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Judge, not jury, will decide verdict in arson that killed 2 boys
The Johnson City man accused of setting a fire that ripped through an apartment home and killed two boys in October 2015 will have a judge decide his fate, instead of 12 jurors.
Dwight Burton appeared Thursday in Broome County Court and told Judge Joseph Cawley he wished to waive his right to a jury trial. Testimony has been scheduled to begin at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday.
The decision by Burton had been weighed since a June 5 pretrial hearing; it set off an exchange with Cawley about the rights he was giving up.
Cawley asked several times Thursday whether Burton understood the scope of the decision, reminding him that a jury's verdict would have to be unanimously "guilty" or "not guilty."
In a bench trial, Cawley would hear testimony and decide the verdict himself. This past year, Cawley has presided over two high-profile bench trials — a child sex abuse case and a near-deadly home invasion — that both ended in guilty verdicts.
"You are presumed to be innocent at this point," Cawley told Burton, 39, Thursday. "No decisions have been made by this court with regard to the evidence or a verdict."
During the June 5 court appearance, Burton voiced doubts as to whether a fair jury could be chosen for his case.
"I don't think they would give me an honest shot," he said.
Burton's trial was scheduled for up to two weeks, though Thursday's decision could shorten its duration.
The Oct. 19, 2015, fire killed brothers Joshua Maxwell, 4, and Michael Maxwell, 3, on the third floor of 145 Floral Ave. The boys' mother and her friend, all of whom also lived in the same third-floor apartment at the time, were severely burned and had to jump out a window to escape.
The fire alarm sounded around 2 a.m., and emergency responders were unable to rescue the boys because of the overwhelming smoke and heat.
Court records say Burton was allegedly targeting Jessica Baxter, his former girlfriend with whom he had a history of domestic problems, in setting the fire. She was living in the apartment with Erica Kurtz, mother to the boys who were killed.
Burton has pleaded not guilty to a 10-count indictment, the most serious of which is a first-degree murder felony charge, which carries a maximum possible penalty of life in prison if he is convicted. He remains in the Broome County jail.
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I wrote white papers for clients of The Woodward Company.
When I was analyzing companies for The Woodward Company, I used the same techniques as when I was writing brochures: find out the facts about the company.
Here is my summary of the advantages of one company, from page 3 of the pdf (I wrote the entire document):
Mann's proprietary advantages.
John Kim and K·Omega see Mann as a unique acquisition opportunity: a very profitable, market leading, niche-oriented manufacturer of proprietary products.
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AIM: To determine which part of the salt is responsible for the characteristics in the flame.
HYPOTHESIS: If we introduce a metal salt in the blue flame of the Bunsen burner, then the colour given off by the flame is due to the metal part of the salt.
(1)With a heat proof mat under the Bunsen burner, turn the gas on and light up the Bunsen burner with matches. (2)Pour enough Hydrochloric acid into a beaker. (3)Using your wire, dip it into the beaker containing Hydrochloric acid (4)Place it into the flame for a few seconds; this is the cleaning method to avoid contamination of other solutions.
If the Bunsen burner flame does not change colour, then your wire is clean and you can proceed to dip it into a metal salt.
(5)Dip your wire into a metal salt either the nitrate or chloride and place the wire onto the tip of the blue flame. (6)Observe the change in colour of the Bunsen burners flame and record the observations as you go.
(7)As long as you clean the wire as directed in step 3-4 you can proceed into testing the other metal salts.
Q1: Were there any main difference between the chloride salts and the nitrate salts? If there was please comment on what it was Yes, I had observed some difference between the colour produced from the chloride and nitrate salts present in one flame test. The strontium flame admitted both a similar orange colour, but the strontium nitrate has a much more vibrant dark orange than the strontium chloride.
Q2: Suggest reasons why the experiment tested both nitrate and chloride salts? The experiment tested both nitrate and chloride salts to allow us to compare which part of salt is responsible for the colour change of the flame.
Q3: Suggest why flames on gas stove burn orange-yellow when a small amount of water boils over onto them? This is due to the chemicals present in the water; such as sodium chloride, calcium ion. The orange-yellow flame admitted could also be due to the ingredients added to the water such as salt.
When the metal salt is introduced to the flame, the electrons absorb heat energy and can jump into a higher energy level. Because the electrons are now at a higher and more energetically unstable level, they fall back down to their original shell, by doing so visible light is emitted due to the energy release.
Name a possible source of experiment error and suggest at least one way to reduce the effect: A possible experimental error that could have effect the result is contamination of metal salts. As directed in the steps you must clean the wire using hydrochloric acid. By doing this you are removing any traces of the previous metal salts that could alter the true colour of the flame produce by a different metal salt. By reusing the same wire at each metal salt, you could reduce the effect. Each wire will be completely free of contamination of other metal salts as it will be exposed to only one metal salt.
Data collected from the flame test identified that both chloride and nitrogen tested were identical, meaning metal is responsible for the colour produced in the flame. This is evidence that strongly supports my hypothesis; therefore I accept my hypothesis on that basis.
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Preview: Dodgers (75-58) at Padres (65-69)
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Venue: PETCO Park
Date: September 04, 2015 10:10 PM EDT
Although an outstanding pitching staff has them on top in the NL West, the Los Angeles Dodgers aren't likely to reach their goals without assistance from the offense.
If his MLB debut is any indication, Corey Seager may be able to provide a much-needed lift.
Looking to build on his memorable opener, the 21-year-old will try to help the visiting Dodgers bounce back with their ninth win in 11 games Friday night against the San Diego Padres.
Los Angeles starters had posted a 1.60 ERA over a 10-game stretch heading into this four-game series at Petco Park, while the offense was averaging just 2.8 runs over the previous 15.
After getting recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque to provide a spark, Seager did just that while starting for the slumping Jimmy Rollins in Thursday's 10-7 loss. The highly touted prospect doubled in the fifth inning and added a two-run single to put the Dodgers ahead in a five-run sixth.
"It was really fun,' Seager said. 'It would have been nice to win but I still had fun in my first day."
However, the club's three-game winning streak ended when the bullpen failed to hold an eighth-inning lead and allowed an opponent to score five or more for the first time in 18 games.
The Dodgers (75-58) maintained a 6 1/2-game division lead with San Francisco's loss, though they could have a tough time building on the offensive showing against James Shields. He's has been very good at Petco, going 6-2 with a 2.56 ERA in 14 career starts.
Shields has alternated between good and bad outings in his past four outings overall. He was on the good side Sunday when he gave up one run over seven innings in a 9-4 win at Philadelphia.
The right-hander allowed one run over seven in a 4-2, 12-inning loss June 14 in his only home meeting with the Dodgers this season. He's 1-0 with a 2.70 ERA in three matchups overall.
Andre Ethier (2 for 9), Chase Utley (2 for 9) and Carl Crawford (3 for 14) have struggled versus Shields (10-6, 3.78 ERA), but Ethier, Alex Guerrero and Adrian Gonzalez have homered off him.
After spending the past month at Triple-A Oklahoma City, Mike Bolsinger hopes to replicate the best performance of his career May 23 against the Padres (65-69). In that outing, he allowed one hit and struck out a career-high eight over eight innings in a 2-0 home win.
Manager Don Mattingly said the right-hander would be in the rotation for at least one turn.
Bolsinger (5-3, 2.83) has gone 0-1 with a 3.38 ERA and 13 strikeouts in 10 2-3 innings in two career starts at Petco, including one last season while with Arizona. Justin Upton is 1 for 6 when facing Bolsinger this season, while Matt Kemp has gone 0 for 5 with two strikeouts.
Yangervis Solarte went 4 for 5 with his 12th home run Thursday, Upton and Derek Norris had three hits apiece and Jedd Gyorko homered as San Diego won for the ninth time in 13 home games.
Solarte is batting .452 with three home runs in his last eight home games, while Upton is batting .400 in his last six. Kemp has reached base in a career-high 23 straight games.
'(Solarte) has been great for us this year,' interim manager Pat Murphy said. 'This kid has been as consistent as anyone on the team."
The Padres have batted .316 while averaging 6.4 runs in their last 12 at Petco.


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by: Jon Miller
I've been doing quite a bit of speaking recently along with other B2B marketing experts. Here's a round -up in case you missed some of them.
Consumers must like lots of choices - why else would there be hundreds of shampoo brands and variants on a typical supermarket shelf? Actually, its been known for years that too many choices can reduce consumer purchases.
by: Roger Dooley
by: Jon Miller
$300 billion dollars a year. That's what the 3,000 largest B2B companies in the world spend annually on lead generation, resulting in billions of leads. Yet despite this massive expense, I have yet to find a sales executive who is happy with the number and quality of marketing generated leads.
Businesses are often portrayed as rapacious partners, seeking to squeeze every penny out of their deals. Indeed, some are… the result is often a relationship between defined by a fat contract that seeks to protect both parties against bad behavior by the other.
Most merchants would include "happy customers" as a key part of their
mission. Oddly, new research shows that sad customers are likely to
spend more money when shopping. Merely watching a sad video clip caused
subjects to pay nearly four times as much for a water bottle than
subjects who watched an emotionally neutral clip.
The new study released
Friday by researchers from four universities goes further, trying to
The new study released
Friday by researchers from four universities goes further, trying to
by: Guy Kawasaki
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by: John Caddell
A column in today's Wall Street Journal boils it down for us: "...[C]ompanies need to 'reinvent' the way they sell, to focus on their customers rather than product features."
Stop me if you think you've heard this one before.
No one enjoys blind dates. Whether you're introduced by friends, the Internet, or your neighborhood matchmaker, it's nerve-wracking to meet for the first time.
Conversely, everyone loves weddings. The flowers, the tradition, the drunken dancing at the reception, you can find something you like.
This blog reflects the personal opinions of individual contributors and does not represent the views of Futurelab, Futurelab's clients, or the contributors' respective employers or clients.


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Emeralds are fascinating gemstones. They have the most beautiful, most intense and most radiant green that can possibly be imagined: emerald green. Inclusions are tolerated. In top quality, fine emeralds are even more valuable than diamonds.
The name emerald comes from the Greek 'smaragdos' via the Old French 'esmeralde', and really just means 'green gemstone'. Innumerable fantastic stories have grown up around this magnificent gem. The Incas and Aztecs of South America, where the best emeralds are still found today, regarded the emerald as a holy gemstone. However, probably the oldest known finds were once made near the Red Sea in Egypt. Having said that, these gemstone mines, already exploited by Egyptian pharaohs between 3000 and 1500 B.C. and later referred to as 'Cleopatra's Mines', had already been exhausted by the time they were rediscovered in the early 19th century.


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Does your Apple Watch keep reminding you to breathe? You're not alone. People all over the world are interrupted by the Apple Watch reminding them to breathe every day — even if they're already breathing. So what gives?
Does the Apple Watch detect stress?
One of the most common misconceptions about Breathe alerts is that they are related to stress. The idea is that the Apple Watch detects when you need to take advice from Taylor Swift and calm down.
How would that work exactly? The confusion is around heart rate detection. The Apple Watch measures your current heart rate every few minutes (and more frequently when logging workouts). It also logs this data to create a trend line for your average heart rate.
But the Apple Watch doesn't assume that a sudden change in heart rate is related to stress. It can use that data to provide helpful heart health information!
It would be a cool feature though if the Apple Watch really could distinguish uninvited stress from intentional exercise or other real life scenarios that cause your heart rate to increase.
Full disclosure: I did not tell my mom it was a coincidence the first time she told me her Apple Watch reminded her to breathe after a stressful meeting. Her enthusiasm was too much. I don't think she reads my work.
But I'm already breathing
Okay, but what if you're already breathing? I totally understand. I do that too. Just not as far as the Apple Watch is concerned.
It has sensors that detect when you're working out, and it can even detect a sudden fall and call emergency services if you're unresponsive. Apple Watch doesn't measure how long you can hold your breath however — at least not yet.
What is Breathe?
So maybe the Apple Watch does want you to calm down, just not only when you're flustered.
Apple includes an app called Breathe that introduces Apple Watch users to guided meditation. An animating flower gently grows and shrinks over the course of several seconds. The app instructs you to take a deep breath and hold it when the flow increases, then exhale when the flower shrinks.
Frankly, it's mesmerizing. Just talking about it is calming. There are even Apple Watch faces dedicated to the app and its visuals — not to mention this 10 hour YouTube video of the animation that's been viewed almost 15,000 times.
Breathe is customizable too so each session doesn't have to be the same. You can set the number of breaths per minute to adjust how long each deep breath should be, the duration of the session before you begin, and whether or not the app remembers your last session length.
At the end of the meditation session, the Breathe app will display your current heart rate too. Ideally, it's lower than when you started, but that's not the main goal of the app.
Using the Breathe app doesn't just help you collect your thoughts and focus on what's important to you. The Apple Health app on the iPhone can log data from meditation sessions with a metric called Mindful Minutes.
This helps you realize insights like whether or not guided meditation helps you sleep, eat healthier, or remember to exercise.
Remember to breathe
Meditation, great, but what about those nagging alerts? You can turn down the number of meditation reminders you receive or disable Breathe notifications altogether.
Open the Watch app on your iPhone, tap Breathe from the My Watch tab, then tap Breathe Reminders.
If you like the idea of guided meditation but Breathe reminders are stressing you out, you can receive just one reminder per day. If you already logged a session, you won't receive an alert that day.
Breathe reminders also wait for moments when no movement or exercise is detected so it doesn't catch you at a bad time, although your mileage may vary.
You can also disable or have notifications sent to Notification Center (swipe down from the watch face to access) by swiping left and tapping the "…" button from the alert.
Want to go nuclear on Breathe? Take a deep breath, press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch, then press and hold on the green flower icon for the Breathe app (or swipe left if you're in list view) to remove the Breathe app. You can always add it back from the App Store on Apple Watch.
Breathtaking memes
If you're still reading this or you've scrolled to the bottom of this story, you've discovered my motivation for writing this piece in the first place.
I love learning how people use the Apple Watch so I'm constantly searching for ways regular people experience it. This search, specifically on Twitter, has pointed to one meme over and over again, and Apple's Breathe app on the Apple Watch is at the center of it.
Checking an Apple Watch alert for a new message, and hopelessly realizing it's just a Breathe reminder.
Just search Twitter for "apple watch vibrates breathe" to see what I mean. There are probably earlier instances of this based on when the Breathe app was introduced, but my quick search goes back to this March 2017 tweet that fits the criteria:
when my Apple Watch vibrates it makes me think I have a text but when I check it it's telling me to breathe WHAT A LET DOWN
— Maddie (@maddielroberts) March 8, 2017
Then in June 2017:
When my Apple Watch vibrates and I think I got a text….but really it's just telling me to breathe 😒
— adri (@adrianauribe_) June 3, 2017
Followed by a similar tweet for July, August, and September 2017.
Lots of people turn to Twitter to publicly declare that they will not breathe in defiance of their Apple Watch, but further inspection usually reveals additional tweets that suggest they actually continued to breathe.
Whenever my Apple Watch vibrates to remind me to breathe, my immediate reaction is "I will NOT."
— Ashley Mateo (@ashleymateo) June 30, 2017
Okay, those are just fun. But seriously, a lot of people are being misled by Breathe alerts on the Apple Watch.
Remember those original tweets from 2017? There was one per month for a while, then they fizzled out. Seems normal.
Fast forward to, say, 2020, and there have been nearly 20 tweets with the same message already. We're not even a week into the new year, people.
There is something off about the current round of tweets though. In the trues sense of a modern meme, these tweets don't appear to be wholly original and organic.
I'm not saying foreign bots or an international propaganda scheme is at play here, but most of these tweets are copied and pasted with the same format — right down to the same four-letter-word-that-starts-with-an-s explicit reaction. I won't embed the bad words in case my mom actually does read my work, but again, see for yourself.
Last year alone, there were too many tweets to count that fit the search criteria. It's possible people are uniquely experiencing the same disappointment individually, or maybe the meme is really a somewhat meta quest for likes and retweets.
All I know is something changed between 2017 and 2020 — probably the booming popularity of the Apple Watch — and something that was tweeted a handful of times per year is now a daily meme.
Finding the deeper meaning of all of this will require more meditation. For now, remember to breathe, people.
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The provision a senior long-term debt financing of up to US$ 22 million equivalent in KZT to KPM-Delta LLP for the development, construction and operation of a solar photovoltaic power plant with an installed capacity of 40 MWp located in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan.
Project Objectives
The project will support Kazakhstan in diversifying its coal dependent power sector and contribute to achieving the Kazakh government goal of non-hydro renewable energy accounting for 3 per cent of all power generation by 2020.
Transition Impact
ETI score: 80
The project increases renewable energy share in the Kazakhstan's currently coal-dominated energy mix. Transition impact also stems from reduction of CO2 emissions. In addition to environmental impacts, the project also fosters private ownership of renewable projects in the generation sector.
Client Information
KPM-Delta LLP is a Special Purpose Vehicle ("SPV") established for the development, construction and operation of the solar photovoltaic power plant with capacity of 40 MWp. The SPV is fully owned by Risen Energy of China.
EBRD Finance Summary
Total Project Cost
Environmental and Social Summary
Category B (ESP 2014). Environmental and social issues associated with the project are site specific and can be readily assessed and mitigated based on an Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD).
An independent consultant was retained to undertaken the ESDD and verify the site sensitivity in terms of land use and environmental context. The ESDD reviewed the permitting process for the solar plant as well as the associated infrastructure. The ESDD confirmed that the site is not located in a sensitive area and the Project is structured to comply with the Bank's PRs and the investor has the institutional capacity to fully implement the Bank's RPs. Based on the ESDD a SEP, NTS and ESAP have been agreed with the client. The Non Technical Summary (NTS) of the Project is attached below.
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Technical Cooperation and Grant Financing
TC funding was sought to co-finance due diligence costs subject to availability under the existing Kazakhstan Renewables Framework in accordance with the Framework's criteria.
Company Contact Information
Saule Duisenova
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PSD last updated
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I'm studying for my Health & Medical class and don't understand how to answer this. Can you help me study?
HI300: Information Technology and Systems for Health Care
Discussion Topic: Healthcare Information Systems
INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to all posts; response to classmates should be thoughtful and advance the discussion, response should make and/or frequent informed references to unit material or scientific literature, follow APA style if resources are used, 75 word minimum in response per post
Utilizing Patient portals has become increasingly useful for large healthcare systems in current times. Patient portals allow patients the ability to set up and manage appointments as well as access their medical records. Patient portals allow patients access to their medical tests results in real time and give patients the ability to ask questions in the form of a chat or email about those results to their healthcare providers. Providers can use patient portals to communicate with patients and manage prescriptions. As these portals have become more and more advanced they have developed the ability to be implemented into phone applications that streamline and make accessing this information even easier. Patient portals have been widely adopted by large healthcare systems that can support the infrastructure required to operate and maintain these online platforms. Clinical decision support systems were developed in order to help healthcare providers make better informed clinical decisions. CDS analyze and gather information that can then be used to implement new clinical pathways that will aid care teams in the management and prediction of disease processes and improve patients outcomes. Information such as past drug interactions can be analyzed and studied in order to prevent the same events from occurring in the future. While patient portals aim at creating a bridge between the healthcare team and the patient. Clinical decisions support systems aim at connecting healthcare providers in order to analyze and improve patient outcomes. One can make the connection that patient portals connect the patient to the institution and CDS connect institutions with each other. Both can and are used within large healthcare systems so that communication and the sharing of information is streamlined.Both of these would be vital to any new organization. As they would both improve communication and improve patient outcomes.
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I decided to do a little research on the Practice management software and Kareo. Both systems have a billing software that tracks the patient's medical bills and verify their insurance. They have the capability of the clinical jobs to help the process easier for the patients and clinicians especially when it comes to admin part.
The differences between these two system is that Kareo has tools that includes EHRs, marketing, practice management and even patient engagement. Practice management involves documentation of the patient's diagnosis and all the procedure codes as well as scheduling the patients for their appointment.
I think both systems would be best for clinical sites or private practice but when it comes to an organization who is looking on investing a new system it will be up to them to decide on what goal would they be wanting to achieve on their end.
HI305: Management of Health Information
Discussion Topic: Meaningful Use
INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to all posts; response to classmates should be thoughtful and advance the discussion, response should make and/or frequent informed references to unit material or scientific literature, follow APA style if resources are used, 75 word minimum in response per post
This week, the discussion is about incentive programs revolving around Promoting Interoperability, also known as Meaningful Use. Promoting interoperability is a program that supports hospitals and providers to obtain and use an EHR meaningfully (HealthIT.gov, 2019). When EHRs were new, I think that programs like promoting interoperability were essential in getting hospitals and doctors to switch to them and use them. The benefits of these programs are still in effect today. Benefits include improving quality and safety, improving the healthcare experience, reducing medical mistakes, and, most importantly promotes privacy and safety ("Benefits of Promoting Interoperability," 2021). I think the meaningful us program is still essential today; however, its implementation is virtually gone. We are now ten years after stage one began, and I wonder if the program is necessary anymore. The biggest question I have is if providers and hospitals would still support the use of EHRs if the money from these programs dried up. Would they revert or find less value in these EHRs if there were no incentives? I think the majority would probably continue their use. You always have the people that refuse to do or continue anything without being paid to do it. It would be an interesting experiment to conduct.
~Chad Welsh~
I think when employees strive to reach performance incentive they will often make an effort to improve their skills. Weather they gain this skill through experience or maybe taking advantage while training they had in the programs. I think that development can make their jobs more effectively and put themselves in a better position to reach performance jobs. The organization of this process can be a huge benefit and can also strengthen the candidate with and succession situations also preparing for a high potential employee even when there may not be an immediate opportunity for advancement think that
It can discourage them from seeking another position elsewhere/It is typically new employees with good opportunities when they believe they are unappreciated. Since incentive programs r reward performance in tangible terms, these employees are more likely to remain motivated and very engaged in their work, and loyal to their employees.
I think that it is incentives can sometimes get out of control When employees can find that their current level of performance is not sufficed to achieve incentive milestones. In these cases, the positive incentive may become a negative incentive as an employee. They can look for ways to make their performance appear to be good even though their actual results are not aligned with incentive target. For example, this occurred at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System in the year 2014 in a VA hospital managers developed an elaborate scheme to falsify patients for more than 1400 of them
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What's Behind Vulcan's Climb
Even the slightest piece of positive economic news can send a cyclical stock rallying. Take, for instance,
Vulcan Materials
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, a heavily shorted construction materials company that is surging today on the latest economic data from the Conference Board.
Vulcan shares rose 8.4% to $84 in recent afternoon trading Monday. The stock has fallen from a 52-week high of $122.47 last summer, but has been a strong performer of late.
It helps that Vulcan is a cyclical stock -- meaning it is in the camp that rallies about six to nine months ahead of a rebound in the economy. So if you believe the news that the economy is really going to improve by the end of the year, this latest rally in Vulcan's stock makes sense.
Tough Construction Market
On Monday, the Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose by 0.1% in April, similar to the rise in March. Investors cheered the news as a sign the economy wasn't as bad as many feared.
Nonetheless, the current outlook for Vulcan's business lines look iffy. The bulk of Vulcan's revenue comes from the sale of construction aggregates -- which include crushed stone, sand and gravel, rock asphalt and recycled concrete -- used in construction of homes, buildings and infrastructure projects.
"There is a tough construction economy, the housing market is searching for a bottom, and commercial
construction is slowing somewhat," says Jack Kasprzak, an analyst at BB&T, who rates the stock neutral.
"It makes you wonder what people are seeing out there in the construction environment," he says.
The bearish thesis on Vulcan is that the downturn in government-funded construction -- due to slowing property tax and sales tax revenues -- has only yet begun, which will hurt future earnings. I highlighted Vulcan -- along with
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back in January as a bearish stock pick
, when Vulcan shares traded around $69.
About 17% of the stock is being sold short -- meaning investors are betting on a decline.
The bearish thesis on Vulcan is still in place today, since historically 40% of the firm's business is tied to publicly funded construction projects, as the firm itself cites in its annual report. The company's heaviest exposure is to Florida and California, which are both facing brutal housing markets and state budget deficits not set to ease anytime soon.
Inelastic-Demand Boost
The bull case on the stock is that Vulcan's main products are experiencing sharp pricing even in the face of declining demand. The numbers are truly impressive, but if the economy really is heading into the toilet, the positive results may not last.
For example, in the first quarter, Vulcan's aggregates revenue rose 5% on the heels of a 9% year-over-year increase in price, with a 4% decline in volumes.
In economics, an important concept is the elasticity of demand, which measures the ratio of the percentage change in quantity demanded vs. the percentage change in price. If the absolute value of the ratio is less than 1, then demand is considered to be inelastic.
Inelastic demand means suppliers can raise prices at a rate that is faster than the decline in demand. This is exactly what Vulcan has been doing.
Except for the fourth quarter, Vulcan has experienced inelastic demand going back at least seven quarters. Thus revenue continues to rise on an annual basis.
The question, of course, is whether this trend can continue. Vulcan went up against a tough comp in the first quarter (prices were up 16% in the prior year's quarter) and still reported impressive 9% growth.
In the second quarter last year, prices were up 15%, which makes for another difficult comparable looming ahead.
At roughly $84, Vulcan's stock is now trading at 23 times estimated 2008 earnings per share. Typically, Vulcan and other aggregates suppliers carry price-to-earnings ratios in the range of mid-teens to low-20s, says Kasprzak, the analyst at BB&T.
The multiple looks a bit high but can probably hold if the economy is really going to improve by the end of 2008.
Then again, the recent run in the stock may just be part of a overly optimistic cyclical rally that may not last.


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The Berlinale, one of the world's biggest and most important film festivals, is at the beginning of a major transition. Its director of the last 19 years, Dieter Kosslick, will retire after this 69th edition, and is to be replaced by Carlo Chatrian, who has impressively stewarded the Locarno Festival for the last six editions with its reputation as a bastion of challenging art cinema paired with comprehensive retrospectives. For an outside visitor who has attended the Berlinale only ten years of Kosslick's tenure, the festival is a sprawling event prioritizing abundance over quality, centered around a once-essential competition that only erratically curates a substantial amount of the year's biggest or most important art films. This main competition is the unstable keystone of an immense program with numerous subsections and many wonderful things scattered hither and thither that have struggled to uphold the festival's reputation.
The most common place to find the essential presentations each year invariably is the Forum section, where more challenging but frequently more ingenious movies can be found, films that grapple with the multitude of risk-taking ways to tell stories in the cinema, and usually films that also understand the inextricable political component of filmmaking as a practice. The head of the Forum left after last year's edition, leaving an interim team to program 2019 and a big question mark as to what will happen next year. The Forum proposes a balance to the competition's red carpet that has lately hardly justified itself. But the potency of the section can be diluted by the multitude of other options provided all around the Berlinale: the substantial but catch-all Panorama section, the short film competition, the German cinema section, off-site installations (many organized by the Forum's team), and more. Locally, the festival is one of the key economic events of the city and a podium for expressing how Germany sees not only its place in world cinema, but indeed how the nation views the outside world. The problems and possibilities of this leadership transition have been a matter of high debate, culminating in a statement signed in 2017 by Maren Ade, Christoph Hochhäusler, Christian Petzold, Volker Schlöndorff, Margaret von Trotta, and many others filmmakers demanding that the Berlinale live up to its responsibility to cinema.
What is at stake for these German signatories is far more important than for me as a visiting critic and curator, but the fault lines of this current struggle within the Berlinale, which may or may not be appeased or rectified in the coming years, could easily be seen on the very opening day. The festival's opening film, Lone Scherfig's The Kindness of Strangers, a Euro-pudding embarrassment peopled by international actors awkwardly forced to pretend they are Americans (and two real Americans who seem like they're from somewhere else entirely) and shot in a blandly anonymous (and probably not actual) New York for a drama asserting the heartfelt needs and common decency of most people. The script does the people and place no favors, with its tin-ear dialog and implausible plotting, constructing preposterous coincidences and motivations and finally swathing the whole thing with a treacly sense of humanitarian meaningfulness. It's the kind of supposedly accessible "international film" whose false notes hit so hard and so often that it becomes far more challenging than anyone's cliched idea of a black-and-white, three-hour art film.
Yet speaking of such a film, in this anti-red carpet category the festival already has its masterpiece: Thomas Heise's Heimat Is a Space in Time, shown in the Forum and whose presentation there proves why film festivals are necessary, for they provide audiences with unique access to voices and perspectives rarely available elsewhere. A majestic essay film whose scope is national and historical but whose address is deeply personal, Heimat Is a Space in Time tells the 20th century family history of the director through letters and diary entries. These remarkable documents, deeply evocative and wonderfully written, narrate in their own way the 20th century history of Germany, starting before the First World War and moving into the economic catastrophe of Weimar Republic, the increasingly terrifying and oppressive policies under the Nazis, and then segueing into life in East Germany, where Heise's father was a notable philosopher. These convulsive historical epochs breath in every word of the correspondence and entries that Heise himself reads, but the first encounter with the texts are individual first and foremost. They tell of love (and love affairs), of the yearning for family across borders (some family members are in Vienna while others are in Germany), of fear, of socialist ideals, of children—in short, of the whole gamut of human life on the personal level, emotive, dramatic, confessional, posturing, placating, and brutally honest.
To accompany these texts, Heise has chosen an austere but potent black and white palette which grants a haunting monumentality to his images. His camera sometimes visits current-day German streets and metros, teeming with life seemingly so removed from the previous century. Sometimes he visits site referenced in the letters, old work camps and factories; or we see photos of family members whose long texts are heard. A long, devastating stretch is devoted to scrolling through a list of names and addresses circa 1942 as we hear increasingly desolate and fearful letters from Berlin to Vienna about deportations of Jews to Poland. The specific location of other images are less clear, landscapes and ruptured highways, but the point is always exact: Heise's eye considers his country now, after the reunification, as through his family's records he traces how it came to this place. Despite its modest means, the scope of the film is immense and its insights and peculiarities found in its epistolary revelation vast. It is an essential film of essential inquiry, one that looks into what is most close to its maker and finds people and stories that tell their own tale and through them something even bigger.
One may say, with some validity, that to compare the failures of The Kindness of Strangers to the overwhelming power of Heimat Is a Space in Time is apples-and-oranges unfair. (To which I might say: The Berlinale and many people need such a film as Heise's and few need the universal platitudes of Scherfig's film.) But then, in that magic of festival logistical serendipity, on the same day was a better counterpoint: Fourteen, a micro-budgeted drama by New York critic and filmmaker Dan Sallitt. A personal friend and sometimes contributor to the Notebook, Sallitt's too-infrequent filmmaking efforts, all self-funded, always feel like they come from another planet of cinema entirely from what is being made in America on either end of the budget scale. Their level of psychological penetration, dramatic concentration and narrative abruptness feels off-trend but very much (and perhaps all the more so) potent and surprisingly.
Fourteen, like the director's last film, The Unspeakable Act (2012), is a spare and emotionally bracing drama that quickly defines full, complicated characters with roiling interiority, and puts them through bold stories that challenge their conceptions of self and our understanding of their psychologies and spirit. Like his last film, Sallitt's latest features Tallie Medel in the lead, truly one of the most evocative and interesting actresses working in American cinema, one whose huge eyes, moppet haircut, and small stature allow for clownishly expressive behavior akin to Giulietta Masina. But Medel is also an actress whose psychological presence is deeply imbedded in the image, enriching it with dynamism and mystery. As in the films of Jacques Doillon, whom Sallitt has written about on this site, while watching Madel in Fourteen you feel like you are watching a character perceive, think, and then act upon her thought before your eyes. Even more unusually, sometimes her character seems to be thinking of other things in her life than the scene we are watching before us, creating an off-screen space of thought. In short, she is an always lively and unpredictable presence, and a true joy to watch.
The story is simple but its nuances deep: it is about a friendship between Mara (Madel) and Jo (Norma Kuhling), a lanky blonde beauty, an extremely close relationship begun in childhood. Now that they are both adults living in New York their bond, the rhythm and needs of their friendship, is shifting under their feet, at first imperceptibly. Through intense and unexpectedly swift scenes the film sets up Jo's reliance on Mara's responsibility and generosity, the former's unpredictability and drug use, and the latter's revolving dating life and withheld desires. Time passes quickly in the film without realizing it at first, and when it becomes more obvious, and Jo's life becomes more of a mess, the film's center comes into focus: how friendships are not uniform and timeless, but rather they age like people do. To stay true to the original bond of spirit as one gets older and continually has to face the burdens of work, being successful, having relationships, living in the city, of simply (or not) being an adult, these things challenge the very foundation of the friendship. In Fourteen we see this soulful slip before our eyes in a manner almost confrontative in its directness and focus. Where The Kindness of Strangers willfully manipulates a drama to prove how good people can find each other and support one another in the face of life's difficulties, Fourteen instead offers a challenge, asking without knowing the answer what friendship really means and how time changes not just people but that which exists between them. It is the films that ask the hard questions that we need most, not those that falsify pat answers.


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A live cinema broadcast of All About Eve, from the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film and the play "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr will be broadcast on 11th April 2019 by NT Live. NT Live screens to 2,500 venues across 65 countries including 700 cinemas in the UK.
Gillian Anderson and Lily James lead the cast including Monica Dolan, Ian Drysdale, Tsion Habte, Jessie Mei Li, Julian Ovenden, Sheila Reid, Rhashan Stone, Stanley Townsend and Philip Voyzey.
Ivo van Hove's direction will be accompanied by set and lighting design from Jan Versweyveld, costume design by An D'Huys and music from double Mercury Prize-winner PJ Harvey, alongside Tom Gibbons' sound design. Casting is by Julia Horan CDG.
Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there's Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don't you…?
Ivo van Hove directs Gillian Anderson and Lily James in his new adaptation of All About Eve, a razor-sharp, unsettling exposé of the eternal obsession at the heart of show-business. Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world's most innovative theatre directors, asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth and identity never seems to get old.
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About 9.86 crore people (8%) in India suffer from sinusitis, according to the Government of India's Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Of these, for the chronic cases who do not benefit from medication, a team of researchers at InnAccel, Bangalore, has developed a device called SinuCare to provide long-term relief within a day.
Sinusitis is a condition in which the openings of the sinuses (the cavities in the bones in our forehead, cheeks, and the nose which form the respiratory tract from the nose into the throat) swell and clog the airflow inside them. The inflammation (swelling and redness) is caused due to infection, allergies, air pollution, or structural issues in the nose. Some of the common symptoms of sinusitis are thick nasal mucus, a plugged nose, pain in the face, fever, headaches, poor sense of smell, sore throat, and/or cough.
Why it matters
In most cases, sinusitis can be treated by medication. However, it is considered as a chronic case if the condition continues beyond three months. To chronic sinusitis patients who fail to benefit from medicines, doctors usually suggest functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) to widen the sinus openings, clear any collected secretions, and to ventilate the sinuses and the nasal cavity. However, FESS is not only an expensive procedure, but is also quite invasive, as it requires surgical removal of many bony structures within the nasal cavity. It, therefore, carries a higher risk of complications and over-ventilation of the sinuses which can hamper its normal functioning.
As per a survey conducted by the InnAccel team, of the total number of sinusitis patients who visit an ENT doctor, on an average nearly 45 percent are counseled for FESS. However, most patients choose to try alternative forms of healing and avoid surgery till the extent it becomes essential. Two major reasons for this that emerged from the survey are: the cost (in India FESS cost ranges from Rs. 60,000 to Rs. 130,000) and the fear of complications or physical damage due to the operation under general anesthesia.
SinuCare is a minimally-invasive balloon sinuplasty device meant primarily to provide chronic sinusitis cases a cost-effective and safer alternative to FESS.
"With SinuCare we have tried to alleviate the concerns of chronic sinusitis patients. SinuCare is a simple metal device that uses a disposable double-balloon dilator, which is inserted into the blocked sinus openings through the nose. When the double-balloon dilator is inflated with saline in the blocked cavity, it expands and remodels the sinus openings, clearing the respiratory cavities by causing tiny bone fractures. Unlike FESS, balloon sinuplasty using SinuCare does not require any tissue removal, thus decreasing the risk of complications that arise from excessive removal of bony tissue and reducing the time for recovery. Moreover, an ENT doctor can operate SinuCare in his or her clinic, thereby reducing the cost of hospitalization for the patient," explains Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi, 33, who is a co-inventor of SinuCare.
Dr. Chaturvedi is an ENT specialist in Bangalore. In 2016, he won the MIT Technology Review's TR35 Award for Young Innovators under 35 for one of his medical device innovations. At InnAccel, he develops new medical devices with cross-disciplinary teams and mentors young researchers and professionals in their entrepreneurial endeavors.
He is now conducting awareness sessions for ENT doctors on the use and benefits of SinuCare. "We have trained over a 100 ENT surgeons across the country and some of these doctors have started counseling and treating patients with SinuCare and the feedback from them and the patients has been very satisfying. I am also travelling to various cities to perform surgeries and train doctors on how to use SinuCare," he adds.
The InnAccel team has filed a patent in India for SinuCare. They have also applied for the CE (European Union) quality certification for the device.
How it works
SinuCare comprises a navigation system through which the doctor manually inserts a soft polymer double-balloon dilator into the nose, to unclog the openings of blocked sinuses.
When the double-balloon dilator reaches the target, the doctor infuses the balloons with saline at 12 atmospheric pressure with the help of a pressure pump. As the balloons expand to their maximum diameter of six millimeters, they remodel the sinus opening and allow the mucus to drain out from the cavity, giving way to better ventilation. Finally, the dilator is removed and the device is pulled out of the patient's nasal cavity.
The procedure is repeated for each blocked sinus. Following the complete procedure, the doctor keeps the patient under observation for an hour as a precautionary step to watch for any bleeding or dizziness. It takes about four to five hours for the entire procedure to complete, from the time the patient is given anesthesia to the clearing of the sinuses to when the patient is advised to go.
Key Differentiation
Unlike existing balloon sinuplasty devices which use a guidewire for inserting the balloon dilator into the nose till it reaches a clogged cavity, SinuCare has provisioned for ENT doctors to mount their endoscopic camera for a clear view of the sinuses and blockages. A guidewire is a polymer wire that is put alongside/inside the dilator to allow the doctor to feel the sinus blockage. However, it increases the cost of the device, the number of components it comprises, and the skill requirement to carry out the procedure.
The other key different feature of SinuCare is that its guiding system is a reusable product. The double-balloon dilator is the only disposable material in SinuCare whereas other sinuplasty devices are completely disposable. Without the dilator, SinuCare can be completely sterilized for reuse, enabling reduction of the total cost of the device for the doctors as well as that of the overall treatment.
Currently, SinuCare is being recommended and used by co-inventor Dr. Sunil Narayan Dutt, world renowned Otolaryngologist and Head of ENT at Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore and by Dr. P.S. Pradeep Kumar, Founder and Medical Director, Meenakshi ENT Specialty Hospital, Bangalore. They have been contributing feedback in the making of SinuCare.
The product is being packaged as a kit that comprises the main device, three dilators, and a pressure pump. SinuCare kit is priced at approximately Rs. 30,000 for the ENT doctors, and the treatment cost ranges between Rs. 40,000 and Rs. 60,000.
Next Step
While the guiding system of SinuCare has been designed and manufactured in India, the disposable double-balloon dilator for it, also designed in India, is being contract manufactured by Surmodics in Ireland. "We want Indian manufacturers to come forward and create good quality products for us. Under the government's Make in India initiative, we are trying to manufacture devices in India – one for giving business within the country and second to minimize the cost. The manufacturing scope is big in the field of medical devices. However, we are yet to see innovative manufacturers who are willing to work with a development team, experiment with business models and to give the same quality as foreign suppliers," says Pooja Kadambi, the team's lead engineer and co-inventor who has significantly contributed in designing and manufacturing of SinuCare.
ENT doctors, patients with chronic sinusitis, and manufacturers can write to Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi at email@example.com or call 080-40923864.


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Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white photo talent agency photo, FINE. An important rock group that predated the punk and glam movements. On stage, they wore an androgynous wardrobe of high heels, eccentric hats and satin.
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Evening on the River back for 13th year
Over the last 12 years, Vectren's Evening on the River event has raised money for several projects that benefit Evansville's outdoor spaces and activity centers.
This year's 13th annual event will be no different, raising money for the Greenway lighting project and the Evansville State Hospital dog park. Jill Trautvetter, executive director of the Evansville Parks Foundation, said the organizations chose the beneficiaries for the event through suggestions from the community.
'The dog park has been in the works for a while, and it's starting to gain a lot of support,' Trautvetter said. 'The Greenway lighting project is also very expensive and could take a few years to complete.'
The event will be from 6:30 p.m. Friday on the Evansville Riverfront. The 21 and over event will feature food from several local restaurants, live entertainment and a silent auction with items donated from several local and regional organizations and businesses.
The movable feast gives visitors a taste of several local restaurants from around the area. Just Rennies, Pangea, Toast and many others will have booths with sampler foods to try. There will be several performances throughout the evening as well including Boat Monkeys, Bob Minnette Ensemble, Evansville Swing Cats and more.
There will also be a burger cook-off featuring local chefs and celebrities. Teams will cook their best burgers and be judged by a panel. Attendees vote for their favorite in the People's Choice award at the cook-off tent.


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GRIC to construct 4,000-square-foot gas station and by next spring
October 21, 2016
Thomas R. Throssell
Gila River Indian News
Commuters between Coolidge and Casa Grande will soon be able to fill up their gas tanks at a new gas station that is slated to be fully constructed and ready for business by next spring.
According to the Casa Grande Dispatch, the gas station will be located at Signal Peak Road and State Route 87, where a drilling rig, owned and operated by KP Ventures Well Drill & Pump Co. was currently drilling the gas station's well near Blackwater. Drilling was finished by mid-September.
The gas station will include diesel pumps and a 4,000-square-foot 24/7 convenience store and smoke shop.
Wild Horse Pass Development Authority's Director of Marketing, Alia Hauter, said that the new gas station will be a closer option for residents in nearby communities.
"If you don't gas up leaving Coolidge, you have to wait until you get to Casa Grande or even Chandler," Hauter said in the Dispatch. "It's a long way to go and this will be a much closer option for residents in the area."


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Renal ultrasound to evaluate for blunt renal trauma in children: a retrospective comparison to gold standard diagnostic test study
Angelena Edwards, M.D., Matthew Hammer, M.D., Maddy Artunduaga, M.D., Craig Peters, M.D., Micah Jacobs, M.D., Bruce Schlomer, M.D..
UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.
Renal ultrasound to evaluate for blunt renal trauma in children: a retrospective comparison to gold standard diagnostic test study
The standard imaging modality for hemodynamically stable blunt abdominal trauma patients is a contrast enhanced CT scan, which is reflected in the current AUA urotrauma guideline. This comes, however, at the price of increased radiation exposure and the potential sequalae of IV contrast administration in the pediatric patient. When the majority of pediatric hospitals have ultrasound readily available, the use of initial CT imaging for these patients can be seen as being in direct opposition of the ALARA principle. We hypothesized that ultrasound imaging would be able to identify clinically significant injuries when compared to CT scan in the setting of pediatric blunt abdominal trauma.
All children < 18 years of age who were evaluated for blunt abdominal trauma were identified. A clinically significant renal injury was defined as an AAST grade three or above or an injury that prompted a procedure. Significant hematuria was defined as episode of gross hematuria or >50 RBC/HPF. Those patients who had a CT and ultrasound imaging of the kidneys within three weeks of injury were included. Clinical information was obtained from the medical record including degree of hematuria and clinical outcomes. The ultrasound images were reviewed by four reviewers (two pediatric urologists, two pediatric radiologists) who were blinded to CT results and all clinical information other than the patient's history of blunt abdominal trauma. The ability of ultrasound with and without the combination of significant hematuria to diagnose and rule out renal injury was evaluated by sensitivity and negative predictive value (NPV).
There were 76 patients identified, 24 of which had a renal injury diagnosed by CT scan. There were five grade I-II injuries, ten grade III, eight grade IV and one grade V. The sensitivity of the four blinded reviewers for ultrasound alone to detect the 19 children with grade III-V injuries ranged from 79-100% with NPV between 93-100%. When combined with significant hematuria, all reviewers identified the 19 patients with grade III-IV injuries with a NPV of 100%. Of note, all patients with grade III-V injury of the kidney had significant hematuria. Of the grade I-II renal injuries, all four reviewers identified 1/5 by ultrasound alone and 2/5 by ultrasound combined with significant hematuria.
When compared to a CT scan as gold standard, blinded review of kidney ultrasound images had a sensitivity of 79-100% to detect grade III-V injuries and NPV of 93-100%. An episode of gross hematuria or > 50 RBC/HPF had sensitivity and NPV of 100% for grade III-V injuries. Therefore, ultrasound did not identify any additional patients with a grade III-V injury. CT scans to rule out renal injury can potentially
be avoided in children with blunt abdominal trauma who do not have significant hematuria, especially if kidneys are normal on ultrasound.
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In spring of 2016, "TACUBO(タクボ)" moved and reopened in the quiet area in Daikanyama, Tokyo. After opened ""Barca"" in Hiroo, and ""Aria di Tacubo"" in Ebisu, a newborn Italian restaurant is opened by Chef Tacubo who is also starting a new stage. What Chef Tacubo trying to present is the "Nature". Besides the courses, wine, dishes, even the decorations, are all presenting the strength and beauty of the nature, through the delicious and colorful of seasonal ingredients, showing his love towards for seasons.
The specification of TACUBO is its original "Tokachi Tacubo Beef"(from Hokkaido). Only the meat which wholly satisfied the ideal requirements of Chef Tacubo would be used here. Meat totally without fat is obviously too pale to taste, but the sirloin is also not a good choice since too fat. Which between them is the "Tokachi Tacubo Beef". By constructing strong relationship with the producer, the best-balanced meat which could not be found at market is available only here. That's the specific of TACUBO.
The firewood using to grill the meat here, burning in the kiln where is setting just in front of open kitchen, brings new life to the ingredients. Not gas or carb, but firewood, is chosen to give the well-balanced meat a crispy surface. Tasty would spread gently as your each bite. The simplified touch of ingredient bringing out the best original taste, the truth of the meat would be best presented. "Listen carefully to understand the words of the original", the newborn TACUBO, strike the heart to the visitor, and remaining them with an unforgettable memory.
Counter seats with energetic uplifting feeling, and the private room(for 4 to 6 persons) with one glass wall and view of seasonal plants, are available for your choice. You can reserve the private room though our Pocket Concierge. Feel the "Nature "believed by Chef Tabuchi, in this relaxing space decorated by woods and flicking fire.
※ Awarded 1 star on world-renowned gourmet guide Tokyo 2023
* The availability of an English version of this page does not guarantee that the restaurant can provide services in English unless otherwise stated. Please be aware that, even if stated, there may still be days when English speaking staff are unavailable.
■ 8 minutes on foot from Tokyu Toyoko Line ""Daikanyama Station"" the north entrance / front entrance
■ 7 minutes on foot from JR ""Ebisu station"" the west entrance
■ 6 minutes on foot from Tokyo metro Hibiya line 'Ebisu station' Exit 2
■ 10 minutes on foot from JR ""Shibuya Station"" New South Exit
【Nearby Hotels】
■ Shibuya ""Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel""
■ Shibuya ""Shibuya Excel Hotel Tokyu""
■ Ebisu ""Westin Hotel Tokyo""
■ Futako Tamagawa ""FutakoTamagawa Excel Hotel Tokyu""


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It's the week before break. Your teachers have kindly decided not to assign homework over this week of bliss—but there's a catch. Instead, you receive mountains of assignments due before break. Do they have a minimum quota of busy work to assign before break? Is it really so important that we cover all this information now? Whatever the reason, it doesn't make you feel better about having four assignments for just one of your eight classes to complete in the next two days. So there you sit at your laptop—reading three chapters for history (which easily makes up half of the textbook) and completing a seven-page, formal lab write-up, eyes twitching as you sip a sugary, caffeinated beverage. Why must our teachers spring inordinate loads of homework upon us as soon as break comes in sight? Why do we refuse to acknowledge said work until the night before it is due? If you've never faced the reality of pre-break assignment overload, there are only two logical reasons. One: you are repressing traumatic memories, or two: you're lying to yourself. So, what gives? Well, the answer is simple. Your teachers do. But hey, at least you won't have any work over the break.


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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Emily VanBerkum (Student at the Faculty of Theology)
This week's gospel reading is about Jesus' gift of salvation. During Jesus' journey to Jerusalem, he stops briefly in Jericho and encounters Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, sitting in a sycamore tree. Jesus calls Zacchaeus down from the tree and boldly invites himself into Zacchaeus' home. Jesus' mercy and generosity understandably upset the crowd since they branded Zacchaeus a sinner because of his greed for money and earthly possession. Of course, this is not the first instance in the Gospels in which Jesus' actions confuse his followers. Yet in this instance, Zacchaeus repents. He blurs the boundaries between the stereotypes of a tax collector and a man who genuinely desires to heed Jesus' invitation to discipleship.
Jesus accepts this repentance by declaring that, "Today salvation has come to his house." This answers why Jesus chose Zacchaeus as an unlikely host. In other words, this seemingly impossible act of welcome is a prime example of the Son of Man's mission to seek out the lost and save them through the awesome gift of salvation. But from what exactly did Zacchaeus need saving? Zacchaeus straddles the two worlds that many of us struggle to define in our lives. Zacchaeus is a wealthy man who gained a reputation for sinfulness because of his attachment to worldly possessions. Zacchaeus needed to find the confidence to accept Jesus' gift of salvation and he did so in practical terms by giving half of his goods to the poor. By welcoming Jesus into his home, Zacchaeus knew that Jesus had also entered his heart.
Like Zacchaeus, we discover that clinging to worldly possessions and wealth comes at great expense. Our hearts must be open to God if we are to receive his gifts of redemption and grace freely. What Zacchaeus was willing to "give up" could not compare to his truly life changing decision to be saved by Jesus. What worldly possessions distract you from fully appreciating Jesus' gift of salvation?


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The Effect of Spacing on the Wood Density and Wood Yields of Sitka Spruce
- Brazier, J.D.
Forest Products Research Laboratory, Princes Risborough
Previous work on young, 30-year-old Sitka spruce (Brazier, 1970) has shown that, when grown vigorously, the increased timber production results from additional early wood growth with little to no corresponding increase in the amount of late wood. Thus the proportion of early to late wood rises and the over-all density of the timber is reduced as vigor of growth increases; there is evidence, too, that as ring width increases there is a reduction in the average density of the early wood which further contributes to a lowering of bulk wood density in vigorous growth trees.
The importance of density in influencing the technical performance of wood is well known. Yields of dry wood substance for pulp are a function of both volume and density and when the wood is used for lumber, density influences such properties as strength, drying behaviour, machining characteristics, nail-holding, and the ability to withstands the crushing action of wire and metal straps used for packaging.
Because of these relationships between density and technical performance, there is a need to appraise the effects of forest-management practices which, by modifying vigour of growth, affect wood density. Rates of growth are affected by thinning, pruning, fertilizing, and spacing treatments and the present study examines the effects of spacing on wood yields, in both quantitative and qualitative terms, in young, plantation-grown Sitka spruce.


text: ARTICLE: Online news startups struggled more in France compared to US //= get_post_time('c', true); ?>//= get_the_date(); ?> //= __('By', 'sage'); ?>//= get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID')); ?>//= get_the_author(); ?> Published: 1 Sep 2016By: JRNTags: media innovation, media systems, online journalism What explains the different development of online news startups in different locations? The new study by Matthew Powers of the University of Washington and Sandra Vera Zambrano of Universidad Iberoamericana compares startup scenes of Toulouse and Seattle. Seattle hosts many news startups. In Toulouse, despite also having favorable conditions for the creation of startups, there have been only four, from which only one continues its operations. The authors interviewed journalists, analyzed news articles and examined the background of startup founders. The draw on Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, comparing journalism's position in the field of power. These positions influence how startups have formed in each city. The position also affected journalists' capacities to convert their social and symbolic capital into resources (such as funding and partnerships) for startups. Comparing Toulouse to Seattle, fewer established journalists lost their jobs. But in turn, links between media companies, advertisers and local officials discouraged new entrants, the authors state. The authors conclude that even the possession of capital to create news startups does not necessarily translate into enduring success. The article "Explaining the Formation of Online News Startups in France and the United States" was published in Journal of Communication and is available online (free abstract). Picture: untitled by Manuel Barroso Parejo, license CC0, cropped