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Yesterday Laundry brother Rene and I toured around Copenhagen and eventually dropped in at the the legendary jazzclub La Fontaine. Usually I always get there too late or drunk to catch a whole concert, but yesterday we got there kind of early (1 AM). And mind I say, all jazzed up! And what a thrill!
This entry is a salute and an introduction to some of the more interesting names in danish and scandinavian jazz.
Yesterday La Fontaine hosted Il Bastardo (beware: terrible website!), which were doing both a live-recording as a followup for their 2004 release "Il Bastardo" and a documentary film.
Il Bastardo is like, hmmm... gypsy, balkan, jewish weddingparty music. Up-tempo, original and improvised. They played three very dynamical sets with nasty electric turns on the bass and amazing drumming by Stefan Pasborg, which boiled the pots with some of the most technically well-equipped drumming I've heard live at the club; amazingly tight, inventive and explosive. It was red hot and beautiful in all it's funked up folkness!
Remember to check out label Ilk Music, which is a selfmade greenhouse housing all these amazing talents in the scandinavian young jazz scene. There's a brilliant flashplayer who will supply you with beautiful music from artists such as Ibrahim Eclectric, Ikscheltaschel, Tys Tys, Autofant, Rød Planet, Toksikum and much more while you surf these pages and get a round up on an interessting scene. Enjoy.
All these has Stefan Pasborg on drums:
Toksikum 'Social' (mp3)
Ibrahim Eclectric 'Fela' (mp3)


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Kilimanjaro – Getting There & Around Moshi
The following is transcribed from the journal I wrote while we were traveling, the detail thins out a bit after we actually start climbing because the altitude effects my brain making writing almost impossible.
Our trip here was pretty uneventful, even the transfer through stinky Nairobi airport went quickly and without incident. Our bags all arrived with us in Kilimanjaro airport and the hotel was just an hours mini bus ride through to Moshi.
The next day we spent stooging around the hotel, broken up with a quick look around Moshi, which was surprisingly not very touristy but very African. Basically a general shit fight everywhere with every second shop the identical crappy little general store, fabric shop or electronic goods store all surrounded by a constant swarm of clapped out push bikes, motor bikes and cars.
One entertaining thing we saw were these bikes converted into machete knife-sharpeners, where they have a grinding wheel running off the back wheel. So the operator mounts and peddles the bike backward and grinds away.
By the end of the day we were a bit over all the waiting around, at 5PM we had a hike briefing and met our guide Killian. He seems to be a nice jovial kind of guy, with plenty of interesting stories about different parties he's taken up the mountain.
Apparently he took the crew up to film the Kilimanjaro IMax movie.

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Although they've chosen to label it as an EP, Lunia... is actually an hour's worth of material recorded live in a rehearsal room by a trio of German doom mavens whose intent is to both crush their listeners' spirits and evoke all manner of demons while their brains are fogged with probably every narcotic known to thinking Man. But I'll level with you, without that subdued, live atmosphere to this, and it's churning sincerity, I doubt it would have created the same effect of ball-tripping blackness and nostalgia that it so ardently achieves, and the slower, repetitious sequences might have seemed more sterile and ultimately boring in a polished studio format.
There are four tracks, and all are painstakingly long, starting at 11 minutes and culminating with the massive closer, "Ghosts of Dying Time" and nearly 22 minutes! Normally this would get my red flags aflutter, but as I mentioned, the sheer rawness of the recording actually gives it some character that somehow survives the nigh on endless bludgeoning. As to their sound, I might compare them to an Electric Wizard or Bongripper, only Black Salvation is a lot less caustic and painful of an experience. Whether that's a good thing or not will depend on what you are looking for in a doom record, but these Germans definitely dwell between the margin of the (old) Black Sabbath, Sleeps and Pentagrams of the world, and the more droning and surreal slog of the bowels of funeral doom.
Tunes like "Inhale Lucifer" and the distorted bass driven "Doomed Utopia" are quite a drag as they gradually build towards their climaxes, but at least such peaks do finally arrive, in twitchy little psychedelic Sabbath melodies or eruptions of simplistic leads ("Doomed Utopia") that take the music to a whole other plane. Perhaps the only one of the four here that actually started to lose my attention here was the colossal fatty at the end, and yet even there the psychedelic little clean tones and crushing darkness of the vocal reverb still won me over. But in my opinion, the best thing they've got on this EP is the titular instrumental, which shifts between whales of feedback to low, passive bass thuds and all manner of guitar fuckery. It's 13 minutes of what sounds like free-form, beautiful improv that reminds me of many rainy nights cooped up in a $300/month rat-trap jamspace with nothing to do, and friends that had some modicum of ability on their instruments.
Lunia... is not perfect, but pretty fluid for a live recording and welcome, sobering introduction to a doom troop that we'll hopefully hear more of in the future, whether they stay this course or permit themselves the technological buffers of a pure studio recording.
Verdict: Win [7/10]


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Nov. 17 — The proposed mergers of Anthem Inc. with Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc. with Humana Inc. are likely to lead the combined companies to seek higher premiums for consumers, two Wall Street health-care analysts said Nov. 17.
"I can't imagine a merger of two powerhouses in a market not resulting in a higher price. It's just pure common sense," Sheryl Skolnick, director of research and senior health-care analyst for Mizuho Securities USA Inc., said at the 20th annual Wall Street Comes to Washington Conference. However, she said, whether the insurers will be able to get regulatory approval for higher premiums is "a question mark in a highly regulated industry," such as health insurance.
Matthew Borsch, vice president of global investment research at Goldman Sachs, agreed that "it's hard to see that concentration in markets won't have some effect on the prices that groups and individuals are paying." It may be hard to know how much the proposed mergers will affect prices because "there's definitely economies of scale, efficiencies, that over time presumably will work their way into prices," he added.
The proposed mergers of the major insurers are "definitely being catalyzed by the Affordable Care Act," said Ana Gupte, senior analyst for health-care services at Leerink Partners LLC. Regulation under the ACA "has limited the profitability for these companies to a great degree," she said.
Gupte cited caps on insurers' profitability under the ACA's medical loss ratio requirement and rate reviews that limit pricing and underwriting insurers can undertake. In addition, she said, there is provider consolidation, which is "an important trend that they have to respond to."
Aetna is trying to acquire Humana because it wants "to diversify away from a slowing-growth commercial employer-sponsored marketplace and shore up their Medicare capabilities," Gupte said. The ACA's Cadillac tax on high-cost employer plans, which begins in 2018, will drive health plans from the group insurance market to the individual market, she said.
But the Anthem-Cigna merger is aimed at strengthening the two companies' positions in the employer health insurance market, Gupte indicated. Cigna isn't strong in the individual market and Anthem doesn't have capabilities for providing stop-loss insurance to smaller companies that may want to self-insure, she said. Together those two companies can bring complementary capabilities to service the entire spectrum of employers from small group to large national accounts, she said.
Borsch said that, based on an analysis of the medical loss ratios of health plans as well as public statements by many plans, "the ACA exchanges have been a huge driver of losses across the industry," particularly for the nonprofit BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS) plans. Most of the BCBS plans have offered products widely in the marketplaces "and most have suffered considerable losses," he said.
In contrast, results in the non-ACA group commercial business "have been much more steady," Borsch said.
Coupled with stringent ACA marketplace rate reviews, plans are not able to absorb losses they're experiencing with the relatively sick population that is enrolling in the marketplaces, Gupte said. The health law's three premium stabilization programs were supposed to be a back-stop on plan losses, and the reinsurance program paid out well for 2014, she said.
But the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has only paid about 13 percent of 2014 risk corridors claims (191 HCDR, 10/2/15). That has resulted in a number of the ACA nonprofit CO-OPs folding, and it has also hurt some of the publicly traded insurers, Gupte said.
"Humana is now in the second year of tremendous losses" from its marketplace plans, Gupte said. The company has attempted to subsidize its marketplace losses with its Medicare Advantage business, she said.
Further, there is speculation "that they would not have had to sell the company had they not been in such a bad position where they're seeing 15 percent of their earnings being lost within the exchanges and are not sure if they'll reach break-even next year as well," she said.
In the third quarter, managed care companies also have started complaining about attrition in the ACA marketplaces, Gupte said. Insurers report that "the persistency of the consumers is very low. They come in for one, two, three months and pay premiums, get a lot of procedures and services delivered, and then they're dropping off, either because the premium subsidies are not adequate or the cost-sharing subsidies are not adequate and the sticker shock is enormous."
While subsidies are available for marketplace enrollees earning between 100 percent and 400 percent of the poverty level, for people above 250 percent of the poverty level "that market right now looks broken," because many consumers in that income range can't afford the premiums, Gupte said. That portion of the market may end up "becoming more of an unstable high-risk pool-type marketplace."
There is also "a very troubling rise in the uncompensated care" at hospitals, Gupte said. It appears that marketplace attrition is "a fairly big driver of what's going on," she said.
For 2016, it's not clear whether penalties imposed under the ACA on individuals who don't have health insurance will be effective in getting younger, healthier people to buy marketplace plans and keep paying premiums through the year, Gupte said.
Turning to another topic, Skolnick predicted that with the recent publicity on high costs for specialty drug, there is an increased possibility of government action to attempt to rein in prices.
Republicans in Congress have agreed to hold hearings on high drug prices, Skolnick said. "It's political suicide not to agree in an election year to investigate what's clearly a bad-actor alleged behavior. It's a no-brainer. This thing has legs. It's going through the election year. It's not going away. And by the time we're done we may actually get some real savings out of it. If we don't, it would be a real pity and waste of resources."
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. has been one of the drug companies particularly targeted due to questions about its business and accounting practices, Skolnick indicated.
A representative of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee confirmed to Bloomberg BNA that the committee plans to hold a hearing on drug prices early in 2016.
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To chat with Julie Moreau about college football is to find a kindred spirit. She's cordial, pleasant, well-schooled in the Southeastern Conference and the storied traditions that make Saturdays so special each fall. Until she goes for the jugular.
"Roll Tide!" the Mandeville resident says cheerily, with nary a hint of trepidation, as if it's something to be accepted.
Certainly "Roll Tide" doesn't carry the clout of "Geaux Tigers" in these parts, but Moreau is part of a larger-than-you-probably-realize group of University of Alabama football fans living in metro New Orleans.
Unafraid to defy convention, the 'Bama fans adorn their homes with red flags emblazoned with a crooked "A." Their cars sport decals and magnets touting national championships and a larger-than-life football coach nearly as famous for his checkered hat as for his superior teams.
Ignoring the stares and "Tigah Bait!" taunts, they meet in bars and restaurants on game days, out in the open, and celebrate with their "Rammer Jammer" cheer and Big Al the elephant mascot. And, like fingernails scratching the chalkboard of Tiger Nation, they begin and end their conversations with a much-too-enthusiastic "Roll Tide!''
In other words, they're a lot like LSU fans -- only they bleed crimson and white instead of purple and gold.
As No. 1-ranked LSU and No. 2-ranked Alabama prepare to meet on Saturday in what might be college football's biggest game this year, the noise from their fan bases will be racheted up to a deafening level.
The stakes on the field are enormous: SEC west supremacy, and the inside track to the SEC title game and, perhaps, even the BCS championship.
Off the field, well, they're just as enormous: lunches, drinks after work, bragging rights.
Many local 'Bama fans insist the rivalry mostly exists in the minds of LSU fans. Auburn, they gently admonish, is the most hated Crimson Tide enemy.
But the LSU-Alabama rivalry has gained traction in recent years. Both teams are in the middle of prolonged stretches of football superiority, which often makes their annual matchup important. And, of course, there's "the Saban thing," as Moreau, president of The Northshore Tide alumni chapter, calls it.
Indeed, Nick Saban's tenure at LSU returned the school to football prominence. That he left LSU for the professional Miami Dolphins was hard to stomach. That he soon left Miami to take the coaching job at hated Alabama was, for many Tiger faithful, an unpardonable offense.
"This is such a big game," said Tamara Jacobson, a lawyer from Algiers and an Alabama alum. "I've had to tell my son to watch it at school: 'We could lose this game, so ramp it down a little.'"
Jacobson, who vowed to wear red for 13 days leading up to the big game, said she was in court the other day when she realized that she and one of the law clerks were ragging each other over their "hatred" for the other's team a bit too loudly.
"So I realized maybe I need to tone it down a little, at least in court," she said.
Not surprisingly, she predicts a decisive Alabama victory. So much for ramping it down.
Of course, south Louisiana and parts of the Gulf Coast are still overwhelmingly the domain of LSU. Support for the Tigers saturates the area. Legions of vehicles sport LSU license plates and helmet magnets. And many local stores even have aisles dedicated to selling all things LSU, from shirts and hats to golf balls and shot glasses.
Just in the immediate New Orleans area, LSU counts an alumni base of 24,000, according to the unversity's Alumni Association.
But while folks like Jacobson and Moreau (Game prediction: Alabama, 21-14, "I wrote it down.") still represent a minority around metro New Orleans, it does seem at times that more red and white shirts, decals and hats are popping up.
Annie Flettrich, a New Orleans resident and president of the New Orleans Alabama Alumni Chapter (Game prediction: "I'm so nervous. But it's our turn. It's on our turf."), said the university has increased its recruiting of New Orleans area students in recent years. For students that don't fall under the spell of LSU or another local university, Tuscaloosa, Ala., has become an attractive destination, she said.
Flettrich said weekly game-viewing get-togethers at the Rusty Nail on Constance Street, which is owned by a 'Bama alum, routinely draw 100 or more fans. "We hand out shakers and play the fight song," she said.
"Saturday will be our biggest day of the year,'' Brown said.
But, alas, he might not even be there. He and his wife are expecting a baby. You guessed it - the due date is Saturday.
To mark the momentus occasion - on and off the field - Brown floated a proposition to his wife. Whichever team wins, they'll raise their baby to be a fan of that team.
Negotiations contrinue, he said.
Moreau, meanwhile, said the St. Tammany group has around 300 names of alumni and fans from St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes, and that she tries to get a newsletter out to around 200 email addresses each week during the football season. A large group gathers at Coscino's Pizza in Mandeville to watch the games, she said.
"Maybe I shouldn't say the name of the place," she said with a chuckle.
Tiger fans, of course, fight back, especially in houses divided.
Charlene Bolding (Game prediction: Go big with LSU) said she knew her husband-to-be, Van, was an Alabama fan when she agreed to marry him. She thought it would be something she could learn to live with.
Twenty seven years later, they're still in the adjustment phase, she said.
"We just can't watch an LSU-Alabama game together," she said. "We decided that years ago. The last one we saw was in Bear Bryant's last year."
Charlene Bolding, who went to LSU, remembers that 1982 game vividly. LSU won. And she met her future in-laws, also 'Bama fans, for the first time.
"It made for an uncomfortable day, but LSU won," she said.
The Boldings have two children. You guessed it: One is an LSU fan; the other is 'Bama all the way.
"Charlene brainwashed our son," Van Bolding, an Alabama alum, said glumly.
Shane Hodgson, another strident LSU fan (Game prediction: LSU, 24-17), remembers when his future wife, Melissa, an Alabama student, invited him and one of his buddies to Tuscaloosa for the big game.
"She didn't tell me she had gotten us tickets in the middle of the Alabama student section," he said.
He remembers the Alabama students tossing Nerf footballs at the LSU band before the game. Things went downhill from there - "LSU wasn't very good that year" - but the marriage is still going strong.
The Hodgsons, who live in the Madisonville area, have been to every LSU-Alabama game since 1989. They're heading to Tuscaloosa next weekend, without tickets, in the hopes of finding a pair they can afford.
"I've actually developed an affinity for LSU," Melissa Hodgson, an Alabama alum, said. "I tell people I love LSU - I just love Alabama more."
As she does each year around this time, Melissa Hodgson (Game prediction: "I gotta say it'll be hard fought, but Alabama will prevail.") has notified friends and associates that she won't be able to say anything nice about LSU until after the game.
Shane Hodgson said being married to an Alabama fan can be trying. But, he added, "Love is blind. Well, at least 51 weeks out of the year."
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Atmospheric Circulation
This week we describe the mechanisms behind the atmospheric circulation in response to radiative imbalance imparted in the energy balance.
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Key Concepts
Questions to ponder
Abbreviated Lecture Notes
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This week we describe the mechanisms behind the atmospheric circulation in response to radiative imbalance imparted in the energy balance.
- B&H: Chapter 3 and Chapter 5, pp 47-71, 91-102
- Chapter 7 of R&V
Bonus notes
Key Concepts
- Rotation of Earth causes extra concerns, namely the need to conserve angular momentum
- Three-cell model includes Hadley and Ferrel cells
- The General Circulation is composed of both zonal-mean components and deviations (eddies)
- These large scale circulations thereby determine the overall depiction of climate across the globe
Questions to ponder
- Why does a one-cell model of global circulation fail to capture the circulation of the planet
- Why does a three-cell model fail to capture the circulation of the planet?
- How does the three-cell model provide general descriptors of the prevailing flow near the surface and aloft?
- Why do mid-latitude waves occur and how do they help assist in redistribution of energy latitudinally?
- Why does summer climate along the western and eastern coasts of the US differ so much?
- Coriolis Force, Pressure Gradient Force
- Jet Stream
- Geopotential Height
- Adiabatic Processes
- Angular Momentum
- Polar High, Subtropical High, Midlatitude Fronts
- Stationary and transient eddies
- Hadley cells
- Monsoons
Abbreviated Lecture Notes
Web links
- Animation of a high-resolution GCM from NCAR: note the depiction of several features of the general circulation
- Recent Global Circulation Fields and Anomalies from NOAA ERSL
- 250hPa winds
- Monthly climatology of the jet stream
- Inside the jet stream


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Puzzle Winner Announced
And the winner is...
Jennifer "Cookie" Newell, from the wisepoker.com crew. Jennifer was one of quite a few entrants who solved my recent crossword puzzle and entered the prize drawing, which was conducted earlier today. Jennifer wins herself a brand new copy of The Rules of Poker, by Lou Krieger and Sheree Bykofsky!
Sometime down the road we'll do this again, promise!


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The Early Years was the ninth Helix album and their second compilation album, issued in 1991. It reissued all the tracks from the band's first two independent albums, Breaking Loose (1979) and White Lace & Black Leather (1981), with new cover art. This was the first ever Compact Disc release of these two albums. The biggest heavy metal band in Canadian history! With a catalogue of music that spans a history of over 30 years. With 5 gold and 2 platinum albums under their belt and millions of records sold around the world. Helix is already booked on 2015's MONSTERS OF ROCK BOAT CRUISE with some of the biggest and brightest metal/hard rock stars of the 80s.


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Bard Abroad in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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- Applicants are typically second-, third-, and fourth-year students.
- First year students are welcome to apply to the summer practicum program, and should contact the program regarding semester eligibility.
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The previous time there's a wedding here, my relatives reside at Sunway Putra Hotel (I didn't go). Since we prefer to travel on Orange Coach, it's either that or Frenz Hotel. Sunway Putra is a 4-star hotel and has a shopping mall below but we much prefer staying at Frenz Hotel, which is located right smack in the heart of Masjid India district.
Frenz Hotel is a 3-star hotel and is very small. However considering that it's still new, the facilities are still in great condition. Breakfast spread at the ZamZam restaurant below was a tad mediocre, though. But my aunt claim that food still fare better that the much luxurious hotel they stayed at previously.
Of course, when we are at the heart of the shopping district, we just go to do some shopping, right? Went around checking out the various shawls and hijabs. We went to the nearby SOGO Mall almost everyday. And the stretch of road at Jalan TAR is closed on every Saturday for a bazaar, where stalls flanked 2 sides of the streets, selling things from clothes to accessories to drinks and of course… FOOD!
That evening, I was apprehensive about bringing my kiddo out with me but my parents were heading over to the wedding venue to mingle with our relatives so I didn't have a choice. Thankfully, I brought the stroller. Kiddo did some running around, then kicked a bit of fuss. He later asked to be 'buckled up'.
Next thing I knew, he was fast asleep. Weehooo…! Freedom! To shop!
I had a blast at the Saturday bazaar along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman (TAR), Masjid India area. Never mind that I had to navigate the stroller at the crowded street. I also had great, understanding company in the form of my cousin Tim and aunt, who are a bit of a shopping and food fanatic themselves.
The 3 of us were actually quite hungry, as we have not had our dinner yet and it was past 8pm. So our hungry selves were much tortured to see sooo much food on display. And the aromas of food being freshly cooked right there…
Guess it's true when they say that we shouldn't shop on a hungry stomach… We end up making many impulsive buys that led to some regrets… Boohoo!
Fried goodies
Fried chicken… fried quails. Various fried, skewered stuff- from fishballs, nuggets, seafood… to beef and chicken offals. Fried everything, lah!
Fried chicken cutlet & fried sausage
Fried chicken cutlet
It's like when we're at those temporary neighbourhood bazar in SG, there were stalls manned by Chinese folks selling these 'XXL Taiwanese Chicken Cutlet'? Yeah, something similar.
Ahh… those are the fried chicken cutlets before they're cut-up, sprinkled with pepper and paprika and packed into paper bags, upon order. just like those Taiwanese styled street snacks. Those sausages are the foot-long, large cheesy chicken sausages.
My cousin Tim was the one who bought this.
Laksa Penang
I think we bought from the wrong stall. I remembered the previous time I was here, there's this particular stall that has a lot of seating area and people were savouring their bowls of these. This one doesn't seem to have that but we bought anyway.
Later on, as we reached the end of the bazaar, we spotted another Penang laksa stall with the said seating area. But we already bought 2 packs from the other stall… Huhu. And when we had a taste later on, it turns out that the laksa wasn't even nice…!! Huuhuu.
The gravy was too diluted, the taste of mackarel/sardines was lacking. And there was nary a hint of 'hae ko'. Did we even get the right type of Penang Laksa??! Pfft.
Popiah basah
My aunt was enticed by these freshly-made 'popiah' (chinese spring rolls). However, as we made our way down the various stalls, we discovered another stall selling much more tentalising popiah! The ones where they have fried shallots sprinkled on top of that sauce.
I suddenly recalled buying from that stall before. And theirs was indeed delish!
True enough, when we had this popiah later on, it wasn't too good. The stewed veggies inside was tasteless and the chilli sauce seemed to lack a key ingredient, which I can't figure out what.
Another bad buy. :(
Lok Lok or celup-celup
While 'Lok lok' is how the Chinese refer to it, 'celup-celup' is the Malay way. Both literally translates to: Dip Dip. You know, like dipping something in sauce…?
Skewers of bite-sized food chosen by customers which are then cooked (most commonly it just by boiling them in some stock?). Some stalls had options like, boiling, grilling or deep-frying in batter). This one had only 1 type of sauce- the spicy peanut one. Some stalls offer many varieties of sauces.
It's akin to Yong Tau Foo- on skewers.
All 3 of us were big fans of these so we looked forward to encountering a stall selling this. When we found it, it appeared to be so popular and crowded that I had no choice but head somewhere that's convenient for me and my sleeping kiddo in the stroller.
Left it to my cousin to choose for me, with parting word that goes something like, "…Choose anything but make sure there's quail eggs and cockles for me!"
My aunt, she chose only for herself and had the sauce poured in together with the skewers of food. She chose enough to feed another person. My cousin asked for the sauce to be packed separately. She meanwhile, chose enough to feed another pair.
The peanut sauce was super spicy!!!! Needless to say, some skewers went to waste.
This is what I meant by, "not buying food when you're VERY hungry".
Unlike our authentic 'doner' kebabs prepared by actual middle-eastern guys, the 'kebab' here is merely spiced minced meat cooked on the grill and shoved into hotdog buns before being slathered with chilli sauce and mayonnaise.
Also a messy eat, no less.
My cousin Tim went crazy over these 'Apam Balik'. Similar to crepes- with sprinkles of sugar, ground peanuts and sometimes, cream corn, before being folded over.
Unlike the usualy thick, fluffy ones; those sold here are very thn and definitely crispy. Almost like love letters!
My aunt was searching high and low for this. She even had to ask around. Apparently her mum love this so much and requested it when she know of my aunt's KL trip.
'Kuih Akok' is a traditional Kelantan-ese dessert made of mainly eggs, coconut cream and palm sugar.
Crème caramel
The stall selling the Kuih Akok also sells Crème caramel. Kinda' impressive, huh? My aunt can't resist buying a couple of these to bring back for her family.
Red velvet cake
When my aunt and cousin were at the Lok Lok stall, I hung around near the neighbouring drinks stall. Thirsty me was choosing something to drink and I spotted something strange nestled amongst the canned drinks in the ice box (seen above).
It was something in a jam jar. 2 of them, actually. Looked very, very familiar. Looked a lot like… Red Velvet cake!!
I can't grab it because my sleeping son was at a stall on the other side and I dare not leave him behind. I actually had to toke 2 large strides out just to choose my drink. So when I saw that my aunt was done buying her Lok Lok, I excitedly gestured for her to take those jam jars out and buy them. Pronto!
She was like, "Why? What's that?" I frantically replied with, "Red velvet! Red velvet cake!!"
She went wide-eyed like, "Whaaa...?" And proceed to take the jars out to pay.
Later I saw her putting the jars back into the ice-box. Turns out, those jars belong to someone who left them there to be chilled. The guys at the drinks stall allowed it out of goodwill.
Sigh…That red velvet cake had looked sooo good!
Red velvet cake
A luck would have it, we encountered the person who chilled the cakes there on our return leg from the other end. My gutsy aunt actually approached her to ask that she sell at least one of those to her.
And she conceded!
As it turn out, her stall selling clothes was right next to the drinks stall. She actually bought like 5 or 6 of those Red Velvet jars from someone who baked from home, somewhere in Sentul, KL. Those are the 2 left as she had eaten the rest. That petite lady actually ate soo much?! That cake must have been awesome, right?
Oh, she sold it to my aunt for RM10. Expensive…? We don't mind!!
And it sure is good. The red velvet cake was fuffy and soft and the cream cheese was sweet enough to complement the cake's flavour. It's all just nice. Worth all that hooha.
After we hauled everything back to the hotel, do we realise that we somehow manage to resist buying the very thing that tempt us the most.
Those skewers of beef steak that's almost like the mid-eastern beef kebabs. The heady aroma of those freshly grilled cubes of black-pepper steaks were so tentalising and we were always drawn to all the stalls selling them. Yet, we never buy any. I wonder why??
Hmm… Does this warrant another visit there?
Auntie Anne's pretzel sticks
Saw this in SOGO and can't resist buying them. I know my mum loves this too. Oh, the eclairs were superb!
Dunkin donuts
Quite an impressive display. Didn't buy any though. We were more enticed by the confectioneries from Four Leaves Bakery located on the same floor.
As we know, the Four Leaves in SG are non Halal-certified. So we were drawn to the many varieties of bread sold there, especially their hot favourite. It was this triple layer triangular chicken ham & cheese sandwich that's coated in egg and breadcrumbs. Yes, fried. Sound good, uhh?
I was looking forward to their chocolate croissants but we came too early and those were't baked yet. Too bad we're departing at 2pm that day itself… Huhu...
Mee Kari
I had this at the mid-point rest stop in Pagoh. I was curious on what this is like. The one in SG has this thick chicken curry gravy.Here, the gravy was a tad diluted. Almost similar to the instant noodles kind.
This bowl had one of the most delish tofu that I ever tasted. Don't know why, maybe they were freshly-made or something? And some fishcakes. I was taken aback to see those yellow egg noodles. Never too fond of those. Never figured out why but after this bowl I think I got my answer…
Those noodles later create havoc in my belly. Big-time flatulence throughout the journey back to SG. Such discomfort is most unwelcome on a long bus ride, thankyouverymuch. Eugh!
And no, this aren't all. There are other foods as well. Food during the wedding and we paid a visit to a much-missed fast food outlet. To be told in another post, yea?


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The Whispering Knights Project I've been involved with for just over two years now is to appear in an exhibition at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester, which will run from January 15 – February 5, 2017. The exhibition, 'Art Inspired by the Cotswolds' celebrates 50th anniversary of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Beauty (Cotswolds AONB).
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SCOTTSDALE - Giants second baseman Marco Scutaro took live batting practice for the first time this spring and participated in team fielding drills Wednesday. But although Scutaro said his ailing back is improving, he wasn't ready to declare he'll be available for the Giants on Opening Day.
"I don't want to say nothing right now just because backs are tricky," Scutaro said. "I can tell you right now, yeah, I feel great, and then wake up tomorrow and can't even walk or something. So we're just going to go day by day."
Scutaro has yet to play in a game this spring, and manager Bruce Bochy recently said the Giants might have to start considering contingency plans if the 38-year-old has not gotten into a game by this weekend.
Scutaro on Wednesday said his back fatigues quickly when he swings a bat and "we want to get to a point where it's a little stronger." He said he feels he could play in a game right now, but the goal of waiting is to build enough strength in his back and core muscles to where the back isn't a recurring issue like it was last season.
"I played with worse (pain) last year," Scutaro said. "My point is I want to feel like I'm able to compete ever day, play a game and go back to my apartment and get some rest and feel like I actually got some rest - not dealing with the pain the whole night."
Scutaro's concerns with the back go beyond baseball; he said over the past year he often has been unable to relax or sleep without pain. Beyond working with team trainers he has seen a back specialist in Los Angeles, but said the problem is something he doesn't think surgery can fix.
The Giants intended to work Scutaro in slowly this spring, with assistant general manager Bobby Evans reiterating Wednesday the process is "an investment in his season to get him as strong and ready as we can, so you don't run into these bumps during the year."
For that reason, the battle for the utility infield job on the Giants' 25-man roster takes on a little added importance this spring. Joaquin Arias, likely to make be the fifth infielder, would seem a logical replacement for Scutaro if the latter isn't available on March 31.
But the Giants' sixth infielder could also be a key piece, and right now that is an open competition between Ehire Adrianza, Tony Abreu, Nick Noonan and Brandon Hicks. (Tomorrow's print story in The Bee is on Adrianza, who has made an early impression showing some pop in his bat).
Manager Bruce Bochy said the Giants are still optimistic about Scutaro and "the hope is to have him on the field soon. I wish I had a date for you, but just having him out here taking ground balls and swinging a bat is a step in the right direction."
Still, Bochy said, there are some boxes Scutaro needs to check off before the Giants are comfortable starting the season with him at second. That includes playing back-to-back games, which currently sounds like Scutaro's main concern. Bochy said that's something the Giants would need to see before they break camp.
Told of Scutaro not exactly declaring himself a lock for Opening Day, Bochy sounded a bit surprised and said he hopes Scutaro's spirits pick up in the next week.
"We certainly need him to be optimistic," Bochy said. "I know it's frustrating for him. You're hoping it comes around a little bit quicker. But sometimes these things, they turn the corner real fast. We're still hopeful and optimistic that will happen."
• On the topic of backup infielders, Bochy and the Giants may have found a legitimate candidate for backup duty at first base Wednesday in the form of Hector Sanchez, who started against the White Sox with Brandon Belt out sick.
Sanchez played an impressive defensive game at first before moving behind the plate to finish the game and told reporters of playing first as he was walking off the field: "I tell you guys, it's a piece of cake."
"It looked like he was picking pitches for me down at home plate," said starting pitcher Tim Lincecum. "I think Belt's got to look out for his job."
Bochy sounded impressed, too, saying Sanchez has taken some grounders at first during camp but that he still wasn't sure what to expect. Sanchez has never played first in a big-league game and has 46 appearances there in the minors.
"How good did he look?" Bochy said. "He goes out there and does a great job for us and that's pretty impressive."
Bochy was asked what he would actually do during the season if the Giants were to lose Belt for an extended stretch, and said he could "ham and egg it" with a combination of Michael Morse, Buster Posey and Sanchez, with Joaquin Arias another possibility.
He also said Sanchez's showing at first was likely helped by the latter's showing up to camp this season in better shape than at this point last year, when Sanchez was also nursing a sore shoulder.
"He made it look easy over there, and that's I guess a nice option to have if we want to get him in game and we want Buster behind the plate," Bochy said. "He's earned another look over there, I'll say that."
• Lincecum had his longest outing of the spring Wednesday in the Giants' 4-3 win over the Chicago White Sox, throwing four scoreless innings before coming back out for the fifth and allowing a pair of runs. Lincecum said the slip wasn't a result of fatigue and he still felt strong at the end of the outing, but exited due to pitch count.
"(I was) kind of up a little (in the fifth), but outside of that I was definitely on both sides of the plate," Lincecum said. "I would've liked to throw more strikes - got to more 3-2 counts than I wanted to - but just battled."
The stamina at this point in spring is encouraging for Lincecum, who said Wednesday a goal of his this season is to reach the 200-inning plateau that he has missed each of the past two years. Prior to that, Lincecum eclipsed 200 innings in four consecutive seasons.
"That comes back to preparation and leaving yourself a lot more options when you go into each day," Lincecum said. "I'd like to see myself get back to there and push myself and challenge myself in that way."
• The Giants announced their second round of roster cuts Wednesday morning involving 10 players. Pitchers Jason Berken and Mitch Lively, catcher Andrew Susac and infielder Chris Dominguez were reassigned to minor-league camp.
Pitchers Jose De Paula, Mike Kickham, Hunter Strickland and Jose Flores; infielder Adam Duvall and outfielder Gary Brown were optioned. All players will report to minor-league camp tomorrow or Friday.
You could still see some of those players back with the Giants for games this spring. For example, Bochy said Susac will catch for the Giants in their night game Thursday.
Bochy also had this to say about Susac, the Jesuit High School graduate in his third camp with the organization: "I just thought he got better and more comfortable the more time he got here. He really relaxed and realized he can play here."
• Nice ending to Wednesday's game for the Giants - they entered the bottom of the ninth trailing 3-2 and won it as Sanchez led off against Nestor Molina with a single, Noonan doubled to score pinch runner Juan Perez, Hicks moved Noonan to third with a sacrifice bunt and Arias singled to score Noonan with the game-winning run.
• With Belt out, Bochy had Morse batting second to get the left fielder an early at-bat. Asked if it was something he might be considering for the regular season, Bochy grinned and said, "Absolutely not." So there's that.
Morse, by the way, came up for his first at-bat following a leadoff single by Gregor Blanco, leading to some joking in the press box over whether the 6-foot-5, 245-pound Morse might try to bunt Blanco over. He did slightly better - a double to the gap in right-center that scored Blanco for the game's first run.
• Bochy said Belt probably won't be available tomorrow, assuming he'll still be "washed out" from his illness. Angel Pagan was also scratched from today's lineup for a doctor's appointment. Asked if there's something up with Pagan, Bochy said the Giants were just "getting him checked out about something, but that's something we're going to keep between us." Something to keep an eye on.


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Porting to XE5 and the "W1030 Invalid compiler directive: 'true'" warning
If you port your application to Delphi XE5 and you receive this warning
[dcc32 Warning] W1030 Invalid compiler directive: 'true'
then edit the 'Build Configurations (Debug)' settings and change the setting
"Debug information" from "True"
to "Debug Information" (located at "Delphi Compiler -> Compiling -> Debugging"):
and the warning will be gone.
4 Comments to Porting to XE5 and the "W1030 Invalid compiler directive: 'true'" warning
March 14, 2014
This problem also happens with new projects created with XE5.2, and never touched with other Delphi versions.
From time to time I'm seeing it in small helper project, that was created in XE5.2 – however I'm not able to find out steps to reproduce and QC it.
Mostly I'm seeing it when I do build be MSBuild.
Currently I've set this Warning as an Error, so when it shows in IDE it will be easier to know what I have done before, that triggered that error.
I think that it's because of buggy project configuration inheritance (like VersionInfo is totally broken…)
March 16, 2014
This sounds very similar to the msbuild issue I blogged about a while ago "When the Delphi XE5 commandline compiler fails with
error F1026: File not found: 'False.dpr'":
Next time I see that I will try your solution. I hope it works as it is a lot easier than my solution.
Thanks a lot for your post!
March 17, 2014
It acutally is the same error – it outputs "false" as the command line argument for Debug Informations which isn't recognized by the compiler. If not yet done, I'll QC it.
August 14, 2018
Thnaks, work for me porting from Delphi-2006 to Delphi-XE5
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NOTE: To enroll in this mini-course, you MUST have a laptop loaded with Excel 2016 (and bring it to each class session).
Microsoft Excel is a tremendously powerful tool; it provides the capability to manipulate complex data to provide information and to make decisions. This hands-on course is designed to enhance the skill of Excel users. I hope to show you that it really is not that difficult with a little bit of knowledge, and given a willingness to practice and make mistakes, you will be amazed at how quickly your effectiveness in using spreadsheets will improve. Exercises should enhance your skills in numerous areas. This class will be delivered in a hybrid format.
Managers continually have to make decisions in situations in which the outcomes depend, at least in part, on what their competitors do. Game theory provides a lens that is useful for examining these types of strategic interactions. This mini course will introduce you to some simple frameworks and tools from game theory that you can use to analyze strategic interactions to inform decision making. We will look at a wide range of examples from business, law, politics and everyday life to illustrate the power of this approach. The class will be highly interactive. There will be minimal lecture and a high level of discussion and real-time working through problems. The assignments will consist of in-class exercises and a take-home problem set. Because game theory is a branch of mathematics, the course will use some math so you should be comfortable with basic algebra. Many of the applications of game theory have been developed within the field of economics, so some background in microeconomics, while not necessary, will be helpful. There will be a pre-assignment consisting of a short reading prior to the first class meeting.
Upon completion of the this course, you should have gained an understanding of what it means to manage your career and why it is important. You will learn the essential elements of effective career management and develop a strategy to get and keep your career on track. You will have access to tools that will help implement your strategy.
"Career Management PM1" (MGI 620 PM1) covered the essential elements of effective career management (knowing yourself, résumés and cover letters, interviewing, and assessing your network). "Career Management PM2" covers additional topics related to advancing your career: managing your boss, social intelligence, building your network, managing job offers, compensation negotiations, promotions, etc. Prior course recommendation: MGI 620 PM1
The goal of the course is to provide MBA students with knowledge, skills and understanding of the key components of a successful sales organization. The course will focus on the following topics: basic sales skills, hiring sales people, sales coverage models, compensation and sales management process.
"Project Management" is a process-type course centered on the human systems part of the project management experience. While software/MIS applications will be discussed, the actual applications are not part of the course requirements. Former students who have taken PMI's PMP Certification Exam report this course was useful.
The risks involved with living in the information age are all around us. When it comes to information compromise, it's not a question of "if" but "when". This course will seek to level the playing field of personal and professional cybersecurity by covering safe computing techniques that can be leveraged across a variety of environments including smart-devices, laptops, desktop, and workplace computers. Students will gain an appreciation for what the threats are, where the threats come from, how to avoid or protect against threats, and how to recover in the event that personal information is stolen.
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Nowadays, some nations are primarily made up by youngsters rather than the elderly. This situation can bring about numerous advantages, but the disadvantages should not be denied. Personally, I think these are outweighed by its advantages.
On the one hand, young people play an important role in our society. Firstly, the majority of labor workforce is the young. Due to the youngness and ambition, they always try their best, complete the tasks with high efficiency, therefore, the productivity of companies is always in stable condition. Furthermore, the young have an ability to learn new thing quickly which help them to adapt themselves to many changes in the world. They are fond of learning, updating news every single minute in order not to be obsolete and also make a contribution to nation growth.
On the other hand, the young cause many drawbacks. People cannot deny that although they are full of energy, enthusiasm, they are also hot – tempered and impatient which lead to plentiful wrong decisions. Lacking experiences and consciousness, they meet many obstacles when they work in a real world which can result in the loss of money and prestigious. Furthermore, youngsters are involved in many criminals because they do not have a standard education or stringent upbringing, they are facing with many hurdles and If they cannot overcome the hurdles, they will become a victim of criminals and directly or indirectly induce crime.
In conclusion, in some ways young people is problems but advantages they bring are much more significant.
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Acquired Brain Injury
Each year over 200,000 people acquire a brain injury with varying degree of damage, disability and hospitalisation. Active Assistance works with the client and their family to promote independence and maximise potential. We recognise that often the most disabling consequences of an acquired brain injury are those that cannot be seen, for example the changes to a person's personality, social and family situation. We recruit teams of individually selected support workers for specific clients and provide comprehensive and on-going support and training to each team.
Each client is individually assessed for a care package and an assessment report is made available outlining the care requirements together with the cost of the recommended service. This assessment identifies the client's needs and provides recommendations about the type of support package we could offer, including specific details on how we would meet the physical, psychological and emotional care needs of the client, and would include details of any rehabilitation leisure, educational and employment requirements. An individual support / care plan would be agreed with identifiable objectives. This is reviewed on a monthly basis by the Care Service Manager, the support team and the client
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A team of support workers is specifically recruited to work with the client and where possible the client will participate in the recruitment of support workers. The support team will be familiar with the individuals support plan, and this will enable them to direct and tailor their support to the client's individual needs. The team will understand that the level of support required may vary from day to day, and they will become skilled at adjusting and providing the support required as they form a relationship with the client.
Support Workers can provide personal care or supervise and prompt the client to carry out an agreed personal care routine themselves. They may also undertake or assist with domestic and shopping activities, supporting individuals with educational courses, voluntary work and with employment opportunities. They may also support the client with social activities, holidays, financial budgeting and with the administration of medication. Support workers will not be expected to provide physical restraint, unless this is a specific requirement (for which training will be provided).
The clients Care Service Manager will hold regular team meetings which the client will be encouraged to attend. The team and client have access to twenty-four hour emergency on call support.
An initial full week long induction and training programme is followed by enhanced training in brain injury. This ensures that each support worker is competent and confident to understand and meet the needs of the client. This will include a series of discussions and information sharing about the nature of brain injuries, rehabilitation and care philosophies, which will be individually related to the individual client.
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David Combs currently serves as Director of Operations for the Southwest Region, covering the Dallas, Houston, and Austin offices. He has more than 30 years of architectural experience in a broad range of market sectors, building types, and construction types. He is primarily responsible for the financial, administrative, technical, project delivery, and risk management facets of the architectural business, including coordinating the implementation of the office strategic plan; ensuring effective administration and management of business operations; development and monitoring of the annual office financial plan; maintaining appropriate levels of qualified staff and allocation; establishing and monitoring both firm-wide and office-level processes and strategic initiatives; and providing fiscal, contractual performance, and collections guidance for the project managers.
Prior to Director of Operations, David served as Director of Specifications and a senior construction contract administrator for the Dallas office. He has been a member of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) for over 20 years, is a Certified Construction Contract Administrator, and has served on CSI's National Specifications Competition Committee and National Certification Committee. In addition, David has been teaching professional development courses in specifications, written construction documents, and construction contract administration at the local level for over 18 years. He is a past President of the Dallas Chapter of CSI, and most recently served for five years on the AIA national MasterSpec Architectural Review Committee. In addition to his Director of Operations duties, David continues to serve as a primary technical resource to project teams during the design and construction phases, providing guidance and assistance to the firm's teams.


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Some victims of domestic violence have remained in dangerous situations because they are worried about the safety of their pets if they leave and now a service is doing something to help.
Domestic violence shelters accepting animals at risk from domestic and family violence operate now in Brisbane, Townsville, Charters Towers, with a similar facility soon to open in Roma.
The Pets in Crisis service had provided safe haven for dozens of pets of DV victims, allowing their owners to find safety.
Minister for Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Di Farmer says the Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland identified that victims may delay leaving abusive and violent situations due to animal welfare concerns.
"Knowing that their pets have a safe place to go removes a barrier to leaving home. This helps break the cycle of violence."
DVConnect provides the Pets in Crisis program including a critical partnership with RSPCA Qld to provide a place of safety for pets when a victim of violence needs to leave home.
"The DVConnect/RSPCA Pets in Crisis program is an essential service that contributes to saving the lives of victims as well as their pets. We know that pets can be harmed or threatened with harm when perpetrators of domestic violence use them as another way to control or intimidate victims."
Queenslanders can get involved by applying to the RSPCA to be an animal foster carer. They can also donate to this life saving service.
The needs keeps growing.
In the past six months, the RSPCA has accepted 83 animals into the foster care service and provided 2710 days of care for these pets. The average length of stay for pets in the foster care service is 30 days.
In the same time, DVConnect has transported and paid for other associated costs to help an additional 32 women get their pets to safety.
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A clipboard is a thin, rigid board with a clip at the top for holding paper in place. A clipboard is typically used to support paper with one hand while writing on it with the other, especially when other writing surfaces are not available.
Another use that was typical before the era of personal computers (which brought about word processing and computer graphics) was to hold pieces of text and art that had been clipped with scissors from one sheet of paper to be pasted with paste onto another sheet. This use provided the analogy and terminology for computer clipboards.
Clipboards can be constructed from a variety of material, including but not limited to, PVC, polypropylene, High Impact Polystyrene, Foamex and even wood. Clipboards generally come in two different designs—single or folding. Single clipboards are the more traditional type and consist of a single piece of rigid material and some sort of fixing mechanism along the top. Folding clipboards are usually constructed from a single piece of flexible PVC with two rigid materials enclosed within. A folding hinge connects the two sections to allow the front to be folded over the content to provide protection and often to allow some sort of promotional print or instructions. Folding clipboards also provide additional benefits because of the extra space available, allowing the incorporation of pen holders and pockets for storage.[1]
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Many police officers carry clipboards. Police clipboards are designed for constant use, and have one or two compartments designed for filing documents and reports while in police transit.
In the National Football League backup players, particularly the quarterback, are seen on the sidelines carrying a clipboard. Football analysts often use the notion of "carrying a clipboard" as an object of derision indicating that said football player is not good enough to play on the field.
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Summer is here and to celebrate, Flat12 is happy to host a romp in the beer garden for the Indianapolis Doodle Dogs group! We have a fenced in space for well-behaved dogs to play off leash after public hours. Bring the pups and enjoy some local brews on the patio. This event will be weather dependent, so please RSVP for updates. In the event of inclement weather, the date will be rescheduled.
If we get a good turnout, we will plan to have a monthly meet up!
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*The dogs will be allowed off leash outside, so for everyone's safety and to make sure it's fun for all, this event is limited to well-socialized pets who play nicely only.
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*All dogs should be healthy and up-to-date on shots.
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Born in Mexico and raised in San Diego, Haley Paige began her adult film career in 2000, starring in over 300 adult titles before her death in 2007. Deemed 2005's Unsung Siren, an award given by the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO), she made the jump from acting to directing with a directorial debut on Smash Pictures' 2006 "Virgin Territory." That same year, she also starred in Hustler's "The Da Vinci Load." A perennial fan favorite, she will be deeply missed.
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