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Philadelphia: Almost Phenomenal Cheeseburgers at Good Dog
Good Dog Bar & Restaurant
224 South 15th Street, Philadelphia PA 19102 (map); 215-985-9600; gooddogbar.com
Cooking Method: Grilled
Short Order: Their duo of 8-ounce pub burgers (one of which is stuffed with Roquefort cheese) just fall short of being amazing
Want Fries with That? Mixed sweet potato and regular potato fries, glistening in beef juices, served with a chipotle aioli? Yes please
Prices: 8-ounce Traditional Burger, $10; Good Dog Burger, $11; (both served w/fries)
When probed about his favorite cheeseburgers, the Philadelphia Inquirer's food critic Craig Laban was so enthusiastic about Good Dog's cheeseburgers that he not only endorsed them in writing, but also in song. This is a man whose entire career is built on eating things and judging them. If he thought enough of their cheeseburger, logic would dictate that it's probably all sorts of incredible. Naturally, given the amount of praise lavished upon their duo of cheeseburgers, I obediently listened to their slogan to "come, sit, and stay."
When you enter Good Dog on the first floor, you immediately notice it has a certain sort of utilitarian charm. Dominated by a long stretching bar and tiny wooden booths, it is a quintessential Philadelphia bar scene. Walking up the narrow flight of stairs to the second floor reveals a dining area in complete contrast with that. The walls are littered with more photos of cute puppies than you could wag a tail at, emanating a certain kind of homely charm, welcoming not only to hardcore drinkers, but to families as well. It's a modern day gastropub for the whole family, catering to everyone's needs.
Good Dog's menu is anything but one-dimensional, with offerings ranging from "small bites" like pork belly salad, to "big bites" like duck pot pie, but let's be honest—the main reason to visit is for their burgers. To fully appreciate their mastery of the burger cooking craft, I decided that the Traditional burger was the way to go. An 8-ounce patty comprised of ground sirloin is topped by your cheese of choice (sharp cheddar in this case), lettuce, and tomatoes, and sandwiched inside a hefty brioche bun from Wild Flour Bakery.
I requested my burger medium rare, and this is what I got. The tepid and soft center registered closer to rare than I was expecting. Given the size of the burger, it's more than understandable that such a request might be difficult, which is a shame because every other part of the burger was spot-on and drool worthy. The outer shell of the patty retained the characteristic char from the grilling, which yielded to a second layer that was saturated in beef juices, all before running into the problematic undercooked center. The flavor profile of a sharp cheddar with the subtle flavoring of the beef was terrific, the produce was clearly fresh and did nothing to detract from the experience, and the bun was undeniably solid in doing its job of holding the burger together. The cheeseburger at Good Dog clearly had flashes of potential—it definitely "works."
On the suggestion of AHT's very own Robyn, the Good Dog burger was not cruelly dissected. To unfurl a flood of cheese would be a heinous crime against the original intentions of the burger's creator.
Most of the elements present in the traditional cheeseburger are also found in the Good Dog burger. Sandwiched inside the slightly undercooked beef is a cavernous pocket filled with melted pungent Roquefort cheese. The sweetness of the caramelized onions sing beautifully in contrast with the savory combination of beef and cheese, while the brioche bun soaks up the overflow. Unfortunately, the method of the burger's construction seems to be its undoing. To fully melt the cheese would require a more thoroughly cooked patty, but to achieve medium-rare, like I ordered, would yield slightly under-melted cheese. All in all, despite the shortcomings, I enjoyed it a fair amount, though not nearly as much as the traditional cheeseburger.
The fries, however, were absolutely fantastic. Each of the burgers came with a healthy platter of mixed sweet potato and regular fries served with an aioli sauce flavored with chipotle and sun-dried tomatoes. Coated in a sheer layer of beef oil from the burgers, the fries were less than crunchy, and only describable as supple. Counterintuitively, this works amazingly well. The flavor profile of beef combined with a slightly thicker cross-section yields a rather unique combination, one that is rarely achieved with simple salting and double frying. Furthermore, the contrast between sweet and savory was refreshing, as it left the mouth wanting and awaiting each following bite. If anything, the fries stole the show on this trip.
My take on Good Dog is this: The traditional cheeseburger and the Roquefort Good Dog burger were both on the brink of being truly special, but both suffered from slight undercooking, most likely due to size of the patties. Despite the slight letdown, I could also see the potential for a phenomenal burger experience. I'm guessing a burger ordered cooked to medium would work better, but might result in overcooked edges. Did it live up to the hype of Philadelphia's best cheeseburger? Not this time. Would I give it another chance? Most definitely.
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PITTSBURGH--Automated methods for discovering astrophysical phenomena by sifting through massive amounts of cosmological data are being developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington under a new three-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
The methods proposed by the research team will enable astrophysicists to capitalize on a new generation of telescopes being constructed over the next decade. The tools, based on machine learning principles, would be unique in their ability to not only spot strange new objects that merit in-depth study, but also to identify larger patterns in observational data that could provide insights into the evolution of the universe. These techniques will have applications in biological and other physical sciences.
Jeff Schneider, an associate research professor in the School of Computer Science who will lead the new initiative, said telescopes now on the horizon, such as the Large Synoptic Sky Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile, and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) in Hawaii, will increase the rate of astronomic data-gathering a thousand-fold and thus will necessitate new automated discovery methods.
"The amount of data will be overwhelming," said Schneider, a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon's interdisciplinary McWilliams Center for Cosmology. "The datasets, measured in quadrillions of bytes, will be so large that no astronomer or group of astronomers could fully explore them, much less comprehend them. Computers have long helped scientists make discoveries by processing and analyzing observational data, but now we will need computer programs that also can make discoveries on their own."
Working with cosmologists Alexander Szalay of Johns Hopkins and Andrew Connolly of the University of Washington, Schneider will develop computational methods capable of learning and using models with thousands or even millions of variables. Other automated discovery methods have focused on sifting through thousands of observations in search of a single anomalous object that merits follow-up study. But the methods being developed by Schneider, Szalay and Connolly also will look at the larger picture, searching for patterns and trends in the data that could reveal the physics of how the universe was formed and the dynamics of how it is evolving.
Finding those larger patterns is made difficult by the very nature of astrophysical phenomena, which typically evolve over huge time scales. "Most algorithms for discovering dynamic evolution assume that you have a sequence of observations to analyze," Schneider said. "But in cosmology, you never get to see things evolve. Instead, you see a bunch of objects that are at different points on the evolutionary path. We need a way to look at those objects and use them to infer the evolutionary path and where each object might be on that path."
That is a problem that is ubiquitous in science, he added. Alzheimer's disease, for instance, may take a decade to develop -- far too long for any medical researcher to practically gather information on the same individuals. Even in laboratory studies of cells, biologists often must destroy a cell to make measurements, so they are never able to both observe and measure the development of a single cell. Developing new automated methods for inferring connections between observations of different subjects at different points of development thus could have broad application in many scientific disciplines, Schneider said.
The researchers will be using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a New Mexico telescope that during its first eight years of operation amassed a dataset that includes 930,000 galaxies, 120,000 quasars and 460,000 stars.
About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon (www.cmu.edu) is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the fine arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. The university is in the midst of a $1 billion fundraising campaign, titled "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.


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To start your own business takes a certain amount of initiative and courage. Although, there is no one set plan on how to begin there are specific basic steps that can help you get started.
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- When beginning a small business the first thing you will need is an idea. It does not necessarily have to be a unique or unusual idea. You idea could simply be about improving on an existing service.
- Prepare a plan for your small business. The plan should include research, the price of your product/service, the amount of money it will cost you make and/or deliver your product. This part should include variable and fixed costs. Also, how much of a market do you actually have, before marketing your services you need to spend time doing some research.
- Take a look at your competition. Determine the number of businesses you will be competing with. Also, see if it will be relatively simple for you to enter this market. Ask yourself, "What are the problems in entering this market.?"
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- Figure out how much you need to live on if you are not going to have a job outside of the business. You will need to pay yourself enough to live on until you are better established.
- Prepare a tentative marketing plan. It is important that you know that marketing does not necessarily have to cost you a lot of money. Some business can survive and prosper by word of mouth. If you decide on this approach, ask for referrals or network by becoming involved with an association that can help you market your business. Your business plan will help you decide what marketing action you should take.
- Start early in keeping all your records up to date. This is called having a solid infrastructure. Your records should include precise information on your customers, your books should be updated continually and be clean. Above all have a definite technological foundation. A mistake many small businesses make is not keeping these kinds of records. You don't want to be one of those business owners who are want to sell their business at a profit but can't because of poor bookkeeping. If you decide to sell your business later on, your records can be all that is standing between you making a profit or not.
If you look around you will see that there are plenty of free available resources that the novice business owner could benefit from. Join associations such as the Small Business Owners Association. Do research on the internet about different groups. If you are a African-American, Hispanic, or a woman find business associations that can cater to your concerns. These groups offer sound advice to beginners, plus materials, networking strategies, training, and even financial help.
- Look up SCORE, it is a group of retired executives that provide novice business owners with advice.
- Do understand that starting a business takes time. Sacrifices will be made, but don't neglect your private life.
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This recurring activity uses students' names to help young students come to understand the concepts of letters and words. Each day, students gather as the helper of the day is selected. The teacher reveals the first letter of the name, having students whose name start with that letter stand. More letters are revealed and students sit down as their name is ruled out. Once the helper is selected, students read the helper's name, count the letters in the name, clap the syllables, spell the name aloud, add the name to the word wall, and make observations about it. Using magnetic letters, students can create words that rhyme with the helper's name. Many additional ideas for playing with the letters of students' names are also presented here.
Letter and Word Concepts Rubric: Use this rubric to assess emerging readers' reading skills development.
Using students' names can be a powerful tool for literacy development in the early elementary classroom. In her book Joyful Learning, Bobbi Fisher gives a number of reasons for using a child's name to teach literacy skills, including drawing the class together as a community, getting children to personally engage with the text, and demonstrating grapho-phonic cues with the familiar text. Fisher also states that "if they can recognize and write their own names, they think of themselves as readers and writers." (61)
Bell and Jarvis also share wonderful results from using names and environmental print to give kindergarten students hooks for learning letters and sounds. In their article "Letting Go of 'Letter of the Week,'" they write: "I wanted the children to relate letters and words in books to letters and words they already knew; of course the most meaningful words to them were their names." (13)
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Bell, Donna, and Donna Jarvis. "Letting Go of 'Letter of the Week.'" Primary Voices 11.2 (October 2002): 10-24.
Fisher, Bobbi. 1991. Joyful Learning. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.


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Alex Vatanka (الکس وطن خواه) specializes in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran. From 2006 to 2010, he was the managing editor of Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst. From 2001 to 2006, he was a senior political analyst at Jane's in London (UK) where he mainly covered the Middle East. Alex is also a senior fellow in Middle East Studies at the US Air Force Special Operations School (USAFSOS) at Hurlburt Field and teaches as an adjunct professor at DISAM at Wright-Patterson AFB.
He has lectured widely for both governmental and commercial audiences, including the US Departments of State and Defense, US intelligence agencies, US Congressional staff, and Middle Eastern energy firms.
Beyond Jane's, the Middle East Institute and the Jamestown Foundation, he has written for such outlets as The Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affairs, Americas Quarterly, CNN.com, Al Monitor, the Journal of International Security Affairs, BBC Persian Online, The National Interest, The World Today, PBS, Daily Beast, the Jerusalem Post, Journal of Democracy and the Council of Foreign Relations.
Born in Tehran, he holds a BA in Political Science (Sheffield University, UK), and an MA in International Relations (Essex University, UK), and is fluent in Farsi and Danish. He is the author of Iran-Pakistan: Security, Diplomacy, and American Influence (2015), and contributed chapters to other books, including Authoritarianism Goes Global (2016); Handbook on Contemporary Pakistan (2017); Russia in the Middle East (2018), and Global, Regional and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis. (2020). He is presently working on his second book, The Making of Iranian Foreign Policy: Contested Ideology, Personal Rivalries and the Domestic Struggle to Define Iran's Place in the World.
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Letter, J. Z. Goodrich to Dear Sir
Author: Goodrich, J. Z.
Date: June 29, 1854
This printed letter, on letterhead from the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C., was written by John Zacheus Goodrich, a representative from Massachusetts. He informed the recipient that members of Congress and regular citizens of the city had formed the Union Emigration Society--these citizens opposed both the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the opening of the territories to slavery. It included details about the Missouri Compromise, the designs of Slave Power, and stated that "our watchword is Constitutional Freedom everywhere within the jurisdiction of the United States."
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Port Vault K 325 Un3L 1854
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Keywords: Antislavery; Antislavery movements; Antislavery perspective; Goodrich, J. Z.; Kansas Nebraska Act; Kansas question; Missouri compromise; Nebraska Territory; Sectionalism (United States); Slave power; Slavery; United States. Congress. House
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LEICESTER, England
(AP) -- He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled.
Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had found the monarch's 500-year-old remains under a parking lot in the city of Leicester
-- a discovery Richard's fans say will rewrite the history books.
University of Leicester researchers say tests on a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that it is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and whose remains have been missing for centuries.
"Richard III, the last Plantaganet King of England, has been found," said the university's deputy registrar, Richard Taylor.
Bone specialist Jo Appleby said study of the bones provided "a highly convincing case for identification of Richard III."
And DNA from the skeleton matched a sample taken from a distant living relative of Richard's sister. Geneticist Turi King said Michael Ibsen, a Canadian carpenter living in London, shares with the skeleton a rare strain of mitochondrial DNA. She said combined with the archaeological evidence, that left little doubt the skeleton belonged to Richard.
Ibsen said he was "stunned" to discover he was related to the king -- he is a 17th great-grand-nephew of Richard's older sister.
"It's difficult to digest," he said.
Richard III ruled England between 1483 and 1485, during the the Wars of the
Roses, a decades-long tussle over the throne. His brief reign saw liberal reforms, including introduction of the right to bail and the lifting of restrictions on books and printing presses.
His rule was challenged, and he was defeated and killed by the army of Henry Tudor, who took the throne as King Henry VII.
The last English monarch to die in battle, Richard was depicted in a play by William Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies
-- including those of his two princely nephews, murdered in the Tower of London
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Many historians say that image is unfair, and they argue Richard's reputation was smeared by his Tudor successors. That's an argument taken up by the Richard III Society, set up to re-evaluate the reputation of a reviled monarch.
The society's Philippa Langley, who helped launch the search for the king, said she could scarcely believe her quest had paid off.
"Everyone thought that I was mad," she said. "It's not the easiest pitch in the world, to look for a king under a council car park."
Now, she said, "a wind of change is blowing, one that will seek out the truth about the real Richard III."
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For centuries, the location of Richard's body has been unknown. Records say he was buried by the Franciscan monks of Grey Friars at their church in Leicester, 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London. The church was closed and dismantled after King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1538, and its location eventually was forgotten.
Then, last September, archaeologists searching for Richard dug up the skeleton of an adult male who appeared to have died in battle.
Appleby said the 10 injuries to the body were inflicted by weapons like swords, daggers and halberds and were consistent with accounts of Richard being struck down in battle
-- his helmet knocked from his head -- before his body was stripped naked and flung over the back of a horse in disgrace.
She said some scars, including a knife wound to the buttock, bore the hallmarks of "humiliation injuries" inflicted after death.
The remains also displayed signs of scoliosis, which is a form of spinal curvature, consistent with contemporary accounts of Richard's appearance, though not with Shakespeare's description of him as "deform'd, unfinished," hunchback.
Researchers conducted a battery of scientific tests, including radiocarbon dating to determine the skeleton's age. They found the skeleton belonged to a man aged between his late 20s and late 30s who died between 1455 and 1540. Richard was 32 when he died in 1485.
The discovery is a boon for the city of Leicester, which has bought a building next to the parking lot to serve as a visitor center and museum.
The mayor, Peter Soulsby, said the monarch would be interred in the city's cathedral and a memorial service would be held.
Asked if the late king would get a state funeral, Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman Jean-Christophe Gray said it was a matter for the university.
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What is the total area of the triangles remaining in the nth stage of constructing a Sierpinski Triangle? Work out the dimension of this fractal.
Make a poster using equilateral triangles with sides 27, 9, 3 and 1 units assembled as stage 3 of the Von Koch fractal. Investigate areas & lengths when you repeat a process infinitely often.
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I went looking for a slice of ancient Italy and somehow landed in Iowa.
Past the town of Treviso, in the hills far above the canals of Venice, we had left that morning, is a little dairy farm where the Gallina family is in its fourth generation of making cheese. I don't know what I expected a fourth-generation Italian artisanal cheese maker to look like, but when Luca Gallina welcomed us sporting a plaid shirt, baseball cap and faded jeans, he looked more Cedar Rapids farmer than keeper of ancient Italian culinary rites.
"Buon giorno," he said. "Do you want to see how we make the cheese?"
My wife, Cristina, and I had come here on a mission. If we left behind the crowded alleyways of Venice for the hills of the Veneto region, could we still find the simple flavors of northern Italian farm food, made the way it had been since before Italy was even a country?
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Gallina's farm, La Malga Barbaria, sits near the summit of Monte Barbaria, a peak that rises 4,800 feet above the Adriatic. As we wandered through its pastures, we entered a world that seemed a lot farther from Venice, a roiling cauldron of tourist throngs, luxury shopping and cafes with "authentic" Italian cuisine.
Here, cattle lazed in meadows, a rooster called and manure scented the air - but in a good way, a "welcome to the countryside" kind of way. When the clouds lifted, we could just make out the Adriatic washing up against Venice on the lip of the horizon.
"The hotter it is in the valley, the more people come here," Gallina said in Italian. "On the weekends, families come with kids who don't know where milk and eggs come from."
Knowing what we wanted - but not necessarily how to find it - I had enlisted Mario Piccinin, who with his wife, Rachel (a Cleveland native), runs Venice Day Trips, which leads culinary pilgrimages into the Veneto. It didn't hurt that our guide is a master sommelier and certified cheese taster (yes, there is such a thing).
Gallina's family is part of an Italian movement called Kilometer Zero. What Slow Food did for restaurants, the Kilometer Zero movement is trying to do for farms. Started here in the Veneto by the Italian agricultural union Coldiretti in 2007, it's an effort to get people to buy their food directly from the farmers, essentially, "zero kilometers" from the producers.
Producers such as Gallina's farm rely on urban shoppers searching for authentic Italian flavors, as well as for a sense of authenticity and tradition that runs deeper than taste buds. They come looking for a connection with the farmers who bring them their food - and for a sunny day in the mountains away from the mosquitoes.
"It's a very positive idea to eat where you live," said Gallina, whose operation hasn't changed much over the generations. Temperature-controlled stainless steel vats have replaced pots of milk over the fireplace, but almost everything else would be recognizable to Great-Grandfather.
We walked into a room where a long table was filled with jars of milk. The cream is skimmed off for butter; the residue becomes food for pigs. Shelves in a cool storage room were bulging with wheels of white cheese, aging three months to a year before they'd be ready for lunch.
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Farmers here have become guardians of their traditional foods and flavors as they compete with canned tomatoes from China, cheese from Eastern European cows and German so-called prosciutto. The similar Slow Food Movement was born in the nearby town of Bra, a reaction to the opening of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome. It gained momentum, eventually expanding to most parts of the globe, as cultures realized that local dishes, ingredients and traditions were endangered.
"Our products are so good and so natural, different from products from abroad," Gallina's mother, Luigina, told us as we took our seats in a small dining room where visitors come for farm meals. "Would you like Prosecco?"
It was still morning, but how could we say no?
"Prego," she said, pouring the glasses.
"It is like water for us," Piccinin joked, as he talked us through the universal wine taster's ritual: swirl, examine, sniff, breathe, swirl, breathe again. It was rustic, homemade wine.
Not the best, Piccinin confessed, "but I like all wine."
Oversize cowbells hung on the wall. Old-fashioned maybe, but they're still used, Gallina said. He cut open a few wheels of cheese: ricotta, smoked ricotta and farmer's cheeses without names.
"Prego," Gallina said.
Piccinin gently fingered the cheese and bit into it. "Fresher cheese you cannot find."
It was extraordinary. I tried each, one by one, letting the flavor fill my mouth before washing it away with Prosecco.
"These are completely natural," Luigina said. "Healthy. We have such good food, and only a few people come here and eat these."
It seemed a shame to think of eating anything else in Italy.
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The agricultural union Coldiretti estimates that some 2 million tourists come to spend vacations on Italian farms. More than 18,000 farms now welcome agri-tourists, twice the number of a decade earlier, and more people - both Italians and foreigners - are buying products directly from farmers.
"This is very important," Piccinin said. "The culture and the style of life."
Piccinin took us down the road to see a farm where the owners have taken the notion of eating local even further. Graziano and Martina Spada run Da Ottavio, a tiny restaurant at the historic farmhouse where they live and raise nearly all the food that appears on the plates. The vineyards below produce the Prosecco. The pigs out back surrender the salami.
Graziano Spada's father started the restaurant in 1976, a tough economic time for Italy, when many of his countrymen were looking for work elsewhere in Europe. He started looking local.
"My parents were probably the first that wanted to sell directly to the consumer," Graziano said. "There wasn't the word agriturismo at that time."
Now, agriturismo signs flourish in the countryside. Many of the places shouldn't qualify as agriturismo, the Spadas said. Much of the food comes from other farms.
That's not the case at Da Ottavio, Martina said. "Here, you eat only what we produce with our hands."
We sat at a dark wooden table under a canopy outside the farmhouse, a 1940 building cloaked in stone and stucco and heavy wooden shutters. Geraniums bloomed along the patio.
Martina brought out a spread of thinly sliced roast pork with salt, marbled ham and salami, and homemade Prosecco.
"Prego," she said.
"I like that word prego," my wife, Cristina, said. "It seems you can use it for anything."
Piccinin, who was studying to be an expert salami taster (yes, there's such a thing), handled the slices gingerly, studying the casing, the marbling and the greasy texture with a critic's eye. He nodded his approval.
Martina followed with helpings of pasta with ragu, beans, vegetables, polenta and, naturally, more Prosecco. "Prego," she repeated, and filled the table with heaping plates of food.
"These are small servings," Piccinin whispered.
The plates were too big to finish, but the fare was too delicious not to try, and we ended up delirious from the mid-afternoon feast. We turned down dessert, and instead peppered Martina and Graziano with questions about living where they work and growing what they serve. It was a role they took seriously.
"I was born here," Martina said. "Graziano was born here. We have a taste for the food from here, and we continue to have this mind-set that was given to us from our parents. This is the continuity of the tradition. For us it's natural."
That's the way it's always been here, high in the farmland above Venice. With our bellies full of delicious tradition, it was hard to imagine it any other way.
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Most airlines, including United, Delta and Virgin Atlantic, offer one-stop service from San Francisco to Venice. The sites mentioned in the story are about two hours by car northwest of Venice, although an organized tour might be the most practical idea for all but the hardiest travelers.
Venice Day Trips: Via Saetta 18, Padova, (39) 049-600-672, info@venicedaytrips .com, www.veniceday trips.com. Visits to Veneto cheese farm, restaurant and winery. From 275 euros per person for 8 1/2-hour tour.
Da Ottavio: Via Campion 1, San Giovanni di Valdobbiadene, (39) 042-398-1113.
La Marga Barbaria: Passo Mariech 9, Pianezze di Valdobbiadene, (39) 042-397-6050.
Antica Trattoria alla Fossetta: Via Fossetta 31, Musile di Piave, (39) 042 133 0296, www.fossetta.it. Restaurant serving local Veneto fare outside Fossalta di Piave.
Sorelle Bronca: Via Martiri 20, Fraz. Cobertaldo, (39) 042-398-9329. www.sorellebronca.com. Family-owned Prosecco vineyard.
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Blue Bandana Fill In Invitations, 16ct
The bright colors and creative designs on our Blue Bandana Party Billboards will capture the attention of every one of your guests! These posters are printed on high-quality satin sheen card stock and were created by Birthday Direct to coordinate with our Blue Bandana Party Supplies. Place your Party Billboard on the wall behind the refreshment table, gift table, window or anywhere that needs a decorative touch.


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This product has been designed to fit anywhere on the Walk in Run, providing your chickens with an area that is sheltered from the wind and rain. Now complete with PVC rope edge which allows waterproof overlap of multiple covers.
This cover is made from clear plastic, allowing sunlight through whilst keeping the rain, hail and snow out.
The cover measures 95cm x 297cm and can be placed on the top of your Walk in Run or wrapped around the side. It comes complete with bungee hooks for attachment to the run.
Instructions for use when adding multiple covers:
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Easy to use and effective - Evans, Yorkshire,
Easy to install, prevents the chicken run turning into a quagmire in wet weather. Initially the girls did not realise that it would keep the rain off them and they would take cover under the green plastic sunshade when it started to rain. Now they continue to use the whole chicken run when it rains. The hens don't get muddy, so the eggs don't get muddy.
So Far, So Good - Kent,
Have had this fitted for about a month now and it looks promising. We tried normal tarpaulin but the high winds we get here meant they didn't last long and were extremely noisy. So far our Omlet covers are secure and quiet; very important to the rabbits enjoyment of their run.
Ok product - Lisa,
Ok cover, I thought it would cover the completely roof but I turn you would need 3 to cover the top. So slightly expensive also gutter doesn't really doesn't work well
Omlet Says: Thanks for your feedback. The gutter is designed to work with another cover. It stops the water going between the covers.
An absolute essential - Louise,
If your coop in exposed like ours is, then these covers are an absolute necessity. I have ordered 4 in total; 2 x 3m clear and 2 x 3m green heavy duty. The 2 clear ones cover the run (4m x 3m x 2m) over the coop in one of the corners. We have stretched the green heavy duty ones around the outside (one top half of run and the other the bottom half) so that the coop is pretty much enclosed in the corner of the run and rarely ever gets wet when it rains. The only problem is the uneven roof due to it sloping, where a little bit does get in. But overall, we are really chuffed as all of the covers provide great shelter for dust baths, preening and overall chicken happiness!
Could be wider to provide the 5cm overlap recommended ! - Vintage,
These work well and are strong . However for my 3m x 3m walk in run it has proved expensive (£75 for 3) and they aren't quite wide enough to provide the full 5cm overlap Omlet recommends so they sometimes leak a little where they meet , which is annoying when it dampens my hens dust bath for instance . Can't help thinking I'd have been better off buying one large solid clear cover elsewhere to avoid this. I find this in general with Omlet covers ; for instance the one for the cube run is just slightly too short along the length so again there is an , even larger , annoying 20cm gap where that run joins the walk in run which causes much indignant feather fluffing in wet weather. Remains to be seen how they will wear as have only had them a month (during a very wet Spring ) but rather concerned about the stretching and rusting mentioned elsewhere. On the whole pleased but do measure carefully first.


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Sies Marjan Sweatshirts
After a decade working for a medley of renowned European fashion houses, most notably Dries Van Noten, Central Saint Martins graduate Sander Lak launched luxury label Sies Marjan. Since its 2016 debut, the New York-based brand has been showered with a wealth of industry praise for its captivatingly unconventional take on luxury women's ready-to-wear. An extension of its womenswear line, Sies Marjan's menswear line features an equally eclectic selection of separates. The label's distinctive éclat stems from the fearlessness with which it embraces bold hues, lush textures, and avant-garde shapes in unorthodox pairings. Sies Marjan's honest and authentic energy is evident in its mesmeric garments and that range from holographic-bonded shirt jackets to bright knit sweaters. Lak's subversive fabrications evoke a narrative of color and proportion, with loose-fit twill trousers running contrary to oversized faux-fur coats in rich colorways. Elsewhere, androgynous fluid garments, including wide-leg satin trousers and draped silk shirts, appear light and whimsical, personifying a polished eccentricity.
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Extending Minnesota's growing season
Just after lunch on a Tuesday afternoon, Dallas Flynn is at his farmer's market stall in a Detroit Lakes park. But most of the bins are empty as a he greets a regular customer who arrived too late.
"What Minnesota needs is 4,000 more farmers. Not the 6,000-acre farmers, but the guy who has 40 acres, 20 acres."
"Hey, young lady. I'm sold out of everything. Sold out of lettuce, spinach, radish," says Flynn.
Produce usually sells well at the market, but this year the demand is greater than ever Flynn says.
That's one reason he's trying to extend the growing season and increase yields on his small vegetable farm near Frazee, Minn.
Dallas Flynn grows a variety of traditional vegetable crops, and he wanted the benefits of a greenhouse without the expense. Gardeners often use hoops and plastic sheeting to cover rows of vegetables in the spring. The high tunnel is the same idea, only much larger, perhaps 24 feet wide and ten feet tall. The largest one currently in use in Minnesota is 900 feet long.
The structures look a lot like a greenhouse. Plastic sheeting is stretched across U-shaped metal pipes. The plastic on the sides can be opened to let in air on warm days.
"When these crops get up ten feet, it's like a jungle in here," says Flynn. "When you come out here and see these bright, perfectly shaped tomatoes, sweet eats!"
The tomato plants inside are twice the size of the plants growing outside. That's because this plastic covering adds about six weeks to the growing season by acting as a solar heater. The air temperature is warmer than outside, but just as important, the soil warms much more quickly.
University of Minnesota Crookston associate professor and Extension Educator Terry Nennich has been pushing the high-tunnel concept for seven or eight years.
"This year is the first year I can really say it's explosive," he says. "People are really interested in it."
Nennich first saw the plastic tunnels on a trip to France about ten years ago. Farmers were using them to extend the growing season on farms in the northern part of the country.
Nennich thought the high tunnel would be a good way to increase vegetable production in Minnesota.
Nennich has his own vegetable farm near Bemidji. He says consumers buy everything he can grow, although people occasionally accuse him of cheating when he has ripe tomatoes to sell in early July.
He carries what he calls his bible to farmer's markets. It has dated pictures of his crops to prove they were grown locally.
There are now at least 200 high-tunnel farming operations in Minnesota from International Falls to Waverly. Nennich says they're not just producing earlier broccoli and tomatoes; they're changing how farmers think about vegetables.
"I've got one grower who has one big tunnel full of sweet potatoes, a crop you can't grow up here with any success," says Nennich. "That's the thing with the tunnels. We're in zone two and three here and I think we can grow a lot of crops from zone five and six."
That means a northern Minnesota farmer in a climate zone designate by the USDA as zone two can grow the same longer season crops as a Missouri farmer in zone six.
Dallas Flynn grows the same long-season tomato plants in his high tunnel as a farmer might grow in Florida.
Now, Flynn is stretching the concept to its limits. He's building a new high tunnel that will incorporate solar panels. The heat from the panels will be pumped underground to keep the soil warm in all but the coldest months of the year.
"Our goal is to be able to grow produce 10 months of the year," explains Flynn. "Right now we have a 120 or 150-day growing season. We'd like to extend that up to 300 days of growing."
Flynn is retired, so he's doing this because he enjoys gardening and experimenting.
He'd like to see more vegetables grown in Minnesota. He says six local restaurants have asked for produce, but he can't grow enough to meet the demand.
Flynn says based on his experience, a simple high tunnel pays for itself in one year.
"The demand is there, what we need is more farmers. What Minnesota needs is 4,000 more farmers. Not the 6,000-acre farmers, but the guy who has 40 acres, 20 acres. Yeah, you can make some money," says Flynn. "You're going to have to work hard. It's like milking cows. It's a lot of work. But there's money to be made if you're selling direct to the consumer."
The interest is evident. More than 100 people attended a recent tour of high-tunnel farms in northern Minnesota and dozens of people have visited Dallas Flynn's operation this spring eager to learn about a better way to grow vegetables in Minnesota.


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The drug will be tested on asthmatic patients who also suffer problems with their voice box, which can go into spasm, according to Monash Medical Centre in Australia. The idea is that the Botox will relax the muscle that controls the voice box, possibly making it easier for these patients to breathe.
"It's the first time in the world that there has been such a new approach to a very difficult problem," said Peter Holmes, a researcher at the center.
Botox has been used in some cases to treat people who suffer from vocal cord dysfunction, a condition characterized by abnormal movement of the voice box muscle, said Dr. John Mastronarde, director of the Ohio State Asthma Center.
"It's interesting and certainly has some potential to help people," Mastronarde said of the new study, but added it's not clear that patients with asthma and voice box problems would respond in the same way to the treatment, so its important to test it first.
People with vocal cord dysfunction and people with asthma have similar symptoms, so it can be hard to distinguish between the two, Mastronarde said. Somewhere between 20 and 60 percent of asthma patients have been found to also have vocal cord problems, he said.
It's not clear why asthma might predispose someone to also having vocal cord problems, but vocal cord problems make asthma symptoms worse, said Dr. Shirin Shafazand, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
The voice box can be thought of as a door to the windpipe, Shafazand told MyHealthNewsDaily. And if that door isn't working properly, or is closed when it should be open, a patient would have problems breathing, she said.
Studies have shown those with asthma and voice box problems perceive their symptoms as more severe, Shafazand said.
Voice box problems might also trigger asthma symptoms, Mastronarde said. Stress is known to exacerbate asthma symptoms. If someone is having problems breathing because of voice box spasms, they may experience anxiety and set off their asthma. "You can get into a vicious cycle," Mastronarde said.
Botox contains botulinum toxin, a protein produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. The drug is thought to work by blocking nerve signals to the muscles, thus relaxing them.
The drug is a toxin, and the researchers need to be careful they don't paralyze the voice box muscles completely, Shafazand said, a risk she said she is sure the researchers are aware of.
It remains to be seen whether this treatment will work, Shafazand said. Even if it does work, she added, it will not treat the underlying asthma, which arises when airways to the lungs become inflamed or narrowed, resulting in breathlessness, wheezing and coughing.


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Menstrual cup Yuuki
Made in Czech Republic
100% medical grade silicone
Size: 1, 2
Color: Clear
Softness: Soft (shore 40), Classic (shore 60)
One Yuuki pack contains:
Save money while being eco friendly! This package is great value! Perfect for women who are not sure which size to get or women who want 2 identical cup to keep one at home and one on the move.
The infuser box is a Yuuki product designed for cup disinfection to be able to sterilize the menstrual cup very simply in your microwave.
Size 1: is designed for girls and women before childbirth.
Capacity: 25ml / Diameter: 42mm / Cup length: 48mm / Total length: 67mm
Size 2: is designed for all women after childbirth. For women having a regular sex life or above 28.
Capacity: 37ml / Diameter: 44mm / Cup length: 53mm / Total length: 75mm
Accurately determine the size of the cup for every woman needs is impossible. Values are only orientational and depends on several factors. If you are unsure, we recommend that you buy a large cup. When the cup is too large you can save it for later use and buy the smaller cup.
Your parcel will leave from Czech republic thru Ceska posta with a tracking number. All orders are packaged discreetly in a padded envelope.
Shipping is done by standard domestic mail or airmail, as appropriate.
Within europe, deliveries usually take place between 5 and 10 days after dispatch.
For International deliveries it's between 10 and 20 days.
For sale of consumer goods, the legal guarantee period shall be 24 months, but a longer guarantee period may be defined by a declaration in the warranty card. The guarantee shall not cover common wear and tear of the thing caused by its habitual use. Therefore shorter life of any product with regard to the above stated wear and tear of the thing caused by its habitual use cannot be considered a defect, which shall be considered in case of any complaint.
Please note: For hygiene reasons, strictly NO returned units will ever be resold.
Menstrual cup Yuuki is produced by a Czech - EU company specializing in health care products. This company belongs to the world leaders of this field. Material Silopren LSR 4050 of Germany producer Momentive from which the cup is manufactured, branded silicone is the highest quality approved for use in health care and food industries. The menstrual cup is produced in the operation "clean room" for the production of medical products. This department is equipped with a separate entrance, antistatic flooring and air conditioning machines. This specialized workplace prevents any risk of contamination. All manufacturing and control processes are carried out in full compliance with the required standards of ISO 9001 requirements.
In 2005, Zuzana from Czech Republic tried a menstrual cup and loved the idea of not having to buy tampons or pads ever again. She wanted something comfortable for her travels and safe to do sport with. After going on holiday in a Caribbean island and being shocked on the pollution of pads she decided to create Yuuki to offer a different cup to women, slightly stiffer and with great capacity. The name Yuuki comes from Japanese YUU – "gentleness", "superiority" and combined with KI means "radiance", "hope" or "LIFE".
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The king of promotion at a college is getting your event, story, or idea on the homepage. It is the most covented space in terms of promotion and has, at least at Gettysburg, replaced even the honor of being a feature in the alumni magazine as top dog. But when will being on the college homepage be replaced? What will replace it? How about a post on Facebook?
Facebook provides campus organizations with a great chance to reach their audience in a really easy way. Users have to actually visit our website to see your promotion on http://www.gettysburg.edu but on Facebook it gets delivered right to our fans newsfeed. We know that our current students and young alumni are on Facebook each day – how often to they read the stories on the homepage?
Our average news story gets about 500 unique clicks. An average Facebook post can get up to 10,000 impressions.With the number of people who like Gettysburg College increasing each semester (Fall to Spring we saw over 1,000 people like the Facebook Page) it is only a matter of time until a Facebook post is more coveted then the homepage.
Take a look at Missouri State's website. http://www.missouristate.edu/ The middle section on news and events is actually a pull from various Facebook accounts. Is this the future of higher education sites?


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FORT MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors for SeniorNet (www.seniornet.org), the world's leading nonprofit technology educator of older adults, has announced new officers for the 2015-2017 term.
Paul DelPonte, a leading aging advocate was named Chairman. He has been a board member since 2010. DelPonte is currently Commissioner on Aging for Montgomery County, Maryland and an executive with Experience Works. He was instrumental in founding the Alliance for Aging Research as part of his long career as an advocate.
"Our new board and new structure signal a new energy for SeniorNet," DelPonte said. "The digital age is part of global aging, helping to unite seniors across the globe and SeniorNet is helping to drive that change."
Leslie M. Smith, retired IBM business development executive, was named President and CEO. Smith has served SeniorNet since 2000 as a board member and from 2005-2015 he served as Board Chairman. Smith's leadership was the driving force behind the growth and expansion of SeniorNet for 15 years, increasing learning center resources, adopting social media efforts and partnering with national and international organizations to extend SeniorNet's brand and business model around the world.
Slava Vero, a founder and director of the SeniorNet Huntington, New York flagship Learning Center, who has been a board member since 2010, was named Vice Chairman. Vero holds an M.S. in Medical Biology and enjoyed a 25-year career in her chosen field.
Barbara Page, an accounting and tax consultant from Huntington, NY, joined the board this year and was elected Secretary. Her connection to SeniorNet came through her 2011-2014 Chairmanship of the Board of the Family Service League of Long Island.
Paul Sladkus, a former broadcast executive for CBS/PBS, founder of Milestone Broadcast Corporation and a SeniorNet board member since 2006, was named Chairman of the 30th Anniversary Committee that will plan special events and celebrations to mark SeniorNet's milestone in May of 2016.
Also newly elected to the Board this year are Julie Kosteas Baker, Karalin Sprague, and Donghee Han. Baker is Account Director of Voxviva, Inc. and previously served as a consultant for the National Council on Aging's Online Consumer Services. Sprague is manager of Lifelong Learning at Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) in New York City. Han is Director of the Research Institute of Science for Better Living of the Elderly (RISBLE) and cooperative professor at the Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea. Sprague and Han join Nicholas Brown, a board member since 2009, who is President and CEO of Affinity Network Solutions, to complete the Board's composition.
New Initiatives
SeniorNet also announced a research partnership with the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON). UMSON is using SeniorNet volunteers to help it study patient portal program technology that meets the criteria required by Medicare and Medicaid's electronic health record incentive program. SeniorNet volunteers and students can complete an online survey about accessing their electronic health records, medication refill orders and private messages to their doctors.
In another high profile development, SeniorNet has been invited to speak at the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, October 30-31. The presentation will include cybersecurity and new technology.
About SeniorNet
SeniorNet (www.seniornet.org) is the nation's premier and most respected nonprofit organization specializing in computer and Internet education for adults over 50 and those in need. Since 1986, SeniorNet has empowered more than two million Boomers and Seniors by providing encouragement, lifelong learning opportunities and new worlds to explore via the Internet. Based in Fort Myers, Florida, it has approximately 6,000 members. SeniorNet is staffed by more than 3,000 volunteers and has more than 30 Learning Centers in the United States, including Indian Reservations and underserved areas.


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
Claymore has released yet another update for his ZCash AMD GPU Miner that brings some more extra performance boost for mining Cash (ZEC), however the latest v12.0 of the miner does come some new specifics. The latest version v12.0 comes with improved speeds: about 405 H/s on stock 390X, 450 H/s on stock Nano, 290 H/s on stock 280X, 295 H/s on stock RX480. It however has issues working with higher intensity on older GPUs with less VRAM such as 280X where the intensity may need to be lowered. Also on mining rigs with 6x GPUs where you may have just 4GB of system memory you may observe trouble running the miner properly on all 6 cards at maximum performance unless you have set at least 20GB SWAP file. Lowering the intensity manually may help, but it is much eaрier to just increase the amount of space allocated for the swap file…
Claymore's Zcash (ZEC) AMD miner has been updated a couple of times already since the release of the initial version from some days ago. The number of optimizations and hashrate improvements with pretty much each major update has been tremendous, bringing back to life many of the old AMD Radeon GPUs such as 7950/7970 or the 280X, some of the most popular mining video cards for the last few years. The latest release, already a major version 6 brought more fixes and optimizations in terms of performance. As one would expect Nvidia is left behind once more, even though there were some signs that recently it was starting to catch up to the levels of performance of AMD GPUs, it is now yet again significantly slower. So owners of Nvidia-based mining rigs might want to switch to some other alternative for mining at the moment after the latest performance boosts from Claymore. Do have in mind however that Claymore's Zcash miner does come with a 2.5% dev fee, below is a list of major changes and updates of the miner after the initial release:
Version v7.0:
– improved speed by about 15-25% (depends on card model). About 230H/s on stock 390X.
– added "-benchmark" option.
Version v6.0:
– improved speed by about 20-25% (depends on card model). About 180H/s on stock 390.
– "-i" parameter values are 0…4 now, default value is "-i 4".
– fixed issue with mixed cards.
Version v5.0:
– improved speed by about 30-50% (depends on card model). About 145H/s on stock 390X.
– improved support for Catalyst 16.x and 4xx cards.
– reduced CPU usage.
Version v4.0:
– improved speed by about 20% (depends on card model). Up to 100H/s on stock 390X on "-i 2" mode.
– added "-retrydelay" option.
– added "-nofee" option.
– various bug fixes.
– changed coloring.
– EthMan: added "View miner console" command.
Version v3.0-v3.1:
– improved speed by 20-30% (depends on card model). Up to 80H/s on stock 390X on "-i 2" mode.
– improved stability.
Version v2.1:
– added "-i" option for adjusting mining intensity and CPU usage.
– improved speed for high intensity mode ("-i 2"), about 60H/s on stock 390X, 50H/s on stock 280X.
– since nicehash cannot upgrade their ddos protection, now "-allpools 1" is required for this pool.
Version v2.0:
– improved speed by 5-15% (depends on card model).
Version v1.1:
– added Linux version.
– fixed issue with rejected shares after devfee mining.
– remove "-allpools 1" option if you use it and mine on miningpoolhub, suprnova, coinmine or nicehash pools.
– added "XnSub" support for Nicehash.
– fixed bugs.
– For more details and to download the latest Claymore's Zcash AMD GPU Miner…
Claymore has just released his new miner targeted at Zcash (ZEC) miners and only for Windows at the moment, probably making it the fastest AMD OpenCL GPU miner at the moment for Windows OS. Do note that the miner is free, but there is currently a developer fee set at 2.5%, meaning that every hour the miner mines for 90 seconds for developer. According to Claymore this initial release is only for recent AMD video cards only: 7xxx, 2xx, 3xx and 4xx, 2GB or more and it does not support Nvidia GPUs with only Windows x64 binaries available at the moment for download.
A bit something about speeds with the new Zcash miner from Claymore, they are higher than what other Windows GPU miners were offering prior to the release of this miner (there are apparently faster Linux miners like SilentArmy's V3 for example). A stock AMD Radeon 280X seems to do about 44-45 H/s, AMD Radeon 290X does a bit more at about 46-47 H/s, AMD Radeon 370 does about 35 H/s, AMD Radeon RX 480 does about 40-41 H/s in our initial tests. Feel free to share your hashrate results in the comments below if you do try the new miner…
– For more details and to download Claymore's Zcash AMD GPU Miner v1.0…