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DMH Patient and Public Relations Director Brenda Blitch informed the Doctors Memorial Foundation that a mandatory survey was being issued for all Acute Care Hospitals and their HCAHP Score would affect the hospital�s funding during their regularly scheduled meeting Friday, Feb. 11.
BONIFAY � DMH Patient and Public Relations Director Brenda Blitch informed the Doctors Memorial Foundation that a mandatory survey was being issued for all Acute Care Hospitals and their HCAHP Score would affect the hospital�s funding during their regularly scheduled meeting Friday, Feb. 11.
According to www.patient-centeredcare.org, The HCAHPS survey �is a nationally standardized survey that captures patients� perspectives of their hospital care. It allows consumers, for the first time, to compare hospitals based on measures of how effectively they are satisfying patients� needs and expectations. The survey�s 27 questions look beyond clinical outcomes and technical capabilities of hospitals and focus instead on aspects of the care experience that are particularly meaningful to patients, including: communication with doctors, communication with nurses, communication about medications, responsiveness of hospital staff, pain management, quality of discharge instructions, cleanliness of hospital environment and quiet of hospital environment.�
�This is their way of making sure you earn what you get paid,� said Blitch.
She explained that it would be $2,000 for the contract and additional for the surveys.
�This is done by an independent contractor to insure that there�s no way that we can tamper with the results,� said Blitch. �We�ve got the option to use mail-in surveys or by phone. We�re requesting that the Foundation consider helping with some of the expenses.�
The Doctors Memorial Hospital Foundation is preparing for their biggest fundraiser of the year, Golf Ball Drop and Golf Scramble.
The Fourth Annual Doctors Memorial Foundation Golf Scramble and Golf Ball Drop is scheduled for Friday, April 12 at the Dogwood Lakes Golf Club.
Members of the Foundation issued out names of individuals and businesses who might be enlisted to participate as sponsors or who would be willing to donate towards the event.
Tee Box Sponsors are set at $50, Hole Sponsors are at $100 and donated door prizes and gift bag items could be any price.
Team members would also be recruited at that time.
For the Four Man Scramble or Best Ball the cost is $200 per team or $50 per individual, which includes the round of golf, cart and lunch and the cash prizes are $400 for first place, $200 for second place and $100.
Mulligans are available for purchase to be eligible for door prizes and they are set at two for $10 and can be used for any stroke.
A mulligan is a free shot given a golfer when the shot before that was poorly played.
The Foundation also discussed selling tickets for the Ball Drop.
In the Ball Drop there are hundreds of numbered balls placed in a dump truck and then dropped over a golf hole. The numbered ball is closest to, or is the first into the hole, will win a guaranteed cash prize of $500.
�This is one event where you don�t have to be present to win,� said Blitch.
Tickets are $10 for one ball, $25 for three balls or $50 for seven.
Tickets will be available with any foundation member, which includes Hazel Tison, Diane Little, Roger Brooks and Blitch and at the following locations: Doctors Memorial Hospital Boutique, the First Federal formally known as the Bank of Bonifay and the Holmes County Times-Advertiser.
For more information contact Blitch at 547-8193.
All proceeds go to the Doctors Memorial Hospital Foundation.
For more information and registration forms visit the Washington County News/Holmes County Times-Advertiser�s Facebook page.
Next the Foundation discussed ways to increase Foundation Memberships/Benefits Sponsors.
�Among the most important is your membership in the Doctors Memorial Hospital Foundation,� wrote Administrator JoAnn Baker. �Your participation is critical in achieving the best possible medical care available to all who need it. Each contribution is essential in supporting our hospital�s current technology, modern facilities and enhanced services.�
Blitch explained that Foundation members receive a 10 percent discount on any non-prescription item at the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy and Padgett Drugs along with a 10 percent discount on prescriptions paid for in cash, a 10 percent discount on merchandise sold at Bettye�s Boutique, in the hospital, an employee discount of $3.50 on lunches served in the hospital cafeteria on Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a 10 percent discount at Hardees in Bonifay, a 10 percent discount at the Movie and Gift Depot in Bonifay and a Corporate Discount rate at the Best Western Inn and Suites in Bonifay.
For more information on benefits of being a Foundation member visit their website at www.doctorsmemorial.org/foundation.
Upcoming events include Doctors Memorial Hospital�s Heart Walk, which will be held on Feb. 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Doctors Memorial Hospital in recognition of National Wear Red Day. More information will be given as it is provided.
April 1 will be the Fifth Anniversary of Doctors Memorial Hospital and they will once again hold Customer Appreciation Day at the Hospital. More information will be given as it is provided.
The next regularly scheduled DMH Foundation meeting is set for 10 a.m. on Feb. 8 at Doctors Memorial Hospital�s Conference Rooms.
About Doctors Memorial Hospital Foundation
The Doctors Memorial Hospital Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the advancement and further the aims and purposes of Doctors Memorial Hospital. The foundation works with donors who care about the quality of healthcare in Holmes and surrounding counties to ensure that their gifts provide meaningful important support to the hospital.
The Foundation is a key partner in the hospital�s stability and growth.
This newly formed foundation is a charitable 501(c)3 organization governed by it�s own five member Board of Directors. They serve voluntarily and represent the local community.
Through monetary support by yearly memberships or one-time donations, the Foundation assists the hospital in purchasing necessary equipment and providing new services to better serve the community. Every dollar that is given to the Doctors Memorial Hospital Foundation stays locally, to benefit everyone who comes to Doctors Memorial Hospital for care.


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As we reported yesterday, it was revealed that the Nurburgring, which has been in financial trouble for quite a long time, is going to have to enter bankruptcy proceedings. Ill advised investments in a large shopping complex and a dangerous roller coaster are the culprits for the precarious situation.

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Virginia guard Paul Jesperson has transferred to Northern Iowa, according to Fox Sports.
The 6ft-6-in shooting guard will sit out next season under NCAA rules but will still have two years of college basketball eligibility left.
Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson announced the player's decision on Tuesday. Jesperson, who will be a junior next season, started 33 of 35 games for UVA last term.
He averaged five points and two rebounds per game for the Cavaliers. The Merrill, Wisconsin-born star was named the AP Player of the Year during his senior year of high school and was a highly prized recruit coming into college.
Virginia finished the season 23-12 last year, setting a school record with 18 regular season home wins.
But they were knocked out of the NCAA men's basketball tournament at the second round to Florida.
Jesperson's new team, the Northern Iowa Panathers, finished the season with a 21-15 record in the Missouri Valley Confernece - good enough for a third placed finish.
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After our look last time at vegetarianism in pets, this time we're going to
the other extreme—the high-protein, low-carb, so-called "Catkins" diet (a little
wordplay on the low-carb Atkins diet for people). This is a far more prevalent
trend in pet diets, and one that I'm glad to see—with a few reservations!
Looking at wild carnivores, it's clear that what they mostly eat is other
animals. Large canids like wolves, and often coyotes, hunt in packs and can dine
on big game animals like deer, elk, or moose, while foxes scale it down. All big
cats but lions are solitary hunters, and their prey are also proportional in
size, although even a domestic cat is quite capable of bringing home an adult
The carnivore's diet has a few things in common across the spectrum of possible
prey, which represents a sort of "ideal" we should be shooting for in feeding
our pets.
• High protein (50% or more)
• High moisture (60-75%)
• High fat (30-40%)
• Low carbohydrate (less than 10%)
A rat, for instance, has about 55% protein, 38% fat, 9% carbohydrate, and 64%
moisture (calculated on a dry matter basis). The "dry matter basis" is the only
valid comparison of pet foods, particularly between dry and canned foods. The
water is calculated out by subtracting the moisture percentage on the label from
100%, leaving total dry matter. Then you divide the ingredient of interest, for
instance protein, by the total dry matter.
This sounds complicated, but if even a math moron like me can do it, you can
too! (Hint: your cell phone probably has a built-in calculator!) It's essential
to master this concept in order to accurately compare pet foods. For example, a
dry food containing 30% protein and 10% moisture contains 30/90 or 33% protein,
while a canned food containing 10% protein and 78% water actually contains 45%
protein. So even though the canned food label claims a lot less protein, it
really contains much more than dry food.
Many canned foods, especially kitten and cat foods but also many dog foods,
already fit our "high-protein" qualification and also contain 10% or less
carbohydrates. (You can get a ballpark estimate of carbs by subtracting the
other labeled ingredients, including moisture, protein, and fat, from 100%.)
Low Carb Canned Dog Foods
Low Carb Canned Cat Foods
There are quite a few "low-carb" or "grain-free" dry pet foods as well. Remember
that "grain free" does not necessarily equal "low carb." In most grain-free dry
foods, cereal grains like corn and rice have been replaced by white potatoes,
green peas, carrots, or other starchy vegetables, or by dairy products such as
cottage cheese.
Now, there's no doubt that grains are problematic for dogs and cats; corn-based
dry foods in particular are much to blame for the current pet obesity epidemic.
Getting away from grain-based foods is a great choice for many pets. It's been
proven many times over that the best and safest way to help a cat lose weight in
by putting them on an all-wet, low-carb "Catkins" diet (which could be canned,
raw, or homemade). Studies show that dogs lose fat and maintain lean muscle
better on the same type of "Catkins" diet, but "Dogkins" just isn't a very
catchy title!
However, you still have to read labels and assess ingredients to make sure
you're getting just what you want in a pet food. Shoot for around 45% protein in
a dry cat food, and at least 35% in a dry dog food (on a dry matter basis).
Be aware that high protein dry foods tend to be higher in fat as well, and
should not be fed free choice (available 24/7). It is definitely best to feed
these foods in timed meals, and make sure you do a gradual transition from the
current diet (see previous posts on Switching Foods) to minimize tummy upset.
Unlimited consumption of these foods will often result in weight gain, so don't
overfeed! Many of these foods now come in a "reduced calorie" formula, but it's
a lot easier to prevent weight gain in the first place!
High protein dry cat foods are also very dehydrating, and ideally should not be
the sole diet. Do feed your cat at least 50% canned food for that important
kidney-protecting moisture. While dogs will drink more to make up for the
dehydrating effects of these diets, cats will not.
Several manufacturers have also come out with "100% meat" canned diets. Most
(but not all) of them are not balanced with minerals and vitamins, and are
intended for occasional use only—not as a sole diet for your pet. They are
suitable as a basis for a homemade diet.
Here are just a few examples of the many excellent low-carb products you can
find at
Only Natural Pet Store:
Wellness CORE Grain-Free Feline Diet
Innova EVO Dry Cat Food
Wellness CORE Original Grain-Free Canine Diet
"I and love and you" Nude Food Dry Dog Food
Frozen Raw and
Non-Frozen Raw meat-based diets are usually high in protein and moisture, and low in
carbs. Many cats and dogs do very well on these diets, but if you want to try
raw food, make the switch slowly, and be very cautious if your pet has
pre-existing medical conditions affecting the digestive tract and discuss it
with your vet first.
When used correctly, low-carb diets work extremely well for weight loss in
both dogs and cats. They help maintain healthy skin and coat, vibrant energy,
and are far more appropriate for carnivores than mass-market pet foods that are
loaded with corn and soy. There's less yard and litterbox clean-up, too, because
more of the food is digested and assimilated. At Only Natural Pet Store, we
carry a wide variety of great-quality natural pet foods, but grain-free, low-carb
and raw foods are among the most premier of products and will benefit your pet's
health in many ways!
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Scott Brown's latest step stirs the potBy DAN TUOHY
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 15. 2014 10:18PM
Paul Chevalier of Hudson is urging Scott Brown to run for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, but he also wants to learn more about his positions.
"There are a couple of issues I need to get straight with him," he said. "The Second Amendment is a big thing."
Still, he sees Brown as the Republican with the best chance to defeat U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.
Brown, the former Massachusetts senator turned Granite Stater, launched his exploratory committee Friday. He was scheduled to visit six New Hampshire towns Saturday. In that listening tour, dubbed "Main Streets & Living Rooms," he planned to field questions from would-be supporters, like Chevalier.
A past state commander of the VFW, Chevalier is no stranger in GOP circles. He campaigned with John McCain for President. He supported U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. He served as a veterans chairman for former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu, R-N.H., when Sununu beat former Sen. Bob Smith in a rough-and-tumble Republican primary in 2002.
Chevalier is also the first person on Brown's YouTube video posted to his Facebook page (which, as of Saturday, still listed a post office box of Wrentham, Mass.). In the video, Chevalier speaks of the nation's debt piling up on his grandchildren's generation, and he references Shaheen's comment that people who like their health care plan can keep it under Obamacare. Chevalier quips, "How's that working out for you?"
Brown told the New Hampshire Union Leader on Friday that his exploratory committee "isn't about Jeanne Shaheen," but about issues of importance to New Hampshire and the nation.
Yet, Republicans looking to challenge Shaheen think she is vulnerable, said Steve Duprey, a Republican national committeeman for New Hampshire.
Former state Sen. Jim Rubens, former U.S. Sen. Bob Smith and conservative activist Karen Testerman are already seeking their party's nomination.
The GOP contest is very much about Shaheen because of her support of the Affordable Care Act and President Obama, according to Duprey. He said Brown's interest is great for the race.
"It will energize the primary and the fall election," he said.
And Dante Scala, a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, said Brown's entry into the race would make Shaheen more vulnerable to losing her seat in the Senate.
"Yes, because it raises the possibility that a quality candidate will face Shaheen," he said. "Also, Brown's head and shoulders above anyone else in the field. Brown's candidacy increases the chance that outside money, super PACs, will enter the race and that could hurt Shaheen, as well."
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It has already contributed to big ad buys targeting Shaheen and Brown. American Crossroads is planning a $650,000 buy targeting Shaheen this week.
Shaheen on Saturday sent Brown a letter asking him to sign the "People's Pledge," similar to what he and Elizabeth Warren pledged in their Massachusetts race in 2012, to limit spending influence by outside groups, including corporations and Super PACS.
Republicans were quick to note that Shaheen was coming off a major West Coast fundraising swing.
Mike Vlacich, Shaheen's campaign manager, said Republican interest groups have already spent $1.5 million on attack ads in the state this election cycle.
Kathy Sullivan, a Democratic national committeewoman from New Hampshire, said special interests on Wall Street are spurring Brown to run. Shaheen and the Democratic Party have had the same response for weeks.
"This whole thing is not about New Hampshire. It's about Scott Brown, actually," Sullivan said. "I'm not sure he makes his way out of the Republican primary."
Scala said sees a couple of interesting story lines coming out of this Republican primary. Fundraising prowess and the impact of the grassroots are two things to watch, he said.
Brown immediately reshapes the Republican side of the race and emerges with front-runner status, Scala said.
"There's nothing that unifies a party like the prospect of winning a major race," he said. "For all the hoopla about Scott Brown, this election is ultimately about Jeanne Shaheen."
Chevalier would agree. "I don't think Smith, nor Rubens, can beat Shaheen," he said. "She's got to go."


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ASHLAND - The police department is having a grand opening for its new substation on Saturday.
Located in the Market Basket shopping center on Pond Street, the department is opening its first substation to have a stronger presence on the south side of town.
The department approached Market Basket last month for a space in the shopping complex and the grocery store donated the former Metro PCS site.
Chief Craig Davis told selectmen earlier this month the space will be used to hold meetings, training sessions and seminars for the public. Computers and phones also will be connected to the main system so officers can access them.
Officer Ed Burman led the effort to get the substation and the department signed a lease with Market Basket earlier this month.
The substation will be staffed with auxiliary officers and interns who will be the first point of contact for residents coming in. If a resident needs helps from a police officer, one will be dispatched�from the main station. The Ashland Police will have two dedicated parking spots in the Market Basket lot.
The department may spread out more in the future as town officials have identified a space problem at the station on Main Street. In its budget book for fiscal 2015, town management says it is trying to set money aside for a temporary location for administrative staff. The town also plans to repair the main station�s air conditioning system and repair the holding cells.
Saturday�s grand opening ceremony will be at 2 p.m. at the substation at 37 Pond St.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3402?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13091592#comment-13091592 ] Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-3402: ------------------------------------- patch makes sure you get some sort of seed in all situations, if we fail in afterclass we don't actually know which test method is responsible (maybe none!), but it prints a "reproduce with (Hopefully)" in this case. failing in LTC's tearDown() checks should now always give you a seed. Here's what it looks like now with the same simulated situation: TestA has a afterClass that opens a Directory, then calls fail() In the Solr situation it should look better, since I hacked the Solr test classes to set testsFailed = true if their afterClass checks fail, this way we won't even bother trying to close the directory, but this is just to show it still works even without that, and TestB passes normally. {noformat} junit-sequential: [junit] Testsuite: org.apache.lucene.foo.TestA [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0.135 sec [junit] [junit] ------------- Standard Error ----------------- [junit] NOTE: reproduce with (hopefully): ant test -Dtestcase=TestA -Dtests.seed=7360d49cf342a985:0:-184b15f6f34c023d [junit] ------------- ---------------- --------------- [junit] Testcase: org.apache.lucene.foo.TestA: FAILED [junit] [junit] junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: [junit] at org.apache.lucene.foo.TestA.afterClass(TestA.java:12) [junit] [junit] [junit] Testcase: org.apache.lucene.foo.TestA: Caused an ERROR [junit] java.lang.AssertionError: directory of test was not closed, opened from: org.apache.lucene.foo.TestA.afterClass(TestA.java:11) [junit] java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.AssertionError: directory of test was not closed, opened from: org.apache.lucene.foo.TestA.afterClass(TestA.java:11) [junit] at org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.afterClassLuceneTestCaseJ4(LuceneTestCase.java:462) [junit] at org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.checkResourcesAfterClass(LuceneTestCase.java:519) [junit] at org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.afterClassLuceneTestCaseJ4(LuceneTestCase.java:430) [junit] [junit] [junit] TEST org.apache.lucene.foo.TestA FAILED [junit] Testsuite: org.apache.lucene.foo.TestB [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.006 sec [junit] [junit] Tests FAILED {noformat} > LuceneTestCase shouldn't go crazy if a test fails in an @AfterClass annotated method > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: LUCENE-3402 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3402 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Robert Muir > Attachments: LUCENE-3402.patch > > > An example can be seen here: http://sierranevada.servebeer.com/1314308641.log > The general problem is this: the assertions and cleanups in lucenetestcase's afterclass should be reordered, and have better error handling. > In this particular case these were the steps that happened: > # AutoCommitTest didn't close its searchers, so SolrTestCaseJ4 threw an assertion exception in its @AfterClass method. > # Because the searcher wasn't closed, LuceneTestCase threw an assertion exception about unclosed directories/file handles in its afterClass. Even though the test had already "failed" it ran this assertion because testsFailed is false, since our TestWatchMan isnt aware of failures that happen in @AfterClass methods :( > # Because it threw this exception, it never made it to the part where it resets the random, so the next test blew up in its BeforeClass. > To add insult to injury, all this happened but we didnt get a random seed printed, so we cant even hope to reproduce the situation. > After discussion with hossman, we came up with some ideas on how to improve this, and I'm adding some i just thought of, too: > # try to divide up these assertions and cleanups in LuceneTestCase: we could use multiple @AfterClass-annotated methods but then i'm not sure we can control the order, which is scary. But one safe thing to do is to put these pieces of code in little methods and afterclass can handle this stuff with try/finally. > # think about exposing the testsFailed variable for subclasses that do assertions in their @AfterClasses. otherwise you might not get a random seed, which is bad. > # think about upgrading junit, because I know from experimentation that the TestWatchMan (or whatever its replacement is) can "see more" of the test lifecycle and this would probably make a lot of this much cleaner. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Vermont state law requires that ice fishing shanties must be removed from the ice before the ice becomes unsafe or ice loses its ability to support the shanty out of the water, or before the last Sunday in March (the 30th this year), whichever comes first.
The same Vermont law requires the name and address of the owner to be on the ice shanty.
"Ice conditions can deteriorate quickly with warmer weather, so we urge owners of shanties to get them off the lakes while it is still safe to be on the ice," said State Game Warden Major Dennis Reinhardt. "The law exists to help ensure that shanties don't become a boating hazard and create debris that will wash up on shore."
The fine for leaving your ice fishing shanty on the ice can be up to $1,000, and shanties may not be left at state fishing access areas.
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The original "The Hills Have Eyes" is a film enshrined in the upper most tier of the cult movie pantheon. It's a fascinating slice of cinema in that it embodies so much of what makes American movies and in particular American "genre" movies what they are, what they were and what they can be. The film's brutal narrative punch is still palpable today and it works wonderfully as a companion piece to Wes Craven's earlier film "The Last House on the Left", teasing out and further exploring innate, instinctual violence and its relationship to the family and self.
The horror world received news that the 4th entry in the Wrong Turn series will be available on October 18th, 2011. Like parts 2 & 3, the latest offering will be a direct to DVD release as well.
In a genre whose fans pride themselves on being able to stomach whatever is thrown their way, horror directors continue to push buttons in an attempt to leave a lasting impression. Many amateur filmmakers often choose to keep their finger on the shock button rather than craft an experience that truly sticks. Despite offering up the semi-memorable "Gutterballs" in 2008, director Ryan Nicholson falls headlong into the abyss of forced depravity with 2009's "Hanger."
Some nice images from the French zombie film "Mutants" I told you guys about last week. Still looking forward to this one, even though the small amount of buzz it's hard so far has not been great.
Another day, three more "Friday the 13th" Special Edition DVD's with horrible covers. And as someone who checked out all three that came out before, the new "special features" aren't all that special either. The one shining light here is if you're a fan of commentaries, because all three films (4-6) come with commentaries for the first time.
I'm not sure that this means anything, but it's wacky so here it goes. A Japanese Tim Burton fansite seems to have gotten its hands on a WB release schedule, and claims that they have "Dark Shadows", Burton's remake of the classic vampire soap, slated for a 2010 release in Japan. That's all the info available, and I linked to the Japanese site just for the fun of it so it's probably not worth clicking on it, unless of course you're really curious as to what a Japanese Tim Burton fansite looks like. Let's face it, who isn't.
George Romero's going to write Zombie novels now, apparently. Me, I'm still waiting for time to wash away the sour aftertaste left in my mouth from "Diary of the Dead", aka the worst student film I've ever seen. The man may have made some of the greatest horror films of all time, but that doesn't mean he's infallible, people.
Here's the very first pic from "The Crazies" remake which just recently wrapped production in Georgia. It hits theaters September 25th.
I don't usually post foreign language trailers on the site until they have subtitles, but this one caught my eye today so I wanted to bring it your way. It's for a French film titled "Mutants", by a young director named David Morlet.


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2013 Canucks Christmas Carol: Last Christmas
It's that time of year again: time for our 4th annual Canucks Christmas Carol!
Our song this year is inspired by Wham!'s "Last Christmas". We lament the lockout of last Christmas and look at the most important elements of this year's team: Roberto Luongo, Ryan Kesler, the Sedins, and head coach John Tortorella.
This year I'm joined by Marie Hui, Arielle Tuliao, Joseph San Jose, Pat Guevara, Pat Teodosio, and our favourite foreign exchange student Kevin who somehow always finds his way to my place just in time to be in these videos. In fact, both Joseph and Kevin have been in all 4 Canucks Christmas Carols!
Speaking of which, you can watch the previous 3 Canucks Christmas Carols here.
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This first-of-a-kind report from Knowledge Exchange maps the landscape for Open Access books in the Knowledge Exchange countries; Finland, Netherlands, UK, France, Denmark and Germany, together with Norway and Austria.
1 January 2017 - 23 March 2018, 00:00 - 00:00,
Knowledge Exchange is continously active in promoting Open Access by bringing together Open Access experts from all six KE-countries. This study was initiated by Knowledge Exchange and financed by
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and Couperin ,and together with the skilled expertise of Eelco Ferwerda, Frances Pinter and Niels Stern, we can now publish the biggest landscape study on the conditions and potentials for Open Access books yet.
The field of OA monographs is still in its early evolution and therefore 73 in-depth conversations were conducted to understand the different developments among three stakeholder groups: Publishers, funders and libraries. The importance of author attitudes, scholarly reward and incentive systems is also raised throughout the study by numerous interviewees.
The general explanation for monographs not being included in policies is the global focus on journal publishing and the perception that monographs are more complex to deal with than journals. Some also point to a lack of demand yet from authors.
In general, OA book publishers will comply with gold OA policies from funders and institutions. This is not the case for green OA. It appears that the current self archiving policies from publishers for books are largely restricted to book chapters.
The report also points towards the fact that funding schemes for books are lagging behind schemes for articles and their availability to fund the publishing process is somewhat ad hoc across the countries we've surveyed. Nevertheless the authors are 'cautiously optimistic' about the prospects for OA and monographs.
The report creates an overview of both the OA monographs policies, funding streams and publishing models for all eight countries for the first time. This is used to point towards areas of future efforts.
On the 14th December, Knowledge Exchange and OASPA co-hosted the webinar 'New Developments in Open Access Monographs', to present the latest findings on the development of OA monographs. The webinar featured three recent studies, including our our own 'Landscape study on Open Access and Monographs', which was presented by Eelco Ferwerda.
In addition,Lucy Montgomery talked about the challenges and opportunities of usage data for OA scholarly monograph publishers, based on the findings of two recent studies on the uses of OA books, carried out by Knowledge Unlatched Research.
Christina Emery from Springer Nature , also presented a white paper comparing usage data for OA and non-OA scholarly books and shared key findings from therecently publishedSpringer Nature report 'The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?'.
You can read more about the webinar on the OASPA website , or listen back to the discussion below.
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Following suggestions received as part of the feedback to our landscape study, published at the end of 2017, we have produced a summary of the full report. The summary provides an overview of the key areas, easy to read infographics and shorter condensate of the great insights of the full report. It is by no means a substitute for the rich information contained in the original work, hence it also delivers references to the matching sections of the 2017 report.
The summary report is just one of the follow-up actions to the initial study Knowledge Exchange are currently preparing. We will also launch a survey to help determine future work on the topic, as well as a webinar and/or workshop to be organised later in 2018.
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Thanks OK. Each of us must study, investigate, practise and decide for ourself.clw_uk wrote:I have only started to appreciate it from buddhadasa interpretation so cant make my mind up on it to quickly.
Below is a guide for introspection regarding PATICCA-SAMUPPADA, developed by some of Buddhadasa's western monks years ago. For your consideration.
Whilst it is not vipassana level of introspection, it is applicable to everyday life.
I would like to include an additional question, to cover the link of ignorance that is not included above.HEY! WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
(some guide questions for introspection)
An easy way to begin studying Paticca-samuppada is to reflect on some on-going issue or problem in your life. It need not be a big deal; any petty old problem will do for a start. It's best to focus on particular instances or situations in which the "problem" has manifested. (The following guide questions are derived from the above "short form" teaching on paticca-samuppada.)
What's the problem? What about it really bugs me, hurts me or feels most burdensome?
How do I relate to it emotionally (fear, resentment, anger, boredom, lust, greed, worry, guilt, pride, …)?
Who do you think you are in this situation ("I am this," "I am not that")? Who's got the problem? What are the particular identities, personas, masks, self-images, roles involved in this problem?
What is mind/thought stuck on & trying to control? To what idea or memory or experience does it keep coming back? What is it hanging on to? How?
What does it want?
Which experiences & events connected with the "problem" feel negative (unpleasant, uncomfortable, painful) and which feel positive (pleasant, nice, convenient, happy) and which are somewhere in between?
Which experiences & events of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, remembering, imagining, and thinking trigger these cycles (the above aspects of the problem)?
These questions are intended to aid introspection and reflection. They may have multiple answers and varying layers of subtlety. They may require time and further observation -- not just thinking -- to go deeper. They may be investigated repeatedly. Go into specifics and real-life detail. Notice how things interdependently co-originate and proliferate. Have fun!
With metta,"What view is affecting my mind that is not in accordance to reality or not in accordance with the Dhamma?".


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Rebels attack sprawling air base in northern Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels attacked a sprawling military air base in the country's northwest on Saturday, while opposition forces assaulted a string of army checkpoints and positions in the south, activists said.
The raids follow nearly two weeks of advances by Syrian troops, mostly in the suburbs of the capital, Damascus, and in areas near the Lebanese border in the central province of Homs.
In Moscow, Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi denied recent U.S. charges that Syrian troops used chemical weapons against the rebels, saying Washington had leveled the accusation as a result of the latest victories by the army.
"The American hysteria about the use of chemical weapons was caused by the success of the Syrian Arab Army in striking terrorists," al-Zoubi was quoted by state TV as saying. The government refers to rebels as "terrorists."
The Obama administration said Thursday that intelligence indicates that government forces likely used the nerve gas sarin in two attacks.
Washington's declaration was its strongest on the topic so far, although the administration said it was still working to pin down definitive proof of the use of chemical weapons. It held back from saying Damascus had crossed what President Barack Obama has said would be a "red line" prompting tougher action in Syria.
The rebels accuse regime forces of firing chemical agents on at least four occasions since December, killing 31 people in the worst of the attacks. They say world inaction would only encourage Assad to use the weapons on a larger scale.
The regime countered that it was the rebels who fired chemical weapons — pointing to their capture of a chemical factory last year as proof of their ability to do so.
In Saturday's fighting at the Abu Zuhour air base in northwestern Idlib province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were casualties on both sides. The base has been under siege from the rebels for months.
The Observatory and the Local Coordination Committees said the Syrian air force conducted several air raids during the fighting to ease pressure on government troops inside the air base.
The state-run news agency SANA quoted a military official as saying the troops repelled the attack and inflicted "great losses" on the attackers.
Rebels control much of Idlib province, which borders Turkey, although government forces still hold some areas, including the provincial capital of the same name.
Elsewhere, the Aleppo Media Center said rebels had entered the Kweiras military air base in Aleppo province and destroyed its operations room. The base has been under siege for months.
The media center said battles inside the air base continued Saturday afternoon and that the Syrian air force had bombarded the facility.
The Observatory said a rebel commander, who headed the Two Shrines Brigade, was killed in the fighting around the base. It added that six government troops were also killed in the clashes.
In the southern province of Daraa, also known as the Houran plains, the Observatory and the LCC said rebels had launched a new offensive called "the Houran Volcano" in which they are targeting army checkpoints and positions.
The Observatory said there were an unknown number of casualties on both sides.
An amateur video posted online showed rebel artillery fire hitting al-Khudr military base, located on a hill near the town of Dael, also in the province. The crackle of gunfire could be heard in the distance.
The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.
The Observatory reported shelling and clashes in other areas, including Damascus and its suburbs as well as the central province of Homs and Deir el-Zour to the east that borders Iraq.
Syria's conflict started with largely peaceful anti-government protests in March 2011 but eventually turned into a civil war. More than 70,000 people have been killed, according to the United Nations.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Saturday that recent Syrian government air and missile strikes have caused civilian casualties in opposition-held areas in Aleppo province "in violation of the laws of war." It said the attacks left at least 84 people dead.
The rights group said its team in the province, which investigated recent attacks, said dozens of civilian homes also had been destroyed "without damaging any apparent opposition military targets."
During a recent seven-day mission to Aleppo, Human Rights Watch researchers documented five attacks between March 18 and April 7. It said that of the 84 killed in these attacks, 36 were children.
"In all the new cases, witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the only people killed or injured by the strikes had been civilians, and that only civilian buildings had been hit," the group said.
"In attack after attack in Aleppo, it is only civilians and civilian homes that are hit by government airstrikes," said Anna Neistat, associate program and emergencies director at Human Rights Watch. "The Syrian Air Force knows very well that using cluster bombs and raining down missiles and bombs indiscriminately on urban areas violates the laws of war."


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To kick off the New Year, we offer you our best articles from last year. In fact, in order to make it easy for you to read these, we've removed the "paywall" for all of them for 30 days. We hope you'll take a few minutes to sample those you haven't noticed or had time to read during the last 12 months.
Every week we publish a new article. Each one takes hours of research, thought, and preparation. Which of these articles did anyone read? Of the visitors to the Customers.com website in 2013, the largest number of you landed on, lingered on, and/or downloaded these 5 of the 60 articles we published last year.
Strategic Thinking:
1. Defining the Customer-Centric Organization: What Are the Attributes and Behaviors that Define True Customer-Centricity? by Ronni Marshak, 7/25/2013
2. Peer-to-Peer Business Models: Facilitating "Matchmaking" between Individuals for Fun and Profit, by Ronni Marshak, 7/12/2013


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Although I currently use ALTER TABLE, I suspect I'm making the query more complicated than I need to. How can I append the IDENTITY column another way?
We don't recommend using ALTER TABLE to append an IDENTITY column because it logs an update on a row-by-row basis. And in the absence of the appropriate fill factor, ALTER TABLE also causes page splits. Using SELECT INTO with the IDENTITY(type, seed, increment) clause is a more efficient method because SQL Server has to pass through the data only once and SELECT INTO uses the FAST BULK LOAD APIs to copy the data. Listing 2 shows SELECT INTO used with the IDENTITY clause and a Bulk-Logged Recovery model to ensure minimal logging.


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Create an Invoice in FreshBooks from a Bitrix24 Contact, Company or Deal. Select a Contact, Company or a Deal from the list in Bitrix24 CRM, click on «Create invoice in FreshBooks» widget, select a product or a service in the window that will open, and switch to creation of an invoice in FreshBooks interface. A link to the Invoice will appear in FreshBooks, after the Invoice is saved in the additional field of a Bitrix24 Contact, Company or a Deal. If the status of a FreshBooks Invoice changes to «Paid», the app will automatically change the status of the corresponding Invoice in Bitrix24 and will send a notification to a responsible manager.
Yesterday we've introduced new Bitrix24. If you've missed the webinar, here's the recording
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We've completely redesigned CRM interface and introduced sales targets, integration with Google Maps and marketing campaigns. You will soon be able to send bulk emails, bulk SMS and do voice broadcasting campaigns.
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We've introduced Projects and linked Kanban stages to task statuses – something that many of you have asked us to do. And Efficiency Reports inside your Bitrix24 account will soon help you understand which employees and departments are the most productive.
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If you relied on Bitrix24 for providing customer support via live chat, you'll appreciate the fact that canned replies are now at your disposal.
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We've done a lot to beef up our communications and collaboration module. Post view statistics, video announcements, drive use statistics, safe drive cleanup, new mobile app are already or soon will be available to you. Oh, and don't forget to check out beta version of new Bitrix24 calendars.
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P.S. Our Brazilian partner Br24 has recorded this webinar in Portuguese as well.
MAKE Interactive, a Bitrix24 gold partner, has updated it's CRM PDF app. This app lets you flexibly and attractively design quotes and invoices in your Bitrix24 Cloud service.
A compelling statement from one of our clients that triggered the development of this app was that a quote is often the first impression that the customer gets, since it is the first thing that they see with the company name and logo on it. Furthermore, the PDF or printed quote is an instrument of the most fundamental part of the relationship, payment for products or services.
The existing quotes in Bitrix24 are rather limited, especially concerning the layout of the components of the quote on the page. MAKE Interactive has solved this issue in an elegant way: by saving a .docx file in a special folder in the Drive, it becomes a template for your quotes. More than 1 template can be created and selected. After a Quote is made for the CRM, it can be selected in the App's page, and the information from the quote will go into the template.
Every year something exciting happens. We imagine ourselves millionaires and want to spend hours browsing retail shelves in a search for that perfect gift for a loved one. Tis the season. For business owners this period is marked by incessant anxiety and frustration. There are way too many things to deal with! Worse even, customers are jumping ships and flee to your competitors because you happened to have missed some valuable insights about customer preferences.
But fear not. Thankfully, there is a plethora of information and research online that reveals the needs and wants of customers.
Based on the forecast for this year, the holiday retail season will be a blast. US consumers are planning to spend between 3.5 - 4.5% more than they did in 2016. Sounds like good news, doesn't it?
But let's look at all the data to get a comprehensive picture:
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March 19. 2018 10:49PM
Tiger vaults to No. 24 in U.S. Ryder Cup points
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Tiger Woods, top, greets Bud Cauley after both finished putting on the 18th green during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, Fla. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
Tiger Woods has climbed to No. 24 in the United States Ryder Cup team points following his first consecutive top-five finishes in nearly five years.
Woods was named a vice captain last month by captain Jim Furyk, but said at the time that his goal was to earn a spot playing on the team as well despite having played in just two PGA Tour events in his return from a fourth back surgery. Since then, Woods has posted a 12th-place finish at the Honda Classic, a tie for second at the Valspar Championship and a tie for fifth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Ranked outside of the top 1,000 players in the world last year and No. 656 entering 2018, the 42-year-old Woods vaulted another 44 spots to No. 105 on Monday. Rory McIlroy, who won Sunday on the PGA Tour for the first time since 2016, climbed six spots to No. 7.
Woods earned 338.2 points for his fifth-place finish Sunday, moving up eight spots in the U.S. Ryder Cup team points, surpassing 2017 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Xander Schauffele. However, he still has a long way to go. The top eight automatic spots remained unchanged, headed by Justin Thomas.
If Woods continues his strong form, he could prove difficult for Furyk to leave off the team. The 14-time major winner has been installed as a favorite by some oddsmakers for the Masters next month.
Woods, Davis Love III and Steve Stricker have been named as vice captains for the team that will compete in the 42nd Ryder Cup to be held Sept. 28-30 at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
only the second time the event will take place in continental Europe and the first time in France.
"My goal is to make the team," Woods said in a video statement last month. "But whatever happens over the course of this season, I will continue to do whatever I can to help us keep the Cup."
Woods served as a vice captain for the winning team at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. in 2016. He has played in seven Ryder Cups as a player, posting a 13-17-3 overall record.
"He's been a part of this process from starting with the task force and now the Ryder Cup committee," Furyk said last month when asked about why he chose Woods. "Arguably the best, or one of the best, players of all time."
The United States has not won on European soil since 1993 at The Belfry, and is seeking its first consecutive Ryder Cup victories since 1991 and '93.
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Blanche Michelitch, a lifetime Otisville resident, died on Thursday, August 29, 2013 at her home. She was 100.
The daughter of the late George Arnott and Fannie Gill Arnott, she was born at home on September 12, 1912 in Middletown. She was raised in Middletown and graduated from Middletown High School. Blanche worked as a Mental Health assistant for Middletown State Hospital. She was the wife of John Michelitch whom she married in Cuddebackville, he predeceased her in December of 1980.
Blanche was extremely active in her community. She was a dedicated member of her church, Otisville Presbyterian and served as a Deacon, Elder and Sunday School Teacher. She was also a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion, the Otisville Garden Club where she was a Past President, and the Mt. Hope Presbyterian Bible Study Group. She delivered Meals on Wheels for 15 years and volunteered for the Literacy Program at OCCC. Blanche was a member of the Mt. Hope Seniors, the founder of the Otisville Seniors; Past President of the Otisville Monitor, a member of the Mt. Hope Historical Society; and was President of the Mt. Hope Plains Cemetery Board. She was a past dispatcher for the Otisville Ambulance, past coordinator of the Otisville Decorating Committee and a volunteer for the Otisville School District.
Blanche loved to play Pinochle and held weekly games with her friends. She always believed you were never to old to learn, at the age of 65 she learned to drive. She also loved to paint.
She is survived by her sons, John (Jack) and his wife, Marilyn of Marietta, GA and Lawrence (Larry) and his wife, Sandra of Otisville and William (Bill) Michelitch of Otisville; grandchildren: Terry, Merrilyn, Kristin, Chad, Todd, Scott and Megan, and 12 great-grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her brothers, James and George; two sisters, Audrey Ross and Bernice Duquette and half sisters, Joan Piccolo and Janet Cherney as well as her husband John.
Visitation hours are from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 31st at Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc., 130 Highland Ave., Middletown, NY 10940. The Funeral Service will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, September 3rd at Otisville Presbyterian Church, 25 Main St., Otisville, NY 10963; Rev. Jeffrey Farley will officiate. Burial will follow in the family plot in Mt. Hope Plains Cemetery. www.applebee-mcphillips.com


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It's grand to see these seasonal displays of regional specialties. Please do look into French honey variations. Do the French bees favor different flowers than those of other countries?ReplyDelete
Gosh, Carol, I feel as if I have just posed an exam question. Not what I meant. Just curious, remembering a bit of what my country-raised grandmother would say about particular honey.
I will have to consult the bees...when my French is better!ReplyDelete
These events always look astonishing. I did laugh at your Austria/ostrich sausages. Gougeres filled with chèvre? Yes please. I was surprised that raspberries were still about, I thought it would be too late in the season.ReplyDeleteReplies
I remembered you saying, "I bought the chevre sitting on a leaf and this fromager has dozens sitting on a leaf! Too funny ;))Delete
Bonsoir chère amie,ReplyDelete
Une belle visite de notre terroir... Des pommes... du fromage à profusion... Hum ! de quoi se régaler !
Une belle publication.
Gros bisous
Love that watercolor, Carol--beautiful! I haven't thought about Rambouillet in ages--I was there once years ago. Honey can taste so different depending upon what plants/flowers the bees are dipping into--and it helps you with allergies if you eat local honey, because it helps you develop a tolerance for things you'd otherwise have allergies to. I love that each local apiary has honey that tastes different for that very reason. Your foods have me drooling.ReplyDelete
Your reference to ostrich was very funny. Sounds like something that would happen to me. I had escargot and they were delicious, but since then I in a fight to keep them from eating my garden and they no longer have the same appeal. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
You are in good company with the gardeners at Giverny. Fighting the good fight for flowers and beauty!Delete
Now that I absolutely must use reading glasses, I often bring home a "surprise". Imagine how many ore surprises I would bring home when shopping in an entirely different language!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing. I hadn't heard of this all-producers market before. I'll check out its next appearance, in the 15th, at the end of November.ReplyDeleteReplies
There's a MARCHE DES PRODUCTEURS event this weekend at bd de Reuilly 12th...very similar I imagine. 50 producteurs 9 - 20 sat/sundayDelete
I will get the snails this time!


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Katie McQuaid's Scene in Manchester: 'Dancing with Stars' on Elm StreetBY KATIE McQUAID
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March 03. 2013 9:58PM
Last week I wrote about trying to dance in my first Zumba class. I think Jeanine Tousignant and her crew at the Manchester Community Music School must have seen my Merengue, because they asked me to be a judge - not a contestant - for their upcoming Dancing With the Stars competition.
Even though I won't be the next Stacey Kiebler, I am still beyond excited for this Share the Music Gala on Thursday, March 21. Other "celebrity" judges are Scott G. Christensen, managing partner at Northwestern Mutual Northern New England Financial Group, and Jill Deleault, of the music school's voice faculty. She is also a former Miss Nebraska and local musical director and choreographer. Deleault is clearly qualified to judge someone's dancing. I, on the other hand, will be giving top scores to anyone who doesn't fall down.
The "stars" we will be judging are Heidi Copeland, publisher of Millyard Communications and Business New Hampshire Magazine; Brady Sadler, vice president of Griffin, York & Krause; Mike L'Ecuyer, president and CEO of Bellwether Community Credit Union; and Deb Titus of Human Capital Solutions, LLC.
Just like the celebrities on the ABC show, these local stars have been training with professional dancers from Royal Palace Dance Studio on South Willow Street and Dimensions in Dance on Myrtle Street.
The fun starts at 5:30 p.m., March 21, at the Music School's 2291 Elm St. building.
In addition to the competition, attendees will enjoy 1940s jazz and swing classics performed by the NH Youth Jazz Ensemble, small plates, and a cash bar at the Griffin, York & Krause Side-Car Bar. Kudos to some of the businesses making this event possible, including Northwestern Mutual Northern New England Financial Group, AutoFair, Northeast Delta Dental, and Bellwether Credit Union.
Tickets are $75 per person or $600 for a table of eight. There will be a silent and live auction and proceeds will benefit the Music School's need-based financial aid program, which awards over $100,000 each year.
You can purchase tickets online by visiting www.mcmusicschool.org or calling 644-4548.
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Despite the amount of Food Network I watch, I am still a horrible cook.
Simply Delish, a commercial kitchen in the Waumbec Mill is offering two classes this week for wannabe chefs like me. On Thursday at 6:30 p.m., owner Teresa Stauber and someone who goes by the name "Chef Brian" will offer lessons on how to prepare an array of Middle Eastern dishes, including kibbeh, tabouleh, hummus and baba ganoush. Students in a second class offered Saturday at 1:30 p.m. will be instructed on Asian cuisine, including spring rolls, dumplings, and lo mein noodles.
Stauber, a Bedford resident who has a past life as an oncology nurse, opened her kitchen more than two years ago after her Simply Delish business grew too big for space she had been renting. The wholesaler specializes in pasta salads, potato salads, home-style entrees and desserts made with fresh ingredients. The company's food can be found at several retailers around New England, including the Meat House. And Stauber said her pumpkin banana bread will soon be available at Whole Foods in North Andover, Mass.
Stauber said students of her hands-on class will learn how to make meals that are easy enough to prepare after a busy work day, but also healthy and a bit unusual.
"People will get their hands dirty," she promised, adding that everyone will be provided with the necessary tools, including knives, aprons and cutting boards.
At the end of the $50 class, students will get to taste their creations and leave with a goody bag of the dishes they made. If these classes go well, Stauber said she hopes to offer more next month. To reserve your spot, contact Stauber at 566-3189.
To find more information about this and other fun events in our area, visit www.NH365.org.
Panda update
It felt really strange walking into Gosselin's Superette asking if they had a painting of a panda. It's not what you would normally ask for at the Somerville Street staple known for its amazing meat selection. But longtime employee Mary Lou Enman, who was working at the front counter, kindly pointed me to the wall.
OK, I cheated. I could not figure out where the "Traveling Panda" painting has been visiting for the past couple of weeks, so I made my husband tell me where it was.
When I got to the store, Enman called for the store's owner to come out and talk to me, and I finally realized why the "Traveling Panda" found a home at Gosselin's. Proprietor James Pelletier is the parent of my son's classmate at Child Guidance Early Learning Center, where the painting was hanging previously. And because this is Manchester, the city of many connections, he also happens to be married to one of my high school track coaches, Kristine Haveles-Pelletier.
Pelletier's parents owned Gosselin's for a couple of decades before he took it over somewhere between five and 10 years ago. (He and Enman could not quite agree how long it had been.) In a city where businesses seem to come and go on a weekly basis, it is nice to see steadfast family businesses like Gosselin's.
So far, "Traveling Panda" has made its way from Muse Paint Bar, where he was created, to Double Midnight Comics and Collectibles, then to Child Guidance and finally Gosselin's. I understand her next anonymous owner has already been lined up.
If you see the "Traveling Panda" hanging somewhere, please send an email to email@example.com or give me a hint on our "Traveling Panda" Facebook page. If your business would like to host the painting in exchange for a donation to the Santa Fund, please contact Chris Proulx at Double Midnight Comics at 669-9636.
See the dinos
Have you been to SEE to see the dinosaurs? I have. Twice. And since I have three boys, I will most likely be visiting them several more times before they stomp off to a new location after June 16.
The life-like robotic dinosaurs are pretty neat, and even a little scary, especially if you are a 6-year-old boy. But the $8 per person cost for ages 3 and up seems a little steep for an exhibit that takes no more than 10 minutes to walk through.
I suggest families make a day of it and pay the special $12 price that lets you enjoy all the other SEE Science Center exhibits. An even better deal, if you plan on living there like my family, is to purchase a SEE family membership for $80. This will get you free admission to SEE for a year and half-price admission to the Dinosaurs. SEE is a great place to visit any day, and its Lego replica of the Millyard impresses me every time I see it.
SEE and the Dinosaur exhibit are open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and weekends from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday urged Bangladesh to take measures to protect workers' rights and improve factory conditions if it wants to have trade benefits restored.
The Obama administration suspended Bangladesh's preferential trade arrangements on June 27 to press the country to address worker safety.
A building collapse in April killed 1,127 workers in what was the deadliest incident in the history of the global garment industry. The collapse came just months after 112 Bangladesh workers died in a garment factory fire.
At the time of the suspension, the Obama administration provided Bangladeshi officials with an action plan that, if implemented, could be the basis for Obama to reinstate the trade preferences. On Friday, the administration made the action plan public to reinforce all international efforts to improve worker rights and safety in Bangladesh.
The plan calls for increasing the number of labor, fire and building inspectors and modifying labor laws related to collective bargaining and discrimination against union members. The more than a dozen measures in the plan include setting up a hotline for workers to anonymously report fire and building hazards and violations of worker rights, and regulations to prohibit workers from being blacklisted for labor activities.


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For all the rottenness of Fifa, its unwillingness to entertain political interference among its constituent members is a sound policy and one which cricket's global authority happily chooses to ignore.
The escalation of the poppy-wearing row to the point at which the Prime Minister and a member of the Royal Family are badgering world football's governing body seems a colossal over-reaction, not to mention surely precisely the sort of political interference which Fifa rightly does not tolerate.
The wearing of poppies ought to be a solemn, subtle and personal gesture. It is supposed to be about remembering the fallen, about the futility of war and the price of human life. It is not supposed to become an act of hysterical national ostentation encouraging anyone with half a brain to air their dubious nationalistic sentiments.
The zeal with which the FA and then the government sought to brand a high-profile international sporting confrontation with a label synonymous with war is insensitive and arrogant. Fifa's point about political and religious symbolism is entirely valid and even one argues that the poppy is not remotely political, which I think is a dubious claim, then you can forgive Fifa their pedantry.
What if Serbia wore some sort of badge to remember their dead in the Balkan wars of the 1990s? Would the English FA happily acknowledge this is simply a gesture of remembrance or would they see it as a grotesque celebration of mass genocide? This is an extreme example and I am not seriously comparing Britain with Serbia but my point is that there are different viewpoints. Yet the FA set their case with such bombastic certainty you can just see the rest of footballing world's collective eyes rolling.
And surely this is such an unnecessary argument. What does it matter whether the England team wear poppies or not? Does it make them more or less aware of the point of Remembrance Sunday? All that has happened is yet again the England football team has been turned into some sort of weird circus. The tasty prospect of match at a sold-out Wembley against the best team in the world has been soured by a week of idiotic politicking.


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Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas has revealed that the club are not looking to bring Schalke midfielder Lewis Holtby in during the January transfer window.
The 22-year-old has signed a pre-contract agreement to join Spurs on a free transfer at the end of the season, but the Bundesliga side's managing director Horst Heldt revealed that a move this month was still an option.
Villas-Boas told reporters: "When you reach an agreement with a player that is a free transfer in the summer, there is always that possibility, but it is not something we are looking to do."
Concerning possible outgoings, Villas-Boas insisted that it was "impossible" for William Gallas to leave in the near future after the defender was sent to a French clinic in an attempt to solve a persistent calf injury.
QPR are thought to be interested in light of Ryan Nelsen's imminent departure to take over as manager of MLS outfit Toronto FC.
Rs boss Harry Redknapp did, however, confirm his interest in Spurs midfielder Jake Livermore, and Villas-Boas was more forthcoming with a potential loan move.
The one-time England international made 38 appearances for the north London side under Redknapp last season, but has fallen behind Sandro, Tom Huddlestone and summer arrival Mousa Dembele this season, with fellow midfielder Scott Parker also recently returning to full fitness – with Livermore restricted to just 10 outings this term.
"There is a couple of possibilities for Jake to get a loan deal," Villas-Boas said.
"We are pretty happy with how he trains and how professional he has been but he hasn't had a lot of [playing] time.
"He is aware of these conversations. We just have to wait and see."


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Impire had been on my radar for a little while before I finally got a chance to play it just over a week ago. The tone, setting, and genre brought back fond memories of Bullfrog's Dungeon Keeper titles, and that's more than enough to get me chapping at the bit.
I didn't have many expectations besides hoping that it would be a fun knockoff of that classic imp-enslaving, dungeon-carving romp, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is far more than that. After a half hour of commanding my horrible little beasties, I was left with the sense that Cyanide Studio is developing something potentially quite unique, while applying mechanics and features we are still comfortably familiar with.
Impire (PC)
Developer: Cyanide Studio
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Released: February 14, 2013
The premise is simple, yet quirky: Players take on the role of Baal-Abaddon, a mighty demon summoned from the Bottomless Pit. Unfortunately, the inept sorcerer who summons him, Oscar van Fairweather, imprisons him in the body of a diminutive imp. So begins Baal's journey to reclaim his former power -- and hopefully his imposing, muscle-bound, demonic form -- through building a foul empire beneath the ground.
The first mission sees Fairweather commanding Baal to ruin a fellow sorcerous classmate by killing his minions and robbing him. It seemed like good, wholesome fun to me. Before I could go charging in to cause a ruckus with my little winged imp overlord, I had to begin construction on my first dungeon. I had a retinue of worker imps to command, whose jobs can range from building, resource gathering, and running various rooms that I would build down the line.
Zooming out gives a more tactical view of the dungeon, with creatures represented by simple icons. Hovering over them brings up a window that reveals exactly what they are doing, complete with all the noise they are making -- they are a loud bunch. The window essentially shows you what you'd be seeing if you were zoomed right in, which turned out to be rather convenient.
I assigned them the task of mining and mushroom gathering (Who doesn't like fungus?), and eventually decided to build a spawning room so I could summon some combat-ready minions. Seeing my workers go about their business was quite delightful, to be honest, as they are an extremely animated bunch. My wee beastie in my spawning room was working very hard at stirring a cauldron with questionable contents, and he'd intermittently bugger off to a bookshelf for a spot of light reading. I had no time for voyeurism, however, as I had an army to construct.
Though I was creating units individually, no man (or imp) is an island, and for troops to be effective, they must be placed in a squad. This is where it started to feel a wee bit like the second Dawn of War title and its expansions. Squads are made up of up to five units, and they can work both in tandem, or be given individual orders.
These battle-hardened demons can complement each other, and can even pull off special attacks or abilities -- there are over 200 perks -- when teamed up with particular chums; so there's no small amount of strategy involved in putting together teams of monsters. I was even able to send my squads above ground, to go on raids on the surface and complete mission objectives that cropped up from time to time. At one point, I sent them to hassle a stable-boy, and another scenario had me ordering my troops to burn down a ballet school. No doubt it was a ballet school training heroes to be fleet of foot.
I had complete control over my squads, but there's a plethora of behavior settings available that allows players to customize their minions routines. Yves Bordeleau, Cyanide's studio director, talked me through the range of actions.
"You can switch to guard, patrol or follow Baal. You can say, when you find a hero, 'Oh, no, don't kill him -- bring him to the training room, bring him to the prison, or bring him to the sacrifice pit.' The way we made the squad-based menu, basically, you can say, 'Okay, that squad, I want it to hunt heroes with materials, and then bring it to the training room.'"
In the first mission I was limited to three types of imps: one tough, one fast, and one magical. Eventually, players can summon different creatures all with their own unique abilities and strengths. Baal himself can get stuck in during a fight, as well. He can claw and snap at victims, on top of being able to cast a variety of spells. It's a good thing too, as not long after I had created my first squad, we were being invaded by a party of heroes. Luckily, heroes aren't too adept at handling a lightening strike to the face, and I fried them with glee.
As dungeons level up, more and more heroes will appear, including imposing Paladin fellows who present a significant challenge. They won't just come through the main dungeon entrance, as Yves pointed out. "Later on you have ladders that will appear and heroes will start dropping in. It get's crazier: at one point we have waves of heroes incoming, by the main dungeon entrance and ladders, but luckily ladders can be destroyed."
Bolstered by a bunch of squads, I moved Baal and company in the direction of Fairweather's enemy. Other than his spell-flinging abilities, Baal came in quite handy because he appeared to be the only one capable of manipulating levers. Maybe they were levers designed in the Bottomless Pit? After a few scraps with some enemy imps, we finally reached the end of the dungeon and came face to face with a Guardian. Bigger and badder than most of the fellows I'd dispatched, he may also be known by a certain colloquial term -- he was a boss.
It wasn't just that this chap had more HP or dished out more damage; his life could only be ended by figuring out his patterns. It was very much a traditional boss battle, which I guess was only odd because I was playing a dungeon-building strategy game. After taking a spot of damage, the hulking brute would flee to one of four tables in his room and consume a bunch of mushrooms lying there. These were, unfortunately, life-giving mushrooms.
Thankfully, the medicinal fungus could be destroyed before the mean monster reached the table, thus I ordered a couple of my minions to constantly beat up the helpless growths, while the rest of my team concentrated on the big fella. This paid dividends, as we managed to slay the beast in time for tea.
Yves wants this to be a challenging game, and took inspiration from a few tough titles when designing the boss encounters. "Not each level will have a boss like that. We have a few mini-bosses, and a few very big bosses. Each of them have different strategies. I'm a huge Metroid fan. We kind of got inspired by Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania -- it's really like these old-school games with these wicked patterns you have to discover... this is not an easy game."
There are two factions in Impire. I only played the main one, but at one point in the campaign, players will be introduced to the Soulless, a nasty bunch that Yves introduced me to when I interviewed him. Their ranks are filled with the undead, like wraiths, vampires, and zombies. Even their imps are undead, stitched together from dead imps, with ominous glowing eyes.
The Soulless dungeons look different too. Their demesne is filled stain-glass windows, and many other trappings typically associated with cathedrals and churches. They also have some different mechanics, as Yves pointed out. "You cannot heal the Soulless by having them eat at the kitchen, because they are dead. So, instead, you have to sacrifice a minion in the extractor. So you extract the souls out of your own minions, so you need to have a balance between your workers and your fighting units."
Along with the standard faction, the Soulless can be played in multiplayer scenarios too. Multiplayer looks like it might be tons of demonic fun, combining the dungeon management from the campaign, with central battle areas, separating the different players, filled with NPC enemies.
Yves brought up the multiplayer menu and described what they are trying to do with this mode. "As in single-player, you have your dungeon to manage, but then you have the common battle area in the middle. So basically, all the four players, or two, or three, will have their own dungeon, [but] you cannot see the dungeon of the other player. You have the common area, for instance in King of the Hill, so you manage your dungeon, then you send either Baal or your squads in there. The way we constructed the game enables us to have almost endless possibilities of gameplay."
I asked him how many maps they were starting with, but the figure hadn't been decided on at that point. DLC with more maps and modes are being planned, however. "Some of them will be DLC... we have plans for that, like adding new mods. We were even talking about doing a Tower Defense mode, there're a lot of possibilities for the set-up that we have."
It seems like Cyanide Studio is trying to pull off some interesting things with Impire, both in the single-player and multiplayer modes. In my short playthrough, I encountered quite a bit of complexity that I never expected, and with the large list of perks, special abilities, overworld raids, and interesting unit controls, there looks to be a lot more depth than I previously anticipated. It won't be long before you can see for yourself, as the game drops later this week.
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