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For one lottery shop owner, it was not the tickets she sold that made her rich. It was the tickets she didn't sell.
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Unsold lottery tickets make shop owner rich
For one lottery shop owner, it was not the tickets she sold that made her rich. It was the tickets she didn't sell.
She became an instant multi-millionaire on Nov 16 when eight of the tickets left unsold in her shop won a total of 42 million baht of the first-prize money.
Nantha Fakkhkao, 51, who runs a lottery shop on Udon Dussadee Road in Muang district, said tickets for the Nov 16 draw did not sell well, probably because it clashed with the traditional tod kathin robe offering ceremonies and people were busy with farm harvests.
Mrs Nantha said that before the lottery draw on Nov 16 she was 400,000 baht deeper in debt because of the tickets left unsold. So she had planned to borrow another one million baht from a bank to keep her business going, even though she already had an accumulated debt of 10 million baht.
But things turned out completely in her favour when eight unsold tickets with number 639500 won a total of 42 million baht in first-prize money – 30 million baht from five charity tickets and 12 million baht from three ordinary tickets.
She also won another 800,000 baht from the tickets with a number preceding or following the winning number.
Mrs Nantha said that for every draw her shop invested 600,000-700,000 baht in lottery tickets for sale. Most of the time the tickets were sold out, but sometime there were some left unsold, but not usually this many.
She said her family quietly went to the Government Lottery Office in Bangkok on Nov 19 to collect the winnings without telling anyone of their good fortune for safety reasons.
She planned to hold a religious rite at the shop this morning and set up 15 Chinese dinner tables to feast regular customers in the evening.
Other people would be entertained with mo lam performances of northeastern-style folklore songs and dances on stage, for three consecutive nights, Mrs Nantha said.
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protest – to make a strong complaint or disagreement ประท้วง
vendor – someone who sells something, but not in a shop พ่อค้าแม่ค้าแผงลอย
instant – immediate ทันที
multi-millionaire – a person who has two or more million baht, dollars, etc.
clash – to happen at the same time so that you cannot go to or see them both เกิดขึ้นเวลาเดียวกัน
traditional – of a custom, a way of life or a way of doing things that has not changed for a long time เป็นประเพณี, ตามธรรมเนียม
robe – a long loose outer piece of clothing เสื้อคลุมยาว
ceremony – a formal public event งานพิธี
harvest – the activity of collecting a crop, in this case a rice crop การเก็บเกี่ยวผลผลิต
draw – choosing a card or ticket, without seeing what is on it การจับ (ฉลาก)
debt – an amount of money that you owe หนี้
borrow – to take money from a bank, financial organisation, person, etc. and pay it back over a period of time ยืม
accumulate – to get more and more of something over a period of time สะสม, สั่งสมมานาน
turn out – to prove to be กลับกลายเป็น
favour – advantage; benefit ความได้เปรียบ
charity – an organisation to which you give money so that it can give money and help to people who are poor or ill, or who need advice and support กิจการกุศล, มูลนิธิ
ordinary – not unusual or different in any way ธรรมดา, ปกติ
fortune – luck โชค
rite – a traditional ceremony, especially a religious one พิธีกรรม (พระราชพิธี)
feast – to provide a large or special meal, especially for a lot of people and to celebrate something จัดงานเลี้ยง, จัดอาหารมากมาย
folklore – to happen at the same time so that you cannot go to or see them both เกิดขึ้นเวลาเดียวกัน
consecutive – following one after another in order and with nothing else in between ที่ต่อเนื่องตามลำดับ
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Title: | Invertibility of current density from near-field electromagnetic data |
Author: | Coutsias, Evangelos A.; Sheltraw, Daniel |
Abstract: | The problem of determining a current density confined to a volume from measurements of the magnetic and electric fields it produces exterior to that volume is known to have nonunique solutions. Despite the nonuniqueness of the inversion we show that one may nevertheless uniquely determine certain moments of the vector spherical harmonic expansion of the current. It is demonstrated that the determination of these moments allows for the unique inversion of a current density confined to a spherical shell. Although unique the inversion may be ill conditioned and require a regularization of the inversion as demonstrated in an example numerical inversion. |
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I. Introduction: Language and society, major topics in sociolinguistics and sociology of language. Speech communities, networks, repertoires; language, dialect, and style; bilingualism and diglossia; language contact and language change. Social and linguistic dimensions of contact and conflict; language maintenance and shift; language death. Micro and macro levels of analysis; quantitative and qualitative approaches. Case studies. II Applications to the current situation of Spanish as a national language and a second language in the U.S. and as an official or working language in international organizations. Standardization and change, e.g., in public administration, business, sci-tech, and other fields. Lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic variation and representative research procedures. Discourse and gender. Case studies.
III Consequences of contact and conflict (or lack thereof) with indigenous languages of the Americas and elsewhere. Bilingualism and diglossia, codeswitching, contact vernaculars and other features of stable extensive bilingualism; "Spanglish". Critical sociolinguistics and language factors in power relationships. Language policy and planning and their implementation in public life. Case studies.
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Leary, Timothy 1920-1996Overview
Publication Timeline
Most widely held works about
Timothy Leary
Most widely held works by
Timothy Leary
The politics of ecstasy
by Timothy Leary
57 editions published between 1968 and 1998 in 4 languages and held by 669 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Interpersonal diagnosis of personality; a functional theory and methodology for personality evaluation
by Timothy Leary
14 editions published between 1957 and 2004 in English and held by 658 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The psychedelic experience; a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead
by Timothy Leary
53 editions published between 1964 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 598 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "In the mid-1960s, Harvard University psychology professor Timothy Leary and his colleagues ... conducted a series of experiments with LSD and other psychedelic drugs until negative national media attention led to the suspension of their program. But they continued their pursuits in non-academic surroundings. The Psychedelic Experience is a manual based on their studies."--Back cover
Design for dying
by Timothy Leary
12 editions published between 1997 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 501 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Irreverent, thought-provoking and hilarious, Leary's parting shot pioneers new ways to die and new ways for the living to think about death. Urging us to take control of our deaths (and even to determine when and how we will die). Leary relates his own plan for "directed dying," a death we plan and orchestrate to reflect our own lives and values
The lost Beatles interviews
by Beatles
1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 454 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Meet the Beatles as you've never known them before - from their earliest days in Liverpool and Hamburg, through their unparalleled reign at the top of the pops, and later, the painful aftermath of their much-publicized breakup. In this extraordinary book, Geoffrey Giuliano, the world's foremost authority on the Fab Four, has assembled a rare collection of the wild and uninhibited interviews the Beatles dared to give to an astounded press as they created tidal waves of controversy and set the tenor of the amazing sixties. To this hefty history he adds intimate conversations with Eric Clapton, Yoko Ono, Donovan, Madonna, and many others who knew and worked with the Beatles. In addition, fabled sixties guru Timothy Leary has contributed a provocative afterword. Here, for the first time, the Beatles speak on such previously taboo subjects as drugs, religion and mysticism, Beatlemania, the deep affection that bonded them and the fiery conflicts that eventually tore them apart, politics, family life, the death of Brian Epstein, the sixties revolution, fame, money, the Yoko Ono controversy, their energetic love lives, the tragic murder of John Lennon and, of course, their timeless, consciousness-expanding music. Along with thirty-two pages of never-before-seen photos, Giuliano brings a wealth of pulsingly vivid, heart-tugging memories of the group that helped define a wondrously turbulent era, the likes of which we have yet to see again. Start reading and relive the 'love, love, love.'"--Jacket
Chaos & cyber culture
by Timothy Leary
10 editions published between 1994 and 2014 in English and Czech and held by 429 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
High priest
by Timothy Leary
15 editions published between 1967 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The League for Spiritual Discovery is a legally incorporated religion dedicated to the ancient sacred sequence of turning-on, tuning-in, and dropping-out. Its aim is to help recreate every man as God and every woman as Goddess. This book is the first of a four-volume biblical account of the birth, structural growth, exile, return, persecution, redemption, and flowering of the LSD religious cult. The seal of the League is a mandala--the end-less circle circumscribing a four-leaf lotus made by the double infinity sign. This interweaving of the infinite universe of mail with the infinite universe of female forms the flower, symbol of seed-life--centered in the void-eye of God
The Beat generation an American dream
4 editions published between 1987 and 1998 in English and held by 234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In the early 1950s a small group of writers and painters gathered in the Bohemian quarters of New York and San Francisco. They voiced their concerns over America's post WWII euphoria in a manner so raucous and colorful that the media took note and dubbed them the Beat Generation. This film portrait of this volatile period of American culture is illuminated perfectly through rare archival footage and interviews with those who lived through and influenced the era
Jail notes
by Timothy Leary
9 editions published between 1970 and 1972 in English and held by 209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Psychedelic reader. Selected from the Psychedelic review. Edited by Gunther M. Weil, Ralph Metzner and Timothy Leary
2 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 179 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The delicious grace of moving one's hand : the collected sex writings
by Timothy Leary
3 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and held by 174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Psychedelic prayers after the Tao te ching
by Timothy Leary
18 editions published between 1966 and 1997 in English and German and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Conceiving Ada
8 editions published between 1997 and 2010 in English and held by 146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "A dramatized biography of Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron and mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers. Ada's story is told through Emmy, a contemporary computer scientist who is researching artificial life. By using her own genetic code, Emmy is able to collapse time and link her world directly to Ada's. Realizing how parallel their lives are, she embarks on the task of "saving" Ada as the lines between the past and present, virtual reality and reality blur in the process."--Container
Psychedelic prayers & other meditations
by Timothy Leary
5 editions published between 1997 and 2003 in English and Spanish and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A collection of meditative poetry by twentieth-century American psychologist and writer Timothy Leary
Turn on, tune in, drop out
by Timothy Leary
4 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Politics of self-determination
by Timothy Leary
2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The psychedelic reader : selected from the Psychedelic review
7 editions published between 1965 and 1997 in English and held by 96 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fried shoes, cooked diamonds
7 editions published between 1978 and 1999 in English and held by 92 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Reunion of some leading poets of the "Beat" generation at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado: Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Timothy Leary, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Diana Di Prima, Meredith Monk, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Miguel Pinero, Miguel Algarin, and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
3 editions published between 1990 and 1991 in English and held by 90 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Examines how the concepts of William Gibson, science fiction writer, have become a part of real life in the technology and culture of recent years. Topics covered include: virtual reality, hacking & piracy, art & fashion, industrial music, and mind machines & cyborgs
Neuropolitics : the sociobiology of human metamorphosis
by Timothy Leary
5 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 89 WorldCat member libraries worldwide more
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I always knew I would spend the first weekend in April in Houston at the Final Four because, you know, it's kind of my job. But I had no idea I would be spending it with Kentucky, Connecticut, Butler and VCU, and I'm pretty sure Kentucky, Connecticut, Butler and VCU had no idea they would be spending it with each other.
I mean, how could they?
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This is the first time all four No. 1 seeds and all four No. 2 seeds have missed the Final Four. The combined seeds of the four remaining teams is 26; the previous high was 22 in 2000. So this really is the most unlikely Final Four in history, and if Butler or VCU wins two more games, we'll also have the most unlikely national champion in history -- not to mention our first champion from outside of the conference power structure since UNLV won a title in 1990.
Bottom line, this craziness has brought college basketball to the verge of more craziness.
To help prepare you, I bring the Final Four Look Ahead.
We had this pegged all wrong: Yes, my bracket is a mess. But so is yours. So let's not waste time trying to make sense of Ohio State and Kansas being done while Butler and VCU are not. You've got a better chance of figuring out that confusing film called Mulholland Drive than you do this Final Four because there's nothing that happened during the regular season that suggested this was realistic. A team that finished ninth in the Big East (Connecticut), a team that finished three games back in the SEC East (Kentucky), a team that finished fourth in the Colonial (VCU) and a team that took five losses in the Horizon (Butler) will compete for the national title this weekend. If your bracket has more than two Final Four teams left, you're an idiot.
But I did have UK figured out on New Year's Eve: Kentucky pounded Louisville on Dec. 31, at which point I posted a blog headlined "UK can shoot its way to the Final Four.". It contained the following sentence: "This season's Kentucky team isn't nearly as talented as last season's Kentucky team, and yet I won't be surprised if this season's Kentucky team goes farther than last season's Kentucky team, which is to say all the way to the Final Four." From there, I went on to explain that John Calipari's losses in the 2006 Elite Eight and 2010 Elite Eight were both the results of terrible shooting performances -- specifically a 2-of-17 effort on 3-pointers in Memphis' loss to UCLA and a 4-of-32 effort on 3-pointers in UK's loss to West Virginia -- and I pointed out how this UK team could be different because it has better shooters, hence the "shoot its way to the Final Four" headline. In case you missed it, UK made 12 of 22 3-point attempts Sunday against North Carolina and thus shot its way to the Final Four. So if you need me, I'll be over here patting myself on the back.
And now the Wildcats are the favorite to win it all: According to Sportsbook.com, that's true. Kentucky (+150) is the favorite followed by Connecticut (+200), Butler (+300) and VCU (+400). As for the Saturday games, UK is a 2-point favorite over UConn; Butler is a 2.5-point favorite over VCU.
The contrasts in Houston
Contrast in ages: Combine Brad Stevens (34 years old) and Shaka Smart (33 years old), and they still haven't lived as long as Jim Calhoun (68 years old), whose head-coaching career started in 1972 -- four years before Stevens was born and three years before Smart was born. When Calhoun won the 1999 NCAA tournament, Stevens was a point guard at DePauw and Smart was a point guard at Kenyon College. Stevens and Smart have been head coaches for six combined seasons. Meantime, Calipari (52 years old) was the head coach at UMass for eight seasons and Memphis for nine seasons. In between, he spent four years in the NBA -- three as the head coach of the Nets and one as an assistant with the Sixers.
Contrast in programs: Butler (2) and VCU (1) have made a combined three Final Fours. Kentucky (14) and Connecticut (4) have combined for 18. Five different men (Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith and Calipari) have taken UK to the Final Four. Calhoun, Stevens and Smart are the only men to ever lead their schools to the Final Four.
Contrast in salaries: Calipari makes roughly $4 million annually for coaching UK while Calhoun makes about $2.3 million for coaching UConn. It's believed that Stevens, after a significant pay raise, now makes around $1 million annually coaching Butler. Smart's base salary is only $325,000, but he has made about another $200,000 in bonuses thanks to this run through the NCAA tournament.
Contrast in NCAA violations: Calipari has vacated Final Fours at UMass (1996) and Memphis (2008), and Calhoun currently has UConn on three years of probation. Stevens and Smart have done no such things.
Everybody left has shown the ability to lose
Kentucky and Butler are the favorites to advance to the title game next Monday, but there really isn't much difference between these teams. They come from different leagues, have different styles and different levels of prospects, but they've all shown they can beat and lose to almost anybody. In fact, the four remaining teams have a combined 37 losses. Only Connecticut went the entire season without losing to a team not good enough to make the Field of 68.
After Duke beat Butler on Dec. 4, who could have foreseen that Duke would be at home watching Butler play in the Final Four? (US Presswire) |
Kentucky: Lost eight games total and three games to teams that didn't make the Field of 68. The Wildcats' last loss was Feb. 23 at Arkansas.
UConn: Lost nine games total and zero games to teams that didn't make the Field of 68. The Huskies' last loss was March 5 to Notre Dame.
Butler: Lost nine games total and six games to teams that didn't make the Field of 68. The Bulldogs' last loss was Feb. 3 at Youngstown State.
VCU: Lost 11 games total and five games to teams that didn't make the Field of 68: The Rams' last loss was March 7 to Old Dominion.
So how did these teams make the Final Four?
Kentucky made the Final Four because ... it hired a coach (Calipari) who recruits pros and, almost always, gets them to perform like pros. It's surprising that Ohio State didn't advance out of the East Regional, but there's nothing all that surprising about a roster with pros advancing to the third weekend.
UConn made the Final Four because ... it has a Hall of Fame coach (Calhoun), a veteran star (Kemba Walker) and an emerging star (Jeremy Lamb), and because the Huskies simply got hot at the right time. In other years, that might not be enough. But it is this year.
Butler made the Final Four because ... it has a brilliant coach (Stevens) and a roster of players willing to commit on both ends of the court to doing whatever must be done to achieve success. That the Bulldogs don't rattle is another important quality. They've trailed in the second half of three of their four games in this NCAA tournament. Never once did it seem to matter.
VCU made the Final Four because ... it has a coach (Smart) who masterfully played the us-against-the-world card while his team suddenly became great at making 3-pointers. The Rams played 34 times before Selection Sunday and never made 12 3-pointers in a game. But they've done it three times in this NCAA tournament -- against Georgetown (12 for 25), against Florida State (12 for 26) and against Kansas (12 for 25).
And the national champion will be ...
Title game I expect to watch: Butler vs. Kentucky
National champion I expect to see crowned: Butler


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HetaliaxAdhd!Asperger!Reader Part 9
Artur and Francis was looking at your mum. You and your mum actually made eye contact. The only thought you had in your head was "RUN!" You slammed the door at her face while you sprinted out through the store.
"(Name) wait!" Both Francis and Arthur said and ran after you and your mother joined the race
You didn't know where you were going, only as far away as you could. You crossed the traffic almost being bumped into one of the cars. You then found yourself in a park but you continued running through it. You felt your vision getting dark and your legs weaker, how long will you have to carry on?
You eventually fell but was caught by someone
"N-no!" You screamed sobbing in his shoulder
"(Name) calm down it's me, Ludwig" the german said trying to calm you down. Francis, Arthur and you mum ran up to you two. Ludwig looked confused, glaring at Arthur and Francis.
"Who are you?" Ludwig asked the woman trying to hold you from trying to escape
"I am (Name)'s mother, I assume you're cooperating with the men who kidnapped her from the hospital"
"Wait just a minute, you can't accuse us for that" Arthur said
"Of course I can, I see that you know who she is and has been keeping her, now give me her or I'll call the police!" Your mother growled
"Wait madame, can't we just talk it through like adults? She is in no condition now to go anywhere than to our place and rest" Francis said determinded
And so it was decided, after meeting up Viola the group went to the men's building. Alfred and Feliciano frozed when they saw your mother again. Ludwig called them over to go to the meeting room with them while he took you to your room.
Once Ludwig came to the meeting room, closing the door and joined the table there was a huge fight. The five men argued on how bad your parents has been treated you, your mother just shrugged it off and said how they kidnapped you.
You were lying in your bed, dreaming about you were back in your room at the hospital. Keeping you away from the life. You moved around in your bed sweating like crazy.
"I don't wanna be here" You said
"(Name), you will never go back there" you hear a voice
"But I'm already here..." You said, you looked up and see a bird sitting right in front of you. It felt like you've seen it before. Taking a closer look at it it seems to be a nightingale.
"Maybe mentally but not physically" the bird said
"You're okay, your friends won't let you get back there" The nightingale said
"You're sure?"
"I'm not sure, I know now go back to sleep" The bird said
"Okay...Would you sing for me? Sing me away from here?" You asked, the bird nodded and sang for you. It was relaxing and your surrounding eventually changed.
You woke up to find eight men staring down at you. They sighed in relief, you have slept for many hours so it was about time for you to wake up.
"hey.." You said, Feliciano was the first to hover over you and hugged you tight
"Ve, you're really warm" Feliciano said
"Here" Francis said putting a cold wet towel over your forehead
"I'm not...where is?"
"Don't worry dude, you will never have to worry about those wankers anymore" Alfred said, Arthur looked at him surprised when Alfred called your family for "wankers" but just shrugged it off.
"It was like a totally third world war we were like, and they were like!" Alfred said you didn't really get what he said
"Arfred is saying that they gave up on trying to take you back and you're staying with us as long as you wish" Kiku said
"Really?" You asked and they all nodded "thank you"
"It's nothing dear, we all love you" Ivan smile making you blush
"It's hot here aru, I'll open the window" Yao said opening the windows letting in some air. But suddenly there was something flying through the window, it was a little bird. A nightingale to be exact.
"Ai ya!" Yao tried to catch it but the bird skillfully avoided flew away from him and landed in your lap.
"Impossible" You mumbled you clearly recognised it
"Dude it looks like you have got a new friend" Alfred smiled
"Chéri do you want to take your medicine now?" Francis asked, you nodded and he gave you the pill along with a glas of water for you to help you swallow it.
"Thanks" You said giving him the empty glas
"De rien" He said kissing the top of your head
"Okay frog that's enough!" Arthur said dragging him away from you
"Alright let's leave her alone she needs to rest" Ludwig said seeing that you were still tired
"We'll come back later to check up on you" Feliciano said
Now it was only you there, you petted the birds little head with your finger. You didn't know how it was in your dream nor that he would actually find you hear. But you guessed you will never get an answer on that.
You took the bird carefully in both of your hands and get off the bed. You walked to the window and opened it a bit more to make some space and released the bird. It flew across the street and sat in one of the nearest tress and started to sing. You went back to bed and fell alseep. For some reason it felt like your weird sickness was going to get better. Your disabilities will still be there and you knew you just have to be strong.
A week later it was time for the party with all the leaders from all over the world. Francis helped you pick something nice for you to wear. He really surprised you that he bought the dress that Viola tried on. He asked you to wear some make up but you declined.
Everyone seemed to have a good time. It wasn't much of a party, everyone was just more dressed up in expensive clothes. Holding a drink and just talked, but it was nice.
"(Name) over here, yo!" Alfred called you over, he was standing next to a boy who looked alomost like him. You have seen him before only that you never had a proper greeting.
"This is my Brother Matthew" Alfred said and you both shook hands.
"It's nice to meet you" Matthew whispered
"Yeah...same here" You smiled
"Matthew there you are" A man with tan skin said
"Hi Máximo (Cuba's human name)!" Alfred said but Máximo ignored him and focused on you and the canadian
"Hi (Name) I'm glad you're feeling better" Máximo smiled
"Thank you" You said, you didn't have much time to talk until someone else called you over to chat. You didn't talk much, you usually listened to the others.
You hanged out with Antonio, Lovino, Feliciano and Francis until music started to play.
"(Name) dance with me, si?" Antonio said taking your hand
"I-I'm..not sure" You stuttered, you sucked at dancing but you didn't want to be rude so you ended up dancing with him anyway.
"Git, you call that dancing?" Arthur showed up out of nowhere and brought you in his arms for a waltz.
"Angleterre you're doing it wrong" Francis said stealing you away and hold you a little closer.
"tsk you two will never grow up" Ludwig sighed dragging you away from Francis
"My turn to have some fun, da?" Ivan said taking you from Ludwig. But instead of dancing he made you something for you to eat.
This little party was a success. It felt to you like a celebration for a new beginning of your new life.


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2007Goyeneche, Ariel and Guim, Francesc and Rodero, Ivan and Terstyanszky, Gabor and Corbalan, Julita (2007) Extracting performance hints for grid users using data mining techniques: a case study in the NGS. Mediterranean Journal of Computers & Networks, 3 (2). pp. 52-61. ISSN 1744-2397 Kertesz, Attila and Kacsuk, Peter K. and Rodero, Ivan and Guim, Francesc and Corbalan, Julita (2007) Meta-Brokering requirements and research directions in state-of-the-art Grid Resource Management. Technical Report. CoreGRID. |


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Tapas in Northern and Western Spain Thanks so much. Just a place to start that's recommended in each city is great help. |
Tapas in Northern and Western Spain Thanks, JuanDoe. We are thinking about a Monday night for Calle Laurel. Do you know if many bars are closed on Mondays? The website makes it seem like there are bars open every night. |
Tapas in Northern and Western Spain Looking for a few tapas/pintxo recs for the following cities: Pamplona Just interested in the 1, 2 or 3 best places that come to mind to give us a few ideas if you've had good experiences in any of these cities. |
Places to sample a range of good ciders in Asturias as well as a Cider House for Sunday lunch Many thanks to all for these recommendations. In addition, we are planning to spend a Sunday afternoon west of Oviedo in the mountains. Any recommendations for traditional Asturian food? (Navia or Narcea Valleys) |
Places to sample a range of good ciders in Asturias as well as a Cider House for Sunday lunch Looking for a good place in Oviedo or the countryside east of Oviedo to sample a range of ciders in Asturias as well as sample some good local simple cuisine. My cousin is a cider enthusiast who has imported grafts from France and England to start his own orchard in the US and is interested in the process in Spain. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
Driving to/from Wineries in Rioja, Spain? Do you know if most places are open on Monday nights? The website for Laurel Street says that there are bars open every day of the week and I am sure there are some. But I heard reports that most or almost all are closed on Monday. Is this the case? |
Matsukawa - Probably (the current) Tokyo's greatest restaurant Have not. We visit Japan too often to bother and have a no Asian policy in general when we visit the US. |
Matsukawa - Probably (the current) Tokyo's greatest restaurant The other aspect of Kyoto-style kaiseki is that the flavors are extremely delicate. This led some "experienced gourmandes" to walk away from places like Hyotei less than satisfied/excited. This isn't my view of the style but there is greater chance of repeated approaches and techniques in the these older venerable Kyoto ryotei than in other parts of the country. |
Matsukawa - Probably (the current) Tokyo's greatest restaurant In contrast to others' sentiments here, I like multiple washoku (not necessarily kaiseki) meals over consecutive days. I've done seven or eight dinners in a row (with other things for lunch) during one trip. The only aspect that can impinge on the enjoyment is when you see the same seasonal ingredients prepared in similar ways, which can happen. This is more likely, I think, to happen at restaurants which use more traditional approaches, including, potentially ryokan, and more likely in Kyoto than Tokyo (I spend the most time in the latter). |
The big difference, and the key thing that is driving your perspective vs. the perspective of some others, is that Tokyo and NYC are not similar in the way you seem to want to indicate. In both cities, there are a group of restaurants for which those who live outside the city want to get into. There is also the list of restaurants that those who live in the city want to get into. These lists are not as similar for Tokyo, as compared to other cities. The view from the resident's standpoint is that A) the food tourist's list is a tiny tiny fraction of "sought after tables" in Tokyo and B) as competitive as the market is for "sought after tables" from the resident's point of view, the ones not on food tourists' list are not that difficult to book, as many have pointed out (Saito a few years ago) but if they were to somehow get on that list, then they would become difficult to book. Almost all of the restaurants on the food tourists' list were not hard to book before food tourists discovered them. As you note, there is probably not that much difference in quality from before and after food tourist discovery. This sets up a situation where residents view the quest to get into "hard to book" places known by food tourists as strange when you could book an equally good place very easily, or more easily, and a reluctance to talk too much about a restaurant which will then get "discovered" by food tourists and the become hard to book. I feel like in SF, NYC, for example, locals and food tourists lists are more similar, largely due to the more english language information that exists. Moreover you contention that restaurants would appreciate getting recognized in the Michelin Guide is certainly not true, as many restaurants refused or have flat out stated they don't want that recognition. A number of places I have been to have expressed this. Part of it is the perceived disruption of additional foreigners with less experience in Japanese dining culture (e.g. requests to change course or ingredients, demanding food be cooked in certain ways), lack of communication with foreign diners (key in Japanese dining culture), and having to deal with constant requests for reservations. |
I am not referring to anyone in particular with these comments. |
The interesting thing for me is why a particular set of restaurants out of thousands and thousands are the most appropriate for a "once in a lifetime trip". Of course this phenomenon is not limited to this board. |
"My sonar is going to be directed at places that get talked about, not the ones that don't. That's just common sense, right?" Yes. And to react to this and Robb's post below, the problem is that relative to size of the options on offer (in contrast to a city like San Francisco which is much smaller), there is a lot of information about a narrow range of restaurants in English and to some extent other non-Japanese languages. So you might understand the frustration about being asked about the same restaurants again and again. This also leads people who have alternatives to "protect" their favorite places because the list is limited and any new place that gets into the echo chamber is like to be overrun (also Japanese restaurants tend to have fewer seats). When I look at other chowhound boards, you see a lot of people interested in both cheap and mid-range restaurants (in Japan anywhere from 7,000-15,000 yen per person) but you rarely see that here. It's all sushi, a handful of kaseki/washoku places and some single dish request (which amazingly, there is generally a small range of requests about despite a greater willingness from posters here to share more good examples of these types of places). I generally am not able to respond to requests because people cite and want to compare this narrow range and don't seem interested recommendations for mid-range dining, despite the fact that for the most part, I find the experience equally as satisfying as the times I've been the top places, usually more so. But this last point is subjective on my part as others may enjoy having a more high end experience. I should also note that my comments are only in general and not based on your particular requests/research posts. |
I wasn't specifically identifying anyone with my comment. Just noting the general trend. Moreover, I was not saying people use Michelin directly. It's more that the influence of Michelin on non-Japanese discussion of Tokyo restaurants in particular means that that is where many people end up, even if they never associate such places with Michelin. The OPs comment that it is presumptuous to assume that a belief in a particular restaurant is due to Michelin hype might be true for any one person but I feel it's not true when you look at the overall volume of posters. There is certainly no illusion that the same restaurants keep coming up again and again and that regardless of how these restaurants are viewed by people living in Japan, there are more than just this list that are appreciated (a point Uncle Yabai makes). You yourself have posted the top 30 sushi restaurants in Tokyo here. Despite this, for many we hear the same: "I want to book at Saito and if not perhaps I should book at Sawada as a second choice." |
The problem lies in that what defines quality for much English (and other non-language) content on Tokyo restaurants is based on a relatively narrow set of Michelin restaurants that are discussed over and over. The impression one tends get then from doing research online is that these are the best restaurants. Therefore the extent to which these may in fact be high quality places worth visiting ultimately depends on how well Michlin does its job. My opinion is that Michelin is fine for France, ok to sub-par for some other European countries and not very good at all outside of those, particularly. Tokyo is such a large city with so many restaurants (the most of any city in the world) that I am sure that Michelin could have put an entirely different set of restaurants in its guide with no drop in quality (it's likely there are enough restaurnts who refused listing to populate a second book). Moreover, those restaurants if they were included would likely then become lionized and sought after in the same manner. Many people who live in Tokyo (and some others as well) regard this reliance on the Michelin guide (directly or indirectly) as strange given the wide range of quality available. One could counter that due to the fact that there is less non-Japanese language coverage of non-Michelin restaurants and so it's nautral that most non-Japanese discussion on the internet would focus on those. However, it would seem to me that the spirit of Chowhound is to find and discuss a wider range of places than this and this then becomes frustrating when the focus is placed on the same set of restaurants again and again. This forum seems to have moved even more toward dealing with requests to compare a small group of Michelin restaurants and assist with bookings (no doubt complicated by the same food tourism focus on such a narrow group). |
1 Restaurant and 1 Bodega recommendation for Ribeira Sacra/Ourense and El Bierzo Many thanks, Lugosur. We have not decided where to stay yet and when I said Ourense I meant the province and general area. If we decide to stay on the Monforte side (which I realize might be in Lugo province), do you have bodega and restaurant recommendations? |
Honeymoon in Tokyo/Kyoto for foodies! The Kanto Plain has 35 million people compared to around 20 million in the NYC metro. Tokyo city is also larger than NY. It's much larger than Manhattan by any stretch. |
1 Restaurant and 1 Bodega recommendation for Ribeira Sacra/Ourense and El Bierzo Thanks. I had been looking at La Moncloa so its good to see a recommendation for it. Will check out the other recs. |
1 Restaurant and 1 Bodega recommendation for Ribeira Sacra/Ourense and El Bierzo We are planning to spend just 2 days/1 night in the Ourense and Bierzo regions on the way from the Rias Baixas to Leon. I am sure this is not enough time but we are hoping to get a taste so that we can come back on our next trip. I'd like to find a good typical Galician restaurant ("rustic" perhaps) for lunch or dinner and one bodega in the Ribeira Sacra region (will to drive up to 1 hour) and the same in El Bierzo (a restaurant typical of the food of the region and a bodega). With respect to bodegas, we enjoy smaller family owned operations (which might characterize most bodegas in the region) if they are open to public visits. Our Spanish is good enough to get something out of a tour. Greatly appreciate any suggestions you have. |
My plan for the main trip to Tokyo is finished That's excellent. It will significantly increase your enjoyment and make your plan to graze at izakayas feasible. |
My plan for the main trip to Tokyo is finished One additional thing to consider is language. Ordering in an izakaya without speaking Japanese will be difficult as most places do not necessarily have an English speaker on hand and the vast majority have nothing in the way of an english menu (and even if they do it's not likely to include seasonal specials). you will want to make sure Kanemasu has someone who speaks English. For lunches and dinners, courses can be pre-booked via concierge or fixers and there is no need for english on the part of the restaurant. This is much harder at izakayas and single dish restaurants. |
High End Indian restaurant in Tokyo To add to Gargle's post above, because you are looking for a somewhat narrow set of dishes from one particular tradition in Indian cuisine adapted to the Western palate, the chances of getting a "high end" version of these dishes is less in a place like Tokyo which has a wider range of Indian cuisine than many places in Northern Europe. My advice to you is the same as for Thai: if you are really interested "high end or high quality", Japanese cuisine presents a sufficient variety to satisfy even for a month whereas you are unlikely to find this to the same extent with respect to Thai and Indian food. In terms of breaking up the "washoku/kaiseki/sushi" fatigue, you can explore other types of Japanese food with different flavor profiles like Soba, Yakitori, Ramen etc. |
High End Thai restaurant in Tokyo Duck is not featured regularly in traditional thai cuisine outside of specific appearances, primarily red and orange curries, and chinese preparations (which is probably the one you had above). However, there are many "modern thai" restaurants that are using duck with other traditional thai flavors in new ways. I had a fantastic "Tom Kha Quail" (instead of chicken) at one such place on my last visit. Should you go to Bangkok, there are many places taking this approach, perhaps unsurprisingly. |
Sushi-yas offering something comparable to "The Sawada Experience"? Is this an EU-wide regulation? It seems strange considering the allowable bacteria involved in some of the protected cheese and charcuterie products. |
High End Thai restaurant in Tokyo Get back in touch if you need Bangkok recs. |
High End Thai restaurant in Tokyo I don't have a different view of Italian restaurants in Japan vs. Northern Europe. Those in Japan are not as good as in Northern Europe from a quality and consistency standpoint. However, the quality of thai food in Japan for me is not worth your time, however bad thai food in Northern Europe is (and yes, it's really bad). Focus on Korean and Chinese given the relatively (for Japan) larger numbers of immigrants from those countries. When it comes to cuisines outside of North Asia, I feel that Japan is strongest in French and to a lesser extent Italian. |
High End Thai restaurant in Tokyo Even with your stated reason, I'd stick to French and Italian for contrast. Korean could be a good choice as well. |
High End Thai restaurant in Tokyo If you are trying to experience the best of what Japan has to offer, I would not recommend thai restaurants. Then again, I wouldn't recommend thai restaurants anywhere other than Thailand, Laos and some select enclaves in Los Angeles. I haven't been to japan for longer than 14 days but in that I time I never tired of eating Japanese food. My thinking the end was that I could easily eat for another 14 days without needing another type of cuisine. But who knows what I would have actually felt by the end of it. |
I find Michelin to be not very reliable outside of France. An amalgamation of other sources is more reliable. With respect to Tokyo, it's not so much that Michelin doesn't identify good restaurants, it's just that it doesn't begin to scratch the surface of what's available. Moreover, you are more likely to end up dining with non-residents, which for me changes the experience to some extent. I suggest delving into Tabelog a bit more. There is much less of a concern over "high end" in Tokyo given the focus on ingredient quality and atmosphere for even mid-priced (8,000-12,000) options. If I had such a recommendation for Chinese in Tokyo I would provide one, but alas I never bother with anything other than Japanese when we are there. |
Taking this off my food list this summer Got it. Might have to reduce my consumption down to 1 per year. |


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This week, I got a new issue of the magazine, "Momentum," the publication released by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on a quarterly basis (you can read this issue here: http://publications.nationalmssociety.org/momentum/spring2012#pg3).
Overwhelmingly, I was taken back to 10, 15, and 20 years ago, and the deep emotional reactions I had when that magazine arrived. For a long time, even though I had officially been diagnosed, I was unwilling to "own" what that meant. The rapidity with which I was diagnosed, at a time when there were NO TREATMENTS available (other than those that had a mild effect on symptoms), was very nearly more than I could take. The diagnosis turned my world on its head, and I searched for anything to help me function. It was the early nineties, and the internet had not evolved to the mega-machine that it is now, so I spent hours and hours in libraries, bookstores, and eventually, in so-called "new age" churches.
Even today, I cringe when I hear other people with MS talk about "my MS." I don't ever refer to it as "mine," because you know what? I don't want it, I didn't ask for it, and I would be ecstatic if it was cured tomorrow. I don't think my feelings about having MS fit neatly into The Five Stages of Grief, as famously described by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Perhaps you're thinking that I'm in denial:
This first stage of grieving helps us to survive the loss1 . In this stage, the world becomes meaningless and overwhelming. Life makes no sense. We are in a state of shock and denial. We go numb. We wonder how we can go on, if we can go on, why we should go on. We try to find a way to simply get through each day. Denial and shock help us to cope and make survival possible. Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
As you accept the reality of the loss and start to ask yourself questions, you are unknowingly beginning the healing process. You are becoming stronger, and the denial is beginning to fade. But as you proceed, all the feelings you were denying begin to surface. The truth is, when you have MS, you're in a never-ending cycle of the stages of grief. When I was first diagnosed, I felt as though I'd been hit by the proverbial Mack truck:
Now, almost 21 years since diagnosis, I do not feel that any *healing process has begun. But I have noted some painful milestones, which we can call losses1:
Can't run anymore, but can jog a little, after my (then) 4-year-old daughter as she skips to kindergarten.
Unable to jog, even a little, but still take 2-mile walks on a regular basis.
After walking ½ mile or so, have to stop and rest for a few minutes, but then can keep going. I can repeat this several times.
Standing for more than 25 minutes or so results in a strange heaviness in my legs. I have to use extra care when walking after a period of standing, to avoid looking uncoordinated.
When shopping, I always use a cart, even if only grabbing a couple of items. Somehow it feels "safer."
When trying to walk, I experience "foot drop," and turn back home.
After shopping and unloading groceries, I "fall" into my car, then drink from a cold drink, resting for a couple of minutes before driving home.
So gradually, I lost functions. They were relatively small, and I could still take care of my kids, and work, and do all the household things that I'd always done. I knew I couldn't do many things that I used to take for granted, and I mourned those. I remember thinking that any new people I meet wouldn't really know "me," because they would never see me running 4 or 5 miles, or dancing for hours. They wouldn't realize what a dynamo I was!
That 4-year old daughter? I will be attending her graduation when she is awarded her Master's in social work in a few short months.
I can't begin to express how much I yearn to have only those minor losses, which really weren't minor, but I could work with them. Since breaking my ankle last summer, I have noticed a decline. I keep telling myself that things will improve. I'm deconditioned, I need to get back into shape! Things will turn around!
I don't know if they will.
Everything, and I do mean everything, takes a very long time for me to accomplish. From moving about in the morning when I first wake up, to showering and getting dressed, everyday activities take about twice as long as they did even a year ago.
Time was, I had days that were difficult, but they usually yielded to better ones when walking was easier. Now, I vacillate between denial, bargaining, anger, and depression, all the while feeling, oh yes, you better believe that I accept this: it's no longer an option! When an acquaintance comments that I appear to be limping, I can't feign "an old injury" anymore. A cane goes with me everywhere.
So when my new issue of Momentum came, I noticed that I found information throughout the magazine that warrants further study. I find myself keeping notes (in the new, digital mode) about all kinds of things, that I used to casually ignore, because I just didn't need that stuff.
I used to suffer some fairly minor disabilities, and yet, inwardly I cried like a child.
Now I am suffering some more significant disabilities. And I am going through all damn five of those stages on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. Because MS is relentless. It doesn't care that you've already adapted and adapted again and again, and even flourished in the face of its destruction. It just keeps on keeping on.
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Since the Six-Day War of June 1967, the two-state solution, based on the concept of "land for peace," has been the central focus of almost all diplomatic efforts to resolve this tragedy. But because of Israel's unrelenting occupation and settlement project in the West Bank, the long-fought-for two-state solution has finally, tragically, become unworkable. Consider:
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Series starts 11/14
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8:30 PM ET, January 1, 2011
AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich recently emphasized to his players just how unacceptably average they were defensively.
Maybe the NBA-leading Spurs got the message.
The Spurs held Kevin Durant and Oklahoma City to its worst-shooting game this season, while Tim Duncan scored 21 points as San Antonio won its fourth in a row, 101-74 over the listless Thunder on Saturday night.
It was the best defensive effort yet for the Spurs, who allowed their fewest points in a game this season while improving to 29-4 -- one of the 10 best starts in NBA history.
"I hope it's an indication that we're getting better at [defense], because it was impressive tonight," Popovich said.
Durant, the NBA's leading scorer, matched to a season low with 16 points. The Thunder began the game 4 for 24, were already trailing by double-digits barely midway through the first quarter and absorbed their most lopsided loss this season.
Oklahoma City set a season-low for points, field goal percentage (32.9 percent) and committed 19 turnovers. Playing after a New Year's Eve victory over Atlanta, the Thunder sat their starters for the entire fourth with the game far our of reach.
"It was just one of those games that was sloppy," Durant said. "Everything we did -- fumbling passes and not finishing layups; missing opportunities on the defensive end to help the team in transition to get easy baskets."
Tony Parker had 14 points and 10 assists and George Hill had 16 points for the Spurs. Duncan added nine rebounds and turned in another strong performance after scoring just two points and going 1 for 7 in a victory over the Lakers earlier this week.
But defense was all the Spurs really cared about.
Swingman Richard Jefferson said Popovich used a film session four or five games ago to remind his team where it stood defensively, numbers-wise. San Antonio entered Saturday's game ranked 16th in opposing field goal percentage (.457) and 13th in average points allowed (97.4).
Duncan said the improvement just comes down to focus.
"I don't think we've changed anything specifically," Duncan said. "We just come out, good focus, good game plans and just execute them. That's the kind of team we're going to need to be."
San Antonio has won 14 of 15 and will hit the road to face New York and East-leading Boston, continuing its toughest stretch so far this season.
Not that Oklahoma City put up much of a fight. Serge Ibaka had 14 points and 13 rebounds, and James Harden had 12 off the bench.
"We turned the ball over way to many times to stay in a game against the NBA's best team," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said.
DeJuan Blair had 12 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs.
San Antonio can become the NBA's first team to reach 30 wins Tuesday night at New York, when the Spurs begin a three-game road swing that includes Boston and Indiana.
Popovich has been loathe to discuss his team's record pace. He remains disappointed in their middle-of-the-pack defense -- the bedrock of their championship teams -- and became exasperated before the game when asked if the Spurs would win 70 games.
Minutes later, Danny Ferry, the former Cavaliers general manager who now works in the Spurs' front office, emerged through a nearby door. Popovich asked Ferry if the Spurs would win 70.
"If we don't," Ferry told Popovich, "it's all your fault."
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The Spurs have won five straight over the Thunder dating to last season. ... Oklahoma City's previous worst game this season was a 21-point loss to Utah in its third game.
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 74 | 101 |
Rebounds (Offensive-Total) | 14-50 | 11-52 |
Assists | 10 | 23 |
Turnovers | 19 | 14 |
Steals | 7 | 10 |
Blocks | 7 | 5 |
Fast Break Points | 12 | 24 |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 17 (0/0) | 20 (1/0) |
Largest Lead | 0 | 27 |
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Game Leaders
Points | K. Durant 16 | T. Duncan 21 |
Rebounds | S. Ibaka 13 | T. Duncan 9 |
Assists | T. Sefolosha 3 | T. Parker 10 |
Steals | J. Green 3 | T. Parker 2 |
Blocks | S. Ibaka 4 | M. Bonner 2 |
Team rosters: Oklahoma City | San Antonio |
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01/04 @NY 7:30pm 01/05 @BOS 7:30pm 01/07 @IND 7:00pm 01/09 MIN 7:00pm 01/11 @MIN 8:00pm |
Complete Schedule: Oklahoma City | San Antonio |