HONOLULU — For more than a decade, Zach Johnson has held what amounts to an annual two-day summit to inspect every part of his game, figure out what needs to get better and make a plan going forward. He referred to the most recent meeting as the best one yet.
Johnson failed to reach the Tour Championship for the second straight year. He went a second straight season without winning, dating to his 2015 British Open title at St. Andrews. He was not at the Presidents Cup, ending a streak of five consecutive teams.
For all the stats that were analyzed, what stood out the most was that Johnson felt he wasn't as disciplined with his practice time and his focus. He did not describe any sense of urgency from going two years without a victory or failing to get to the FedEx Cup finale, though it raised questions.
Another aspect of that meeting — and this surprised him — was that Johnson found he had become too emotional on the golf course. Not only was he getting frustrated when his game was not going well, he said he was getting overly excited over a good round, even a good shot.
"The emotion of this game is not necessary until the 73rd hole, after the tournament is over," Johnson said.
Even so, he had to contain some excitement leaving his two-day meeting last fall that included everyone involved with his game — swing, mental and fitness coaches, statisticians, his wife and caddie, friends that hold him accountable, even his financial adviser.
Johnson has high hopes for this year, and he was so eager to get going he played three times in the fall, finishing in the top 25 in all of them. He started this year with a pair of top 20s in the Sony Open and CareerBuilder Challenge.
Still to be determined is where it leads. Johnson might be the best proof that there is room for guys who don't blast it 300-plus yards off the tee. He has 12 victories, including major titles at Augusta and St. Andrews. He has played nine times in the Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup.
He'd like to be part of the next one, especially after watching the last one from home.
LPGA OPENER: The LPGA Tour season begins Thursday in the Bahamas, three weeks after the PGA Tour began in Hawaii. The concept of PGA Tour and LPGA Tour winners starting the year together at Kapalua lost traction last year, though it has not been ruled out.
"I think that's something we're still interested in," PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said.
That starts, however, with Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance, which took over as title sponsor this year at Kapalua. The focus was on Sentry getting through the first year, so whether it would be interested in hosting two tours was not even a topic.
The only mixed events have been the Three-Tour Challenge in Las Vegas (PGA, LPGA, PGA Tour Champions), the Diamond Resorts Invitational (LPGA, PGA Tour Champions, celebrities) and the now-defunct J.C. Penney Classic, a mixed-team event back when there was a full plate of unofficial events in the off-season. Monahan said a mixed event for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo was discussed but didn't work out.
There were 22 winners on the LPGA Tour. There was a 34-man winners-only field at Kapalua this year. Monahan said while the Sentry Tournament of Champions is not the only prospect, it is the most logical opportunity.
RAHM'S OUTLOOK: Jon Rahm's passion is on full display on the golf course. He developed a more introspective side in the summer after his sophomore year at Arizona State, and he believes it allowed his career to blossom.
So he made a list of why he should be thankful and all the people who have helped him along the way.
GWAA AWARDS: Billy Payne, who retired last year as chairman of Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters, has been selected for the William D. Richardson Award for outstanding contributions to golf by the Golf Writers Association of America.
Payne, who promoted golf worldwide by helping launch the Asian Amateur and Latin American Amateur championships, will receive the award April 4 in Augusta.
The GWAA also voted Stacy Lewis as winner of the Ben Hogan Award for overcoming a serious illness or physical disability, and Ernie Els for the ASAP Sports/Jim Murray Award for his co-operation with the media.
DIVOTS: Bernhard Langer tied for 16th in his title defence at the PGA Tour Champions opener in Hawaii. It was his worst finish since Langer tied for 18th in the U.S. Senior Open last July. … In his preliminary spring schedule, Justin Rose left the Dell Technologies Match Play off his list for the second straight year. … The last time Phil Mickelson missed the cut in his first start of the year was in 2009 at the Phoenix Open. He went on to match a career best with four victories that year. … During his three-month break, Rory McIlroy and his wife took a road trip around Italy in a 1950s Mercedes convertible. … Ryan Palmer earned 38 FedEx Cup points last week with his tie for 20th, more than enough for him to fulfil a minor medical extension and have full privileges the rest of the season.
STAT OF THE WEEK: Of the 83 players who have finished runner-up to Tiger Woods around the world, 18 of them are at the Farmers Insurance Open.
FINAL WORD: "I want to go places in the game." — Tommy Fleetwood.


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Posse (1993)
In 1898, Buffalo Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment, led by Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), are fighting in the Spanish-American War in Cuba. As the segregated African-American unit is barely holding its own against constant attacks from enemy troops, Jesse runs back to the comma...
A Gathering of Old Men (1987)
A Gathering of Old Men is a 1987 American television drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and based on the novel of the same name. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Jungle Warriors (1984)
Jungle Warriors, AKA The Czar of Brazil (Euer Weg führt durch die Hölle on Germany) is an action film, released in USA on November 1984. The movie was shot on Mexico and the old West Germany, but recreating the scenario of a South American jungle. Though is not a well-known film, it stars -among ...
The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
The story begins with several odd occurrences at the farm where the Black, Alec (Kelly Reno), and his mother (Teri Garr) live. A suspicious barn fire is followed by the theft of the horse. From the point of view of Ishak (Ferdy Mayne), the sheik who took him, this is property retrieval; the horse...
Eddie Marino (Robert Foster) is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie (Rutanya Alda) and an eight-year-old son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker, Nick (Fred Williamson), and two other co-workers, named Burke and Ramon, have formed a secret vigilante group because N...
Invaders of the Lost Gold (1982)
A group of Japanese WWII soldiers transporting a gold shipment are captured and fight against a savage cannibal tribe. Years later, an expedition heads back into the jungle to locate the lost gold.
Cuba Crossing is a 1980 action film directed by Chuck Workman and distributed by Troma Entertainment. The plot features Robert Vaughn, Stuart Whitman, and Michael V. Gazzo as adventurers who get caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
Jaguar Lives! (1979)
A world's new kung-fu hero (Joe Lewis) is out to stop drug dealers, gangs and help save the world from an evil con (Christopher Lee).
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Robert "Rack" Hansen (William Shatner), a veterinarian in rural Verde Valley, Arizona, United States, receives an urgent call from a local farmer, Walter Colby (Woody Strode). Colby is upset because his prize calf has become sick for no apparent reason, and brings the animal to Hansen's laborator...
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After the U.S. Civil War, Keoma (Nero), part Indian and part white, returns to his home town to find his half-brothers in alliance with a petty tyrant named Caldwell. Caldwell and his gang rule over the town with an iron fist. With the help of his father and George, an old Black friend, he vows r...
Loaded Guns (1975)
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
The Gatling Gun (1973)
Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
The Italian Connection (1972)
Small-time pimp Luca Canali (Mario Adorf) is hunted by both local mobsters and two killers (Henry Silva and Woody Strode) sent by the New York mafia after a shipment of heroin fails to arrive. But it becomes apparent he is not as soft as he appears as a deadly cat-and-mouse game is played out on ...
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Running from his pursuers, Cat Stevens (Terence Hill) hides in a circus where Thomas (Woody Strode) is working. Cat manages to escape, but Thomas' son is killed by a murderous gunman. Seeking revenge, Thomas searches for Cat, and then together go to meet with Hutch Bessy (Bud Spencer) and his mut...
Shalako (1968)
A hunting party composed of European aristocrats is led into Apache territory in 1880 New Mexico by their guide, Bosky Fulton. When a French countess, Irina Lazaar, wanders off by herself, she is confronted by Indians, only to be rescued by Shalako, a former Cavalry officer sent by the Army to gu...
Black Jesus (1968)
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
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Srinagar, March 16 (IANS) A man carrying a Chinese-made pistol and some ammunition was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district on Friday, police said.
According to police, acting on specific inputs, security forces had set-up special check points in the Nillow, Kakran and Adijan areas of Kulgam and it was during checking, the man was arrested and the pistol, a magazine, five live rounds and Rs 10,000 seized from it.
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) continued its efforts to adopt a ban of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) in the Arctic by 2021 during a meeting in London. Environmental advocates laud the work, but urge Russia and Canada, the only two Arctic states yet to commit to the ban, to sign on to the initiative.
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What happens if a person with type 1 diabetes takes Januvia?
Januvia is the brand name for a diabetes drug that's also known as sitagliptin. Sitagliptin was the first diabetes treatment approved in a new class of drugs known as DPP-4 inhibitors that enhances the body's own ability to lower elevated blood glucose (BG). Since sitagliptin helps correct BG after meals, it's interesting to speculate whether it might improve the after-meal (postprandial) BG levels in people with type 1 diabetes.
The FDA approved Januvia in 2006 for use "in addition to diet and exercise to improve blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes [T2D], alone or in combination with two other commonly prescribed oral diabetes medications, metformin or a PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma) agonist, when either of these drugs alone, along with diet and exercise, don't provide adequate blood sugar control."
At the time of its approval, the indication for Januvia was therefore restricted to patients with T2D, based on the studies that the manufacturer presented to the FDA when requesting a New Drug Approval. The official prescribing information (AKA the product label or USPI) for Januvia still indicates it's for use in T2D, and explicitly says "JANUVIA should not be used in patients with type 1 diabetes."
Despite that statement, there have been a number of studies of the effects of Januvia in people with T1D (a search of ClinicalTrials.gov today showed about a dozen such studies). Some of these studies have been published, for example, in a small study (20 patients over 8 weeks), Effect of sitagliptin on glucose control in adult patients with Type 1 diabetes: a pilot, double-blind, randomized, crossover trial, the researchers found some encouraging results: "Sitagliptin significantly improved overall glucose control, including postprandial and 24-h glucose control, in adult patients with Type 1 diabetes, while significantly reducing prandial insulin requirements. Further investigation is warranted in patients with Type 1 diabetes in a larger cohort designed to assess both clinical outcomes and mechanism of action."
A subsequent larger study (with 141 patients over 16 weeks) by the same researchers must have been disappointing. In a report titled Effect of sitagliptin on post-prandial glucagon and GLP-1 levels in patients with type 1 diabetes: investigator-initiated, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, they concluded that sitagliptin was of minimal help in lowering BG levels: "Sitagliptin use in type 1 diabetes did not change glucagon AUC, A1c, insulin dose, or weight despite post-meal rise in GLP-1 levels. C-peptide positive subjects treated with sitagliptin had a nonsignificant trend in decreasing hyperglycemia, which needs further evaluation."
Another small published study (20 patients) evaluated the addition of either sitagliptin or exenatide (brand name Byetta, from a different class of drugs for treating T2D) to insulin in patients with recently-diagnosed T1D, and indicated that "In this randomized, open label study, we investigated the effect of the addition of exenatide or sitagliptin to insulin... Our data suggest that the addition of exenatide and sitagliptin decreases insulin requirements without increasing endogenous insulin production and hypoglycemic events."
A few more studies of Januvia in people with T1D are underway, for example, a study in teenagers with T1D.
Since none of the studies in ClinicalTrials.gov indicate any sponsorship by the manufacturer, Merck Sharp & Dohme, I suspect there's not much information that the manufacturer has in-house (either from studies they've done, or from reports of adverse events) to try to get the indication extended so the drug can be offically promoted for use in T1D as well as T2D.
It would appear from the results mentioned in these few published studies that there might be some effect of sitagliptin in lowering BG in patients with T1D, but it's apparently not a spectacular effect. And there's nothing mentioned in the abstracts that I reviewed that implies that there are any unexpected side effects.


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The Dirt on Coal
TransAlta is Sometimes Off
Do we really need coal power for a "stable" grid?
This article was written 12+ years ago
Author: Clark Williams-Derry
(@ClarkWDerry) on May 25, 2010 at 10:00 am
This article is part of the series The Dirt on Coal
Every once in a while, I catch wind of a curious defense of the TransAlta coal-fired power plant in Centralia, WA: that without a big coal plant smack between Seattle and Portland, the Northwest's electricity grid could somehow become "unstable."
To be clear, this is NOT a claim that the region will run out of power if the Centralia plant shuts down. That's an entirely separate (and arguably false) claim. Instead, this is a deeply technical argument about electricity infrastructure: namely, that the region's power grid was constructed and tested by engineers who assumed that the massive coal-fired power plant at Centralia would always be there. Shutter that plant, and the complex transmission system might go subtly out of whack, raising the chances of a region-wide power outage.
To me, this sounds…well…awfully convenient for TransAlta, which is trying to extend the life of its carbon-belching, tax-subsidized monstrosity. But at the same time, power grids are just wacky enough that it could be true. After all, the Northeast blackout of 2003 was caused by a cascade of minor glitches, none of which seemed catastrophic on its own, but which ultimately left 55 million people without power. So maybe, just maybe, shutting down Centralia could amp up the risk that small power-supply glitches could escalate into a catastrophic meltdown of the Northwest's grid.
I'm not a power engineer, so I can't really debate the merits here. But I did play around with the numbers a bit. Take a look at the chart below, which shows hourly power output from Centralia's coal-fired generators from 2006 through 2009. (Click the chart to see a bigger version.)
The bottom line is this: Centralia already shuts down for months at a time. Both boilers were shut down for 84 consecutive days in 2006, and for 75 consecutive days last year. Each of the last three shutdowns occurred in late spring and early summer, when hydropower was peaking—meaning that the grid was well supplied with power. But none of that power was actually coming from Centralia's coal-fired burners.
So periodically, TransAlta withholds the magic grid-stabilization juju that its Centralia coal plant allegedly provides. I haven't noticed any mysterious power outages, have you?
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Snark aside, there are some serious implications here.
First, if Centralia's coal-fired power plant is really so important for keeping the grid stable, then the chart above suggests that we need to fix the grid so that it's no longer reliant on Centralia. It's not that we've got to keep the Centralia plant around, but rather that we need to move as quickly as possible to make Centralia irrelevant to grid stability. Otherwise, the entire region's power system is being held hostage to a Canadian multinational that from time to time decides to turn off a key stabilizing component. I mean, if a multinational corporation decided to disable the emergency brakes on my car every so often, then I'd sure as heck try to install new brakes!
Second, it's really not clear how important Centralia is for grid stability at all! I'll leave aside the obvious point that in the very recent past, the grid functioned just fine when Centralia was turned off. Perhaps we were just lucky, or perhaps hydropower—which tends to be running hot when coal is turned off—stabilizes the grid in a way that the abundant gas-fired power in the Seattle-to-Portland corridor simply can't. But if Centralia really were critical to grid stability, then you'd think that power engineers would be sounding the alarm every time both boilers were shut down, and that grid operators would be arguing for infrastructure upgrades to deal with the "the Centralia problem". Instead, the "grid stability" argument only seems to rear its head when someone points out the Centralia plant's massive and probably unnecessary carbon footprint, or questions the various tax subsidies that TransAlta's lobbyists have inexplicably been able to protect, even in a time of massive state budget woes.
If I were in charge of the asylum, I'd try to figure this grid stability thing out as quickly as possible. And if I found that stability were really a problem, I'd put people to work trying to upgrade the power grid—the sooner the better. For the politicians who are trying to figure out Centralia's future, that might make a nifty dance step, since the jobs created in building and maintaining a smarter, more resilient electricity grid would likely make up for jobs lost in shutting down a coal plant. (Hint, hint.)
Clark Williams-Derry
Clark Williams-Derry, senior fellow, spent 15 years directing Sightline's research team, and now focuses on United States and global and energy markets, particularly issues affecting the Western United States. Previously, Williams-Derry served as senior analyst with the Environmental Working Group. Find Clark's research here, email him at clark [at] sightline [dot] org, and follow him on Twitter at @ClarkWDerry.
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I've gotten a little pushback on this post, via email. So let me clear something up. First, I really don't have any opinion at all about whether Centralia's coal-fired power plant is vital to grid stability. Maybe it is! Second, I hope that nobody thinks I'm making any factual claim here, other than the undeniable fact that Centralia is periodically turned off. My other arguments are more logical than factual:1. Either Centralia's coal is important to grid stability, or it's not.2. If it is, someone should do something about it pronto—since (a) we know that it's off part of the year, potentially exposing the grid to risk, and (b) we've got no guarantee that TransAlta will keep the plant running into the future.3. If on the other hand Centralia is NOT critical to grid stability, then we can cross that off the list of concerns about closing it.4. Figuring out the answer to 1 seems like a high priority, since (a) the argument is at least a minor sticking point in official thinking about Centralia; (b) there doesn't seem to be any agreed-upon answer among public officials about the importance of Centralia to grid stability; and (c) getting this one wrong, in either direction, would be bad!
It seems significant that each of these switch-offs was around Q2 of a year – outside of peak heating or air-conditioning demand. Could it simply be that it's important for grid stability in the middle of winter?
KC Golden
Thanks for poking at this Clark—Too much is taken for granted and too little has been thoroughly analyzed about how that plant's functions can be replaced or eliminated. Of course we don't need coal for grid stability, but we may need Westside capacity during winter load peaks (looks like the outages you cite were in low-load seasons).BPA freaked out about this after a big cold snap in late 1990 which precipitated the Puget Sound Electric Reliability Plan —a months-long stakeholder process at the end of which, as I recall, the transmission engineers came in and said, essentially, "don't worry, we have a black box [capacitors, I think] that will fix it."….there's also some funky stuff about transmission paths for returning the Canadian Entitlement that bears on this but I'm not sure if that's still relevant…..There are lots of other ways to handle this—especially now, when we have more gas capacity on the west side and less super-cold winter weather—but it's not crazy to think that in a state where most of the juice is on one side of the mountains and most of the load is on the other, the system would have some adjustments to make if it lost 1200 MW of Westside capacity……I'm particularly interested in how you could solve most of this on the demand side. Energy efficiency WRT heating loads automatically peaks when power demand does, and smart grid technology could give us a whole bunch of new, demand-side switches to flip in the utility control rooms….. And balancing the system with demand-side measures and some cleaner new generation will create a LOT more jobs than the plant does…..
That seems exactly on point, Eldan. Centralia coal is off when hydropower is abundant. So that could mean:1) you need either abundant hydropower or coal at Centralia to make the grid work—nothing else will do!2) the grid is pretty stable as long as there's enough power to go around—in which case, the newly abundant gas generators in the Seattle-to-Portland corridor can stabilize the grid when Centralia is off, just the way hydropower does when Centralia is off.There are probably other possibilities here too. Regardless, either Centralia's role in stabilizing the grid is real, or it's not. If it is, then we should fix the grid so that Centralia's not an energy security vulnerability anymore. If it's not, we can safely turn off Centralia as long as we've got other reliable sources of power. Either way, we should figure out for sure what's going on & act accordingly.
I am a power engineer. Stability is driven by 2 major players. 1. Base load – This is the historical amount of power we use on every given day. We need more power in the middle of the afternoon and around 5 o'clock when people are eating/cooking/doing their laundry. We need less of it in the middle of the night when people are sleeping. This is also true seasonally, as pointed out we need more in the summer (air conditioners, more people at home with TV's on and vacation) and less in the shoulder season when everyone works and the temperatures are moderate. Coal plants are a base load plant. They cannot be shut off and on throughout the day (it in fact takes them 1+ days to get going) so we gotta run them. Base load is planned for and required. Nuclear is another type of "base load".2. Dispatchable Load – This is the load that is flicked on in the middle of the day when needs demand is there, and off when it isn't. The thing about electricity is you ALWAYS have to be making exactly as much as you're taking out, makes this whole "stability" thing a bit tricky. There is one fact that drives this reality, you cannot store large amounts of power. So we use hydro and smaller gas plants that can withstand being turned off an on to accomplish this function. Hydro is good because if they are off, the reservoir still fill effectively saving the water for another day (storage in its basic sense). Gas is just on and off but depends on prices naturally. So why can't you use gas or hydro as "baseload". You can. Except water is also seasonal! Very high in the spring when not a lot of power is consumed (notice this is when Centralia always comes off) and next to none in the fall and winter. You can't continuously meet base demands with Hydro all year round, unless we start using our power seasonally with the rain :). Sometimes gas is used but the volatility in price means your power bill would change drastically with the price of gas, who wants that to happen if gas prices recover? Coal is cheap, there is lots of it, an there aren't a lot of other markets that change it's price and availability. So we use it to produce cheap base load power. Wind power is even worse; when the wind blows we get electricity (so we back off something else) but as soon as the wind dies we have to have reserves ready to turn on to keep the lights on.So what's the answer? a) You make more gas plants and live with the potential for much higher electricity bills (happy to do this if you are). b) Build other dependable baseload power plants (nuclear, coal with carbon capture, contracted gas {good luck right now}). c) Use a lot less electricty. People like their TV's and air conditioners though!d) Buy it from somewhere else. This comes at a cost and you run the risk of not controlling you're own power someday (Look at Arizona and Los Angelas right now). This probably won't solve the overall problem either, just pushing the CO2 into someone elses backyard.e) Increase the capacity of the grid. The more plants you have, the less dependent you are on any one. This could be distributed generation (small generators all over) of just more gas plants (hydro is tapped out I believe). Centralia produces 10% of Washingtons power so it's hard to just turn it off. Hope this helps out a bit.
I love it when the policy experts and the folks with boots on the ground experience running these things each share and there's lots of room to explore commion ground. Sketchy gives the power primer anyone thinking of this needs to grasp, especially the zero-sum nature of power production and distribution (production must near instaneaously equal consumption, a near miracle of modern life is that it does). KC offers his depth of experience at important tables around which discussions have been held and decisions made over the decades.Here's a little more fodder:Only in the Northwest does the supply picture include such a big gift and buffer offered by nature (and the Columbia River System's attempt to control it). The shut down of Centralia in the late spring and early summer is entirely a non-issue and does not point to any fallacy in claims for load and transmission support. We also have probably the only nuclear plant in the hemisphere that shuts down in concert with hydropower supply trends too. Absent thousands of changes large and small, I doubt we could close Columbia Generating Station anytime soon, just because we can do so now and then.The owners of Centralia and Boardman know the coal days at these plants are numbered and await clearer economic and regulartory signals. Portland General Electric is open about its plans to close Boardman early, and Transalta is somewhat less transparent about the likeihood that emmissions targets it is suggesting it can meet imply that it is considering switching to gas, possibly even before Boardman closes in 2020.So the take away is that we are lucky to live where the hydro base can do versatile duty as we get serious about alternatives to fossil energy for power generation.
System stability is controlled by raising and lowering generator output voltage which either boosts or places a drag on grid voltage depending on what type of loading the grid has on it. Unfortuately, it takes large electrical generators like the ones stationed at Centralia to affect system voltage. Small generators do not have the ability to impact system voltage nearly as much as large generators. Centralia does work with BPA to maintain grid stability.Voltage is like pressure in a garden hose, the more demand the lower the pressure goes and vice versa. Large genarators have a greater ability to affect overall voltage (pressure) compared to smaller generators. As demand increases and system voltage drops, amps increase on all of our sensative electronics, motors, etc. and is seen as heat which can damage or destroy equipment. In times like these, large generators can boost or reduce their output voltage more effectively to reduce the negative impacts caused by system voltage instability.The other advantage to having large generators close to large loads such as Seattle & Portland is the fact there is less line loss. Basicaly, the greater the distance between generation an load, the greater the voltage drop. This is another reason it is realatively important to have large base loaded stations near the load.The hydro base is a blessing but is not always as reliable as we would like. Hydro faces its own issues including seasonability, the reliance on adequate snowpack, and one that most people don't think about which is fish runs. The fish runs cause the hydro operators to adjust flows at times to accomodate fish as opposed to operating at maximum loads and efficiency. The likelyhood of any additional hydro load is probably next to nil.Gas plants are quick and easy to start and stop depending on system demand but many are subjected to cyclical gas pricing and economics that put them out of the market at times. Gas plants may be somewhat cleaner but are also a significant source of NOx, CO, CO2, etc.Solar and wind are a good addition to the mix but need to be totally backed up by base loaded stations that can provide a spinning reserve to offset their generation whenever the sun isn't shining or the wind dies. To maintain grid stability, loss of generation from one point has to be replaced by generation from somwhere else in short order. Inadequate spinning reserve can and will lead to grid instability and the potential of blackouts.The greatest negative of solar and wind is probably the shear amount of acreage that will be required in the future to site new generation, probably in the thousands of acres. There will definitely be an environmental impact felt by these sites, affecting wildlife and habitat more than anything else.On a side note, for many years the Mojave coal fired plant was being blamed for air quality degredation in and around the Grand Canyon. The plant was eventually taken out of service, air quality did not improve as expected. Further studies have revealed that the city of Los Angeles was a major contributor to the air quality issues. Basically, until auto emissions, etc. are drastically reduced, many air quality issues will never improve.Centralia has reduced its emissions significantly. By installing scrubbers and burning PRB coal, the plant reduced SO2 emissions from over 900 ppm to less than 15 ppm on avearage. Installation of low NOx burners has drastically decreased NOX emissions. Burning PRB coal which has a higher BTU than native coal also reduced the amount of coal burned to produce the same generation. Centrailia is using some of the latest tecnology to control and reduce emissions further as they become available. Waste products such as gypsum and ash are recycled and being used in the construction industry.Several posters noted that the plant shuts down during high hydro runoff season. The plant has been blamed many times for visibility issues at Mt. Ranier. I have personally seen times when the plant has been down for months and Mt. Ranier is barely visible. It is my contention that the larger culprit in this matter is the auto traffic on the I-5 corridor and Seattle – Tacoma metro area, having a larger impact on air quality and visibility. Centrailia may be a large single source of certain emissions but may pale in comparrison to the cumulative totals from other sources such as autos, etc.Loss of the Centralia facilty will have a huge economic impact on the local economy, both in lost tax revenue and living wage jobs. The local economy of Lewis County is already facing one of the highest unemployment rates in the state of Washington. Closure of the Centralia plant will be like closing Boeing or Microsoft in Seattle. The Centrailia plant issue is multi faceted. America is considered to be the Saudi Arabia of coal, we should always have coal in our energy mix to insure the security of our country. We need to find ways to reduce the negatieve impacts of using fossil fuels while at the same time reducing our dependance on foreign sources. Thanks for your time.
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 Amphilius jacksonii
 Amphilius uranoscopus
 Aplocheilichthys centralis
 Aplocheilichthys pumilus
 Astatoreochromis alluaudi
 Astatotilapia burtoni

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 Bagrus docmak
 Barbus acuticeps
 Barbus altianalis
 Barbus apleurogramma
 Barbus cercops
 Barbus claudinae
 Barbus eutaenia
 Barbus kerstenii
 Barbus lineomaculatus
 Barbus microbarbis
 Barbus mohasicus
 Barbus neumayeri
 Barbus nyanzae
 Barbus paludinosus
 Barbus pellegrini
 Barbus ruasae
 Barbus somereni
 Brycinus jacksonii
 Brycinus macrolepidotus
 Brycinus sadleri
 Bryconaethiops microstoma

C
 Chiloglanis asymetricaudalis
 Chiloglanis ruziziensis
 Clarias gariepinus
 Clarias liocephalus
 Ctenochromis horei
 Ctenopharyngodon idella
 Cyprinus carpio carpio

G
 Garra dembeensis
 Gnathonemus longibarbis

H
 Haplochromis adolphifrederici
 Haplochromis astatodon
 Haplochromis crebridens
 Haplochromis erythromaculatus
 Haplochromis gracilior
 Haplochromis graueri
 Haplochromis insidiae
 Haplochromis kamiranzovu
 Haplochromis microchrysomelas
 Haplochromis murakoze
 Haplochromis nigroides
 Haplochromis occultidens
 Haplochromis olivaceus
 Haplochromis paucidens
 Haplochromis rubescens
 Haplochromis scheffersi
 Haplochromis vittatus
 Hippopotamyrus grahami
 Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

L
 Labeo victorianus
 Limnothrissa miodon

M
 Marcusenius victoriae
 Mastacembelus frenatus
 Mormyrus kannume

O
 Oreochromis esculentus
 Oreochromis leucostictus
 Oreochromis macrochir
 Oreochromis mweruensis
 Oreochromis niloticus eduardianus
 Oreochromis niloticus niloticus

P
 Petrocephalus catostoma catostoma
 Pollimyrus nigricans
 Polypterus senegalus senegalus
 Protopterus aethiopicus aethiopicus
 Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae

R
 Raiamas moorii

S
 Schilbe intermedius
 Synodontis afrofischeri
 Synodontis ruandae

T
 Tilapia rendalli

V
 Varicorhinus leleupanus
 Varicorhinus platystomus
 Varicorhinus ruandae

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 De Vos, L. i D. F. E. Thys van den Audenaerde, 1990: Petits Barbus (Pisces: Cyprinidae) du Rwanda. Revue d'Hydrobiologie Tropicale v. 23 (núm. 2): 141—159.
 Snoeks, J., L. de Vos, E. J. Coenen i D. F. E. Thys van den Audenaerde, 1990: Description de deux nouvelles espèces d´Haplochromis (Teleostei, Cichlidae) du lac Kivu, Rwanda. Cybium v. 14 (núm. 1): 63-76.

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 FAO - Fishery country profile of Rwanda

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This second book was even more suspenseful than the first and I am now thoroughly caught up in the story of The Gifted. I can't wait for book 3 – The Blessed to release this fall. Once again the author transports readers to distant times and places with her writing and brings the characters to life through words.
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Front Porch Punditry » Political News and Views » General Political News and Opinion » Trump Slams Democrats As Party Of Slavery, Jim Crow. He's Right.
Last night, Donald Trump spoke about the legacy of the Democratic Party. "I will not accept, and neither will you, a future in which children, think of this, children of color – any color – in this country are not fully included in the American dream," Trump said. "Remember and most people don't know this: the Republican Party, right? You know what I'm going to say, right?
The media went nuts, of course. But every element of this is true.
The Democratic Party was the party of slavery, which is why the pro-slavery south voted almost entirely Democratic in the 1860 election, and why the pro-Jim Crow south voted entirely Democratic for a century. The 1924 Democratic National Convention was dominated by the Ku Klux Klan agenda to the point that it became known as the Klanbake for is refusal to condemn lynchings. Trump should have paid Dinesh D'Souza royalties for his liberal paraphrase of D'Souza's entire argument in his new documentary.
This is pandering to a racial solidarity movement the Democrats know represents radicalism. But Democrats get away with it, because their new tribalism grants rhetorical concessions to ethnic minorities while undermining their safety and prosperity.
Trump is a flawed messenger; his own associations with the alt-right and his past racial foibles have already been impressed on the public mind. But good for Trump for at least speaking truth about the history of the Democratic Party, which Democrats constantly rewrite to blame on Americans generally and Republicans more specifically.
Anti-Trumpster Ben Shapiro offers a positive analysis of a Trump speech, but in the end, simply can't let it go without some kind of cheap shot.
Trump is a flawed messenger; his own associations with the alt-right and his past racial foibles have already been impressed on the public mind.
I used to admire Shapiro. A first class intellect, I thought, but now no longer consider him so.
agreed, that dig was a morsel for the Left and not a part of the story at all.


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Despite Anthem's Demo facing many technical issues, it was a huge success according to BioWare. With the company confirming it exceeded expectations.
I'm thrilled to share that our public demo weekend exceeded our expectations. Operationally, things were super smooth – our war rooms were tranquil this weekend, which is exactly how we like them.
Most importantly, your response was again overwhelmingly positive. We had more than 40M hours of play in the game across our two demo weekends. That's incredible! We hope you all enjoyed the small taste of what's to come with the full game. As developers, we remain humbled by your positive response to what we've built. Thank you so much for your support!
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Anthem launches for EA and Origin Access members this February 15th and everyone else on February 22nd for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.


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My weekends feel like that movie Groundhog day. Different weekend, same stuff. Hockey games, playdates and Birthday Parties on repeat.
This weekend both boys had games. Logan played really well, got a goal (he'd been shut out for a long time) and made player of the game, so that was awesome!
Zach's game went well. He stayed in the game emotionally, played his position and supported his team mates. Big Win for him. An added bonus was the Jill came out to watch. Jill is technically my cousin (Owen's sister), but we are way closer than regular cousins. Same with Owen and I. I find it's easier to describe our relationship as siblings and so that's usually what I do. Maybe it comes from a deep down desire for the siblings I never had... who knows. It's too early for psychobabble.
Other than that nothing much happened. I did a bunch of baking on Sunday. I made quiche cups (with no crust to keep the fat/calories down), low cal blueberry muffins, stuff chicken with spinach, feta and red peppers and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for the boys.
Sunday night Brad took Logan to the Jets game. Logan hadn't been to one yet, so it was great that he got to go. Brad bought him a Jet's dog at the game. They are HUGE!!
Forgot to mention. AMJ check in. Adding workouts to my AMJ plan seem to be really helping. I'm down 18lbs.


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In 1971 she finished secondary school with gold medal and entered the Philology Faculty of North Ossetian State University, which she graduated from with a degree in "The Russian language and literature" with honors as well.
In 1983 she graduated from the full-time postgraduate study of the Department of General Linguistics of the Philology Faculty of Leningrad State University with defense of a thesis.
Since 1981 she worked in North Ossetian University: as assistant, senior lecturer, associate professor, professor, and in 1993 she was elected as the Dean of the Faculty of the Russian Philology.
In 1997 she was appointed to the Deputy Minister of Basic and Professional Education of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania on questions of professional education and in 2002 – to the Minister of Basic and Professional Education of the Republic.
In 2005 she was appointed to the First Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania on questions of a comprehensive school, educational work and childhood social protection.
In 2006-2010 – Department Director of youth policy, child-rearing and child social protection, Department Director of State policy in the sphere of child upbringing, additional education and social protection of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
In June 2010 she took the lead of the Department of upbringing and socialization of children of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
In 2001 she was awarded the title "Honored Employee of Education of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania", in 2006 she was awarded the title "Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation." She is married and has two daughters and a son.
She was appointed to the Principal of North Caucasus Federal University by the Order of the Government of the Russian FederationNo. 771-рdated May 15, 2012.


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Freestanding emergency rooms (ER) offer time-saving advantages over traditional, hospital-based ERs that may possibly be a life saving alternative.
In 2014, Angel Rivera, age 53, went to the ER at Lincoln Hospital in New York City after a family friend had punched him in the head. When he first arrived to the ER, he was triaged and told to wait in a secondary waiting area for observation. Hospital video tapes showed that Angel Rivera had been sitting there over 9 hours before hospital staff noticed him unconscious and bleeding through the nose. ER staff reportedly stated that he had been called hours earlier, but since he had not responded they had thought he had left. Supposedly, no one went to this secondary waiting area to look for him. After 2 years in a coma, Mr. Rivera died in 2016, and the family is now suing the hospital.
This was truly a tragic event, and one that could have been avoided if Mr. Rivera had received timely emergency care. Unfortunately, the current ER model is inherently flawed when it comes to providing prompt care, and as a result patients suffer from the ill effects.
Read: Long Recurring Problems in Traditional Emergency Rooms.
Like Angel Rivera, Jr. stated on September 26, 2017 to News 4 reporter, Ida Siegal, one of the doctors told him that if his father had been noticed sooner, he'd still be alive today. The family is outraged that Angel was forgotten, and it caused his death.
It is important to note this does not come down to any one person or even a team, rather it is evident of an institutional problem. Patients should be able to have quick access to emergency medical care.


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using System;
using System.Management;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Quasar.Common.Helpers
{
    public static class PlatformHelper
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes the <see cref="PlatformHelper"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        static PlatformHelper()
        {
            Win32NT = Environment.OSVersion.Platform == PlatformID.Win32NT;
            XpOrHigher = Win32NT && Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major >= 5;
            VistaOrHigher = Win32NT && Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major >= 6;
            SevenOrHigher = Win32NT && (Environment.OSVersion.Version >= new Version(6, 1));
            EightOrHigher = Win32NT && (Environment.OSVersion.Version >= new Version(6, 2, 9200));
            EightPointOneOrHigher = Win32NT && (Environment.OSVersion.Version >= new Version(6, 3));
            TenOrHigher = Win32NT && (Environment.OSVersion.Version >= new Version(10, 0));
            RunningOnMono = Type.GetType("Mono.Runtime") != null;

            Name = "Unknown OS";
            using (var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT Caption FROM Win32_OperatingSystem"))
            {
                foreach (ManagementObject os in searcher.Get())
                {
                    Name = os["Caption"].ToString();
                    break;
                }
            }

            Name = Regex.Replace(Name, "^.*(?=Windows)", "").TrimEnd().TrimStart(); // Remove everything before first match "Windows" and trim end & start
            Is64Bit = Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem;
            FullName = $"{Name} {(Is64Bit ? 64 : 32)} Bit";
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the full name of the operating system running on this computer (including the edition and architecture).
        /// </summary>
        public static string FullName { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the name of the operating system running on this computer (including the edition).
        /// </summary>
        public static string Name { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Determines whether the Operating System is 32 or 64-bit.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is 64-bit, otherwise <c>false</c> for 32-bit.
        /// </value>
        public static bool Is64Bit { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a indicating whether the application is running in Mono runtime.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the application is running in Mono runtime; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool RunningOnMono { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a indicating whether the Operating System is Windows 32 NT based.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is Windows 32 NT based; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool Win32NT { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a value indicating whether the Operating System is Windows XP or higher.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is Windows XP or higher; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool XpOrHigher { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a value indicating whether the Operating System is Windows Vista or higher.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is Windows Vista or higher; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool VistaOrHigher { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a value indicating whether the Operating System is Windows 7 or higher.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is Windows 7 or higher; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool SevenOrHigher { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a value indicating whether the Operating System is Windows 8 or higher.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is Windows 8 or higher; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool EightOrHigher { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a value indicating whether the Operating System is Windows 8.1 or higher.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is Windows 8.1 or higher; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool EightPointOneOrHigher { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns a value indicating whether the Operating System is Windows 10 or higher.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        ///   <c>true</c> if the Operating System is Windows 10 or higher; otherwise, <c>false</c>.
        /// </value>
        public static bool TenOrHigher { get; }
    }
}


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Topic: Help - What OS????
I bought more Ram only to find out that my motherboard didn\'t more than 500mg.
I bought a new motherboard only to find out Windows 98 doesn\'t support more that 500mg.
WHAT OS SHOULD I BE RUNNING? I need to take advantage of the full 1.5 gigs that are now installed in my motherboard.
Please Win2000 or ME or XP?
Re: Help - What OS????
Ahhh more of this \'Win98 doesnt support more than 512mb\' rubbish. I don\'t know where all you guys read that stuff.... Do a search on these forums and you\'ll see countless posts on this topic. Anyway what is your problem. Why dont you believe Win98 will use more than 512mb ram?
Please Simon, help me. Tell me how to use 1.5 gigs of RAM with Win98.
in which microsoft (I am asssuming the authority on the subject) explains that Windows 98 does not support more than 512mb of RAM.
After I added the \" MaxPhysPage=30000\"
command in the system.ini file Windows98 booted.
I have done search on this forum under Vcache, found a lot of posts, but nothing in the way of a solution.
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Dozens of Churches Destroyed in Kosovo
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Rioting destroys ancient Serbian churches
Last Friday, when Weblog noted a mob's destruction of four churches in Nigeria, one loyal reader asked why it got top billing over the destruction of Serbian Orthodox churches. The answer is simple: At the time, Weblog was simply unaware of the extent of the demolition there.
Apparently Weblog wasn't alone. In a meeting with Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu noted that the world community has largely ignored last week's violence, which left at least 31 dead and more than 500 wounded. Thirty churches, several dating back to the 14th century, were destroyed by ethnic Albanians. Another 11 were damaged.
"We remember well a wave of indignation over the destruction by Taliban troops in Afghanistan of the stone statue[s] of Buddha, because it was the destruction of cultural heritage," Shoigu said, according to the ITAR-TASS news agency. But there's no outcry over these attacks, though they're just as damaging from religious, cultural, and historical perspectives.
Serbs apparently retaliated by attacking mosques elsewhere, including one from the 17th century.
The BBC has several photos, along with a good backgrounder of the complicated triggers of the attack, and the even more complicated history of conflict between the Albanians and Serbs. There's much more than religion to this story, but it seems clear that churches were deliberately targeted and took the brunt of the attacks.
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Slow Cooker Chipotle Barbacoa - juicy meat barbecue in slow cooker with sweet and spicy marinade of smokey chipotle chilies!!
Chipotle Barbacoa, a classic pull-apart tender meat barbacoa slow cooked with smokey chipotle chilies, and flavorful mix of sweet and spicy marinade! Loaded with ton of flavor, this meat main course is must try once in lifetime!
You know what? Today, I have made this traditional Mexican Barbacoa recipe everyday kitchen approved!
Simply dust your slow cooker, get delicious Mexican babracoa ingredients, and your favorite shoulder roast meat (I used lamb).. and this comforting main course will be the best homemade BBQ ever! Pull apart tender, juicy, sweet, spicy with smokey kick of chipotle. All of this without a messy fire-pit, fancy BBQs, or agave leaves!
Oh, and don't worry if you don't want to use slow cooker. I'm also including Oven method of cooking!
So, let's make Chipotle Barbacoa!
Do you know word BBQ is derived from Latin word "Barbacoa"? Barbacoa is the traditional way of slow cooking meat until it is pull apart tender, and has a layer of smoky flavor. Often sugar and heat of chilies are two main ingredients in any kind of barbecue or barbacoa. This Chipotle Barbacoa is no different. It has sweetness of agave, smoke and heat of chipotle chilies with pull-apart tender texture!
I promised you, we are going Mexican this week! And it's all about Chipotle! I mean, literally! Everything I'm sharing this week is famous for Chipotle chilies and is inspired from Chipotle Mexican Grill's recipes. Chipotle Sofritas, Chipotle Salsa, Chipotle Cilantro Lime Rice are few of my old personal favorite.
This recipe is inspired from barbacoa recipe of chipotle. Only difference is, I decided to use Lamb instead. Lamb is traditional barbacoa meat and it stays more moist and flavorful when slow cooked.
To make Barbacoa, I start by making the chipotle marinade.
The main ingredients for barbacoa marinade are Chipotle with adobo sauce, ancho chilies, sugar, lemon, cumin, garlic, and oil. It takes just 5 minutes to blend a batch of sauce. I discard the seeds from dry chilies and add all of the these ingredients to food processor. Few quick pulses and chipotle barbeque marinade is ready!
Authentic Mexican barbacoa is prepared in fire-pits where marinated meat (mostly lamb) is wrapped in agave leaves and slow cooked until meat is pull-apart tender. I had no resources to find agave leaves, so I added a little hint of agave syrup in marinade for some sweetness and subtle flavor.
Can you believe this homemade recipe for barbacoa needs less active time than going to Chipotle's and ordering?!
Just 20 minutes active prep time! Season the lamb, pan sear it. While lamb is going, mix the marinade. Combine everything in slow cooker and done! That's it!
How does that sound? Easy-pezzy!!
Plus everyday kitchen approved! Isn't it? Prepare it for labor day get-together, serve it for taco Tuesday, or save the recipe for a cozy weeknight dinner! This chipotle barbacoa will be 'The Star' on every occassion! I can promise you that!
Plus look at the amount of money saved! Recipe doubles or triples easily! Barbacoa at chipotle will cost you $10-20 for 2. At home in $20-$25 you can feed family of 4+ with hearty meat and rice kinda servings! Plus can save some leftovers for barbacoa tacos or breakfast burrito! Yumm!
If you don't own a slow cooker or just because you don't want to.. here is the method to prepare Chipotle Barbacoa in oven, in a heavy bottom vessel such as dutch oven.
After marinade is ready, heat oil in dutch oven. Add seasoned lamb and sear it until brown from all sides.
After lamb is pan-seared, remove from dutch oven, discard half of the liquid collected at bottom. Add in marinade, beer with 2 cups of water. Bring to rolling boil, cover it with tight lid. Cook on stove top at medium-low for 2 hours or until lamb is pull-apart tender. Once lamb is done, remove in a plate. Bring any remaining liquid to rolling boil and cook until it is thick to your liking. Mix in shredded meat, garnish with red onion, serve salsa on side! Enjoy Chipotle Barbacoa even without slow cooker!
Wish you a great day ahead! Get ready for labor day long weekend! Bring some lamb, chipotle chilies, try Chipotle Babracoa and enjoy!
Total Time 6 hrs 20 mins Prep Time 15 minutes Cook Time 6 hrs 5 mins Difficulty Easy Yields 4-6 Servings Serves 6 Notes No. of servings depends on serving size.
2. Make the chipotle chili marinade by combining vinegar, chilies, adobo sauce, sugar, agave, garlic, and salt in a food processor.
Make sure to remove seeds and stem of dried chilies.
3. Add lamb to slow cooker with chili paste, cumin powder, cinnamon, bay leaf, beer and 1/2 cup water.
4. Cook on high for 5-6 hours until lamb is tender and falling apart.
5. Transfer to lamb to a plate and shred the meat with clean hands. In meantime, pour liquid in a sauce pan and cook on high heat until gravy thickens to your liking. Mix it back in shredded lamb.
6. Serve with garnish of red onion, fresh salsa, lime wedges. Enjoy!
Your chipotle barbacoa recipe looks amazing. I can't wait to try making it and it looks like it doesn't take long! If I calculated my https://businessfirstfamily.com/time-management-statistics-productive-office/ 'time management statistics'. I would find the majority of my time is spent overthinking how I should cook my dinner. Can't wait to try this out!
Hi Dennis, Thanks! This barbacoa recipe is a keeper. Flavorful and very easy to prepare. I hope you try it soon!


This RP is a continuation of diplomatic incidents that have occured on my (old) QnA thread. While the primary audience for this are the original constituents of the incident, all are welcome to partake.
The main idea of this RP is not really to start direct military engagements, but to plant spies, filibuster the November elections, expose scandals, and raise border conflicts. That means also, that each step in the future IC thread must be discussed in the OOC thread first. Hopefully, it'll all be narrative-based and character-based rather than a one-off conflict.
That means your objective isn't to win-- your objective is to craft a compelling story.
In a nutshell, this RP takes place real-time, revolving around miscellaneous actions conducted by nations both rivaled to or allied with the Pan-Asiatic States. Anything OOC-approved goes. Sound fun to you? Fill-up this registration form to get started!
This RP is partly for nation-maintenance, partly for material on my news thread. Which means, really, I don't want this RP going too far. Keep in mind that the ultimate objective of this RP is to have fun, and create interesting new lore for your nation and the Pan-Asiatic States.
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Will you be For or Against the Pan-Asiatic States? Against, obviously.
After the embargoes, you can try to get spies into the country to influence a growing dissent against foreign intervention.
After which we can flex militaries, test nukes, send things into space. I'd love to hear opinions on this.
Sounds good. How do you plan on doing the embargoes, and when you say 'foreign intervention', how do you mean?
Zitravgrad wrote: "In every man, there is an animal that wishes to dominate. But in Anglomir, we are already the dominating race."
The English Regions wrote: Nationalistic and overly serious, whose idea of fun is having a beer whilst making jokes about foreigners.
Convallaria wrote: Paternalistic Conservatism with elements of theological dominionism.
Will you be For or Against the Pan-Asiatic States? Against but they are not our main antagonist. Strategic Alliances against worse enemies would still be possible.
Looks interesting P.A.S. though what is your stance on shadow backers and 3rd party groups? With enough subversion, it's pretty hard to pin down who is the original culprit for under the table dealings if they use 3rd party people and remain anonymous.
The Pan-Asiatic States has been involved with a white-peaced war with the State of Israel, and has units deployed in several other countries. If you've surveyed the news thread lately, many locals don't approve of that, and they blame it on the vocally warmongerish Head of State, Sonya Yoon-Sook.
You can take advantage of the situation as it is by sending disguised personnel or rouge 'advisers' to the Pan-Asiatic States to coordinate with the dissenters. Maybe not really to the extent of arming them with guns, but something to the extent of political lobbying. It's also possible that you select one of the popular running candidates to endorse policies in-favor of your country's agenda against the States.
Obviously that won't go unnoticed, so expect mutual discredit.
Again, could I get some suggestions from the parties who want to subvert PAS on their course of action? Some scheduling might also be in order.
The Chuck wrote: Looks interesting P.A.S. though what is your stance on shadow backers and 3rd party groups? With enough subversion, it's pretty hard to pin down who is the original culprit for under the table dealings if they use 3rd party people and remain anonymous.
Not always, really. Think Clinton and Russian hackers kind of third party elements. That's what I'm going for in this RP, basically.
But also with a Cold War vibe to it since Anglomir, Kjalara, and PAS have been on each other's throats in the QnA thread. Parades and small-scale mobilization without anybody getting hurt would be pretty fun.
Pan-Asiatic States wrote: Again, could I get some suggestions from the parties who want to subvert PAS on their course of action? Some scheduling might also be in order.
Spies, exposing scandals, fabricating fake news, propaganda, and hacking.
Perhaps implementing sleeper agents within the government, or convincing some ministers/election candidates to defect and become double agents or represent a pro-Anglo agenda.
Sounds good, but you can't be too vocal about having them support Anglomir. For a reference of the most popular Congressional candidates consult here.
Should I get an IC Thread up yet, or do you guys need more time to prepare? If you guys have important things to do in the coming days, it'd probably best to postpone a bit.
For entering sleeper agents and agitators, you'll want to consider sneaking them through the ports in Melanesia. That'd be a good start.
I got a test tomorrow, but after that, I think I should be okay. Maybe wait till then.
Pan-Asiatic States wrote: For entering sleeper agents and agitators, you'll want to consider sneaking them through the ports in Melanesia. That'd be a good start.
In regards to this, the main problem would be the major lack of Asian minorities in Anglomir. Would white agents be treated with higher suspicion?
Yeah I have the same question and what about your dissidents? Are there any? How willing are they to risk their lives? Would they migrate to our nations and conspire with us?
There are actually white nationals in the PAS, so it's fine. As long as you don't move around provincial areas too long, you'll find a lot of native whites such as Germans in Qingdao; and some French in Vietnam. Extradition movements exist against them, but aren't too popular in urban areas.
As for dissent, well, it's MT, so virtual backchannels of communication exist. But yes, albeit difficult, they would, if possible, migrate.
If you want to collaborate with the more radical anti-PAS elements, the most dangerous threat is the Neo-Kuomintang Army. In the communist-dominated alternate timeline, the Neo-Kuomintang are neo-nationalists and radical libertarians fighting from the countryside. Usually they're blamed whenever something bad goes wrong. Though be wary of trusting them.
First steps in getting them in could be the RP's kick-off. Again, you could try getting them through Melanesian ports, but you could also try exploiting Indochinese ones. You'll have to bribe a few portmasters, which I'm sure you can do.
All right, sounds good. I was a bit afraid that our James Bond would end up like this five minuts after trying to seduce a low level secretary. If there are europeans I would suggest that we have placed some there already or we could begin because of the recent bad blood in the QnA?
I don't want a war RP. Just saber ratteling and such. Where are the Kuomitang located?
Kjalaara wrote: All right, sounds good. I was a bit afraid that our James Bond would end up like this five minuts after trying to seduce a low level secretary. If there are europeans I would suggest that we have placed some there already or we could begin because of the recent bad blood in the QnA?
Yeah, yeah same; it's a rule. Well, it'd kinda be meta if you guys already had some in place. Don't worry though, I'll make it easy to get peeps bribed.
A lot of convoys are coming in and out of major ports, so it'll be easy for a few managers to edit ship manifests and data logs.
IC'll probably be up in 2 or 3 days. I'd also like to see if other NSes are interested, so I hope you guys keep posted.
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Also, to everyone, my regional co-founder Samporna is a Gaddafi-Socialist state who might back the PAS; but only if directly threatened by our same aggressors.
Anglomir, Kjaalara; we may have to, for IC reasons, assume you guys also condemned Samporna, if that's okay. We might actually use this RP to bring our region from FT to MT.
This is a very convenient confluence, as the Royal Republic quite recently went through a surprise invasion attempt by a fascist empire (with gundam mecha robots, no less- you can imagine the mood was quite apocalyptic). Needless to say, from the Brukean perspective the States seem quite reasonable compared to the more militant and expansionist powers that have taken notice since Bruke entered the World Assembly and looked beyond West America.
I'm planning to have initial interaction through newspaper editorials from Brukean newspapers- I'll keep the date vague as I wouldn't know if this is pre or post PM Inauguration (sorry about letting that die by the way, planning to get back up to it during spring break).
Initial Espionage seems to reveal Jumail Puttiray and Uncle Bo as my primary targets for indoctrinating.
How would you suggest I'd do this? Once the agents get in, getting them in touch with such people may be difficult. Furthermore, electronic transactions and phone calls are tracked, correct?
Yes of course. That's all right. We hate all your allies and everybody who owes you money. What about assassinations of primary characters? And what about tourism. Is it possible to enter the nation on student or tourist visas from other nations?


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