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What is Puree? Many dishes begin with purees. Whether
they are for a sauce, soup, soufflé, or sorbet recipe, or added as a flavor enhancement to an entree, delicious purees are
often at the heart of any culinary preparation. Like chicken and beef bases, seasonings or herbs, fruit purees are a staple in
commercial kitchen operations.
In culinary terms, to reduire en puree means to render solid foods into a mash; to press, strain or pulp foods by using a
mortar, meat grinder, food mill, an electric blender, or through a sieve.
Throughout the history of fine cuisine, gourmet chefs have prepared their own purees by hand. Yet, purees did not
become commonplace in professional European kitchens until around the turn of the 20th century, and not in American
kitchens until the 1970's. The extensive use of purees came about thanks to the vision of French-born Chef Auguste
Escoffier, known as the "king of chefs and the chef of kings." Escoffier roamed the continent bringing his culinary innovations
to establishments such as the Ritz in Paris and London's Savoy.
Escoffier advocated creativity and artistry in cooking. He encouraged chefs to use recipes merely as the starting point
for their efforts. He viewed cooking as a living art that must adapt as it is adopted by different cultures and new
In his cookbook, Guide to Modern Cookery, Escoffier wrote, "My intention is to offer my colleagues a tool rather than
merely a recipe book. (This way, chefs are) free to develop their own methods and follow their own inspiration. The art of
cooking, which in many ways is similar to that of fashion design, will evolve as society evolves. Only basic rules remain
What is The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley? Since 1988,
The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley has indulged the culinary passions of chefs and mixologists with season-less, effortless
products. Our flavor line-up boasts 40 premium flavors comprised of purees, concentrates, zests and blends. Our products are frozen, maintaining ultimate freshness, flavor and color.
Where can I buy The Perfect Purée?
We sell through specialty, produce and broad line distributors throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan. Foodservice professionals may contact us at (800) 556-3707 for a list of local distributors.
Home users may order online.
Product can also be purchased from our corporate headquarters in Napa, CA. Click here for more information.
What are The Perfect Purée's shipping policies?
Foodservice & Manufacturing Customers
We sell through specialty, produce and broad line distributors throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan. Foodservice professionals may contact us at (800) 556-3707 for a list of local distributors.
Home Users
The shipping policies for online orders are located here.
What makes The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley unique?
The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley has won the confidence and compliments of chefs worldwide. Our flavors are
made from the finest raw ingredients from field sites around the globe.
Our products provide peace of mind for chefs and beverage professionals – from batch to batch and year to year. Other
brands of puree add a fixed amount of sugar to their fruit. Since fruit is picked from different fields and at different times of
the year the sugar level in the fruit varies from field to field and harvest to harvest. The Perfect Purée adjusts for natural sugar
and acid variations by adding just enough cane sugar and acid to bring the fruit up to a consistent level that is optimum to the
palate and within the fruit's normal range of peak ripeness.
How does a culinary professional use a puree?
Many dishes start with a puree base. Soups, sauces sorbets, marinades, glazes and drinks often require a fruit or vegetable
puree for delicious flavor. Whether a chef is creating a dessert or meat sauce, a hot or cold soup, or looking for a unique
flavor for a marinade, vinaigrette, or stuffing, purees are at the heart of many culinary creations. Creating quality purees is not
a simple matter. Purees made from scratch can be inconsistent and time consuming. Locating raw ingredients out of season
can be difficult, unreliable and therefore price prohibitive. The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley has strict quality control
standards that allow chefs the freedom to provide creative cuisine all year long without compromise.
Who uses The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley?
The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley can be found anywhere artisan cocktails or gourmet menus are created. Chefs, cooks,
bartenders, kitchen managers, and other culinary inventors appreciate these innovative cooking bases for their versatility
and unlimited applications in food service operations.
The White House Inn & Spa/1801 First Inn, Napa, California - Chef Lynn Arthur
"Guests often ask me what that "secret" ingredient is in my dishes so they can try to make it themselves at home. The
purees can be used in a variety of egg dishes, potato dishes, sauces, vinaigrettes and marinades. They are efficient and
lovely addition to any gourmet home kitchen."
Crimson Lounge-Hotel Sax, Chicago, Illinois - Todd Appel, President Piranhna Brothers - Bar Planning and
Consulting, Mixologist
"I love your products. They are real. Whenever possible I try to use fresh produce, but often that is not possible because of
time or seasonal constraints…I can rely on The Perfect Purée products to be what I want them to be for great drinks or other
culinary creations."
Bon Appetit at The Getty Center and Villa, Los Angeles, California - Executive Pastry Chef Claudia
"The quality is outstanding. We use the purees in our sorbets which we produce in fairly large amounts, it obviously saves
us time to use the purees rather than mash and strain berries."
Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona - Executive Pastry Chef, Pierino Jermonti
"We use The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa in a variety of applications. The
consistency of the product is excellent. The flavors are well balanced with the perfect amount sugar – which is very important
to me as a pastry chef. The quality is exceptional - as the fruits are picked at their peak, and then immediately frozen for
convenience. I simply use it when I need it. It is also much more cost effective versus making our own. Growing up in Italy, I
remember waiting for the season to pick strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries from our back yard. With The Perfect
Purée, I can have year-round access to those wonderful flavors."
The Gourmet Table, Napa, California - Chefs Elsie Tracy and Stacy Mackey
"The Perfect Purée allows us to create frozen treats in an array of colored scoops of ice cream that resemble a painter's
palette. Prickly Pear is one of our favorites. The Perfect Purée allows us to use non-seasonal fruit year round for a variety of
dishes from sweet to savory. Wonderful flavors such as their mango and passion fruit have become swirls in our
What is the shelf life & handling of The Perfect Purée products?
Purees, concentrates & zests
The shelf life of the purees, concentrates & zests is 2 years from date of manufacture if frozen. This Best By date is ink-jet coded on the side of the jar. Once thawed, the shelf life is up to 10 days when properly stored below 40° F.
To use, thaw jars overnight in a refrigerator or quick thaw by placing jars in a bath of cool water. Once slacked out, stir before use.
The shelf life of our blends is 2 years from date of manufacture if frozen. This Best By date is ink-jet coded on the side of the carton. Once thawed, the shelf life is up 14 - 21 days when properly stored below 40° F.
To use, thaw cartons overnight in a refrigerator or quick thaw by placing cartons in a bath of cool water. Once slacked out, shake well before use.
Where does The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley source their fruit?
We source our fruit from growers and packers all over the world that specialize in custom, high quality processing of
produce. Only premium fruit is used in our purees.
How are the products manufactured?
We pack at the field sites where our berry fruit and vegetables are grown. We use HAACP-certified co-packers to process
our products.
Here are a few examples of our processing techniques:
When our fruit is picked from the fields it is washed, separating out stems and leaves, and then graded. Machines extract
seeds and pulp, then strain and puree the fruit. Since fruit sugar solubles naturally vary from year to year, the fresh product is
blended with sugar to balance the sweetness. The puree then receives a "quick heat" treatment, or pasteurization to
deactivate organic enzymes, preserving flavor, color, and texture offering a 24 month shelf life. The puree is then cooled,
packed, and "quick-frozen".
Red Bell Peppers are taken directly from the field to our processing plant. We pass the peppers through a flame roaster,
which evenly darkens the outer skins while leaving the sweet meats untouched. The peppers are quick-steamed, then
skinned, cored, and seeded by hand. These cleaned "meats" are finely pureed with 1% olive oil before being packed and
frozen. From start to finish, the peppers are processed in about 30 minutes -- less time than it would take a professional chef
to produce such a labor-intensive produce.
What is the difference between a puree and a concentrate?
Simply, puree is made from fruit that has been pulped and mashed. Fruit concentrates come from fruit juice that has had the
water removed during processing. Concentrates are thinner in consistency than purees also typically higher in sugars.
Depending on the flavor, a concentrate can be 200 – 250% stronger in flavor than its puree equivalency.
What are sugar solubles or a Brix reading?
All fruits and vegetables contain natural sugar levels. These sugars are measured by a device called a refractometer, which
measures the sugars in Brix. Today's industrial processors use Brix readings to measure the sweetness of all fruits and
vegetable products. To the processed fruit, we add cane sugar to balance the flavor notes and render the Brix (sugar
soluble) level consistent from batch to batch, and jar to jar.
Brix information is important to pastry chefs in particular. Some pastry applications such as ice cream and sorbet will not
freeze correctly if the sugar level is too high. An inconsistent sugar level can mean the difference between a silky smooth
sorbet and a sorbet that is frozen solid.
Are the products kosher certified?
With the exception of Yuzu Luxe Sour, our products are kosher certified.
We have OU certification on all flavors except for Kiwi, Roasted Red Pepper, Lemon Zest, Orange Zest and Ginger.
These flavors are CK kosher certified. OU certification is granted through the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America. CK certification is supervised through a consulting Rabbi.
Kosher certificates are available for
Parve (or pareve) kosher foods do not contain meat or dairy. All fruits, grains and vegetables in their natural state have
parve status. Our kosher products also have parve status.
Are Perfect Purée's products all-natural?
We use real fruit and vegetables to make our products. While we cannot claim our products are all-natural based on FDA
guidelines, we do not add any artificial additives, preservatives or sweeteners. We process our products using only natural
ingredients, such as cane sugar, naturally-derived flavors, acidulants and colors.
Why is The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley packaging so appealing to chefs and bartenders?
Our products are packaged in convenient 30 oz. wide-mouth plastic Store n' Pour jars. A standard bartender pour spout
easily attaches to the mouth of the jar for concocting exotic mixed drinks.
What makes the Blends unique?
Unlike other products which focus on single flavors, our blends offer quality, high-end bases that consist of both premium blends and classics. We incorporate hot flavors from today's beverage world, including passion fruit, yuzu and kaffir lime. With our Blends you can offer signature cocktails without a mixologist at the helm. The flavor profiles are unparalled and the gabletop packaging is designed to preserve the freshness of each flavor.
Flavor FAQs
How do you obtain the caramel flavor in the Carmelized Pineapple concentrate?
A natural caramel flavor which enhances the natural sweetness of the pineapple juice concentrate is utilized.
What's the difference between a tangerine and a mandarin?
Mandarins are the largest and most varied group of edible citrus fruits. Tangerines are varieties of mandarin that have more
brightly colored flesh and peel. Varieties that are typically marketed as tangerines are Dancy, Sunburst, and Honey.
What is the "yuzu" in Yuzu Luxe Sour?
A yuzu is an Asian citrus fruit that resembles a bumpy tangerine. Commonly used in Japanese and Korean cuisine, it is acidic and tart, with highly fragrant rind and flesh. The taste of yuzu is similar to a lime/lemon combination.
Is there real coconut in Passion Colada?
Yes, there is coconut milk in the passion colada.
Are there transfats in Passion Colada?
No, there are no transfats. Although coconuts are rich in saturated fats, they do not contain transfats. The other ingredients in Passion Colada do not contain transfats as well.
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Ragamuffin (tour)
Editorial Staff • West End • 30 May 2002
The play opens on a high note. Two DJs stand in a tower playing tunes, addressing the audience as if they were clubbers. With the help of Remi Vaughan Richards' simple but effective set, they lead us on a journey through Black history, from slavery through to modern-day police brutality, each segment brought to life through the power of song, dance or video.
Amani Naphtali's direction is something of a mixed bag, though. At times, he fills the stage with energy and conveys with real force some thought-provoking arguments. But more often, he tends to bombard the audience with the same oft-repeated message. The problem must lie with the fact that Naphtali is also the writer, perhaps too sensitive too cut where necessary. As a result, the piece feels overstuffed with overlong scenes that serve little purpose but to clutter the narrative.
The cast provide a sense of freshness. Hugely energetic, they rise to the challenge that their multiple, all singing-all dancing roles present. Amongst the ensemble, Kevin Harvey deserves singling out for his chameleon-type performances, ideal for a one-man show.
It's a shame that some of Naphtali's portrayals of black and white seem to have been ordered from 'Stereotypes R Us'. One scene in which white police storm into a house to terrorise an old black lady left me feeling uneasy instead of emotional.
Ragamuffin only succeeds in parts - and in different parts for different sections of the audience. In general, on the night I attended, younger theatregoers appeared to enjoy the rap and slapstick elements that made many older theatregoers squirm, while the historical monologues (a hit with the latter) drove them to fevered text-messaging.
And they weren't the only ones left frustrated. Innovate, energetic and loud it may be, but with a running time of nearly four hours, Ragamuffin left me feeling more fatigued than empowered.
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This visualisation represents how Americans spend their time. It is an area chart with the 24 hours of a day on the horizontal access and the proportion of the population on the vertical axis. Detail is provided when the mouse is moved across the chart or when a series is clicked.
The Data
The data come from the American Time Use Survey. Neither the data nor the source is linked from the article but a quick search finds the source website with data files back to 2003.
The unit level of the data is the individual respondent and the data are available in numerous formats for download at this level at the source site.
The visualisation shows the data aggregated to various demographic subgroups. Time appears to be recorded in 10-minute intervals, although the tick marks on the graph show 3 hourly blocks. As the data are represented as proportions, the various activities add to 100% at each time slot (an 'other' category is provided).
Visual Variables
Position indicates the time of day (x-axis) and proportion of the population (y-axis).
Size of the area shows the proportion of the chosen population undertaking the activity.
Colour is used to distinguish the various activities.
Visual Mapping
A single area chart represents the data. Area charts are appropriate for time series data with a number of categories (in this case, activities). This type of chart is criticised for the low 'data per pixel/ink' ratio. It uses considerable ink when printed. Nevertheless, it seems appropriate and effective in this case.
Information Seeking
There is good differentiation in the chosen colours without being jarring. Text labels are only shown for large categories, which is appropriate and reduces clutter. The ability to compare subgroups across times of day would be a useful addition.
Interaction is provided by clicking various subgroups in the top left, by moving the mouse across the graph and by clicking on the chart.
Clicking on the chart brings up details of the particular activity for the demographic group selected and provides a comparison of the demographic subgroups. Hovering over the chart brings up additional information in a floating text box.
Shneiderman's 'visual information seeking mantra' is held to a reasonable extent. The main graph provides the overall, a click provides the zoom and selection of a demographic subgroup provides the filter. Further details on demand (for example, demographic comparisons over time) would enhance this visualisation.
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Winner of the Grade 2 Indiana Oaks last out and 6 for 10 overall, 3-year-old Grace Hall is scheduled to fly out of New York on Tuesday and run Friday at Santa Anita in the $2 million Ladies' Classic. The expected field of eight includes early favorite Royal Delta, along with unbeaten fillies Awesome Feather and My Miss Aurelia.
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Many people can no longer imagine life without Wikipedia, Amazon, Facebook, etc. But Web 2.0 is also changing the culture of work. Siemens uses a variety of social media to accelerate innovation and problem-solving processes.
Alistair Gammie, the Senior Director for Diagnostics Solutions at Siemens in Swindon, UK, is on the verge of landing a multimillion euro order for diagnostic labs from a Brazilian customer. That's because during a visit to one of the customer's labs Gammie discovered a problem in the barcode reading system. He doesn't have a solution that could seal the deal, however — not yet, at least. Before he shuts down his computer in the evening, Gammie describes his problem in a post to the company's internal forum.
A surprise comes the next morning, when Gammie discovers e-mail messages sent by 23 colleagues from Germany, India, and the U.S. As a result, he is able to type up five firm solution proposals in just two days, and he eventually gets the order.
Companies wishing to move innovations forward more quickly need to enhance their networking capabilities. That's why global IT giants like Google, IBM, Apple, and Microsoft have been employing a social networking approach for many years now. In order to gather new ideas, IBM gets thousands of employees worldwide involved in online brainstorming jam sessions. A study conducted by the McKinsey consulting firm found that most of the more than 3,000 companies surveyed derive an economic benefit from social media. In fact, 18 percent reported that the use of such media led to higher revenues.
Five years ago Siemens became one of the first companies listed on the German DAX index to begin using Web 2.0 instruments in a targeted manner by establishing an internal wiki service, employee blogs, and departmental forums, all of which have led to more rapid sharing of knowledge (see Pictures of the Future, Spring 2010, Open Innovation). Siemens' "Technoweb" forum, for example, allows anyone, from developers to office workers, to post complex technical questions or obtain simple operational assistance. The forum's approximately 9,000 registered users discuss various issues in some 850 theme groups. As a result, the forum has accelerated work processes.
The "Urgent Request" function Alistair Gammie used is particularly useful. Here, a request for help is issued with just a click, as opposed to having to comb databases for hours, access search engines, or make phone calls. The question is assigned to a targeted category and forwarded as an e-mail to all Technoweb users interested in the subject area, so it's exposed to a far greater range of specialists than one's own circle of personal contacts. In other words, the knowledge of specialists from the farthest corners of the organization can be called upon to help with a problem.
Top Knowledge Management. "Collective intelligence can be used efficiently with the help of social media, which also enable Group-wide employee interaction," says Dr. Manfred Langen, who has been involved in knowledge management issues at Siemens for 12 years. The company's social media have boosted innovation capability as well. Since 2001 Siemens has been a finalist eight times in the rankings for "The European Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises" (most recently in 2010) and has received an award for the best knowledge management system in Europe.
Globally distributed research and development, short-term project partnerships, and increasing process and product complexity make efficient knowledge filtering a must. But companies often lack intelligent methods for structuring data flows. For example, how can you find the right experts for solving a specific problem, so as to avoid flooding the e-mail accounts of all employees with your query? Siemens is working on a "Technology Atlas" that semantically links related terms and technologies. Still, the perfect solution continues to elude even the service providers who work exclusively on the automatic generation of ontologies and the semantic modeling of information flows.
Open Innovation. Online communities are nevertheless a tried and tested instrument for avoiding knowledge silos. These communities can inspire product developments and safeguard competitive advantages. "Social media are important for getting ideas to market more rapidly," says Dr. Thomas Lackner, who is responsible for Open Innovation at Siemens. "The consolidated knowledge of individual employees and the different perspectives they bring to the table are important drivers." A key goal here is the strategic utilization of employee expertise that has not yet been shared and the external knowledge of partners.
One way to go about this is to stage competitions such as the "Siemens Sustainability Idea Contest" — a platform made available globally for eight weeks that allowed employees to submit ideas online. The community employed a star-rating principle like the one used by Amazon to filter out the best ideas from the 850 proposals submitted for sustainable products and energy-saving concepts.
Bernhard Lang, a Siemens researcher in Russia, won the competition with his idea for "smart levees" — a monitoring system that uses sensors to predict the stability of a dike down to the last meter. Lang's innovation is now being operated at a test levee in Eemshaven, Netherlands (see Pictures of the Future, Fall 2010, Bulwarks with Brains). Other ideas are now being prepared for market launch. Patent situations are being examined, project strategies developed, and business plans drawn up.
Younger employees in particular are very familiar with social networks like Facebook, Xing, etc., which they don't just use to discuss private affairs. In fact, more than 20,000 Siemens employees also talk about Group topics in their networks. This, of course, poses a danger that internal information might be passed on. Even an offhand comment might end up being read by the entire community — but Siemens prefers to rely on its employees' sense of responsibility in this regard. The advantages offered by the internal blogosphere in particular are clear. Employees can discuss current issues in real time whenever they want, share their expertise, or set up their own blogs. Some 6,000 employees are particularly active in this manner and offer interesting content with their event, managers', and experts' blogs.
"With their open communication culture, blogs can lead to better awareness of developments at the company and more extensive sharing of knowledge and experience," says Helmut Lehner, a Community Manager for the blogosphere and wikisphere at Siemens. Moreover, because they're embedded in the intranet, these networks are less exposed to Web criminals, and the intellectual property they harbor remains within the company.
Working in the Wikisphere. Social media can offer a lot to internationally operating companies in particular. In addition to lowering communication costs, they foster cooperation in global teams and help to avoid project redundancies. For example, if three teams at three different locations happen to be pondering similar problems, the wiki network will quickly reveal this to be the case. Virtual teams in the Group-wide wikisphere jointly compose articles and expand the Siemens glossary. There are also 70 specific wiki forums that are used for everyday problem-solving and can help to permanently improve work processes, products, and services, for example. The Metals & Mining unit has a wiki forum for service technicians that contains listings for 220 mines, rolling mills, and pits from Malaysia to Bolivia.
Engineers can use its digital world atlas to zero in on individual locations, each of which displays site-specific historical, geographic, and technical information. The latest news from the sites can also be viewed — e.g. which technicians are working there and what types of measurements, repairs, or software conversions they've carried out, including all pertinent reports, photos, and charts. This wiki forum also provides information on visa formalities and the fastest routes to destinations, thus facilitating the work of technicians who travel frequently. One can find out, for example, that a particular Bolivian silver mine lies at an altitude of about 4,000 meters in the Andes and that the site can only be reached by private Jeep via Calama, Chile, or with a propeller plane from La Paz, Bolivia. Such information is very helpful because it can cost a company millions if such a facility remains shut down for even 24 hours. Wiki information significantly speeds up processes. For example, today 20 percent of companies in the U.S. and Europe use blogs or wikis and other forums. The buzzword here is Enterprise 2.0 — and it's leading to the formation of a new corporate culture that's changing the way we work. "In ten years social media will have completely replaced e-mails," predicts communication expert Helmut Lehner. According to a study conducted by McKinsey, two thirds of the companies surveyed plan to invest in social media instruments because they believe a shift to Enterprise 2.0 will give them a vital competitive edge.
Forrester, a market research institute, estimates that corporate investment in Web 2.0 instruments worldwide will increase tenfold to $4.6 billion by 2013. The challenge is to logically integrate social media into company strategies and concepts. For Alistair Gammie, meanwhile, using Web 2.0 has already paid off.


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Letter: Immigration solution
To the editor:
We now have thousands of new illegal children in the country. Nancy Pelosi says, "Poor little children must be taken care of." Yes, I agree, and I will add this: Pelosi wants other people to pay the bill, i.e. working people and the "American poor little children."
My solution is that all the thousands of illegal children should be bussed to Washington, D.C., where all the money is. That is where this problem was plotted. Then the payment to house, feed, give medical treatment and a plane ride back to their home country as soon as possible should be borne by the president. His salary, budget, his staff costs and the many vacations should be
withheld until the crisis is over.
The exact changes should be the same for the vice president and staff, and of course, the lawless attorney general.
Now to cap all this, it would apply to all Democratic congressmen also. I believe this would result in a very quick desired solution to this very serious problem.
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Health reports 27-January 2nd February 2014
Public Health England (PHE)
The segment tool: segmenting life expectancy gaps by cause of deathThis tool aims to help local authorities identify causes of death that contribute most to their life expectancy gaps in their region. It provides charts and tables which segment the life expectancy gap from January 2009 to December 2011 by the major causes of death. A summary report is also available for each upper tier local authority.this pinpoints any discrepancies with national averages.
NHS England'Any town' toolkit allows clinical commissioning groups to map how interventions could improve local health services and close the financial gap
The toolkit includes five connected modules: A methodology guide which introduces the work of the Any town project and explains the principles and methodology behind the project and the model. It describes how the interventions were selected and the detailed methodology of how the model calculated the result; An urban model module; A suburban model module; A rural model module and A further information guide which provides information on the case studies used for the interventions.
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Social Policy reports 27January-2nd February 2014
Britishness and Identity Assimilation among the UK's Minority and Majority ethnic groups Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt ISER University of Essex Understanding Society Working paper.
Migration- a Liberal Challenge
Centreforum publication.
Do families with a disabled child face greater socio-economic disadvantage? And how does
the risk of disadvantage vary with age? Institute of Education working paper
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Government 27 January-2nd February 2014
Asset Purchase Facility Quarterly Report - 2013 Q4 Bank of England.
Public Accounts Committee - Thirty-Ninth Report The Sovereign Grant
Falling short : the Mets healthcare of detainees in custody - London Assembly Police and Crime Committee report.
Forecasting in government to achieve value for money National Audit Office report.
Home Affairs Committee - Thirteenth Report
The work of the Permanent Secretary
Falling short: The Met's healthcare of detainees in custody
Work and Pensions Committee - Second Report
The role of Jobcentre Plus in the reformed welfare system
Councils' expenditure on benefits administration: Using data from the Value for Money (VFM) Profiles January 2014Audit Commission
Public Accounts Committee - Fortieth Report Maternity services in England
Falling short: The Met's healthcare of detainees in custody - See more at: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/london-assembly/publications/falling-short-the-met-s-healthcare-of-detainees-in-custody#sthash.vYVeVyRp.dpuf
Falling short: The Met's healthcare of detainees in custody - See more at: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/london-assembly/publications/falling-short-the-met-s-healthcare-of-detainees-in-custody#sthash.vYVeVyRp.dpuf
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Economics reports 27 January-1st February 2014
CBI Launch new growth indicator.
The CBI launched a new monthly economic indicator on 28 January, which will aggregate its survey indicators of economic activity into a whole economy index. This will bring together into a single series results for output volumes as reported on a monthly basis for the manufacturing, distribution, consumer, business & professional services sectors. It offers an early perspective on the pace of economic growth and covers a substantial proportion of the economy.
Implications of a financial transaction tax for the European regulatory reform agenda City Of London Research
NEST annual report on automatic enrolment in pension schemes.
Who saves for retirement?- eligible non savers Strategic Society Centre
The UK Commission's Employer Skills Survey(UKCESS) 2013 gives a picture of skills needs and training investment in UK business. Topics covered in the survey include training and staff development, vacancies and skills shortages, employee skill gaps and the recruitment of education leavers
The impact of firm migration on the City of London City of London research.
European tax survey: The benefits of stability Deloitte survey of European Nations regimes.
British Influence scorecard- released by British Influence which is campaigning for British role in the EU looks at Europe's policies sector by sector assesses the degree of British influence in each and also to test whether that influence is increasing or declining
Cities Outlook 2014- special focus on London. Centre for Cities. Annual report on economic prospects. covers 64 largest towns and cities in the UK.
CityUk legal services 2014- report details the contribution of legal services to the UK economy.
Startup Britain releases 2013 map of where the most entrepeneurs or startup business have been founded.
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Friday, January 31, 2014
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This week in the news
Holocaust Memorial day
See these recommended resources for remembering the holocaust every day.
Costa Rica elections coming on 2nd February
We have a collection of links to free academic research resources.
Global Go To Think Tank Index Reports 2013
Latest release of the annual ranking by Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania. Based on a survey of over 1, 950 scholars, public and private donors, policy makers using a set of 18 criteria. See rankings by region and subject area. All reports from 2008 onwards and be downloaded from the website.
Huffington Post launch World Post
See this coverage from the Independent it is a joint project between The Huffington Post and the billionaire financier Nicolas Berggruen. It aims to bring to a wider public voices from the Berggruen Institute on Governance as well as cover world news. The institute supports the 21st Century Council and Council for the Future of Europe so online forums between world leaders are planned.
BBC World War One iWonder interactive guides launched
The BBC world war one website has masses of useful content. See timelines, oral history accounts, links to recent TV programmes and podcasts http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/ww1 . Coverage includes history, women's history, popular culture and more. Content being continuously added.
The new iwonder guides aim to offer more interactive content. See this example which considers how did so many survive the trenches? Also How the war changed life for women.
International Political Science Association conference papers. 2012 now available from the paper room of the IPSA website which also holds a wide range of papers from conferences dating from 2006 onwards. Search by theme or title. Key topics for 2012 included gender, religion and identity, However there is also extensive coverage of political parties, elections, political communication and more!
Freedom in the World report 2014 Just issued by Freedom House see the rankings. For civil liberties in nations worldwide. The report also has details of the methodology used and a useful graphic map of freedoms.
Other useful country rankings which examines civil liberties include the US Department of State reports country reports on human rights practices.
International Religious Freedom Reports.
and of course the well regarded annual report from Amnesty International which covers human rights worldwide. For media rights see the Reporters without Frontiers annual press freedom index and the Freedom House Freedom of the press data section.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Digital Collections
Now free online over 400 NLM publications and productions dating from the 1860s to the 1990s.
These include online public health information films used by the American government during WW2 and Materials relating to the treatment of cholera 1817-1900
They include large numbers of public health materials relating to treatments and services. HIV/AIDS
in the UK excellent historic full text medical sites are offered by the Wellcome Institute who recently launched London's Pulse which has full text Medical Officer report s 1848-1972.
They also have an enormous collection of online medical images. including AIDS posters.
France Université Numerique (FUN) website.
Offers free online educational courses from French universities. These cover a range of scientific and social science topics. Each course gives details of level. On January 16, SciencesPo (Paris) launched a course on Espace Mondiale given by Bertrand Badie. which covers international affairs
Greek television archive launches.
The ERT Poulidis and Sarrikostas archives are available online for anyone who wishes to visit the website, recording the highlights of modern Greek history. They include Greek shows, documentaries, reportages, invaluable sound files from the radio broadcast archive as well as photographs .
Other major European TV archives can be located on EU screen which has numerous examples of TV news archives from 28 major bodies in EU nations.
Is a new peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, published every four months by the association Globus et Locus. it naims to explore globalisation , localism, politics innovation and culture. It will have twitter feeds and audio content. The Editorial committee includes Arjun Appadurai Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University; Zygmunt Bauman Emeritus Professor at the University of Leeds and Manuel Castells Professor of Sociology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona. The first issue covers glocalization and hybridity.
French Revolution Digital Archive web site (FRDA)
A great new site which is a collaboration between Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of two key research sources of the French Revolution.The archive is based around two pre-existing projects: the Archives parlementaires, (this is a chronologically ordered collection of documents, letters, reports relating to all aspects of the revolution. The massive collection of historical sources was started 1862 at the request of the French legislature, and by 1914 had reached 82 volumes. After a long period of dormancy, the project was taken up again in 1962 by the Institut d'histoire de la Revolution française at the Université de Paris I and its progress is ongoing) and Images de la Revolution française. (over 14,000 prints illustrations, medals and visual objects) it is possible to browse by time, person, type of object .
Explore history or remember your past on the Apple Mac 30th birthday pages. Business Insider has a video of the new tie wearing Steve Jobs presenting it to the Boston Computer Society
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Remembering the Holocaust - try these resources.
This week we remembered the Holocaust.
See the official UN remembrance site. This has a collection of educational materials . These include study guides and multimedia on women and the holocaust
UNESCO resources and resolutions relating to Holocaust education.
The London Jewish Cultural centre has an educational website which expalins the holocaust to children.
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust also has a website with educational materials for teachers.These include case studies for different age ranges. The 2014 theme was journeys and there is a study pack relating to this theme. The Institute of Education has a Holocaust Education programme for teachers. Some materials can be viewed free of charge online
The United Kingdom Holocaust centre also provides further information and some online resources for teaching
For Higher education research. Good starting points are the specialist Wiener Library. the library has produced a number of online guides.See the virtual resources section for some online materials. these link to external projects
The Holocaust Encyclopaedia
maintained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Has a wealth of resources, These include a special learning section for students.
The British Library has a voices of the Holocaust oral history collection from survivors.
Yad Yashem has an extensive digital archive of materials for researchers.
These include a central database of victims names. A photographic archive. video lectures from historians.
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute develops online exhibits using testimonies from the Visual istory Archive its website includes testimonies from survivors of Auschwitz.
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WASHINGTON, June 7, 2010 President Barack Obama today named two Department of Defense Education Activity teachers as recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for math and science teachers.
Timothy Kelly, a math teacher at Baumholder Middle-High School in Germany, and Ray Smola, a physics teacher at Heidelberg High School in Germany, are among the 103 recipients of the award.
Each year, the best pre-college-level math and science teachers from across the nation are selected for the award, a White House release said. The winners are selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians and educators following an initial selection process conducted at the state or activity level.
Mike Kestner, DoDEA's branch chief for mathematics, attributed Kelly's award to his "good rapport" with students and use of technology within the classroom. Kelly and another colleague "turned the advanced math program around," Kestner added, and increased student enrollment in advanced math courses.
Kelly was nominated for the award by Diane Schnellhammer, a former math teacher from Ramstein High School, Germany, and a prior recipient of the same award, he said.
Clarence Bostic, headquarters science coordinator, called Smola an "amazing" teacher, saying he's very deserving of the top honor.
Smola makes physics accessible to students by using a combination of student working groups, laptops, whiteboards, experiments and student-facilitated questions, Bostic said. Smola serves as a guide in the classroom, he added, rather than act as a lecturer from up front.
Through the exchange facilitated by small groups, students are able to absorb information, present it to peers and develop a common understanding, Bostic explained.
"Ray Smola's personality and methodology in concert made something that seemed like a complex concept approachable," he said.
Smola was nominated by Rick Renninger, Heidelberg's assistant principal, Bostic noted.
For their accomplishments, Kelly and Smola each will receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation to be used at their discretion, as well as an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony slated for later this year, the release said. The trip includes several days of educational and celebratory events, including visits with members of Congress and science agency leaders.
Since 1983, more than 4,000 teachers have been recognized for their contributions to mathematics and science education, according to the presidential awards website.
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Huntington High (5-1) at Logan (5-1)
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Cabell Midland (7-0) at Capital (4-2)
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Wayne (6-0)
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Bishop Hartley (7-0)
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WHERE: Tanks Memorial Stadium
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WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Friday
WHERE: Dragons Stadium
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The paper is far, far better than the website, but the owners don't care. They care about making money -- this from a retired editor with over 30 years at the TP and States Item. Let's face the fact that the city and metro area are no longer first rank and never will be again.
OMG - I am going to hang my head in shame. I don't think I have any black ancestors and dozens of my ancestors fought for the Confederacy like all of their friends and neighbors. My day is ruined.
You can only shoot a fleeing suspect if your life or the life of someone else is in clear and present danger. For example, if the person fleeing is trying to run over your wife, make sure your aim is good.
There is nothing wrong with the Florida law; there is something wrong in the way it has been so far applied and interpreted.
Should have been does nothing but fail.
Don't count on the truth coming out. Attacking another member of the fraternity may occur in some occupations but I am skeptical it would occur here. There is a narrative about urban planning that must be maintained.
Short term planing in response to changes in use and demands are important. There is scant evidence that long term planning does not but fail. It is faddish and fads wane quickly.
What a surprise! Apartments subsidized below market rate are in demand. Of course, if you are an owner of an unsubsidized rental unit, you are scr*wd. How many people will turn down a few hundreds dollars in a gift month after month?
I agree. Why not put the decision into the hands of parents. Let the money follow the children. If public schools do a better job than private, they will get the business.
And why anyone would believe an NEA study about private schools is too silly to contemplate.
Let the market system determine winners and loser. Let the money follow the student. He/she goes to the school of their choice, private or public. For those public school chauvinists, public schools will win if they provide a better product.
Anyone who would change his or her crime prevention measures because they are not a drug dealing thug would be an idiot. Does Serpas really think this makes people feel safer? If he does, he is not smart enough to be chief.
Try DNA. What dopes.
Sprawl has been going on since before Rome's first suburb. Carrollton and the Garden District were once suburbs and the result of sprawl. The Interstate did not create it. New Orleans population peaked in 1960 before the Interstate system was built, and folks had been leaving to create the suburbs since the end of WWII. The GI bill is more responsible for sprawl than the Interstate system. The city's maximum population was 600,000. The metro area maxed out at 1.2 million. To double the population of the city itself would have required the tearing down of tens of thousands of shotgun doubles and replacing them with mid rise and high rise buildings. Somehow I don't think the urban chauvinists would have enjoyed that destruction.
The biggest problem, imho, with traffic in the area is too few or unimproved arterial streets in JP.
In 1970 the New Orleans CBD was still vibrant enough to find the Clairborne elevated roadway useful. Today it probably could be torn down but that roadway did not clear out the CBD. History did just like it cleared out the CBDs of most cities across America.
No government run housing scheme has worked over the long run, including projects, Sec. 8 and even Fannie and Freddie financing. The unintended consequences always overwhelm any good that is done.
The best thing government can do to promote lower income housing is loosen both zoning restrictions and building codes. That too will have unintended consequences but all policy decisions are trade-offs.
Della, Della, Della. It was the National Socialist Party. It was a collectivist society although more appropriately called a corporatist state rather than socialist. In other words it practiced crony capitalism just like the bailouts of the auto industry, Wall Street and loans to the favored like Solydra.
German had been a social welfare state since Bismark. There is not a lot of difference between fascism and communism. Neither certainly are liberal democracies like we hope America stays. We are slipping, however.
The good news is that workers are returning to Mexico and not coming in the first place because the unemployment rate is lower there than in America. Americans are also going to Canada for jobs.
Thanks for the hope and change.
Let's put America back to work the way it has always been done, through free enterprise development. Stop wasting government monies on favored industries and companies and allow the marketplace to pick winners and losers. More winners means more jobs. Put the oil patch back to work to help Louisiana and end the punitive oil and gas regulatory regime initiated to cater to one particular interest group.
Yep, poverty is at an all time high and so is black unemployment. You can mitigate both problems by rejecting the incompetent government manipulation of the marketplace that has run rampant over the last three years and beyond.
The real plan is to get Americans out of cars and in streetcars and buses, living in small, high rise apartments in crowded cities. By forcing us to drive two passenger plastic cars with small electric engines, they just might succeed.
The TP has not yet figured out that the global warming scam has been busted and that fossil fuels are our future for a very long time.
The term I was looking for was "arterial roads". I agree these should have been constructed in St. Tammany, but they could just as easily have have been concentric circular roadways with a the existing roads widened long ago.
The grid pattern certainly worked in places like Plano or Garland or Arlington but those are patterns that never interested past or future residents of St. Tammany and may have been impossible given the problem of flood zones and other land not suited for contiguous development.
The lack of a grid pattern is not a problem or the problem at all. Most feeder roads in western St. Tammany are not crowded at all, just like Carrollton and S. Claiborne during most of the day. They are crowded during rush hour.
The problem is those feeder roads were not widened when they should have been and even when widened, bottlenecks are left like unwidened bridges over small waterways.
Even Causeway Blvd and 190 are not a problem except at rush hour.
Since most of the poorly improved roads are state roadways, the inability of the state to fund construction has been the main roadblock.
The fact is that the average commute to and from work in St. Tammany is 5 minutes longer than in Orleans according to the Census Bureau, but it is current to bemoan suburban sprawl and cutting down trees to build the things people want.
The Master Plan will be the biggest and most costly hinderance to economic development in the history of New Orleans. Long term master plans never work because they require someone in 2050 to do what a bunch of planners at the top thought was a good idea in 2010.
You have a choice most of the time. A dollar store or an empty lot.
The first question is why should housing be subsidized at all?
Secondly, the biggest barrier to affordable housing is land use regulations and other regulations that limit the supply of housing.
I would like to know Mr. DeBerry position on the new New Orleans master plan which will indeed limit supply or with codes that make renovation of older NO properties so expensive, it is cheaper to take HUD money to build new.
The jury is still out on mixed income housing but the history of government subsidized housing in America is not encouraging. Projects become instant slums and Sec. 8 destroys functional working class neighborhoods.


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No matter what Walcott does or achieves, it seems his career is always destined to be defined by a single short word -'but'.
'He has a great future, but a big move is too early for him'; 'he has been called up into Sven-Goran Eriksson's England World Cup squad, but he doesn't deserve it'; 'he wants to be a striker, but he isn't strong enough'; 'he is as quick as they come, but he has no final product'.
This season - and especially last week when Tottenham and Arsenal locked horns at White Hart Lane - has seen a new and almost cruel new line thrown at him - 'he is playing the best football of his career by far, but he isn't as good as Gareth Bale'.
I suppose it was always inevitable that Walcott and Bale would be measured against each other to some extent. They both came from the Southampton academy at the same time, both eye-catching speedsters and hailed as exciting players to watch, and both moved to big rival clubs in North London as teenagers.
Their careers have run parallel to each other, so you can understand the inclination to compare them every step of the way.
It doesn't have to be that way, though. They don't have to be perpetually shackled together and thrown before the baying mob for judgement. It doesn't really do either of them justice.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find someone prepared to argue that Walcott is the better player right now. Such an assertion would only serve to call the individual's sincerity or sanity into question. Like almost everyone else of late, he has been blown away by the Welshman.
But therein lays the double standard. Why singularly use Bale's brilliance as a stick with which to beat Walcott? It isn't as if the Tottenham man's exploits can be matched by any other British players of their generation, or many others for that matter. If not being quite as good as Bale has suddenly become worthy of derision, we may never feel excited about football ever again.
It seems you are almost not allowed to say anything positive about Arsenal these days, but the truth is that Walcott has blossomed into a fine player in his own right.
The days of him being a mere athlete in footballer's boots are a thing of the past. He is delivering quality and doing it consistently, from both general play and even set pieces, and he is doing it regardless of the position in which he plays.
It is a truth that isn't even obscured or lurking beneath the surface somewhere either. It's in plain sight for all to see. With a quarter of the season still to play he already has his best ever Premier League goals haul and has also been credited with more assists than in any other campaign, and he is doing it in what is widely believed to be the worst Arsenal team in recent memory.
Did anyone expect any more from him when he emerged as a precocious talent at St Mary's? Surely if someone told us then that he would mature into a staple of one of the top sides in the country and produce in the Premier League on a regular basis, we'd have all agreed that would reflect the fulfilment of his promise?
Whether or not Bale and Walcott just so happened to come through the same academy at the same time is irrelevant, as is how they compare now. The bottom line is that Theo has finally arrived as a genuine force in the Premier League - and it is about time the wider footballing world started acknowledging it.
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Rich Harrington: So we have established that you can get good audio by using an external mic like a Shotgun--okay, audio--barely passable audio using the built-in for reference purposes. But sometimes you want to plug in external mics. Now we're going to explore different mic types on an upcoming episode, but today let's talk about pre-amps. The idea of getting audio from an external mic right into the camera. Robbie Carman: Yeah, and I'd actually even throw in the idea, not just of a pre-amp, but also of a dedicated mixer itself. Now you can see here I have a little portable field mixer by Sound Devices.
And this guy is kind of neat, because I can plug in XLR, I can plug in a whole bunch of different things, I can control my level directly on it. Rich: Runs out on battery power so you're portable. Robbie: Right, and the beauty about this is that I can plug in professional level condenser mics, dynamic mics, whatever it may be, and I can actually feed this signal directly to my camera. And this is essentially what a mixer or a pre-amp does. Now there is a lot of people that make these, Sound Devices make them, the pre-amps that screw directly on to the camera, some of the... Rich: Beach-Tek. Robbie: Beach-Tek, juiceLink, there is a few out there, but essentially they all serve the same purpose, allowing you to connect a professional level mic directly to the pre-amp or the mixer itself and then feed that signal directly to the camera body, and this provides you a whole lot more flexibility for interfacing with better quality mics and different types of signals.
Rich: Now, what we can do here is we could patch in. So in this case I have got the ability on the side here--you can go ahead, that's going to be reference in, so I could take that, that's going to feed that out, or we can go ahead off the front, on the headphone port, that's going to work, too, and plug that in and then take it right into the camera body. Now that works pretty well. I just make sure I'd go into the mic, not the headphone jack, there we go, and then set my levels. Now, newer DSLRs are having better audio controls, they are letting you get past the Auto Gain, and in fact like this D600 has a 20-point audio level control, so I could really make fine adjustments.
What you want to think about here is that you want a nice constant signal coming out from the mixer to the camera body itself. Of course, we just have a potential problem there, and that is just because the VU meters look good there, it doesn't mean that I am getting right levels here. Robbie: Well, yes actually, two important things to bring up there is that you might be thinking to yourself, okay, well, where do I set the levels? Do I set the levels on the pre-amp or the mixer, or do I set them on the camera? Rich: Both? Robbie: Yeah, exactly. My personal opinion is that you always want to sort to check wherever your audio is signaled, in places that you can check it. So place number one would be the pre-amp itself.
And you notice on this guy it actually does have a couple of little VU, meters here, so you plug it instead of headphones, listen to the levels, look at the VU meters and check that. However, because we are not recording directly to this device and we are running out to the camera body itself that's where the audio is actually being recorded. So it's also a good idea if you can to plug in to your camera and listen to the audio. Bad things happen when nobody is listening to audio. And as Rich mentioned, some of the newer camera for more updates and some of the newer bodies themselves actually allow you to see VU meters and levels on the actual camera, so everything might sound good here, but something might be wrong with your cable or the adapter, and by the time it gets the camera you can have a bad audio.
Rich: Well, and let's start to talk through the logic here. You've got a couple of choices that you're going to have to make. First off, look at the camera body itself. If it doesn't have a headphone jack, and many of the earlier generations do not, that's tough. You don't actually know what audio you're getting here. So in that case, you need to go back to the source. If you are going to be going out of the mixer or perhaps out of your external audio recorder, that's okay. What I would recommend in that case is, let's say we were going into a Zoom H4n. My primary audio is in here but I could loop this out to the device.
Now, I only have one headphone jack, that's where a device like what we have here can come in handy. You see in this case I've got 8 outputs plus 1 plug, I could take that into the jack, just simply plug that in, and now I could run this out to multi-cameras. So if I am on a multiple shoot with several cameras I can go ahead and tap out, let's see, we've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so pretty good here. Plug a pair of headphones into monitor and I could run that out to four separate camera angles to make sure that they are getting good reference sound. This is my primary source, but I could loop that out to the camera bodies and feel reasonably confident if I am recording it and listening here that I'm sending good audio, but I would still recommend you do a test and play back the audio either off the card or pop the card out and put it in a computer and look at it, because just because you are sending good audio does not mean you are recording good audio.
Robbie: I mean, like I said before, unless you're monitoring, you are never going to know what you're going to get. You actually raised a really interesting point about this recorder, Rich, is that typically people are going to use a digital audio recorder which we've talked about in previous episodes, I am sure we'll talk about in future episodes as well as the primary place to record your audio. And of course that's what these audio recorders are good for, but they are essentially microphone pre-amps and mixers themselves. So if you're in run-and-gun situation and you don't have the ability to be paying attention to the digital audio recorder, you just want to patch things in. You can absolutely do that.
Plug your professional microphones into the XLR inputs in here, use one of the little adapters like this, or just the headphone jack itself and then run out to the camera. And essentially you can use this guy like a microphone pre-amp or a mixer before you feed the camera if you want to get your audio directly to the camera. Of course, though, you can record the audio directly to this, which is another nice point. You can have a back-up, right? Rich: Well, even itself as a true back up I've been on set and the cable gets ripped down on the Lavalier microphone, these do have built-in mics. Now the thing is, you don't hold it this way, the mics actually point so the person could hold it out at camera like a stick microphone and talk into it, this is going to sound a lot better than the camera mic itself.
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Corey has been proactive in filing detailed reports with the New York State Police. The first incident occurred a month ago when some person or persons attempted to use a trash can to have a fire on the beach. Several holes were punched into it, and garbage was scattered across the beach.
Two weeks ago, the concession stand was broken into and damaged. The back window was smashed out, and several cartons of home fries and other items were stolen. In addition, a bucket of water was found inside. It was possibly used to allow the perpetrators to use the toilet while they were in the concession stand. In addition, a corner of the change house was spray painted orange, and a campfire was built next to the beehive drain at the junction of the parking lot and the beach area. The wood used for the campfire may have been stolen from the Highway Department.
The most recent incident occurred this past Saturday. Someone blew doughnuts in the grass adjacent to the little league field in Brannon Park. The large ruts that were carved into the ground will need to be fixed.
Corey said the State Police have been helpful. Patrols of the beach, park areas, and other targeted areas may be increased. If anyone has information about any these incidents, they are encouraged to contact the supervisor at 251-2869.
In other news at the meeting, Corey made a motion to adopt a resolution, which was not seconded, to authorize Minerva to request that its share of the sales tax collected by Essex County be returned to the town. Councilman Dave LaBar asked for more information about the county warrants that the sales tax monies are currently used to buy down.
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