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?Something bordering on the miraculous happened at my community high school the other night: The parents who speak only Spanish were included and respected in a meeting in a way that did not turn the whole thing into a big, fat mess.
In the past, the school district�s well-intentioned efforts to include non-English-speaking parents in assemblies had turned them into long, plodding exercises in maintaining focus through short bursts and long pauses.
A presenter would impart a message in chunks and a translator would repeat the information in Spanish. Invariably, the English speaker would go for way too long without breaking to let the translator catch up. Then the Spanish information would stream out, sometimes too quickly to understand.
The crowd would get shifty and exasperated because both audiences were waiting to hear the portion that was for them. The presentations would take twice as long as they would have in a single language, and some parents left agitated.
When piling out of the gymnasium or auditorium, it was not uncommon to hear loud complaints of English-only speakers of the sort that would usually be limited to behind-closed-doors harrumphing about school communications arriving home printed in two languages.
Such is life in a community that was once strictly blue-collar white and over the course of a very few years became 50 percent Hispanic. You don�t have to hang around the local coffee shops too long before you hear someone grousing that the signs on Main Street businesses are increasingly only in Spanish.
The dual-language school assemblies were a nightmare -- at least half the crowd felt left out at any given moment -- and it reinforced to longtime residents that their new neighbors were making things worse, not better.
So imagine my surprise when I attended a recent meeting in which the Spanish-speaking families were outfitted with discreet headsets streaming real-time translation from a school employee.
A quick check around the room showed an equally engaged audience that was seamlessly following the featured speaker and was given ample opportunity to ask questions in either language for immediate response.
No one sat glassy eyed for their turn to listen, no one grouched about how long it was taking and, best of all, I didn�t hear any snarky grumblings about how people �should learn to speak the language.�
I fully agree that parents of public schoolchildren should be responsible for making every attempt to speak the primary language of their community. I, too, wish that our financially struggling, academically failing schools weren�t further burdened by the intense needs of children and parents who can barely communicate in English.
But even when attacked with fervor, English-language acquisition doesn�t always happen quickly enough to make it possible for parents to actively participate in their child�s education without some help.
According to the National Education Policy Center�s just-released brief on English-language learners (ELLs) and parental involvement, these students mainly attend schools with few resources and low instructional capacities and have high communication barriers to overcome.
The No. 1 tonic for clearing those obstacles is strengthening parental involvement in school. Among many best-practice recommendations, such as recruiting ELL families as volunteers and audiences and including them in school governance, is the practice of providing translators for all key parent meetings.
As you can see, that�s easier said than done -- even the best-intentioned solutions can end up feeling oppressive and divisive.
Thankfully, my school district realized how ineffective meetings had become and was able to find a workable solution to the tricky puzzle of maintaining a welcoming school environment for non-English speakers that avoids further segregating the community. A district representative told me that the set-up had just arrived and I�d been among the first to witness the new system in action. And I was asked to make sure I told the school�s administration how much I liked it.
You see, such a system isn�t exactly cheap -- and there are some who would make the argument that it was an investment that could have been made in other materials benefitting the entire student body.
But I�d disagree. The inconspicuous translation services benefit everyone. As far as I�m concerned, any system that both accommodates a second language and equally respects all the cultures present in a school community is worth its weight in gold.
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I'm $10 richer mweheheheehhe. Yen announced that she picked me with two others, for the baby name suggestions for her Little Peanut. These were my entries:
for a girl:
Amira Jericha
Albertine Jannina
Allyson Jalena
for a boy:
Antonio Joaquin
Alastair Japeth (handsome defender of men)
Asher Jiro (happy second male)
She said she could not decide yet but she became partial with the winning entries. We still don't know yet what eventually she will choose as she hasn't announced if Little Peanut is a he or a she :) I had fun searching for names. Thanks Yen, for your generosity!

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Samsung gets ready to counter-program the iPhone with the Galaxy S4
I'm in New York with our Windows Phone editor, Daniel Rubino and our videographer, Martin Reisch, to help Android Central's Phil Nickinson cover the ever-loving stuffing out of the Samsung Galaxy S4 event at Radio City Music Hall tonight. (Yeah, all of us can work cross-platform, go figure?)
What we're expecting is a bigger, badder-asser Galaxy S phone. So much has leaked already that there may not be too many surprises. The screen will likely be bigger (somewhere between the Galaxy S3 and the Note II?), processor will likely be more advanced (big.LITTLE dual quadcore), and Samsung will do what they do best -- throw a dizzying array of software features at us to see what sticks. Rumors range from eye-tracking to make sure we're paying attention to videos, to hover-mode for the touch sensor so you can gesture above, not just on the display, for even more options.
What's real and what's wishful blogging, we won't know until tonight. I'll be in Times Square with Martin if you're there and want to say hi, and get your picture in the Android Central feed. Otherwise we'll tweet what we can -- @reneritchie and @safesolvent -- but if you're at all interested in Apple's biggest competition to date, keep it locked on Android Central and the Samsung Galaxy S3
The iPhone 5 is almost 6 months old. The iPhone 5S is still months away. Samsung's picked the perfect time to counter-program Apple. It's their turn in the spotlight. While we wait on the next iPhone, let's see what Samsung can do.


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Alder's New Brunch is Precision and Comfort Combined
Brunch menus to do your weekend right.
To some chefs, serving brunch must feel creatively stifling. Even though the playing field presumably includes all of breakfast and lunch, there's an unshakable, pervasive sense that we diners are after a pretty narrow set of foods at brunch. And for every brunch favorite a chef feels compelled to include on his or her menu, a chance at innovation and surprise is stymied.
But Executive Chef Jon Bignelli and his kitchen team at Wylie Dufresne's Alder don't seem too hung up on the mores that constrict our notions about brunch. At the restaurant's newly launched Sunday-afternoon service, which began in November, they either play with our expectations or dispense with them entirely.
The dish of Pickled Beets ($13) aptly demonstrates their approach. The beet salad, a dining-world darling getting long in tooth these days, feels refreshed here by a blanket of sweet and fluffy coconut "ricotta"—in fact a dairy-free concoction of agar and fresh coconut. (Better brunch through science!) A sprinkling of cereal-like crunchy bits added textural complexity, although I couldn't discern where the Thai basil promised on the menu came into play.
Brunchers who lean towards savory will be much more smitten by the Scrambled Eggs ($16), which arrive beautifully prepared (with a hint of cheese, perhaps?) at the bottom of a bowl and topped with smoked brook trout and slices of grilled eggplant. I appreciated what seemed like unusual serviceware for scrambled eggs; the bowl allows you to easily dig around for perfectly composed bites of warm, fluffy eggs, delicately smoky fish, and earthy eggplant.
Brunch wouldn't be brunch without sides. Alder complies with this dictum, but not without thoughtful touches. The Tahini Yogurt Pine Nut Granola ($8) upgrades a typically uninspired brunch mainstay with a tautly conceived harmony of nutty, fruit, and cereal flavors. I'd happily eat a larger portion of this stuff.
No such subtle and subversive theatrics were present, however, in the puck-shaped Biscuit ($4), nestled in a streak of peach butter. It's not a bad biscuit by any means, just dull. It seems out of place among Bignelli's otherwise dynamic cooking.
Alder obliges the seeker of heartier sustenance (aka the hung-over) with Beans and Toast ($16), a superb and comforting riff on the classic English breakfast. A museum-quality fried egg crowns a bacon-studded scoop of tender baked beans, which themselves straddle a thick, chewy slab of brown bread. There's no chemistry to review here, just great ingredients speaking for themselves. And in the kitchen's restraint lies a big part of Alder's charm: not only is the place fun and relaxed, it doesn't sacrifice the goal of good food simply to cook things differently for their own sake.
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Recap: Top Chef DC, Episode 6
Another week, another episode of Top Chef DC! This week, the chefs prepared meals with outlandish ingredients, and judged each other's cooking in a savage, underhanded "Cold War" challenge. There were duck balls! There were old rivalries! There was a completely pointless ride on a hideously decorated ship! And it's all ahead in this week's recap.
[WARNING: Spoilers ahead!]
The Quickfire
For this week's quickfire challenge, Padma and guest judge Michelle Bernstein asked the chefs to prepare "delicious dishes" using unique ingredients like crocodile, rattlesnake, and duck testicles. The proteins were chosen in order based on a knife pull, and Amanda was assigned emu eggs by default. "I'm assuming they're very hard to get into," she said. As it turns out, emu eggs and Yale University have more in common than we all originally thought.
Amanda hacked at that damn emu egg for what seemed like an eternity before the most GIGANTIC YOLK I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE slid out into her hand. Seriously, that thing needed its own zip code:
This quickfire wasn't without its drama, either. The guest judge, Michelle Bernstein, has had a longstanding chef rivalry with Andrea in Miami where they both have restaurants. This raises the question: Why was she invited on the show to begin with? That's a huge conflict of interest, and it seems grossly unfair to Andrea. Couldn't they have found some other judge who didn't have a prior relationship with any of the contestants so things could remain unbiased? It's not like Michelle brought anything valuable to the table; she just stood around dropping unnecessarily complex vocab words and flashing bitchy faces at the competitors.
Of course, Andrea knew she was going to get a poor review from Michelle from the moment she saw her standing in the kitchen. Maybe Andrea psyched herself out... maybe Michelle is just a nasty bitch. Who knows. All I can tell you for sure is that Michelle tasted Andrea's boar, conjured up one of the snottiest faces I've ever seen in my life, and then condescendingly told her it was way "too chewy."
It was like junior high school all over again. It was juvenile. It was inappropriate. And it was great freakin' TV!
Anyway, with 30 minutes left to go in the challenge, Padma came in the room and told everyone to switch proteins with the person on their right. Kelly acquired the gigantic emu eggs, which actually worked out for her because she won the entire challenge. She made an omelet with goat cheese and harissa vinaigrette that Michelle Bernstein loved. It was Kelly's first quickfire win, and she earned immunity for the next challenge.
Elimination Challenge
For this week's elimination challenge, the chefs cooked for—and were judged by—their fellow competitors. They split into two groups, and group A served a dish to group B (and vice versa). Each group nominated one winner, and one loser, from the opposing team. And as you can imagine, things got really ugly.
Actually, if you want to get technical, FIRST, the chefs took a completely pointless ride around the Potomac River on a busted old ship named the USS Sequoia. Then things got really ugly.
Group A (Amanda, Kevin, Kenny, Alex, and Ed) cooked first, and served their food to group B (Angelo, Tamesha, Andrea, Stephen, and Tiffany). And guys, group B was really harsh on them. Angelo's critical comments were especially obnoxious, and came across as more malicious than anything else. He said Kenny's lamb tasted "slimy, like you just killed the lamb and ate it right there." He also said Ed's pumpernickel bread tasted like "a dry shoe."
After a brief discussion that involved Tiffany struggling to use the word "concur" in a sentence, the team agreed that Kevin's tuna and veal surf and turf was their favorite, and Kenny's duo of grilled lamb was their least favorite.
In between cooking segments, we were treated to a hilarious conversation between Ed and Andrea. Ed said that he knew Angelo back in the day, and that he used to "bang Angelo's girlfriend" while they were in college. As Ed told it, the girl dumped Angelo and started dating him. I know! I couldn't believe it either! Angelo actually had a girlfriend?
Now, back to the cooking! Next up, group B prepared their dishes for group A. Angelo won the "douchiest comment of the night" award after snidely instructing one of the servers holding his plate to "be careful... it's like a baby." I would have dropped the plate and sucker punched him, but luckily, the server was much more composed.
Amanda, Kevin, Kenny, Alex, and Ed were much kinder, gentler judges. They were fair, and offered constructive criticism about group A's dishes. Translation: they were far more boring to watch. Overall, their favorite was Tiffany's peppercorn crusted ahi tuna, and their least favorite was Tamesha's scallops with pickled rhubarb.
Judges' Table
Kevin and Tiffany served the best dishes of the night. The judges appreciated that Tiffany's tuna was perfectly seared, but ultimately, they named Kevin the winner. The judges loved the textural contrast of his pine nuts with the rich sauce of his surf and turf. And as an added reward, Kevin was given a six-night Hawaiian vacation. Not too shabby!
Tamesha and Kenny were the worst performers during the challenge. Kenny's lamb was gummy and mealy, and the flavors were diluted. There was way too much going on on his plate and he failed to bring it all together.
In the end, Tamesha was eliminated (come on, did you really think they'd send Kenny home this early?) because the judges couldn't get past her awful scallops. Michelle Bernstein said they were like putting "a tongue on top of your tongue." Don't worry. I have no idea what that means either.
But seriously, forget Tamesha going home. Forget Angelo telling her to add more sugar to her dish in an attempt to sabotage her. The real story here is that 30 percent of Americans think duck testicles are "yummy." SERIOUSLY?!
What did you think of this week's episode, Serious Easters? I thought it was the best one yet!
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About The Westin Resort & Spa Puerto Vallarta
The Westin Resort & Spa, Puerto Vallarta is a modern luxury hotel that offers an area of 8.5 hectares (21 acres) with palm trees and a 268-meter (879 ft) private beach at the Pacific Ocean. For your convenience, the hotel is only 1 kilometer (0.6 mi) from the international airport.
Your stay at The Westin Resort & Spa, Puerto Vallarta will be great as you will enjoy large private balconies overlooking the pool and the sea, as well as Heavenly Beds® with down comforters. Accommodations offer a Heavenly Bath® with tub and shower, a comfortable sitting area with LCD TV, and a minibar. Guest staying at Royal Beach Club rooms enjoy access to the Royal Beach Club private lounge, with continental breakfast and two hours of open bar in the evening with hors d'oeuvre.
Facilities include four outdoor pools, a Spa, a fully-equipped fitness center, and three lighted tennis courts. Westin Kids Club provides supervised activities, games, and movies for children from 4 to 12 years of age. Regarding dining options, you can choose from informal meals by the pool up to romantic dinners.
***Guests staying at all-inclusive plan rooms must pay a fee per person (plus taxes) for the service at the Arrecifes restaurant.
Benefits for booking at The Westin Resort & Spa Puerto Vallarta
The hotel accepts small pets weighing up to 18 kilos (49 lb) (upon reservation, fees and restrictions apply)
Wheelchair accessible
Cruise-ship views
Set in the residential/golf community of Marina Vallarta, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, this family- and couples-friendly resort has views of mountain-rimmed Banderas Bay and cruise ships gliding to a nearby terminal.
Pools for all
The Westin Resort & Spa Puerto Vallarta has 2 restaurants, including El Palmar, which serves international and Mexican fare and offers stunning ocean views. Several pools are on site, including 2 outdoor pools.
Heavenly Beds
Guestrooms and suites featuring The Westin's signature Heavenly Beds also include marble bathrooms with dual-head Heavenly Showers, ceiling fans in addition to air conditioning, minibars, and balconies or patios.
Paseo De La Marina Sur 205, Puerto Vallarta, JAL 48354
Resort Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Set on a private sand beach, the Westin Resort offers beach towels and direct access to the surf. A health spa offers massage, body wraps and scrubs, and reflexology and contains women's and men's saunas and Swiss showers. The spa includes a couples-massage room and also offers oceanside, open-air massage. A children's club open during the day for ages 3-12 provides 3 hours daily of complimentary, supervised activities in an air-conditioned clubhouse and outdoors. (Additional hours available for surcharges.) A business center includes 6 computers with high-speed Internet connections (surcharge) and wireless Internet service (surcharge) is available throughout the hotel. Additionally, 4 meeting rooms and conference space are available for your business needs.
Shuttle vans and private cars of varying prices are available. They can be reserved during the process of booking a reservation for this hotel, via this Web site, and added to the total trip cost.
- Poolside bar
- Swim-up bar
- Spa tub
- Sauna
- Full-service spa
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Meeting rooms 4
- Business center
- Conference space
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- 24-hour front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 280
- Number of floors - 14
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Babysitting or childcare
- Elevator/lift
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Fitness facilities
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Designated smoking areas
- Pool umbrellas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Computer station
- Luggage storage
- Children's club
- Laundry facilities
- Garden
- Terrace
- On private beach
- Outdoor tennis court
- Conference space size (meters) - 1570
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Conference space size (feet) - 16894.88
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Beach towels
- Free self parking
- Shopping on site
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Spa services on site
- Children's pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- On private beach
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Outdoor tennis court
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( MXN 277 per day )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( MXN 300 per day )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Balcony or patio
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Ceiling fan
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Spring water bathtub
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Satellite TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
El Palmar - Air-conditioned restaurant with roofed terrace seating. Serves international and Mexican cuisine. Pool/garden views. Offers buffet service for breakfast and dinner and à la carte service from 7 AM to 11 PM.
Arrecifes - Restaurant beach club and night club offering entertainment in a natural setting.
Tlaquepaque and Tenampa - Pool bars with swim-up sides open mid-morning to early evening for tropical drinks, beer, cocktails, ceviche, burgers, tacos, salads, sandwiches, and other snack foods.
La Cascada Lobby Lounge - Open-air spot with a big-screen TV, pool table, and garden/ocean views. Open mid-day to late night for tropical drinks, beer, cocktails, burgers, sandwiches, quesadillas, and nachos. Live music for dancing nightly.
Hours subject to change without notice.
Room service is available 24 hours a day.
Nearby Things to Do
Featuring palm-tree and garden islands and surrounded by sundecks furnished with cushioned teak lounge chairs, four lagoon-style pools ranging from 68.5 to 50 meters long (225 to 165 ft) offer a variety of swimming opportunities. The largest pool contains a swim-up bar, a jetted section, and tile lounges, as does an adults' pool. Another pool caters to children, with tubes and floats available for rent, and the fourth is for families.
Three semi-circular, artificial coves distinguish the resort's 300-meter (328-yard) beach frontage, which is furnished with padded lounge chairs and umbrellas. A private sand section adjoining the beach features curtained, wood-platform rental cabanas with cushioned teak lounges for 3-6 people.
A water-sports center rents boogie boards, kayaks, sailboats, and snorkeling gear and also offers fishing trips and scuba-diving instruction/excursions. Independent operators on a beach adjacent to the resort offer parasail, personal watercraft and banana-boat rentals/services.
An expansive, air-conditioned, mirrored-wall fitness center (daily surcharge) contains cardio machines, weight machines, free weights, and a workout studio.
The resort includes three lights artificial-grass tennis courts (surcharges). The clubhouse for the 18-hole championship Marina golf course lies 600 meters (656 yds) from the resort.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Playground on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Steam room in spa
- Reflexology
- Massages on beach
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Resort policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club International.
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for MXN 750 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets stay free
- Dogs only
- 1 per room (up to 18 kg)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Pets allowed (no fees)
Optional extras
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: MXN 339 for adults and MXN 167 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: MXN 277 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: MXN 300 per day (rates may vary)
- Rollaway bed fee: MXN 750 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
This hotel has other names
- Puerto Vallarta Westin Resort
- Westin Puerto Vallarta
- Westin Resort Puerto Vallarta
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Author Notes: Like cuisine, Hands are neither inherently good nor inherently bad. It is what we do with them that make them that way. My hands make biscuits. I will be remembered by the generations that both precede and proceed me for the crisp flaky exterior ultra-tender buttery interior of the biscuit that has become the reflection of my soul. Whether you choose to glaze them with Black-pepper honey butter in the style of a fine sticky bun or place a slab of seared country ham on it with a smothering of red-eye gravy. These biscuits are the best you ever had and it is because of my hands that they assume their rightful superiority among the baked goods. It is because of these biscuits that my family, both young and old, will always remember the warmth and care of my hands.- davebr —davebr
Food52 Review: With pantry staples you are likely to have, and requiring only your hands as the primary kitchen tools, davebr's Uneeda Biscuit recipe comes together quickly, with excellent results. I made these on Mother's Day, with two extra pairs of hands (my two children) to help measure, mix, and pour my way to feather soft biscuit dough. With a brush of whole milk-egg wash, twenty minutes in the oven, and you are on your way to biscuit perfection. Get ready for fragrant, golden brown, flaky biscuits with a fluffy, buttery-soft interior. We enjoyed them hot out of the oven, drizzled with honey and tried not to burn ourselves. My family will be enjoying these for years to come. – gingerroot —gingerroot
Makes: 12 biscuits
cups All Purpose Flour
tablespoons Baking Powder
teaspoons Kosher Salt
tablespoons Sugar
pound Unsalted Butter
cup Whole Milk
cup Whole Milk
- Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Combine 2 cups of the flour with the baking powder, salt and sugar in a mixing bowl.
- Cube the chilled butter and place it into the flour mixture. Break the cubes up with your hands until the butter resembles that of the size of a pea.
- Form a well into the center of the flour-butter mixture and pour 1 cup of the milk into the well. Mix with you fingers until the four has absorbed the milk. Add any extra flour as needed to bring the mixture together until it resembles a dough that can be easily handled out of the bowl.
- Sprinkle some flour out onto your counter and place the dough onto the floured surface. Press the dough down with your hands until a uniform thickness is achieved of about 2 inches. Cut the dough into 12 uniform biscuits. Place the biscuits with their sides touching one another on a parchment paper or foil lined baking tray.
- In a small bowl whisk together the egg with the 1/2 cup of milk and brush the egg wash over the top of the biscuits. Place the biscuits into the oven on the center rack and bake for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and prepare for immortality.


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2 oz 2018 Australian Dove Silver Coin
Order your 2 oz 2018 Australian Dove silver coin from our online shop to enjoy the internet's most competitive rates! Perth Mint brings you this dazzling work of art as a tribute to peace, commemorating the centenary of the 1918 Armistice which followed the Treaty of Versailles and put an end an end to the horrors of WW1.
The coin's reverse features a meticulous rendering of the graceful Dove of Peace, this time bearing a poppy flower, since it was the poppies which first bloomed in the battlefields of Western Europe after the bombs fell silent. The rear field features a typographic collage of the word 'Peace,' while a wide border bears the year of issue and the words, 'End of World War 1.'
The obverse features Ian Rank-Broadley's effigy of Elizabeth II in profile, depicted wearing her Girls of Great Britain tiara. Also on the obverse, Elizabeth II's name; the country of origin; year of issue; metal content, weight and purity and, finally, the coin's unique denominational value.
This stunner from the Perth Mint has been cast with a double thick planchet, in the traditional Piedfort style. Remember the brave souls who fought to establish peace and fortify your holdings with a 2 oz 2018 Australian Dove silver coin today.
This product comes in a mint provided coin capsule. In multiples of 10 this product will come wrapped in clear plastic rolls.
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|a dove framed by the year '1918' and the coins title.
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A new study shows South Florida is still distressed economically after the Great Recession hit five years ago, but the region is still better off than Orlando and Tampa-St. Petersburg.
In fact, Orlando and Tampa-St. Petersburg continue to have the most financially distressed households among the 30 largest metro areas in the nation, but South Florida, while the sixth most distressed, has shown almost as much economic improvement as the national average, according to the latest CredAbility Consumer Distress Index. The nonprofit credit counseling agency conducts the index nationally to survey how categories such as housing, employment and families' savings rate are doing.
One of the biggest improvements for South Florida: The unemployment had dropped from 9.5 percent to 8.1 for Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties as a whole, by the end of 2012, said Broc Rosser, Florida president for CredAbility, a nonprofit counseling agency.
"That's a huge improvement," he said.
South Floridians are also helping themselves by saving more, Rosser added. South Floridians are saving on average nearly 5 percent of their income, he said.
The main thorn in South Florida's recovery is the three counties are still trying to emerge from the housing bust and the massive number of foreclosures that hit the region, Rosser said.
"Housing problems are the main cause of financial distress for households" in South Florida, said Scott Scredon, a spokesman for CredAbility. "While mortgage delinquency rates are coming down, they remain the highest in the nation."
About 17 percent of South Florida homeowners were delinquent on mortgage payments from July to October of last year, Scredon said.
Still, that's a better rate than it was a year ago, he added.
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Welcome to the KCRW Corner on DrownedinSound.com.com. KCRW is one of the most influential public radio stations in the United States, broadcasting at 89.9FM from Santa Monica, California. We've got our ears trained to catch the best new music and you can hear us online all the time at KCRW.com. We also have 11 years' worth of live performances archived for your listening pleasure.
This month, On The Corner (link) host Mathieu Schreyer (pictured) shares his favorite music.
Mathieu Schreyer (aka Mr French) named his show after the infamous Miles Davis album, but it's also a reflection of his travels and his musical tastes, which span ever corner of the world. Mathieu was born in France and lived in North Africa, the Middle East and in Asia before settling down in Los Angeles. He's part of an underground crew of fellow DJs, record label owners and artists themselves that supply each other with the newest tracks.
"I have a global network all over Europe and Japan, people I've met as a DJ and producer over the last 15 years. We are all carrying the same message and trying to make a living while doing it. It's an underground culture."
Mathieu also introduces the underground to the bright lights of Hollywood with residencies at two of the most celebrity-studded clubs in town – including Hyde (made famous thanks to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton) and Bar Marmont (too many celebrities to count). You might also recognize him from the latest Duran Duran video, playing very out of character as a heartless rock star dropping his girlfriend off at rehab in 'Falling Down' (watch it here).
Here's a heads up on some new artists on Mathieu's radar …
Holler, Wild Rose!
"This band from New Jersey contacted me through my MySpace page and asked me to check out their tunes. I really liked their track 'Sun Vines' and had them email it to me. The full album, Our Little Hymnal, just came out. I don't know much rock, but this album just sounds wicked."
Thee, Stranded Horse
"A friend of mine from France sent me an mp3 of this guy. He happens to be French himself but lives in the UK and sent me his self-released album Churning Strides. Beautiful stuff."
"Henrik Schwarz did a great remix of their latest single 'Bloodstream'. It's just crazy. The band is based in Leeds."
Andy Bey
"He's an old school jazz singer from the '60s and I'm really liking his track 'Ain't Necessarily So', which just came out on 12th Street Records. I've been following his career for 15 years. He's from New York."
Little Dragon
"Their self-titled album is out in Europe on Peacefrog. The band is out of Sweden and the singer is of Japanese descent. Last year, label Off the Wall out of London put out a 45 and sent it to me through some friends."
Also be on the lookout for:
"This is a new band out of Denmark that I am in love with. It's a mix of hip-hop, soul, and folk influences – a bit of everything. They are currently working on an album but you can hear them on Myspace."
Christian Prommer
"This is a German artist and his album DrumLesson Vol 1 is forthcoming. It's all classic house music – Kraftwerk, Mr. Fingers, DJ Gregory – played live with a jazz band. It's really, really good."
Mathieu is always ahead of the curve and a collector at heart who loves having the best new stuff first. Genre doesn't matter, but passion does. "What I am really looking for in music is a feeling," he concludes.
KCRW is broadcast on 89.9FM across Santa Monica, California. If you have to put up with British weather every day of your life, however, you'll be pleased to now that you can hear news of the Californian clime, as well as a host of hot musical treats, online at KCRW.com.


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There are a significant number of articles published on a monthly basis, the intention of this monthly report is for those who have missed the weekly updates which you can find published on BlogMS. All the blogs are grouped into logical categories so you can quickly skim the entire document and find the most relevant information which is important for you.
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U.S. farmers are in an uproar over signs Japan will maintain some barriers to agricultural exports under a Pacific trade pact, which threatens to unravel a deal that is central to U.S. efforts to retain economic and security influence in the region.
Four years into Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, U.S. negotiators are fighting to balance the goal of total tariff elimination with the sensitivities of Japanese and American farmers and the needs of other trading partners.
Central to President Barack Obama's strategic shift toward Asia, the TPP would connect a dozen economies by cutting trade barriers and harmonizing standards in a deal covering two-fifths of the world economy and a third of global trade.
After an April summit between Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a compromise seems likely to allow Tokyo to keep some protection for goods like beef, sugar, dairy or wheat, judging by a change in tone from U.S. officials in recent weeks to talk about tariff elimination "to the maximum extent possible."
This contrasts with the original goal, upsetting American farmers. Dairy farmers have threatened to withhold their support for the deal if the markets are not opened in a meaningful way, and other farm groups have called for Japan to be excluded from the trade deal.
"We are not going to allow a bad deal with Japan to go forward," said Nick Giordano, vice president of the National Pork Producers Council, which represents pig farmers. "It's going to invite other countries in the TPP to scale back what they are willing to give the United States."
Past U.S. trade deals have also fallen short of total tariff elimination. But the extent of the concessions is crucial, especially in winning support of the influential U.S. farm lobby, which could scupper TPP in Congress.
A deal that expands U.S. farm exports and is backed by farmers could help Obama win over skeptical Democratic lawmakers who associate trade deals with lost jobs. Farm lobby support is also crucial for Republicans, who are generally pro-trade but would likely reject a deal opposed by farmers.
A deal with broad agricultural exemptions would be "dead on arrival in the House of Representatives," said Republican Aaron Schock, a member of the congressional trade panel which has called a hearing on agriculture trade for Wednesday. He noted that 60 seats in the House represent agriculture-dominated districts.
The United States is the world's biggest farm exporter. It greatly outstrips the next two biggest farm exporters in the TPP, with exports more than three times greater than Canada and five times greater than Australia.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman insists a final Japan deal will be comprehensive and give American farmers better access to Japanese markets.
"I'm confident that TPP will cover the full range of Japanese agricultural products," he told Reuters. "Our overall goal for TPP is to deliver market access gains across the board, including through tariff elimination, that can be maximized by American farmers and ranchers."
How that would happen is unclear. There are many variables, including which goods will have no tariffs, how quickly tariffs will be phased out and which goods might retain tariffs.
"You can get a deal that covers 95 percent of tariff lines but it's not a good deal if the 5 percent of tariff lines that it leaves out are the ones you are most interested in," a former U.S. agriculture trade negotiator said.
Many see the 2012 U.S.-Korea trade deal as a benchmark. It excluded rice and kept tariffs on goods such as milk powder in exchange for a bigger duty-free import quota.
"We didn't want to throw that agreement away because it did not eliminate every single tariff line. We are pragmatic," said Jaime Castaneda, senior vice president of the U.S. Dairy Export Council.
But if Washington fails to pry open Japan's markets sufficiently, experts fear it will have a domino effect.
A "TPP-lite" would give trading partners few incentives to accept rules on intellectual property and protection for foreign investors, an important element for U.S. companies.
"We cannot sign off 21st-century rules and ignore 20th-century unresolved market access issues, of which deep pockets of high protection in agriculture ... are unaddressed," New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said on Friday, warning the TPP could still stumble.
With talks splintered into bilateral negotiations, trading partners say they fear there will be an uneven playing field at the end, undermining their ability to sell the deal at home.
Many deals are interdependent.
The United States wants better access to Japan and Canada before allowing New Zealand dairy farmers to sell more in America.
New Zealand, which exports 95 percent of its milk but accounts for 2 percent of global supply, might settle for a good deal from Japan and Canada and not then press the United States. To win concessions from Canada and Japan, the United States may have to open its sugar market to Australia.
"It's going to be a process of give and take," said Representative Ron Kind, leader of the pro-trade New Democrat Coalition. "My suspicion is that we are not going to be dropping all the tariffs on our side so it would be a bit disingenuous for us to insist on that for other countries."Last Mod: 10 Haziran 2014, 22:16


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According to a new market report published by Lucintel, the future of the global door and window market looks good with opportunities in the residential and commercial construction industries. The global door and window market is expected to reach an estimated $243.6 billion by 2022 and it is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 4.1% from 2017 to 2022. The major drivers of growth are rapidly increasing new construction and renovation activities in developing economies.
Browse 45 market data tables and 106 figures spread through 162 pages and in-depth TOC on "Global Door and Window Market"
In this market, metal, wood, plastic, and other materials are used in the manufacturing of door and window. On the basis of its comprehensive research, Lucintel forecasts that the plastic door and window segment is expected to show the highest growth during the forecast period due to its light weight and better energy efficient properties.
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You may have noticed that I've been rather quiet on the Tiny Ears front recently. There is a reason for this, and here it is.
It's absolutely insane to try and do an incredibly high tech startup, on your own, unless you've had loads of experience doing startups before.
I haven't and it nearly broke me.
I shall write more in a few days about what happened with Tiny Ears and the lessons I learned, but I wanted to first announce the exciting thing I shall be doing next.
Starting later this month, I shall be going to work for a lovely London based startup, onefinestay as their mobile developer. onefinestay have lots of interesting problems to be solved using mobile technologies and a bright, dynamic group of developers that I am excited to be working with. I am looking forward to returning to the UK in a few weeks when Ian and I shall start looking for a place to live in London.
Tiny Ears is not a dead project. I have simply moved it to a side project and will continue to look around for people I can collaborate with and technologies I can use that will help bring the project to reality.
It's been an absolutely fabulous 10 months traveling the world, being a part of Startup Chile and running a startup. I have learned so much, and have fallen in love with the startup world. I am keen to continue working with startups in the future, and who knows, maybe I'll even give it a go again myself one day. Right now I am happy that my role is helping another startup achieve it's goals, and I feel that my recent experience has made me even better qualified to do that.


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Explore the islands and coastlines of the Pacific with this thorough map of the region. With inset maps of dozens of islands and instructive details such as ship routes, naval bases, time zone boundaries and more, this map makes a wonderful collectors piece. Published in December 1936, it accompanied an article entitled "Flying the Pacific."
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'78 XLCH learning how to build, build.
Ok, so a little bit about me. I have zero mechanical experience except fixing my car with my dad, and working on my bmx bike. I still cant figure out my mountain bikes. I started with an 81 Honda cb650c, fixed it a little bit and rode it for a year or two. Then got a 75 cb750k, which needed a lot of love so I was able to get my hands a little dirtier. Then I wanted to get into the chopper world, and picked up this 78 XLCH sportster from a guy who owned it for the last 25 years. This is what it looked like when I brought it home-
Got it in fall, rode it around a bunch and throughout the winter since I was pretty close to work at the time. took the apes off cause I really wasnt a fan. Girlfriend was a champ about it-
My opinion about bikes changes all the time as I get more into it. So the apes went back on. I think these forks are about 4 over, which I also wasnt super into
So I put on stock length (maybe?) and some fork gaiters.
then put some biltwell chumps on there, since I liked the look of the apes but not the big rise. then rode it around like that for awhile. took it to some riding spots
another view of the chumps
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wanted to start cleaning it up a bit, so I bought a grinder and started removing the reflector perches and fender mounts
after grinding I used some hand files and eventually some kind of sandpaper. could of been more anal about it but looked good enough for me
then I started thinking about hard tailing.. started collecting some parts and mocking it up. at the time I was stoked on how it looked
wanted to stop those pesky oil leaks, so googled how to take off the pushrods. and replaced the cork seals
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in may I finally had enough cash to order the hard tail. went with the david bird because I really liked how it looked as a bolt on, and I had never touched a welder before. 5-6 week turn around time, so it arrived 3rd week in June. Strange Days was a few weeks later. time to start hustling.
new stuff
old stuff
well, time to start chopping
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went on without too much persuasion, and I started laying parts on it again
rolling around
got a seat which I cant remember the brand, some 3 springs, biltwell tongue thing and some spring mounts
started trading bottles of jack to my buddy to borrow his mig for a week at a time. this is literally one of the first welds Ive ever done, in hind site I probably should of practiced for an hour or so, but I was too excited and just went for it. oh well
starting making a fender support to weld to the frame
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had to cut away part of the hard tail to fit the tongue for the seat far enough back
more weld attempts
bent some metal to weld onto the frame for the first support, tried to match the contour of the trailer fender I got from lowbrow
fender mounted to frame at the chain stay and seat stay (hopefully those bike terms transfer) and spring posts and seat thing welded on
had to buy a tap for the sissy bar support
04-27-2014 #6
friend had a tank laying around, thought it looked much better
license plate bracket time
complete with walmart trailer light
instagram shot of welding
attaching the thing that the license plate bracket will attach to
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04-27-2014 #7
my bike is turning into a storyboard of my welding technique progress
exhaust pipe was hitting the new frame, so I dented in that section by squishing it around some 1/2 round rod. I think I just ended up using a hammer, it was easier
clears just enough, more than it looks from this angle
04-27-2014 #8
made a sissy bar by putting 1/2 mild steel in the vice and just pulling on it real hard. dont have the heat capabilities. used the lowbrow kit
almost there
then I had to move. that didnt help the building process. borrowed the welder again and my girlfriend played with it
had to make exhaust support, so welded on this piece and cut it off above the lowest hole
now were supported, front and back
its together, and the test ride felt awesome. this was thursday night. Strange Days started the next day, Friday. phew.
04-27-2014 #9
rode it to work Friday morning, and it made it there and back. good enough, time to pack up for Strange Days
it was a blast to ride, and was tuned super well. started up first kick all weekend, and I was all smiles that it didnt explode. kept riding it all summer, didnt come without issues
let the girlfriend take it for a ride, shes only ridden my hondas before this. she got kinda hooked
04-27-2014 #10
relocated my coil. in a very ghetto way
attempted my first set of handlebars. pretty much just took the specs from the biltwell H bars, figured no bends was in my ability
the next big thing was Gypsy Run. never done a trip that long, but this was the week before. scrambling to get everything sorted again. chopped the springs and lowered my forks another 2-3 inches
got it together. replaced my bald back tire, which is bigger, so had to make a new sissy bar. also made that bigger.
packed and ready for gypsy run. my girlfriend is joining on my cb750
it was super fucking awesome. great time.
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04-27-2014 #11
until I broke down. I was at the back of the pack we were with and no one saw me drop out. luckily they didnt get too far and came back. the guys from lowside tried to help me out, but my bike was toast. it was having problems all day, so I got a lift to the final camp ground. my girlfriend continued on with them, without me, with less than a year under her belt. gnarly.
so what happened is on day 1, my points went. luckily I had an extra set with me, but while I was changing them out I knocked the positive wire off my battery. I have no electrical experience so I pretty much had the worst electrical harness ever, and just mashed everything into a plastic box with electrical tape. my generator must of somehow became unpolarized, and my bike stopped charging. and it was way out of timing because the new points, and me not knowing how to set timing on the road without the internet. a guy Nick was nice enough to loan me his extra battery so I could try and ride home the final day, and it didnt fit into my tray. so we got a little creative with zip ties. you can also see how bad my wiring was
it got me an hour towards home before it ran out, and luckily my buddy was hanging with his truck at the final night so we threw it in there
however, my girlfriend successfully rode the whole way home
the next week I got my generator rebuilt, got a new regulator, and was back on the road for brooklyn invitational. my bike was fine, but the cb750 fouled a plug and while we tried to get it out with needle nose vice grips due to lack of tools, we shattered the ceramic. the bike stayed in brooklyn and we went home at got the truck. the bike then sat until this spring when I finally got around to it, since my girlfriend picked up her own 96 sportster.
new biltwell seat, so much more comfortable than the other one
04-27-2014 #12
had some sweet fall rides, with little to no issues except the bolt that holds the advance mechanism broke off in there, but that was an easy fix, just took me out of commission for the next few days. I proceeded to show up to the secret bike show on the back of my girlfriends sportster. everyone thought I was rad.
this is how she ended the year
so now it's cold.. and I'm thinking longer forks. found a good deal on some 6 over tubes
girlfriend got me the sweet throttle addiction tank. I picked up a new solo seat
got my hands on my own tig welder. way harder than mig. I suck at it.
mockups of my new stuff and my old parts on my girlfriends new bike
well better than my first tig attempts
cleaned the garage, and got to work. started by chopping off the posts on the spring mounts, but left the fatter area of the bungs for the seat to sit on since the frame isn't a straight line
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04-27-2014 #13
engine came out, time to work on the frame
new seat
I dig the forks
wanted to try and make the david bird section look more natural
04-27-2014 #14
what I dont have photos of, I put a 1 bar across the seat spring perches to support the seat, and used a bit of bondo to kind of mold some of the areas around the seat to make it look more flowy. on to paint
nothing fancy, just flat black grill paint. maybe Ill do it right someday, but not today
cleaning, and grill paint on the jugs
first time using scotch brite. cant believe how well it works
starting to reassemble
made bungs to weld into the frame to mount the new tank in a more solid manner
04-27-2014 #15
fixed the honda, and rode it to work while this thing was in pieces
progress, all painted up
new coil that didnt have cracks on it, mounted it properly and new plug wires. maybe should of taken care of that lower gasket while the engine was out. oops.
relocated key right under the right side of my seat so I can turn it off with my hand on the clutch
drew wiring diagram based off of numerous threads on here
old army box thing, and some bed liner for the battery box
the dividers separate the circuit breakers. probably could of done it better but, you cant see it.
04-27-2014 #16
also not pictured- removed the oil cooler mounts and oil cooler. relocated oil filter to above the battery box. its kind of in the way for taking off the lid now. will do something eventually. managed to clean up the wiring a good bit and have 2 wires to coil and 1 to headlight. took it for a test ride, felt awesome, but made a horrible noise. not stoked. turned out a pushrod seated or whatever and I readjusted them and the noise went away. phew. welded kickstand to itself because the spindle was stripped. doesnt spin anymore.
got rid of the swing out kicker arm, and put a brass pedal on. pedal fell off in the first 5 minutes, so I got a new brash washer, bolt, and lots of locktite. seems ok now. also chopped the end of the pipes off and put small baffles back in. bikes much happier now.
got some stainless, and my girlfriend and I made new handlebars. on easter.
more pulled back since my seating position is farther back now
also, that matte black paint isnt that matte black paint everyone has. its chalk board paint. I can make my bike look ridiculous whenever I want now, and when Im over it hose it off. been riding around with electric blue for a week
I will probably be a bit more subtle with the chalk in the future. but Im excited about the possibilities. Ive learned a whole lot so far with the project, and I've used this website as a resource for most of it. its far from perfect, but at least I know I touched every part of it.
the things I have left to do are- machine front axle to accept drum brake wheel that I have. mount new tail light. buy new headlight, preferably a rectangular one and mount that. and make new/buy new foot pegs. maybe also get a smaller air cleaner, and a different oil tank. but Im super happy with where its going for sure. Ill try and update as it goes forwards.
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Good job man and way to jump on it and learn.
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Awesome. Makes me feel like I have some hope for mine next winter
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Awesome thread. Thanks for taking the time to post this. Very cool.
The chalkboard paint tripped me out at the end. Interesting idea.
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A's miss chance to tie Sox for AL's best record
Angels' Vargas twirls four-hit shutout to snap Oakland's streak
ANAHEIM -- The A's had a chance to end Tuesday night tied with the Red Sox for best record in the American League, thanks to Boston's loss in Colorado.
With home-field advantage throughout the postseason on the line, this would have been a big development for the A's, who instead watched their sweltering offense go mute in a 3-0 loss at Angel Stadium.
Oakland was held to just four hits and one walk against Angels lefty Jason Vargas, one of which didn't even leave the infield, after totaling 49 runs over its past five games, all wins. In their last six games, the A's had also hit at least two homers, tying an Oakland record. On Tuesday, they didn't even get a runner past first base.
It's the 10th time the newly crowned AL West-champion A's have been shut out this season, but the first time since Aug. 4.
"Tonight was maybe a second-day-after-clinching hangover," said catcher Derek Norris. "Last night, everyone still kind of had that adrenaline. ... Every game matters, and it would've been a nice night to gain on the people ahead of us, but might as well get it out of the way now and come back tomorrow and take the series."
Vargas, who notched his third complete game of the year and second shutout, was 0-2 with a 4.55 ERA in his previous four career starts against the A's, including an 0-1 mark with a 6.94 ERA in two starts this year.
But the southpaw breezed his way through a sluggish Oakland lineup, keeping anyone from scoring position. Alberto Callaspo had a shot at a double in the eighth inning, but a terrific throw from center fielder Josh Hamilton turned it into a single and an out at second base. Vargas struck out five, pitching with a lead since the start of the second inning and spoiling a rather commendable effort from A.J. Griffin.
"He pitched well, in and out, and used his changeup effectively," manager Bob Melvin said of Vargas. "To throw nine innings against a team that's been swinging the bat really well here as of late, he pitched well."
"I think anytime you go up against the team that won the division you want to pitch well," said Vargas.
Griffin, making his final outing before a likely start in Game 3 of the AL Division Series, offered up his Major League-leading 36th homer of the season in the first inning to Howie Kendrick. It was the second homer in as many days for the Angels second baseman.
Griffin struck out the side in the second inning but allowed a pair of runs in the third, issuing his only walk of the night in the inning, along with three hits -- the last a two-out, two-run bloop single to Hamilton.
Griffin threw 95 pitches through five innings, bringing his season total to exactly 200 innings, which leads the A's. He struck out seven, finishing with 171 total, along with 14 wins and a 3.83 ERA in his first full big league season.
"I feel pretty good about it," said Griffin. "Just trying to contribute here. We've got a great thing going on this club, and I look forward to continue doing great things here."
Griffin called the 200-inning plateau "a milestone that you're shooting for every year, and to be able to get there is pretty satisfying."
"I wish the outcome of today would've been a little different," he said, "but their guy did a pretty good job today. Some home runs happen, but that's just baseball and you try to do your best every time."
Of Griffin's 36 home runs allowed, 25 have been of the solo variety, which is why they're not so much of a factor for Melvin when the A's manager maps out his postseason rotation.
"I don't think that really plays into it," he said. "He gives up some home runs. I've been around a lot of pitchers who give up a lot of home runs and a lot of solo ones, but his ERA is pretty manageable for what he's done. If he's giving up doubles that are driving up runs or solo homers, I really don't think it makes a difference.
"He's been consistent all year. Like anybody, he's had a rough stretch or two, but you look at the overall body of work, it's been pretty consistent and something to be proud of for him."
"He threw the ball well," Norris added. "I'm sure the next question is going to be about the home run, and I'm going to beat you to the punch and say I really don't care how the one run gets in. It could be a one-run single or a solo homer, I don't care. It's one run, and that shouldn't hurt us. He pitched good enough and we obviously couldn't put up the runs to support it. That's his last start of the season, and he probably wanted to go out on a better note, but he's thrown well the entire year and this doesn't take away anything from that."


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"I'm totally qualified, so I know I'll get the job."
This phrase may be the most naive statement in the annals of job hunting. First, you aren't likely to be the only qualified person applying for the job, and second, hiring managers don't hire the most qualified person. They hire the person they want to work with the most.
Whether this is fair is not up for discussion, because the philosophical and de facto practices of corporate hiring aren't going to change any time soon. However, we can discuss how to get hired when being qualified is a small factor in the decision.
Too many people have had slews of interviews with no offers. To be sure, you need to work at getting interviews, but you also need to work hard at turning an interview into a job. Here are five steps between landing and going to the interview that will help you get an offer.
Research the company. Don't just go to the website and then give up when the "About the Company" page has too many photos for your modem to handle. Comb through every section of the company's site and memorize it as if you were cramming for a test.
Unlike a test, though, you won't have a chance to spout the six facts you learned about the company during the interview. Rather, there will be a random, fleeting second when a relevant fact you gained from the site will be the perfect answer to something the interviewer says. To find the right comment for that fleeting moment, you'll need wide knowledge and good judgment. The overall goal is to seem as though you are intimately acquainted with and monitor the company independently of your desperate need for a job.
Get the right outfit. Corporate America has a uniform; wear it. People like to hire people who look like them, and clothing is the easiest way to make this impression. An interview is not the time to dress to express your true self. In fact, no one needs to know your true self at the office. You will fit in and work best with others by keeping eccentricities to a minimum. Each company has a variation on "the uniform," so loiter near the office ahead of time and spy on its workers to get a sense of the corporate dress code.
Prepare stock answers. Most interview questions are standard, and surprisingly enough, have standard answers. Take the question, "Why did you want to leave your current job?" The correct answer incorporates phrases like, "I am looking for a company like this one," and "Your company offers a unique opportunity that is a perfect fit for the skills I offer." Learn these answers before the interview and be prepared to deliver them with a special flair, so they don't seem rehearsed.
Go to the gym. Taking charge of the first 15 seconds of an interview is critical. An interviewer will judge you first and most significantly on non-verbal cues, and having a great interview outfit alone may not be enough to make the best impression. This is because thin, good-looking people are more likely to get hired than fat, less attractive people. If you have scheduled the interview already, it's probably too late to drop forty pounds. But go to the gym anyway. By using your chest and back muscles to life weights, you'll stand up straighter in the interview– which shows poise and self-confidence. Also take a ride on the treadmill. The more energy you expend now, the more relaxed you'll be at the interview, and being calm will help you seem more confident.
Prepare to close the deal. Leave nothing open-ended when you walk out of the interview. This means saying at the end, "I would really like this job. Do you have any reservations about hiring me?" This is scary to say because the interviewer might have reservations you can't overcome. But closers get the contracts, and you need to be a closer in interviews. Risk hearing any reservations about hiring you because it's better to confront them and fail than to never try. You have nothing to lose.
When I tried this, the hiring manager told me her reservations (which were large). After I countered them one by one, she was so impressed that she offered me a job on the spot. But I also had done my homework. I had memorized the company information and the answers to the 100 most common interview questions, plus I managed my impression during those first 15 seconds as if my life depended on it.


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Denmark's brief flirtation with bland, culinary joylessness has ended, thanks to overwhelming public support for fatty foods. The Danish government recently announced that it will be abolishing a tax on foods that are high in saturated foods, which is really just government code for all the most delicious foods like butter and and ice cream.
Under the tax (which was introduced in October 2011), foods containing for than 2.3 percent saturated fat were subject to a surcharge, about 16 kroner (or $2.70) per kilo (2.2 pounds) of saturated fat in a product. This meant that the price of a 250-gram package of butter, for instance, rose by 2.20 kroner. That may not seem like too onerous a price hike, but it was enough, according to health authorities, to inflate food prices in Denmark and convince Danes that they would hop over the border to Germany, where they could eat all the sausages they wanted.
The tax was part of an effort to discourage Danes from eating unhealthy foods. According to the Danish National Health and Medicines Authority, obesity is becoming a significant public health problem in Denmark — 47 percent of Danes are overweight, and 13 percent are obese. Needless to say, a similar tax on sugar that was moving through the government pipeline has been scrapped because the people need their little indulgences. Without fattening dairy products, insurrection is really just a bad day at work and a stale piece of sprouted-grain bread away from tearing a country apart.
Denmark to abolish tax on high-fat foods [BBC]
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