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Widely acknowledged as the best and most comprehensive book of its kind, this is the only Jewish travel guidebook that takes visitors to hundreds of fascinating sites in small villages and remote hamlets as well as major cities. From exploring the massive 16th-century synagogue in the historic Polish town of Pincrow to strolling among the 12,000 headstones crowded into the old Jewish cemetery in Prague, to meeting resident Jews proudly embracing their ancient culture in Slovenia, this volume takes you on a very special and memorable tour.
This expanded and updated edition includes new coverage of Austria, Ukraine, and Lithuania in addition to Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and all of the former Yugoslavia, areas that are the ancestral home to the great majority of North American Jews. Gruber provides specific historical and cultural information about these Central and Eastern European nations. Then she journeys across each country, exploring Jewish roots in major cities and small shtetls, describing the vestiges of each Jewish community and offering personal insights and reflections on the various people she meets.
Includes a language guide, listings of useful local addresses, and up-to-date details on sites that have only recently become accessible to visitors.
Ruth Ellen Gruber an American writer based in Europe, has published and lectured widely on contemporary Jewish issues in Europe and has traveled extensively throughout east and central Europe documenting Jewish heritage sites. She writes a regular Jewish travel column for www.centropa.org and contributes to many publications. A foreign correspondent with UPI for more than a decade, Gruber has won two Simon Rockover awards for excellence in Jewish journalism. Currently, she divides her time between a farmhouse in Umbria and an apartment in Budapest.
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Jimi Hendrix was born 70 years ago today, on November 27, 1942. The Library and Archives' collections showcase Hendrix as much as – if not more than – most inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His great rock and roll legacy is the basis for expansive collections that include books, magazine and journal articles, commercial and bootleg audio and video recordings; concert handbills, postcards and posters; record executive artist, business and subject files; promotional and concert photographs, and handwritten lyrics – all related to Hendrix's meteoric career.
Library and Archives collections focused on Hendrix include those donated by Michael Goldstein, Ed Chalpin, and Jeff Gold. Goldstein is a New York City publicist who served as Hendrix's press manager and publicist from 1967 until Hendrix's death in 1970, and his collection contains clippings, printed ephemera, photographs and press releases related to Hendrix and other artists with whom Goldstein worked.
Ed Chalpin, an entrepreneur and record producer, signed a three-year recording contract with Hendrix and his New York-based R&B band, Curtis Knight and the Squires, in October of 1965. The contract gave Hendrix only one percent of any royalties that his recordings earned and the sum of "one dollar." After leaving Chalpin and Knight, many years of legal battles ensued regarding that first contract. The Ed Chalpin Collection contains, among other documentation of these disputes, a copy of the controversial contract and early photos of Hendrix with the Squires (see below).
Jeff Gold is a collector of rock and roll memorabilia and operator of the Internet-based store Recordmecca. Rolling Stone has called him one of the top five collectors of music memorabilia in the world, and he acts as a consultant for various cultural institutions, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington. Among other Hendrix-related materials, the Jeff Gold Collection contains the single largest set of international Jimi Hendrix records and sleeves in existence, encompassing all legitimate Hendrix releases prior to 1992 in every variation Gold could find. Spotlight items include: a copy of the rare "My Diary" by Rosa Lee Brooks, one of Hendrix's first recording sessions as a backup guitarist; some spectacular 7-inch picture sleeves and international album covers; and rare bootleg records of live concerts.
One of the most prized items in the Library and Archives' collections is Hendrix's handwritten lyrics to "Purple Haze," which appeared on the 1967 album Are You Experienced. Written on a small piece of lined yellow note paper that appears to have been crumpled into a ball by a frustrated or disappointed author, the lyrics are different than that of the "Purple Haze" we all know. These lyrics tell less of a story than the final version, evoking more of a visceral, emotional response through their poetic, stream of consciousness telling: Purple Haze … Beyond insane / is it pleasure or is it pain— / Down on the ceiling / looking up at the bed… / See my Body painted / Blue and red— / I see fetus unborn / pointing at the Time— / Rush through space… / My hair is Blowing in thier [sic] minds. / Through the Haze / I see 1,000 crosses / Scratched in the — scratched into what? We may never know. Perhaps there is a mate to this page out there somewhere, and someday the separated parts will be reunited back into a whole; or maybe this train of thought was abandoned altogether, and we may never know what those 1,000 crosses were scratched into in Hendrix's mind — such is the mysterious and often serendipitous world of archival materials and research.
To celebrate Hendrix's 70th birthday, the Library and Archives has created a new Jimi Hendrix research guide to help lead you on the journey through the numerous archival collections and library materials related to Jimi Hendrix. Enjoy!

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Grilled Portobello and Roasted Red Pepper Sandwich with Pistachio Pesto
While I was doing research for the pistachio pesto that I made I came across the idea of using it in a portobello sandwich on Tung in Cheek . I often enjoy using pestos as a condiment or a spread in sandwiches and I had been wanting to try grilling up a portabello mushroom and throwing it into a sandwich for a while. I just had to make sure to remember to reserve some of the pistachio pesto for the sandwich. I was thinking that a roasted red pepper would go really well with the grilled portabello in the sandwich. Since I really like the roasted red pepper and balsamic vinegar combo I wanted to work some balsamic vinegar into the sandwich and I did so by brushing the mushroom with it before grilling it. I still had some of the spinach from making the pesto so I threw some of that into the sandwich instead of the more common lettuce. Of course it would not be a sandwich without the bread and my first choice was a nice ciabatta. The grilled portobello and roasted red pepper sandwich with pistachio pesto turned out really well! I liked the way that the grilled portobello worked in a sandwich. It was nice and meaty and filling all the while being a mushroom which is always tops in my books. The roasted red pepper and balsamic vinegar added a ton of flavour to the sandwich and the pesto added a really nice creaminess and freshness. I am now looking forward to experimenting with more portobello sandwiches.
Grilled Portobello and Roasted Red Pepper Sandwich with Pistachio Pesto
- 1 portobello mushroom
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Last Modified: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 10:22 a.m.
RALEIGH | A farmer referendum on whether to continue an assessment on sales of seven types of grain will take place Aug. 7, the N.C. Small Grain Growers Association has announced.
The assessment amount would be half of 1 percent on sales of wheat, rye, oats, barley, rapeseed, canola and grain sorghum. The assessment period would run from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2019.
All North Carolina small-grain growers who are at least 18 years old by Aug. 7 are eligible to vote during regular business hours at their local N.C. Cooperative Extension office. For more details, contact Dan Weathington, executive director of the association, at (919) 809-8657.
The N.C. Board of Agriculture approved the association's request for the referendum at its Feb. 26 meeting.
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Often times social settings are populated by timid palates. If they are friends, I just refer to them as crybabies. If they are not, I just refer to them as timid palates, because I don't want them to get all offended and crybaby on me.
To make Grotte Caputo we start with a very young Wisconsin Asiago made by our long lost Caputo cousins back East. Their family and company name is also Caputo. When it gets to us it is extremely young and essentially flavorless.
We age in a very simplistic manner. About 8 months of anaerobic aging kills all the Asiago starter cultures. Over time, adjunct cultures in the cheese paste which are more similar to the air-hating bacteria found in Gouda start to take over. By 14 months we have a cheese that is halfway between Asiago and hard Double Aged Gouda, with its crunchy little protein crystals and sweet nutty taste. It is basically like candy made of milk solids.
It also has the uncanny ability to pair with any beverage–everything from easygoing crisp whites to burly tannic reds. However, don't stop there. Try it with big beers like IPAs, and Bourbon Whiskeys. Even for dessert, it is a match made in heaven with Charming Beard's La Minita Costa Rica. These third wave coffee beans from Utah's coolest new roaster smell like floral honey while still in the bag so it is no wonder they light up this cheese when brewed. In fact, I can safely say this unorthodox pairing is as good as most great wine pairings.
Come try some of this crybaby-approved cheese. Snobs, don't worry, it may be a cheap trick, but so are many of life's guilty pleasures.


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I know it's all normal and I know he'll get it under control eventually, so, why, you might ask, is his penis a Problem with a capital P? Well, why else? It's the girls. For whatever reason, very few of my daughter's friends have brothers, and when these friends come over to our house, my little pantless wonder is often their first exposure to the male anatomy. Sure, they've probably seen their dads, but it's not the same as when it's on a kid, who's having fun twirling it. They stare at it. They laugh at it. Then they stare at it some more, and all I can think about is them going home and telling their mothers about the great playdate they had at our house with Harper and Davis and Davis's penis. So I whisper to him. "Davis, you need to put your pants on when we have guests." "But, we're at home," he argues. "You said I only have to wear pants when we go out." Which is true. I did say that. But what good am I as a mother if I don't make up confusing, contradictory rules that change with each new circumstance?
So now we wear pants to school, and we wear pants when we have guests. But when we're home with no guests, we don't wear pants. I'm sure new circumstances will arise, and as they do, I'll continue to make Penis rules asI see fit. But I'm really looking forward to a time when his penis becomes his problem, and not mine.
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I have 3 hrs old and I have noticed that when I go to take shower,he goes inside the blanket and takes his penis out from the trousers and lies down. He has been doing this from some time now and don't know how to deal with this. Please suggest me something.
Oh boy, I can so relate to this. My daughter was a perpetual nudist (we called it tummy & Toes) as a preschooler and once proudly proclaimed to a stranger in the Target baby department that she didn't have two belly buttons, one of them was a vaginia. My second child never wanted to be naked (not even his toes) but was more than eager to teach his baby brother body parts--starting with the penis. Before he knew where is nose was, my youngest son knew his penis thanks to his brother's help and catchy song. Now, my youngest is 4yo and has a very hard rock song "written" by himself that talks all about his penis, his booty, and everything else he can move on his body. He performs for any guests in our home to his toy electric guitar, or even his accordian if he can't find the former. Body part fascination knows no limits, but I'd rather they have a healthy body image than ever be ashamed of what they look like anywhere. I'll live with the emall embarassments now, with the hope that in the future they will have the confidence to walk proudly into any situation and fell sure of themselves (clothed, of course)
i'm a mother of a 5 year old and he still likes too sleep with his mom.he loves his pants to be off diring the night and loves too play with his penis and my boyfriends too.he makes noises in the bed that sound like he is trying to get his penis.
every mom has their nudist. My 4 year old little girl likes to run around the house completely in the nude. and also my 6 year old boy has discovered that his penis is getting bigger and constantly asks his stepfather why that in the morning time his penis is bigger than usual...aka morning wood and my husband told him that it has to deal with going to the bathroom because it embarrased my husband to talk to him at that age.
Oooooh, what I have to look foreward too....=o) My son is about to turn 2, he is not yet potty trained. We just had friends staying with us from out of town, and Oh how he loves to run around naked! It's soo cute though, and our guests are good friends and thought he was darling....
I'm sure as he gets older he will go though the fascination faze too...
first of all, lighten up Elle- maybe you should enjoy a 3 martini playdate. Secondly- OMG! I was cracking up! My son is 4 and finds his penis to be "funny", and giggles when I wash him it in the bath, but has not become completely in love with it, YET. He does, however, refuse to wear anything but underwear when we are at home. Boxer briefs, preferably. We call him Captain Underpants. This time is one to look back at and laugh, an awesome right of passage as a little boy- right up there with peeing in the shrubs!!!
I love this post. I have a two lovely boys, the oldest just turned two years. Already he has an absolute fascination. Recently, he has been upgraded to training pants from diapers. This was with the hope that they would stay on and he would have more difficulty getting them off. NOPE! My little genius has figured out that the training pants can been torn away so he can continue his naked rampage (we are also enjoying the Terrifyingly Teriffic Terrible Twos), I guess that is what I get for marrying a man named Houdini (SERIOUSLY!)
I am just waiting for my youngest to discover that like his brother he has one and play with his own instead of constantly trying to grab his brother's while my husband and I fight to get the training pants back on.
I was laughing so hard after I followed this link from sk*rt... last summer, when we were on vacation visiting my father-in-law, he, my wife, and our 7yo son were watching a video on the upcoming Beijing Olympics. It featured some very graceful and pretty Chinese dancers (you've probably seen some of the amazing things they do on YouTube). I was in the kitchen drinking some water, when I overheard my son say, with some concern in his voice, "Mommy, my penis is getting hard..." - my wife exclaimed loudly in embarrassment, whereupon I rushed into the living room and quickly assured him, "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you, it'll go back to normal soon!" My father in law just chuckled.


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News: Women's Soccer Dominates Compton, 3-0
For a team that has struggled to mount offense thus far this season, the Pasadena City College women's soccer team received a much needed jolt Tuesday in facing El Camino College-Compton Center. The Lancers bombarded Compton's defense for 24 shots and netted a 3-0, South Coast Conference victory at Robinson Stadium.
Lizbeth Rodriguez scored a pair of goals to lead PCC, now 4-5-4 and 2-3-2 in conference. The Lancers snapped a 5-match winless streak (0-3-2), a stretch in which they scored just four goals combined.
In the 35th minute, Rodriguez (Sierra Vista High) took a pass from Cassandra Orozco on the left side and her roller found the corner of the net for a 1-0 PCC lead. In the 69th minute, Helena Macintosh fed a lead pass to Rodriguez and the sophomore punched the ball high and over the head of Compton goalie Junnipher Guerrero for her second score. Four minutes later, Sara Oceguera (Blair High) dribbled from center of the field and finished with a high-rising shot into the upper corner for her second goal.
PCC goalie Angie Ulmer (South Pasadena HS) only had to make one save to preserve the shutout as she faced just two shots overall. Compton's Guerrero made 11 saves, including stoning Bianca Martinez's header (53rd minute) and Isabella Montano's short drive (66th minute).
In a SCC match played October 18 at PCC, first-place Cerritos routed the Lancers, 5-0.
On Friday, October 25, Pasadena hosts El Camino College (Torrance) in a 3 p.m. SCC game following the men's contest at 1 p.m.
[Photo--Sara Oceguera (right) celebrates her first goal of the season with teammate Lizbeth Rodriguez during PCC's 3-0 win over ECC Compton Tuesday at Robinson Stadium, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
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Store personnel inside Scheels saw Charles Rogers, 18, of Iowa City, pick up two hats about 1:50 p.m. March 15 and hide them in an American Eagle bag he was carrying, according to a police report. Rogers left the store without paying, according to police, and was contacted by authorities.
Rogers was cooperative, police reported, and now faces a charge of misdemeanor theft.
Hes scheduled to appear in court on the charge April 19.
Rogers, a 6-2, 190-pound quarterback, chose to sign with Iowa State over Minnesota and Northern Illinois earlier this year.
Iowa State-bound West High quarterback accused of theft at Coral Ridge Mall | TheGazette
beat me to it cigman..
I hope they were clones hats at least
Self proclaimed 2012 CF Newcomer of the Year
He is in Florida for spring break must not be too bad.
Hooray what are we in the fulmer cup standings?
Just another example of the IC police going after a kid just b/c he's going to Iowa State.......
Originally Posted by CyBer
Hooray what are we in the fulmer cup standings?
No points awarded. Not an ISU student (yet).
For 2 hats, death penalty. Take him down.
We have a poor history of guys getting second chances here after mall problems.
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Sic Semper Jayhawks
At least its not a Bernstine kind of thing. Thug.
Originally Posted by Clones85'
Just another example of the IC police going after a kid just b/c he's going to Iowa State.......
Yeah I hope once a recruit (or poster on this board) is unleashed from the academy he is stationed in IC ot put an end to this injustice
Wasted Fulmer Cup points...
Originally Posted by CyDude16
Wasted Fulmer Cup points...
TCU still holding a commanding lead:
Royce does not believe it.
Nobody but HB knows for sure. You pretty much know nothing....like Knownothing would like to say.
I am not disappointed in the fact that he is stealing...I am disappointed that he is still shopping at American Eagle, someone else this kid with some style tips
I bet the Scheels employee that caught him recognized him and is a Hawkeye fan and/or U of I student.
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Suspended Rider returns to the Peloton but can we move on & Doping Panel Discussion
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Don't miss the Panel Discussion at Retul Wednesday Night!
This week we come full circle in the impact of doping in our own local community, as of November 24, Chuck Coyle is a free man and can race again, this after having served a 2 year sanction by USADA. Chuck was one of the first of few who have so far been busted by the the famous list of Joe Papp. The last suspended rider to return to the peleton, Todd Roberson so far has not been welcomed very well given some of the comments from fellow riders. Once someone is suspend for such an act are they branded for life or can the cycling community find ways to move on?
Some say that say that it's the silence of the riders that prevents them from moving on. Some won't talk but Chuck did share a few words with us
Chuck racing Sunday
I am really excited to get back out and race again. I wouldn't wish the situation I was in on anyone but it ended up being a blessing in disguise. It helped put a lot of things into perspective for me, remind me of what is important and who my true friends are. There are many who once finished racing professionally stop racing all together. That is not me, I love the competition and pushing myself. I don't ride 1/4 of what I once did but still love competing....I'm just further back in the pack now.
See you at the races!
Before you scroll down to the 'Add Comment' link lets stop to think about all that has happened in the last 2 years in cycling, for starters the Lance Armstrong and the world around him has come crashing down, a Grand Fondo guy gets nailed for doping and USADA is coming to Colorado. Progress to clean up our sport is moving forward but dopers in the amateur fields in Colorado still exist according to a very good source of mine but does writing done of hateful comments clean up the sport or threatening to "push him into a ditch make you better"? I say, let's look forward to clean up the sport, welcome USADA to Colorado races and events and support those teams, organization and promoters who do what they can to ensure that we have a healthy growing sport for the future.
Come to the Panel Discussion on Doping Wednesday
Come to Retul in Boulder or Listen to it live where George Thomas of Over the Top Radio leads a panel discussion with a select set of panelist and from the audience on the topic
Location: Retul
5445 Conestoga Court #100
Time 6:30 pm
Panelist include
Timmy Duggan: Reigning US Pro Road Champion, 2012 Olympic Team 2012 World's Team currently racing with Team Saxo-Tinkoff
Michael Aisner: Director Red Zinger Classic, Announcer, Promoter. Influential in the sport since the early 80s and, in my opinion, a perfect voice for where cycling has been, where it is now and where it's going.
Ruthie Matthes: National Champion in multiple road and mountain events, World Champion MTB, Olympic Team member. Ruthie offers a unique perspective on this topic as someone who built her sport and saw changes as it grew.
Shawn Heidgen: Shawn raced professionally and stayed clean at the height of the EPO years. Amazing stories. She works for Training Peaks and analyzes TdF power data from selected racers.
Don Powell: Don is owner and president of Panache Cyclewear. He cut his legs in the gutters of Belgium, racing several seasons as a professional rider before finishing his career riding in the US for Saab.
If you cannot attend feel free to listen live and send your questions/comments to firstname.lastname@example.com or on Over the Top Radio's Facebook Page
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I never said there was a
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I never said there was a dope-free era. I didn't harken back to anything. My point is that this era needs to start now. Period.
Points: -1
I must've been confused, you
Submitted by Dementia-riddled (not verified) on
I must've been confused, you said rebuild it as we know it... I guess you meant rebuild it as we wish it could be.
Points: -5
Got questions tonight for the panel?
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Send you questions to email@example.com
We will also be streaming on Velonews as well... stay tuned for more information
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Aisner and doping? You've
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Aisner and doping? You've got to be kidding.
How may urine/doping tests did he(staff)get rid of?
Ask him!
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"...further back in the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
"...further back in the pack.." Did you mean where you would have ridden sans PEDs?
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It's been a while and I can't
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
It's been a while and I can't recall all the details. but I do have a question... Did Chuck ever admit to doping or did he cling to his story that his team mates were to blame for using his credit card, computer, and address to buy drugs? To me, contrition is a key component to a rider returning from a ban or regaining any respect.
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Excellent question but it might not be that easy
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
The original article is linked above somewhere and that is his teammates did it. Regardless, it might not be that easy for him or others to admit guilt if that is the case. Take Lance for example, if he admits he would not only be purgery but he could than have tons of lawsuits thrown at him for being fraud. (I'm no lawyer so I might be way off, but that seems likely to me). So while we may want the confession booth and the rider too, they might be fearful for legal reasons to do so.
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I find it so surprising that
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I find it so surprising that people want a local guy to give up his purses, sponsorship, and other benefits; yet, GH,DZ, CVV, TD, JV, and others get a pass.
Those frauds are not heros.
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In my original post about him
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In my original post about him giving back everything he gained from doping I did not mean that only he should. I think it should be a prerequisite for EVERY doper if he / she wants to return to the peloton.
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Lufthansa Highlights: "Hot Chocolate"
How does the Arctic Ocean taste? Mainly salty, and somehow cool. Enric Rovira has enveloped a grain of salt in white chocolate that melts on your tongue like a drop of seawater. "Each ocean has its own particular characteristics and is associated with different sensations," says Rovira, who looks more like a physicist than a chocolatier with his close-cropped hair, athletic physique and clear eyes, "I have been trying to transform these sensations into chocolate."
His Oceans collection comprises five chocolate boxes the size of cobblestones, each in a color that resonates with the sensual properties of its designated ocean and of the truffles inside. The freezing Arctic is snow-white, the hardly warmer Antarctic, ice-blue, and its wild, effervescent character expressed in a lemon soda-and-chili center. The Indian Ocean (brilliant turquoise) tastes of Iranian pistachio and Indian tea, the Atlantic (petrol-blue) of African spices and peanut cracknel from Brazil, and the Pacific (a deep, vivid blue) blends ingredients from countries that characterize its two extremes: nori algae from Japan and sweetcorn from Mexico. Enric Rovira, alchemist, artist and chocolatier all rolled into one has been hailed as the grand master among Barcelona's young chocolate designers.
Young Enric first experimented with his chosen medium in his pastry cook father's kitchen before gaining practical experience with some of the big chocolate producers and finally starting his own business in 1993, a chic, minimalistically styled shop in Barcelona's upmarket Les Corts neighorhood. Now local gourmets and pilgrims from Japan and the United States come here to buy boxes of rose-pepper, violet or cedar-flavored chocolate drops. His bestseller is the Planetarium Collection: nine planets and the sun. Mars tastes of Earl Grey tea, the sun of Williams pears and Earth of salt and pepper. But the Barcelona Collection – slim chocolate squares decorated with the modernist Gaudí patterns to be found on the city's paving stones – is almost as popular.
Just why such creativity in the chocolate trade has bubbled to the surface in Barcelona of all places is a fair question to ask. Enric Rovira is not the only person in the Catalan capital to have achieved success with exquisite cocoa products. In fact, the city has a long tradition in chocolate, and some even say that this is where the dark beans from Latin America made their first appearance on European soil. The first cocoa beans were allegedly among a lot of other hitherto unknown things that Christopher Columbus brought back to the Spanish court of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand from his first expedition to the New World. It was just that back then, no one was interested in them.
Nor did Hernando Cortés, who conquered part of Mexico in 1519, derive any pleasure from the bitter-tasting beans – except as a form of currency. Cortés set up a cocoa plantation to grow this new "gold" for the Spanish, and in 1528 he brought the first sacks of cocoa to Spain. At court, he demonstrated how to prepare the Aztecs' hot chocolate, a mixture of crushed cocoa beans, sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. The Spanish aristocracy loved the stuff and called for more and more of the dark beans to be imported. In fact, they kept the recipe for the bitter-sweet drink a closely guarded secret for 100 years, and only after that did cocoa become popular in the rest of Europe, too.
The Swiss, Belgians, Dutch and English later overtook the Spanish in the business of producing chocolate because they used better machinery, better techniques and better forms of distribution. Although the processing of cocoa beans continued in Spain, chocolate production remained a small-scale, artisanal undertaking of little or no international significance. Now all that has changed and today, Barcelona is once again a Xocolata center. And it even boasts a chocolate museum devoted to the history and processing of cocoa beans.
"We were always good at it, it's just that no one knew anything about marketing," Oriol Balaguer explains. At his chocolate factory just around the corner from Enric Rovira's, 25 people work in two big kitchens full of stainless steel equipment, one of them devoted solely to the creation of chocolates. Balaguer, who spent seven years working as a patissier with the legendary molecular cook Ferran Adrià's El Bulli, today sells between 60 and 70 tons of chocolate a year; a tiny portion at his two spacey shops in Barcelona and Madrid, the rest all over the world.
The streamlined creations of his Macletà Collection are particularly coveted for their distinctive centers: creamy and crunchy, sweet and sour, smooth and effervescent all at the same time. Also popular are his High Techocolates filled with ganache in raspberry, saffron or yuzu tea flavor. "We have the chefs to thank for the recognition we Spanish chocolatiers are now receiving," says Balaguer. What he means is that the chocolate boom is following in the wake of the meteoric rise in reputation of Spain's gourmet avant-garde, who invest in unconventional concepts.
One highly unusual restaurant, the Espai Sucre, serves only desserts. It was first set up as a dessert school by Spain's star patissier Jordi Butrón, but because the students and their teachers were not the only people with the hots for their sweet creations, an intimate, ultramodern restaurant with vanilla and chocolate-colored walls soon opened right next door. Here, Ricard Martinez, ex-student and ex-teacher at the school, prepares three dessert menus daily, of which one dish only is chocolate-based.
A typical menu might be a pastry-based chocolate slice, a layered chocolate-and-basil mousse and a layered pumpernickel ice cream – all of which taste both surprising and good. Martinez has a predilection for whacky combinations, as he himself admits. "Here, taste this," he says, "you need to have tried it yourself to believe that black truffles and chocolate really go together."


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Vajrayana Buddhism is most closely associated with Tibet and can be characterized by the figure of the siddha, the master whose spiritual realization is so profound that he or she has power over the phenomenal world, and in whom the profundity and vastness of absolute truth is fully and completely manifested. Many of our most well-known authors come from this tradition of Tibetan Buddhism .
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Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sutras
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This classic collection of texts on the meditation practice and theory of Dzogchen presents the Great Perfection through the writings of its supreme authority, the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar and visionary Longchen Rabjam. The pinnacle of Vajrayana practice in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, Dzogchen embodies a system of training that awakens the intrinsic nature of the mind to reveal its original essence, utterly perfect and free from all duality—buddha… Read More
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A Brief Commentary on the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Cures the Suffering of the Sickness of Karma and DefilementThe moment you invoke me, I, Padmasambhava, Have no choice but to come to bless you. Of all the heartfelt devotional prayers used as a support for Dharma practice, the Seven-Line Prayer is the most essential, often repeated many thousands of times by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. This concise prayer invokes the blessings of Padmasambhava, also called Guru Rinpoche ("Precious Teacher") and known as the Buddha of our time. Guru… Read More
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The Course in Buddhist Reasoning and Debate
An Asian Approach to Analytical Thinking Drawn from Indian and Tibetan SourcesBuddhism is a wisdom tradition. It asserts that we are liberated by the power of our own understanding. The three purposes of Buddhist debate are to defeat your own and others' misconceptions, to establish your own correct view, and to clear away objections to your view. It is like the approach of a physician—to remove what does not belong and to strengthen what does. Thus, for Buddhists, reasoning and… Read More
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Refining Our Perception of Reality
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Wondrous Dance of Illusion
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Buton's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet
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Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature
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Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book Two
Vajrayana and the Great PerfectionThis second and concluding volume of Jigme Lingpa's classic Treasury of Precious Qualities is presented together with a detailed commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche. Composed in the form of a lamrim, or presentation of the stages of the path, the first volume set out the teachings of the sutras. The present volume continues this same structure and is a general description of the tantra teachings followed by an exposition of the… Read More
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On behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz today issued three royal decrees on the state's budget for the Fiscal Year 1432/1433 H (FY 2011).
The first royal decree:
The State's revenues for Fiscal Year 1432/1433 [FY 2011] are estimated at SR540 billion [US $144 billion]. The expenditures for FY 1432/1433 [FY 2011] amounts to SR 580 billion [$154.67 billion].
The Minister of Finance is authorized to withdraw from this account to replenish the expenditures for the projects currently financed from the surpluses of the fiscal years extending from 1424H to 1428H. Budget surplus shall be returned to the state reserves. No withdrawals are allowed from it unless authorized by a royal decree. The Minister of Finance is authorized to borrow and transfer from the state reserves, as deemed necessary, to settle public debt and cover the budget deficit.
The second royal decree
Revenues and expenditures of governorates, municipalities and rural compounds
The expenses of municipalities and rural compounds for the FY 1432/1433H are estimated at SR23,127,660,000 ($6,167,376,000).
The revenues of governorates, municipalities for the FY 1432/1433H are estimated at (SR3,257,320,000) ($868,618,667).
The difference between direct revenues and expenses amounted to SR19,870,340,000 ($5,298,757,333) shall be approved in the State's general budget.
The expenditures shall be disbursed in accordance with the applicable financial regulations and instructions.
Governorates and municipalities shall levy their revenues in accordance with applicable regulations and instructions and the concerned bodies shall follow-up the implementation of this.
Transference of article surplus of the governorates and municipalities to other governorates and municipalities shall only be authorized by the consent of President of Council of the Minister upon the recommendation of the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Minister of Finance.
The Minister of Finance shall issue the necessary instructions for implementation within regulations set forth in this Decree.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Minister of Finance each according to his authority, implement this Decree accordingly.
Third royal decree
Revenues and expenditures of general organizations whose budgets are annexed to the state's general budget for FY 1432/1433H are estimated and approved as follows:
Revenues and expenditures shall be levied and disbursed in accordance with applicable regulations and instructions.
With the exception of the General Organization for Saudi Arabian Airlines, the budgets of other general organizations shall be governed by the provisions provided for in Articles 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the Royal Decree No. M/5 dated 14/1/1432H, approving the State General Budget for the FY 1432/1433H.
The Minister of Finance shall issue the necessary instructions to implement this within the stipulations in this decree.
The Deputy Premier, Ministers and Heads of Authorities with independent budgets shall implement this decree in accordance with their specified authorizations.
The decision of the Cabinet No. M/5 of 14/1/1432H, approved the general budget of the state for the FY 1432/1433H and stated that all government agencies should spend no more than budget's appropriations and should not commit to any expenditure that has no allocation. In this regard, the Cabinet's decision number 157 dated 12/9/1420H, should be applied. In the case of an emergency that cannot be deferred, the matter should be reported to the King according to Article 73 of the Basic Law and Article 27 of the Regulation of the Cabinet.


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Apply security principles to design
- Harden application design by applying security design principles.
- Identify security risks in third-party components.
- Designer
- As necessary; at least once per iteration.
Refine existing application security profile
This activity is performed on an existing design. If it follows other CLASP activities, the team will have done the following before this point:
- Identified resources in the system and capabilities on those resources;
- Identified roles in the system;
- Identified trust boundaries; and
- Identified requirements for providing security services on a resource-by-resource basis, throughout the lifetime of the resource.
Often, all of this information will be identified in the requirements. If any of the information is not present, it should be produced at this time.
If the information does exist, it should be updated to account for additional detail and refinements that have since been added to the architecture.
At the end of this subtask, one should understand the security needs for each role resource in the system, throughout the complete lifetime of the application, including security requirements for data links and long-term data storage.
Determine implementation strategy for security services
Security requirements should specify what needs to be done in relation to core security services. The purpose of design is to elaborate on how those requirements will be met.
Identify solutions for meeting security requirements at each identified point in the design by adhering to the following principles:
- Look for third-party solutions, starting the search with a preference for well-vetted off-the-shelf solutions to untrusted solutions or in-house solutions. For example, when cryptography is viewed as a solution to a problem, look first to see if there are recent standards from well-regarded standards bodies that address the problem.
For example, the recent trend for standards by organizations such as the IETF, IEEE, ITU, and NIST is to adopt well-vetted research ideas into standards, then bring in external security review. Do enough diligence to build confidence that the research community is not worried about the standard. If no good standard exists, try to leverage software that has a clear lineage from peer-reviewed academic research and avoid designing your own solutions without the guidance of a well-respected cryptographer.
- When considering off-the-shelf technologies, perform a risk assessment of the technology before designing it into the system, as discussed in the next activity. When choosing to integrate the technology, go back and integrate additional security requirements into the product requirements as appropriate.
- Design appropriate validation mechanisms - input validation, authentication, and authorization - wherever data can enter a system or cross a trust boundary. For example, in a multi-tier system with a firewall, it is insufficient to perform either input validation or authentication on data of external origin, because insiders behind the firewall would be able to inject data without being validated.
A more reasonable solution is to validate on every architectural tier and to pass credentials securely between architectural components.
- Ensure that identified solutions address risks to the desired degree. For example, input validation routines that only perform basic pattern matching and do not perform syntactic validation can often be circumvented. See the discussion in CLASP Resource B on input validation.
- Prefer the simplest solution that meets requirements. Complex solutions tend to both have additional inherent risks and be harder to analyze.
- When multiple security solutions are necessary to better alleviate risks - i.e., a single solution is left with risk that still needs to be mitigated using another solution - be sure that, if there is an instance of a risk that one of the solutions can address, the risk does get addressed. For example, if using multiple authentication factors such as passwords and smart cards, a user should need to validate using both technologies, instead of simply one.
If this "defense-in-depth" strategy is taken, the attacker has to thwart both authentication mechanisms. Otherwise, the system is only as good as the weaker of the two mechanisms - the "weakest-link" principle.
- Look for ways to minimize exposure if defenses are somehow compromised: e.g., fine-grained access control, trusted systems, or operational controls such as backups, firewalls, and the like.
Build hardened protocol specifications
While it is desirable to use high-level protocols for security such as SSL/TLS, most applications will ultimately define their own semantics and thus their own protocols when communicating.
No matter how simple, protocols that are developed in-house should be well-specified so that they can be analyzed. They should always be rigid in what they accept. This means that the method for performing input validation should be apparent in the protocol specification.
A cryptographer should analyze any system containing new protocols for secure communication or identity establishment authored by the development organization. Protocols should also be as simple as feasible so as to be as easy to analyze as is feasible.
One should also specify what happens on error conditions. Generally, when errors are not related to well-known classes of accidental user error, it is best to fail safely and reset, even if there is minimal lack of availability created, because secure recovery from unexpected and infrequent classes of errors is generally quite difficult to perform.
Design hardened interfaces
API interfaces themselves define protocols, and should be treated in the same way, with well-defined specifications, including specifications defining valid input. Note that - as discussed in the Input Validation concept - checking the range of each parameter in isolation is not always a sufficient specification. Be thorough in defining under which circumstances data is semantically valid. For example, if the first parameter affects what values are valid for the second parameter, this should be noted in a specification.
APIs should also come with well-specified error handling mechanisms. Callers should be forced to deal with unusual conditions when they occur. Particularly, do not specify use of error codes that a developer will often ignore. Instead, specify use of an exception that - if all else fails - will be caught at the top level; in this case, the program should fail securely and reset.
Additionally, one should focus on exporting a few simple APIs, which will minimize the attack surface.


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The first sixty hours of lower division coursework (100 and 200 level courses) are generally devoted to general education courses in English, oral
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Anne Marble
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:03 pm
Post subject: Heroes and Duels
What do you think of plots involving duels, particularly involving heroes who kill people in duels? Have you ever hated a hero because he killed someone in a duel fought over something senseless? Or cheered for him when he killed a horrid villain in a duel?
Also, can you recommend stories where dueling is central to the story? (In SF, I love the duels Honor Harrington have been involved in -- she kicks @ss.
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As a general rule, I dislike duels. In order to be a hero, the hero of course must be invincible and a dead accurate shot (leaving aside the impossibility of being a marksman with early 19th century pistols). To me, threatening duels knowing he is unbeatable smacks of bullying.
That being said... I did like the hero's duel in Mary Balogh's More than a Mistress (he has been in many duels and has deloped in every single one) His injury in that duel sets off his relationship with the heroine, who becomes his nurse. I also like the early Horatio Hornblower novel in which he gets in a duel.
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:09 pm
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Also, can you recommend stories where dueling is central to the story?
The Serpent Prince
by Elizabeth Hoyt. Just finished it recently and loved it.
I also like the early Horatio Hornblower novel in which he gets in a duel.
Love that one as well!
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:21 pm
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Duels work for me, although I prefer that they not kill their opponent. I think more than that gentlemen who practice fencing appeal to me. It was the sport of its day and implies a certain level of physicality which is appealing. It also allows us a glimpse into the male world, where most romances are generally set very much in the woman's world of the Regency with the exception of a few scenes at gentleman's clubs.
This question also reminded me of Heyer's The Masqueraders where both brother and sister are expert in the art, and conversations are as likely to happen in the fencing masters studio as a ball.
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Trish B
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:03 pm
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Gaelen Foley's
The Duke
has a memorable duel scene. A scheduled duel kicks off Laura Kinsale's
Flowers From the Storm
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Heroes and Duels
Anne Marble wrote:
What do you think of plots involving duels, particularly involving heroes who kill people in duels? Have you ever hated a hero because he killed someone in a duel fought over something senseless? Or cheered for him when he killed a horrid villain in a duel?
Also, can you recommend stories where dueling is central to the story? ...
Except for Elizabeth Hoyt's The Serpent Prince, where the hero participates in more duels, I can't think of a romance where duelling is "central to the story" - part of the story, and moving the plot on, yes. The hero usually wins; the opponent usually survives. I can think of two Georgette Heyer ones off the top of my head - Devil's Cub and The Masqueraders; Cheryl Sawyer's The Chase. Would you also include hand-to-hand combat to death - e.g. in medievals like Laura Kinsale's For My Lady's Heart, and (I think) several of Jo Beverley's medievals ( one was Dark Champion, IIRC) ? Usually if the opponent is killed, the author manages to persuade you that he deserved to die, so I don't tend to feel too strongly about it! (OK, so I'm bloodthirsty)
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Elaine S
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Barbara Metzger's "The Duel" is a comedy of errors based on a duel. As always with this writer, it's cleverly plotted and written with great dialogue.
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Jane G
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The Duke and I by Julia Quinn features a duel pretty heavily... Simon, the hero, refuses to marry the heroine (he has his reasons), but he "compromises" her and is driven to a duel, and he has no intention of actually participating beyond showing up. It's not a major part of the book, but it's a bit of a turning point.
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Elizabeth Rolls
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Jo Beverley opens Devilish with a fencing duel and Rothgar kills his opponent. This is part of the plot so I won't go into whys and wherefore. Didn't have a problem with it personally although I suppose some might feel Bey over-reacted to an insult to his sister-in-law. Given the era - Georgian - I found it entirely believable and Bey did at least give the idiot a chance to retract. I'm bloodthirsty enough to have figured the idiot deserved it, for stupidity if nothing else
The only potential duel that I've indulged in was broken up by the heroine. Not what I planned originally. It was one of those cases where a character just takes over
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ZF-2013: Implement ArrayAccess to Zend_Db_Table_Row_Abstract
I'd like to be able to use array access instead of object access sometimes:
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Assigned to Bill
Attaching a patch that makes Zend_Db_Table_Row_Abstract implement ArrayAccess.
Please categorize/fix as needed.
This doesn't appear to have been fixed in 1.5.0. Please update if this is not correct.
Resolved as duplicate.
Re-opening this issue... it's not a duplicate! This one's about Zend_Db_Table_Row, while the other is about Zend_Db_Table_Rowset
Resolved in rev. 11970. Waiting for unit tests to be fixed before closing the issue.
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A painter reaches to lather on a coat of white paint on Miller Hall's belfry high above Waynesburg University's campus.
Greene County will need to "stuff the bus" this year more than ever before.
Rices Landing United Methodist Church at 125 Main St. will hold a rummage sale Friday and Saturday each day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Food will be available.
A Mt. Morris teen was charged last week by Cumberland Township police with theft in three different cases of vehicle break-ins in Cumberland Township.
Appointment of a Fallowfield Township supervisor to oversee the park improvement project was removed from the agenda after questions were raised Wednesday.
Donald Trump talked trade and jobs with scrap aluminum as his backdrop in Monessen Tuesday.
Donald Trump's motorcade was greeted Tuesday in Monessen by small bands of supporters and opponents.
The financially strapped city of Monessen's bank balance is dwindling as it seeks state help to avoid becoming a distressed municipality.
California University of Pennsylvania is in its 50th year of helping disadvantaged students through the Upward Bound program.
State police urge drivers to take caution this weekend due to increased holiday travel.
The former manager of Trailblazer Federal Credit Union pleaded guilty to embezzlement of the former financial institution used by many employees of Washington County.
Washington County residents may be receiving a letter charging what Recorder of Deeds Debbie Bardella called an "outrageous fee" to obtain a copy of a deed.
An elderly man was injured Wednesday afternoon when a golf cart he was driving fell 30 feet over an embankment on West Pike Street in Houston.
The Washington man taken into custody at the same time as a man later charged with the shooting death of a Washington teen was ordered held for court on one of two sets of drug charges filed against him by a Washington County Drug Task Force detective.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
He's written a lot of great songs in the last half-century or so, but one of the very best Bob Dylan tunes is "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall," a ballad that Dylan penned in response to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis but, as with any timeless art, continues to have resonance...
Keyboards have been clattering furiously around the world since last Thursday's stunning decision by British voters to withdraw from the European Union, with fevered analyses of what it means for Britain's economy, our economy and the overall health of the European Union and whether...
You've probably heard of "pay to play" when it comes to charging students to participate in high school sports, but it could soon be "pay to learn" in the Central Greene School District.
The old saw has it that if you give people enough rope, they'll hang themselves.
OMAHA, Neb. – Michael Phelps is heading back to the Olympics.
LONDON – How much money might you be willing to pay for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to play tennis against Roger Federer on Centre Court at Wimbledon?
Buddy Ryan took a back seat to no one. Neither did his fierce defenses that won two Super Bowls.
LONDON – With a dominant first serve and strong play at the net, No. 6-seed Roberta Vinci of Italy defeated McMurray native Alison Riske, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 in the first round at Wimbledon Tuesday.
NICE, France – Aron Gunnarsson, every inch the bearded Viking, ran shirtless toward the Iceland fans and led them in their victory chants.
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired a 2016 third-round draft pick (77th overall) in a trade Saturday with the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forward Beau Bennett.
LAS VEGAS – Patrick Kane won the Hart Trophy Wednesday night, becoming the first player born and trained in the United States to be named the NHL's most valuable player.
The Stanley Cup-champion Pittsburgh Penguins open the 2016-17 NHL season at home Thursday, Oct. 13, against the Washington Capitals.
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text: Sketch comedy returns to our fair city with a drunken "Oi!" British National Theatre of America (BNTA) presents Twisted Cork, a show with very cheeky random wit, ridiculous characters and music too. Featuring a cast of Brits in search of a pint, Americans with a flare for the silly and a duck. TWISTED CORK runs through May 10th at McMullan's Irish Pub. Performances begin at 8pm but come early to grab your pint and fish 'n chips to bring into the show. Tickets are $8 at the door.


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Jim Benning owner and manager of Ainsworth-Benning in Spearfish, will receive the special service award. He provides employment for 65 to 130 people, many of whom are BHSU students. His company has worked on many prominent projects including Lookout Memorial Hospital, Spearfish Municipal Services Centre, Spearfish Convention Center, and Premier Bankcard in Spearfish. Their work also includes the BHSU Student Union and current landscaping projects.
His service to BHSU includes the donation of labor to renovate the Institutional Advancement Office, which is home to the Alumni Association, BHSU Foundation and Yellow Jacket Foundation staff members. He also donated the labor to install the new flagpole at Lyle Hare Stadium. Meeker indicated that this past year, Jim purchased a restored pickup with a flatbed for the sole purpose of letting the Alumni Association use it for their float.
Jim, as well as many of his employees, is an active supporter of BHSU. "Jim Benning and his crew have been incredibly supportive of Black Hills State," said Steve Meeker, vice president for Institutional Advancement. "Jim's donation of labor for renovation of the alumni office was a major investment in the university and the Alumni Association. Jim also works with the Alumni Association each year to help construct a Swarm Day parade float and even provides a trailer for our use."


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SEATTLE – Chris Petersen, who has built a reputation as an offensive innovator who carried the Boise State football program to its highest highs, has finally been swayed to take on a new challenge. Today, he has agreed to become head coach at the University of Washington.
"On behalf of the University of Washington and the entire Husky Nation, I am proud to welcome Chris Petersen as our new head football coach," Washington athletic director Scott Woodward said. "Coach Petersen's success and record are extraordinary, but even more impressive is the man himself. His integrity, work ethic and character make him an outstanding fit and leader of our student-athletes at UW. We are thrilled and proud to call Coach Petersen a Husky."
Petersen, 49, the only two-time winner of the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award (2006 and 2009), has compiled an exceptional 92-12 record in his eight seasons as Boise State head coach (2006-2013), including two unbeaten seasons (13-0 in 2006 and 14-0 in 2009) and two BCS bowl berths. He won five conference titles and posted a 57-6 record in conference play (WAC from 2006-10 and Mountain West from 2011-13).
Petersen, who also won the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award in 2010, led the Broncos to 10 or more wins in seven of his eight seasons and to 12 or more in four straight (2008-11).
At Washington, Petersen takes over a Husky squad that will receive its fourth straight bowl bid in the coming days, having finished the 2013 regular season with an 8-4 overall record.
In 2006, Petersen's first season in charge in Boise, he led the Broncos to their first undefeated season since 1958, when the school was a junior college. The 2006 season was capped by a 43-42 overtime win over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, a game remembered by many as one of the greatest in bowl-game history. That Boise team ended the year ranked No. 5 in the final Associated Press top 25 poll.
The following season, the Broncos went 10-3 and finished out of the polls for what would be the only time in Petersen's first seven seasons. The 2008 squad went 12-1 and ranked No. 11 in the final top 25, finishing the regular season undefeated.
In 2009, Petersen led the Broncos to their second undefeated campaign and another Fiesta Bowl berth. Boise State beat TCU, 17-10, in Arizona, becoming the first team from a non-BCS conference ever to win two BCS bowl games. The '09 Broncos checked in at No. 4 in the final AP poll.
The 2010 season ended with a 12-1 record, a No. 9 final ranking and a win in the Las Vegas Bowl, the first of three straight trips to Vegas for Boise State. In 2011, BSU once again went 12-1, finishing with a No. 8 final ranking. Last season, Petersen's team went 11-2 and beat Washington in the Las Vegas Bowl, good for a No. 18 final ranking.
This season, Boise State, which faced Washington in the first game at the newly renovated Husky Stadium, finished the regular season with an 8-4 and still awaits confirmation of a bowl game.
Throughout his teams' unmatched on-field success, Petersen also saw his Broncos succeed in the classroom. In 2011, Boise State was the only school to finish in the top 10 in both major polls and also receive a Public Recognition Award from the NCAA for finishing in the top 10 percent of the Academic Progress Rate (APR), the second of three straight such awards for the program.
Boise State's APR was second in the nation in 2011 and 2012 and Petersen was recognized in 2012 for having the best APR for the two previous years among all FBS coaches.
Known for his work with quarterbacks, Petersen tutored Ryan Dinwiddie, Jared Zabransky and Kellen Moore at Boise State. Moore, a classmate of former Husky wide receiver Cody Bruns at Prosser (Wash.) High, set an NCAA record with 50 career wins as a starting QB while winning three conference player of the year awards. Moore was the only player ever to record four 3,000-yard seasons in both passing and total offense. His 142 passing touchdowns were second-most in NCAA history while his 14,667 career passing yards were fifth-most. He twice led the nation in passing efficiency and set an NCAA record for season interception percentage, throwing just three in 431 attempts in 2009.
During the previous seven seasons, 47 Broncos earned all-conference honors (the 2013 All-MWC team hast yet to be revealed).
Before taking over as head coach at Boise State, Petersen served as the Broncos' offensive coordinator from 2001-05, during which his teams averaged 41.3 points per game, leading the nation in scoring in both 2002 and 2003.
Petersen began his coaching career in 1987 as freshman coach at his alma mater, UC Davis. In 1989, he became the Aggies' varsity wide receivers coach. In 1992, Petersen moved to Pittsburgh, where he was quarterbacks coach. That season, Alex Van Pelt passes for more than 3,100 yards and 20 touchdowns.
In 1993, Petersen moved back west to take over a QBs coach at Portland State, helping the Vikings to Division II playoff berths in each of his two seasons.
In 1995, he took a job at Oregon as the receivers coach under Mike Bellotti, a position he held before moving to Boise as offensive coordinator in 2001.
Born in Yuba City, Calif., on Oct. 13, 1964, Petersen graduated from Yuba City High in 1983 and went on to play quarterback at Sacramento City College. From there, he transferred to UC Davis, earning a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1988. He later earned a master's in educational psychology from Davis.
At Davis, he set numerous school records, including the single-season standards for passing efficiency, completions, completion percentage, touchdown passes and total offense as well as the career mark for completion percentage. He still remains in the top 10 in Aggies history in numerous season and career categories and his season and career completion percentage records still stand.
In 1986, Petersen was named the Northern California Athletic Conference Player of the Year and earned UC Davis' Colby E. Slater Award as the school's Male Athlete of the Year. He was also a captain and won the team's Jerry Norris Award (Most Valuable and Inspirational). He was inducted into the Cal Aggie Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997.
Petersen and his wife, Barbara, are parents of two sons, Jack and Sam.


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To support districts in implementing the new evaluation requirements, CDE worked with a variety of stakeholders to design, develop and pilot the Colorado State Model Evaluation System.
The Colorado State Model Evaluation System was guided by the recommendations by the State Council for Educator Effectiveness. The Rules and Regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education allow districts to choose to use the Colorado State Model Evaluation System OR create their own system as long as the system created adheres to state statute and rules.
The development of the Colorado State Model Evaluation System was guided by five key priorities:
- Data should inform decisions, but human judgment will always be an essential component of evaluations
- The implementation and evaluation of the system must embody continuous improvement.
- The purpose of the system is to provide meaningful and credible feedback that improves performance.
- The development and implementation of the evaluation systems must continue to involve stakeholders in a collaborative process.
- Educator evaluations must take place within a larger system that is aligned and supportive.
Colorado's approach to engaging key stakeholders in the development of a new evaluation system was highlighted in an August 2012 case study by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.
To learn more, download the Colorado State Model Evaluation System fact sheet.
New: 2015-16 School Year Rubrics Available
- Download the Teacher Rubric
In an effort to continuously improve the Colorado State Model Evaluation System, the CDE Educator Effectiveness team gathered feedback on the teacher rubric from both pilot and non-pilot districts during the 2013-14 school year. The feedback received on the teacher rubric guided improvements to the new version of the rubric such as clarifying and deleting elements.
- Download the Principal/Assistant Principal Rubric
- Rubric for audiologists
- Rubric for occupational therapists
- Rubric for physical therapists
- Rubric for school counselors
- Rubric for school nurses
- Rubric for school orientation and mobility specialists
- Rubric for school psychologists
- Rubric for school social workers
- Rubric for speech language pathologists
New: User's Guide for 2015-16
The User's Guide for the 2015-16 School Year is now available. If you would like a word verison of the user's guide, please contact Jean Williams.
Measuring the 50% Student Learning
The "Measures of Student Learning Guidance" is intended to give districts and BOCES a starting point for determining the 50 percent measures of student learning portion of teacher and principal evaluations. CDE is using pilot experience and overall feedback to improve this guidance over time. To access, visit the Measures of Student Learning Guidance website.
Determining a Final Educator Effectiveness Rating
S.B. 10-191 requires that 50 percent of an educator's evaluation be based on professional practices and 50 percent be based on multiple measures of student learning. Educators will earn a professional practice score based on the rubric and a measures of student learning score based on multiple measures. The professional practices score and the measures of student learning scores are combined to determine an overall effectiveness rating of Ineffective, Partially Effective, Effective or Highly Effective.There are several approaches and methods for combining these measures to arrive at a final effectiveness rating for educators. For information on the approach and method used in the model system download the appropriate document:
- Determining a Final Educator Effectiveness Rating for Teachers
- Determining a Final Educator Effectiveness Rating for Principals/Assistant Principals
See the effect of Senate Bill 14-165 (for the 2014-2015 school year) on the final rating when measures of student learning is weighted less than 50 percent for teachers and specialized service professionals. If you are weighting the measures of student learning less than 50 percent and using excel, please use this tool.
See the the effect of Senate Bill 14-165 on the final rating when measures of student learning is weighted less than 50 percent for principals. If you are weighting the measures of student learning less than 50 percent and using excel, please use this tool.
Model Appeals Process Guidance
State law requires that each school district provide an appeal process to allow teachers who receive a second consecutive rating of ineffective or partially effective to appeal that rating. The intent of the appeal process is to determine a final evaluation rating and identify whether or not a teacher retains nonprobationary status. Decisions about a teacher's employment status are separate from decisions about final evaluation ratings and probationary or nonprobationary status. View CDE's Model Appeals Process Guidance.
Sample District Evaluation Work Plan
As you begin to prepare to implement the new educator evaluation requirements in 2013-14, CDE has created an example timeline and process to follow as a support tool. Use this document as an optional guide to begin thinking about your district's process and potential timeline to implement the new evaluation requirements.


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Lufthansa Highlights Nizza-Saint Tropez: "Love in the winter"
My love affair with Saint-Tropez has lasted for almost twenty years. In the beginning, like everyone else, I came here only in the summer. Then I received an invitation to an intimate little birthday party in mid-February and the sender had added an enticing little postscript: "The mimosa are in bloom, so don't forget your sun cream." I couldn't believe it, but that's exactly how it was.
Since that trip I have packed my suitcase every year in February, when weather-related depression peaks in our more northern climes. The moment I step into my favorite bar at the Place des Lices and am greeted with a friendly "Bonjour Madame, a cup of coffee?," I enter a state of complete contentment and bliss.
The square bubbles with atmosphere, it is relaxed and beautiful in its own unspectacular way. Just a little square, of the type you find in any small town in the South of France. But in Saint-Tropez many things are just that little bit different, and that's why I love the Place des Lices. Twice a week there's a large marché provençal, and on other days the easy-going clack of the pétanque players reigns supreme.
There are a few very up-market shops, a small hotel, a greengrocer and a handful of ordinary cafes. I usually choose one of the five tables outside the La Tarte Tropézienne and order a frothy café-au-lait with a delectably scented, oven-fresh croissant. I bask in the delicate rays of the sun, which fall through the bare branches of the sycamore trees, forming bold stripes across the ground. Locals buzz past on their motor scooters, mothers take their children to school and sometime the person sitting at the table next to me will silently pass over their well-leafed copy of the local newspaper, Var-Martin, as they leave. I am suffused with happiness and the sensation of being a part of everyday life in Saint-Tropez, which is almost as pleasurable as the balmy temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius in the winter.
At lunchtime I eat a small snack down on the beach. There is no other option - I simply have to. Anyone familiar with Pampelonne will know what I mean. The long, sickle-shaped beach is deserted,
the numerous wooden huts which in the summer rent out loungers and sunshades are boarded up; no yachts bob on the bright blue sea. The first delicate green shoots sprout on the grapevines behind the beach and the countryside appears peaceful, pristine and natural.
"Would you like a table in the shade or would you prefer to sit in the sun?," enquires Patrice de Colmont in his gentle voice and the typical singsong intonation of the South of France. The Mediterranean winter has days when it is too hot in the sun and too cool in the shade. Which, admittedly, is a bit of a luxury problem. At least you have a choice: In the summer all you get is hot, always. And you take what you get. A table for breakfast at Café Sénéquier down by the harbor? Impossible! And if you're hoping to have Patrice de Colmont serve you lunch, you need luck and perseverance: Club 55 is widely considered the most important lunchtime meeting place down on the Pampelonne. Some even think it's the most important in the world.
In August tout le monde comes to Saint-Tropez, a fact that has been meticulously documented in gossip magazines around the world. In November the scant 6000 inhabitants have the town to themselves, although there are increasing numbers of true fans who come several times a year, and many like it better in the winter than in the crazy, wildly crowded summer season. There are three good reasons for this preference: sun, sun and more sun. As well as the luxury of having the enchanting little town to yourself, with its apricot and pistachio ice cream colored facades and wrought-iron balconies behind which the geraniums flower, even in January. A picturesque, perfectly shaped pier, large enough for the little fishing boats to jostle in amongst the floating mansions while their owners sit along the pier and mend their nets. Suddenly, it is no problem to get a table in the town's stylish bars and restaurants, and the owners even have time for a little chat.
The next morning I go down to the fish market, arriving far too early. Overnight the mistral has arrived, a strong, chilly wind that blows away anything not securely battened down.
The terraces in front of the cafes are deserted; waves pelt the stone harbor wall, drenching the surroundings with two-meter plumes of spray; the air is heavy with salt and overhead scraps of cloud scurry towards the ocean.
It is cold, and raven-haired Arielle is wearing two thick wool sweaters. She is standing right at the entrance to the passageway and sells what her fisherman, Matthieu, managed to catch in the early hours of the morning: pink sea bream, a few heavy scorpion fish and live langoustines at 75 euros per kilo. Even in the winter she is down at the market every day, except on those rare occasions when Matthieu decides that the sea is too rough to go fishing. The winters in Saint-Tropez are mild and sunny, and snow and frosty temperatures are virtually unknown.
I have often toyed with the idea of moving to the South of France, just to experience days like these, days that can be so intimate and cheerful and charming. "Don't do it," advises a nice lady I meet in the Stuart Weitzman shoe shop. "You have no idea how quiet it can get." Nonetheless, if you've only ever been to Saint-Tropez in high summer, you may find it difficult to imagine how idyllic it can be hors saison.
"It is quiet, almost too quiet," says Augustin Rizzo, handyman at the charming little museum L'Annonciade, which is down near the Quai de l'Epi. A few steps down the street, the shop assistants from the chic Hermès boutique stand outside smoking. Minette, a stray silver grey cat, snakes around Rizzo's legs as if to console him. Now that the promenade is abandoned she can stretch out on the warm granite flagstones in front of the museum and bask in the sun without being disturbed. She loves it.
There's nothing I would like to do more than lie down right next to her.
(Author: Patricia Engelhorn)


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· Simply put: Bullet voting is deciding to vote for only one candidate, even though you have the opportunity to vote for more.
· Why bullet vote? By voting for only one candidate in a three-way race for two seats (as is the case in Saturday's selectman's race), for example, you are not giving one of two your votes to the competition.
· Does it work? It is hard to say whether bullet voting works and depends on assumptions about each candidate's chances for winning. Analyzing the number blanks during the election is likely how to determine the extent of bullet voting and its results.
We cannot recall a town election in Cohasset when bullet voting has become a campaign issue or urged as a campaign strategy. We believe it has occurred before, but not in any organized fashion. However, in Saturday's race for selectman the practice has clearly become part of the pre-election discussion and strategizing among voters and some supporters.
We want to be clear that we polled the three candidates – Fred Koed, Diane Kennedy and Kevin McCarthy – who all went on record decrying the practice that has no place in Cohasset.
The "buzz" around town from Town Hall to Jamie's Pub in North Scituate (where a friend who does not live in Cohasset told us yesterday – bullet voting in the Cohasset election was the main Monday night bar conversation) is all about bullets. There are a bunch of general campaign postings on Cohasset Friends (on Facebook) including one by a former selectman explaining why he plans to bullet vote for his candidate on Saturday. We also know that some supporters have knocked on doors urging bullet voting for a particular candidate.
We agree with the candidates that bullet voting has no place in Cohasset. In our view, bullet voting in this election appears to be a fear tactic. We want candidates to win "fair and square" on Saturday and not win by voters giving up one of their two votes.
· So how can voters combat bullet voting? In our view, the best way to fight this effort is turnout. Turnout trumps everything. We urge every single registered voter to cast a ballot on Saturday and vote for two candidates for selectman as well as vote for Sewer Commission and Housing Authority.
Jonathan Asher of Hingham, who narrowly lost his bid for selectman in a two-way race by a mere 29 votes last Saturday, put it best when we asked him about that election. Turnout there was 19 percent.
"My only concern is Hingham's relatively low voter turnout in comparison with the recent Afghan elections where 60 percent of the voters turned out in spite of risk to life and limb," Asher said.
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