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package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"strings"

	"github.com/giagiannis/data-profiler/core"
)

type mdsParams struct {
	logfile *string         // the logfile to be used
	output  *string         // the output file
	modules map[string]bool // which modules to activate for the util

	script       *string                       // the mds script to run
	k            *int                          // the number of the coordinates to eval
	similarities *core.DatasetSimilarityMatrix // the similarity matrix
}

var mdsModules = map[string]string{
	"gof":    "prints the gof values from 1 up to the specified k",
	"coords": "prints the datasets coordinates for the specified k",
}

func mdsParseParams() *mdsParams {
	params := new(mdsParams)
	params.k =
		flag.Int("k", 2, "the number of the principal coordinates to use - 0 for autosearch")
	params.script =
		flag.String("sc", "", "the script to be used for the MDS eval")
	similaritiesPath :=
		flag.String("sim", "", "the path of the similarity matrix file")
	params.logfile =
		flag.String("l", "", "the logfile to be used")
	params.output =
		flag.String("o", "", "the output file")
	modulesStr :=
		flag.String("m", "coords", "which modules to run (type list to see the options) ")
	flag.Parse()
	setLogger(*params.logfile)

	if *modulesStr == "list" {
		for k, v := range mdsModules {
			fmt.Printf("%s: %s\n", k, v)
		}
		os.Exit(1)
	} else {
		params.modules = make(map[string]bool)
		for _, mod := range strings.Split(*modulesStr, ",") {
			params.modules[mod] = true
		}
	}

	if *similaritiesPath == "" || *params.output == "" || *params.script == "" {
		fmt.Println("Options:")
		flag.PrintDefaults()
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	params.similarities = core.NewDatasetSimilarities(0)
	log.Println("Reading", *similaritiesPath)
	f, err := os.Open(*similaritiesPath)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}
	defer f.Close()
	b, err := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}
	err = params.similarities.Deserialize(b)

	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}
	return params
}

func mdsRun() {
	params := mdsParseParams()

	if params.modules["coords"] {
		extension := filepath.Ext(*params.output)
		basename := strings.TrimSuffix(*params.output, extension)
		outfile, er := os.OpenFile(basename+"-coords"+extension, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_TRUNC, 0644)
		if er != nil {
			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, er)
			os.Exit(1)
		}
		defer outfile.Close()

		log.Println("Executing MDS")
		mds := core.NewMDScaling(params.similarities, *params.k, *params.script)
		err := mds.Compute()
		log.Println("Done")
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatalln(err)
		}

		coords := mds.Coordinates()
		if coords == nil {
			return
		}
		buf := core.SerializeCoordinates(coords)
		outfile.Write(buf)

		//		for i := 0; i < len(coords[0]); i++ {
		//			fmt.Fprintf(outfile, "x_%d ", i+1)
		//		}
		//		fmt.Fprintf(outfile, "\n")
		//		for _, d := range coords {
		//			for _, c := range d {
		//				fmt.Fprintf(outfile, "%.5f ", c)
		//			}
		//			fmt.Fprintf(outfile, "\n")
		//		}
	}

	if params.modules["gof"] {
		extension := filepath.Ext(*params.output)
		basename := strings.TrimSuffix(*params.output, extension)
		outfile, er := os.OpenFile(basename+"-gof"+extension, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_TRUNC, 0644)
		if er != nil {
			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, er)
			os.Exit(1)
		}
		defer outfile.Close()

		fmt.Fprintf(outfile, "dimensions gof stress\n")
		for k := 1; k <= *params.k; k++ {
			log.Println("Executing MDS for k =", k)
			mds := core.NewMDScaling(params.similarities, k, *params.script)
			err := mds.Compute()
			log.Println("Done")
			if err != nil {
				log.Fatalln(err)
			}
			fmt.Fprintf(outfile, "%d %.5f %5f\n", k, mds.Gof(), mds.Stress())
		}

	}
}

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Nashville Restaurant Closings
The Hook Closed Its Doors Over the Weekend
A new concept is in the works for the space
by Matt Rogers Nov 21, 2016, 11:33am CST
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It looks as though The Hook, unfortunately, could not bring them back, as the fast-casual Melrose-area restaurant quietly closed its doors over the weekend.
No announcement was made prior to the shutter, but Reed Hospitality Group, which also owns Sinema just down the road, confirmed the news to the Nashville Scene earlier this morning, citing the need "to provide a different food and beverage offering" to the neighborhood.
Opened back in February, the seafood-focused eatery was originally Dale Levitski's concept, who was still in his role as executive chef at Sinema at the time. Former Chauhan Ale & Masala House chef de cuisine Vasisht Ramasubramanian was brought in to run the day-to-day, stepping into the executive chef role himself in March after Levitski's departure from the restaurant group. Ramasubramanian will now move on from the project, as the Reeds look to re-concept the space, with managing director Ed Reed stating that they "will transform the menu and décor into something that the neighborhood will really embrace. Stay tuned."
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When you have investor money to fall back on, it's easy to fall back. When you're bootstrapping, you're planning five moves ahead.
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DENVER -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with the Saratoga Springs Owners Association, Inc. and Cross Marine Projects, Inc. (Defendants) resolving alleged unpermitted dredge and fill activities and damages to wetlands at a Utah Lake marina facility in Utah County, Utah. Under the terms of a consent decree in the Federal District Court of Utah, the Defendants will restore and enhance more than 7 acres of wetlands and pay a civil penalty of $150,000.
In December 2017, the United States filed a complaint against the Saratoga Springs Owners Association and Cross Marine Projects for damages associated with alleged illegal dredge and fill activity. EPA asserts that between September 2013 and February 2014, the Saratoga Springs Owners Association and Cross Marine Projects dredged a marina access channel and discharged the resulting fill material into Utah Lake and adjacent wetlands without a Clean Water Act (Section 404) permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
In March 2018, EPA, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers participated in mediation with the Defendants. The resulting consent decree requires the Defendants to pay a civil penalty of $150,000 and to restore an approximately 0.37-acre wetland and enhance an additional 7.0 acres of wetlands adjacent to Utah Lake. The restoration plan also includes reporting requirements and success criteria. After the parties reached agreement on the consent decree, the public was given a 30-day opportunity to comment. No comments were received, and the court entered the decree on November 19, 2018.
Utah Lake is a water of the U.S. and is habitat for projects associated with an Endangered Fish Recovery Program, established in 1999, to protect the June Sucker, a fish that naturally occurs only in Utah Lake and spawns only in the lower Provo River. The rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands in the area are important as habitat for fish and wildlife, water storage, water quality enhancement, flood control, and aesthetics. The State of Utah has designated Utah Lake as impaired for its failure to meet water quality standards.
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The resulting chronicle is a wonderful document of Reagan-era growth and the damage and desolation it so often left in its wake. For a while the real estate boom that finally reached Hoboken in the mid eighties precipitated a classic urban renewal. The poor and new immigrants from Latin America and the Indian subcontinent became the victims of development oriented to relatively rich New Yorkers. When they eventually organized and fought back, there emerged a new political leadership, both as part of city government and outside of it, that was able to win some small, temporary victories. Rent boards and ordinances against condominium development were instituted. In the meantime long-term residents had been harassed, or pushed, and in many cases burned, out of their apartments in frightening episodes. Jacobson herself was forced to leave her apartment when it was set aflame.
The characters are not all black and white; at least one pair of developers are enlightened and in fact contributed to the making of the film, whereas one lone woman sold out her tenant group by making a separate deal with a builder for her own benefit. Jacobson doesn't fall back on simplistic resolutions in order to win converts. The ultimate collapse of the market and the empty condos now lining the streets are prophetic justice, but few heroes or absolute villains people this American parable.


Although chocolate may not cure cellulite or sagging breasts, new research does find it good for the brain.
The latest news on chocolate couldn't have been sweeter: it benefits the brain! Results of an international study – the researchers were from Australia, Maine and Luxembourg – suggested that people who eat chocolate at least once a week performed better on a series of neuropsychological tests than people in the study who didn't consume chocolate at least once a week. The tests revealed that those who enjoyed the most chocolate among the study's 968 participants showed improved visual-spatial memory and abstract reasoning compared to those who consumed less chocolate. The researchers theorized that the flavanols (antioxidants) in chocolate were responsible for the brain boost, just as these compounds seem to be for improvements in blood flow associated with chocolate. How much chocolate should you eat to help sharpen your memory or hone your abstract reasoning? And what kind of chocolate would be best for these purposes? Unfortunately, those questions weren't addressed. This study may not have fully satisfied the yen for good news about chocolate, but previous animal studies have documented the protective effects of flavanol consumption on cognition, and other investigators have reported similar benefits in humans. Stay tuned.


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Q: Connecting Microcontroller to Higher potential I am curious how to determine what voltage is acceptable to connect to a micro-controller through a resistor.
From the data sheet the highest voltage on a GPIO is 3.8V.
So If I have 5 Volts going through a.... lets say 1M resistor to the 3.3V input pin is this ok?
Clearly there is a internal resistor and some voltage drop will occur, but the datasheet does not seem to come out and say it.
I haven't found the internal resistor for the micro-controller so I am curious if I am looking for the correct value...
I am using the CC3200 from TI

A:
From the data sheet the highest voltage on a GPIO is 3.8V.
So If I have 5 Volts going through a.... lets say 1M resistor to the 3.3V input pin is this ok?

The datasheet DOES explicitly cover the situation by stating an absolute maximum voltage.   Above that voltage damage MAY occur.
If the IC is operating mis-operation may occur. Or may not.
Not every "might happen" can be covered or identified.
While 1 megOhm will usually be safe there are no guarantees.
Contrived but possible example:
An internal diode structure is reverse biased
and a usually inaccessible node is trickled up at a few uA
until an internal parasitic SCR structure is triggered.
This latches on and shorts VCC into some_place-it_ought_not_be
and destroys the IC.
Can happen. Has happened. Can never be sure.
Modern IC designs specifically try to avoid the creation of parasitic SCRs that   traditionally caused IC latchup and destruction. Murphy can still outsmart them on occasion.

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I've had a few requests for a recipe for my scrambled eggs, so here we go! I make these a lot, whether for weekend breakfasts or a weekday lunch for Joan and I. She loves eggs and so do I, they're filling, high in protein and healthy fats and the yolk is a good source of iron for bubba.


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layout:     post
title:      "Small Data Analytics With Google Sheets"
categories: manygolf
summary:    "How I used Google Sheets to track Manygolf players over time"
---

A couple weeks ago, I added a little endpoint to the [Manygolf](https://manygolf.club) server that returned, in plain text, the current number of players:

```
$ curl https://manygolf.club/server/player-count
10
```

I hang out in a chat room that has a bot I can query to see the current number of players at any given time. It's a fun little setup, but I started thinking that it'd be nice to track active players over time. Since I had this endpoint already, the question then became: how do I automatically fetch, store, and display this data?

I asked this question in the [XOXO](https://xoxofest.com/) Slack's #coders room, and expected answers about stats services that are intended for Big Enterprises with Big Data, or maybe an answer describing how to set up a [Graphite](https://graphiteapp.org/) server, or some other compicated, long answer. So I was surprised when the first response came from Twitter bot wizard [Darius Kazemi](https://twitter.com/tinysubversions), who suggested I take a look at using Google Sheets.

My first thought was - *Google Sheets*? Like, I'd used it for some basic spreadsheets, and even looked into using its API for loading data from spreadsheets at one point, but I'd never thought of it as a *scripting platform* per se. But, apparently, it really is a full-fledged code hosting service: using [Google Apps Script](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/), you can write fairly-vanilla JavaScript that can read and write to spreadsheets (and various other data stored in Google services). There's even a web-based IDE you use to write, run, and debug your applications! The IDE has *autocomplete* for special Google APIs! It's *sort of incredible* that this entire scripting platform exists and I'd never heard of it, honestly.

Darius pointed me at several resources, and mentioned that you can used timed triggers to run a script on a timed interval with no human interaction (even if the spreadsheet is closed).

With this knowledge, I made a new spreadsheet, accessed the script editor, and, with some trial and error, wrote the following function:

```js
function getPlayers() {

  // synchronously fetch the player count and parse it
  // as text
  var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch('https://manygolf.club/server/player-count');
  var count = response.getContentText();

  // open the spreadsheet for writing
  // (the ID of the spreadsheet is just the unique bit
  // of its URL)
  var doc = SpreadsheetApp.openById('<players-spreadsheet-id>');

  // grab the new date and append a new spreadsheet row
  // with the cells [timestamp, playerCount]
  var date = new Date();
  doc.appendRow([date, count]);

}
```

The scripts editor lets you run functions in a one-off manner, so it was fairly easy to test. I then manually created a trigger with the following configuration:

![The configuration pane in the scripts editor, configured to run getPlayers every five minutes](/images/spreadsheet-triggers.png)

Rows quickly began filling in with the current player count:

![The Manygolf players spreadsheet, showing timestamp and player count rows](/images/spreadsheet-rows.png)

All I had to do finish up was use the standard Google Sheets charting tools to make a line graph of the dataset:

![A chart displaying Manygolf players over time](/images/spreadsheet-chart.png)

And, ta-da, I had a "live analytics dashboard" that would make any enterprise architect jealous!

I was so happy with how easy this was, and I really want to try using Google App Scripts for future projects. Setting up even the simplest of databases can be sort of a pain (where am I going to host this database? What does this Postgres schema look like?), and this seems like a powerful tool if you want some small-scale persistent data that you don't need to worry about too much.


Surrender at 20: "He Has Returned"
A short teaser video with the tag line "He Has Returned" is currently circulating on the LoL social media accounts! The short video shows what appears to be Pantheon gazing into the night sky.
While it is speculation, the scene from the video seems to follow the last part from Pantheon's "The Spear of Targon" story as well as the sky described in "The Aspects".
Click here for more on Mount Targon.


ABC Magazine Circulation figures have been released for the period July-December 2012. DJH have looked specifically at the top titles for targeting the 65+ grey market. We have taken top performing titles in terms of audience profile and looked at their circulations.
Top performance in pure circulation is TV Choice at 1,230,076. It has a 65+ audience profile of 31.6% of its readership.
Second in terms of circulation is Radio Times with 885,857. And in third place comes Saga Magazine with 587,593, down 5.32% year on year. Radio Times profile for the 65+ audience is 40.8% and Saga a massive 70.5%.
It has been a tough time for the elderly with the austerity measures and it shows with reduced magazine purchases across this market. But these titles still offer plenty in terms of circulation and are highly responsive.
Check our Top 20 for the 55+ market on readership here.


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Exclusive: Bennett and Guedes Set Up Production on "The Lot" for Bad Idea
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Just moments ago, Bad Idea announced their first batch of titles for 2021, including "The Lot" by Marguerite Bennett ("DC Bombshells," "Animosity") and Renato Guedes ("Wolverine," "Psi-Lords"). The horror series will launch in July, but we've got an interview with Bennett and Guedes about the series, as well as two exclusive character designs by Khari Evans to help tide you over until next summer.
Cover by Renato Guedes
THE LOT #1 (of 4)
**MARGUERITE BENNETT (writer)
**RENATO GUEDES (artist/cover)
In 1970, legendary filmmaker Oliver Larsen began production on his latest horror masterpiece on the lot of Los Angeles' famed Cloverleaf Studios. Obsessed with bringing authenticity to the genre, the director insisted on casting real-life occultists to perform a genuine Satanic ritual live on camera – until something went horribly wrong. In the bloody aftermath, the production was shut down, the footage was confiscated, and the soundstage was forever shuttered.
Until today.
On the heels of a promotion that's just made her the youngest studio chief in decades, Aviva Copeland is planning to overhaul Cloverleaf's fading image for the 21st century – starting with the prime piece of California real estate that's gone unused for 50 years: the very same lost soundstage where Larsen filmed his doomed masterpiece. But, as Aviva will soon discover, this corner of the lot may have been closed for a half-century, but it's far from empty…and the evil that lives within its haunted walls will soon seize its chance to kill again.
New York Times best-selling writer Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, A-Force) and artist Renato Guedes (DCeased: Hope at World's End) present a terrifying vision of horror and Hollywood in the boldly bloody Bad Idea manner!
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The word 'horror' is so subjective; it could mean anything from Bela Lugosi in a cape to a puppet with a knife. When you were putting together this story, what were some of the touchstones for what you felt "horror," in this context, was?
Marguerite Bennett: Here is the long answer: In the case of "The Lot," horror is the moment of surrender before catharsis/revelation/death, interchangeably. It's the moment when everything is so big, so screwed up, so profane or hideous or repulsive or banned from your personal values or beliefs about the nature of the world, your survival impulse shorts out and you have no choice but to let it wash over you. You have to surrender, let it swallow you, let it rush through you – it's too big to fight.
What will do that to a person, of course, is heavily subjective. And though I can't tailor a single book to the fears of all readers, I can, at least, find the way readers experience their many and unique fears when they've discovered the breaking point. Every person has one, after all. This is a story about people who meet theirs.
Here is the short answer: In the case of "The Lot," horror is what we do to ourselves.
Character designs by Khari Evans
Renato Guedes: I always try to focus on the subtext. The subtext of any great epic, journey, or mythical story is always about an inner journey, an inner quest, a battle against internal monsters or fears. It doesn't matter if the protagonist is Odysseus or any other character, your challenge is personal. A horror story is no different, the horror is psychological, whether the avatar is Bela Lugosi or a puppet. So this is my challenge here. In each camera or lighting choice, everything must converge to a symbolism that denotes fear and a disturbing environment – the background and stage for the characters and monsters.
The main players in this story are all LA, Hollywood types. These are characters that manage to either be adored or despised by audiences, depending on the tone of the piece. How did you go about making sure that these characters didn't fall into stereotypes?
MB: I've lived in Los Angeles for five years. You meet a lot of fascinating people out here, and, if you're lucky, you become friends with the people who aren't just fascinating, but good. All of the characters have bits and pieces of my friends in them – their work ethic, their glamour, their power of analysis, their ambition, their commitment to their ethics, their knowledge of Los Angeles as only a native Angelino can experience it. They're written with immense love because they are known.
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There have been a fair number of stories involving haunted productions: films, books, etc. But I've never read one where the haunted object was the location itself. What was it about the soundstage that made sense for it to be the center of this chaos?
MB: Here is a space where stories are told. The lot itself is also Los Angeles – here is the stage to which so many people come, eager to perform, eager to be immortalized. Here is the canvas on which so many wish to paint their story, to have it seen and cherished and adored. A place like that – the site of so many stories, so many fictions, so many overflowing ambitions and griefs and disappointments, so much lust and hunger and thwarted rage – must become absolutely rancid with emotion and the geological layers of human misery, after awhile. Upsetting and unexpected things can sprout up like mushrooms in a compost like that.
Renato, drawing monsters is always fun, but the designs can be tricky. You want the creature to look unique but still be recognizable as a fearsome creature. How did you go about designing the creatures of this world?
RG: It is the way of showing the creature that produces the horror. Successive technical mistakes can turn a horror sequence into something pathetic and funny. The balance of what to show, what to leave implied, empty spaces that are filled by the mind with the absence of elements or the solidity of shadows – I think the context is what turns a cool concept into a fearsome creature.
Was there something about the 1970s, and specifically the cinema of the 1970s, that made sense as the tonal counterpoint of this story?
MB: Horror movies are generally about cultural anxiety. While individual auteurs might be able to manage films about their individual fears, you often need to get a lot of people to sign off on a movie, which means tapping into a fear a lot of people have at a certain place and during a certain time. The 1970s was no different, but the censorship that strangled the horror of the previous decades was suddenly gone, and an orgy of corn syrup blood ensued.
There was a sudden sense of being off one's leash, for better or worse. Horror suddenly leapt into the extreme, the outlandish, the intentionally offensive, the deliberately tasteless, spraying in all directions in the hope (?) of finding a boundary that could not be crossed. Everyone experimented with everything. There was a bit of riot, reveling in the artistic freedom, the absence of the consequences – and in a way, this story is about the consequences coming home to roost, fifty years late.
When you're working on a comic, how much reference do you typically use? Would you use more for a project like this where there are specific tones or allusions in the script?
RG: Yes, I always try to produce my own reference, so I have a real basis to maintain consistency. But this is something fascinating to me – all the research and study to create the universe before starting the project is really exciting.
Marguerite, when working on a project like this that is so specific in its tone, do you find your scripts being more detailed and reference-heavy than you would be if the story had less retro elements to it?
MB: Haha, I am, unfortunately, obsessive when it comes to reference. Really, I feel anything the artist doesn't need to do, the writer should be doing for them.
It feels like dereliction of duty to say "A girl walks into a bar" and fuck off. What girl? What does she look like? How does she self-express? What does she wear, what is she thinking about, what's the weather, what's the bar—punk, Irish, lesbian, karaoke? All these things contribute to the story and I'd be setting the artist up for a loss if I left them to figure these things out from high context.
I feel that the clearer I can be in vision and intention, the better I can tailor the story to the strengths of the artist, the happier I can make the artist, and the better the story will be for it. The side effect, of course, is my scripts end up as long as novels, har har.
Finally, what should our readers be boning up on in the 10 months or so before this book sees the light of day? Is there a particular film that you'd encourage readers to watch to understand the tone of horror that you're looking to emulate here?
MB: Nothing at all, frankly. Horror—like comedy—is one of the two most subjective genres. What you find scary, like what you find funny, will depend entirely on the person, and I'd be setting us both up for the loss to assume your traumas and your joys are the same as mine.
I will say, though, this book will hit different for those of us here in Los Angeles. Most of us have come from afar with our dreams and ambitions and the stories we're bursting to tell, the sacrifices we made in the hopes of telling them.
Remember: Horror in Los Angeles is contract we sign. Horror in Los Angeles is what we do to ourselves in the service of our story.
"The Lot" is no exception.
Brian Salvatore
Brian Salvatore is an editor, podcaster, reviewer, writer at large, and general task master at Multiversity. When not writing, he can be found playing music, hanging out with his kids, or playing music with his kids. He also has a dog named Lola, a rowboat, and once met Jimmy Carter. Feel free to email him about good beer, the New York Mets, or the best way to make Chicken Parmagiana (add a thin slice of prosciutto under the cheese).


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The Taino way of charqui – smoking strips of meat over a lattice of green allspice wood, covered with leaves from the allspice tree, and seasoned with crushed allspice berries – gave rise to both Jamaican jerk and to jerky. The Taino barbacoa evolved into barbecue.
Today allspice is a kitchen staple, beloved of pie bakers, sausage makers, and all sorts of cooks in between. In this jerked pork, you put ground allspice in the marinade for slowly penetrating the meat. You also flavor the fire itself by putting soaked allspice berries right on the coals, for spicy smoke. If you have access to actual allspice wood, feel free to put that on the fire instead, as the Taino did. Meantime, if you don't happen to live in the Carribbean, soaked berries are my suggested substitute.
The long marinating time makes for tender meat and a mellow, rich seasoning. The sweet pineapple plays nicely against the spicy jerk flavors.
Combine marinade ingredients in a one- or two-gallon zip-top bag. Add pork cubes. Seal top and mix and massage through bag until cubes are covered and marinade is well distributed. Open top enough to press out as much air as possible, and reseal.
Store in refrigerator for at least three days or up to a week. Any longer, and your pork will begin to pickle!
Cut pineapple into 1 1/2″ to 2″ chunks.
Remove pork from marinade. Discard marinade.
Thread bamboo skewers, each with three pieces of pork and two pieces of pineapple, alternating pork with pineapple. Don't overload the skewers, as that'll only make them difficult to manipulate on the hot grill.
Fire up your grill. When the coals are ready, sprinkle the whole allspice berries amidst them.
Place skewers on the grill over the hot coals. Use tongs to turn and reposition the skewers every minute or so until the pork is tender, browned on the outside and fully cooked. It should take about 10 to 15 minutes cooking time.
Eaters can squeeze lime juice over the skewers, individually on their plates.
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Kelly H. Barrett to Join Piedmont Office Realty Trust's Board of Directors | Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc.
Atlanta, February 17, 2016 - Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:PDM) announced today that Kelly H. Barrett, Vice-President of Internal Audit and Corporate Compliance for The Home Depot, will join the Company's Board of Directors beginning March 1, 2016.
"We are excited to welcome Kelly to the Piedmont Board," commented Michael R. Buchanan, Chairman of the Board. "She brings over 30 years of leadership and financial management experience to the Board. As a former member of NAREIT's Accounting Committee and Best Financial Practices Council and former financial officer in the real estate industry, she is well qualified to provide oversight and guidance for Piedmont and a perfect fit for our Audit Committee."
Ms. Barrett has been employed by The Home Depot since 2003, serving in various roles including Vice President-Corporate Controller and Senior Vice President of Enterprise Program Management prior to assuming her current role of Vice-President of Internal Audit and Corporate Compliance. Prior to her employment by The Home Depot, Ms. Barrett was employed by Cousins Properties Incorporated for eleven years in various financial roles, ultimately including that of Senior Vice President-Chief Financial Officer. During that time, she was very active in the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) as an Accounting Committee Co-Chairperson and member of the Best Financial Practices Council as well as the Real Estate Group of Atlanta.
Commenting on her appointment, Ms. Barrett said, "I am pleased to be joining the Piedmont Board in March. As a former CFO of an office REIT, I appreciate the hard work that the Piedmont team has undertaken in recent years to strategically position its portfolio while maintaining an excellent balance sheet. I look forward to contributing to the Company's continued success."


Resources and audio from various Bible studies held at St. Matthew are archived here.
Pastor Fisk's "Not Until I Say I Do"
Truly, an excellent series. You can find all the interviews starting here. There's been 20 of them so far! It's episode numbers: 1602, 1931, 2071, 2211, 2341, 2561, 2701, 2842, 3191, 3331, 3474, 1013, 0241, 0581, 0801, 1011, 1152, 1571, 1712, and 1921.
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You have found this article, which means you are maybe already familiar with the topic of skin whitening and the reasons causing the darkening of our skin.
You might be tired of slow, uncertain treatments for lightening your skin or unsuccessful healing of scars and freckles. You are searching for the perfect solution for your skin lightening problem.
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Why people whiten their skin?
What are skin whitening pills? How do they work?
How fast will I see results from using Glutathione pills ?
Nowadays when beauty and self-confidence are very important for our happiness and well-being, the condition of the skin is essential for our looks and health.
Many people, especially women wish for a lighter, brighter, smooth and glowing skin. More and more of them are turning to skin lightening products to treat different skin conditions.
Some people just want to achieve a lighter skin tone, others have problems with hyperpigmentation (darkening of the skin caused by excessive amounts and production of melanin), others want to heal scars, discoloration caused by hormonal disorders, to remove dark age spots or other skin blemishes.
The reasons for turning to skin whitening products are various as well are the solutions. Natural skin whitening remedies, skin lightening creams, laser operations, skin whitening pills ... the list is long.
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Having all the information about possible scenarios of skin whitening might be overwhelming or scary but being informed will ensure you make the choice which will best serve your body and health.


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Morocojo & Nashua
1948 USGS Map showing Nashua station on Nashua Road
(former Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad right-of-way).
The small settlement of Rancho Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo, also known as La Sagrada Familia or more simply, Morocojo, began life as a Mexican rancho. The original grant was for 6,916 acres on the north side of the Salinas River near its outlet to the Monterey Bay. It was one of the earliest confirmed Mexican land grants in the state, given in 1822 by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá to José Joaquín de la Torre. Its neighbor to the north was the similarly named Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo.
Torre had been a Spanish soldier and the alcade (mayor) of Monterey before becoming the secretary of Governor Solá. He was married to Maria Los Angeles Cota in 1803. Torre may never have settled on the property and sold it to an Englishman, John Bautista Rogers Cooper, in 1839. Torre later was granted Rancho Arroyo Seco and settled there in the 1840s. Cooper was not just any settler, he was a captain of a ship and the son-in-law of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. He settled on Potrero y Moro Cojo and his property was patented by the United States government in 1859.
Cooper had died in 1872 but he left two daughters behind who undoubtedly inherited the land. Whether a station was erected at this time is not presently known to this historian, but it seems possible. Around 1880, a connecting line between Castroville and the Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad track at Bardin's was built across the Cooper family land. It passed directly through the heart of the rancho, requiring a long and disruptive easement, and it seems most likely that the family negotiated a stop for their agricultural products in exchange. The fact that the station was known as Morocojo, the name of the rancho, until 1912 reinforces this point.
When the Pajaro Valley Railroad passed through in 1891, it originally ended at the Morocojo junction with the now-Southern Pacific Railroad's Monterey Branch. Over the next decade, the route was extended to Spreckles near Salinas, with the two railroad lines more or less quartering Rancho Morocojo. Southern Pacific timetables noted the crossing with the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad in its timetables, although there appears to have been little interchange here. The PVCRR did not even note the crossing, placing its Moro Cojo stop slightly to the southeast near a second stop for the rancho named Cooper. The PVCRR maintained a total of five stops within the rancho, although by this point the rancho property had probably been divided into various smaller parcels. Claus Spreckels leased portions of the property to grow sugar beats for his two local refineries and likely used these five stops to make shipments out of the area easier. The Southern Pacific station may have been used for similar purposes by Spreckels, especially prior to 1891.
For another decade, Morocojo remained a stop on the Monterey Branch until the railroad inexplicably in 1912 renamed the station Nashua. Nashua remains even today an unincorporated community in Monterey County, but there is almost nothing there anymore. Presumably more was there in the 1910s-1930s, but it seems doubtful there was ever a thriving town. In the USGS map for 1948, only the station and a few small structures are noted at the site of the junction. It is possible the area was more popular prior to 1929 when the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad shut down. Once the crossing was closed and the right-of-way converted into Nashua Road, the locals only had the Southern Pacific Railroad to haul its goods. With the Great Depression starting at the same time, exports from the area undoubtedly declined, while the rise of the automobile and automated farming likely ended any need for the station. By 1951, Nashua no longer appeared in timetables.
A Google Streetview image of the Nashua Station site. The tracks now sit beneath Nashua Road, the former right-of-way
of the Pajaro Valley Railroad. The signal sits idle, turned away, its crossing gate long removed.
Mojocojo probably appeared in timetables as early as 1874, when the Salinas Valley Railroad first passed through the area. By 1899, it had a class-A freight platform but no other facilities at the site. It was located 112.4 miles from San Francisco via Castroville, Gilroy, and San José, and it acted as the crossing station for the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad. The station served primarily as a flag-stop but did appear on timetables with a schedule. It was 18.0 miles from Lake Majella. Mojocojo was renamed Nashua in 1912.
Nashua was located 112.3 miles from San Francisco via Castroville, Gilroy, and San José. The station was reduced to a C-class freight station in the 1920s, although it retained its platform. The facilities there in 1940 included a 14 car-length siding (~700 feet) and both passenger and freight facilities. Nashua as a geographic location appears to have disappeared in the late 1940s as it ceased appearing on timetables in 1951.
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The site of Nashua Station is located at the eastern corner of Nashua Road with Monte Road. Today, there is only a field there, with a small maintenance facility located just to the east of it. The railroad tracks no longer cross the road, being paved over in the 1990s, and the signals, still present, are turned away, their bars removed.
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When monumental moments in life happen, one needs to take some time to reflect on it a little. I'd say this is one of them. Plus, the ordeal it took to even obtain this small piece of flimsy plastic is worth a gold medal alone. Throw in a side of name changing and this seemingly simple process turns into a full-fledged circus act... (if you live in New York, you know how this story plays out all too well).
People often ask, 'When do you know you've become a New Yorker?' Some will say it's about the years you've been here.... I hear the magical number is 7.... or maybe it's 10. After the obvious answers of ...'when you know better than to get on an empty subway car' and 'when you'll steal a cab from someone you know obviously needs it more than you' and before you get to the point of... 'I remember back when that coffee shop was a liquor store before it was a bodega' story times...... you get a driver's license! And ladies and gentlemen.... I did just that. Don't worry about the fact that I haven't actually operated a motor vehicle in the better part of five years. Minor details.
Gone are the days of reluctantly handing my license to a bouncer only to have him look at me, look at the license, roll his eyes and assume it's a fake. Likely because he's never even heard of Iowa before. Now the only reaction I'm likely to get out of a bouncer is a mutual New Yorker understanding of a 'deer in headlights' license picture. Nevermind the fact the eye exam is a piece of notebook paper scotch taped to an angled wall in the DMV, the woman taking the pictures likes the 'scare factor'.... I think it's her power move. And it worked.
Happy two-year and one month anniversary E..... I officially got one step closer to a full name change!


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7 November, 1944 (21 Cheshvan, 5705): Execution of Hannah Szenes
9 November, 1938 (15 Cheshvan, 5699): Crystal night
Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein-yertziet
Ivri Date: 10 Kislev, 5696
English Date: 28 November, 1933
Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866-1934) was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Knesseth Yisrael in Slabodka, Lithuania and is recognized as having been one of the leading Talmudists of the twentieth century.
Rabbi Epstein was born in the town of Bakst, in the Vilna district of Lithuania, on the 20th of Adar, 5626 (1866), to Rabbi Tzvi Chaim and Baila Chana Epstein. His father, who served as the rabbi of Bakst, had been affectionately referred to during his days in the Volozhin yeshiva as "the Black Genius". Little Moshe Mordechai's genius was detected from a very early age. The child prodigy began studying in the Volozhin yeshiva at the age of 16, under the guidance of the legendary Torah giant Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik. There, he met his brother-in-law-to-be, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, and, in 1889, married Menucha Frank, the eldest "Frank sister".
1. Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein


PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – As a gentle breeze binds the scent of oil and tropical air, Paul Rom rises from his wheelchair and grabs hold of the rail. The sky and water nearly match in brilliant blue and just feet a way an American flag whips atop the mast of ship still watching over the harbor. With a little help Paul gazes just to his left, the front gun turret rusted, but visible above the water and the smells from 'the tears of the Arizona' drift up from below. For Paul, a native of the Bronx, this is his first and likely last trip back to Pearl Harbor since his service so many years ago and he has come at a time many in this dying club will say their final goodbye's.
They all have stories. From swimming through oil infested waters ablaze from explosions, to serving on other parts of the island...watching in horror as the Japanese surprise attack 69 years ago killed more than 2,400 of their friends and colleagues, including children and other civilians. For so many the years have gone by so fast and you can literally see the memories on their faces as they go into a near trance while looking over the site. All around the island and around this harbor bombs fell and gunfire ripped through everything in site. Two hours and two waves of Japanese planes later, 188 U.S. aircraft and 21 ships were either destroyed, or severely damaged and we had been brutally thrust into the war in the Pacific.
We have come here for the 69th commemoration at Pearl Harbor for two reasons...the obvious is the memorial that will be attended by about 100 survivors and their last official visit here, but also to witness the dedication of a brand new facility to remember their fight and America's resolve. You see four years ago when we came for the 65th anniversary, our crew noticed the visitors center had seen better days and that's putting it lightly. Big chunks of concrete had fallen from numerous areas and parts of the center were literally sinking back into Pearl Harbor. A fund had been established and every effort was being made to raise 50-million dollars to replace a museum and site that had seen much better days. We pitched the story idea and planned a return.
Just a few months later, we would be back at Pearl Harbor and tell the story and the efforts being made to rebuild before the last survivors were gone and many of you donated money to see that the project would be finished in time. Thankfully the money came in and the center was replaced, so we get another humbling opportunity to meet the survivors and their families as they come to see the new place and remember those lost. First and foremost this is all about seeing the men and women of the great generation and secondly to see the site that will ensure their efforts and fight will not be forgotten. As Park Ranger Candace Francis says "If we don't remember what happens, we do lose our past."
I will say this...if you haven't been here to see this amazing site before, the new World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument/Pearl Harbor Visitor Center is more than a must-see. If you have been here, you will not recognize the place on a return trip. The facility is downright beautiful and open and gives the visitor the feel of a modern, yet nostalgic trip through time. The new Museum is interactive and spectacular, boasting artifacts from the attack like a ripped open Japanese torpedo, or a door from inside the USS Arizona. There are theaters, pictures, interviews with survivors, a research education center and openness that allows all who come here to peacefully reflect. The site couldn't be more impressive for a group of men and women that witnessed one of the most horrifying, yet historic events in American history.
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Gold Of The Lot: The Brightest, Most Interesting And Rare Modifications Of The GAZ-M1
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This spring, the 85th birthday is celebrated by one of the first mass passenger cars of the USSR - GAZ-M1. The first copies of the model were assembled in March 1936, and serial production started in May of the same year. For the anniversary of the legendary Soviet car, I would like to recall the most beautiful and rare versions of the "emka", which you may not even have heard of.
GAZ-M2
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According to a cooperation agreement between Ford and the government of the USSR, which was signed in the late 1920s, the Americans pledged to supply technical documentation for new models within 9 years. Therefore, after the first "Russian Ford" - the licensed model GAZ-A - followed by a more advanced model - Ford B, also known as the 1932 Ford Model 40 model year. It was she who became "emka".
The Soviet side was offered cars with both four and eight-cylinder engines. For M1, GAZ chose a simpler option. But on the experimental M2 coupe (quite a suitable name for a fast car, isn't it?) It was the American V8 flathead engine that was installed.
"Um-second" was almost an exact copy of the so-called "three-window" (two side and one rear window) coupe Ford Model 40 - with the exception of stamped wheels (the Americans had spokes) and as many as three reserves, although the "Fords" somehow dispensed with one.
Alas, a beautiful and, it must be, fast car - American clones with V8 accelerated to a hundred in 17 seconds, which was an excellent result for that time - was built in a single copy. Therefore, only a few managed to check its speed.
GAZ-61
But the unique off-road sedan GAZ-61 became serial - in fact, the world's first comfortable SUV. And there is nothing American left in it!
The breakthrough "sixty-first" was authored by Vitaly Grachev, the legendary automobile and tank designer. The powerful, by the standards of the time, six-cylinder GAZ-11 engine (85 horses versus 50 in the stock "emka"), as well as the plug-in four-wheel drive turned the civilian sedan into a brilliant rogue.
On the basis of the 61st, they also produced a version with a "pickup" body - a light artillery tractor GAZ-61-416.
With the beginning of the war, the GAZ-61 was very much needed on the front, but at the same time rather complicated and expensive in the production of GAZ-61. Moreover, mass deliveries of "Jeep" and "Dodge" have solved, if not all, then many of the needs of the Red Army in automotive technology. Therefore, the off-road sedan never became a serial.
GAZ-11-415
However, "emo" pickups were made not only for military needs. A prototype of a real Soviet utah - GAZ-41 - was presented back in 1937.
It was a two-seater, rear-wheel drive vehicle with a separate cargo platform and a payload of half a ton. The serial production of the stylish and practical 415 was set up only two years later, and by 1941 they managed to assemble about eight thousand pickups.
The rarest and most fiery version of a light truck was called the GAZ-11-415 - all the advantages of an ordinary GAZ ute, multiplied by an 85-horsepower six-cylinder engine. It is a pity that the batch of such machines was limited to only two copies!
This car has nothing to do with the popular Volga. It's just that they didn't work very carefully with digital indices in Soviet times. The pre-war GAZ-21 is a 6x4 pickup truck with two rear axles leading.
"Twenty-first" is more correctly called a search option on the way to the same brilliant GAZ-61. Initially, the already mentioned Vitaly Grachev considered the option of increasing the vehicle's cross-country ability by adding another drive axle. However, in practice, it turned out to be difficult and ineffective.
And also, if you look closely, you will notice that a cab from a GAZ-AA truck is installed on the GAZ-21.In general, a real Frankenstein, which never made it into the series.
An advanced and even rarer version of the GAZ-21. This time with a closed body from the "emka", but with the same stunted 50-horsepower four-cylinder engine and two driving axles in the back.
Although, if not for the modest power, the GAZ-25 could well be called the Soviet analogue of the famous Mercedes-Benz G4 - the car of the high command of the Third Reich.
They say that only two copies of the GAZ-25 were assembled, one of which was put up for sale a couple of years ago for 30 million rubles. It seems even inexpensive for a very limited edition model.
In the 1930s, when the thought of the designers of armored vehicles was marking time at a crossroads, light armored vehicles seemed to be quite a promising direction. This is how the BA-20 appeared, in the contours of which the "emka" marking the anniversary is unmistakably guessed.
However, only bulletproof armor and a single DT machine gun in the commander's cupola made the "twenty" not so much a formidable weapon as an easy target.
The weaknesses of the machine came out literally after the first combat use in the battle on Khalkhin Gol, and with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the production of BA-20 was stopped altogether. There was simply no point in wasting precious time and energy on this model.
GAZ-GL1
I would like to end the list of unusual "emoks" on a peaceful and inspiring note. And for this, the racing GL1 is perfect. If you believe the urban legends, then the reason for the appearance of the first factory racing car in the USSR was … Cord 812. Allegedly, the pilot Mikhail Gromov was able to accelerate to 141 km / h on a donated American roadster. And in order to support the honor of the domestic car industry, GAZ decided to build its own answer to Chamberlain, that is, "Korda".
All this sounds, of course, funny, but not too convincing. For the whole plant to strain, trying to wipe its nose of the production American model ?! Although…
One thing can be said with certainty: GL1 (the car index is an abbreviation of "Racing Lipgart", declassifying the personality of the designer) turned out to be beautiful and interesting. You will not recognize the strict "emka" in this impetuous handsome man.
Thanks to aerodynamic body contours and boosted up to 65 hp. The GL1 four-cylinder engine managed to heat up almost to 162 km / h! The all-Union speed record was set by the pilot Arkady Nikolaev in September 1940.
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Q BoBo's Wife Still Unable to Get HKSAR Passport
By addy on July 30, 2012 in Hot Gossip!, NEWS
Earlier, the Hong Kong Immigration Department refused to issue an HKSAR passport to the wife of TVB Indian actor, Q BoBo (喬寶寶). Both were permanent Hong Kong residents. Unless there is a sudden turn of events, BoBo said he and his wife will move to Scotland permanently to take care of their son after his contract with TVB ends in April 2013.
The 43-year-old Indian actor exclaimed, "I don't want to leave! I don't know why her application was rejected. I've read the details. They said that as long as you have a permanent identity card and have stayed in Hong Kong for seven years, you will be applicable for a HKSAR passport. My Indians friends that were in a similar situation to my wife could apply for one! But my wife, who is willing to give up her Indian citizenship for a Chinese citizenship, could not!"
BoBo's second son, 9-year-old Arvin, is diagnosed with spondylosis and ADHD. In order for Arvin to live under a better-suited environment for his health conditions, BoBo decided to have Arvin stay in Scotland permanently. To take care of Arvin, BoBo's wife applied for an HKSAR passport to ease up traveling difficulties between Hong Kong and Scotland, but the Hong Kong Immigration Department declined her application for unknown reasons.
In August, BoBo and his wife will go to Scotland to apply for permanent residency and British citizenship. BoBo will also end his businesses in Hong Kong and move them to Scotland. BoBo said, "I'm at the peak of my career right now, and I really don't want to leave Hong Kong! My oldest son is also attending college in Scotland, and I want to stay here longer to earn more money for my family. I don't think I can do that anymore."
However, BoBo does not wish to completely give up his Hong Kong entertainment career. He expressed that after he settles down in Scotland, he hopes TVB will renew his contract so he can continue to stay in Hong Kong.
Sources: Wenweipo.com, On.cc
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HeTieShou says:
I think he can still work in HK even if he may live there all the time. Many TVB artists lived in Canada but still worked for TvB. Therefore, I think BoBo still can.. Hope that his wife will be able to get a passport and still do not understand why she can't. I hope that it is not a case of racial discrimination.
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y2k says:
Her wife could already have HKSAR passport have a wife a White race ,HK used to workship white while discrimination against fellow asian like Indian ,Filipinos ,Thai ,Nepal and Mainland Chinese who HK refer as Ah Chan ,Pak Ku ,Dai Yuen Chai ,Chinaman etc ,however HK workship fellow rich Asian like Korean and Japanese .
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Critics says:
The HK Govt is racist and bias.
They give mainland chinese PR status but not him and wife.
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yuaida says:
It's a shame to see this happen but I do admire him for the sacrifice he's making in order to look after his family…….a man at 43 years of age is at a risky time of his career and a bad move can mean things going downhill after that…….Good Luck and all the best to Q Bobo…….you're a good man.
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cinsin says:
Why can't his wife just stay in Scotland permanently since their sons are both there on a permanent basis?
There really isn't a need to apply for a HKSAR passport if she isn't really going to be travelling back and forth that much. Plus it's not hard to get into HK.
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Nicole replied:
Which is what they are trying to do now. However, if you want to stay there permanently, you need documents. But I believe Qbobo's wife is not working. Thus there will probably be some work or investment related requirement for them to apply for residence, thus QBobo will have to go along with her.
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Question to Jaynestars bloggers, does HK permanent resident lack certain HK government social or financial benefit if they do not have a HKSAR passport? What type of HKSAR visa and stay duration can a visitor apply for and how long is the approval process if they choose to work in HK? Does the employer initiates this process?
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Virginia Water Radio 2: Week of 2-1-2010
Welcome to Virginia Water Radio (Episode 2) for the week of February 1, 2010. This week's show is hosted by, Alan Raflo, research associate at the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, located at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Our show presents news and notices that relate to Virginia's waters, from the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean.
[Sound file archived 12-5-11; for access, contact Virginia Water Radio.]
Rainfall up to nearly 5 inches in some places between January 21-25 led to flooding in several Virginia river basins on January 25-26. Various news reports indicated that the high water—along with mudslides—closed many roads and school systems, stranded some motorists, required pumping in Scottsville to prevent flooding in that Albemarle County town, caused a one-day shutdown of the Pulaski County Service Authority's water-treatment plant, and caused shellfishing areas in parts of the James and Rappahannock River to be closed.
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch on January 27, the U.S. Interior Department has indicated that a sale of leases for oil and gas exploration off Virginia's shore may be delayed until 2012 to allow more time for environmental studies. This followed the request in December 2009 by then Gov.-elect Robert McDonnell, in a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, that the federal Minerals Management Service expedite its work towards the lease sale and ensure that the sale can take place in 2011.
The January 25th Daily Press in Newport News reported that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will eliminate its annual testing of water bodies for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), at a savings of $365,000. This is part of DEQ's efforts to cut $5 million from its budget. Since 1998, the department has monitored PCB levels in fish from 50 to 100 sites annually. PCBs formerly were used in a variety of industrial products. Congress banned production of PCBs in the 1970s, but the persistent chemicals remain in sediments and present a fish-contamination risk in many waterways in Virginia and nationwide.
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative continues to seek approvals necessary for its proposed coal-fired power plant in Surry County. Public hearings on the Cooperative's rezoning request were schedule for February 1 before the Dendron Town Council and February 4 before the Surry County Board of Supervisors. The cooperative has said some 50 federal, state, and local permitting processes will be needed. According to a May 2009 article by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the proposed plant's estimated cost is $4 to 6 billion; its capacity could be as much as 1,500 megawatts, making it Va.'s largest coal-fired power plant; and it would use water from the James River, requiring a new pipeline.
On January 11, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced that agency plans to seek by 2013 new regulations that would place stricter controls on stormwater runoff from developed areas, and that would increase the number of farms that fall under runoff rules for confined animal feeding operations. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1/12/10)
On January 6, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Terrence Ney ruled in favor of Fairfax County in its water-rate lawsuit against the City of Falls Church. Fairfax County sued over Falls Church's practices of charging water rates that generate surplus revenue beyond expenses and of transferring that surplus to the City's general fund for non-water purposes. Falls Church has asked the court to stay and reconsider the ruling, and a hearing on those motions was held on January 29.
WATER SOUNDS AND MUSIC
This week we featured one of the most well-known traditional Appalachian tunes: "Cripple Creek," performed by Virginia native Wade Ward in 1962 on the Smithsonian Folkways album "Traditional Music from Grayson and Carroll Counties." According to various Web sites, the origin of the tune is not known for sure, but many Virginia musicians believe the song was inspired by the Cripple Creek that flows through Wythe County and joins the New River near Austinville.
First, in government policy and regulatory meetings:
The 2010 Virginia General Assembly is in session until March 13. Every year the General Assembly considers many bills related to water. The Virginia Water Center has some services to help you follow water-related legislation. To find out more, call Virginia Water Radio at 540-231-5463.
Upcoming meetings about Total Maximum Daily Loads, or TMDLs, for impaired waters include the following:
On Feb. 8 in Suffolk, for shellfish waters in the lower Nansemond River and its tributaries. For more information, contact Jennifer Howell at (757) 518-2111.
On Feb. 12 in Alexandria, for Cameron Run, Holmes Run, and Hunting Creek. For more information, contact Katie Conaway at (703) 583-3804.
And in upcoming educational events:
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Grasses for the Masses continue through February 20 in several locations in the Bay watershed. The workshops show how to grow aquatic plants to help restore Bay habitat. For more information, contact the Bay Foundation's Richmond office in Richmond at (804) 780-1392.
On February 11 at Belle Island State Park in Lancaster County, a biologist with the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge will present "Invasive Plants and What Homeowners Can Do." For more information, phone (804) 462-5030.
Virginia Water Radio is a product of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, which is solely responsible for the show's content. Hosting and bandwidth for this podcast are also provided by the Water Center. We invite you to visit the center online at www.vwrrc.vt.edu.
Show notes and production assistance has been provided by Patrick Fay. Technical assistance provided by Innovation Space. Editorial assistance provided by Danielle Guerin.
Opinions expressed on this show are not necessarily those of the Water Center, Virginia Tech, or this station.
If you need more information about anything mentioned this week, call us at (540) 231-5463.
Posted by Alan Raflo at 11:20 PM
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Mookie Betts is a talented guy, but did you know he can solve a Rubik's Cube in under two minutes?
The Boston Red Sox center fielder sat down with NESN's Gary Striewski and showed off his skills. You can see how fast Betts is in the video above.


Have you met Pete and Kelli yet? Over at No Gluten, No Problem?
Perhaps you've spotted one of their cookbooks – Artisanal Gluten-Free Cooking or Artisanal Gluten-Free Cupcakes.
No? Well, you should really check them out. Pete is a professional outdoor/sports writer, as well as a gluten free blogger and cookbook author. I've been following NGNP for quite a few years now and I have found that his posts are one of the first ones I will click on to read in the mornings because I enjoy his easy style of writing and I know the information (or recipe) I will be getting will be right on.
Pete caught my attention recently with his San Marzano Deep Dish Pizza and so when the new adopt your blogger post went out, it was still on my mind. So I scooped up No Gluten, No Problem for this month's Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger.
As you probably know, Adopt a Gluten Free Blogger was originally started by Sea at Book of Yum. This month it is being hosted by Wendy at Celiacs in the House. Be sure to watch for the final round-up post at Celiacs in the House with all 25 adoptions and check out all the yummy goodies!
I chose three of Pete's recipes this month. Mainly because I couldn't choose just one! The first being that San Marzano Deep Dish Pizza I mentioned above. Wow! Yum! Pow! I have made it twice now and I really love it! It is simple to make, even for a yeasted crust and I love the doughy, deep crust edges. And like he says, buy the San Marzano tomatoes! I grow San Marzano tomatoes every year and they are some of my favorite paste/plum-style tomatoes.
The cheese did get a little dark and burnt in spots both times I made it, which could be my temperamental oven. But it was all bubbly, gooey and yummy, regardless. The first time I made the pizza, I made it exactly as the recipe says, no additions. The second time, I added some other pizza ingredients. I loved it both times! If you like deep-dish pizza, be sure to check out the recipe! And before you start, make sure that your oven will reach 500 degrees – not all residential ovens do. It is important to getting a good crust on this pizza.
Take One - the cheese got a little too brown, but still very tasty!!!
Take Two - even better!
Next up, we made Chicken Tikka Masala 2.0. Except that we used chickpeas instead of chicken. Chickpeas are my usual go-to meat substitution. The flavor of the dish was right on – chicken or no chicken.
I used two cans of drained and rinsed chickpeas in place of the meat and I could have used a third can to balance out the chickpeas to sauce ratio. Instead of sauteing the chicken first, I skipped that step and then just added the chickpeas at the end, before the longer simmer, to heat them through and soak up the creamy sauce.
And finally, I had to try the Red Lentil Dal. We love lentils and I am always looking for new ways to make them. Even though it has been super hot outside and I don't always want to cook something hot, or at least not for very long, this recipe has little prep and allowed me to step away from the stove for the majority of the cooking time. And red lentils, being so tiny, they cook quickly, which meant less time with the stove on!
I commented to my husband that this dal was great comfort food, with a great flavor. He agreed, and as he put it, it was "like eating mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving" (which is about the only time of year we eat them!) – meaning it was warm, flavorful and comfy.
The only thing I changed about this recipe is that I omitted the cilantro – not because we're cilantro haters (we love it!) – but because all of my cilantro plants have bolted in the heat. So cilantro haters – don't let it discourage you from trying this recipe. It is still delicious without!
All three of these dishes have now been added to our usual repertoire. I hope you will head over and take a look at all of Pete and Kelli's other recipes and their cookbooks! I know I have enjoyed cooking along with them this month – so will you!


I've recently joined the Waves audio plugin Street Team. If your not familiar with Waves plugins then you probably haven't been involved in professional audio production for the past dozen or so years. I suppose with the plethora of audio plug ins out there it's possible not to have found them if your relatively new to the scene but, Waves are, I dare say, pretty much an industry standard for the pro market. They are found in most professional studios and mastering facilities and now in many live rigs too. In recent years they not only have become a bit more competitive with their pricing but have also finally moved away from the iLock dongle system which have both made Waves a much more appealing option for smaller facilities and personal studios like my own. I recently upgraded to the latest V9 upgrade and it really has become so much easier to install update and authorize. I am really happy about that. I've had the Platinum collection for a few years now and have added a few Waves plugins to my collection on top of that. Waves offer a high standard of sonic quality, system stability and support that set it apart from many plug ins out there.
questions about Waves plug ins specifically or production in general I'd be happy to help as far as I can. I hope to write a few tips or ideas here soon if I can climb my way out of the seemingly endless pile of tasks sessions and of course, chores that are never finished.
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January 2020 - what's in this newsletter?
In Focus: Global Press Archive powered by Veridian
Collection Update: Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
To begin 2020, here's some big news for access to global news publications, and a new look for the IDNC.
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GPA promises to facilitate new digital humanities research and broaden the landscape of area studies covered by digital news archives. Over time, GPA will present thousands of global newspapers as searchable online archives, covering approximately 30 languages and 80 countries. Wherever possible, titles will be presented in their complete runs from the first issue, and most publications in the GPA will be available as comprehensive digital archives for the first time.
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IDNC - A new look for a new decade
The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (IDNC) started 2020 with a fresh new look and a stack of extra features.
This digital collection from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign includes 129 newspaper titles and more than 1.5 million pages. Beginning with an issue of the Sangamo Journal from 1831, researchers can dive into a diverse holding of newspapers spanning 180 years of Illinois state daily life and history.
The recent upgrade of the IDNC website has modernized its user interface design, so it now sits comfortably alongside the main University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign website. It is also fully responsive - making it easier than ever to search and enjoy this rich resource across multiple devices.
A range of new features have been added to the IDNC as William Schlaack of the University's Preservation Services explains:
"Thanks to recent software updates provided by Veridian, the IDNC website now provides an updated look to support a variety of new and improved features. Veridian was amenable to the many feature requests we placed, ranging from an Illinois county browser on our home page, and giving users the ability to select how many search results they receive per page. In addition, the site is now more accessible for those who prefer browsing on their phone or tablet."
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