URN etd-05132010-140440 Document Title Application of mineral resource nanagement in South African mining companies (MRM) : which elements of it have contributed significant strategic competitive advantage? Degree MBA Department Gordon Institute of Business Science Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Mr J Aspinall Supervisor Keywords
- strategic competitive advantage
Date 2010-04-11 Availability unrestricted Abstract
The question of how mining companies compete is a not a new question. The study looked at the elements of corporate strategy in general but also with specific emphasis to the mining business, the elements of mineral resources management (MRM), and how the business of mining is assisted by such work. The research tapped into the experiences of people at the forefront of MRM work, through a qualitative study of their opinions on the research questions, to contribute to formulation of improved ways of application of MRM as a source of strategic advantage anchored of RBV aligned theory of strategy
The research sort to understand whether MRM application over the years has led to strategic competitive advantages for mining companies in South Africa, specifically the following;1.) What are the most important elements of MRM? and 2.) How is MRM used to obtain strategic competitive advantage in the mining business in South Africa?
A proposal was made of the key areas of MRM and which elements of it offer strategic advantage to mining business.
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Kids today (I never thought I would start a sentence like that)…kids today have it much harder than any and every generation before them. They are bombarded with poisonous snacks and fake foods, they have super cool video games that allow you to play against people all over the world, and….their cartoons suck.
At least when I was growing up (never thought I would start a sentence that way either) we had Dark-wing Duck, Animaniacs, Tiny-toons and Batman after school, my favorite of course The Simpsons in the evening, and the X-men on Saturday mornings. Today kids have Batman, but he's more campy 70′s Douche than heroic crime-fighter. Today kids have monkeys for gym partners, and shows that aren't really cartoons meant to excite the imagination, they are more reality soap opera's for children with real people. The whole point was to escape the reality of becoming like adults, not to watch other kids be kids on TV, or worse yet, watch adults try to appeal to kids….worst TV ever. And of course, today, there is no real Charlie Brown in sight.
I hated Linus when I was growing up. Charlie Brown was no gem either, but Linus really got me as pissed off as a pre-teen could get. When I was young I just couldn't "Peanuts" or what Schulz was teaching. I always wanted to kick that little shit Linus in the teeth when he sucked on his thumb and carried that stupid blanket everywhere. Somehow when Linus appeared on screen faintly resembling the same age as me, anger arose deep within and I shouted, "Put the blanket down you cry baby, can't you see the adults are watching. Can't you see you are making us all look bad." Huh, even as a kid I wanted the adults to treat em like they treated each other. Today, I damn sure don't want that, today I would rather be a kid.
It's years later and I still can't stand the way Charlie Brown never really succeeded at anything, and I brood over his eternal hope that I usually find synonymous with fear. But you have to give it up for Charlie Brown and his never ending ability to stand on the mound and stare down defeat, always trying for something better, always looking to the future, somehow always forgetting the past.
It wasn't until much later that I caught the cuteness in Brown's little buddy Linus. How Linus used his intellect as a weapon to confuse his bullish sister Lucy, winning battles without ever throwing a punch, how he quoted the gospel and waited for that damn pumpkin even though there was often no reason why he should…how he kept the faith without the proof.
But still, even when one of my favorite authors, Ann Lamott, commends the little thumb sucker, I can't stand that damn blanket, somehow it kills the his belief system, it destroys his faith. To me, that blanket takes the beauty out of the boy. That blanket Linus could not set down looks a lot like the person we will not leave behind while we claim to have faith in the person we might one day become…I hated him for that blanket and apparently so did Schulz, his creator. Linus eventually gave up his blanket, and his thumb sucking saying, "it's a good thumb, but not a great thumb". Sounds kinda like that decision time in our lives where we can chose to carry old habits with us, or we can stop sucking and burn that $%&*ing blanket.
Some of us call our blankets husband or wife and are physically and mentally unable to function without them. Its blessed to utterly love and cherish another, it cursed to be unable to survive without your umbilical cord attached to the next warm body.
Sometimes that blanket is the back row church pew. Its the security of the covered darkness in the rear, when all along we need the warmth the light provides in the front row.
Maybe you really don't see that the very CrossFit community you love so much is holding you back. Not in it's entirety of course, but by the partner you bring with you or have developed a relationship with. Your so intent on their success and happiness that somehow you forget of your own. Your blanket can easily become the person next to you that you are afraid of leaving behind if you focus on whats holding you back. You mutilate the buddy system by forgetting that workout partners aren't blankets covering up imperfections, they are tools that hold each other ultimately accountable to being better humans.
Your silly ass blue blanket is your job and you know it. You keep your talent suffocated by throwing that blanket of "profession" over something you were not meant to do. We were meant to shout naked in front of the world without the fear of what others may think. Without their opinions weighing you down. We are only to be damned when we cover up, not when we show our true colors. We are more than the expensive cotton wrapped over our shoulder, pretty colors on a skirt, designer shoes, or fancy wheels on a street……we are everything underneath, we are every action in our lives, we are every feeling in our hearts. We are all this, and we still cover it with a blanket of what we cannot give up.
If some silly carton character with an oral fixation can set down his security blanket and stop sucking after 50 some years then so can we. Hell I wager if we would truly open our eyes we would never cocoon ourselves off again. Not only because of the beauty we are selfishly withholding, but for the beauty we are missing.
Burn it all……the security of a job, the "luxuries" of life you and I both know we don't need, the relationships that have become more excuse than salvation, %$#&ing burn everything that looks like the old you that was comfortable. Once and for all, give the new you something fresh to grow out of, instead of the re-toiled pot. Stop covering up and and preventing the world from receiving the gifts you have to offer, in truth, they were never really yours anyway. Your gifts are mine, my gifts are yours, and if you don't burn your $%#@ing blanket, someone may come along and burn it with you still in it.
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Social Justice in the For-Profit Sector
Social Justice in the For-Profit Sector Overview
Social justice can be a part of almost any job in any sector. Many for-profit companies work to leverage their products, employees, and profits to better their community or the world. Some companies go even further and are social entrepreneurs that work to better the world using market-based approaches.
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Financial Services and Consulting
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Microcredit/Microfinance: Microcredit, which was designed as a means to empower people in poverty while protecting them from predatory lenders, works by building credit, capital, and stability. With this money, they can invest in creating their own businesses, education and nutrition for their children, or simply building assets and a credit history. Microcredit is generally targeted at empowering those who are the least likely candidates for traditional loans such as women or the unemployed. People build up their credit with microfinance starting with a first loan of generally under $100 and building up until they can secure loans from traditional banking institutions. Microfinance is not limited to just one sector. Various not-for-profit organizations, multinational banks, and local banks have microfinance programs.
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Patient Capital: Patient capital is a term used by the Acumen Fund to invest in social ventures in the developing world. While it is similar to investment done within the developed world, it focuses on long-term rather than short-term returns, and also focuses on maximizing both profit and social change. It differs from microfinance because the investments are much larger ranging from $300,000 to $2,500,000.
Not-For-Profit Consulting: Not-for profit consulting is a branch within consulting focusing on not-for-profits. While many consulting firms have not-for-profit clients, others, such as Bridgespan and Dewey Kaye, focus solely on the not-for-profit sector. Working with these organizations, the tasks and responsibilities will be similar to consulting for other fields; however, some specialized services that not-for-profit consultants provide include helping secure and develop a Board of Directors, guiding the philanthropy for foundations, and planning fundraising drives and campaigns. Not-for-profit consulting provides the critical thinking required of consulting while also providing the chance to help not-for-profit organizations at any stage refine and optimize their services to the community. While many of the requirements and skills are transferable, some firms, such as Jacobson Consulting Applications, require knowledge of the not-for-profit industry as well as the tools that not-for-profits use (such as Raiser's Edge, a fundraising program) from their consultants.
- Microfinance Club of New York - The mission of the MCNY is to be a leading forum for the free exchange of information and ideas about microfinance and to disseminate readily understandable, transparent and succinct information so as to further the microfinance field.
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