You can eat your way around the world in Sydney thanks to the waves of migrants from Europe, Asia, China and the Middle East who have transformed the food scene over the years.
Fusion may be a dirty word in some gastronomic zones, but here it stands for the best mix of styles and flavours that only a truly multicultural society can concoct.
While there are pockets of Italian and Greek, Asian is Sydney's default cuisine as large numbers of Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Koreans, Taiwanese and Japanese all call Australia home.
• and John Street in Cabramatta is Sydney's Ho Chi Minh City, with dozens of places selling everything from spring rolls to fresh sugar cane juice.
To feel like you're in India head west to Harris Park in Parramatta, to Strathfield and East Ryde for kimchi or Korean dumplings, and for Lebanese around Haldon Street in Lakemba.
For the city's most famed charcoal chicken join the hordes at El Jannah in Granville, where the garlic sauce has a cult following of its own.
Then there's the most egalitarian of places, the beach, where all the cultures come together.
Bondi with groomed white sand and rolling surf is the busiest and most famous. It's also cosmopolitan and a multiethnic magnet with an array of eateries to match.
Melbourne was the destination of choice for many post-war Italian and Greek migrants. They gave Australia's second biggest city an enviable European feel and culinary edge.
But the sands shifted post-2000 as Italo- Melbournians like Maurice Terzini and Giovanni Paradiso came north.
Besides independently running Icebergs Dining Room and Bar and Fratelli Paradiso, plus a pizza joint and a bar, the former colleagues keep their creative juices flowing with other ventures.
Terzini has a clothing label – Ten Pieces – the black items he wears himself while he clads his Icebergs waitstaff in white dresses and shorts, and his Paradiso is a leading light in the Rootstock natural wine festival. The pair also dreamt up Italo Dining and Disco Club, a pop-up that, says Paradiso, is like "our parents threw a rave party". Think acres of gingham, calamari fritti, Negronis, natural wine in barrels and Italian DJs.
Using clothing parlance, Terzini prefers the "least expected fit", so at Icebergs he runs regular natural wine, food and disco nights – "it's time not to separate them anymore"– crab sessions for full moon and the hottest New Year's ticket – a party on the day after, aka January 1.
Call it Chinatown 2.0. Dixon House Food Court is the oldest food hall in Sydney's oldest Sino-strip, offering low-priced and excellent food from the different regions of China.
The wood panelling and mirrors evoke the 1980s in the low ceilinged, lower ground floor space, but the food offerings across 11 stalls are the sort of multicultural mash-up you'd expect of twenty- first-century Sydney.
Alongside sweet and sour pork and Oriental Dumpling King's Chinese 'burgers' are Indo-Malaysian snacks, a ramen shop selling excellent black garlic tonkotsu and a taco stand called Ghostboy Cantina.
The tiny food stall run by former barista Toby Wilson serves "beef, pork and cauli" tacos, which are more complex than their names suggest.
Like other taqueros running joints outside Mexico, Wilson is more concerned about deliciousness than authenticity.
crunchy pigs ears are the crowd favourite.
"Every time we put this sucker on the menu, it sells out," says Wilson.
They come on a soft pancake with Korean chilli sauce, pickled cucumbers, onion and coriander.
Kylie Kwong adheres to three tenets at her Chinese eating house: celebration, collaboration and community.
And these are not hollow words.
Here at Billy Kwong she sources fresh herbs and honey from an urban garden on the roof of the nearby Wayside Chapel, a charity mission; she serves 'project' wines, beers and spirits made through collaborations with artisanal producers; and she is such a great advocate of native produce she inspired none other than René Redzepi when he ran his Noma restaurant in Sydney for ten weeks.
cuisine of her heritage with ingredients such as wallaby tails and warrigal greens. "The sweet, sour, salty, oceanic, peppery, tart, citrusy, bitter, floral and woody notes of Australian native ingredients have a natural affinity with the flavour profiles of Chinese food," says Kwong, who believes she's created a cuisine which "truly represents this land and its people".
Billy Kwong's open kitchen, the chef also finds time to spend Saturday mornings at Carriageworks farmers market selling dumplings and pork buns, pancakes with saltbush and sticky rice parcels of macadamia and warrigal greens.
Everyone is equal in their swimmers – or 'cossies' as they say in Sydney.
At Bondi Beach these run the gamut from thongs to burkinis but the best known are the Speedo budgie-smugglers; the tight-fitting men's briefs favoured by lifesavers and Prime Ministers alike.
At North Bondi there's even a café named after Australia's best-known bather brand, Speedo's Café, which has been fuelling surfers for decades.
When the surfers seek sustenance with soul they head a few blocks back from the beach where three Israeli friends - Erez Beker, Yoni Kalfus and Ariel Hefer – turned an old corner store into Shuk, their Middle Eastern inspired café-bakery-deli. Taking inspiration from the Hebrew word for marketplace, Shuk is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
As well as a local take on shakshuka, the classic Israeli dish of capsicum, tomato and baked eggs, there's a shuk salad of roast vegetables and smoked burghul.
Delicious sourdough bread, rolled rugelach pastries and Linzer cookies are made on site, and the rich full-bodied coffee is from Bay Roasters.
There are also boxes of vegetables and deli-style items such as preserved lemons.
On Thursday nights Shuk goes global with tapas- style plates celebrating street food from Texas to Taiwan.


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One of Europe's largest scientific conferences dedicated to the field of Synthetic Biology takes place at LMU from July 27-29, 2015.
The methods of the new field of synthetic biology make it possible to modify biological systems in useful ways, and even to redesign them so profoundly that they amount to artificial cell-like systems. At all events, work on these simplified or reconfigured biological modules should lead to a deeper understanding of biological processes, and has broad implications for the future of medicine and biotechnology. One of the largest and most significant European conferences devoted to this burgeoning field takes place at LMU on 27. - 29. July. This will be the second time LMU has hosted the event. Once again, leading international experts will be in attendance at the Biocenter for "Synthetic Biology II". The participants will present the latest findings and methodological developments, and discuss their applications to medicine and other areas.


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FORCED TO MARRY THE MAN SWORN TO DESTROY HER KIND
The Dynasty claims to be a veritable paradise, where a multitude of races live in peace and harmony. Everys knows better. The Dynasty has been broken since it was founded, with the human nobility oppressing many of the peoples they've brutally conquered, including her own. As an illegal mage, Everys hides in a rundown corner of the capital city, running her family's electronics repair shop, afraid to risk her life to stand against the injustice. But then she brought to the palace and forced to marry King Narius, the descendant of the tyrant who destroyed her people's homeland, and she realizes this might be the chance she's been waiting for to make things right.
Due to sacred law, Narius must marry to legitimize his reign. Forced to marry for political gain, he cannot marry the woman he actually loves, so he must settle for another. Unfortunately, the young woman he chose seems determined to cause him nothing but trouble, jeopardizing his plans to bring the Dynasty into a more prosperous future.
Thrown together by circumstances they can't control, Everys and Narius must set aside old grudges and painful legacies to forge an uneasy partnership before the Dynasty's enemies destroy everything they hold dear.
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"Otte swings big with this science-fantasy epic of resistance, a false utopia, oppressed beliefs, and a touch of royal romance. The wealth of themes, characters, crises, and intriguing connections to the story of Esther means that, despite brisk scenecraft, the length is epic, with much to keep track of—the story can feel dense when it covers scheming and geopolitics. Still, Otte has created a compelling protagonist whose relationships with both her god and her husband prove rich and rewarding. Seasoned fans of dystopian adventures, especially with underpinnings of biblical allegory, will find much to savor here." ~ Booklife Review (Publishers Weekly)
"Drawn in Ash is an exciting science fiction and fantasy tale whose heroine's struggles reflect the eternal importance of cultural respect and tolerance. With tensions and uncertainty woven throughout its pages, Drawn in Ash is a fantastical novel featuring magic, technology, and a determined heroine."~Vivian Turnbull, Foreword Reviews
"Otte's worldbuilding is impeccable. Readers will recognize familiar fantasy elements in these faraway lands, such as feuding kingdoms and astounding feats of magic. But there are just as many guns as swords, along with technology (digital scribers and identity scanners) and aircraft (cloud skimmers). A likable and indelible woman leads the cast; Everys' benevolence is an unmistakably genuine trait… A kindhearted and capable hero headlines this engaging magic tale." ~ Kirkus Reviews
"You could read Drawn in Ash purely as entertainment and it would be an enjoyable, compelling ride. But slow down just enough and you'll see how Otte has drawn from our current cultural moment, using both a futuristic setting and ancient biblical symbolism, to show how all of human history is caught up in the issues facing Everys, Narius, and the world in which they live. It's about America. It's about ancient Babylon. It's about race relations, reparations, colonialism, and community. It's about war and peace, religion and politics, diplomacy and radicalism.
Otte balances all of these themes perfectly, weaving them into a cohesive narrative tapestry—a true work of art that undergirds the action and mythology of the story. John Otte has created a fully-realized world that mirrors our own, allowing us to explore all of these difficult topics in a fresh way that's free from the familiarity and bias of reality. That's what the very best fiction does. It allows to explore reality in ways we can't explore within reality. We think, we learn, we grow in this fictional world, then we return to our reality with a new perspective.
Drawn in Ash is absolutely captivating—the best sci-fi I've read in a long time. From the first page to the last, John Otte had me entranced. I don't know where the story is going, but I'm in it to the very end." ~ Josh Olds, lifeisstory.com
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Guitar Technique Session Eighty Seven: September 13 , 2006 Villa-Lobos Prelude One and 1950's interpretation.
Guitar Technique Session Eighty Six: September 6 , 2006 Villa-Lobos Prelude Two repeats the left hand fingerings quite a bit. It's a good thing!
Guitar Technique Session Eighty Five: August 30, 2006 Another look at artificial harmonics through the haze of time.
Guitar Technique Session Eighty Four: August 23, 2006 Hey man, it ain't written that way! When to play something differently.
Guitar Technique Session Eighty Three: August 16, 2006 The Plateau, and how to get the heck off of it!
Guitar Technique Session Eighty Two: August 9, 2006 A piano transcription on a long boring plane ride.
Guitar Technique Session Seventy Nine: July 21 , 2006 Right and Left hands both get a work-out in this Albeniz classic.
Guitar Technique Session Seventy Six: July 7 , 2006 Pascual Roch and harmonics: a must-read!
Guitar Technique Session Seventy Five: June 22, 2006 Oops I klinkered Again!
Guitar Technique Session Seventy Two May 2, 2006 The Classic Guitar Method has Arrived!
Guitar Technique Session Sixty Eight March 2, 2006 Carulli and a few new Kama Sutra positions, well actually one new position on the guitar. That sounds just plain wrong! Oh, click the link and see what the flap is all about! PART TWO.
Guitar Technique Session Sixty Seven February 26, 2006 Carulli and a few new Karma Sutra positions, well actually one new position on the guitar. That sounds just plain wrong! Oh, click the link and see what the flap is all about!
Guitar Technique Session Sixty Six February 17. 2006 Giuliani is great but a bit harmonically challenged! what is this HERESY? Tune in and check it out.
Guitar Technique Session Sixty Two January 5, 2006 How do you get the new student to cleanly, accurately and quickly transition fromone chord to another?
Guitar Technique Session Sixty Three January 17, 2006 Getting the new student to use Apoyando and Free Stroke in the same phrase to articulate a melody, A simple Etude by yours truly.
Guitar Technique Session Sixty Five February 9. 2006 Guitar taught right. Figures Carulli would take the point! My man!
Guitar Technique Session Sixty One December 29, 2005 MERRY CHRISTMAS!! A nice little -- and simple transcription/rendition of Greensleeves. ENJOY!
My friend Armando has asked me to please put as much of Sr. Roch's teaching method up on my site as I can. As the last edition of this work was published in 1922, I believe it is possible to do this. However, if I learn that the Roch material is still under copyright, I will remove it from this site as soon as possible. I hope that Schirmer will re-release this method one day -- soon!
As you can tell by the gaps in the exercise pages lately, I have been very busy. A good friend of mine is cutting his third album and wanted my services, so my weekends have been spent in New York (and in a studio) working with Gary Richard and Fritz Lang. Wonderful time!
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The Classic Guitar Method: Now in one volume, much of what the novice classical guitarist will need to know to lead him or her to the recital stage. From proper instrument care and maintenance to the necessary technical skills, musical mind-set, and the standard repertoire—all exposed and explored with enough detail and insight that the student will wish to keep this book handy years to come as a ready reference source.
Why do we need another CLASSICAL GUITAR METHOD?
During the course of teaching guitar over the past twenty six years, I have often noted that no single method book contains all the information I wish my students to have readily available to them on a continuous basis. It has not been uncommon for me to assign as many as three methods to a new student—all good, by the way, but not one of them being all inclusive. This is not an unusual circumstance, and one I should have anticipated in my teaching experience as I distinctly remember Albert Valdés-Blain (10 April 1921—30 January 2002) assigning me a mind-numbing ten books at my first lesson, seven of them methods or collections of studies.
I consider myself a disciple of Valdés-Blain. I met him in 1974, though, of course, I had heard of him by reputation. An excellent musician and teacher, Lawrence Silvestro—who had brought me along to that point at which I was ready to undertake a study of the classical guitar at the college level—had admonished me when he'd heard with whom I would be studying. With much the same advice as Mary had given the servants at the marriage feast at Cana , Mr. Silvestro told me "Whatever he tells you to do, just do it!" So I did.
When I decided that the time was right for me to create a new method—one that would include all the necessary technical and musical disciplines to lead the serious student from neophyte hobbyist to burgeoning recitalist—I resisted the urge to call the Method something like 'Maestro Valdés-Blain's School of Guitar' as this would imply that my method would accurately reflect his system of instruction and musical nurturing. While I do follow his precepts fairly consistently and faithfully, my method reflects his impartation to me and me alone. I did not intimately observe his method with other students but what I did witness leads me to presume that he tailored his approach to each individual, within logical constraints, no doubt. No less importantly, I had also modified my teaching methods to my own personality and style of instruction over the years. In short, this method echoes the classical approach of a well-known and much-loved pedagogue and student of Segovia , but is filtered through and expanded by a respectful devotee.
What my method does is expose the student to the technical disciplines required to effectively perform on the instrument and give enough basic recital repertoire that when the method is completed, the guitarist will be able to perform a recital of approximately forty-five minutes in length. I have included many tips and explanations that should shed light on the correct process of attempting to solve problems. Teach a student a solution and he has one problem solved. Teach a student to be a problem-solver and he or she is on the road to mastering the instrument.
Included in this book are sections on the correct interpretation of lute tablature in its varieties. Why? The lute enjoys one of the largest repertoires of any instrument ancient or modern. Much of this lute music remains untranscribed for the guitar, its modern descendant. The guitarist will want to mine this wealth of material for fresh program pieces.
Many students have asked me to recount the development of the guitar as the instrument we know today. So few people know exactly what a classical guitar even is: "Children's guitars have nylon strings while real guitars have steel strings." Little do those who make this ridiculously false statement realize that some of the priciest, most desired instruments on the planet are nylon-strung classical guitars, so this book includes a section on history as well as instrument care.
Music is hard work. Mastering an instrument is an endeavor that requires more years than a lifetime can possibly ever contain. With that said, many will then ask 'why bother?' It's a fair question and if you ask it, maybe playing an instrument is more a hobby for you and less a vocation. For those who begin their journey by considering it a vocation, it becomes an obsession; a passionate one that can never be fully satisfied. If you are fervent about playing the classical guitar—and playing it well—then this book, my method, may be the one book you need to make it all happen. Practice is crucial, critical listening is, well, critical. An awareness of musicality is more than vital—music is what it is all about and unless the performer can impart an emotion to humanity-at-large, then why bother?
I wish you great success with music. Music will feed your soul in a way that nothing else can. I wish you equal success with the guitar. Attaining mastery of an instrument is a long road—a road with many rewards and more than its fair share of frustration. A good tutorial method will help you avoid some frustrations and work through others. There are poor paths and rough roads to be found. This method of mine, should you decide to let it, will put you on the right road, but this road doesn't end when you close the book. Should you decide to turn the page, I welcome you to the road you will travel for the rest of your life!
Covering a variety of topics and regularly updated, this feature is designed to help musicians of all levels achieve a higher level of professionalism.
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Helen is the kind of girl you dream about. She's smart and confident, funny and affectionate, and is killer good-looking. Gary has fallen for her hard. Even so, he is distracted by life's little happenstances. It's those little things like, oh, crooked cops, shady club owners, illegal smuggling, and a few dead bodies.
Still, Gary can't keep his eyes off Helen.
Harry Pellegrin's mystery novel DEEP END is packed with eerily real sinister characters, music, interesting locales, bizarre spiritualizm and a plethora of corpses. Couple this with an exceeedingly clever plot and we have this year's best beach-read.
Buy Low End through PAB Entertainment Group on AMAZON.com. (Go to the USED AND NEW section) Not only will you get the book, but you'll also receive a FREE COPY of Reflecting Pools, Harry's first keyboard album. You will enjoy!
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Aria Composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), arranged by Andres Segovia. For soprano voice solo and guitar accompaniment. Format: guitar/vocal single. With standard notation. 20th Century. A Minor. 7 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.
Andres Segovia: Diatonic Major and Minor Scales Composed by Andres Segovia. For guitar. Format: instructional book. With standard guitar notation, fingerings and introductory text. Scales. 9x12 inches. Published by Columbia Music Company.
Mauro Giuliani: 120 Studies For Right Hand Development Composed by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829). For guitar. Format: instructional book. With fingerings. Technique and Classical Period. 20 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Warner Brothers.
Fernando Sor: Twenty Studies For The Guitar Composed by Fernando Sor (1778-1839), edited by Andres Segovia. For guitar. Includes Book and CD package. With standard guitar notation, fingerings and introductory text. Technique. 32 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.
D'Addario EJ46-9 Pro Arte SP Hard/9 Classical Strings Set The Hard Tension Pro Arte string is one of my personal favorites.
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WASHINGTON –The Food and Drug Administration denied a petition today by public interest groups, including EWG, to ban the use in dry food packaging of perchlorate, a toxic chemical that is also an ingredient in rocket fuel.
On behalf of the Breast Cancer Fund, Center for Environmental Health, Center for Science in the Public Interest and EWG, in March 2016 the Natural Resources Defense Council and Center for Food Safety sued the FDA, asking the agency to ban perchlorate in dry food packaging.
Perchlorate impairs hormone production critical to brain development and poses a particular health threat to fetuses, infants and children. Perchlorate is the explosive ingredient in rocket fuel and has contaminated the drinking water for millions of Americans nationwide. But the FDA has also approved it for use as an anti-static agent in plastic packaging for dry foods such as beans, rice and flour.
A December 2016 study from FDA scientists documented a substantial increase in the amount of perchlorate contamination in food eaten by infants and toddlers. The Environmental Defense Fund reported the study found that in food sampled between 2008 and 2012, the amount of perchlorate infants eat increased by more than one third, and the amount toddlers eat increased by almost one fourth, compared to food sampled from 2003 to 2006. This increase occurred after FDA began allowing perchlorate's use in some plastic packaging.


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Touchwood in Solihull: Shops, opening and closing times, parking, cinema, John Lewis and more
We've got all you need to know here about the retail complex, including Cineworld cinema and restaurants
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Touchwood Shopping Centre is a hugely popular retail and leisure destination in the West Midlands.
Built in 2001 behind Solihull high street, at a cost of £110 million, it has topped the list of the favourite shopping centres to visit in the region alongside the Bullring in Birmingham and Merry Hill in Dudley.
It is home to over 80 stores, including John Lewis, Bravissimo, Monsoon , Hollister, Pandora and Zara , as well as bars and restaurants like the Handmade Burger Co, TGI Friday's, Nando's, Pizza Express , Pizza Hut and cafe's like Costa Coffee and Coffee Republic.
If you're visiting for the first time then here's our comprehensive guide to how to get there, where and how much parking is, what shops you can find, where you can eat and drink, all about Cineworld, and more.
How to find Touchwood
Touchwood Shopping Centre is located on Homer Road in Solihull and the postcode is B91 3G - this is also the best postcode to use in satellite navigation devices. You'll find it behind Solihull High Street.
When are the shops open?
Inside Solihull's Touchwood retail complex (Image: Elliott Brown/flickr)
Normal trading times for the shops are from 9.30am until 6pm Monday to Friday, Saturdays 9am until 6pm and on Sundays 11am until 5pm. Thursday is the centre's late night when shops are open from 9.30am until 8pm.
Opening hours for John Lewis 9.30am until 6pm Monday to Wednesday, Thursdays 9am until 8pm, Friday 9.30am until 6pm, Saturdays 9am until 6pm and Sundays 11am until 5pm (On Sunday the store opens for browsing at 10.30am).
Opening times may vary on bank holidays so we'd advise checking before making a special trip.
Remember when Solihull looked like this? Archive pictures show town centre in the days before Touchwood
What stores are in the complex?
Touchwood is home to a host of stores including Top Shop, Top Man and Miss Selfridge
3 Store, Apple, Artico, Beaverbrooks, Bravissimo, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Cheshire's, Claire's Accessories, Coast to Coast, Crystal Chain, Eaton Fine Art, Ecco, EE, Ernest Jones, Fabulous, Five Guys, Footasylum, Fraser Hart, French Connection, Goldsmiths and Goldsmiths Boutique, H&M, H2O Car Valeting, Hollister, JD Sports, John Lewis , Joules, Kuoni, Kurt Geiger, L'Occitane, Lakeland, Monsoon and Accessorize, Neal's Yard Remedies, Newsflow, Next, O Bag Store, O2, Office, Pandora, Paperchase, Party Animal, River Island, Schuh, Smiggle, Superdrug, Superdry, Swarovski, Tesla, The Entertainer, The Fragrance Shop, The Perfume Shop, The Secret Boutique, Theobroma, Thomas Cook , Tiger, Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, Uber, Virgin Media, Vision Express, Vodafone, Wannado Hair Salon and Zara.
Touchwood tops the list for popular local attractions
Is there a cinema at Touchwood?
Touchwood is home to the only cinema in Solihull (Image: https://touchwoodsolihull.co.uk)
Yes there is a Cineworld in the complex on Upper Jubilee Walk.
Its open every day from 10am until 11pm. It has nine screens and over 1,800 seats in theatres available to book in 2D and 3D - 3D glasses are available for £1 a pair.
The Cineworld area also has a Ben and Jerry's ice cream parlour, Coffee Republic , games room and a fully licensed bar.
Prices vary for 2D and 3D - they start from £10.70 for adults for 2D and £8.10 for children. There are also off-peak saver tickets available as well as deals when you sign up to My Cineworld and Saturday morning Movies for Juniors package deals.
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Touchwood Solihull has its own multi-storey car park where you can access the shopping centre undercover. There is room for 1,700 cars.
There are also over 5,000 parking spaces in Solihull town centre itself.
The Touchwood Car park is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the John Lewis Car Park is open daily from 7.30am until 10.30pm.
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How much is parking?
Here's the break down of charges for visitors who park in Touchwood's own car park (Image: www.touchwood.co.uk)
Parking at Touchwood varies depending on how long you stay. If it's up to two hours it's £2.30, 2-3 hours is £3.10 and 3-4 hours is £4.
Where can you get a drink and something to eat at Touchwood?
There are many bars, cafe's, sweet shops, and restaurants in the shopping complex, as well as close by in the town centre itself.
The full list of those in Touchwood are: Ask Italian, Bella Italia, Wagamama, TGI Fridays, Starbucks, Subway, Slug and Lettuce, Pizza Express , Pizza Hut , Pret A Manger, Nando's, Krispy Kreme, Handmade Burger Co, Fuel Juice Bar, Joe & The Juice, Coffee Lounge, Druckers, Costa Coffee, Greggs, Sweets From Heaven, Hotel Chocolat and Chimichanga.
Joe and the Juice is one of the many food and drink offerings in the Solihill shopping centre (Image: Graham Young)
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When are the bars and restaurants open?
Many bars and restaurants in Touchwood remain open after the shops have closed. During the week this is usually until around 11pm in the week and until as late 2am at weekends.
Here are all the individual venues closing times:
Ask Italian - Monday to Saturday 12noon until 11pm and Sundays 12noon until 10pm.
Bella Italia - Monday to Saturday 9am until 11pm and Sundays 10am until 10.30pm.
Wagamama - Sunday to Tuesday 11.30am until 10pm, Wednesday to Saturday 11.30am until 11pm.
TGI Fridays - Monday to Saturdays 11.30am until 11pm, Sundays 11.30am until 10pm.
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Starbucks - Open Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursday, 6.30am until 7.30pm, Thursday 6.30am until 8.30pm, Sundays 8am until 6.30pm.
Subway - 9.30am-6pm Monday to Friday, excluding Thursday, Thursday 9.30am until 8.30pm, Saturdays 9am until 6pm and Sundays 11am until 5pm.
Slug and Lettuce - Sunday to Thursday 11.30am until 11pm, Friday and Saturday 11.30am until 12 midnight.
Pizza Express - Tuesday to Saturday 11.30am until 11pm, and 11.30am until 10pm Sunday and Monday.
Pizza Hut - Every day 11.30am until 11pm.
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Pret A Manger - Monday to Saturday 7.30am until 5pm and Sundays 9am until 5pm.
Nando's - Every day from 11.30am until 11pm.
Krispy Kreme - Open 8am until 7pm Monday to Saturday and Sundays 10am until 6pm.
Handmade Burger Co - Open every day from 11.30am until 10pm.
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Fuel Juice Bar - Open 9.30am until 6pm Monday to Friday, excluding Thursdays, Thursdays 9.30am until 8pm, Saturdays 9am until 6pm and Sundays 11am until 5pm.
Joe & The Juice - As one of the stores it follows the shopping centres hours, which are Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursday, 9.30am until 6pm, Thursdays 9.30am until 8pm and Sunday 11am until 5pm.
Coffee Lounge - Open 8am until 6pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, open 8am until 8pm Thursdays and Sundays from 11am until 5pm.
Druckers - Open 8am until 6pm Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursdays, Thursday 8am until 8pm, and Sundays 10am until 5pm.
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Costa Coffee - Open Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursdays,from 7am until 7pm, Thursdays 7am until 8pm, and Sundays 9am until 5.30pm.
Greggs - Open 8.30am until 6pm Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursdays 8.30am until 8pm and Sundays 11am until 5pm.
Sweets From Heaven - As one of the stores it follows the shopping centres hours, which are Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursday, 9.30am until 6pm, Thursdays 9.30am until 8pm and Sunday 11am until 5pm.
Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe - As one of the stores it follows the shopping centres hours, which are Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursday, 9.30am until 6pm, Thursdays 9.30am until 8pm and Sunday 11am until 5pm.
Hotel Chocolat - As one of the stores it follows the shopping centres hours, which are Monday to Saturday, excluding Thursday, 9.30am until 6pm, Thursdays 9.30am until 8pm and Sunday 11am until 5pm.
Chimichanga - Monday to Thursday 12noon until 10pm, Fridays and Saturdays 12noon until 11pm and Sundays 11.30am until 10pm.
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So, I think I've mentioned before that I belong to a group who do a monthly mail in swap of Artist Trading Cards, the little 2.5 x 3.5 inch cards that are based on the calling cards of artists back in the early 1900s. This month, our theme was "Fruity", and, at first, I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do. I didn't think SU had any current fruit stamps, but then I saw Giggle Greetings and realized that it had a whole bowl of cherries image... and a great sentiment to go with it!
I stamped the bowl of cherries with Memento Tuxedo Black and used my Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight Blendies to colour in the image. I know I shouldn't be using them on my blog when you can't order them any more, but it's so hard to go back to the regular markers once you've used the Blendabilities. . . Sigh!
I added some highlights on the cherries and on the bowl with my White Gel Pen. Then I got out the Crystal Effects and added some blobs onto the cherries in the bowl. This takes a couple of hours to completely dry, so you can't be in a hurry if you use this much on a project.
In the meantime, I cut some 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inch pieces of All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack and carefully ripped them as shown above. Then I added some Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details to the little flower buds on the paper.
After covering the ATC with Basic Black cardstock and adding the ripped piece of All Abloom cardstock to the top left side, I punched out the sentiments with the Modern Label Punch (*retiring) and added them to the base.
I hand cut the cherry bowl and its shadow and mounted it with Stampin' Dimensionals and my ATC was finished. I can't wait to see what I get in return.
Sometimes life is just a bowl of cherries and sometimes it's just the pits! I'm sure that the people in Nepal would agree with that after the devastating earthquake that hit just last Saturday. Nepal is stunningly beautiful, but also one of the poorest countries in the world.
The 8.1 magnitude quake hit a wide area with massive destruction and authorities believe there will be over 10,000 fatalities. Thousands are homeless, and with the monsoon season coming in a few weeks, disease and lack of shelter could raise the toll drastically.
I've been wondering what we as a papercrafting community could do to help the efforts in terms of fundraising for aid to be sent. I'm sure many have already donated individually, as we have, to the cause.
What if we were to each hold an auction on our blogs? We could auction projects and then donate the proceeds to the Red Cross for use in Nepal, maybe using the hashtag #StampingforNepal. Tell me what you think of this idea or if you have a better one. I will post this in some other places as well. I would just feel better being able to contribute using my skills as a crafter to help in a meaningful way. Leave a comment if you agree.


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Ever watch the deleted scenes of a movie? Better yet, ever watch the deleted scenes of an animated movie? If you'd asked me that question ten years and three kids ago, my response might've been an incredulous, "What on earth for?"
Nowadays, however, it's an all-wise sounding, "But of course."
In the world of writing (an ever incredible, tortuous, rewarding, baffling, coffee-chugging existence) deleted scenes are a constant.
Watching them in movie form provides a much needed perspective change.
While standard movies are typically cut because of length issues, animators delete for reasons we writers can easily relate to:
The plot has taken a different direction and the scene doesn't fit.
The character behaves in that particular scene contrary to the character as represented throughout the film.
The scene is just…garbage.
But the creators of the script didn't let a weird spot halt their progress. They pushed ahead, scene by scene, drawing by drawing, until the work was completed.
Then they cut out the bad, cheesy, gag-me portions, leaving excellence worthy of a blockbuster.
That's a lesson all writers can use.
Every story hits a rough spot. A dreaded "this sucks" epiphany. And it's there we're tempted to sulk away from the laptop and drown our sorrows in fresh-baked cookies over a Netflix marathon.
But we need to press on.
Even if our imagination is so strapped that the best we can manage in the heat of a lover's quarrel mid-chapter is, "Please! I beg of you! Oh, please don't leave me!" Sow that cornfield, sister! Lay out that cheese, brother! (As I'm doing this very moment.)
It's all fixable, if we'll lay out the broken pieces.
Let those awkward scenes serve their purpose in getting us to The End.
Then let's keep a few tucked away. Not to remind us of our shortcomings, but our ability to overcome.
Your turn: What's your favorite animated movie, and have you watched the deleted scenes?


A few months ago I wrote a series of posts about early unconventional wells that appear to have been omitted from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Act 13 report, contrary to requirements.
Today I stumbled across another early Rhinestreet Shale well. According to Tarr (1980, p. 4), in November 1979, in the the northeastern portion of the Lake Erie shoreline the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (DER), the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Morgantown Energy Technology Center (METC) "completed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [COP], 3 DER Presque Isle State Park, Permit #ERI-20846 [now 37-049-20846] in the Devonian Shale interval 117-1247.5′. The well was bottomed at a total depth of 1276 ft in the Middle Devonian Onondaga Limestone. The well flowed 160 Mcfpd natural from the open hole. Reservoir pressure was 170# psig after being shut-in 33 days. Gas production was obtained from the interval 945-1040 ft in the Upper Devonian Rhinestreet Shale." In other words, this well qualifies an unconventional gas well under Act 13.
As of 1994, ERI-20846 was one of two gas wells in Presque Isle State Park, then known as the "Marina" well. According to a DER report, the Marina well was completed on October 10, 1979, at a depth of 1,276 feet. It was estimated to heat several buildings (marina, manager's home, and administration building) for 30 to 40 years. The DER provided $23,000 towards the $200,000 project. This well last reported production in 2006. It was not listed in the DEP's Act 13 report of spud unconventional gas wells.
The same report noted that the second well — the Beach #7 — was drilled in 1910 by the City of Erie at a depth of 3,572 feet. It was used to run machinery at waterworks park and later abandoned in the 1920s. However, the well was apparently not plugged.
In 1970, a black, foul-smelling surface discharge was reported in the Beach 7 well area. The discharge resulted in the release of hydrogen sulfide gas into the air and other hazardous substances into the soil and shallow ground water near the well. As the odors continued, DER uncovered the pavement overlying the discharge in 1979, and identified the well as the source of the discharge. The discharge was found to be emanating from a deep underground formation called the Bass Island formation.
From 1964 to 1971, over one-billion, ninety-million gallons of wood pulping wastes were injected into the Bass Island formation by the Hammermill Paper Company at wells located approximately four miles to the east of the Presque Isle State Park 7 well. An explanation is that the injected wood pulping wastes flowed along the Bass Island formation and surfaced at the Beach 7 well. [The] Beach 7 well was shut off and plugged in April 15, 1980 to 900 feet of the surface. At that time a substantial amount of gas was found near the surface that did have potential for use.
In September 1983, the Beach 7 well was placed on EPA's National Priorities List. The National Priorities List consists of hazardous sites across the country where cleanup need's are so serious as to warrant designation as a Superfund site. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as the "Superfund," was passed by Congress in 1980. The Act addresses the nationwide problem of uncontrolled hazardous sites.
In 1992, EPA delisted the well from the National Priorities List. Restoration work was done on the site.
So, according to this report, wastes injected into a disposal well four miles away traveled from the Bass Island Formation, (which is of Upper Silurian age, and thus, much older and stratigraphically lower than the Marcellus Formation), and a depth of 3,500+ feet, through numerous intervening formations, before finally migrating up the Beach #7 well, with a bottom depth of ~1300 feet. In other words, here is at least one example that suggests fracking fluids may be able to travel laterally and vertically without much difficulty!
The Montreal Protocol entered force in 1989 and was initially designed to phase out ozone depleting CFCs. It was later amended to also phase out the use of HCFCs.
In light of these discussion, I thought it might be worth re-considering the somewhat dated World GHG Emission Flow Chart below (which is based on data from 2000). Instead of depicting volumes of emissions on the right-hand side, if the chart were re-configured to weight emissions by GWP, things would look a lot different. In particular, CO2's share would fall dramatically, while the share for CH4 (i.e., methane, a.k.a. natural gas), HFCs, PFCs and SF6 would all grow significantly.
Pennsylvania State University (#46; 84 million KWh; 20% of electricity consumption).
The University of Pennsylvania had 24,599 total students (full-time and part-time combined) as of the Fall 2009. Extrapolating from the figures above, UPenn consumes approximately 420,503,333 KWh annually. That equates to 17,095 KWh per student.
Carnegie Mellon University had 11,443 total students as of the Fall 2009. Extrapolating from the figures above, CMU consumes approximately 115,786,667 KWh annually, or 10,119 KWh per student.
The Pennsylvania State University had 95,833 total students as of the Fall 2010. PSU consumes approximately 418,000,000 KWh annually, or 4,362 KWh per student.
Obviously, these are wide ranges and should be interpreted with care. Students are only one source of electricity demand on a college campus. Moreover, it is not clear whether the figures for Penn State on the EPA website are for just the University Park campus, or for all the Commonwealth Campuses (out of convenience I have assumed the latter). If instead, these figures are for University Park only, then PSU's electricity consumption for this campus only would jump to 9,493 KWh per student. Additionally, the Penn State University Park campus steam plant consumes about 7,500 tons of coal per year, and produces about 20,000 MWh per year, or 7% of the campus's electricity demand, as well as about 175 tons of steam per hour, which is used for heating campus buildings. To make an apples to apples comparison, this would also need to be factored in to the calculations.
The EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) are in the process of revising the fuel economy label that is required on all new cars and light-duty trucks sold in the U.S. Two prototypes — a horizontal and a vertical version — are the primary label designs under consideration.
Recently, Siegel + Gale, a leading strategic branding agency, completed user testing on both of the proposed label designs. Neither was perfect, but overall the horizontal label tested as more usable.
Last night I went to see GASLAND at the State Theatre (movie trailer below). As I was headed in for the 9:30pm showing, Penn State President Graham Spanier was headed out from the 7:00pm showing. I bring this up primarily in the interest of turning what is otherwise a bit of trivia into possible common knowledge. Now, we all know, that we all know, that President Spanier has seen the movie and therefore has some responsibility — as do the rest of us — for responding to the issues and challenges it raises. Knowledge is like that. Once you know something, you cannot go back.
The movie is excellent — provocative, heart wrenching, inspiring. And I heartily recommend that anyone living in the NY/NJ/PA watershed see the film. The film starts innocently enough. One day Josh Fox, the film's director, gets a contract in the mail, offering him some $100,000 for the mineral rights to his 19 acres of property in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He wonders what exactly is involved in drilling for natural gas and so he sets off to Dimock, where a number of wells had recently been completed. From there his journey takes him all across America — West Virginia, New York, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, etc.
Along the way he discovers that drilling leaves behind a wake of water and health problems. Some of the most poignant moments in the movie are scenes in which tap water is set on fire and others where water turned into plastic when heated because of the glycol ethers that have contaminated it.
If Gasland has a primary message it is that we need to repeal the "Haliburton Loophole" in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 05). This loophole effectively exempted natural gas drilling from the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Superfund Act. In the Q&A session afterwards, Josh Fox stressed that it is only because of these four exemptions that hydraulic fracturing is economically viable. Reinstate these regulations and there is a good chance "fracking" will go away, or at least be reigned in significantly.
The first step in this direction is the so-called FRAC Act (H.R. 2766: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act; S. 1215: Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act), which aims to repel the exemptions from the Safe Drinking Water Act. But of course, that still leaves fracking exempt from the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Superfund Act.
In addition to these obvious fixes, I found myself wondering why so few people seem to have made a connection between drilling and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). Of course at the federal level, fracking is exempt — because it is not among the industries regulated by the act. However, considering that natural gas wells use between 30,000 and 80,000 pounds of hazardous and/or toxic chemicals (based on the best estimates I can find), it seems that communities have the right to know this information. It would be easy for one of our congressional leaders to author legislation extending the EPCRA to cover oil and natural gas industries.
But even without such an extension, as best I can tell, natural gas drilling is NOT exempt from the Pennsylvania Worker and Community Right to Know Act (Act 159 of 1984). And considering the quantities of chemicals used, is probably also liable for reporting under the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard and the Pennsylvania Hazardous Material Emergency Planning and Response Act (Act 165 of 1990). And even though the Department of Environmental Protection claims the industry is bound by the Right to Know Act, I was unable to find satisfactory information on this issue. In fact, it appears they are not complying with this regulation.
Clean Air = Dirty Water?
The New York Times has just released another fantastic story in its "Toxic Waters" series. The article highlights some of the complexities involved when attempting to address externalities and the tragedy of the commons. The article also vividly illustrates how solutions to such externalities and commons problems often create new (presumably unintended) spillovers (on externalities and commons see Coase 1960; Hardin 1968; Dietz, Ostrom, Stern 2003, etc). In other words, we see how new framings rather than solving problems can actually set in motion a cascade of overflows (see Callon 1998, 2007, etc). In this case cleaner air comes at the expense of dirtier water, at least in part because the institutional arrangements (such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act) have been designed in ways that do not account for the interrelatedness of these dynamic processes.
For more on the issue of water pollution, see my earlier post here.
On the heels of my recent post about Toxic Waters, tomorrow's Wall Street Journal features a story about plans by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to tighten regulations on the quality of the wastewater discharged from coal-fired power plants. At issue are the toxins left behind from the scrubbing process used to remove the toxins from the air.
On Friday night I watched Frontline's "Poisoned Waters" (from Netflix via Roku), a two hour investigation by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Hedrick Smith into "the growing hazards of water pollution to human health and the ecosystem." The program was divided roughly into two segments: First, a look at Chesapeake Bay, and second, an investigation of Puget Sound. In addition to detailing issues specific to each location, both Chesapeake and Puget were "read" as microcosms of the much larger problem facing America's waterways.
Broadly speaking, the show highlighted two major issues: agricultural runoff and storm sewers. Technically speaking, both are considered "nonpoint source pollution" and susceptible to increased ambiguities in terms of measurement and accountability (as compared with "point source pollution"). On the issue of agricultural runoff specifically, The Washington Post described Frontline's interviews with Jim Perdue, chairman of Perdue Farms, and Bill Satterfield, spokesperson for the Delmarva Poultry Industry, as "the kind of verbal evasions that would twinkle a tobacco industry scientist's eye." I'm pretty sure that having yourself compared with tobacco "scientists" is never good. Frontline also noted the Clean Water Act's "citizen suit provision," which allows citizens to sue polluters and the government for enforcement failures.
Another point raised by the Frontline "Poisoned Waters" episode is the growing gap between the contaminants in use and those covered by regulations. In particular, Frontline discussed a study by the U.S. Geological Survey that tested the Potomac River for some 277 new contaminants NOT covered by the Clean Water Act. Overall, they found 85 contaminants. Of these, only about half of the compounds had safety guidelines. But Frontline also noted a second gap — this one between the contaminants in use and the contaminants capable of being detected. Not even the expanded list tested for by the USGS covers the range of contaminants potentially in use. In other words, here we see the possibility of externalities which are not yet capable of being externalized, let alone interalized.
According to the database, Pennsylvania is home to 8,654 regulated facilities. Here in the Centre County region where I live, most of the facilities have no reported violations. However, there were 6 facilities in the area with violations, which I have listed below, first, based on length of compliance failures (e.g., Cerro Metal has been out of compliance 11 of the past 12 quarters), and second, for those facilities not out of compliance, by the number of reported violations (e.g., Mid Centre County PDF has 37 violations, but is not out of compliance). As with Pennsylvania more broadly, NONE of these facilities has been fined for these violations. Again, these data are all from the New York Times website and based on EPA data for 2004-2007 inclusive.
Cerro Metal — 61 violations. This facility has been out of regulatory compliance 11 of the past 12 quarters.
University Area Joint Authority — 18 violations. This facility has been out of regulatory compliance 5 of the past 12 quarters.
Hanover Foods Corp WWTF — 57 violations. This facility has been out of regulatory compliance 3 of the past 12 quarters.
Mid Centre County PCF — 37 violations. This facility has not been out of compliance in the past 12 quarters.
Moshannon Valley Regional — 34 violations. This facility has been out of regulatory compliance 4 of the past 12 quarters.
Port Matilda Boro WWTF — 2 violations. This facility has not been out of compliance in the past 12 quarters.


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Q: gunicorn fails to launch flask server: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests' Flask server runs perfectly fine but when running it with gunicorn, it shows the following error:
[2020-07-08 14:58:33 +0000] [27561] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.0.4
[2020-07-08 14:58:33 +0000] [27561] [INFO] Listening at: http://172.20.31.202:5000 (27561)
[2020-07-08 14:58:33 +0000] [27561] [INFO] Using worker: sync
[2020-07-08 14:58:33 +0000] [27564] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 27564
[2020-07-08 14:58:34 +0000] [27564] [ERROR] Exception in worker process
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gunicorn/arbiter.py", line 583, in spawn_worker
    worker.init_process()
...
...
  File "/root/customer-account-automation/wsgi.py", line 7, in <module>
    from app import app as application
  File "/root/customer-account-automation/app.py", line 6, in <module>
    import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'
[2020-07-08 14:58:34 +0000] [27564] [INFO] Worker exiting (pid: 27564)
[2020-07-08 14:58:34 +0000] [27561] [INFO] Shutting down: Master
[2020-07-08 14:58:34 +0000] [27561] [INFO] Reason: Worker failed to boot.

I am not doubting the package installation because it already works with flask run.
This is the wsgi.py code
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import logging
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr)

from app import app as application
if __name == "__main__":
    application.run()

and the pipenv site-packages directory contains both requests and gunicorn as shown below:
(customer-account-automation) root@jsd-user-management:~/customer-account-automation# ll /root/.local/share/virtualenvs/customer-account-automation-gLS21FFx/lib/python3.7/site-packages/
...
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root   4096 Jul  8 15:14 gunicorn/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Jul  8 15:14 gunicorn-20.0.4.dist-info/
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Jul  8 14:39 requests/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Jul  8 14:39 requests-2.24.0.dist-info/
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   4096 Jul  8 14:39 requests_oauthlib/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Jul  8 14:39 requests_oauthlib-1.3.0.dist-info/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root   4096 Jul  8 14:39 requests_toolbelt/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Jul  8 14:39 requests_toolbelt-0.9.1.dist-info/
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What could be there that gunicorn fails to import Requests but flask run succeeds?
Could it be related to the pipenv?

A: It looks like the error is coming from a worker process. These will probably be opening subprocesses in python and may be calling the wrong version of python on your system - a version that doesn't have requests installed.
The config of gunicorn allows you to specify additions to the python path at runtime.
class PythonPath(Setting):
    name = "pythonpath"
    section = "Server Mechanics"
    cli = ["--pythonpath"]
    meta = "STRING"
    validator = validate_string
    default = None
    desc = """\
        A comma-separated list of directories to add to the Python path.
        e.g.
        ``'/home/djangoprojects/myproject,/home/python/mylibrary'``.
        """

You could try adding the location of the requests module when you run gunicorn. You can find where requests is by running pip show requests.
> pip show requests
Name: requests
Version: 2.23.0
...
Location: /root/.local/share/virtualenvs/customer-account-automation-gLS21FFx/lib/python3.7/site-packages/

Then append the location to whatever command you use for gunicorn:
gunicorn --pythonpath /root/.local/share/virtualenvs/customer-account-automation-gLS21FFx/lib/python3.7/site-packages/

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Welcome to the second part of our native building blocks series, where we showcase the 25+ elements publishers can request via PubNative's API and use as building blocks to create beautiful ads to seamlessly match the form and function of their apps. If you haven't discovered the first 5 elements yet, click here!
We are now casting light on the next 5 elements. We're eager to see how you will make use of them!
The category of the advertised app, which can be different from the one defined in the App Store. For instance PubNative offers more granularity for the general "games" category than the App Store does.
Description: The sub category of the advertised app, which can also be different from the one defined in the App Store (NB: in the App Store, only the general category for "Games" has sub categories).
Description: A neutral review text for the advertised app provided by PubNative's experienced editorial team. It can prove very useful if you want to integrate native advertising as a sponsored review into an app.
Description: Up to 3 positive "list style" review items for a sponsored app review.
Description: Up to 3 negative review items to add a "neutral" feel to the sponsored review, usually used together with the review pros.
As usual and for more inspiration, head to the "Integration Example" section of the Developer Portal.
Stay tuned for the next instalment of our Native Ads Building Blocks in the Spotlight series, where the next five elements will be unveiled!
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January. It's the time of year to challenge yourself 💪 and that's exactly what some of the folks at Student Beans did this week!
We decided to take on the Bear Gryll's Adventure to see just how tough we are (⚠warning: we're not).
Yeah this was a pretty intense day out! We were then taken onto an assault course that was fairly tough to say the least. Crawling under nets, climbing walls and shimmying down poles were definitely highlights.
This was my personal favourite part of the day (it was pretty chill). We all managed to hit the target and our fitness champ Rebecca absolutely smashed it with 5 bullseyes!
After we'd completed Base Camp and taken a well deserved little break, we headed onto iFly. This was definitely the most nerve-wracking experience. Taking a leap into the indoor wind tunnel got our adrenaline pumping as we got to experience the equivalent free fall time of three sky dives!


There's a part in one of my favorite films, Agnès Varda's The Gleaners and I, when she becomes obsessed with the idea of filming her own hands. In a documentary about people who harvest leftover crops from fields, dumpsters, and markets, this could seem tangential, but through Varda's eyes it becomes strikingly relevant, personal. She says, "I can with one hand, film the other one. I like the idea that one hand would always be gleaning, the other one always filming. I like very much the idea of the hands. The hands are the tools of the gleaners, you know. Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist."
I've had a complicated relationship with my own hands. Growing up, I was proud that I could reach an octave + 2 on the piano, but as I got older, I felt these double-jointed extremeties to be a little too large and unfeminine, oddly shaped and overly wrinkled, not to mention constantly cold. A few inconsiderate comments about them from a guy friend in college left me longing for the hands of a Victorian lady--small and smooth and delicate, or at least her gloves so I could hide my own big paws.
A palm reading by my friend Margaret helped me to come around. She pointed out my spatulate fingers, indicating wit and intellect, saw the intersecting lines and size as shape of my hands as those of a maker, an artist, a baker. She helped me to realize that they suit me and are important tools and carriers of memory.
Like Agnès Varda, I too am drawn to "the idea of the hands." They are storied entities, holding so much in their lines and wrinkles. You can tell so much about a person from their hands-- for a quite literal example, I think of the scene in Little Women when Professor Baier runs into Jo on the street. He says, "You know, when I first saw you I thought, 'ah, she is a writer."" When Jo asks how he knew, he points to the ink marks on her hands. My hands are the body part which bears most of my scars-- tissued memories of cleaning mortar off bricks at our old house, the unexplainable white line that helped me to remember my right from my left, the countless burns from baking and callused guitar string fingers. They're also the part of ourselves that we probably see the most, not through the lens of a photograph or mirror, but as they exist in the real world. Our hands are a constant presence in our field of vision. I could pick mine out of a line-up anywhere, but I could I do the same with my ankle? The back of my neck? I'm not so sure. They are such familiar agents and symbols of the self.
One of the most compelling things about baking for me is its tactile nature, of being able to bring something into existence, to shape it in my very hands in all of its stages. I'd been putting off making my own puff pastry for awhile. It seemed too daunting, too time consuming, too much butter (joke)! But some experiments in a wood-fired oven got me thinking about it again, and yesterday I found myself with the air conditioning back on in our house, a full day with nothing planned, and enough butter for the task, so the time was nigh.
For my first experimentation, I used Ashley Rodriguez of Not Without Salt's recipe for a puff pastry shortcut on Food52. It's not the full-on deal in which you work a butter packet into a flour packet, but it takes less time and effort has given me the confidence to go all the way next time. It also makes a BEAUTIFUL, puffed and buttery dough with thin flaky layer upon flaky layer. Maybe not quite as many as you'd get with the more time consuming method, but enough to make me give a little yelp of joy when I opened up the oven... and every time I've taken a bite.
I adapted a Martha Stewart recipe for an Apricot-Pistachio Tart into a White Nectarine-Frangipane (almond) Tart. This was largely because there were no apricots to be found at the farmers' market, and I happened to have a surplus of almonds at home, but you could really make this with any stone fruit (or apple or pear!) and any variety of nut. The beauty of this recipe's simplicity is that it opens up so much opportunity for variation. Put your hands and your imagination to work.
1. Prepare homemade puff pastry as per the directions. On a lightly floured surface, roll out and trim dough to a 17 X 9-inch rectangle. Transfer to a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet and chill in the fridge while you prepare the filling.
2. In the bowl of a food processor, pulse to combine 1 cup almonds and the granulated sugar. Add butter and process until a paste forms. Add the whole egg, vanilla, and salt and pulse to combine.
3. Remove pastry from the fridge and using an offset spatula, spread almond paste evenly over the dough, leaving a 3/4-inch border. Arrange nectarines in 3-4 vertical rows over the almond mixture, alternating direction in which the slices face. Fold in the edges of the dough and use your index finger to create a scalloped border. Refrigerate or freeze the tart until firm, about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
4. Whisk together egg yolk and cream and brush over the edges of the chilled tart shell. Chop remaining tablespoon of almonds and sprinkle them and turbinado sugar over the tart. Bake until the crust is deep golden brown and puffed, and fruit is juicy, about 35 minutes. Let cool.
5. Meanwhile, place jam and water in a small saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring, about 2 minutes. Pass through a fine sieve into a bowl and brush the glaze over the nectarines. Serve tart warm or at room temperature.
This looks so gorgeous. Frangipane is one of my weaknesses, and quick puff pastry makes this even more appealing. On Agnes Varda: I remember watching The Gleaners and I in my French film class. It made quite an impression on me. So much so that I joined a local network that gleaned for soup kitchens and such. It's a really fantastic film.


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Jiří Paroubek
Kauza Altner probouzí v sociálních demokratech bojovnost
Mirek Topolánek
Konec konzervativní politiky v Česku
KDU-ČSL
KSČM
Jiří Čunek
Poll: ČSSD leads in highly fractured political landscape
If parliamentary elections were held today, undecided and unaffiliated voters would decide the outcome, STEM says
Raymond Johnston 13.4.2011
Jiří Paroubek led the center-left Social Democrats until the May 2010 elections; the ČSSD is still the most popular party foto: (c)Ilustra, Česká pozice
A December poll by the Center for Empirical Studies (STEM) shows a divided Czech political scene in which it would be difficult for a bloc of left-wing or right-wing parties to garner enough support to form a government.
If an election for the Chamber of Deputies were held now, the center-left Social Democrats (ČSSD) would gain the most votes, some 28.5 percent, a drop of 0.03 percentage points from November, according to STEM.
The center-right Civic Democrats (ODS) lost even more ground, with support for the party dipping to 15.6 percent in December from 17.9 percent in the previous month. Upstart center-right party TOP 09 held steady at 14 percent, while support for the unreformed Communist Party (KSČM) rose 1.9 percentage points on the month to 11.1 percent in December.
The only other party to break the 5 percent threshold for representation in Parliament was another new party, Public Affairs (VV), with 5.1 percent, down from 5.7 percent in November.
But people saying they preferred no party — at 6.9 percent — scored higher than VV, and undecided voters were higher still at 7.6 percent. Both of these categories also increased since November, making it even more difficult to predict the outcome of an election if one were to be held today.
The Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL), the Greens (SZ), Sovereignty (Suverenita) and the Party of Civic Rights–Zemanovci (SPOZ) all failed to gain 5 percent and would have no seats to offer in forming a coalition government, the poll found.
Together, a coalition of the left-wing ČSSD and KSČM falls short of a majority, with 39.6 percent. The parties that comprise the current ruling coalition — ODS, TOP 09 and VV — add up to just 34.7 percent. Support even falls short for the ODS and ČSSD to gain a majority with a left-right "grand coalition" like they did for Prague City Hall. As a result, undecided voters and those who state a preference for no party would be the deciding factor.
Who to trust
A separate poll by the Public Opinion Research Center (CVVM) of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences released in November showed that people across the Czech Republic when asked what party they actually trust most often named the ČSSD. But when the categories of "very trustworthy" and "somewhat trustworthy" are added together, no party had a majority, and all parliamentary parties had higher overall scores for being "untrustworthy." Parliamentary parties had higher overall scores for being 'untrustworthy'
The ČSSD had 44 percent answering positively, while 52 percent said the party was "somewhat untrustworthy" and "very untrustworthy."
Two relatively new parties came in second and third in the poll. TOP 09 had a 41 percent favorable rating and 53 percent negative, while VV stood at 40 percent positive and 51 percent negative.
Of the five parliamentary parties ranked, the ODS and KSČM took up the last two places, with the ODS scoring 34 percent positively and 62 percent negatively, while the KSČM had only 25 percent seeing them as trustworthy and 69 percent seeing them as untrustworthy.
Higher scores for opposition parties
CVVM started polling on trustworthiness in 2003. The ČSSD holds the highest score of all parties with a 52 percent positive rating in October 2007 — during the ODS-led government of Mirek Topolánek. It is the only time a party had a majority favorable rating.
The ČSSD's lowest ranking, however, was a 30 percent positive rating in March 2005. This was during the ČSSD-led government of Stanislav Gross, who resigned in April 2005 over questions about the financing of his luxury flat. The ODS, conversely, scored its best during the Gross scandal, with a 42 percent positive rating. The KSČM has hovered near the bottom
The KSČM has hovered near the bottom with a low of 19 percent in June 2003 and a high of 29 percent in October 2007. The only time that the KSČM was not ranked last was September 2008 when the KDU-ČSL —which had been through a turbulent time including a scandal involving Jiří Čunek— beat them with a 23 percent positive rating.
The KDU-ČSL didn't pass the 5 percent vote threshold to enter Parliament in the May 2010 elections.
Faith in their own choices
When the results are broken down, voters find their choices to be most trustworthy, with all five current parliamentary parties scoring between 96 and 99 percent among their own supporters.
Right-wing voters also found other right-wing parties to be trustworthy. ODS voters, for example, gave the party a 96 percent rating, TOP 09 a 71 percent rating and VV a 58 percent rating. The left-wing parties — ČSSD and KSČM — came in 13 percent and 4 percent, respectively, as regards ODS supporters.
Supporters of the ČSSD ranked their party 97 percent trustworthy and Communists at 48 percent, while giving the ODS just a 4 percent rating. They rated TOP 09 at 10 percent and VV at 18 percent.
Raymond Johnston
ODS | ČSSD | TOP 09 | KSČM | STEM
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Teen in Apollo Beach rape case gets a rare life sentence
TAMPA — He held the gun. He had to be persuaded not to kill his two rape victims. The women considered him "the mean one," though he was just 13.
On Wednesday, a judge sent him to prison for life.
Jose Guadalupe Walle, now 15, may be the first U.S. prisoner in two decades to be written off so young for a crime in which no one died. Not since 1990 has a teen been sentenced to life without a chance of release for such acts committed before age 14, according to arguments four months ago before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Chet A. Tharpe predicted Walle would kill if he ever walked the streets again.
"I've taken your client's age into consideration," Tharpe told Walle's attorney. "And I will tell you that this is one of the most disturbing cases that I have ever come across in the 19 years I have been on the bench.
"Your client doesn't have a conscience. He has absolutely no regard for human life.
"If ever there was a case in which the community needs to be protected from someone that's a predator like your client," he said, "this is the case."
At 13, Walle was a runaway, a middle school dropout hanging out with gang members, a user of LSD, cocaine, Xanax, marijuana and alcohol. He befriended two men, Rigoberto Moron Martinez and Vicente Reyes-Carbajal, both now 22. Police say the three raped women in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.
According to a psychiatrist who evaluated him, Walle was intoxicated and had no memory of what happened in Apollo Beach on Aug. 16, 2008.
His victims cannot forget.
In court Wednesday, the women held hands and clutched notes with all the things they wanted to say. They had last seen him during the four-hour nightmare that started at the Docks Bar & Grill and ended when they were told to jump out of a van along Interstate 75.
Deputies say the three men covered the women's mouths with duct tape, kidnapped them in one of their cars and stopped on the dirt shoulder of Noonan Branch Road. They raped them, drove them to an ATM and a gas station and, finally, to a field, where the rapes continued.
"He was the one with the gun the majority of the time," one of the women said. "There was no doubt in my mind that he wanted to kill us.
"He chose to rob us. He chose to abduct us. He chose to rape me.
"My life will never be the same again. I have never, ever regained that sense of mental balance. I will never be able to not look over my shoulder, never be able to sleep sound through the night."
Walle has a third female victim. On Aug. 3, he aimed a gun at a duct-taped kitchen worker to keep him under control, prosecutors say, as Martinez stripped another employee and raped her on the kitchen floor.
Authorities determined evidence doesn't place Walle at the scene of a July home invasion and rape in Gibsonton.
The two other suspects await June trials.
Walle pleaded guilty to the offenses in both counties, which included a dozen armed sexual battery charges and four counts of armed kidnapping — more life felonies than years in his life.
In court Wednesday, defense attorney Darlene Calzon Barror asked the judge to match the sentence already imposed by the Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court for the St. Petersburg rape: 27 years.
"It at least allows for the defendant to have an opportunity to have a life, perhaps when he is 40 years old," she said.
Tharpe listened.
He heard Walle's parents talk about a good boy who played soccer but started rebelling in middle school. How they caught him smoking marijuana and took him to drug treatment and counseling. How they asked a juvenile court to punish their son, only to see him released.
Jose Walle Sr. said that when his son ran away, four months before the rapes, deputies said the boy would have to commit a crime to be found.
"They didn't care that he was 13 years old and he was out there on the street," said his mother, Karla Infante.
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...after a recent stay in the hospital, I have to give you guys props.
You have MILES upon miles of patience. No matter how irritating or unreasonable the patient is, you still smile and offer them service and act like it's your pleasure doing so.
I was a "fall risk" at one point during my stay, and was not allowed to go to the bathroom without assistance. Aside from the fact that my bladder is the size of a grain of rice, the doctors were ordering ridiculous amounts of IV fluids. As a result, I had to pee (literally) every five minutes.
And every time the nurse or assistant came to answer my call, they did it like it was the first time I'd pressed the call button (when it was really the fifth time in the hour).
I won't even get into the things they had to do for my roommate.
Has anyone noticed that, despite ongoing recalls by McNeil for Tylenol (and other) drug products, people still seek out these items?
Granted, the nature of some of the recalls were not due to bodily harm - just a funny smell - but after months of ongoing problems, you still insist on using the brand? Because it's...well, the brand??
Hopefully, I'll be posting more often. If not, well...tough.
My brother-in-law went to Dunkin' Donuts the other day and had a 50% off coupon for his order. The lady must have been new, because instead of taking 50%, she initially took off 50 cents. When he pointed out the error, she went to ask another employee how to take the 50% off.
She came back and pressed a few buttons, took the 50% off and BIL was on his merry way. Today, he showed us the receipt.
When I am browsing in the breakfast aisle at the grocery store, it's hard to concentrate when you walk back and forth with your pen and pad of sick lyrics and rap out loud.
I know you're a lyrical genius, and one day you will be discovered, blah blah blah. But not here. You will not be discovered for your ill flow in the middle of the grocery store! I know, I'm just another hater sippin' Hatorade.
So, please - just pick a frickin box of cereal and rap somewhere else.
This weekend I had the pleasure of donating blood at a local drive. They had trailors set up in the parking lot where the techs were working, and a registration table set up inside the lobby of the establishment who was hosting the blood drive.
Flash forward to me sitting in the lovely recliner in the trailor, as I'm being drained of the red stuff. A middle-aged woman starts her way up the stairs of the trailor and opens the door. A few words are exchanged between her and the technician, who pleasantly told her she needed to register and obtain the paperwork in the lobby first.
You would NOT believe the tantrum she threw. Out of nowhere, I hear SCREAMING! She was pissed because she didn't know where to go. "You guys really need to get your act together! I don't know where to go! Why don't you put some signs out! This is RIDICULOUS!"
Granted, I didn't know where to go when I pulled up in the parking lot either. But wouldn't common sense tell you to go inside of the shop who is sponsoring the event, and, I dunno...maybe ASK someone? Just sayin'.
These people...what has happened in their lives that they have to be so angry at the world? Chillax, people.
Have you ever noticed how tampon boxes report their absorbency?
The side of the box has the levels of absorption listed, but what gets me is how they are classified. For example, "Regular" is defined as 6-9g of fluid. What normal person knows how many grams of flow they have? I realize they need to define this in some measurable, quantifiable way, but is it really necessary to put it on the box? I don't stand there in the drug store and go, "Yeah, let's see...I shed 6-9grams of endometrial lining. That's about right!"
But then I got to thinking about my experiences in dealing with the public, and the ridiculous things that people will complain about. Some idiot probably called and complained that she bought the "Super" and it wasn't enough, or whatever. (Hi, do you not know when you're leaking?) So now, when you have an incident due to the failure of your feminine products, you'd better know your facts (in grams) before you go calling and blaming Tampon, Inc!
She politely went to check on his order and apologized. When she came back, she had his food in hand and the manager by her side, who comped a large portion of his carryout bill.
I sat there thinking to myself a number of things: a) I'm glad I gave her a tip; b) There are much nicer ways of inquiring about the wait time of your food; and c) Our culture has taught us that we are rewarded for acting like a shmuck. Whine and scream, be a little bit more pushy than you need to be, and people give you something to shut you up.
Last night, a group of about 5 girls in their late teens came in together. They were going back and forth between the condoms (which are in a locked cabinet) and the feminine products. I overheard them several times saying, "Just ask the pharmacist." Oh, joy.
They finally approached the counter and blurted, "We need seven tubes of KY Jelly!"
Uhmmm, sure let me get that for you.
"Don't worry, it's not what you think. We're going to a party."
That does not make me feel ANY better!
Either business at the store is really slow, or the people I work with are nuts.
"Well, I ate a dog bone today!"
"Yeah, Jess brought in some chocolate-covered dog biscuits and said that someone gave them to her daughter. I TOLD her they were for dogs, but she didn't believe me. So I ate one."