Tart shell can be made 1 day ahead and cooled completely, uncovered, then kept (in pan), wrapped in plastic wrap, at cool room temperature.
Filling can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to cool room temperature before assembling tart, 1 hour.
Wonderful, light summertime dessert. I also doubled the filling since it would have been a bit thin in my opinion using only 4 oz. of cream cheese. Loved just dumping all those raspberries in a big pile on top.
I don't understand how you (multiple reviewers!) can give a recipe a 4-fork review when, in fact, they change the recipe -- you haven't made the recipe!!!
A hit on mother's day. The flavors all came together wonderfully. No good raspberries in my area, used fresh strawberries and was to die for. Use good quality honey, I used local raw sage honey. Followed the recipe exactly otherwise. I don't know why you'd want to double the cream, it's a tart that's 1 inch thick. Unless you plan to serve it on the side. But the cream is so good I'll be making it to serve with fresh fruit in the future.
Really easy, light and fresh. I chose to add all the honey to the cream mixture (which I doubled - also used equal parts creme fraiche to cream cheese) - I couldn't really taste the lavender, I would sprinkle lavender buds to increase the lavender flavour if you wish. I made four mini tarts. I did find that the crust was a little on the tough side and I had to use some force to cut into it - did anyone else find this also? Aside from that the fresh, tart raspberries work well with the sweet, luxurious cream and buttery crust.
Awesome summer dessert. Great for 4th of July if you mix blueberries in with the raspberries. Nice flavor and color contrast. Also I doubled the filling which was simple since you already have all the ingredients you need due to quantity of packages. I topped it with a hibiscus sauce instead of the honey. Also other reviewers are correct use any honey you have handy. Also topped whole thing with a little lemon zest. Again nice color and added another layer of flavor. To find the hibiscus sauce just type hibiscus in the search and it will come up under Almond Glazed Pastries...... Oh and I used mixed frozen berries in the hibiscus sauce to cut the sweetness of just using raspberries for everything. If you can't find hibiscus flowers, you can often find hibiscus tea in packages in almost any Mexican food store. Awesome - super easy to make and everyone loved it!!!
perfect summer raspberry usage- the sweet/tart, floral and tang flavors go together well. Made this several times so far.
One of the best tarts ever. The recipie was simple, and easy to follow. Easy to prep the day before, and assemble before serving. Like all the other reviewers I could not find lavender honey, so I used clove honey from a local honey company. I also used blueberries and raspberries, which made for a very patriotic looking dessert.
Really great recipe. Make sure you buy raspberries at the height of their season so the tart is delicious! I used a sping flowers honey since I couldn't find lavender, and it was wonderful. I personally thought it was a bit sweet, but my guests thought it was perfect, so I will make it exactly as directed next time also.
Wonderful! Not too sweet, not too heavy. I doubled the cream filling and used almost all of it in the tart. Used regular honey. (There is really minimal flavor difference in the various honeys.) I made the crust in advance and froze the unbaked shell. Without thawing, baked at 425 for 5 min and 375 for 15 min...don't need any foil or weights this way. Then brushed hot shell with some beaten egg white to moisture-proof it. (Pie shell hints from Rose Levy Beranbaum's Pie and Pastry Bible.) Will definitely make again.
Super easy and delicious! I used light cream cheese and substituted full fat sour cream for the creme fraiche - the results were great. Also used a local Ontario honey. Raspberry, honey, cream and a slightly sweet cookie crust - great combination!
Simple and tasty enough to make over and over without trying to overpower your tastebuds. I used a local honey I had on hand (not lavender), and forgot to drizzle it on top- no one noticed, it was wonderful. I think I might just skip that step again next time.
This is a delicious, simple recipe. I served this last night and the crowd was raving. The crust is basic and delicious. The sugar in the crust and the honey in the tart complement each other nicely. A perfect end to the meal.


The kind of bread you eat can have a huge effect on your risk for developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). That's according to a brand new study looking into the effects of high and low-glycemic diets on mice.
This study was conducted at the prestigious Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Ageing, which is a part of Tufts University. In addition to studying the effects of these two diets on eye health, researchers believe they've discovered crucial biomarkers for AMD.
59 aged mice were used in this study. 19 of these mice were fed a low-glycemic diet while the other 40 were fed a high-glycemic diet. Carbohydrates made up 45 percent of both groups' overall diet. The starch was 100 percent amylopectin for the mice eating a high-glycemic diet, whereas the low-glycemic group had amylopectin starch at 30 percent with amylose making up the other 70 percent.
This first phase of the test went on for six months. At this point, researchers started giving half of the high-glycemic mice a low-glycemic diet. The results from their study were quite clear: the high-glycemic mice had a much higher risk of developing AMD than the mice on low-glycemic diets.
Perhaps the most important finding from this study came from the mice that switched from a high to a low-glycemic diet. Researchers found that these mice were able to halt the deterioration of their retinae significantly just by switching to whole grain bread. Indeed, the scientists said they couldn't tell the difference between the eyes of mice that were fed low-glycemic diets the whole time and those that switched halfway through the study.
Researchers were also able to detect biomarkers related to AMD in this test. All advanced glycation end products (AGEs) were directly related to an increased likelihood of getting AMD. C3-carnitine and serotonin, however, were directly linked to lower risks of developing AMD.
As of today, there are numerous methods doctors can use to test infants for C3-carninite and serotonin levels. The doctors on this study believe testing these two biomarkers can help predict a person's susceptibility to AMD in the future.
Research into AGEs is relatively new and will require more clinical trials. Tufts University professors hope their data will encourage more people to look into AGEs and their relation to AMD.
Anyone can read the full report of this study online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The study was titled "Involvement of a gut–retina axis in protection against dietary glycemia-induced age-related macular degeneration."


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Mission Viejo ist eine Stadt im Orange County im US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten, mit 95.900 Einwohnern (Stand: 2004). Die geographischen Koordinaten sind: 33,61° Nord, 117,65° West. Das Stadtgebiet hat eine Größe von 49,3 km².

Der Ort liegt in Nachbarschaft von Ladera Ranch und San Juan Capistrano am Fuß des Santa-Ana-Gebirges. Während den Olympischen Sommerspielen 1984 in Los Angeles wurden in Mission Viejo auf dem Mission Viejo Circuit die Straßenrennen im Rahmen der Radsportwettbewerbe ausgetragen.

Die US-amerikanische Sprinterin und Olympiasiegerin Florence Griffith-Joyner (1959–1998) starb in Mission Viejo.

Söhne und Töchter der Stadt
 Kristy Swanson (* 1969), Schauspielerin
 Savannah (Shannon Michelle Wilsey) (1970–1994), Pornodarstellerin
 Tim Jones (* 1971), Komponist
 Brian Lopes (* 1971), Mountainbike-Profi
 Kaitlin Sandeno (* 1983), Staffel-Olympiasiegerin im Schwimmen
 Amber Stachowski (* 1983), Wasserballspielerin
 Jordan Harvey (* 1984), Fußballspieler
 Kina Grannis (* 1985), Sängerin
 Phil Hughes (* 1986), Baseballspieler
 Allison Scurich (* 1986), Fußballspielerin
 Courtland Mead (* 1987), Schauspieler
 Chris Cortez (* 1988), Fußballspieler
 David Henrie (* 1989), Schauspieler
 Griffin Canning (* 1996), Baseballspieler

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Viewed: Look for more at http://loronix.net. This is a TV Rip showing Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim playing together Chega de Saudade at Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro.
Viewed: Performed by Alexey Liapko (solo guitar), Alexander Sirtsov (bass guitar), Romāns Vendiņš (piano) and Zintis Žvarts (saxophone). Riga, 2010. Джазовый квартирник.
Viewed: Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) - Antonio Carlos Jobim.


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P10-111-19 - Zinc Deficiency Is Associated with Anemia Among Children Under 24 Months-of-age in Rural Guatemala
Sun, Jun 9
Location: Poster Board 24
Objectives : Anemia is a major public health problem among young children. In addition to iron deficiency, other micronutrient deficiencies have been associated with anemia. The purpose of this study was to identify biomarkers associated with anemia in children < 5 years from rural Guatemala.
Methods : A total of 182 infants (6-24 m) and 207 preschoolers (36-60 m) were recruited from community surveillance to participate in a randomized controlled trial of nutrition and child development. Methods included measured weight, length/height and venous blood draws. Inclusion criteria were length/height-for-age z-score< -1.0 and Hb >7.0 g/dL. Cross-sectional analyses using generalized linear mixed models of baseline data examined associations between anemia (Hb < 11.0 g/dL) and micronutrient deficiencies, adjusting for maternal, child and sociodemographic variables. Iron deficiency was defined as low ferritin based on inflammation status, and/or high soluble transferrin receptor, ≥1.97 mg/L. Deficiencies for other parameters were designated as: zinc < 65 µg/dL; vitamin B12 < 200 pg/mL; and plasma folate < 3 ng/mL or erythrocyte folate < 100 ng/mL.
Prevalence of anemia was 56% in infants and 12% in preschoolers. Among anemic infants/preschoolers, rates of iron, zinc, folate and vitamin B12 deficiencies were 83/75%; 63/18%; 3/4%; and 9/0%, respectively. For infants, the odds of anemia were higher when children were zinc deficient [OR=3.59;95%CI (1.64-7.85)], after adjusting for community cluster, sex, age, maternal education and household size. No biomarkers were associated with anemia in preschoolers.
Conclusions : Iron and zinc are common micronutrient deficiencies in children from low- and middle-income countries. These findings suggest that micronutrient deficiencies coexist among children in Guatemala, and that zinc should be considered as part of the prevention strategies to reduce anemia. In preschoolers, no biomarkers were associated with anemia, suggesting that other biological and psychosocial factors could be influencing anemia in this age group.
Funding Sources : The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition, Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science of the New York Academy of Sciences
Presenting Author(s)
Ana Palacios
Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Co-Author(s)
Kristen Hurley
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Silvia De Ponce
Asociacion Para la Prevencion y Estudio del VIH/SIDA
Victor Alfonso
Nicholas Tilton
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Kaley Lambden
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pub
Gregory Reinhart
Mathile Institute
Jeanne Freeland-Graves
Lisa Villanueva
The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition
Maureen Black
University of Maryland and RTI International

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In addition to a full-service spa, dusitD2 Chiang Mai features an outdoor pool and a steam room. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include A poolside bar and A bar/lounge. Every day guests can enjoy a complimentary manager's reception. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
Event facilities measuring 3757 square feet (349 square metres) include conference rooms. This Art Deco hotel also offers a fitness centre, spa services and a terrace. For a surcharge, a round-trip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Complimentary self-parking is available on-site.
DusitD2 Chiang Mai has designated areas for smoking.
This family-friendly Chiang Mai hotel is located near the airport, within 1 mi (2 km) of Chiang Mai Night Bazaar, Wat Chiang Man and Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center. Chiang Mai National Museum is 3 mi (4.8 km) away. Chiang Mai Railway Station is 27 minutes by foot.
A full-service spa, a restaurant and an outdoor pool are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas is provided, as well as free self parking, free train station pick-up and a free manager's reception. Additionally, a fitness centre, a bar/lounge and a poolside bar are on-site.
All 130 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet and sofa beds. Guests will appreciate conveniences such as sitting areas and fridges, while flat-screen TVs with satellite channels and DVD players provide a bit of entertainment.
DusitD2 Chiang Mai offers 130 forms of air-conditioned accommodation with DVD players and minibars. This individually decorated and furnished accommodation has separate sitting areas and includes sofa beds. Beds feature down comforters. A pillow menu is available. Flat-screen televisions come with premium satellite channels. Guests can make use of the in-room fridges and coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms include a bath and shower, a complimentary bathrobe, complimentary slippers and designer toiletries. Guests can surf the web using complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and safes. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottles of water and a hairdryer. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered on a daily basis. Amenities available on request include in-room massages.
DusitD2 Chiang Mai has a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a steam room and a fitness centre.
Devanara Spa has 5 treatment rooms, including rooms for couples. Services include Swedish massages, Thai massages, facials and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic. The spa is equipped with a spa tub and a steam room. Public bath/onsen services include a yukata (Japanese robe).
The spa is open daily. Guests under 5 years old are not allowed in the spa.
Rollaway/extra beds are available for THB 1200.0 per stay.
Rollaway beds are not available in Club Deluxe and Deluxe room categories.


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FNBO Parent Company Acquiring Western States Bank
November 22nd, 2021 | Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The parent company of First National Bank of Omaha is acquiring Wyoming-based Western States Bank.
Terms of the deal announced Monday weren't released, but the companies said Western States has $542 million in total assets and runs 10 branches in northeastern Colorado, western Nebraska and southeastern Wyoming.
First National's Chairman and President Clark Lauritzen said the deal will allow the larger regional bank to expand its existing services in Nebraska and Colorado while adding branches in new markets of Laramie and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Omaha-based First National is much larger than the Laramie-based Western States with nearly 5,000 employees, over $25 billion in assets and almost 100 branches in seven states.
UNL webinar to cover farm, ranch business planning
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Lenora Lee Dance Interdisciplinary dance works giving artistic voice to Asian Americans
Lenora Lee
Artistic Work
In the Skin of Her Hands
Within these Walls & Dreams of Flight 2019
Within These Walls
Double Victory
The Eye of Compassion
Fire of Freedom
Passages: For Lee Ping To
Rescued Memories: New York Stories
SanSan Kwan & Johnny Nguyen. Photo by Robbie Sweeny
Dearest friends and community,
As the unrest continues across the country in the face of a pandemic, we are being called to stand in solidarity with the movements speaking truth to power and calling for justice for our Black brothers, sisters, and siblings. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Stephon Clark. Tony McDade. And the other countless lives taken by the systemic violence against Black bodies.
Our company illuminates narratives through movement to envision a more compassionate, empathetic, and just world for all. With this, we recognize our role in working towards anti-racism in support of Black Liberation because Black Liberation IS collective liberation.
Our work has been inspired by Asian Improv aRts and Asian Improv Arts Midwest building on the legacies, histories, struggles, and triumphs of Asian Americans in this country, which in part are connected with those of Black Americans. Civil Rights. Black Power. Black Arts. Yellow Power. The Third World Liberation Front. We are being called to remember these histories and embody them in the present moment.
We are inviting you to join us in taking a stand to listen to, support, and amplify Black voices, to donate or contribute other resources to Black-led organizations working for change, and in undoing Anti-Blackness within our own communities. In the face of so much, we are being asked to not turn the other way from the grave injustice, discrimination, violence, and killing that has been perpetrated on Black people in this country for over 400 years and to recognize that what is happening right now is a reaction to the systems of oppression that have been held in place.
This is an extraordinary time and no matter how challenging and daunting it may feel at times, this is an opportunity to find the deeper parts of ourselves; to allow our actions to be driven by love, courage, hope, truth, grace, honesty, and clarity; to take care of one another; and to re-evaluate what is truly important. Knowing in our hearts the importance of expressing love and solidarity to all who are suffering, we are committed to doing this work and hope that you as our beloved community can join us in this fight for justice.
This is a time to stand in community, in support of one another, and we are standing in solidarity.
In gratitude and love,
Lenora Lee, Johnny Nguyen, Lucy Tafler, and Hien Huynh
of Lenora Lee Dance
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Recognizing the bonds, collaboration, and dedication of
Asian Improv aRts and Asian Improv Arts Midwest
James Newton and Jon Jang in South Africa
Tatsu Aoki and Fred Anderson
Jon Jang, Avotcja Jiltonilro, Francis Wong, Myron Cohen, Sascha Jacobsen, Sandy Poindexter. Photo by Bob Hsiang
Resources and information on how you can get involved:
Campaign Zero – a comprehensive platform of research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in America
Support Victims' Families
Sign Petition for Breonna Taylor
GoFundMe for Ahmaud Arbery
Donate to Black-Led Organizations in Minneapolis
NAACP Minneapolis
Black Immigrants Collective
If you are able, please contribute to local Bay Area organizations
National Lawyers Guild SF
Aid for the Bayview by Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community
We The Protestors
Bay Area Resources
Anti-Police Terror Project
SoOakland – Rebuilding Oakland Black Businesses
Showing Up for Racial Justice Bay Area
Sign the petition to support in the various policy demands (source: NAACP)
Criminal Justice Policy Demand
Economic Policy Demands
Health Policy Demands
Voting Policy Demands
Take the 2020 Census
Edward Wilkerson Jr., Francis Wong, William Roper, Tatsu Aoki, Mwata Bowden, Kioto Aoki, Melody Takata. Photo by Ken Carl
*Major gratitude to these local organizations Zaccho Dance Theatre, API Cultural Center & Kularts, as these resource links were compiled in part from links they shared
This entry was posted on June 3, 2020. It was filed under Community Events, Latest Updates.
The mission of Lenora Lee Dance (LLD) is to create and present large-scale multimedia performance works integrating dance, original music, video projection, text and installation that connect various styles of movement and music to culture, history and human rights issues.
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Once upon a time in a faraway land a very wealthy merchant lived on a good piece of land just west of the hamlet we now call Littleton. The merchant was blessed with luck and guile, strong bones and sharp eyes, a pretty wife of gentle spirit, and four healthy children whom he called Faith, Hope, Beauty, and Corbin.
An LGBT twist on the classic love story.
Once upon a time in faraway land a very wealthy merchant lived on a good piece of property just west of the hamlet we now call Littleton. The merchant was blessed with luck and guile, strong bones and sharp eyes, a pretty wife who had both wit and a gentle spirit, and four healthy children. He was called Jean de Beaumont, after his father and his grandfather both. His wife liked to call him 'Roux' for the color of his hair. To his three daughters the merchant was always 'Papa', but his eldest child and only son always called him simply 'Da'.
Like many of the tenant farmers subsisting on squares of land just outside Littleton proper, de Beaumont dedicated his time and talents to the making of good cheeses. The native soil was made rich with salt from the nearby sea, and that fragrant earth produced a grass greener than the king's most rare verdigris dyes. Black and white cattle grew fat in the fields. Their milk was thick and sweet, suitable for drinking straight from the pail, or churning into butter. More importantly, this milk was the very key to the family's survival, for de Beaumont poured it into great bowls and set it aside to curdle before molding. The milk turned into cheese, the cheese now called Camembert.
Camembert was not so rare around Littleton. But de Beaumont, being a clever man with a head for experimentation, began to add an extra ingredient to the cheese: a special brandy his wife made from the apples collected from the trees growing wild amongst the hedges. Only she knew how to correctly prepare the brandy, and only de Beaumont knew when to add the sweet-smelling liquor between curdling and molding, and then again before he sealed the cheeses in wooden boxes and set them aside again to age. The recipe was a family secret kept only in de Beaumonts's head. As word of the unusual and delicious Camembert spread so did demand, but de Beaumont was canny and never increased production. He raised the price for a wheel. His fortune was made in a matter of years, while Corbin was still a babe not yet out of his cot.
They say there are still wheels of de Beaumont Camembert laid aside in the king's cellars, held back for a special occasion. If this is true the king is a very lucky man, as by all accounts de Beaumont's special cheese exists nowhere else. It is possible the merchant meant to teach Corbin the recipe once the child came of age, so that as heir he could pass the secret on through the generations, ensuring the family's continued fortune. But God plays tricks on a man, gives with the right hand and takes with the left, and like de Beaumont's pretty little farm and charming family, that magical strain of Camembert is nothing more than a distant memory, a lingering taste on the tongue of good fortune, a fleeting recollection of pleasure.


In 'Wittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatism', Peter Hacker addresses what he takes to be misconceptions of Wittgenstein's philosophy with respect to 1) the periodisation of his thought and to what should properly be counted as part of his work; 2) his conception of grammar since the Big Typescript (1929-1933); 3) his conception of philosophy as grammatical investigation. I argue that Hacker's restrictive conception of what ought to be considered part of Wittgenstein's philosophy and his conservative view of Wittgensteinian grammar are unjustified and prevent him from appreciating the revolutionary importance of On Certainty for epistemology. Finally, while agreeing that Wittgenstein views philosophy as grammatical elucidation, I suggest some reasons for the resistance this view has generated.


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Kunstenaars & Co is a semi-government institute which supports artists, helping them build up a financially acceptable career. Kunstenaars & CO has been a partner of Allerzielen Alom since the beginning in 2005, and the partnership has been a great success. At that time, fifteen artists took part in Allerzielen Alom through Kunstenaars & CO. In 2007 they recruited 23 artist. That turned out to be too many to properly manage. In 2009 Kunstenaars & Co recruited 30 artists to take part in the master class Allerzielen Alom. Ten will be selected from this group.
Schatten van Brabant is a cultural programme oriented towards the past. The province of North Brabant, municipalities, and cultural and educational institutions are working together to increase the interest in cultural history among young and old. Schatten van Brabant is working on reviving segments of folk culture within its programme 'New Rituals'. New rituals around Allerzielen were the motivation to cooperate. Schatten van Brabant has brought CBK West en CBK Midden Brabant into the production.
In 2007 Kunst en Cultuur Noord Holland adopted Allerzielen Alom as a project. The foundation was the legal representative, artists were recruited from their files, and they gave advice and support. Close cooperation is no longer possible due to budgetary constraints. However, they remain advisors and ambassadors. Artist are recruited through their mailings.


Perhaps, like me, you have been on the path of The Enchanted Heart for many years. You seek that which is beautiful, healthy, happy, creative, meaningful and fulfilling in life. You appreciate LIFE herself, the great mystery we are a part of. You relish the delicious foods, the flower essences, the butterflies and flowers. You enjoy communing with the Deva's and with like hearted friends. With your actions, you are creating a New World, step by step, on the journey of the Heart.
I love to make that journey even more magical, more enchanted, deeper, richer, inspirational and Fun! To that end, I have created this course and build all that I do in my private work, groups, art, etc. with the intention of bringing more beauty to you, to the world, and to my own LIFE.
You have encountered a magical gateway to a New Land, and you are ready to enter. You are ready to discover new things about yourself, to access a deeper connection to spirit, your heart, your Divine Feminine and the amazing beauty of LIFE in all her glory. Your road has been arduous, to say the least. You have traveled many roads, and it feels like you have lived many lifetimes in this one body!
*That you have entered a new cycle of life. That the old worn out beliefs and habits of the past, no longer fit you.
*There is a sense of newness in the air. A ripeness for harvesting the fruits of your years of labors, of your patient (and not so patient) persistence in staying the path to your heart.
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Current: Clinical decision support solution from Advanced used to deliver national healthline service in New Zealand
Clinical decision support solution from Advanced used to deliver national healthline service in New Zealand
Homecare Medical Ltd has recently rolled out Odyssey, a clinical decision support solution from Advanced, as part of a drive to deliver enhanced and integrated telehealth services across New Zealand.
Advanced's software is being used to provide Homecare Medical's telephone health triage service for GPs, and the national nurse led triage service, Healthline.
The Odyssey software went live earlier this month and was used to manage nearly 2,000 calls on its first day of operation.
Homecare Medical is a leading teletriage organisation in New Zealand and delivers services to around 600 GP practices, covering approximately 2.2 million people. The company won a Ministry of Health tender to run existing telehealth services, which were previously being managed by four separate organisations.
In addition to providing Healthline, Homecare Medical's six integrated services include quit smoking services and advice on poisons, alcohol and drugs, immunisation and vaccination, depression and gambling.
Registered nurses answering Healthline calls are using Odyssey to complement their existing knowledge and experience to make effective decisions when assessing a patient's needs, leading to better patient care and substantial time and cost savings.
The solution's comprehensive question-sets use a Bayesian approach that guides and allows health professionals to quickly assess multiple symptoms and determine the most appropriate actions, with regard to urgency.
To support Homecare Medical's integrated services, Odyssey is also being used by nurses based in the country's two ambulance services to assess, triage and advise emergency ambulance calls that are categorised as having a non-life threatening need. This will enable more effective use of emergency ambulances, ensuring they are available for patients who have more life-threatening needs.
Andrew Slater, Chief Executive Officer of Homecare Medical Ltd, says "Advanced has an excellent reputation in the UK and has adapted its software specifically for the New Zealand environment. We have used Odyssey for three years to drive better patient care in out-of-hours services for GP practices, and felt reassured to extend our use of the system to underpin our Healthline service. Odyssey ensures we deliver safe, effective clinical advice and connect patients with the most appropriate care."
Advanced has worked in close partnership with Homecare Medical to ensure the system has been tailored to meet the population's healthcare needs. This has included addressing specific cultural issues by creating additional open-ended questions, prompts and rationales.
George Thaw, Managing Director of Advanced (Health & Care), comments "We are thrilled to have been chosen to assist Homecare Medical to deliver better care outcomes for people across New Zealand. Odyssey will also reduce pressure on after-hours primary care and hospital emergency departments while generating massive efficiency savings.
"Although widely used in several countries, this is the first example of our solution being implemented nationwide. Thanks to the hard work of Homecare Medical's and Advanced's teams the project has been delivered on time and to budget with great initial success."
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Q: What's a good document standard to use programmatically? I'm writing a program that requires input in the form of a document, it needs to replace a few values, insert a table, and convert it to PDF. It's written in Python + Qt (PyQt). Is there any well known document standard which can be easily used programmatically? It must be cross platform, and preferably open.

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*I have looked into Microsoft Doc and Docx, which are binary formats and I can't edit them. Python has bindings for it, but they're only on Windows.

*Open Office's ODT/ODF is zipped in an xml file, so I can edit that one but there's no command line utilities or any way to programmatically convert the file to a PDF. Open Office provides bindings, but you need to run Open Office from the command line, start a server, etc. And my clients may not have Open Office installed.

*RTF is readable from Python, but I couldn't find any way/libraries to convert RTF documents to PDF.
At the moment I'm exporting from Microsoft Word to HTML, replacing the values and using PyQt to convert it to a PDF. However it loses formatting features and looks awful. I'm surprised there isn't a well known library which lets you edit a variety of document formats and convert them into other formats, am I missing something?
Update: Thanks for the advice, I'll have a look at using Latex.
Thanks,
Jackson

A: Have you looked into using LaTeX documents?
They are perfect to use programatically (compiling documents? You gotta love that...), and you have several Python frameworks you can use such as plasTeX and PyTex.
Exporting a LaTeX documents to PDF is almost immediate.

A: Since you're already using PyQt anyway, it might be worth looking at Qt's built-in RTF processing module which looks decent. Here's the documentation on detailed content manipulation including inserting tables. Also the QPrinter module's default print-to-file format happens to be PDF.
Without knowing more about your particular needs it's hard to say if these would do what you want, but since your application already has PyQt as a dependency, seems silly to introduce any more without evaluating the functionality you've already got available.
The non-GUI parts of the Qt framework are often overlooked though.
edit: included more links.

A: You might want to try ReportLab.  The open source version can write PDFs, and the commercial version has a lot of really nice abstractions to allow output to a variety of different formats from a single input.

A: I don't know the kind of odience of your program, Tex is good and i would go with it.
Another possible choice is Excel format, parsing it with xlrd.
I've used it a couple of time and it's pretty straightforward.
Excel file is a good for the following reasons:

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*Well known format easy to edit

*You could prepare a predefined template with constrains and table

A: Creating XML documents, transforming them to XSL/fo and rendering with Fop or RenderX. If you use  docbook as the primary input, there are toolchains freely available for converting that to PDF, RTF, HTML and so forth.
It is rather quirky to use and not my idea of fun, but is does deliver and can be embedded in an application, AFAICT.
Creating docbook is very straightforward as it has a wide range of semantic tags, table support etc to give a "meaningful" markup which can be reliably formatted. The XSL stylesheets are modular and allow parts to be customized or replaced to generate your own look and feel.
It works well for relatively free flow documents with lots of text.
For filling in the blanks kind of documents, a regular reporting engine may be a better fit, or some straighforward XSL stylesheets spitting out the XSL-fo directly.

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Perigold has very nice, and quite expensive lamps, and it also sells books for entirely decorative purposes, grouped by color and style of binding.
Above we see 50 book (five linear feet of them) in green. You can get red and blue and beige and even colorful dust jacketed books! Perfect for morons who do not read.
The Tumblr image seems to come ultimately from here.
Hat tip to Madame Scherzo.
Awfully expensive at $4000 though. I wonder what the 5′ tall version runs.
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Fritz Niebler (born 28 August 1958) is a German wrestler. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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It was very expensive. I battled with learning in a classroom for web developing. I was already developing comfortable enhancement.
Although there are many different languages available, PHP is which of the world wide web. It abilities a lot of top websites like Facebook, Wikipedia, Myspace and Reddit. Many developers indicate against PHP as your first language but I think that it is one of the most convenient different languages to comprehend and installation. a variety of guidebooks out developed no issue that your qualifications is. A requirement though is that you have to know HTML. Also establishing your development atmosphere in your pc is as simple as dual simply clicking an installation software and developing your data files on the web server's listing. Download, set up and look at the guidelines for XAMPP if you are using windows and MAMP if you are on the Mac. Most PHP guidebooks include or offer more guidebooks for learning a knowledge source language like MySQL. You need MySQL to shop customer input/data and to service them with that information the next time they view your site.
It's cliché but there's no better way of exercising system than to use. Just system a lot of websites no issue how small they are. Make your own website; make your online profile, details out there that need a system and you can offer that. Start creating your personal website to know how to become a web developer!
Everything that you need to know about becoming a developer or web developer is in Search engines and the best of all they are available free. The key here understands where to look and how to look for the details you are looking for. A tip I can give you is explain the details you are looking for in keywords. For example if you are looking for the format of an If…Else declaration in PHP, just type in "If Else PHP" it is that simple. Never negotiate online and try to comprehend from many sources. It is like getting the skills of 10's of expert developers.
Develop that wish to know the art of development. Be a part of boards, discuss weblogs. There are lots of websites that encourages connections with other developers. You should use them to your benefit. Never quit learning and have the interest to be the best developer that you can be.


Water makes up over 60 percent of the human body. It connects us. All living things need clean water to survive. In Ashland and Iron Counties of northern Wisconsin, the water that falls as rain feeds wetlands and tributaries that supply the Bad River, which empties into Lake Superior at the Kakagon Sloughs. The Sloughs are the largest wetlands complex on Lake Superior and a contain large beds of wild rice, a pollution-sensitive plant that is important for food, cultural heritage, and income for the Bad River Ojibwe. Gogebic Taconite (G-Tac), a subsidiary of the Cline Group owned by Florida billionaire Chris Cline, has proposed building an open-pit iron mine in the Penokee Hills, the headwaters of the Bad River system and the underground Penokee Aquifer, which feeds wells throughout the basin to the north. The mine would initially be 4 1/2 miles long, but eventually stretch up to 22 miles long, half a mile wide, and 900 feet deep. Rocks overlying the iron deposit contain the sulfide mineral pyrite, which could generate acid drainage. G-Tac has leased 3,300 acres of Iron County Forest land for storing mine waste, which contains over 1,000 acres of wetlands, including 815 acres that are directly connected to trout streams that wind their way through the area. G-Tac has asked legislators to change environmental laws to strip protections from these waters and speed up the mine permitting process. This is the source. Do we want it protected--or mined?


Free space optical (FSO), Differential Detection,atmospheric attenuation, non-selective scattering, bit-errorrate (BER).
This paper presents a new detection scheme namely Double Carrier Modulation/Differential Detection (DCM/Diff.D) for free space optical (FSO), to provide a longer transmission distance in the presence of severe atmospheric attenuation. Atmospheric attenuation is the main challenge for FSO or also known as Wireless Optical Communications (WOC). In order to tolerate this effect either link distance or link availability has to be compromised. This scheme uses amplitude subtraction between original data bits and their inversion to provide a simple dynamic decision making scheme. The inverted data basically serve as the threshold in place of the conventional externally injected voltage. Using this scheme, we perform a simulation under heavy rainfall condition of 8.33x10-4 cm/sec in Subang area, Malaysia at 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s with 0 dBm of optical transmitter power.


There are people starting to do favours to their major ""shareholders"". I guess it's only fair to let some of the goodness of GoogleJuice and fake blogshares-"money" drip back on the people who believe in you. Blogshares is creating a whole new "blog economy". Funny, in a way, no...?
Thanks for the link-back. :) I too have mixed feelings on blogshares.. Its a fun simulation, but on the other hand, I think too much vying goes on about 'a-listers' and people bragging about daypop ratings and so on. When people become popular because they naturally write good relevant stuff, thats fine, but when people write things specifically to tempt links from popular blogs, things start to get out of hand. I see lots of blogs with a pile of blogroll links to all the main 'a-listers' (you know who i'm talking about), but I wonder if those people actually read every one of those blogs regularly, or if they are just subtly requesting a back-link. I make a point to only put blogs in my blogroll that I actually read regularly. If they happen to be 'a-listers' then so be it, and if they aren't thats fine too.
Things like this, while fun, seem to have a slight air of competition that I don't think is necessarily healthy (groupthink?).
Anyway, i've decided to embrace the fun part of it for now, and decide whether or not i think the groupthink part is a problem later.
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Q: Having Authentication Error While Trying To Access Mysql Database From Visual Studio 2012 I am pretty new at Mysql and I am basically trying to connect the Mysql Database at my computer (using localhost) from Windows Form by clicking a button but I am getting Authentication errors no matter what I do.
This is the first error I got(KinderGray is my Computer Name):
http://i.imgur.com/A1BGVpm.png
After I created new user and granted all privileges, I started to get similar but different error.
http://i.imgur.com/p5NXV7V.png
I know it is for security purposes and giving all privileges to a user is not so good idea. The thing I want to do is connect the database, but also avoiding security vulnerabilities is as important. Any idea would be useful for me, so what would you suggest? Thanks...
This is my Connection code by the way.
class Connection {
        private MySqlConnection connect;
        private string Server;
        private string Database;
        private string Userid;
        private string Pass;
        public Connection() { Baglan(); }
        public void Baglan(){
            Server = "localhost";
            Database = "market";
            Userid = "root";
            Pass = "";
            string ConnectionString = "SERVER=" + Server + ";" + "DATABASE=" + Database + ";" + "UID" + Userid + ";" + "PASSWORD=" + Pass + ";";
            connect = new MySqlConnection();
        }
        public bool BaglantiAc() {
            try { connect.Open();
            return true;
            }
            catch(MySqlException ex) {
                MessageBox.Show("Hata Kodu: " + ex);
                return false;
            }

        }
        public bool BaglantiKapa()
        {
            try
            {
                connect.Close();
                return true;
            }
            catch
            {
                return false;
            }

        }
    }
    private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Connection d1 = new Connection();
        d1.Baglan();
        if (d1.BaglantiAc()) label3.Text = "Bağlantı başarılı.";
        else label3.Text = "Bağlantı başarısız.";
    }

    private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Application.Exit();
    }


November gone already – I know, I always say the same thing. This month has been a bit weird. Our cat died on Bonfire Night, which may sound slightly silly and not important but to me it really was.
It kind of puts stuff in perspective I guess. What you ate for dinner just doesn't seem all that important when something – even if it's a pet – that was so central to your daily life suddenly disappears.
Having said that, Jamie and I also experienced firsthand the healing powers of food. Not physically, but the ability of a decent meal to provide the backdrop for the talking, crying and laughing that can heal us inside.
And that, ladies and gentleman, was the 'Mushroom Dinner' at The Cross in Kenilworth. It's the next post you'll see on this blog. But first – here's what you missed in November. As usual, some of the meals might have been had in the previous month but I'm gradually catching up on the backlog so they're not that long ago.
First up was the Hollybush Inn at Priors Marston, where we discovered the best jus I've had in ages and some rustic but well-executed dishes. Apparently the kitchen's changed around a bit since we went so I'll go back and check it out again for you soon, promise.
In a slightly different post from the usual restaurant reviews, I headed back to Leekes in Coventry – where I saw John Torode last year – for a demonstration by the one and only Ken Hom, king of stir fry. In what felt like the quickest hour going, he whipped up three classic meals whilst regaling us with his anecdotes.
Continuing on the 'slightly different' theme, I got my hands on a new cookbook back in October – Spanish Made Simple by Omar Allibhoy, the father of Tapas Revolution – and actually met the man himself.
If you haven't checked out the blog post on this little tapas experience, it's a nice little mix of trying some of the dishes served up at Tapas Revolution in Grand Central and then me creating a little Spanish feast at home using some of Omar's recipes. And rather good it was too.
Don't worry, it's not all cooking (or my lame attempts). I may have missed the first birthday of Nosh & Quaff, but I managed to make it back with a few family members in tow to see how it's changed. There are a few additions to the menu but the old faves are still there, so get yourself down soon for lobster, burgers and general messy food.
And the last post you may not have caught is little Sunday lunch idea you might not have thought of before. I don't know about you but when someone says Sunday dinner I automatically think of country pubs or rural locations. But what about a city centre stop-off?
Well, if you're in Birmingham, you could try Malmaison. We were invited to try their Sunday lunch offering including unlimited hors d'oeuvres, delicious roast beef, and some indulgent puds – all for a pretty reasonable price.
And that, folks, is it for this month. I know, there haven't been loads of posts but it's still plenty to get your teeth into (lol, pun absolutely intended!). Away from the blog, I've been writing plenty of other stuff – lots food related, whether for Yahoo or The i or my monthly Belle About Town blog.
Oh, and there's loads more coming up here on Eat with Ellen – the wonderful mushroom dinner at The Cross of course, as well as a few other little treats and FINALLY the write-up of our Tuscany trip in October.
So make sure you check back, follow me on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for daily updates, and let me know where you think I should try next!
Some of the meals included on this blog were complimentary. Please see each individual blog post for full disclosure.


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GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) English Research Approaches and Methodologies Study Material (Page 9 of 20)
Magical Realism: Concept, Characteristics- Supernatural Elements, Realistic Setting, Authorial Reticence, Political Critique, Metafiction
Magical realism refers to a literary genre which includes supernatural elements within a modern, realistic setting. Works of magical realism blend the supernatural and the real in an effort to reveal the fantastical, mysterious nature of mundane reality. Magical realism is considered to be a subgenre of fantasy.
In magical …
Surrealism: Concept, Characteristics, Conclusion- Influence of Psychoanalysis, Political Philosophy, Experimental Writing Style
Surrealism was a literary and artistic movement which developed in Europe in the early twentieth century. The movement first emerged in France, with the publication of Andre Breton՚s Manifesto on Surrealism in 1924. Surrealism was influenced by Dadaism, an artistic movement which had emerged in 1914 as a negative reaction to the destructiveness of the First World War.
Dadaism rejected traditional cultural and artistic values, and sought to shock rather than please their audience. Western culture prized rationality and aestheticism in art, and Dadaists challenged such artistic standards.
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Ballast Point's rise, fall and re-sale: inside craft beer's most baffling deal
Sculpin, first brewed in 2005, is Ballast Point's flagship beer.
(K.C. Alfred)
How did a tiny Illinois brewery acquire a craft beer icon once valued at $1 billion?
By Peter Rowe
Fresh off a family trip to Rome, Chris Bradley sat down with Brendan Watters, his partner at Kings & Convicts, a little Illinois brewery. Anything happen, Bradley asked, during his vacation?
"We're buying Ballast Point," Watters announced.
"What?" Bradley sputtered. "How?"
That exchange occurred in a Chicago suburb this summer. Similar scenes played out across the U.S. last week, when Constellation Brands — Ballast Point's current owner — and Kings & Convicts announced the deal. Really? How could an obscure two-year-old brewery from Highwood, Ill., (2018 production: 550 barrels of beer) land an industry icon (2018 production: 320,000 barrels) once worth $1 billion?
The full answer is cloaked in nondisclosure statements, but a partial explanation involves 9/11, golf and a desperate seller. New York-based Constellation was eager to dump Ballast Point, with its plummeting sales and a trademark value — a measure of its worth outside of its assets — in free fall, cratering from $223 million in January 2018 to $17 million in October 2019.
"I think they decided it was time to get what they could," Bart Watson, the Brewers Association's chief economist, said of Constellation, "and focus on their core brands."
The rise, fall and re-invention of Ballast Point is one of the most dramatic chapters in the annals of American craft beer, illustrating this industry's much-hyped promise and often overlooked fault lines. The arc of Ballast's story, from rags to riches to near irrelevance, is a cautionary tale within the industry, while its possible resurgence is a sign of hope for craft beer's true believers.
Much depends on the savvy of Bradley and Watters, two craft beer rookies and expats — Bradley, "The King," is from England while Watters, "The Convict," from Australia. Having enjoyed financial success in other professions and in other cities, both express confidence in their ability to revive Ballast.
Still, they understand the skeptics. Consider their original plan.
"What we wanted," Watters said, laughing, "was to have a place to homebrew, put up some TVs and have a place for our friends to gather."
Not something of Ballast's size and reputation? "In our wildest dreams," he said.
What? How?
From calamity to crisis
With his just-us-mates style, Watters appears to be a simple, free and easy Aussie. He's not.
His resume includes an MBA from the London Business School; a directorship with Avanade, a joint venture of Microsoft and Accenture; 15 years as owner and CEO of a hotel firm, Boomerang, which he sold the Red Lion group for $8.4 million; and two years as vice president of Le Meridien hotels, overseeing that international chain's corporate finance, purchases and sales.
He secured that last job on Sept. 10, 2001, with a handshake in a New York City boardroom. The next day, he caught a United flight out of JFK, bound for Seattle, where he lived with his wife and children.
Soon after takeoff, the FAA re-routed his flight to Minneapolis, as authorities grappled with the unfolding calamity of 9/11. "We were one of the last flights to land in the United States that day," he said.
The 9/11 attacks killed thousands, launched the West's ongoing war on terrorism and shook global markets. Among the casualties was the travel industry, as flights were cancelled and countless people chose to stay home. Watters moved to London to help Le Meridien recover. Flying around the world, he evaluated the chain's strengths and weaknesses, adding promising hotels and discarding weak links.
"That really taught me the hotel trade," Watters said.
When his two-year term was up, he founded his own hotelier business, eventually moving to the Chicago area. He led Boomerang through another crisis — the Great Recession — until 2015, when Red Lion made an irresistible offer.
Around that time, he met Bradley. The son of a British foreign service officer, Bradley was a former executive with Navman Wireless, a New Zealand purveyor of consumer GPS devices. He had nodding acquaintance with Watters, due to a personal tragedy.
Lisa and Brendan Watters' family includes two daughters, a son and a beloved memory. Benny was 5 when he died in 2010, a victim of a rare form of brain cancer. Benny's World, the charity his parents founded to fund cancer research, held fundraisers that the Bradleys had attended.
The friends' desire to homebrew led them to a 5,000-square-foot warehouse in Highwood, a town on Lake Michigan's shoreline 30 miles north of Chicago. The warehouse was too large for a mere amateur operation but sufficient for a small commercial brewery.
They signed the lease in 2016, sold their first pint in 2017, began planning a larger brewery in 2018. They visited about 50 major craft breweries, from Minneapolis' Surly to Escondido's Stone. Using this list of best practices, they began building Kings & Convicts' new home, a 48,000-square-foot production brewery in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., five miles beyond the Illinois border.
Then Bradley took the family to Rome and Watters took some Constellation executives golfing.
Watters has some pull at Conway Farms, a lush course developed by pro golfer Tom Fazio in upscale Lake Forest, Ill. Before hosting the Constellation contingent, he made sure the clubhouse served one of that corporation's beers, Corona.
After the game, he inquired about Ballast.
Why? the Constellation reps asked.
"I just blurted it out," Watters said. "We want to buy it."
A day later, he took a call from Constellation's Mergers & Acquisitions department.
Constellation made headlines in 2015 by buying Ballast for a reported $1 billion. Crazy money, yes, but at the time it did not seem totally insane.
Ballast had an appealing back story, emerging in 1996 from a homebrewer shop, Home Brew Mart. Its award-winning IPA, Sculpin, was so popular it made cameo appearances on cable TV (HBO's "Silicon Valley") and the funny pages (the "Bliss" comic strip). Ballast's brewers cranked out fan-favorites: Victory at Sea, an imperial porter; Sour Wench, a pioneering American sour; and small-batch experimental brews, the Homework Series.
If Constellation overpaid, many figured the investment would eventually pay off. The corporation used its marketing muscle to distribute Ballast in 49 states — the lone exception is West Virginia — and touted the brand with billboards and TV ads. An additional fortune was spent on Ballast brewpubs in Long Beach, Anaheim and Chicago plus an East Coast brewery in Daleville, Va.
Sales initially rose, peaking at almost 431,000 barrels (one barrel of beer equals 31 gallons). Then came the collapse. Early estimates for 2019 are somewhere north of 200,000 barrels, while the brand's trademark value fell by more than 90 percent in less than two years.
Why the decline? Several reasons are cited:
In San Diego and other craft beer havens, the cognoscenti shunned Ballast, seeing its sale as a betrayal of the brewery's local, independent roots.
Constellation bought Ballast just as the explosive growth fueling U.S. craft beer began to slow.
Craft breweries are now so numerous, there's been a shift away from bigger brands like Ballast in favor of neighborhood breweries.
"Ballast Point faces the same challenges that a lot of regional breweries face these days," said the Brewers Association's Watson. "They are caught between hyper-local breweries and the largest brewing companies."
Constellation was ready to sell. Watters contacted a handful of investors who had backed his previous ventures; banks that had financed those enterprises; then briefed his stunned partner. In a Chicago "war room," Bradley and Watters spent two weeks poring over Ballast's books. After consulting with attorneys, financial planners, friends and family, they came to a decision.
"We can take one of the most iconic brands in beer, with a footprint to die for, with brewpubs in fantastic locations, with a beer that we love?" Watters said. "This is awesome."
On Sept. 12, California's Secretary of State registered a new company: Kings & Convicts BP LLC.
Boring as bat guano
This deal still needs approval by the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. While financial details have not been released, industry observers estimate the sales price between $75 million to $200 million.
Today, Kings & Convicts BP has six partners: Watters and Bradley (20 percent each); Richard Mahoney, former chief financial officer for The Wine Group, a consortium behind Cupcake, Franzia, Concannon and other wineries (24.9 percent); and three unnamed individuals,including one commodities trader. Several also have a stake in Kings & Convicts' Pleasant Prairie expansion.
None, Watters said, owns more than 25 percent of the company.
That's important because the Brewers Association define "craft breweries" as those making fewer than 6 million barrels of beer a year; using traditional methods and ingredients; and "independent," with no more than 25 percent owned by an outside entity.
The new company will be headquartered in San Diego. While Ballast's Miramar brewery will devote some time and brew kettle space to Kings & Convicts beers, especially those intended for export to Australia and New Zealand, the partners insisted the emphasis will be on reviving Ballast.
Expect redesigned labels — the one for Ballast Lager, Watters said, is "boring as bat guano," or words to that effect — and increased advertising and events in the San Diego and California markets. Bradley promised a revival of the barrel-aged beer program and renewed emphasis on small batch of experimental beers, including some geared toward specific geographic regions.
The partners say Ballast will retain its 49-state footprint, with the focus on a dozen: California, Washington, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Constellation, attempting a more uniform cross-country approach, found itself stuck with a declining brand. Will Kings & Convicts BP LLC suffer a similar fate?
"Even though there's been decline, Ballast Point is going to sell more than 200,000 barrels this year," said the Brewers Association's Watson. "In the context of the craft landscape, that's fairly strong."
It's certainly more than 550 barrels.
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Boulder, Colorado to get B-Cycle program
Latest bike-sharing franchise seek $750,000 additional funding
By Matt Pacocha
Boulder has plans to launch their own B-Cycle bike-sharing franchise this spring
Mat Barlow/matbarlow.com
The B-Cycle program is meant for short trips around town, for example: to expand one's lunchtime range
The B-Cycle bike-sharing program are hoping to launch in Boulder, Colorado this spring. From 20 May, roughly 200 bikes will be available from 25 downtown docking and rental kiosks – as long as $750,000 of additional funding can be found.
In total, $1.25 million is needed to launch the program. A $250,000 federal grant is currently pledged by the City of Boulder, but Boulder B-Cycle are now charged with raising another $1mil to kick things off.
The non-profit organization have secured roughly 35 percent of that funding goal and are continuing to seek donations from city residents and businesses. The push continues this Friday, 14 January, with an official launch party.
Once up and running, Boulder B-Cycle predict that their annual memberships and advertizing opportunities on the bikes and kiosks – local businesses can secure space on the basket of one bike for just $500 for an entire year – will allow them to be financially self-sufficient.
Annual membership will be $50 in 2011, with day passes costing $5 – and as a bonus, both will be interchangeable with Denver's B-Cycle program. The first hour of each trip will be free and a $4 per half-hour fee is charged for trips over an hour to both types of users. Day-passes will be available at the kiosks, while annual memberships will be sold online.
"We have three main focuses in terms of our users," said Elizabeth Train community engagement director of Boulder B-Cycle to BikeRadar. "The visitor, again Boulder has 2.5 million a year, and we're hoping that this will become one of those treasured Boulder destination [activities]. There are also 55,000 people who commute into Boulder from out of town everyday for work, so we're hoping that some of those folks… will take a B-Cycle instead of getting back in their cars at lunch. I believe that people that live in Boulder and already have bikes — or even 7 bikes, like I do — will use the system."
The b-cycle program is meant for short trips around town, for example: to expand one's lunchtime range:
A B-Cycle is meant for short trips around town, for example: to expand one's lunchtime range
The Boulder launch follows successful bike sharing programs in Denver, Minneapolis, DesMoines, Chicago, San Antonio and Washington D.C. The Denver scheme was proclaimed an overwhelming success in its first season, with 103,000 rides and 30,000 users. Only one bike was stolen and only one 'in-use' mechanical problem was reported – a flat tire.
The idea, design and technology powering B-cycle was born at the base of the Flatirons [famous rock formations near Boulder ed] and local creative agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky was the driving force behind B-cycle's national launch.
Fellow Boulder County businesses Amadeus Consulting and KIOSK Information Systems developed the software and user kiosks respectively. Other founding partners include Humana and Wisconsin-based Trek Bikes, who designed and manufacture the bikes.
Matt Pacocha
Des Moines on B-Cycle bike share bandwagon