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Parents of high school students often ask how they can best help their son or daughter develop better homework habits. Developing good homework habits is particularly important for students entering high school, because college is right around the corner. So how do you ensure your teen develops good homework habits? The answer is quite straightforward: Structure, guidance and support.
- Structure is providing a physical space in the house where your teen can study. It should be free of distractions, such as the family interrupting with comings and goings and any electronic device unless required to complete a project or assignment. Structure also comprises the characteristics of the study environment. Many teens claim that they can study with the television blaring while texting and checking Facebook. It's true that teens have become quite adept at shifting between tasks in rapid succession, creating the illusion of multi-tasking. The reality is that the brain can only attend to one thing at a time. Multitasking is an illusion.
Listening to music, however, can be a boon to studying for some students.
- Guidance equates to parental expectations that teens will set aside a time each evening, follow a routine and actually study whether an assignment is complete before the end of the study session or after several sessions. Guidance also includes helping your teen prioritize — putting study time at the top of the list — making sure the family's or their own activities don't compete with study time.
- Students need support to stay the course. Support means more than encouragement. It also means that you might need to get tough. Our teens have too many activities competing for their time and may be unable to see what's important and what's not. So it could be up to you to decide what to drop and what to keep. There are only so many hours in a day, and teens need their sleep.
Notice that I don't ever recommend that parents help with the assignment or homework. It's important to remember that parents are in the business of parenting, not the business of education. In a short amount of time, your daughter or son will be expected to make these important decisions about studying on their own.
Now is the time to instill these valuable habits by structuring a daily study time, guiding and supporting your high school student.
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Dr. Paul Hanna, a former elementary and high school teacher and principal, is assistant professor of education at Columbia College. "Our mission is to turn out the best teachers we can," he says. "You're not just pouring knowledge into that kid, you're pouring knowledge into the family, because that child is part of a family and a community." For more on Hanna, go to http://www.ccis.edu/files/Affinity/Affinity_Summer2011.pdf, p. 18-19.


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The Purple Chair was written for the Lemonade Ladies poetry night by me. I was not going to include it in the Lemonade Ladies poems I have been publishing; however, one of the other Lemonade Ladies asked me to. She said it touched her, made her cry, and helped her heal.
Dealing with depression steals the best of who you are. When we had the poetry night at our meeting, some ladies said it had been so long since they had been creative, that writing their poems freed them, and they were ready to find themselves again in the arts. The arts have always been important to me. I can get lost gazing at a painting; I can cry when I listen to the words of a song, and my breath was once taken away as I stood in front of Michelangelo's David in Florence, Italy.
I will never forget the moment, I understood the power of poetry. I was fourteen; the night was stormy; I was at Canton Lake. I was in the kind of mood only a fourteen- year- old girl can get into. I walked to where I could see and hear the water lapping on the shore, I could smell the scent of Coppertone sun tan lotion lingering in the air, my transistor radio was playing, Sittin on the Dock of the Bay, and I had my notebook with me. Usually, I would draw, but with the moon as my light, I wrote a poem, the poem was about all the fears buried deep inside of me, inside of that fourteen-year-old girl. I wrote and wrote, and when I was finished, I read my poem to the wind, hearing my own voice floating around me, and at that moment, I knew poetry was powerful.
For Lemonade Ladies, I wrote The Purple Chair. The intent of the poem is to show how deep grief mixed with denial, can cause a person to vegetate, and never move on.
The poem is about life; life at its best and life at its worse. It is about the pungent notes life sometimes throws in the midst. It shows how some people just walk away and never look back; how some people try to sort through the sour notes, find the truth, and move on; and it illustrates how the sour notes can also consume someone. The lady in The Purple Chair, believed in others rather than in herself. She refused to let go of her dream, and make a new one. She wrapped up all her aspirations in a person, and when that person walked away, she had nothing. The poem deals with what happens when you don't believe in yourself; how easily you can be destroyed by others. The Purple Chair sadly demonstrates a life that was wasted, hoping where hope no longer existed. With a new dream, she could have found herself once more, but she drank wine to forget, and wine to remember, and never moved on from The Purple Chair.
The Purple Chair
By Shelley Stutchman
He and she,
She and he,
Two souls as one,
Sitting side by side in the purple chairs.
The black baby grand,
Sparkling tones, the notes sustained,
Charming music into magic,
He and she holding hands,
Sitting side by side, in the purple chairs.
The notes floating in the room,
He looks at her, she looks at him,
His fingers pretending to play a tune,
Sitting side by side, in the purple chairs.
She knew at that moment,
She knew something important,
She would make his dream come true,
She would make all his dreams come true,
Sitting side by side in the purple chairs.
She believed he could do anything,
She would buy for him,
A black baby grand,
And two purple chairs.
He would play the music within him,
Sharing it only with her,
She smiled at him,
Joyful to give him his every whim,
While they sat side by side in the two purple chairs.
The passion of the music,
Held them in total surrender
To the music and to each other, they were so tender,
As they sat side by side in the two purple chairs.
They made plans and dreams, and were in love,
Then a sour note invaded,
The magic stopped,
The music faded.
She sat crying in the purple chair.
If she had the power to,
She would have rewrote the sour note,
But the moment passed,
She sat shattered in the purple chair.
The sour note was mean and vile,
He let it fill his head,
The music ceased,
The room was still.
He no longer sat in the purple chair.
Abruptly her world did not seem real,
Without the music to guide her,
She was lost, she was confused, she did not know how to feel,
As she sat alone in the purple chair.
The sour note wanted,
The music to die,
The magic to die,
Die damn you, whispered the sour note,
As she sat abandoned in the purple chair.
She knew he would feel their sweet music,
She had faith in the harmony and in him,
And the music would play once again,
As she sat waiting in the purple chair.
And the sour note would be found out for what it was,
For what it did,
For how it lied,
She knew the truth would fill his soul,
As she sat patiently in the purple chair.
She held tight to the melody,
To the clarity of his face and hands,
She would sell her soul to bring him back,
As she sat praying in the purple chair.
He didn't hit her,
He didn't shout,
He stopped the music, he stopped the art,
Leaving her with a broken heart.
As she sat waiting in the purple chair.
Saddness sapped her strenght, it made her cry,
Yet she could not let the music go,
Music is life, without it she would die,
As she sat aching in the purple chair.
He walked away,
Her world collapsed.
There was no tomorrow,
No sun to rise,
As she sat dying in the purple chair.
She ordered a drink,
She toasted the air,
She toasted to the music, she toasted to him, she whispered life was unfair,
she took her last breath, while sitting alone in the purple chair.

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Oregon announces 2006 workplace deaths
Improvements in safety result in third-lowest number in state history
(Salem) - Thirty-seven people covered by Oregons workers compensation system died on the job during 2006, the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) announced today.
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In 2013, the Omni Business Center in Kansas announced that it will expand its virtual office to include open spaces, conference rooms, and the latest communication technology. Omni's reinvention is common for virtual offices across the country.
The temp office industry has seen increases in usage each year as the U.S. economy, with its manufacturing sector now comprising just 8 percent, continues its transformation into a virtual and service-based marketplace. In the past year, nearly 4 percent of the American workforce became telecommuters.
Buff Farrow, the Omni Center's general manager, told Biz Journal "I think it's a good time for us to innovate." In the 1990s, rental for temp spaces typically included a private office, secretarial support, fax machines and printers, and reliable telephones for sales calls.
How times have changed.
"Virtual employees" enable companies to save money on leasing costs and building expenses. Additionally, there's a regulatory driver for the growth in temp offices. Obamacare's full implementation in 2014 is expected to induce millions of small businesses to convert full-time employees into part-time workers and independent contractors. Thus, the Affordable Care Act could create millions of new virtual workers in the next decade.
According to Global Workplace Analytics, more than three million Americans have become telecommuters in the past year. The trend requires changes in how office buildings are set up. While most telecommuters set up tax-deductible home offices, those that travel regularly – such as consultants and salespeople – require virtual spaces for a few hours each month.
Premier Business Centers (PBC), which operates virtual offices in five states, has seen exponential growth in demand and reflects the U.S. economy's transition into requiring virtual workers. In less than 10 years since its founding, PBC has become the largest privately-owned office space operator in the United States. Growing at an 11 percent rate each year, Inc. Magazine lists the Irvine, Calif.-based company as one of the nation's fastest growing businesses.
There is a kind of arms race going on between virtual offices to entice business from millions of new telecommuters. A contemporary virtual office typically includes conference rooms for collaboration, workstations with high-speed connectivity, and wireless networks. Professionals who use such offices no longer carry hard disks for data storage. Instead, they exchange and store information in the cloud.
To further help companies save money, business centers are also beginning to lease part-time virtual offices, a program that borrows from the time-share model of exotic vacation accommodations. Employees sign up for a variable number of hours in which they need to use a conference room or workstation.
Knowledge workers in the new economy can also share business documents while traveling. Unsurprisingly, software makers are moving apps from laptops to mobile platforms to reflect users' evolving preferences.
Last year, Xerox announced that professionals can now collaborate on business documents using their mobile devices through the company's DocuShare app. "Business activities increasingly take place outside the four walls of a company's office, and around the clock," said Brian Lincoln, senior product line manager of Xerox's DocuShare program. "Our customers have confirmed that the ability to tap into their documents in DocuShare from a mobile device, anywhere and anytime, dramatically improves their efficiency."


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Congressman pushing for polygraph tests for anyone who works with children
LAKELAND, Fla. - A Florida congressman is starting his push to crack down on people who prey on children.
Dennis Ross, a Lakeland Republican, wants to strap people to a lie detector test when they apply for jobs to work with kids, like at theme parks or day cares.
"Let's give them one more tool," Ross told reporters Friday morning.
Since the late 80s, Congress banned most companies from using the polygraph test to screen candidates except in government jobs or police agencies.
Ross is proposing to expand it to people who work with kids in what he's labeling the Protect our Children Act.
"Hopefully we'll be able to stop them before they even get employed in an environment that will only further their exploitation as a sexual predator," Ross said.
A CNN investigation that aired this week found that at least 35 Disney employees have been arrested since 2006 for sex crimes off the clock.
The theme park fires them right away, but Ross believes the polygraph test may be able to weed the predators out before they're even hired.
The new bill would not require employers to utilize the polygraph test, it just makes it available to them. It's totally up to the theme parks, day care centers and other private companies that work directly with children. Teachers in Florida would be exempt from having to take these type of tests under current state law.
A Disney spokesman said the company would consider any measure that would help protect kids.
"Providing a safe environment for children and families is a responsibility we take very seriously," the statement said. "We have extensive measures in place, including pre-employment and ongoing criminal background checks and computer monitoring and firewalls."
Parents seem to be on board for extra screening procedures.
"It can't be a bad thing if we're protecting our children. That's what it's all about," said Richard Vogt of Valrico, who spent the day watching his 6-year-old grandson.
While Vogt likes the idea, he questions whether it will work.
"There's a lot of people that can actually fake their way through those tests because they've been in those situations before and they know how to monitor their heart beat," he said.
Randy Rey, who has been in law enforcement for 40 years, said it's the best tool we have to find out if someone is lying.
"Is it perfect? No. Is it a great investigative tool? Yes," said Rey, who is currently the president of the Florida Polygraph Association.
He said there's no reason not to to use the tool that has worked wonders in finding the best police officers in departments around the country.
"Once they've used it, they almost all will tell you that they will never hire anyone else unless they took a polygraph. That's how successful it is," he said.
Ross hopes to get the Protect Our Children Act passed before the November election.


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All of these animals have been spayed or neutered, are up to date on shots, most are microchipped (or can be for a low cost), and all of them are healthy and happy. They just need one thing: a family to love them forever.
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Producer prices decline in August
September 15, 2000
The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods decreased 0.2 percent in August, seasonally adjusted. This index showed no change in July and increased 0.6 percent in June.
The index for finished consumer foods dropped 0.7 percent in August, after showing no change in July. The finished energy goods index fell 0.2 percent in August, after decreasing 0.7 percent in July. The index for finished goods other than foods and energy edged up 0.1 percent in August, the same rate as in July.
From August 1999 to August 2000, prices for finished goods rose 3.3 percent. The main cause of this increase can be traced to a 15.3-percent advance in prices for finished energy goods. During the same period, prices for finished goods other than foods and energy rose 1.5 percent, and prices for finished consumer foods increased 0.7 percent.
These data are a product of the BLS Producer Price Index program. Find out more in "Producer Price Indexes, August 2000", news release USDL 00-268. All producer price indexes are routinely subject to revision once, 4 months after original publication, to reflect the availability of late reports and corrections by respondents.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Producer prices decline in August on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/sept/wk2/art05.htm (visited June 29, 2016).
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We hold Rifle competitions that attract not only service rifle shooters but also hunters wanting snap-shooting and moving target practice. We also have IPSC Pistol and Rimfire Metallic Silhouette and Shotgun competitions.
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|Dec 8, 1891
|Filing date
|Jul 13, 1891
|Publication number
|Nikola Tesla
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|Referenced by (2), Classifications (1)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
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No. 464,666. Patented De0.8,1891.
NIKOLA TESLA, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,666, dated December 8, 1891.
Application filed July 13, 1891. Serial No. 399,312. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, NIKOLA TESLA, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, from Smiljan, Lika, border country of Austria-Hungary, rosiding at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electro Magn etie Motors, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawing accompanying and forming a part of the same.
The general object of my present invention is to secure artificially a difference of a quarter of a phase between the currents in the two energizingcircnits of an alternating-current electro-magnetic motor of that general class invented by me, in Which the action or operation is dependent upon the inductive influence upon a rotating armature of independent field magnets or coils exerted successively and not simultaniously.
It is a well-known fact that if the field or energizing circuits of such a motor be both derived from the same source of alternating currents and a condenser of proper capacity be included in one of the same, approximately the desired difference of phase may be obtained between the currents flowing directly from the source and those flowing through the condenser; but the great size and expense of condensers for this purpose that would meet the requirements of the ordinary systems of comparatively low potential are practically prohibitory to their employment.
Another new well-known method or plan of securing a difference of phase between the energizing-currents of meters of this kind is to induce by the currents in one circuit those in the other circuit or circuits; but no means have heretofore been proposed that would secure in this way between the phases of the primary or inducing and the secondary or induced currents that differenco -theoretically ninety degrees -that is best adapted for prac tical and economical working.
I have deviseda means which renders practicableboth the above-described plans or methods, and by which I am enabled to obtain an economical and efficient alternating-current motor, my invention consisting in placing a condenser in the secondary or induced circuit of the motor above described and raising the potential of the secondary currents to such a degree that the capacity of the condenser, which is in part dependent on the potential, need be quite small. The value of this condenser will be determined in a well-understood manner with reference to the self-induction and other conditions of the circuit, so as to cause the currents which pass through it to differ from the primary currents by a quarter-phase.
The drawing is a partly-diagrammatic ill ustration of a motor embodying my invention.
1 have illustrated the invention as embodied in a motor in which the inductive relation of the primary and secondary circuits is secured by winding them inside the motor partly upon the same cores; but it will be understood that the invention applies, generally, to other forms of motor in which one of the energizing-currents is induced in any way from the other.
Let A 1) represent the poles of an alternating-current motor, of which 0 is the armature wound with coils D, closed upon themselves, as is now the general practice in motors of this kind. The poles A, which alternate with poles B, are wound with coils of ordinary or coarse wire E in such direction as to make them of alternate north and south polarity, as indicated in the diagram by the characters N S. Over these coils or in other inductive relation to the same are wound long fine-wire coils F F and in the same direction throughout as the coils E. These coils are secondaries, in which currents of very high potential are induced. I prefer to connect all the coils E in one series and all the secondaries F in another.
On theintermcdiate poles B are wound finewire energizing-coils G, which are connected in series with one another and also with the series of secondary coils F, the direction of winding being such that a current-impulse induced from the primarygcoils E imparts the same magnetism. to the poles B as that produced in poles A by the primary impulse. This condition is indicated by the characters N S.
In the circuit formed by the two sets of coils F and G is introduced a condenser E; otherwise the said circuit is closed upon itself, while the free ends of the circuit of coils E are connected to a source of alternating currents. As the condenser capacity which is needed in any particular motor of this kind is dependent upon the rate of alternation or the potential, or both, its size or cost, as before explained, may be brought Within eco-. noniical limits for use With the ordinary circuits if the potential of the secondary circuit in the motor be sufficiently high. By giving to the condenser proper values any desired difference of phase between the'priinary and secondary energizingcircuits may be obtained.
lVhat I claim is 1. In an alternating-current inotor provided with two or more energizing or field circuits, one of which is adapted for connect-ion with a source of currents and the other or others ductive relation to the first, and a condenser interposed in said secondary circuit, as set forth.
RoBT. F. GAYLORD, ERNEST HOPKINSON.
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
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|May 15, 1948
|Apr 26, 1949
|Hansen Mfg Co
|Hysteresis motor
|Aug 24, 2004
|Mar 2, 2006
|Dell Products L.P.
|Information handling system including AC electromagnetic pump cooling apparatus
|Cooperative Classification


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- Tel: 51659660 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: Shanghai SinoFinn Hotel
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Located in Lujiazui Financial & Trade Zone and near the Huangpu River, SinoFinn Hotel serves an exquisitely arranged environment of three-star standards.
Opposite the hotel on the west riverside of Huangpu River are the Bund, Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, and People's Square. The hotel is also next to Lujiazui's most famous landmarks--Jinmao Tower, Oriental Pearl Tower, etc.
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The hotel opened in 2006.
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Application Fee : Rs.300/- (Rs.50/- for SC/ST/PWD candidates) in cash at the any of the IOB and take candidate's copy of Payment Receipt Challan.
How to Apply : Apply Online at IOB
General Instructions:
a) Bank has the right to cancel candidature at any stage if found that any candidate is not fulfilling the eligibilitycriteria. If any candidate found ineligible even after appointment his/her services are liable to be terminated
b) Candidates are required to apply only 'ONLINE'. Any other form of application shall be rejected.
c) The Bank is free to reject any application, at any stage of the recruitment process, if the candidate is foundineligible for the post. The decision of the Bank in any matter relating to recruitment at all the stages of therecruitment process will be final and binding upon the candidate. No correspondence or personal queries inthis regard shall be enteratined by the Bank.
d) Only candidates willing to serve anywhere in India need apply
e) Any dispute arising out of this advertisement shall be subject to the sole jurisdiction of courts situated atChennai.
f) Canvassing in any form will be a disqualification.
g) All candidates will have to produce, if called for interview, originals as well as attested photocopies of theireducational as well as caste certificate, certificate of disability or any other certificate in support of theireligibility, failing which their candidature will be cancelled.
h) Candidates claiming to have work experience, if called for interview, will have to produce documentary proofof Work experience certificates relevant to the post applied for, for the period mentioned in the ApplicationForm, from their employers, clearly stating the periods and nature of employment/ duties. Copies ofappointment Offer Letter, Salary certificates, etc., in lieu of work experience Certificates will not be accepted.
i) An Ex-servicemen candidate has to produce a copy of the discharge certificate / pension payment orderand documentary proof of rank last / presently held ( substantive as well as acting ) at the time of Interview.Those who are still in defence service should submit a certificate from a competent authority that they will berelieved from Defence Services within 12 months from the date prescribed for opening of online registration.
j) In case of candidates belonging to OBC category, the certificate inter-alia must specify that the candidatedoes not belong to "CREAMY LAYER" section excluded from the benefits of reservations for OBCs in Civil Postand Services under Government of India. The OBC certificate containing "Non Creamy Layer Clause" shouldbe based on income for the financial year 2011-12 and issued on or after 01.04.2012.
k) Candidates serving in Government /Quasi Government Offices/Public Sector Undertakings includingNationalised Bank, Financial Institutions will be required to submit "No Objection Certificate" from the employerat the time of interview failing which the candidature may not be considered.
l) The candidates will have to appear for written examination and interview at their own expense.
Tentative Last Date:12-06-2012
About the organization:
The Constitution of the Board of the Bank is governed by "The Nationalized Banks (Management and Miscellaneous Provisions) Scheme, 1970, formulated by the Central Government, after consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9 of "The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Ac, t 1970".The Composition of the Board of Directors of a Bank is governed by "The Nationalised Banks (Management and Miscellaneous Provisions)Scheme 1970" read with "The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) and Financial Institutions Laws (Amendment) Act 2006" and amendment to thevide Extraordinary Gazette Notification dated 19.02.2007 of the Central Government In terms of The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings Act 1970, the General Superintendence, Direction and Management of the affairs and business of the Bank vests in the Board of Directors which is entitled to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as the Bank is authorized to exercise and do.
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Re: EDIINT and HIPAA
Dick, I appreciate your warning. Please me (and others) understand ... You say: > AS2 contains two distinctly different ways to package and send EDI > and other data over HTTP: > > 1. The HTTP standard approach, ref: HTTP spec (www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt), > Multipart/form-data spec (www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt formerly rfc 1867) and > HTML 4.0 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/) > This is the approach used by GISB and the Automotive Industry (AIAG E5) > > 2. E-mail based packaging as specified in EDIINT AS1 > (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ediint-as1-11.txt ). Hmm, my understanding is that, while AS#1 uses SMTP (which I still believe is good ... but we had enough of that discussion , both AS#2 and the GISB profile use HTTP. The difference may be the payload of the HTTP request. Isn't it true that both AS#2 and GISB use the MIME security wrappers? Isn't the only difference that AS#2 uses RFC1767 application/EDI-* payload while GISB use multipart/form-data? Since you use form data, does that mean that GISB's operational model is that of a user interacting with a web-based e-commerce system directly (i.e. filling out an HTML form?) Most of X12, HL7, and NCPDP, certainly do not work with direct user(Continue reading)


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Source: Calvin Klein, Courtesy of Macy's
Whether you're a local enjoying the beauty of the landscape, or a city dweller retreating from the sweltering streets to the beaches of the Hamptons, proper summer attire is a must. Instead of dealing with crowds at Tanger on Memorial day, why not make your own summer essentials? There are three outfits for each gender, with difficulties ranging from beginner to expert, that can help pass the time in winter and look great in summer.
For the men:
Garment #1: Bermuda Shorts. These surprisingly easy to make! You can either make these from scratch using medium-weight cottons, linens, and tweed, or you can convert an old pair of jeans into them, depending on your desires and skill level. Great directions can be found for both at eHow. Bermuda shorts are perfect for a day at the beach or a backyard barbecue and are surprisingly comfortable.
Garment #2: Hoodie. Hoodies may seem more suited for fall and spring, but if you're at the beach or out on a boat it can get real cold, real fast. A hoodie is a "moderate difficulty" project, requiring a sewing machine and at least two yards of material (preferably fleece) for the hoodie, 1/2 yard of soft cotton for the lining, a yard of material for the zipper, and at least a yard of ribbed material for the waistband and cuffs, as well as a cotton t-shirt that fits the way you want your hoodie to fit. A high aptitude for pattern cutting is necessary, and it is better to use a standard zipper than an invisible one. Craftster has great instructions on how to do this. Hoodies are nice, because they can be solid or printed, and it is possible to even customize with embroidering a monogram on the breast.
Garment #3: Summer suit. Summer suits may seem to have gone the way of The Great Gatsby, but they are coming back and style. A suit should not be attempted unless the creator has a strong knowledge of patterns, cutting, both hand and machine stitching, and alterations. Unless you can find a great pattern, it may be better to find separate suit jacket and suit pants patterns. KWIK SEW has a wide array of patterns at great prices. Unlike your normal formal wear, summer suits should be in airy colors and made out of linen, seersucker, or worsted wool. These are very unique and perfect for a summer cocktail party or wedding.
For the ladies:
Garment #1: Sarong. A sarong is a perfect beach cover-up and is super-easy to make. Using a 5'x7' piece of lightweight linen, cotton, etc., hem the edges with a running stitch or even no-sew glue and you are done. These can be made in any color possible to match your favorite swim wear. If you need more directions, eHow has uses the same template.
Garment #2: Jean skirt from old jeans. This is a great idea if you have any jeans that are too short or are just about ready to go out of style. You will need: an old pair of jeans, a stitch ripper, a sewing machine, scissors, thread, and tailor's chalk. Use tailors chalk to mark the length you want your skirt to be. Wikihow has full directions, and although they may seem complicated, they are actually unbelievably easy if you take it slowly. This is a nice pattern because it is Eco-friendly and allows the wearer to choose what length they want the skirt to be.
Garment #3: Sheath dress. Like it's male cousin, the summer suit, the sheath dress is a perfect choice for any formal summer event. McCall's has a beautiful sleeveless pattern (option B) that is perfect. Pick a linen for the exterior, and a light, breathable lining. Also, black is unacceptable for summer events. Pick a less harsh neutral, such as navy, tan, or olive and accesorize as desired. The hard part of making a sheath dress is with the darts and lining, so once again, a strong knowledge of tailoring is needed.
Now that you have some great patterns, pick an outfit, shop for some great fabric, and spend the next harsh months of winter thinking of how great that garment is going to look come June!


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Last month Gallup released its Healthways Well-Being Index, which has become an annual event since its 2008 inception. Basically, residents of all 50 states are interviewed and rated on physical and mental well being factors; actually 6 indexes, including life evaluation, emotional and physical health, work environment, healthy behaviors and access to basic necessities. The most recent study was conducted from January through December of last year, based on interviews with 178,000 people.
From the get-go Hawaii has ranked number 1 as the happiest state, except last year when it was displaced by North Dakota. Actually Hawaii fell to number 8 followed by Washington State as number 9, the only coastal state on the list, Top 10 Happiest States: Did Yours Make The List? - Forbes. In no small part, the change in rankings has been tied to the revolution in the oil and gas industries.
Paradoxically, in another study published earlier this month, Hawaii was also listed as number 8 of 10 states where income inequality has soared, Ten States Where Income Inequality Has Soared - 24/7 Wall St.. Washington State is not listed, but nearly Oregon is on the list.
According to the U.S Energy Information Agency, job growth in the oil and gas industry, as well as related and supporting businesses has been strong and is expected to continue, Oil and gas industry employment growing much faster than total private sector employment - Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).


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Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via StudioF, features a performance of MicroCosmos, arranged for Korg Microkorg + Korg Microsampler.
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Daft Punk Live Medley (Cover)
Sunday Synth Jam: Here's a live performance of a medley of Daft Punk songs, by electronic band Pigeon.
The medley includes cover versions of One More Time, Around the World, Da Funk, Robot Rock, Aerodynamic, and Harder Better Faster Stronger. Continue reading
Free Music Friday: Korg MicroSampler Experimental Electronica
Free Music Friday: Reader Jono Wise sent word about a free EP created primarily with the Korg MicroSampler.
Here's what Wise has to say about the release, inVALID INvalidE.P.:
I recorded various sounds into the Microsampler, often making use of the 6k lofi mode, after this the tracks were played live into Ableton live, some tracks make use of post processing and overdubs, other tracks were pretty much just printed to audio, compression added and thats it.
The Tracks all come from one Bank on the microsampler that I recorded and are based on one central theme and variations on that. It was an interesting experiment in using the same music ideas and sounds for more than one track.
Save $150 On The Korg microSampler
If you're interested in the Korg microSampler, now may be the time to buy.
Korg USA is offering $150 off on the Korg microSampler:
More than just a sampler, the Korg microSAMPLER is a complete sound design studio for creating up-to-the minute loops and phrases. Unlike other Beat & Groove samplers, microSAMPLER is also a keyboard instrument, able to provide incredibly musical results, instantly.
It's now being offered at $150 less than the original price.
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Free Sample Pack For Korg microSAMPLER
Korg has released a free sample library for the microSampler – the microSAMPLER: Bonus Sample Pack Second (.zip):
microSAMPLER: Bonus Sample Pack Second Edition keeps the inspiration coming! Seven additional banks of ready-mapped material including loops, one-shots, and chromatically playable samples. Check out the new ElecTribe ESX/EMX banks, plus three awesome banks from acclaimed Japanese artists Jet Daisuke, Denkitribe, and Yasushi.K, and more.
The original Korg microSampler bonus sample pack is also available (.zip).
Free Sample Pack For The Korg microSampler
Korg has released a free Bonus Sample Pack for the microSAMPLER.
Here's what Korg has to say about it:
The Bonus Sample Pack provides a convenient shortcut for all microSAMPLER users by offering professionally recorded samples organized into fully-finished banks of sounds with sample-based musical patterns, all fully compatible with the microSAMPLER.
Find it on the Software section of Korg's microSampler support page.
Free Korg microSampler Tutorial Series
This series of videos demonstrates how to use the Korg microSampler:
- Part 1 looks at the five different sampling modes in Korg's microSAMPLER
- Part 2 – Learn how to use the microSAMPLER's powerful effects, as well as sampling/resampling through the effects for additional modulation.
- Part 3 – A guide on creating a drum kit using Korg's microSAMPLER.
- Part 4 – This guide will show you how to get started with the Pattern Sequencer in Korg's microSAMPLER.
The 10 Coolest Keyboards & Synthesizers Of 2009
2009 has been a great year for electronic music gear and software. Never before have you been able to get so much power for so little money.
The year has seen an explosion of free music software, cool new MIDI Controllers, updates to popular software sequencers and the introduction of Propellerhead Record, the rise of iPhone music software and some great new virtual instruments.
While 2009 was a great year for digital music, it was an incredible year for keyboards and synths.
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The email read: "I'm in the washroom at work and the toilet won't flush. I can't go out because the VP's secretary saw me come in here. What should I do? Help!"
I held my sides as I laughed while reading the message from my friend sent an hour earlier. I couldn't wait to hear how it turned out
I wondered why she'd thought to email me for advice. Maybe she assumed I'd been in a similar situation and would know what to do. She'd be right.
When asked to describe their most embarrassing moment most people can usually recall it instantly. It's been forever etched in their mind. Others may never have experienced the shame or awkwardness of such a moment.
What does it say about someone who when asked to describe their most embarrassing moment, not only has one, but has to determine which moment was actually most humiliating?
What does that say about me?
I'm the first person to laugh at myself and I readily share most of my experiences with others. There was the time I complimented my doctor on the photo of his wife only to be told it was a photo of his son; the time I flew off the back of a treadmill at the gym, not once but twice; the time I stood outside the bathroom door in nothing but a t-shirt expecting my husband to walk out, only to have my daughter's boyfriend appear. There was the time my car died in the middle of the Santa Claus parade, not to mention the time I turned and walked face first into a sign after being asked out. Sadly, the list goes on and on.
Yes, I've had my share of embarrassing moments and this week there were a couple of more incidents to add to the long list.
I'd been visiting my parents and when it came time to leave my father handed me a bottled water for the long drive home. I usually stopped for a coffee at the trip's halfway point but decided to drink the water instead.
Keeping one hand on the steering wheel, I put the bottle between my thighs and squeezed as I twisted the lid. As it came off the water squirted up over the top and ran over my thighs, between my legs and onto the seat.
Just great, I thought and began drinking the water. I lowered the windows and let the cool air whip through, hoping to dry my pants. Shortly, between the water and the cool air, I was in dire need of a washroom. I was holding my breath as I pulled into the coffee shop. I got out and looked down. There would be no doubt. It looked exactly as if I'd peed my pants.
I caught a few strange glances on my way in and wanted to yell, "I didn't wet my pants. I spilled my water." But I couldn't be bothered. Instead I held my head high and looked directly into the eyes of everyone I passed, almost daring them to lose eye contact and glance down. I used the washroom and quickly left.
It was pretty embarrassing to say the least, but nothing compared to what happened the following morning.
I was in the shower when I thought I heard a banging sound. I turned off the water and listened. I didn't hear anything but my music, which I'd cranked way up. I resumed my shower. Minutes later I stood naked at the bathroom mirror taking my time applying lotion, drying my hair, and applying make-up.
Suddenly I heard the noise again. It was too close. I turned to see a ladder propped at the window. My heart stopped. Holding my breath, I peered out the window and looked down to see two men at the foot of the ladder.
Oh my God. Oh my God, I thought. The eaves-trough guys!
They had called a few days earlier to say they would be coming but with the last minute visit to my parents, I'd completely forgotten.
Please God, don't let them have already been up the ladder. I threw on my robe and opened the window. They heard me and looked up.
"Make my day," I begged. "Please tell me you just got here. You weren't already up the ladder?"
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but 通訳 is used for translating conversations(interpreting) whereas 翻訳 is used more for translating documents, right? I have a document that I had a Japanese friend translate verbally. Would that be 通訳 or 翻訳? Or maybe another word I haven't heard of?
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Technically, that is called サイトトランスレーション, which is how "sight translation" is katakanized. If you were expecting a kanji word, I do not believe there exists one, and if one existed, it would not be a common word. (Even サイトトランスレーション itself is not such a common word yet like 翻訳 and 通訳)
In case you absolutely had to choose between 翻訳 and 通訳 for some reason, you would choose 翻訳 because 通訳 always involves three parties --- two in need of communicating with each other and the interpreter.


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September 16th, is Mexico's official day of independence; however, history proves May 5th to be a better day for celebration. In 1848 Mexico was heavily in debt to Spain, England and France. Although Mexican President Benito Juárez expressed the need for time to pay the debt, France was determined to seize control of Mexico and sent troops into Mexico City. Seven thousand French army soldiers landed on the gulf coast of Mexico and began marching toward Mexico City. On May 5, 1862 they were met in Puebla and were defeated by Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza and his heroic army of 4,500 Mexican soldiers.
Parades and festivals are held all over the country on this day in honor of the battle of Puebla. Yesterday New York City celebrated with an annual parade.The real meaning behind the ritual dances and the colorful folk art masks worn during the parade is overlooked during the excitement taking place. Each mask tells a story. Masks depict the three races of Mexican history: the indigenous, European and African.
Masks depicting Mexico's problematic colonial history represent Europeans, Spanish, and French. Many paraders wear ancestral masks that are created to resemble old men and women. Masks for female characters usually portray modest and virtuous women who abide by society's norms or they are portrayed as vixens. These masks also depict famous rulers, animals, supernatural beings and creatures. See slide show to view the types of masks


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Vermont Department of Labor warns of scamStaff Report | December 03,2012MONTPELIER - The Vermont Department of Labor is warning about a nationwide identity theft scam that attempts to lure employers into providing confidential information about their employees.
Emails have been sent to businesses in at least 10 states, including New York and Massachusetts.
The DOL said it has not yet received reports of the scam in Vermont.
According to DOL, the scam is designed to trick employers into responding to an email that appears to have been sent from a state's "Division of Unemployment Assistance."
The email looks like a legitimate job separation request used by state agencies. The email requests wage and other information on a former employee filing for unemployment benefits. It then directs the employer to click on a link to an embedded website address in South Africa.
Employers are advised that DOL does not use email to request confidential information, nor does the agency attempt to collect information on behalf of other state's unemployment agencies.
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You've been cuttin' checks to your newlywed friends for weeks already, and the weddings... they just keep on coming. Isn't it time you indulge yourself for a change? This chic Annah Raffia Clutch ($295) from Badgley Mischka ought to make sitting through another set of vows a little more bearable. It's just large enough to hold onto a tube of lipstick, your id, and a smart phone. Oh, and a small pack of tissues (because despite the grumbling, you're a total sucker for happy endings!).
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New LEGO sets coming out in January!
Yes, I know this has nothing to do with the videogame, but these forums don't have a 'lounge' forum. :(
Someone revealed over at the FBTB.net forums that a bunch of awesome Star Wars LEGO sets are coming in January. So while you wait for the new X-wing and USC TIE Advanced to come out (in September I think), you can dream of these godsends:
The Y-Wing redesign is long overdue :p
Sounds cool!
Especially the Droids and Clone Trooper packs.
Battle packs? As in packs with nothing but droids and clones? Because I've been waiting for something like that for a long time.
Yeah, and they'd better be cheap... *grumbles about $50 for 5 clones on eBay*
Another big thing I've been waiting for is a combo set for the TIE Advanced w/ Vader and Luke's X-wing together, cuz man do I need an X-wing..
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The engines are still. The grandstands are emptying. Jeff Gordon's voice is filling the infield with yet another description of how he just won his third Daytona 500. It's all just white noise to Jack Roush.
Roush arrived here more than 10 days earlier with five cars specifically developed to help Ford match the success of the dominating Chevrolets in NASCAR's premier race.
Now he marches through the garage area, surveying the damage and talking to the survivors of the Daytona 500 like a general assessing battlefield losses.
Matt Kenseth was the first to fall when the engine in his No. 17 expired. Greg Biffle's No. 16 car was strong until he got caught up in a multi-car wreck that left it with both front fenders peeled off and looking like a short-track Modified.
Carl Edwards salvaged a 12th place finish in the No. 99 Taurus. He said it actually ran better after he hit teammate Mark Martin in the rear, making the bodywork narrower.
Martin, the sentimental favorite who is beginning his final season in NASCAR's top series, soldiered on to Sixth in a car that probably should have been rolled into the attic of the team hauler after being wrecked during a Thursday qualifying race.
Kurt Busch, the defending Nextel Cup champion, nearly stole the win out from underneath Gordon after dueling with Dale Earnhardt Jr. for Second Place.
For Roush, it is just another routine day at the office.
Nearly four hours earlier, he climbed the ladder to the top of the "war wagon" behind Martin's pit box and settled in for work. He adjusted his ever-present hat, opened his notebook, and engaged the mind of NASCAR's consummate mathematician.
From atop Martin's pit box he monitored the progress of all five Roush Racing teams for the entire 500 miles, eavesdropping on drivers and crews making hundreds of decisions that can spell success or failure on the track. They are all there as part of the Roush brigade because of a decision Roush himself made decades earlier.
"This is something I wanted to do when I was in my twenties," he says. "It took me 15 years to put together the finances to do it, but it was always a goal."
There have been lots of goals along the way and no shortage of challenges and successes. That's especially true at Daytona's unique racing marathon.
Hands-On OwnerIt is Friday morning on the final week of Daytona Speedweeks. Roush is walking through the Nextel Cup garages like a drill sergeant with a duty roster. There's so much work to do and so little time to get it all done. He already called for reinforcements in the form of body men and fabricators from his headquarters in Charlotte to help with the work.
The cars for Martin and Edwards took heavy body blows in Thursday's 60-lap qualifying races at the 2.5-mile oval. Edwards' Ford is well on the way to being ready for afternoon practice.
Roush looks up at the overcast sky and sniffs the moisture-laden ocean air.
"You rejet? You go up two?" he asks a crewmember who is tightening the final bolts on the carburetor.
Only a few years ago it would have been Jack installing new jets.
"I used to do all the carb jetting," he says with a shrug. "Then we hired some certified, ordained carb jet experts, and they won't let me touch them.
"Either they figured I was losing it, or they got better," he adds with a smile.
In spite of his self-deprecating humor, Roush remains a team owner equally comfortable in the engine room or the boardroom. He fashioned his racing empire by scraping knuckles and lancing fingers, building Ford engines into race-winning powerplants and teams into champions. Along the way, he created the largest racing organization in NASCAR.


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Jack White and his band of men entertained a sell-out crowd with an array of songs from all his various ventures, including Raconteurs and Dead Weather. The enthusiasm displayed on stage is infectious from the start, as White whirls around, moving like an organised hurricane between a selection of guitars and the piano whilst whipping the audience into a frenzy whilst encouraging them to sing along.
Unsurprisingly, the band consists of incredible musicians who look to White for their lead; they are amazingly tight as a unit whilst allowing space for fluidity and extended solos. The sound throughout is immense with Jack tinkering with his amps to ensure all appreciate what he has to offer, unfortunately it was the vocals that were lacking at the start however this was rectified within three songs. The audience are utterly appreciative of the man who has the musical Midas touch; noticeably there is particular love for all the White Stripes tracks, which runs over when he finishes the set with the anthemic Seven Nation Army.
White does show his appreciation for the Birmingham music scene too by honouring the legendary Black Sabbath. The resounding triumph of the night was I Cut Like A Buffalo that pounded through the venue with such authority it was mesmerising and seems like it entranced all involved. The main drawback to the evening was an unsubtle access-all-areas photographer who was not discreet in her attempts to take photos of the band whilst on stage, however, this is an attempt to try and reduce the amount of people who try to view gigs through the screen of their phones so I shouldn't moan too much. All in all, White came to Birmingham in a ridiculously large number of vehicles and successfully conquered, justifying the fairly expensive ticket price. This man is a musical genius who delivers a fantastic live performance and deserves every bit of recognition he gets.
Review by Toni Woodward
Photographs by Jo McCaughey


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Your gallery amazes me in total. Kudos.
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Love this!
Love the expression, full of emotion! Nicely done!
this is awesome
This is how I feel sometimes. Its a moving painting. I love it.
this is...awesome.
really impressive!
Her eye is a little big...but good work
oh my gosh the emotion in this pic and the colors just take me some where eles!!!
Very emotional piece and great execution
This is amazing you are very talented!
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of representative goods and services in a fixed consumer basket change over time. In order to accurately reflect changes in the market and the behavior of consumers, Statistics Canada periodically reviews and updates the concepts and methods applied to the various components of the CPI program.
The Purchase of Passenger Vehicles Index (PPVI), part of the Transportation major component of the CPI, has been updated with the November CPI release on December 21, 2012. Further updates will come into effect with the next CPI Basket Update, scheduled for March 27, 2013. The PPVI accounts for 6.53% of the CPI 2009 basket.
The PPVI has been modified as follows:
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Purchase of Passenger Vehicles stratification effective with the introduction of the 2011 CPI basket
These updates to the PPVI will contribute to keeping the CPI representative and better reflect changing consumption patterns and market characteristics. The greater breadth of the sample means that new vehicles will be introduced into the classification and price sample in a more timely fashion than in the past.


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Cree jihadist: How a boy from a Saskatchewan reserve came to embrace Islamist extremism
Stewart Bell | Feb 22, 2013 9:06 PM ET | Last Updated: Feb 23, 2013 4:24 PM ET
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A Cree who wears a traditional coonskin cap he made himself, Dawood is a member of the James Smith First Nation in Saskatchewan. He is also a strident advocate of armed jihad.
At Toronto mosques, he has handed out hundreds of DVDs of lectures by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric who urged his followers to fight the "evil" West — until a Hellfire missile found him in Yemen.
"For us as Muslims, our religion teaches that we're brothers and sisters," said Dawood, 33, who said he feared repercussions if his last name was published. "You have to stand up for your brothers and sisters, you have to defend them."
Young, Canadian-born and online, Dawood is the embodiment of the Islamist extremists the government has called a top national security concern. He is also a newcomer to his faith, having converted to Islam less than five years ago, when he was drunk and suicidal.
Even the Muslim leader who converted Dawood said he disagreed with his views on violence. "He's unstable," said Muhammad Robert Heft. "The bottom line with Dawood is he doesn't know very much about the religion." He said Dawood relied too much on the Internet. "He follows Mufti Yahoo or Sheikh Google. I think with him it's got to do more with wanting attention."
But attention-seeking fanatics who sanctify violence with half-baked scripture can be dangerous. Several members of the Toronto 18 terrorist group that planned attacks in Southern Ontario in 2006 were converts. Soon after he converted, William Plotnikov, a Toronto boxer and Seneca College student, left Canada to join an Islamist rebel group in the Caucuses. Russian security forces shot him dead last July.
You know, maybe it's about time to link Indian privileges with traditional Indian beliefs and behaviour.
Why should a Muslim Indian – or a Christian one, for that matter – be entitled to, say, special hunting rights?
Look at it this way. Imagine a NON-human bunch of whatevers who lived in a Palaeolithic condition. The only things separating them from wild beasts would be 1) fire* and 2) superstition. Lots of animals make and use primitive tools, so I won't even count primitive stone-tool use here, which amounts to simply finding a suitably sharp stone to use. Chimps can do that, but we don't consider chimps to be in the stone age, SO.
A creature without any kind of belief system, and the rites and rituals and "cultural trappings" that arise from religion is nothing but a wild animal. Take away the animist religion of primitive peoples, and what do you have? Hunting for mere survival, just like any other predator.
Special rights for Indians has been based on their culture – and culture is informed by philosophy, usually religious philosophy. Now that they're all Christian (and in some cases, Muslim), where is the basis? Christians and Muslims would rather tear their eyes out than thank the animal spirits themselves for their food rather than their distant God. They don't even believe animals have souls. So … if Indians no longer believe in animism (the belief that every living thing has a soul, and perhaps some non-living things as well) then they're culturally no different from the white man. When they trap, it isn't some sort of "communion", it's about money, just like it is with the white man.
If they want to be like everyone else, then do away with the reserve system, and the special legal and tax status, and consider Canadian land paid for in full.
Now. Are the Pakis and the Chinese and the Africans and the Arabs going to pay us WHITE folks for all the infrastructure we built before they came?! The Indians sure as hell didn't leave us any useful infrastructure! We've been paying for unimproved land for over a century now, and are still paying! So, yeah, a head tax would be in order to ANYONE who isn't British or French (And RACIALLY so, nothing to do with citizenship!) Because the treaties are between the British and the Indians, with the French being rolled into it because of the PoA, and as far as I can see, were never meant to really include ANYONE ELSE.
*I'm not even sure about fire being an iron-clad marker between "wild animal" and "stone age person". I can see where using, but not making, fire would be an excuse to keep a species in the "non-person" category, if humans had any special interest in what those creatures had. See: "Little Fuzzy" by H. Beam Piper for an example of what I mean.
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By Bill McAllister and Cindy Liu
The wait staff of Hampton Coffee Company in Water Mill squeezes past burlap sacks and Rubbermaid containers filled with coffee beans that take up the majority of the kitchen, as Dwight Amade, the Hampton Coffee Company's master roaster, talks about growing up in Grenada, watching his grandfather roast beans in an old metal oil drum. His words are barely audible above the jet-engine roar of the roaster—an 8-foot-tall machine that transforms raw coffee beans into the brown beans with which most coffee drinkers are familiar. He suddenly interrupts his childhood reminiscences to walk across the room. The din of the roaster has not prevented Amade from hearing the slight, popcorn-like crack of the beans, an indication that the coffee is almost done.
"I get past the sound and listen to the coffee," says Amade.
Amade is the man behind the curtain at Hampton Coffee Company. He takes flavorless, odorless green beans and transforms them into the raw ingredient in your morning fuel. Of course, few consumers consider what goes into their coffee, or even where it comes from.Greg Heinz, roast master at Love Lane Coffee, holding green coffee beans that have been shipped in a burlap sack.
It isn't a revelation that Long Islanders aren't interested in their coffee as anything other than a beverage. After all, when friends go out for coffee on Long Island, they generally aren't really going for the coffee. For instance, the Tim Burton-esque aesthetic of West Hempstead's insanely popular Witches' Brew does much more to draw customers than any coffee it serves. While this isn't a slight to that LI institution, it is emblematic of what Long Islanders think about their coffee.
"I don't want to put Long Island down, but there are few places [on the Island] you can go that take their coffee seriously," says Lynda Calimano, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Bay Shore-based Coffee and Tea Newsletter. Whereas New York City has coffeehouses that concentrate on the essence of the bean and espresso bars that serve nothing but espresso, macchiato and cappuccino, Long Island coffeehouses are more widely known for their atmosphere and food. "Even New York City is a little behind Seattle and the West Coast," says Calimano.
Although LI's inhabitants are not exactly coffee-savvy, we have seven artisanal roasters—i.e., a small-scale craftsman who roasts his or her own coffee beans, unlike the mass-produced beans that you buy at most supermarkets. That's a far cry from the dozens in Portland, Ore., a coffee hub in America, but it's a step up from the one roasting factory Starbucks has for the entire East Coast in York, Pa. With a woman who roasts out of her house, a man who sleeps on farms in Colombia, an eccentric Sicilian who "knows" when coffee is done, a guy with a roastery on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, an "amazingly good-looking" roaster who grew up on a cocoa plantation in Grenada, a former Starbucks barista who sought something better than corporate coffee, and a woman who left law school for the coffee industry, there is not one stereotypical roaster on LI. The presence of this motley bunch means that Long Islanders can easily step out of the house every week, take a stroll around the corner, and buy a pound of coffee grown in Latin America or Indonesia, all the while sitting in for a mini-lesson on the beverage they are about to prepare and consume.
Get Back (To Real Coffee)
"I'm not here to impress anybody," says Aldo Maiorana in his unplaceable European accent, the result of being born in Sicily, growing up in France, and spending years in South America. His eyes, characterized by concentric circles of color, are not like any ordinary person's eyes. They draw in conversational partners as he waxes poetic about the three "coffee encounters" in his life. In his 60s and with bright white hair, he drinks only espresso, forgoing any and all additions to his brew, claiming that on the unique occasion his son put a packet of Sweet'n Low in his espresso he "almost died" upon drinking it.
"They have a formula, they have a recipe—that's what they're selling to you. They only want money," Maiorana explains about other coffees on the market—such as Dunkin' Donuts and 7-Eleven. Maiorana roasts coffee, bakes biscotti and prepares ready-to-bake frozen scones, and may very well be the antithesis of Starbucks.
Contrasting his tastes with what is offered by coffee chains, he employs the following analogy: "I don't want chicken or fish. I want beef." Maiorana dismisses the syrup and whipped cream concoctions available at corporate coffee shops,
saying that while most people dull the taste of their coffee with milk and sugar, Maiorana wants to experience everything the coffee has to offer, and he wants it front and center. "A good cup of coffee should give you pleasure," he says.
Starbucks has been significantly responsible for laying the foundation for coffee awareness in the United States. According to Greg Heinz, roast master of Love Lane Coffee in Mattituck, that's one thing the corporate giant has going for it. "Starbucks does a lot of things very well. It maintains consistency nationwide. Now it's up to us to take it a step further," he says, adding that the biggest movement and biggest challenge by far in coffee on LI will be to educate—or perhaps re-educate—its consumers.
Maiorana expresses puzzlement at some of the customers who wander into his shop in Greenport. Upon receiving orders for mistos and macchiatos, his Sicilian roots can lead to unexpected results for the customer. What Starbucks has taught its customers is not always the truth. A misto is not a product in and of itself. Meaning "mixed" in Italian, a misto requires that the customer specifies what is being mixed.
Perhaps most egregious of all is the caramel macchiato. This drink, a top seller at Starbucks, starts with a base of vanilla syrup, followed by a large amount of steamed milk, then some espresso, and is finally topped with a generous crosshatching of caramel sauce. In essence, the drink has the same ingredients as a vanilla latte, but with the addition of caramel. In Italian, macchiato means stained, and an order for a macchiato, if prepared by a properly trained barista, would result in a shot of espresso topped with a dollop of milk foam, just enough to stain it. A real macchiato is simple and elegant. At its core is coffee— not steamed milk, and definitely not syrup.
Moreover, Starbucks (and its ilk) not only mutates its specialty drinks, but even its essential product. Yes, it is possible to order a plain cup of coffee at Starbucks. However, as a chain of stores, a cup of Joe you get in Starbucks in Syosset has to be the same as the one you get at Starbucks in the Hamptons or Manhattan or Miami. Just like any chain, Starbucks cannot exist without uniformity, and yet at the root of its product is a bean that differs from season to season, just like any other agricultural product. Coffee develops a unique flavor depending on its growing altitude, climate, the soil in which it is grown, the economy of the country in which it was harvested, and even the weather at the time of harvest. Would a wine enthusiast expect a Napa Valley Chardonnay to taste the same year to year? With all of these factors contributing to the taste of the brew, it doesn't take a pump of hazelnut syrup to give coffee an interesting flavor. It does, however, make up for the lack of complexity in Starbucks' brew. The less complicated the taste, the easier it is to create uniformity, and an easy way to tone down complexity in coffee is to roast it dark. Obscured to the popular eye by the syrups and the dark roasts, coffee is an incredibly complex industry.
An Obsessive Bunch
"You hear a knock on the door at five in the morning, it scares the hell out of you," says Georgio Testani in his booming, Brooklyn accent. As the owner and roaster of Huntington-based Georgio's Coffee, Testani has had past difficulties with "coffee geeks," as he calls them, like a rock star with his paparazzi. It is because of these geeks that the exact location of his roasting facility must remain a secret, otherwise he will yet again have fans banging on his door, interrupting an at-times frantic process.
Watching Testani roast his beans is a spectacle. The roaster is a steel monster, painted blue with "PROBAT" etched across the front. Testani takes scoops of green beans until he has around 40 pounds, and heaves them into the hopper, eight feet in the air. Once the beans are tumbling and heating in the drum, he pulls out a Marlboro and savors it as he watches the beans through a small window in the machine, the color developing from green to khaki to a caramel. Testani steps out the door to flick the ash. "Biodegradable," he says.
Several minutes pass, and in a flash, Testani pulls a lever and the beans begin pouring out into an attached basin. What was once a raw, vegetal material is now the fragrant, caramel-colored bean with which we're all familiar. The same crackling as before is heard again, except louder now that the beans are leaving the machine. This is the second crack, and is a good indicator that all of the moisture has left them.
"That's the second crack. After that, you better know what you're doing," says Testani. As a craftsman, he has chosen to remove the beans at this particular point, resulting in what most would call a medium roast. As the beans are cooling, already Testani is digging through another burlap sack, getting more beans ready, while he talks about his roasting machine.
"It's like having an old Ferrari instead of a new Ferrari," he says, explaining the fact that his roaster, built by the German company Probat, is 37 years old. Most of his Long Island competitors use more recently built roasters manufactured by Diedrich, an Idaho-based company and one of the few American producers of roasting equipment. "It's about the heat retention in the older Probats," he explains. Coffee aficionados and connoisseurs argue over the importance of the machine in coffee roasting. While Georgio can spend hours talking about his roasting machine, Maiorana simply shrugs it off. "The machine does not make a good coffee," he says, dismissing all the technological hype. Whether it's about the man or the machine, one thing's for sure—the love for coffee needs to be there.
Happiness Is A Warm Cup Of Coffee
"You gotta live it. This isn't a job to me," insists Testani, without the boastful pride normally rampant in his speech. Maiorana, too, declares, "It's not a job. It's not a business. It's a passion." They are far less concerned about meeting the demands of customers, both corporate and residential, than channeling the coffee and creating the best product they can, even if the taste and products offered varies.
For many of LI's small-scale coffee businesses, their vocation is an art, and thus they take risks just as any artist must. Sometimes the risk pays off, resulting in amazing coffee, but sometimes it means a batch comes out a little over-roasted and winds up in the trash. So, while Maiorana has fanatical customers across the Island, the only independent coffee shop in Greenport—D'Latte on Main Street, just blocks from Maiorana's roastery—does not serve his product, instead shipping in beans from Connecticut so it can offer a consistent brew. Cheryl Bedini, the roaster at Java Nation in Sag Harbor, places an emphasis on the business end of coffee roasting and, in turn, feels a strong obligation to provide her customers with a consistent product. Even while Bedini does not take risks with her beans and employs roasting methods similar to the major coffee companies, her product is superior to what corporate brands and chains offer. After all, her coffee is still the product of one woman working with small batches, not a factory in York, Pa.
Christian Crespo, who runs Mo'Joe, an oasis of Manhattan aesthetic around the corner from the Mineola train station that brews and serves Georgio's Coffee, stresses the importance of the barista in presenting the work of a roaster. "Baristas are goodwill ambassadors," he says, suggesting that baristas will be the ones to engage customers and lure them into the world of coffee. The time and effort that a roaster puts into his work doesn't mean anything if the barista doesn't prepare it well.
"If a barista doesn't do their job well, they might as well be serving Folgers Crystals," says Crespo. "In other parts of the world, a barista is a profession, not a college employment." While Crespo admits that much of Mo'Joe's customer base is comprised of commuters catching a train out of Mineola and employees stopping in for a lunch break from Winthrop Hospital, he strives to instill "more than just a drinker's appreciation of coffee."
"I can't even drink coffee at Starbucks. It's painful," says Sarah Biging, 17, a barista at Mo'Joe who described herself as a coffee geek. "I don't have an espresso machine or French press [a small pot favored by some enthusiasts] but I can tell if I'm at a restaurant and the espresso is bad." While she indicated that she doesn't have any special equipment at home, she seemed to think it unnecessary. "All you need is hot water and grounds," she says. In this case, preparation know-how is just as important as the bean. Like the bean's journey from cherry to morning brew, learning about coffee is a process.
You Say You Want A (Coffee) Revolution
As Greg Heinz briefly recounts his journey from his job as a barista at Starbucks, loading up his burnt coffee with sweeteners, to eventually becoming a part of the national Roasters' Guild, whose retreat he will be attending in August, Love Lane partner Jennilee Morris comes from the kitchen with a small white plastic container of sample coffee beans, labeled "French Vanilla Powerbean." The beans emanate a scent that is nauseating and knocks you off your feet, the French vanilla an overpowering parody of itself, an all-out assault on the olfactory senses.
That stuff, Morris disgustedly points out, is the chemical, or "essence," that goes into flavored coffee beans. It only takes one or two drops of this concentrated essence while the beans are roasting in order to coat them all in the flavor that will later be recognized as French vanilla, hazelnut, or pumpkin spice. This process puzzles Heinz and Morris, who taste and appreciate the coffee bean's naturally inherent subtleties, and accordingly condemn the practice. Why anyone would want to taste chocolate pecan flavoring rather than experience the subtly sweet fruitiness of Ethiopian Horse Harrar—with its delicate notes of blueberries—is beyond their comprehension.
Morris and Heinz are not alone in their values. Amade, the roaster at Hampton Coffee Company, covers his eyes when he applies the flavoring, pressured into appeasing the company's relatively large customer demand for artificially flavored coffee beans. He cannot bear even to watch in horror as the natural qualities of the coffee beans are forever covered up. In fact, not one of the LI coffee roasters interviewed condones such a practice.
"Everyone is just used to all this sweet crap," Morris says. "We blame that on Charbucks."
The members of the young trio that run Love Lane Coffee describe themselves as artisanal, and they run a business that is rapidly expanding. They have a strong philosophy of educating the consumer and re-structuring the mindset of their customer base, bringing a refreshingly new perspective to the mass consumption of coffee. Maiorana, who also considers himself an artisan, agrees that coffee is a way of thinking more than anything else.
If coffee is a way of thinking, then its practice is cupping. "If you didn't cup it you're missing the most important parts," says Testani. Cupping is the coffee equivalent of wine tasting. It is an almost ritualistic process where its participants experience the coffee as a green bean, a roasted bean, and in its brewed form, while articulating what they are tasting and smelling. For a roaster, cupping gives valuable insight into the quality of the bean that is not at all evident by the appearance of the green beans. At the same time, cupping is a snapshot of a roaster's work as an artist. A painter can have their work framed and hung, but no roaster's work retains its beauty for more than a couple of weeks. Cupping allows a roaster to share his or her work with others, as coffee is a unique and fleeting experience.
"It's important to know the difference between good and bad," says Lucky, a partner and barista of Massapequa Perk. Lifting up his sleeve to exhibit the tattoo carrying the name he goes by, he maintains that his last name is a secret. His secretive nature, however, does not cross over into the realm of coffee. Lucky takes his coffee seriously, proudly explaining the specifics of Massapequa Perk's coffee preparation, from control over water temperature to the grind to the custom blend he created with his roasters that he says is catered to the Village of Massapequa Park. All this to show that what he creates is good while the majority of coffee on LI is bad. "Long Islanders have become used to drinking brown water." However, he insists, "I think people want to be educated."
"I wouldn't consider myself a snob. When you find out about this stuff, you tend to seek it out," says Damien Napoli, a regular at Massapequa Perk and an employee of a local vinyl record store across the street. Maiorana would agree that "you have to show people what they want."
There are a few coffeehouses that take the beans they brew as seriously as their aesthetic. However, one would be hard pressed to find a true "coffee geek" there. The palate of Long Island is not yet refined enough to foster such a community. While it's easy to doubt that a population raised on Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts will be able to turn themselves around some time in the near future, Crespo remains optimistic. "They said the same thing about hip-hop, so why not?"
Testani and the rest of the coffee professionals acknowledge that building coffee awareness on Long Island is a slow process. However, Testani also looks toward the future and sees the change, as more of the public becomes aware of the world outside of Starbucks. In the meantime, he will try to keep on the cutting edge.
"We're like the Jimi Hendrix of the coffee industry," Testani says. "We just push it."


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