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I spotted this ghost sign for the Independence Community Bank across the street from the Newkirk Plaza subway station in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Apparently this was "the best banking value." Fading Ad Blog has a better photo, taken 7 years ago when the sign was less deteriorated.
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Stock Exchange release April 8, 2005 02:32:32 PM CET
Metso Drives sale to CapMan has been finalized
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Machine designed to dice bacon stripes out of cylindrical blocks composed of reconstituted meat with a constant diameter (diameter from 80mm to 120mm) and 1 meter long at a temperature of about -12°C (±5°C according to the concentration in salt).
The cylinder is loaded automatically (stock of cylinders), it is maintained and pushed through a device equipped with 2 alternative cuttings and then through a bi-dimensional cutting disk to produce stripes from 4 to 11 mm of section.
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The loading capacity of the machine is 700 x 300 x 120 mm, the machine accepts out of shape bacon pieces.
The bacon piece is pressed to get a 210 mm wide block, it is then pushed through a bi-dimensional cutting disk to produce bacon stripes from 4 mm to 11 mm of section according to the tools used.
This machine also allows the production of stamps (20 mm x 2 mm for example).
This machine offers a top-quality cutting.
The loading device offers a capacity of 8 cylinders of meat. This machine does not require staff for a constant loading. The machine uses the EMSENS patented cutting device with 6 cutting tools by disk.
The MDB02 is a machine designed to dice over 2100 kg of bacon stripes / hour (calculation based onto a cylinder of 6.0 kg / unit).
The exit of the products is done thanks to a vibrating belt.
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Productivity: 2 100 kg/h for 6kg cylinders (cycle time of about 10 seconds to produce stripes of 8 x 8 that is to say about 350 cylinders / minute with a 6-cuttings disk).
Loading capacity: 8 cylinders 1 meter long.
Power: electrical control, hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical power.
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"POSH" as he recognises himself when family and friends call. CH Russkiy Assorti'c Irbis, for everybody else and formal purposes. He was born in January '09 and I heard about him when he was around 10 weeks old. I've been looking for THE MALE for many years, but as I was not in any hurry neither I had interested in buying whatever dog patience led me to be able to say YES to him he was offered to me and soon arrangements were made to get him from Russia to Argentina.
His journey home was quite chaotic but I'm glad in the end he was with me and I'm glad I followed my instinct about him. During his first years he was introduced in my breeding program and produced for me an amazing quality of puppies with all the bitches I gave him. Critically talking, the females have a lot of influence on the final look of his puppies but one can clearly see his qualities being carried along, those details I wanted to introduce in my breeding. The preservation of TYPE without ignoring the elegance. Moving forward without ignoring the ORIGINS. Posh was a great male to help me do that. He is sire of +10 Champions including World Winner male in 2015.
He is a natural beauty both outside and specially inside, his temperament is unbeatable! Stable, sweet, active, controlled. All who've met him know that and those who got the change to spend some time with him, well, they can simply not compare him to anyone else. I can only think about my first Schnauzer, a black giant, who she had a lot of 'this and that'. That Schnauzer thing.
He was good at the shows, but he didn't always loved it. If he had a fun day he will show off, but he often preferred to just be doing something else! And so did I, hence his show career wasn't that intense. Anyway, he got some amazing, indisputable, winnings. He became Champion and Grand Champion of Argentina and Champion of Estonia. He won several times Best of Breed with judges who can recognise TYPE and value it. He won the National Specialty of Schnauzer club Argentino (over all colors/sizes) with judge John Constantine, USA. To top the cake, his last show in Argentina was Best of Breed, CACIB Winner and Grand Champion with judge Walter Schicker, Germany.
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Land and skyscapes, especially those that I experience first hand are a starting point for many of my paintings. I take inspiration from all parts of life, however, and have increasingly found the human face and body to be particularly intriguing. In this show, I have painted a couple portraits of prominent figures in the ball scene of Harlem during the 1990's. Their dress and poise inspire the same intrigue and fascination that I have for landscape.
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China Glaze Frostbite is from the winter 2007 Ski collection.
China Glaze Frostbite is a bright electric blue with silver shimmer. This. Is. Bright. It's a pretty color and it looks pretty good with my skin tone. All this time I thought I could never wear blue and I finally try them in my collection and find out otherwise :D Love this color! So glad I finally wore it.
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Andrew Small is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C., and author of the CityLab Daily newsletter (subscribe here). He was previously an editorial fellow at CityLab.
This post is part of a CityLab series on open secrets—stories about what's hiding in plain sight.
Whisper "speakeasy" into a search engine of your choice and odds are you will stumble across the story of Kate Hester, the Pittsburgh hotelkeeper at the center of the amusing, possibly apocryphal origin story for the word.
Hester appeared in what can only be described as a prototypical trend piece for The New York Times in July 6, 1891. The story goes like this: Hester owned a saloon in McKeesport, just southeast of the city, that sold booze in defiance of a state law that upped the costs of licenses for alcohol so much that it was nearly prohibited. When customers got too rowdy, Hester would hush customers with "speak-easy, boys!" to avoid attracting the attention of authorities; the expression soon spread to the city, and the nation. "Some day, perhaps, Webster's Dictionary will take it up," the yarn concludes.
The Oxford English Dictionary did take it up: It pegs the first publication of the word referring to an illegal bar to the New York Voice in 1887.
Daniel Okrent, the author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, suggests the term is older than that, and it probably jumped the Atlantic: It shows up in James Joyce's Ulysses, set in the Dublin of 1904. ("In the speakeasy. Tight. I shee you, shir.") "It's an adaptation of the local term, 'speak softly shop,' from Ireland," Okrent tells CityLab. "It wasn't used a lot in the pre-Prohibition days, for the obvious reasons. Those saloons were legal."
But Pittsburgh does play a key role in the genesis story of the American speakeasy, those forbidden drinkeries of the Prohibition days that are staging something of a revival among trend-seekers. The details, and the role of the legendary Kate Hester, remain a matter of some debate. To separate fact from fiction, let's head to the Steel City and order something stiff.
The Hester story puts Pittsburgh on the map as a prototype for the precarious permissiveness we see in cities before Prohibition. While the Volstead Act, which prohibited the production, sale, and transport of liquors, would not be enacted until 1920 in anticipation of the Eighteenth Amendment's passage, the temperance movement in the U.S. began to get dry laws on the books in the late 19th century. A Pennsylvania law enacted in 1888 called the Brooks High License Act limited alcohol sales with high-cost licensing and restricted the hours of operation for bars. Licenses cost between $200 and $500 and there were $50 fines for operating without a license or selling liquor on Sundays. High license policies also sprouted up in 14 other cities, such as Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, and Omaha, as the temperance movement built political momentum.
By 1890, Pittsburgh had roughly 700 speakeasies and just over ninety licensed liquor dealers, according to James Fernald's 1890 publication The Economics of Prohibition. Here's a map of a group of people who pleaded guilty to operating a "disorderly house" in the Pittsburg Dispatch in May 26, 1890.
The saturation of the booze-slinging market suggests the importance of these public spaces in 19th-century cities. Christine Sismondo, author of America Walks into a Bar, says that saloons and speakeasies provided hubs for networking and space to build social and political movements, especially among immigrant newcomers. "It might be the first place you visit when you get to America," she says. "People would try to find a bar run by people from their country in order to find jobs or a place to live."
From those connections, political organizing can trace a long tradition back to the American tavern. This was especially true during the Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1920s, Sismondo says, when bars served as "centers of resistance." That's why so many Gilded Age industrialists wanted to shut them down: Margaret "Mother" Finch, the proprietor of the Rolling Mill House saloon on Fourth Avenue in Pittsburgh, was one of the key organizers of the 1892 Homestead Strike, battling Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick's union busting. "Mother Finch is one of the great, forgotten saloon-keepers of American history," Sismondo says. "Known for being the tough proprietor of the local steelworkers' saloon during one of the nation's most bitter labor actions, the strike-breakers once said that the women were worse than the men at Homestead, probably referring mainly to her."
Another source of workingman's angst: while High License laws did not make it explicitly illegal to obtain alcohol, it did make it difficult for the typical steelworker, who likely worked six days a week, to buy a beer on his only day off, Sunday. But as states and municipalities adopted liquor control laws, city-dwellers found loopholes and workarounds. Before medical and religious exemptions of the Prohibition era, the speakeasies of High License and Raines laws had dining and hotel exemptions.
"In New York, there was a law passed [in 1896] called the Raines law," Okrent says. Named for prohibitionist New York Congressman John Raines, the regulation restricted Sunday liquor sales in the state to hotels that served food. Saloons responded by opening up rooms and serving sandwiches. "You would get a Raines sandwich, which was a brick between two pieces of bread."
While the temperance movement had progressive roots, it was also a manifestation of an earlier era's version of the rural/urban divide, with "wet" cities operating in "dry" states. "The difference between Prohibition enforcement in cities and the rest of the country was enormous, it was night and day," Okrent says. "The same federal law, the Volstead Act, in a small town in Indiana bore no relationship to the same law as it was enforced 100 miles away in Detroit or Chicago. Generally, the larger the city, the closer to an international border or ocean, and the larger the Roman Catholic population, the less likely that the laws were enforced. The 'wettest' cities [during Prohibition] were Detroit, New York, New Orleans, and Baltimore."
In those places, cultural tolerance and political connections kept the booze flowing. Alderman and councilmen were often tavern owners, especially in cities where Catholic political machines ruled the day with large constituencies of Irish- and Italian-Americans. "The mythology we have from movies of the password and the peephole—in a city like New York or Detroit, that was gone by 1922 or 1923," Okrent says. "Illegal places operated by bribing local officials if they needed to and often they didn't need to, they were very much out in the open."
While the drinks seemingly never stopped, Prohibition did bring about one big change: It brought men and women together in drinking establishments for the first time. "The [19th century] saloon was a male-only institution. Men and women didn't drink together in public, except for the wealthy in hotel restaurants," Okrent says. "Once you have Prohibition in 1920, the illegality turns it into a sport to go to these places."
Even with that societal change, Sismondo says our modern image of speakeasies is still a little off: The majority of them were anything but glamorous. "Proper cocktails emerged towards the end of the 1920s because these places weren't really set up to operate that way," she says. "It was more likely a bunch of guys drinking a bottle in a dark basement. It wasn't ritzy."
Back in Pittsburgh, I stop by the bar in the basement of the William Penn Hotel. It's called the Speakeasy, and there are excerpts from the 1891 New York Times featuring Kate Hester on the drink menu. Those quotes accompany pictures of police pouring liquor down street gutters, dapperly dressed dudes standing next to a trove of forbidden booze, and mustache-bearing distillers eyeing their latest concoctions of ethanol.
Dawn Young, a bartender who has worked at the Speakeasy since it (re)opened in 2012, tells me that the bar's existence was only revealed when hotel renovations knocked down a wall. Today, visitors can reach the bar from the front entrance of the hotel, whereas the original path would have led to a side-entrance on Oliver Avenue.
In this swanky underground den, I meet John Schalcosky, an amateur historian who runs a Facebook page about eccentric Pittsburgh history. I reached out to Schalcosky to dig up whether there was any evidence prior to The New York Times piece about Hester's involvement in speakeasies. I had already found her (and her children) in the 1900 Census via Ancestry.com, listed as a hotel keeper in McKeesport, just southeast of Pittsburgh. Here are some of her details I transposed from the Census ledgers:
Address: 243 Fifth Avenue
Date of Birth: November 7, 1855
Age at time of census: 44
Married, widowed, or divorced: widowed
Mother of 9 children
Born in England, mother and father born in Ireland
Year of immigration to the United States: 1860
Number of years in the U.S.: 40
Occupation: Hotel Keeper
Can read, write, speak English: yes, yes, and yes
Own or rent: rent
Home or farm: home
Schalcosky has a theory for why licensing wouldn't have deterred someone like Kate Hester. "At the time, running an illegal bar would have been an easy way to make money for someone who was a widow like Kate Hester," he says. "It's unlikely she would have learned a trade or a skill during that era. No law was going to stop her or anyone else from selling liquor. The average working person was pretty determined to get a good drink after work. People want what they want."
Schalcosky's best find: Two years earlier than the New York Times story on Hester, there's a story in the June 30, 1889 edition of the Pittsburg Dispatch titled "THE SPEAK EASIES" with a later sub-headline that declares the term to be "A PITTSBURG INVENTION."
He also found one of Hester's colleagues, an earlier character named Mary Murphy who makes the papers for all kinds of trouble associated with "tin-pots" and "doggery" dating as far back as 1869. An April 16, 1889 edition Pittsburg Daily Post reports under the headline: "A Speak-Easy Siren Arrested," where Murphy gets charged for operating at 727 Forbes Street.
And Kate Hester? "There's a lot more to that story," Schalcosky says. He hasn't found a smoking gun for the "speak-easy" origin myth, but he has obtained a fuller picture of the woman who told those patrons to hush.
Hester's booze-related activities appear four times in the Pittsburgh Daily Post and once in The Pittsburgh Press. In a December 16, 1890, edition of the Daily Post, Hester is among a list of "ignored bills" at a hearing for selling liquor without a license. In April 10, 1891, her "defective" application for a liquor license was given a hearing and she "produced a letter from her pastor giving her a good name." (A colorful April 8 account in The Pittsburgh Press describes the license process as if it were a baseball game: "Mrs. Kate Hester made a strong play last year, but she was knocked out just when everyone thought she was going to score. She came to the bat this morning looking just a little shaky.")
Even so, Hester's local celebrityhood seems to have been limited; she's mentioned as one of many plaintiffs against a pickpocketer in a March 1895 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story and as one of the people injured on a McKeesport streetcar accident in the June 1899 Pittsburgh Daily Post without much notice of her infamous speakeasy past.
In December 14, 1903, Hester finally appears to have received legal clearance to run her bar, as this rather cryptic dispatch in the Pittsburgh Daily Post describes an incident of smallpox at her Fifth Avenue Hotel in McKeesport.
Having gone legit, Hester did not seem to have success passing the family business on to her daughters. In the June 7, 1904 edition of the Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, Miss Anna Hester, daughter of Mrs. Kate Hester, proprietress of the Fifth Avenue hotel, would enter the convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh, joining her two sisters there. The story adds that another one of Kate Hester's daughters wished to join but "a regulation prevents more than three members of one family from being inmates of the same institution."
After that, the trail of Catherine E. Lynch, widow of John Hester and speakeasy proprietor, goes cold: The Pittsburg Press mentions a benefit euchre at her home with the Ladies' Aid Society of St. Peter's Catholic Church in May 20, 1906 and she's listed as an attendee of a McKeesport wedding. She died in 1926 at age 72. But there's no tell-all obituary that references her saloonkeeping fame or her enduring contribution to the nation's drinking culture.
I ask Schalcosky what he thinks is behind the renewed allure of speakeasies today, given the absence of legal prohibitions on alcohol. "I think it has to do with trying to connect with our communal past," he says. "People appreciate a good tale and location to go along with it. That, and our timeless love for alcohol."
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Aberlour was constructed in 1879 by James Fleming and sits alongside the banks of the River Spey in the town of Aberlour. Fleming is buried in the churchyard opposite the distillery. Famous for it's full-flavoured, sherry-led whiskies, Aberlour produced a wide variety of age-statement whiskies alongside the well known and well loved NAS A'bunadh.
So, here it is, the batch of A'Bunadh that changed everything. One minute, this bottling was £50 - overnight it shot up to £80. Let's at least hope it's a good one.
Aberlour A'bunadh was first released in 1997. This batch was released in 2016 and bottled at 60.5%
Batch 53 of A'Bunadh was released in 2016, and like all Abunadh's has been aged in 100% oloroso sherry casks. The bottling is an NAS that's composed of a marriage of whiskies from 5, up to 25 years of age.
Aberlour A'bunadh was first released in 1997. Ten years later and we're not far off seeing batch number 60 roll out. Such is the perennial popularity of this whisky. As a 'batch' produced bottling each release varies, being a marriage of whiskies aged between five and twenty five years of age and clocking in an impressive 59-61% ABV. But, not everything changes – A'bunadh is always constructed from first fill oloroso sherry butts and is never coloured nor chill filtered.
Aberlour's 10 year old entry-level bottling is matured in a combination of ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks. It's a hugely popular whisky, currently available in over 50 countries worldwide – and it's easy to see why with a price point of less than £30 here in the UK. The bottling is delivered with an ABV of 40%.
This bottling of 10 year old Aberlour comes from around 1988 according to the Interwebs. It's from a time when the distillery still described its whiskies as 'Aberlour-Glenlivet' a moniker used fairly extensively across Speyside, but now entirely dropped, save for The Glenlivet itself. The whisky is a combination of ex-bourbon and ex-sherry cask maturation and is bottled at 40% ABV.
There's something slightly magical about hand filling your own bottle of whisky when visiting a distillery. Straight from the cask into a bottle with your signature on it – it's not only a memento of what was hopefully a wonderful tour, it's also a journey into a distillery's style and character that you can revisit at a later date. Aberlour offers two hand fill expressions, one bourbon, one oloroso sherry. Located at the back of their tasting room, you'll have the opportunity to try both hand fills as part of their highly generous 'Aberlour Experience' tasting session if you visit.
As 2017 draws to a close, I thought I'd bring you one of the more exciting whiskies I sampled over the festive period in the form of a 27 year old Aberlour distilled way back in 1963. I'd had this bottle bottled stashed away for some time, awaiting the appropriate celebratory moment to crack it open and experience a little piece of distilling history. Whilst the extended family tucked into their annual Christmas Day diet of as much bargain bubbly as they could find, I located a quiet corner devoid from shredded wrapping paper, smoked salmon and charged prosecco glasses to spend some quality time with a whisky distilled whilst I was still but a gleam in the eye.
Aberlour with a cult TV reference and without the sherry - just a 2nd fill ex-bourbon barrel for this 10 year old. Sweet, fruity & mellow profile.
Ex-bourbon Aberlour is not bottled nearly enough for my liking – and rarely at all by the distillery itself. Here, we have an 11 year old that's been drawn from a refill ex-bourbon barrel. Sweet, Fruity & Mellow profile.
Over to Speyside for a 16 year old Aberlour – 13 years in ex-bourbon before being re-racked into a 2nd fill toasted hoghead for a decent finishing period. View on SMWS
As the price of whisky has steadily increased, so has the popularity of independent bottlers – in some quarters they represent a near last bastion of reasonably priced liquid to many enthusiasts. This is especially true when it comes to older expressions. Well-aged distillery OBs are now being pitched for hundreds of pounds, whereas their IB equivalents (as equivalent as one can get) can still be found for fractions of these prices. Whiskybroker is one such independent that has seen its cachet skyrocket over the last couple of years. Starting life as a small (they still are relatively) outfit that was once a go to place for whisky clubs to source bottlings, the company now has a small army of Facebook fans and its very well-priced releases are eagerly snaffled up.


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I'm not a country music fan, and watching this, I think I finally get why. It's a theory I've been working on relating to musicals. Please don't throw tomatoes at me. I'm already imagining how many people are sitting here reading this and steaming. And I mean, it's totally okay if you like country music or musicals. It's just… if it's okay for you to like them, it's okay for me to not like them. I've just always wondered why. I love storytelling. And I love music of ALL types. (There is some country I love. Nickel Creek's album Why Should the Fire Die is… gah, it's so gorgeous. And I love Robert Ellis's song Chemical Plant. And there are others. It's just that they're few and far between.)
I think the reason is that I do love storytelling, and music, but I don' like exact and complete stories told in music. For me, music is more like poetry than anything, and yes, country music and musicals are both poetic, but the part of poetry I personally love is that it's widely open to interpretation. Or, the poems I like are. And I just don't like my music to tell me every exact detail and plot point in a story. I want to interpret things my own way. That's why I listen to rock, or stuff rooted in rock, or what predated rock.
In the Nashville episode, Dave Grohl laughs about how it's nice to hear that some form of music is rooted in happiness, because rock music is rooted in misery. He makes a joke out of it, but I suppose it's true in a way. Rock musicians are into that stuff. I had a friend who said that all rock songs were about one of two things- sex or heroin. *laughs* There's a lot of misery tangled up in those things.
I don't particularly care if rock music is rooted in misery- and that's something you could argue, probably. I just like seeing the roots. I like seeing the roots in all art. I like seeing what makes people create what they create, from individual songs to an entire genre. And as much as I'm not a country music fan, I was so fascinated by the evolution of the country music industry that Dave explores in this episode. It's a culture and an industry that is so very, very different than the rock culture and industry. It works in an entirely different way. It's truly a system, a machine, whereas, as much as I'm sure rock gods have wanted to turn rock into a system that churns out hit after hit, rock keeps resisting hard enough that it never comes to that. Rock, for me, is built on, maybe not misery so much as not fitting in. That's the heart of rock music, after it grew out of the blues. It's about being someone you're not supposed to be. It's about being different. It's about making your own way.
The truly fantastic and interesting thing about this episode, though, was how connected to the country music scene it made me feel. And how there are people in the country music industry who are also resisting that kind of… smoothing of the rough spots, if you will. Who also want to be something they're not supposed to be, who want to make their own way. And this wasn't just the newer generation of musicians, or the older, but both. Over and over, the people who seem to get remembered are the ones who wanted to create something for the sake of creating. Who wanted to make something that was a part of them. Who saw someone who inspired them to be something incredible and unique. That, for me, is what all music, of any genre is about. It's what art is about, in whatever form it takes.
What Do I Do / God As My Witness- Austin
I was really psyched for this episode, but it didn't… do as much for me as the previous ones. It's still awesome! Just… in a slightly smaller way.
Mostly it focused on Austin City Limits, which… I grew up watching that show, so this was pretty awesome. My parents used to have this old VHS they recorded of when Leonard Cohen was on the show. He stands up on that stage and he talks about how he wrote Take This Waltz as a tribute of sorts to his favorite poet, Frederico Garcia Lorca. And this song is just… magical. Amazing. And that was my introduction to Leonard Cohen as a little kid- Austin City Limits. And since then I've watch about a billion and one bands on the show. So it was very cool to hear the history of that.
Austin has its history, too. Sort of… the history of blues melting into rock. I'm so fascinated by rock history. It's so new. It just happened. The people who witnessed the birth of rock are still around, or knew the people who were. I find that completely fascinating. I mean, you must not really realize you're witnessing history, when you're there. But you've got to know you're in the middle of something great, right? But when people like Dave Grohl come around and want to interview you later, and talk about that… you're just talking about your friends. You're talking about your life, your past. I just think that's so interesting. And… you know, it gives you the feels. It gives me the feels.
Anyway. I'm rambling. I think the thing I really got out of this show was that history, though- and the fact that rock as a genre is still so new, in the grand scheme of things. That history is the recent past. The history of Austin's music scene, the way it was a small town of misfits and people who just wanted to do their own things 50 years ago, and is now a nearly booming music hub, with SXSW basically a massive festival not just of music, but of entertainment and industry, is… awesome and frightening at the same time. Things change so fast. And I think for a lot of people that's sort of a bummer, because you're losing what made a place or a genre special for you. It is a bummer. But the fact that this genre and the people in it went from so small to so huge, and pretty much changed the way an entire city is looked at, is really incredible, too.
Outside- Los Angeles
This was the L.A. episode, but really it wasn't about L.A., it was about Palm Springs. And really it wasn't about Palm Springs, it was about the desert.
I live in Phoenix, AZ. And Phoenix is in the Sonoran Desert. Palm Springs and Indio (which is where Coachella is held) and I think L.A. although don't quote me on that, are in the Colorado Desert, which is part of the Sonoran Desert. And I'm the kind of person who thinks it's perfectly acceptable to drive from Phoenix to L.A. or San Diego or… umm, a lot of other places to see a band play a show, so I've been through those deserts around Palm Springs a lot of times.
You're probably wondering why I'm yammering on about the desert when this is ostensibly a blog about a show about music. But for people who live in the desert, whether you love it or hate it or are actively trying to pretend you don't live in the desert, the desert is everything. It is all encompassing. I've seen people write about how the desert is magical and that always just irks me a bit, because it's decidedly not magical- what it is, is constantly and in every way, with a utter disregard for your existence, attempting to kill you. So, I mean… maybe there is a certain magic in living somewhere like that, and I'm not being sarcastic. For sure, this desert is like nowhere else.
So when Dave Grohl starts talking about a studio that's really a house in the middle of the desert- and god, Palm Springs and Indio are the middle of fucking nowhere- and bands are talking about how playing outside in the desert, in the middle of the night, influenced their sound, I was so thrilled. It's really hard to talk to people about this desert and what it's like because it's just… It can't really be described. And there's the desert people see when they, like, come to vacation here, and then there's the desert people live with every day, and they're two different things. The desert is harsh and it's gritty and a lot of times everything just looks run down and worn and dirty, because everything is run down and worn and dirty. But it's got this… amazing, honest, sheen of just… sheer beauty and uniqueness laid over it, so even while you're hating it, you're sort of falling in love with it, too.
Los Angeles is kind of similar in a lot of ways, now that I think about it.
Phoenix doesn't have a music scene. None, zero, nothing. I can think of two total bands to come out of here in the last… 30 years? Who are actually anybody. I think it's because people come to Arizona to get away from other people. So we all walk around in these sort of bubbles, and we like it that way. But it makes finding people and getting together to make music sort of difficult. Obviously, L.A. isn't the same. Tons of bands come out of there. But hearing about bands who came out of the desert, who were influenced by the desert itself, hearing about a studio that was, when you looked at it, so very much like my desert, created by people who reminded me of so many of the musicians I know, was really amazing.
And this story of music coming out of the desert, and at roughly the same time, generations of kids hearing music in L.A. and feeling like they could be anyone, do anything, they wanted, just because they loved doing it, is really inspiring to me. Hearing Joan Jett talk about how difficult it was, how much they faced, but also the truly incredible music they made and how that went on to influence so, so many people… And to think that so many of the bands who influenced my teens and twenties were recording in this place… It made it feel like it was a little bit my story too.


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Over the past days and for a few more to come there are going to be a lot of articles commemorating the events of September 11th, 2001. The international answer to Bin Laden's attacks was an invasion of Afghanistan and the global result of those events is that nothing has ever been the same since that day five years ago.
That day nearly 4,000 innocent people died while the rest of us held our breath watching live on television. The terror had come to everybody's house across Europe and America. Nobody could hit the almighty America and still it had just happened. The king was naked! Security, the word that accompanies our mighty western civilization, collapsed with the Twin Towers, nobody is secure anymore.
Still, I'm not going to talk about security because it saddens me that after a century of fighting to secure an individual's freedom and independence of thought we are in danger of losing it. I'm not going to talk about the chance Bin Laden and his followers gave to the most conservative parts of society to rise up and become a state; that's something all the magazines and newspapers will talk about anyway. What bothers me is that he made me hate him and that's the worst thing he could do!
Usually we despise anybody who tries to force his will; we despise Hitler even though he's been dead for nearly sixty years. We despise Stalin and Amin Dada. But Bin Laden made the difference by giving me a face to hate! I hate him because the man made me hate somebody! I hate him because of what he made me.
All my life I've been the person to be open to other's opinions and beliefs. For me, some words of Themistocles have been a personal philosophy: "You may hit me, but listen to me first." Respect other's opinion, even though you don't agree and Bin Laden came and whipped everything away. He told me that I know what's right and I'm forcing it to you by killing people.
What happened in Lebanon a few weeks ago was not the first dramatic event in the Middle East. On the contrary, it was a link in a chain of events that began half a century ago. The pictures of dead children were breathtaking and every time you heard on the news that another kid was dead you were felt as though it was your own. The big difference this time was September 11th.
Israel keeps striking defenseless Palestinians in the most unreasonable way over the last forty years and every single time the rest of the world was rising from the events. For forty years Israel has all the excuses for these strikes and the world is dismissing them. This time Israel's excuses seemed so poor that even they could not believe them, but this time the whole world was numb. The ghost of Bin Laden had changed everything. And had changed me as well.
My constant reaction, till now, was to get angry; how can they let that happen? That would be my reaction when thinking of a UN that does nothing, an EU that is just watching as kids are getting killed and I would blame the President of the USA first. However, this time I understood why France was not in such a hurry to get involved. I wanted them to get involved and I was really glad when they did finally decide to move but I could understand what they were scared of.
Five years after 9-11, there is still fighting in Afghanistan. The Taliban are returning stronger than ever, Iran's dictatorship is still there threatening us a nuclear plan and arrogant ignorance that only dictatorships have, and Iraq is in the middle of a civil war whether the Americans like it or not. Bin Laden is here using the system that created him against them. Bin Laden the former CIA operative in Afghanistan, the fighter against the evil Russian bear is here fighting with the same weapons and practicing the same methods they taught him to fight the Russians.
For the next few days we are all going to see the pictures and the videos of the burning towers. We are going to see families crying asking why and, probably somewhere in his cave, Bin Laden will be thinking that he took revenge for all the dead Palestinian kids. He missed the point, for generations Palestinian mothers will hate him because he made people like me hate him and understand when France becomes numb instead of running to help.
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Yoo-hoo! Just a short shout to show off my 2009 contribution to the Red Scarf Project. The deadline is approaching (December 15), and I almost didn't get it together this year. But this is such a good cause, so positive and life-affirming, so we-all-been-there-or-somewhere-like-it.
So it seemed like fate when our charity-minded London pal Juliet lobbed me, out of the blue and across the Atlantic, a lovely hank of Scrumptious DK by Fyberspates, a beautiful glowy-red silk and merino blend. It goes just great (or so I think) when combined in 2-row stripes with some chunks of Noro Silk Garden I already had.
Now, the folks at Red Scarf have tightened up their requirements this year, and I'm worried that some of us are a little discouraged by that. I understand and applaud the idea that we knitters should knit what is needed, and not view charity knitting campaigns as a dump-ortunity for yarn that nobody has loved since the Great Eyelash Yarn Craze of 1996. (I think Ken Burns is doing a documentary on that era, by the way.) But the guidelines actually are making me nervous about my ability to hit all the marks for a sufficiently hi-kwalidy scarf. For example, I think I might get into trouble on that requirement about not using colors that the "general public" might not like. (I think I pretty much ONLY use colors that the general public is not crazy about. I mean, this is sort of what I like about knitting!) I also wonder why they are so strict about not using heavier yarns. [Edited to add: I have been EDUCATED in the comments–there is a very good reason having to do with the size of the box they have to fit in.] I had 4 hanks of Misti Alpaca Chunky, in a perfect, unisex wine-red, but I was scared to use it! When I see all the chunky scarves in the windows of Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, I don't get why it would be so bad to knit a scarf with a chunky yarn, especially something as yummy-yummy-yummy-I-got-love-in-my-tummy as Misti Alpaca. But I understand that I am not driving this bus, and I want to do what is wanted and needed for this great project. So I'll think of something else for the fat-gauge Misti. Bless my heart, you know? Just trying to matter!


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Easy and flavorful ONE pot chicken burrito bowls with a delicious cilantro lime sauce
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Years ago I shared these one skillet sweet potato burrito bowls and they've remained one of the most liked recipes on my site to this day. One of my favorite things about blogging is when so many of you fall in love with the recipes that have become our family favorites 🙂
I've had so many requests from you on how to add chicken or beef to the original sweet potato burrito bowl meal, so I decided to make a whole new version of that recipe. These one pot chicken burrito bowls are even a little bit easier because I'm using store-bought shredded rotisserie chicken which cuts down on prep and cooking time. (AND If you follow my series of making 3 meals with 1 rotisserie chicken, this recipe (along with 2 others) is going to be in my next rotisserie chicken series post. :)…stay tuned!)
How do you make one pot chicken burrito bowls?
The recipe for these burrito bowls DOES seem overwhelming at first glance, but I promise you this is a simple dish to make! There are a lot of ingredients and toppings and then a delicious cilantro-lime sauce which I think just takes these burrito bowls from wow to WOAH! However, all of the toppings (avocado, cilantro, lime, cheese) and the cilantro-lime sauce can easily be used in other meals throughout the week such as tacos, tostadas, salads, etc. The sauce makes a lot so if you make it at the beginning of the week you can throw it on all your Mexican-inspired dishes throughout the week!
- To make these one pot chicken burrito bowls we start by sautéing onions in olive oil, adding garlic, and then the seasonings. Adding the seasonings at the start with the oil helps to deepen and intensify the flavors. Next the rice comes in and again, saute that rice dry to infuse more (and deeper) flavors. After that it's really about just opening cans up and dumping the rest of everything in: diced tomatoes, enchilada sauce, beans, corn, green chiles, and stock. And that's it for about 20-25 minutes! The pot will work it's magic leaving the perfect amount of time to assemble and prep toppings, make the sauce, and even throw together a salad if you're feeling super ambitious 🙂
- Once the rice is cooked through, the cheese and chicken gets added in and warmed through and dinner is ready to serve!
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- 3 tablespoons olive oil, separated
- 1/4 cup yellow onion, diced
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon EACH: ground cumin, paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano flakes
- 1 cup uncooked extra-long grain rice
- 1 can (14.5 ounces) fire-roasted diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 can (11 ounces) mild red enchilada sauce (I recommend old el paso; I've tried a few other brands and they've been too hot for the family!)
- 1 and 1/2 cups chicken stock
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can (15 ounces) fire-roasted corn, drained
- 1 can (4 ounces) mild fire-roasted diced green chiles, optional
- 1 and 1/2 cups colby jack or sharp cheddar cheese, freshly grated
- 2 cups prepared and shredded rotisserie chicken
- Fine sea salt and freshly cracked pepper
- 1-2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, optional
- Additions: lime wedges, fresh cilantro, fresh ripe avocado
- 1 lime juiced and zested
- 2 tablespoons dry ranch seasoning mix (I like Hidden Valley)
- 1/2 - 1 full teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 medium sized tomatillo, husk removed and coarsely chopped
- 1/3 of a large bunch of cilantro
- 1/2 a jalapeno, seeds removed for mild and left for spicy dressing
- 1/2 cup full fat regular mayo
- 1/2 cup sour cream (fat free is great)
In a 3-quart NONSTICK (must be nonstick) skillet or pot, add 2 tablespoons olive oil and heat to medium high heat. Once the oil is shimmering, add in the diced onion and stir for 3-4 minutes. Add in the garlic and stir for 30 seconds. Add all of the seasonings: chili powder, ground cumin, paprika, cayenne pepper, dried oregano flakes, and salt + pepper to taste. (I add ~ 1/2 teaspoon of each). Stir until fragrant, about 30-45 seconds and then add remaining 1 tablespoon oil and the rice. Stir, without liquid, for 1-2 minutes.
Add in the undrained diced tomatoes, enchilada sauce, stock, drained and rinsed beans, drained corn, and diced green chiles. Stir everything together and then reduce the heat to low and cover.
Cook about 20-25 minutes or until rice is tender, stirring occasionally and adding additional chicken stock IF needed to get the rice completely tender.
Season with additional salt and pepper as desired. Add the cheese and shredded rotisserie chicken on top, stir it together, and cover for another 3-4 minutes to allow the cheese to melt and chicken to warm through.
While the dish is cooking prepare the sauce: Zest and juice 1 lime. Add the juice and zest to the blender along with the ranch seasoning mix, minced garlic, chopped tomatillo, and cilantro (Just cut off the large stems, but the rest is fine).
Add 1/2 a jalapeno (a full one for more kick) and the mayo. Add some seasoned salt and pepper to taste (I use 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper). Blend until completely smooth. Taste and adjust to personal preference (more lime, more garlic, salt/pepper). Add the sour cream and pulse until just combined.
If desired, add lime juice over the entire dish OR to individual servings. Add the sauce, additional lime wedges, additional cilantro, and avocado to individual servings.*
*Do not add optional/additional toppings or sauce to anything you want to keep leftover. Store separately and reheat chicken/rice mixture as needed.


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Trona Pinnacles, San Bernardino County, California
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If you are looking for an otherworldly landscape, this is the place for you. A skyline made up of about 500 tall tufa spires dotted the barren landscape as we walked in an ancient dry lakebed named Searle Lake. Searle Lake was one of many lakes filled with glacial meltwater connecting the Sierra Nevada to Death Valley as glaciers melted from the Sierra Nevada mountain range. According to one of the information boards, half of all of earth's minerals are found on this lake bed, one of which is trona, the park's namesake.


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Marikina City is one of the highly urbanized cities in the Philippines. It is located northwest of Metro Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Covering a land area of 21.5 square kilometer, it is primarily a valley nestled amidst mountain ranges and rolling hills. Its topography in general is characterized by flat terrain with only a portion mildly sloping here generally suitable for urban settlements. Marikina City has sixteen (16) barangays and a population of 525,141 comprising about 11,456 household based on the 2.68% growth rate for the year 2014. The city has a hot and humid climate with an average temperature of 32 o Centigrade.
Ever since Tagaytay City became a full member of the Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC) in 2004, health and nutrition services being rendered to its people have remarkably improved. Such improvement is also attributed to the sincerity and unwavering commitment of the local officials coupled with active participation of concerned stakeholders from different sectors: business sector, religious and academe sectors and other non-government organizations and people's organizations.


text: Here are a few random thoughts from someone who has owned a Model S (VIN # 184) for just over 24 hours … The Car There's really no point in rehashing what a truly awesome machine the Model S is. From a performance point of view, I'm really not sure how it could be improved. Aesthetically, the exterior is absolutely breathtaking. I stopped in a Starbucks two hours after taking delivery, and honestly, two groups of people at the windows near where the car was parked craned their necks to look and then approached me as I walked in, wanting to know what kind of car it was. Only one person (a woman) had heard of Tesla, and some questioned how "a car so nice" could be an EV. The word "amazing" was used a lot. No one talked about government loans On the performance side (and noted elsewhere), I had one amusing "confrontation" with a Maserati on FL 441 at a light. The Maserati lost … badly. The car is visually big, but it drives small—that is, it feels and handles like a smaller car in many respects. Turning radius is excellent for a car of its size. Also, the driving experience in normal traffic on normal roads is (for lack of a better word) "smooth" (no automatic transmission shift points, no hesitation)—it's as if the car is gliding on the road. It's so noticeable that passengers mention it. Ergonomics and Needed Mods The ergonomics of the dashboard display are excellent. In some cases, it's a bit inconvenient to go through a number of layers of menus, but nothing serious. However, one serious failing IMO is the inability to orient the Nav system to represent motion on the screen in the sight-line direction that the car is traveling. Using fixed north for the display is disconcerting, and I'm not dyslexic. This should be an easy software option, and it should be implemented by TM asap. It would also be nice to more fully control my iPhone's playlists, etc. from the display screen. I suspect that Android users would feel the same way. The rear camera resolution is the best I have ever seen. However, as others have noted, the rear display needs guiding lines that are displayed when in reverse. I use the camera in lieu of a rear view mirror and often leave it on while driving. The interior/exterior fit and finish are very good, although there is distortion at the very bottom of the windshield glass. I wonder if it's my car or typical? The distortion is far below the line of sight, but it is noticeable if you look down. I was driving last night and had to turn on the LED dome lights to read something. That should be very easy to do, but it requires a couple of embedded picks. Maybe a small fixed icon to toggle the lights on the top control bar (near the homelink icon) might be a good idea. I really do wish that the Model S had motorized folding side mirrors. My garage opening is tight, and I have to fold in the driver's side mirror manually to be safe. Not a big deal, but there should be a more elegant solution for a car in this price range. Little Lessons Learned The special coating on the windshield seems to create problems for some RF or RFID devices. There is a non-coated clear spot on the windshield just above the rear view mirror that allowed me to place my automatic gate opener so that it would work. It wouldn't operate properly anywhere else on the windshield. I'm wondering whether SunPass (the Fl equivalent to EasyPass) will work on the FL Turnpike). Haven't tried it yet. One nice feature is that the HD fish-eye camera actually displays the edge line of the bumper, so if you're brave enough, you can use the camera to back up to with 3 or 4 inches of an object. I haven't tried it yet, so do so at your own risk Like most newer cars, the doors will not open from the outside if you pull up to pick someone up and leave the car in D. The problem is that the Model S is so silent that you forget to put the car in P and then panic because there is no door unlock function on the driver door. A little thing, but worth noting. Also, because there is no creep, it's possible to back up on level ground. inadvertently take your foot off the brake for just a moment and at the same time try to put the car in D. Model S (correctly) won't do it, and you can sit there for a second wondering why. Gotta keep your foot on the brake, even though the car isn't moving at all. Creep should remedy that. Like some other new owners, my Homelink is not working properly. It seems to be programmed correctly, but raises the door halfway and then appears to send another signal that stops it. Irritating—something that needs to be addressed by TM asap. When you leave the car at night, you have two options. (1) the lights go off immediately or (2) the lights stay on for a l-o-n-g time before they go off. Might not be a bad idea to provide 15, 30, 60, 120 sec options. Love the Model S fob but attaching any other key to it is a challenge. I jury-rigged a few spring rings so that everything would lie flat (see photo), but I'm sure there are better options. To TM engineers: It might be worth rethinking the attachment approach for future editions. On storage I know this sounds self-serving, but the lack of interior storage within easy reach of the driver is really irritating (at least for me). I need a place within easy reach to put my smartphone, tic-tacs, night driving glasses, sunglasses, a small flashlight, a parking meter card, a couple of pens, and some change. Putting that stuff in the open center channel area is messy and I don't normally carry a backpack. IMO, the little pouch below the driver's seat is useless. Luckily, I had a past prototype of the CCI (the most recent prototype is at the fabrication shop) which I installed within one hour of delivery. It will remain there until the production alpha version of the CCI is ready in a few weeks (then pics). Bottom line The Model S is the best automotive purchase decision I have ever made – no other car I've owned is even close.


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What the Best KS2 Maths SATs Interventions Look Like
Here at Third Space Learning,we've taught over 700,000 1-to-1 maths lessons to over 55,000 primary school pupils across thousands of UK schools to help prepare those pupils for their KS2 SATs. As such, we feel we're quite the KS2 maths SATs intervention experts!
Unsurprisingly this makes us the largest provider of 1-to-1 maths tuition for SATs in the country, and so in a unique position to understand what really works for Year 6 pupils to achieve success from a KS2 maths SATs intervention.
Teaching thousands of 1-to-1 lessons every week, getting to know the pupils, understanding their different misconceptions in maths, working out how we can best plug their learning gaps or deepen and extend their understanding… we've learnt a lot.
So, based on everything we've learnt, here are the five key ingredients every SATs intervention should have, and insights we hope will be useful when preparing your pupils for the KS2 National Assessments.
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1. Expose pupils to SATs-style questions
One of the best ways to prepare your pupils for any assessment is to make sure that they're familiar with the types of questions they'll be asked, and the different ways that they can be asked them in an exam.
For many schools, this means using SATs questions and practice papers as an assessment tool, but we would also recommend using SATs papers (such as this Arithmetic and Reasoning SATs Pack of 3) as a teaching tool.
By including SATs-style questions in the classroom environment – and outside of exam settings – pupils can discuss and verbalise their answers, becoming more comfortable with exam terminology. Moreover, using SATs-style questions as a teaching tool helps to normalise the work pupils will undertake during an exam, which will boost their confidence.
You can incorporate SATs questions into your lessons in all sorts of ways, whether as bell tasks, starters, or extension tasks. Try question from a practice SATs paper as a starter for your lessons several times a week and pupils won't bat an eye when faced with the trickier reasoning questions come SATs week.
To make it easy for you to start this off you can use the images below – taken from the SATs practice papers in our Free Online Maths Hub – and try it out for a few days (simply click the images to open in a new tab, and print them off). If you do, let us know how you get on at @thirdspacetweet.
This style of learning mirrors our 1-to-1 interventions, where pupils and tutors work through SATs-style questions together. As they do, pupils are encouraged to explain their calculations. Tutors are then able to correct any faulty reasoning, whilst pupils improve their verbal reasoning with numerical concepts.
2. Focus on problem solving & reasoning skills
Often pupils come to us with good procedural knowledge but they struggle with problem solving or reasoning skills.
In the run up to SATs, it can be tempting to focus mainly on plugging any gaps in procedural understanding but, actually including problem solving tasks in your SATs preparation for all pupils helps to develop their reasoning skills and work independently in a more effective way.
Our tutors make sure that all of our SATs lessons contain a range of problem solving questions, even in lessons for pupils working below expectations.
If you want to integrate more problem solving into your classroom, you can download our free resources such as this KS2 Topical Maths Reasoning Investigations for Summer Term 1, or the Ultimate Guide to Problem Solving Techniques.
KS2 Maths SATs Practice Papers: Set of 3 (Pack 1)
1 Arithmetic and 2 Reasoning Papers in line with the National Curriculum Assessment, including mark scheme to find out where your pupils need extra support
3. Get pupils to explain their reasoning
Getting pupils to explain their numerical reasoning not only helps to deepen their understanding but ensures better information retention.
Third Space tutors regularly ask pupils to explain what they're doing and why. They'll use questions such as 'how do you know' 'are you sure' and 'can you imagine', the latter in particular helps to move them along to the more conceptual, deeper lines of thinking that are required for independent work and assessment. To extend the learning they might swap roles, and get the pupil to teach the concept back to the tutor. Here are 9 questioning strategies to improve your pupils' understanding of key concepts in Maths.
You could also introduce a more rigorous questioning approach elsewhere in the school. For example if your TA is conducting an intervention with your pupil, providing them with a list of questions such as those provided in this Growth Mindset Questions resource can work wonders in the long run!
4. Develop growth mindset
Growth mindset is really important in Maths because it's a subject where confidence can really affect their learning.
Just thinking a bit about what how you give feedback little le phrases like "you worked really hard on that!" or "I like how you persevered with that question" rather than rather than "you're so good at maths" can make a big difference.
At Third Space, our tutors are trained to support pupils to develop a growth mindset. Tutors make a point however of not just praising effort but also following up with next steps or corrections where a pupil does need to try again. The tutor and pupil will evaluate mistakes together and the tutor can then help them to try a different strategy.
Again, the list in the Growth Mindset Questions resource is very usefu.!
5. Personalise the learning & support
The most effective interventions are those that are highly personalised to the needs of the pupil. This means teaching directly to a pupil's own misconceptions, adapting the lesson, and extending it as appropriate for the child.
Of course, you will have a good idea of a pupil's strengths and challenges in Maths, but to really drill down into the detail of where their gaps lie, diagnostic assessment can be a really useful tool.
Pupils on Third Space Learning's 1-to-1 intervention programme sit down to a diagnostic test before their first session which helps inform the sessions their tutor will teach, and at what level that session should be pitched. Plus, during the lesson, tutors use AFL (assessment for learning techniques) to vary the pace according to how the pupils are responding.
However you prepare your pupils for National Assessments, whether it's group interventions or extra homework, we would always recommend doing a diagnostic assessment to identify the key gaps. To diagnose gaps in Number: Place Value, Fractions, Addition/Subtraction and Multiplication/Division download this set of 4 free diagnostic tests for Year 6 (Well over 5,000 downloads so far…)
Of course, all of the above isn't just about preparing for SATs. Learning should prepare pupils for the real world just as much as SATs. Promoting growth mindset, improving reasoning, and building problem solving skills won't just help them get the best grades possible in their National Assessments, it'll help them become vibrant learners ready to face any challenge the world can throw at them!
The best way to find out more about Third Space Learning interventions is to visit our website, where you can book a demo to see a lesson and understand whether we could help your target pupils get their Year 6 journey off to the best possible start in September.
Find out more about Primary School Interventions in general, or conduct a quick health check of your school's Maths interventions with our Free SLT Checklist that'll save you time, resources and expensive mistakes.


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Hadjigeorgiou, Dr Ioannis; Sagou, Miss Vasiliki; Sagos, Mr Dimitrios; Bilalis, Prof Dimitrios and Moustakas, Prof Nikolaos (2006) A comparative study of organic lupine and fava bean crops in a Mediterranean environment. Poster at: Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.
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Organic Animal Farming (OAF) systems hold a major part in Organic Agriculture (OA). Alternative protein crops are essential in the development of OAF in order to substitute technically and economically non-acceptable protein sources in Organic Animal feeding.
A study, aiming to compare white lupine (Lupinus albus cv Multitalia) and fava bean (Vicia faba cv Vesuvio) crops, was undertaken in Central Greece. The study compared the two plant species under organic or conventional management regimes in terms of quantity and quality produced. There were no productivity or quality differences between the regimes.
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|Conference paper, poster, etc.
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|Crop husbandry > Production systems > Cereals, pulses and oilseeds
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|International Conferences > 2006: Joint Organic Congress > Theme 4: Crop systems and soils
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|Hadjigeorgiou, Dr Ioannis
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|09 May 2006
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|12 Apr 2010 07:32
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Gryphon Antileon EVO Stereo Amplifier
Brand: Gryphon
Product Code : Antileon EVO Stereo
Gryphon Antileon EVO employs true Class A bias for instantaneous availability of full current at all times.
Gryphon rejects any biasing scheme which attempts to simulate Class A bias by switching to a higher bias level when a more dynamic signal is detected. This type of sensor can only respond after the fact, because it is not possible to adjust bias rapidly enough to accurately "track" dynamic changes in real time in music which is rich in impulses.
For situations in which the full power of the Antileon EVO will not be required (a small room, undemanding music, background listening, efficient loudspeakers, etc.) the owner has the option of selecting full or reduced Class A bias via front panel controls.
For a more flexible approach, when paired with a Gryphon preamplifier via Gryphon's proprietary Green Bias Link, power amplifier bias can be adjusted automatically in relation to the position of the preamplifier's volume control. The user always has Class A power on tap as needed at any given time with massive power reserves ready and waiting.
- 2 x 150 Watts Pure Class A
- Fully balanced input and Voltage Amplifier Stage (VAS)
- 40 High current bipolar output transistors
- 670,000 µF power capacitor bank
- Newly developed ultrafast J-FET input stage
- Custom-developed ultra-low noise regulated power supply for voltage amplifier stage (VAS).
- DC servo circuitry with Mundorf RXF Polypropylene capacitors for power supply decoupling
- Takman REY precision resistors
- Flat frequency response to beyond 350 kHz
- Gryphon Guideline Reference gold-embedded silver internal wiring
- Custom-built separate toroidal transformers
- Shielded, epoxy-damped transformer casings suspended for effective vibration isolation
- Separate power supply for display and control circuits
- No output relays
- Frequency-independent damping factor
- Proprietary Gryphon double binding posts
- Automatic Green Class A bias setting or manual Low/High bias selection
- AC power status and polarity display
- Rigid mechanical structure
- Microprocessor-controlled non-invasive "smart" protection system
- Double sealed, mil spec PCB with 105 µm copper traces
- Upgradeable microprocessor software.