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As part of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Marine Mammal Protection and Oceans team, I integrate data and information on behavior, genetics, and oceanography using geospatial tools to identify areas of the ocean crucial for marine mammals and then assess how vulnerable the areas are to human impacts. This information is used to advocate for improved protections related to a variety of issues, including ocean noise, ship strikes, and bycatch.
My research focuses on integrating genetic, habitat, and behavioral information to understand the distribution and connectivity of baleen whale populations. I also lead a project aimed at developing a standardized approach for integrating genetic information into marine spatial planning, including the global identification of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) in collaboration with the IUCN Joint SSC/WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force and the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative.
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When you woke up this morning, were you all relaxed and able to take your time to start your day? Or did it take you some time to wake up; snoozing a little bit until you slowly felt your whole body energize?
Some may view this behavior as being highly driven…but driven by what, exactly?
"Drive" in many ways, is glorified and usually described as a respectable quality. Society doesn't really care WHAT drives you so long as it keeps you going! But what drives you is critical to your happiness and health. Let's look at an example.
You may know someone who is like this or might even recognize these qualities in yourself.
Danielle always cares for others. Whenever you reach out to her, she is always there for you. She's always willing to put her life on hold just to serve someone else. Everything else always seems more important than her own commitments. For some 'reason' she just can't say 'no' and feels responsible for others in a big way. For some people this feeling is so strong, that they don't even feel the right to be happy if certain family members or friends aren't happy. So they focus all of their energy on trying to help this person as quickly as possible. Some may say Danielle is 'driven' by helping others but how is this drive helping or hurting her?
Have you ever experienced putting a lot of time in someone who shows no sign of appreciation? I hear it often, and have experienced it myself many times. Somebody has a problem, calls you in a panic, asks for your help and….there you go again, putting everything on hold to help them however you can. You do everything possible to help them and even find yourself worrying about them!
But here's the "not so great" thing that sometimes happens. Being worried about that person, trying to help and find solutions to "fix" the situation. YOU call that person ask how he/she is doing and what flabbergasts you the most is that the other person sounds happy and relieved because the problem they contacted you about was already solved an hour after they called you! Aaargghhhh!! No, they did not find the time to call you with the "good" news. Suddenly they "forgot" your phone number. You were good enough to hear their hopeless stories and cries for help but when it's all good, you are not in the picture anymore. Can you relate?
Think about the last time you immersed yourself in helping someone else which didn't turn out well for you. Take a moment to remember a particular experience.
Put yourself in that situation again, in your mind. Close your eyes and relive it again. Which particular detail pops out immediately? It could be a person, a word, a color or a sound- anything. When you focus on that specific detail what do you feel in your body and where do you feel it? Is there for instance: heaviness, heat, nausea, tightness, or any other feeling? Is it in your chest, head, stomach or somewhere else? Quiet your thoughts and let your subconscious come up with whatever image it wants. Trust what you see and pay attention to what you feel.
These images and feelings are not random; in fact they are part of you! They belong to a catalog of life experiences stored in your subconscious. The details from the most emotionally painful events (many of which you don't even consciously remember- but your body does) build the beliefs that drive your life. Beliefs built upon powerful negative emotions do not serve you and push you to repeat behavior that sabotages your happiness!
A belief that you have to help other people and that you are responsible for someone else's happiness originates from these deeply hidden pieces of powerful negative emotions in our subconscious- called bad clusters.
When you're driven by your deeper purpose you'll achieve happiness, health, success and love effortlessly and naturally. But that purpose is often clouded by the pain from the life experience that form our perspective. Our deepest negative emotions, from subconscious bad clusters, blocks your path towards your purpose and causes unhealthy behaviors and beliefs.
When you break through the pain you open the path to a life filled in passion and purpose!
Discover what drives you and change the direction of your journey towards joy!
I was thinking a lot about ideals lately. We all have them and for some of us, they represent a deeper sense of what we really want from life. These perfected pictures of what life 'should' be can sometimes impact people's decisions, opinions, and plans. But, far too often, I see so many people chasing these ideals without ever reaching them.
What's the point of ideals if they're not really improving your life? How do they fit into your current reality?
Anyway, if you had to pick one ideal, what would it be? Do you picture the ideal career, spouse, or house? Perhaps you think about what an ideal society should look like or what an ideal mother is.
The sad part about these ideals is that they are too limited for your brain to grasp and, as a result, are doomed to fail. While the words are positive and uplifting, your subconscious brain has no real clue what to do with such a narrow thought. Phrases like "I want to live happy", or "I want to have an amazing job" are not exact or precise enough for your subconscious to work with. If your subconscious brain does not receive clear instructions detailing an exact picture of what you want to achieve, it is unable to provide your conscious brain with the right ideas and opportunities. It will also be unable to help you notice the little things in life that lead you towards your ideal.
Let's look at both examples. When someone tells me, "I want to live happy" and "I want to have an amazing job", my first question is: what, for YOU, is a happy life? What does an amazing job look and feel like for you? These "simple" questions are surprising to hear for many. They often get stuck and don't know how to respond. Usually they'll say things like: "That's weird, I've never asked myself this question in depth. I thought it was clear to me, but now I realize it's not." This has nothing to do with intelligence. It is all about their deeply rooted emotions and beliefs that inhibited them from creating a detailed and clear picture.
To reach your goals you need to be specific. If you're not exact, than you will not reach your ideal; not in a million years. Your brain will never make the needed connections to help you realize an ideal if it does not receive detailed information and words that describe even the smallest element of exactly what you're looking for.
Just go back to the Ideal you picked out for yourself. Ask yourself what does this ideal mean in detail for me? What standard does it have to meet?
Let's stick to our example: "I want to live happy".
What does that mean for you physically and emotionally?
Do you want to have friends around you and if so what are the specific criteria for these friends?
These and many other details are needed in order for your subconscious to make your ideals a reality.
As you can tell, there a lot of specifics, but it's sooo worth it to become aware of them. Once you define what it is you want in detail, your subconscious can make you aware of the smallest opportunities that you normally wouldn't even notice had you kept your ideal too narrow. The more detailed the image of your ideal is, the easier and faster it is for your subconscious brain to catch the signals in your surroundings that will help you to get where you want to be.
If you are on a mission to realize your ideal you need to envision every detail clearly to make it happen.
Becoming aware of the details of your ideal might lead to a surprising new outcome.
Your overall (narrow) ideal might be clear to you but it is never set in stone. Does that mean you can't reach it? Of course you can. You will reach YOUR ideal situation, an ideal that fits you best. It can change course once you have all the details clear. By filling in all the details of what exactly it is you want and in what time frame, you'll be setting a clear goal and direction. Now your subconscious is on high alert and will give you the right and most effective input.
Not having a detailed clear image of what you want does one thing for sure: It won't allow you to reach your ideal and you will get frustrated, disappointed and discouraged. Dealing with many clients in my practice taught me one thing very clearly: The people that have a clear detailed image of their ideals make that ideal a reality!
On the other hand, there are others that continue holding on to narrow ideals. They don't do that because they like it or to disappoint themselves for not achieving it. They do it for a whole different reason; a reason of which they are not aware. Keeping yourself busy and therefore focused on a narrow, non-detailed, "ideal" keeps your brain occupied. In Progressive Mental Alignment we call this a ritual of your friend mechanism part 1 and part 2 Blog. They use it only as a distraction to avoid inner conflicts and don't actually believe they'll ever reach it. Curious about how that works and why they do that? Well, that's a topic for a whole different blog.
For now you should KNOW that your ideals are completely achievable when you actually begin to make the changes and clarify your ideals, including all the details. By doing that your ideals WILL become reality, then you'll open up your world in unbelievable ways.
You'll be able to connect on new levels, and meet the powerful prospect of opportunity beyond anything you thought possible. Start to see your dreams come true before your eyes!
Odds are, you hate your job.
That's according to a recent Gallup poll which cites that 70 percent of people dislike their place of work. SEVENTY percent! That's a huge number!
Are you one of the millions of people who wake up, every morning, dreading the day ahead?
Many employees say it's because of a lack of appreciation, respect, encouragement, and fulfillment. People overwhelmingly feel as if they aren't living out their dreams or using their talents in a valuable way.
So the big question is why? Why do people stay in jobs that make them so unhappy?
If you reflect upon your own experience, what do you feel when you think about your own job? What do you feel are the reasons you aren't pursuing your dreams?
-I don't have enough support from those around me.
No matter what you're reason, you're right, at least that's how it feels for you. You'll notice, all these statements or reasons are belief systems. Belief systems only possess power if they are supported by feelings. The data of many experiences that are stored in your subconscious serve as the basis and origin of your beliefs. Unfortunately most of our beliefs that are loaded with negative feelings originate in deeply hidden comparison material in your subconscious. It is enlightening and freeing to discover the root source of these negative beliefs. That's because it is your BELIEFS that determine your life. Your beliefs can propel you forward at a high rate of speed or slow you down until you're completely stopped. The only difference is YOU.
What you believe about the world and about yourself drives every decision you make and behavior pattern you hold on to.
The thoughts that consume your mind represent your greater belief systems. Ask yourself, are these beliefs serving or sabotaging your future?
Changing your beliefs is the key to unlocking your greatest potential. But how?
Is the answer thinking positively, adopting mantras, vision boards, and repetition? These methods certainly have some value but most of these tools do not have the power to address what subconsciously forms your negative beliefs.
Fear is one of the many reasons behind your strongest self-sabotaging belief systems. Fear, which lingers from past experiences, sits there stuck, deep within your subconscious. It manifests itself through a variety of painful emotions like depression, sadness, anger, anxiety, and more when triggered by details in our environment.
Our body's most powerful instinct, the force to drive away from pain, will do anything to keep us from the TRUE reason for our fear so it pushes us to create belief systems that supposedly "explains" our feelings in order to prevent greater discomfort.
Discomfort. Hmmm. It is Author Neale Donald Walsch who asserts that "life begins at the end of your comfort zone" It's true! It's a stern reminder, a DECLARATION that the best thing you can do for yourself is to face your fear- no matter how painful. Because when you do, you demolish what's blocking you from seeing the brightness of your future and the reality of your amazing potential. You replenish belief in yourself effortlessly and naturally.
But what does this mean? Am I telling you to take a leap head first into 20 feet of water to cure your fear of drowning? No. I AM encouraging you to embark on the deepest journey of self-discovery you've ever experienced so you see WHY you fear drowning- and by doing so you will cure it-forever.
I am encouraging you to explore the content of your subconscious. Science shows us that the simple act of revealing these fear-packed roadblocks in your subconscious releases their powerful hold on your beliefs and eliminates the connected negative feelings forever.
You'll feel instantly happier, more powerful, and clearer about the direction of your life.
-Whatever happens I'm going to be successful!
I can help you easily and quickly reach the deepest parts of your subconscious so that you see yourself in a whole new light. Don't accept unhappiness any longer.
It's time. The moment you've prepared for. You're back stage and take a peek at the growing crowd out front. At any moment you'll be standing in front of all those people for a presentation.
You feel your stomach get into knots…or maybe it's butterflies! Your hands get sweaty and your heart starts beating. You take a deep breath and….show time!
Does this scenario sound familiar to you? Think about the last time you were asked to speak in front of a group. What did you feel right before you went up? Many people express feeling frozen, and confused about what they're going to say while replaying the possibilities in their head about all of the things that could happen. They talk about not wanting to look nervous while often replaying the moment in their head afterwards; fixated on what they could have said differently and wondering what the audience must have thought.
Can you relate to that? Those moments are very intense and many of us have been there. Public speaking is one of the most common fears of adults. In fact it's reported that 74% of people have some level of fear about talking in front of people. That's a huge number!
What makes the fear even worse is that most people can't avoid public speaking. Whether you have a presentation for work, a special personal event, or an educational project, at some point you have to stand in front of a crowd!
Because of its lingering presence in our life, public speaking is something worth addressing for the benefit of our personal and professional goals. It's time to do something about it!
Sometimes even just the thought of an upcoming speech or presentation is enough to freak you out! How in the world are you supposed to successfully prepare for a public speaking engagement if you can't even think about it?
The truth is that the best way to solve the issue IS to think about it. You need to think about how to discover the triggers that activate the subconscious source of your fear! Focusing on that fear can help you understand the real depth of those emotions and that there is something much bigger going on here that is much more significant than talking in front of people.
What are the triggers that makes it so scary?
In mainstream psychology they tell you that Public Speaking is the ultimate form of vulnerability! To be 'vulnerable' means to be 'open to moral attack and criticism, to be open to assault, and to be susceptible to being wounded or hurt'.
Standing and performing in front of people can feel like an open invitation for judgment and criticism on a grand scale. It's like being thrown out on the battle field with no weapon! Can you imagine that loss of control, fear, and urge to run away that would arise in that situation?
These arguments all sound reasonable and make sense on a rational level. The thing is, fear is not rational. It's emotional!
If you think of a real event when you felt this fear, what in that event is the most important moment that you are afraid of?
Is it when you enter the platform, when you see all the people looking at you, the fact that most of them are strangers, or could it be that you know them all too well? Might it be the microphone?
In that moment what is the most dominant detail? What is that one thing that intensifies your fear?
What did you picture in your head about the public speaking event before you had to speak?
What in that picture is the most dominant detail that intensifies your feeling of fear?
After they isolate that one detail ask them where in their body they feel the emotion.
Once they describe the physical symptoms that create their fear, ask them to fully allow those symptoms and accept them while focusing on that one detail that stands out.
Now ask: If you allow your subconscious to come up with whatever it wants, what is the first memory that pops-up?
You will notice that different people will give you different details about what they're afraid of and always a different memory that pops-up. What they all feel is fear that intensifies even more after the memory pops up.
These are the EXACT emotions linked to the bad clusters stored in our subconscious. When these bad clusters, which are packed with the strongest feelings of fear, are triggered for any reason, we automatically feel the fear in our body!
Understanding how your subconscious brain works and how it creates emotions like fear can not only help you identify what your specific triggers are but also reveal and eliminate the bad cluster- the source of your fear!
The wonderful thing about it, is that once a bad cluster is removed it will never come back.
You're fear will disappear and you'll experience much more confidence and emotional strength.
Understand your fear and conquer it. It's the power you need to stand out in the crowd!
We all have an opinion,are driven and decide everything we do based on our beliefs. Some of our beliefs are very powerful and we will do everything possible to defend and hold on to them. Our most powerful beliefs determine who we are, how we think, decide, act and behave.
What are the first beliefs that come to your mind that determine your thinking, decisions, actions and behavior? What are the things in life that you believe you have to do or don't want to do at all?
Maybe you are not even fully aware of some of your beliefs, although they determine the things you say and do. Your beliefs already kick in when you wake up. Let's take a look at a very simple example: What is the first thing you believe you have to do in the morning? For some, it's making coffee and eating breakfast, for others, it's reading the newspaper or checking your emails or Facebook account. It can be all kinds of things.
How would you feel if you would not do that tomorrow morning? Some of these things might be easy to skip, but others might give you an unpleasant feeling if you would skip them. That feeling is caused because your beliefs are connected to a code that creates these feelings. The feelings serve as some kind of "warning system." It is almost like your subconscious is telling you: "Hey you there, what's going on? Did you forget that you have to do that?" Of course your subconscious does not say really say that, 😉 but it almost feels like it.
This process of beliefs that translates into feelings is an ongoing process the entire day. For instance, you might "know" instantly, even by only seeing a certain person, what kind of person that is and if you like them or not. But what creates 'knowing" that? It is not your rational brain but you know because of the feeling that you get in your body. Why? Because your subconscious comparison material creates the feeling that creates your beliefs and opinion about that person.
This process of feelings that lead to a belief, opinion, judgment, is an ongoing process. This is also why a specific color gives you a good or bad feeling. Or the feeling of liking and disliking a particular kind of food or drink. Sometimes these feelings are so powerful that even thinking of that particular food creates nausea or makes you want to puke. If you can relate to that, what are the food or drinks that trigger a negative feeling inside of you?
We are driven by our beliefs. Our real beliefs are always based on feelings. If this is not the case, it is just a bunch of words without any real meaning to us. If these feelings are caused by activated past experiences and we can remember the event from beginning to end (in Progressive Mental Alignment we call them clusters), then everything is fine. We know why we feel the way we do.
For instance, you hear someone tell you how they cut themselves while preparing food. You can instantly imagine how this feels because you remember that time you cut yourself while preparing a piece of tough meat, or like me, slicing an apple in a not so handy way ;). These are normal memories caused by activated clusters in your subconscious brain.
But the feelings that are generated when a bad cluster is activated are always negative and you can never remember the content of the bad cluster at that moment consciously, but your body will feel the negative feelings coming from that bad cluster. It's these moments in life when you suddenly experience a negative mood swing without any "apparent" reason.
It could even be at a wonderful party that you were enjoying until suddenly, your good feeling was replaced by a negative feeling. If you are interested you can read about that in a previous blog of mine, Your response pattern: and why everybody responds differently in the exact same situation.
The feelings created by these bad clusters are therefore never appropriate for the present situation. Simple things like a color, smell, taste, a facial expression, gesture, etc. activate these negative feelings.
Let's assume you are at an important meeting. Suddenly you start to feel uncomfortable without being able to pinpoint a specific reason or cause for these negative feelings.
Your friend mechanism activates its comforting rituals (see my post last week). These rituals/habits that you execute "helps" you to stay in control of the uncomfortable feelings you're experiencing. Nevertheless, this whole situation creates feelings of insecurity and loss of control. These feelings are unacceptable for us. Your brain will automatically look for a 'logical' reason or cause as to why you feel uncomfortable. The 'logical' reasons or causes your subconscious comes up with, are nothing else than opinions, judgments, conclusions, theories, or in other words – belief systems! The beliefs you use at that moment are the ones that serve you best, they lead you away from what the real cause is to why you feel or react the way you do.
In this case you might create the beliefs that something is 'wrong' at that meeting. You can't trust all the people there. You have to be careful not to agree to anything they can hold you responsible to later on. Maybe they want to trick you into something you don't want to do. They don't want you there. It's always you they pick on. These are all beliefs! These beliefs you are not born with, they are created during events in your life.
Because the feeling that inspires these beliefs originate from activated bad clusters and are always negative. The beliefs that originate from this bad cluster will also be negative and counterproductive. Because these beliefs soothe and suppress the conscious registration of negative feelings, these beliefs don't feel wrong to you when you embrace them!
Experiencing these negative feelings in a business meeting can easily lead to missing out on a great financial deal or create unnecessary future tensions between you and your colleagues.
But bad clusters are not just activated at your work. These same negative and unexplainable mood swings can occur at home, when you talk to a friend, during a family meeting, etc.
Can you imagine the damage that could be caused if you would develop incorrect negative beliefs about those who are dearest to you? This is actually the number 1 underlying cause of interpersonal-relationship problems, break-ups, divorces and fights. Keep in mind, I'm referring here to negative beliefs that are empowered by bad clusters. If a negative belief originates from experiences that you can remember (clusters) they are usually correct, and if not, they are easy to change.
Sabotaging belief systems are always fueled by the feelings from activated bad clusters. These feelings belong to the most powerful feelings we have. The belief systems that originate from them are also the most powerful beliefs we have. We even create beliefs upon why these sabotaging beliefs are totally right for us to hold on to.
I understand that it can seem like a lot to grasp at once in a brief blog like this. But the information is all down to earth and easy to follow if you allow yourself to listen to your own body and subconscious mind. I know you have the power in you to do so, and you can turn your negative beliefs in ones that really serve you.
I will continue providing you with helpful tools and insights to explore your true self!


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Beware: 'The Addams Family' is moving in
ELKHORN — The weird and wonderful Gomez and Morticia Addams family takes center stage in Elkhorn as The Lakeland Players present the musical comedy "The Addams Family."
Working wonders: Beekeeping among new fair classes
WALWORTH COUNTY SUNDAY — A lifelong nature and honeybee lover, Kristine Karlson remembers herself as a 3-year-old, "watching, touching and happily humming along with the honeybees in my family's garden."
Karlson is hoping attendees of her presentations at the Walworth County Fair will become ardent fans of the honeybee, too.
She will offer two programs at the Learning Coop during the fair's run: Beekeeping with Kristine Karlson at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 30; and From Beehive to Your Kitchen at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 31.
Restaurants that come to you
WALWORTH COUNTY SUNDAY -- In the midst of a busy weekend at Babe Mann Park last month during Elkhorn Community Days, Mariann Hunter, executive director of United Way of Walworth County -- whose agency helped coordinate the event -- managed to make time for a hot breakfast that was close, quick and delicious. She found it at one of the food trucks on the grounds.
"The Rodeo Wagon had the best breakfast burritos. You could add bacon or chorizo to your egg, cheese and potato burrito," Hunter wrote in an email.
Hunter and her family were at the park early for the annual walk and run benefitting the local United Way, and she said other families who worked up an appetite after running or walking also were sampling food truck fare. More food trucks, from El Chile Caliente and Jakarta Café to Rolling Cones and Gourmet Kettle Korn, set up shop as the day progressed, so visitors could find food for lunch and dinner.
"There was something for everyone," Hunter said. "My kids all had homemade milkshakes and I had the best steak taco with avocado sauce -- yum."
Jenna Gough, assistant director at the Elkhorn Chamber of Commerce, an organizer of Community Days, said the trucks offered kind of a "custom catering" approach for diners.
"People like the convenience of them coming to you, and it's a fun way to sample food," she said. "I went for the classic at Lefty's Chicago Style Hot Dogs that day, but this gave people an opportunity to try some new things, too."
Lefty's already has a summer-season stand along U.S. Highway 12 in Elkhorn, but its location isn't easily seen from the road, and first-time customers tend to stumble upon it, said Dona Mann, whose daughter, Karlee Mann, owns the business.
Dona Mann said her daughter decided to expand by adding the more visible food truck this year.
While Karlee Mann is at the stand this summer, Dona Mann will be operating the truck. Besides showing up at events around the county, the truck can be found outside Aurora Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays.
Dona Mann said the truck was purchased from a Delavan restaurant and tweaked to prepare the hot dogs, burgers, milkshakes and smothered fries on Lefty's menu.
Food trucks aren't cheap, although operating costs are lower than for a standing restaurant. The food truck website Roaming Hunger advertises vehicles for sale ranging from $15,000 for a simple food trailer or cart to $269,000 for a food truck fashioned from a DC-3 airliner fuselage and designed to look like the Space Shuttle.
But interest is booming. The food truck industry grew at an annual rate of 7.9 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to a May article in The Economist, which notes there are about 4,000 food trucks around the country.
Kay-Tee Olds, owner of Rodeo Wagon, said she's increased employee shifts at her Madison-based food cart business from six to eight shifts per week to 17 in one year. Rodeo Wagon has traveled to events in Green Bay, Eau Claire and Monroe.
The workload isn't lightened for food truck operators like Louis and Cari Ortega, whose Milwaukee-based food truck, La Guacamaya, was at Bands, Bites & Beer, an event at Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan last month.
"The part that is challenging would be the long hours that are put in every day to shop for supplies, prep the food, set up the kitchen and then taking down and cleaning up everything at the end of the day. There is also quite a bit of paperwork involved with licensing, permits and applications for each event, as well as the bookkeeping/accounting side of running a business," Cari Ortega wrote in an email.
Some businesses, like Rodeo Wagon, have a base kitchen apart from their carts from which they prepare their food. Most, however, use the tighter quarters of a food truck kitchen, where workers have to make every inch count.
"We have learned how to organize everything better to make the most of the space we have," Ortega said. "We have a hot station, cold station, refrigerator, freezer, grill burners, deep fryer, a three-compartment sink, a hand sink and shelving. We have our own work areas for the most part and are able to work well around each other. There is a lot of side-stepping."
Bigger cities, like Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago, have restrictions on where and when food trucks can operate. Because of their mobile nature, many food truck operators use social media to let customers know their locations and hours.
Facebook posts often serve as word-of-mouth for the mobile businesses, widening the travel range.
Milwaukee-based Marco Pollo Global Cluck Truck also was at Lake Lawn last month, but it has traveled to points as far as Madison, Racine, Sheboygan and Oshkosh for events, company parties and even a wedding.
"Food trucks are great for weddings and parties because guests get good food, personalized service and a fun atmosphere for minimal cost compared to traditional catering," Stewart Lerner, a co-owner of Marco Pollo, said in an email. "Customers enjoy being able to talk with the people who create and cook the food they are eating, which doesn't typically happen in a restaurant setting. And since our menu is limited, we can focus on making everything we serve the best quality possible for our customers."
Marco Pollo's internationally inspired menu includes gua bao --braised and spiced pork in a soft bun -- as well as egg rolls, crispy chicken and steak nachos.
Vanessa Lenz, executive director of the East Troy Chamber of Commerce, said one of the most popular food trucks featured at several of East Troy's First Friday events on the square is Meat on the Street, a Milwaukee-based Filipino vendor whose menu includes marinated meat on a stick, rice bowls topped with meat and lumpia or egg rolls.
"Many of the truck owners specialize in one particular style of food," said Gerard Prendergast, director of food and beverage at Lake Lawn. "Their fare has the allure of fast food, but still almost fine dining because owners put their own unique twist to it. A hot dog is no longer just a hot dog. They use different types of meat, sauces, bread."
At Rodeo Wagon, whose menu Olds describes as "Southern dining with a foodie flair," an optional topping for both burgers and salads is Texas caviar, a homemade blend of tomatoes, black beans, black-eyed peas and onions blended with oil and vinegar.
"Part of the appeal of food trucks and a trend in dining in general is that people are looking for micro-cuisines that feature local foods with a twist," Olds said. "People want fresh food."
Olds even has adapted her menu to customer requests.
"People asked if we could put bacon on the triple-cheesy mac," she said.
Preserving memories on the homefront
WALWORTH COUNTY SUNDAY — Bill Sigmund's model airplanes are replicas of the real thing — many of them the aircraft flown by pilots in World War II.
Now the Elkhorn man's model planes will be displayed among the real artifacts of area residents, who like him, have served in the U.S. military.
Young racer learning fast
WALWORTH COUNTY SUNDAY -- Ava Hanssen already has made winning circles around the Midwest her second home. And she doesn't turn 7 until July 15.
The Elkhorn youngster began racing snowmobiles and go-karts at age 4.
Get up early for dairy breakfast and farm visit
WALWORTH COUNTY SUNDAY -- Besides the scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausages, cheese and even ice cream being served at the 41st annual Walworth County Dairy Breakfast in Elkhorn on June 17, visitors also will get a slice of farm life.
Traditionally, dairy breakfast-goers are treated to a look behind the scenes of a local host family farm. This year they'll be able to catch shuttle buses from the Walworth County Fairgrounds to Sterken Farms near Delavan for tours of both a dairy farm and a newer agribusiness.
Business, government groups to discuss Highway 12 expansion
ELKHORN -- A coalition of business and government groups is hosting a forum on the long-delayed completion of the U.S. Highway 12 freeway expansion between Elkhorn and Whitewater.
Newly retired Lakeland School principal reflects on decades in education
ELKHORN -- He put students first for more than four decades. Individualized education programs, meetings with teachers, listening to parental concerns and wrangling over budgets were only a few items on his weekly agenda.
Greg Kostechka no longer worries about these things. That's because he retired in March after 42 years at Lakeland School, the centerpiece of Walworth County's special education system.
After 50 years, U.S. Highway 12 reroute and expansion remains stalled
WALWORTH COUNTY SUNDAY -- The stub end of a section of U.S. Highway 12 freeway just north of Elkhorn dies abruptly in gravel, the remnant of a construction project that would have extended U.S. 12 to a point about one-half mile east of County Highway O near Whitewater.
The plan officially was mapped by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation back in 1967.
But it remained in the planning stages for decades, and now that empty section of freeway, barricaded from traffic, is a road going nowhere.
Balancing act: Walworth County sheriff talks about life in law enforcement
WALWORTH COUNTY SUNDAY -- They haven't received the big-time, national media attention like other incidents around the country. However, Kurt Picknell has seen plenty during his two-plus years as Walworth County sheriff and 26 years overall with the office.
Picknell, 53, officially took the reins in January 2015. And although policing in the Stateline area may differ greatly from big-city law enforcement, it's still law enforcement. That means long hours and dangerous, stressful situations go with the territory.

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Oh how you love the weight scale.
Every-time you hop on it's like Christmas, maybe you were naughty maybe you were nice.
You wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom, strip down completely and hop on the scale.
Only to realize it's not going where you wanted it to go.
Maybe it has gone up, maybe down but never down as fast as you would like.
So what in the world is the freaking problem?!
Well we're going to get down to the nitty gritty here.
The numbers on the weight scale come from different parts and aspects of your body.
Let me repeat this the numbers on the weight scale come from different aspects of your body.
These are the main things that will affect the numbers on the weight scale.
I tested this out myself numerous times and found that throughout a single day my weight range would vary between 1-7 pounds.
The more water you drink, the higher the number on the scale.
The more food you eat, the higher the number on the scale.
The more carbohydrates you eat, the higher the number on the scale.
Did you know that most people lose weight too quickly and lose both fat and muscle?
This wreaks havoc on your metabolism!
So now you've lost all this weight, the weight scale says exactly what you want and you don't look how you want to look.
You lost weight so quickly you weren't able to keep that lean muscle mass.
So now you're what we call "Skinny Fat". It means in terms of pure numbers on the scale and girth measurements (the measurements you take with a tape measure) the numbers are low.
BUT you have absolutely no muscle mass, so you don't even look lean at the low weight. The weight on the scale you have been trying so hard to get to.
Guess What? Now You Have Another Problem!
Your metabolism is completely shot.
You have to work even harder to stay at that same weight. Maybe even working out 7 days a week for an hour or more of cardio everyday.
And maybe added a couple of days worth of cardio in the mix to really knock off large amounts of calories in one time.


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2018 Innovative Short Fiction Contest deadline extended!
The deadline has been extended for this year's Innovative Short Fiction Contest, judged by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker (FSG, 2016) and Northwood (Black Balloon Publishing, forthcoming).
Originally slated to close on May 1st, you have two extra weeks to submit. The final deadline will be May 15th.
Full guidelines are located on our website.
You can upload your submission through our Submittable page.
James R. Gapinski talks about his favorite writers at "The Review Review"
The Conium Review's managing editor, James R. Gapinski, was recently interviewed by The Review Review along with eleven other editors. They discuss their favorite writers, both established and emerging. Read the full article here.
Introducing the Vol. 5 authors
The Conium Review: Vol. 5 comes out later this year. We've finalized the table of contents, and we're pleased to introduce the authors and stories slated for this issue:
"Birth," by Jessica Roeder
"Copy Machine," by Samantha Duncan
"The Solitude of Fruit," by Liz Kellebrew
"Ruby Goes In," by Kate Gies
"Gazebo," by Shane Jones
"The Mother," by Kathryn Hill (winner of the 2016 Innovative Short Fiction Contest)
"United Parcel Service," by Emily Koon
"Tiny Little Goat," by Jasmine Sawers
"Once Upon a Time in an Orchard," by Jasmine Sawers
"Rain Cloud," by Ingrid Jendrzejewski
"Her Blood," by Maryse Meijer
ABOUT THE CONIUM REVIEW: VOL. 5 AUTHORS
Jessica Roeder lives in Duluth, Minnesota, where she teaches writing and dance. Her work has appeared in Threepenny Review, Third Coast, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She has received a Pushcart Prize and a McKnight Artist Fellowship.
Samantha Duncan's latest poetry chapbook is The Birth Creatures (Agape Editions, 2016), and her fiction has appeared in Meridian, The Pinch, and Flapperhouse. She serves as Executive Editor for ELJ Publications and reads for Gigantic Sequins, and she lives in Houston.
Liz Kellebrew holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She lives in Seattle and writes fiction, poetry, literary essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Coachella Review, Elohi Gadugi, Mount Island, Vine Leaves, Section 8, The Pitkin Review, and Beyond Parallax.
Kate Gies lives in Toronto, where she writes and teaches creative non-fiction at George Brown College. Her work has most recently appeared in Word Riot and Ascent Aspirations Magazine.
Shane Jones is the author of the novels Light Boxes (Penguin, 2010), Daniel Fights a Hurricane (Penguin, 2012), and Crystal Eaters (Two Dollar Radio, 2014). Fiction and non-fiction has been published by VICE, The Paris Review Daily, Washington Square Review, LIT, The Portland Review, The Believer Logger, Quarterly West, and DIAGRAM. He lives in upstate New York.
Kathryn Hill is an MFA candidate in fiction at Arizona State University where she also reads prose for Hayden's Ferry Review. Her flash fiction has appeared or is forthcoming at AGNI Online, Gigantic Sequins, Monkeybicycle, Passages North, and elsewhere. She has creative nonfiction forthcoming in an anthology from Outpost19. Follow her on Twitter at @kathelizhill
Emily Koon is a fiction writer from North Carolina. She has work in Potomac Review, The Rumpus, Portland Review and other places. She can be found at twitter.com/thebookdress.
Originally from Buffalo, New York, Jasmine Sawers now lives and writes in Lexington, Kentucky.
Ingrid Jendrzejewski likes cryptic crosswords, the game of go and the python programming language, among other things. Links to her work can be found at www.ingridj.com and she occasionally tweets from @LunchOnTuesday. Recently, she was awarded the A Room of Her Own Foundation's Orlando Prize for Flash Fiction and the Bath Flash Fiction Award.
Maryse Meijer's work has appears in or at Joyland, Meridian, The Dallas Review, The Portland Review, St. Ann's Review, 580 Split, and elsewhere. Her collection of stories, Heartbreaker, was published by FSG as part of their Paperback Originals series.
2016 Innovative Short Fiction Contest results
Lindsay Hunter has selected Kathryn Hill as the winner of the 2016 Innovative Short Fiction Contest for her short story, "The Mother."
Kathryn Hill is an MFA candidate in fiction at Arizona State University where she also teaches and reads prose for Hayden's Ferry Review. Her fiction has appeared in Passages North, Pamplemousse, and Glassworks Magazine, and is forthcoming in Gigantic Sequins, Fiction Southeast, and Four Chambers Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Virginia G. Piper Global Fellowship and is currently at work on her first novel.
This year's finalists are Kate Gies, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Marc Sheehan, and Z.G. Watkins. With an honorable mention for Tara Kipnees. Here's what Lindsay had to say about Kathryn Hill's winning story:
"This story felt as alive, as full of cells, as the child the protagonist agonizes over carrying. It is heartbreaking and harsh, and an important insight into the ever-morphing chemistry of a mother's brain. We are and aren't our mothers, metaphorically and chemically, for better or for worse. Motherhood is a choice; it both is and isn't."
—Lindsay Hunter, contest judge and author of Ugly Girls
Kathryn's piece will be published in The Conium Review: Vol. 5, scheduled for November of this year. She will receive a $500 prize, contributor copies of Vol. 5, and a copy of the judge's latest book. As usual, there were plenty of amazing stories to chose from. Lindsay Hunter and The Conium Review staff thanks all those who submitted. We hope you'll send more work again soon!
We'll be announcing the 2017 judge soon. Sign up for our newsletter for this and other upcoming news from The Conium Review and Conium Press.
A brief interview with Lindsay Hunter
and a preview of our 2016 AWP Conference panel: "What the Heck Does Innovative Fiction Actually Mean?: Authors Cut Through the Jargon"
Lindsay Hunter was originally slated to be on our AWP Conference panel, "What the Heck Does Innovative Fiction Actually Mean?: Authors Cut Through the Jargon," but she had to drop out and Manuel Gonzales will be replacing her as a panelist. Fortunately, Lindsay was still able to answer some panelist questions for us. This chat gives a preview of what you might expect at the panel on Friday, April 1st, and it also gives Lindsay a chance to chime in on the topic for our online readers.
[James R. Gapinski]: So I have to ask the central question: what does innovative fiction actually mean? It seems like some cheesy buzzword, but can we define innovative fiction?
[Lindsay Hunter]: I think innovative fiction is something that surprises its readers. You know that feeling you get when you're reading something and you think, "Man, I could never do this." And then you think, "Man, I'm gonna go sit down right now and try to do that, or try to write something that makes me feel like reading that made me feel." That's innovative. It generates a chain of inspiration and creation.
[JRG]: When you're writing a piece like "Don't Kiss Me," do you begin with the intentional goal of doing something formally unconventional, or is that something that just happens organically as you write?
[LH]: It's very organic for me. I sit down and write the first line knocking around in my head, and then I write the next one and the next one. It's all about the voice, the word selection that nourishes that voice. I don't think, "Okay, I gotta write something truly f*cked up, GIDDY UP HUNTER, LET'S DO IT." I think, "Hmm I wanna write about a woman who's obsessed with another woman at work." I think it's unconventional because I'm trying to reveal something in these marginalized, sometimes hyper-real characters that I love so much. I'm trying to unveil some humanity whenever I can.
[JRG]: You're judging our short fiction contest. I'm sure those interested in submitting are itching to know: are there specific things you look for in a great piece of innovative writing?
[LH]: I always find myself looking for an interesting turn of phrase. A quickness, a deftness between word and image. Something that makes me jealous! I'm also a sucker for anything that makes me feel nostalgic – either the character's nostalgia or something sparked inside me.
[JRG]: Could you share some authors or books that you find particularly risky or innovative?
[LH]: Gutshot by Amelia Gray is like an opus of innovation. I think it's perfect. Catherine Lacey's Nobody is Ever Missing is another one. And Maryse Meijer's forthcoming Heartbreaker burns it ALL down. Full disclosure, we all have the same editor. But that editor is a master of seeking out innovative, weird stuff!
Lindsay Hunter is the author of Ugly Girls (FSG Originals, 2014), which The Huffington Post called "a story that hits a note that's been missing from the chorus of existing feminist literature." Her next novel, working title Eat Only When You're Hungry, is forthcoming from FSG. She is also the author of the flash fiction story collections Don't Kiss Me (FSG Originals, 2013) and Daddy's (Featherproof Books, 2010).


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GRAHAM NASH – WRISTBAND MEET & GREET – WEDNESDAY, 5/4 @ 1:00PM
Graham's new album on Blue Castle records, This Path Tonight is a brilliant effort that stands with his finest work. We are very excited to host him at Cactus. Graham will be signing copies of This Path Tonight and autographs are limited to one per person. Other items will not be signed. In addition to being a celebrated songwriter, singer, activist, author and photographer, Graham was inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and again in 2010 for his work with The Hollies. He is a Songwriter Hall of Fame Inductee, GRAMMY ™ Award winner, and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)
This Path Tonight is the new studio album and collection of 10 songs from Graham Nash. Produced by Shane Fontayne, this is Nash's first solo record of new music in fourteen years. The title track, "This Path Tonight," is the debut single. Like the album, the song is one of reflection and transition of a singer-songwriter whose career (the Hollies, CSN, CSNY) has spanned more than five decades and counting. Graham Nash's tenor is among rock's most recognizable, and as resonant as his voice of conscience as a songwriter. He started The Hollies with his childhood friend Allan Clarke in 1961, before embarking on a lifelong musical journey, solo and with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young
Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet Graham Nash at the friendly, neighborhood record store.


Home Business Routines and Rituals: They're Critical To Your Success. Here's Some Food For Thought!
An article from guest blog writer, Matt Press, Splash Copywriters, looking at the importance of home business routines and rituals.
When you're running a home-based business, how you spend your time and having home business routines is crucial. And that's due to a couple of reasons.
The first is that you're now the boss of your home business.
You don't have someone else to push you. Other than the survival of your home business, there's no real incentive like there is in the 'real' world. No appraisal to nail, no pay rise on the horizon and certainly no pat on the back.
In other words, you have no time pressure and that's dangerous.
But also, time is important because you don't want your home business to kill you and your hobbies or interests. You've chosen to run a home-based business for the flexibility and lifestyle it can offer you. There's no point ditching the commute, losing the boss and forgetting the stress of employed life if you work too little or too much at home.
There's clearly a middle ground for productivity. Home business owners must watch out for either procrastination or burn out.
That's why home business routines and working rituals are key. They'll help you know when to start, how to work and when to stop.
Home Business Routines Sound Imposing!
The words 'routine' and 'ritual' sound imposing. They sound archaic and overly officious. However, deep down, we all love to have control, to know what's what. That's the same in all areas of our lives and that desire begins when we're born.
Bedtime routines, school runs, homework timetables, lectures, shiftwork, TV schedules… rituals are everywhere you look.
Routines and rituals are merely patterns that we fall into, but they dictate whether we succeed or fail (at anything). In a normal full-time job, your schedule is worked out for you. With a home-based business, it's not.
You have a blank sheet now. That's pretty exciting, but also daunting. Spend some time thinking about how you need to work. You don't have to work 9-5, but discover what working environment suits you. Do you need music or silence? Are you an early riser or a night owl? Will you thrive in a messy workplace or a tidy one? Perhaps you'd thrive after a jog or a gym workout.
Home business routines and rituals will have an effect on your efficiency, your psychological state, your confidence, your mood, your motivation… just about everything you can think of. Ensure you plan your activities each day!
I wish you every success in running your home business and managing your home business routines.
For further articles from Mark Ford on home business time management click here.
Thought for the day: do you have home business routines, no, then are you setting yourself up to fail with your business?
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Bianka Shigurova in The Gospel of Anasyrma. Photograph: Georgia 100
Putting Cannes to shame: the female-led Georgian film festival
Georgia 100: A Film Feast arrives in London this week – with half of the films showing directed by women, challenging gender roles in the country's patriarchal society
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The Cannes film festival gets underway next month with a depressingly predictable lack of female directors – just three out of 21 films in the main competition are by women. Though nothing beats my favourite do-they-know-it's-the-21st-century Cannes gaffe – when a group of women wearing flat shoes were banned from the red carpet for crimes against la féminité – it's hardly a heartening figure.
Meanwhile, the Georgian Film Festival arrives in London this week with fewer yachts and less fake tan but a sizable chunk more of female directors – half of the films showing are directed by women. The festival has become a focus for the explosion of female film-making talent in Georgia, with a new generation of women making movies challenging gender roles in the country's rigidly patriarchal society.
Writer-director Nana Ekvtimishvili wrote the story for the festival's brilliant opening film My Happy Family, with a heavy dose of inspiration from her mother and sister. Her heroine is a 52-year-old teacher Manana (Ia Shugliashvili), who lives in a cramped flat in Tbilisi with her parents, husband and two adult kids – a common arrangement in Georgia, says Ekvtimishvili, who is 39 and directs as a duo with her husband, Simon Gross. Sick of being wife, mother and general dogsbody, Manana walks out on her family. '"Why? It's so nice here," asks her son, baffled. He gets cooked and cleaned for, so you can understand his confusion. On TV, an Orthodox priest in long black robes sermonises about female meekness: "Happy is the family with a peaceful mother who sacrifices herself to her family and raises children."
Nana Ekvtimishvili.Photograph: MathiasBothor 2014/Georgia 100
I ask Ekvtimishvili, on the phone from Georgia, whether there is a rising feminist movement to correspond to the recent crop of women directors. "No," she answers bluntly. "It's a pity, but that's my impression. There are women's rights organisations and individual activists. Great women, great voices. But there is no strong feminist movement. Still, in this society people think of feminism as against our Georgian tradition, as something dangerous." Neatly bookending the festival, the closing film is the excellently titled Scary Mother by 27-year-old Ana Urushadze, another drama about a middle-aged woman casting off the shackles of domestic servitude – this time to write a novel.
Film-maker Elene Naveriani made her 35-minute drama The Gospel of Anasyrma in 2014, but hasn't dared to screen it in public in Georgia, because of widespread hostility to LGBT activists. The film begins as a sweet, tender love story between a man and a transgender woman (played by actor and trans activist Bianka Shigurova). But a happy ending is out of the question in the climate of homophobia and transphobia. Naveriani, 32, uses shocking real-life TV footage of a 2013 protest against an LGBT rights rally in Tbilisi, priests leading a mob of thousands against a tiny group of LGBT activists, who had to be bussed out of the city by police for their safety.
My Happy Family.Photograph: Georgia 100
The protest was a wake-up call for the community, says Naveriani. "For me and a lot of LGBT people it felt that this kind of violence was legitimised somehow. The state was silent. A lot of people left Georgia. I'm not there any more. You feel like your life is absolutely doomed. We have anti-discrimination laws, but they don't change anything." A real-life tragedy has also cast a shadow on her film. As Naveriani was editing The Gospel, Shigurova was found dead in her apartment in the suburbs of Tbilisi after a suspected gas leak. "We don't really know what happened. We think she was killed, but the case was closed really fast."
There is a tradition of women making films in the country that goes back to the 1920s, when Nutsa Gogoberidze became the first female Georgian film director at the age of 25; she was sent to the gulag during Stalin's purges. Neither woman I talk to has an explanation for the growing success of female directors in Georgia right now. Both wearily reel off the same kind of sexist crap that female filmmakers elsewhere have experienced. "I don't know why we are so many," says Naveriani. "But I think it's really important that women are telling their stories. We need a female gaze, you know."
Georgia 100: A Film Feast will take place at Regent Street Cinema, London (1-8 May 2018)


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Q: dictionary comprehension derived from existing lists as a part of a bigger exercise, I am trying to construct a dictionary based on inputs from smaller lists, but am struggling with an embedded iteration. suppose i have the following illustrative example:
cities = ['newyork','london','tokyo','paris']
citypairs = [i for i in it.combinations(cities,2)]
airlines = ['delta', 'united']

i want to construct an dictionary of dictionaries, "info", whose keys are the combinations of cities above + each airline (so 12 total keys), and each of those keys contains a "city1" and a "city2" key that is populated using the citypairs list. i am trying something like:
info = {
'{city1}/{city2} {airline}'.format(city1=city1, city2=city2, airline=airline): {
    "city1": city1, "city2": city2
    for city1, city2 in citypairs
    }
    for city1, city2 in citypairs
    for airline in airlines
   }

but am receiving an invalid syntax error. just to more clearly illustrate what i am after, if instead of the above attempt, i do:
info = {
'{city1}/{city2} {airline}'.format(city1=city1, city2=city2, airline=airline): {
    "city1": "whatever", "city2": "whatever"
    }
    for city1, city2 in citypairs
    for airline in airlines
   }

then this will run and simply create dummy values of 'whatever' for city1 and city2 for each key in "info"
this example might seem silly or overly complicated, but the heart of my question is how can i iterate through a list of tuples to populate city1 and city2 in this example - i am after this because the real-life project i am working on would need this sort of flexibility

A: My belief is that the solution is simpler than you're making it:
from itertools import combinations

cities = ['newyork','london','tokyo','paris']
citypairs = combinations(cities, 2)
airlines = ['delta', 'united']

info = {'{city1}/{city2} {airline}'.format(city1=city1, city2=city2, airline=airline): {"city1": city1, "city2": city2}
    for city1, city2 in citypairs
        for airline in airlines
}

print(info)
print()
print(info["newyork/london delta"]["city1"])

OUTPUT
{'london/tokyo delta': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'tokyo'}, 'newyork/london delta': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'london'}, 'london/paris delta': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'paris'}, 'london/tokyo united': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'tokyo'}, 'tokyo/paris united': {'city1': 'tokyo', 'city2': 'paris'}, 'newyork/paris delta': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'paris'}, 'tokyo/paris delta': {'city1': 'tokyo', 'city2': 'paris'}, 'newyork/paris united': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'paris'}, 'london/paris united': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'paris'}, 'newyork/london united': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'london'}, 'newyork/tokyo delta': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'tokyo'}, 'newyork/tokyo united': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'tokyo'}}
newyork

A: info = {
'{city1}/{city2} {airline}'.format(**vars()) :
    { "city1": city1, "city2": city2 }
    for city1, city2 in citypairs
    for airline in airlines
   }

yields:
{'london/paris delta': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'paris'},
 'london/paris united': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'paris'},
 'london/tokyo delta': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'tokyo'},
 'london/tokyo united': {'city1': 'london', 'city2': 'tokyo'},
 'newyork/london delta': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'london'},
 'newyork/london united': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'london'},
 'newyork/paris delta': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'paris'},
 'newyork/paris united': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'paris'},
 'newyork/tokyo delta': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'tokyo'},
 'newyork/tokyo united': {'city1': 'newyork', 'city2': 'tokyo'},
 'tokyo/paris delta': {'city1': 'tokyo', 'city2': 'paris'},
 'tokyo/paris united': {'city1': 'tokyo', 'city2': 'paris'}}

Here I've used a terser form of format() that looks at local variables to find content for the format strings.
You were very close to what you seemed to be asking for. Not sure why you filed in the values for your second-level dicts with "whatever", since you had already generated the city1 and city2 variables in the comprehension. Just using those completes the circuit.

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The joint works and pensions and BEIS committee which led an inquiry into Carillion's insolvency wrote to the Cabinet Office asking it to consider a review of the role and responsibilities of the Crown representatives in the light of their failure to recognise warning signs indicating the company's financial problems.
The select committee suggested that this meant in effect, that they can have the wool pulled over their eyes by an unscrupulous supplier. In response, the select committee has written again asking for action.
This letter stated: 'There is no question that the current system of monitoring suppliers was not able to identify or prevent the precarious state of Carillion and its decline and collapse.
The select committee also highlighted an apparent contradiction in the Cabinet Office letter, which admitted that for three months during 2017 there was no Crown representative in place to monitor Carillion.
The committee stated: 'While we accept that there are limits to the information a Crown representative may be able to access for any supplier, the relationship with Carillion and the surprise nature of its profit warning does call into question their value.
Rachel Reeves, chair of the BEIS committee, said: 'The reality must be that either the Crown representative system failed for Carillion or it has never worked at all.
Cabinet Office letter is here.
Select committee letter is here.


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What's getting in the way of you getting enough rest? The Tuesday List has the answers.
Aida wants to say you "Always Cross My Mind" but she just can't find the words.
The end may be only "Seconds" away. Why not dance?
He's a "Daysleeper" in a future time. Hop aboard for a typically day in the life.
An anonymous compliment send a man in a relationship on the rocks spiraling in "You Belong With Me."
When the "Heat Dies Down" is love fun? This poem contends no.
A politician calls out a local newspaper for its shoddy work in "If You Don't Know Me By Now."
Being a hero comes at a cost. I broke down what the dollar cost is for Daredevil.


Living Room Design with Swatchpop!
It took me until the 18 month mark of living in our home until I finally had enough and asked for help with our living room design from the team at Swatchpop!
Let's start off looking at how beautiful our living room design is currently before we jump to a photo of the before. Even though it's the most used room in our house, it was the last to receive any design effort. I was pretty sure I had a good plan in mind, but wanted a second opinion from an expert. Since I couldn't afford to hire someone to come in and design the whole space top to bottom, I worked with the team of designers from Swatchpop!.
You may have remembered seeing this room in Glitter Guide's June Home Tour feature!
It is a really easy and inexpensive way to receive a professional design consultation without any of the hassle. You simply fill out the design profile, select the room and areas you want to address, upload photos of the current space and within 3 days you'll receive a design solution complete with images, advice and clickable shopping links. It's that easy!
Before I dive anymore into how beautiful it looks now, let me show you what the major eye sore was that I just couldn't design around any longer.
This couch served us well for over 6 years, but it was done. What we once loved (the chaise lounge) was now the most uncomfortable seat and we had nightly paper, scissor, rock contests to see who had to sit there. This goes besides the point that it's dark brown and the entire color scheme throughout my house is shades of grey. It just didn't work. It was time for a new couch.
The design team at Swatchpop! sent me over an ideal general floor plan, plus 3 design options that could work within my room based upon the profile I completed.
Crazy enough, the floor plan was exactly what I had in mine, so it really helped give me confidence that I was headed in the right direction. I really gravitated towards looks 1 & 2. They did incorporate my already existing Restoration Hardware coffee table and side table, Wayfair leather pouf and my West Elm jute herringbone rug. Since I already had a similar lounge chair, I didn't want to spend the money on a new one since the one we had would suffice for now.
This gave me a great feel for the layout and that I did indeed want to go with a lighter fabric to balance out all the industrial, masculine touches that already existed. I'm still eyeing up that beach artwork in option 2!
With that being said, after spending countless hours online and then hitting the furniture stores, I ultimately couldn't get my mind off the Lounge II sofa from Crate & Barrel in cement. It is appropriately named "lounge' because that is precisely what you do on it. This is one big couch! It has a depth of 46", so basically with my back to the cushions only my ankles hang off the edge. It's literally made for Netflix binges.
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Regional Property Market Update Autumn 2022: London
News & Legislation GPEA 22nd September 2022
Market Moderation
Over 100,000 sales have taken place each month to date in 2022, according to the Bank of England, a feat achieved only twice in the last fifteen years (2014 and 2017). While demand remains higher than pre-pandemic times, mortgage approvals–considered a forerunner for demand–have eased back in recent months. The Bank of England reports that 63,770 mortgages were approved in July, a 5% fall on the pre-pandemic average (2015–2019). Sales prices currently remain remarkably robust, both Halifax and Nationwide reported a month-on-month rise in August.
At 6.3%, annual property price growth in London has strengthened from 3.8% at the start of the year, with five boroughs currently experiencing double-digit price growth.
The cost-of-living crisis is dominating daily news, with consumer confidence in the economy at a historic low (GfK). Inflation has hit double digits, with the Bank of England warning that it is set to rise further. The Bank Rate rate, currently at 1.75%, is likely to rise to over 2% by the end of 2022. While over two-thirds of outstanding mortgage balances and 95% of new approvals are on fixed-rate deals (FCA), for new homeowners and those looking to remortgage, costs are edging up. The impact is likely to be most significant in markets where affordability levels are already stretched.
Homes continue to go under offer quickly, taking an average of just 32 days to sell (Rightmove). Conversely, across the UK housing market the time taken to complete a sale has risen, now in the region of four months, as conveyancing delays remain a significant issue. For buyers seeking to move in by Christmas, the clock is ticking.
The current economic situation is uncharted territory for many homeowners: those not yet born or too young to remember the prolonged periods of double-digit inflation and interest rates of the 1970s and 1980s. Mortgage lending regulation also means the housing market is in a different state to the global financial crisis. An average of independent forecasts published in August expect the rate of inflation to lower over 2023 and by 2024 to have dipped back to below the Bank of England 2% target. Meanwhile, Bank Rates are not predicted to rise much above 3% (NIESR), still low by historical standards.
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October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020 / Vaseem Khan
It's currently libraries week, a perfect opportunity to meditate on the role that libraries play in our societies, and to confront the ongoing undermining of the library system. In this article, I want to approach the subject a little differently. I'm going to take a brief tour through the history of libraries, from the oldest to the newest, throwing in a handful of facts, curios, and related baggage to season the stew.
The oldest known library was founded in the 7th century B.C. in Nineveh in modern day Iraq by the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, a rare bibliophile ruler who stocked his library with some thirty thousand cuneiform tablets looted from Babylonia and other cities his armies had pulverised. The library's prized possession: a 4,000-year-old copy of the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' – an epic poem recognised as one of the earliest surviving great works of literature.
The title of most recognisable library from antiquity, however, goes to the Great Library of Alexandria. Following Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C., control of Egypt fell to his former general Ptolemy I Soter, who drew up plans for a grand library in the city of Alexandria – though historians believe that it was probably his son Ptolemy II who actually built it. The library, housing some half a million papyrus on shelves known as bibliothekai, made Alexandria a centre of world learning, drawing in the greatest minds of the age (including the likes of Archimedes) and becoming home to seminal works in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and the natural sciences.
Contrary to popular opinion the library did not vanish in a single fiery cataclysm. Its decline was gradual, the corrosive legacy of a late-Ptolemaic 'purge of intellectuals', Roman neglect, and a lack of funding. (You'd be excused for thinking that this sounds all too familiar.)
From antiquity to the modern.
In 1800, the US Congress established the Library of Congress in Washington D.C, now fondly considered America's 'national library'. In 1814, the library was set alight by British troops. Thomas Jefferson donated his personal book collection – some 6000 volumes – to replace the books that had been lost.
Today, the Library of Congress is one of the world's largest libraries, housing more than 160 million items and the largest rare book collection in North America. That collection includes a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, one of only three in the world, and a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating back to 2040 B.C, one of the oldest known pieces of writing. In addition, the Library of Congress houses the largest comic book collection in the United States – over six thousand titles.
And the weirdest items stored in the LOC? How about a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair? Or the contents of Abraham Lincoln's pockets when he died (two pairs of glasses, a six-blade pocketknife, a quartz-and-gold watch fob, a linen handkerchief with "A. Lincoln" stitched in red, newspaper clippings, and a leather wallet – with, of all things, a $5 Confederate note inside). Or even a five-second video of a man sneezing – the first copyrighted motion picture in the US.
From America to Germany.
Opening in 2011 and with a price tag of 80 million euros, the Stuttgart City Library is possibly the most futuristic-looking library on the planet. Built as a giant cube, it is constructed out of pale grey concrete that visually frames an array of frosted glass bricks. Inside, the minimalist white-on-white colour scheme – designed by Korean architect Yi Eun-young – looks like something from a sci-fi film. Beautiful!
And what about those who use the libraries?
The eccentricities of library-goers are the pub-banter of librarians all over the world. The users who shoot up in the toilets, or decide to engage in amorous liaisons in the aisles. The ones who pee in quiet corners (yes, it happens!), or sit on public computer terminals nonchalantly surfing porn as if it's the most normal thing in the world. And let's not forget those who use the toilets as their personal bathrooms, or those who fall asleep in comfy chairs snoring loud enough to wake the dead. And, increasingly, there are the belligerent gangs of teenagers, the smokers, the closet arsonists, the raucous, the furious, the homeless, the mentally ill.
Librarians have no choice but to weather every insult, every indiscretion with stoicism. It's a demanding job.
Meanwhile, the ground beneath their feet continues to erode. It's no secret that libraries face savage budget cuts. The blame for this is placed on falling public usage and book borrowing. Yet this is a reductive argument, perpetuating a vicious cycle that, ultimately, will rob us of our most egalitarian places.
I grew up in a household where money was scarce and reading was not a priority. The library system enabled me to access books that I wanted to read, and to discover, in time, that I too wanted to be a creator of words. I wrote my first novel aged seventeen, inspired directly by the discovery, in my local library, of Terry Pratchett's wonderful Discworld series. Without libraries I would not be an author today.
And that, in a nutshell, is the magic of libraries.
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Virginia Assault Weapon Ban Fails As Senate Dems Balk On Gun Control
Four moderate Democrats joined Republicans in rejecting a proposal pushed by Gov. Ralph Northam to ban certain semiautomatic firearms.
Feb 17, 2020, 09:34 AM EST | Updated Feb 17, 2020
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's push to ban the sale of assault weapons has failed after members of his own party balked at the proposal.
Senators voted to shelve the bill for the year and ask the state crime commission to study the issue, an outcome that drew cheers from a committee room packed with gun advocates.
Four moderate Democrats joined Republicans in Monday's committee vote, rejecting legislation that would have prohibited the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms, including popular AR-15 style rifles, and banned the possession of magazines that hold more than 12 rounds.
The bill was a top priority for Northam, a Democrat who has campaigned heavily for a broad package of gun-control measures.
The legislation also engendered the biggest pushback from gun owners and gun-right advocates, who accused the governor and others of wanting to confiscate commonly owned guns and accessories from law-abiding gun owners. Northam has said repeatedly he does not want to confiscate guns, but argued that banning new sales of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines would help prevent mass murders.
Virginia is the current epicenter of the country's heated debate over gun control and mass shootings. Tens of thousands of gun-rights activists from across the country flooded the state Capitol and surrounding area in protest, some donning tactical gear and carrying military-style rifles.
Northam has been able to get much of his gun-control agenda passed this year, but struggled with the proposed assault weapon ban. Earlier proposals to ban possession of AR-15-style rifles or to require owners to register them with state police have been scrapped. The governor had hoped a watered-down would win over enough Democratic moderates for passage.
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From tribute acts to a craft fair, you're spoilt for choice with a jam-packed calendar of events taking place over the next week in Norfolk.
Poets, spoken word artists and singer songwriters will grace the stage with their own work centring on the theme "Facing The Future".
The festival itself has been put together by the Norwich Theatre Royal Young Producers, a group of 16-25 year-olds who have been gaining hands-on experience of creating events and the line-up includes pianist and singer Jack Warner and YouTuber Ellie-Jean Royden. There will also be a selection of work from NUA MA graduate Tinsideout which can be seen at an exhibition in Stage Two from November 16 to 30.
Leading Man Ross Woodhouse, who plays Curly in The Kings Lynn Players latest production of Oklahoma!, celebrated becoming a new dad in the summer to baby Leo along with his fiancé and fellow KLP Member Bryony Ding.
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The Norfolk & Norwich Liver Group works tirelessly to raise funds to buy state of the art medical equipment and run awareness campaigns to improve treatment and diagnosis for people across Norfolk living with liver disease. For their latest special fundraising event, the group is bringing a little flavour of France to Norwich in a special one-night only musical extravaganza 'Merci Pour La Musique' by Dreamcast Productions which pays tribute to iconic French and British singers in a musical odyssey of famous songs.
Putting the magic back into menstruation, showwoman and artist Dr Marisa Carnesky breaks the last unmentionable taboo in order to reinvent menstrual rituals for a new era. Drawing on the hidden power of a forgotten matriarchal past, this all out genre bending spectacular features a diverse cast and the show embodies a live cabaret crossover, mutating between a bizarre anthropology lecture to a magic stage show to a feminist activist ritual.
The Kings Lynn Players Present Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma in celebration of their 75th season. Oklahoma is set in the Western Indian Territory at the beginning of the twentieth century and it tells the story of the high spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys which provides a colourful backdrop against which farm girl Laurey falls for Cowboy Curly.
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ARBOR WEALTH: Welcoming neighbors to the Feast of Flowers
Margaret McDowell
Aug 1, 2013 at 12:01 AM Aug 1, 2013 at 3:37 PM
Each year, Orlando is moving to Florida.
Let�s quickly clarify. A recent story on National Public Radio states that 250,000 new residents, or a number the size of the population of the city of Orlando, are moving to Florida annually. For comparison, imagine the state of Wisconsin absorbing annually into its economy as many new residents as currently reside in its capital of Madison.
The U.S. Census Bureau ranked Orlando (238,300) as Florida�s fifth largest city in 2010. The latest official census does not include newer residents. So the population within Orlando�s city limits is actually closer now to 250,000. And obviously, there is a much greater population in the Orlando metroplex than resides within its city limits.
The report also states that the vast majority of new arrivals will consist of Baby Boomers and retirees. In some cases these two groups are synonymous; in others, not. Either way, newcomers will add wear and tear to state-maintained highways, avail themselves of public education opportunities, and stress our state services in a variety of fashions. Municipalities will require larger police, fire and public safety forces to accommodate this growth.
In South Walton, we are no stranger to this type of growth and the challenges to local infrastructure and services that accompany it. The recent surge in development and traffic along Highway 30A is a classic example.
What�s the big deal? According to Danielle Kurtzleben of U.S. News & World Report, Florida was tied for ninth with Oregon in 2012 for the largest budget shortfall among U.S. states.
Florida is a regional economic prototype of the financial challenges that face the U.S. as our population ages. In a nutshell, this means more retirees that contribute less significantly to GDP, but who rely on government programs and services.
Protecting tourism is paramount for Florida�s economy, unique among American states. With an estimated 90 million visitors a year, Florida is the largest tourist destination in the world (official state website). The industry has a $67 billion impact annually here, a number that is about twice the total GDP of Vermont. Oil spills here carry grave economic consequences.
In 2012, Florida�s economy grew at its fastest pace in the last six years. Floridians, financially crushed by the decline in home values, are now seeing those values slowly escalate again. Our ability to manage this economic rebound with sound fiscal planning is vital to Florida�s future.
We hope our new neighbors will grow to love and care for it as we have, and to contribute to its GDP while utilizing its services. For us, it is home.
As the late John D. McDonald wrote of Florida in 1986, �Tacky though it might be, its fate uncertain, too much of its destiny in the hands of men whose sole thought was grab the money and run � it was still my place in the world. It is where I am and where I will stay ��
Margaret R. McDowell, ChFC, AIF, a syndicated economic columnist, chartered financial consultant and accredited investment fiduciary, is the founder of Arbor Wealth Management, LLC, a fee-only registered investment advisory firm located near Sandestin. Arbor Wealth specializes in portfolio management for clients with $250,000 or more of investable assets.