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First Look: "Rango: The World" launches today with free-to-play multiplayer fun
Paramount Digital Entertainment and Funtactix officially launched Rango: The World today, which allows you to play online in a multiplayer world inspired by the film (which also releases today – this is the first time a movie and an online world like this one have launched concurrently). The entire world is built using assets created by the movie's animators, but you won't need to install a thing – it's all browser-based, removing barriers to entry, as you only need a computer with Internet access. You create your own character and explore the town of Dirt, playing minigames and interacting with residents all the while. I was able to give the game a try earlier this week, so this is all supplemented with some personal experience. Funtactix is all about breaking the fourth wall – making sure you've got an experience that lasts long after you leave the movie theatre. "ARead more →By Tiffany Nevin in News · PC 2 Comments »
Finalists announced for Independent Propeller Awards at SXSW ScreenBurn
Online community indiePub (which is backed by Zoo Entertainment and South by Southwest) announced their finalists for the Independent Propeller Awards, which is held during SXSW ScreenBurn – the gaming portion of the festival. There were seven total finalists chosen from the initial 150 submissions. Prizes to be awarded amount to over $150,000 and a chance for publication. Here they are in convenient list form: The Uncanny Fish Hunt (Uncanny Games) – An adventure game where players take on the role of Siméon, to fight an unleashed ocean. Skinny (Thomas Brush) – An exploration and adventure game where players help Skinny, a skinny freak, save the apocalyptic world from their minds. Chewy (Happy Candy Co.) – A 2D platformer in which players control Chewy, a sticky piece of gum. CREO (Peter Angstadt) – A physics puzzle game in which players must create and experiment to succeed by helping Creo andRead more →By Tiffany Nevin in News No comments yet
Be a bounty hunter in "Star Wars: The Old Republic"
Meet the latest class in BioWare and LucasArts' Star Wars: The Old Republic – the Bounty Hunter. They do what they have to do to bring in their target, but you can have one of a few different kinds of specializations – pick shields and heavy armor to become a Powertech, or be a Mercenary instead and choose highly destructive weapons. (Tank versus DPS, if I am guessing correctly.) Still no official release date for TOR, so just watch that video over and over again, I suppose. FollowRead more →By Tiffany Nevin in News No comments yet
Viz Media announces summer titles like Mameshiba
Looking for something to read? Viz Media is there to supply you with tons of new manga to read on the beach. Pokemon comes back with a Pokemon Black & White manga series. We follow both Black and White to see who they choose and how their career as a Pokemon champion goes. The very cute Mameshiba has two titles, Meet Mameshiba and Maeshiba: On the loose. Both are too cute and are available in July. Think the above are just too young for you? X is coming back in a deluxe collector's edition. This way you can catch up as each volume contains three of the original graphic novels. Also for Teens, Psyren vol 1 will be available in October. Followed by Tersoro and Dawn of the Arcana. FollowRead more →
Want to be Winning?
A certain celeb has had a pretty funny string of outbursts in the media and now on Twitter. The common theme seems to be about #winning. Well now you can be #winning with your own Tiger Blood. Our friends who brought you Mana and Zombie Jerky have now released Tiger Blood B. It's a limited edition, energy drink that does not contain 7 gram rocks. Packing pure Winning. Pouches are available for purchase here. Just be careful…seems like too much winning may cause you to act funny. BRRRRRING IT! FollowRead more →
Mortal Kombat stars road tour in LA
Mortal Kombat is going on tour. Before the title comes out on April 19th, you can check it out at a local Best Buy. Starting today, the tour kicks off in Los Angeles. The Mortal Kombat truck is designed for gamers to perfect their moves and score fatalities. Here are the locations for Friday and Saturday: Friday, March 4th 4p.m. – 9p.m. 11301 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064 Saturday, March 5th 11a.m. – 4p.m. 2375 N. Tustin St. Orange, CA 92865 If staying at home is your thing, Playstation Plus gamers will get exclusive access to the Mortal Kombat demo. The tour goes through April 19, ending in Chicago. Los Angeles, CA Best Buy #109 @ 11301 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064 (3/3 & 3/4) Best Buy #1198 @ 2375 N. Tustin, St. Orange, CA 92865 (3/5) — Austin, TX (3/11 – 3/12) Dallas, TX (3/19Read more →By GamingAngel in News 1 Comment »


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HOUSTON - As much as Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte have enjoyed being toasts of the town, they're certainly ready to get back on the field.
"This is the last banquet thank goodness," Pettitte said, quickly adding that he felt honored to be named the Houston area major league player of the year Friday at the annual Houston Baseball Dinner. "Let's get to spring training and play. But this has all been great. It's been fun."
Pettitte and Clemens, who won the Allen Russell Distinguished Achievement Award for his lengthy list of career milestones, were set to be honored anyway because of their Houston roots. Adding to the festivities - and helping a record 1,700 tickets get sold - were their decisions this offseason to trade their Yankees pinstripes for the Astros' variety.
The applause for Clemens was very different from the response he drew last month at a similar event in New York, where boos intermingled with cheers.
This time, as at several other dinners and events featuring one or both of the Texas pitchers, it was unanimous.
"This last month and a half has been unbelievable," Clemens said, after the Houston community lobbied for him to join his good friend Pettitte with the Astros.
The Rocket ended a brief retirement this offseason and signed a one-year deal.
Other winners at the $50-a-plate dinner were outfielder Richard Hidalgo as last season's most valuable Astro, relief pitcher Brad Lidge as the team's top rookie and former closer Billy Wagner as the club's pitcher of the year.
Wagner, traded to the Philadelphia Phillies after last season, did not attend because his flight from his home state of Virginia was snowed in.
Also, Rice ace Jeff Niemann was named preseason college player of the year.
During his address, Clemens joked that Astros owner Drayton McLane Jr. has been pestering him to make sure he's getting in shape, noting McLane might be tougher than Yankees boss George Steinbrenner.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, who attended because the All-Star game will be played in Houston this July, disagreed.
"I'm the only person in the room who knows all 30 of those people," Selig said, referring to the owners. "Let me assure you right now Drayton is not tougher than George."
The record turnout for the dinner came the same day as another record was set. The Astros, who boosted fan interest by signing Pettitte and Clemens, sold out their season opener in 15 minutes Friday morning, when single-game tickets went on sale.
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The current struggle for health care reform gives us a concrete glimpse of the contours, dynamics and complexities of the issue.
Worker co-ops, the Blue Green Alliance and Mondragon
Are worker owned co-ops sponsored by Mondragon of Spain, the United Steel Workers (USW), and the Blue Green Alliance (BGA) the future of alternative energy production in the U.S.?
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As winter weather hits, many people confuse the current weather (cold) with the long-term direction of the climate (warmer).
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I traveled to Caracas, Venezuela over the Thanksgiving holidays and what I observed was pretty amazing - Caracas is a beautiful, vibrant city.
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Hey guys just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences to mine.
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I ride a split of park and all mountain freestyle.
So for the most part I love my reverb rocker it has great flex and pop and fits my riding style great. However, something that has always bugged me a little about it is even maxed out I feel like I wish I could widen my stance just a little. I also have an artifact 153 that maxes out at 25 1/4 and I def liked it more. I feel like i'm really starting to dial in my riding and think a bit wider will be my zen stance. I've got back and front 3s with Indys on lock along with methods and just now getting heavy into landing blind putting down 5s and switching up my grabs learning more tail and nose stuff. I feel like a wider stance will help my spin initiation and one footed stability while buttering transitioning ect. as well as reach my grabs better.
Even as I write this I'm putting serious consideration into running over to my local shop and getting some t-bolts put on the outside of both sets of inserts on my board to achieve the feel I want. Does anyone have experience with getting T-bolts and or working out ways to widen their stance?
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Hello, I'm in a similar situation to you at the moment.
I ride a Forum rat as well as my rome artifact, with the rat (153) I can run up to 26 and a half" stance :)
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For me that seems pretty wide. I ride 22 3/4" stance width on both my 150cm Evo and 154cm Proto with a similar height and weight as you. The one difference is I ride +18/-18, anything less and I get mild knee pain. 25"+ seems quite excessive to me.
grab some union disc and line up the channels parallel with the board and shift them to the outside.
this will give you the extra width without messing with the holes.
How do you guys not have knee problems:icon_scratch:
I have put T nuts in to get extra setback before, its no big deal.
I felt the same way with my old burton floater but I picked up a new never summer revolver this year and set it up for the widest stance possible and it feels way wider than what I'm used to and way better. I would recommend t-bolts, union discs, or any way to widen your stance if you feel like you need to be a little wider.
Seriously how the fuck do you ride? Watched some twat waffle try to ride with a 26 inch stance today he looked like a cowboy trying to take a shit and could hardly turn.
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I remember Karsten Solheim telling about his days as a Seattle shoemaker during the last Great Depression, and how he emerged victorious with the other three cobblers on the busy corner. "I raised my prices," he said. "I had a better product and people realized it once I charged more. The others went out of business."
Solheim went on, of course, to change the face of golf clubs with his line of PING products. Which brings us to the $600 driver from Miura, not to mention the $300 hybrid or the set of forged irons that retail between $1,600 and $2,200.
These are clubs the makers consider a work of art, clubs that are classic and so good they've been in the hands of players winning major championships even while they were under contract with the producers of another product.
Miura isn't new, although the 50-year-old Japanese club-making company is new to North America with its headquarters moved to Vancouver, B.C. The company hired Golf Channel business reporter Adam Barr as its president.
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"My job has always been to tell stories," said Barr. "Now I'm telling the story of Miura to a new audience."
Miura will never rival the large club manufacturers, and wouldn't produce what it does if it did. But there is a market - as Solheim proved on a Seattle street corner - for a carefully crafted product, one where money is invested not in advertisement and endorsements, but in serious quality control.
It all began in the 1950s in the Japanese seaside town of Himeji, noted for its high-grade steel and its history of producing the swords of Samurai. There seems to be a certain Zen that comes over you when you put a Miura forged iron in your hands, knowing - or not knowing - it underwent a 14-step forging process and was cared and caressed enough to ensure precision.
In an earlier time, you paid top dollar for a Nikon camera lens because you knew it wasn't mass-produced, that quality control had eliminated flawed products. You were paying, in a sense, for the lens you didn't get - the defective one - while getting the one that did work.
That's some of the appeal of Miura. Mostly, it's the feel of a handcrafted product that doesn't issue a new, improved club every year, that in some ways is essentially what Katsuhiro Miura first forged as a 16-year-old. He started the company at age 23 and now, nearing 70, still works in the factory in Japan, his legacy passed daily to his two sons.
The Miura irons are distinctive because the hosel is made separately from the club head and isn't married to the club until the sixth stage of forging. The factory produces only 500 or so clubs a day and those are forwarded for sale only after they have met specific standards.
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Miura is now producing a full-line of clubs, not just irons. The Miura driver is a full 460cc but has a higher face on the club and doesn't look as large and cumbersome as other expensive drivers. It seems only fitting that the Miura driver is understated with a matted black finish as opposed to the white finish of the TaylorMade drivers. The most expensive Miura irons are black, too.
Barr said price usually isn't the issue with those buying Miura clubs, and that the original investment makes sense if you play the clubs over an extended period of time.
There are now more than 100 dealers in the U.S. selling Miura clubs. The www.Miuragolf.com website has a locator map to find one near you.
"People need to feel the club in their hands," said Barr. "They tell us the driver is longer when we didn't design it for that.
"Maybe they feel confident with the driver, swing easier and get more distance."
Blaine Newnham has covered golf for 50 years. He still cherishes the memory of following Ben Hogan for 18 holes during the first round of the 1966 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. He worked then for the Oakland Tribune, where he covered the Oakland Raiders during the first three seasons of head coach John Madden. Blaine moved on to Eugene, Ore., in 1971 as sports editor and columnist, covering the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. He covered five Olympics all together - Mexico City, Munich, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Athens - before retiring in early 2005 from the Seattle Times. He covered his first Masters in 1987 when Larry Mize chipped in to beat Greg Norman, and his last in 2005 when Tiger Woods chip dramatically teetered on the lip at No. 16 and rolled in. He saw Woods' four straight major wins in 2000 and 2001, and Payne Stewart's par putt to win the U.S. Open at Pinehurst. In 2005, Blaine received the Northwest Golf Media Association's Distinguished Service Award. He and his wife, Joanna, live in Indianola, Wash., where the Dungeness crabs outnumber the people.
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Proposals are sought for an anthology on contemporary approaches to African American film. The collection will consist of two parts: The first half will include new theoretical approaches to African American film. Of special interest here will be essays that seek to broaden our understanding of African American filmmaking beyond questions of representation, stereotype, and caricature. Essays presenting new theories of aesthetics or working to formulate new film methodologies are of special interest. The second half of the anthology will include a selection of case studies exemplifying new approaches to African American film. These can be focused on one film and/or filmmaker or a selection of films and/or filmmakers. Essays that rethink African American film and genre are also invited for either section.
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debtor collection period 45
creditor collection period 30?
no its 45 days and 29...30 days nice lie
i can remember 44...... 45
bump.... guys can you be more active on the thread....
guys, i reckon the grade boudaries will go up, it was an easy paper besides the first question. what did everyone write on the options? anyway moving on to unit 3
Looks like everyone did well excep me
49.sumk sumk
not 45, pretty sure its 50 i done it 2 or 3 tymz to make sure..
you did use the formula debtors/credit salesx365 right?
im hundred percent sure it was like the following :
it was 29.9...30
44..... =45
30 and 45
AAT have you got hold of the paper yet?
these were the questions that came up note m = marks
1a) define capital expenditure 2 m
b) calculate the amount to be included as revenue expenditure in the income statement 6 m
2a) Prepare an Income statement taking into account the additional info there was 7 notes and there was errors in the income statement harry prepared. 25 m (23m + 2QWC)
b) calculate the capital balance 4m
3a) calculate the interest on debentures 2m
b) calculate the gearing ratio state your formula 5m
c) prepare the equity section of the balance sheet 6m
d) calculate the dividend 3m
e) Assess the impact of choosing either option 1 debentures and option 2 issuing shares on the profitablity and liquiduity (16m + 2QWC)
4a) calculate the debtor ratio state the formula used 2m
b) calculate the creditor ratio state the formula used 2m
c) discuss the impact of the ratios calculated in part a and b on the business and compare with last years 7m
AAT this were the topics that came up. the way i have written these are NOT how they were worded in the exam. im pretty sure about the marks allocated to each question though.
dude can someone tell me there net profit i got 19166!!!!!!!!!! AAT get hold of the paper brother!
captivity of neagtivity do you agree with the marks i gave for each question. i told u i got 19672 for my net profit.
no did you include the provision for doubtful debts ? of about 538
did u include did you add the stock back on then subtracted the net realisable value?
look at june 11 marksceheme
simmilar quetion you gota add the stock back on - net realisble value
how can it be subtract net realisble value ? youve got to include the innital value of at cost............. then subtract the net realisable value, look at june 2011 markscehem for yoursef.
ask AAT youve got to include the closing stock by added it back on then take away the net realisble valuem i made the same mistake in june and it costed me big time
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Lahore: Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has been told to appear for a fitness test at the National Cricket Academy on Tuesday. Sources in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that national team coach Dav Whatmore, after consulting the chief selector, has decided to put Yousuf through his paces. "Yousuf has been practicing at the national academy for the last one week and Whatmore wants to know whether the 37-year-old batsman is still fit enough to play at the top level," a source said.
The coach has also called up Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Aizaz Cheema, Mohammad Irfan and Sohail Tanvir. "Whatmore and fielding coach Julian Fountain recently conducted fitness tests of all the players and those who could not attend the first session have been asked to appear tomorrow," the source said.
Yousuf has not played for Pakistan since 2010 despite being one of the country's top batsmen in Tests and one-day internationals. He has scored 7530 runs in 90 Tests and 9720 runs in 288 one-dayers with a total of 39 international centuries. Last week, Yousuf had said he was still confident of serving the country for a few more years. "I am ready to play for Pakistan anytime whenever the selectors want me because there is no doubt whatever I am today is because of Pakistan."
Another source said that Whatmore was of the view that some of the senior players, who were discarded by the selectors in recent times, could still serve Pakistan cricket if their fitness level was up to the required mark for international cricket. "We have to wait and see because there are number of players who fit into all three formats of the game."


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Both Ross (NASDAQ: ROST ) and L Brands (NYSE: LB ) -- formerly Limited Brands -- reported stronger-than-anticipated March sales today, pushing the stocks up 7% and 5%, respectively, at midday. Both companies had strong points in their releases, and both seem set for a strong quarter, based on the sales so far this year. Ross went as far as to raise its quarterly guidance on the news.
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L Brands' biggest success came from the increase it saw at its La Senza brand stores. The company had been fighting weak sales through 2012, and in March it saw a 7% increase in comparable sales at La Senza. Over the last year the company has focused on getting rid of underperforming stores at the Canadian chain, and last year the company shuttered 68 locations.
Helped by that 7% rise, L Brands posted an overall comparable sales increase of 3% in March. La Senza was actually the strongest brand in March. But a 9% drop in comparable sales online pulled the overall growth level down. Most of that decrease came from Victoria's Secret sales, which were pulled down by a fall in apparel sales.
Discussing the results, management said that they were expecting a similar increase in April, in part from a shift in the Easter holiday, which should have a positive impact on results. Overall, L Brands -- which really needs to hurry up and choose a new name -- looks well set up to post a solid quarter.
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Making the success at L Brands look tame, Ross went as far as to increase its earnings projection. The company said that it now expects earnings to be "slightly above" $1.04 per share. That increase is based on the 2% comparable sales increase in March. The company had been forecasting a 1% to 2% decline in sales.
Like L Brands, Ross is expecting a positive impact from the early Easter, with all the store closings coming in March, instead of April. That means that the company is expecting an even bigger increase in April, forecasting a 5% to 6% increase in comparable sales this month.
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Wrongful Obedience and the Professional Practice of Law
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Occasionally, brand new attorneys engage in unprofessional or unethical conduct. This article explores the probable impact of one theory, grounded in social psychology, that may help explain egregious conduct in a new lawyer — wrongful obedience. The article begins by discussing the seminal studies on obedience conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, which were recently partially replicated. While almost no one thinks they would engage in wrongful obedience, Milgram's experiments and recent replications suggest that 2/3 of us would wrongfully obey. Applying what we know about obedience to the professional practice of law presents an interesting dichotomy: every lawyer, even a brand new lawyer, has, at a minimum, an individual, autonomous professional obligation to practice law ethically and professionally. Yet, attorneys work in groups, often in hierarchies that exist within established office cultures, and new attorneys face overwhelming pressures to conform to the perceived group ethic. The fact that every new lawyer knows about her independent professional obligations does not appear to weaken an attorney's desire to obey a supervising authority.
While rule changes might help facilitate defiance against wrongful directives and encourage attorney whistleblowing, my thesis is that revising statutes and rules of professional conduct will not go far enough to ward off a new attorney's tendency to obey — attorneys simply will not actively resist their own wrongful obedience, and indeed may not even recognize it as such, unless the culture of their immediate work environment encourages them to exercise autonomous independent judgment in the face of conformance pressures. This conclusion finds recent support within the tragic circumstances of the long time child sexual abuse committed by Pennsylvania State University football coach Gerald Sandusky and the conclusions of the Special Investigative Counsel, as found in the recent report known as the "Freeh Report." In the last section of this paper, I draw parallels to Milgram's conclusions as well as to recent efforts within and outside of law, including the Freeh Report's recommendations to universities, to offer suggestions for managing and supervising lawyers within legal organizations to guard against wrongful obedience and ensure that conformance pressures do not override autonomous professional judgment in the legal workplace.
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Chambers of commerce in Hudson County are casting their nets across the nation, and even around the world, to market the area to potential businesses and customers.
With Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford less than a year away, the chambers are marshaling resources to ensure that Hudson County is top of mind for the visitors expected for the big game.
"We definitely recognize that the Super Bowl is an event like no other," Judith Ross, director of the Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau for the Rutherford-based Meadowlands Chamber of Commerce, said. "This event has numerous opportunities on all levels. . . . It's our job to make those connections."
On May 22, the chamber - which counts a number of Hudson communities as part of its membership, including Jersey City, Secaucus, North Bergen and Kearny - will host a Big Game Expo that will feature a trade show and conference format to highlight the region's amenities.
The event, slated for the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, will spotlight hotels, attractions, transportation options, eateries and other businesses in the area.
"We're marketing this to high-level members of the Super Bowl committee," Ross said, noting that organizers expect the expo to attract "a couple thousand" visitors. "We're also inviting event planners in to see what New Jersey has to offer."
Maria Nieves, president and chief executive officer of the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce, said her organization has also reached out to the New Jersey Super Bowl committee and tourism officials to market the county's businesses.
"We've met with members of the Super Bowl committee to raise awareness and the head of the state tourism department is coming in at the end of May," Nieves said.
But officials at both chambers are also focused on efforts to promote the county and its businesses beyond the big game. While the Meadowlands chamber is sponsoring a series of educational workshops and roundtables for members, the Hudson County chamber recently sent a delegation to India to bolster investment and strengthen trade and cultural relationships between Hudson County and the Asian nation.
Co-sponsored by the Jersey City Economic Development Corp. and Friends of India, the trade mission sent a delegation of 12 Hudson business and education leaders to Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi and Kolkata to meet with members of Indian chambers of commerce and discuss technology, real estate development, sustainable urban design, higher education, science, arts and culture, and hospitality/tourism.
"Our goal is to begin showcasing Hudson County on an international level as a great place for foreign investment and to build business-to-business relationships with leaders in other countries," Nieves said. "India is a highly desirable market and the first step is starting a dialogue regarding the opportunities in our region. We plan to continue the engagement long after we return to Hudson County."
In Bayonne, with the massive Bayonne Bridge-raising project under way, Bayonne Chamber of Commerce President Vincent Virga said that businesses throughout the county have opportunities to provide services and products.
"Too often, small business owners have that drive and ambition to start and more often than not that's where it unfortunately stops," he said.
To help local businesses, Virga and the chamber are planning a small business summit that will provide tools and resources to get to the next step.
Farther up the waterfront, Hoboken Chamber of Commerce President Gregory Dell'Aquila said his group plans to continue its usual networking, educational and advocacy events to double its membership and become 500-strong.
It has also launched a new website, hobokenchamber.com, where businesses can promote themselves.
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Announced on June 9th, 2008, Civilization IV: Colonization is a standalone expansion pack for the award-winning game Civilization IV. This game, a remake of the 1994 classic Sid Meier's Colonization, utilizes the Civ4 engine but does not require that any other previous Civ4 games (including the expansion packs) are installed. Thus, Colonization both incorporates some elements of standard Civilization IV gameplay while introducing some of its own. Some concepts from the 1994 version are also used to create a game with a balance of old and new.
Civilization IV: Colonization, like the classic, focuses on the European discovery and later colonization of the New World. Leading one of the major European powers, players will engage in diplomacy, exploration, trade, and, of course, warfare, as they struggle to dominate the newly found territories. Additionally, historical elements, like important people and revolutions, are also in place to create a realistic environment for players to control history and their countries' future.
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Rebellious, provocative, and polarizing, the oeuvre associated with the name Kienholz has always caused quite a stir since its beginnings in the mid-1950s, first the works by Edward Kienholz (19271994) alone, then later, from 1972 on, the collaborative projects with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. This is hardly astonishing, since religion, war, death, sex, and the more inscrutable sides of society and its social conflicts have always been at its center. Dealing with such subjects as the sexual exploitation of women in prostitution, the role of the media, and the effects of ethnic conflicts, the works pinpoint fractures of Western societies which have hardly been remedied to this day and thus lend the oeuvre its unmitigated topicality. But this contemporaneity is not due solely to the themes dealt with; today we view the works as anticipating central trends in contemporary art like those we find ourselves confronted with in Paul McCarthys and Mike Kelleys pieces, for example, but also in the production of Jonathan Meese, Thomas Hirschhorn, or John Bock. On show until January 29, 2012, the exhibition at the
, spanning from the first three-dimensional smaller works to the conceptual pieces and room-filling tableaux, offers a complex survey highlighting the essence of Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholzs achievements.
Edward Kienholz was born in Fairfield, Washington on October 23, 1927 and died in Hope, Idaho in 1994. On the occasion of the exhibition The Kienholz Women in Berlin in 1981/82, Edward Kienholz publicly declared his wifes co-authorship concerning all his works produced since 1972, the year of their first encounter. Edward Kienholz studied at several colleges, yet never attended an art academy. Doing odd jobs such as working as a nurses aid, a used car salesman, a handyman (with a car boasting the inscription Ed Kienholz Expert), and proprietor of a bar he got to know various milieus, collecting impressions and insights that he would draw on in later years. From 1973 on, Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz alternately lived in Hope, an out-of-the way place in Idaho, and Berlin, where they maintained a lively exchange with the German art world.
In 1953, Edward Kienholz had taken up residence in Los Angeles, where he produced his first wooden reliefs and small-format assemblages of materials from 1954 on. Two years later he organized exhibitions in Los Angeles before he opened the Ferus Gallery together with Walter Hopps in 1957. Soon after, his works developed into three-dimensional tableaux roomspanning environments and installations. The material he used was mainly comprised of everyday things and found objects he had come upon at flea markets he rummaged through, garbage from the scrapyards and dumps of Western consumer culture TV sets, car parts, loudspeakers, pieces of furniture, goldfish bowls, shoes, signs, flags, promotional articles, cigarettes, toy soldiers, dollar banknotes, and last, but not least plaster casts of various family members and people belonging to his circle of friends.
This approach was absolutely radical there had never been something comparable on such a scale in the history of art before. His work fulfilled all criteria of what avant-gardes were about, which had always aimed at marching ahead of their time. Yet, avant-gardes were also elitist and exclusive. Kienzholz, however, had never been interested in excluding anyone. Quite the contrary, there was something that had to be said, and so it had to be conveyed to all people. The viewer finds himself confronted with an oeuvre that is both unfamiliar and exceptional, that in its forms of realism is close to the everyday world and yet points far beyond it. His works were too much for the conventional America of the 1960s which regarded them as obscene and yet saw thousands of people visiting the first major exhibition who gleefully reveled in the scandal. Presentations of Kienholzs oeuvre, rebellious, provocative, and polarizing, have always caused quite a sensation since its beginnings in the mid-1950s. Its subjects, with which Kienholz exposed the societys wounds, certainly had a decisive part in this. Potential conflicts have constantly been at the works center: war, religion, death, sex, and the power of the media.
Adrenalin-producing anger carried me through that work, Edward Kienholz remembered the beginnings of his career as an artist. There were reasons enough for this anger. The critical voices of the generation of those years, which were marked by the cold war and the anticommunism of the McCarthy era, shared a passionate contempt for the vulgarity and injustice of the world. They rejected the demands of their days consumption craze, bigotry, and repression, showed their interest in alternative ways, in filth, outsiders, and the societys fringe groups, and raised objections against a consumerist culture which, in their view, had lost its inhibitions.
In his large-format tableau The Eleventh Hour Final from 1968, Kienholz evokes the coziness of an average respectable middle-class living room to break and destroy it with a single object, a single gesture. This object is a concrete TV set in which a severed dolls head, representative of the victims, provides the background for the killing statistics to be read on the screen. Just the act of quoting such an enumeration underscores the absurdity of such statistics, which were as the title recalls read out in the late-night news day after day. The TV is turned into a monument or - literally into a memorial of media manipulation.
The tableaux The State Hospital from 1966 and The Jesus Corner from 1982/83 make it their concern to impressively confront middle-class coziness with the hard facts beyond its world. They reveal two different aspects of how a society deals with its fringes. The State Hospital is an emotional outcry against the conditions in psychiatric wards, which Edward Kienholz knew from his own experience from his time as an orderly; The Jesus Corner, on the other hand, pays tribute to the fascination for the other which a society gains through its outsiders, loners, and nonconformists. In short: tolerance against barracking which summarizes another of Kienholzs appeals. In addition, the assemblage with its Christian devotional objects is symptomatic of the deep skepticism about institutionalized faith, which finds its expression in mocking irony or open rebellion in different works.
A great many works make it their concern that everybody should be granted a fair share in the American dream. Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholzs Claude Nigger Claude from 1988 focuses on everyday racism. The work portrays a black man from Idaho, a state with an infinitesimal proportion of black inhabitants. The Potlatch from 1988 explores the substitution and destruction of the indigenous populations social and cultural identity. With both Claude Nigger Claude and The Potlatch the artists, residents of Idaho from 1973 on, thematize the history of the American Northwest from a very close point of view.
Other works deal with sexual power and exploitation. The artists confront the utopia of liberated sexuality with the commodified sexuality of the brothel. Works such as The Pool Hall from 1993, The Rhinestone Beaver Peepshow Triptych, or The Bronze Pinball Machine with Woman Affixed Also, both from 1980, mirror commercialized sex and advertising images of utmost banality, which have deeply embedded themselves in the societys subconscious. In todays world of YouPorn in which porn pictures are available at any time to virtually everyone, a pinball machine offering an outlet for impulses and urges nearly strikes us as belonging to some golden age. The perspective seems to be profoundly Protestant in this case and incessantly oscillates between exhibitionism and enlightening gesture.
The highlight of the show to be found at its end is the spectacular installation The Ozymandias Parade with 687 blinking light bulbs in Germanys national colors (the colors are adapted to the respective venue of presentation). A decadent parade on a ship of fools in form of a reflecting arrow features as a symbol of the abuse of political power. Whether the parades sinister president shows a YES or a NO across his face is up to the visitors of the show. It is the result of a survey comprised of just one simple question: Are you satisfied with your government? Visitors may take part in this survey via the website www.jajaneinnein.de going online two weeks before the exhibition opens. The outcome will be presented at the opening of the show.
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Other commuters can park at Gilbane with the rest of Champlain students' cars. Gilbane is one mile away from main campus, and there is a shuttle that runs between the buildings. The shuttle is getting much more convenient now that the Lakeside Campus/Miller Center (where many Champlain staff and faculty work) is open, adjacent to the Gilbane Lot. This has also prevented car vandalism from happening. Overall, campus proximity to everything in Burlington is perfect. Everything you need is less than a mile away, including Church Street, the waterfront, the art district, the North End, and more. A car is not necessary, unless you have a job out of town. Even with a job off campus, the CCTA bus routes are very convenient and are free with a Champlain ID. Public transportation may be new for some, but you will get used to it and appreciate the usability.
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J. Vink (Columbia University (Chandra fellow))
I will show results from Chandra ACIS-I observations of Kes 32 (G332.+0.1). A supernova remnant of 8arcmin size, that has never been imaged in X-rays before, largely as it was too obscured at low energies, and is situated in a complex region of the galaxy.
Chandra reveals that the X-ray morphology is similar to the radio morphology, although the shell seems to have a slightly smaller radius than indicated by the radio map. The X-ray spectrum, although of poor quality, does reveal strong Silicon, Sulfur, and Argon lines, proving that the emission is at least partially described by thermal emission. Both its morphology and spectrum therefore suggest that this object is an older version of a typical shell-type remnant like Cas~A.
This work is supported by the NASA through Chandra Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Number PF0-10011 and by Chandra Award GO1-2059X issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under contract NAS8-39073.
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,
© 2003. The American Astronomical Soceity.


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HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane on Thursday rejected a contract sought by Gov. Tom Corbett that would let a British firm manage the $3.5 billion Pennsylvania Lottery, saying it contravenes the state constitution and is not authorized by law.
Her decision came after Corbett undertook a nine-month process to find and hire a private company to replace state employees atop one of the nation's largest lotteries. He settled on London-based Camelot Global Services.
Corbett can challenge Kane's decision in court. His administration had no immediate comment.
The rejection is likely to fuel animosity to the relationship between Corbett, a Republican, and Kane, a Democrat who has been in office barely four weeks.
Kane ran on a pledge last year to be an independent voice and to investigate how the attorney general's office under Corbett handled the child sexual abuse investigation into former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in 2009 and 2010.
Kane read a short statement at news conference at her Harrisburg office but declined to take questions from reporters.
In a memo she sent Thursday to Corbett's Department of Revenue, which oversees the lottery, Kane's office revealed that it had asked Corbett to withdraw the contract because of a pending lawsuit filed by Democratic lawmakers and the union that represents lottery employees. Corbett refused.
Kane's office subsequently decided that state law does not allow the governor to privatize the operation or management of the lottery nor does it allow the expansion of gambling that the contract would permit.
Her office also concluded that the open and undefined "indirect expenses" that Camelot can claim under the contract - essentially a management fee of up to 0.75 percent of the annual profit, or hundreds of millions of dollars over the life of the deal - are an unconstitutional waiver of the state's "sovereign immunity" protection against lawsuits.
Corbett, whose administration signed the agreement last month, has said he believes Camelot can produce higher and more stable lottery profits as the state tries to keep pace with rising demand for programs for senior citizens that the lottery funds.
Democratic lawmakers have criticized Corbett as simply diverting money from programs for the elderly to a foreign firm at a time when the state employees who run the lottery are achieving strong gains in profits and sales and keeping overhead low.
Camelot runs the United Kingdom's official lottery. The attorney general's office reviews state contracts for form and legality.
Corbett's agreement with Camelot is for 20 years. Camelot guaranteed at least $34 billion in profit to the state in that period and could earn another 10 years in extensions if it meets certain performance benchmarks. It was allowed to charge the management fee and receive cash incentives for exceeding its annual profit commitments. Those incentives were capped at 5 percent of annual profits.
Camelot's bid expires Saturday, which allows it to get back a $50 million security deposit. The money was supposed to be used to pay the Corbett administration's consultants to the contract process.
Besides the lawsuit, other challenges had awaited.
Treasurer Rob McCord, a Democrat, had warned that he may withhold payment to Camelot unless he was satisfied that the company's still-vague plans to expand the scope of lottery gambling were allowed by current law.
Also, top Republican senators have said they will introduce legislation that prohibits the Pennsylvania Lottery from competing with casinos through online gambling.
Currently, profits from the 41-year-old Pennsylvania Lottery benefit programs for the elderly, including transit, rent and property tax rebates, prescription drug assistance, senior centers and long-term care services.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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Support from Citizens Crucial to Move Forward Significant Breakthroughs in GPH-MILF Peace Talks
The Peace Panels of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) made significant steps yesterday by agreeing on important principles that guide the negotiations.
The Mindanao Peaceweavers (MPW), its component networks and allied partners, considers the 10 principles contained in the GPH-MILF April 2012 Decision Points as substantial breakthroughs. These should pave the way for both parties to craft a peace agreement anchored on the legitimate claims and aspirations of the Bangsamoro people as well as on the integrity of the Philippine state. We laud this significant milestone.
MPW urges every citizen to do their best to understand and to support the decision points reached after much difficult negotiation. We call on the Filipino nation to echo in every home and workplace the spirit of compromise shown by the GPH and MILF.
We further enjoin the GPH and the MILF to stand firm against cynics and spoilers of this breakthrough among and outside their ranks and to reach out to our people so they may be mobilized to support this step that brings us closer to peace.
The MPW will be pursuing consultations with various stakeholders to discuss their perspectives and proposals on the GPH-MILF peace negotiations. We are confident that as the people assert their peace agenda, they will help move this GPH-MILF breakthrough forward until the long-awaited peace agreement's signing and implementation.
Lead Convenor
For reference:
Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID)
Jude Cabusao 09177247579 / Memen Lauzon-Gatmaytan 09177247580


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MDC Spends $15 On PopcornUPDATED 7:52 AM MST Nov 06, 2013
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BUT THIS TIME, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF TOO MANY INMATES. AS KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER ANNA VELASQUEZ SHOWS US, THE PROBLEM IS... 30-THOUSAND POUNDS OF UNPOPPED POPCORN. nats popcorn IT'S A 15-THOUSAND DOLLAR POPCORN PURCHASE THAT HAD THE BEST OF INTENTIONS... 2:21 we bought a lot of it BUT NOW THE IDEA ... HAS GONE STALE. more popcorn nats THE POPCORN WAS FOR AN MDC PROGRAM CALLED THE HONOR POD, SPEAR-HEADED BY CHIEF RAMON RUSTIN IN 2011. INMATES APPLIED TO GET IN, BUT HAD TO BE DRUG FREE... ATTEND SCHOOL ALL DAY... AND WANT TO CHANGE THEIR LIVES. THEY ALSO GOT PRIVELGES LIKE... popcorn nats POPCORN AND MOVIE NIGHTS BUT THIS YEAR - 1:33 we have a new initiative, the out of county housing which is very expensive. so we had to look for funds :39 MDC ALSO NOTICED A DECREASE IN POPULATION MEANT FEWER INMATES POPPING INTO THE HONOR POD. SO THE JAIL STOPPED THE PROGRAM FOUR MONTHS AGO. 2:39 when all that was cut we're left with holding bags of popcorn :44 so what is MDC going to do with all this unpopped popcorn? all 30-thousand pounds of it? officials promise they won't leave any kernel unpopped 2:57 we'll probably see if some non profits homeless shelters or other folks could use it and then we're hoping to donate it :07 THEY'LL ALSO DISTRIBUTE
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What helps you stick to your daily exercise regimen?
Star Stickers for Motivation
I am reliving my 3rd grade days and giving myself a glittery star sticker in my daily planner when I complete a workout. Obviously, it does not take much to motivate me to get to the gym each morning. Dangle a glittery star sticker in front of me and I will run. (Or a piece of chocolate.) I have been lacking motivation for the past few months and came up with this idea to get me to stick to a routine. Laugh all you want, but I stuck to my plan!
It is also an added bonus that I can keep track of my workouts. I find that if I plan my workouts ahead of time I am more likely to stick to them. It is similar to when I have trained for a marathon. I would print out a daily schedule and do my best to stick to it. Here is my week coming up:
You may notice I do not have any specific numbers wtitten down. Reason being that I am trying to adjust myself into a daily running routine. I think it is best to listen to our bodies and slowly build up mileage each week. Last week I planned to run Monday-Friday, but ending up taking a cross training day on Wednesday. I didn't beat myself up for not sticking to my plan. A cross training day was just what I needed and I got back to running the next day. This new workout plan is a tool to help me build it into my schedule and to stop making excuses.
What helps you stick to your daily exercise regimen?
Ok, so I'm officially back to blogging again. Took a little vacay from the blogging world but I'm ready to get back to it. While I took a vacay from typing I did a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
The hubby and I went to Alaska in September to celebrate our 5th year wedding anniversary. And we saw lions, and tigers and bears oh my!!! Well, actually we only saw some bears and a moose. We saw some bears in the the wild and saw one moose in the wild at dusk. Since I didn't bring a super duper crazy camera with a ridiculously expensive lens, I was unable to get a good picture of her. But, I snapped this great picture of a moose at a the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Park with my awesomely sweet point and shoot camera.
I didn't see a lion on the trip but I dressed Temp up as one for Halloween.
Lets not forget about cowboy Kensington.
The last exciting thing during 2012, was running the Philly Half Marathon. Originally I signed up for the full marathon, but I switched to half because I was not keeping up with my long training runs. I'm glad I switched to the half because it really is the perfect distance for me.
I finished!! While we are on the half marathon subject, it brings me to my 2013 goal. My goal for the big 2-0-1-3 is to run a half marathon each month. This goal is proving to be very difficult. It appears as if the entire Northeast takes off from running races during the winter months. So stay tuned because I may need to adjust my goal to something slightly different. I was lucky enough to find a race in NYC in January so my first 13.1 of the year will be the Manhattan Half Marathon on January 27th.
What are your 2013 goals? Anyone have running goals this year?
Breaking Bottles
I took my bike out of hibernation and cleaned off the cob webs. No joke. I have not rode my bike since last summer and it was time to get it up and going because I do have a triathlon in 4 weeks. I have been going to indoor cycling classes about 2-3 times a week for the past few months (except while I was away). I am crossing my fingers those classes have kept me fit and ready to ride. I decided to go out for a 7 mile ride. First mile was super easy. Downhill the whole way. Then I made my way to the bike path. The path is a little bit rocky and has some small hills but nothing I can't handle. Unfortunately, my water bottle couldn't handle it and ended up being a casualty. Oops.
I am not the best bike rider as I've mentioned before. I tried to get my water bottle from the holder while riding and it didn't work out so well. I started swerving, dropped the water bottle, ran it over and broke the nozzle on top. Better the water bottle than me. After removing my road kill water bottle, I hopped back on the bike to finish my ride. My ride was going along pretty well until the last mile. Remember when I said the first mile was downhill? That meant the last mile was straight uphill. What goes down must come up in my situation. It was brutal and made me feel completely out of shape. I had to get off and walk my bike for a bit, but I finally finished...with a smile.
I am going to go ahead and assume everyone likes pizza. What is there not to like about it? The only thing that holds me back from having a diet of pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner is the high amount of carbs. It was last summer, when I jumped on the low carb bandwagon and HAD to come up with a way to have pizza low carb style. We are talking life or death situation here if I could not create a low carb pizza. Luckily, I found these low carb tortillas at my favorite place....Costco.
I used these tortillas as a substitute for the typical bready crust. Because it was summer time, I made a fresh pesto sauce in place of a pizza sauce. Be careful when you buy pizza sauces at the store because some can have extra added sugar. I coated the tortilla with the freshly made pesto sauce, then added some grated mozarella. The amount of cheese is really up to you. I prefer mine with cheese and the hubby orders his with extra cheese. Then I sliced up some local tomatoes and sprinkled the pizzas with some garlic powder and italian herbs. To make it a meal, I cooked up some chicken cut into small pieces and added it to the top. I tossed it in the oven at 425 degrees until the cheese was melted and golden brown.
For those interested in the pesto recipe:
Summertime Pesto
1 1/2 Cups of Basil leaves
3 garlic gloves
1/3 cup of toasted pine nuts
5 tbsp Parmesan cheese
Sprinkle of salt
1/3 cup of olive oil
Toss the first five ingredients into a food processor and slowly add the oil to the mixture. Once the mixture turns to a paste its ready to be used.
**Pine nuts can be pricey, but I have found that Trader Joes has the best price.
Holy Guacamole Burger
I had some bison burger meat and two avacados that needed to be used up so dinner last night was burgers and guacamole. I would never eat a plain avacado, but when you mix it up with other goodies I'm all for it. I've made guacamole before with just an avacado and lime juice and it was nothing to rave about. This time it was tasty.
I mashed up two ripe avacados, added about 1/2 cup chopped vidalia onion, 1 chopped medium tomato, a sprinkle of salt, a sprinkle of cayenne pepper, a sprinkle of cumin, about a tsp of minced garlic and a dash of sirracha sauce. I just started adding stuff until I got the flavor I was looking for.
For the burgers, I added one beaten egg, a dash of worcestershire sauce, a tsp minced garlic and some panko crumbs to a pound of ground bison. No need to pull out the teaspoons and tablespoons for this meal.
Along with guacamole burgers we had some fresh greenie beanies and corn on the cob that my parents brought out for us from Lancaster county. Delicious summer meal!
How do you spruce up your summertime burgers?
I'm Back
The hubby and I arrived home safe and sound last Wednesday. The jet lag has been brutal in my attempt to face reality, but I think I am pretty much settled in. After a month long hiatus of not blogging and running its time for me to get my butt in gear. I tried blogging in Indonesia. The internet was so terribly slow it was almost torturous to wait for the post to upload. Considering I didn't take a hot shower for most of the time during our travels, I think I was pretty darn lucky to get an internet connection at all.
I packed all my running gear in hopes of logging a few miles while traveling, but I only ran a total of three miles in one month. You can just call me littlemissnotarunner. Running in Indonesia seems to be an extreme sport. Why? The roads in Indonesia are very narrow and are loaded with cars and motorbikes. Driving there was a free for all with no rules. There is no speed limit, no stop signs, very few stop lights, everyone passes everyone, tailgating, no cell phone laws, lots of traffic, and quite frankly straight up scary.
Then you had to be able to dodge the street dogs. I ventured out on a walk one day and encountered two street dogs running towards me. Needless to say, I turned around and high tailed it out of there to safety. There were also crazy steep hills and pot holes. I can deal with pot holes, but I'm to lazy for the
hills. I run because I find it relaxing and it makes me feel good. Running in Indonesia was sadly, anxiety producing.
For exercise, aside from lugging all of our stuff around Indonesia...
The hubby stuck to his daily surf sessions and I rode a bike around and walked it up the hills.
Indonesia is known for all of its water activities. It's a good thing I am scared of the water and fish. But, I decided to face fear full force and indulged in what Indonesia had to offer. (It was either water activities or continue to walk the bike up the steep hills everyday.) When in Rome......
I tried snorkeling for the first time ever in my life. There were lots of tears and hyperventalating, but I finally calmed down and came to the conclusion fish are not all that scary and my chances of being attacked by a school of clown fish (Nemos) is greater than me winning the lottery. FYI, I don't play the lottery.
I also learned how to paddle board and surf. Unfortunately, I waited until the last day of our trip for the hubby to teach me how to surf. He has been wanting to teach me for years. It was a lot of fun and a major workout!! My arms hurt for days afterwards.
All in all, I'm glad I took the plunge (literally) and got in the water. I have 5 1/2 weeks until my triathlon and I think this trip helped a lot with me attempting to get over my fear of the water and fish. Now I have just need to get those legs going and back to running!
Poop Coffee
At home I almost always buy Sumatran coffee beans for our daily fix. Since Sumatra is one of the islands in Indonesia, I was super excited to be traveling to Bali and drink some yummy, fresh coffee. Unfortunately, I was more wrong than Paris Hilton's singing career.
Most places offer only two choices for coffee. We get to choose between Nescafe or a Bali coffee. I assumed that a Bali coffee must be better than an instant Nescafe. Hello, we are in Indonesia where
some great beans are grown. My assumption was wrong and in my opinion Bali coffee resembles the taste of dirt. After talking to others, I am definitely not the only person that dislikes the coffee. Bali coffee is a low quality, powdery like grind that is mixed with hot water to create the oh so famous Bali coffee. Unlike instant coffee, the powdery mixture never dissolves and leaves a sediment on the bottom. Yuck!
On one of our adventures we went to the Spice Gardens and tried some coffee.
We saw some coffee bean trees. These berries were green so that means they are not ripe yet.
When the coffee berries look like red berries they are ready to be picked or be eaten by the cute little Civet cat. How adoreable is he?
The Civet lives in tropical areas and eats the coffee berry for its red fleshy coating around the coffee bean. Then this furry little monster digests the beans and poops it out. See...poop coffee beans.
They are then cleaned very well, dried out in the sun and roasted. Then us crazy coffee drinkers pay $$$$$ for cat poop coffee also known here as Kopi Luwak. The beans are very expensive and could run up to $160/pound. Of course the hubby and I bucked up and shared a cup. We traveled to the other side of the world and had to at least try it. Wouldn't you?
Somebody seems to like it.....I thought it was good but not good enough that I would pay $160/pound. My budget is maxed out at like $8-$9/pound.
Along with tasting Kopi Luwak we tried some other teas and cocoa. My favorite was the Ginseng coffee and thankfully that was in my budget.
After our visit to the SpiceGarden and coffee tasting we had lunch overlooking the volcanos and Lake Batur.
We then drove by the rice terraces in Tegallantang. There are many rice terraces located in Bali and you are almost guaranteed to get a serving of rice at every meal.
Stay tuned for more of our adventures in Bali!
On the Other Side of the World
I have not had much time to blog, because the hubby and I packed some bags and traveled 12 hours into the future.
Our first flight from NY was 7 hours to Germany. After our 2 hour layover in Frankfurt, we flew for 11 hours to Singapore. We went on a bus tour in Singapore during our 10 hour layover and from there we hopped on our last plane for a 2 hour flight to Bali, Indonesia. Add that all up and that equals a lot of travel time and the two of us being 12 hours ahead of EST. Geesh.
We booked our first three nights in a cute hotel in Uluwatu. Uluwatu is on south side of the island.
Those were the only three nights we booked on our trip so from here on out we have no specific plans.
I am currently biting my nails because I'm not so keen on "just winging it". But we were advised to "just wing it". So far, so good. Keep your fingers crossed.
Since we are in a surfers paradise the hubby was raring and ready to go surf and I was ready to hit the beach.
After walking down tons of steep steps we got to the water, but to my surprise..... no beach. Unfortunately, at high tide there is no beach but surfers still have the option to paddle out through a cave to go surfing.
Once low tide kicks in, the beach is beautiful.
There is also a lot of reef when its low tide so surfers need to be careful or they end up with the unwanted "Bali Tattoo". Thankfully we brought a first aid kit and were able to fix the hubby up.
We have been enjoying the beaches and I even got in the Indian Ocean and went for a dip. Like 10 times. It's insanely hot here and the only way to cool off for a split second is to go in the water.
There is a lot more than just going to the beaches and surfing here. The hubby and I like to explore and learn about the culture when we travel.
One night we went to go see the Kecak Ramayana & Fire Dance. This dance is an ancient ritual and was amazing to see.
So far we have visited two of the many temples here. Bali is 85% Hindu so there are many temples to be found around the island for worshipping. They are kind enough to let us in to explore and take pictures. Sarongs must be worn and women can not be menstruating.
The Indonesians also leave out gifts for the "spirits". Everyday these are laid out in front of shops, houses, in cars, at temples etc. They can be found everywhere. Literally, they are everywhere.
Yesterday we saw a girl and her mother along side of a busy road laying one out and our driver/tour guide told us that the girl fell off her bike and was giving offering to the spirits and thanking them for her being ok.
It's our last day in Uluwatu then we head up north to Seminyak. Check out some more pictures of our time in Uluwatu and visiting temples.
Summertime Salads
Looking for something quick and easy to make for dinner? How about a big ol' salad?
Salads tend to be on the menu almost every night of the week in our house. And since this restaurant serves up salads almost every night, I try to make them different. I like variety when it comes to a salad. My typical go to salad is made with a red or green leaf lettuce and some fresh, colorful veggies. Always topped off with cheese.
I'm not a huge fan of fruit on my salad, but strawberries are in season so I gave it a try. Key word here was try. I used some arugula, added sliced local strawberries, not so carmelized onions, toasted pecans, and baked goat cheese, tossed with a honey mustard dressing. I would have to say with a little bit of tweeking this salad could be a favorite. Next time I will carmelize the onions rather than burn them and I would use a better dressing recipe. Store bought dressing may be the way to go for this one.
This salad is my favorite to make and it looks pretty. Oh and it tastes good too. Double bonus! First, I chop up some lettuce and put it on the platter. Next, I cut up cucumber and tomato (I just use whatever I have on hand whether it be plum, cherry, beefsteak tomatoes.....) and toss them with a lemon dressing (I use half the recipe). Spoon the cucumber and tomatoes on top of the bed of lettuce. Sprinkle with some feta cheese crumbles and toasted pine nuts. Top off with the other half of dressing.
Lemon Salad Dressing
3/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp. basil
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
2 garlic gloves (minced)
Salt and pepper to taste
Wisk all these items together.
Any good salad dressing recipes you want to share??
This past weekend I went to the Italian Market in Philly for the first time. That's right, I have been living in Philadelphia for seven years and have never gone to the Italian Market. Since there was a festival at the market this weekend, I was told it was going to be the normal Italian Market times 100. And it sure was.
The Italian Market is open everyday and the street is lined with vendors selling fresh produce, meats, baked goods, pasta, cheese and dancing cupcakes.
Well......maybe the dancing cupcakes are not there everyday. If I had to guess, they only showed up for the festival.
Me and my Kermit the frog pants enjoying the best drink ever......Iced Coffee.
I stopped into Talluto's and got an amazing Tomato and Mozzarella salad.
I love a tomato and mozarella salad. I just made one a couple weeks ago. Making it is easy peasy. I used fresh mozzarella (from Costco) cut into chunks, cherry tomatoes, and drizzled that with some olive oil. I also added some salt, pepper and cut up some fresh basil from my herb garden. And just like that you have a fresh salad.
Next time I need to get my cheese from the Italian Market. Sorry Costco, but your cheese can't hang with the Italian Market cheese.


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Russian Film Series "Anyuta"
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies.
All films in this series are subtitled in English.
"Anyuta" - 1982, 67 min.
Organized by the Graduate Students in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Audience: Open to the Public
Date/Time: 10/17/12 at 7:00 pm - 10/17/12 at 9:00 pm
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BOSTON (AP) - These should be heady days for American business schools, with more than 100,000 new students arriving on campus, eager to sit out a weak economy and emerge from the cocoon two years later with a fattened salary.
But despite the strong demand, some MBA programs are feeling uneasy about a new article by two researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Business who call into question the value of the degree.
Surveying decades of research, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Christina Fong argue that, with the possible exception of the most elite programs, master's degrees in business administration teach little of real use in the business world. They say the degree has little effect on salaries in the long run.
The article has provoked a public-relations counterattack from some in the multibillion dollar MBA industry who bristled at the wide-ranging critique, which appears next month in the debut issue of the journal Academy of Management Learning and Education.
The article lays into everything from a mollycoddling teaching culture to an outdated curriculum.
It also questions whether the explosion in the popularity of MBAs has diluted their value. In 1956, only 3,200 MBAs were award; today that number has grown more than 35-fold.
The article even notes that 40 percent of U.S. chief executives mentioned in a Fortune Magazine article called "Why CEOs Fail" had MBAs. And the researchers site one report that characterizes life at one top business school as a two-year long networking ritual revolving around alcohol.
In response, the Graduate Management Admission Council sent out results of a study showing U.S. MBA graduates reported an average starting salary of $77,000, up from an average of $50,000 before they pursued the degree.
The GMAC also noted that global demand to take its GMAT, the admissions test most business schools use, was up 13 percent in the first half of the year, and officials say it's jumped even faster in the past month.
The article notes how many top executives don't have MBAs.
But critics say that's not the point. Sure, some people succeed without MBAs, they say, but think how many use an MBA to go further than they otherwise could.
Pfeffer acknowledged some of the criticism, saying there is certainly value in the networking that is often part of getting an MBA, and that salary is an imperfect measurement of the degree's value.
But, he said in an interview: "The question which I believe remains unanswered ... is do you learn anything at business school?"
Even some who criticize the article's conclusions say it raises some important issues.
"An MBA may no longer be enough," said Louis Lataif, dean of the School of Management at Boston University. "There are too many of them out there. ... There are lots and lots of schools in the MBA business who in fact may not be adding value."
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