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Jiří Kubík (* 22. září 1972 Plzeň) je český novinář a investigativní žurnalista. Od roku 2019 je šéfredaktorem Seznam Zpráv.

Novinářská kariéra
Vystudoval Fakultu sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy. Od roku 1991 působil v deníku Lidové noviny. Od roku 1994 byl redaktorem deníku Mladá fronta DNES, roku 2007 se stal zástupcem šéfredaktora. MF DNES opustil po necelých 21 letech na konci listopadu 2014, poté nastoupil do vydavatelství Economia jako šéfredaktor sdíleného obsahu.

Od podzimu 2016 pak začal působit jako zástupce šéfredaktora zpravodajství portálu Seznam.cz, z něhož v lednu 2018 vznikla Televize Seznam. Spolu se Sabinou Slonkovou v ní nadále působil jako reportér investigativního pořadu Zvláštní vyšetřování, moderoval také rozhovory v pořadu Výzva. V říjnu 2019 se stal po Jakubu Ungerovi šéfredaktorem Seznam Zpráv.

Reportáž s Andrejem Babišem mladším
Mediální a politickou pozornost získala reportáž odvysílaná v televizi Seznam ve dnech 12. a 13. listopadu 2018. Pravděpodobně již v říjnu 2018 se Slonkové a Kubíkovi podařilo vystopovat Andreje Babiše mladšího ve švýcarském městě Ženeva. Premiérův syn vypověděl na skrytou kameru v brýlích jednoho z reportérů, že podepsal listiny týkající se objektu Čapí hnízdo, aniž věděl, co na nich stálo. Také prohlásil, že byl "zavlečen na Krym" Petrem Protopopovem, manželem jeho ošetřující lékařky Dity Protopopové, aby nemohl vypovídat v kauze Čapí hnízdo. Cestu nazval "únosem". Sněmovní opozice v reakci na toto zjištění iniciovala hlasování o vyslovení nedůvěry Babišově vládě a Senát přijal usnesení požadující rezignaci předsedy vlády.

Andrej Babiš starší 22. listopadu pro Blesk uvedl, že kvůli údajnému porušení švýcarských zákonů při rozhovoru Slonkové a Kubíka v Ženevě podal advokát matky a syna Babišových u hlavního švýcarského prokurátora trestní oznámení na oba novináře. Vyplývalo to také z prohlášení švýcarského advokáta Alexandra de Senarclens, který zastupoval bývalou manželku premiéra Babiše a jejího syna od června 2018. Advokát dodal, že zabránil druhému rozhovoru Slonkové a Kubíka s Andrejem Babišem mladším, o který se tito novináři pokoušeli v listopadu 2018.

Literární dílo
Společně se Slonkovou Kubík napsal knihu Tíha Olova s podtitulem "A co jsme do novin nepsali" (2001).

Ocenění
Je držitelem ceny Novinářská křepelka za rok 1998 a laureátem Ceny Ferdinanda Peroutky za rok 2000.

Reference

Externí odkazy
 Jiří Kubík – články autora na iDNES.cz
 Autorský profil na serveru Aktuálně.cz

Čeští investigativní novináři
Nositelé Ceny Ferdinanda Peroutky
Nositelé Novinářské křepelky
Absolventi Fakulty sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy
Narození v roce 1972
Narození 22. září
Narození v Plzni
Žijící lidé
Muži

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Scott Hazen Machia, age 53 years, died Thursday evening, May 18, 2017, at the University of Vermont Medical Center with loving family at his side.
He enjoyed history and helping various charities including, Habitat for Humanity, Toys for Tots and the local food self. He also enjoyed repairing vehicles and renovating houses and old buildings. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Richford.
Scott leaves his companion of 16 years, Regina Machia of Highgate; a son, Hazen Scott Machia of Highgate; a step-son, Darrell Meyer of Sheldon; a daughter, Brandy Rose Machia of Highgate and her daughter Trinity Rose Johnson of Enosburgh; two brothers, Keith Machia and his wife Louise of Highgate and Corey Machia and companion Lela Omiak of Highgate; a sister, Cher Freeman and companion Dan Poissant of Sheldon as well as several nieces, nephews and cousins.
A Funeral service will be held Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at 3:00 O' Clock p.m. from The Kidder Memorial Home, 89 Grand Avenue, Swanton. The Reverend Lyle Willey will officiate. Interment will follow at the Machia family lot in St. Louis Cemetery in Highgate Center.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. until the hour of the service.


It's been thirty years since Robin Williams starred in a television series (Mork & Mindy), but the veteran comedian is looking to make his way back to the small screen. It looks like his comedy vehicle will be a single-camera comedy series written by none other than David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice). CBS is currently eying the series which sets Williams up as a brilliant ad executive who ends up working alongside his daughter. The half-hour episodic comedy would reunite Kelley with CBS, where his drama Picket Fences picked up his first Emmy. Deadline further reports that Williams has recently wrapped shooting on Lee Daniels' The Butler and is moving onto The Angriest Man in Brooklyn which also stars Peter Dinklage, Mila Kunis, Melissa Leo and James Earl Jones.


Clowns are scary to some, but apparently they're invisible to most cellphone users. According to a study involving a unicycle, a clown, and 150 college students, cellphone users were half as likely as others to notice a red-nosed, unicycle rider. Ira Hyman, Jr., a researcher at Western Washington University sent a student unicycling around campus wearing a clown costume and then asked people who'd walked past if they'd "noticed anything unusual." The cellphone users were less than half as likely to have noticed, but Hyman speculates that it may not be the technology itself which distracts them, but instead the concentration required to maintain a conversation over that particular medium. Whatever the case, kudos to him for managing to find an excuse to run a study involving a clown.
The obvious flaw in this study is that for some people who might have been online, a clown on a unicycle wouldn't have been unusual. I predict that this will win an Ignoble Prize next year.


St Kilda impressed fans at last night's NAB Cup match at the Telstra Dome when they overcome Richmond by 40 points. With some big names missing from the St Kilda side all eyes were on the Tigers who were hoping to kick start 2008 with a win first up however it was not to be.
St Kilda lead the game all night and apart from small patches from Richmond the game never looked in doubt. Former West Coast Eagle Michael Gardiner finally got his chance to play at AFL level again when he teamed up with one of last years premiership players Steven King to form a strong force around the ground. It was Gardiner's first match since midway through the 2006 season, he has been riddled with injuries ever since he joined the Saints.
Charlie Gardiner, another former Geelong recruit also starred for the saints who slotted in to the forward line nicely alongside Justin Koschitzke and Fraser Gehrig who was re-drafted by the saints after he had a change of heart when he retired last season. Nick Reiwoldt was one of a few St Kilda stars who missed last nights game.
Apart from the odd burst of speed and confidence from the Tigers side there was not a lot of positives to take from the game apart a screamer from Kelvin Moore and the performance of a few of the younger players.
Goals: St Kilda: Nine-point goals: L Montagna. Goals: F Gehrig 3 S Milne 3 J Koschitzke 2 J Allen 2 R Eddy X Clarke D Armitage S Birss C Gardiner.
Richmond: Nine-point goals: G Tivendale C Newman. Goals: B Deledio 2 N Brown 2 M Richardson K Pettifer M Morton.
Best: St Kilda: N Dal Santo L Montagna J Koschitzke X Clarke C Gardiner S Fisher C Jones.
Richmond: N Foley C Newman J King N Brown M Richardson.
Umpires: D Goldspink H Kennedy T Keating J Armstrong.
Crowd: 23,329 at Telstra Dome.


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Q: Yii2 basic template Login logic doesn't work I'm a newbie Yii2 developer. I've started to create my own website based on Basic Yii2 template. And after creating registration and authorization logic I ran into some issues.

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*I go to login page and Log in with all needed information. It works too.

*But when it log me in it redirects me with $this->goHome() method. By default it's actionIndex in my SiteController and this page is still denied by rules.

My DB scheme is:
$this->createTable('user', [
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        'email' => Schema::TYPE_STRING . ' NOT NULL',
        'password_hash' => Schema::TYPE_STRING . ' NOT NULL',
        'role' => Schema::TYPE_SMALLINT . ' NOT NULL',
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'user' => [
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    'enableAutoLogin' => true,
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My User class extends ActiveRecord and implements IdentityInterface.
public function getId()
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public static function findIdentity($id)
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SiteController behavior method:
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                    'allow' => true,
                    'roles' => ['?']
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            'denyCallback' => function ($rule, $action) {
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                echo ' SESSION IS: ' . Yii::$app->user->enableSession;
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As you can see I've done some var_dumps in my denyCallback function. After I'm logged in it says:
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*"Why is isGuest attribute set to 1 even when I'm logged in as user?

*"How can I fix my access logic?

Also here's some logs:
After login i have: SELECT * FROM "user" WHERE "username"='Test'
After redirect with goHome(): SELECT * FROM "user" WHERE "id"=1
And in session there's an Id: __id 1
Finally if I change my guests' rule to :
[
    'actions' => ['login', 'index'],
    'allow' => true,
    'roles' => ['?']
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it shows me the page I need
Let me know if I should provide more information. Thanks in advance.

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Maurits Van Hoeck (30 September 1890 – 1 August 1950) was a Belgian poet, writer, composer, translator and critic.

He was born in 1890 in Hoogstraten, Belgium. He was a Roman Catholic priest and writer. Van Hoeck died in Antwerp in 1950.

References

External links
 Maurits van Hoeck at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature

1890 births
1950 deaths
20th-century Belgian writers
20th-century Belgian poets
People from Hoogstraten


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Nuncio, född 17 april 2011 på Hanover Shoe Farms i Hanover, Pennsylvania, är en amerikansk travare, mest känd för sin seger i Elitloppet 2016.

Nuncio tränades under större delen av sin tävlingskarriär av Stefan Melander på gården Tillinge-Åby utanför Enköping, och sköttes av sambon Catarina Lundström. Hästen köptes av Melander för 7 000 dollar den 6 november 2012 på en hästauktion i Harrisburg, Pennsylvania men sedan december 2017 är även Menhammar stuteri delägare. Som två- och treåring tävlade Nuncio i Nordamerika där han först stod i träning hos Jim Oscarsson och sedan hos Jimmy Takter. I februari 2015 överfördes han till Sverige och placerades i Melanders egen träning där han sedan stannade karriären ut.

Nuncio tävlade åren 2013–2017 och tillhörde under denna period travets världselit. Han gjorde totalt 63 starter vilket resulterade i 42 segrar, 14 andraplatser och 4 tredjeplatser. Han sprang in 28,8 miljoner kronor – siffror som gör honom till Andover Halls vinstrikaste avkomma och Melanders genom tiderna vinstrikaste häst. Fram till och med karriärens 54:e start var han aldrig sämre än trea i ett lopp (39 vinster, 13 andraplatser, 2 tredjeplatser). Han tog 15 raka segrar från november 2015 till mars 2017. Nuncio var obesegrad under hela 2016 då han också blev årets vinstrikaste häst i Sverige där han följdriktigt också utsågs till "Årets Häst" samma år. År 2020 hyllades han genom att få ett eget travlopp på Solvalla uppkallat efter sig, Nuncios Lopp.

Nuncio tog karriärens största seger i Elitloppet 2016. Bland andra stora segrar räknas Kentucky Futurity (2014), Yonkers Trot (2014), Sprintermästaren (2015), Breeders' Crown (2015), Solvalla Grand Prix (2015), Oslo Grand Prix (2016), Årjängs Stora Sprinterlopp (2016), Jubileumspokalen (2016), Sundsvall Open Trot (2016) och UET Trotting Masters (2016). Han kom även på andraplats i Peter Haughton Memorial (2013) och Hambletonian Stakes (2014) samt på tredjeplats i Elitloppet (2015).

Exteriör och signalement

Nuncios mankhöjd är 161 cm. Han har lång smal hals, lång markerad manke, smal bringa, liggande bogar, djup i bålen, ett smalt och något sluttande toppigt kors. Långa kotor, korta skenor fram och långa skenor bak, bred has och något tåvid bak.

Nuncio är svartbrun med ett par signalement. På huvudet har han en stjärn, vilket är en vit fläck mellan ögonen. På höger ben fram har han en oregelbunden vit krona med svarta fläckar. På vänster ben fram en oregelbunden vit kota med svarta fläckar. På vänster ben bak en vit halvstrumpa med svarta fläckar.

Auktionen i Harrisburg
Nuncio föddes på Hanover Shoe Farms i Hanover i Pennsylvania, vilket är ett av världens största stuterier. Hanover Shoe Farms säljer varje år i början av november sina åringar på hästauktionen i Harrisburg, vilken varar i sex dagar och är Nordamerikas största auktion. Stefan Melander brukade besöka den i travkretsar välkända auktionen och hade tidigare ropat in stjärnhästar som Scarlet Knight och Super Photo Kosmos där. Han besökte auktionen återigen 2012, och ropade då in nummer 544 Nuncio för 7 000 dollar (motsvarande cirka 50 000 kronor med dåvarande växelkurs) under auktionens andra dag den 6 november. Melander har förklarat att han inte förstod det låga priset för Nuncio och att han hade varit beredd att gå högre i budgivningen. Han ska vid köpet ha sagt till den person som visade upp Nuncio att "den här hästen kommer att vinna Hambletonian".

För att sätta priset i perspektiv kan konstateras att det under den andra dagen av auktionen såldes totalt över 300 hästar och Nuncio tillhörde de 50 billigaste. Totalt under dag två såldes 260 hästar för en högre summa än Nuncio och 46 såldes för en lägre summa (43) eller samma summa (3) som Nuncio. Den dyraste hästen under dag två köptes för 275 000 dollar. Den dyraste hästen under hela 2012 års hästauktion på Harrisburg köptes för 380 000 dollar. Totalt köpte Melander sex hästar under auktionen i Harrisburg 2012 – Nuncio (dag 2), Simple Solution (dag 2), Bella Beluga (dag 3), Viking Eagle (dag 3), Stirling Cheer (dag 4) och Party Boat Hanover (dag 4). Nuncio var billigast av dessa medan Party Boat Hanover, som köptes för 32 000 dollar, var dyrast.

Karriär

Säsongen 2013

Efter att Melander köpt Nuncio vid hästauktionen i Harrisburg var planen att ta med honom hem till Sverige för träning i egen regi. Det visade sig dock att Nuncio inte var importberättigad till Sverige eftersom hans mor Nicole Isabelle inte hade ett tillräckligt snabbt löpningsrekord i tävlingssammanhang för gångarten trav (1.13,4 som slagen). Detta gjorde att Melander blev tvungen att hitta en tränare i Nordamerika till Nuncio, vilket blev den svenske tränaren Jim Oscarsson som under denna tid var verksam vid träningsanläggningen Palema Trotting Center i Vero Beach i Florida.

Nuncio gick ett första kvallopp på Meadowlands Racetrack i East Rutherford i New Jersey den 1 juni 2012, där han kördes av Oscarssons son Kevin. Nuncio gjorde därefter sin första start och tog sin första seger den 12 juli 2013 i ett tvååringslopp på Meadowlands Racetrack tillsammans med kusken John Campbell. Två veckor senare följdes segern i debutloppet upp med en start i ett försökslopp till världens största tvååringslopp Peter Haughton Memorial. Han slutade på andraplats bakom Father Patrick i försöket, och kvalificerade sig därmed för final den 3 augusti under 2013 års Hambletoniandag på Meadowlands. I finalen kom han återigen på andraplats bakom Father Patrick. Efter andraplatsen i Peter Haughton Memorial följde två raka segrar, varav den ena i Reynolds Memorial Stakes den 5 september på Vernon Downs i Vernon i New York där han segrade på nytt banrekord för tvååringar. Nästa start gjordes i semifinalen av amerikanska Breeders Crown för tvååriga hingstar och valacker den 11 oktober på Pocono Downs i Wilkes-Barre i Pennsylvania. Där kom han på andraplats efter Father Patrick. Andraplatsen innebar dock att Nuncio kvalificerade sig för finalen, som gick av stapeln den 19 oktober. I finalen placerade han sig återigen på andraplats slagen av Father Patrick.

Efter Breeders Crown tvingades ägaren Stefan Melander i november att flytta Nuncio från Jim Oscarssons till Scott Andrews träning. Detta eftersom Oscarsson valde att flytta sin verksamhet tillbaka till Sverige. I de två första starterna hos Andrews vann Nuncio både försöks- och finalloppen av Matron Stakes för tvååringar på Dover Downs Racetrack i Dover i Delaware. I finalloppet den 17 november 2013 satte Nuncio och kusken Campbell nytt banrekord för tvååringar på Dover Downs. I nästa start avslutade Nuncio säsongen med en andraplats i Valley Victory Trot den 30 november 2013 på Meadowlands. Totalt sprang Nuncio in över 400 000 dollar på tio starter under debutsäsongen, vilket gjorde honom till säsongens näst vinstrikaste tvååriga travhäst i Nordamerika.

Säsongen 2014
Inför säsongen 2014 flyttade ägare Melander i december 2013 Nuncio till Jimmy Takters träning. Den 2 augusti 2014 på Meadowlands Racetrack kom Nuncio på andraplats i Hambletonian Stakes, slagen av stallkamraten Trixton med en halv längd. I samband med detta satte han även sitt personliga löpningsrekord  över sprinterdistansen 1609 meter. Drygt två månader efter andraplatsen i Hambletonian vann han i oktober Kentucky Futurity på The Red Mile i Lexington. Denna seger följdes upp med en seger i även Yonkers Trot den 25 oktober 2014 på Yonkers Raceway i Yonkers. Efter två raka storloppssegrar tog Nuncio den tredje raka storloppssegern när han den 6 november 2014 vann Matron Stakes för treåringar på Dover Downs. Efter loppet påpekade kusken John Campbell hur Nuncio "aldrig gör ett dåligt lopp" utan är en av de jämnaste hästar han kört. Nuncio gjorde säsongens sista start den 22 november 2014 på Meadowlands i amerikanska Breeders Crown för treåriga hingstar och valacker, där han slutade på tredjeplats.

Nuncio var den näst vinstrikaste travhästen i kullen i Nordamerika under säsongen 2014. Endast Father Patrick var vinstrikare. Totalt sprang Nuncio in 1,5 miljoner amerikanska dollar på 17 starter under året. Vid en sammanfattning av säsongen bör även nämnas att Nuncio var den som dittills varit närmast att ta en Triple Crown inom amerikansk travsport sedan Glidemaster 2006. Detta då Nuncio vann de två Triple Crownloppen Kentucky Futurity och Yonkers Trot men däremot inte Hambletonian Stakes, utan var där som tvåa slagen med en halv längd. Utöver Glidemaster har endast sju andra travare sedan starten 1955 lyckats med bedriften att ta en Triple Crown.

Säsongen 2015

Efter två framgångsrika säsonger som unghäst i Nordamerika beslutade ägare Melander att importera Nuncio till Sverige. Den 11 februari 2015 genomfördes importen och Melander placerade Nuncio i sin egen träning på gården Tillinge-Åby utanför Enköping. I The Onions Lopp på den nya hemmabanan Solvalla den 22 april 2015 debuterade Nuncio på svensk mark. Han startade från spår 9 med Melander i sulkyn och segrade med två längder från positionen utvändigt om ledaren. Segern i debutloppet följdes upp med ytterligare en seger, tagen den 6 maj i Dartster F:s Lopp på Solvalla. Efter den andra raka segern på svensk mark blev fyraårige Nuncio inbjuden till 2015 års upplaga av Elitloppet. Elitloppet gick av stapeln den 31 maj på Solvalla. Nuncio startade i det första av de två försöken och slutade i detta på andraplats bakom vinnande Royal Fighter, vilket innebar att han kvalificerade sig för finalloppet som kördes senare under eftermiddagen. I finalen slutade han på tredjeplats, slagen av vinnaren Magic Tonight och tvåan Mosaique Face med en halv längd. Nuncio travade i tredjespår under hela finalloppet, och han ansågs därför av sin ägare, tränare och kusk Melander vara "den moraliska vinnaren" av loppet. Nuncio blev med sitt deltagande i Elitloppet 2015 den 48:e fyraåringen att delta i loppet. Med sin tredjeplats i finalen tillhör han även skaran av de mest framgångsrika fyraåringarna i loppets historia – enbart Mack Lobell som segrade 1988 och Peace Corps som slutade på andraplats 1990 har som fyraåringar lyckats bättre.

Tredjeplatsen i Elitloppet följdes upp med segrar både i försöks- och finallopp av Sprintermästaren den 2 juli 2015 på Halmstadtravet. Segern var hans första seger i ett Grupp 1-lopp i Europa. Därefter startade han den 5 augusti i ett fyraåringslopp på Solvalla, där han segrade på nytt svenskt rekord för utländska fyraåringar efter en lång upploppsspurt förbi loppets ledare Daley Lovin. Drygt två veckor senare, den 19 augusti, segrade han i ett fyraåringslopp inom V75 på Solvalla. Den 10 september startade han i Fyraåringsstjärnan på Gävletravet. I loppet kördes han barfota runt om för första gången i karriären och segrade på löpningsrekordet 1.09,6 över sprinterdistansen 1640 meter med autostart. Han tog sin sjätte raka seger sedan tredjeplatsen i Elitloppet den 7 oktober i Cancerfondens Lopp på Solvalla. Med sex raka segrar i ryggen startade han i semifinalen av Breeders' Crown för fyraåriga hingstar och valacker den 25 oktober på Solvalla. Han travade i ledningen men besegrades med en hals av storskrällen Owen Face som kördes av Adrian Kolgjini. Med andraplatsen kvalificerade han sig dock för final. Finalen gick av stapeln den 8 november på Sundbyholms travbana utanför Eskilstuna. Han vann finalen och tog därmed också sin andra raka seger i ett europeiskt Grupp 1-lopp. Han avslutade sedan säsongen med en seger i Solvalla Grand Prix på Solvalla den 14 november. Med denna seger, värd 400 000 kronor, gick Nuncio om Scarlet Knight som Melanders genom tiderna näst vinstrikaste häst (endast efter Gigant Neo). Totalt sprang Nuncio in 3,6 miljoner kronor på 13 starter varav 10 segrar under sin första säsong i Sverige, vilket gjorde honom till den svenska travsäsongens vinst- och segerrikaste fyraåring och femte vinstrikaste travhäst. På topplistan över säsongens 30 vinstrikaste hästar var han och Readly Express de enda som aldrig var sämre än trea i något lopp under året.

Säsongen 2016

Nuncio inledde säsongen 2016 med årsdebut i Kentucky Fibbers lopp den 30 mars på Solvalla. Han vann årsdebuten och segermarginalen beskrevs som "många längder". Årsdebuten följdes upp med segrar i The Onions Lopp den 13 april och Dartster F:s Lopp den 27 april på Solvalla, vilket innebar att Nuncio försvarade sina segrar i dessa lopp från föregående år. Segern i Dartster F:s Lopp togs på tiden 1.09,9 över sprinterdistansen 1640 meter, vilket var den dittills snabbaste tiden i Europa under 2016.

Säsongens fjärde start gjordes den 11 maj i Meadow Roads Lopp på Solvalla. Efter segern i loppet fick Nuncio en inbjudan till att delta i Elitloppet den 29 maj 2016 på Solvalla. Den 22 maj 2016 blev det officiellt att tränare Melander satte upp Örjan Kihlström som kusk att köra Nuncio i Elitloppet istället för sig själv. Kihlström valde att köra Nuncio framför sin fjolårsvinnare av Elitloppet, Magic Tonight. Elitloppet 2016 gick av stapeln den 29 maj. I försöksloppet skar Nuncio mållinjen på andraplats, och kvalificerade sig därmed för final. I efterhand framkom det dock att försöksvinnaren Un Mec d'Héripré (tränad av Fabrice Souloy) varit dopad i loppet, varför Nuncio i efterhand tilldelades segern i loppet. I finalloppet vann Nuncio från utvändigt ledaren på tiden 1.09,2 över sprinterdistansen 1609 meter, vilket var den dittills snabbaste segertiden någonsin i en Elitloppsfinal. Det tidigare rekordet låg på 1.09,5, vilket Timoko travade från ledningen i 2014 års upplaga. I och med segern, som var värd tre miljoner kronor, gick Nuncio även om Gigant Neo som tränare Melanders vinstrikaste häst genom tiderna samt Donato Hanover som hingsten Andover Halls vinstrikaste avkomma.

Den 4 juni blev det klart att Nuncio skulle följa upp sin Elitloppsseger med start i Oslo Grand Prix den 12 juni på Bjerke Travbane i Oslo. Nuncio skar mållinjen på andraplats, slagen med en hals av Your Highness, efter att ha travat utvändigt om loppets ledare Mosaique Face. Nuncio satte nytt personligt löpningsrekord över medeldistans med autostart med tiden 1.10,5. Liksom i Elitloppet kördes han av Kihlström, som vid denna tid kunde betraktas som hans förstekusk. I efterhand framkom det dock att vinnaren Your Highness (tränad av Fabrice Souloy) varit dopad, varför Nuncio tillskrevs segern i Oslo Grand Prix. Hans segertid 1.10,5 blev därmed också den snabbaste segertiden i loppets historia.

Nästa start gjordes den 16 juli i Årjängs Stora Sprinterlopp på Årjängstravet, där Nuncio vann loppet från utvändigt ledaren. Segern innebar en inbjudan till Hugo Åbergs Memorial, men tränare Melander tackade nej till förmån för Jubileumspokalen. Den 3 augusti skulle Nuncio ha startat i ett kvallopp till Jubileumspokalen på Solvalla. Under förmiddagen den 3 augusti ströks dock Nuncio från loppet, då han inte kunde delta på grund av feber. Trots det missade kvalloppet kom Nuncio med i finalen av Jubileumspokalen, tack vare sina höga startpoäng. Loppet gick av stapeln den 17 augusti på Solvalla. Nuncio vann loppet från andra utvändigt. Vinnartiden skrevs till 1.10,7 över 2140 meter med autostart, vilket innebar att Nuncio slog Varennes tidigare rekord i Jubileumspokalen. Vinnartiden innebar även nytt svenskt rekord och nytt personligt rekord över distansen. Segern i Jubileumspokalen följdes upp med en start i Sundsvall Open Trot den 27 augusti på Bergsåker travbana. Nuncio vann loppet från ledningen. Efter segern påtalade kusken Kihlström hur Nuncio har "the total package" – med startsnabbhet, styrka och löphuvud.

Den 18 september gjorde Nuncio säsongens sista start då han tillsammans med kusken Kihlström deltog i finalen av 2016 års UET Trotting Masters på Bjerke. Nuncio segrade från ledningen, i vad som kom att bli hans sista seger i ett grupplopp. Han var i loppet spelad till vinnaroddset 1.18, vilket är det lägsta vinnaroddset och största favoritskapet någonsin i en final av UET Trotting Masters. Det tidigare lägsta vinnaroddset var 1.70, vilket Ready Cash var spelad till i 2013 års upplaga. Vid en summering av säsongen 2016 kan konstateras att Nuncio var obesegrad under hela säsongen med segrar i samtliga elva starter. Han var dessutom fortsatt obesegrad i karriären med kusken Kihlström, då ekipaget dittills hade vunnit sju av sju starter tillsammans. Totalt sprang Nuncio in 9,4 miljoner kronor på 11 starter och lika många segrar under säsongen 2016, vilket gjorde honom till den svenska travsäsongens såväl vinstrikaste som segerrikaste travhäst.

Säsongen 2017

Våren och sommaren

Säsongen 2017 årsdebuterade Nuncio den 18 februari i ett Gulddivisionslopp inom V75 på Axevalla travbana. Nuncio vann loppet med fem längder från ledningen tillsammans med kusken Örjan Kihlström. Årsdebuten följdes upp med ytterligare en seger den 22 mars i Kentucky Fibbers lopp på Solvalla, vilket innebar att han nu hade 15 raka segrar sedan oktober 2015.

Den 1 april 2017 startade han i Gulddivisionens final (som också var ett av uttagningsloppen till Olympiatravet) på Solvalla och besegrades där av Kadett C.D. Nuncios segersvit med 15 raka segrar blev därmed bruten. Efter att ha tilldelats ett wild card, startade Nuncio den 29 april i finalen av Olympiatravet på Åbytravet i vad som var hans 55:e start i karriären. Han galopperade i startrusningen och slutade oplacerad. Detta var första gången som han galopperade i ett lopp och även första gången som han slutade oplacerad. Fram till och med karriärens 54:e start hade Nuncio nämligen aldrig kommit sämre än trea i ett lopp. Förlusten i Olympiatravet var även första gången som Nuncio, under sin tid i Sverige, förlorade ett lopp utanför hemmabanan Solvalla. Säsongens femte start gjordes den 10 maj i Meadow Roads Lopp på Solvalla. Nuncio lyckades inte försvara sin seger i loppet från föregående år, utan slutade på tredjeplats. Tredjeplatsen innebar tre raka lopp utan seger, vilket endast hänt en gång tidigare i Nuncios karriär – vid skiftet mellan säsongerna 2013 och 2014, då han kom på andraplats i säsongens sista start 2013, och andra- respektive tredjeplats i de två första starterna 2014.

Nuncio deltog i Elitloppet för tredje gången i karriären den 28 maj 2017. Han vann sitt försökslopp före Propulsion och Timoko, och kvalificerade sig därmed för sin tredje raka Elitloppsfinal. Det andra försöksloppet vanns av Bold Eagle, en häst som Nuncio aldrig tidigare mött och det talades om en "drömduell" dem emellan inför finalen. Finalen vanns dock av Timoko, som med segertiden 1.09,0 aak (amerikansk autostart) från ledningen, också slog Nuncios rekord från 2016 års upplaga med den snabbaste segertiden någonsin i en Elitloppsfinal. Nuncio skar mållinjen som femma efter att ha travat utvändigt om ledaren Timoko. I efterhand fråntogs Propulsion sin andraplats (liksom alla sina andra resultat på svensk mark) då det 2020 framkom att han varit nervsnittad i sina hovar och inte varit startberättigad. Nuncios femteplats blev därför en fjärdeplats.

Elitloppet följdes upp med start i Midsommarloppet på Rättviks travbana den 24 juni 2017. Han slutade på tredjeplats bakom vinnaren On Track Piraten. Den 15 juli skulle han enligt sin tränare Stefan Melanders planering ha startat i Årjängs Stora Sprinterlopp, för att försvara sin seger i loppet från föregående år. Inför anmälan till loppet, drygt en vecka innan det skulle gå av stapeln, meddelade dock Nuncios dåvarande ordinariekusk Örjan Kihlström att han valde att köra Propulsion för tränare Daniel Redén framför Nuncio i loppet. Detta resulterade i att tränare Melander inte anmälde Nuncio till loppet. Det fick även till följd att samarbetet mellan Melander och Kihlström blev svagare. Från att ha varit förstavalet som kusk för Melander fick inte Kihlström någon förfrågan att köra ett enda travlopp med någon häst från Melanders Stall TZ mellan den 8 juli 2017 och den 30 maj 2018. Melander anlitade istället främst Johnny Takter och Ulf Ohlsson eller körde själv. Den 30 maj 2018 körde Kihlström återigen lopp för Stall TZ då han var tillbaka som kusk till Digital Ink i Gösta Bergengrens Minneslopp. Han körde även Melanders Zack's Zoomer till seger i Ina Scots Ära den 2 juni 2018.

Hösten och vintern

Efter tre månaders tävlingsuppehåll gjorde Nuncio comeback den 5 oktober 2017 i John Deeres Pokal på Bollnästravet. I loppet kördes han, för första gången sedan maj 2016, av tränare Melander själv och de segrade med fyra längder från ledningen. I segerintervjun efter loppet bekräftade Melander att Nuncio matchas mot Frankrike och det franska vintermeetinget med målet att starta i världens största travlopp Prix d'Amérique i januari 2018. Detta var också anledningen till att Nuncio i loppet tävlade i en europeisk sulky istället för en amerikansk sulky för första gången i karriären. De så kallade "jänkarvagnarna" är nämligen förbjudna i Frankrike. Nästa start gjordes den 21 oktober i Express Gaxes Lopp på Örebrotravet. Loppet kördes som ett Gulddivisionslopp inom V75. Nuncio kom femma efter att ha travat utvändigt om loppets ledare Day or Night In. Starten i Örebro följdes upp med ytterligare en start i Gulddivisionen den 4 november i Hilda Zonetts Lopp på Bergsåker. Han segrade från ledningen på tiden 1.12,0 över distansen 2140 meter. Segern kom att bli den sista i karriären. Med denna seger passerade Nuncio även en miljon kronor insprunget under 2017.

Den 13 november 2017 blev det offentligt att Nuncio preliminäranmälts till Prix de Bretagne, ett lopp som skulle köras den 19 november på Vincennesbanan i Paris som det första av de fyra så kallade "B-loppen" inför Prix d'Amérique. Fram till den 15 november hade dock tränare möjlighet att dra tillbaka anmälningar, vilket Melander valde att göra på grund av bättre väderförhållanden hemma i Enköping än väntat. Melanders plan för Nuncio var istället att starta i Prix du Bourbonnais den 10 december. Nuncio anmäldes senare inte till Prix du Bourbonnais utan Melander ändrade sig och valde istället att anmäla honom till en start i Gösta Nordins Lopp på hemmabanan Solvalla den 13 december. Han slutade på andraplats, slagen med ett huvuds marginal av Food Money (efter målfoto). Nästa start skulle ha blivit Prix de Bourgogne den 31 december, men under julhelgen visade det sig att han drabbats av en infektion varför han inte anmäldes dit och den planerade transporten ner till Frankrike den 27 december fick ställas in. Totalt sprang Nuncio in 1,2 miljoner kronor på tolv starter varav fem segrar, två andraplatser och två tredjeplatser under 2017. Han tjänade minst femsiffriga belopp i samtliga elva felfria starter. Han hamnade emellertid endast på plats 62 över den svenska travsäsongens vinstrikaste hästar, vilket var hans sämsta placering i karriären efter att 2016 ha varit den vinstrikaste hästen och 2015 den femte vinstrikaste.

Den 6 januari 2018 meddelade Melander i det direktsända tv-programmet V75 Direkt att Nuncio avslutar tävlingskarriären och blir avelshingst. Andraplatsen på Solvalla den 13 december 2017 blev därmed karriärens sista start. Totalt gjorde Nuncio 63 starter under sin fyra år långa karriär (2013–2017) och tog 42 segrar, 14 andraplatser och 4 tredjeplatser. Fram till och med karriärens 54:e start var han aldrig sämre än trea i ett lopp (39 segrar, 13 andraplatser, 2 tredjeplatser). Han sprang in totalt 28,8 miljoner kronor – siffror som gör honom till hingsten Andover Halls vinstrikaste avkomma (före Donato Hanover) och tränare Melanders genom tiderna vinstrikaste häst (före Scarlet Knight).

Statistik

Löpningsrekord

Större segrar

Starter

Avelskarriär

Avelsvärdering
Efter att Nuncio importerats till Sverige i februari 2015 gjordes den 15 mars 2015 inför avelsvärderingsnämnden i Eskilstuna en första avelsvärdering för att värdera hans avelsvärde. Nuncio fick i avelsvärderingen 82 av 100 möjliga poäng, vilket innebär "högt skattat avelsvärde" (71-85 poäng). I värderingen gjordes bedömningar av hans härstamning, tävlingsprestationer, temperament och exteriör. Vidare gjordes en veterinärundersökning med röntgentagning.

Avelshingst vid Menhammar stuteri
Under vintern 2017 fick ägare Stefan Melander flera erbjudanden från amerikanska Hanover Shoe Farms, som ville ha Nuncio som avelshingst från och med avelssäsongen 2018. Den 30 december 2017 meddelade dock Melander i det direktsända tv-programmet V75 Direkt att han valt att tacka nej till förmån för svenska Menhammar stuteri i Ekerö. Melander lät stuteriets ägare Margareta Wallenius-Kleberg köpa in sig som delägare i Nuncio. Efter nyheten kom information om kostnaden för Nuncio i aveln upp på stuteriets hemsida. Intresset för Nuncio visade sig vara mycket stort, han blev snabbt fullbokad för året och stuteriet beskrev i nyhetsmedia att de blivit nedringda om Nuncios tjänster efter beskedet att han ska verka i aveln där. Det stora intresset ledde till att Melander den 6 januari 2018 meddelade beslutet att Nuncio inte kommer att tävla mer, utan från och med januari 2018 stallas upp vid stuteriet för att ägna sig åt avelsverksamhet på heltid.

Avkommor

Kullen 2019
Nuncios debutkull från 2019 innehåller 101 svenskfödda hästar. Han fick sin första avkomma natten den 6 februari 2019, då Ursula Knick (efter Ready Cash) hos Lena Martell i Stånga på Gotland nedkom med ett hingstföl efter honom. Fölet fick senare namnet King Kennedy, döpt efter fotbollsspelaren Kennedy Bakircioglü. Sin första avkomma i USA fick Nuncio den 11 mars 2019, då Tuonela (efter Cantab Hall) hos hans gamla uppfödare Russell C. Williams på Hanover Shoe Farms i Pennsylvania nedkom med ett hingstföl efter honom. Den första avkomman till Nuncio som registrerades hos Svensk Travsport var Ytowns Skylark, ett sto (fux) som föddes den 2 april 2019, undan Unter Uns (efter Viking Kronos). Hon dog senare under året.

Nuncios avkommor från debutkullen var ute på hästauktioner under 2020. Den dyraste avkomman blev hingsten Roadtohana (undan Coco Truffles) som klubbades för 900 000 kronor på Solvalla Yearling Sales den 27 augusti 2020. Han var den femte dyraste hästen på hela auktionen. På Kriterieauktionen den 28 september 2020 blev avkomman Perkins, en hingst undan Lightning Kronos, hela auktionens dyraste häst. Han köptes för 775 000 kronor av Stefan Hultman. Även utanför Sverige har det funnits ett stort intresse för Nuncios avkommor. På den årliga finska hästauktionen Varsahuutokauppa den 11 september 2020 såldes hingsten Ignacio (undan Locksweeper) för 36 000 euro, vilket gjorde honom till den näst dyraste ettåringen genom tiderna i Finland. Nuncios dyraste avkomma vid hästauktionen i Lexington i Kentucky i oktober 2020 blev stoet Penthouse (undan Ruby Trap) som köptes för 60 000 dollar av Stefan Melander genom Stall TZ.

Nuncios första startande avkomma blev Joygo, som debuterade den 29 maj 2021 på Lebanon Raceway i Kentucky i USA. Han vann debuten i överlägsen stil från ledningen.

Kullen 2020
Nuncios andra kull från 2020 innehåller 97 svenskfödda hästar. Kullen var ute på hästauktioner under 2021. På Elitauktionen under Elitloppshelgen 2021 blev stoet Twigs Khaleesi (undan Twigs Likepine) den dyraste Nuncio-avkomman och hela auktionens fjortonde dyraste häst. Hon köptes för 400 000 kronor av Daniel Redén.

Utmärkelser

Hästgalan
Vid den svenska Hästgalan 2015 var Nuncio en av de fyra nominerade hästarna i kategorin "Årets Häst". Nuncio förlorade utmärkelsen till Delicious U.S. som fick flest antal tittarröster medan Nuncio fick näst flest röster. Nuncio var återigen en av fyra nominerade i kategorin "Årets Häst" vid Hästgalan 2016, och denna gång vann han utmärkelsen. Nuncios kusk Örjan Kihlström vann dessutom utmärkelsen "Årets kusk" efter att ha segrat i flera stora lopp med Nuncio, bland annat Elitloppet.

Hyllningar
Under Elitloppshelgen 2018 hyllades Nuncio den 27 maj 2018 på Solvalla för sin framgångsrika tävlingskarriär. Vid hyllningen närvarade Nuncio själv, tränare och ägare Stefan Melander, skötare Catarina Lundström och Nuncios två kuskar John Campbell och Örjan Kihlström.

Nuncio har hedrats med att få ett eget travlopp på hemmabanan Solvalla uppkallat efter sig, Nuncios Lopp. Premiärvinnaren den 11 november 2020 blev Nuncios tidigare stallkamrat Disco Volante.

Stamtavla

Kommentarer

Referenser

Noter

Tryckta källor

Externa länkar

 Stall TZ:s officiella webbplats

 Nuncios hingstprofil hos Menhammar stuteri

Hästar födda 2011
Amerikanska travhästar
Hästar som vunnit Elitloppet
Hästar som vunnit Kentucky Futurity
Hästar som vunnit Yonkers Trot
Hästar som tränats av Stefan Melander
Hästar som tränats av Jimmy Takter
Travhästar med statistik över starter
Hästar födda på Hanover Shoe Farms
Hästar uppfödda i Pennsylvania


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JACKSONVILLE, Florida — Boosting flight training that can reduce fatal aircraft accidents and conserve fuel is the goal of a new study published by Jacksonville University Davis Aviation Center Director Dr. Juan Merkt.
"Flight Energy Management Training: Promoting Safety and Efficiency" appears in the Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering (JATE). Published by Purdue University Press, JATE is a refereed, open-access journal bridging aviation technology, engineering and human factors.
Merkt's study identifies a gap in civilian pilot training and leads the way in proposing solutions. According to previous studies, poor flight energy management is a significant contributing factor in fatal aircraft accidents worldwide and is also responsible for wasted fuel.
The study is designed to raise awareness of the need for basic energy training, lay the groundwork for key energy principles that aviation educators can incorporate into their teaching, and propose guidelines for effective design of energy management training programs for pilots, added Merkt.
To make the case, the study uses energy management to link safety and efficiency — where safety is concerned with controlling the airplane's altitude (potential energy) and airspeed (kinetic energy), and efficiency with managing its fuel energy.
It then synthesizes energy principles across multiple disciplines and reveals how such principles, once simplified, become powerful instructional tools for exploring the role of the flight controls and the airplane's performance envelope.
Finally, combining ideas from physics, engineering, air combat tactics, and biology, the study suggests that an integrated, energy-centered, top-down training approach will lead to an improved mental model of how the airplane works, thus enhancing energy management and decision-making skills for safe and efficient flight operations.
What's next? Merkt is working on a model energy management curriculum, made up of academic and practical training, to be tested at JU and discussed in a future study.
It would be helpful to have a bit more of the specifics on this, like how a training syllabus could be changed, how the average Joe could use EM, and how some s/w could be written to feed a cockpit display.
As an energy engineer, I am surprised that apparently the importance of energy principles and conservation is not being emphasized in aviation training schools. This is especially surprising given that, unlike most other energy conservation applications, in the case of flying it can literally save lives!


New research1 commissioned by the RNLI has revealed that more than half (53%) of Londoners would follow a potentially life-threatening instinct if they fell unexpectedly into water.
Meanwhile, fatality figures2 released today by the RNLI show 42 people accidentally lost their lives along the tidal reaches of the River Thames over the past five years, and 40% of those didn't even intend to enter the water.
Sudden immersion in cold water puts these people at severe risk of suffering cold water shock, which triggers the instinctive but life-threatening reaction to gasp uncontrollably and swim hard, which can quickly lead to drowning.
Research commissioned by the RNLI shows over half of people in London would follow this potentially life-threatening instinct if they fell into water3, with 40% of respondents saying their immediate reaction would be to swim, while 2% said they would panic – two of the instinctive responses the RNLI is urging people to fight. Others said they would do nothing (5%); remove clothing (4%), and 2% said they would not know what to do.
As the RNLI's national drowning prevention campaign Respect the Water enters its fourth year, the charity is calling on the public to fight their instincts and remember one core survival action of floating, until the effects of cold water shock pass and they can catch their breath, before then trying to swim to safety or calling for help.
With nearly three-quarters (74%) of Londoners saying they visit the coast at least once a year, the RNLI is urging them to remember this advice – whether they're along the River Thames or by the sea.
Overall, just over a fifth (21%) of respondents in London alluded to a recommended first course of action, with just 7% knowing specifically to float (4%) or tread water (3%). Others said they would stay calm (10%); look for something to hold on to (1%); wait for the shock to pass (1%); catch their breath (1%) or relax (1%).
Mike Tipton, Professor of Human and Applied Physiology at the University of Portsmouth, explained: 'We often rely on our instincts but our instinctive response to sudden immersion in cold water – gasping, thrashing and swimming hard – is potentially a killer. It increases chances of water entering your lungs, increases the strain on your heart, cools the skin further and helps air escape from any clothing, which then reduces buoyancy.
'Floating is not an easy skill in cold open water but most people can float, and the air trapped in their clothes as they fall in should make it easier. As little exercise as necessary can be undertaken to help stay afloat. The recommended floating position is to lean back in the water and keep your airway clear. Keeping calm will help maintain buoyancy. Some people find it helpful to gently scull with their hands and kick their feet to keep afloat.
Guy Addington, RNLI Community Safety Partner for London, said: 'The RNLI's volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards saved hundreds of people from near-fatal incidents in 2016 and rescued thousands more but, sadly, they aren't able to reach everyone. If people in danger in the water can help themselves initially by floating and regaining control of their breathing, they stand a much greater chance of surviving.
'Through our Respect the Water campaign, we want to start a national conversation about water safety. We're asking the public to remember this lifesaving advice, share with others and practice the survival skill of floating – it could be the difference between life and death.
The campaign is targeted at adult men, who account for a staggering 79% of the fatalities over the past five years in the tidal reaches of the River Thames (57% last year)4, although the advice is relevant to anyone who goes near the water.
1 Basis research conducted on behalf of the RNLI (nationally representative sample across the UK n=1,000). Figures shown are respondents in London, n=140.
Professor Mike Tipton and Guy Addington are available for interview. Please contact RNLI Public Relations on the numbers below to arrange interviews.
The fatality figures quoted are for water-related fatalities from accidents and natural causes in UK tidal waters. The figures for the London region 2012–2016 are: 10, 15, 5, 5 and 7.


Chicken Pot Stool. No, that's not it.
It's a new year for the soup blog. And a new beginning for my weekly go-round of soup recipes.
Because frankly, after having made a new soup every seven days for the past year, I'm a bit bored.
That, and my family is rebelling against all this forced soup consumption.
Something classic. That's why I reached into the soup aisle at the local supermarket and stole a soup from Campbell's. A little something called Chicken and Rice soup. A soup which brings us right back to where I started one year ago. Okay, that was chicken noodle soup, but really, what's the difference?
And I don't mean the difference between noodles and rice, I've go that one pretty well figured out, smart guy.
The difference is that whereas many of my soups from the past year began as classic dishes before I translated them to the soup pot, this dish began as an (ahem) classic soup that I translated back into an entrée.
All right, if you don't think that Chicken and Rice soup qualifies as a classic, I'm not going to disagree with you. My family never had it when I was growing up. We never even had Chicken with Stars, which, I imagine is the "kid-friendly" version of Campbell's Chicken Noodle which was pretty darned kid friendly to begin with.
Not that I went the pedestrian route to my chicken and rice soup. I used brown rice. Pretty high brow, huh? Perhaps I even used too much of it. Why not? I've had bags of the stuff lining the bottom of my refrigerator for months.
The result was a very thick soup, partly because brown rice absorbs a fair amount of water, and partly because of the lengthy simmering process I went through to soften up said brown rice.
And that's when I got my big idea.
Forget about the soup and go for something more substantial.
A little bit of roux, a nice batch of pie crust dough, and thirty minutes in a 400°F oven later, I had a delicious and very filling Chicken Pot Pie.
I'm not sure how fertile this new conceit of converting soups into entrees will be. Maybe I've tapped it out already. Who knows?
The only thing you can count on is that I'll be back again next week.
Add the onion, carrots, celery, chicken, rice parsley stock and milk to a 5 quart soup pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for about an hour.
As the soup is simmering, melt the butter in a pan, stir in the flour until fully combined and cook over low heat until it takes on a blonde color (6-8 minutes). This is called a blonde roux.
In a food processor, combine flour, sugar and salt, pulsing a few times to blend the dry ingredients.
Cut butter into small pieces and add to the food processor along with the shortening. Pulse the processor several times until the dough starts to come together.
Add ice water and process the dough further until it is pretty well combined.
Empty dough out onto a floured board, roll into a ball, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for at least ½ hour.
Add the roux to the soup and continue cooking for another 20 minutes to allow the roux to absorb the liquid and thicken the soup.
(can do this last the next day, if you'd like) Remove the dough from refrigerator and cut it into two pieces. Roll the first piece out into a circular shape and place along the bottom of a deep pie pan, casserole or spring form pan.
Ladle the chicken and rice filling over the bottom of the crust until it almost reaches the top of the dough. NOTE: You will have a fair amount of filling left over. Make another pie if you' like.
Roll the second half of the dough into a round and place it over the top of the filling, taking care to tuck the dough around the outside of the bottom layer of dough so the pot pie filling is sealed in.
Brush top layer of dough with beaten egg mixture. Place pie in a 400°F oven and bake for about 30 minutes.
May serve immediately or reheat in the oven later for service. It ain't soup, but it's really good.
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Is this still a soup blog if I'm converting my soup into entrees. I don't see why not. If you disagree, please compile your thoughts and supporting logic into a nicely worded comment. I'd sure appreciate it.


What is Personalized Cancer Therapy?
Personalized therapy is the right treatment, at the right dose for the right patient. Like the weather, however, it seems that everyone's talking about it, but no one is doing anything about it.
In its simplest form personalized care is treatment that is designed to meet an individual's unique biological features. Like a key in a lock, the right drug or combination opens the door to a good outcome.
When over the years I lectured on the development of the cisplatin/gemcitabine doublet, my two boys were quite young. I would show a slide depicting a doorknob with a key in the keyhole. I likened our lab's capacity to identify sensitivity to the cisplatin/gemcitabine combination as "unlocking" an individual's response.
At the time my wife and I would leave the key in the inside of the front door enabling us to unlock it when going out. We reasoned at the time that our 2-year-old would not be strong enough, nor tall enough to turn the key and let himself outside. We reasoned wrong, for one day our son Alex reached up, turned the key and opened the door right in front of us. Lesson learned: Given the right key, anyone can open a door.
I continued my analogy by saying that even Arnold Schwarzenegger would be unable to open a door given the wrong key, but might, if he continued trying, snap it off in the lock.
The right key is the right treatment, effortlessly unlocking a good response, while the wrong key is the wrong treatment more often than not too much, too late, akin to a solid tumor bone marrow transplant.
In recent years, personalized care has come to be considered synonymous with genomic profiling. While we applaud breakthroughs in human genomics today, there is no molecular platform that can match patients to treatments. The objective response rate of just 10 percent, almost all in breast and ovarian cancer patients in one study (Von Hoff J Clin Oncol 2010 Nov 20:28(33): 4877-83), suggests that cancer biology is demonstrably more complex than an enumeration of its constituent DNA base pairs. The unilateral focus on this area of investigation over others might be described as "the triumph of hope over experience" (James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791).
But hope springs eternal and with it the very real possibility of improving our patients outcomes. By accepting, even embracing, the complexity of human tumor biology we are at the crossroads of a new future in cancer medicine.
William Withering (1741-1799) the English physician and botanist credited with discovering digitalis as the therapy for dropsy, e.g. congestive heart failure (An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses, Withering W. 1785), had absolutely no idea what a membrane ATPase was, when he made his remarkable discovery. It didn't matter. Cardiac glycosides provided lifesaving relief to those who suffered from this malady for fully two centuries before Danish scientist, Jens Christian Skou, identified these membrane bound enzymes, for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1997.
Similarly, penicillin, aspirin, and morphine were in all use for decades, centuries, even millenia before their actual modes of action were unraveled. Medical doctors must use any and all resources at their disposal to meet the needs of their patients. They do not need to know "how" something works so much as they (and their patients) need to know "that" it works.
The guiding principle of personalized medicine is to match patients to therapies. Nowhere in this directive is there a prescription of the specific platform to be used. Where genomic signatures provide useful insights for drug selection, as they do in APL (ATRA, Arsenic trioxide); NSCLC (EGFr, ROS1, ALK); CML (Imatinib, Dasatanib) then they should be used.
However, in those disease where we haven't the luxury of known targets or established pathways, i.e. most human malignancies, then more global assessments of human tumor biology should, indeed must, be used if we are to meet the needs of our patients. Primary culture analyses like the EVA-PCD® provide a window onto human tumor biology. They are vehicles for therapy improvement and conduits for drug discovery. Scientists and clinicians alike need to apply any and all available methodologies to advance their art. The dawn of personalized medicine will indeed be bright if we use all the arrows in our quiver to advance clinical therapeutics and basic research.


I haven't blogged in a long time, not even at Fnatic.com where I work…I haven't really felt the need up until a couple weeks ago. I thought I would start to do a daily blog and talk about various topics, the two biggest probably being traveling and eSports.
To be honest, my life has been very different since I got back from China at the end of August, and it has been non stop work since I stepped off the plane it feels like. More recently however, Ive taken an interest in doing more quality eSports content, something Ive been neglecting over the past few months. That is about to change.
Now why I am I busy? A couple reasons, one of which is eSports, the other is school. Ill keep going with the same theme though and talk about the eSports stuff. After having confirmed my new exciting piece of work…I went out in search of more, more interviews, more features and more topics for articles. Topics for articles are a lot harder to come by than you might think. If you want a truly good piece, that gets more than a couple thousand hits, you need to keep it new, relevant and have a sort of….edge to it. Back a few months ago, I couldn't come up with much, so I used ones I had been thinking of for a while.
Aside from that, I will spoil the surprise on a few other features I am working on, and that have been confirmed. The first being an interview with a console superstar (yes I know, Im not the biggest console fanboy out there, but Jack Baxter is pretty badass…so Im hoping this standard 20 question feature piece shows some sparks.
I also contacted Chris Loranger, better known as HuK to anyone who knows anything about Starcraft 2. For those of you who don't know who Huk is, check out my interview on the fnatic.com website, I interviewed him one year ago. That "one year" is also what this feature is about, "One year with Huk" so I am really excited for that, I need to develop questions for it tomorrow.
Also, I am doing a marketing competition…and I started it on Thursday…and my entry is due in 2 weeks (less than that now) ..most kids across Canada began in mid February…but I had to start late…we will see how the next 2 weeks go!
This is going to be a daily blog (not here on TL as that would get annoying Im sure...) but Ill post esports stuff when I get to it.. I hope you enjoy. If you wanna check out old entries from the summer or actually wanna read it on a regular basis you can find it here.


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DID YOU MAKE A DECISION TO BE SAVED? THAT IS NOT SALVATION.
September 29, 2022 August 5, 2021 by Dean Haskins
" . . . receiving the END of your belief—the salvation of your souls." 1 Peter 1:9
How many people are there who "got saved" by making a decision to be saved? Whether it was on their own somewhere, or they were in a meeting of some sort—and there was an emotional appeal about their possible impending death and where they would go for eternity, it's likely that most who are in christianity made a decision, or prayed a prayer, to be saved.
So, what could be wrong with that? Well, the most important thing wrong with it is that it is NOT salvation.
Growing up in christianity, I have seen my fair share of revivals, evangelistic services, and crusades in which an "invitation" or "altar call" was given. I have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of people going forward and being told that, if they will pray a prayer and ask to be saved ("accept Christ," or "give their heart to Christ," or "ask forgiveness for sins," or any of the many christianese euphemisms for salvation), then they will be saved on the spot.
I have even witnessed preachers telling folks who prayed such a prayer, "Now you are saved—don't ever let anyone tell you that you're not." How in the world does a preacher see inside someone's heart?
I personally know pastors who believe that, at the moment someone believes, or makes a decision, the Holy Spirit enters into him. There is not a single passage of scripture that states such a thing—and, why is that? It's because it's not true. In fact, the false salvation that is taught by christianity (the counterfeit of the true faith) stands in direct contradiction to what the scriptures tell us.
So, which should one believe—christianity or the truth?
You see, as is stated in the opening verse, 1 Peter 1:9, salvation is the END (the result, or the goal) of belief, but christianity teaches that belief itself IS salvation. Hmmmm . . . both cannot be true.
Christianity teaches that, if one believes, and then does something according to that belief (asks forgiveness for sins—something that is not a part of salvation, or accepts Christ—something shown nowhere in the scriptures, or gives his heart to God—again, not part of salvation), he is saved. That would make salvation the BEGINNING of one's belief, which essentially means that scripture would be false.
No, scripture is true, and belief is but the first step on the path TO salvation, as salvation is NOT something that man can decide. Only the Father can give salvation, and He does so by HIS will and in HIS time. Man does not have the power to declare himself saved—and, some preacher definitely does not have the authority to declare that someone who came forward and prayed a prayer is saved!
We are taught throughout scripture that if someone believes (present tense) in Messiah Yahoshua, he SHALL BE saved (future tense). But, christianity falsely teaches that if someone believes, he IS saved. That is a counterfeit of the truth.
The Israelites were led out of Egypt by the Passover (belief), and were then guided by the Holy Spirit to the mountain (enduring in belief). Once they arrived at the mountain, they still had to wait (endure in belief), and then they received the covenant. That is a picture of those who are of Messiah's bride being led out of the world by their belief in, and identification with, Messiah's Passover sacrifice, and then being led by the Holy Spirit to endure in that belief until they receive the covenant.
Once one receives the covenant, the Holy Spirit Himself will testify directly and personally to that person that he has been made a child of Yah. And, how does the Holy Spirit do that? He does it in the same way He always has. Just read the books of the prophets to see how the Holy Spirit testifies to the spirit of man—in dreams, visions, and even audibly. The confirmation of salvation will be given by the Holy Spirit in a manner that cannot be counterfeited by demons—in a dream (Genesis 40:8, Acts 2:17, Romans 8:16, 1 Corinthians 1:6-8).
So, if you think you are saved because you made a decision or prayed a prayer, you have been deceived by the counterfeit. Belief (repentance from unbelief) is necessary to BE ABLE to be saved, but it is not salvation, for salvation is the END result of belief, not the beginning of belief, or the existence of it.
Messiah Yahoshua explained in Luke 8:13 that some will believe with all joy for awhile, but then, during the period of testing of their belief (James 1:2-4), they will fall away because they have no root (they never received the source of life, who is the Holy Spirit). We also see in verses like Hebrews 10:39, that the people who receive salvation are those who do not shrink back from their belief, but believe all the way to the saving of their souls.
If belief alone were salvation, then why would the scriptures tell us that we must believe all the way to the salvation of our souls? And, if we must endure in belief (confess Messiah Yahoshua before others) to be saved, how could someone merely walk to the front of a building, say a prayer, and then declare himself saved? That is probably the most damning lie in all of christianity. It is a bastardization of the true Gospel of Messiah Yahoshua.
Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able (Luke 13:24). If salvation is merely by a decision or a prayer, why would many seek to enter and not be able to?
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Leanne O'Sullivan - Poetry
Leanne O'Sullivan was born in 1983 and comes from the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland. She has published two collections of poetry, Waiting for My Clothes (2004) and Cailleach: The Hag of Beara, both with Bloodaxe Books. In 2009 she was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary award, nominated by Michael Longley, and in 2010 she received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Leanne O'Sullivan interview with John Hoppenthaler
You've burst upon the Irish poetry world with a good deal of acclaim. About your first book, Waiting for My Clothes, Billy Collins has written, "What is remarkable about Leanne O'Sullivan is not that she is so young but that she dares to write about exactly what it is to be young. A teenaged Virgil, she guides us down some of the more hellish corridors of adolescence with a voice that is strong and true. For that alone, she deserves our full attention." And Belinda McKeon, writing in The Irish Times, exclaims that "O'Sullivan's voice sounds with striking confidence and originality. . . . These are poems not just of what it is to be young. . . but of what it is to be alive; vividly, vibrantly, vulnerably so." Heady stuff for a poet in her very early twenties. What was the experience of dealing with so much initial acclaim—and the expectations that go with it—like? In a recent interview in Verbal Magazine, we're told that you had difficulty writing new poems for a period of time after the publication of Waiting for My Clothes; might that have something to do with such expectations, both those of others as well as your own?
I hope I don't sound disingenuous, but it didn't seem like acclaim or anything over the top was going on. Having my first book published felt lovely and quiet and supported. I think it's always an unrepeatable time in a person's life to see your first poems published in a book, but I certainly didn't feel like a Virgil, but more the teenager! I was still in college at the time, just entering my final year of undergraduate studies and that took up most of my mental space.
After the publication of Waiting for My Clothes I did have a year where I wasn't writing much at all, certainly nothing that I would have wanted anyone to see. There was an element of pressure from myself, of course, but I wonder if that will always be there with every new poem—is it something that I will always have to put aside, be brave about, and just write through it? I've come to know my pattern though, and I definitely have periods where I am not writing. After I sent Cailleach to the publishers I didn't write again for another year. Maybe that's my fallow season—a time for re-generation and new ideas. I need something to move me when I write, I can't force it at all, and I'm definitely all for hibernation!
Waiting for My Clothes is an intensely personal collection, where Leanne O'Sullivan is in the foreground of the poems as both poet and subject; in that volume, you write honestly and compellingly about your own battle with eating disorders. In Cailleach: The Hag of Beara, the confessional "I" is collapsed into the mythic "I." Could you please tell us about the different direction of this book? The poetry is often erotically-charged, and the voice of the poems is in a different register. Using mythology as a jumping off point for poetry is certainly not rare in Irish poetry; what new ground do you see yourself as exploring in these poems? Is part of what you're after the "resurrection and resuscitation of old local myths which have not had the currency of national sagas," as Patrick Cotter claims in a blogpost?
During the year after my first book was published I was doing a lot of reading for college and for my own pleasure. I was re-reading and re-discovering poems and books that I had read at school, because a lot of it had seemed to go over my head at the time. I came across a translation of the 9th century poem "Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" and felt immediately drawn to it, mostly of course because I come from the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where the mythical remains of the Cailleach are today. I thought of stories I heard, topographical features that she had a hand in making and my own living Cailleachs! I wanted to write about the ordinary, rural woman and describe her experience in terms of both traditional and modern society, giving the feeling for the basis for what may have become the later myth. When you are from a small place, it's easy to see how things can be blown out of proportion!
I'm not sure if I uncovered new ground for poetry in general, but for myself it was a rewarding experience. It took about two years to write the poems, and I had great fun with it while also feeling very creative—'I' could do anything. Mythology is not something fossilized, or something kept hermetically sealed. It's not hidden in a dusty museum cabinet. It changes in the mouths of the people, and this was how I heard it, how it happened in my imagining.
As a poem represented in this month's Congeries, "Valentine," demonstrates, the erotic love poem is a particular strength for you. Can you talk about this sort of poem in the context of contemporary Irish poetry? Would it be accurate to say that such poems are rebellious and work against erasures enforced by religious and other traditional social forces?
I don't think a poem like "Valentine" does any work as a rebellious piece of writing, and certainly not in the context of traditional Irish poetry. There has always been a deep vein of sensuality running through Irish lyrical poetry of relationships, and I feel that I was possibly in touch with that. I devoured the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhaill, Michael Longley and more when I was in school and writing out of the body seems natural to me. I also loved Sharon Olds! I fell in love when I found her books.
"Valentine" was written before any of the Cailleach poems were thought of, and is another poem where the 'I' is a different character to myself. It was part of another series of poems about a woman in history, and I loved the idea of writing a character in a poem. But by the time I was writing this any religious regime was quickly losing its grasp on me. The Ireland I grew up in was completely different to the one my parents knew when they were in their twenties. It didn't occur to me that a poem like "Valentine" was subverting or religious morality. . . Sex and the City was already doing that for my generation!
The accolades continue to find you. Congratulations on recently having been awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, which is administered by the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing based at Trinity School of English. It is a €10,000 award that recognizes your achievement and promise as a young poet. In its 35th year, the Rooney Prize was established by Dan Rooney, chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers, to encourage young writers of promise. Previous to this, in 2009, you were the recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary, nominated by then professor of poetry, Michael Longley, who praised your "technical enterprise and unembarrassed imagination." I was struck by the story of how your life as a poet came to be, a life fostered by the fact that one of your teachers, Paddy O'Conor, brought poets into his classroom so that students like you could have the opportunity to write poems under expert tutelage. This rarely if ever happens in high school classes in the United States; it rarely happens that poetry by living poets is even included in the curriculums of most schools. I'm wondering if you see yourself as trying to inspire other young poets as you've been inspired. Do you see these honors you've received as opportunities for you to keep this spirit of poetry in the schools alive? Do you think you'd be where you are today had it not been for the opportunity Mr. O'Conor's love of poetry brought to your class?
It didn't happen too often, but we did meet the odd poet, and sometimes the very odd poet! Paddy was a star and did so much work to encourage us as young writers, including arranging visits and workshops, and allowing time for creative writing in the classroom. Any curriculum can deaden the imagination, if it's taught right! I'm not sure if I believe that completely, but as someone who was never academically minded I needed an alternative. Any child wants encouragement and also to feel that there is a place for him/her in the world, even if you have to dig it out with your fingernails. I was incredibly lucky to have met my teachers, and I don't doubt that I might have followed a different path, but one that would have probably come back to poetry, stories in one form or another.
I love working with young people. It's lovely to be the different person they see once a week to talk about poetry, life. And it does help to be able to say to them, "Yes, I make some kind of life with poems, there are so many possibilities"—but what inspires them are the poems. Do you know Heaney's poem "Mid-Term Break"? Or Boland's "Quarantine"? I did some of these poems at school and couldn't wait to find more and more of them. They meant everything to me.
Later, of course, Brendan Kennelly, too, played a large factor in your poetic development. Can you tell us a bit about that?
Brendan Kennelly is an angel of a man and someone whose poetry is very dear to me. He taught me—clarity, clarity, clarity.
What are you up to now? What's next for Leanne O'Sullivan?
I am writing at the moment, in fits and starts, but something is coming together, or will hopefully, at the end. I have the bones of a third collection there, so we'll see how it goes. I'm very much looking forward to taking part in the Solas Nua festival in Washington,DC early next year. Other than that I'm happily teaching and taking part in our wonderful literary culture here in Ireland.
It softens between my palms,
sheath to my fingertips, as I hold it.
Darling, sometimes I know what love
is for, when we lie together undressed
and I hold myself still across your body,
fevered waters rising from your skin
as if any second you will overflow,
flood to the cascade edge of the world.
I hold you down, clamp of salt and bone,
undoing the knotted wrack of your limbs.
You lie wide-eyed, jaw hanging open
as I drink you slowly with kisses.
When the morning rises up from beneath us,
you hear the street clatter, far away and calm.
My love I promise forever flowers will decorate
your breakfast table, colour will flow
from your rooms, and when your friends
begin those market-place rumours remember
how at night you bring your face to mine,
and run your fingers through my wild, red hair.
Remember I am your wife and all the tremulous
waters that run from your mouth are mine.
Your skin turns blue in the river mists,
when the sky is blue, but this is the liquid
come-and-go tracery of you beyond the corridor.
You stand there like the ghost of yourself
telling me things with your hands.
O love, your voice trembles softly down the glass
and refuses to be still, like evenings when the river
rose in a hush of deep clearing, I followed
the patterns of your skin as they were swept away.
Car Phone
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The dark smell of leather and metal heat
from the gleaming, half-opened door,
where we'd be hiding and pressing buttons
in our uncle's car. I imagined him driving
it across the Irish sea, or fairies pushing it
along over seaweed in the summer night,
surfacing over whirlpools and strange fish,
the roof glittering like a mink's smooth back.
Down the voiceless line shells and gravel
being swept along, shuddering in the cord
as we'd practice his slight London twang -
quick flints of vowel and common ground
when he'd approach from the small kitchen,
and when he left, gravel, static, quiet, the sea.
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Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Central Asia
Statistics show Central Asia underreporting COVID deaths
New calculations suggest Uzbekistan is the world leader in misleading COVID mortality statistics.
David Trilling Feb 18, 2021
A Bishkek cemetery with a dedicated area for those who died of COVID-19 (photo by Danil Usmanov)
Eurasianet correspondents across Central Asia confirm that, on the surface, life is getting back to normal. Masks are becoming a rarity. Social-distancing efforts, never great to begin with, have largely been tossed aside.
Official COVID infection and death statistics attest to this normality. There is little, the official numbers suggest, to worry about.
But new research shows that official death figures in many parts of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union are vast undercounts.
Ariel Karlinsky at Hebrew University in Israel and Dmitry Kobak at the University of Tübingen in Germany have built what they call the World Mortality Dataset, based on official data available from 77 countries. Acknowledging that COVID infections and death counts "can be heavily affected by limited testing availability and by different definitions of COVID-19 death" around the world, they start by collecting the total number of deaths in each country over the past five years. Then they calculate average total deaths per country between 2015 and 2019.
Using this baseline, the authors can show that Peru and several other Latin American countries in 2020 had the highest relative increase in deaths per 100,000 people. These countries were followed by Kazakhstan (with 22 percent more deaths than expected) and Kyrgyzstan (19 percent). Russia also ranked high (15 percent), with a spike that continues to this day. (In the South Caucasus, the authors correct to account for the roughly 6,000 deaths attributed to the autumn war between Armenia (15 percent higher after the correction) and Azerbaijan (8 percent).)
"Our analysis shows statistically significant positive excess mortality in 51 out of 77 countries," write Karlinsky and Kobak in a preprint (a paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed) explaining their methodology.
Next, they examine official COVID death counts. They find a number of former Soviet republics are among the world's most computationally challenged – or reluctant to produce accurate death counts. Among all 77 countries, Uzbekistan leads the pack.
By comparing their excess mortality rate to official COVID counts, the authors found a few countries in Europe showed a ratio below one, suggesting officials there included suspected COVID deaths in their tallies. In the United States, the figure was 1.2, meaning a slight undercount in COVID fatalities. "But some countries showed much larger values. We found the highest undercounts in Uzbekistan (30), Kazakhstan (12), Belarus (15), Egypt (13), and Russia (6.7). Such large undercount ratios strongly suggest purposeful misdiagnosing or underreporting of COVID-19 deaths." A graph from their findings:
OECD researcher Luke Mackle reached similar conclusions this week. He reported a 26 percent jump in excess deaths in Tajikistan – the highest in Central Asia, by his count.
Tajikistan has declared victory over the virus and many Tajiks seem to accept the government's message at face value. "People here feel they've coped with the crisis very well," a Dushanbe resident told Eurasianet on February 18.
Karlinsky and Kobak continue to update their datasets, writing: "Just as countries around the world collect and regularly report estimates of economic output such as the gross domestic product (GDP), and just as they have been reporting COVID-19 mortality, a comprehensive multi-national repository of all-cause mortality is long-overdue."
David Trilling is Eurasianet's managing editor.


The first time I wore a sari was when I was celebrating Diwali. My host family was out of town so I spent the day with Dolly Ji, our instructor. After nine years of wrapping saris on helpless Bridge Year students, she has it down. In about five minutes, Dolly Ji had wrapped my Sari perfectly and secured it with safety pins so that it wouldn't come loose during our celebrations. That night I ran around playing with sparklers and lighting floating lanterns with ease thanks to Dolly Ji's stellar sari wrapping. Wearing a sari is so easy, I thought naively.
The next time I had to wear a sari did not go quite as well. We were going to the engagement ceremony of Dolly Ji's niece, but Dolly Ji was too busy to help all the Bridge Year girls wrap their saris. "Just ask someone in your homestay," she told us.
The night before the engagement I stayed up until midnight watching YouTube videos on sari wrapping. I wanted to wrap my sari by myself. Most of the time, as long as a I studied long enough and tried hard enough, I could do things myself. Sari wrapping would not be one of those times.
The morning of the engagement, I attempted to wrap my sari. It did not go well. All of the beading and jewels that made my sari so beautiful made it very difficult to pleat. My folds were messy and despite using handfuls of safety pins, I couldn't help but feel that it would fall off me the moment I walked more than a few steps. With a sigh of defeat, I realized I would need to ask someone to help me if I was going to make it to the engagement.
Stepping out of my room, I went across the hall to ask one of the doctors who rented a room in my homestay for help. Unfortunately neither she, nor her roommate knew how to wrap a sari. I began walking towards the stairs, figuring I would need to ask my homestay mother for help, when the third girl who rents a room in my homestay, a Banaras Hindu University student named Kanchan, called out to me as I passed her room. I had hardly spoken to her at all before this. While the two doctors spoke English, she spoke Hindi, with a little of English. Unsurprisingly, she looked at me in confusion, given that I was wearing the sari blouse, which looks like a crop top, the petticoat, a long skirt that goes under the sari, and the sari itself, which was only half tucked into the petticoat and I was carrying the rest of it in my arms.
"Ye sari hai," I said, which translates to "This is a sari." She looked at me with a smile. It was pretty obvious that it was a sari but I didn't know how else to explain that I needed help wrapping it. "You wear?" she responded. "Ha, lekin mujhe nahin aatee hai," I responded, which meant "Yes but I don't know." At that point I was really wishing I had my phone with me so I could use Google translate, or at least I had thought to look up the word for "help." Despite my lack of Hindi skills, she understood what I was asking and pulled me into her room to begin wrapping my sari.
As I hurried to catch a rickshaw to the event, I couldn't help but feel surprised at how much she had worked to help me. She had offered to wrap my sari even though we never talked. She kept working to make it perfect even when she could had just stopped. She was excited to help me even though we could barely communicate. I didn't know how to respond.
Recently we have been talking about gift culture in our group. In a gift culture, people give without expecting anything in return. It's very present around India. Strangers will invite you in for a cup of chai, workshops will ask that you pay what you can give, and people will help you with anything whenever you need it. I've found that both wonderful and nerve racking. I'm not used to being given things without expectations of reciprocation. Though I continue to feel awkward at times, I've started to embrace this culture. Kanchan gave me both the gift of a beautifully wrapped sari and an insight into a culture I would soon see even more of.
P.S. I finally learned to wrap a sari.


The award that selects the best computer application for prevention.
Tomorrow (9th June) in Expo 2015 in Milan from 2.30pm to 6pm you will know the winner of the 2013-2015 eHealth4all that will be assigned by ClubTI for the best computer prevention application made in Italy. Oramod flyer will be distributed to all participants.
The presentation will be in Italian language.
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Here's the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2014 List
by Paula Forbes Apr 28, 2014, 12:30pm EDT
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The winners.
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The World's 50 Best Restaurants list has been announced, and the big news is of course that Noma has regained its title as number one restaurant in the world. In his speech, Redzepi addressed the crowd: "Wood sorrel conquered caviar. The seal fucker came out on top." Noma held the top spot last in 2012, and took the title for the first time in 2010. Last year's number one, el Celler de Can Roca, has dropped to number two.
The US had two restaurants in the top ten: Grant Achatz's Chicago restaurant Alinea broke into the top ten at number nine and Daniel Humm's Eleven Madison Park rose one spot to number four. Daniel Patterson's Coi in San Francisco made its debut on the list at #49. Thomas Keller has two restaurants on the list, Per Se dropping from #11 to #30 but French Laundry rising to 44 from 47. Daniel Boulud's Daniel in New York City dropped from 29 to 40, and Eric Ripert's Le Bernardin dropped from 19 to 21. Joshua Skenes' Saison in San Francisco was named the "One to Watch" restaurant.
See 2013's winners here.
1. Noma (website)
Location: Copenhagen
Chef: René Redzepi
Rank Last Year: 2
Michelin Star Rating: Two
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2. El Celler de Can Roca (website)
Location: Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Chef: Joan Roca
Michelin Star Rating: Three
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3. Osteria Francescana (website)
Location: Modena, Italy
Chef: Massimo Bottura
Michelin Stars: Three
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4. Eleven Madison Park (website)
Location: New York City,
Chef: Daniel Humm
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5. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (website)
Chef: Heston Blumenthal
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[Photo: Ewan-M / Flickr]
6. Mugaritz (website)
Location: San Sebastián, Spain
Chef: Andoni Aduriz
Fun Fact: When you sit down at Mugaritz, you have to choose between two experiences: "Submit Yourself" and "Rebel."
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7. D.O.M. (website)
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chef: Alex Atala
Michelin Star Rating: N/A
Fun Fact: Atala used to be a DJ.
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8. Arzak (website)
Chef: Juan Mari Arzak
Fun Fact: Arzak's daughter Elena, who also cooks at Arzak, won the S. Pellegrino Best Female Chef award for 2012.
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9. Alinea
Location: Chicago, USA
Chef: Grant Achatz
Rank Last Year: 15
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10. The Ledbury
Chef: Brett Graham
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11. Mirazur, Menton, France
12. Vendôme, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
13. Nahm, Bangkok, Thailand
14. Narisawa, Tokyo, Japan
15. Central, Lima, Peru
16. Steirereck, Vienna, Austria
17. Gaggan, Bangkok, Thailand
18. Astrid y Gaston, Lima, Peru
19. Fäviken, Järpen, Sweden
20. Pujol, Mexico City, Mexico
21. Le Bernardin, New York City, USA
22. Vila Joya, Albufeira, Portugal
23. Restaurant Frantzén, Stockholm, Sweden
24. Amber, Hong Kong
25. L'Arpege, Paris, France
26. Azurmendi, Larrabetzu, Spain
27. Le Chateaubriand, Paris, France
28. Aqua, Wolfsburg, Germany
29. De Librije, Zwolle, Netherlands
30. Per Se, New York City, USA
31. L'Atelier Saint-Germain de Joel Robuchon, Paris, France
32. Attica, Melbourne, Australia
33. Nihonryori RyuGin, Tokyo, Japan
34. Asador Etxebarri, Atxondo, Spain
35. Martin Berasategui, Lasarte-Oria, Spain
36. Maní, Sao Paolo, Brazil
37. Restaurant Andre, Singapore
38. L'Astrance, Paris, France
39. Piazza Duomo, Alba, Italy
40. Daniel, New York City, USA
41. Quique Dacosta, Dénia, Spain
42. Geranium, Copenhagen, Denmark
43. Schloss Schauenstein, Fürstenau, Switzerland
44. French Laundry, Yountville, USA
45. Hof Van Cleeve, Kruishoutem, Belgium
46. Le Calandre, Rubano, Italy
47. The Fat Duck, Bray, UK
48. The Test Kitchen, Cape Town, South Africa
49. Coi, San Francisco, USA
50. Waku Ghin, Singapore
One to Watch Restaurant: Saison, San Francisco, USA
Best Restaurant in Africa: The Test Kitchen, Cape Town, South Africa
World's Pastry Chef: Jordi Roca, El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain
Sustainable Restaurant Award: Azurmendi, Larrabetzu, Spain
Best Restaurant in Australasia: Attica, Melbourne, Australia
World's Best Female Chef: Helena Rizzo, Mani, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Chef's Choice Award: Alex Atala, D.O.M. Sao Paolo, Brazil
Highest Climber: Central, Lima, Peru
Highest New Entry: Gaggan, Bangkok, Thailand
Best Restaurant in Asia: Nahm, Bangkok, Thailand
Lifetime Achievement Award: Fergus Henderson, St. John, London, UK
Best Restaurant in South America: D.O.M. Sao Paolo, Brazil
Best Restaurant in North America:
· World's 50 Best 51-100 [Worlds 50 Best]
· The World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 [50 Best]
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Wilkus Architects Partners with Anytime Fitness to Develop New Location in Westminster, CA
by Kevin
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Wilkus Architects works with Anytime Fitness to launch it's latest location in Westminster, CA located at 524 Westminster Mall.
Wilkus Architects works with Anytime Fitness to launch it's latest location in Westminster, CA located at 524 Westminster Mall. Anytime Fitness Westminster was designed using Anytime's latest concept, featuring open ceilings, earth tone color scheme, expansive layout with multi-purpose group exercise area, and modern restrooms. Add an array of updated equipment, and who could resist?
"Over 1 million members choose Anytime Fitness. Why? Because it's convenient, affordable, and fun. And with 24/7 access to thousands of our clubs around the globe, you can workout on your terms. Fitness has never been so easy. "
— Anytime Fitness
About Anytime Fitness Anytime Fitness is the world's largest 24 hour gym and co-ed fitness center chain that offers a wide variety of amenities to attract and retain their growing member base. Their Mission is simple and concise: "To enrich lives through better health, convenience, community, and inspiration-driven franchise ownership. It helps us remain focused on the tasks at hand, and it encourages us to find innovative ways of moving toward our company goals and attaining our vision." - Anytime Fitness
Our mission is fulfilled each time a member achieves their wellness goals. Our mission is fulfilled each time we open an affordable, welcoming, and conveniently-located club in a new neighborhood. Our mission is fulfilled each time a club owner achieves a balanced lifestyle while still owning a thriving business. The collective success of our members, communities, and franchisees entirely determines the success of our mission. Want more? Check out their member page here: http://www.anytimefitness.com/membership
Anytime Fitness Westminster opened it's doors on Saturday September 21st, 2013. Stop by the store, or visit them online through the links listed below. Make sure to visit their website or social media page listed below to find out more information.
Anytime Westminster Facebook: Anytime Fitness Westminster, CA Facebook
Anytime Fitness: http://www.anytimefitness.com/membership/gym-pass
Wilkus Architects and Anytime Fitness: http://www.wilkusarch.com/portfolio/anytime-fitness/
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Located in a quiet traditional neighborhood of Peristeri, this stylish apartment is ideal for those who wish to live in a building of exceptional quality, offering beauty and function. Suitable for those who appreciate comfort and safety. Family friendly area sheltered from traffic noise.
A warm and stylish 3rd floor east-facing apartment with balconies of 18 sqm and a view around the city of Athens. It is very well anti-seismically armored. In this main premises of 74 sqm full of natural light, includes a bright living room, a nicely designed kitchen, 2 comfortable bedrooms and 1 bathroom. Accompanied by a 6 sqm storage room and a 10 sqm open parking.
▪ 150 m from local bus making stops to metro stations of the area.
▪ 10-minute drive from shopping centers of Ilion and Peristeri with many stores, cafés and restaurants.
▪ 8 minutes by car from metro station "ANTHOUPOLI" (Metro Line 2 with direct access to Acropolis).
▪ 8 minutes by car from Bournazi Square, full of entertainment options: bars, clubs, restaurants, taverns and many more.
▪ 12 minutes-drive from Tritsi Park, with many educational and environmental activities for children and adults.