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La Huaca brings the tastes of Peru to Granite BayBy: Toby Lewis, Granite Bay View correspondent
La Huaca Restaurant
What: Peruvian cuisine
Where: 9213 Sierra College Blvd., Suite 140, Roseville
Info: (916) 771-2558; www.lahuacarestaurant.com
Toby Lewis is a freelance writer with almost 30 years experience in the restaurant industry. Look to each month's Dining View for his thoughts, insights and opinions about dining in and around Granite Bay. Follow him on Twitter @TobLewis.
When it comes to restaurants, I am always on the lookout for hidden gems.
You know the place — your favorite restaurant, the dive down the street, the one that nobody knows about … yet.
I recently found such a gem in a little Peruvian place on the corner of Eureka Road and Sierra College Boulevard called La Huaca Restaurant.
Nestled in a strip mall among boutique salons, a frozen yogurt shop, jewelry stores and the like, the restaurant might be easy to pass up if you're not looking for it.
It also might be easy to pass up if you don't know anything about Peruvian food, which incidentally if you don't, you're not alone.
One thing I immediately learned on my recent visit to La Huaca is that Peruvians know food, and foodies are going to like this place.
For starters, regular readers of this column know that I am a sucker for ceviche.
When I opened up the menu, I was happy to see that La Huaca offers seven different types of ceviche, each one unique and likely as good as the rest.
We opted for the Ceviche Clasico ($14.95) to start us off. The dish had all the familiar notes that a good ceviche should have — fresh mahi mahi cured in a light citrus marinade — but with a Peruvian twist.
The dish had a hint of coconut and was served with red onion, Peruvian corn, sweet potato and fried corn kernels, making for a perfectly balanced dish with the right amount of heat, acid, salt and crunch.
More adventurous ceviche lovers might want to try the Ceviche de Rocoto ($14.95), fresh fish cured in citrus and covered in a creamy pepper sauce; or the Ceviche de Aji Amarillo ($14.95), served with a Peruvian yellow pepper sauce.
We found the staff to be impressively knowledgeable about the food, and they don't mind guiding you through the menu.
Our server, Andra, explained each dish we asked about in great detail, including the cooking process, with a professional and non-pretentious demeanor.
For our next course, Andra suggested we try the causas, a traditional Peruvian small-plate dish made up of mashed yellow potatoes, topped with various meats and seasoned with aji pepper sauce.
Aji is a Peruvian pepper that can be spicy or mild. La Huaca chefs boil the pepper for several hours to cut some of the spice and use it as a key ingredient in many dishes at the restaurant, Andra explained.
La Huaca offers six types of causas, and we decided to try the Festival de Causas ($12.95) to get a variety of tastes.
The sampler was served with four different causas, individually topped with chicken, shrimp, fried chicken and octopus. Each causa was served cold, to our surprise, and the potatoes had a texture almost like a soft polenta. Delicioso.
Both my wife and I commented on the appropriate portion sizes for our first two courses, unaware that our next course, the entrée course, would be a little bit more than we could handle.
Andra recommended the Lomo Saltado ($19.95) for me: marinated filet mignon tips cooked in a Pisco liquor sauce and served with stewed tomatoes, cilantro, white rice and "pappas fritas" (French fries).
Pisco is a type of grape brandy made only in the winemaking regions of Peru and some parts of Chile, and, I found out, is a popular ingredient in Peruvian cooking.
I found my dish to be perfectly cooked and seasoned, tender and juicy, but the combination of rice and potatoes made it a bit heavy on the starch.
My wife ordered the Pescado a lo Macho ($22.95): Fresh white fish marinated in aji pepper sauce with sautéed calamari, shrimp and grilled asparagus, served with white rice.
Each entrée item came with a suggested wine pairing on the menu, but I was a little surprised to see that many of the suggested pairings are not offered by the glass.
For example, the menu suggested I pair with my entree a pinot noir, cabernet sauvignon or carmenere, but only a Woodbridge Cabernet ($5.95 or $8.95) was offered by the glass.
The bottle list is filled with many gems, however, mostly from Chile, Argentina and Spain. There is also a nice selection of Peruvian wine, both in the bottle and by the glass.
I like to think I know a little bit about wine, at least enough to know that I really don't know much about wine at all. There is always more to learn.
That being said, I had never heard of the tannat grape before, but since it was a Peruvian wine served in a Peruvian restaurant, I thought it would pair well with my meal and ordered a glass ($9.95).
I was right. I am now a fan of tannat, a dry red wine with hints of ripe fruit that, in my opinion, is similar to syrah, but not as bold or jammy.
My wife ordered a Peruvian sauvignon blanc ($9.95), which she said paired nicely with her fish.
When we simply could not stomach any more, Andra took our plates to be boxed up and explained to us the dessert menu.
La Huaca offers many desserts made with Peruvian fruits and delicious sauces. We decided to try the Helado Peruano de Lúcuma ($7.95), homemade ice cream made from the lúcuma fruit.
Lúcumais a tropical fruit native to Peru with a delicate flavor and best when it is fresh, but it is only available outside of Peru frozen or in a powder.
The dessert was basically a Peruvian ice cream sundae with pineapple, strawberries, chocolate and whipped cream — the perfect end to a wonderful meal.
La Huaca also happens to be situated a few doors down from another one of my new favorite places, Final Gravity Taproom & Bottleshop, which makes for a nice stopping-off point if you want a pre-dinner pint or a night cap.
As my wife and I did just that, we must have heard half a dozen people say they want to try the "new Peruvian place next door," but have yet to do so.
My advice: Don't hesitate. Try it. You won't be disappointed.


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Got a minute?
When you're given a task to accomplish at work, do you insist on doing everything in your power to accomplish it in the best possible way, or do you work to get the job done so that it meets requirements, and move on?
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Yes, this is a trick question. If you insist on the best, you're what's known as a "maximizer" -- and you might be wasting time, energy, and sanity. "Satisficers," or people who select the first option that meets their needs, might sound like slackers on paper, but in reality, they're working in the most efficient way for folks who want to get a lot done, and done well enough to make a difference.
At Slate, Katy Waldman explains:
"...[S]atisficing [is] a decision-making heuristic that marries the concepts of 'satisfying' and 'sufficing.' Coined by the Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon in 1956, the term means picking the first option that meets an acceptability threshold, rather than trying to optimize or maximize. Simon's work as a professor at Carnegie Mellon centered on the limits of rationality and rational choice; in his economic vision, we rarely know enough to select the actual best outcome -- and even when we may find it out, the concomitant expenditure of time and resources is often too high. Simon also realized that mushrooming possibilities can paralyze people. Together, these insights led him to the conclusion that, in a lot of cases, our best strategy when faced with a decision is simply to devise a list of guidelines and adopt the first solution that satisfies them all."
The list of guidelines is important, because it keeps satisficers from just doing what seems necessary at the time (or ducking out for a latte instead of polishing their presentation for the 3 o'clock meeting).
The benefits of satisficing go beyond being able to get more done, including:
1. Feeling satisfied after a decision.
Maximizers, studies have shown, experience more regret after making, say, a purchasing decision. Because hindsight is 20/20, and time is a limited commodity, there will always be -- or seem to be -- better choices lying just over the horizon. Satisficers know that they've done enough, and they're able to move on.
2. Making better choices.
Maximizers are more likely to get frustrated, Waldman says, and "throw up their hands" and make a random decision that doesn't conform to guidelines. Their choices, therefore, are likely to be less sound than those of folks who say, "This is the best I can do, under the circumstances."
3. Being less prone to social comparison.
Because maximizers don't start off with a list of guidelines, they're more likely to compare themselves unfavorably to people who made different decisions.
Take that great engine of social comparison, Facebook. A maximizer, who buys car on a whim after days of frustrating research, sees a friend's new ride and thinks, "I should have researched that make and model. What if it's better?" A satisficer looks at his list of guidelines and thinks, "This car has the gas mileage and the features I absolutely required."
In other words, be a satisficer. It'll make your work day more productive and your personal life much easier.
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We all know the protagonists: potato, onion, turnip and beef, chunks or mince, gathered together in a D-shaped pastry case with a crimp on the side (sounds like a prop out of a Berlusconi saga) and Made In Cornwall. The fairytale, high-velouting jus of Michelin-starred establishments it is not, but the effect of bringing the Cornish pasty home will indeed have 'Cinderella' implications for Cornwall: protecting jobs and income.
Yet one of the characters doesn't follow the narrative for me: mince. Specks of meat as opposed to pieces? An evil stepmother from the universe of spag bol and cottage pie that destroys the happy-ending of a "chunky" filling? Is this some kowtowing to the industrial market that would pay less for mince than skirt or chuck steak? At this point in the story, I've lost the plot and the thread, the tale and the yarn and concede one point to the mystical mysteries of the EC. You may as well chuck some carrot in with your darned mince.
Bear with me as I skip down another narratory sub-plot; with its newly-found PGI, the pasty has now become a homogenous being of static ingredients, a still in the film of Cornish past but what then, of the turnip, beef and onion pasty? Hog's pudding and bacon? Leek and potato? Apple? Liver and onion? And all those other varied ingredients that would once have been thrown in to feed the farmers or miners at crib time? Presumably we can console ourselves by calling them cornish pasties but not Cornish pasties as the new geographical indication states. And so, in celebration of the little 'c', here are a few somethings I made earlier today; two variations on the big 'C': potato, onion and skirt; turnip, onion and skirt pasties. A well-made pasty, with pastry as thin as bed sheets and meat from a trusted butcher is good enough to grace any dinner table.
You will need:
- 1lb plain flour
- 6ozs fat (half lard, half butter)
- Pinch salt
- Cup of cold water
- 1lb beef skirt (chopped to the size of a fingernail)
- 2 medium-sized potatoes (thinly chipped in a bowl of water, in pieces approx the size of a 20p coin)
- 2 finely chopped onions
- Turnip (optional, best finely chipped but grated will do)
- Sea salt and white pepper
- Butter
Preheat oven to 200°C. Breadcrumb the fat with the flour and a pinch of salt. Add cold water a little at a time, gently stirring with a knife until all the dry bits are picked up. Take the dough in your hands and gently squeeze, rather than knead, together to form a ball. Take a small lump about the size of a clenched fist and roll it out on a floured surface. Once about 2mm thick all over, place a side plate on top and cut round with a knife. Repeat with the rest of the pastry, using the off cuts for the last one.
Strain and thoroughly dry the potato chips. Place approx. 2 finger fulls of meat onto the top third of the pastry disc, sprinkle a little pinch of salt over the meat, then add a scattering of onion, a more hefty scattering of potato and some more onion. Season with salt and pepper this time and add a small knob of butter. Put some milk in a cup, dip your fingers in and run them around the edge of the pastry circle.
Now gently but firmly bring the bottom half of the pastry disc up over the filling and pinch together in 2 or 3 places, joining the edges. Shuffle the pasty slightly to encourage the filling to settle a little. Now pinch firmly all the way along the side of the pasty, so that about a centimetre is pinched all along. Then go back along, crimping as you go (folding the pastry between thumb and forefinger to form a little 'hem').
Rub milk lightly on the bulging surface, create a little vent in the top for steam to come out and put in the oven on a lightly-floured tray for approx one hour or until golden brown.
Enjoy with a bottle of Tribute.
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To everyone who has been bold enough to embark in using the wonderful time saving product that is Backup Reporter, I salute you.
This article goes out to those individuals who are brave and do not step back in times of adversity, those of us who have implemented Backup Reporter know what we are talking about here.
The installation procedures for this product, however large and integral to proceedings, do not mention some of the known bugs with the features of the application which of course create added complications to the novice administrators out there.
So what better than a few hints and tips to help out the masses.
Hint 1 - Low Maintenance Installation
1) Do not install View Builder on any other server than the server housing the VBRServer, as this complicates the maintenance and can corrupt your database.
Hint 2 - Maintaining a full list of servers
Hint 3 - When a server has had a new volume or a new file-system added
3) Check for the new volume, if it is there, add the server back into the views and 'place unassigned file-systems'
4) If the volume is not there, run a poll and then add it back into the views
5) Then re-run and save your reports
Hint 4 - Take Care Updating Server Objects
You can update and save information regarding attributes already associated with a seleceted host by doing the following:
1)Click 'View' from the main menu
2) Select a host and using the drop down on the far right corner to select 'Edit Attributes' and clicking the green arrow.
3) The attributes page loads, but after a fresh install of VBR 6.60, edit the attributes
(PLEASE NOTE: The server will automatically select 'AIX' as an operating system. The reason for this bug is unknown, but it thought to be connected to the case of the first letter of the correct operating system. For instance, 'Windows' is shown as 'windows' and Linux is shown as 'linux'. The Software re-selects the operating system using AIX, as the first in the list with a Capital letter at the beginning, so please do not click save before altering the Operating System to the correct one. It will only need to be altered once).
4) Click 'Save' See note above for the huge tip!!
Hint 5 - Fixing the 'Recovery Point By Client' Generic Report
There are known issues with the sample report provided with the VBR system. When you have created some backup data and reports are being used, you check the sample report and it shows that your backups have not run on certain systems for more than 3000 hours, you start to worry. Correct?
However, follow these steps to save a report which gives you a better view of the estate:
1) From 'My Backup Reports' select 'Recovery Point by Client' Report and see that it is showing incorrect information.
2) Click the 'Edit' button
3) Change the report to the following:
Time Frame Time Basis: No Timebasis
5) Click 'Save As' and save the report in a new location. Once you are happy with the results (which I am sure you will be, as it shows the amount of days since a last successful backup now, which is what you thought it was supposed to be...lol)
This and many other hints and tips will be posted as updates to this article, should it get past review.
Lets all start using Backup Reporter, as it really does do what it says on the tin!!
Thanks for reading!
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By Doug Livingston
He's a forceful presence, standing more than 6 feet tall with a walk of calculated determination, a shaved head and a firm handshake, a stare devoid of doubt.
Wearing a pressed white button-up, cuffs sliding past his wrists when his elbows bend. He's practical, a minimalist, with an idea bigger than himself.
Phil Kidd is Defend Youngstown, or maybe it's the other way around. He is the voice of a grass-roots, revitalization process determined to shake the rust off the city.
He's a member of the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative, the acting vice president of the Mayor's Community Foundation, formerly the city's director of downtown events and special projects, a 2008 Leadership of the Mahoning Valley graduate and an active player in everything Youngstown.
But the all-things-Youngstown man was born in Pennsylvania, spending most of his later childhood in the city of Weirton, W.Va., a once-vibrant town pinned between Ohio and Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 1998, Alli Tomich loaded her Ford Escort with bed sheets, enough clothes to last a week and her only son, Phil. It was a one-way trip for Kidd, with Youngstown State University at the other end. After they settled his possessions into a cramped dorm room on the sixth floor of Kilcawley Center, Tomich turned to her son.
"There's just something about Youngstown. It feels like home," she told him.
"Yeah, mom," he agreed. "It does."
Kidd has Youngstown coursing through his veins. The people, the heritage.
"It has the down-to-earth people just like us," his grandmother Betty Dumbovich explains. "I know, he told me. Hard-working people, that's the kind of people he likes."
"That's why he was attracted to Youngstown," his grandfather Joseph adds, "because he grew up in that kind of town."
When Kidd was 10, he stood at his father's side at a bridge project in Washington, Pa. His father, Robert Kidd, helped organize the project while working for the Washington County Redevelopment Authority. Robert died when Phil was 15.
"He died of an enlarged heart," Kidd said. "They found him upstairs, face down. When he died, his heart was twice the size of a normal heart."
He was a large man, with a large heart.
"Between all that is kind of my DNA," Kidd considers. "Having my father serve in that capacity, having my mother, [a Pennsylvania housing projects auditor], serve in a similar capacity. ... I see where my interests and kind of my evolution to where I got now. It was from all these experiences growing up.
"I'm an advocate," says Kidd, 30. "I do what I can as an organizer."
Kidd's efforts caught the eye of a promising young politician campaigning for mayor.
"I met this guy that people just gravitated toward," Mayor Jay Williams reflects. Williams found himself wondering "who is this guy and why is he so passionate about Youngstown? ... He's everywhere."
On a warm summer night, after an arduous workday, Williams decided to take it easy. He attended a film at the Covelli Centre. The movie ended about 9:30 p.m. Williams recalls leaving, thinking only of going home to get some much-needed sleep. Then he spots Kidd.
"Phil hops on his bike, with a Defend Youngstown T-shirt on, riding off into the darkness, probably to another event," Williams recalls.
"When [the Youngstown 2010 project] was launched and Jay Williams became mayor," Kidd says, "I wanted something [to combat] this attitude prevalent throughout the Valley that was like, 'We're [screw-ups], and we're never gonna fix this place.'"
Kidd put his foot down, and Defend Youngstown was born.
"To me, it was like ... enough! We're going to recognize all of our challenges, all of our history, all of our baggage, our scars."
Kidd took to the streets, holding up hope on a piece of weathered, tan cardboard with bold, black lettering reading "Defend Youngstown."
Every Friday and Saturday night, Kidd stood downtown in the middle of Youngstown's dormant heart, like a crusader with a passion border-lining lunacy. His plan was simple. "I wanted to get people talking."
And not the usual talk, either.
In the aftermath of a rash of arsons sweeping through the Wick Park neighborhood last fall, a community meeting took place Nov. 9 at the Wick Park Pavilion.
Tyler Clark, a friend of Kidd's and founder of Youngstown Renaissance, recalls the event.
Ninety minutes into the meeting, after feeble talk of block watches and wandering investigation leads, Kidd stood up and introduced himself.
"Listen, this is what we want," Clark remembers him saying, never raising his voice, polite, courteous, articulate, steadily piercing the ineffectual atmosphere. Kidd looked straight into the eyes of council members, community leaders and government officials. "We want you to prioritize the preservation of Wick Park," he said.
"Everyone turned around to him," Clark says. "They thanked him."
U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan remembers first hearing of a guy from out of town, bringing "an appreciation for all the good things he saw" in the Mahoning Valley. Ryan, of Niles, D-17th, picked up a local newspaper and read about Kidd's campaign, selling Defend Youngstown T-shirts, selling hope.
"I ended up buying a bunch of shirts off him," Ryan says. "I had a period where I was wearing Defend Youngstown T-shirts every day."
A passionate man himself, Ryan threw his support behind Kidd's movement. "It's symbolic of what's been happening around town," Ryan says.
"It's all heart," he explains. Phil is very "targeted and smart. You gotta have that person."
Kidd wakes up at 7:30. On any given day, 30 to 40 e-mails are waiting for him in his in-box when he arrives at the MVOC. He works right through lunch, planning projects or events for that evening.
He almost always attends a neighborhood meeting before arriving back at the office around 9 p.m. where he spends the next three hours blanketing his Defend Youngstown Facebook page with the accomplishments of the Valley, holding up the city like a first-born child. At midnight, he calls it a day.
His Saturday mornings are ritually interjected by a cup of coffee at the Golden Dawn just off Wick Avenue — right in the old neighborhood. At the same table every week, he surrounds himself with a copy of The Vindicator, The Business Journal, his laptop, the Week Magazine and a pile of policies and reports on upcoming community-development projects.
He has hopes of amending his routine someday. "I see myself at a high school football game when I'm 50," he ponders.
He doesn't have any children yet, but maybe he'll be watching his son play on that field, under the lights, with his family and friends — right in the old neighborhood.
"I have dreams to live in Youngstown until they incinerate me and spread my ashes over the Mahoning River," he exclaims.
The NewsOutlet is a joint media venture by student and professional journalists and is a collaboration of Youngstown State University, WYSU Radio and The Vindicator.
This Kidd is hardcore.
Phil Kidd is good for Youngstown.
Hey 'USA1', ACORN is defunct. No longer in existence. This of course happened before a Congressional Committe and federal investigatiors found ACORN broke no laws and did no wrong. If you think ACORN had anything to do with the housing collapse, I've got some swampland down in south GA I'd like to show you.
Funny how it takes a Kidd from WV to care enough about YTown to actually get off his butt and do something about it. And, all the naysaying nabobs of negativity (USA1) can say about it is 'MVOC is ACORN!'. With people like this in the Valley, it's no wonder it's fallen to pieces.
Phil Kidd has a heart of gold and is using that to help the city. I love going down to the northside farmer's market and enjoying Wick Park. That is largely in part to Phil Kidd. This city owes you a big thanks Phil. Thank you for caring enough about it to do something.
usa1 please go away. You serve no purpose whatsoever on this site. You've NEVER posted something that was insightful. No one ever read one of your posts and went "wow that makes sense" Just stop, you're an awful, terrible human being.
And please get a new handle. You don't deserve to have USA in your title. You represent all that is wrong with my Country.
Also, as my name indicates I do quite a bit of watching.....and digging. My sources are close to confirming USA1's identity. When it is confirmed I will expose him to the VINDY.COM audience and the rest of the Valley.
"I ended up buying a bunch of shirts off him," Ryan says. "I had a period where I was wearing Defend Youngstown T-shirts every day." - Then Nancy yelled at me and made me give them to the homeless in D.C.
Thank you, Phil. He's a good guy doing great work. Become a part of change by concentrating on the positive and LOL at those who persist in negativity. This is our home. Defend it, love it, help it grow or else get out of town!
I love this guys spunk.....
I like you, Kidd! You've got spunk! (to paraphrase Lou Grant!!) Seriously, you've got to admire what this young man is doing for our community! I heard him speak at YSU and was very impressed; his passion is infectious. Glad to see the vast majority of people posting on this story are so positive...ignore the negative! "People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem. They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is simply a reflection of those feelings." --
HENDRIE WEISINGER, The Power of Positive Criticism
I was wondering how USA1 was going to find something negative to say here, since that is all that is spewed from him, negativity. Figures the best he could do is try to compare MVOC to ACORN. A TEA party organizer who is upset that Americans paid less taxes last year than the previous administrations term and he is still not satisfied.
You are so self-involved you can't even read others posts correctly, Ohiowatcher actually said she agrees with you having the right to your own opinion, as does everyone. Are you really intimidated by saying they might know who you are? Do you prefer to work anonymously in shadows? If you are proud of yourself, your views and your Tea Party, why don't you just tell everyone who you are? Who really cares?
Thank You Phil for your compassion and dedication to your adopted city. You make us all a little bit prouder of Youngstown.
Way to go Phil! I wish I had your drive and energy.
This is the only way the City of Youngstown is going to be saved. Good people doing good work for the good of the city. I wish him luck. I have always said that, even though I live in Canfield, I wouldn't object to some of my taxes being earmarked for Youngstown City infrastructure improvements IF I knew it would get to the proper people. Unfortunately, when you see the make-up of city council, you start to think otherwise. I hope Phil succeeds.
Nice job kidd.I wish i had your spunk.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
We all need to jump aboard the bandwagon and Defend Youngstown. There is a solid fountadion laid out by Phil, and with the collaboration of our community, we can start to build upwards and begin to revitalize Youngstown and it's surrounding neighbors. Anyone know where we can start to volunteer?
To Valley's Voice,
To volunteer, you can join the "Defend Youngstown" group on Facebook. Phil sends out a weekly list of volunteer opportunities in the city. If you're not into Facebook then I'm sure he wouldn't mind adding you to his email mailing list if you send him a message via the Defend Youngstown website.
To Phil, Thanks for being an inspiration! You make us all want to be better and do more!
There is a cleanup in Wick Park tomorrow; however, it's not just in Wick Park. It's the City-Wide Cleanup, so help out where you can!
WHEN: This Saturday, June 19th, 8am-12pm
WHERE: Covelli Center
DETAILS: Great American Cleanup of Youngstown. With spring rapidly approaching, Youngstown Litter Control and Recycling needs your help to Keep America Beautiful in Youngstown.
Groups and volunteers will meet at 8am at the Covelli Center. If you'd like to volunteer but don't have a group, the following neighborhood groups welcome additional volunteers:
• Newport Neighborhood Association:
Project: Clear several vacant lots of debris.
Meet: 8:30am @ Martin Luther Lutheran Church (420 Clearmount Dr.)
• Wick Park Neighborhood Association:
Project: Pick up trash in 2 block radius north, east, and south of Wick Park.
Meet: 9am @ 1st Unitarian Church (1105 Elm St.)
• West Side Neighbors:
Project: Clean MVSD City Park on Dunlap/Conn. Ave. Group also seeks to clean portions of Mahoning and Oakwood Aves.
Meet: 9:00am @ Allabella's (Mahoning Ave)
• Lansingville Block Watch:
Project: Cleaning/planting of flowers on Indianola Ave. in preparation for July 4th neighborhood parade.
Meet: 10am @ St. Matthias Church Parking Lot
@ onthetown
"Ytown is known as "Little Chicago"? Really? Even if that was true.. it's not a distinction to back away from."
Yes Youngstown was called "Little Chicago" back in the day and indeed the distinction was something to back away from. It was comparing the mafia control and violent mob war bloodshed between the two cities. Watch Boom Boom's documentary Youngstown Still Standing ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1240548/ ) to get the full scoop.
Having said that, I in no way agree with USA1's post. I'm just trying to school you on Ytown's history. It was also called MurderTown, Ohio & Crimetown, USA back then - 1960's by Saturday Evening Post & Argosy magazines.
Bellamy...you are toooo funny!! A bit jealous of some good press for a decent young man? Crawl back from under the rock which neanderthal Stan and USA1 call home!
Bellamy, would you support what Phil Kidd is doing more if he started lifting weights and taking steroids? To say that a guy needs to be Hulk Hogan to get things accomplished is really the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
As for USA1, "I, like 10s of millions of other Americans are demanding less government, lower taxes, secure borders and more individual freedom for everyone."
Firstly, I'd like to point out to you that there are 300Million people in this country, you tea partiers are in the very small minority. Most people understand that government is the best way to get BIG things done. Government, not the free market went to the moon. Government, not the free market, took the initiative to settle the west. Government can do good things, but what Phil Kidd is doing has nothing to do with government, it's a group of regular people, like the tea party, doing something good for our community. The difference between MVOC and the Tea Party is that MVOC is actually trying to make things better whereas the Tea Party is a group of pessimistic, old people who are angry that the president is black. Move to the South, you'd fit in well there, we don't need your anger and hatred here.
Wow, you didn't even refute the racism charge, I'm impressed by your honesty, goodnight.
usa0 pro-teabagger,typical response from the ignorant right.Take a positive article about an individual like Kidd and write about ACORN. Like others on here wrote, ACORN has been cleared of all the serious charges that your scumbag teabag buddies tried to set them up with.You teabaggers can`t stand any organization that registers people to vote that you baggers don`t really consider the real Amurricans.Don`t worry,the unions will pick up the slack for the absence of ACORN. By the way,if you`re reading this Phil,pay no attention to usa0 pro-teabagger.He`s an anomaly in the field of rationality.lol.....Good job Phil.
USA1...no offense, but I've never found any of your comments interesting, relevant, or worthwhile. You are completely predictable and show absolutely no ability to think independently or critically. You have never written positively about anything in our community. You're what Katherine Hepburn called Henry Fonda in "On Golden Pond"...an old poop. And for the record, I admire Phil Kidd. You'd be wise to channel some of his positive energy.
Ya..lets badmouth Phil Kidd the guy who is trying to help the city. And the people who badmouth him..there is trully no help for you or your lives. I think its pathetic that someone is trying to help out the city..wether it takes a day or 20 years and you guys still talk garbage. Why such a huge stick up all your as%ho$es? I honestly hope all you guys that want nothing good to happen to youngstown all get on the same bu that plunges off the side of a cliff....that would make me happy...then of course there would be alot less posts.
More negativity from USA1. And he has the nerve to call himself a patriot. He wouldn't know what a true American looked like!!
You make so many faulty assumptions, my friend! Foolish, foolish old man....don't you know what they say about making assumptions...how it makes an A*S*S* out of you? I think I'll sneak up at you at your next klan rally..oops, I mean tea party! And...go Phil! You are doing a great job...that's the bottom line to this story.
My hometown, alas, is Canfield. Doesn't mean I live there now. (And you're not my friend, either...but it still doesn't mean I might sneak up behind you at your next rally and say "BOO!!) But I do agree with you on one thing, and that's that we should stop feeding the trolls on government dole. Would you include yourself in that being that you receive a monthly social security check? If you feel guilty that you are living off the government, I challenge you to donate July's check to help the refugees in Haiti. Go ahead...make the world a better place...I dare you!! Here's the web address: http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/ And...Phil Kidd is doing great things for Youngstown!! Go Phil!!
By the way, USA1...I'd think you'd have a bit more respect for Phil Kidd as he previously served in the military. A TRUE patriot, that Kidd!! For me, personally, Phil Kidd represents the best the USA. We should be proud he calls Youngstown home!! http://www.cityofyoungstownoh.com/abo... (Sorry, Vindi to post from the competition, but your article never mentioned his Army service.)
I don't know this young man and this is the first I'v heard of him.
I have seen a few people wearing Defend Youngstown T shirts but didn't know what was behind it..
At any rate I think this young gentelman deserves to be recognized and heard.
It's a great thing to see young folks involved in and careing about their communities.
To often all we hear about todays young people is how lazy and selfish they are which I do not believe is true in most cases
It's certainly easy enough to complain and point the finger of blame but it seems to me that Mr.Kidd has decided to rise above that and take action on his own.
If I remember my history a great experiment called America began that way.
Average folks just wanting a better life and willing to do what was necessary for it.
I'd be glad to participate in a positive way to help this area.
USA1...it's fun to get you all worked up and out of control. It confirms my suspicions that you are one crazy, old loon. By the way, I've probably paid more taxes in my life than you ever have, and I will continue to do so for the next decade or so. Phil Kidd deserves kudos for his efforts, not your pathetic and paranoid denigration. You hate Obama so much you paint all community organizers with the same brush. Maybe you're just jealous of Phil's youthful vitality, energy and good press. What good have YOU done with your life? Community service work? Charity? You don't seem to want to answer those questions because I think you sit at home at your computer all day writing nasty, snarky comments. Get out in the real world and help somebody for goodness sake! When was the last time you expressed gratitude to someone on this board for something good they had done? NEVER!! The Vindi should ban you and your ilk for life. You contribute nothing to this forum, and likely nothing to society except bilious negativity.
USEless1.....You are a troll and your picture next to my username proves it.
USA1---you are not a rational being. You want secure borders with less govt. and lower taxes? How is that supposed to happen? Secure borders, whether you build them or patrol them, requires hiring more people. More people, more payroll, more taxes. Admit it----you are just one of those people who likes to complain more than encourage! Get a clue!
Until the streets of Youngstown are safe for everyone to walk at anytime of day, every community leader in this town is a total failure. You people have very low expectations in this life. "Gee, Youngstown isn't so bad. If I barricade myself into my home I can feel pretty secure in the knowledge that it won't get invaded. And if it does happen, maybe the cops will actually think about doing something. There's something positive to hang my hat on."
I recently saw that 10,000 Chinese took to the streets of Paris to protest violence against their community. Those people are more American than any of you puppets who settle for this Kidd lightweight will ever be.
Read the article again and ask yourself if there's any proof in it that he has done jack squat that could be considered substantive. It's all fluff. Having friends in the local press who are willing to polish your turds does not make you a success, it just means you're a little slick.
Yes, USA1, it is your right under the US Constitution to speak freely. It is also your right to be paranoid, ill-informed, negative, foolish, and hypocritical. By the way, why won't you answer me when I ask what kind of community service you perform in order to make our community a better place in which to live?
Thank you USA1. You have finally come clean about the type of person you really are. I had suspected it all along. You don't believe in helping your community become a better place. You don't give a crap about your fellow Americans. You've admitted it for all to see. In my opinion, you are the WORST kind of American citizen. You are one dimensional...A USELESS IDIOT. Our country was founded and grew great by the Phil Kidds of the world. How very, very sad you can't appreciate that.
I can't imagine what else there is to say to you anymore USA1. You know everything!! When I woke up this morning, the things I loved most about this country still remain. We can go to church...or not believe at all! A black man (or a half black man) can still be president over all of us...so for me, it's a good day. I will continue to believe in the possible and the positive, while you can sit and spin in your negativity. Like I stated previously, the Phil Kidds who make positive changes in our community are to be applauded, while the hysterical harpies such as yourself are to be ignored.And ignored you shall be!!!!
"America was founded by God fearing men"
Thomas Jefferson - Deist
George Washington - Deist
Ben Franklin - Deist
Thomas Paine - Atheist
I get really tired of conservabots making the claim that our founding fathers were christians, the fact is most of them weren't. That's why they fought against the repression of the Church of England being forced upon them like conservatives want to do with their religion today. USA1 read a history book, you're just a greedy, uneducated useless idiot like Candy said. Here's to hoping you fall in the Mahoning River and contract cancer from all of the chemicals dumped in there thanks to small government and no regulation of the free market.
usa0 pro-teabagger,even though I think you are a first class wingnut, I have refrained from calling you derogatory names but since you have labeled me a fool and an idiot,the gloves are off.
First of all you are a lying hypocrite.You worked at GM from 1983-2006 and your wages and benefits were negotiated by the UAW,which you call evil. In a previous post months ago,I asked you why you didn`t become a Beck objector if you hated the union so much and you lied and said you were a Beck objector.FALSE.I know the names of the Beck objectors from Local 1112 and you`re not one of them.Nice try fool.
So let`s get this straight,you enjoyed all the benefits that the union negotiated and workers died for back in the 20`s and 30`s but you never had the cojones to object publicy.You never attended a union meeting and voiced your right wing views,and don`t say you wouldn`t have been able to speak.Another lie.You never wrote a letter to the paper expressing your love for Ronnie Reagan or the Bushs`and lambasting the union.
Noone that is active politically buys your BS that you are not an active Republican.You teabaggers(I LOVE THAT WORD) and the GOP are tied at your twisted,warped minds which is fine with me because you will pull the Republicans down into the teabagger cesspool with you. The rational Repubs are like you,they don`t have the guts either to reveal what they really think about you teabaggers.
Someone like Phil Kidd and yourself are not even comparable.You are a hater of everything that doesn`t jibe with your asinine right wing views.You want the nation to fail just for your stupid political teabagging beliefs.You spout your asinine talk about less government but you voted for all the previous Republican presidents that INCREASED the size of government and RAISED taxes several times.Not a peep from you idiot teabaggers then,why? Because everything you bitch and whine about is okay when a REPUBLICAN is doing it.If your gal Palin gets in and increases government or raises taxes you won`t say a word you lying,hypocritical, fool. I`m surprised you even live on a street with the word Indian in it because you likely hate them too right?
It`s telling that the majority of people on vindy.com think you are a deranged,likely dangerous idealogue.We can`t all be wrong can we teabagger King?
Until the non-white population gets there act together then Youngstown will continue to be the dump hole it is today.
Useless1....You asked "Since when does an American have to join a union to be hired by a corporation?"
The answer is when you apply for a job with a corporation and that corporation requires you too be a union member for the job YOU applied for.
You constantly point out that less than 8% of private labor is union. You are the one who chose a job in that 8%. You weren't forced. If you didn't want a union job you should have applied for a job in the other 92% of the work force.
If you feel you were subjected to being overpaid why didn't you send a personal check back to GM for the overpayment?
As far as that lie about the 130 pound guy beat and kicked by six thugs, I have posted that video numerous times and at no time is that guy punched or kicked and he can be seen walking around and talking with people and he doesn't have a scratch on him.
Have you ever noticed that your main talking points are the lie about that beating, Obama's birth certificate, the size of your teabagger jamborees and socialism even though you cash that government check ever month? You never provide any proof of your delusions and proof of their lies have been posted over and over again.
Your only purpose is showing everyone what the teabaggers are all about and reminding everyone that when they vote republican they vote the same way you do.
Keep on teabaggin! :-)
It is sad to see so many people who would denigrate someone trying to do something positive, while doing nothing to better the region themselves.
These backseat critics are no better than the Muppet characters invented by Jim Henson who sat in the balconies and complained about the show other people were putting on below them.
Those characters were nasty.
So are such characters in life.
Get out and do something.
Or else get off my lawn.
Okay, now the next step is providing real proof (not your opinion) as to whether or not these programs are successful. How do these programs work? I don't want to hear the sentimental stories about the alleged Joe Bluecollar getting dropped off at YSU. I don't care what his grandfather did. I want to hear about results. If that makes me negative so be it. In my world that makes me someone who cares about Youngstown and doesn't want to see it get railroaded by yet another opportunist that does nothing but profit while playing to the community's baser instincts.
I want to know why I'm not allowed to walk the streets of my town while feeling safe. I want to know where my taxes are going and what the results are. I want to know why this town attracts so many scumbags who are h--l bent on ruining life for good people. I keep hearing that so and so is on the case, but the only results I see are the new bars and the empty rhetoric that's disseminated by the government and the media.
northsideart, what should Phil Kidd be doing, or what should he have done, then? What are the results you're looking for?
PK is not Batman. IMO, he's just one guy who is trying to make Youngstown a better place to live, one step at a time.
It's good to hear something positive coming out of the South Side for a change. Best wishes to Phil.
USA1, there's a definition at Wikipedia:
Deism (pronounced /ˈdiːɪzəm/, us dict: dē′·ĭzm)[1][2] is a religious and philosophical belief that a supreme being created the universe, and that this (and religious truth in general) can be determined using reason and observation of the natural world alone, without the need for either faith or organized religion. Many Deists reject the notion that God intervenes in human affairs, for example through miracles and revelations. These views contrast with the dependence on revelations, miracles, and faith found in many Jewish, Christian, Islamic and other theistic teachings.
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In other words, A Deist acknowledges the idea of a supreme being, but doesn't pander to the hooha of miracles and prophets who say they speak for God. Like, you know, crazy preachers and people who come on here in the Vindy threads saying God this and God that, putting words in the supreme dude's mouth like they're tight or something. Talk on the phone all the time. In the words, Deists say, supreme being sure, but it doesn't care about us. No intervention. A Deist then based their arguments and politics on logic and reason, rather than what came out of a bible. If you read the whole wikipedia entry, it states that they didn't believe holy books, of any religion, were anything but written by human beings and that they weren't divine. So there's a big difference in how a Deist interprets the world and how a general fundamentalist Christian does. A big difference.
They were also slave traders and slave owners and systemically committed genocide on the native population that had been here for centuries.
Doesn't seem very Christian too me.
Slavery was abolished in 1865 by the 13th amendment after the Civil War.
I wounder if those "Christians" prayed on it to figure out the best ways to exterminate the native population.
Oh let`s not trust Wikipedia usa0-pro-teabagger but let`s believe all of the drivel that you post on here.Gee,that`s a good plan.LOL!
Like Cambridge said,get off the union thug BS.Ever see the photos from the Battle of The Overpass? Oh I suppose in your whacked out mind there wasn`t ever any incidents of thuggery by the Corporations right? Unions came into existence because the Corporations were out of control.
Before the automakers were organized foremen would tell workers they were going to have sex with their wives or they be fired on the spot.You like that idea usa0 pro-teabagger?
When you were working at Lordstown would you have enjoyed having no protection from being fired just because management didn`t like the way you looked,or dressed,or your nationality or the color of your skin or in your particular case mental instability?
I see you didn`t refute the fact you`re a liar and you never were a UAW Beck objector but your teabagging hypocrisy is well known.Since you`re King of the Baggers the readers of this blog should question everything you post for accuracy.It`s common knowledge that truth and reality are foreign concepts as far as you are concerned.
Keep on teabagging hypocrite!
Religion is only to keep idiots like useless and stain from crapping their cages. The founders were atheists and only a moron would believe otherwise.
What in the world are you people talking about? This article is about Phil Kidd!
"When [the Youngstown 2010 project] was launched and Jay Williams became mayor," Kidd says, "I wanted something [to combat] this attitude prevalent throughout the Valley that was like, 'We're [screw-ups], and we're never gonna fix this place.'"
Well Kidd, it's 2010 and it's still broke . This is Jay's last term . Ya wanna run for Mayor ?


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ORLANDO, Fla. — From the South Florida rock in its concrete slab to the roof trusses milled in Yulee, Fla., Greg and Jennifer Gent's new house may be the only one in Central Florida built entirely with U.S.-made products.
The Gents set out earlier this year with the goal of constructing a house in Belle Isle, Fla., that would serve as a model for an industry that has long used products mined or manufactured in other countries. Their unusual undertaking became the subject of news reports across the country.
Now, about a month from completion, the three-bedroom house stands as a pioneering lesson in the challenges, costs and limitations of building a made-in-America house. The couple have cataloged their construction story at buildtheusa.us.
Two rules were imposed on the job: All products had to be made in the United States, though not necessarily by a U.S. company. And all workers had to be legal residents of the country. The point, the Gents said, was to support jobs in the United States.
In some cases, the workers were employed by companies with plants on American soil but with global headquarters elsewhere; it is a mistake, Greg Gent said, to assume that a U.S. company manufactures all its products in the States, or that companies marketing their U.S. presence actually manufacture their wares domestically.
"We started checking all the products, and then (contractor) John (Carr) did, and then John got the subs to," he said. "No one tried to sneak anything by."
The ashen porcelain tiles that cover the floors throughout the two-story house were made in the United States, though the supplier is a subsidiary of Italy's Florim Ceramiche SpA. The shingles were similarly manufactured in the United States by a business owned by a French corporation.
Carr, president of Belle Isle-based JPC Construction Inc., said the biggest challenge was finding legal workers in a market abandoned by many crews after the housing slump started five or six years ago. An increase in production-home construction during the past year has left skilled workers in high demand, he added.
Difficulties finding the right workers, plus rain delays, added at least three weeks to the job. And ensuring the house was built with U.S. products, materials and labor added several more weeks.


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With America still stuck in one of the biggest recession since The Great Depression, days and nights of eating out have been hard to come by. We get it, so we pulled out some of the hottest restaurants and bars out of our little black book that has some of the happiest of happy hours around. Whether the hotspot is a chill bar to hang out with your friends or it's an upscale restaurant to lure in a love interest, we got your back.
Tataki Sushi and Sake Bar
2815 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Only in hipster San Francisco would you find a sustainable sushi bar. Tataki Sushi and Sake Bar changes their fish offerings seasonally, serving seafood that is caught efficiently and not overfished. You won't have to worry about consuming food with high levels of mercury or contaminants either. Tataki's meticulous inspection and selection of fish results in the freshest and finest sushi. While Tataki does not take reservations, their two newer Bay area locations, Tataki South (1740 Church Street) and Tataki Canyon (678 Chenery Street), do and are great for get-togethers.
The Beach and Park Chalet
1000 Great Highway
San Francisco, CA 94121
The sister restaurants The Beach Chalet and The Park Chalet are located next to each other in Golden Gate Park. While the latter offers a slightly classier atmosphere appreciated by locals, the former maintains a splendid view of the ocean and is a great tourist spot. Both restaurants offer live music and weekly specials. Head to The Beach Chalet for Prime Rib Night on Mondays and beer that is brewed onsite. The Park Chalet holds Taco Tuesdays and happy hour from 3-6 pm Wednesdays through Fridays.
1199 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Beretta offers the perfect balance of food and drinks. An extensive wine and cocktail list accompany a menu of tapa-style Italian food. There is only one main course a night, but it is easy to make a meal out of the small dishes and delicious pizza. Beretta also offers cocktail classes with the bar manager Ryan Fitzgerald. Remember to call in to reserve your place at this bustling hotspot.
Punch Drunk Brunch
15 Romolo Place
San Francisco, CA 94133
Located on an alley off of the Broadway strip in North Beach, 15 Romolo is known for their artisanal cocktails. Now, they are offering Punch Drunk Brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. Their hair of the dog drink is a daily made punch that runs at $4 a glass. Nothing on the menu is over $10, making it a cheap and delicious hangover cure.
420 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Every Thursday evening, the nightclub Ruby Skye is home to TORQ, one of the best 18+ electric dance music parties in San Francisco. Past headliners include Avicii, Dada Life, and Nero. Reserve your spot on the guest list for $10 tickets. On June 14th, TORQ is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a surprise headliner and free admission all night long. TORQ is a great way to kick off your weekend early.
The Endup
401 Sixth Street
San Francisco CA 94103
For some of us, a night full of dancing just isn't enough. The Endup is famous for T'Dance, the weekly Sunday morning party that starts at 6am. With varying guest djs, T'Dance brings together people from all walks in life who share a common appreciation for partying hard and house music. Also, the fourth Saturday of every month is Shangri-la, a night especially for LGBT Asians.
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Withnews out that the Indiana Pacers will match the Portland TrailBlazers' four year, 58 million offer sheet made to All-Star centerRoy Hibbert, leaves the Trail Blazers without a legit talented centerto play alongside LaMarcus Aldridge in the frontcourt.
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Dieks, Dennis (2009) Reichenbach and the Conventionality of Distant Simultaneity in Perspective. [Preprint]
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We take another look at Reichenbach's 1920 conversion to conventionalism, with a special eye to the background of his 'conventionality of distant simultaneity' thesis. We argue that elements of Reichenbach earlier neo-Kantianism can still be discerned in his later work and, related to this, that his conventionalism should be seen as situated at the level of global theory choice. This is contrary to many of Reichenbach's own statements, in which he declares that his conventionalism is a consequence of the arbitrariness of coordinative definitions.
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Kathryn Lovell's 13 kills led the Utes in the 3-0 win over Utah State tonight.
Sept. 8, 2006
SALT LAKE CITY - The No. 24-ranked University of Utah volleyball team (5-2 overall) raced its winning streak out to three matches today, winning its first two home matches of the season here at Crimson Court. On the heels of a 3-0 defeat of Temple this morning, the Utes capped the day off with another three-game win over in-state rival, Utah State.
Game scores against the Aggies were 30-25, 30-21 and 30-11. USU falls to 4-4 on the year.
"The thing I liked about this match was that we got better as the match went on," said head coach Beth Launiere after the win over USU. "And, it's the good teams that do that.
"Utah State played very well against us. It played with a lot of emotion and energy and it took us a while to get them out of system."
It was the defense at the net that led the Utes to victory tonight. Utah doubled up its rivals in team blocks, 15.5-6, and saw three of its athletes tally six-plus blocks in the win.
Leading the way was Lori Baird. She paced all players with eight total blocks. Meanwhile, Emillie Toone and Kathryn Lovell helped out with six total blocks each. In fact, six of the seven players that played in all three games tallied at least three blocks tonight.
Utah also out-hit its opponents tonight. Utah hit a swift .288 while the Aggies managed a -.026 for their efforts. Ledaing the Ute offense was Kathryn Lovell and her 13 kills. The only other Ute with double-digit kills was Whitney Webb. She tallied 11.
The offense ran through freshman Sydney Anderson. She tallied 36 assists but also helped the team out with an impressive line of five kills, six digs and three blocks.
Leading the visiting Aggies was Monarisa Ale (10 kills), Heather Hillier (22 assists), Kelsi Peterson (15 digs) and Melissa Larson (five blocks).
The Utah Classic wraps up tomorrow with two matches at Crimson Court. Utah State and Temple square off at noon while Utah and Missouri State take the court at 2 p.m.
Notes: Airial Salvo saw her five match double-double streak come to an end against Utah State. She had six kills and 13 digs ... Emillie Toone had 17 total blocks on the day, averaging 2.83 blocks per game. She entered the two matches today averaging 2.0 blocks per game ... all five of Utah's wins have been by a 3-0 count ... Utah's last three opponents have not hit better than .109. During that span Fresno State hit -.033 while Utah State hit -.026.


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The whole question seems odd to me. Paying fees for aikido is certainly a good thing, no doubt. I've heard of a husband & wife team, both doctors, who treat people in dirt poor areas of South America. Despite the poverty, they do charge for their services, even if only a nominal fee like a basket of tomatoes, because psychologically people tend to value and respect things that they pay something for more than what they get for free. (And so are more likely to take the doctors' advice seriously.) However, there's no correlation between higher fees and more respect, and high fees for aikido would only keep a lot of good folks from practicing. It already costs an arm in a leg just in terms of time - why raise the bar even further?
And I seriously don't think full time teachers are better than part time. In fact, the opposite could be true: if a sensei depends on teaching aikido for a living, there are going to be a lot of compromises (like "cardio aikido" at one local commercial dojo). Those who don't depend on it for their living are free to maintain their integrity. The best sensei I've ever had (who's also one of the best teachers I've ever had, of any subject, from kindergarten through grad school) teaches after work in the evenings and at most must make a couple thousand dollars a year from it.
Also, psychologically, I've found that doing something for money tends to taint the fun of it. This is backed up by experiments: e.g., start paying a kid who loves to read for every book she gets through, and she'll start enjoying it less. I'd be sad to see this happen in aikido.


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Los Angeles, California rapper Game opened his wallet recently to provide relief to victims of the Philippines typhoon.
According to AllHipHop, Game partnered with actor/professional poker player Dan Bilzerian, as apart of his "The Robin Hood Project," to shell out $10,000 in relief. He took to Instagram on Friday to caption a statement on his involvement.
"I know many of you might've heard about the typhoon in the Philippines by now where their death total continues to rise daily and is now roughly about 2,500 bodies found dead with an expected 100-150 more daily says their President Benigno Aquino," Game said on the social media site. "This hurts my heart knowing that many of those amongst the dead are little children. Every now & again there is a tragedy that strikes somewhere around the world as the previous Thailand Tsunsmi, Haiti Earthquake & the most vicious here in the states "HURRICANE KATRINA"..... It is in these times where we as people of this world get the opportunity to unite with one another & give back, help aid, lend a hand, donate or just send prayers....... Well I am one of those people, so on behalf of @therobinhoodproject & my charitable partner @DanBilzerian we are donating $10,000 to help aid in the relief efforts to restore whatever possible in such a horrific natural disaster. My heart goes out to the families & friends of those who perished for only God knows I could not deal with the loss of any of mine. If there's anyone out there who would like to donate anything.... UNICEF.org/Philippines or REDcross.org & to directly help the families go to www.worldvision.org/Haiyan now !!! I am sure they would appreciate any sum of money donated. Thanks for your help & follow @therobinhoodproject NOW as well as hashtag us at #TheRobinHoodProject to tell us about/keep up with other stories. Thank you - The Game"
As of last Friday, the Southeast Asian storm has claimed 3,621 lives, with 12,165 injured and 1,140 who have been determined missing. Many others are still sick, homeless and without food.
This isn't the first time Game has donated to a cause he deemed worthy. In September, he shelled out another $10,000 to the family of a 6-year-old Los Angeles girl who was fatally shot outside her home. Later that month, he and Drake helped cover the funeral costs for six people, including five children, who died in a house fire.
Game's "The Robin Hood Project" refers to his plan to personally donate $1 million of his personal money. The goal is targeted to hit the million-dollar mark by Christmas of this year.
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Domino's (DPZ) is the reigning champion of fresh, hot, customized pizza delivered right to your door. Domino's operates over 8,000 franchised and company-owned stores in all 50 U.S. states and in 50 countries. Revenues totalled $1.5 billion in 2005, up 4.5% from the previous year. Since going public in 2004, the stock has increased 100%, hitting its all-time high of $28.75 this past May. A recent pull back in Domino's stock price just below $26 presents a window of opportunity for investors seeking to make an investment in a quality business with quality earnings valuations to match.
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Domino's is positively a mega brand as demonstrated with it marketing affiliations with Coca-Cola and its recent anointment as the official pizza of NASCAR. Domino's has spent approximately $1.3 billion to ensure that customers thinking of pizza think of Domino's pizza first.
With the NASCAR season underway and the NFL football season rolling into its 4th week, hungry fans moving inside from the frigid air of the fall season are likely to dial their local Domino's or visit one of its local retail franchises.
Domestic same store sales for Domino's during the first half of the year fell 7% from a year ago, while international same store sales climbed 4%. Domino's international sales currently represent only 10% of total revenues, highlighting the prospects available for future growth abroad. Domino's has nearly 3,000 international franchises that generate royalties which contribute to its top line growth.
Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea and Canada have the greatest number of Domino's stores followed by Japan, Taiwan and India to round out the top 10 international locations. Through June, Domino's has enjoyed 50 consecutive quarters of same store sales growth in its international operations.
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Domino's operates largely as a carry out and delivery food service. By eliminating places for people to sit, Domino's is able to keep real estate costs down and focus on product preparation and delivery.
Domino's is trading at 15 times earnings, below the industry average of 17, while its much smaller direct competitor Papa John's (PZZA) is trading at 21 times earnings. DPZ's below industry average PE ratio and its low PEG (price-to-earnings growth) ratio are good indicators of an undervalued stock.
In March, Domino's repurchased 5.6 million shares of stock from Bain Capital LLC, reflecting management's positive sentiment towards its business. The stock buy back will improve Domino's EPS figures and support its current stock price as the remaining outstanding shares now hold more value. Bain Capital still owns 28% of Domino's outstanding stock.
The biggest threat to Domino's future is domestic saturation and customer aversion for convenience. Investors will have to pay attention to domestic same store sales figures which should rebound with falling gas prices and jam packed sports weekends. Convenience, on the other hand, is here to stay and Domino's recognizes this trend by allowing its customers to build and order their pizza the way they want it online.
While Domino's does compete with Papa John's and Yum Brand's (YUM) Pizza Hut domestically, it has been able to maintain its crown with quick delivery service and good tasting pizza pies delivered hot and on time. The apparent growing popularity of pizza lovers abroad could reap big dividends for investors focused on the quality of Domino's low cost business strategy.


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Interest in conservation emerged in Ontario in the 1930s, with the formation of naturalists clubs. One of the earliest conservation surveys was completed in King Township, in the Lake Simcoe watershed, by the Federation of Ontario Naturalists in 1938. It stated that conservation "must be accompanied with a multi-purpose program for the renewal of natural resources in an area."
From these initial studies came the creation of the Conservation Authorities Act in 1946 and the birth of Ontario's conservation authorities. The conservation authorities have become an international model for watershed management and have worked in 20 different countries. The LSRCA, for example, has worked in China, and with Russia, Thailand and Suriname.
Created as the Upper Holland Valley Conservation Authority in 1951, the LSRCA has expanded eight times, as we have acquired new municipal and regional partners. To represent our enlarged role in caring for the health of the Lake Simcoe watershed, our current name was adopted in 1985. Since the Lake Simcoe Environmental Management Strategy's remedial program began in 1990, more than 800 environmental projects have resulted in preventing an estimated 16.5 tonnes of phosphorous from reaching the Lake each year.
- Since 1970, we have planted over three million trees throughout the watershed, with the help of our partners and the communities we operate in. In 2004, through LSRCA programs, a total of 58,500 trees and shrubs and 32 hectares of forest were established, and over three kilometres of streams were buffered.
- We have aquired more than 1,100 hectares (approximately 2,700 acres) of land, with the financial support of our regions, municipalities, province, and private donations.
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ArduCopter 3.0.1 has been released and is now available in the Mission Planner, firmware.diydrones.com, GitHub and the new Downloads Area.
Warning #1: Compass calibration and reducing interference is far more important than with 2.9.1b
Warning #2: GPS glitches can cause sudden and aggressive position changes while in loiter mode. You may wish to reduce the Loiter PID P to 0.5 (from 1.0) to reduce aggressiveness (see image below of where this gain can be found in mission planner).
Warning #3: optical flow is not supported but will be back in the next release (AC-3.0.2 or AC-3.1.0).
Warning #4: loiter turns does not maintain altitude. This bug will be fixed in AC-3.0.2.
Warning #5: This release has only been lightly tested on Traditional Helicopters.
Improvements over 2.9.1b include:
WPNAV_SPEED, WPNAV_SPEED_UP, WPNAV_SPEED_DN, WPNAV_ACCEL allows configuring speeds and acceleration during missions
How to upgrade:
1. Make sure you are using Mission Planner 1.2.59 or newer (get it here)
2. Click on the MissionPlanner's Hardware, Install Firmware screen. The version numbers should appear as "ArduCopter-3.0.1", then click the appropriate frame icon and it should upgrade as per usual.
3. Reduce the Loiter and Alt Hold PIDs if you have modified them from the defaults. The modified PID values for the 3DR frame can be seen in the image below.
Note: Nav parameters have been combined with Loiter so do not be concerned if you can't find them.
4. Although not directly related to this release, if you purchased an APM prior to March of 2013, update your PPM encoder to the latest firmware (instructions here).
5. Try out the new version in stabilize mode first, then alt-hold, then loiter and finally RTL and Auto.
Numerous How-To videos are available:
Special Thanks to Marco, DaveC and the large number of testers on the pre-release thread who put their copters at risk during the extended testing period. Some of their videos can be found here, here, here, here, here and here. Thanks also to MichaelO for the MP changes required for this release.
All feedback welcome. Please put your questions, comments (good and bad!) below.
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Hi Rick,
Great points. I need to run some more tests to be 100% sure, but I'd bet money this is what is happening. When I had the issue, there was a pretty strong headwind and I had a long upwind leg in the mission plan. When changing course to this leg of the mission, he hex just kept tipping more into the wind trying to maintain ground speed and started losing altitude. I caught it and switched into stable mode and recovered, but it would have plowed in if I had left it in auto mode. The same thing would happen in stable mode if I tried to maintain that ground speed into a similarly strong wind. The motors would be running full and there just wouldn't be enough power to maintain both speed and altitude.
After some additional thought, this outcome may be better than a fly-away if someone was in a really strong wind the the flight controller gave up on speed to maintain altitude.
I guess when you get to the edge of the flight envelope, there are no perfect software solutions for all circumstances.
Overall the team did a really remarkable job with the 3.0.1 release.
Hi Richard,
This is off topic for this thread, but I'll post it here as it may help others. If we want to continue this discussion, it should likely be PMs or a different thread.
First, I'm using the RC Timer controller board. Software version is 049 r156. It works well, but the gimbal MUST be balanced very well and the wires to the accelerometer board must be routed so that there is very little drag on the gimbal.
I had driver issues and couldn't get the config software to run, so to tune it, I just kept changing the defaults in the code and uploading the code with Arduino.
Yes, I know.... this is dumb, but it was the quickest way to an end. :-)
Here's the current settings. I've just got an original GoPro (1.0 I think?)
void setDefaultParameters()
config.vers = VERSION;
config.versEEPROM = VERSION_EEPROM;
config.gyroPitchKp = 19000;
config.gyroPitchKi = 25000;
config.gyroPitchKd = 30000;
config.gyroRollKp = 30000;
config.gyroRollKi = 8000;
config.gyroRollKd = 40000;
config.accTimeConstant = 7;
config.mpuLPF = 0;
config.angleOffsetPitch = 0;
config.angleOffsetRoll = 0;
config.nPolesMotorPitch = 14;
config.nPolesMotorRoll = 14;
config.dirMotorPitch = 1;
config.dirMotorRoll = -1;
config.motorNumberPitch = 0;
config.motorNumberRoll = 1;
config.maxPWMmotorPitch = 32;
config.maxPWMmotorRoll = 80;
config.minRCPitch = -120;
config.maxRCPitch = 120;
config.minRCRoll = -30;
config.maxRCRoll = 30;
config.rcGain = 5;
config.rcLPF = 20; // 2 sec
config.rcModePPM = false;
config.rcChannelRoll = 0;
config.rcChannelPitch = 1;
config.rcMid = MID_RC;
config.rcAbsolute = true;
config.crc8 = 0;
If you have the V3 of the board this thread might help, I had a hell of a time tuning it and getting it to even act normal but eventually I prevailed: http://garagepilots.com/forum/topics/goodluckbuy-gimbal-arrived-tod...
Richard, also a bit OT here, but I've had success with "using around 40 PWM, my P's are quite low (5-6) and I's quite high (40-60), D's = 20-40"
raa la vache ca a du etre un sacre crash!!!!!
t as pas de compas externe donc je suis quasi certains que t as du avoir un probleme a ce niveau.
de plus ton antenne tx est proche de l antenne gps ce qui est LOIN d etre bon..dans quelle mode etais tu avant le crash?si c est en mode loiter ou une fonction gps tu peux etre sur que ca vient de ton compas ou bien un decrochage gps
t as combiens en compassmot?peux tu donner tes valeurs offset egalement?tu tournes sur quelle version?
Merci pour ces réponses,
je vole en auvergne avec V.3.0.1 qui a très bien fonctionner jusqu'à present
le Tx FPV n'était pas en service lors du crasch
je comprend pas ce qui c'est passé,et j'ai du mal avec Tlog
combiens as tu en compassmot?t etais en quel mode avant le crash?pour t aider on doit en savoir plus
j ai aucune information avec ton compassmot la!!!!!!quel est ton resultat a la fin de la procedure?cette valeure est en pourcentage.
je suis quasi certain que t as eu un probleme de compas ou de perte de signal gps..
as tu eu une reaction de la sorte
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NBC's hit TV show Heroes is gearing up for a video game adaptation.
Ubisoft was finally given rights to create a super hero game based on the show after a long wait in line. The rights allow Ubisoft to bring the series' characters, locations and story lines to a action pack next generation game.
Tim King, executive producer and creator of Heroes commented:
"We're very excited to be making the Heroes video game with Ubisoft, time and again, Ubisoft has proven they can turn licensed properties into fantastic games."
Co-Executive Jesse Alexander added: "All along we've been writing some of our stories in ways they can tie into the eventual video game."
Instead of focusing on just one character from the TV series, Ubisoft will focus on the entire cast bringing a unique storyline with each. The writers will also play a roll in the video game series as they focus on cross platform storytelling for future seasons. Ubisoft will have their own writers for the video game series but the writers from the TV show will also be assisting in development.
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"The Adventures of Shirley Holmes" (1996-99)
This children's mystery series follows intrepid girl detective Shirley (Meredith Henderson), the great grand-niece of Sherlock Holmes, as she solves crimes around her Canadian hometown and deals with her sociopathic nemesis and classmate Molly Hardy (get it?) while attending a high-end private school. Instead of a Watson, she has former gang member Bo Sawchuk (John White), which is forward-thinkingly "Veronica Mars" of her -- she also got to share screen time with a young villainous (!) Ryan Gosling.
"The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" (1976)
Larry Hagman, J.R. Ewing himself, plays Sherman Holmes in this goofy TV movie from writer/director Dean Hargrove. A Los Angeles cop who gets bonked on the head by his own motorcycle while reading Conan Doyle, Holmes starts believing he's the fictional character, even taken up his style of dress and manner of speech. Jenny O'Hara is his shrink, Dr. Joan Watson, who indulges his delusions -- ones that actually end up making him a better detective as he works to track down a serial killer.
"Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century" (1999-2001)
Holmes is brought back to life with the use of futuristic technology in this animated series set in "New London," in which Inspector Beth Lestrade enlists the reanimated detective to help her catch a Moriarty clone wreaking havoc on the mostly peaceful 22nd century. Watson is a robot -- a "compudroid" -- who takes on the personality of Holmes' companion after absorbing his journals. While we're all about contemporary Holmes these days, this show was actually one of several instances in which the original Holmes was imagined to have been brought into the present or future -- a time storm stranded him in the 23rd century in "BraveStarr," while in TV movies "1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" he awakens from suspended animation and from being cryogentically frozen.
"Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House" (1982)
Like Barry Levinson's 1985 film "Young Sherlock Holmes," this eight-part UK series looked at a youthful Holmes (Guy Henry) as a 17-year-old schoolboy who's forced by a typhoid epidemic to return home from boarding school early to his family's manor, only to find his parents have been kicked out due to their lack of funds -- and the place's new occupants of course turn out to be harboring secrets. The framing story presents the mystery as being one of many recorded by Holmes on a dictaphone and left to Watson to be listened to after the detective's death.


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Indian rupee hits a three-week high in early trade before coming into some selling. The rupee hits 61.96 against US dollar, highest since October 10.
The domestic currency is currently trading at 61.83/84 versus Thursday close of 61.50/51.
On Thursday, the rupee fell 27 paise on heavy month-end demand from importers for the US currency, which strengthened overseas after the Federal Reserve indicated it may taper its stimulus programme earlier than expected.
The rupee-dollar pair largely tracked global dollar gains with dollar index up 0.17 per cent at 80.341.
The euro nursed heavy losses early in Asia on Friday, having suffered its biggest one-day drop in over six months as a shock slowdown in inflation piled pressure on the European Central Bank to further stimulate the economy.
Foreign investors bought Indian shares worth Rs 18.75 billion on Thursday, their biggest single-day purchase since May 21, provisional exchange data showed, remaining net buyers for a 20th consecutive session, bringing their total buying to nearly Rs 181.92 billion ($2.96 billion) during that period.
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Professional Datasolutions, Inc. Grows with Abra Suite
Professional Datasolutions, Inc. (PDI) is a turnkey developer of convenience store automation software with 25% market share. When business started taking off, it became obvious their homegrown HR system would no longer be able to keep up.
"We have some unusual benefit programs," says PDI's Vice President of Finance and Administration, Kirk Fischer. "We went with Abra HR because it has the ability to build your own formulas and rules, it was a clear 'head and shoulders' above other choices in terms of the architecture and functionality." In addition, PDI simultaneously added Abra Payroll because together they were "a good value for the money."
Abra Suite , designed for completeness, ease-of-use and affordability, offers comprehensive HR and payroll processing, recruiting, training, benefits administration, and employee self-service. And now with Abra Alerts™, Abra Suite is the only web-enabled HRIS that notifies employees and managers of key events automatically using their existing email system.
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"I'm no longer the Q&A person and I have time to do the things I need to be doing," says PDI's Director of HR, Jan Grimsley, about her experiences with Abra Suite. By giving their employees convenient access to their personal information (such as vacation availability and benefits elections), PDI has experienced cost savings and increased productivity thanks to the reduced number of regular employee calls - leaving time for more strategic HR activities.
Abra HR helps manage company benefits programs with benefits administration tools, including tracking and preparing reports to ensure government compliance, and electronically storing employee forms and certificates. For example, their Open Enrollment set-up - often a very time consuming task - was completed "in an afternoon using the copy function of the Rate Table," says Grimsley.
Using the Internet to Reduce the Workload
"We wanted to take the next step and become web-enabled," says Fischer, "so we purchased Abra Recruiting Solution and Abra Employee Self-Service."
Abra Recruiting Solution™ converts resumes received both from the Internet, and traditionally via fax or mail, into electronic files for continuous applicant matching and ranking against open requisitions, while helping to track hiring expenses. "Recruiting Solution's ability to keep track of resumes and streamline the sending of acknowledgment letters has greatly reduced the tedium of our HR department," says Fischer.
Plus, with Abra Employee Self-Service™ - part of the Abra Suite family - information like paid time-off and current benefits elections is accessible securely to employees and managers. As a result, PDI can share information with their employees online.
"For example," says Grimsley, "employees can look at their W-4 online; if changes need to be made, the form is attached and they can submit the changes right away." In addition, Abra Employee Self-Service allows PDI's employees to view their paycheck history, paystub details, and direct deposit transactions online.
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Abra Payroll, combined with the functionality of Abra Employee Self-Service, has reduced PDI's payroll workload by a "half-day per pay period," says Fischer, because they no longer have to "stuff envelopes or pass out paychecks." And senior management likes it too, reports Fischer, "It's easy to look up things like available vacation balances or pay history when going through reviews or approvals."
With PDI's positive Abra experience - and Fischer being a firm believer that "Push Technology is better than Pull," - they've elected to add Abra Alerts, a proactive information distribution system, to help them continue to grow with the help of an all-in-one HRIS solution.


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- Saturday September 22nd, 2012 :: 01:55 p.m. PDT
Space Shuttle Endeavour flies over Compton skyline.
On a busy Friday, September 21, 2012, as the men and women of Compton Station carried on with their duties, history was taking place over the Compton skyline.
The roar of a low flying modified Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet carrying on its back the iconic Space Shuttle Endeavour, could be heard as it flew past the City of Compton on a farewell flyover throughout the Southland. Many of our staff took a moment from their busy schedules to witness this historic event.
The Endeavour's final touchdown at the Los Angeles International Airport, commemorated the end of an illustrious service with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the beginning of a new role at the California Science Center.
The Endeavor rolled out from Palmdale, CA in 1991 and was added to the NASA space shuttle fleet as a replacement for the Space Shuttle Challenger. Over a million miles in space, over 4700 orbits around the earth and over 20 years of service, have earned this orbiter a place at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles, where it will be remain to teach the next generation of space explorers the wonders of the final frontier.
The California Science Center will open the Endeavour exhibit on October 30, 2012
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