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New data protection rules have left many small businesses scratching their heads
Are you fed up of emails from businesses imploring you to stay on their mailing list?
Spare a thought for the small firms navigating the biggest shake-up in data protection rules in 20 years.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on Friday – to cut a long and complicated story short, the new laws tighten up how companies gather data about you and how they use it.
The new rules bring in multiple changes – including the need for "genuine consent" with "positive opt-in" – hence all the emails to anyone on a mailing list.
Sorai
M. Stella
M. Stella, founder of food company Sorai in Abergavenny, is one of those racing to make sure she is ready for the deadline.
"It's a struggle to digest the new law on GDPR. There is no one straight-forward free information platform where you can get advice and find out more about what you have to do," she said.
"As a small business it is not easy to hear about or find out about changes in laws and regulations as we do not have the capacity nor resources to look or delve on the matter. "
Ms Stella added that the authorities should have set up a support clinic for small business to attend and look specifically at their requirements.
Simply Bare
Media captionLeah Blanc says the data protection shake-up 'will be nightmare'
Leah Blanc is director of the Simply Bare salon in Cardiff. They have to take personal information from clients such as contact information, next of kin, and medical conditions.
She said she did not receive any warning or information about GDPR.
"It's been very stressful tricky and time consuming," she said.
"As we are a salon, we always email our clients their appointment confirmation as well as a reminder email the day before their appointment.
"I totally understand the benefits of GDPR, but just wish we had received more information about it.
"It is going to be a nightmare to implement, but we will get it done…it might take us a bit longer than big corporate companies but I think our customers will understand."
Chatterbox Comms
Rebecca Lees is creative director at PR consultancy Chatterbox Comms in Taffs Well near Cardiff. She attended a training session run by the Information Commissioner's Office, which she described as useful for a "broad overview".
"On the whole, though, it has been time consuming and also a little confusing, with different information from different sources," she said.
She identified another problem with GDPR – making her email stand out from all the others arriving in customers' inboxes.
"We've sent out two rounds of emails to everyone on our contacts list, asking them to opt back in, and we've had quite a good pick-up. One of our emails was a little unusual in that we imagined what Donald Trump might say if he were tweeting about GDPR, so hopefully that caught the eye."
Red Dragon Flagmakers
Jo Ashburner Farr, CEO of social enterprise Red Dragon Flagmakers in Swansea, said they have been heavily supported by the Wales Cooperative Centre which ran seminars on the new rules.
She is positive about the impact of GDPR on the business.
"This has been a good thing for us as we've been running a database of 10,000 subscribers with only about a 26% response on mailouts, so [it's been] a great opportunity to declutter…Working the other way we've seen a noticeable reduction in the amount of spam we get as a business."
A UK survey of 906 firms by the Federation of Small Businesses found only 8% had completed their preparations.
The new rules introduce the possibility of hefty fines for businesses if data falls into the wrong hands and they must report breaches.
However, the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has previously said she recognised some companies will need time to become fully compliant, and that they will look for "commitment" and not "perfection".
The changes have left many businesses scratching their heads – and on hold on the help line at the Information Commissioner's Office's (ICO), which has been "extremely busy".
About 23,000 organisations have called it since it was set up in November and a spokeswoman apologised to those who have had to wait longer than they would like to get through.
"With several million [small and medium-sized enterprises] in the UK, the quickest way for them to get help with their questions about data protection and the GDPR is to self-serve on the ICO's website where there is a series of frequently asked questions with answers.
It also recommended that businesses check if their trade body or sector association had produced any information to help them.
Ben Cottam, FSB Wales head of external affairs, said his organisation is getting hundreds of calls about GDPR.
"In the first instance the ICO should look for an approach that supports compliance rather than enforces compliance," he said.
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It needs space to stretch and stroll and wander to be creative. To be productive. Unfortunately, this fact is lost on many.


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Toni Preckwinkle Along With Family, Friends Of Women Shot And Killed While Going To Work Call For JusticeCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle joins the family of a woman lost to gun violence Friday to call for justice.
County To Spend $500,000 On New "Restorative Justice" Anti-Violence Program
Filed Under:Crime, Mike Krauser, Restorative Justice, Toni Preckwinkle, Violence Prevention
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle (at the microphone stand) and Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (left center, in dark blue jacket)) announce the county's $500,000 fund for "restorative justice" programs. (Credit: CBS)
CHICAGO (CBS) — Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle met with a group of anti-violence activists on the South Side on Wednesday, and announced the county would spend $500,000 on so-called "restorative justice" programs in an effort to help prevent ex-cons from going back to court or jail, and to curb violent crime.
Preckwinkle and Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D-7th) sat in a peace circle with activists and clergy at the Southsiders Together Organizing for Power (STOP) Peace Hub in the Woodlawn neighborhood, as they announced the new initiative.
Restorative justice, by definition, focuses on rehabilitating ex-offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community.
Garcia called the $500,000 fund a modest investment.
"It is about teaching young people a new culture of conflict-resolution," he said.
Activist Corey Mason said restorative justice focuses on communication.
"Restorative justice practices are ways in which we can mend these ills in our communities," he said.
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Preckwinkle conceded this is new territory for Cook County government.
"This is, frankly, a new initiative for the county. Our previous investments have been in courts and jails, and now we're trying to figure out how to invest in community organizations that will help us reduce our jail population to keep people from coming in," she said.
Brother Juan Acuña works with a church-based restorative justice program in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
"We organize reading circles with the mothers of victims, and perpetrators of violence, to help them deal with the pain and support them," he said.
Preckwinkle said they'll give the program a year, and try to figure out what worked and what didn't.
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Activists involved in restorative justice programs insisted they make a difference, and change lives for the better.

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In my humble opinion firefighters are the real unsung heroes in America since they risk their lives and limbs making daring rescues of humans and animals that are not going to be on the national news. Case in point is the story of a dog whose gender and name was not released for whatever reason who fell into a frozen pond in the 8200 block of Penn Avenue South on Wednesday. Even though we are in the spring at the moment, the ponds and lakes in the state of Minnesota are not safe to walk on whether it is a human or animal since think ice is a very dangerous venture for anyone to walk. The Bloomington Fire Department officials have had to use social media to warn people not to walk on lakes and ponds that have thin ice since the authorities might not be able to rescue every human or animal that takes the chance of risking life and limb by gambling with their lives walking on thin ice whether it is a pond or lake.
In my humble opinion firefighters are the real unsung heroes in America since they risk their lives and limbs making daring rescues of humans and animals that are not going to be on the national news.
Case in point is the story of a dog whose gender and name was not released for whatever reason who fell into a frozen pond in the 8200 block of Penn Avenue South on Wednesday.
Even though we are in the spring at the moment, the ponds and lakes in the state of Minnesota are not safe to walk on whether it is a human or animal since think ice is a very dangerous venture for anyone to walk.
The Bloomington Fire Department officials have had to use social media to warn people not to walk on lakes and ponds that have thin ice since the authorities might not be able to rescue every human or animal that takes the chance of risking life and limb by gambling with their lives walking on thin ice whether it is a pond or lake.
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Minyan Peter is discussing The Courage to Choose.
I believe that in time, historians will define the last twenty years in America as the "Age of Aspiration" where, thanks to unprecedented levels of credit, Americans could become anything they wanted. Where, thanks to zero percent down debt and a seemingly robust economy, we could own bigger homes, fancier cars, and more lavish vacations – where our bounty was limited only by the boldness of our wants.
Well, I, for one, believe that our Age of Aspiration is ending. And, with its conclusion, we must, for the first time in almost a generation, begin to reconcile our wants with our means. We must choose what to do without, rather than what more to do with.
So as we approach 2008, I wish the Minyanville community the wisdom to prioritize well, the courage to make the hard, and often painful, choices, and, most of all, the strength and conviction to follow through.
Peter is one of the best reads on the Ville. In case you missed it, please click on the above link and read his entire message about choices for 2008.
I certainly agree with Peter but would like to add that people are going to be forced to make choices whether they have the courage to make them or not. Where courage comes in is making the right choice, not a choice.
Let's take a look at some major choices.
Schwarzenegger will declare a fiscal emergency.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected next month to seek immediate major cuts in state services, including a plan to take back $1.4 billion budgeted for schools this year and a proposal to slash the prison population by releasing tens of thousands of inmates.
When the governor reveals the details of the cuts, the state's interest groups are "going to be squealing beyond belief," said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because budget discussions are confidential.
My comment: Interest groups can squeal all the want but choices still have to be made: cut services or raise taxes.
The official described Schwarzenegger's approach as: "Don't talk about taxes. Talk about services. Make the public say, 'I want the prison system funded. I want education funded.' He won't talk taxes until there is a consensus that these services are what the state wants."
My Comment: Schwarzenegger's choice seems to be to force the public to choose. Unfortunately both Schwarzenegger and the public chose irresponsibly when confronted with previous choices.
The governor's fight on education, which represents 40% of the budget, is likely to be fierce because school districts are still nursing the wounds of 2004, when the governor deferred pledges to restore education funding that they agreed to surrender.
Scott Plotkin, executive director of the California School Boards Assn., said his group will not agree to any cuts until the Legislature begins a discussion of increasing revenues through taxes. "This is too big a problem to be solved solely through cuts," Plotkin said. "We've been down this road before, and we got burned."
My Comment: So now the California School Boards Assn. does not trust the governor. This is what happens when you make promises that cannot be met. Interestingly enough one group will not consider spending cuts unless tax increases are discussed first, while another group will not discuss taxes unless all spending cuts are considered first.
In these kinds of situations, the choices are put off until the last moment and no one is happy with the result. Nonetheless choices must be made.
The governor's plan to cut $1.4 billion from this year's money for schools is based on new estimates of what is guaranteed under Proposition 98, a constitutional provision that determines the minimum of state revenues that must go to education. The formula is based partly on state revenues, which have plummeted since education funding was allocated last summer.
My Comment: California voters are going to be facing lots of choices about various propositions, many of which are downright silly such as $2.9 billion in affordable housing programs and $3 billion for general obligation bonds to fund stem cell research. Both are complete nonsense and a huge waste of taxpayer money. Getting rid of such waste should be the easy choices.
Kevin Gordon, a lobbyist for hundreds of school districts, said $1.4 billion is "almost insurmountable as a number for districts to really give up."
My Comment: It's a good thing he said almost insurmountable.
Cuts would inevitably fall heavily on the Los Angeles Unified School District, which, with about 700,000 students, receives about 13% of the state's education dollars. The school board was already weighing at least $100 million in cuts anticipated for next year. It also faces a restive teachers union, which is demanding raises.
My Comment: Ah yes, raises. The unpleasant choices here are: grant raises and raise taxes, grant raises but fire teachers and increase class size, don't grant raises and face a strike. When the strike comes, review the choices and make one.
The crisis is coming to a head and choices must be made. Arnold, it's your move. What's it gonna be?
I discussed Michigan recently in Why Michigan is a Basket Case. If you think Michigan's problems are all auto manufacturing related think again. Click on the above link to see Michigan's legislative process in action. It was an amazing set of choices they just made to rob Peter to pay Paul then Paul to pay Peter ending up accomplishing nothing.
There is a giant Credit Squeeze In Ohio.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said today that he and top advisers are working to stave off a money crunch that could jeopardize large capital projects on the horizon. Such projects, ranging from roads and bridges to developments such as Bob Stark's $1.5 billion plan for the Warehouse District, rely on the city's ability to borrow money.
Inquiring minds might also want to consider Maryland computer firms anxious over new tax.
"I'm being asked to levy a hefty tax on my clients, and the thing that really aggravates me is that Virginia computer companies won't impose this on their Maryland clients," said Matthew Shapiro, president of Rockville-based networking and integration firm Design One Corp. Shapiro doesn't want to physically move, but he does want to consult with a lawyer about setting up a subsidiary outside the state.
Hmm. There are choices and there are consequences to those choices. Imagine setting up subsidiary outside the state to avoid tax consequences of staying in the state. Who is the winner? I know who the losers are: anyone spending money to avoid taxes, and the state that loses the taxes.
The epicenter of real estate fallout has to be Florida. A 25 member committee is now addressing Florida Taxation and Budget Reform. Good luck with that.
This quick review clearly shows that Minyan Peter was spot on with his assessment that 2008 will be a year of choices: personal choices, household choices, city choices, state choices, and even national choices.
At the national level, a big presidential election is at stake, with consequences that can affect the US for decades to come.


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FEATURE: Aniwords – Competition Motivation in "Scorching Ping Pong Girls" & "Yuri!!! on ICE"
These two shows may be fire and ice, but they have something in common too!
Isaac Akers
December 20, 2016 8:05pm EST (12/20/16)
The fall 2016 season of anime brought with it a bounty of series for sports anime lovers, each with their own approach to the genre. We had Haikyu!!'s high-octane third season, March comes in like a lion's intensely introspective study of a young shogi genius, Long Riders' relaxed take, Yuri!!! on Ice's almost omnivorous genre leanings, and Scorching Ping Pong Girls' recognizable traditional structure.
Among all these, although not a logical match-up on the surface, I think Yuri!!! On ICE and Scorching Ping Pong Girls have some interesting similarities in the way they treat the competitors in their respective sports. Unlike some of the other sports anime airing this season, both Scorching Ping Pong Girls and Yuri!!! On ICE feature ensemble casts participating in individual sports (the one exception being the doubles match in Scorching Ping Pong Girls), something which allows them to highlight a number of different characters in isolation. Of course, given the size of their casts, neither show is able to go as deep with any character as something like March comes in like a lion is, but they do make efforts to give life to their characters beyond simple sketches of character archetypes by taking closer looks at their characters' reasons for competing.
Between the two shows, my favorite is the one that I think best accomplishes the goal of bringing its characters to life this way, but I think I'll keep that particular piece of information under wraps until a bit later. For now, let's take a look at each show and the ways they put their characters' motivations on display.
No matter how you look at it,Yuri!!! On ICE is an extremely busy show. With the prominent relationship between Yuri and Viktor sharing screentime with the Grand Prix and the individual narratives of the many other characters, there's relatively little time for anyone to really grab the lion's share of the story's limelight. There's one prominent exception to this rule, though—the skating performances themselves. For better or for worse, Yuri!!! On ICE is devoted to making sure each skater is given the opportunity to display both their skating and their stories to the audience (specifically, those of us watching the show). Unlike the in-show spectators, we the viewers of the anime are given the opportunity to not only watch the skaters display their prowess on the ice, but also to peek into their psyches and thoughts through the interior monologues and flashbacks that accompany each skater's performance.
At times, this structure has given us some truly intriguing insights into the interior lives of these professional athletes and performers. I think the first moment I really noticed this was in Yuri!!! On ICE's sixth episode during American skater Leo's performance. As with many of the skating routines throughout the show, Leo's is accompanied with a voiceover monologue in which he more or less spells out his philosophy on skating. In the midst of his reflections, he offers up a particularly memorable line—"It's a song I like, so I just want to skate the way I see the music." It's a teasing glimpse at a particular artistic philosophy, one that is quickly swept away as the routine ends and the next skater appears.
Another such moment that really captivated me came from the intrepid Canadian J.J. Because J.J. occupies a larger place in the story than Leo, he's afforded a bit more time to show who he is outside of his performances, but even so the interior monologue paired with his monstrous short program in episode 8 is enthralling thanks to his seemingly unlimited confidence and Mamoru Miyano's over-the-top articulation of his lines. In that moment, I couldn't help but be reminded of certain idol anime I've watched and of the overflowing passion the characters in them possess for simply bringing something wonderful to their audience.
These two personal favorite examples aside, nearly every performance since Yuri!!! On ICE turned its attention to the international competitions has been marked with the same kind efforts to give each skater their due. From the powerful (if a bit weird) farewell performance from Michele Crispino to his sister Sala to the colorful imagery of Guang-hong's mobster story program, each time a skater takes this ice is a new exploration into a new character for us. Unfortunately, I'm of the opinion that the number of personas and motivations Yuri!!! On ICE tries to juggle means that none of them, even the titular Yuri, really get the chance fully be expressed as either characters or skaters, but I do appreciate that we at least get peeks into these fascinating interior worlds.
In contrast to the cool skimming of characters in Yuri!!! On ICE, Scorching Ping Pong Girls is a show that gleefully dives deep into the heated passions, however small, of its characters. While the latter show makes use of many of the same basic techniques that Yuri!!! On ICE does (flashbacks, interior monologues) to tell us about its characters, it does so in a more vividly personal way—which is why I think Scorching Ping Pong Girls is ultimately more effective at consistently creating a link the audience can feel between the characters' lives and their ping pong.
The key factor here is that Scorching Ping Pong Girls seems to prefer to use vignettes rather than montages when building our understanding of its characters. While not all the members of the Suzumegahara and Mozuyami clubs get the same depth of treatment, self-contained stories like the beginning of Hokuto and Hanabi's friendship or Kururi and Zakuro's bond take time away from the action of the matches to invite the audience to invest in the characters—and then tap into that established investment when it comes time for a match. Even Agari's arc in the opening episodes of the show as she overcomes her jealousy of Koyori functions in a similar way, drawing a clear connection from an emotional piece of character work back to the sport itself.
And so, because Scorching Ping Pong Girls is so intentional about laying the emotional groundwork for many of its characters' motivations first, their matches against each other are able to pull the viewer in at two levels. First, thanks to the fun shonen-styled powers of each player, the games work well as exciting bouts of strategy. Second, they can tie the stakes of the sport itself into each character's emotional stakes in the match. Each game thus becomes more than a question of who will win and who will lose in a sporting sense, but are also explicitly personal affairs that work because the audience knows going in what the match means to the character.
In the end, I suppose you could chalk up Scorching Ping Pong Girls' success to the show's unabashed appeals to the sentimental.The match is just the beginning. Following each one friendships are solidified, life lessons are learned, comfort given. Rather than being an end in itself, the sport becomes the means by which the arcs of each character are driven to conclusion. Of course, it helps that the matches are also riotously fun affairs that lean into visual metaphors and a whole lot of excited shouting across the ping pong table to bring everything to a fever pitch of excitement and, ultimately, emotional release.
If you've gotten this far, you can probably tell that I personally prefer the approach and execution of Scorching Ping Pong Girls over that of Yuri!!! On ICE, but I think it's a lot of fun to see how both use similar techniques to try and achieve the same goal of investing the audience in their characters. I have a sneaking suspicion that the overlap in audiences for these two shows is a rather small pool, so I hope that for those of you who have only seen one of these two shows, this was a fun look across the pond at an anime that shares some similarities with a show you like, even if it doesn't appeal to you personally.
Isaac eases his compulsive need to write about anime on his blog, Mage in a Barrel. He also sometimes hangs out on Tumblr, where he mainly posts his drawing practice as he seeks to become a renowned idol and robot fanartist. You can follow him on Twitter at @iblessall or on Facebook.
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Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 19:30
Where: St Peter's Church, Church Road, Earley
Christmas Eve Carolling
Date: Friday, December 24, 2010 at 20:00
Where: Pangbourne.
Details: In the local pubs.
Forbury Gardens
Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 15:00
Where: Forbury Gardens Reading
Details: Playing as part of the summer season on the Forbury Gardens Bandstand. Start at 3pm and finish at 4:30pm.
Sulham Fete
Date: Saturday, August 06, 2011 at 14:00
Where: Sulham House, near Pangbourne
Details: Fete at Sulham House near Pangbourne. Traditional fete in the gardens of Sulham House. A marquee will be provided for shelter.
Date: Sunday, August 07, 2011 at 15:00
Where: Victoria Park, Newbury
Details: Playing on the bandstand in Victoria Park from 3pm to 4:30pm.
Band Tour
Date: Friday, August 26, 2011 at :
Where: Paris
Details: 26th to 30th August. Band tour to Paris and Houdan with possibility of playing at Disneyland Paris!
Ufton Nervet Fête
Date: Saturday, September 01, 2012 at 12:00
Where: Island Farm Road, Ufton Nervet RG7 4ES
Details: The band will be playing from 12 noon until 2.45pm.
The Old Boot
Date: Sunday, September 09, 2012 at 13:00
Where: The Old Boot Inn, Stanford Dingley RG7 6LT
Details: Music for a Sunday Lunchtime, in the pub garden.
The Elephant Hotel 'Beer Stampede'
Where: The Elephant Hotel, Church Road, Pangbourne RG8 7AR
Details: The band will be opening the local beer festival: the 'Beer Stampede' at the Elephant Hotel in Pangbourne.
Golden Jubilee Grand Concert
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 19:30
Where: Bradfield College, RG7 6AU
Details: Celebrating fifty years of music-making by the Pangbourne Band.
The Elephant Beer Stampede
Date: Sunday, August 25, 2013 at :
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: St Michael's Church, SONNING COMMON
Christmas Carol Concert
Where: St Bartholomew's Church, LOWER BASILDON
Date: Sunday, December 08, 2013 at 17:30
Lunchtime Concert
Where: Stanford Dingley
Details: The Old Boot
Where: Reading
Details: Brock Barracks
Challenging Brass Entertainment Contest
Date: Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 14:00
Details: Addlestone Community Centre
Friends of Pangbourne Primary School Fireworks
Details: Entertaining the crowds at the FOPPS fireworks party.
Reading Bandstand
Where: The Forbury Gardens, Reading
Details: The band will be performing at the Reading Bandstand in The Forbury Gardens, Reading
Newbury Bandstand
Details: The Band will be performing at the Bandstand in Victoria Park Newbury.
Henley On Thames bandstand
Details: The Band will be performing on the Bandstand in Henley On Thames in Mill Meadows
Concert At Lower Earley
Where: Trinity Church Lower Earley
Details: The band will be performing a concert of music at the Trinity Church in Lower Earley
Challenging Brass
Where: Addlestone Community Centre, KT15 2NJ
Details: The band will be competing in the Challenging Brass contest at the Community Centre in Addlestone
Pangbourne Fireworks Display
Where: Pangbourne Primary School
Details: The Band will be playing at the Pangbourne Fireworks display at the Pangbourne Primary School Exact Time to be confirmed
Christmas Concert at St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Basildon
Details: The Band will be play for the Christmas Concert at St Bartholomew's Church in Lower Basildon
Christmas Market - in The Barn at Purley
Date: Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 14:00
Details: The band will be entertaining the crowds with carols at the Christmas Marking in The Barn in Purley Exact time to be confirmed
Carol Service in The Comradea Club Wallingford
Date: Saturday, December 09, 2017 at 19:30
Where: The Comrades Club in Wallingford
Details: The band will be providing the music for the carol service at The Comrades Club in Wallingford
Carol Service at Reading Golf Club
Where: Reading Golf Club
Details: The band will be providing the music for the carol service at Reading Golf Club
Carols in Theale
Where: Pubs in Theale ending up in The Volunteer
Details: The band will be visit pubs in Theale to play carols and will end up in The Volunteer from 21:00
Details: The band will provide music for a private wedding
Christmas Concert at St Michael's Church, Sonning Common
Details: The band will perform in it's annual Christmas concert at St Michael's Church in Sonning Common
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Q: Which is preferable in a compound model: Monte Carlo simulation or normal approximation? I have a random variable $Y$ defined as a sum of identical Exponential random variables.  The number of those Exponential random variables is Poisson.  So $Y$ has finite mean and variance.
I have simulated $2000$ values of $Y$.
I am now estimating $P[Y<3000]$.
Which would give me a better estimation: a normal approximation or just using the simulated values?
In other words, I'm thinking of
Normal Approximation: $$P[Z<\frac{(3000 - \text{ sample mean })}{(\text{ sample standard deviation })}]$$
Simulated values: $\dfrac{\text{sum}(Y < 3000)}{2000}$ (summing over the 2000 simulated values)
I thought that increasing the number of simulated values would be best, so that $Y$ gets closer to a normal distribution by the Central Limit Theorem. But I cannot concretely say why that would be better.
Edit: Given that we have a Poisson and Exponential we can compute the real value of the mean and standard deviation.  Perhaps it is these values that should go into the normal approximation instead of the sample mean and variance.

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Q: In Xcode 9.2, In simulator, iPhone's screen shows just blacked out screen I have my ViewController our right side and iPhone 7 simulator running the same program on the right hand Side bottom.
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   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
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MondoCommand
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.. toctree::
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import { useEffect } from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import isEmpty from 'lodash/isEmpty';
import useRouter from 'utils/router';
import reducerRegistry from 'redux/registry';

import { decodeQueryParams, encodeQueryParams } from 'utils/url';

import * as actions from './actions';
import reducers, { initialState } from './reducers';

const getLocationFromParams = (url, params, asPath) => {
  if (url?.includes('[[...location]]')) {
    const type =
      asPath === '/map' || asPath === '/map/' || asPath?.includes('/map/?')
        ? 'global'
        : params?.location?.[0];
    const adm0 = params?.location?.[1];
    const adm1 = params?.location?.[2];
    const adm2 = params?.location?.[3];

    return {
      type,
      adm0: isNaN(adm0) ? adm0 : parseInt(adm0, 10),
      adm1: isNaN(adm1) ? adm1 : parseInt(adm1, 10),
      adm2: isNaN(adm2) ? adm2 : parseInt(adm2, 10),
    };
  }

  const location =
    params &&
    Object.keys(params).reduce((obj, key) => {
      if (url?.includes(`[${key}]`)) {
        return {
          ...obj,
          [key]: params[key],
        };
      }

      return obj;
    }, {});

  return location;
};

const buildNewLocation = () => {
  const { query, pathname, asPath } = useRouter();
  const search = encodeQueryParams(query);
  const decodedQuery = query && decodeQueryParams(query);
  const location =
    decodedQuery && getLocationFromParams(pathname, decodedQuery, asPath);

  return {
    pathname,
    payload: location,
    search,
    ...(!isEmpty(decodedQuery) && { query: decodedQuery }),
  };
};

const LocationProvider = ({ setLocation }) => {
  const { events } = useRouter();

  const handleRouteChange = () => {
    const newLocation = buildNewLocation();
    setLocation(newLocation);
  };

  useEffect(() => {
    handleRouteChange();

    if (events) {
      events.on('routeChangeComplete', () => handleRouteChange());

      return () => {
        events.off('routeChangeComplete');
      };
    }

    return null;
  }, []);

  return null;
};

LocationProvider.propTypes = {
  setLocation: PropTypes.func,
  setMapSettings: PropTypes.func,
  setMainMapSettings: PropTypes.func,
  setMenuSettings: PropTypes.func,
  setAnalysisSettings: PropTypes.func,
  urlParams: PropTypes.object,
};

export const reduxModule = {
  actions,
  reducers,
  initialState,
};

reducerRegistry.registerModule('location', {
  actions,
  reducers,
  initialState,
});

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As far back as I can remember I was always sewing something. I think I was born with "busy hands". So it was inevitable that over time I would find my way to quilt making.
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Albert D. Roll
Monday 12/19, 3:00 pm
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Albert D. Roll, 83, of Economy Borough, formerly of Monaca, passed away peacefully at his residence on Thursday evening, December 15, 2016.Born May 2, 1933, in Beaver, the son of the late Albert C. and Beatrice (Dunbar) Roll. Following graduation from Beaver High School, Albert entered the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict in 1953. While stationed at Camp Drum in New York, he met the former Helen M. Willard to whom he was united in marriage on May 1, 1955.He retired from LTV Steel Corp. as a supervisor after 42 years of service. He was a member of Four Mile Presbyterian Church in Brighton Township where he was active in several church groups including LOGOS, Table Parents and the Grandparents Circle. He loved to fish and travel on vacations with his favorite destination being Montana. Albert was a life member of the Monaca Turners and a past member of the American Legion Post #580. Above all, he was a dedicated husband and father.
In addition to his wife of 61 years, he is survived by his daughter, Becky (Terry) Frank and two sons, Gregory (Tina) Roll and Mark Roll; his granddaughter, Hayley Roll who was the light of his life, and two sisters, Beatrice (Richard) Cooper and Shirley Bertram.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three sisters, Thelma Edmiston, Verna Roll and Billie Bradshaw.The family would like to thank the staff of Hearts 2-Gether Homes for their kindness, friendship and dedication in helping to make dad feel loved and at home. The family would also like to thank Gateway Hospice for their care and compassion.
The family will receive friends on Monday, December 19th from 3 to 7 p.m. in the SIMPSON FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICES, 1119 Washington Ave., Monaca, (724) 728-4000, where his funeral service will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. with Linda McKenzie, Gateway Hospice chaplain officiating. Burial will take place at a later date in Sylvania Hills.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions made be made, if desired, to the Beaver County Humane Society, 3394 Brodhead Road, Center Township, PA 15001.


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John Lewis, Sainsbury's and a district council are among the 30 organisations that have signed up to the DVSA's Earned Recognition Pilot. Participating organisations will start to benefit from this new initiative to recognise safe and responsible vehicle operators so that the authorities can focus their efforts on non-compliant operators.
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Who would yesterday's managers manage today?
Through the years, there were a number of Superstars who employed the services of a manager to help guide their careers, and more times than none, those careers produced great dividends for themselves as well as their mentors. ( WATCH VIDEO PLAYLIST)
The role of the wrestling manager is no longer a constant thread of today's WWE fabric. Knowing the caliber of Superstars that are currently competing, I thought I would get hypothetical and hook up some of the ring's most legendary managers with whom I think they would want to represent from the current crop of WWE Superstars.
Slick: Brodus Clay
He was flamboyant to a fault, and he knew it. But once the WWE Universe got to see what Slick brought to the table, they found that beneath the guise of the self-proclaimed "Doctor of Style" was a theory that bigger was better. Although he guided many Superstars to victory, Slick's greatest managerial success was when he combined the forces of The Big Boss Man and Akeem to form the tag team The Twin Towers. Individually they got the job done, but collectively they were a very impressive duo, battling the likes of The Mega Powers — Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.
( WATCH SLICK INTRODUCE AKEEM)
Knowing how Slick was able to get the best out of the big men, it seems only logical that he would manage Brodus Clay. The Funkasaurus has all of the attributes that are right up Slickster's alley, and plenty of positive damage could be done with a merger of style and funk between these two.
( MORE SLICK | MORE BRODUS)
Captain Lou Albano: Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel
There was arguably no better manager in the industry when it came to taking two individuals, putting them together and making tag team magic. Thus, the name of "The Guiding Light" was affixed to WWE Hall of Famer Captain Lou Albano. Although he did have great success managing individual competitors, Albano's specialty was tag teams.
( WATCH CAPTAIN LOU MANAGE THE BULLDOGS TO THE TAG TITLES AT WRESTLEMANIA)
That being said, Captain Lou would make a beeline toward the exciting duo of Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel. In these two, you could find some similarities to another Albano-managed duo, The British Bulldogs. Young, upstart and skillful could describe both the Bulldogs and the Kidd & Gabriel tandems. The speed and finesse that Kidd & Gabriel employ would be augmented by the savvy that only the Captain could provide.
( MORE CAPTAIN LOU | MORE TYSON KIDD | MORE JUSTIN GABRIEL)
"Classy" Freddie Blassie: Antonio Cesaro
One of the top in-ring competitors of his era, the self-proclaimed "Hollywood Fashion Plate" parlayed that into becoming one of the shrewdest mangers of all time. When WWE Hall of Famer "Classy" Freddie Blassie scouted someone to add to his stable, he knew exactly the whos, the whats and the whys of his choice. Add to that the unlimited amount of money he had to spend to acquire that special grappler, and Blassie always got his man.
( WATCH MR. MCMAHON INTERVIEW "CLASSY" FREDDIE BLASSIE)
One Superstar Blassie would be successful in wooing to his stable is Antonio Cesaro. The current United States Champion is an extremely polished competitor who has the savoir-faire to succeed, but he would reach unlimited heights with the "Classy" one by his side. Knowing Blassie's penchant for winning at any cost, if The Swiss Sensation were to take a few doses of Blassie's "aggression medicine," the sky would no doubt be the limit for the Cesaro.
( MORE BLASSIE | MORE CESARO)
Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: Dolph Ziggler
There was no one like WWE Hall of Famer Bobby Heenan. No one! He did not receive the moniker of "The Brain" by just lounging around. If a Superstar made it into The Heenan Family, you knew Bobby would take that performer's abilities and augment them with "The Brain's" expertise, turning them into a championship caliber competitor.
( WATCH "THE BRAIN" MANAGE RICK RUDE AGAINST ULTIMATE WARRIOR)
If Heenan was able to choose a current WWE Superstar for inclusion into the Family, Dolph Ziggler perfectly fits the bill! And The Showoff feels positive vibes on it!
"Heenan's awesome in every aspect," Ziggler proclaimed. "He's one of my favorites of all time because I appreciate that kind of jack-of-all-trades performer. He can talk on the mic, he can manage, he can take people to the top; he can do it all." Mr. Money in the Bank continued, "I see myself as someone like that. So us teamed together would honestly be an unstoppable team because we both want to be better than everyone else and we would both back it up every single night."
( MORE HEENAN | MORE ZIGGLER)
Arnold Skaaland: John Cena
WWE Hall of Famer Arnold Skaaland was one of the smartest competitors ever to put on a pair of tights. A no-nonsense individual, what you saw was what you got with Skaaland, both in and out of the ring. After transitioning into a managerial career, The Golden Boy only had aspirations for two individuals — Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund — both WWE Champions during that respective time of his WWE tenure.
( WATCH SKAALAND MANAGE BACKLUND TO THE WWE CHAMPIONSHIP)
If Skaaland wanted to make it a managerial trifecta, John Cena would be his man. And let's face it, for an individual with the hectic schedule that Cena maintains, Skaaland would be tailor made for him. The years of experience that Skaaland would bring to the table combined with Cena's passion for sports-entertainment would make this pairing a win-win!
( MORE SKAALAND | MORE CENA)
Jimmy Hart: Heath Slater
This one is a no-brainer. Throughout his managerial tenure, The Mouth of the South gained success after success with the Superstars he represented. Notwithstanding the stable he put together, WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Hart's greatest managerial association was with the man who called himself "the greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time," The Honky Tonk Man. There was always a very good line of communication between Hart and Honky, who was one of the original complete packages of wrestling and entertainment.
( WATCH JIMMY HART MANAGE THE HONKY TONK MAN TO THE INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE)
Heath Slater is a "gimme" selection for Jimmy. Slater has all the skills inside the squared circle to continue his upward trek. But if The One-Man Band ever forged an association with The Mouth of the South, Hart would know how to press all the right buttons, and make Slater even more entertaining than ever — a true collaboration of making sweet music together.
( MORE JIMMY HART | MORE SLATER)
The Grand Wizard: Damien Sandow
A brilliant, well-spoken man, WWE Hall of Famer The Grand Wizard was in a class by himself from a managerial standpoint. He was of the volition that he managed his protégés wisely, never putting himself ahead of his talent. He knew, though, that anyone he represented was going to elicit results.
( WATCH MR. MCMAHON INTERVIEW THE GRAND WIZARD)
On the current WWE roster, the Wizard would select Damien Sandow without hesitation. "The Intellectual Savior of the Masses," whose stock is currently in "buy" mode, would be the perfect choice. Smart and intelligent from both a wrestling and vocal standpoint, Sandow's strengths would fit the Wizard like a glove. The loyalty factor between the two would be unbreakable, and the managerial union of The Grand Wizard and Damien Sandow definitely is a "made for each other" situation.
( MORE GRAND WIZARD | MORE SANDOW)
Sensational Sherri: Daniel Bryan
When thrust into the role of a manager, WWE Hall of Famer Sherri Martel knew how to be sweet and sinister, and could change those moods in a nanosecond. Gaining her greatest notoriety in her WWE tenure by managing Shawn Michaels in his early Heartbreak Kid days and the then–"Macho King" Randy Savage, the Sensational one represented her protégés well. And she was fiercely loyal to both of them.
( WATCH SHERRI WITH "MACHO KING")
If Sherri were to select someone from today's crop of WWE Superstars that could bring her a managerial sense of déjà vu, Daniel Bryan would be her meal ticket. In Bryan, Sherri would represent an individual who is not only an extremely gifted athlete with his mat savvy, but also someone she can exhort to taking short cuts when necessary. And Sherri would no doubt do her part at ringside to accentuate the team effort. This pairing might not look good on paper, but chemistry sometimes works in strange ways. This would be a most interesting manager-protégé combination.
( MORE SHERRI | MORE BRYAN)
Which manager-Superstar pairing do you think would be most successful? Vote now!
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Versailles Season 2: Review
December 3, 2017 Libertas 2 Comments
Louis XIV, his mindset, his methods of wielding power, and the way he governed his country, have been frequent topics for discussion here. His memoirs are an excellent read, full of practical advice for self-conduct and leadership. Their psychological insight into power over yourself and others is the most fascinating thing about them.
Last year, we saw the airing of a new historical drama, Versailles, set in the court of Louis XIV. The first season centered on Louis' establishing Versailles as the new center of power in France, getting the nobles to come there, and trapping them in the gilded cage. There came of course, a ton of intrigue with this move, but the first season stalled at times. Sometimes it felt like there was a lack of direction, even though the acting and staging was all excellent. Still, it lacked something that would make it truly excellent to a general audience, rather than just people interested in the period.
That wasn't the case at all this year, as Versailles season 2 fired on all cylinders for all 10 of its episodes. The progression of the season was direct and focused, dealing with the infamous Affair of the Poisons in the 1670s. In Versailles, we are shown a palace that, despite its beautiful facade, is rotting from within. In the first episode, Louis' minister of justice is poisoned, and things go downhill from there.
The poisonings continue throughout the season and Louis grows increasingly distressed as his beloved Versailles turns more and more into a hell, as he and his people seem to be powerless to stop them. The Affair of the Poisons is far from his only problem, however, as the Franco-Dutch War is raging in the Low Countries. Things look to be going well at first, and the king wishes to take part in the proceedings, partly to establish his presence and increase his reputation, but partly also to escape the gloom that has descended on Versailles.
His trip northward wouldn't be the reprieve he was hoping for. Reliant on England's fleet for assistance, that piece of the puzzle went out the window, as the Dutch fleet sent it packing.
Things got even worse from there, because as if Versailles couldn't be bad enough with all the poisons in it, there was a Dutch spy in its midst, who was none other than Louis' official historian. As such, William of Orange (the future William III of England) knew the French strategies before the armies met, and great a leader as Louis XIV was, he was no general. So the mid-point of Versailles' second season shows the great king defeated both at home and abroad. His armies were losing ground and he was losing control of his court. The Sun King had descended below the horizon, into katabasis.
The second season of Versailles was all about descent and redemption for Louis. The imagery of Christ throughout the season, particularly its closing episodes, was well-placed, not only for the Biblical parallel, but because Louis grew more religious as his reign went on. His increasing religious devotion would wind up being the key to solving the crisis and saving his hold on power in Versailles season 2, as at the low point, after suffering a defeat at the hands of William of Orange, the two rulers met, and for once, Louis was dealing with an equal in rank. He at first didn't seem to acquit himself well. William revealed that he knew everything that was going on at Versailles, from the poisonings to his personal activities, including his relationship with his mistress, the Marquise de Montespan. Taunting Louis with how much power she had over him, he declared that she was the one he should be negotiating with, not him. This caused him much distress.
The scenes between Louis and William were the best of the second season and of the entire series so far, showing the King of France in a light very different from the character he normally put on for his court. As you might expect, that was his rock bottom. Haunted, he had a terrible nightmare, where Montespan was a demon sucking him into darkness, but suddenly, he turned around to see the light – a crucifix.
Seeing this as a sign from God, Louis found his confidence again and went back home to right the ship, starting with himself.
Personnel is Policy
In the second season of Versailles, we see that first hand. Politics and governing is done by people. We haven't yet reached the point where computers and robots do everything for us like in Masamune Shirow's Black Magic (I fear when we do). Instead, our "moist robot" brains do that, and that means we're more susceptible to cognitive biases than we are rational beings. Louis certainly was that this season.
The war and the Affair of the Poisons all marred him, but his biggest enemy was himself and who he let near him. Louis' descent came largely because he cut himself off from his truest friends and supporters and slowly began to enmesh himself with his enemies, whose iron fists were hidden in velvet gloves.
Louis dismissed his police chief Fabian Marchal, while others that were close to him and actually cared for his interests, including his brother Philippe, Queen Marie-Therese, and his valet Bontemps, saw their influence wane. In their place came those who were against him or otherwise predisposed, most notably of all Montespan, who would do anything to stay in his bed, whether or not it harmed him. She would influence him to make one bad decision after another, and as the season came to a close, showed how depraved she was in her obsession to remain his mistress by agreeing to take part in a Satanic ritual – the infamous black mass, with a baby to be sacrificed.
It was when Louis returned from Holland and began to distance himself from Montespan that he began to recover, declaring that she had blinded him to his true purpose.
When Montespan left his bed, he communed with his duties, held himself more accountable to God, and renewed his confidence in his true supporters, including bringing Marchal back into his service. This in turn would eventually unravel the conspirators in the Affair of the Poisons, uncover the ringleaders involved – a Satanic priest (Etienne Gibourg, who was a real person) and a fortune telling sorceress who was the supplier of the poisons to Versailles.
In his memoirs, Louis warned his son that "an artful woman" would attempt to divide her lover from his supporters and make it so that "she alone and her friends are listened to." It was nice to see these warnings being brought to life in the season.
The Poetic End
When the sorceress' plans failed and she was burned at the stake at the end of the season, she exhorted the people to stand up against the Sun King and his vanity, warning him that his time was coming, that a tide would come that would sweep him away, that Versailles was built on a weak facade, and that he and his spawn would be cursed.
All of this turned out to be true, the sorceress was just off in her timing by about 120 years.
Montespan and the sorceress Agathe
There are some historical errors. Louis XIV was never as influenced by Montespan as the show portrayed him, and to my knowledge, he never met William in person. Other, lesser errors were found also, but that's to be expected in a show whose primary purpose is entertaining its audience. I was impressed with the second season. If you're interested in the time period, or the mechanisms of power, persuasion, and leadership, it's worth a watch.
Read Stumped to learn more about making an impression on people's minds.
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CNN report: Firms that broke the law still get stimulus money
Tina Grady Barbaccia
The federal stimulus program is funding roadway construction in many Massachusetts towns.
But more than one-half of the companies that have received taxpayer dollars to perform the work have a history of breaking the law.
According to an investigation by Boston University's New England Center for Investigative Reporting, more than half the companies given stimulus contracts have histories of defrauding taxpayers, CNN reports.
Using funds from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Massachusetts Highway Division has awarded nearly $54 million in contracts for highway improvements, according to the CNN report.
Saugus, Mass.-based Aggregate Industries Northeast Inc. — one of the largest producers of aggregate, asphalt and ready-mixed concrete in New England — was awarded two stimulus contracts totaling $8.9 million for roadwork in the state, according to the report.
But CNN reports that the company has a record of misconduct, and six of its former managers pleaded guilty or were convicted of defrauding the government in the "Big Dig" project.


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It's already February. How did this happen? The holiday season is way in the rear view mirror. And what we have now is the transitional period of waiting for winter to slowly end before the festivities of Spring begin.
Now that sounds negative. A transition period seems to have a negative connotation if interpreted that way. But thankfully for those of us in Maryland it's been a bit milder than usual. What this means is instead of hibernating and disappearing which tends to happen around this time, we now have more people wanting to hang out and host beautiful dinner parties with beautiful friends, who have even more beautiful souls.
I've been honored to attend these several of these convocations throughout my time on this earth, and lately the amount if escalating. Maybe it's destiny, as it gives me more ideas and inspiration to share.
This dinner was more of the low-key variety. To be more specific, it was a quiet one for two. I have the honor of knowing lots of great people in Baltimore, and to be invited into someone's house is a treat I never take for granted and fully appreciate.
As always, with dinner, I never come empty handed. And I don't remember the last time I didn't bring wine.
I was told ahead of time by my friend that a chicken stir fry type of dish would be on the menu. And when it comes to that kind of specificity, I want to bring something to complement the dinner and the theme.
Leave it to one of my new go-to's at Canton Crossing Wine & Spirits to come through once again.
I had done my research. A lighter wine made sense with a likely spicy stir fry dish. Pinot Noir and Beaujolais seemed like the obvious. But it's not always about the obvious. We can't always follow the suggested, how accurate they may be. It's good to go with an instinct or in this instance, a little help from beyond. Let me not so be dramatic. There's a great staff at this shoppe. And one in particular steered me to try the 2014 Mas Carlot Tradition Rouge. At only $12, I felt like I had nothing to lose and everything to win, and learn from regardless.
This wine was a grower. I'll explain shortly.
I got to my friends place and literally got to experience the entire crafting of the dinner until the end. There was a slow build in the conversation which tends to be a lot of my doing, or maybe for other people too. But I like it that way. It's a nourishing kind of discussion. I may start off a bit awkward, but after a little wine and a few appetizers, and maybe just a little more libations, my senses are calmed and heightened.
The conversation grows organically as it was always destined to be. And just like our discussion is breathing and evolving, so was the wine. This whole process took on a life of its own I'm not sure how much time went by, from when this bottle was opened until completion.
This medium bodied wine got better after a few sips and enough time to breathe. Some folks or experts would say it had opened up nicely. That's exactly what happened whatever semantics you want to use.
Grenache and Syrah carry most of the weight. And carries it well. And a little Mourvedre goes a long way.
There were definitely some kind of spices along with those darker fruits that tend to embody wines from the Rhone Valley. I see there were notes of strawberries. How perfect that strawberries were the dessert. I know I'm skipping around the order but it needed to be mentioned. And I'm not always about proper order.
It worked so well with the shrimp we had beforehand. It was going to work with everything. Enjoying yourself, the company we keep, and everything that goes with it makes just about any wine that much better.
The dinner was marvelous. The simple time are always the best. I feel like this was the best wine under this circumstance. We were meant to have this in that moment. I don't know if this a wine I will ever have again. And if that's the case I'm fine with that.
I only say that because it's a label I've never seen before and wouldn't stick out right away in most instances. For more on this wine, here is the official site which you can translate. A little for more can be found here.
Once again, if it's the only time I ever have this wine, it will be fitting. It will remind me of this enjoyable evening I had and nothing else.
And nothing else needs to be said.
A dear friend of mine went to Jamaica recently. And has been on their food kick, since coming back. We're fortunate enough to have many International restaurants near us in the area. And that includes delicious foods from the land of 'Out of Many, One People'.
And what a perfect opportunity to try some new foods and of course, a bottle, to pair with these dishes!
In doing my in-depth research, I found that the spicier foods (such as what we were about to eat), should be counterbalanced or complemented with some sweeter whites. We don't want a full-bodied red or lots of oak, to detract from the food we're enjoying. We want the our meal to be enjoyable, and we want the wine to enhance that. With a lighter selection, more flavors can come out from our dish. We also want a wine that's low on tannins. This is nowhere near as complicated as it sounds.
I am a huge fan of medium to full reds. But having one of those would completely undermine our meal and our wine. In some instances, it's brought out the cheapness of the food and the wine. I found this site very useful in my quest.
With the knowledge presented to me, I wanted to get a Gewürztraminer. It's a wine I wish I had more of. We've enjoyed this grape a few times over a Thanksgiving meal. And I'm happy to the opportunity has been presented itself to enjoy once again!
I want to thank Friendship Wine & Liquor of Abingdon, MD, for helping me pick out a bottle.
I chose the 2013 from Chateau Ste. Michelle. And this is a winner!
It was very easy to drink and didn't feel as if it were too sugary or acidity for my liking. I didn't detect any clove spice as the synopsis says. But I could sense some fruit. Which fruits there were, I don't know! But I was loving this choice. And and under $10, I feel this was a steal and a half!
We enjoyed our bottle with a wonderful Brown Stew Chicken, Goat Curry, Plantains, and a Meat Pie. Everything about our meal, from the food to the wine, was wonderful. This can pair with many spicy foods, not just Jamaican. It's all about personal preference. Most important of all is to try what you like. And that you are enjoying the wine and food together.
And I am grateful to have been introduced to another great winery, whose wines will be seeking out on a regular basis now. That's one of the fun parts of this! Now I have so many new ones I want to try.
The winery itself looks beautiful from pictures. And it makes me want to visit them in Washington State. I suppose I will!


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The following article was posted on June 8th, 2017, in the New Times - Volume 31, Issue 46 [ Submit a Story ]
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The family behind Good Medicine Presents brings their talents to 2017's Live Oak Music Festival
By GLEN STARKEY
Three years ago, Todd and Korie Newman loaded up their recreational vehicle, "Marvey the RV," and drove their kids, Rohn and Acacia, to the Live Oak Music Festival for the very first time.
"We always had a concert or two or three of our own that weekend," Korie explained.
San Francisco alt-bluegrass act The Brothers Comatose play Live Oak on June 16 and are excited to spend the weekend camping and jamming.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BROTHERS COMATOSE
They'd wanted to go for years, but when they were running SLO Brew they were always busy, and since starting their concert promotion company Good Medicine Presents, they've been even busier.
"KCBX invited us three years ago," Todd said, and the family finally decided to set aside the time and go. They loved it!
"It was our first big music festival since we started a family," Todd said. "Acacia was just 1 year old."
The Newmans love music and attended big festivals like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and the New Orleans Jazz Festival before starting a family, but Live Oak is particularly kid friendly.
"It's really family oriented," Todd said, "just really cool."
Families feel like their kids are safe there, and the festival goes out of its way to provide kids' activities from craft workshops to events like kids' yoga. The kids' talent show held Sunday afternoon is a particular favorite, and there are performers adept at entertaining kids, including jugglers and storytellers.
After that first year, KCBX asked the Newmans if they'd be interested in helping book the teen concerts last year, which they did, bringing in popular local acts like The Kicks, the Shawn Clark Family Band, The Kenny Taylor Band, and Santa Barbara band The Olés.
This year the Newmans booked the whole festival, tapping into their vast network of connections, and many are calling it the best lineup in years. Usually each day of the festival contains one big-name performer, but this year, each day has several! The Brothers Comatose, Nick Waterhouse, and Jackie Greene play on Friday. Joe Craven & The Sometimers, Jessica Fichot, Lee Fields and the Expressions, Ozomatli, and Rey Fresco play Saturday. Birds of Chicago, Paul Thorn, and Donavon Frankenreiter play Sunday. It's pretty epic!
"Booking festivals is different," Todd explained. "In general, festivals offer the highest paychecks for performers, but Live Oak is a fundraiser and isn't really the economic engine that other festivals are, and during the festival season cycle, there's more and more competition."
LIVE OAK OR BUST!
The Newman family—(left to right) Korie, Acacia (3), Todd, and Rohn (6)—are heading to KCBX fundraiser the Live Oak Music Festival, on June 16 through 18, at Camp Live Oak off Highway 154.
PHOTO BY GLEN STARKEY
The goal is to attract the best artists you can afford. Because of the tight budget, the Newmans had to sell performers on the vibe of the festival, playing up its atmosphere, talking about how well it treats its performers backstage.
"Backstage is super cool and the festival is not overwhelming and not pretentious," Todd said. "We've worked with some of these bands for 12 years, so we have relationships. When I was booking, all the bands knew what Live Oak was."
"One of the selling points is the community feel," Korie added. "Last year, for instance, we invited The T-Sisters and the California Honey Drops to camp with us."
"Our camping neighbors were super stoked," Todd recalled.
Where else do festivalgoers get such amazing access to performers, who frequently wander the camp jamming with other campers?
"It was fun to talk to The Brothers Comatose about it because they told us they always wanted to play Live Oak," Korie said, "but they didn't want to just play; they wanted the whole experience."
This year the Newmans organized an artists' camp where a lot of the performers could camp together.
Catch the Live Oak bug!
Single day passes or full festival passes for the 2017 Live Oak Music Festival are available at liveoakfest.org. Held every Father's Day weekend—this year on Friday, June 16, through Sunday, June 18—the three-day event features tons of live music on several stages, tent and RV camping, kids' activities, an amazing communal spirit, and great food, arts, and crafts vendors. Camp Live Oak is nestled among oak trees off Highway 154, 80 minutes south of San Luis Obispo or about 20 minutes north of Santa Barbara. A fundraiser for local public radio station KCBX, it's been a staple of the local live music community since 1989.
"Live Oak has conviction and heritage. It's a pretty deep culture," Todd continued. "We wanted to remain loyal to that, to stay true to the community they foster. We tried to pick bands we felt would resonate with the community and that would appeal to the various demographics that attend Live Oak. I have to say, it's not an easy algorithm to master but [KCBX Director of Programming] Marisa Waddell and [KCBX Music Director] Neal Losey were there every step of the way."
The music is great but the most remarkable thing about Live Oak in the community.
"This is a story a lot of parents have, but it's still pretty huge to us. Last year at Live Oak was the first time Rohn took off on his own. He was 5 years old, and he rode off on his bike with a friend," Todd said.
"We don't live in a neighborhood," Korie said. "So that's not something he gets to do, but he truly felt ready and confident."
It's a memory Rohn will never forget either.
"My favorite thing was bike riding," Rohn said. "I really like it! I just rode on the roads. There were lots of kids riding their bikes. I also ate doughnuts, and I played tetherball with another kid in the kids' area."
"I like riding a bike too," Acacia chimed in. "I can do a pedal bike!"
Looks like there're two new Live Oakies to add to the Live Oak family.
Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey has been a dedicated Live Oak Music Festival goer since 2010. Contact him at gstarkey@newtimesslo.com.


Learning Lamb Early Development Center is now enrolling for April 2019.
The Learning Lamb Early Development Center values providing a safe, nurturing and developmentally appropriate program, which fosters active learning, support for the whole child and a welcoming inclusive environment.
The center provides daily Toddler and Pre-K care, as well as Before and After Care for school-aged children up to 12 years old.
Check out the website www.learninglamb.org for more information.


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Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, is an inflammatory infection that affects the gum and bones supporting and surrounding your teeth. It usually appears in the form of gingivitis and periodontitis. Gingivitis is the inflammation of the gum near the tooth's neck, while periodontitis is a more advanced stage that affects bone and tissue.
Children can have some symptoms of inflammation in the gingival tissue, but the first symptoms of gingivitis in adults are swelling, redness in the gums, and bleeding while brushing. Gingivitis is further subdivided into acute and chronic cases:
• Acute gingivitis is identified by specific bacterial infections or by facial trauma.
• Chronic gingivitis is characterized by the bacterial plaque that covers gums and teeth.
In recent years, dental scientists have discovered that gingivitis is reversible by way of proper dental practices. Even though gingivitis is still prevalent today, daily flossing and brushing reduces the risk of inflammation, especially among young people.
Once gingivitis reaches an advanced stage, it develops into periodontitis. In this phase, it starts to undermine the bone and supporting tissue and forms pockets in the gum tissue. People with this condition may experience periods where the disease is highly active for a short period, followed by episodes of remission. This condition can eventually lead to loosening and loss of teeth.
The majority of adults are affected by gingivitis, but it doesn't turn into periodontitis in every single case. Whether and how gum disease progresses is affected by multiple factors, including personal dental hygiene and genetics. Even though the damage is irreversible in most cases, treatment can prevent the disease from progressing.
However, this disease often progresses secretly and painlessly, making it difficult to diagnose early. In the preliminary phases we can usually only detect it if your gums bleed when you brush. In later stages, the bleeding may stop, and we won't see any further signs until the tooth begins to loosen.
Risk Factors For Periodontal Disease
There are a few risk factors to consider that increase the chances of getting this disease:
• Stress has proven ties to gum disease, but experts haven't confirmed whether this is physiological or because people under stress may neglect their oral hygiene.
• Diet affects periodontal health because food choices can lead to an increase in plaque.
• Smoking and diabetes are proven factors that increase one's risk for gum disease. Some forms of gingivitis appear almost exclusively in people who smoke.
Most forms of gum disease are preventable via daily brushing and flossing. However, plaque can form more easily near poorly molded fillings, fillings with elongated edges, and other types of partial dentures. Irregularities like these hinder brushing and make it easier for bacteria to form. If plaque has hardened into tartar, then it is conducive to the formation of even more plaque, and we will need to employ scaling and root planing to remove it.
Most people, however, can ward off these diseases by abstaining from tobacco, eating healthily and brushing diligently.


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Ez a szócikk a 2018-as Roland Garros női páros versenyszámának eredményeit ismerteti.

Az amerikai Bethanie Mattek-Sands és a cseh Lucie Šafářová voltak a címvédők, de ebben az évben külön indultak. Bethanie Mattek-Sands a páros világranglistát vezető Latisha Csan partnereként, míg Lucie Šafářová partnere ezúttal Szvetlana Kuznyecova volt. Mindkét páros a második körben esett ki.

A győzelmet a cseh Barbora Krejčíková–Kateřina Siniaková páros szerezte meg, miután a döntőben  6–3, 6–3 arányban győztek a japán Eri Hozumi–Makoto Ninomiya páros ellen.

A verseny magyar résztvevője, Babos Tímea párjával, a 2016-os győztes Kristina Mladenoviccsal első kiemeltként indulhatott, hogy az Australian Open után ezen a tornán is megszerezzék az elsőséget, a negyeddöntőben azonban vereséget szenvedtek a végül a döntőig jutó japán Eri Hozumi–Makoto Ninomiya párostól.

A verseny eredményétől függően négyen aspiráltak arra, hogy a páros világranglista élére kerüljenek: a kínai Latisha Csan, az orosz Jekatyerina Makarova és Jelena Vesznyina, valamint Babos Tímea. Mivel mind Makarova, mind Vesznyina az első körben, Csan pedig a második körben kiesett, Babos Tímea világelső lehetett volna, ha párjával bejutnak a döntőbe. Ez azonban nem sikerült, mert a negyeddöntőben vereséget szenvedtek. A magyar-francia páros azonban már a negyeddöntőbe jutással az élre került az idei eredményeket mutató "race" pontszámuk alapján.

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For the second year running, MoonSha was recognised at the Derby Food & Drink Awards, this time picking up the award for best oriental restaurant.
One of Derbys latest Japanese additions, MoonSha delivers an authentic flavour of the east using traditional techniques and ingredients in a thoroughly modern setting. A dramatic Teppanyaki bar, great sushi and sashimi as well as the usual noodle and ramen dishes. The talented chefs create a blend of best sushi combinations from around the world.
With a smart bar, fine dining and post-prandial entertainment upstairs there need be no hustling into coats and finding a taxi to get to the next part of the evening. Lunches are popular too, with the light style of cuisine perfect for afternoon energy levels, while business and corporate functions of all kinds are welcomed. In its first year, MoonSha has won the Best Newcomer in the Derbyshire Food and Drink Awards and has been shortlisted for Best International Restaurant. With smiling and talented staff, wonderful food and a stunning setting, it has certainly assembled all the ingredients.
MoonSha Bar and Restaurant, Derbys first Japanese Teppanyaki restaurant, is open for business. More than 150 high profile guests from across the area attended the official opening, which was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony performed by the Mayor of Derby, Councillor Sean Marshall.


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