I have lived in Georgia for the vast majority of my life, but I lived in Orlando from August 2014 – July 2017. As soon as I moved back, everyone kept telling me about Ponce City Market. When I would say that I hadn't been there yet, the reaction was always the same. "You have to go! It's amazing!" I went for the first time a few weeks after moving back, and it really was and is amazing. The old Sears & Roebuck building is absolutely stunning. The selection of stores is awesome, and it's always fun to go on the weekends with your friends or significant other. One of the best parts of Ponce City Market is the wide variety of food options. You can pretty much eat anything you want, no matter what kind of cuisine you're looking for! Before you head out, check out this list of the top food vendors in Ponce City Market!
If you're looking for a fun night that includes great food and drinks and live entertainment, then you are in luck! At City Winery, the aim is to be a space "where folks can not only make wine, but also meet friends new and old while indulging their passion for quality food, music, art and life." Executive Chef Nicholas Anderson uses creative ways to incorporate wine into menu items. For example, he makes Pinot Pimento Cheese from Ponce Pinot Noir grapes. Whether you're stopping in to tour the winery, eat a meal, see some live entertainment, or all of the above, City Winery is a must!
Everyone loves popsicles, and with summer just around the corner, King of Pops is the place to go! This kiosk offers food such as salads and sandwiches as well as their famous popsicles. These aren't your standard popsicles; they have some really unique flavors like Blackberry Ginger Lemon and Thai Iced Tea. Even better are the signature "poptails," alcoholic beverages made from the popsicles! Those under 21 can also partake in the non-alcoholic poptail offerings. Be sure to take a break from shopping and enjoy a pop!
If you're looking for seafood, W.H. Stiles Fish Camp, or Dubs, is the place to go! Chef and owner Anne Quatrano named the restaurant after her great-great-great-great grandfather. This modern fish shack serves freshly caught Southern seafood; here, you can enjoy classic seafood dishes like a lobster roll, a shrimp po' boy, or a crab cake. Pair an entree with any of the Southern side dishes to have a great meal. In addition, W.H. Stiles has an impressive raw bar serving oysters, clams, and crudo. There is a gift shop as well, so be sure to bring home a souvenir to remember your time at W.H. Stiles.
If you have ever been to Holeman + Finch, you know that only 24 burgers are made per day, and once they're gone, they're gone. However, at H & F Burger, you can enjoy this highly sought-after menu item all the time! The menu always features a burger of the month (The PB+J Burger) as well as several other burger options. Hot dogs are also offered. If you're looking for something sweet, then you're in luck! The menu also features a variety of shakes, sundaes, floats, and pies. A shake of the month is also always featured. Come in and enjoy this iconic burger!
If you love tacos, then this is the place for you! Minero means "miner" in Spanish; this is because Mexican silver miners named tacos in the 18th century after "tacos," the dynamite they used to "excavate the ore in the mines." The thing that makes Minero's tacos so special is the tortilla. Here, they grind the corn in house, so you are getting an authentic Mexican corn tortilla! In addition to the 7 different tacos on the menu, you can also enjoy dishes like burritos or chicken wings. Minero also offers an impressive selection of cocktails and other alcoholic beverages. Stop in and enjoy this classic Mexican dish!
Founded by James Beard Award-Winning Chef Jonathan Waxman. Brezza Cucina is "Italian cuisine meets Californian chef." Enjoy a pizza in this light and airy dining room. In addition to pizza, the menu offers dishes like the classic JW Kale Salad, gnocchi, and a pork and veal meatball sub. There is also a bar and lounge that serves wonderful drinks. Looking for private dining in Ponce City Market? Brezza Cucina is the perfect place, no matter what size your party is! The bar and lounge holds up to 45 people while the dining room can hold up to 150 people.
If you've ever been to Ponce City Market, then you've probably seen the line at Hop's Chicken. Everyone wants to eat there! Hop's Chicken was also founded by Chef Linton Hopkins and is located right next to H & F Burger. At Hop's, they only serve "100% all-natural Georgia chicken, fried in peanut oil." Their biscuits are also made from scratch every day. Try the classic chicken biscuit or tenders or nuggets. You can also get family-size orders of fried chicken. Try a side of mac and cheese or fries, and you are sure to enjoy a delicious meal. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The Mercury is "a cocktail focused, classic American eatery," and it was inspired by the culture of the 1960s. This is definitely evident in the decor; if you're a Mad Men fan, Don Draper would fit in perfectly here! Multiple delicious options like Lump Crab Louie and a prime rib sandwich are offered on the menu. While the food here is wonderful, you simply must try a cocktail if you're of age! Classic cocktailes like an Old-Fashioned and a Moscow Mule are available as well as several beer and wine options. Open daily for lunch and dinner with brunch offered on Sundays.
El Super Pan is described as a "lively sandwich bar with bold flavors…including innovative takes on classic Latino bakery food." These are not your average sandwiches. Chef Hector Santiago, Chef Pedro Matos, and Chef Luis Guevara prepare all of the bread, buns, and pastries in-house. Try one of the amazing options like the Pan de Jamon y Queso or the Smoked Tofu Bun. If you're in the mood for something sweet, try one of the piggie cookies (a cookie made with bacon fat) or a pastellito. Wine, beer, and spirits are offered as well. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Come try some amazing sandwiches!
At Bellina Alimenatari, they believe "that every meal should be a healthy and delicious experience; made with fresh, high-quality ingredients." This Italian market offers a wide variety of Italian favorites like carbonara, pomodoro, and lasagna. There is also a great wine menu. If you want to take home ingredients to create your own Italian dishes, Bellina Alimentari also sells ingredients like olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and pasta. You can even sign up for a pasta making class or a pizza making class! Be sure to check out this Ponce City Market eatery that has lots to offer!
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Q: What is the most optimised way to search a string across all columns in a MySQL table using Laravel Eloquent? We have an orders table with more than 100,000 records in it. The scenario is to search a string from all tables' columns and find the matching results. We have this query in place but it takes more than 30 seconds to complete.
$searchkeyword = "Umair";

$orders = Orders::orderBy("order_number","DESC")

    ->where(
        [
            ['order_id','=',$searchkeyword],
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere(
        [
            ['shipping->first_name','LIKE','%'.$searchkeyword.'%'],
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere(
        [
            ['shipping->last_name','LIKE','%'.$searchkeyword.'%'],
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere(
        [
            ['billing->email','=',$searchkeyword],
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere(
        [
            ['billing->phone','=',$searchkeyword],
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere(
        [
            ['shipping->country','=',$searchkeyword],
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere(
        [
            ['woo_date_created','LIKE','%'.$searchkeyword.'%']
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere(
        [
            ['shipment_details->tracking_code','LIKE','%'.$searchkeyword.'%']
        ]
    )
    ->orWhere([
        ['shipment_details','LIKE','%'.$searchkeyword.'%']
    ])
    ->paginate(200)
    ->toJson();

Can you please tell me if there is a better and faster way in eloquent to perform such searches?

A: There is no way to use different Laravel functions to make the query you show optimized. The OR operations and the LIKE '%word%' predicates force the query to do a table-scan.
You could create a FULLTEXT index to help. Read about it here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/fulltext-search.html
Laravel doesn't appear to have any specific helper function for running fulltext queries. You just have to use whereRaw('MATCH(...columns...) AGAINST (...pattern...)'). See https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/eloquent/is-this-match-against-using-relevance-possible

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Q: How to experiment with private APIs on iOS? I have been exploring private APIs within iOS for the express purpose of experimentation. Does anyone have a sample of instantiating a class like MKTransitAnnotationView?
I've downloaded Erica Sadun's HeaderDumpKit and the class-dump binary. After making a few corrections to her perl script I dumped out a Headers directory and moved that into the project folder.
In the Other Linker Flags section of Build Settings I added:
-force_flat_namespace
-undefined suppress

When trying to call MKTransitAnnotationView I get dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_MKTransitAnnotationView. So what have I missed?

A: Add your dumped header as a normal header file, then from your project navigator:

*

*click on your project

*click on your target

*click on the Build Phases tab, then expand the Link Binary With Libraries section

*drag/drop the binary from PrivateFramework folder that you want to use.

Then you should be all set.
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Component B: amine copolymerization, pigments, additives and water.
After drying, Q-SMALTO gives rise to an opaque film that is permeable to water vapour yet at the same time waterproof and oil impermeable.
It provides excellent adhesion to concrete substrates even if still wet or after only 12-24 hours from casting. Moreover, tis product exhibits a good general chemical resistance.
Q-SMALTO is available in its standard grey colour (RAL 7040), although other colours can be supplied upon request.
However, it is generally used for the realization of protective coatings of concrete areas and, in particular, to waterproof wastewater treatment tanks(drains and white water drainage).
The laying substrate must be carefully examined to be sure it is a suitable base for the chosen application cycles.
1) on newly cast concrete, immediately after mechanical floating (usually 8-24 hours after casting), check the surface wettability (which could be compromised by the presence of hydrophobic substances in the consolidation and hardening treatments) pouring a glass of water.
In case of a wettable substrate, to ensure Q-SMALTO perfect adhesion to the substrate, it is sufficient to apply a coat of Q-PRIMER diluted with water (1.8 parts by weight of product A+B with 4 parts of water. Q-SMALTO can be used to over-coat Q-PRIMER- just only after 2-6 hours depending on temperature.
acid washing with undiluted NORDECAL FORTE sprayed at a low pressure on the surface and brushed with a mono-brush reinforced with a carbon fibre or nylon brush, then the sucking up the liquid and rinsing.
Then proceed with priming using Q-PRIMER according to the above outlined instructions.
2) On new already cured concrete: proceed as explained in point 1).
3) On old concrete surfaces, thoroughly clean with the appropriate products to remove all what could inhibit product adhesion and penetration (fats, oils, paints, etc..). Normally, washing with STRIPPER and mechanical floating followed by a generous rinsing and the aspiration of the washing liquid from the substrate are sufficient. however, if the concrete is contaminated with oil, old adhesive or paint, rust, mildew and other things, the screed shall be grinded with a marble grinding machine of the HTC type.
Then proceed with priming using Q-PRIMER as in point 1).
4) On old much used floors with existing holes, dips and inconsistencies of the surface having depths greater than 5 mm must be compensated with or GROVE RAPIDO or GROVE COLABILE, while those with depths of less than 5 mm with W3.
Then proceed as in Step 2).
5) Old floors with problems of poor compression resistance combined with high porosity are to be reinforced by impregnation with one or more coats of NORPHEN SW SOLID diluted from 4 to 7 fold in water (the dilution should be determined on the basis of the substrate absorption rate) or with Q-PRIMER applied as an impregnating agent (diluted as per the concerning Technical Data Sheet).Then proceed as in Step 2).
To lay down Q SMALTO there is not any residual humidity limit constraints.
Like all epoxy/amine based coatings, Q-SMALTO is to be prepared in a mixing bucket in an appropriate quantity in order to take into account the product pot life (90 min. At room temperature).
Pour Q-SMALTO component into component A and mix well with a low speed professional mixer.
It is kindly recommended to dilute the already mixed product (A + B) with 5% by weight of water before application.
The impeller size must be adapted to the size of the mixing bucket (eg: a 15 - 20 litres bucket requires an impeller with a diameter of approx. 15 cm).
Apply by roller, brush or spray in one or more coats a day apart from each other until achieving the required thickness.
It is advisable to realize a 0.15 ÷0.20 mm thick coating with 0.25 to 0.30 kg / m2 of product (A + B) in two coats, in function of the substrate absorption rate.
Do not use at temperatures below +5 ° C.
Mix component A and B according to the precise ratio listed on the package; Partial use of the package requires the operator to mix the two components inside the containers prior to withdrawing and to weigh carefully the withdrawn quantities according to the weight ratio indicated on the label.
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UW-Madison is training 'co-conspirators' to fight 'white supremacy' →
Cancel Culture: 'Democrat' belongs in dustbin of history
Posted on July 16, 2020 by David Blaska
Cancel THIS Democrats!
In all this frenzy of name changes, one culprit is conspicuously missing. Up to the 1960s the Democratic Party was the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, poll taxes, and literacy tests for voting. The first Confederate Congress was dominated by former Democrats. …
In the contested presidential election of 1876, the Democrats allowed the Republican Rutherford Hayes to assume office … in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. This bargain ended Reconstruction and ushered in almost a century during which the Democratic Party dominated Southern politics, implementing a cruel regime of segregation in state after state of the former Confederacy.
Nor were the Democrats in any great hurry to change their racist ways. When Woodrow Wilson became the first Democrat in 16 years to occupy the White House in March 1913, he lost no time re-segregating the civil service. …
It is particularly galling to see that almost all of the recent police abuses have taken place in cities that Democrats have run for many decades. Nonetheless, incompetent and irresponsible incumbent politicians, helped along by the mainstream media, have deflected blame for their own failures by impugning their political opponents as endemically racist.
Source: Cancel Culture: 'Democrat' Belongs in Dustbin of History | National Review
16 Responses to Cancel Culture: 'Democrat' belongs in dustbin of history
pANTIFArts says:
OHH MR Blaska, you're scratching a scab with this one!!! The Left has been suppressing this information for 60 years. You are SPOT ON by referencing the 1876 election. I would urge your readers to investigate a few groups; (1) The RED SHIRTS, (2) The WHITE LEAGUE, and (The REDEEMERS. These groups formed NOT to suppress the Black vote, but to stop Blacks from voting REPUBLICAN. (which Blacks were to a man) If Blacks were willing to vote Democrat , they would have been URGED to vote ! (although at a separate polling site) Democrats continued their intimidation tactics for the next 90 years, always with the goal of suppressing Black votes for Republican candidates. In the 1960's their RACIST methods switched to "THE SOFT BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATIONS". ( this coincided with the LIBERAL take over of academia) That brings us to the present day. While Conservatives speak about equal opportunities for all, the Democrats, (seeing everything in terms of RACE ), tell Blacks that they can only succeed with their help. Liberals are the the most insidiously RACIST humans alive. – Don't Get Me Started!!!-
Sheppy says:
Have to give some mention of Lyndon Johnson for being was one of the worst Presidents in history as well. He began the raid on social security to fund the civil rights act among other things and may or may not have muttered something about having those "African Americans" (he said the n word) voting Democrat for the next 200 years…..he was racist to the core but he was right about the future votes.
Lest we forget, which is what Lefty is banking on, Margaret Human Weeds Sanger and the RAYcist, classist, elitist Proglibocrat Eugenicists.
If memory serves, the Progressive Eugenicist desire to…um…regulate reproduction and the population wasn't restricted to any certain segment of humanity, and The Gotch could make strong case they were far more diabolically RAYcist, hateful, bigoted, discriminatory, elitist, classist, and over a far greater spectrum than any fringe group of White Supremacists or the Ante-Bellum South.
Why? Because they sought a Greater Good, and with the approval of their own craven consciences.
Not to over-simplify, but back at the turn of the 20th century, the newly minted BIG GUBMINT Administrative State was coming off a clear victory of disabling the EVIL Corporate Trusts. A goal achieved no longer motivates and, feeling their oats, what next? Hey, howse about improving humanity?
Natural selection improved society over time, but a glacially slow pace; could these whiz kids jump start that with "Scientific Selection?" C'mon, you could improve flora-n-fauna by selective breeding, am I right? Why not extend those efforts to humans? Heck, what could possibly go wrong?
Anywho, right here on campus, the U.W. Madison (GO BADGERS!!) was in the thick of the Eugenics craze.
Selective breeding, forced castrations & sterilizations, work camps, elimination of "inferiors," ad infinitum ad naseum, Eugenics had everything nascent totalitarian Proglibocrats could want, and then some.
U.W. academics Charles Van Hise, Edward Ross, John R. Commons, and "Progressive Political Economist and Social Gospel Advocate" Richard T. Ely were of…um…similar mindset; all but Ross would be considered for a Bucky Mt. Rushmore.
Have their books, awards, scholarships, plaques, their freakin' memories, been the subject of any weepy hand-wringing? Not that The Gotch's heard.
Van Hise Elementary School has "sister" Velma Hamilton Middle School, which may soften some of the historical stigma, of which most aren't aware.
And I've heard no call for renaming Van Hise Hall on campus yet; you?
Good Dog,Happy Man says:
Gotch,
Good targeting, but hardly sporting. Kinda like shooting fish in a barrel. Racist, atheist, eugenicist, darling of the Democrats, Founder of Planned unParenthood and author of the "Negro Project", Margaret "Human Weeds" Sanger is still my top favorite socialist/collectivist mass-murderer. She's worse than Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot or Hitler combined. She has more blood other hands than the entire Confederate army. Her death numbers are still going up.
She wrote: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Ministers? Hmmm, … aren't the race-baiting ministers; Sharpton, Jackson and Farrakhan who are still working this same scheme, trying to divide Americans by race, creed and color?
GDHM
"aren't the race-baiting ministers; Sharpton, Jackson and Farrakhan who are still working this same scheme, trying to divide Americans by race, creed and color?"
When you put it that way…and Urban Triage, FreeDUMB Inc, Derail the Jail, et al?
How's the peach crop coming along; asking for a peach-LUVIN friend…
The Reliance was a bust. I need new trees. The Contender was good, though.
Maybe Democrats should change the national anthem to "Don't Know Much About History."
The New American Taliban wants to culturally cleanse, rewrite and erase history, because it's chock-a-block full of examples of their own racism. Keeping their constituents angry, comfortably dumb, infantalized, mollified with crumbs from their master's table in exchange for their vote every four years, and kept custodially safe on their proglobotic plantation porch is good strategy. But here's one inconvenient truth; in 1964, Democrats held the longest filibuster in our nation's history, (75 days), to try and prevent the passing of one thing, The Civil Rights Act.
Democrats gave us the KKK, Jim Crow, lynchings, poll taxes, literacy tests, and failed policies like the "Great Society" and the "War On Poverty".
Republican President Eisenhower ordered troops to enforce school desegregation. Republican Senator Everett Dirksen enabled the 1964 civil rights legislation to pass, in opposition to Senators Robert Byrd (KKK Grand Donkey) and Al Gore, Sr. As a matter of fact, it was Democrat President Lyndon Baines Johnson who stated, "I'll have those negroes voting Democratic for the next 200 years" Only he didn't say the word "negroes", he used the n-word. At least LBJ was honest in his racial bigotry.
Compare and contrast that history with Republicans. On March 20, 1854 the Republican Party was established in Ripon, Wisconsin. (welcome, VP Pence). The Grand Old Party was established for one reason: to break the chains of slavery and ensure the unalienable rights endowed by the Creator of LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness would be for ALL Americans.
The first black members of the US House and Senate were Republicans. The first civil rights legislation came from Republicans. The Republican Party was created to achieve individual freedom. Then, as now, the antagonist to the Republican party has been the Democrats, the party of collective subjugation and individual enslavement, … then physical, now economic.
2timothytrump says:
Yeah and the democrats who filibustered became Republicans. Storm Thurmond for example, The parties switched and to not recognize that is to misuse history to epic proportions.
The Civil Rights Act was the turning point making Southern Democrats into Southern Republicans.
Also if it is democrats who filibustered the civil rights act and were confederates, why do Southern Republicans fly the confederate flag?
"The parties switched and to not recognize that is to misuse history to epic proportions."
You mean like…um…misusing the history of the RAYcist/classist/elitist Proglibocrat Eugenicists (Wilson, Sanger, Commons**, Ely**, Van Hise**, Ross**, et al), figuring Lefty would be easily gulled into thinking it never happened, or were it brought up, too incurious to look into it?
** local boyz
That kinda epic switchin'……?
To paraphrase inimitable Noah Cross (John Huston in the immortal Chinatown:
Lefty's gotta nasty reputation; The Gotch likes that!,/b>
No, just no. Scroll down to "2timothytrump" for a reply. The Civil Rights Act didn't change Southern Democrats into anything. The "Rebel Flag" is just an "IN YOUR FACE" to other regions of the country, and a source of regional pride. Ninety Percent of people don't mean anything by it, but, obviously "it's time has come and gone". It certainly is not the sole domain of Southern Republicans. If y'all are going to start posting here , at least come prepared.
Jason Oleston says:
Lincoln was the worst POTUS. If he only had let the Democrats have their own country in the South, they would have eventually withered on the vine and come crawling back. But, nooooo….
pANTIFArts
Gotch
You all should be teaching history in Madison public schools or at the UW.
Thanks for taking the time.
It'd never work; we'd get CANCELLED so fast it'd make your head spin.
Why? Expectations.
Those expectations?
For that, let's toss it over to Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Akyroyd in Ghost Busters):
I've WORKED in the private sector. They expect RESULTS!"
blametheboomers85 says:
The whole "the left are the real racists" thing is not going to work. No one cares.
It is no wonder this came from the dusty, dried up, infertile, flacid, useless National Review. Gatekeepers who are more interested in corporate profits and denouncing communism than the state of our nation.
The only way the Democrat party is going to go the way of the Whigs is the same way it happened last time… the Republicans will have to grow to the point of total domination.
…and that's why National Review and Cuckservatism has existed. To keep that from happening.
Tucker Carlson is right – we're run by a ship of fools. It's more likely we see a breakup of the USA than the demise of the Democrat party, with this kind of failure to add 1 and 1 going on.
Avoicecrying33 says:
I am so disappointed by this article. Yes the confederacy were democrats and most Klan members were Democrats but then Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights bill and the voting rights act and Nixon brought them into the Republican Party and the South has been pretty Republican ever sense.the 1976 and 1992 elections being the exception.
Two of the most racist senators ever astrometric Thurmond and Jesse Helms ended their careers as Republicans.
Show me a southern Republican and I bet dollars to donuts his grand daddy was a klan supporter and his ancestor fought for the confederacy.
The roles have reversed. I am an independent so I believe both parties are wrong on this issue. The democrats have the blame culture and the Republicans was economic policies benefit the wealthy and the white primarily.
We need a centrist party who will be willing to end the war on drugs, make it a medical issue, save the African American family and invest in minority neighborhoods by investing in minority neighborhood schools As well as non religious charter schools and to bring decent livable wage jobs into minority neighborhoods.
I wish you and "2timothytrump " had responded to this 2 days ago. I have no interest in engaging this on an old post. (I'm more interest in reading the opinions of others, than in reading my own words) When the CIVIL RIGHTS / VOTING RIGHTS bills became a reality, the Southern Democrats were faced with a serious threat to their own survival. They went after the Black vote with empty promises, and fabricated threats of what would happen if Republicans were in control. The Republicans did not change. Republicans stayed with the message that "Your obstacles to success have been removed,- get an education, work hard, triumph over adversity". Your post was five (5) paragraphs long , so a thought on each– (1) the South is Republican because of the Black Vote (2) You are absolutely correct !! Some politicians pander to their base SOOO HARD that they will say anything, take any stance, to get the vote. (Who would have thunk?) George Wallace was another example, ultimately apologizing to Blacks and becoming Republican. (3) That applies to MILLIONS of citizens and means nothing (4) The tactics, not the roles reversed. Economic policies benefit the successful, White and, increasingly Black . I hope you remain Independent, — Republicans/ Democrats, on the national level, are a SWAMP in need of draining. (5) The people here seem to be Constitutional Conservatives, so the list is some what different, but with similar goals – we can discuss methods later

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Many thanks to all those who attended our "Meet the Mavericks" Symposium at London International Wine Fair last month.
Could a better understanding of robotics help the UK wine trade solve its problems? It's a mind-boggling concept. We have a chat with one of our Symposium @LIWF speakers.
We know the UK wine industry is in crisis. Successive duty increases, increased supermarket buyer power and adverse currency movements have conspired to eliminate meaningful returns from selling wine in the UK market.
Natasha Rastegar shares her observations from Shanghai.
If you could wave a magic wand and make a change for the better in the world wine business in 2013, what would you do?
The highlight of our 10th birthday celebrations in 2012 was the Wine Intelligence 10 for 10 Business Awards.


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Упразднённые населённые пункты района Беимбета Майлина
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The eighth installment of The Bane Chronicles — What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You're Not Officially Dating Anyway) — was released on Tuesday, and Entertainment Weekly has some exclusive audiobook content.
Head over to EW.com to listen to a snippet of the audiobook read by Jordan Gavaris (of Orphan Black) and listen to a chat between Cassandra Clare and Gavaris.
am I the only one that knows of him because of Unnatural History?
Does anyone know if or when these audiobooks will be released in the UK as I can't seem to get them?


Natasha Taft thought she was just doing her job.
As chief compliance officer for the New York branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, she filed a whistleblower complaint in response to the bank's refusal to correct BSA violations she discovered: that customer payments over the SWIFT network were using a bank-to-bank format to purportedly hide information regarding the transmitter and recipient. She even sent a memo to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York outlining the bank's purported violations and sought guidance as to the suspected transactions.
But then, Taft claimed, her supervisors became furious and sought to punish her for exposing the bank's compliance deficiencies, ultimately leading to her termination. In the end, she was forced to file a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against the bank.
Taft beat the bank's motion to dismiss and later settled. The court found that Taft plausibly pled facts to show that she acted independently of the bank because the bank engaged in a concerted effort to stop Taft from raising her concerns.
Certainly Taft went above and beyond to spearhead correcting the compliance violation while still maintaining her integrity along the way. But her story echoes the experience of many chief compliance officers who often find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place when reporting AML/BSA violations.
When CCOs report a possible AML/BSA violation to a regulator, for example, they could face a backlash from their employer. Alternatively, when CCOs recommend compliance fixes that are ignored by management, they themselves can be held liable by regulators for not doing their job.
Take the case of Thomas Haider, former CCO at MoneyGram. In May of this year, Haider agreed to pay $250,000 to settle AML violations with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Haider reluctantly admitted that he failed to conduct adequate audits of MoneyGram's agents suspected of engaging in fraud and failed to implement a policy for terminating or disciplining agents that presented a high risk of fraud. Haider also agreed to a three-year ban on working for any money transmitter.
Was Haider an ineffective CCO or a compliance scapegoat? By his account, he supported the fraud department's proposals to terminate and discipline agents, but his recommendations were ignored by the sales division that had the authority to implement the recommendations. MoneyGram's AML programs were audited by regulators and outside consultants, but none of the reviews flagged any of FinCEN's findings.
Similarly, the FDIC determined that a former CCO at Banamex USA was liable for failing to discover that the bank processed over 30 million remittance transactions to Mexico worth $8.8 billion, imposing a $70,000 fine and a bank employment ban. Although the FDIC alleged that the CCO exhibited a "continuing disregard for the safety or soundness of the bank" that caused the compliance lapses, it appeared to ignore that the CCO was proactive in making recommendations to senior management regarding the BSA compliance.
The regulators' untested theories of liability are still up in the air and inconsistent. The Taft case places a high bar for CCOs to avoid liability. One solution would be for regulators to find a pathway to improve their working relationship with CCOs.
After all, CCOs are on the front lines and can stand the heat. But with the unfair burden placed on them by the regulators, who would blame them for getting out of the kitchen?


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Saleswoman at upscale kids' clothing store in Chelsea punched out by robber angry she didn't hand over cash fast enough
By Michael Light and Rocco Parascandola
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Surveillance video shows the crook casing Lucky Wang on Seventh Ave. near W. 15th St. shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday, sources said. He then bursts inside, telling the 42-year-old saleswoman, "Open the register!" (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)
A saleswoman at an upscale children's clothing boutique in Chelsea was punched out by a robber angry she didn't hand over money from the register fast enough, police sources said on Monday.
Surveillance video shows the crook casing Lucky Wang on Seventh Ave. near W. 15th St. shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday, sources said. He then bursts inside, telling the 42-year-old saleswoman, "Open the register!"
He punched her, breaking her nose, as she followed his orders, sources said.
The robber ran off with about $100 and is still being sought.
"The register is tied into the computer," the shop's owner said on Monday. "[It was] totally unnecessary. She was cooperating. We've been in business long enough.
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"We know our safety is first and to give them what they want."
The owner, who asked not to be named, said the shop has been in business 16 years and, while there have been shoplifting incidents, this was the first time it was robbed.
The shop does not have cameras inside, but that may change, the owner said.
Robberies in the 10th Precinct, which is investigating the incident, were down through Feb. 10, to 2 from 8.
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Chelsea winger Yossi Benayoun: The only reason I left Liverpool was Rafael Benitez
By Anthony Sciarrino
Israeli star reveals the Spaniard tried to break him...
New Chelsea signing Yossi Benayoun has hit out at former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, accusing the Spaniard of making his time at Anfield a horrible experience.
Benitez left the Reds to join Inter Milan after a disastrous Premier League campaign, which saw Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League for the 2010-11 season.
The Israel international revealed Benitez was the sole reason why he made the £5.5 million move to Chelsea earlier this month.
"Everyone asks me why I left Liverpool," Benayoun told The News of the World.
"There is only one reason - Rafa Benitez. I agreed to join Chelsea before Roy Hodgson was appointed Liverpool's new manager.
"It's a dream for me such a fantastic club have given me this opportunity. But I want Liverpool fans to know the truth and for them to know I made up my mind to leave a long time ago because of Benitez.
"He never treated me with the respect I deserved. If I played well, I never felt he gave me credit. When I scored, I still expected to be out of the team the next game.
"And when the fans wanted me to play, Benitez told me he couldn't understand why."
The 30-year-old, who scored nine times for the Reds last season, revealed there were many instances of mistreatment from Benitez.
"There are many examples of him treating me badly," he added.
"On two occasions early last season, against Fulham and Lyon, the fans booed when I was subbed. They thought I was playing well but Benitez told me he was surprised the fans booed because I was not good enough.
"Then, when we played Birmingham [City] after I hadn't started a game for a month, he didn't tell me I was starting until two hours before the game.
"He tried to destroy my confidence. You can't treat a player like this and expect him to be happy. I don't want to speak on behalf of other players at Liverpool, but people know what happened to Albert Riera and Xabi Alonso.
"It was the same for me. Benitez tried to break me like he broke Riera."
Benayoun also revealed he was happy to leave once the Premier League champions made an offer for him and he could not take the chance of staying if Benitez also continued in his role.
"On the day before the final game of last season at Hull [City], Benitez pulled me to one side after training and said, 'You will not be in the squad for this game. Thank you for your three years of service, now you can call your agent to do a deal with another club.'
"That's when Chelsea made an offer and the deal was done before Benitez left. I knew I had to get away from Benitez. A lot of people at Liverpool treated me well and asked me to stay, but I could not turn down such a massive club as Chelsea.
"I could not risk waiting to see if Benitez kept his job. The club said they understood why I was unhappy and promised they'd let me leave in the summer if an offer came while Benitez was manager."
The fleet-footed winger believes Benitez departing for Serie A is great for the Reds and said playing in front of the Liverpool fans was an honour.
"It is good for Liverpool that Benitez has gone, but it was too late for me," he concluded.
"I know everyone working there will be a lot happier and I believe Roy Hodgson is a good choice. It was a privilege for me to play for such a great club in front of great fans. I thought I would be staying for a lot longer."
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Singer DOOGIE WHITE Talks About His Split With YNGWIE, Future With TANK
The Rainbow Fanclub Legacy recently conducted an interview with U.K.-based vocalist Doogie White (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, RAINBOW, CORNERSTONE, TANK). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. The Rainbow Fanclub Legacy: How did you got involved with TANK? Doogie: When Mr. Goldy and I were asked to remove the songs we had written ...
CANCERSLUG: 'Tales Of A Butcher' Artwork Unveiled
The cover artwork for "Tales of a Butcher", the new album from long-running Alabama outfit CANCERSLUG, can be found on the Ravenous Media web site. Due "very soon" through Drink Blood Records, the 28-song CD was recorded at Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida with respected producer Brian Elliott and it features ...
LAMB OF GOD Drummer Talks About Touring U.K.; Video Available
Drummer Chris Adler of Richmond, Virginia metallers LAMB OF GOD recently sat down for a chat with the U.K. branch of Roadrunner Records and talked about the band's experiences of touring in the U.K. in view of the group's upcoming visit to the country on the Defenders of the Faith tour. Watch the interview at ...
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN: America Is 'The Greatest Country On Earth'
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SOLSIKK Featuring Former BIOMECHANICAL Members: New Music Posted Online
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PARADISE LOST, ROTTING CHRIST To Headline Northern Ireland's FULL METAL RACKET Festival
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Germany's RITUAL To Release New Album In March
German hardcore band RITUAL will release its new album, "Beneath Aging Flesh And Bone", on March 17 via Reflections Records. According to a press release, RITUAL has "created a record that combines melody, heaviness, anger and angst to an absolute hardcore masterpiece." "Beneath Aging Flesh And Bone" is "the best, the smartest, the most reflected ...
SCAR SYMMETRY, Ex-DIO, ONWARD Guitarists Featured On 'Shredding Across The World' CD
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DARKEST GRACE: Debut Album Out Now
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Mistake-prone BYU proves no match for No. 11 Washington in 35-7 loss
Washington wide receiver Andre Baccellia (5) runs between Brigham Young's Sione Takitaki, second from left, and Matt Hadley, right, after a reception in the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
By Jay Drew
· Published: September 29, 2018
Seattle • The BYU Cougars learned what a bona fide top 25 football team plays like Saturday night at Husky Stadium, and it wasn't them.
Soaring after a big upset two weeks ago and a solid win at home, the No. 20 Cougars crashed and burned in their attempt to pull off another college football stunner, falling 35-7 to No. 11 Washington in front of an announced crowd of 70,155 and a national television audience.
"As a team, we made way too many mistakes to even have a chance in this game," said BYU coach Kalani Sitake. "Washington is a great team and you can't give a great team that many opportunities. That's what happened tonight. … I don't mean to diminish anything they did, because that's a great team. They are a national contender every year."
BYU isn't, and that has never been more obvious than it was on the beautiful shores of Lake Washington. The Cougars turned in as ugly of a performance as they did in any game last season and were overwhelmed in every way imaginable.
"They were just manhandling us," Sitake said.
Despite playing horribly in the first half, the Cougars (3-2) were reasonably in it, trailing just 14-0, with less than a minute remaining before the break. But Lopini Katoa fumbled "when we were just trying to run out the clock," Sitake said, and Washington pounced.
Senior quarterback Jake Browning scampered in from the 9-yard line three plays later, and any hopes of a BYU turnaround in the second half were dashed.
"We knew coming into this game we would have to play as disciplined and as good as we possibly can," Sitake said. "But we didn't even have a chance at that because they are such a great team. They capitalized on everything."
So the Huskies took a 21-0 halftime lead and were never threatened in the second half.
The only suspense in the final 30 minutes of the game that lasted just two hours, 52 minutes was whether BYU would get shut out for the first time since last year's 27-0 loss to LSU.
They avoided the shutout after Washington fumbled away a punt deep in its own territory midway through the fourth quarter and long snapper Mitch Harris recovered. Katoa's 1-yard touchdown run on fourth down with 41 seconds remaining put BYU on the board.
"We're a resilient group. We gotta bounce back," said BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum. "That's part of the game."
With protective tape on two fingers of his throwing hand, Mangum actually threw the ball more accurately than he has all season. He was 18 of 21 for 160 yards with a long of 39 — to Matt Bushman — in playing the entire game.
"No big deal," he said of the apparent injury.
Meanwhile, Browning was every bit of the big deal he is cracked up to be. With plenty of time to throw, Browning completed 23 of 25 passes for 277 yards and a touchdown, setting a school record for single-game completion percentage just as Wisconsin's Alex Hornibrook did a year ago to the Cougars.
"Washington is a really good machine right now," Sitake said.
Any hope that a Cougar comeback could be in the works dried up when Washington stopped BYU on its first possession of the second half, then marched 48 yards on seven plays to take a 28-0 lead. BYU gained just 18 yards in the third quarter.
Browning's 15-yard touchdown pass to Drew Sample was the 100th touchdown he's been responsible for in his four-year career.
"They did a great job of keeping us on our toes and not letting us get into pass-rush mode," said BYU defensive end Corbin Kaufusi, who registered BYU's only sack.
The first half was easily BYU's worst half of the season. They fumbled three times (losing one) and committed seven penalties for 50 yards, including several that stalled their only respectable drive of the first half.
Trailing 7-0 after the Huskies scored on their second possession, BYU took over at its 16 and somehow kept the drive alive by overcoming a third-and-13 and a third-and-6. But after Squally Canada's scamper to the Washington 10, tight end Dallin Holker was flagged for holding and the drive stalled.
"It showed what we are capable of," Mangum said.
Skyler Southam's 45-yard field goal attempt wasn't close, however, and BYU wouldn't get into scoring territory again until the final seconds.
Seizing the momentum from that miss, the Huskies promptly drove 72 yards in six plays. All-time leading UW rusher Myles Gaskin scored from 6 yards out to make it 14-0. Gaskin had 81 yards on 14 carries.
Washington rushed for 187 yards, BYU for 34. The Cougars' biggest offensive threat was Katoa, who caught seven passes for 66 yards.
"I think they just beat us," Sitake said. "Tough lesson to learn, but we will learn from it and get better."
Another of BYU's tight ends, Moroni Laulu-Pututau, suffered a left knee sprain on BYU's third play from scrimmage and did not return to the game. The Cougars also played without linebacker Zayne Anderson and safety Dayan Ghanwoloku. Sitake said the injured players hope to be back for BYU's next game, but the Cougars face a short week. They host Utah State on Friday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
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Call for workshops and tutorials
2022 Dijkstra prize
2022 Dissertation award
The 42th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
PODC 2023 will be part of the
ACM Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC 2023.
In particular, it will be co-held with SPAA and STOC.
PODC: https://www.podc.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/podc_disc
The submission site is now open: https://podc2023.hotcrp.com/
Dates (all times are AoE)
All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE in the year 2023.
Abstract submission: January 6th
Full paper submission: January 10th
Notification: March 30th
Physical attendance
The conference will be physical-only. For each accepted paper (full paper or brief announcement), one of the authors is expected to give the conference presentation on-site. There are currently no plans for zoom access.
The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing is an international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation and application of distributed systems and networks. We solicit papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are welcome. The goal of the conference is to improve understanding of the principles underlying distributed computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
biological distributed algorithms and systems
blockchain protocols
coding and reliable communication
concurrency, synchronization, and persistence
design and analysis of distributed algorithms
distributed and cloud storage
distributed and concurrent data structures
distributed computation for large-scale data
distributed graph algorithms
distributed machine learning algorithms
distributed operating systems, middleware, databases
distributed resource management and scheduling
fault-tolerance, reliability, self-organization, and self-stabilization
game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
languages, verification, and formal methods for distributed systems
lower bounds and impossibility results for distributed computing
mobile computing and autonomous agents
multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, and social networks
population protocols
quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
replication and consistency
security and cryptography in distributed computing
specifications and semantics
system-on-chip and network-on-chip architectures
transactional memory
wireless, sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
A submitted paper should clearly motivate the importance of the problem being addressed, discuss prior work and its relationship to the paper, explicitly and precisely state the paper's key contributions, and outline the key technical ideas and methods used to achieve the main claims. A submission should strive to be accessible to a broad audience, as well as having sufficient details for experts in the area.
Regular Papers: A regular paper must report on original research that has not been previously published. It is not permitted to submit the same material concurrently to journals or conferences with proceedings. Format and length requirements for submissions are stated below. All ideas necessary for an expert to fully verify the central claims in a paper, including experimental results, should be included in the submission.
Brief Announcements: A brief announcement may describe work in progress or work presented elsewhere. The title of a brief announcement must begin with "Brief Announcement: ".
Submissions not conforming to the rules stated in this call, as well as papers outside the scope of the conference, may be rejected without consideration.
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Regular paper submissions may be up to 15 pages long, excluding references, and may be followed by a clearly marked appendix. Each submission must contain full proofs of all claims in the paper. The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers.
Brief announcement submissions must be at most 4 pages long, excluding references.
Best practices for citations: Alphabetical orderings of authors can lead to biases. Therefore, authors are encouraged to avoid "et al." in citations, and instead mention all authors' names.
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A conflict of interest is limited to the following:
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Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy
Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2011 Nov;23(6):612-9. doi: 10.1097/BOR.0b013e32834b324b.
Christina Liang 1 , Merrilee Needham
1 Department of Neurology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
DOI: 10.1097/BOR.0b013e32834b324b
Purpose of review: Necrotizing autoimmune myopathy (NAM) is a relatively newly recognized subgroup of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, which despite diverse causes, have the common histopathological features of myocyte necrosis without significant inflammation. Patients present with a subacute severe symmetrical proximal myopathy, associated with a markedly elevated creatine kinase level. These are most likely immune-mediated, as they respond to immunotherapy. The review aims to define this heterogeneous entity and summarize the salient clinical, laboratory, and muscle biopsy findings, in order to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of this condition.
Recent findings: Statin-associated NAM has been linked with an antibody against the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR) protein, which is up-regulated in regenerating fibres. This finding suggests that NAM is an antibody-mediated disease, and may explain the continuing progression of disease despite cessation of the statin. In addition it may provide a useful diagnostic test in the future, to help differentiate immune from nonimmune statin myopathies.
Summary: It is important to recognize and distinguish NAM from other causes of myocyte necrosis, because it has the potential of being amenable to treatment.
Antibodies, Monoclonal / therapeutic use
Autoimmune Diseases / etiology
Autoimmune Diseases / immunology
Autoimmune Diseases / pathology
Connective Tissue Diseases / etiology
Connective Tissue Diseases / immunology
Connective Tissue Diseases / pathology
Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases / immunology
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / adverse effects
Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use
Myositis / etiology
Myositis / immunology*
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Signal Recognition Particle / immunology
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Antibodies, Monoclonal
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
Signal Recognition Particle
Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases


As January came to a close, the heavens dumped snow onto the state of Kansas.
I'm not a huge fan of snow, and I hate ice. However, we got a taste of both thanks to this most recent winter storm.
I can deal with it, I guess, but I didn't realize there was something else in the precipitation. It was a type of pollution, and I fear many people were infected.
See, stupid seemed to have rained down upon Kansas just as the snow and ice settled in for a cold stay.
Generally, I wouldn't be bothered by such stupidity because it invariably happens that whenever the weather conditions change, people become disorientated and confused about how to properly conduct normal, everyday tasks.
I have adjusted and learned to cope with the ineptitude of others.
However, in this storm the stupidity must have been at very high levels because I couldn't drive through a parking lot without becoming enraged.
How hard is it to park a car?
Granted, if there is snow on the ground, the lines aren't easily seen, but don't most people have a feel for how close the parking stalls are to one another?
Every place I tried to park showed the same travesty.
Cars were parked next to each other, but there was enough space between each car that a person could almost get another vehicle crammed in there.
Why can't people park normally when there is snow on the ground?
Everyone knows that the stalls are close together, so park that way even if there is snow covering the lines.
Most of the parking lots probably had their parking capacities reduced by an estimated 30 percent because people parked to far away from the car next to theirs.
Is society so lazy that we can't park properly if we don't have guiding lines painted on the parking surface?
I understand that ice and snow is tough and scary to drive in. Accidents often occur because the driving conditions are far below an ideal standard.
However, parking doesn't involve that much movement.
All a person needs to do is creep through the lot at a low speed, find a location to park the vehicle and pull into said spot slowly. The car should be close enough to other vehicles to allow the driver to get out of the car relatively easy, but this distance should not an exorbitant amount.
Only take as much space as is absolutely necessary.
Of course, this frustration was compounded by the fact that at Wichita State University many students didn't go to school because of the inclement weather, meaning there should have been plenty of spots open in the prime parking lots.
Sadly, though, the prime lots we filled to capacity because each car was taking up almost two parking slots.
Foul weather is going to happen, requiring people to adjust to the changes in their daily routines; however, that doesn't mean common sense and intelligence should be thrown by the wayside.
Just park your car like normal and don't let the big, bad snow flakes mess with you.
Remember, the snow will melt. You won't. That's dominance in my book, so don't let the snow win.
Drive safely, and park smartly.


Blogophobia at the New York Times?
Just read this post at Portfolio.com suggesting that there's been a sudden bout of "blogophobia" at the paper of record, from their own bloggers "to capture the debate rather than taking sides in it", to trying to shut down the Apartment Therapy blog using a DMCA notice. I thought the New York Time was going open; I hope this recent behavior isn't indicative of their changing their minds.


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Grandeur of the Seas Cruise Review
We chose this cruise because it left from Baltimore, which my wife and I had not seen before. It also was easily accessible by plane (not overseas, etc). We also liked the ports, in particular, Charleston, Miami, and Port Canaveral, where we went to Cocoa Beach. Unfortunately, there were some major drawbacks. First, Royal Caribbean International (RCI) has apparently done away with purchasing minutes for the internet, or day-by-day access to internet. Instead, one must pay 15.99 minimum for access for one device for the ENTIRE cruise. This comes out to abut $150. I think one can cancel the balance before the end of the cruise, but that is little consolatioin. It is much more affordable to purchase minutes or access as needed. Second, one of our shore excursions was canceled. This was no problem, in itself. It was rough windy seas, and the snorkeling tour was canceled. However, there appeared to be no alternate preparation on behalf of the shore excursion desk. We got up there, along with half a dozen or so others to book another tour, and there was no posting of what tours were available, no brochures of all the excursions (which existed, but were nowhere in sight), so each person took a huge amount of time, talking to the ONE staff person available. We went back to our room and looked at the brochure and decided against an excursion. In additon, there was very little to celebrate the cruising experience. Usually on a cruise, at least one night, there is a "midnight buffet" and often on another night there is a display of a carved ice sculpture, and even some carved vegetables, etc, showing off the chef's and chef's staff's talents. NEITHER of these occurred. Also, there was no celebration or special music on the last night of the cruise. It was fairly quiet and low key. Not bad perhaps, on other nights, but a deafening silence on the last night. All in all, we will not return to RCI in the future. The shore excursions themselves, the food in the Windjammer, the stateroom and stateroom attendant were all great. However, there were too many missing elements, or overpriced elements ($69 for an all access tour around the ship: the kitchen, etc. Cruises often provide this once during a cruise for free or a nominal fee).
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Grandeur of the Seas Cruise Review by kshore10
Destination: Bahamas
We chose this cruise because it left from Baltimore, which my wife and I had not seen before. It also was easily accessible by plane (not overseas, etc). We also liked the ports, in particular, Charleston, Miami, and Port Canaveral, where we went to Cocoa Beach.
Unfortunately, there were some major drawbacks. First, Royal Caribbean International (RCI) has apparently done away with purchasing minutes for the internet, or day-by-day access to internet. Instead, one must pay 15.99 minimum for access for one device for the ENTIRE cruise. This comes out to abut $150. I think one can cancel the balance before the end of the cruise, but that is little consolatioin. It is much more affordable to purchase minutes or access as needed.
Second, one of our shore excursions was canceled. This was no problem, in itself. It was rough windy seas, and the snorkeling tour was canceled. However, there appeared to be no alternate preparation on behalf of the shore excursion desk. We got up there, along with half a dozen or so others to book another tour, and there was no posting of what tours were available, no brochures of all the excursions (which existed, but were nowhere in sight), so each person took a huge amount of time, talking to the ONE staff person available. We went back to our room and looked at the brochure and decided against an excursion.
In additon, there was very little to celebrate the cruising experience. Usually on a cruise, at least one night, there is a "midnight buffet" and often on another night there is a display of a carved ice sculpture, and even some carved vegetables, etc, showing off the chef's and chef's staff's talents. NEITHER of these occurred.
Also, there was no celebration or special music on the last night of the cruise. It was fairly quiet and low key. Not bad perhaps, on other nights, but a deafening silence on the last night.
All in all, we will not return to RCI in the future. The shore excursions themselves, the food in the Windjammer, the stateroom and stateroom attendant were all great. However, there were too many missing elements, or overpriced elements ($69 for an all access tour around the ship: the kitchen, etc. Cruises often provide this once during a cruise for free or a nominal fee).
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This River is a 2016 Canadian short documentary film directed by Katherena Vermette and Erika MacPherson. The film centres on Drag the Red, a volunteer group in Manitoba who search the Red River for the bodies of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Smith has stated that it was Vermette's North End Love Songs which helped draw her attention to the perspectives of indigenous youth from the North End and the experience of having missing family members.

Principal photography took place August 8 to 16, 2016, with an all-woman crew documenting the work of Drag the Red volunteer Kyle Kematch. The crew spent much of that time filming from a small fleet of donated boats. The director of photographer was Iris Ng, with Anita Lubosh recording sound.

The film received the 2016 Coup de coeur du jury award at Montreal's Terres en vues/Land InSights First Peoples' Festival and had its public premiere in Vermette's hometown of Winnipeg on October 5 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, the film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary Film.

What Brings Us Here
Vermette and producer Alicia Smith also created a related Instagram work, What Brings Us Here, which offers portraits of volunteers behind the community-run Winnipeg search teams the Bear Clan and Drag the Red.

What Brings Us Here features photos by Winnipeg photographers Janine Kropla, Mark Reimer and Karen Asher. The online work combines images of searchers with their statements about why they are continuing to look for loved ones—and answers.

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This River at NFB.ca
What Brings Us Here

2016 short documentary films
Canadian short documentary films
Documentary films about First Nations
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
National Film Board of Canada short films
Best Short Documentary Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
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Films shot in Winnipeg
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada
Documentary films about violence against women
Red River of the North
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2017 Corporate Social Responsibility Overview
Las Vegas Sands enjoys the patronage of our guests and the meetings and convention industry because of our award-winning integrated resort properties and our impeccable service. We are honored to work with a wide variety of partners to build our business and serve the communities where we operate. We also are privileged to receive the attention of many others who want to know us better, from leaders in regions where we hope to invest, to the financial community, government leaders, media and industry pundits. Our intention in this report is to show these important audiences what lies behind our iconic buildings, the dazzling array of offerings and our strong financial success. Being a socially responsible company is one of the driving forces that transcends our corporate culture, along with our dedication to delivering outstanding service to our customers and valuable return to our shareholders. It is the guidepost by which we hold ourselves accountable for how we treat people and conduct ourselves as a company, how we support our communities and how we preserve our planet.
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Sands Bethlehem Helps Plant the Seeds for a Healthier Future
To provide the community with accessible horticulture, the Sands Cares and Sands ECO360 teams partnered with Penn State Extension, Lehigh and Northampton County 4-H, and the Community Action Development Corporation of Bethlehem to build planting beds for the Lynfield Community Center in Bethlehem.
Sands Partners with Clean the World to Assemble 100,00 Hygiene Kits in 2017
Monday, July 16, 2018 - 10:50
More than 1,900 Las Vegas Sands Team Members and community volunteers participated in the Sands Cares Global Hygiene Kit Build with Clean the World to assemble recycled hygiene supplies from hotel properties around the world for distribution to service organizations that aid vulnerable populations.
Marina Bay Sands and the World Wide Fund for Nature: Working Together on Ocean Conservation Stewardship
To raise sustainability standards within Asia's hospitality industry, Marina Bay Sands has partnered with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Singapore. Together, they are focusing on seafood and ocean conservation with goals including positive initiatives in responsible seafood, aquaculture improvement projects (AIPs), and enhanced green meeting packages.
Sands ECO360: Our Commitment to the Planet
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Through our global sustainability program Sands ECO360, Las Vegas Sands works diligently to reduce our properties' impact on the planet. Operating a sustainable business means focusing on the areas where we have the greatest impact and where we can make meaningful improvement through investments, partnerships, and scalable solutions.
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Las Vegas Sands Cares for Communities in the Face of Disaster
In 2017, our global properties were called on many times to step up in the face of tragedy. From Typhoon Hato in Macao to the Las Vegas shooting massacre and other U.S. natural disasters, Las Vegas Sands and its Team Members rose to the challenges.
Responsible Business & Employee Engagement
Sands China's Responsible Gaming Team Training Program
Sands China Ltd. delivered its annual Responsible Gaming Team Training Program at The Venetian Macao's Adelson Advanced Education Center as part of the company's continuing efforts to make Responsible Gaming education a top priority.
Sands for Singapore Charity Festival
Marina Bay Sands (MBS) held its fifth annual Sands for Singapore Charity Festival in 2017 with overall results again surpassing previous years' efforts. A primary initiative for Sands Cares in Singapore, the week-long festival raised S$3.9 million (USD $2.8 million) for local community charities and welcomed more than 20,000 visitors to its various events. Since 2013, Sands for Singapore has raised more than S$20 million (USD $14.7 million).
Sands Celebrates Success With the Local Community
To mark the milestone of Sands Cotai Central's opening in 2012, Sands China Ltd. created an anniversary celebration that not only delighted guests and patrons, it extended special benefits and engaged a number of local community organizations. A highlight of the anniversary celebration was a carnival at the property's Paradise Gardens, in which 50 Sands China Care Ambassadors hosted 50 members of the Macao Special Olympics (MSO) to participate in activities such as balloon twisting, caricature sketching, magic shows, face painting, and more.
How Las Vegas Sands is Fighting the Homelessness Problem in Southern Nevada
On any given night, nearly 6,500 people are homeless in Southern Nevada, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Nevada ranks eighth in the nation for the rate of homeless persons – the smallest region among the metropolitan areas ranking in the top 10 for homelessness. Of that population, more than 60 percent of all homeless people in Nevada are unsheltered, living on the streets in encampments, cars, or other places not meant for human habitation. Las Vegas/Clark County ranks fifth among large metropolitan areas with the highest rates of unsheltered homeless.
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Music|So Paul McCartney Is 64. Now What?
So Paul McCartney Is 64. Now What?
In 1942, when James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, the average life expectancy of a British infant boy was 63 years. Notwithstanding those expectations and the greatly exaggerated rumors of his death decades ago, Mr. McCartney turns 64 on Sunday, Father's Day.
He was a teenager when he wrote the tune for "When I'm Sixty-Four," and only 24 when the Beatles recorded it in 1967 for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." But just as George Orwell's "1984" proved to be an abiding prophecy of a dystopic future for so many impressionable readers, Mr. McCartney's lyrics delivered to a self-consciously youthful generation an enduring if satirical definition of what their golden age might be like "many years from now."
Today, many of those who embraced that quaint vision of enduring love, caring, knitting and puttering in retirement — "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" — couldn't have been more wrong.
And judging by his personal life, Mr. McCartney missed the mark, too. The song's promise of retirement with a longtime partner has proved, at best, bittersweet for him. Last month, he announced his separation from his second wife, Heather Mills, who is 38. "Will you still need me?" indeed. Since 1967, American divorce rates per capita have more than doubled (three-quarters of men married in the late 1950's celebrated their 20th wedding anniversaries with their first wife, compared with about half who married in the early 1970's).
A smaller proportion of Americans older than 65 are poor today, but more delay retirement because they want to, or have to. More of the better-off own their vacation homes outright (never mind renting "a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear"), while the less well-off who own homes have the newly popular option of reverse mortgages.
Americans live longer today (technically, no one has died of old age since 1951, when the government dropped that official cause). They also age more slowly, or so they say. Half the over-65 population define themselves as middle-aged or even young, though a greater proportion today are likely to be perilously overweight.
Yet the song still resonates. Julian Lennon, John's son, sang it in an Allstate Insurance commercial in 2002. When Paul Simon turned 64 last year, Mr. McCartney called and serenaded him with it.
According to most accounts, Mr. McCartney wrote the lyrics for his father (his mother had died of breast cancer when he was 13) and the song was recorded not long after the elder McCartney turned 64.
"While it may have been done tongue in cheek," said Bruce Spizer, a Beatles biographer, "life began to imitate art."
Mr. McCartney's first wife, Linda, died in 1998 at 56, of breast cancer; they had been married 29 years. "The bliss of being with a lifelong partner, as expressed in 'When I'm Sixty-Four,' was shattered by Linda's tragic death," Mr. Spizer said. "The little things expressed in the song, such as working the garden and going for a Sunday morning drive, were part of his life with Linda."
The writer Gail Sheehy, who, at 68, is still guiding readers through life's passages, said today's 64-year-olds have a "360-degree view of life." They may believe in yesterday, but they also can't stop thinking about tomorrow. Thanks to seasoning (and Viagra), males are not necessarily half the men they used to be.
Mr. McCartney, who recently appeared on the cover of AARP magazine, does not appear to be losing his hair yet, despite the song's augury. He has three grandchildren (not the song's "Vera, Chuck and Dave"). He is also the father of a 2-year-old daughter. And while he may not be living his own lyrical vision, Mr. McCartney seems closer to fulfilling Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" than Pete Townshend's "Hope I die before I get old."
Now a billionaire, he has said he has no plans to retire, either as a rock star or as an animal-rights advocate (although, at 65, he will be entitled to a basic pension from the British government, at least $156 a week, and a free transit pass).
"The slogan back then was 'Never trust anyone over 30,' " recalled Jeff Greenfield, the CNN commentator, who is 63. "We thought people would be dead or in a home by their 60's."
Today, on average, 64-year-olds can expect to live more than 16 years, about 4 years longer than 64-year-olds could expect in 1967, according to government statisticians (and, hey, an editor of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Jude Rutledge, was named for another of Mr. McCartney's songs).
"The new 64," Ms. Sheehy said, "is more like 84."
An article in The Arts on Saturday about the 64th birthday of Paul McCartney almost 40 years after he recorded the song "When I'm Sixty-Four" misstated his age when his mother died. He was 14, not 13.


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