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When Jennifer Bastian was invited to cook up an exhibition for UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, where she is a visual resources specialist, she headed to the library's collection of 17th- and 18th-century English cookbooks.
Bastian hit the books at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library to research her exhibition.
Following months of research, Bastian selected recipes for pottage, syllabub and some dozen other recipes that she then spent several weekends experimenting with in her home kitchen. The result is "An Exhibition in Six Courses: Testing Recipes from the Clark's Manuscript Collection," representing the preparation and presentation of food and drink 400 years ago — from recipes for feeding a country family or a royal wedding party, to a treatise on the art of brewing beer and ale. The 42-item exhibition, on display through the end of September in glass cases in the Clark's ornate drawing room, includes the books and manuscripts Bastian consulted alongside transcriptions and photographs of many of the recipes she cooked.
Last week the curator shared her culinary trip through time at an opening-day celebration on the Clark's lawn. Guests sampled Nottingham ale — home-brewed by UCLA doctoral student Alex Eric Hernandez from a 1688 recipe in the Clark collection — and heard from both Bastian and Hernandez about their hands-on approach to history.
Alex Eric Hernandez and Jennifer Bastian celebrating with glasses of Nottingham ale during a reception on the library lawn.
"One of my personal passions is food. I love to cook," said Bastian, a professional photographer and publisher of several personal blogs, among them the Emergency Food Hotline, "a resource for the slightly challenged cook" that is currently on hiatus. Her interest in the Clark's cookbooks — particularly its collection of handwritten, one-of-a-kind manuscripts — had been piqued about three years ago, she said, by another exhibition: In Commonplace Collaboration: Inheritance and Reuse in Everyday Documents, Clark manuscripts and archives librarian Rebecca Fenning Marschall had observed how the well-used manuscripts were passed along by women in families, who each added their own recipes through the generations.
The Clark, situated in L.A.'s historic West Adams neighborhood in the former home of its late namesake and administered by UCLA's Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, is renowned for its collection of rare books and manuscripts.
"Seeing that handwriting, seeing what people were making in their homes … was really exciting," said Bastian, who sifted through about 30 books — some of them hundreds of pages long — searching for recipes that were "most emblematic of the times."
Deciphering the antiquated handwriting in the manuscripts proved a challenge, she said, as was translating words like "brooke," which she determined was a type of leek, and "mutchkin," a measure of liquid just under a pint ("Google kept telling me it was 'munchkin.'").
Preparing vegetable recipes like Green Pease Soop, Bastian said, was relatively easy. Deciphering the antiquated handwriting was not.
When it came to preparing the recipes at home, she said, "I realized I had to set some ground rules for myself: I could only use tools that were found in my own home. I don't own a sieve. I'm not buying a sieve. And I wasn't going to seek out ingredients like elderflower that were really difficult to find.
"It was really about translating these recipes into my own home kitchen and seeing how I could make them happen," Bastian said.
Some of them were total failures, she said, most notably the pottage, with a recipe that begins: "Take a large [indecipherable word] of beef, cut it in four or five pieces with a knuckell of veale or any other fresh meat, let it boil five hours or lounger in an indifferent quantity of water about a gallon, putt in a fagett of sweet herbs …"
Pottage starts out looking awful (top, pot of boiling meat). While it looks much better when it's ready to eat, "the flavor is reprehensible," Bastian said.
"It's really disgusting," she said of the resulting soup. "The flavor is reprehensible," she emphasized with a look of distaste on her face.
A dessert called syllabub — a concoction of wine and whipped cream — failed on Bastian's first attempt but succeeded with a little adaptation. The recipe reads: "Take a pint of white wine or Claret & as much of sweet milk or cream being warm skink in your wine if you please milk it from the cow in your win & then put in sugar & cannel upon it." Using store-bought whipping cream didn't work — the dessert didn't whip — but switching to manufacturer's cream used by professional cooks did the trick. The result was a "kind of eggnog that you eat with a spoon," Bastian explained. "It was very strange … definitely an acquired taste."
The vegetable recipes were the easiest to follow and most successful, Bastian noted. A short recipe for "Green Pease Soop" begins, "Wipe your peapods and scald ye shells. Strain & pound them in a mortar with scalded parsley, young onions, & a little mint then. …" Best of all was a carrot soup that combined carrots, turnips, onion and butter. "It was excellent," Bastian said. "Actually, I brought it to work one day and a few people tasted it and said it was amazing. It was really the turnips. They added a spicyness to it. I added some chili powder, too."
Joanna Sudell's instructions for brewing a hogshead (48 gallons) of Nottingham ale. Apparently that was an average batch for a 17th-century household, Hernandez said.While Bastian conducted her cooking experiments, Hernandez dug into the Clark collections to research 17th- and 18th-century brewing. Hernandez is not a Clark staff member (he's a doctoral student who frequents the library to research his dissertation on bourgeois tragedy in English literature), but Bastian enlisted his assistance when she learned that he enjoys home brewing and learning about brewing history. Searching the Clark collection for a representative beer or ale, he came upon a recipe by one Joanna Sudell in manuscript dated 1688.
Nottingham Ale, which is still prepared in England, is linked by name — and possibly origin — to the town of Nottingham, whose history dates back to the 7th century. Digging deeper into the Clark collections, Hernandez also discovered that Nottingham ale was celebrated in ballads like this one, with its tongue-in-cheek insistence that the Roman god Bacchus, "that prince of good fellows," came not from the heavens but "sprang from a barrel of Nottingham Ale."
Hernandez scaled down Sudell's recipe, which was for a "hogshead" of beer (48 gallons), to a little more than five. "A hogshead was the average household's batch," said Hernandez. "It gives you a sense of how fast they were turning over beer, 48 gallons.
"We aimed for authenticity," he said of brewing the ale with help from Bastian and Fenning Marschall. "We tried to incorporate era-specific techniques while also using modern sanitation practices." One part of the recipe calls for checking to see if the wert — the unfermented beer — is "blood-warm" or "milk-warm," he noted. "In general, they would have stuck their finger in it, but that's not sanitary. We had to figure out ways to guesstimate things like this."
"It's potent and delicious," reception guest Myhang Tiffany Le said of the ale.
More complex calculations were required to determine how much hops to use, he said, because modern-day grains used for brewing are engineered and standardized compared to the fresh-from-the-field grains used centuries ago.
Hernandez pronounced the resulting brew, which had fermented in bottles for two months, "a touch too bitter for historical accuracy … but just as alive, unpasteurized, unfiltered and carbonated in the bottle with real yeast" as it would have been in Sudell's day. It also had a higher alcohol "kick" — about 7.2 percent, he determined — than ale in that era would have been. Hernandez's ale had a much shorter fermentation period. But guests at the Clark weren't complaining. "It's potent and delicious," offered one.
"An Exhibition in Six Courses," Bastian explained in an introductory note, was curated "with an eye to serving as courses in a visual and intellectual meal. The materials are arranged in an order that one might experience them."
They begin with diagrams of how to properly present a meal, with place settings drawn and described in 1651 by Howard Henry, who describes himself as "late cook to His Grace the Duke of Ormond, and since to the Earl of Salisbury ..." Then come the "courses" of beverages and brewing; breads, biscuits and pastry; vegetables; and meats and mains. Concluding the exhibition are desserts like syllabub and cakes, as well as remedies, from "water against melancholy" to recipes to "kill and destroy all manner of vermin."
"It was a great experience," said Bastian. "I knew that the recipes and cooking process would be quite different than what I am accustomed to, and there was quite a bit to learn when it came to measurements and language. It really felt special to be able to take the recipes and translate them into my own experience, which I think is what cooking is all about — making it your own."
An Exhibition in Six Courses: Testing Recipes from the Clark's Manuscript Collection runs through the end of September at the Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library. View an online version here. And get a peek of the Clark library in this video about a chamber music series there.


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Degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and muscle atrophy, in which the bodies capacity to regenerate new tissue can no longer keep up with tissue death are debilitating for individuals and represent a major problem for society. Transplantation therapy based on the use of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and their tissue derivatives is thought to provide clinical help for these incurable disorders. At the same time, there are no known methods for deliberate targeting of transplanted cells to pathological tissues; and more importantly, such methods cannot be successfully developed in humans without first establishing non-invasive imaging technology for monitored optimization of transplantation procedures and for the assessment of stem cell behavior in living tissue. Hence, even if the tissue-specific differentiation of hESCs is achieved, the development of effective therapies for degenerative disorders critically requires much improved methodology for targeted delivery of transplanted cells to the organs in need for repair.
This proposal is focused on development of new interdisciplinary technology bridging biomedical imaging, stem cell manipulations and regenerative medicine with the goal to improve the cell transplantation techniques and to create non-invasive methods for monitored regeneration of injured or pathological skeletal muscle by transplanted derivatives of human embryonic stem cells. This work will yield valuable pre-clinical data and will enable transition to clinical studies focused on the non-invasive monitored enhancement of tissue repair in the old and those afflicted by debilitating degenerative disorders. Specifically, this research plan pursues the development of non-invasive imaging methods for monitored optimized delivery of stem cells to skeletal muscle and for enhancement of regenerative responses in through the following logical steps:
1. Establishing designer hESC lines which could be targeted to injured of pathological tissues.
2. Developing non-invasive imaging methods to monitor and optimize the visualization of the designer hESC lines, in culture and in muscle explants, thus generating data for the in vivo experiments.
3. Developing non-invasive imaging methods to monitor and optimize the targeted delivery of hESCs to muscle regenerating after injury or during chronic dystrophic pathology, in vivo.
The ultimate goal is to enable optimal repair of pathological organs by transplanted derivatives of hESC by using the targeted delivery to injured or pathological tissues independently of the hESC origin, methods of derivation and line-to-line variations. Due to the "ambitious" nature of this project and the necessity to use non-NIH registered hESC lines, this proposal has no realistic possibility to be funded by federal government.
This proposal has significant benefit for the advancement of science, education, national and global visibility and economy for the state of California, (CA). Research and Scientific Benefit: The use of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in regenerative medicine, is particularly important, as hESCs can be used for producing any cell-type, such as neuronal, muscle, etc. and used to replace their dysfunctional counterparts in living humans. The key obstacle to stem cell therapy is the inability to track the cells and their fate through the body, non-invasively. This study will create novel non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging for monitoring the success of hESC transplantation in individuals with muscle degenerative disorders. This will lead to novel therapeutic applications in muscle atrophy, caused by old age, stroke, immobility, muscular dystrophies, etc.. With an aging society, these studies will potentially alleviate the cost of care and the societal burden of aging in CA. Training and Talent Development: This proposal, with stem-cell biologists and engineers focusing on non-invasive imaging for tracking stem cells in muscle regeneration, epitomizes an inter-disciplinary effort. This research as planned will include participation from {REDACTED} and broader possibilities of collaboration with foreign institutions. This will provide unique hands-on training, supplementing text-book teaching, and motivating a diverse and large number of individuals in CA, and lead to future funding from diverse sources. National and Global Standing: CA has taken leadership and is one of the few states investing resources in Stem Cell research. The science proposed here would potentially bring investments from institutions in other states. The technology transfer potential from researchers in institutions in states not as progressive as CA, represents a new paradigm with significant financial gains for the future. Collaborations with countries such as South Korea, Japan and France, as planned in this proposal, via the process of recruiting post-doctoral researchers, holds promise for intellectual cross pollination at the global level. This will lead to an influx of researchers and scientists into the CA area, and may also lead to foreign company investments in the CA economy where they will find the right talent. The diversity and outreach efforts of the team and the institutions are well known and will lead to rapid dissemination of the science and research to the public. Financial: Financial benefit is the common denominator for all of the above aspects. The rapid progress in inter-disciplinary science, the impact of the research on disorders of the muscle, the intellectual property potential, the enhanced national and international standing will all lead to economic benefits for CA.


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Further efficient reduction of transport noise requires intensive research. CALM II aims at coordinating European research for advanced transport noise mitigation, in particular facilitating interdisciplinary networking and dissemination of knowledge, and at further development of the CALM strategic research plan. All transport modes are concerned: road, rail, waterborne and aeronautic together with outdoor equipements.
Over the last 30 years, noise reduction has become an increasing priority for legislation and research, both at national and European level. Despite substantial improvements, today's noise pollution is still a major concern of European citizens, with transportation as the main source of noise.
An estimated 80 million Europeans (ca. 20 % of the EU population) suffer from unacceptable noise levels. Estimations of the related annual financial damage lie between 0.2 and 2 % of the gross domestic product. This is an important societal problem. As mobility is a basic human need and an essential precondition for economic prosperity and growth in an enlarging EU, the adverse effects of noise must be reduced, while allowing a continued growth in freight and passenger transport.
Regulations limiting the noise emission from vehicles have been successful but not sufficient in the past. The Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) strives for avoiding, reducing or preventing harmful effects on human health. Therefore a major goal for future research is the transformation of END and the further development of noise policy covering the wide fields of noise assessment and abatement, new technologies and methodologies for improved noise control at source, and the future development of legislative standards.
The EC has published substantial noise reduction targets for the future, medium and short term, which can only be achieved by system approaches that involve research from all concerned areas. One general target is to find common research issues for road, rail, aeronautic and maritime transport utilising a maximum of synergies.
The overall strategic objective is the synchronisation and encouragement of European transport noise research through a holistic system approach involving all related research areas. CALM II is designed to facilitate the networking of organisations, the coordination of activities and the exchange and dissemination of knowledge so as to optimise research efforts, reach critical mass, strengthen the complementarity and coherence of noise research objectives and enhance the impact at a European level.
Further aims are:
- monitoring European research activities and identification of research synergies
- identifying remaining research needs and setting research directions leading to updated noise research strategy plan
- considering the situation in the new Member States and integrating the demands of national research initiatives
- supporting the exploitation and dissemination of European noise research results
- increasing public awareness of environmental noise and the awareness of noise research with young people (e.g. by involving promising young researchers with CALM II workshops).
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The whole work programme is split into five work packages (WP).
WP1 (Networking of European transport noise research activities) is designed for the monitoring of European noise research activities and noise abatement technologies at EU and national level across all relevant research areas of transportation noise, including outdoor equipment and generic issues like noise exposure, health and socio-economic aspects, city planning and infrastructure. The most important recent research activities are summarised in an inventory called the Blue Book. For identification of the remaining gaps and discussion of the needs for further research in an open dialogue, workshops are held with industry, research organisations and public authorities.
WP2 (Sectoral integration of different areas of transport noise research) improves the coordination and information exchange between different noise sectors and platforms with specific workshops together with the European technology platforms ACARE (aeronautics), ERRAC (rail), ERTRAC (road) and WATERBORNE (maritime).
WP3 (Noise research strategies) is designed for identifying technology gaps and research needs which is done in close co-operation with the European Noise Working Groups. This gives the input for the updating of the CALM Strategy Paper 2004, which is done twice within CALM II.
WP4 (Dissemination and exploitation of results) is focused on the information transfer and dissemination of results amongst all stakeholders, with a special focus on the new Member States and with specific workshops.
WP5 (Network management, coordination and administration) ensures an effective execution of the project including all administrative services like the organisation of meetings, reporting, etc.
All results of CALM II are published on the project website. So far, the results comprise the reports of three workshops (one large workshop with RTD project coordinators for exchange of knowledge and results, and two specific workshops for identifying technology gaps and future research needs); the continuous updating of the CALM project database (with over 800 entries); the continuous maintenance of the homepage (now including a public calendar with major events on environmental noise in Europe) and the Blue Book, which is an inventory of 105 noise research projects and also contains a CD with all data in electronic format. An update (electronic, not printed) of the CALM Strategy Paper 2004 is under preparation and is to be published by the end of 2006. The update is focused on the latest information on the noise research road maps for air, rail and road traffic.
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- Duration: 36 months
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- Research domain: Development of holistic noise abatement solutions
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NORMAN — Sometime late in the third quarter, after the OU defense kept turning back West Virginia and the Sooner run game kept churning out yardage with no help from the passing game, Bob Stoops figured out that no way could the Mountaineers win this game.
But the Sooners could lose it.
So out went Trevor Knight, in came Blake Bell and the Sooners went home 16-7 winners Saturday at Owen Field. And the quarterback derby is on again.
Who will start next Saturday against Tulsa? Who knows, after Knight threw two third-quarter interceptions that kept this game much closer than it needed to be? Stoops and Josh Heupel aren't saying, and that's in part because they don't know.
When a squad rushes for 316 yards, it should have scored more than 16 points.
"It oughtta be easier than it's been," Stoops said.
Knight threw interceptions on back-to-back passes deep in West Virginia territory, and coaches' confidence in their redshirt freshman quarterback vanished. In Knight's next two series, he handed off five straight times, then threw deep, into the end zone, on third-and-long, a play in which an interception would not have been a killer anyway.
And then Knight was done. Bell came in, directed two time-consuming drives (in which he threw only one pass himself) and OU got the field goal it needed to make the lead safe.
"We're going to need to throw it better," said Heupel, OU's offensive coordinator, who is accustomed to accurate quarterbacks who won't get you beat. Knight absolutely deserves some learning-curve time, but through two games, he's completed 21 of 48 passes, and he had three turnovers against West Virginia, all on plays inside the Mountaineer 30-yard line.
If this OU team needed a big-time quarterback, Heupel and Stoops might automatically stick with Knight and let him play through his tribulations. His running ability — which shined at times against the Mountaineers — gives Knight the bigger upside. But this 2013 Sooner team has shown through two games that it can run the ball and play some defense, two staples not always in abundance in recent years. Just get some decent quarterbacking, and the Sooners could be a load.
"I'm not sure that's the way I'm going to phrase it," Heupel said. "We want our guys to play extremely well."
Bell supplied the decent quarterbacking. "He managed the game well," Heupel said. "Handled himself well."
But it's not like Heupel unlocked the playbook for Bell. He basically ran expanded Belldozer plays. Bell played 16 snaps; he ran twice (gained 10 yards both times) and threw the screen pass that Brennan Clay dropped.
It's obvious what happened on the Sooner sideline. Stoops said let's put this game in the deep freeze and reassess the quarterback situation later. On those final two Bell drives, the Sooners ran off 4:34 and 5:22 from the clock. No hurryup. No vaunted spread. Just power football, with minimal quarterback influence, like it was 1966.
The company line that Knight is a skilled passer is losing credibility by the game. Of course, we haven't seen enough of Bell to know how he fares flinging it around.
But we saw enough of Knight on Saturday night to know he didn't secure the ball enough. Two interceptions and a fumble on a play in which he held the ball too long.
Seems like it's time to find out how Bell handles the saddle.
Certainly, being inserted into a save situation signals that Stoops and Heupel are thinking long and hard about a quarterback change.
"Some things happened in the third quarter that you just can't do," Heupel said.
Stoops even reminded us that he declared the quarterback competition tight throughout August. And Stoops Saturday night wasn't nearly as defensive about quarterback questions as he was in August. Seemed to be opening the door for Bell.
"Just feel things weren't quite as good as they needed to be in the throwing game," Stoops said. "Wanted to give (Bell) a chance."
Looks like there will be more chances to come.
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The Role of Incentive Framing on Training and Transfer of Learning in a Visual Threat Detection Task
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Madhavan, P., Lacson, F. C., Gonzalez, C. and Brennan, P. C. (2012), The Role of Incentive Framing on Training and Transfer of Learning in a Visual Threat Detection Task. Appl. Cognit. Psychol., 26: 194–206. doi: 10.1002/acp.1807
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- Issue online: 2 MAR 2012
- Version of Record online: 31 MAY 2011
- Manuscript Accepted: 20 APR 2011
- Manuscript Revised: 12 APR 2011
- Manuscript Received: 3 DEC 2009
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We examined the effects of different incentives on skill acquisition and transfer during threat detection in airline luggage screening. The incentives were presented within positive (gains) or negative (losses) frames, and points were given or taken away accordingly during training (with familiar targets) and transfer (to novel targets). During training, incentives exerted a more beneficial effect on skill acquisition than training without incentives. During transfer, incentives benefitted performance largely when presented as losses or penalties. Incentives framed as gains primed participants to say 'yes' more often leading to a high ratio of false positives; however, incentives framed as losses lead participants to become more selective in their 'yes' responses leading to a lower number of false positives but a comparable probability of correct detections. Interestingly, participants that received no training outperformed participants that received incentive-based training, suggesting that incentives actually constrained rather than helped transfer of learning in this study. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Update on DionisiaDionesia has worked as a nursing specialist at the Jacinto Hernandez Hospital for 22 years now. She can also count on the help of her life companion. Both of them work for Minsa (the Health Ministry) and they share all the family and credit responsibilities.
Dionesia is requesting her 6th loan in order to build a habitation for her eldest daughter and this will result in greater comfort in their own house.
Dionicia feels very grateful because, due to the loans she has received, they have been able to improve the family's living conditions. The most important dreams of her life are to continue improving their living conditions, helping her family, and for her daughters to continue studying so that they can be better off as persons.
Solicita su 6to crèdito para construcciòn de una habitacion para su hija mayor y este le vendria a brindar mejor comodidad en el hogar.
Dionicia se siente muy agradecida ya que por medio de los crèditos obtenidos han mejorado sus condiciones de vida y de su familia. Su mayor sueño en la vida es mejorar sus condiciones de vida, seguir ayudando a su familia y que su hijas sigan estudiando para que sean personas de bien.
Previous Loan DetailsDionisia is requesting a fourth loan to invest it on improving her house, in this case to build a bathroom in her house. She has been working as a nurse assistant for the last 16 years.
Dionisia has two daughters, the oldest studies 1st year of high school and the baby girl is 5 months old, she also has the help of her husband who is also a nurse assistant.
Dionisia got a scholarship for her specialty, and she is currently studying, she works very responsibly, she is a humble woman with high spirits of personal improvement, is a woman who has fought for her family so her daughters do not lack the basic things in her house, her dream is to be healthy, have work stability and that her daughters one day would be able to go to college and be professionals.
Translated from Spanish by N.D., Kiva Volunteer.
Dionicia esta solicitando su cuarto refinanciamiento para invertirlo en mejora de su vivienda, como es terminar de construir los servicios higienicos de su casa. Trabaja como Auxiliar de Enfermería desde hace 16 años.
Dionisia es madre de dos niñas, la mayor estudia 1 er año de educación secundaria y una bebita de 5 meses, además cuenta con la ayuda de su marido quien se desempeña tambien como auxiliar de enfermeria.
Dionicia logró obtener una beca para una especialidad, la cual está estudiando actualmente, desempeña su labor con mucha responsabilidad, es una mujer humilde y con alto espiritu de superación personal, es una mujer que ha luchado por su familia para que a sus hijas no les falte lo básico en el hogar, su sueño es tener salud, estabilidad laboral y que su hijas logren llegar a ser profesionales.
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This latest edition of our Newsletter is very much a 'Special Edition', focusing on the 3-yr restructuring of Vinashin' (Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group) US$600 million loan facility. There is also some brief commentary on what are we seeing in the Vietnam restructuring market.
The Vinashin restructuring reached its culmination in early September this year when the UK court sanctioned a Scheme of Arrangement promulgated by Vinashin, the first example of a Vietnamese company going overseas to effect a restructuring. KPMG acted as Financial Adviser throughout the restructuring.
Nothing particularly remarkable, you might think, in the UK court sanctioning a Scheme in order to effect a restructuring. But when one remembers, first, that Vinashin is a Vietnamese state-owned enterprise with no connection to the UK other than the governing law of the loan facility that was the subject of the UK Scheme and, second, that there was no insolvency process under way, either in Vietnam or elsewhere, and then its significance becomes more apparent.
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We are seeing increasing instances of Vietnamese banks taking affirmative and assertive action to address individual distressed loans, with debt for equity swaps remaining a restructuring option that certain Vietnamese banks are considering. KPMG are currently advising on such a potential restructuring involving a multi bank group. Given that the rehabilitation procedures of the Vietnamese Bankruptcy Law are not applied in practice the focus is on driving consensual restructurings with creditors.
State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are seeking to restructure and reform, in line with the Government's directions, by enhancing their corporate governance, corporate structure and divesting non core businesses. However, these are fundamental changes which will take time and the benefits of the changes being made are not obvious at this time. Projects which are funded by development banks such as the Asian Development Bank are helping to push the pace of change and KPMG have been assisting certain SOEs through the reform process.
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Tuckerton, New Jersey (map) | (609) 296-9163
Sites: 153 | Latest Rate: $53.00 | 14 Reviews
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Sep 2015 - $53.00
As others have said, the roads in are narrow and dusty, but it's New Jersey pine barrens, so no way to avoid. We were in a W/E site and the rate is a little high, but we were very close to our destination, so reasonable. We stayed for the long Labor Day weekend, and there were lots of activities all weekend long, however we did not participate due to other plans. The staff were very friendly, check in was quick. There are a lot of seasonal sites, but our loop was mostly transients, however all neighbors were friendly. A bonus is the dog park for those with canine companions.
We had great stay, and will definitely stay again. - htowners
Jun 2014 - $39.00
Access road to park is sand, rough and tree lined with low hanging branches. Entrance onto park grounds is narrow. A guard shack straddles the entry; however, it is not manned. Big rigs need to park on the entry road once past the guard shack. The check in area is deep within the park. Would recommend walking in to register. Staff are friendly and helpful. Many activities for children and adults. The pool is large and well maintained. The water park is fun for kids. Sites are large pull through with full hookups. Roof mounted satellites may have sketchy reception due to many tall trees. Each site has a fire ring and picnic table. Trash is picked up multiple times a day by maintenance staff. Would recommend for families and grandparents visiting the grand kids. - Zuzu
Aug 2012 - $50.00
I went here upon recommendation of my brother's co-worker. Yes, the sites were sandy, but the one we had was level. There isn't any visible security but the owner was around all day going back and forth. Pet friendly to the extreme. Our site was next to a seasonal and while setting up his dog was inside barking, but it turned out that it was his 3 dogs barking and they barked whenever someone walked by. The first night we were awakened by a dog barking (that was tied up outside) @ 5am! it didn't stop till 7am! The seasonal guy with the 3 dogs went over and told them to quiet the dog! The pool is small but they keep the park clean. Not sure if we will return. - GlennNJ
Tuckerton, New Jersey (map) | (609) 296-1114
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Bass River State Forest, Tuckerton, NJ May 6, 2015 $25 plus a $5 transaction fee for being a walk in (required by Reserve America), 186 sites
This was our first time camping in a New Jersey State Forest and we really enjoyed camping here. The woman at the check in office was very nice and informative letting us drive around the two loops to pick out our site. There are two loops in this campground North and South with a beach, picnic area between them. We chose the South Loop because the lake trail was within walking distance and we could sit on the benches and enjoy the view and wildlife. There are no hookups here but there are bathhouses and water within the loops. There is a dump station and pets are allowed only in certain sites. This campground was developed by the CCC who built the roads, trails, bridle paths, ponds, towers, nature observatory, shelters, picnic areas, cabins and a 67 acre Lake Absegami. The State Forest encompasses more than 27,000 acres in the Pine Barrens. The Batona Trail a walking trail for over 50 miles goes this Forest. It is also part of the Pinelands Natural Reserve. The bathrooms are older but they do have showers. We would return here if near the area again but it was so peaceful because during the week at this time of year there were only about five sites taken. Weekends they are very busy Memorial Day through Labor Day. Enjoyable stay! - gsnakehill
May 2014 - $20.00
I didn't have a high expectation but I was delighted to find a clean, efficient modern office with friendly staff. We camped in a perfectly level site pretty much by ourselves. Just us and the Whippoorwills. We camped in a spot near a water receptacle and I didn't have to worry about going anywhere to fill up. I was there for the Bassman Triathlon and checked out well beyond check out time with no hassle from the staff. I changed the listing above to reflect "big rig friendly". We are not a big rig but there were quite a few there. The roads, and sites were plenty big enough to accommodate the largest 5th wheel or motor home. - Mr October
Jul 2012 - $20.00
This is a nice state forest campground in the Jersey woods. Quiet and well maintained. No hookups, but a dump station and potable water are available. Even though I only gave it a seven, that number is quite good for any park in NJ ( although if you were to read some of my earlier reviews, I was overly generous to some other NJ campgrounds). After spending way too much time in NJ commercial campgrounds, I would have to say that the state parks are the way to go and this one is pretty good. - monkeypants


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No wonder this has been compared to The Hunger Games! Although it took a while to get going (it took me about 50 pages), once it hit its straps there was no stopping and the action proceeded at break-neck speed until the surprise ending. Well, when I say ending, it's really just the beginning and I can't wait to read the next 2 sequels. Hopefully they are just as good!
Thomas comes up into a place named The Glade.
He notices a labyrinth, which they call the Maze, which dangerous creatures roam.
He enters the maze with Minho, and Thomas manages to kill one.
With the newly obtained information, they head into the maze to find the exit.
They find creatures that guard the exit, after a bloody fight, they find the way out of the horrific maze.
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This book had been staring to me for the last few years. When I heard they were going to make it into a movie, I decided I should probably read it first. Not sure if I'm happy with that decision.
Around me I've heard a lot of my friends telling me this is such a wonderful novel, but I really can't feel that thrilled. I was slightly bored reading it and even worse, the world didn't make any sense. At all.
I've been trying to work out just about how many people there would have to be in this boys-only world. There seem to be quite a lot of them, which doesn't feel right as there is just one new arrival every once in a while, there are a dozen or so kids in the graveyard (dead I mean) and the people who've been here the longest have stayed there for about 2 years! Where do all the characters come from? (I mean, even there council is crowded).
And in those 2 years you'll be happy to learn they spent their time basically running around a maze like headless chickens, and working out sadistic expulsion ceremonies for the people who won't obey the rules. Seriously, whoever thought that one out (and created the belt) has some mental issues.
The whole maze doesn't make sense, no matter how you look at it. Why do these people keep running there? More importantly, why is it there in the first place? The answers given are - to say the least- weak and I'm not buying it. The characters are also flat and so very special, I couldn't care for them. The story ends on a massive cliffhanger, so if you want to know what happens you'll have to continue reading...
The Maze Runner concerns Thomas, a boy who arrives in the isolated, and seemingly paradise-esque, Glade, where a group of boys—and only boys—await him. The next day, unexpectedly, a girl arrives—the first girl to ever enter the Glade. This series of events triggers a sort of apocalypse, and Thomas must band together with his comrades to find a way out of the maze. The progression of events keeps you engaged, and the story ends with a cliffhanger that encourages you to buy the next book, which happily, is readily available.
This is a book that progresses very quickly, so if you're looking for something to-the-point, and along the same vein of "dystopian adolescent nightmare" (think Ender's Game, The Hunger Games, etc), then this is an okay book to pick up.
The concept is great—A group of boys are trapped in the center of a maze, trying to search for a way out with no memory of the outside world, why they're trapped, nor the point of their situation. However, the amateur prose; and general skepticism that I unfortunately could not let go of; throughout the book dampened my enjoyment of it. It was difficult to connect to characters in a way that made me care about them, and I only empathized with Newt and Alby because their relationship was more realistic and engaging than the one between Thomas and Chuck, or even Thomas and Teresa.
The prose is simplistic, which is acceptable as this is for a younger age demographic—perhaps 10- to 13- year-olds?—but often falls into stating emotions rather than explaining them, "Thomas was humiliated and scared. He felt like he'd shrunk to the size of a small rat." [Dashner, 20]
The prose can also be repetitive at times, possibly in an attempt to hammer home emotions and plot points. This author seems to lack faith in his readers to make connections on their own; emotions are told rather than shown. This ends up making the final scenes a lot less visceral than they could have been—Dashner seems to show real passion and ability in this scene but the lack of buildup makes the moment fall flat.
That said, a huge positive of this book is that the characters' reactions to things are realistic to their situation—after his first night in the maze, Thomas breaks down crying and does not stop until he cannot physically cry anymore, and Minho does not judge him at all. Crying is healthy and accepted; rage, terror and pain all appear here, often in dangerous cocktails that lead to violent encounters, but the characters all do extremely brave and resourceful things, and learn to control their emotions when required—and you believe that this is exactly how a group of boys in their situation would behave.
Overall, The Maze Runner is a good read if you're looking for something engaging and quick. While the prose may throw you off once in a while, it's worth getting through—the concept is riveting and if Dashner can master his story, the next installment could be better.
I read this book after I had seen the movie and because I liked the movie so much. The premise of "the Glade" was a fascinating one for me; I found it new and fresh. Even though I knew the outcome (more or less) of the first book, I was still hanging on every word of the book. A rollicking good read!
The story reads like a maze with erroneous turns, dead ends, and a plot that should work but falls short.
James Dashner has created a thrilling dystopian novel.
The Maze Runner has a great hook, and fans of dystopian literature, particularly older fans of Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember (Random, 2003), will likely enjoy this title and ask for the inevitable sequel.
With a fast-paced narrative steadily answering the myriad questions that arise and an ever-increasing air of tension, Dashner's suspenseful adventure will keep readers guessing until the very end.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385737955, Paperback)The first book in the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series—The Maze Runner is a modern classic, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they've closed tight. And every thirty days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.
Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.
Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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An excellent reference for studio use, but intended as a field guide, with photographs instead of paintings to identify the various species. Designed to encourage rapid visual classification, it is organized by shape, color and pattern, field marks, relative size, and behavior. There are 14 major groups, sorted by very descriptive headings, from "Long-Legged Waders" to "Chicken-Like Marsh Birds."
Most of the 676 photographs are of adult males, but females, juveniles, and seasonal color phases are also included, when significantly different. There is a pre-photo index of silhouettes, and thumbprint-sized silhouettes are also featured on the center edge of the photo pages for quick-flipping reference. Each of the many birds included has a range map and very brief description of color, voice, habitat, and nesting behavior. An added bonus is the short but useful glossary.
As a desk reference, it is a wonderful addition to any bird lover's library, but for use as a field guide, you might want to purchase two copies. The 822 pages come at a price; the text portion of the book is printed on very thin paper, and in the field, might prove a little less than durable. The reliance on photographs instead of artists' renderings is a mixed blessing, but all in all, the Field Guide to North American Birds is still an extremely useful handbook.
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Rain: Poems : In his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing in his most memorable and direct style. In an assemblage of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and to offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address or more personal in their direction, these poems - to the rain and the sea, to Paterson's young sons and beloved friends - never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie, embracing everything from the rangy narrative to the tiny renku. "Rain," which won the 2009 Forward Prize for Best Collection and includes an extended elegy for the poet Michael Donaghy, is Paterson's most intimate and manifest collection to date.
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