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In a city like Dumaguete, going to the market to buy ingredients for the day's meals has always been part of almost everyone's daily routine. As early as four in the morning, people would begin streaming in, in the hope of bagging the freshest catch and closing best deal.
The Dumaguete City Public Market or tiangge (dialect word for market) is the best place to scout for locally produced fruits, vegetables, spices, seafood and meat. Haggling is a normal occurrence so the mood is always noisy and chaotic. Most often the aromas could be confusing when inhaled all at once but such is always the case for any market with so much to offer.
The Public Market is composed of 10 buildings with 934 stalls.The buildings are subdivided into narrow cubicles for lease lined up side by side towards the exterior. These subdivided areas are designated for non perishable merchandise such as pots, pans and other utensils, and also for grocery items with longer shelf lives such as canned goods, rice and other grains, livestock feeds, toiletries and other personal effects. Other items would be native baskets, bags, brooms and coconut husks, plastics, carpentry tools, garments and fabric. On the outside one can even find jewelry and watches, freshwater pearls, sunglasses and other accessories, cds and dvds. Parlors, boutiques, jewelry fabricators,pawnshops can also be found at the Public Market.
At the center of both buildings is the area for fast perishable goods such as chicken, pork and beef meat sold by the kilo, fish and other seafood like crabs, shrimps and shellfish, vegetables and spices and even flowers that can be bought on wholesale price.
In a separate building is the fruit market selling local produce like mangoes, bananas, papaya, guava, pineapple, jackfruit, watermelon and whatever fruit in season. These are also sold by the kilo and because of the tough competition, can be easily negotiated upon.
If you are in town it is quite easy to get to Dumaguete City Public Market, you can stop any empty pedicab in the street and ask them to take you there, expect to pay around P20 for the fare.
There is an outbound mini cab terminal for certain destinations in the city most of which are those located in theoutskirts. The mini cab will not leave though until the seats are all taken.
In August of 2006, the Dumaguete City Public Market passed all criteria set by the Department of Trade and Industry for a Pambansang Pamilihan Award. Evaluation included the compliance of laws regarding the use of price tags, correct weighing scales, price boards, consumer welfare section, clean surroundings, trash bins with proper garbage disposal, clean comfort rooms with enough water supplies, and an existing market vendors association.
Going shopping at the Dumaguete City Public Market could be a lively experience. There is always a fresh catch and a vendor who is more than willing to give it to you at a rock bottom price if you have a knack for haggling.


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A Quick Guide to Maintaining and Replacing Your Sneeze Guards
As a restaurant owner or caterer, the sneeze guard is an essential buffer between germs created by your guests and your excellent food. Whenever you are in a buffet situation, sneeze guards provide this buffer. After all, without a food guard, it's very hard to muster a "Bless You" to sneezing or coughing guests. Depending on how often you use it, a good food guard can last a decade or more. A beat-up or dated food guard reflects poorly on your business. You want your entire setup to shine, so don't skimp.
How to Maintain Your Sneeze Guards
Keeping surfaces clean and sanitary is pretty easy as long as you follow proper food clean up at the end of an event or work day. Setting cleaning procedures followed by staff is a good way to make sure this gets done. It's good to clean the glass and rails every day before and after usage. For cleanup, here are a few tips learned by our family owned business with more than 30 years serving Philadelphia and the tristate area:
Use a soft, clean cloth with food-safe glass cleaners, only. If a food-safe cleaner isn't available, use mild soap and water to wipe down sneeze guards. Never use anything abrasive on the rails or glass; this can cause permanent damage.
Regularly check screws or brackets and tighten, gently, if needed. If you see signs of rust, you can replace the item.
Inspect the glass for cracks, scratches or other damage that can cause problems.
Make sure the sneeze guard is at the proper tilt to protect the food. Readjust it, if needed. (Don't make it too tight, you can crack it!)
Sneeze guards can be functional as well as stylish; if they clash with your restaurant's decor or don't fit into their surroundings, they may come across as garish.
How Do You Know It's Time to Replace Your Sneeze Guards/Rails?
Sneeze guards are built to last, but nothing lasts forever. Sometimes it's time to replace the old with the new. Visible wear and tear are telltale signs that you're in the market for a new food guard, especially if there is damage like cracks or scratches visible on the glass or acrylic. Keep an eye on rust or peeling finishes. Many adjustable sneeze guards wear out in a bit less than ten years if they are often adjusted.
There are also a few other reasons you may end up in the market for a new sneeze guard. For example, if you own a catering service that is transforming from full-service to self-service, or adding new components to your buffet setup, it's time to upgrade.
Aesthetically, you will want all of your serving units and their sneeze guards to match. So when you convert your service options, you may want to start anew with a matching set. If you've renovated your restaurant or made changes to your menu, you may want to invest in new food guards. After all, a change in menus may require a change in heating components in a buffet. The lighting, heating, and serving portions of your buffet tables can be adapted to meet the needs of your changing operations. You'll want to make sure that they all meet specifications for food, too.
The great news is that restaurants and other food service companies can choose from a variety of design options when it comes to sneeze guards and food guards, which often come with brackets. Most also are available in a variety of colors and offer different glass panel options as well as the option to add a design or logo. There are a lot of ways that sneeze guards and railings can be customized to your decor. Interested in learning more about your options? Please contact us today online or by phone at 267-592-3433. Ask about our 10% discount special.

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If you have wrinkles, blemishes, and loose skin, then non-surgical face lift facial can be made without spending too much money on face lift creams. Homemade long-term non- surgical face lifts facial can help you keep your youthful appearance. This face lift facial is excellent for wrinkles, crows' feet, fair color complexion and sagging skin. It can even be applied on infants.
- Brown sugar – 4 tsp
- Cucumber – ½
- Egg yolk – 1
- Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp
- Olive oil – ¼ cup
- Avocado oil or peach oil – 4 tbsp
- Honey – 2 tbsp
- Glycerin – 2 tbsp
- Chopped kiwi or pear – 1/3 cup
- Alpha hydroxy acid cream – 1 tbsp (optional)
Method of use and preparation:
Mix all above ingredients and apply on your face, neck, around the eyes, on whole body. Also this face lift facial is good for hands and feet. Wash after 30 minutes. You can even use it as a night cream. If you can add alpha hydroxy acid cream, that will more effective.


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This review article offers an overview of the literature relating to men and masculinities in Afghanistan. Relying on the scholarly works, it synthesizes the development of the field, reflecting a chronological and thematic order. Knowing about masculinities fields in non-western contexts can provide different insights into current discourse, which is mainly dominated by white masculinity.
Race, Ethnicity, Difference
Facing Patriarchy challenges current thinking about men's violence against women. Drawing upon radical and intersectional feminist theory and critical masculinity studies, the book locates men's violence within the structures and processes of patriarchy.
Varying narratives of masculinity and femininity have both shaped and been used by the far-right in its mobilization of support and polarization of debate. This report follows the academic literature in identifying ethnonationalism as the unifying ideology of a heterogeneous political tendency that can be collectively referred to as the "far-right".
Across the globe, violence prevention initiatives focused on men and boys are proliferating rapidly. The new book Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention highlights effective and innovative strategies for the primary prevention of domestic violence, sexual violence, and other forms of harassment and abuse. It combines research on gender, masculinities, and violence with case studies from a wide variety of countries and settings.
Meaningful engagement with men and boys is increasingly recognized as critical to gender equality and equity, necessary not only for women's empowerment, but also for transforming the social and gender norms that reinforce patriarchy and inequality and harm both women and men. The primary challenge embedded in this work is how to engage men and boys effectively without instrumentalizing them as a pathway to women's empowerment on the one hand, or marginalizing women and girls in gender equity work on the other.
Toward an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Violence Prevention Framework for Men and Boys Report
This paper explores the essential principles required for the development of an effective violence prevention framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and boys, to reduce and prevent violence against women and children.
There is a small, but growing, literature on men and masculinities in indigenous or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts and communities in Australia. We have gathered some of this literature here. This includes articles and reports on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males' health, indigenous men's involvement in violence prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and other issues. Additions are most welcome.
My Masculinity Helps: Film (free) on the role of African American men and boys in the prevention of sexual violence
MY MASCULINITY HELPS explores the role of African American men and boys in the prevention of sexual violence. It shows African American male allies (psychologist, professor, peer educator, attorney, pastor, athlete, middle and high school students, activist) demonstrating understanding and support for survivors of sexual violence. Strategies for assistance and prevention are provided. Survivors also share their stories and what has helped them. The film serves as a counter-narrative to often inaccurate and misleading portrayals of African American masculinity.
In violence prevention, we must move beyond simplistic notions of "white men saving brown women from brown men". Women from CALD and indigenous communities are not necessarily hapless victims, and nor are immigrant and refugee men any more sexist or violent than their English counterparts. In any context – rich or poor, Anglo or otherwise, newly arrived or fifth-generation – work with men must recognise the intersections of race, class, and sexuality which shape men's lives.


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Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest and absorb lactose (the sugar in milk) that results in gastrointestinal symptoms when milk or food products containing milk are consumed. The common primary symptoms of lactose intolerance are cramps, bloating, gas or … Read more


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Southwest LRT Project Scores Almost $1B In Federal Grant MoneyAlmost $1 billion in federal funding will help pay for a major extension of the Twin Cities light rail system.
Citizen Group Files Lawsuit To Stop SWLRT PlansThe Southwest Corridor Light Rail project has another obstacle to overcome after a group filed a lawsuit to stop it. Lakes and Parks Alliance, a grassroots citizen group, claims the project violates state and federal law since the latest design was approved before the environmental impact study was complete.
Mpls. City Council Votes In Favor Of SWLRT PlanYears of debate surrounding the Southwest light rail transit project has led to a plan some Minneapolis City Council members call incomplete. But council members nonetheless voted to approve the latest plans for the railway that will connect suburbs like Eden Prairie, St. Louis Park, and Minnetonka to Minneapolis.
Eden Prairie, St. Louis Park Approve SWLRT ProjectTwo more communities are on board with the new Southwest light rail project, after St. Louis Park and Eden Prairie approved the new $1.6 billion project at their city council meetings Monday night.
Mpls., Met Council Reach Tentative SWLRT AgreementThe City of Minneapolis and the Metropolitan Council reached a tentative agreement on plans for the proposed Southwest Corridor Light Rail project that should reduce the budget by $30 million. The proposed light rail line would run from downtown Minneapolis through to Eden Prairie.
Southwest LRT Green Line Extension Moves Forward Despite OppositionThe controversial Southwest LRT Green Line Extension will move forward after a key committee vote early Wednesday afternoon. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges was one of the opposing votes.


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Beyond FANTASTIC: My American Meltingpot Blog by Lori Tharps
I've been meaning to write about the My American Meltingpot blog written by author LoriTharps since author Carleen Brice mentioned it to me years ago. As soon as I read Lori's heartfelt post about the movie 12 Years a Slave I knew I couldn't put this post off any longer.
Presented as "A Multi-Culti Mix of Identity Politics, Parenting & Pop Culture," My American Meltingpot was founded by Lori in 2006 on Blogger and moved to its present URL last year. As Lori puts it, My American Meltingpot is "not the cyber host for post-racial supporters of the colorblind, nor do we negate a person's right to choose… their own identity. No, we appreciate differences and revel in contrasting colors. Culture clashes and cross-pollination is what makes life interesting."
My American Meltingpot categories range from identity politics to family and parenting, from books to food (or both! Love this post on Denver author AdrianMiller's great book Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time), and from authors (Chimamanda Adichie is one of my favorites, too) to all there is to know about black hair. As co-author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair, Lori considers herself a hairstorian and embraces her love of the history of hair. Another great reason to feature Lori's blog right now: an updated edition of Hair Story (with a gorgeous cover) is available for preorder in anticipation of its release in January.
Lori's books also include her novel, Substitute Me, and her memoir, Kinky Gazpacho, about her travels in Spain as a young woman and how they led her to not only learn a lot about herself, but to meet her husband. And, yes, a movie is in the works!
Lori also happens to be a mom to three kiddos and a journalism professor at Temple University (Go, Owls!) in Philadelphia. My American Meltingpot features great resources such as the Multicultural Familia blog and the website of AP race and ethnicity reporter Jesse Washington, as well as a sample list of recommended titles (all of which I'm adding, along with Lori's books, to my to-read list).
I'm so glad I finally took the time to get to know (and subscribe to) My American Meltingpot! Thanks, Lori, for continuing to shine a spotlight on all things multi-culti, including the increasingly dynamic mixed-race experience.
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Serena Byrd, MD is a member of Summit Medical Group's Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) team.
Dr. Byrd is trained to treat all general otolaryngology issues, including sinus disease, pediatric head and neck, and voice conditions, and has expertise in the treatment of all head and neck malignancies, including oral cavity and oropharyngeal malignancies, thyroid cancer, nodal metastases, salivary cancer, skull base tumors, parathyroid adenomas, as well as melanomas and skin cancer of the head and neck region. Dr. Byrd takes a comprehensive approach that is dedicated to each patient's overall wellness. "I cannot imagine a more rewarding career than treating patients with head and neck disease, particularly those with head and neck cancer", says Dr. Byrd. She treats each patient as if they were part of her own family, addressing concerns and guiding them through their diagnosis and treatment using a multidisciplinary care approach, surgical and medical expertise, and genuine compassion.
Dr. Byrd attended University of Michigan Medical School, at which time she received an NIH funded research grant to study oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma and salivary gland malignancies. She completed her residency in otolaryngology at Saint Louis University and pursued further training in Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery by completing a fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where she trained under world-renowned Dr. Jatin Shah. Dr. Byrd has numerous publications related to head and neck oncology and has worked with some of the leaders in the field to help advance the treatment of head and neck cancer.


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Everyone has one: a show that they watched all the way through that they thoroughly enjoyed, despite most everyone else they know hating it. For me last season, that was Akame ga Kill!. Thankfully, it didn't have universal hate on Ani-TAY like some certain other shows do. Not saying any names or anything, you guys know what I'm talking about. Akame fulfilled something for me that I didn't even realize I wanted: it was essentially a big shonen, except it was darker and had more legitimate consequences. Yeah, it had crazy things (Doc Stylish!), some meaningless deaths, and tonal dissonance, but I couldn't help but enjoy it. What about you guys?
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A Week of Ani-TAY
I actually have a complaint here, in the best way. This week was absolutely off the charts with unique content produced. Like, we averaged somewhere between 4 to 7 articles every day. This is awesome, but unfortunately makes it tough for me to pick articles to stick here, so if I don't re-post yours I apologize profusely, I still loved it. Without further ado:
First up, we have all of our Winter 2015 season first impressions from this week.
And then, of course, some more Top <insert something here> Lists!
I'll just leave this one here.
If you haven't already, read these:
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Want in on the Ani-TAY action? All you need to do is follow this tutorial and tag your article with Ani-TAY in addition to the other tags you see fit. Also remember that the Café has a selection of image assets for your Ani-TAY writing needs and spreadsheets for coordinating with your fellow Ani-TAY writers.
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Get in touch with Dexomega or Fruity (vespire50) on Skype (or me of course, Protonstorm) so you can get added to the Ani-TAY group. Among other things, the Ani-TAY Podcast may just randomly pull from this group to participate in the After-Hours segments.


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We have just released the latest update to Amped FIVE (build 7042).
This is primarily a bug fix and user interface improvement release, but we have some new welcome additions too.
First of all, there was one small issue that a few of our users asked to improve. Whenever closing the program or the current project, the software was asking if it was needed to save or discard the current project in a way which was a bit unconventional, sometimes confusing the users and making them click on the wrong choice.
This is an example of the old style dialog, up to the previous version:


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EXIM Bank Ghana has presented GH¢100,000 each to 20 young graduate entrepreneurs to enhance their businesses at a ceremony held at the Alisa Hotel, Accra.
The Bank last year set up the Graduate Enterprise Development Initiative (GEDI) project as a complement to the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) programme. It is meant to support graduates between the ages of 18 and 35 to set up their own non-traditional export trade and agro-based processing businesses to feed the local industry since it is strongly believed these young graduates have the potential of becoming successful.
In view of this, Exim Bank Ghana has contracted the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC) to serve as the implementing partner.
In his remarks, the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, Dr. Baffour Osei indicated that the project would have a multiplier effect since it would serve as a source of employment to other graduates. Dr. Osei assured that the Bank would follow up on the progress of the awardees to ensure that the money given them was put to good use.
Prof. Richard Bani who chaired the ceremony, noted that it was not the preserve for well established companies alone to contribute to the economy and added that small scale companies contribute over $27 million to the US economy every year. "Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) are generating more to the economy of Ghana too because government alone cannot employ everybody".
Prof. Bani who is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank, indicated that recently four graduates from the University of Ghana launched a software known as 'Asorba' to help churches with the administration of their tithes and networking of their members. He urged the award winners to constantly improve on their products so as to assure them of ready patronage from both local and international markets. To this end, the Chairman of the Board advised them to work closely with both the Ghana Standards Authority and the Food and Drugs Authority in order to meet both local and international standards.
Lead Consultant for the GEDI project, Prof. Rosemond Boohene said the University of Cape Coast worked closely with the EXIM Bank and participants at every stage of the project implementation through training, monitoring, coaching and final selection of the award winners. She said 20 businesses were eventually selected from the initial 37 that were shortlisted by an 11-member panel.
Prof. Boohene congratulated the award winners and assured them of the University's support. "We would continue to provide support for you as you implement your respective projects".
"We hope that the vigorous processes that we have taken you through in the past six months have adequately prepared you to manage your businesses".
She assured the 17 other finalists that they would continue to liaise with them to get alternative funding opportunities for their businesses.
The award businesses are Juga Farms, Vegerfresh Farms Limited, Tittan Ventures, Yarda Trust Company Limited, Sule Yahaya Enterprise, Modern Grasscutter Company Limited, Nawubil Limited, Babaoo Foods Limited, Nouveau Foods Ghana Limited and E90 Ghana.
The rest are PK Farms Limited, Premor Limited Sparkxx Foods and Beverages Loimited, DSustainable Agro Limited, Isshad Plus Enterprise, Basoah Agriculture Centre, Billion Gates Ventures, Odera Ventures, Unique Quality Enterprise and DelChris Ventures.


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Keeping Kids Safe From Guns
What is the best way to keep your kids safe from guns? Don't keep guns at home, says the American Academy of Pediatrics. Please remember you are punishable, by law, if you keep guns within easy reach of children. If you choose to keep guns in your home, be sure to be as safe as possible! Below are a video and some tips regarding gun safety:
Here are more tips to prevent a firearm-related tragedy in your home:
Children of All Ages
- Ensure firearms are locked and stored in safe storage.
- Remind parents to keep their firearm unloaded when not in use.
- Inform parents they should store ammunition in a separate place from the firearm.
- Use a firearm-locking device that renders the firearm inoperable when not in use. A firearm lock should be used as an additional safety precaution and not as a substitute for secure storage.
- Make sure parents teach their children what to do if he/she finds a gun
- Buy special locks for all your guns. Keep them in a gun safe or locked case. Always keep the keys out of reach from kids in a safe and secure place.
- Store extra gun parts and ammunition separately from the gun.
- Gun cleaning supplies are poisonous, and should also be locked up.
- Don't leave guns unattended.
- Don't assume your child doesn't know where you keep the gun, or that they are not strong enough to pull triggers. Even kids that have been around guns are still curious about them and might try to play with them.
- Teach your child to resolve conflicts peacefully.
- If you decide you no longer want to keep a gun in your home, your local police department can tell you the safest way to get rid of it.
Kids 3-6 years old
Many kids cannot tell the difference between a toy and a real gun. Talk to your child about what they she should do if they see a gun:
- Don't touch it, even if someone says you can.
- Leave the area where the gun is.
- Find and tell an adult. Ask the child to demonstrate what they would do if they see a gun. Have them walk through each step.
Find out about your child's friends and their homes:
- Ask your child if they know which of their friends have guns in their house.
- Before letting your child play at the friend's house, talk to the parents about guns in their house. A good way to bring up the subject would be: "Robbie always gets into everything, and I worry that if he saw a gun he wouldn't know it was dangerous. Do y'all keep guns in the house? Can you tell me how you store them?"
- Don't feel embarrassed to ask. If you don't like the answer you hear from the parents, invite the children to play at your house instead. If a parent gets offended by your question, reconsider whether you want your child playing at their house.
Kids Older than 6 years
- Talk about the guns they see on TV or videogames.
- Talk to your child that real guns are not toys and guns can kill people.
- Talk about what really happens when someone gets shot.
- Teach kids to stay safe and what to do if they come across an unattended gun.
- Teach kids what they should do if a classmate or peer has a gun at school. Consult your school's student handbook.
Preteens and Teens
- If guns are part of your family culture, teach proper safety and storage
- If your preteen or teen shows signs of depression, store your guns outside of your home (like in a safety deposit box or a friend's gun-safe) Data has shown that suicides among youth is higher where guns are easily available.
For More Information
- The American Academy of Pediatrics and The Nemours Foundation have more tips for parents on gun safety at their websites.
- Download and print Gun Safety, a colorful tip sheet from our Parent Resource Library.
- Project Safe provides free gun locks through law enforcement, as well as other resources for families.
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This bouquet is based on one of my favorite books - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It includes roses made from the pages of the book as well as masses of white crepe paper roses and a single red crepe paper rose with lots of black crepe leaves. It is all tied up with black and white ribbon.
This bouquet was made for a photo shoot for my blog post about a literature themed gift idea all based around this book. Check it out along with more photos HERE.
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MikuniyaKINOSAKI ONSEN
A 3 minute walk from the train station is a hidden retreat. We offer 3 free private baths, a beauty salon, and a delicious breakfast.
Funamori (Sashimi) Course. Includes a free pass to the seven public onsen & Free rental Yukata.
Dinner and breakfast included
Mikuni Inn's personal image:
1. Affordable prices 2. Immaculate 3. Delicious seasonal cuisines
We are a medium sized Japanese inn compared to the other inns in Kinosaki.
We strive every day to provide the best of services so that we may stand out and above the rest.
To assure that our guests feel relaxed and at ease:
We have 3 reservable private baths, free of course.
Dinner is served in the guest's rooms, letting them enjoy the meal in private and at their own pace.
How we help our guests melt away their fatigue and worries.
Our inn is equipped with a beauty spa offering different esthetics, like massages staring at JPY4,000 for 40 minutes.
We also welcome families with children.
Every room has its own DVD player so that you can bring and watch your favorite DVDs(*plays only region 2 DVDs). We also have DVDs available at the front desk. We also lend child sized yukatas(cotton kimonos) and jimbei(for boys).
All ingredients in our dishes are grown locally, making for even more delicious meals.
Wi-Fi available.
Max capacity:2〜5persons
- Additional fee notice
- Children 0~1yrs old who require nothing can stay free.
*For children need meals and/or bedding please register them under the children's option on the reservation home page.
*We are not equipped to provide meals for small infants (still breast feeding or unable to eat solid foods). Parents are welcome to bring any necessary food for their children. We can provide you with hot water, microwaves or anything else needed, please let us know.
- About service fees and taxes
- Service fees and consumption taxes are included in your total.
Charges not included that will be charged separately are:
Hot spring tax(JPY 150/person) and bath admission fee(adults-JPY 190, children JPY 95)
- Cancellation Policy
- Cancellation fees: 1~3 days before(20%), day of at least 15 hours before(50%), Cancellations less than 15 hours before or are no show(100%).
*Groups of 15 or more cancellation fees: 14 days before(10%), 7 days before(20%), day before(50%), day of (70%), less than 15 hours before or no show(100%).
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Independent Publisher Sale – 25% Off
Fictionwise has always been proud to be the only eBook retailer to actively promote and support independent eBook Publishers.
This week, we are featuring all Independent Publishers by offering big savings on nearly 20,000 MultiFormat eBooks! For a limited time, all MultiFormat eBooks are 25% off through October 5th.
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The multi-format books do not have DRM and include books from Belgrave House, Samhain Publishing, and Amber Quill Press. Go forth and buy. Support your indie publisher.
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The admission criteria have been grouped to assist you to easily find the information most relevant to your circumstances. However, you may fit into more than one and the university will consider applicants against each of the relevant criteria.
Certain conditions apply. For more information refer to Appendix 4 of the University's Selection and Entry policy.
Applicants are required to meet one of the following criteria with a competitive result, and demonstrate that they fulfil any prerequisite requirements and essential requirements for admission:
Recent secondary education
Meet any prerequisite requirements with a minimum grade of C- or equivalent
Applicants who have not achieved the Selection Rank required for automatic selection may be selected for any remaining places based on the grades of their year 12 subjects.
Higher education study
Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Work and life experience
|Bangladesh HSC
|Canada High School (OSSD)
|Eynesbury FSP
|German Abitur
|India (best 4)
|Kenya KCSE (average)
|Malaysia STPM (best 3)
|Malaysia UEC
|Norway GPA
|Pakistan HSSC
|Sri Lanka A Levels (best 3)
|Sweden GPA
|UK Board GCE A Levels/HK Board
|IB (best 6)
|Nepal NEB
1QILT: Graduate Outcomes Survey Course Experience Questionnaire 2016-18 – Full-time and Overall Employment Indicators (Undergraduate). Public SA-founded universities only.
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32018 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
This unique double degree will prepare you to work as a human services professional and develop services and support those that experience disadvantage, personal and social difficulties.
The human services field is a rapidly growing sector of the Australian economy and an emerging area of global focus. Employers, both in Australia and internationally, are increasingly seeking skilled human service practitioners who are culturally and linguistically diverse. Graduates with a strong command of professional English, social policy skills, strong intercultural communication skills, and proficiency in a second language are in high demand.
You will graduate with skills in research, policy and project management, tailored to your area of interest based on your choice of arts majors, choosing from Languages (English Language; French, Italian or Japanese Studies); Sociology; or Linguistics. Through 560 hours of supervised work placement you will be ready to work in a wide range of jobs in human services and community development.
Language students will also be given the opportunity to immerse yourself in your chosen language and culture through our exchange and in-country study programs.
Many courses within the degree are offered online or in intensive mode, including our exciting summer and winter schools, offering students a flexible mode of study. If you finish your degree with a credit or higher Grade Point Average (GPA) you could also be eligible for the prestigious one-year Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree.
You will develop the skills, knowledge and intercultural expertise to support individuals, families, groups and communities both locally and internationally in the community aid and humanitarian sector.
You will also develop diverse knowledge in political, behavioural and social sciences, all within the context of human services. To complement your studies in Human Services, you will complete two Arts majors, choosing from Languages (English Language; French, Italian or Japanese Studies); Sociology; or Linguistics.
You could improve your employment prospects by continuing your studies with a one-year Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree.
|Course name
|Area and cat no.
|First Semester (Study Period 1, 2 or 3)
|Human Service Provision
|Communication Skills in Social Work and Human Services
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1
|Second Semester (Study Period 4, 5, 6 or 7)
|Aboriginal Australians and the Human Services
|Group Work
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1
|First Semester (Study Period 1, 2 or 3)
|Applied Psychology
|Australian Social Policy
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1
|Second Semester (Study Period 4, 5, 6 or 7)
|Policy Practice
|Working with Community
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1
|First Semester (Study Period 1, 2, 3)
|Human Service Intervention
|Interviewing Skills in Social Work and Human Services
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1
|Second Semester (Study Period 4, 5 or 6)
|Human Service Project Management
|Case Management
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1,5
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1,5
|First Semester (Study Period 1, 2, 3)
|Human Service Field Placement A
|Rule(s): 3,4
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1
|Second Semester (Study Period 4, 5 or 6)
|Human Service Field Placement B
|Rule(s): 3,4
|Major 1
|Rule(s): 1,5
|Major 2
|Rule(s): 1,5
1. Students are required to choose two Majors from a choice of either: English as an Additional Language, French Studies, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies, Linguistics, or Sociology. Further details and the sequence of courses for each major is available at the Majors, Sub-majors & Minors webpage.
2. Should students choose to undertake a Language major, please note only non-native speakers of a language may enrol in language courses.
3. Field Placement consists of a total of 560 hours of supervised placement to be undertaken in two blocks of 280 hours during the final year, for between 2 and 5 days per week. Students may be required to attend field placements outside of normal working hours.
4. Students are required to undertake Criminal History Checks through the Department of Human Services (DHS) for working with Children, in the Aged Care Sector and in Disability Services; obtain a SAPOL National Police Record Check; completed a one-day Safe Environments for Children and Young People course; and the University's online module, Undertaking a Safe Student Placement. Some placements may also require students to hold a current driver's licence, a recognised First Aid Certificate or other requirements as requested by a specific placement provider.
5. Students undertaking a language major must complete a 9 unit summer school course in Study Period 7, either at the end of year 3 or year 4. Two 4.5 courses from the other chosen major must then be completed concurrently in the alternate study period in the second half of third or fourth year. Students undertaking a Languages Arts Major should review the Language Major Page for more information or contact the Program Director for further enrolment advice.
1. Based on academic merit, graduates of this program will be eligible to apply for admission to the one year Bachelor of Arts (Honours) program.
For each course you study, you will need to allocate time for various classes such as lectures, tutorials, workshops, seminars and practicals. Plus you will need additional hours to study in your own time to complete assignments, readings and projects and contribute to online discussion forums (independent study). So as a general rule, if you are studying full-time you would need to allocate 12 – 26 hours of study when at university and 14 – 28 hours of independent study per week.
Your studies at UniSA will incorporate both practical, professionally focused and research-based learning, so assessment types will vary. You can expect them to include:
Enrich your studies and your life – make overseas study part of your qualification. Australian and international students may have the option to do an exchange, short-term program or study tour overseas. We have links with universities worldwide. You can choose short-term or semester-long study from a range of universities and countries depending on your area of study and cultural interests.
Take a look at the global opportunities available.
In this double degree you can tailor your learning experience to your interests and career goals.
You will learn from world-class educators and researchers1 and benefit from our on-campus learning facilities, including – for language students - the Multimedia Languages Lab where you can connect in real-time with native speakers from around the world, and our Human Services Studios.
In your studies you will learn from industry experts and award-winning researchers. You will build strong workplace networks when you complete 560 hours of field placements during your final year.
You will complete 560 hours of work placements during two work placements in your final year. This real-world experience is a major focus and provides valuable hands-on experience and the opportunity for you to build important industry relationships.
We also host regular University-wide employee master classes and employment expos, and alumni events in Australia and overseas.
A career in the human services sector requires a strong interest in people; you also need to be able to think clearly and logically, to be compassionate, understanding and patient. If you think you've got what it takes, the employment opportunities are excellent and the demand for graduates is high1, with graduating students quickly finding work in a wide range of fields. Careers to consider:
You could improve your employment prospects by continuing your studies with a one-year Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree.
1 Australian Government Department of Employment, Occupational Employment Projections 2015
This program is recognised by the Australian Community Workers Association. Graduates will be eligible for full membership of the Australian Community Workers Association.
How to apply for international students will give you helpful information about the application process at the University of South Australia. When you are ready, apply through our International Application System. If you would like to talk to someone near you about studying at the University of South Australia, we have agents all over the world who can assist you. Find an Education Agent in your country.
There are other pathways you can follow to study this degree, including:
Every year, over 2,500 UniSA students are supported in their studies through scholarships and grants worth millions of dollars. Check out the scholarships below. One of them may be perfect for you. Visit our scholarships page for more.
Recipients can get a 50% reduction on tuition fees for up to four years of full-time study for selected degrees.
Recipients can get a 25% reduction on tuition fees for their first year of study for selected degrees.
As a student at the University of South Australia you will have unique access to work placement opportunities, overseas study tours and exchanges, networking events, internships, guest speakers and more.
Our campuses are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities including modern lecture theatres, libraries, workshops, laboratories, and areas that simulate real work environments. These are all supported by the latest technologies and a 24/7 online learning platform. We have health services on campus, gymnasiums, technology zones and great student lounges. You will also have access to a range of community clinics, which provide professional and cost effective services in areas of health, law and psychology. There are campus sport activities to keep you active, and if you are keen to explore the social side of university life, there are movies, cooking demonstrations, parties and lots more.
Adelaide has a variety of accommodation options to suit different requirements and budgets. Options include dedicated student accommodation or private rentals. See our long-term accommodation pages for plenty of options. If you need somewhere to live, our new student accommodation by urbanest is on Bank Street in Adelaide's lively cultural precinct, a perfect location for students. It is within easy reach of UniSA's city and metropolitan campuses, Rundle Mall shopping, the Central Market, Chinatown, and the West End's vibrant nightlife. It is also across the road from the Adelaide train station, and on bus and tram routes.
International Student Services will make your life at university easier. We want you to be successful, and if you need help we will be there to assist. Support services include:
We also offer study support from our Learning Advisers. You can work with them face-to-face or online. They are here to help you develop academically and professionally during your studies. They also offer help with the English language. When you become a UniSA student you can contact Campus Central for help with anything related to your degree. They will help you with your enrolment, ID cards, fees, timetables and any other questions you might have.
Our learnonline facilities include a personal learning environment with virtual classrooms, lecture recordings, emails, learning support, administration, library access and results. The environment is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so you can tailor your learning to your life. We are continually investing in innovative digital technologies for a high-quality student learning experience.
As a human services student you will have access to two on-campus Human Services Studios, which are equipped with recording equipment and cameras so you can practice your skills with the help of field practitioners and academic staff. As an arts student you will have access to our on-campus Multimedia Languages Lab where you can connect in real-time with native speakers from around the world.
Amy Cleland commenced as a Lecturer at UniSA in 2008 with an industry background in youth justice and child protection services, leading to project coordination and policy advice roles across state and Australian government departments. Amy coordinates Aboriginal Knowledges across social science, social work, psychology and health programs with a research focus on examining colonialism, and teaching methods that are informed by practice wisdom. Amy's professional experiences utilising her studies at UniSA reflects the scope of opportunities available to social science graduates which she shares with students in her current role as Program Director: Social Science (Human Services).
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There are a number of ways to apply to study UniSA's undergraduate and postgraduate coursework degrees.
You can access our online International Application System through our How to Apply page. The International Application System is an easy and secure online application and acceptance process. You will have visibility of your application through the secure online portal with the ability to download offer documents, submit your acceptance and make a payment.
Alternatively you can submit an application through one of the University's registered Education Agents.
If you are completing an Australian year 12 qualification in Australia or overseas, or the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme in Australia, you must apply through SATAC http://www.satac.edu.au/.
If you are applying for the UniSA Study Abroad or Study Abroad Plus program, you can submit your application online here.
Postgraduate study by research
For information on applying to do postgraduate study by research, including Masters by Research, PhDs or Doctorates, please visit http://unisa.edu.au/resdegrees.
There is no closing date for submitting your application however the admissions process takes between one and three weeks from the date that we receive your application and all required supporting documentation.
If you are completing an Australian year 12 qualification in Australia or overseas, or the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme in Australia, you must apply through SATAC. Key dates for applications can be found here.
You may be eligible to receive credit or advanced standing for your chosen UniSA degree based on your previous studies, if they are in a related area at an equivalent or higher level. Receiving credit will reduce the number of courses you undertake within the degree, and may also reduce the overall duration of your degree.
The amount of credit you may be eligible to receive is assessed on a case-by-case basis by the Admissions team.
The best way to determine your eligibility to receive credit or advanced standing is to apply using our International Application System which can be found on our How to Apply page. You will need to supply detailed syllabus documents with your application.
UniSA welcomes the opportunity to speak with you regarding your study options. Our staff are able to talk to you about degree information, career outcomes and pathways, entry requirements, applications, and student life, so that you are able to make the best study decision for your future.
Click here to book a 1:1 appointment with one of our enquiries team.
We also have many events throughout the year in Australia and overseas where you can speak with UniSA representatives about your area of interest. View our calendar of events in your home country by selecting the 'International' filter.


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techniques used by cybercriminals are evolving, but Kaspersky Lab has
an answer to their stratagems.
For each trick designed to fool anti-malware technologies, our experts
rapidly develop countermeasures," comments Timur Biyachuev, Director of
Anti-Malware Research, Kaspersky Lab.
The first patent, No.
9111096, is titled "System and Method for Preserving and
Subsequently Restoring Emulator State." This patent covers a technology
that counteracts attempts by malware to detect and stop emulation being
used to spot malicious functionality in code.
The newly-patented technology can create images of the emulator's state
and load them if the execution of the code being analyzed terminates incorrectly. It also creates
images if predefined events occur, providing greater flexibility when using emulation technology.
The second patent, No.
9116621, covers a technology called "System and Method of
Transfer of Control between Memory Locations." The purpose of the
technology is to make monitoring by a security solution invisible to
malware. By controlling memory page access rights, it
provides the ability to log Application Programming Interface (API)
function calls made by the program being analyzed. The security solution
receives data on these calls directly from the CPU using hardware
interruption. When information is transferred at
the hardware level, monitoring is concealed, which helps to detect new
malware more effectively.
Both technologies are used in Kaspersky
Total Security, Kaspersky
Internet Security, Kaspersky
Anti-Virus and Kaspersky
Endpoint Security for Business. The first patented technology, "System and Method for Preserving and Subsequently Restoring Emulator State", is also used in Kaspersky
Security for Virtualization.
Kaspersky Lab continues to develop and patent new data protection technologies. As of early September 2015,
the company has 334 patents in Russia, the U.S.,
China and Europe, and has 307 additional patent applications filed.


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Fast food isn't what it used to be. It's still fast. It's still cheap. It's still served over squeaky-clean counters by polite, impersonal cyphers. But these days, sleek sassy startups as well as megacorporate Old Guard outfits are trying their hands at neo-fast-food: Burgers and fries won't disappear anytime soon, nor should they. But now they share space with salads, smoothies, wraps, veggieburgers, caffe mochas, and reduced-fat, high-fiber, sustainably packaged Americanized ethnic treats.
This is fast food in the era of Slow Food. A new sensibility is spreading through a $170 billion industry, transforming menus and marketing schemes like some slowly advancing, pierced-eyebrowed army whose soldiers won't wear leather or eat cheese. Now that Taco Bell sells "Drive-Thru Diet" items and McDonald's uses grass-fed beef — not exclusively, but it's a start — "fast food" and "junk food" are no longer necessarily synonyms.
The newest kid on the block is Falafilo. Its spic-and-span shop a few blocks from Oakland City Hall opened in July; shops in Berkeley and Richmond are set to open within weeks; CEO Ernest Taraji plans to open 1,300 shops nationwide and 200 in Canada within months. Based on a trade-secret recipe and methodology that Taraji says "takes felafel back to the pharaoh's time," Falafilo's signature sandwich is a 100 percent vegan felafel-burrito-panini hybrid. Diverging from familiar felafeldom, its chickpea filling isn't deep-fried. This keeps the calorie content per sandwich under 300. Sealed tightly inside a tortilla-ish pita, served with optional head-poppingly hot sauce, the contents don't gush out.
"You can eat my sandwich while riding a bicycle," beamed Taraji, a former Wall Street stockbroker. "You can eat it while you're skateboarding or jogging. You can eat my sandwich with one hand — actually, you only need two fingers."
That's a far cry from the flamboyant fare at Maoz, Falafilo's chief competitor in the Will America Ever Embrace Chickpeas? steeplechase. Both are highly ambitious felafel chains; founded in Amsterdam in 1991, Maoz has expanded around the world. Its irresistibly hip, tiled, vegetarian franchise near UC Berkeley, open since March, has a salad-bar format sporting a dozen fresh-daily seasonal salads and sauces with free refills. Tasting like health itself, its cole slaw alone is worth the jaunt. Maoz stays open well after midnight.
"Felafel deserves a lot more credit than it's been getting in the United States," said Taraji, who hopes to raise its profile. "You can see how a culture changes right before your eyes. Fifteen years ago, if you told someone that someday he would line up to buy a cup of coffee for more than 59 cents, he would have said you were crazy. But now people line up to pay five dollars for a cup of coffee at Starbucks, and they find ways to justify that."
Ubiquitous elsewhere, felafel hasn't quite caught fire stateside. Maybe that's because it's messy. Maybe it still feels too foreign. Fast food wasn't born here. But starting circa 1921 with White Castle, a motorized, multitasking, meat-eating America boiled down the genre to burgers and fries. So enmeshed is this meal with our national identity that even vegans sometimes crave replicas.
That's what inspired Amanda West to open Amanda's Feel Good Fresh Food in downtown Berkeley two years ago. Serving beefburgers and cheeseburgers alongside house-made, nutty veggieburgers and baked-not-fried white and sweet-potato fries in 100 percent compostable packaging, the Stanford Business School grad patterned Amanda's after classic American burger joints such as Oscar's, a Berkeley standby for fifty years. Wisely, Oscar's now also serves a charbroiled, onion-and-tomato-topped veggieburger so satisfyingly sloppy that it won't leave its eaters feeling ripped off or hungry: A rarity.
Megachains are scrambling to keep pace. Selected Burger King locations now sell Morningstar Farms veggieburgers. McDonald's and Jack in the Box now serve low- and nonfat fruit smoothies. Burger King, McDonald's, and Popeye's now serve salads and wraps. Even KFC, home of the 540-calorie, 32-grams-of-fat, 1,380-milligrams-of-sodium Double Down sandwich (bacon and cheese between two fried-chicken filets), now offers wraps, which it calls "Twisters." It smells like victory. It also smells like meat.
Burger King's two trademarked meal-sized salads are the Tendercrisp and the Tendergrill. Both include chicken and three kinds of cheese. BK's breakfast wrap is bacon-packed. "Choose a snack wrap," thunders the web page promoting McDonald's wraps. You have three choices: Bacon & Cheese with Angus beef, Mushroom & Swiss with Angus beef, and Deluxe with Angus beef. It's a Spam-Spam-Bacon-and-Spam situation. While both the San Francisco Soup Company and Jamba Juice prove that fast-food chains can make delicious, adventurous, and sometimes fleshless salads and wraps, their old-guard counterparts evince a deep fear of scaring away carnivores.
Taco Bell has always served meat in tortillas, so at least it can't be accused of hypocrisy. In some ways, Taco Bell is the leader of the old-guard fast-food pack. Sure, its standard menu is hardly artery-cleansing: Witness the 700-calorie, 2,100-milligrams-of-sodium, 30-grams-of-fat Grilled Stuft Beef Burrito. Even the meatless 7-Layer Burrito, which includes "reduced-fat sour cream," has 510 calories, 1,420 milligrams of sodium, and 18 grams of fat. But Taco Bell's Drive-Thru Diet line, introduced late last year, features seven items with less than 350 calories and less than 9 grams of fat. Its scrumptious Fresco Bean Burrito has only 2.5 grams of fat. It's right out of Subway's We-helped-Jared-Fogle-lose-245-pounds playbook. Another plus is that Albany's Taco Bell sports green innovations such as a solar-powered roof, low-flow irrigation, and energy-saving lights and windows.
What's new about the new fast food isn't just heart-healthierness, higher fiber, and semi-sustainability. It's also an aspiration for sophistication. In Europe, McDonald's operates a sub-chain of coffee-pastry cafes called McCafe. Stateside, McCafe manifests as a range of cappuccinos, mochas, and knockoff Frappuccinos made with 100 percent arabica coffee. (With 550 calories, 24 grams of fat, and 71 grams — that's about seventeen teaspoons — of sugar, a high-fructose-corn-syrup-spiked McCafe Caramel Frappe will undo several trips to the gym.) Burger King now serves 100 percent arabica iced mocha, roasted in Washington State by Seattle's Best, a forty-year-old firm that was small and family-owned before being bought in 2003 by — surprise — Starbucks.
Both boutique and actually better for you is Nature's Express, a truly remarkable, scrupulously vegan fast-food chain founded by an Arizona oncologist committed to reducing America's cancer rate by improving what Americans eat. Baked fries join a range of meatless burgers on your choice of black-bean, almond-sunflower, lentil, Boca, and "chick-un" patties on whole-wheat or rosemary buns, along with international exotica such as carrot-cashew paté and a juicy tofu-corn-quinoa salad.
"The vegetarian world will eventually gain more and more ground," mused Falafilo's Taraji. "Five years ago, the word 'vegan' sounded like something extraterrestrial — but now more and more people are choosing to stay away from animal products, and even more and more meat-eaters are choosing to take a day off from meat-eating now and then.
"I'm going to ride that trend for the next twenty years."


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Start of Kyushu tour!!
This morning, we came to Kyushu together with a total of 10 beauties, the world's top 5 representatives at Miss International beauty pageant and Japan's top 5s. It is a five-day tour starting on July 5 ending on July 10.
The purpose of this project is to recharge Kyushu, under the slogan "Let more and more people know how amazing Kyushu is" and "Let's encourage Kyushu," by actually vising its sightseeing spots which lost its energy due to the influence of the earthquake, studying more about them and spreading information of them to the world.
It's a shame that people except attractive places in Kyushu from their list of must-see places just because they are located in Kyushu, even though most of them have not been affected from the disaster. There are still many people who were forced to live in temporary houses full of anxious feelings in the affected area. I do want to tell people that Kyushu is a great place to visit filled with kind people, profound history and diversified food culture.
I'm sure that the beauty representatives who took part in our project will spread information on what they knew and felt during their round-the-Kyushu tour when they are back to their home countries, Venezuela, Honduras, Kenya, Vietnam and America. Their message about Kyushu will spread all over the world without staying in five countries. That's a very amazing thing. Please go for a trip to Kyushu by all means. Now is the time!✨✨✨ And I'd like Japanese to choose Kyushu as their destination casually.😆✈🌏
|2016 Runner-UP Miss International Japanese Delegate
Saki Kawaguchi


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After months of wrangling between life-long villagers and affluent newcomers, a High Court judge has ruled that the name of the tiny Dorset village of Schroatham should correctly be pronounced 'scrotum'.
The dispute around the name of the village had originated following an influx of newcomers to the area attracted by newly built executive homes and high-speed rail links. 'We've always called it Scrotum, but apparently it's not 'aspirational sounding' enough for these townies,' explained villager Jess Bryant, who also reported that as newcomers descended upon the village, there were a number of attempts to influence the accepted pronunciation by loudly and repeatedly referring to the village in the pub and shops as 'Shroo-tum', and latterly 'Shroam'.
However, after this effort failed to catch on, the new arrivals took a different approach and joined the Parish Council en masse, forcing the upmarket housing development on the hill to be renamed Hinchcliffe Magna. When locals wrote 'twinned with Rektum, USSR' underneath the new signs, battle lines were drawn for a long and costly court battle.
Finally, after considerable research, the judge's decision was swayed by evidence uncovered by historians showing that the town was named in the 10th Century, after the Anglo-Saxon word Shkoot'm, meaning 'ball-bag'. The 17th century traveller and diarist William Pearce also referred to the village, which lies between the hilltop settlement of Pizzle's Pike and the clay-pits of Nether Hole, in his book 'Willie's Wayside Wanderings' describing it as 'an unfightly and fmellee bulge on the landfcape', while noting that the local cheese, 'Schroatham's Rind', was renowned for its properties as a hangover cure.
'It serves them right for trying to throw their weight around like that' mused lifelong resident Reg Balmer, over a lunchtime pint at The Twisted Sow. 'The thing that cracks me up is that they've spent an extra fifty grand each to live up on that hill; now they still only live in Upper 'Scrotum' rather than Lower. Even better: half of them live in Bonnets Lane, and all the signs for that say 'Cul de Sac'.


text: Judith Sherman-Wolin is a health fitness practitioner, educator, journalist, produced screenwriter and health fitness activist. She is the exercise specialist at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and is a contributor to MSNBC Health, Fitness magazine, and oncology.com. Ms. Sherman-Wolin has two children and lives, writers, and exercises in Brentwood, California.


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The New American
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
By now, the broad strokes of the showdown in the Nevada desert between legacy cattle rancher Cliven Bundy (shown) and the federal government are readily discernible. For those needing an on-ramp to the issue, read this article written by The New American's senior editor, William F. Jasper.
Most media coverage of the situation focuses on two claims by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). First, that Bundy hasn't paid fees to the federal government for his use of "public lands." Second, that Bundy's cattle (near 1,000 head) are threatening the habitat of the desert tortoise (never mind that the feds have been killing thousands of those "endangered" animals for years).
What has failed to be adequately explored are the key constitutional conflicts between the BLM's tyrannical behavior and the power granted to the federal government in the Constitution.
First, a brief review of the historical debates on the issue of federal ownership of "public lands" is in order.
On September 5, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia were wrapping up the nearly four months of deliberations. Within two weeks, the document would be signed and sent to state conventions for consideration. But first, there was the question of control the federal government would be authorized to exercise over "public land."
Discussions centered on the provision of the Constitution known as the Enclave Clause — Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. As he had done so many times, Massachusetts delegate Elbridge Gerry rose to employ his impressive oratorical skill to build better fences separating the federal government from the states and the people.
Gerry contended that "this power [to exercise authority over "public land"] might be made use of to enslave any particular state by buying up its territory, and that the strongholds proposed would be a means of awing the state into an undue obedience to the general government."
There is no better description of the despotism of the BLM than "awing the state into undue obedience to the general government." The federal government — and most commentators — believe that the federal government is merely exercising its constitutional right to control "public lands." Sure, these apologists admit, Bundy is suffering personal deprivation, but that's the price we pay for "domestic tranquility."
Our Founding Fathers knew better. As Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) explained in regard to federal seizure of significant land in the mountain West:
Then, as now, we have a grave risk associated with the fact that when the federal government owns this much land, the federal government has this much power. This was on the minds of the delegates to the Convention of 1787, that one of the things they needed to protect against was the concentration of too much power in the hands of the few, especially the concentration of too much power within the federal government. They understood, and each of them had a mission to protect the sovereignty of their respective states. They understood that if Congress had too much power to simply buy up too much land in any one state, disproportionately in some states, the federal government would have too much influence within that state.
Unfortunately for the state of Nevada, its own state constitution is little more than a paean to the unfettered ferocity of the federal beast. Section 2 of the Nevada constitution reads:
No power exists in the people of this or any other State of the Federal Union to dissolve their connection therewith or perform any act tending to impair[,] subvert, or resist the Supreme Authority of the government of the United States. The Constitution of the United States confers full power on the Federal Government to maintain and Perpetuate its existance [sic], and whensoever any portion of the States, or people thereof attempt to secede from the Federal Union, or forcibly resist the Execution of its laws, the Federal Government may, by warrant of the Constitution, employ armed force in compelling obedience to its Authority.
Could there be a less constitutionally sound demarcation of the spheres of power of the states and the federal government? James Madison's allotment of authority as set out in The Federalist, No. 45, was apparently not available to the drafters of the Silver State's constitution. Madison wrote:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
Cliven Bundy's family has lived on this land for nearly 140 years. The Bundys have settled and improved this property since Cliven's ancestor accompanied Edward Bunker and a company of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members who settled on the Virgin River, a few miles west of the Nevada-Arizona border in 1877.
In nearly every way, Bundy's life and liberty are connected inextricably to this property — property they have preemptive rights to and have worked for years before the federal government realized there was gold — black gold — in them thar hills.
The BLM makes millions by leasing land such as that worked by Cliven Bundy to energy companies dedicated to fracking operations. A 2007 map produced by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology shows oil exploration being conducted on the land surrounding Bundy's spread. Some drilling operations in the area are already successfully siphoning oil from the wells in Bundy's backyard.
There's more than federal lust for oil and mineral leases, though, at work against Cliven Bundy.
Nevada native Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) knows something about the tortoise and how important its survival is. When a millionaire donor to Reid needed the BLM to fudge the boundaries of the desert tortoise's protected habitat so that he could build a billion-dollar real estate development, it was not as precious a natural resource as it is now.
That donor, Harvey Whittemore, was convicted last May of making illegal campaign contributions to Reid. A news report of the verdict revealed, "Prosecutors said Whittemore gave money to family members and employees in 2007 to make contributions he had promised to Reid while concealing himself as the true source to skirt campaign finance laws."
Harry Reid has another ominous tie to the federal government's attempt to seize Bundy's land. Just days ago, the Senate confirmed Neil Kornze, former senior adviser to Senator Reid, to head the BLM.
Next, a crucial question that has until now not been asked is: Does the federal government (or any government) have the right to pass "laws" such as those being enforced against Cliven Bundy?
For an answer, I turn to The Law, by Frederic Bastiat:
What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.
Each of us has a natural right — from God — to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every person has the right to defend even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute.
Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.
Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?
If this is true, then nothing can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all.
Finally, there is one constitutional consideration that needs to be made. Despite the Nevada constitution's capitulation to supreme federal authority (authority, remember, that does not exist in the Constitution), there is another article in that document that it could be argued supersedes the other article's cession of state and popular sovereignty.
Section 1, titled "Inalienable Rights," of the Nevada constitution reads:
All men are by Nature free and equal and have certain inalienable rights among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; Acquiring, Possessing and Protecting property and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.
As of today, Cliven Bundy is not free and his God-given and inalienable right to use and protect land he and his family have had preemptive rights to for generations is being abridged. If nothing is done to defend his enjoyment of his rights, then soon the plutocrats on the Potomac will not recognize any restrictions on their power and they will seize any land, using any excuse, and will enforce those seizures with weapons.


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Most military veterans of the World War II era returned home to normal, quiet lives and spent the rest of their years without public acclaim. That certainly is not the case with a Utah veteran whose exploits three years after the war ended remain famous to this day, 66 years later.
"The bottom line is that I'm astounded," said Gail Halvorsen, retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force, as he reflected on his long-lasting fame at his retirement home in Arizona. He splits his time between there and a ranch home in Spanish Fork.
If Halvorsen's name doesn't ring a bell, maybe his nicknames will. He's also known as "Wiggly Wings" — or more often "the Candy Bomber."


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Journalists usually ask politicians questions in an election campaign to catch them out, trip them up and cause a gaffe. Not this time. I genuinely wanted there to be no story yesterday when I asked Michael Gove a question that matters more than most things. I asked if he could guarantee that nursery schools would not be allowed to charge top-up fees for the currently free places of every three- and four-year old. I asked it this way, that way and the other way. Other journalists joined in, too, but no. He would not, could not give that pledge. I sincerely hoped he would kill the story dead, but no.
He even called me later to say – well, the same thing. Funding the free hours of nursery education for every three- and four-year-old was a problem, and he would not rule out letting nurseries charge top-up fees. Nor could he promise that the current 60,000 deprived two-year-olds would still get their free nursery places. As for Sure Start, the Tories remain opaque, talking about returning to its "original purpose" as a slimmed-down service restricted to troubled families. Alas, Norman Glass, the admirable Treasury man who founded it, has died, but he would give a dusty answer to the idea that his "original purpose" was anything less than a great universal hub where families of every class and kind meet and mix to get any help they need. Threatening Sure Start and good free nurseries questions Cameron's commitment to social justice and improving social mobility.
The prospect is grim, to the point of despair. Looking at our poll today with Labour yet again in third place, the odds remain in favour of David Cameron as next prime minister. The idea that under-fives' education will be weakened and Sure Start filleted is so alarming that I can only hope there will be a loud enough protest between now and election day by every family poverty lobby, teacher, or anyone who cares about children's life chances, to force the Conservatives to change their mind while the election still hangs in the balance. This is the time to force a pledge. I tried hard with Michael Gove, but no dice.
When I think of the Labour era, without doubt it is Sure Start, childcare and nursery education that comprise their great legacy. I thought it so popular that it would be unassailable.
To be sure, the Tories are not saying they will dismantle it. They just say the budget is not protected, £200m will come out of Sure Start (£70m of it to be spent on more health visitors) and its services will be outsourced, with nurseries charging top-ups. The Institute for Fiscal Studies reckons the unringfenced education budget will lose £1.7bn under Tory plans. It is easy to guess that the under-fives will be the least protected in local and national budgets: the most powerful lobby is always middle-class pressure for secondary school spending.
As Paul Carter, the Conservative Kent county council leader, has warned, parents will be empowered to take enormous slices out of the local children's budget to start their own schools. The IFS has pointed to the lack of earmarked funds to set them up. Gove always put academic rigour first, unimpressed with Labour's social programmes. He would head a renamed Department for Education – downgrading social, childcare and family influences. His manifesto has no word either about the fate of extended schools – the breakfast and homework clubs, the out-of-school sport and music classes caring for children while parents work.
Now is the time for parents to apply maximum pressure. For all who use this still half-formed wraparound family service, it's a heart-stopping moment. If families have spotted this it ought to be electoral suicide for the Tories, and it is a sign of the weakness of Labour's campaign that it isn't the hot issue. This is what elections should be about.
A wealth of the evidence shows that what happens to children at the youngest age matters most. Those neglected, unloved, not talked or listened to, lost in drug- and drink-addicted or depressed families, have such a very short time to be helped. Primary school is far too late. Labour only began the task: the education budget is still warped in inverse proportion to its effectiveness, with £30bn spent on secondary schools that change few destinies and only £4bn on under-fives' education where futures are determined.
Labour made bad errors. Cheese-paring and appeasing private interests, it let the private sector provide 80% of state-funded nursery schooling. Why? Ofsted shows the worst nurseries are private, the best are the state beacon schools with graduate trainees, along with excellent voluntary sector operators such as 4Children. Small nursery businesses struggle to make a profit, so they cut down on well-trained staff. Yet the research shows only high-quality nursery teaching changes children's lives.
Marginal businesses come and go every year in a big churn. But the Save Our Nurseries campaign, a private nursery lobby, has persuaded Gove that they are underfunded, so he will let them charge top-ups. (Will there be toddler student loans?) Charging will lead to the effective end of free places in most nurseries – a disaster.
The DayCare Trust points out that 90% of families take up their free places: "This will be a huge barrier for many families." What's more, the trust says the free places are not underfunded. "Many private nurseries already sneak in charges by insisting parents wanting a free place take more than their two-and-a-half hours a day, charging them for extra hours." In the hard times ahead, once charges are allowed, they will stay. If only Labour had set up free nurseries attached to schools without the private sector trying to skim a profit. But then there are so many Labour if-onlys.
The depth of cuts that may be to come sends shudders down the spine. Plainly, a lot of voters are still in the dark, since polls show strong opposition to big cuts. Should Labour have opened that Pandora's box, to show how they would cut less – and more fairly? The Financial Times's online cuts calculator gives options for halving the deficit in four years: all choices are ideological. An honest campaign (if voters would reward honesty) would have benefited Labour. Toddler top-up fees and an end to free nursery education must fill many with as much despair as I feel. Urging a tactical vote to keep the Tories out is not a tribal game – I am one of Brown's fiercest critics. It is a reminder that profoundly different choices will be made by centre-left and centre-right.


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This Copycat Kung Pao Chicken Recipe is one of my all time favorite dinner recipes. It's filled with tender chicken and veggies in a slightly spicy sauce that rivals the popular restaurant chain!
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Copycat Kung Pao Chicken
For the Chicken:
- 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken thighs, or breasts cut into bite size pieces
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- 3 tbsp cornstarch
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil, divided
For the Veggies:
- 1 large red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 large zucchini, chopped
- 1/2 onion, chopped
For the Sauce:
- 2 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dry sherry, or Chinese rice wine
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp cornstarch & 1 tbsp water
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 10 whole dried chili peppers, I found mine in the produce section by the dried herbs
- 1/4 cup green onion, white parts only (1/2 inch pieces)
- 1 tsp ginger, minced
- 1 tsp garlic, minced
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes, crushed
- 1/2 cup peanuts, unsalted
For the Chicken:
- Combine the chicken with the salt, lightly beaten egg white, cornstarch and 1 tbsp vegetable oil, until coated. Chill for about 20 to 30 minutes. Heat a large wok over medium high heat and add 2 tbsp vegetable oil. Cook the chicken until browned and cooked through (cook in batches to avoid over crowding of pan). Remove chicken from wok and set aside.
For the Veggies:
- Add the remaining 1 tbsp vegetable oil to the wok and turn heat up to high. The wok should be really hot when you add in the veggies. Stir fry veggies for just 2 to 4 minutes, until slightly charred and glistening. Remove from wok and keep warm with the chicken.
For the Sauce:
- Combine the soy sauce, dry sherry and white wine vinegar in a bowl and set aside. In another small bowl combine the cornstarch and water, set aside.
- Heat the 1 tsp sesame oil in the wok over medium high heat. Toss in the dried chili peppers, green onion, ginger, garlic, crushed red pepper flakes and peanuts and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Immediately add in the sauce and bring to a small boil. Stir the cornstarch mixture into the sauce and cook until it thickens.
- Finally, add the chicken and veggies back into the sauce and stir to coat. Enjoy!
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