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How long is a piece of string? Asking a Parisian to name their favourite patisserie has about as many answers, from the simple shop churning our baguettes next door to the designer cake emporium they'll cross the city to visit. On every corner in every arondissement you will find someone selling freshly baked bread, decadent cakes and traditional pastries. So, how to choose? Follow Rough Guides' Helen Ochyra to find the very best.
La Pâtisserie des Rêves
The name of Philippe Conticini's patisserie translates as "the cake of dreams" and it's a fanciful place, filled with innovative takes on traditional pastries. There is no space for clutter here, with each type of cake artfully arranged beneath a glass jar more reminiscent of a science lesson than a cafe. Let your eyes take their pick and if they can't decide, guide them to the mille-feuille (vanilla slice), which is superbly vanilla scented.
Address: 93 Rue du Bac
Patisserie Stohrer
A patisserie with real pedigree, Patisserie Stohrer is the oldest in the city, dating from 1725, when the eponymous pastry chef Nichola Stohrer travelled to Paris with the daughter of the King of Poland after her marriage to Louis XV. Desserts fit for the Royal Court were created here, but the fabulously simple chocolate éclair is now the firm favourite. The Rum Baba – a small yeast cake saturated in hard liquor – is also said to have been invented here.
Address: 51 Rue Montorgueil
Pierre Hermé
Fancy something different? Pierre Hermé is known for his unusually flavoured macarons, so why not take a leap of faith and try olive oil with mandarin orange and cucumber water, or perhaps the apricot and pistachio? Hermé uses sugar sparingly and savoury ingredients imaginatively, which makes for a truly unique taste, and a gorgeous array of colours. This is the macaron as an art form – no wonder French Vogue once called him the "Picasso of pastry".
Address: 18 Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie
Maison Laurent
Located within baguette swinging distance of stunning Sacre Coeur Basillica, this small and simple patisserie boulangerie is the perfect place to pick up a snack to sustain you on the walk up those famous steps. Try the "villageoise" baguette for a true taste of France, with the perfect mix of rye and salt, or indulge in a pain au chocolat or the delicious 'belle arôme" baguette made with honey and spice.
Address: 63 Rue Caulaincourt
Cake Shop, Mandarin Oriental
For something truly unforgettable head to the Mandarin Oriental hotel, where the Cake Shop offers a range of exquisite cakes and pastries. Choose the classic puff pastry Saint-Honoré or one of the many macarons to enjoy in the flower-filled lobby. If you're feeling like really treating yourself though, take a table among the foliage of the courtyard garden of the Camélia restaurant and order Le Mandarin – a 62% dark chocolate mousse that you won't forget in a hurry.
Address: 251 Rue Saint-Honoré
Des Gateaux et du Pain
With its black surfaces and sparkling glass cases, this upmarket patisserie looks more like it should be selling diamonds than cakes. But let the design-heavy interior put you off and you'll be missing out on one of Paris's most highly regarded pastries – the chausson aux pommes. It may look simple but this apple tart has the perfect texture and flavour, and it won chef Claire Damon the top spot in Le Figaro's recent search for the city's best.
Address: 63 Boulevard Pasteur
Sadaharu Aoki
Chef Sadaharu Aoki was born in Tokyo and his creations reflect this heritage, with an Asian twist applied to even the most traditional French pastries. Try the éclair au sésame noir, with black sesame cream, or the unmistakeably floral violet macaron. Alternatively, for something totally different, the Kimagure choux pastry with sweet azuki beans is divine.
Address: 35 Rue de Vaugirard
Un Dimanche à Paris
This experimental patisserie is the perfect place to try something new. Don't call in here unless you're prepared to be seriously tempted – there's everything from a simple tartelette fraise-cocoa (chocolate and strawberry tart) to a fruit-laden choux pistache aux fruits rouges and a delicately floral coquelicot (poppy flower) macaron. Chocaholics are particularly well served by the range of chocolates and shouldn't miss the chocolate foie gras – take some away for later, this is one to be savoured.
Address: 4-8 Cour du Commerce Saint André
Bar Ladurée
No list of Parisian patisseries would be complete without Ladurée. Yes, everyone knows the name, but there is also a reason for that. Here you will find what are consistently the best macarons in Paris and every flavour you can think of is laid out for you to select from. You could go for a simple chocolate or pistachio, but we suggest you try the new pink pepper flavour – a pale grey creation that is sure to surprise.
Address: 13 Rue Lincoln
Le Flore en L'Ile
Ok, so it's not technically a patisserie, but this café on Île Saint-Louis simply cannot be missed. The ice cream here is the best in Paris and can be enjoyed right next to the Seine with views of Notre Dame (just). Order chocolate, caramel and vanilla in one bowl, sit back and savour a true taste of Paris.
Address: 42 Quai d'Orléans
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Obama is not dealing effectively with Putin
Russian leader Vladimir Putin and many other world leaders know how to use power. They understand diplomacy, military might and economics. Some use their personalities to exert pressure.
President Barack Obama seems to comprehend none of this. Confronted by a crisis in Ukraine and a leader – Putin – who could not be manipulated by his personality, Obama simply did not know what to do.
So he did what comes naturally. He threw what amounts to a diplomatic temper tantrum.
First, Obama said that in response to the Ukrainian crisis, he is freezing U.S. assets held by seven Russian leaders in this country. That will accomplish nothing other than to make the seven angry.
Then, White House spokesman Jay Carney lashed out – blindly. "Together with North Korea and I think Syria … (Russian leaders) are alone in that belief," Carney said of Putin's claims his country's actions in the Crimea region of Ukraine were necessary to safeguard Russian military bases and ethnic Russians.
Putin, along with leaders in the North Korean and Syrian regimes, must be scratching their heads. U.S. relations with all three are difficult, but for very different reasons.
And why was Iran left off Carney's list?
Obama cannot seem to understand why his powers of persuasion don't work with Putin and other world leaders. Clearly, his understanding of power is limited severely, and that does not bode well for U.S. interests abroad.

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Cyclone warning for New Caledonia
New Caledonia authorities watching tropical cyclone Sandra are preparing to issue a red alert for the territory's north.
The cyclone, on a south-easterly path through the Pacific, has weakened in the past 12 hours, the website Tahiti Infos said.
But rain, wind and heavy seas still pose a threat.
On Monday Solomon Islanders were warned to take precautions against flooding and high winds from the cyclone.
On Tuesday, New Caledonia authorities were preparing a red alert for the Belep islands, Poum, Koumac and Ouegoa.
By Tuesday afternoon the weakening system was forecast to be west of Belep and passing 160 kilometres west of the northern point of New Caledonia.
Winds were about 140 kilometres an hour, gusting to 175 kilometres an hour.
Solomon Islands weather service said conditions would improve in the first half of the week.
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Webb Cash
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Webb Cash can be applied to the Webb Card and can be used to purchase on-campus/off-campus goods and services through a declining balance account. In addition to being used at certain off-campus locations, Webb Cash can be used at on campus dining locations, vending machines, Campus Shop, Campus Post Office, and the Business Office.
Deposits can be made through ManageMyID, an independently-operated website. Registration is required. Your WebbConnct user name and password will not work for the ManageMyID site. Once you register, you will be sent an e-mail confirming your registration along with the terms and conditions of the Webb Card. ManageMyID will allow you to deposit money to your Webb Card account as well as view your balance and transactions of your Webb Card Account. If you have a GWU Meal Plan with Flex Dollars, you may also view the balance and transactions on this account. If someone wishes to deposit money on your account, they may choose Guest Deposit on the left side of the screen and enter the person's ID number. The system will then return the name of the individual assigned that particular ID number in order to verify it is the right person. If so, you simply continue following the directions on the website. After completion, ManageMyID will e-mail you a receipt of your deposit.
Deposits to your account may be made at the GWU Business Office or online using either Visa, MasterCard, or Discover credit cards, or any Debit card that has the one of these credit card logos on the card. A debit card pin number cannot be entered. Deposits made via credit cards or debit card are subject to a transaction fee of $1.00 and must be a minimum deposit of $20.00.
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Jasmine Jafferali, MPH, ACE-CPT is the health and well-being director for Proactive Partners, a division of TCA Holdings LLC. Proactive Partners is a company that provides health and wellness programs with focus on fitness and exercise, stress management and fitness center management. Jafferali is responsible for developing and implementing their corporate wellness and health coaching programs. She has worked at a Fortune 100 corporate wellness facility and a high-end commercial health club setting creating wellness based programs. She also developed and is the program coordinator for the Women's Exercise Training and Wellness online certificate program for Education Fitness Solutions Inc. and is a master trainer with Healthy Moms Fitness. She can be reached at [email protected].
Health care reform is a hot topic and is on everyone's minds. However, it is going to take more than legislation to improve the health of our nation. For many companies, medical costs can consume half or more of corporate profits. At least 25 percent of the health care costs incurred by working adults are attributed to modifiable health risks, such as poor diet and lack of exercise. More employees are spending more time at work, with their work causing them to sacrifice their health and family time. What are you doing to help improve the bottom line?
More than 600 articles analyze the research and anecdotal evidence of the cost-effectiveness of worksite wellness programs. According to the Wellness Councils of America (welcoa.org), more than 81 percent of businesses with 50 or more employees have some form of health promotion program—the most popular being exercise, stop-smoking classes, back care programs and stress management.
Here are some other interesting facts:
-The typical American diet is responsible for most of the preventable diseases, including 91 percent of diabetes, 82 percent of heart disease, and 71 percent of colon cancer, according to the National Health Care Statistics.
-Stress-related disorders are fast becoming the most prevalent reason for worker disability, costing between $20 billion and $30 billion annually due to worker absenteeism, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
-Obesity increases workplace costs. The annual per capita increase in medical expenditures and absenteeism associated with obesity ranges from $450 to $2,500 per obese employee. The estimated cost of obesity at a firm with 1,000 employees is about $285,000 per year, according to a January 2006 article in IDEA Fitness Journal.
-The National Safety Council stated that in 1996, backaches alone cost industry more than $1.2 billion in production and services and $275 million in workers compensation.
As fitness professionals, we have a responsibility to help people make healthier choices through coaching, education and awareness. Here are a few steps you can take in your health club:
Create a newsletter. The best way to communicate your programs, services and some health tips is to create a newsletter specifically designed for your corporate employees. This also is the most casual and least expensive way to communicate this information.
Invest in your trainers. Pay for a select few trainers to obtain a health and wellness coaching certificate outside their normal continuing education fund. If you are asking them to get this certification, then don't penalize them by dipping into their fund. Have them sign a six-month or one-year contract of commitment after the certificate has been completed.
Start a health coaching program. Once you have a few health coaches on your team, offering ongoing health coaching programs can have a profound effect on your business and the corporation's bottom line.
Offer corporate discounts to local companies. When businesses sign up, give them a welcome package that includes discounts or free trials of your services. Or set different rates for corporate clients to entice them.
Offer corporate wellness programs to your own employees. Just because we are in the field does not mean we do not need help in dealing with our own health and well-being. We face the same trials as nonfitness professionals do. When you take action internally, you can have happier, healthier employees, which will trickle down to your members. Don't forget your maintenance workers, sales people and front desk staff, who may not even take advantage of what your health club has to offer.
Create corporate wellness packages. By creating packages, you are offering more than just your internal services; you are expanding your team of experts to foster their own growth and learning. Establish different rates for your corporate clients. It will make them feel like they are really part of your club. Depending upon the services you offer in your own club, packages may look something like this:
• Lunch 'n Learn Corporate Package: Two-hour program that includes a 75-minute wellness seminar and lunch for your employees. Raffle off a 60-minute massage to make it more fun.
• Half Day Wellness Package: Four-hour program includes a 75-minute seminar, lunch and team-building activity for employees. Team activity may be a 50-minute cycle and yoga class, volleyball, etc.
• Health Fairs: Partnering with local businesses and offering health fairs for companies can really give your club great exposure to the services you currently offer. In addition, who can partner with hospitals for cholesterol screenings, massage therapists, chiropractors, dietitians, chefs for cooking demonstrations, food vendors for healthy food samples and local nonprofits.
The possibilities are endless. Companies are beginning to realize the importance of investing into their employees' health and well-being. It is cost-effective and well worth the time and effort for you to get involved.


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Charter a Deluxe Wooden Gulet Albatros A for 8 Person in Fethiye
Albatros Yachting proudly offers charter luxury Gulet Albatros A. Gulet Albatros Ais one of the best luxury yachts for a blue cruise in Turkish coastline and to Greek islands. It is specially designed to offer a relaxing atmosphere to distinguished guests, thereby adding to the pleasure of their holidays. A relaxing blue cruise in this peaceful environment is a great experience. Gulet Albatros A, offers a perfect holiday. Albatros A Yacht is a high-quality wooden gulet, 21 meters in length, and has built-in 2011, is fully maintained each year to provide comfort and a safe holiday for all its guests. There are modern and spacious cabins, specially designed with hall and deck. She accommodates 8 guests in 1 Master, 2 Double, 1 Twin Cabins. Each has a private shower and toilet, and there are separate cabins for the crew who accompany the cruise. Albatros A Gulet not only offers high-quality layout and furnishings but also offers five-star service with a crew highly professional crew including an experienced The crew is committed to all your needs such as organizing daily activities in the boat, cleaning, general service, meals and drinks and security. Safety and comfort of our guests is an absolute priority and the crew has been trained to ensure that. All yachts, including cabins, are air-conditioned. There is a fully equipped kitchen, an indoor and outdoor dining area and an air-conditioned lounge. Water sports on board include Canoe, Snorkelling Equipments, Fishing Equipment and Windsurf There is a speed boat at your service. You may ask your yacht charter representative for extra water sports. With the latest navigational devices, you can feel safe as you cruise to destinations such as Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye, Göcek and the Greek Islands. General Specs
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RCI Roofing is a professional applicator of commercial low and steep slope roof systems, including asphalt shingles, single-ply membranes, modified bitumen, and metal roofing.
RCI Roofing's two partners, Mark Delisle and Chris Thompson, have been actively installing systems for the commercial, industrial, and institutional markets, as well as for a large and growing number of residential dwellings since the company's inception in 1998.
RCI Roofing retains manufacturer certified roof mechanics, ensuring the best possible performance from your roof system. We also adhere rigidly to industry application and safety standards and are outfitted with modern, regularly maintained equipment.
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We saw a Greek tragedy unfolding, or should I say…dragedy, as Goran Dragic was stuck in a fall from grace. Last night saw some redemption as he scored 12 points to pair with 11 assists, plus a steal and a block. His points have kind of become steady around the 10-12 mark, which is not near his November production but at least better than December. This is his first double digit dish game in January, and while he was never that prolific with assists anyway, it is still nice to that level of statistical generosity after 6 games where he only had more than 4 dimes once. Here's what else happened in the NBA:
Josh Smith – He finished the night with 30 points, 13 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 blocks. I declare him King of Wednesday Night (ignore those 7 TOs).
Stephen Curry – Yesterday, I pimped Curry for daily fantasy leagues; he went for 31 points, 3 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 steals, although he took 14 three point attempts and only made 3 (that affects ratios!).
Tony Parker – I also suggested this guy as a possible double double candidate, and he went for 24 big ones with 13 assists, so there ya go. He also threw in 4 rebounds and a steal.
LeBron James – I did not mention him at all, and he had a triple double (31/10/11). Oh well! You know who he is!
Tiago Splitter – Okay, let's shift off of some of these big names and look at a big name in our comments. T-Spit produced 25 points, 7 rebounds, an assists, 2 steals, and only 1 turnover in 32 minutes.
Darrell Arthur – Despite 20 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, a steal and a block, Arthur has only had more than 11 points once all month. 9 rebounds is his season high, too. So while he says hey, what a wonderful kind of day, where he can learn to shoot and play, and get along with some rebounds, you may want to change the channel.
Emeka Okafor – He's becoming a slightly better scoring Reggie Evans, this time with 6 points, 17 rebounds, 2 blocks, and an assist and steal each. It is his third game in a row with at least a dozen boards.
Alan Anderson – No one can match Curry's disaster from the perimeter, but Curry lobbed 12 from downtown and only hit 4, yet still finished with 20 points. He did not have much going on otherwise, producing 1 rebound and 2 assist despite 36 minutes on the floor. Maybe he should have passed. Just a guess.
Kyle Korver – With 21 points (including 5 of 6 from deep), 4 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal, he has officially put together a very decent stretch, and if you don't look at him, you won't notice he has the same hair cut as Kenneth Parcel. You may also miss out on some extra stats for your deep league squad.
Kris Humphries – With the Nets as one of the powerhouse teams in the East, Humphries sure took a good season to fall of planet Earth. Last night, despite a reasonable 8 rebounds, he only finished with 2 points and 2 assists in 21 minutes.
Bismack Biyombo – Nobody beats the Bis for rebounds, as he grabbed 10, although apparently Bis can't shoot, as he went for 2 points, matching his high for the past 3 games. He did have 2 steals and 4 blocks, though, so everyone's happy again.
Jason Maxiell – Another big man with small points is Maxi, who went for 6 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 2 blocks. My interest in him waxes and wanes like the moon or bad poetry, but he's been good enough recently to own in deep leagues.
Nate Robinson – Not sure why nobody loves him, everybody hates him, just because he eats worms, but Nate the Great came off the bench for 11 points, 1 rebound, and 7 assists. Surely some of you can find value in that, as this is his 4th straight game with metal horns for points. He is also averaging 4 assists during that stretch, which isn't great, but it also isn't nothing. That's some metaphysics or whatever for you.
Dwight Howard – Set to have his shoulder evaluated today. When I said to try and sell him, I didn't think he'd go and hurt himself. If he's going to miss significant time, I wonder what excuse Kobe Bryant will come up with next.


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He was there as a professional footballer coming to the end of his career with Newcastle United, who had just won a pre-season friendly against the local Wanderers. I was there as a journalist from the Star group of newspapers.
We spoke, but not for the first time. The first time was many years earlier, when I was working in London covering the formative years of the Premier League and Carr was a teenage apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur.
It was the Spurs press officer who introduced us, a wonderful man called John Fennelly whose father came from Dublin and inspired his willingness to help any journalist of an Irish persuasion.
The day we first met, Carr was sitting on the wall in the car park of the Tottenham training ground and shooting the breeze with a bunch of players of his own vintage.
He was an amicable young man, eager to chat and keen to have a laugh and a joke as he set out on the road to fame and fortune that is the dream of so many youngsters chasing the professional game in England.
Unlike so many others, Stephen Carr realized his dream. He played 44 times in all for Ireland and he loved it, although injury denied him his rightful place in the 2002 World Cup finals.
He won a League Cup medal with Spurs and he got a big money move to Newcastle United in 2004 which ensured he would never have to worry about money again. The money paid for his big post-football house in the north Dublin suburb of Malahide, not far from the Donaghmede of his childhood.
By the time Stephen Carr and I explained pleasantries in that seaside marquee, following the friendly match between Bray Wanderers and Newcastle in the summer of 2005, the teenage joker of our first meeting was a distant memory.
By then, Carr's patience with journalistic intrusion into his life had worn so thin that he politely declined all invitations to talk without as much as a smile on his face.
"It's nothing personal, I just don't talk to the press anymore, any of you," said Carr on that hot August night when Damien Duff, another media recluse, thrilled those who turned up to witness his magic in the blue shirt which was the Geordie's away shirt at the time.
Somewhere between a North London car-park in 1994 and the Carlisle Grounds in Bray in 2005, Stephen Carr lost the spark that burned inside him the morning we first met.
Granted, we parted on amicable enough terms that night six years ago, but something wasn't quite right. Within three years my suspicions were confirmed when Carr announced, via the media of course, that he had quit football after becoming totally disillusioned when Kevin Keegan showed him the door at Newcastle in May of 2008.
There were offers on the table back then. Bohs even tried to entice him to Dalymount Park a year and a bit after he had announced a premature retirement from international football.
But Carr, then only 32, had had more than enough with professional sport. He decamped to Malahide, settled into life after football and lasted less than a year before boredom set in and threatened to take over his life.
By February 2009, Carr was back training with Championship side Birmingham City at the invitation of their manager Alex McLeish and on the way to a long term contract and promotion to the Premier League.
By last Sunday, Carr was the captain of Birmingham as they won the Carling Cup final with a sensational last minute goal, gifted as it may have been, against Arsenal at Wembley, and the reluctant hero got to life the trophy.
He did speak to the media afterwards. As captain he had no choice.
"That will make their year, make their life probably. A lot of people have been waiting a long time for this," said Carr as the Blues took a major trophy for the first time in 48 years and qualified for Europe into the bargain.
Stephen Carr was talking about the Birmingham City supporters when he spoke those words to Sky Sports at Wembley on Sunday, but he could just as easily have been talking about himself after lifting that Carling Cup.
It's good to see him back, good to see him a winner again.
He'll have enough time for life after football the next time he retires. And who knows, he might just smile again.
Sideline Views
SOCCER: What's the connection between the Irish Parliament, Croke Park and Turner's Cross? Let me explain. Louth football team boss Peter Fitzpatrick has just won a seat in Dail Eireann, the Parliament, as has former Carlow County Board chairman Pat Deering.
They will be joined in the new Dail by Wexford Youths founder and manager Mick Wallace and Cork City director Jonathon O'Brien, both of whom also were elected last weekend. And guess who Cork play on Friday night at Turner's Cross? Yes, Wexford Youths.
Speaking of Wallace, he was at the launch of the League of Ireland on Monday when I asked him who's going to play striker alongside Shane Ross on the right wing and Mick on the left wing? He smiled but never answered.
SOCCER: Nice insight from Celtic manager Neil Lennon this week as he congratulated Ally McCoist on his appointment as successor to Rangers boss Walter Smith at the end of the season. "I would like to wish him well but obviously being the Celtic manager it is a bit difficult to do that!" said Lennon, who went on to explain the rivalry between the Old Firm managers.
"We don't hate each other," said Lennon. "There is a professional rivalry obviously, but there is a professional respect. You don't know what the job entails until you are in the hot seat itself. There is that sympathy with each other, if you want to call it that.
"So I wouldn't say we hate each other but there is that intense rivalry."
CRICKET: Nice touch by the Irish team at the cricket World Cup in the Indian city of Bangalore where they've added their weight to the Irish Cancer Society's "Shave or Dye" campaign. Members of the Irish squad had their hair dyed green or shaved which is commendable in itself.
That they had it done on the eve of their big game with England is all the more remarkable, so well done to captain William Porterfield, coach Phil Simmons and the rest of the gang. Hopefully the green hair works against England.
SOCCER: The League of Ireland season kicks-off on Friday night with financial reality now the norm. Bohs, for example, spent €2.8 million on players four seasons ago, yet this year Pat Fenlon's budget is a paltry €280,000 in comparison. For what it's worth I will give you my annual predictions, namely Shamrock Rovers to retain their title, Sligo Rovers to finish second and Dundalk to win the FAI Cup. If anyone can find last season's predictions, please let me know how I did.
SOCCER: As an Arsenal fan -- since Charlie George scored in the 1971 FA Cup final against Liverpool just to show my age -- it gives me no pleasure to report that Robin Van Persie will miss next week's Champions League clash in Barcelona. Arsenal are 2-1 up from the first leg, but even with Van Persie in the side, I'd have worried for them in Catalonia against Messi and Co. Now I reckon they haven't got a chance in hell.
Ronan O'Gara once again proved there's life in the old dog with a top scorer Man of the Match performance as Ireland's lethargic Six Nations season limped along with a one score win over Scotland in Edinburgh on Sunday. O'Gara may be coming to the end of the road in this World Cup year, but his battle for the 10 shirt with Jonathon Sexton is fascinating to watch – and it can only make Sexton a far better player in the long run which is a win, win bonus for Irish rugby.
The British tabloid News of the World last Sunday revealed how Ashley Cole shot and wounded a work placement student at the Chelsea training ground with an air rifle he brought to his place of work. The previous day Wayne Rooney got away with an elbow into the back of Wigan and Ireland player James McCarthy's head. Have these footballers no sense at all? I fear not.


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Lt. Col. Benjamin Hays Vandervoort '38
- National Archives USA
One of the most decorated Washington College alumni to fight for his country, Benjamin Hays Vandervoort '38 (March 3, 1917 – November 23, 1990), earned numerous honors for his bravery in World War II. A famed officer in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, he was one of the few soldiers to be awarded three Distinguished Service Crosses for Bravery in combat, in addition to three Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with Valor. Renowned for his heroics during the Normandy Invasion, Lt. Col. Vandervoort refused to abandon his troops despite breaking his leg during the early morning jump into France. Actor John Wayne portrayed him in the 1962 movie, The Longest Day.
Vandervoort, whose brother also attended Washington College, was a member of the Washington Players drama club, the Y.M.C.A., the Mount Vernon Literary Society, and the football and track teams. He also was an officer in his fraternity, Theta Kappa Nu.
His senior yearbook hailed him as "one of the leaders in the class of '38: President of the Thetas, President of the Debaters, A letterman in football."
The same "aggressive influence…in all the many organizations in which he has held membership" in college made him an effective leader in the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.
Vandervoort took part in all the Division's World War II combat jumps, including those at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He broke his leg during the jump on D-Day but continued fighting, using his rifle as a crutch. He was unstoppable until the winter of 1945, when a fragment of shrapnel struck him in the face, taking his left eye, leaving a hole in his forehead and causing severe sinus damage.Vandervoort was awarded three Distinguished Service Crosses for bravery in combat, three Purple Hearts, and a Bronze Star for valor; he also received honors from France, Holland and Belgium. In 1962, the film The Longest Day, in which he was portrayed by John Wayne, immortalized his heroics on the silver screen.


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There's a test code maintenance issue I've been grappling with, and watching others grapple with for a while now. I've blogged about some infrastructural things related to it before, but now I think its time to talk about the problem itself. The problem shows up as soon as you start writing setUp functions, or custom assertThing functions. And the problem is – where do you put this code?
class Matcher: def __str__(self): "Describe this matcher.""" def match(self, something): """Determine if something is matched. :param something: Something to match. :return: None if something matched, or a Mismatch object otherwise. """ class Mismatch: def describe(self): """Describe a mismatch that has occured."""
BaseTestCase1 +TestCase1 +TestCase2 +BaseTestCase2 +TestCase3 +TestCase4 +BaseTestCase3 +TestCase5 ...
def useFixture(self, fixture): fixture.setUp() self.addCleanup(fixture.tearDown) return fixture
def test_foo(self): server = self.useFixture(NewServerWithUsers()) self.assertThat(server, HasUser('fred'))
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- use or create a fixture/resouce framework rather than setUp/tearDown
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I´m late
now they will start scoring runs and arroyo won´t give up another run
I´m late
now they will start scoring runs and arroyo won´t give up another run
4 hits off Bronson in 2 innings.....needs to tighten it up.
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The game threads often become unreadable when Votto makes an error. No reason to spend five pages dissecting a play that turned out to be irrelevant. Let's move forward.
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
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Bucs with a tough task tonight against TEX and Yu Darvish. We could move up to the 1st wild card position tonight.
It doesn't bother me at all for Votto to make an error. It bothers me that he was lazy and didn't get in front of the ball. If he takes one step to his left to get in front of it and then butchers it, that's fine with me. Errors happen. That was a mental error, which are inexcusable to me.
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That out by Hanigan looked SOOOOO good off the bat...short fly out to left. LOL. His power is right about where mine is. Non-existent. :O)
Is Cueto ready yet?
ouchnow they will start scoring runs and arroyo won´t give up another run
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Bom Vimdin... Pure awesomeness to me, since he's the Cantina dude I've wanted the most now for a while (as Hasbro keeps knocking them out pretty steadily). Love the deco, love the detail... Loving that he has a rifle he totally doesn't need (and most Cantina dudes don't come with extra weaponry). I forget but his background I think is a bounty hunter in the EU, so the gun makes sense from that perspective.
Did anyone get their RFT's from the second batch yet? I'm still waiting for mine.
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Snap!, Crackle! and Pop! are proud to be loud at the breakfast table, but do they fizzle or sizzle in the cereal bowl? And how about in that most ubiquitous of bake sale items — Rice Krispies Treats?
Like so many popular breakfast cereals, Kellogg's Rice Krispies has spawned numerous knockoffs, from gluten-free variants to cocoa-infused crackles. Which got me wondering: Is the mother brand — long pimped by those impish elves named for the noises made by their cereal — still the best choice when filling your bowl and making those bars?
To find out, AP's food team crunched its way through too many boxes of the leading — and some not so — brands of puffy rice cereal. And we were surprised by the results.
But first, a puffed rice cereal primer.
Puffed rice cereals generally are made one of two ways — pressure-expelling or toasting. In the former method, grains of rice are moistened, then cooked in a pressurized device that flash heats them, a process that causes the liquid in them to rapidly expand, creating crunchy, puffy oblongs of rice. You know those giant bags of tasteless puffed cereal sold in natural foods stores? That's this stuff.
When most people think of puffed rice cereal, they think of the stuff made using the toasting method. This involves cooking the rice (often with a sweetener, such as malt flavouring), then partly drying and lightly rolling it. The rice then is toasted somewhere around 650 F, creating porous, crunchy grains that make crackling noises when wet. Variations of this technique are used to make Rice Krispies and its many knockoffs.
In one form or another, puffed rice cereal has been around since the turn of the 20th century. But standard-bearer Rice Krispies wasn't launched until 1928, and Snap! didn't join the marketing team until 1933 (and at the time he resembled a rather scary gnome with a long nose and ears). Within a few years, Crackle! and Pop! joined the effort to push the puff.
While the elves (known as Piff!, Paff! and Puff! in Norway and Sweden, in case you wondered) certainly helped bring Rice Krispies to the American table, it was the popularity of Rice Krispies Treats that transformed the cereal from just another morning carb to a full-blown American culinary icon.
According to company lore, the sticky, chewy bars were first created by Kellogg's employee Mildred Day, supposedly to be sold as a fundraiser for a Camp Fire Girls group. The recipe — cereal, marshmallow and butter — was introduced on cereal boxes in 1940 and has gone pretty much unchanged since then.
What has changed is the number of off-brand variations of the basic cereal. We counted close to a dozen across a handful of grocers in the Northeast. That's a lot of choices for how to make music in your cereal bowl.
Able to ingest only so much crackle, we purchased six of the most common brands, including an organic brown rice version, an organic cocoa-spiked variant, two store brands, the original Rice Krispies and Kellogg's own alternative, Gluten-Free Rice Krispies. We then tried all of them, first in a bowl with whole milk, then in a treat bar (all made using Kellogg's tried and true recipe).
We noticed one thing right off. Three of the six cereals were touted as being gluten-free — Kellogg's Gluten-Free Rice Krispies, Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice (organic) and EnviroKidz Organic Koala Crisp Cereal — and all three of those were made with brown rice, a whole grain. The other three more traditional varieties — which were not gluten-free — were made with white rice, a refined grain.
Turns out, this makes a difference.
Eaten in a bowl of milk, the clear winner was Kellogg's Gluten-Free Rice Krispies. It was pleasantly — but not overbearingly — sweet, with a consistent and lasting crunch with minimal sog-factor. It also snapped and cracked and popped for a solid 40 seconds (yes, we timed it). And parents will appreciate that it has just 1 gram of sugar per 1 cup serving (the original Rice Krispies has 4 grams).
Coming in at No. 2 in the cereal bowl test was the Erewhon entrant, also made from brown rice and with less than 1 gram of sugar per serving. It had a pleasantly nutty favour, a solid crunch that lasted several minutes after the milk was poured. It lost points, however, for making little noise in the bowl and for the occasional overcrunchy grain (they tasted as though they'd been toasted a bit too long).
And Kellogg's original? It came in at No. 3. While a solid contender with the greatest noise factor, it got soggy after just 1 1/2 minutes in milk and didn't have as assertive a crunch as the brown rice versions.
We got similar results in the Rice Krispies Treats test. And yes, we all felt a little sick by the end.
This time, it was a tie for first place. We liked Kellogg's Gluten-Free Rice Krispies and Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice equally well. Both gave the bars a deliciously nutty flavour that paired well with — but didn't overshadow — the sweetness of the marshmallow. The cereals gave the bars a lasting crunch that was a wonderful contrast to the overall chewy texture of the treats. These were what Rice Krispies Treats should be.
Once again in third — but this time a distant third — was Kellogg's original Rice Krispies. Though the taste was fine, the texture was mushy, lacking even a modest crunch.
As for the other three contenders... I'll spare them the humiliation of tallying their weaknesses. Suffice to say, the store brands and the shockingly high sugar Koala Crisp (11 grams per 3/4 cup serving) were not just disappointing, but in the latter case actually unpleasant.
Our conclusion — For reliably good bars and breakfasts, Kellogg's Gluten-Free Rice Krispies are the way to go. If you are looking for an organic option, Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice is an excellent second choice.
Which means that even after more than 80 years, Kellogg's still has a winner. It's just not the winner the company might have expected.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Follow AP Food Editor J.M. Hirsch to great eats on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JM_Hirsch or email him at jhirsch(at)ap.org.


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Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God.
Hey, how are you? It's God again. I know it's been a while since I wrote, but that doesn't mean we're not still totally bff. I mean, the f stands for something, right? Well, both of them do. And the b, also. But that second f is the important part.
People have been calling me lately more than ever before. I don't wanna say I'm Ms. Popular or anything but it's crazy! The phone just keeps ringing. It's "God this," and "God that," and I'm getting so tired of it. If George calls me one more time I'm just gonna freak. And John is no better. The only thing I care less about than that stupid election is the Super Bowl. It's in friggin January. Like I wanna be bothered during the one week I get off from school until March. I'm planning a ski trip with Ashleigh and Deb and I hope we get to go. Last year we had to cancel cause there was some big flood and my line was going off the hook with people telling me about it. Duh. Like I don't know. I'm the one that started it!
I dunno why we get off for presidents' week anyway. There's no gods week. I guess Christmas and Hanukah, but that's only some people anyway. And last I checked Lincoln's birthday wasn't always on a Monday (I should know - I invented it!)
Some jerks set off a few bombs in churches in Iraq the other day and I've been really tense about it. I mean, how would they like it if I wrecked their stuff? My little brother lost his retainer once and my mom totally freaked. What's she going to say when she finds out that I lost five churches in one day? And Allah didn't even apologize! He said that he didn't want it to happen and his friends just misheard him, but still I'm the one who has to deal with all of it. I think he's still mad at me for what George did to his front yard. I told him not to! I promise! Yeesh, this is so sixth grade. No offense.
I've been having trouble at school lately. Some of the other gods have been teasing me and they wouldn't let me sit at their table. And I was like, "but I'm America's god," and then Allah got all up in my face about how all of us are America's god and I was like, "no!," and he was all, "yeah!" and I said something about how if he was so special than why can't he help anyone win a war and I probably shouldn't have said it because everyone got quiet. And then Shiva told me that my friends were using "born again" wrong and Thor said something really mean that I can't even remember but I threw down my tray and stormed out. Whatever, it's just high school. Like this stuff is really gonna matter in four years. Get over it.
I liked it better when we were kids and we could just play all day in the desert and no one really bothered us except when we'd break a palace window with a Frisbee or something. Oh man, do you remember how mad Ramses got? He was all, "I'm the Pharaoh and no one breaks my window," and I was like, "don't tell me what to do, I'm God!" and I let a bunch of bugs go in his house.
I've just been feeling really blah lately, and I was hoping that writing to you could help me get some kind of catharsis or something. Catharsis. Isn't that a good word? I learned that one yesterday. It means "The emotional relief that results either from allowing repressed thoughts and feelings to surface." I should have known that one already cause that's totally the story of my life. Well, my friend's lives, anyway. But you know what I mean.
Look at me, I'm just rambling to you. So how have you been? Did that stuff with the tissues and the sweater work? Don't worry, that's totally normal. I went through the same thing when I was your age. Like I'm so much older now. It's just been three years, but time here is different so it's felt like way more. Anyway, write back and let me know how everything is. I could use the distraction.


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Nicole Oresme
Born: 1323 in Allemagne (west of Riez), France
Died: 11 July 1382 in Lisieux, France
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Nicholas Oresme, whose name is given in French as Nicole Oresme, was of Norman origin. Nothing is known of his early life, and the first that is known is that he studied for an Arts Degree in Paris in the early 1340s where he was taught by Jean Buridan at the University of Paris.
Buridan was a philosopher and logician who made contributions to probability, optics and mechanics. He added to Aristotle's theory of motion by understanding that motion was retarded by resistance from the air. Although his views were in many respects close to those of Ockham, he disagreed with some of Ockham's views and attacked them in 1340. About 35 years later the followers of Ockham would retaliate by placing Buridan's works on the Index of Forbidden Books. Buridan had a major influence in interesting Oresme in natural philosophy and in encouraging him to question the ideas of Aristotle.
Oresme's name appears on the list of scholarship holders in theology at the College of Navarre at the University of Paris in the year 1348. He was awarded the degree of Master of Theology in 1355 and, in the following year, he was appointed as Grand Master of the College of Navarre. Not long after this Oresme became friendly with the dauphin Charles who went on to become Charles V of France in 1362. The friendship between Charles and Oresme was one which continued throughout their lives. Charles was in intellectual and religious man who enjoyed the company of scholars such as Oresme.
After six years as the Grand Master of the College of Navarre, Oresme left in 1362 to become canon of the Cathedral of Rouen. The following year he took on the additional duties of canon at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. In 1364 he became dean of the Cathedral of Rouen and, his friend Charles becoming King of France on 8 April of that year, Oresme was appointed as Charles' chaplain and councillor. From 1370 he lived mainly in Paris, advising Charles on financial matters as well as translating from Latin into French Aristotle's Ethics, Politics and On the Heavens and the Aristotle style work Economics. These translations were very important, introducing many new technical terms into the French language. As a reward for this work Charles appointed Oresme bishop of Lisieux in 1377 and he was consecrated in the following year.
At a time when Aristotle's ideas were accepted almost without question, Oresme did indeed question them. For example he rejected Aristotle's definition of time, which was based on uniform motion, and proposed a definition independent of motion. Similarly he rejected Aristotle's definition of the position of a body, which was the boundary of the surrounding space, and replaced it with a definition in terms of the space which the body occupies.
Oresme invented a type of coordinate geometry before Descartes, finding the logical equivalence between tabulating values and graphing them in De configurationibus qualitatum et motuum. He proposed the use of a graph for plotting a variable magnitude whose value depends on another variable. It is possible that Descartes was influenced by Oresme's work since it was reprinted several times over the 100 years following its first publication. Oresme was the first to prove Merton's theorem, namely that the distance travelled in a fixed time by a body moving under uniform acceleration is the same as if the body moved at a uniform speed equal to its speed at the midpoint of the time period.
Another work by Oresme De proportionibus proportionum contains the first use of a fractional exponent, although, of course, not in modern notation. He examined the question as to whether the ratio of the periods of two heavenly bodies was a rational number asking:-
... if anyone should make a mechanical clock, would he not make all the wheels move as harmoniously as possible?He then answered his own question, arguing that the irrationality of ratios will not rob the heavens of their beauty and will also not be inconsistent with regular movement. Oresme also worked on infinite series and argued for an infinite void beyond the Earth.
Clagett writes in [3]:-
This brilliant scholar has been credited with ... the invention of analytic geometry before Descartes, with propounding structural theories of compounds before nineteenth century organic chemists, with discovering the law of free fall before Galileo, and with advocating the rotation of the Earth before Copernicus. None of these claims is, in fact, true, although each is based on discussion by Oresme of some penetration and originality ...In Livre du ciel et du monde (1377) Oresme opposed the theory of a stationary Earth as proposed by Aristotle and in this work he proposed rotation of the Earth some 200 years before Copernicus. However he rather spoilt this fine piece of thinking by rejecting his own ideas at the end of the work and so, as Clagett writes, cannot be regarded as claiming that the Earth rotated before Copernicus. He wrote Questiones Super Libros Aristotelis de Anima dealing with the nature of light, reflection of light, and the speed of light. Oresme's work on light is discussed in detail in [16].
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Travel to Peru and discover ancient civilizations on the Quarry Trail.
Wind through the spectacular Andes on this lesser-known route to Machu Picchu. Trek through breathtaking landscapes, interact with local communities and visit some of the smaller Inca archaeological sites. This action-filled express Peruvian tour gets you closer to the secrets of this elusive civilisation on a breathtaking adventure to Machu Picchu.
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Why we love this trip
This trip allows you to choose how you want to approach Machu Picchu. Hike the Inca Quarry Trail or relax and take the train
You'll have plenty of free time to explore the greatest icon of ancient South America, Machu Picchu. Take a guided tour and then wander around it at your own pace
Explore Cusco, South America's oldest continuously inhabited city. The city has ancient foundations, an interesting blend of Inca and colonial influences, and endless things to do and see
The Quarry Trail not only offers the magnificent Andean scenery you expect on any trek in the Cusco region, but it also visits three lesser know archaeological sites on the way.
Is this trip right for you?
This trip visits places that are at high altitude, and as a result some people can suffer from altitude sickness, regardless of age or physical health. Please see the 'health' section of the trip notes for more important information on this.
This trip involves a lot of walking to see the sites.The trip is recommended for those with a moderate level of fitness. Please bring durable footwear suitable to hiking. See the 'What to Take' section of the trip notes for more information.
You will be trekking along the Quarry Trail, so you'll be camping with basic facilities. It's not exactly the Hilton Hotel, but the rewards of the trek are great.
Meet your friendly local guide at Plaza de Armas, the main square of Cusco and a place that has been the heart of the city since the time of the Incas. You'll get to explore the square — take in the sites of the Cathedral and the Church of La Compañía, as well as all the outstanding buildings that make this plaza one of the most beautiful in the world — before officially beginning your Cusco tour. From there, you'll wander along ancient streets to admire the dramatic Inca Walls, constructed from mammoth granite blocks, side-by-side with colonial buildings. It's here that you'll also get to see a famed Inca masterpiece, the 12-angle stone.
Your Cusco tour will then lead you on a stroll through a beautiful small plaza, San Blas, located in Cusco's bohemian, artistic neighborhood. It's here where you can find several artisinal shops, a handicrafts market, and the best views of the city as night falls.
Then it's back to the order of the day: Pisco! As you wander through the city, your local guide will tell you all about the traditional Pisco Sour and its place in Peruvian history. We'll stop off at a local bar so that you can taste a few different flavours of Pisco, and hear all about the distillation process and how this sour drink is made.
Finally, it's your time to shine! Get your mixologist hat on and try your hand at making your very own Pisco Sour, using all the knowledge that you've picked up along the way on this Cusco city tour. And the best part? You get to drink it afterwards — salud!
Included Activities
- Arrival group transfer
- Walking tour
- Cusco Pisco Making
- Hotel
In the morning, travel by private car through the Sacred Valley (approx 2 hours total drive), on the outskirts of Cusco. Known as Wilcamayo to the Incas, the lush, fertile valley has long been the main source of food for the high Andes. Maize crops can be seen surrounding the river and covering the terraces carved high into the valley walls.
You will head to a community in the valley to learn about local lifestyle and activities. If our visit coincides with market day you can spend time browsing the stalls in search of hand-painted beads or warm ponchos and maybe practice some of the local language, Quechua. Later you will continue the tour visiting the town of Ollantaytambo, which was built over an ancient Inca town. This is a magnificent example of Inca urban planning and one of the few places where the Incas defeated the Spanish.
Ollantaytambo's archaeological site is located to the east of the Plaza de Armas. The upper terraces of this site offer great photo opportunities of the squared grid town below.
In the afternoon, you will go to the hotel in Ollantaytambo.
Included Activities
- Visit of the Sacred Valley (Full Day - Comunity visit)
- Boleto Turistico Partial
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Make an early start today and drive to Choquequilla, a small ceremonial place where Incas worshipped the moon. Drive to the starting point of the trek, Rafq'a, and meet the horsemen who join us on the hike. After an hour's walk, reach the small community of Socma. Carry on to the Perolniyoc cascade lookout, an opportunity to stop for photos and a food break. Continue to the campsite, which is 12,140 feet above sea level. You should reach the campsite around lunchtime. After lunch, set off to explore the Q'orimarca archaeological site, which once served as a checkpoint to the Incas.
- Camping (with basic facilities, 1 night)
This is the most challenging and rewarding day of the hike. A three hour walk takes us to the top of the first pass of Puccaqasa (approximately 14,337 feet high). After enjoying picturesque views of the valley, it's a short walk before stopping for lunch. Afterwards, make the two hour hike to Kuychicassa, the highest pass of the trek at 47,899 feet. From here, descend to the sacred site the Incas called Intipunku (Sun Gate), with views of the Nevado Veronica mountain. Head to the campsite, only a stone's throw away at Choquetacarpo.
- Camping (with basic facilities, 1 night)
Today's hike will all be downhill. The first stop is the incomplete Kachiqata quarry, where the Incas were intercepted by the Spanish. Around midday, come to the end of the trek. Explore the cobbled streets of Ollantaytambo before taking the short train journey to Aguas Calientes. Visiting the natural hot springs in town is a soothing way to spend the late afternoon. Spend the night in a comfortable hotel before tomorrow's visit to Machu Picchu.
- Hotel
Depending on weather conditions, take a bus at 5:30am this morning along the winding road to Machu Picchu. The journey takes around 30 minutes. If skies are clear, enjoy a spectacular sunrise over the ancient city from the Sun Gate, before going on a guided walk around the ruins.
In the evening enjoy the a Peruvian Novo-Andenean dinner and folkloric show at the Tunupa Cuzco Restaurant.
Tunupa Restaurant Bar Grill, which has been operating for 10 years and is 100% owned by Cusco entrepreneurs, is located in the heart of the Main Square. From its balcony you can appreciate the beauty of the Cathedral, as well as the Haukaypata. It has a variety of Novo-Andean dishes, as well as delicious buffet meals for the enjoyment of all the visitors. You can also enjoy a live show and an ancestral dance performance.
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- Farewell buffet Dinner
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Hotel (4 nights), camping (2 nights)
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A week ago we reported the salaries of all offices up for election, our response to questions posed by an informal group after a recent Tea Party meeting.
There are obviously a lot of different opinions on how much someone should be paid for a job they are elected to do. What follows are a few thoughts about that. Some are our own. Others are repeated here from opinions we heard voiced at the Tea Party gathering.
Unlike the private sector (where we assume everyone can negotiate their best price), in government, officials get paid with tax dollars, which creates a different set of expectations.
Something to keep in mind, even in a sole commissioner county, is that the top man cannot just approve himself a raise whenever he feels like it. Salaries of those elected to county office are set according to state guidelines. Admittedly, there have been plenty of scandals across the nation when officials found avenues to advance their pay unofficially and unscrupulously.
Some of the politically interested citizens at the Tea Party meeting felt a fair salary for a "public servant" should be based on the average income of the area to be served. In other words, if the average local income is somewhere in the $30,000's, that's about what the commissioner should make.
This would certainly seem fair to the community and might bring out candidates with public service uppermost in their minds. But we question whether such pay would be truly fair to ones sure to suffer the public slings and arrows saved for candidates running for office. We also ask what effect this pay system might have on the quality of candidates.
If we were to apply the average income method locally, we would find our officials are paid about twice too much, with the commissioner and sheriff paid nearly $70,000 each, along with a very nice benefits package. Our magistrate, probate judge, tax commissioner and clerk of court all earn $50,000 to $60,000 plus benefits.
Another idea on setting salaries would be to base pay on what an average CEO of a company the size of a school system or government would make.
Our future commission chair will be responsible for an organization that employs more than 300 people and works a yearly budget of $19 million. Further, the position oversees extensive projects like the $12 million courthouse construction and is the buck-stop authority to a myriad of important duties such as fire protection, youth recreation and keeping water pressure in county water lines.
Conversely, those who make their living from government are not sitting up nights to worry about how they'll make payroll this week or about how to tell someone with years of experience they have been laid-off.
Still, if we use this CEO business model, then our officials here aren't paid half enough.
It's laughable to hear politicians tout withholding pay raises as a mark of conservative spending. Not only has the private sector foregone pay increases in recent years, they have cut pay, benefits and jobs as a means to survive.
Finally, the Tea Party discussion indicated the $10,200 pay for newly created district commissioner posts is an odd sort-of-hybrid idea. But $10,200 is nothing to scoff at for part-time work in this economy. There are a lot of people who would welcome the chance to earn $10,200 by working maybe a couple of meetings per week and answering a few e-mails.
On the other hand, that amount is certainly not enough if pay alone is the reason we expect someone to serve effectively.
A problem encountered with several nominally paid county posts, like tax boards or the school board, is the sometimes public notion that lack of pay becomes an excuse for poor performance in office. Too many times we have heard, "Well, they ain't really paying him, so what can you expect?" or "I wouldn't do it for $50 a meeting."
We've never heard anyone on a board or commission say this, but we have heard members of the public make this excuse for low performance among those serving. We encourage everyone to drop that line of reasoning. Before anyone accepts an appointment to a board or enters an election race, they must approach it with the aim to work to the best of their ability, not to a level dictated by part-time pay.
For district commissioners, we have a good crop of candidates. They express a desire to govern in new posts, like it's an honor and a duty they take seriously. Regardless of the pay, let's be sure we hold them to that standard – full time.


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Sue Ostrowski is out to slay the grey dragon.
There's just too much grey out there, particularly when it comes to concrete and residential neighbourhoods, says the co-owner of Diamond Concrete Design.
"Concrete is grey. The driveway is grey. The basement floor is grey. The sidewalks are grey. If it's cement, it's grey and boring," says Ostrowski, who, along with her business partner Mary Fadi, is out to change that. They want to transform plain concrete slabs into engraved masterpieces.
Engraving expertise enables Diamond to create patterns and designs on the previously dull and grey concrete surfaces, and the colour palette — along with the potential designs — is wide-ranging.
"Utilizing your concrete's finish, porosity and blemishes, and introducing our colour and finishing techniques, transforms each concrete surface into a unique piece of art," says Ostrowski. "It's kind of like creating art on concrete."
Designs can include geometric patterns, resemble abstract art, or even be as complementary as grapes on a vine for a wine cellar floor; it just depends on where the homeowner wants to go with the finished look.
Floors are the obvious choice for the concrete engraving process, but are not the only option. Concrete walls or concrete countertops are other possibilities.
Starting prices are $7 a square foot, as the material — the engraving surface — is already in place.
"Once you have an idea of the concept, we start designing," says Ostrowski. "Then we talk about colours. Everything gets laid out on a floor before any cutting (of the concrete) occurs. If they want circles or arcs or lines on floors, we lay it out first and then get homeowner approval."
However, the floor or surface in question must first be prepped to reveal the concrete, grinding or sanding to expose the pores. That is followed by a very good cleaning to ensure all the dust is completely removed.
Once all the work is completed, a protective coating is applied to seal the finish.As for cracks in the concrete, Ostrowski says most are superficial and can easily be incorporated into the artwork, adding what she calls "character wrinkles" to the design. "Most of the time, it just becomes part of the art and you don't even see it," she says, noting that an overlay — a thin coating of concrete — can be added, though this will add a good chunk to the final price.
"More and more people are starting to look at this as a flooring alternative," says Ostrowski. "Homeowners are tired of carpet, hardwood or boring tile. They want, 'Wow! Is that your floor?' With the concrete, you can create a unique focal point in your home. This floor will grab you. It's full of life, with colour and design."
Sherwood Park, Alta.'s Diamond Concrete Design grew out of their existing business, Enviro Clean Grout & Stone Care Inc., which specializes in the restoration, protection and care of grout, natural stone and concrete.
"We've been doing this (the grout cleaning) for a few years," Ostrowski says. "It's a very unique service. People have been looking for a solution for their grout or natural stone, and we went out and found a unique business opportunity.
"This is also how the concrete engraving came about; it is another unique service. We noticed a lot of concrete — whether it's a driveway, a sidewalk or basement — and people weren't sure what to do with these surfaces."
While taking a course to learn about shining concrete, they came upon another course on engraving concrete and the rest, as they say, is history.
"We find that getting any kind of education is extremely important," says Ostrowski. "We do take the time and spend the money and, just because we've taken one course, that's not the end of it. We want to bring all the information back to our customers and we believe in continuing education."
Meanwhile, engraved concrete is starting to make it onto homeowners' radar screens."People are ecstatic. They're wondering when they can rip their carpet out, or they're waiting for summer so we can look at their driveway or their garage."
Edmonton Journal


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There seems to be no end to the stories of how some people were saved from the tragedies that Islamic terror perpetrated in Israel and in the United States.
One that recently came to light concerns two young women from the States who were visiting Israel and stopped off at the Sbarro Restaurant in central Jerusalem. A saleswoman at the entrance advised them to return in an hour because the place was so crowded that they would not find a place to sit. When they later returned they discovered that the Sbarro had in the interim been the site of a terrorist bombing and that the woman who had saved their lives had been badly wounded. They visited her in the hospital and invited her to call upon them if she should ever be in need of medical help in the States.
As the victim of very serious burns, the woman was eventually advised by her doctors to travel to the States for plastic surgery. She recalled the offer of those two young women and informed them when she would be arriving. Before rushing to the airport to welcome her they debated whether to recommend a hospital in the New York area where they lived and worked or a more prestigious one in relatively distant Baltimore. They finally decided to take off a day from work in order to accompany her to Baltimore.
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STOCKTON - In the past year, city officials twice asked the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) for help, and twice the state pension fund manager rejected their pleas.
STOCKTON - In the past year, city officials twice asked the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) for help, and twice the state pension fund manager rejected their pleas.
Stockton either couldn't show that it qualified for a hardship exemption, or CalPERS said the law prevented it from lending a hand to the city as it teetered on the brink of financial ruin and then plunged into bankruptcy.
"CalPERS would be pleased to work with the city in these challenging financial times to discuss other possible benefit alternatives, so long as the changes are permitted by law," CalPERS' Customer Account Services Division official Karen DeFrank wrote in one rejection letter.
The relationship between Stockton and CalPERS will be central to arguments this week in the city's eligibility trial scheduled to begin today in Sacramento.
Creditors argue that Stockton doesn't deserve Chapter 9 protection, in part because the city didn't negotiate a reduction in costs with CalPERS before filing for bankruptcy.
Stockton spent three months in confidential mediation before filing Chapter 9. The city distributed a 790-page document to all parties - including CalPERS - that guided the negotiations.
The city maintains that reducing benefits for its workers would make it even harder to recruit and hold onto its employees, especially badly needed police officers.
CalPERS further says it is not technically a creditor and therefore exempt from the bankruptcy. Its relationship with Stockton is bound by law, while Stockton has commercial ties with its creditors.
For the city's strategic move to leave CalPERS out of its pre-bankruptcy negotiations, creditors such as Assured Guaranty Corp. and National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. contend the city didn't negotiate in good faith, a requirement of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Yet, among thousands of pages of court briefs filed in the last nine months, the city says it reached out to CalPERS before and after filing for bankruptcy June 28.
Deputy City Manager Laurie Montes, on June 7, first asked CalPERS if it were possible to reduce a 5 percent cost of living rate for non-public safety employees to 2 percent, saving the city an unidentified amount.
The city in 2001 increased the rate, but projections showed that the cost of living rate in reality will creep up much slower. Stockton was one of few cities around to have the higher rate, court papers say.
"We understand that it is relatively unusual, if not unprecedented," Montes wrote. "However, the fiscal situation the city faces ... is so rare and the uncertainty with respect to future costs compels us to reach out to you."
A CalPERS official responded, saying that by law it is prevented from reducing benefits. The pension fund can only increase benefits, state officials said.
Again on Dec. 4, Stockton's Human Resources Director Teresia Haase sent a letter asking for help. She wanted to explore the possibility that CalPERS would grant Stockton what is called a "hardship exemption."
Under this provision, the city sought to stretch part of its pension costs out over 30 years, potentially saving $1.3 million in the current year, said Haase, citing a recommendation by Nancy Zielke, one of Assured's consultants.
"The city of Stockton does not meet this criteria," replied Alan Milligan, CalPERS chief actuary.
Despite these efforts, Stockton's relationship with CalPERS remains cemented in place.
Stockton's relationship with CalPERS dates back to 1944, when the City Council signed a contract with the state to manage its employee pensions. Today, CalPERS is the nation's largest public pension fund with $256 billion in assets.
The city this year will pay CalPERS a total of $30 million. Another 2,401 retired city employees are drawing pensions.
If the city were to end its relationship with CalPERS, Stockton would immediately have to pay $950 million into a state fund called a termination pool to cover the cost of future benefits.
The city and state officials both say that - despite creditors' arguments that the city should leave CalPERS - the staggering figure is so large that Stockton is inextricably bound to the pension fund.
"Termination is not a viable option," CalPERS attorney Michael Gearin says in court papers. "The capital market creditors' fixation on termination is a mere distraction to the ultimate question of whether Stockton is eligible for protection under Chapter 9."
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The following answer to a question about C++ vs C# performance on Stack Overflow has sadly been deleted despite having 305 upvotes:
I often heard that people prefer C++ to C# mainly in the performance critical code,because the GC might turn up on critical path, causing the performance penalty.
I have heard that in some circles but never respectable circles.
For example, I consulted for a company in London who were selling stock exchange software that had been written in 1,000,000 lines of C++. Over 40 developers had been working on it for almost 15 years and they were convinced that C++ was the correct solution for such software because latency and throughput performance were both critical. They were achieving latencies as low as 50ms (with a single trader connected!) and throughput as high as 10k trades per second (tps). However, they were struggling to support more than 2,000 traders because they had several threads per trader (no async) and, in fact, traders were reporting latencies as high as six seconds because the latency of their C++ code increased exponentially with the number of traders. I rewrote their code in 3 months using F# on .NET and achieved latencies as low as 0.1ms and throughputs over 200ktps using just 6,000 lines of F#. My solution was fully asynchronous (supported over 10,000 simultaneous trader connections) and fault tolerant.
Now, I'm not saying that C++ could not have been used to achieve even better performance than mine. On the contrary, I'm sure it could have achieved better performance but I also believe it would have taken man-decades of work by real experts and cost millions of pounds. After all, there's a reason why the London Stock Exchange paid £18m for Millenium IT and their low-latency C++ solution. However, I do believe that the vast majority of the people who prematurely optimize away garbage collection don't know what they are talking about and would not be capable of building a good solution in any language. Such people usually only know C++ and have no knowledge of garbage collection algorithms, which is scary because C++ programmers reinvent GC algorithms every day. A good test is to ask them how garbage collection works. If they describe naive mark-sweep circa 1960 then they haven't done their homework.
On the other hand, some people write excellent low-latency and high-throughput code in garbage collected languages. For example, see the LMAX Disruptor (Java) and Rapid Addition FIX engine(C#). So people have written low-latency software in Java and C# and, therefore, it clearly is possible. In particular, the use of arrays of value types is a known but under-appreciated solution for low-latency programming on .NET.
However, when I read through the C++, I realized that C++ offers the smart pointer features in which the programmer did not need to worry about memory management. For example, the shared_ptr with reference counting will manage the memory for us. Hence,we did not really care about the life-time of an object and when did it being deleted. Wouldn't that similar to the C# GC and the destructor of the object would be called at the performance critical code?
Yes. C++ programmers often complain about tracing garbage collectors being non-deterministic and causing pauses. Thread-safe
shared_ptr in C++ is non-deterministic because threads race to decrement the count to zero and the winner of the race condition is burdened with calling the destructor. And
shared_ptr causes pauses when decrements avalanche, e.g. when a thread releases the last reference to a tree the thread is paused for an unbounded length of time while every destructor in the tree is called. Reference counting can be made incremental by queuing destructors but that recovers the non-determinism of tracing garbage collection. Finally, reference counting with
shared_ptr is several times slower than tracing garbage collection because incrementing and decrementing counts is cache unfriendly.
On a related note, C++ programmers often mistakenly claim that
shared_ptr collects garbage at the earliest possible point in the program and, therefore, collects more "promptly" than a tracing garbage collector can. In fact, scope-based reference counting like
shared_ptr keeps floating garbage around until it falls out of scope which increases register pressure can even increase memory consumption compared to tracing garbage collection.
shared_ptr is indeed nothing more than a poor man's garbage collector. After all, old JVMs and CLRs both used reference counting at some point in history and both dropped it in favor of better forms of garbage collection. Reference counting is only popular in C++ because there is no easy way to walk the stack and redirect pointers so accurate tracing collection is prohibitively difficult.
Also, another question is if we didn't use smart pointer in C++ and we just resort to raw pointer, we still need to call delete to clear the heap memory. So from my understanding, every object created by C++ or C# would still be destroyed but the difference is only in we manage the memory ourselves in C++ but in C#, we let the GC to manage it. So what is the NET effect of it when comparing C++ and C# since both object still need to be deleted?
In its simplest form, allocation in C++ boils down to calling a general-purpose shared (global) memory allocator like
malloc and in C# it boils down to pointer bump allocating into a thread-local nursery generation (gen0). Consequently, ordinary allocation in C# is much faster than ordinary allocation in C++. However, that misrepresents real software. In practice, C++ programmers avoid calling the general purpose global allocator in favor of using thread-local pool allocators whenever possible. On the other hand, C# developers rely on the general purpose memory management solution provided by .NET because it greatly simplifies APIs (memory ownership has been abstracted away) and is more than fast enough in the vast majority of cases. In the few cases where the simple solution is not adequate, the C# developer drops to lower level C# code and writes a pool allocator using an array of value types.
So I'd probably just make two observations:
· Accurate tracing garbage collection is extremely useful in general and is bundled with C# and prohibitively difficult with C++.
· Memory management bit tricks (e.g. smuggling bits in pointers) are sometimes possible in C++ but prohibited in C#.
So there is no easy way to compare C++ and C# fairly in this context.
Moreover, memory management is arguably not the biggest performance concern anyway. Many other issues can have a significant effect such as the quality of generated code on obscure architectures (where C compilers are usually much more mature) vs JIT compiling for a specific CPU, vectorization like SIMD (.NET does little), JIT-compiled run-time-generated code (like regular expressions in .NET) vs an interpreter in C++ and compilation to GPUs or FPGAs.
I think the only piece of good advice I can give you here is: do your own research and don't listen to the unwashed masses.


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The Wrestling Backfire: If You Tell Them They Can't Have It, They'll Want It More – The Story of Daniel Bryan's Push
Fans have many different opinions when it comes to pro-wrestling. But the one thing most can agree on is that a wrestling company must provide the fans with what they want. Some people out there claim that the WWE hardly ever gives the fans what they want. If that were the case, WWE would have been out of business years ago. Nearly every wrestler that has been insanely over has eventually won the WWE title. I say "nearly" because there have, of course, been exceptions, so there's no need to flood the comments asking "What about (insert wrestler here)?"
There has always been this perception, though, that Vince McMahon loves gigantic, handsome, bodybuilder-looking wrestlers and practically nothing else. That would indicate that Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Randy Savage, and CM Punk were just figments of my imagination, I guess. The dominant reasoning behind McMahon's affinity for those types of guys is because they have a strong track record of becoming household names. Big, good-looking wrestlers cater to uninformed wrestling fans. It is simply human nature for casual fans to become more captivated by the muscular, larger-than-life wrestler than the one who looks like their next-door neighbor. The reason behind McMahon's fascination with bigger wrestlers is natural: They've simply been good at making him money.
That is all Vince McMahon cares about, and he has said it, himself, numerous times. The idea Vince despises smaller wrestlers for no particular reason is nonsense, as he has treasured many smaller wrestlers through the years. They were the ones who made him money.
Now, to the point: What the WWE is doing with Daniel Bryan is a masterful idea. As I said earlier, fans will generally agree that WWE should give the majority what they want. After all, they are the ones who generate revenue for the company. I disagree entirely with the notion that fans do not know what they want. However, I vehemently believe that fans do not recognize when WWE should give it to them.
Back in 2008, one of my friends was an enormous Jeff Hardy fan, just like most of WWE's fans were. He used to argue that WWE was a missing a massive opportunity with Hardy. It was an understandable claim; after all, Hardy was one of the most over wrestlers in the company. But while WWE kept perpetually building him up, seemingly foreshadowing a championship run, they never pulled the trigger. Finally, when it almost seemed hopeless that he would ever win the WWE title, he did, sending the entire arena — and my friend — into a frenzy. If it were up to my friend, or any of the other Hardy enthusiasts, he would have won the first title opportunity. By making the fans wait, WWE made the eventual payoff even more significant.
Jeff Hardy was a lovable loser, much like my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. The fact that they came so close but could never pull it off only made it more gratifying when it happened. All of the anxiety of coming up short each time washes away, leaving simply a sensation of pure relief. There is even more wisdom behind the way WWE has booked Daniel Bryan beyond the Jeff Hardy example, though.
Bryan's rise is more analogous to how Stone Cold Steve Austin rose up through the ranks. Many have claimed that Austin's character exploded primarily because of how relatable it was. And sure, there are people who related to him because they do want to push their boss, but not all people hate their boss. I, for one, genuinely like my boss and hope he is reading this. Besides, when I liked Austin, I didn't even have a boss. There were certain attributes that made Austin popular, but the key component to making him tremendously over was the amount of empathy he had. Think about it: McMahon's character did not want Austin as champion because he represented the complete opposite of what a figurehead was theoretically supposed to be. McMahon's character hated that Austin did not fit the stereotypical mold of a champion, which just caused fans to rally behind Austin even more.
There seems to be this certainty among fans that Vince McMahon hates Daniel Bryan and does not want him as a babyface title holder because he does not "fit the mold." They even did something similar with CM Punk two years ago. Instead, WWE is using this misconception that McMahon abhors Daniel Bryan to his advantage. In fact, they have already been planting the seeds by having commentators characterize Bryan as "too small" and "unique." McMahon has fostered this idea that he doesn't believe in Bryan, but it is really just what he wants us to believe. If McMahon actually thought ill of Daniel Bryan, he would not be getting all this attention. It is all part of WWE's shrewd plan.
On Raw, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon were both sarcastically endorsing newly minted general manager Brad Maddox, with HHH suggesting that Maddox was irresponsible to allow John Cena to pick his opponent for the second biggest PPV of the year. They noted that Vince McMahon was not there and said that they hoped Cena would not pick who they thought he might pick because Vince would be livid. It only makes sense that they were referring to Daniel Bryan, the same person who McMahon has ridiculed on TV before.
There is no denying that WWE took a bit of a risk by allowing the fans to believe that they were choosing Cena's opponent at SummerSlam because they could have preferred someone else. But it was a rather safe gamble due to how over Bryan has been with every crowd. Regardless, it worked exactly the way they planned. An impartial Cena decided not to pick his opponent but to let the fans decide instead, and the fans picked the wrestler McMahon supposedly did not want.
It appears as if WWE has set up something so subtle that even the smartest fans have fallen for it. They want you to think McMahon does not want Bryan to become champion, just like they made us believe he wasn't going to get a title shot in the first place. WWE has used the dirt sheets to their advantage in the past. Most notably, they tried to make fans believe that The Rock and John Cena had genuine heat to make their promos seem more like shoots and that they might even shoot on each other in the ring at WrestleMania. Therefore, it is possible that WWE reported that Daniel Bryan would get a title shot at Money in the Bank and, later, that he would win the Money in the Bank ladder match to give off the impression that it was not going to happen. Of course, that would only serve to make the fans want it more.
WWE has deceived people — and I strongly believe are going to do it a lot more — into believing that Vince McMahon is standing in the way of Bryan's success. The louder the fans chant for Bryan and the more they buy his merchandise, the more likely they will put McMahon in an uncomfortable situation, and put him in a spot where he has no choice other than giving Bryan the WWE title. It has been done before. Think about it, the more the fans support Bryan, the more WWE has teased the idea that they do not believe in him, which just leads to the fans supporting Bryan even harder. The truth of the matter is that WWE has placed its faith in Daniel Bryan, because for all the talk of height and weight, the only number that Vince McMahon truly cares about is his money in the bank.
Fans are going to think that they are raging against the machine by supporting Bryan to become champion. But it is exactly what McMahon wants, and I wouldn't doubt if Bryan's quest for the title becomes an extended angle until Bryan reaches his highest-point. So don't be surprised if he loses at Summerslam, and you should not become discouraged because it will make you want to see it even more.
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