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My dad's bread, a French Toast recipe, and a giveaway
Just about one year ago, exactly, my dad set out to make his own bread. He mentioned wanting to find a great recipe to get the ball rolling, and I suggested the Tartine Bread cookbook. I'd never made the Tartine bread, or anything from any Tartine cookbook at that point, but I knew their bread was my favorite and the cookbook was beautiful. After a few trials, dialing in the basics to make it works for his set up, my dad figured it out. He's become quite the bread wizard, experimenting with different variations all the time.
The loaf he uses for his everyday bread is amazing – I've enjoyed many a sandwich with that bread. Spending a few days at my parents' this past weekend, it began calling out to be made into French toast. The last section of the cookbook is full of recipes for day-old bread. How clever and practical! I used their French toast recipe to make the fanciest breakfast delight for my family.
(Keep reading for the best French toast recipe I've ever used, and a Tartine Bread cookbook giveaway after the jump!)
Tartine Bread French Toast
2 slices day-old Country Bread, each 1½ inches thick
(note: Rustic bread works best, and French bread would also hold up to soaking in the custard. Pre-sliced loaves of bread would get a bit soggy!)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Custard Base:
3 eggs
2 tablespoons sugar
Zest of 1 lemon
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
In a bowl, whisk together all ingredients for the custard base. Place the slices of bread in the bowl for about 1 hour, until the bread is saturated.
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
Heat a skillet over med-high heat, and melt the butter to coat the pan. Place each slice of bread into the skillet, cooking for approximately 3 minutes, pressing on them occasionally with the bottom of the spatula to help seal the bread and it cooks evenly. Ladle more custard base into the center of each bread slice. If the liquid leaks out of the bottom, the bread isn't sealed, so continue cooking for 1 minute, pressing again slightly to help the custard seal. When they are sealed, transfer the skillet to the middle rack of the oven without turning the toast!
Bake the slices 12-15 minutes, and then shake the pan to see if the custard is still liquid. If so, continue baking. The thickness of the slices impact the bake time, so they may need to bake for up to 20 minutes. The custard soufflés when fully cooked, so look for inflated slices when they're done!
To serve, place each slice of toast caramelized-side up on the plates. The recipe suggests spreading a Hachiya persimmon over top of each slice. (I imagine that would be delicious, I didn't have one handy!)
I want to share this cookbook with one of you! To enter the giveaway, please leave a comment letting me know your favorite way to eat bread! All comments need to be left here on this post by midnight Thursday August 17, 2012. I'll be announcing the lucky winner on Friday morning!
I'm so excited to announce the winner! It was so much fun reading all the ways everyone enjoys eating good bread! Thanks to the random number generator, congratulations is in order to comment #22: Sue! I enjoy a good Monte Cristo, too! (Please send an email with your address to: kastner (dot) emily (at) gmail (dot) com!)
My favorite way to eat bread? Out of the oven, warm, with unsalted butter and a sprinkle of sea salt.
My favorite way to eat bread is warm or slightly toasted & coated with jam.
Learning to soak the bread in the custard mixture completely revolutionized my French Toast making. It's so much better!
Lightly toasted and buttered with drops of honey.
My favorite way to eat bread? BLT, yum. Bread pudding, yum. Bruschetta, yum. Something I really love is Welsh rarebit. Sounds fancy and exotic, British isles style, right? Actually it's just toast with cheese sauce, nom, nom, nom.
Since I'm in Turkey, I love to have the typical Turkish bread warm out of the oven – crispy on the outside and soft and warm on the inside – with some real butter smothered all over it!
peanut butter and homemade jam – that's how we do.
i love to eat it plain, out of the oven
Oh! My favorite is toasted with butter and honey.
Does "ALL THE TIME" count?
Definitely bread pudding! My favorite and most indulgent use up for stale bread.
I love bread in general… but you can't beat a fresh slice, still warm from the oven with a little butter on top. YUM.
oh my lord that looks delicious! my favorite way to eat bread is with some mozarella, tomatoes, and basil on top. just ask every single potluck i've brought exactly that to this summer…
MY favorite way to eat bread is lightly toasted with butter.
Torn off a hot fresh loaf and dipped in seasoned olive oil.
My favorite way to eat bread is toasted with butter & honey.
What a great giveaway! I love to eat bread fresh out of the oven with honey and butter. mmmmmmmmm so delicious!
Your Tartine Bread French Toast is fantastic!!
My favorite way to eat bread? With ham and mozzarella!
Thanks, GREAT giveaway!
Fresh bread is one of the best things in the world. I love getting a piping hot baguette from the bakery to eat little bits of it all the way home…or simply any bread toasted with nutella!
My fav is french toast, but nothing like yours. I'm drooling.
Toasted with butter. Or with thick slices of tomato and mozzarella during summer.
I think every way to eat bread is my favorite!! Well, except with butter cause I have an issue with butter (blame my mom
Never has to be anything fancy, but a "to die for" sandwich is the Monte Cristo with raspberry preserves to dip it in…oh my!
It love a giant homemade pretzel, straight from the oven, made by my one true love! sooo good…
My favorite way would be a lightly toasted piece of freshly baked bread with a bit of honey apple butter smeared across the surface. So tasty.
Oh–with smashed avocado, a bit of Tapatio, and a sprinkle of sea salt!
I'm pretty content with the simple things in life. Just toast it and spread generously with butter and I'll be happy as a clam. Occasionally, I'll add some raspberry jam for variety.
I love toast and would say my favorite way to eat it is with a perfectly poached egg! Strong runner up would be warm from the toaster with Butter & Jam.
I love the simplicity of bread and butter. I like the bread cooled just enough so that the butter keeps its form slightly (versus melting completely, leaving me wondering if there is butter at all anymore while my hands are actually all greased up!), and even with a tiny smidge of sea salt atop!
Warm quick bread-pumpkin, banana, spice, etc.-right from the oven with a pat of creamy butter
A piece of toasty sourdough spread covered with avocado (better than butter) sprinkled with sea salt and pepper in nothing short of divine – and a lovely slice of tomato and you've got lunch. mmmmmm
I need to make this now
The smitten kitchen recipe for spring panzanella is an amazing use for bread. i can't stop eating the buttery, garlic-y, parmesan-y cubes before the whole dish is assembled.
Also, toasted with avocado, salt and pepper.
looks great!
I love just barely cooled bread dipped in some olive oil that's been flavored with a touch of sea salt. Simple and perfect.
I'm joining the toasted, with butter crowd. Another good option is toasted with Nutella.
I'm in the UK and this time every year my mum goes to a tree at the side of a quiet road next to a cornfield to pick bullace – a small wild hedgeplum. They make a pinky caramel-coloured jam: sharper than cherry plum, more complex than victoria. The best thing ever is this jam, spread on melty salted butter, on a thick slice of toasted crusty bread. It rights all wrongs.
In a panzanella or savory bread pudding!
A delicious olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and a bit of parmesan mixed together on a saucer for dipping oven warmed bread
Toasted, cooled, spread with copious amounts of butter and just a little Marmite(that my American husband absolutely hated but now loves!). Comforts me of every shred of disappointment or homesickness and makes any victory sweeter!
I'm simple and how I like my bread depends on what I feel like each morning. Right now I love peanut butter on toast and sometimes I load it up with banana and honey!
My favorite way to eat bread is sliced fresh off a new loaf, toasted lightly, buttered with salted butter and slathered with freshly made jam.
With strawberry jam!
I love anything with blueberries… this includes french toast and not too much butter … the less butter the better. SHOCKING, I know.
okay, okay- i'll enter to win the bread book. i definitely need to learn a thing or two. and my favorite way to eat bread would be with peanut butter and jam.
You have 49 responses! Go you Emily! I personally been obsessed with French Toast and just simple toast with butter. No real creative juices on my response! I passed Tartine again and thought of you!
So many yummy comments-love the french toast recipe! My favorite way to enjoy: Crusty French Bread, warm out of the oven, slathered with butter, then with a spoonful or two of husband Ike's garlic-heavy basil tomato sauce, then with good parmesan or romano, and perhaps a sprinkle of olive oil. So basic but so good.
Hot from my mother, with butter…. real butter… next to my mom with a cup of tea that has honey in it.. with still floured hands from making ti with her…
With my son… with much the same description.
(from the oven.. oy I'm tired)
Toasted with some orange marmalade.
Hmmm… One of my favorite ways to eat day old bread is in ribolita (bread soup). For fresh bread I like it toasted and topped with olive oil, fresh sliced tomatoes, basil, and salt. Yum!
Ever take one of those vacations that you thought would be so relaxing? But instead, you ended up being forced into a macrobiotic diet that left you incredibly hungry all the time? And you were offered coffee by your hosts, while being told (by them), "It smells good, but I wouldn't put it in my body"? Or you were awakened way, way too early to go on a "walk" that ended up being a hike up a MOUNTAIN? On no coffee? And once you realized that this was going to be awful but you can get through, you'll just zone out on TV, there was no TV? And then you were going to see the beautiful scenery in the area – "a little tour", they called it – and you wound up looking at bronze plaques listing the names of sailors who were lost at sea? A whole lot of bronze plaques? Ever take one of those trips? I did. It was terrible. But I did learn that I absolutely LOVE toast with tahini, honey and salt. Tahini: because peanut butter is, and I quote, "toxic".
One of my favorite ways to eat bread in summertime
In Romania was: a slice of cold watermelon with some teleme
White soft sheep cheese (or feta cheese) and fresh soft sourdough bread on the side. I know it sounds weird, but it's such a tasty combination.
Warm from the oven, if I'm lucky, with homemade strawberry jam!
toasted with butter. yum
I love sourdough bread toasted and topped with olive oil spread and hot sauce. The sour in the bread and the vinegar in the hot sauce are the best!!!
A new French bakery opened in town last month so I've been buying fresh baguettes every once in a while, and eating warmed slices with butter and cheese I bought in Paris. Nothing special or fancy but my absolute favorite way to eat bread.


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Miss. Senator Trent Lott has announced his intention to resign his Senate seat by the end of this year.
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His term ends in 2012.
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The flights were booked well in advance. Mwanza-Dar-es-Salaam, then Dar-es-Salaam-Mbeya. Less than £90 in total, including the extra luggage allowance for the bike in a box.
The tour had been on my mind for months – around about the same time I booked the flights I guess. Beyond a rough route, which would bring me back to Mwanza by bike, I had little specifically planned for what ended up being 7 weeks on the road.
The Southern Highlands of Tanzania would be first up, an area of the country I'd yet to cycle through. Then I'd cross Lake Niassa to Malawi and ride north, possibly heading into Zambia and connecting with the ferry service across Lake Tanganyika to Kigoma in Western Tanzania. If there was time I'd revisit Burundi and Rwanda, dip into Uganda and then return to Tanzania. One thing I was sure I wouldn't do, unless absolutely necessary, was subject my bicycle and bottom to the discomfort of an African bus.
The journey wouldn't be short of climbs given that most of my intended route would pass through the Rift Valley. In fact there were very few flat days on the tour, as evidenced by the elevation chart below. In total I rode just under 3200km, in 38 days, and accumulated 36,458m of altitude, according to my GPS unit.
It was a great tour – both on and off the bike, riding a mixture of paved and unpaved roads and revisiting a few places I'd been before. I'll do my best to share it here with pictures and descriptions over a series of blog posts.
It's a perfect day and a perfect road to roll out of Mbeya on. Starting at 1700m the air is cool and it's uphill all day – 25km on smooth tarmac then 25km on a dirt track towards Kitulo National Park. I'm in relatively good fitness, but 20kg of luggage, plus water, feels like a serious work out.
Buying local fruit and veg on the roadside has to be one of the most enjoyable aspects of cycling in Africa. People try to flog you an entire bucket of whatever is in season, unaware that carrying 5kg of carrots or tomatoes in your panniers isn't sensible. And so you offer some small change and pick a handful, which is usually OK. I stopped to buy plums here, rare in Tanzania. Also nice to get service with a smile.
Room for the first night in a village called Kikondo. Pretty basic and pretty grim, but clean enough and at £1.80 per night I couldn't really complain. It was the only Guest House in Kikondo (unsigned) – 10 tiny rooms or so behind a bar. I could have camped, but wimped out under dark skies. Kikondo is at about 2800m altitude so I asked the receptionist/bar girl to prepare some hot water for a shower. I turned in for the night early, happy the village's limited power supply meant all was quiet by 10pm. Tanzania is one of Africa's easiest countries to find cheap accommodation in. Naturally the choice, quality and price go with the size of the place.
On the second day I entered Kitulo National Park. It's one of Tanzania's lesser known parks (no big animals here) and is mostly situated at over 2000m in altitude. Between Jan-Feb wild flowers cover many of the slopes, so I was a month or so early.
Road through Kitulo National Park. Why does a Giraffe and Lion reside on my handlebars? No particular reason other than they were being sold off cheap on an online store when I was purchasing various other gear, and felt like pimping the bike up with some random mascots. Just a kid at heart really. Front light is also a new edition, wired up to the dynamo hub, although I rarely used it and found the placement right on the front of the rack to be too susceptible to the occasional knock. Will have to rethink that one.
Almost no traffic on this track heading to Makete in the Southern Highlands. I had read that December was the wet season, so was perhaps lucky that almost no rain fell during the first week. On some of the tracks, wet weather would have made the going very hard.
There were many tracks in the Southern Highlands and it wasn't always obvious which one to take. I had download a GPS app on my phone, which showed hundreds of interconnecting tracks. I usually just followed my instinct and took whichever was going in the right direction.
Food options were fairly limited in the Southern Highlands, but surrounded by fields of potatoes it wasn't hard to find a plate of fresh chips. And coke, well coca-cola is never that hard to find in Africa.
The scenery was superb, but the gradients on this track through the Southern Highlands were amongst the steepest I have ever cycled on (typically 12-18%+). Down one valley side and up another – all day. In the lowest gear I would usually cycle for a few hundred metres at 4-5km/hr, rest and drink water, then continue. Pushing the bike (about 45kg) on loose surfaces meant it was impossible to get any grip. Had there been rain such roads would have become very difficult to ride. This was the third day of riding on the tour and I managed 35km in about 6 hours, climbing 1200m. When I arrived mid-afternoon in the small village of Lupila I was told I had taken the short-cut, which probably meant the track people walk on.
This photo was taken about 2 hours after the previous, and probably only about 10km later. You can see the road snaking around to the right of the picture. The reward for such a sweaty workout were the stunning views over the Livingstone Mountains.
Nice to find some shady spots on this track to Lupira.
The views around the remote mission station of Lupira were really quite dramatic. The road I should have arrived on cuts into the mountainside on the top right of this picture. This picture is looking north.
Tanzania's National Roads Authority (TANROADS) website has a surprisingly good database of maps detailing the network of roads in the country. I took a series of screenshots of the road network in the Southern Highlands on my phone, which turned out to be very useful and accurate as the names used here are those in existence. GPS devices and paper maps occasionally use inaccurate names. Lupila, which really felt like the middle of nowhere due to the difficulty in reaching it, doesn't actually appear on most maps.
The weather and scenery continues to keep me happy as I head south from Lupira on day 4.
Few people live in a region that's probably one of the most fertile in the country. The population of Tanzania is growing rapidly, but it's towns where people want to live – the same throughout most of Africa. Tanzania as a whole remains sparsely populated and in the areas where roads are poor and mobile network non existent, such as this one, that isn't likely to change too quickly.
Looking westwards towards the Livingstone Mountains, the other side of which lies Lake Malawi.
Without much notice the road to Mlangali (day 4) suddenly came to an end at the bottom of a valley, where a small team of workers were constructing a bridge. With a little assistance I was able to push my bike across the other side and continue, something which reminded me of the simplicity of being on a bicycle.
After several hard days since leaving Mbeya, the road, at least for a short distance, followed a valley floor as I continued south to the town of Ludewa. This photo was taken in the late afternoon and I soon realised that in such scenic surroundings with no sizeable villages or towns in cycling distance, it would make for a good place to camp
Always exciting to spend your first night in a new tent. This is the MSR Nook, a relatively new tent from the same manufacturer that makes the very popular, and excellent, Hubba Hubba, which I had used for many years previously. I still have the Hubba Hubba, but the rain-sheet has lost most of its waterproofness after 400+ nights in it. I expected this tour to be wet at times, which it wasn't, and so felt it was time for a new tent. MSR have supported me before with their gear, but at the time of starting this journey the new MSR Hubba Hubba NX was out of stock. I was offered a good price on the Nook, which has a tunnel design and is more compact and slightly lighter than the Hubba Hubba, so decided to give it a go. I'll write in more detail about it elsewhere, but this was a nice spot to pitch up in – surrounded by Miombo woodland and a backdrop of mountains on either side of the valley.
Great mountain scenery and views of Ludewa District at about 2000m altitude here.
At the end of a hot and dusty road on the shores of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) lies Manda Bay. After 5 hard days on the road it was great to swim here, although I soon missed the comparatively cool mountain air.
I packed a few books with me for the tour, one of which being a biography of David Livingstone. Turns out the much feted hero of African exploration wasn't such the saint many have held him up to be, ultimately failing in his endeavours to convert Africans to Christianity and in finding the source of the Nile. Having said that, his accomplishments in terms of how much of the continent he explored remain impressive, although no mention is made in the book of the Kipengere Moutain Range, which rise up from the north eastern shores of Lake Malawi and are commonly now called the Livingstone Mountains.
Livingstone may have failed in his direct objectives, but his legacy and that of other missionaries who followed in his wake have remained a strong influence in many parts of Africa. The population in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania are predominantly Christian and many old churches, such as this one pictured here a few kilometres south of Manda Bay, are a common sight. Remote and scenic places seem to be common denominators for the location of missions, although living next to Lake Malawi was never a very sensible decision for European missionaries. Malaria remains prevalent and it's bloody hot.
A short distance south from Manda Bay the Ruhusu River drains into Lake Malawi. There is no bridge so small boats transport passengers across. 'Any crocs?' I asked the young boy paddling me across. 'Over there', he points to a bank of dense reeds upstream.
Heading south along the shores of Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi). The cool blueness of the lake and sky provided little relief to the relentless heat. This dirt track, highly scenic as it was, also followed the rule that no gradient is too steep.
Never hard to find a smile in Tanzania, most of Africa for that matter. Villages are full of children. 45% of Tanzanians are under 15 years old, 65% under 24. The statistics, shocking as they sound, are easy to believe. This was taken in a village along the shores of the Lake where I stopped for a warm coke.
A gaggle of women standing on the road ahead caused me to stop. The excitement was for the new born baby – just 2 days old, swaddled in a blanket within his teenage mother's arms. 'Give a gift for the new born' they all shouted. A handed over a small sum of money. There were then cheers and I asked for a picture, thinking as I took it that this would have made a better gift. But I was a long way from anywhere with electricity, let alone a photo printing shop.
Arriving in Mbamba Bay. I first visited this quiet backwater 14 years ago when backpacking around east and southern Africa. Like other places I have revisited since, it hasn't changed other than the appearance of several mobile telephone masts. There is still no electricity and the roads leading here remain unpaved. Places like this, far far away from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, are mostly forgotten about.
Mbamba bay is about as far south as one can go in Tanzania before crossing into Mozambique, which wasn't the plan. Fourteen years ago I took a memorable boat from here, travelling north and docking at many of the Tanzanian lakeside villages through which I'd just cycled. This time I wanted to go directly across the lake to Nkhata Bay in Malawi, but there was no official schedule. I was in no particular rush to travel, but didn't have endless time to wait for a ride. Fortunately it was only a few days before I met the owner of the large boat pictured here. Yes he would be going to Malawi, but not Nkhata Bay. Likoma Island was his destination, a Malawian Island close to the Mozambican mainland. It sounded like an adventure. We agreed a price (about £10) and I was told to return the following evening. I thought about asking if there were life vests onboard, but already knew what the answer would be.


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Roberta Gambarini: Easy To Love
Opening with Cole Porter's classic title track Gambarini's exquisite tone and masterful rhythmic phrasing are immediately on display in the first a capella section. The gradual addition of bass and brushes does little to prepare you for what happens next, as the whole ensemble propels into a steaming swing that leaves you merciful you are only at Track One of the album and bewildered as to why you haven't heard the name Roberta Gambarini before.
A talented arranger and writer in the vocalese tradition, Gambarini's lyrical/scat adaptation of the Rollins/Stitt/ Gillespie saxophone and trumpet solos on "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is breathtaking, delivered with an effortless energy reminiscent of the great Kurt Elling. The presence of Moody, who apparently drove all the way from his San Diego home to the Los Angeles studio to record two tracks, is a real bonus. His playing on "Lover Man" and "Centerpiece" is sublime and his spontaneous scat duet with Gambarini on "Centerpiece" a truly memorable moment.
The album closes with a medley of two lesser-known Monk numbers, interpreted with a sincerity that confirms the pianist/composer's influence on Gamabarini's musical vision.
Easy to Love showcases Gambarini as a true master of her art. Her natural lyricism and technical command are displayed fully on this outstanding debut album, making it easy to see why she can boast a list of admirers that includes Hank Jones and the late Michael Brecker.
Track Listing
Easy to Love; Only Trust Your Heart; Lover Man; On The Sunny Side Of The Street; Porgy, I's Your Woman Now/I Loves You, Porgy; Lover Come Back To Me; The Two Lonely People; Centerpiece; Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry; No More Blues; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes/All The Things You Are; Too Late Now; Multi-Colored Blue; Monk's Prayer/Looking Back.
Roberta Gambarini: vocals; James Moody: tenor sax and vocals (3, 8); Tamir Handelman: piano (1, 3-14); Gerald Clayton: piano (2); John Clayton: bass (2, 3, 5, 8, 11); Chuck Berghofer: bass (1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14); Willie Jones III: drums (1-3, 5, 8, 11, 14); Joe LaBarbera: drums (4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13).
Album information
Title: Easy To Love | Year Released: 2007 | Record Label: In + Out Records


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On Wednesday, January 25, Governor Baker announced his budget proposal for fiscal year 2018. Governor Baker's budget proposal includes a 4.3% increase in funding over FY17 spending. While the proposal includes an overall 2% increase in state spending for the Department of Public Health (DPH), funding for community-based programs had proposed modest cuts.
The Governor also proposed drastic cuts to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment services, Transitional Aid for families with dependent children, decreased funding for the Bureau of Environmental Health by 5%, and proposed increased funding for the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.
We are disappointed to see that core public health infrastructure remains underfunded. Reinvestments in neglected infrastructure are necessary to protect the health of Mass. residents, and are underrepresented in the governor's budget proposal.
Mixed Bag for Public Health Infrastructure
The Governor proposes decreasing funding for The Bureau of Environmental Health (4510-0600) by 5%. In last fiscal year's budget proposal, Governor Baker had proposed a 10% increase for the Bureau of Environmental Health (BEH), a funding increase which did not make it into the final FY17 Budget. This year's proposed 5% decrease in BEH funding in the Governor's Budget would put increased pressure on BEH to perform necessary public health protections with a limited staff. Some core protections did see increases in Governor Baker's budget proposal. Funding for the State Lab (4516-1000) was increased by 2% and Health Care Quality and Control (4510-0710) is increased by 7% in the proposed budget. However, the State Lab has been underfunded for years. The proposed 2% increase would do little more than keep up with inflation.
Drastic cuts to HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS Prevention Treatment and Services received a drastic cut of $4.8M (14%). In the AIDS Action Committee's statement on the Governor's budget proposal, Executive Director Carl Sciortino states that the Commonwealth's most vulnerable populations, including Black and Latino, transgender, homeless, incarcerated and youth, will be most impacted by these cuts.
Substance Use Funding Increased
The Bureau of Substance Abuse Services primary line item (4512-0200) is increased by $2M over FY17 funding. This increase comes after receiving $1.9M in emergency unilateral cuts by the Governor in December 2016. Family and Youth Intervention (4512-0203) was cut by $15K (1%). Clinical Stabilization Services (4512-0201), Naloxone/NARCAN for First Responders program (4512-0204), and Recovery High Schools (4512-0211) line-items are level funded in the Governor's proposed budget. Despite the overall increase in substance use services, the Governor's budget falls short of funding levels recommended by substance use advocates. More funding is needed to increase access to services and recovery high schools and create three new Recover Centers across the state.
To learn more, read the Association for Behavioral Health's analysis of the budget proposal.
Cuts to Nutritional Programs and Family Services
Women Infant and Children (WIC) Food Nutritional Service (4513-1002) was moderately decreased by 2% because of declining births in Massachusetts. In addition, funding for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (4513-1111) was decreased by 12%. This decrease could also impact the Mass in Motion program, which is funded through Health Promotion and Disease. Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children (4403-2000) received drastic cuts. Governor Baker's budget proposal includes $43M in cuts (22%) from FY17 funding. Part of the reduction comes from cutting off or drastically reducing TAFDC for families where a member receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits because of a severe disability. Governor Baker's budget proposal for FY17 included a similar proposal, which was blocked by the legislature.
View the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute's analysis of the budget proposal to learn more.
Outside Sections
The Governor's budget proposal includes outside sections aimed at increasing data sharing among public health departments.
These sections are also aimed at containing the costs of MassHealth for the state by having employers that do not offer adequate health insurance and have a full-time staff greater than ten contribute an annual assessment of $2,000 per worker. The proposal also includes language that would place limits on increased costs negotiated between providers for the next three years.
Next Steps and Opportunities for Action
The budget process moves on now to the House of Representatives. The House Ways and Means Committee will be developing their budget proposal over the next six weeks, and the full House will debate the budget in late April. MPHA will be working hard to advocate for adequate funding for DPH and the programs that help Massachusetts residents stay healthy.
We need your voice! Stay tuned over the next few weeks for the release of the MPHA complete list of funding priorities and to learn how you can get involved to speak up for public health in the state budget. Follow MPHA on twitter and Facebook for updates on upcoming actions.


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We've talked in these pages about the polarization of the American public. While there are an increasing number of people who have rejected the two parties, preferring to be known as "independents." But are they truly "independent"? Because whether or not we identify with an organized political party, the number of people who identify with one party's politics continues to rise.
Party affiliation reminds me of Will Rogers, the cowboy comedian from early in the last century. He famously said, "I don't belong to any organized political party. . .I'm a Demmycrat." Of course, that was a joke, meaning that the Democratic Party was anything but "organized."
But it's no joke that on a whole range of issues, almost all of us agree with one party or the other, whether we want to admit it or not. There's a great quiz you can take to see which presidential candidate you line up with. It's called ISideWith.com. Take the quiz HERE and see where you stand.
The site has many questions. We'll give you a few, edited for space, to give you a taste:
–Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
–Should police officers be required to wear body cameras?
–Should the government raise the federal minimum wage?
–Do you support increasing taxes for the rich in order to reduce interest rates for student loans?
–Should the government increase environmental regulations to prevent climate change?
–Should the government fund space travel?
–Should Muslim immigrants be banned from entering the country until the government improves its ability to screen out potential terrorists?
–Should a photo ID be required to vote?
–Should there be more restrictions on the current process of purchasing a gun?
–Should the government decrease military spending?
–What is your stance on abortion?
–[The list includes 11 candidates]
Note that we included only one question from each category. There are more. I took the quiz twice. The first time, I picked what I thought were the most "conservative" stances, and it said I'd want Ted Cruz as president. The second time, I picked what I thought were the most "liberal" stances, and it said I wanted Bernie Sanders as president. Note that while they offered 11 candidates to choose from, they only chose five remaining candidates for the final answer.
Here's the conservative chart:
Not surprisingly, Hillary, Jill Stein, and Bernie Sanders rate almost zero. But look at Gary Johnson. He comes up 77% conservative.
Again, Hillary, Bernie, and Jill are almost 100% liberal. But the surprise is Gary Johnson. On these issues, the Libertarian candidate is right in the middle, so he appeals to both right and left.
Obviously, in the general election, Bernie has already said he'll vote for Hillary, so he's not a problem for her. However, Gary Johnson could be, since he will draw from both major candidates. More importantly, if Bernie Sanders' frustrated fans go for Jill Stein, Hillary could be in real trouble.
But let's look at what the polls say today, according to RealClearPolitics.
In a two-way race, Hillary currently leads Trump, in an average of recent polls
Clinton 44.9%
Trump 40.3%
–A difference of 4.6%, with 14.8% undecided, or want neither.
However, if you add Johnson and Stein, things look different.
Now, it's
Clinton 41.1%
Trump 36.4%
Johnson 7.4%
Stein 3.9%
–Now, Clinton is ahead by 4.7%, so while Stein would logically hurt Clinton, Johnson is hurting Trump even more. But that still leaves 11.2% undecided—more than twice the difference between Clinton and Trump.
Of course, it's still a long way to November. Any little thing could change the numbers significantly.


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I recently got an email newsletter from a well-respected author and the title was "Failure Is An Option". I'm not really sure what he was trying to accomplish with it, maybe just the shock-effect, but to me failure is NOT an option.
And it's only an option for you if you allow it to be. You are in complete control of that.
You only fail if you quit, right? So, as long as you're still in the game and there's time on the clock—you haven't lost. You haven't failed. But, let's say you do lose a deal or have a bad month in your business. Is that "failure"?
I don't think so.
If I had to define failure it would be this: "Having a less than successful experience from which you learned nothing."
If you gain knowledge or experience even if you don't succeed, you don't fail—at least not in my eyes. The opposite of success is not failure. The opposite of success is quitting.
Decide today, right now, right this minute that failure is NOT an option in your business. Whether you're in sales or operate your own small business—as long as you don't throw up your hands and quit—you are still in the game.
Now, get in there and win it!


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In the fall of 2018, the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District (YSAQMD) plans to hold a public workshop for its next rule project. This rulemaking will focus on Rule 2.27 for boilers, with one of the main points of discussion being a reduction in NOx standards. All facilities with a YSAQMD boiler permit will be added automatically to the mailing list for this project. Facilities without a YSAQMD boiler permit that would like to be added to the mailing list can send their name and address to Paul Hensleigh at YSAQMD for inclusion in the public workshop. A final date for this workshop has not yet been determined.
For any questions regarding existing Rule 2.27 for boilers, steam generators, and process heaters, please contact us (916) 273-5154.


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ComScore reported that the use of mobile maps is increasingly popular in the U.S. and Europe, with 8 percent of American mobile phone subscribers and 3 percent of European subscribers accessing maps from mobiles in the three-month period ending May 2008.
This represents a growth rate of 82 percent and 49 percent in the number of users, respectively. According to the comScore M:Metrics Benchmark Study, the iPhone is the leading device used to access maps in the United States, and in Europe, the device trails the Nokia N95 and N70.
According to comScore, 73 percent of mobile subscribers accessing maps are doing so via the browser in the U.S., and in Europe, 57 percent.
Less than a third of Americans and Europeans are using a downloaded application, which allows even feature phones, with less computing power and often smaller screens, to better render graphic-rich maps and directions.
Despite the ubiquity of SMS usage in Europe,the penetration of consumers accessing maps and directions via SMS is 24percent -- only one percentage point higher than it is in the United States.
The vast majority of mobile map users are seeking driving directions, even in Europe, where public transportation and non-vehicular options are more popular.
While mobile access to maps has surged, online access to maps using the PC shows more modest gains in the United States and Western Europe. In the United Kingdom, which posted the highest growth in mobile access to maps at 72 percent, online access via the PC dipped from 45 percent penetration in May 2007 to 41 percent in May 2008.
In the U.S., the increase in the number of users accessing maps from a mobile device far outpaced the increase in the number of people who accessed maps via the PC.


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Press Release: Rodale Names Michael Lafavore Editorial Director
Emmaus, PA (September 24, 2015) – Rodale Inc. today announced that Michael Lafavore is returning to the company in a new role as Editorial Director, reporting to Rodale President Scott Schulman.
As Editorial Director, Lafavore will focus initially on Men's Health, the world's largest men's lifestyle brand, while also providing input and guidance to other Rodale brands. He will work closely with Men's Health Editor-in-Chief Bill Phillips and VP/Publisher Ronan Gardiner to maximize growth opportunities for the world's largest men's magazine brand across all platforms.
Said Rodale Inc. President, Scott Schulman: "Mike is a highly regarded magazine and media veteran. His record of building global brands will be a valuable asset as we build on Rodale's leadership in the healthy lifestyle space."
During his tenure as editor-in-chief of Men's Health (1988-2000), circulation grew from 100,000 to more than 1.5 million (now 1.8 million); he increased the publishing frequency from four to 10 times a year; and he helped launch the company's first international editions in the UK, France, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Mexico and Russia.
Most recently, Lafavore was editorial director of Maxim and earlier held the same title at Meredith Publishing, overseeing magazines with a combined paid circulation of more than 14 million. He has also served as editor-in-chief of TV Guide and TVGuide.com, where he helped increase magazine renewals and online traffic and commerce.
As an editorial consultant, he has worked with a number of magazines and publishers, including National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Maxim, Popular Mechanics, The Sporting News, Car & Driver, Elle, Western Interiors & Design, and Hearst, Dennis Publishing UK, and Wenner Media.
His appointment is effective October 1 and he will be based in the company's Emmaus, PA, office.
About Rodale Inc. Rodale Inc. is the global voice for health and wellness with a mission to inspire and enable people to improve their lives and the world around them. Through a broad portfolio of best-in-class brands, Rodale reaches more than 100 million people globally through multiple distribution channels, including magazines, books, online, mobile, e-commerce, direct-to-consumer, social, and video. With 100 editions in 67 countries, Rodale publishes the largest, most established health and wellness lifestyle magazine brands, including Men's Health, Prevention, Women's Health, Runner's World, Bicycling, Running Times, Rodale's Organic Life, and through Rodale Events, LLC, which produces 25 branded events that draw more than 100,000 participants annually. As one of the largest independent book publishers in the world, Rodale has published more than 75 New York Times bestsellers, including The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey, Michelle Davis and Matt Holloway's Thug Kitchen and The Honest Life by Jessica Alba. A digital leader in the healthy living space with properties such as Rodale U, an online learning platform; EatClean, a vertical for those looking to improve their health through clean eating; Zelle, a running site for women; and Rodale's®, a healthy lifestyle e-tail store, the company continues to find new ways to connect with audiences across developing technologies. Rodale editors are fixtures on the national media circuit, appearing on television regularly as authorities on health and wellness. For more information, visit RodaleInc.com and follow us at @RodaleInc.


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Robert Wenzel of Economic Policy Journal has some great coverage of the Bitcoin 2013 Conference in Silicon Valley over the weekend. You can read parts 1-4 here, here, here and here.
Says Wenzel:
"One thing you quickly become aware of at this conference is the number of virtual currency competitors Bitcoin has. There are many, though Bitcoin has most of the focus. I asked the doc and the engineer which virtual currencies they were most impressed with beyond Bitcoin, The names they threw out included DevCoin, NameCoin and BitcoinX, though they emphasized that Bitcoin has about 99.9% of the virtual currency market."
That's pretty cool. However his biggest takeaway is this:
"The sense I am getting is that the Bitcoin world is going to end up very heavily regulated. Many of those involved with Bitcoin here at the conference are talking compliance with the government. Even the Winklevoss twins brought this up as something that will be necessary. The libertarian dream of anonymity seems like a distant memory to this crowd. It will be name and social security number in the not too distant future for anyone trying to open a Bitcoin account to buy or sell bitcoins through an exchange. Thus, Bitcoin, if it is not completely closed by government, will be no more than a faster PayPal type system, with a fluctuating value."
So here's my question: What's the point? What's the point of using Bitcoins, or opening a Bitcoin exchange, if you're going to give up on the goal of anonymity? The whole point of Bitcoin is to subvert state control of the money supply and of money.
When the state controls the money supply, it is able to debase the money supply to its own advantage (this is nothing new - see the photo of clipped coins at the top of this post) - and to the detriment of the rest of society. You know, those who actually produced the wealth that the state now bleeds away through inflation and outright destroys through the cyclical booms and busts its manipulations create. On top of this fundamentally parasitic behavior, the state is also able to take even more wealth through taxation of everything it can get its hands on: Income, purchases, death...
So the holy grail of those who seek an end to government control of the money supply (and of money) is twofold: 1) The establishment of a currency that is independent of the governement's fiat currency (and no, "local currencies" don't accomplish this, as they are generally denominated in dollars.); and 2) Anonymity, so that the state cannot simply confiscate money either at the point of a transaction or from an account, regardless of the form that that money takes.
The first part of this already exists, in the form of precious metals. The problem is that the government makes it difficult for people to conduct transactions in precious metals - both by outright harrassment and prohibition (witness the experiences of e-gold and the Liberty Dollar) as well as by legal tender laws which tend to drive good money out of circulation as people prefer to hang on to it and to spend the "bad" money.
So it is not really a new form of currency that was needed, but a new form of making transactions and of keeping that money such that the state could not get access to it - or even know who had it or who had made the transactions. This is where Bitcoin comes in. What is potentially revolutionary about Bitcoin is not that it is a new currency independent of government manipulation - that already exists, and in forms that have withstood the test of time. What is revolutionary about Bitcoin is its potential for being a truly anonymous way of making transactions and of storing wealth. Had e-Gold been peer-to-peer, it might still be in existence and Bitcoin might never have arisen. I know, Bitcoin isn't able to offer genuine anonymity yet - particularly at the point of transfering BC into other currency. Maybe it never will be. But it is more than likely that some digital currency will.
Getting back to my question: What, then, is the point of getting into the Bitcoin business if you're immediately going to cave on the issue of anonymity? What is the value of the service you would be providing (as an exchange service, for example)? Why would anyone want to use a Bitcoin exchange that kept records of account holders and their transactions? There might be some slight currency advantage vs. using US dollar accounts, and as the US dollar gets deeper into trouble that advantage will grow. But why not just have gold exchanges then? Why take the additional risk of dealing with an untested digital "currency" when you could do the same thing with gold or silver?
I personally think that untested digital currency can work. But there is nothing about it that makes it any better than gold or silver or platinum (or e-gold, e-silver, e-platinum, etc.) What is special about Bitcoin - so special that it could change the world - is its potential for providing anonymous transactions. If you're going to throw that away, why even bother?


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However, it is always worth remembering that no one is too young to start joining in some OF activities and kids are welcome at classes. Who know what sort of a hero could be lurking under those hoodies and converse boots? As we all know, the atmosphere at class is one of calming agony and who would not want to share that with the wee ones...?
I must however, clarify that OF is not a creche and Graham and OF cannot take responsibility for our budding Olympians.
So there goes another excuse for not making it to class: babysitting or parenting, let's spread the lactic acid around!


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Electrical Superintendent - East Coast
Job description
Travelling Electrical Superintedent:
Provides input and technical expertise for power generating construction projects. Additional requirements are: General Contractor support of engineering review, procurement (if necessary), construction, and start-up of a high or medium voltage electrical system and associated substation. Responsible for installation guidance, QA/QC enforcement, scheduling support and owner correspondence. Responsible for review and final submittal to Owner of Engineer As-builts and project system packages (Job Books). On-site supervision of Assistant Superintendents and electrical subcontractors (as necessary) to ensure a safe, productive job is attained and costs are controlled in the construction field operations.
Education Requirements: A 4-year engineering degree or equivalent combinations of training and/or related experience. Successful review of electrical work practices required.
Experience: Five years of relevant experience.
Position Summary: Provides input and technical expertise for power generating construction projects. Additional requirements are: General Contractor support of Engineering review, procurement (if necessary), construction, and start-up of a high or medium voltage electrical system and associated substation. Responsible for installation guidance, QA/QC enforcement, scheduling support and owner correspondence. Responsible for review and final submittal to Owner of Engineer As-builts and project system packages (Job Books). On-site supervision of Assistant Superintendents and electrical subcontractors to ensure a safe, productive job is attained and costs are controlled in the construction field operations.
Essential Job Functions
1. Review bid package for accuracy, completeness, and electrical work scope for electrical subcontractors and electrical personnel.
2. Communicate with Site Manager for immediate review of electrical information and any changes to the job.
3. Coordinate electrical work with other job planning and functions such as foundation, erection and tower wiring.
4. Supervises all Assistant Superintendents on-site to ensure use of all company resources and adherence to all company policies and state and federal regulations.
5. Monitors work including subcontractors to maximize production and minimize costs.
6. Acts as an electrical consultant to supervisory and field personnel in the areas of transmission lines, inter-connect systems, switchgear installations, electrical circuits, power quality, and high voltage collection/distribution systems. Conducts weekly meeting with Electrical Engineers, Electrical subcontractors, Owner (SMEs) and Utility interconnect personnel. Need to establish meeting early to bring closure to project action items and bring necessary information forward that may impede design or construction. Supervise all project Electrical subcontractors, Electrical engineers to ensure effective use of project resources as well as industry processes. Has a clear understanding of production goals and cost and identifies job cost reduction opportunities.
7. Responsible for monitoring electrical subcontractor installation activities and progress.
8. Responsible for safe working conditions and procedures including verification of qualified and trained personnel for the following: switch and tag procedures, approaching distances, arc flash, protective equipment, and rotation and voltage check.
9. Ensures a safe work environment by complying with companys safety polices as well as complying with federal and state safety regulations. Ensures all subcontractor equipment, materials, and small tools are in safe operating condition. Need to collaborate with the Electrical subcontractors and Engineers that project will strive for _Zero_ accidents. Need to understand conditions of working around high voltage lines (I.e. High-potting or Partial discharge tests). Coordinate the Lock-out procedure with the Site Operations personnel, Electrical subcontractor, and Engineer. Manage the back feed of the system without incident. Assure there are written procedures, POD, and a new formal plan if changes are needed.
10. Communicates with Site Manager to update him/her on project problem areas.
11. Assist Site Manager in communicating and negotiating with owner regarding major project decisions.
12. Assist in the development and maintenance of project schedule as needed. Effectively schedule the work with Electrical engineer, Electrical contractors, Utility groups, and Owner (SMEs) in accordance with the project baseline schedule. Variations need to be shared with Project Manager and also Owner representative. Assist site team with short interval plan (two week look ahead) and Plan of the Day
13. Compares and continuously monitors actual costs to the job estimate and informs Site Manager of cost over-runs.
14. Assist the PM in establishing the Project Electrical budget (Engineering, Construction, and Interconnect.) Will assist PM in expediting change orders and changes to project Electrical budget. Will review equipment with Engineer and Owner to utilize most cost effective equipment that is approved for the construction site.
15. Responsible for hiring and laying off of electrical craft employees.
16. Schedules equipment and subcontractors to effectively utilize all resources.
17. Responsible for the safety and skill evaluation of Assistant Superintendents and Electrical Field Engineers.
18. Arrange for engineering support and consultation needed as well as provide for peer review of critical electrical issues.
19. Collaborate with corporate managers in becoming a qualified person in obtaining state contractor license(s), and/or a journeyman or master electrician licenses.
Additional Job Functions
Electrical Overhead Transmission Electrical Underground and Collection systems Substation Construction Transmission Utility Interconnect Electrical Engineering Communication System Assure that all electrical workers are qualified and trained for the technical and safety aspects of work they are performing. When training is needed follow through to make sure the needed training is provided in a timely manner.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Must have a valid driver license and an acceptable motor vehicle driving record (MVR).
* Extensive travel is required throughout the United States with extended periods of time spent at jobsite locations (i.e. weeks or months at a time).
* Substantial construction field experience, as well as the ability to perform administrative tasks.
* Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
* Basic understanding of safety construction, commissioning, and testing electrical systems.
* Ability to supervise a large number of employees.
* Good communication skills to deal with owners, subcontractors, and employees.
* Possess a solid understanding of tracking job progress and costing.
EWI Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.


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Kids in the Cliff book club at The Wild Detectives offers story time with "The Story of Ferdinand" at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Devil Drawers and Oddlot perform at The Foundry Friday.
"What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr…" That's the pitch for "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story," which screens at the Texas Theatre Saturday and Sunday.
Somebody's Darling performs at the Kessler Theater Saturday.


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Andy Core is an expert in Work-Life Balance, Well Being and Peak Human Performance
From the time of Karl Marx and the beginning of organized production in factories, productivity in the workplace has been a key issue for owners and managers. Though the "alienation" of production lines in heavy machinery factories may be coming to an end, all enterprises are still concerned about their employees' productivity. Productivity is even a problem in the increasing amount of work that is being done from the home.
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It is hardly necessary to say that a listless, uninterested workforce is an unproductive one. So how does a manager make the changes required for his employees to work together, work harder, and participate in the enterprise? There are two approaches to improving productivity in the workplace; one is external, making use of financial rewards and the other concentrates on the inner motivation of the employee. Inner motivation states that money is not enough, and good management is of the essence where productivity is concerned. People must feel a sense of responsibility, "ownership," and must be aware of the overall goals of the enterprise, and feel that they are part of a "team" working with others towards reaching those goals.
Productivity in the workplace is the key to achieving the set organizational goals.
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The promise made back on Feb. 23, 2011 was nothing less than the fulfillment of a fundamental civil right. "This signing today of this measure says to all of the world that they are welcome," said Governor Neil Abercrombie, finally making it legal for the State of Hawaii to legalize same-sex civil unions. "That everyone is a brother or sister here in paradise."
It's easy to forget now, but this was a huge deal at the time. A bill legalizing civil unions had crossed Governor Linda Lingle's desk near the end of her term of office, and her decision to veto it after weeks of indecision had made national headlines. Abercrombie had campaigned on making civil unions legal, and it was one of the first things he did in office.
The law, known as Act 1, went into effect on Jan. 1 of this year. Considering the big headlines and national hype that went along with the signing, it was somewhat surprising to find that legions of same-sex couples haven't exactly been rushing to fill out civil union applications.
According to Janice Okuba, the public information officer for the state Department of Health, as of May 31, Hawaii has seen just 347 civil unions registered. In the same five month period, Okuba said Hawaii has registered 8,722 "traditional marriages."
"Typically we have 20,000 marriages a year," Okuba said. "The majority of them aren't residents."
When asked for a resident/tourist breakdown on the civil union figure, Okuba said the department is still working on that because they're "short on staff." Neither Okuba or anyone else contacted for this story could explain why so few couples have registered for civil unions, though it's possible they–like most couples–are merely waiting for June.
Travel agencies advertising civil union packages for couples wanting to tie the knot in Hawaii seem to be having mixed experiences. Jana Rothenberg of Hawaiianstyleweddings.com said in the first six months of this year same-sex couples booking ceremonies account for 38 percent of her total business but brought in about 44 percent of her income.
Rothenberg said civil unions made up about a third of her business on Maui, half of her bookings on Oahu, 44 percent of ceremonies on Kauai and just a quarter of bookings on Hawaii Island. She's also noticed that civil union ceremonies can be somewhat different from traditional marriages.
"The couples are so joyful," she said. "They're over-the-top, expressive and so happy. Not tenuous at all. It almost brings me to my knees, thinking of how appreciative these couples are. It's sweet."
But not every travel agency advertising civil union packages is raking in money. "We thought there was going to be a big flood," said Tim Clark of Hawaiian Island Weddings, Inc. (Hawaiicivilunions.net). "I'm not going to say it's been disappointing, but they've been few and far between."
But Clark did share an interesting story of a couple who got married twice. Clark said his company recently booked a ceremony for two gentlemen from Texas. The men told Clark that they were already legally married in the State of California, having secured a marriage certificate during that brief period of time between the June 16, 2008 legalization of same-sex marriage and the Nov. 5, 2008 passage of Proposition 8, which overturned the law (Prop 8 itself is in the process of getting struck down as unconstitutional).
"Are you doing a civil union in every state where it's possible?" Clark says he asked the couple.
No, they said. They were thinking of retiring someday to Hawaii, and wanted to make sure their union was legally binding. After all, Clark said, "the odds of a civil union being recognized in Texas are slim."
Applying for a civil union in Hawaii is as easy as getting a traditional marriage certificate (they also cost the same: $60 plus $5 application processing fee). Go to https://civilunion. ehawaii.gov for more information.


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Parquet Courts Drop Video for "Human Performance"
I fucked up. If there's one truth I can say I've definitely learned in my 26 odd years on this planet, it's this: if there's a good show going on and I have the means to go, I will always regret it if I don't. I say this because I'm sitting here, listening to Parquet Courts' excellent new album, Human Performance, and of course, really regretting that I did not make their show back in May. I even had tickets for fuck's sake, but I didn't go because I was too worn out. In the short run, it made sense, but in hindsight, fuck it. You can always catch up on sleep. Or lose more later.
Anyways, it wasn't until this album that I started paying attention to this band. The one track I can't seem to shake is the title track. The swelling synth solo and the contemplative lyrics make it a perfect song to get caught in a daydream daze to. Also, if I'm being unflinchingly honest, it's a great track to have sex to. Roll your eyes and stick out your tongue all you want, but until you've tried it….
The music video kind of kills the latter vibe with the creepy puppets angle they've gone with. It does look pretty cool though. Give it a watch below. Human Performance is out now. Pick it up and for the love of fuck, go to their show.
Human Performance – Parquet Courts


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My experience when switching to NixOS - Part 8
So I (re)installed NixOS on my old Notebook yesterday and today. Besides some small problems it worked like a charm. Read about it here.
Why did I reinstall?
Well, the old setup was fine. Besides one thing: I hadn't my configuration repository on the device. You may think, well, where is the problem? Just install git and clone it from the other machines, right? The point is, I like to keep my configuration parts private and only share snippets of it if someone asks. Also because there are passwords in it and so on. You know what I mean.
That's why I need disc encryption when I want to clone my configuration repository on a device. So I had to reinstall the device because it had no disc encryption. No problem, as nixos is awesome!
The process of reinstalling
Well, it was really simple: Boot the USB stick, format the drive with
and create encrypted volumes with
cryptsetup, then mount them and create
file systems with
mkfs. Then mount these and do a
nixos-install - smooth
as hell!
After that, I edited the
configuration.nix file which was created by
nixos-install, so had vim and git available when rebooting - also smooth as
But then, I did the big mistake.
The problem
I was a bit tired yesterday, so apologies here. But I actually did
Of course, it worked for the first step. I then logged in with this user,
edited the
configuration.nix file to have the user as well, rebuild the
system and rebooted. The user still existed, but the packages were not
available. I had already cloned my configuration repository onto the encrypted
drive and linked it from the
/etc/nixos/configuration.nix path, but the
packages were not available to the user.
The solution
The solution I found this morning was rather simple: I had two boot loader configurations in my configuration files, as my workstation machine boots via gummiboot for UEFI but the old notebook had to use grub. Two bootloader definitions are not that good - the bootloader didn't get any updates, so I always rebooted into the same generation, resulting in a way to old environment, where the packages were not available.
I fixed this one and also removed everything which was related to the user I
had created. I did a
nixos-rebuild switch. The user got created, the
bootloader got its update.
Everything worked.
So, overall, you can reproduce by:
- Don't be tired when installing a OS
- fdisk
- cryptsetup
- mkfs
- mount
- nixos-install
- vim
- nixos-rebuild
in this order.
And you have everything available. It is SO awesome. I just logged into the machine over SSH and did some things. It was SO easy, because I didn't need to reinstall all my stuff, I already had it available and it worked. That's pure awesomeness to me (pun intended)!


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Below is a list of frequently asked questions about Demandbase Technology. Click the links below to learn more.
- Can the API return DUNs numbers?
- Does Demandbase work with progressive profiling?
- Is IVp6 supported?
- What does ISP visitor mean in Analytics?
- What does "(not set)" mean in Analytics?
- What is DemandbaseSiteAnalyzer/DemandbaseBot?
- What is NAICS? Does Demandbase map NAICS and SIC codes?
- What languages are available for the API return values?
Can the API return DUNs numbers?
Yes and no. Demandbase does not maintain a database of DUNS values, however, we do have the ability to customize our API response based on values you provide for specific companies. This can be done by providing DUNS values for your Account Watch list.
More information about Account Watch lists can be found here.
Does Demandbase work with progressive profiling?
Yes. Demandbase is generally most useful for anonymous visitors the first time they come to your site. Any interaction with cookies or a visitor profile must be custom built. By default, Demandbase will not interact with nor overwrite any user profile data. Demandbase can be used to augment or cleanse profile data, if needed this requires custom implementation, the details of which depend on the profiling system.
Is IPv6 supported?
To maximize consistency and identifiability of traffic across all networks and devices, Demandbase tracks identity via IPv4 addresses only. While IPv6 is an important new protocol that is quickly gaining adoption, the vast majority of devices using IPv6 are also accessible via an IPv4 address; this is called dual-stack. According to Google, as of 12/2019, over 70% of their users do not support IPv6, meaning they are only identifiable with an IPv4 address. Eventually, as the size of the IPv6-only Internet becomes meaningful, Demandbase will support identification with IPv6 addresses.
What does ISP Visitor mean in Analytics?
ISP Visitor is the default value used to indicate a visitor's IP address belongs to an Internet Service Provider, rather than a specific business.
- Visitor's IP is not tied to a Demandbase SID.
- Demandbase Audience attribute has a non-company value like "Residential", "Wireless", or "Bot".
Please reach to support if you have any further questions.
What does "(not set)" mean in Analytics?
"(not set)" (May also be "(Non-Company Visitor)" or "[n/a]", depending on your analytics system and connector version) means the visitor was not from a company.
It is a common surprise for many of our customers. For the first time, they're able to see which companies are visiting their site and what portion of their traffic isn't from companies at all.
What is DemandbaseSiteAnalyzer/DemandbaseBot?
In order to enhance the level of personalization and customization that their website visitors and internal users receive, Demandbase periodically crawls the website to better understand the content and structure of our customer's web pages.
The DemandbaseSiteAnalyzer follows proper crawling rate practices and is registered with the IAB as a robot. The requests happen slowly over the course of a day.
- 1 request per relevant page
- Capped at 60 requests per minute
The above practices help ensure there's no effect on performance.
For Google Analytics customers, you can automatically filter out the traffic if needed. More information on these steps can be found here: https://datadome.co/exclude-bot-traffic-from-google-analytics/
What is NAICS?
The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by U.S. government statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.
Does Demandbase map NAICS and SIC codes?
There is no industry standard mapping from NAICS to SIC. In general the mappings are business-specific. Demandbase does not define this mapping.
What languages are available for the API return values?
Currently, English is the only language in which the Demandbase API returns values for.


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Actress Julie Bowen Expecting Again!
The Boston Legal star and husband Scott Phillips will welcome their second child this spring
Boston Legal actress Julie Bowen and her husband are expecting their second child this spring, her rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
"She's thrilled," says the rep.
This will be the second child for the actress and her husband, real estate investor Scott Phillips. The couple welcomed son Oliver in April 2007.
Bowen, 38, and Phillips were married in 2004. He proposed the previous Thanksgiving, when Bowen was starring as schoolteacher Carol Vessey on TV's Ed.
Bowen, who plays attorney Denise Bauer on Boston Legal, has also appeared on Weeds and Lost.
• Read about more celeb baby announcements on the cover of PEOPLE!
• 2002: See Julie's 'Most Beautiful' spread!
• 2001: Julie cuts her acting chops on Ed


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Charlie Hammond at Galerie Kamm
Artist: Charlie Hammond
Venue: Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Exhibition Title: The Sweats
Date: September 12 – November 3, 2012
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images courtesy of Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Press Release:
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas Edison, 1929).
Sweating is an involuntary bodily action, an automatic response to heat, to strenuous work or exercise, to feeling nervous, angry, fearful or embarrassed. What, then, might it have to do with the deliberate work of making art or, more specifically, making paintings? Is painting really such hard work, or such a source of nervousness, fear, embarrassment that it causes the artist to break into a sweat? If Charlie Hammond's new series of paintings insist over and over again on a relationship between sweating and the activity of putting paint on canvas, they don't do so in order to valorize painting as strenuous, masculine, heroic labour, as a spontaneous or automatic process, or even as an especially anxious endeavour. Nor do they utilize any of the usual tropes of labour-intensive painting, being neither especially large in scale, intricately detailed or heavily worked, or painstaking in illusionistically concealing the work that has gone into their making. Instead of any of this, they present painting as a persistent effort, sustained across days and weeks in the studio, to work out how paintings might work today, and what relationship they might have to other forms of work. The Sweats is seriously absurd and absurdly serious, as perhaps any artworks that reckon with work in our time must be.
No exemplary or anatomically coherent working body is pictured in The Sweats, but because they all incorporate a representation of effort – the repeated motif of a right-angled arm and armpit, stained by cloud-like sweat patches – they make work and working their subject. Sweat could be read as a mark of sincerity here – you are not just going through the motions if you break into a sweat, you are really working, you really mean it, you really feel it. Hammond's paintings should indeed be read as embodying an entirely sincere, committed approach to the daily work of painting, but they don't treat sweat as the mark or guarantor of authenticity. In The Sweats the sweaty reality of work is reduced to a mere sign for work. As Roland Barthes notes of the sweating faces in the 1958 film Julius Caesar, sweat, once treated as a sign, is ambiguous: "it presents itself at once as intentional and irrepressible, artificial and natural, manufactured and discovered."[i] This ambiguous play between sincerity and simulation, nature and artifice, in The Sweats allows Hammond to avoid some of the embarrassing pitfalls into which painting can fall when it tries too earnestly to picture itself as work, or to picture, empathetically, the work of others. The work evoked here is an anonymous and seemingly interminable toil, the character and aim of which is never quite specified. Those figures that do appear in the collaged canvases are composite and caricature-like entities, pieced together from the fragments of other works. Might these pictures, then, embody the work that an artist does to realize and rework an idea, to extend it in a series, to make an exhibition of it, and to put his work back into the world?
If the works are about painting, they are also pointedly about painting's uncertain relationship to a transformed world of work. Amongst the phenomena Boltanski and Chiapello identify with what they term the 'new spirit' of 'networked capitalism' is 'the extension to an ever greater number of wage-earners of the lack of any distinction between time at work and time outside work, between personal friendships and professional relationships, between work and the person of those who perform it'.[ii] The freedom, autonomy and creativity once identified with artistic work, are now recuperated as the prerogatives of capital. This, above all, is what makes the effort to think about art as work such a sweat-inducing business. The works in The Sweats make no explicit reference to these transformations, and indeed have a formal and metaphoric vocabulary which seems to look back to archaic forms of manual labour, most clearly in the suggestions of agricultural implements and clothing which appear in several paintings. However, this collapse of the distinction between work and worker forms the backdrop to The Sweats, which continues Hammond's practice of alluding to the personages, attitudes and lexicons which emerge from this 'new spirit' and its spurious progress. Hammond displaces the special status of artistic work by indexing it to a marker of undistinguished, quotidian effort, of the daily grind. Sweat is, in these works, the solvent that appears to dissolve the separation between artistic and non-artistic labour, without, however, reconciling the two or resolving the tension between them.
Dominic Paterson
[i] Roland Barthes, Mythologies, translated by Annette Lavers, (London: Vintage, 1993), p. 28
[ii] Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism, translated by Gregory Elliott, (London: Verso, 2005), p. 422


text: I am going to Copake auction house to pick up a bike for a friend. If you want me to pick up I will be there on Friday. I charge $50 per bike and supply the box and packing materials. All you have to do is send me the shipping label. I will even drop the box off so you don't have to pay for the shipper to pick up. I will ship anything that is legal if anyone wants to use me.


text: The discovery of aperiodic crystals is perhaps one of the most important event which has changed our vision on crystalline architectures since the discovery of diffraction 100 years ago. It was the merit of a Dutch crystallographer, P.M. de Wolff, to interpret their diffraction pattern as a three dimensional projection of a higher dimensional reciprocal lattice, idea which led directly to the generalization of the concept of crystal. Aperiodic crystals are currently described as periodic objects in higher-dimensional space, i.e. the superspace and their structures can be described in terms of 3-d cuts. Incommensurate structures, composite structures and quasicrystals all belong to aperiodic structures. Many interesting properties of superspace have been discovered which are also directly applicable to crystals in the conventional sense, i.e. crystals with 3-d periodicity. In particular the concept of structure type can be extended for a better understanding of structure relations. The notion of solid solution has also benefited from superspace considerations. Moreover, superspace is a very powerful tool for a better understanding of structure–property relations in materials science, e.g. luminescence properties could be directly associated to the description of structures in superspace.


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Police in the small English town of Burnham publicized bodycam video of an arrest they made earlier this year. Owen Pellow, 42, had called emergency services to report that his ex-partner, Lisa Marie Thornton, hurt herself. But they knew from Pellow's weird, shocked demeanor that he had hurt her and arrested him immediately. It's very creepy and unsettling. I can't quite place why it doesn't trigger apprehensions of intoxication, grief and other things you'd normally presume and I figure that's why it's so disturbing. A human wall of fear, regret, evasion and subsided rage that announces what happened as soon as the door opens.
As PC Ryan Dinham informed Pellow that he was arresting him, Pellow repeatedly asked: 'Can we save her life, can we save her life, can we save her life?'
He asked the officer: 'Is she still alive, can we go up? It is not good.'
And PC Dinham replied: 'It is not good, mate.'
Thorton died from 39 stab wounds. Pellow was convicted of murder in May.


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Alex and Tiffany have been best friends since 6th grade and they are both the age of 20, couple days apart....Alex is my faughter and Tiffany is my adpoted daughter, I post pictures of them;
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I am betting there isn't a dull moment with those two around...:)))
They're beautiful! :)
Very beautiful young ladies. I totally agree with Robert.
I wish them all the fine things in this life...
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National NCAA Division I wrestling rankings coming down to final full month of the season
January 29, 2019
University of Northern Colorado wrestlers Rico Montoya and Jacob Seely would love nothing more than to move up in a pair of national rankings as the Bears begin the final month of the regular season.
The Bears will finish the regular season with three home matches — 7 p.m. Feb. 15 against Utah Valley; 2 p.m. Feb. 17 against Wyoming and 2 p.m. Feb. 24 against Air Force.
Montoya, UNC's senior 125-pounder, is ranked No. 17 by TrackWresling.com, but is unranked by Intermat.com. UNC junior 197-pounder Jacob Seely is also unranked by Intermat.com, and fell two spots to No. 19 in the latest TrackWretling.com rankings, released on Monday.
The Big 12 Championships are scheduled for March 9-10 in Tulsa, Okla., at the Bank of Oklahoma Center. All UNC wrestlers will be eligible to qualify for the NCAA Division I Championships via their finish at the Big 12 Championships, but can also receive at-large berths, primarily based on their national ranking.


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A HALESOWEN property agency has appointed a new partner as it looks to expand its commercial sector across the region.
Fisher German has welcomed Mike Price to the firm's Steelpark Road office, who brings with him a wealth of experience in the industrial and distribution market having acted for some of the most respected occupiers, developers and landlords in the country.
Based out of the Halesowen office, Mike will serve Birmingham and the Black Country, as well as the wider Midlands area, and will be using his expertise to strengthen the commercial team.
His career in the sector, spanning 27 years, has seen him act across extensive property portfolios for landlords, occupiers and also in administration scenarios.
Mike said: "Fisher German has an excellent reputation as an expanding and progressive company, and I will be using my skills to compliment the service.
"My role will focus on industrial and warehouse agency and growing this area of the business in the West Midlands.
"Fisher German is very strong in providing land consultancy advice and my specialist knowledge means that I will be able to work my development market contacts to tie into the existing client base."
Mike joins Fisher German from Johnson Fellows LLP where he established and ran the industrial and distribution department for more than six years, and before this he spent a number of years as the Midlands head of industrial and logistics agency at Knight Frank LLP.
Duncan Bedhall, head of commercial at Fisher German, said: "This is a strategic appointment in the West Midlands and demonstrates Fisher German's determination to expand its commercial offering to clients.
"Mike has considerable experience in the Midlands industrial market and we are very pleased to welcome him to the business."