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January 24, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on MSNBC.com Takes New Look at RV Capital
Editor's Note: As President Barack Obama was preparing for Tuesday's State of the Union address, msnbc.com returned to Elkhart, Ind., the northern Indiana city it profiled at the height of the recession and the community that Obama promised to help on his first trip outside Washington after his election. MSNBC's mission: see how the soft national recovery is playing out on this economically ravaged landscape and find out what role federal stimulus spending played in the rebound. MSNBC's story by Mike Brunker, project teams editor, follows.
The economy in the nation's industrial heartland — as embodied by manufacturing-reliant "RV capital of the world" Elkhart, Ind., — is growing again, with factories calling back some workers who lost their jobs in droves at the height of the recession. But as is the case in many parts of the country, the recovery here is really two tales of one city: one told by those who are hiring or being rehired, and another by those who so far have been left behind.
What we found was in some ways encouraging: The slimmed-down recreational vehicle industry and boat builders, both mainstays of the local economy, have rehired some laid-off workers. New players, notably electric vehicle manufacturers Think and Navistar, and revitalized old-timers like musical instrument maker E.K. Blessing have set up shop in empty RV plants and are ramping up production.
(The pickup in manufacturing is not peculiar to Elkhart. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that nationally the U.S. manufacturing sector outperformed many forecasts by creating 136,000 jobs in 2010 — its first net gain since 1997. It quoted economists at HIS Global Insight and Moody's Analytics as predicting that the sector will continue to see modest growth over the next couple years.)
'The fear is gone'
The entrepreneurial spirit that has seen Elkhart through previous economic downturns is sending up some green shoots now, such as the area's first commercial fish-farming operation.
"The fear is gone," is how Amish Shah, president and CEO of the Elkhart-based supply-chain-management firm Kem Krest, describes the community's new "let's get back to business" mind-set.
But Elkhart and neighboring towns in Elkhart County have a long way to go to erase the scars from the worst economic downturn in nearly a century. Unemployment hit 13.3% in November, well below the high-water mark of 20.1% registered in March 2009. Still, joblessness remains substantially higher than the national average of 9.4%.
And while some manufacturers are hiring, others continue to shut down or lay off workers. Medtec Ambulance Corp., for example, recently announced it was closing its plant in Goshen, while audio equipment manufacturer Crown International said in December it would lay off an unspecified number of workers at its Elkhart plant.
The improvement in the unemployment rate is itself somewhat deceptive, said Bill Witte, professor emeritus of economics at Indiana University in Bloomington.
"A big reason why Elkhart looks good now is they were hit so hard," he said. "There has been shrinkage in the labor force — people have either dropped out or moved away — and once you get to a low base (of employment) it doesn't take a lot of improvement to look good."
And the local housing market remains in a shambles, with distressed properties, either foreclosures or short sales, accounting for most residential sales over the past year, according to real estate agents. On the commercial side, the market for office and retail space continues to be weak, though a number of larger complexes have changed hands.
Situation dire for long-term jobless
For the long-term unemployed, many of whom have exhausted their jobless benefits, the situation is increasingly dire.
Dean Preheim-Bartel, executive director of the ecumenical nonprofit Church Community Services, said more than 2,000 individuals and families received groceries through its food pantry in December, even though it was closed for a week around the Christmas holiday.
"While there is evidence of some slight recovery in the local economy, on the ground where we work it's not very evident yet," he said. "We're seeing record numbers of people in need of food or financial assistance."
Interviews with shoppers, workers and passers-by on Main Street in Elkhart underscored the divergent views on the local economy, with a majority of those questioned saying they have seen little or no evidence of a recovery.
"If it's there, it's in hiding," said Terry Reardon, an apprentice ironworker from Goshen who has worked only occasionally over the past two years.
But Elkhart Mayor Dick Moore, who was elected shortly before the recession walloped the town, said he has no doubts the city's economy is on a path to recovery.
"While we have farther to go … we are getting out of this much faster than many experts thought we would," he said.
The scattered economic bright spots in Elkhart County do challenge assumptions about how quickly and to what degree U.S. manufacturing would bounce back from the recession.
For starters, much of the rehiring has occurred in RV and boat-building businesses, both of which appeared dead in the water a year ago.
Economic stalwarts lead hiring
"Families need to relax and vacation together, and this is the most cost-effective way to do that," said Matt Zimmerman, a general manager with Keystone RV Co. in Goshen, referring to the travel trailers and fifth-wheel trailers the firm makes. Keystone is operating at near capacity and has rehired 1,100 workers over the past 18 months, bringing its total work force to about 3,100, near its historic high, he said.
Rick Gasaway, chief sales and marketing officer for Elkhart's Nautic Global Group, one of the nation's largest boat builders, said his firm added about 10% to its work force in four northern Indiana plants last year, bringing the total to about 500 employees. He predicted similar growth in 2011 in response to increased demand and low inventories.
Kem Krest, another longtime Elkhart business that manages supply chains for numerous automakers, also has been a positive influence on the local economy through the recession. It managed to avoid layoffs despite the auto industry's troubles and more recently started hiring as demand picked up. The company now employs about 100 workers at its warehouse, said Shah, the firm's 36-year-old CEO and an Elkhart native.
While the old stalwarts have led the way in hiring, employers new to the area have generated the most buzz. The marquee names are two electric vehicle makers that set up shop in Elkhart County.
Think, the North American arm of a Norwegian electric car manufacturer, has so far hired just 27 employees to build its two-passenger vehicles in Elkhart.
Manufacture of the cars, which are initially being sold only as fleet vehicles, is currently taking place in Finland, with final assembly in Elkhart. But after the company moves into full production at the plant this summer, about 100 workers will be employed by year's end and 400 by the end of 2013, said Think spokesman Brendan Prebo. The operation also will send positive ripples through the local and state economies as it begins relying more on local suppliers, he said.
That depends, however, on the company receiving a $25 million loan from the U.S. Energy Department under its Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program.
"In terms of moving on to Phase Two and increasing our production, the ATVM loan is really a key part of that business strategy for us," Prebo said.
Navistar, in the early stages of producing electric delivery trucks in nearby Wakarusa, Ind., already has federal money in hand — $39 million DOE grant announced in August 2009, when Obama paid his most recent visit to Elkhart County.
The company has assembled 78 eStar trucks in a former Monaco Motorcoach facility after buying the bankrupt company's assets in early 2009. The truck-building operation has so far created 38 production line jobs, many of them going to former Monaco employees, said Shane Terblanche, vice president and general manager for Navistar Electric Vehicles.
That number will grow as the company ramps up to produce what the company anticipates will be several thousand vehicles annually over the next several years. It, too, plans to rely more on local suppliers, with an ultimate goal of 75 percent of parts and equipment being made in the United States, he said.
Former 'band instrument capital'
Another manufacturer generating some joyful noises in town is a combination of new and old blood.
Many employees of E.K. Blessing, a musical instrument manufacturer founded in Elkhart in 1906, feared for the livelihoods when the company was put up for sale in 2009 by Randy Johnson, the fourth-generation owner/operator of the firm, figuring the buyer would send their jobs overseas.
But the purchaser, Verne Q. Powell Flutes of Maynard, Mass., had no intention of uprooting one of the last three companies remaining from the days when Elkhart was known as the "band instrument capital of the world."
Instead, Powell Flutes President Steven Wasser spent more than $2.6 million to move the Blessing operation out of its old cramped facility and into what was formerly a Damon Motor Coach plant. That will enable Blessing to expand its traditional lines of student and intermediate instruments to include a new universe of professional instruments.
Blessing will be competing with foreign manufacturers that can make instruments at roughly one-third the cost, but Wasser and his team are gambling that professional musicians will be willing to pay a premium for high-end craftsmanship and customization that will help subsidize production of the lower-end instruments.
"We will have to win on quality and, to a certain extent, on personal buying philosophy by emphasizing that we're the only company committed to manufacturing our instruments entirely in the U.S.," said Steve Rorie, Blessing's vice president and general manager.
Sweet sounds on a factory floor
Offering a sonic taste of what the future will hold, Mike Smith, a professional saxophonist and educator, demonstrated Blessing's new prototype saxophone on the factory floor. The company says it will be the only entirely U.S.-made sax on the market when production begins later this year.
On the other end of the spectrum in terms of investment, two childhood friends — John Metz and Kevin Boyer from Elkhart — have dipped their toes into aquaculture, apparently becoming the first commercial fish farmers in Elkhart County.
Their company, Northern Indiana Aquaproducts, is ensconced in a long-empty outbuilding in Goshen, where they have set up three 3,500-gallon water tanks to serve as pastures for their tilapia crop.
They invested roughly $60,000 of their own money to get the operation off the ground after they were unable to find a bank willing to lend to a start-up in an industry with no track record in this part of the state.
The pair purchased their first 5,000 tilapia fry, or fingerlings, in early January and expect to deliver their first fish to market in June. They, too, will be competing with foreign suppliers in Asia and South America, and are banking that consumers will be willing to "pay a little more for something that is produced locally and is fresh," said Boyer, a former commercial pilot.
They see the tilapia as just the first step in building a broader "green" business that will use the nutrient-rich water from the tanks to grow hydroponic vegetables and dry fish waste for use either as compost or as fuel to create energy for the fish farming operation.
Part of the appeal was the fact that the business is unique in Elkhart County, said Metz, a 38-year-old military veteran who retired from the Army after being injured while serving in Iraq.
"I remember Elkhart as being so vibrant and varied when we were kids, but over the last 30 years it's become more and more concentrated on RVs and modular housing," he said. "We wanted to do something that adds to the diversity."
Stimulus role debated
The role that federal stimulus spending has played in what is, even by the most optimistic accounts, a mild recovery in Elkhart remains a hot topic for debate.
Moore, Elkhart's mayor and a vocal advocate for the stimulus spending, said it produced immediate results.
"I definitely think it was a shot in the arm at a time when we needed it," he said, ticking off paving projects, lead remediation and major highway work as projects that put people back to work and benefited the community.
He said the long-term impacts are still being felt.
"This was never intended to be an Elkhart or state of Indiana stimulus act, it was for the United States of America," he said. "When we did those projects, we ordered parts and supplies from all over the country. And because we needed parts from Iowa, there's a guy there who now has a job making those parts we need. And that's a guy who can go out and buy an RV because he's working."
But Kyle Hannon, a spokesman for the Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce, said many local business leaders and residents don't feel that Elkhart got much bang from the stimulus, in large part because of how it was spent.
"When the president came and sold the stimulus money, he didn't say this, but people had an impression going back to the Great Depression — visions of guys digging ditches," he said. "So when they began announcing various projects, it didn't help that the first project we got was the Elkhart Airport runway and then road repaving. Many people remain very critical because of the disconnect between what people were expecting and what happened."
The final judgment on whether the stimulus was money well spent won't be emerge until Elkhart has fully beaten back the recession, and that's likely to take quite some time, said economist Witte, who helps prepare U.S. economic forecasts for the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University.
"Our forecast has been pretty consistent since late 2008 — a fairly deep recession that would bottom out sometime in 2009 and then unemployment coming down very slowly," he said. "But our most recent forecasts have gotten just a little bit gloomier. We thought we might get a bounce of growth of 4% or 4.5%, but now we expect around 3% next year. We just don't see the strength that it takes to really propel the economy."
That will mean more waiting and suffering for those who have yet to benefit from the mild recovery that has so far taken place in Elkhart, said Shah, the Kem Krest executive.
"I think they're waiting in the wings for something to happen," he said. "And so far I think in their perspective it's been simply talk, it's been data, it's been statistics, but it hasn't resulted in anything that has bettered their lives."
MSNBC: Moody's Says Elkhart County 'in Recovery'
October 15, 2009 by RVBusiness · 1 Comment
It may not feel like it for those who are out of work or deep in debt, but Elkhart, Ind., the nation's RV headquarters, is one of the 79 U.S. metro areas that was economically "in recovery" in August, according to the Adversity Index, a gauge of economic activity produced by Moody's Economy.com for msnbc.com.
The index, which is based on government data on unemployment, housing and industrial production, had previously rated the city as "in recession" for 32 consecutive months, dating to December 2006., according to msnbc.com
The positive signal for Elkhart lends support to pronouncements by local officials that business activity has been picking up in recent months. But it also comes with warnings that the recovery – if it has in fact begun – will be neither quick nor smooth.
Still, word of the uptick was warmly received by Dorinda Heiden-Guss, president of the Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County, who said it jibes with what she's been seeing.
"Based on what I've seen from both existing companies and prospective new companies, that appears to be the case," she told msnbc.com.
Heiden-Guss said that RV makers, which have recently been hiring back some laid-off workers, are expected to see sales rebound in the coming year, citing an EDC forecast calling for a 20%. And over the past two months, EDC staff have identified as many as nine local businesses interested in expanding operations. The group also continues to see "extremely heavy interest" from manufacturers of a variety of non-RV-related products who currently do not have operations in the area, she said.
But despite such positives, economist Andrew Gledhill of Moody's Economy.com warned that Elkhart is by no means out of the recessionary woods.
"Elkhart definitely remains in a quandary, and the economy may never fully recover to what it once was," he said. "In fact, in our long-term employment forecast, we never have Elkhart reaching its pre-recession peak. … Elkhart is in bad shape and will be for the foreseeable future."
And Grant Black, an economics professor at Indiana University at South Bend, said that a one-month surge in the Adversity Index doesn't necessarily mean that the recession is in fact in retreat.
"It's going to give you a good ballpark of what's going on," he said of the measure, "but it may not tell you where you are right at the moment. In other words, it's not going to be the best instrument for saying we've bottomed out and turned the corner."
Black said recent data show Elkhart County has several areas of continuing concern. Chief among them, he said, is that while the unemployment rate has been steadily declining since spring, so too have employment numbers. The labor force in the county now stands at roughly 94,000, down more than 6,800 since the fourth quarter of 2007, he said.
And 12,000 households in the county were receiving food stamps in July, up 11% from January, he noted.
Figures like that keep County Commissioner Mike Yoder from taking too much satisfaction from the recent surge of business activity and interest that he's seen. He's worried that many recently rehired RV workers will soon be laid off again as manufacturers pare back during what are the traditionally slow winter months.
"I'm really concerned that it's going to be a really rough winter for a pretty good segment of our community," he said. "We can all celebrate next summer when everyone's employed again."


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|The sulphur bath
|Georgian writing. The word in the middle is crossed out.
I manage to establish that the bath costs 30 lari and the massage 20 (this seems the wrong way round). A thin sheet, acting as a towel, costs an extra lari.
They point to a dark dank room. "After 20 minutes, we knock on door and massage comes", is communicated. I take off my clothes and enter a back room which has an eggy smell. Steam is curling off the two metre square marble pool. I dip in my toe, it's very hot. I force myself to plunge. I feel all of the dust and grime of the last couple of days, melt away just like in the Radox ad. My skin feels soft but taut. Sulphur is known to be good for skin conditions, rhumatism and other health problems.
There is a knock at the door. I open it and a man wrapped in a bed sheet comes in carrying a bucket. I wonder if he's the janitor. Then he locks the door behind him.
"No, No, No", I say, putting my hands up.
"No, No, No", he says, gesturing for me to calm down.
I say, "I don't want a man, I want a woman".
He shrugs, smiles and gestures for me to go and sit on the marble slab.
With dawning horror I realise he expects me to take off my sheet and be naked.
"Yes!", he says smiling.
"Are you sure this is the right thing?", I ask.
"Yes!", with a gesture of 'it's fine, don't worry'.
I take off my sheet. I'm completely nude. He tells me to lay on the marble slab then he scrubs me with a rough glove over my entire body, back and front. At one point he points to my arms where tiny scrolls of grey skin has formed. He nods cheerfully to me with a wolf-like smile; the implication is clear: 'look how dirty you are and how clean I am making you'.
I react with shock as he throws a bucket of boiling hot sulphuric water over my head. Next I am soaped, huge suds enveloping me. He ask me to enter the sulphur bath, I'm still nude. I feel vulnerable and unsure, it's so intimate. Every so often he says "Gud?".
I am mute. I'm still unsure whether he's the janitor. He spends alot of time rubbing my temples, perhaps trying to rid me of anxious thoughts.
Lastly he directs me to get in the shower, place my hands against the wall, while he washes my hair and cleans my ears. Hair washing is very intimate; it's something your mother does.
Finally he dries me all over with a sheet, again just like your mum would. He takes a deep breath, surveys his work briefly and leaves.
My entire body is tingling. I get dressed but my hair is wet. I go out to the reception where several Georgians are hanging out.
The masseur is now dressed, smoking and nonchalently playing backgammon with another man. He looks up and gestures for me to use the hair dryer which I do, right next to the smoking men playing backgammon.
This surreal experience reveals Georgia to be very liberal and, frankly, a bit strange.
|Hair drying amongst the backgammon players.
|Nika's dug out kvevri room
|Nika and his mum, the rocket scientist.
There is laughing Nika Bakhia, the artist/sculptor who lived in Germany, who dresses in a curious peasant costume, ethno-chic. He surveys his vineyards, pointing to the black burnt patches where other local farmers, dubious of his new-fangled bio-dynamic methods, have set fire to his property. With tears in his eyes, he recounts how "five times" he has had to rebuild his vineyard. He's put everything into this dream of making wine the ancient Georgian way, in Kvevris. In his house, he has removed his living room floor and dug up the earth to bury, neck deep, a dozen kvevris. His mother, looking like any East European peasant, turns out to be a rocket scientist, who worked during the Soviet occupation. I love his wine. I'm fast moving towards the idea that the more eccentric and artistic the person who crafts your food or drink, the better it tastes.
|Wild Parma violets
Hand drawn label with portraits of the makers of Our Wine.
Another sun drenched 'supra' lunch is held at Our Wine, the surrounding grass dotted with wild parma violets and the odours from a brush wood barbeque, is the home and vineyard of a doctor of medicine and a linguist, Soliko Tsaishvili and Irakli Pruidze. They talk about homeopathic methods and astrology in wine-making. We are given a strange dessert 'Pelamushi', a kind of blancmange. I note that Georgian men greet each other by kissing on the shoulder.
A kind of blancmange
You sense that beneath the generosity and talent of every Georgian host, there is a tragic undertow of years of political abuse. It continues: the opposition leader of the rival 'Georgian Dream party' has been stripped of his Georgian citizenship so that he can't stand in the election. Imagine if Cameron did that to Milliband! It's a pity because the present incumbent, Saakashvili has done a good job modernising the country up till now.
Khakha Berishvili, is a Georgian vegetarian, wears hippy clothing and is a big jazz fan. This inspires myself and wine blogger Donald Edwards to characterise the wines by ascribing them musician's personalities. "This one tastes like Iggy Pop, all sinews and wild eyed rocknroll", Donald gargled.
"This one", I'd retort, eyeing up a deep purple young red, so intense it stains the glass ."Reminds me of Diana Ross, just after she left The Supremes, wearing a slashed to the thigh, long inky sequin gown while singing 'Aint no mountain high enough'".
Donald gives me pointers of how to sound knowledgeable about wine: "Say things like 'this is slightly lifted" or 'volatile' or 'high toned'."
|Buffalo milk yoghurt; so fresh and tangy, utterly brilliant.
|Jean Jacques and his woofers making tagliatelli.
|Jean Jacques showing the tall wheat Dolis Puri.
|Sheep's milk cheese
I will continue my adventures on Georgia in my next post. Note: this post was written in Georgia font.
|Fish kept in mini bathtubs in another market we visited, this time in the countryside.
|Halva, fine, fresh and importantly, not too sweet.
|An old lady sells incense/frankincense, by the chunk.
|Pungent honey
|Sheep's wool
This is how salt is sold.
|Home made lollipops
|When our taxi had to fill up with fuel, the driver asked us all to get out. We looked around the petrol station and all the passengers exited the cars to fill up.
|Ex Soviet army carriers are often used as housing.
That Crazy French Woman...Isabelle Legeron organised this trip. She is hosting the Raw Natural wine fair in May. Tickets can be bought here: http://www.rawfair.com/buy-tickets
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A 17-YEAR-old was arrested today after malicious tweets were sent to Tom Daley.
Dorset Police said the teenager was held at a guesthouse in Weymouth hours after 18-year-old Daley received the messages on Twitter.
A police spokeswoman said: "A 17-year-old man was arrested by Dorset Police officers in the early hours this morning at a guesthouse in the Weymouth area on suspicion of malicious communications.
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Daley and his Team GB diving partner Pete Waterfield missed out on a medal yesterday when they finished fourth in the men's synchronised 10m platform diving event at the Olympics.
Shortly afterwards, Daley retweeted a message from user Rileyy-69 which said: "You let your dad down i hope you know that."
Daley responded by tweeting: "After giving it my all... you get idiots sending me this..."
Daley's father Rob died last year from brain cancer.
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Deputy Mayor of the Olympic Village Duncan Goodhew, a gold and bronze medallist in swimming at the Moscow Olympics in 1980, described the behaviour of the Twitter troll as "appalling".
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"I suppose that social media in one sense is fantastic, but turned the wrong way round it is very, very personal and it destroys people's lives.
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There's a lot more to Asian food than fried rice, chow mein and sweet & sour pork in fluorescent pink sauce, a whole lot more, and that's exactly what you'll experience on our Asian Affair restaurant tour. Come with us on an exotic culinary adventure as our roving dinner experiences some of the lesser known (but by no means less delicious) styles of Asian cooking across 4 different venues throughout Northbridge. You know that little restaurant on William St that you've walked past a hundred times but have never gone in to? Well it turns out that they make amazing, unique food and now, thanks to our fun and informative tours, you have the chance to experience it for yourself.
Like all Food Loose Tours, our Adventurers buy their own food along the way. This is all part of sharing and interacting with your fellow food lovers. We estimate it will be no more than $30 in food costs per person on the Asian Exploration Adventure. Please bring small notes to make settling our bills as we go a whole lot easier.
This tour is predominately BYO DRINKS, so remember to bring some wine or beer along with you if you fancy a tipple.
Please note that all our tours have a 48hr notice policy for rescheduling.
What are the tour times?
The Taste of Asia Adventure tour is 3 hours commencing SHARP at 6:30pm We ask that you arrive at 6.15pm for registration. The tour ends at approximately 9:30pm.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the tour?
The tour starts on the corner of William and Brisbane on the West side of the street. It is a 15 minute walk maximum from the Perth train stations, or you can catch a Cat. There is street parking close to the starting point..
Do I have to purchase tickets in advance? May I purchase with cash?
Tickets must be purchased in advance online using Visa or Mastercards. Please make sure you purchase tickets well in advance of your desired tour date, as our tours sell out quickly. We have a no refund policy.
Is there a waiting list if the tour I'm interested in is sold out?
We currently do not have a waiting list system. Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to find out if an additional tour has been added that suits your schedule.
What type of clothing and shoes should I wear?
Its a casual affair so your mid week get up is fine.
How much food do we eat on the food tasting tours?
Its dinner so you will certainly leave having had ample sufficiency
What if I have dietary restrictions or food allergies?
Please be sure and let us know if you (or anyone in your group) has a dietary restriction (e.g. vegetarian, gluten free, allergy, etc.). Please email us at email@example.com when you purchase your tickets. As long as we know in advance, we can accommodate your needs.
Do you offer vegetarian options?
Yes. We have vegetarian options on our tours. Be sure to let us know, well in advance, and we will ensure to suggest appropriate substitutions.
What if I am late?
It is a good idea to arrive at the meeting location a minimum of 15 minutes prior to the tour start time. In fairness to the people, who arrived on time, we will leave sharply at the tour start time. If you are late, you may call us at on 0467 542 437 and we'll try to let you know where we are. There are no guarantees you will be able to find the group, as our guides are narrating the tour and will not necessarily pick up their mobile phones. There are no reschedules or refunds for late comers, who cannot find the group.
Can I reschedule my food tour?
We have a 48 hour rescheduling policy. You must notify us by email to firstname.lastname@example.com at least 48 hours before your tour to reschedule. Otherwise, unfortunately you will forfeit your ticket.
How much walking is there on the Asian Exploration Adventure?
Not too much, however you'll need some to walk off all you eat!!!
Are the tours appropriate for children?
Our friendly tour guide makes learning about the history, culture, and foods of the areas we visit interesting, informative, and fun. Please gauge whether or not you think this tour is appropriate for your child. All of the dining is in a restaurant setting and does invlove some quite spicy food, so please take this in to account when choosing to bring your child along.
Is your tour touristy? Do local West Australians take the tour?
Our tours are specifically designed to take you to the "hidden gems" only a die hard Foodie knows about. Local West Australians take our tours and the usual response is "I never knew these places existed". None of our tours have a touristy feel to them. Our goal is for you to interact, have fun and experience the culinary secrets of Perth City.
Are tour guides tips included in the price?
Tour guides tips are not included in the cost of your tour. Tips are not essential, however like most service, when its exceptional you are usually happy to provide a gratuity.
Are gift certificates available?
Our website www.foodloosetours.com.au has gift certificates available for someone local or a visitor, or as a corporate gift.
Can I book a private tour?
Private tours are available for all Food Loose Tours. To enquire about a private tour, please fill out the form on our private tours page on our site www.foodloosetours.com.au. Our operations manager will contact you within 24 hours to inform you if the date and time is available.
Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
Please contact the organisers at firstname.lastname@example.com
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
Please bring a copy of your ticket either in hard copy or the email on your phone.
The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
That's fine. We encourage you to use your place on the tour. If you are unable to attend we welcome your friends or family on the tour.
Food Loose Tours
Our tour guides are unashamedly foodies. This includes growing up experiencing many different cuisines (ie nasi le mak from the school canteen!), a curry in London and the delights of Polish neighbours we all have passion for food together with an unsatiable appetite to hunt out new, unknown and interesting food outlets.


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obi apron
Added Mar 15, 2010
Cleveland, Unite...
Add elegance to your everyday with this obi-inspired apron. The long ties gather at the back and wrap around a wide waistband, creating an hourglass silhoette that perfectly fits your figure.
Material Notes
cotton shirting, heavyweight interfacing, thread
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Apr 8, 2017, 07.25 AMby jacobgraves
Jan 18, 2017, 10.09 AMby Stullhee5
Thank you very much for sharing your pattern with us!
Jan 11, 2017, 11.55 AMby joemorris5
I like your efforts
Sep 2, 2016, 11.16 AMby MaryBrown12
Oct 1, 2015, 06.29 AMby carlsmith
this is comfortale.
Sep 30, 2015, 10.09 AMby mayshawn
looking is very nice.
Sep 29, 2015, 06.57 AMby FrancesAnchondo
very niceeeeeeee.
Feb 29, 2012, 02.22 AMby Théa Oz
Hello, Thanks a lot for this pattern but I can't see the end of the pattern ? Is that normal ? Is the other part somewhere else ?
Aug 5, 2011, 10.22 PMby Kro2011
Do I need to say exactly what everyone else said ? So great well done ! I will work hard I promise to do my own !! I will go through instructions in inches. Thanks Prudence, you're so talented and your photos are just perfect.
Jun 28, 2011, 01.46 AMby Amor Allure
this so sooooooooooooooooooo cute I love it.. thats ill be my x-mas gifts..lol
Apr 5, 2011, 07.23 PMby Lilly77
J'adore (french), gonna make it soon ;)
Mar 29, 2011, 07.16 PMby wsmshelley
I feel like I'm missing something – when I download the PDF, all it gives me is a 2-page PDF that says "Step 1: Download PDF for instructions"
Is there another file somewhere?
Jan 9, 2011, 01.21 PMby Street
It is great!!! I just made one and I love it!! Want to make another one so I can have two!!! Thank you very much for sharing your pattern with us!
Dec 29, 2010, 10.22 PMby yoppie
Love the Obi Apron and want to make it but maybe I haven't downloaded all the instructions – I have printed the instructions and the waistband pattern on A4 paper but it doesn't give any measurements so am not sure how big I need to cut the front waistband pieces. Can anyone help please? Thanks.
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Feb 3, 2011, 04.28 PMby Tara Blockley
I have those same questions! I don't know how much material I need.
Dec 29, 2010, 05.38 PMby whathappensnow
great job! it's beautiful!! i want to make a skirt by this design can anyone help me?? :)
Dec 6, 2010, 06.14 PMby aleah
This would make a cute skirt with some adaption.
Nov 29, 2010, 03.16 PMby stmillay
I'm new to this site, so forgive me…
I have tried to download the instructions but all I get is a PDF with the photo of the apron, a line drawing, and the words "Step 1 — see pdf for instructions"
Am I missing something?
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Nov 1, 2010, 09.47 AMby mixtlii
Hey, Just to let you know, I was inspired by your great apron to make this skirt . Thanks!
Aug 3, 2010, 06.04 PMby kyburg
I am fairly new to sewing, and I'm thinking this will be a good first garment try. But I am confused about one thing…on the pattern, do you cut it with the short end on the fold or the long end? I know it's probably obvious but I can't figure it out and I don't want to screw it up! Thanks.
Jun 22, 2010, 05.39 AMby lyrae
Hey, so about how much fabric and interfacing does this require? (Maybe it would be good to add that info to the project description, if possible!)
Jun 12, 2010, 09.58 PMby shoebecky
Errrm… may be being a little dumb, but these skirts look FABULOUS and I want to make one but can't figure out how! Can anyone give me a bit more info? What happens at the back?! thanks x
May 23, 2010, 01.27 PMby natmarie
Love this. The moment I saw it I thought of the mauve cotton in my stash. Its been a bit elusive, however, but I intend to find it (finally) this long weekend. My obi can wait no longer.
May 11, 2010, 10.56 AMby jescarose
bought the fabric to make into a skirt this weekend. looking forward to it :)
Apr 29, 2010, 06.44 AMby nessys
I have been meaning to comment on this apron for a while now – I love, love, love it and you are such a lovely girl to pop it up for everyone to use! I plan to make it in to a skirt – and I have checked out others who have had the same idea and they are fab!
Apr 25, 2010, 05.12 PMby ellecubed
made this last night. took literally two hours from start to finish, even altering it slightly to make a skirt.
thank you so much!
Apr 21, 2010, 04.26 AMby hstorm799
Love your color combo! Sophisticated.
Apr 9, 2010, 09.17 PMby andrine94
Aha^^ Thanks
Apr 9, 2010, 01.02 PMby andrine94
Love the apron, but I have a little question^^ I din't understand the print out. I just got the waist band and nothing else… How many pages are there surpposed to be? I just got four
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Apr 9, 2010, 07.29 PMby prudencerabbit
The pattern pieces in addition to the waistband are the apron skirt and the ties. Those pieces are all rectangles, so I just included the measurements for those pieces in the instructions.
Nov 6, 2010, 04.39 AMby scarletohara
I was wondering about that too, thanks for asking :)
Apr 4, 2010, 02.00 AMby humanbrains
This is sooo cute and just what i've been looking for to spice up my waitress wardrobe. I'm going to make one up with pockets right away!
Mar 26, 2010, 09.46 PMby madebymalwina
Yay! I've been looking for a fancy apron pattern for quite a while, and this looks great!
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This composition was designed for any kind of visuals and video projects like trailers, games, promotional movies, ads, etc. Shamanic Night contains powerful combination of organic grooves, shamanic rhythms and native american flute. It contains also unique atmospheres sounds recorded in Bulgarian mountains. You can listen to various animals, insects and birds sounds.
When you purchase this composition you get also clean version without the nature atmospheres – only percussion's and flute. The length of the clean version is 2:37 – the same like the version with the nature atmospheres..
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I've always been curious about this stuff, but never really dove in. I'm curious if you can optimize your reading for "fun" reading like novels or whatever. In my mind it feels like I'd be flipping through pages like a madman instead of leisurely enjoying a book. But if I can speed up what I read a little bit and still enjoy it—hey, the more I can read the better!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading: A Book Review
I'd seen the late night infomercials offering to help you learn the secrets to speed reading with a comprehensive program (and 4 payments of $9.95). What I hadn't seen was an affordably-priced book that outlined the basic techniques for anyone to learn. That's why The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading by Abby Marks Beale caught my eye. I was pressed for time, loved to read, and dug the concept of improving my stats as an already quite-efficient skimmer for less than $15. Here are some thoughts on what this book offered:
What is your current level? The first thing I picked up was how far off the mark I was on defining "speed reading." The average reader can read (and comprehend) between 200-300 words per minute. The above-average reader clocks in at over 300 words per minute. The excellent reader can devour 700+ words. Surprisingly, your current speed does not in itself determine your aptitude towards speed reading. (In fact, many excellent readers could be slowed down by some of the more common speed reading techniques.)
How much do you really see? This book tackled issues like peripheral vision and predicting what would come next (before your eye even had to glance at it.) This helped me to realize that much of speed reading is not what your eye does, but what your brain can do. Many thinking exercises are included in this book to help you see patterns in your logic, which can be used to tweak your reading skills.
Do you understand? Reading is one thing. Comprehension is another. This book gave me tremendous insight on how to understand and retain what I was reading. It gave tips for preventing me from going back to check my understanding. I developed some confidence in what I understood the words to mean. (This was key to speed reading.)
Paper or plasma? The best thing about this book was its suitability for real-life application. I don't read the same from a book as I do on my computer screen. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Speed Reading addressed this, giving clear instructions for optimizing my reading habits in both arenas. It also gave very clear guidelines for determining what was worth reading in the first place.
My final verdict of this book is two-fold. First, I appreciate the solid instructions for improving my reading. Much of the advice pertains to focus (something I lack) and retaining what I've read (something else I struggle with.) Even if you had no desire to read faster for time's sake, this how-to guide would be perfect for students wishing to harvest only the most important concepts from lectures, texts, and other materials for the purpose of testing. I could also see it as a kind of "brain exercise" that has coincidentally become immensely popular in today's video gaming realm. (I can always use a bit of a tune-up on my sometimes fuzzy post-baby brain.) . I'll be slowly implementing some of the techniques in my life for certain books, and not others. I may also use the newfound knowledge of the brain and how it works to help my children with their own reading-comprehension skills.
My only hope is that those who follow the tips, perform the exercises, and sharpen their skills don't forget the value of reading for pure enjoyment. There is nothing more precious than the written word which is taken in at a leisurely pace, chewed on delicately, and digested fully. If for one person, this book could take the daily grind of necessary reading and compress it into a manageable chunk (so that you have more time for the great authors of past and present), then I'm a fan.
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I already have a tendency to skip a bit in some of the fluffier fiction that I read (a predictable mystery, for example.) I think it would be helpful for the last few chapters of a book where you just need to get through it for the sake of getting it read. For other works, however, I like to take my time (for isn't that the purpose?)
I think this technique is most beneficial for nonfiction works, studying for retention, and for cruising through your daily read list. I know that it gives advice for getting done with that pile of mags and papers on your end table. I also like that it helps to discern what is worth reading in the first place.
Whatever your need, I always wanted to know the "science" behind it. This was revealed quite clearly in this book.
Hi Linsey:
I thoroughly enjoyed your thoughtful blog post about my book! You got exactly from it what I hoped a reader would. I agree that "speed reading" is best used for non-fiction though I use it for fiction when I want to quickly get through the decriptions and read the good parts :)
I don't know how old your kids are but I do suggest you consider waiting until they are at least in 7th greade before teaching them some of the strategies. I think kids need to have a good sight vocabulary before delving into faster reading strategies.
You might be interested in knowing I just launched a new online speed reading course that takes 3 hours to deliver (maybe a little longer to complete). I'd love you to check it out at http://www.revitupreading.com/online_speed_reading_programs.asp.
Thanks for the glowing and accurate review. Let me know if I can help you in any way!
Abby Marks Beale


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Welcome back! Today we're going to dive into a new function called Dynamic Platform Optimizer (DPO) which was recently released via FW 760.00 for exisitng P7 High-end systems (FHB) and the new P7+ based IBM Power 770 (MMD) and 780 (MHD) systems. This touched multiple subsystems from within the IBM Power servers but Power Firmware (specifically PHYP) had a large contribution to it's functoin.
What does it Do?
In a nutshell, DPO optimizes memory access for the partitions running in your system. Faster memory access can equal large boosts in overall performance. It does this by pairing processor chips with memory in an as-optimized fashion as possible (the closer the memory to the processor that using it, the faster things will run). Here's the high level priority rules the firmware uses:
1. Memory that is directly attached to the processor using it.
2. Memory that is within the same node/drawer as teh processor using it.
3. Memory in other nodes/drawers
Why do I need It?
When partitions are initially created, the above rules are followed automatically but as new partitions are created and deleted, DLPAR operations are performed, partitions are moved around, and functions like mobility are used, the configuration can become degraded in regards to memory association. DPO is a way to re-optimize your system based on its current state without requiring a system reboot.
How do I use It?
Control is done via the HMC command line tool (lsmemopt and optmem). The command line tools provide ways to see your current memory affinity score (0-100) and to control which partitions are affected as well as to provide overall status of the operation. See the reference below for more information.
What are the Caveats?
The most important one is that running DPO on partitions that have older OS's could actually degrade performance unless the partition is rebooted! Please either plan a reboot after running DPO or be updated to the appropriate level as defined in the references below.
Please note that running DPO will impact the performance of the partitions it is running against (up to 20%) so plan accordingly. PHYP will utilize idle CPU cycles from cores within the system to run the required algorithms during the DPO process so there is no impact to other partitions in the system.
Finally, some mobility operations and virtualization features are blocked while running DPO.
Do I still need this for P8?
DPO is still valid and available for P8 but affinity is not as sensitive due to more links and higher bandwidth between all of the processors and memory.
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Re: My Helmet saved me the other day
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:52 pm
cyclotaur wrote:Well ... I wasn't talking about what you think .... like I said, each to his own.
No, it isn't each to his own! And that is the problem. Mandatory helmet laws removes the choice, that is the objection.
What I do find incredible is the attitude difference towards helmets in this forum compared to the Bicycle Victoria forums. Funny, who would have thought that the more people utility cycle the more accepting they are of sensible attitudes towards helmets.


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baabaa wrote:Helmet relief proving fatal TNN Nov 24, 2012, 06.32AM IST
Motorbikes are different... much faster and falling off is much more serious (I speak from experience).
elantra wrote:Easier to flog the helmet use issue or other such "take the easy road" options.
Much like the focus on "creeping" there are far worse behaviours that are common but not as easily addressed like tailgating and overly aggressive or inattentive driving.


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By Dan Levene | Blues Chronicle
Dear Roman,
Excuse the frank approach...
Our No.8 looks like he's off in the summer, and I wanted to say a few words about a decision many think you've already taken over Frank Lampard's future.
I, like a lot of fans, consider Frank to be Chelsea's greatest ever player.
Hey, maybe you do too. After all, you were there when he lifted the European Cup in Munich this May, you saw the goals that secured our first ever Premier League title in Bolton eight years ago, and you will have also enjoyed plenty of the 100+ goals he netted between those two glorious occasions.
I know you couldn't be there last weekend, when Frank drew level with Kerry Dixon as Chelsea's second greatest ever goalscorer. I never thought I'd live to see a midfielder score 193 goals for one club. Did you?
And, as things stand, just 10 more goals would render all of those arguments over his greatness surplus: maybe forever etched in history alongside the legend '1st – 203 goals'.
Frank Lampard at Chelsea
|The number of appearances Lampard has clocked up at Chelsea.
|The 34-year-old has netted on 192 occasions for the west London outfit.
|Lampard completed an £11 million move to Stamford Bridge from West Ham in 2001.
|He went on to lift 12 trophies in that time, including three Premier League titles and last season's famous Champions League victory.
|Lampard currently has 93 England caps to his name, and has scored 26 international goals.
That and the fact that for the almost 12 years he has been with Chelsea, Frank has been an absolute gent: always great with the fans, always first to go over and thank a crowd that has traipsed across country or continent to see the team.
Of course if you considered all of that to be historical whimsy, then I couldn't disagree with you.
Players cannot be kept on the payroll forever on the basis of past glories, or we'd still be seeing Gianfranco Zola and Ron Harris in the squad.
However, it does frame the context for where Frank is now.
He always has been, and remains to this day, one of the fittest players in the Premier League.
He is among the first to arrive at Cobham each morning and, I'm told, among the last to leave each evening.
Many of those who resent Frank's success, the 'Big Fat Frank' brigade, say that he did not possess natural talent: and, again, there is some truth there.
Because Frank has had to work hard for everything he has ever achieved. And it is that work ethic that has elevated him to the almost unimpeachable position of Chelsea's Greatest.
I can see there are reasons not to keep Frank.
At the age of 34 he doesn't fit in with the image you wish to propagate of Chelsea as a young, pacey side full of exciting players.
He's from Romford not Rio, and can't easily be dropped into the 4-2-3-1 just-like-watching-Brazil formation you seem to expect from your managers these days, effective or not.
And maybe that wage of £160k a week is a bit on the high side for a 34-year-old: in which case, maybe it would help to raise the issue in negotiations of a pay-as-you-play deal (Chelsea 'sources' revealed last week that no such negotiations had come up).
In recent times the club's Board have taken so many ill-judged moves on your behalf: the failed coup at Chelsea Pitch Owners, the sacking of Roberto Di Matteo, the appointment of Rafael Benitez.
Each time your lieutenants have protested that they never expected the opposition from fans to be anything like what was seen.
If Frank is given the heave-ho it will be another such moment.
At this time of in-fighting and divisions at Chelsea, do we really need another?
And, if this really is about money, surely one or two more years for Frank make better Financial Fair Play sense than one or two more years for Fernando, who earns more and offers less?
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. Hope you, Dasha and the kids are well. Maybe see you at Swansea a week on Wednesday?
Yours frankly,
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Road closed, building evacuated due to suspicious package in Greensboro
Road closed, building evacuated due to suspicious package in Greensboro
Officials closed a street and evacuated at least one building Wednesday as part of an investigation into a suspicious backpack in Greensboro.
A driver reported the object to police at 1:37 p.m. at the corner of Patton Avenue and South Elm-Eugene Street. That's across from the Water Resources Building, which police evacuated.
A robot examined the backpack around 3 p.m. and determined it was empty, Greensboro police said.
South Elm-Eugene Street was closed from Meadowview Road to Florida Street during the investigation.
All homes and businesses within a 1/2 mile radius were informed of the situation through the reverse 911 system.


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Voices Of Youth Inspire: "What I studied taught me a lot about what kind of life I want to live"
Name: Milisuthando Bongela
Age: I'll be 28 on 30 April 2013
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
According to your business card – what's your job title?
That's a good question, I designed my business card to include all the various things I do! But over time, have realized it's best to keep it short and sweet – A blogger, entrepreneur and trend consultant.
And how does that compare with what you wanted to do when you were 10 years old?
When I was 10 I think I wanted to be a politician or a lawyer because I was so argumentative but had good intentions. So it's very different. It was when I was about 14 that I want to work in a creative industry.
Give us 10 words that describe your typical work day?
Unpredictable, unplanned, balanced, social, courageous, fun, slow, fast, detailed, administrative
What did you study?
I studied Journalism and Media Studies, History, Sociology, Art History and Philosophy.
How important was your choices of degree/field of study at university for what you're doing now?
[ ] Really important – couldn't do the job without it!
[ X ] Not directly relevant but taught me a lot of skills which I use now
[ ] In this career, other factors are more important than a degree
What I studied taught me a lot about what kind of life I want to live rather than how to live my life. I use the principles I learnt in all my subjects everyday. My work is not separate from my personal life, they are intertwined, they inform each other which is how I can continue doing it – for me that is work life balance.
What are the top three things someone needs to excel in your field?
A curated perspective, the ability to really enjoy beautiful things and it helps to be protean.
What do you think is the MOST important thing governments and/or companies can do to help young people get started in their careers?
Providing them with an opportunity to get work experience, so apprenticeships. I don't know how, but there needs to be a bridge built between commerce students and BA students – BA's have ideas and commerce people have skill and I think we would benefit from introducing these two faculties to working together at an early age, in the interest of entrepreneurship. Everybody wants to do their own thing these days.
[ ] Subsidize the cost of tertiary education more
[ X ] Governments should create incentives for companies to hire young people
[ X ] Companies should create more formal internship programmes for university students at all levels – with stipends.
[ X ] There should be a stronger focus on developing entrepreneurship at school level
On a lighter note, tell us about the strangest day you've ever had at work or the strangest thing you had to do?
The strangest thing I had to do was to try and make a cheese sauce with no cheese while making burgers for one of our events, with a CNN camera watching my every trip and fall in failing to make the cheese sauce.
Strangest day: Reading in a magazine that I'm an ''it girl'' who basically does nothing all day but attend parties and focus on my good looks.


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Col. City wins Lady Eagle softball battle
COLUMBIA CITY — They survived.More than once Columbia City's Lady Eagles' softball team had a big inning against Churubusco, only to have the visitors respond. Columbia City emerged victorious though Friday with a 9-8 win.The winning run came on a wild pitch. Hannah Schnorr of Columbia City was on third waiting and raced across the plate in the bottom of the sixth for the deciding score."I told Schnorr be ready, we've got to score," said Columbia City Softball Head Coach Steve Cox.It was 'Busco that drew first blood though. A two-run first inning put the vistors ahead of their county rival in the early going. Kasey Gibson and Chandler Blake both crossed the plate to give 'Busco a 2-0 edge.The hosts struck back to tie it in the bottom of the second. Krystin VanHouten and Alyssa Hansen both came in to knot the score. Columbia City's big inning came in the third. A serious of walks, coupled with a two-run double from Laurisha Rehrer brought the hosts to a 6-2 lead.Churubusco made a substitution that made a difference, though. Courtney Luttman came in to pitch in the third inning, but it was at the plate where she did her damage. Luttman hit a two-run homer the top of the fourth to bring the visitors that much closer. The damage would have been worse for Columbia City, but Rehrer, playing in right field, snagged a long fly ball that would have resulted in more 'Busco runs had it dropped. That play ended the inning.To read the rest of this story, see the April 27-28 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.


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Russian Orthodox Diocese of Chersonese
The Russian Orthodox Diocese of Chersonese or Diocese of Kors(o)un, headquartered in Paris, France, is a diocese of the Church of Russia in Western Europe. Its current primate is His Eminence Archbishop Innocent (Vassiliev) [1], Bishop of Chersonese. (Chersonese is an ancient city in the Crimea, founded by Greek colonists in the fourth century BC. According to the tradition of the Church, in this city, Prince Vladimir decided to become a Christian, opening a new page in the history of Russia.)
|Russian Orthodox Diocese of Chersonese
|Diocese type
|Current bishop
|Innocent (Vassiliev)
|Paris, France
|Western Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland)
|Liturgical language(s)
|Church Slavonic, French
|Musical tradition
|Russian Chant
|Population estimate
|Official website
|Diocese of Chersonese
The origin of the diocese goes back to the exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate in Western Europe, just after the Russian revolution in 1917, chaired by Metropolitan Euloge (Guéorguievski). Because of many problems with the Soviet controlled Mother Church, Metropolitan Euloge requested autocephalous status from Moscow, but was denied. Metropolitan Euloge did not believe that he and his flock were in the same situation as the refugees of the Karlovtsy Synod, he was looking for what he could see as a canonical solution to the situation.
In 1931, Metropolitan Euloge temporarily left the Moscow Patriarchate and reluctantly joined the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Orthodox who remained loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1931 founded the parish of the Three Holy Hierarchs (Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologianand John Chrysostom). Among its founders were Bishop Benjamin (Fedtchenkov), the theologian Vladimir Lossky, hiéromoine Athanasius (Netchaev). An important role in the founding of new exarchate was played by the Fraternity of St. Photius, it was chaired by Vladimir Lossky until 1931 .
In January 1931, the Moscow Patriarchate, then subjected to unprecedented persecution from the Soviet authorities, appointed Eleutherius (Bogoïavlenski) Metropolitan of Vilnius in place of Metropolitan Euloge. In March of that year, Bishop Benjamin became auxiliary bishop of the diocese and rector of the church of the Three Holy Hierarchs, which became in 1946 the headquarters of the new exarch of the Moscow patriarchate in France.
In 1945, about a year before his death, the Metropolitan Euloge returned with all its parishes within the Russian Orthodox Church and again became exarch of the Moscow patriarchate. However, after Euloge's death in 1946, Metropolitan Seraphin (Loukianov) was appointed the new exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate. A large number of parishes, contesting Archbishop Seraphin, again broke from the mother Church. These parishes have spawned the current exarchate of the Russian parishes in Western Europe of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Today's Diocese of Chersonese, strictly speaking, was born in the late 1980's as the heir of the exarchate of Western Europe.
The Diocese of Chersonese includes the parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in France, Spain, Switzerland and Portugal.
Until December 2006, the diocese also included the Russian parishes of Italy, now placed under the authority of the canonical titular bishop of Bogorodsk.
- Quelques mots sur le diocèse de Chersonèse - A few words about the Diocese of Chersonese (French)
- The Truth About the Russian Church Abroad, by M. Rodzianko ISBN 0884650049
External links
- Russian Orthodox Diocese of Chersonese Official Website
- Russian Orthodox Church in Italy
- Russian Orthodox Church in Spain and Portugal
- Russian Orthodox Church in Switzerland
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Photos: Career of triumphs, controversy
Photos: Career of triumphs, controversy
The US Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday it would ban cyclist Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his Tour de France wins.
Armstrong on Thursday night dropped any further challenges to USADA's allegations that he took performance-enhancing drugs.
Armstrong had an unprecedented winning streak at the Tour de France, taking the title from 1999 to 2005.
Armstrong, here in 2005 with Johan Bruyneel, sporting director of the Discovery team, became the sport's most popular figure.
The USADA has maintained that Armstrong has used banned substances as far back as 1996.
In a statement Thursday, Armstrong called the USADA investigation an ''unconstitutional witch hunt.''


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As challenging as that can be, though, the housing situation has been even more difficult for the people they help, including those who have poor credit scores, criminal histories and chronic mental illnesses.
But that will soon change.
On March 10, Four Corners broke ground on a new independent-living apartment complex for residents with serious and persistent mental illnesses.
The private nonprofit organization is building the Aspen Cove apartments on a dirt and gravel lot next to its Willows supported-living home at 48 Shields Lane.
Homeless residents with serious and persistent mental illnesses will have first dibs on the eight one-bedroom units and two two-bedroom units, which should be finished by December, according to Four Corners' Interact Program Director Sharon Relph.
Mentally ill people who are living in substandard housing, as well as those who are spending too much of their incomes on rent, will also be able to sign up for housing at Aspen Cove.
Both housing programs are designed to complement the services that the Interact clubhouse offers its members each weekday morning and afternoon.
"We view the housing component as the evening and weekend continuation of [those services]," Relph said.
The clubhouse at 59 North 200 East currently provides members with a day-to-day structure, while helping them build the skills they need in order to live independently.
But in cases where its at-risk clients remain homeless, Relph is concerned that those services aren't as effective as they could be.
"The big thing for us is that it's really hard to accomplish anything if you don't have a place to sleep at night," she said. "That's the thing we start with: Food and shelter."
The latter of those often comes at a high premium in Moab. In some cases, Relph said, people are spending as much as 80 percent of their annual incomes on housing.
As an affordable alternative, rents at Aspen Cove will be set at 30 percent of a person's income.
Each unit will have washer/dryer hookups, but it will be up to residents to install their own machines.
Apartments will be partially furnished with beds, couches and dressers, thanks to a grant from LDS Humanitarian Services.
However, most of the furniture will be unassembled when it eventually arrives on site, so Relph is hoping volunteers will come forward later this year to help put everything together.
Between now and then, Four Corners staffers will sit down with prospective residents of Aspen Cove and go over the terms they'd like to see included in a lease agreement.
According to Relph, it has taken Four Corners about three years to reach this point.
"An idea comes in and then you have to go out and try to find all of the funding for it," Relph said.
That funding finally came through a combination of grants, loans and agency contributions from the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, Utah's Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund, Four Corners and local sources.
Four Corners Community Behavioral Health Executive Director Karen Dolan added one more name to the list of people who worked to make the project a reality: Sharon Relph.
"She's the best [fundraiser] I know," Dolan said.
Relph also thanked neighbors Colleen and D.L. Taylor for offering the use their property as a staging area for building materials. Everyone else that Four Corners approached over the years, from city officials to utility company employees, has also been very supportive of the project, she said.
"They're on board, and it's pretty neat to see that," she added.
For more information about Aspen Cove, the Willows or the Interact clubhouse, contact Relph at: 435-259-7340.


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I could be wrong, that's why I am here, imploring for your help.
It said that there is a Heaven of the Four Kings and Heavens of Pure Above.
Perhaps I'm missing something or my understanding is not correct. I thought that in Pure Land Humans and Devas are equal, with the same body, without differences, then why is there those heavens?
Pure Land Sutras; http://www.bdkamerica.org/digital/dBET_ ... s_2003.pdf
Part I, Page 22, Verse 10
Part II, In page 57, verse 42:... Then Ananda asked the Buddha, "If, World-honored One, there is no
Mount Sumeru in that land, what sustains the Heaven of the Four Kings and
the Heaven of the Thirty-three Gods?"
The Buddha said to Ananda, "What sustains Yama, which is the third
heaven of the world of desire, and other heavens up to the highest heaven
of the world of form?"
Ananda answered, "The consequences of karma are inconceivable."
The Buddha said to Ananda, "Inconceivable indeed are the consequences
of karma, and so are the worlds of the buddhas. By the power of meritori-
ous deeds, sentient beings in that land dwell on the ground of karmic reward.
That is why those heavens exist without Mount Sumeru."
42 Then the Buddha said to Ananda and Bodhisattva Maitreya, "Have you
seen that land filled with excellent and glorious manifestations, all sponta-
neously produced, from the ground to the Heaven of Pure Abode?"
Ananda replied, "Yes, I have."
The Buddha asked, "Have you also heard the great voice of Amitayus
expound the Dharma to all the worlds, guiding sentient beings to the Way
of the Buddha?"
Ananda replied, "Yes, I have."
The Buddha further asked, "Have you also seen the inhabitants of that land
move freely, riding in seven-jeweled airborne palaces as large as a hundred
thousand yojanas, to worship the buddhas of the lands in the ten directions?"
"Yes, I have," replied Ananda.
"Have you also seen that some of the inhabitants are in the embryonic
state of rebirth?"


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It was a case of mistaken identity in the lobby of the Algonquin hotel the other day. Sean Hayes, of "Will & Grace" and the big upcoming Broadway revival of "Promises, Promises," stopped to chat with a man sitting at a table drinking coffee — but then seemed embarrassed and walked away, a witness told Page Six. "He whispered to a companion, 'Oh wow, I thought that was Stanley Tucci!' " It wasn't.
Sean Hayes gets the wrong guy
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Aug 2012 22:48 UTC
I always see The Netherlands - my home country - as a small, easily graspable version of other, larger and more important western countries and even the west as a whole. In light of this, Tweakers.net's Arnoud Wokke points to a very interesting report about the Dutch telecommunications market. This reports notes a trend that, if present in the rest of the world, could have serious effects for phone makers.
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RE: Same thing in France
by spiderman on Sat 18th Aug 2012 16:26 UTC in reply to "Same thing in France"
The french market is very different now than it was 6 months ago indeed.
Currently, the people with a subsidized phone are those who are stuck in a contract since before the arrival of free. New contracts are more often without a phone than with a phone. I was a bouygues customer with a 2 years contract when free entered the market. I just called Bouygues and asked what they would do with my overpriced contract. Result: they migrated the contract to B&YOU for free. So now I'm no more tied to my 2 years contract and I won't pay for my subsidized phone. I can even freely move to free if I want to.


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I've been working on trying the recipes that I now have saved together in a binder from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines. So, last night we made "Inside-out Eggplant Parmesan." It was really easy, just a lot of steps involved. You could use jarred sauce, and take away the arugula, but where's the fun in that? I know I am trying to stay on track and write a dessert only blog, but this was too good not to share.
So here it is:
You probably are more interested in the chocolate mousse we made, since this is a dessert blog after all. Also, that is what the title of the post promised you'd be reading about, so here goes:
I made some chocolate mousse from the recipe binder, too.
Chocolate Mousse
3 eggs, seperated
3/4 of a stick butter
8 ounces bittersweet chocolate (no more than 60%)
cream, whipped
Melt chocolate and butter together.
Whisk egg yolks until thick and pale in color.
Whisk whites until soft peak.
Whisk cream.
Fold in the yolks to the chocolate mixture.
Fold in the whites.
Fold in the whipped cream.
The amount of cream used depends on how chocolaty you want your mousse. (also makes it lighter in texture, but of course the more you add, the more calories you are adding, too.)
By the way, do not be intimidated by the fact that these recipes come from magazines. Remember, that just means they might have some fancy ingredients in them, but mostly, they are made for the home chef.
A note on Gourmet magazine: this month's issue (Nov. 2009) was the last issue of Gourmet. (sad news, I know.) Good thing I saved over 100 recipes!


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Puck Preview: Northern Michigan
The Essentials
|Northern Michigan at Michigan
|Yost Ice Arena
7:35 PM Friday
5:05 Saturday(!!!)
|College hockey lines, junkie?
Friday: BTN
Saturday: FSD
Northern Michigan
Record. 14-10-6, 9-9-6 CCHA. The Northerns, as Al Randall bizarrely calls them, are yet another basically .500 CCHA team. Even at this late juncture six of the eleven teams are within a game of .500. Northern has the worst goal differential of any of them at –5, FWIW.
NMU has been successful out of conference, going 5-1 against WCHA opponents St. Cloud State, Wisconsin, and Michigan Tech. That has seen them through to the good side of the tournament bubble. Yeah, the bubble: even though Northern is currently tied for ninth in the PWR the margins down there are incredibly slim and a Michigan sweep this weekend could bonk them out of the tourney entirely, if temporarily.
Previous meetings. Remember this?
Yeah… that. Shawn Hunwick got booted from the Friday night game for that. You can see why he was pissed:
This started the year-long Gongshow campaign in Hunwick's crease and as a result Michigan got only a tie out of the weekend, losing 5-3 in the punch game and eking out a 3-3 tie Saturday. On Friday Michigan fell behind 3-1; after Hyman and Travis Lynch tied it up Janecyk let in a soft one to let the game slip away. Shots were 32-27 Northern. Michigan outshot Northern 28-26 the next night.
Dangermen. I'll defer to Marquette native Jason Paul on this one:
Topping my list would be big 6-foot-4 senior forward Justin Florek. He was a beast last time around against the Wolverines, who struggled to defend him in front of the net, especially on the power play. Florek has 15 goals and 13 assists in 30 games. Eight of his goals have come with the man advantage. He only had one goal against Michigan earlier this season, but he was responsible for a pair of redirects in front of the net on the power play led to rebound goals. I expect to see U-M defenseman Jon Merrill matched up with his line. That'll definitely be the match up to watch on the power play.
Tyler Gron had 14-19-33 as well. Matt Thurber appears to be the other member of that line with an 8-15-23 line; past that there's an NMU version of Treias in sophomore Stephan Vigier (11-9-20) and a couple guys with seven goals before the dropoff into grinder territory.
Defense? I'm splitting defense and goalie because they are different things and putting a question mark after defense because let's be honest: it is impossible to scout college hockey opponents since they're never on television and honestly I don't know if I could figure anything meaningful out from a game or two anyway. Defensemen are especially vulnerable to misrepresentation.
So. Junior Kyle Follmer is the only NMU defenseman to make an impact offensively with 3-19-22. As a team, NMU is 21st in goals allowed per game but the guy in net has a huge impact on that, as we'll see…
Goalie. You may have noticed Jared Coreau's name pop up when this blog discusses how statistically impressive Shawn Hunwick is. That's generally to dismiss his candidacy for big-time awards because he's platooning, but a .935 save percentage is impressive even so. Paul notes that Coreau seems to have asserted himself as the man after starting the last three games. With senior Reid Ellington sporting a .905 and giving up almost an additional goal per game it's not hard to see why. The Wildcats are in crunch time and it's time to ride the hot guy.
This is how big a difference there has been between the two goalies: extrapolate Coreau's 2.03 GAA to a team GAA and NMU would be second nationally in goals allowed. Ellington's 2.92 would be 37th. As always, NCAA goalie sample sizes are extremely small, but they're all we've got.
Expect Coreau.
Special teams. Your power plays per game:
|PP For / G
|PP Ag / G
The above table hasn't been much help of late. Gongshow is gonna gongshow and Red has now uncharacteristically complained about the officiating for two straight weeks. But, yeah, Northern takes a ton of penalties and doesn't draw many.
When on special teams, the NMU power play is decent, converting at just under 20% and fielding only one shorthanded goal. Michigan is still languishing just over 15%. Northern is 7th nationally on the kill; while NMU can expect to be shorthanded more often than M they perform better on special teams; this can be considered a wash.
Michigan vs Those Guys
Don't have Hunwick freak out and nail some guy but good. This is self explanatory, but it would be nice if a Gongshow ref actually called contact on Hunwick.
Keep your cool in general. This series was ugly four months ago. The Hunwick thing came paired with a couple of fighting DQs and a Northern guy got a contact-to-the-head DQ Saturday night. Pair that with Michigan's Miami dustup and increasing frustration with Gongshow refereeing you can see the outlines of an ugly, penalty-filled series short on 5-on-5 play.
This would be a bad thing. Not only does NMU play better on special teams than Michigan does but they give up a ton of shots relative to the opponent (they're –202 in CCHA play). The bulk of that disparity is 5x5—1.1 power plays per game does not make that big of a difference. If Michigan can play some of the remarkably penalty-free games they've turned in thus far they'll be in good shape.
Third line: make something pay off. The Sparks-Moffatt-Hyman line seems like it should be putting some pucks in the net but hasn't in a long, long time. AJ Treais can't keep his smoking hot shooting up forever. Unless Travis Lynch is going to start scoring against teams not named Michigan State, at some point Michigan is going to need these guys to step up.
First line: get your mojo back. Sans Brown the top line got smoked on Friday vs State and they didn't score on Saturday, which was the seemingly first time since its invention that it had not. As a huge driver of Michigan's success in the post-swoon era it will be reassuring if they get back on track.
The Big Picture
The CCHA title is likely gone. If Ferris biffs their layup against BGSU this weekend the door cracks open. That's not likely. That out of the way, Michigan can certainly aim for second and will strive to finish in the top four to get the bye and second-round home series. A split would likely assure the latter, again assuming Michigan doesn't totally blow their BGSU layup.
As far as the Pairwise goes, it's like I've been saying for a long time: Michigan can tread water with a split but to make headway they will have to do better than that. Splitting hurts slightly and will see them continue to hang out in the 2-seed band they currently occupy. Sweeping likely takes them past a team or two—they would definitely pass Ferris, for one, by becoming the #1 team in RPI. Probably, anyway. It's hard to predict exactly what will happen.
Aforementioned Michigan Hockey Net preview.


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By now you've all heard about mitregate, the deliberate insult to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori during her recent visit, in which Lambeth Palace (a) told her not to wear her mitre and (b) demanded papers, please! to prove her provenance.
Despite the apologists claiming this is Standard Operating Procedure, pictures exist to show that other American Bishops, men and women, are allowed their mitres in the UK, and the Presiding Bishop had presented her papers on a previous visit to the UK. So this comes down to petty harassment, albeit in a superficially polite English way.
As Diana Butler Bass comments,
The world is facing global warming, an economic meltdown, massive immigration crises, continued international terrorism, interreligious tensions and warfare, nuclear escalation in the Middle East, poverty, the abuse of women and children, human trafficking, genocide, oppression of LGBT persons, and a massive environmental cataclysm in the Gulf of Mexico--and the Archbishop of Canterbury is worried about a woman's hat?
In case the Church of England hasn't noticed, this is why people are rejecting Christianity. It isn't because some Christians chose women to lead their churches, ask questions about traditional renderings of theology and the Bible, doubt God's existence, or want their gay and lesbian friends and relatives to be part of their church communities. Canterbury, please know that western people are rejecting Christianity because--as noted in a recent survey of young Americans--Christians are "out of touch with reality."
Meanwhile, inspired by Ruth Gledhill's coinage of the Kat name, I offer you this:
in old London town
And she brought her hat
and she brought her gown
But someone at Lambeth
said, "not quite so quick,
We must see your papers
In case there's a trick."
Though she'd been there before
She obeyed their directive
To prove her ordination
and office elective
And then Lambeth begrudged,
"you may lead the prayer
but there's a condition:
you can't cover your hair!"
So the Bishop obeyed
And she carried her mitre
but she's a smart lady,
and known as a fighter
So she preached on the Gospel
On love and inclusion
And on hospitality
and at the conclusion,
She proved to be greater
than petty Lambeth priests
She said, "you are welcome,"
She said, "love has saved you,"
She said, "be at peace."


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I'm leading a tour of the Man Ray Portraits exhibition on 16 May themed around all things sartorial. Of course, Man Ray is the creator of iconic portraits of two of the best known designers of the twentieth century: Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, both of which feature in the exhibition. And Man Ray worked within the industry himself for a number of years, contributing his innovative Surrealist fashion photographs to magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the lesser known Charm, as Curator Terence Pepper discusses in the exhibition catalogue. More fundamentally however, details of dress are revealed throughout the exhibition to be instrumental in creating the arresting style of photographic portraiture that Man Ray is celebrated for.
The wider relationship between fashion and Surrealism is well documented. Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1988) and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2007) and myriad books and essays have explored both the influence of art on the haute-couture of the period (Salvador Dalí's collaboration with Schiaparelli is an obvious example) and also the function of clothes and fashion paraphernalia within Surrealism (for instance the dressmaker's mannequin). Broadening the focus, I will investigate what the surreal – and often not-so-surreal – fashions worn by Man Ray's subjects tell us about the preoccupations of the avant-garde of Europe and America in the period; how they evoke art historical categories such as Orientalism, Primitivism or Structuralism. The clothes and accessories also attest to episodes in the lives of the artists, writers, performers, dignitaries and society figures who sat for Man Ray's camera; helping to animate our understanding of these historical figures.
One photograph from the exhibition depicts the actress Génica Athanasiou wearing a thick, patterned cloak. This item of clothing not only aids the composition of Man Ray's portrait, serving as a contrast to the plain background, but research revealed it was designed by Coco Chanel for Jean Cocteau's 1922 production of Sophocles' Antigone. It was Chanel's first major costuming commission and, in addition to the cloak, she also designed Grecian dresses, much praised in reviews, for the other roles. Chanel's recent biographer, Axel Madsen, recalls the designer's temper during one rehearsal when the stage sets – designed by Picasso – were drawing more attention than Chanel's costumes. Evidently she marched on stage and pulled a thread on one of the costumes, which duly unravelled, reducing the assistant who had knitted the garment to tears.
The glittering Poiret gown worn by art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim, the dandyism of Jean Cocteau, the cross-dressing of Duchamp and the sheer extravagance of the costumes worn by eccentric heiress Marchesa Casati make for a display rich in terms of both design history and biography; a unique collection of figures who are represented via an
equally unique collection of portraits.
Image Credit (top to bottom)
Coco Chanel, 1935 by Man Ray Museum Ludwig Cologne, Photography Collections (Collection Gruber) © Man Ray Trust / ADAGP © Copy Photograph Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln
Henry Crowder, 1928-30 by Man Ray Collection du Centre Pompidou, Mnam/Cci, Paris, AM 1994-394 (463) © Man Ray Trust / ADAGP, Paris © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN / image Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI
Antigone: Théâtre de l'Atelier in Le Théâtre et Comœdia Illustré. Courtesy of Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris.
As part of the exhibition Man Ray Portraits