Happy Monday from GSUVB! Welcome to our first of many weekly updates for this season. Coming off of a hot, sweaty, tiring, yet EXCITING week of preseason, we more ready than ever to get the (volley)ball rolling this fall!
This week is one of many firsts and lasts for our Knights. For our First-Years, today is their first day of classes at Geneseo and with a little guidance and support from their veteran teammates, they are more than prepared to be stellar student-athletes! Some other big 'firsts' for our First-Years this week—first GSUVB team photo, first time visiting Ohio (Kat Vernon, Shea Casey, & Grace Cergol!), and last but certainly not least, their very first season opener as Knights!
As our First-Years have a week full of brand new Geneseo experiences, our seniors are learning the bittersweet feeling of having a week of 'last firsts'. For these ladies, today is their last first day of classes at Geneseo. They'll have their last first official team practice this week, their last team photo as Knights, and at the end of this week, they'll compete in their last season opener at Mount Union University.
All in all, it is a week of change and excitement for Geneseo Volleyball! There will be lots of experiences, new and old, which means many memories to make and opportunities to take that will make us stronger on and off the volleyball court. We couldn't be more ready to start the journey of our 2016-2017 season and to take each day, whether it's our first, last, or anything in between, as a chance to be better, kinder, faster, and more committed than the day before. GO KNIGHTS!
Hi everyone! It's hard to believe that the summer is almost over. I feel like it was just last week that I was finishing up finals and heading home to Long Island.
One of the first things I do whenever I go home (no matter what season) is go to the beach.
This is West Meadow Beach right by my house and it's one of my favorite places in the world.
For those of you that don't know, I am a Business Administration major at Geneseo. However, last summer I worked in the outpatient physical therapy department at St. Charles Hospital and fell in love with the work I do there. Following this experience, I decided that the business world wasn't a place I could see myself working for the rest of my life. Working hands on with a variety of different patients made me realize that physical therapy was my calling. My plan following graduation from Geneseo is to attend PT school and I couldn't be more excited.
This year I continued working at St.Charles. This is me at work during Employee Appreciation Week with one of my coworkers Stacy. We're both physical therapy aides. We assist the physical therapists with whatever they need including teaching the patients exercises or transferring physically/cognitively impaired onto different pieces of equipment.
Aside from working five days a week, I've spent a lot of time with friends and family. One of my favorite things I did this weekend was celebrate my little cousin Jayda's 1st birthday. Her party had a bouncy house, a petting zoo, and a clown.
Multiple outfit changes were obviously required. On the right, she's enjoying her time in the bouncy house.
My best friend Lauren was on co-op in New York City during spring semester. At the end of May I visited her in the city. The highlight was going to the Brooklyn Bridge. We had both never been there before so it was truly incredible to see the city from a different vantage point.
In the middle of July, Geneseo Alumni- Paige O'Connor had her graduation party. Most of the members of the 2015 volleyball team were in attendance. You might see several familiar faces below!
It's always amazing to spend time with teammates especially if you haven't seen them in a while.
On July 23rd, I celebrated my 21st birthday. My family and best friends from home came to my house to celebrate. I love being surrounded by my loved ones, there's no better feeling. For my birthday, my brother Sean got us tickets to see Darius Rucker at Jones Beach. We had awesome seats!
My brother Sean is on the right and our friend Brendan is on the left. If you've never been to Jones Beach, it's one of the most breathtaking places to see a concert.
The following weekend, Kaci and I made the trip up from Long Island to coach the Elite Camp at Geneseo. Seeing everyone made me so excited to get back up to school and get in the gym. Hanging out with a couple of sweaty seniors following the night session. Dani and I throwing up the number 32 for our girl Kelsey Annese. Geneseo sunsets remind us of how she will always being watching over us. Her spirit lives on in our hearts forever.
The end of the summer is always bittersweet for me. My favorite season is ending but it just reminds me that I get to return back to Geneseo. I can't wait to get into the gym with everyone and work as hard as we possible can to achieve our goals.
Entering my senior year, I have been reminiscing about all the memories I have made at Geneseo. From staying in hotels at away volleyball tournaments to pulling all-nighters in Fraser library; I wouldn't change any of them for the world. Freshmen, make sure you take in every moment because in a blink of an eye you're a senior and you can't believe that your college experience went by so fast.
At some point this season I will pull on my knee pads and lace up my sneakers for the last time as a Geneseo Knight, but after it's all over I want to be able to say I had no regrets and that I left everything out on the court. However, something that I will definitely be able to say is that playing volleyball at Geneseo defined my college experience. It made me part of the most amazing family.
I can't wait to get in the gym with all of you. More memories await in 2 weeks!
Hey everyone! Hope your summer is going fantastic! In a little less than three weeks we'll all be together playing volleyball again (I'm so excited!!!). It feels just like yesterday I was school supply shopping for my first day of high school, and now it's for college, YIKES how the time flew. Even though college is going to be a huge adjustment from home life, I can't wait to experience it!
So far, this summer has been an extremely busy one. Trying fit everything on a bucket list into a short two months, is a super fun and tiring task. I've been going to the beach as much as possible, soaking up all the sun and salt I can. Watching the sunsets, and even a few sunrises at the beach with my friends throughout the last two months were breathtaking. We had a bunch of bonfires and sleepovers at my friend Sunny's camper at Cupsogue Outer Beach on Dune Road. I boated around Moriches Bay on my friend's cruiser a bunch of times, and hopefully before summer ends, I will finally attempt tubing. Earlier this summer, my friends and I took a road trip 2 hours east to Montauk for a day. My best friend Hailey wanted to meet her roommate for the first time so we all met up out east and beached it for the day. Even though the beach was terrific, the car ride home was definitely my favorite part, filled with funny jokes, sing alongs, stupid games, high-fiving strangers, and just letting go of our future worries and thinking in the present. I'm going to miss moments like that with my friends, but when I see them again, it'll be like we never left.
Besides attempting to be at the beach 24/7, I also got a job right when school ended. I work at small clothing boutique in Westhampton town called Blue 1. The clothes are very cute and chic but WAY out of my price range, so the 30% discount doesn't do much. Even though I don't shop there, I do love working there. All my new co-workers have become my close friends, and I feel like it has helped me gain a little more maturity. I almost work full-time, working about 4 days a week, which usually includes weekends 😦 but even though it stinks working certain days, this job really did help me save for college. Hopefully I'll be returning next summer with this same job opportunity open for my taking!
Since I've lived in East Moriches practically my whole life, my friends and I are always looking of new fun things to do. We've went to the movies, bowling, mini-golfing, late night food/ice cream runs, sleepovers, concerts, and SO many grad parties. We're all trying to fill up the summer with as much memories as possible. Earlier in the summer right before the 4th of July, I went to my first freedom fest concert with a huge group of my friends and saw many different country performers. Besides just the people I went with, their was so many other friends there that I knew, it was a blast! I even got to get a picture with one of the performers, Micheal Ray, which was awesome! A few weeks later, My friend Hannah and I went to a completely different concert, Justin Bieber's Purpose Tour. We took the train into Manhattan, grabbed some dinner at Chipotle, then walked into the enormous, sold-out Madison Square Garden to watch our favorite childhood singer perform. We screamed and sang along to every song the entire night, and almost passed out with exhaustion on the never-ending train ride home. Her and I are also planning to go to see Drake this upcoming Monday at MSG, one of our other favorite artists.
Even though I'm writing this recap of my summer, we all still have a few weeks left at home! These last few weeks are definitely going to be jam-packed with things to do like, going to a Hunter Hayes concert (and maybe a Drake one too!), maybe a day trip to six flags, a lot more days at the beach/boating, working, maybe diving with some sharks at the aquarium (in a cage of course), hanging out with friends, and just soaking up the last bit of home!!!


morning all - Hammering it down here - has been most of the night.... Nevermind hey!
Evening all - back from my hols - how is everyone??
Evening all, nice holiday john?
Pete, I wonder who left all that on the front seat ... :? :?


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25 Best Restaurants in Mexico (Slideshow)
Haley Willard
The Daily Meal ranked the best restaurants in Mexico
25. Red Cabbage Café (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2014, this small café might be hard to find, but it's definitely worth the search. The bohemian dining room of Red Cabbage Café is a colorful one, with brightly painted walls covered with photographs, paintings, posters, and magazine clippings about cultural icons of Mexico, including Frida Kahlo, who even has a special menu dedicated to her, replicating dishes she and husband Diego Rivera used to prepare for guests. That menu includes things like cream of peanut soup (which, according to Red Cabbage Café, was the opening course at Kahlo and Rivera's Christmas dinners); mole poblano, made with 25 different ingredients and served over chicken breast with rice and beans; homemade flan; and of course a shot or two of tequila or a margarita. Other than the special Kahlo menu, Red Cabbage Café offers a versatile mix of dishes from different regions of Mexico, including tortilla soup, stuffed chile peppers, and tacos, all made from scratch and in authentic style. The restaurant also offers cooking classes.
24. Caesar's Restaurant at Hotel Caesar's (Tijuana, Mexico)
While its location in a seedy section of Tijuana may seem off-putting to some, it was at Caesar's Restaurant on Avenida Revolución that the Caesar salad was invented, by immigrant Italian chef Caesar Cardini, in the 1920s, and the place is still very much worth visiting today. The décor is old-school — dark wood paneling, ancient espresso machines at the bar, photos of a bygone era — but the restaurant (not the hotel) was taken over in 2012 by Javier Plascencia, the innovative chef-restaurateur who has worked to revitalize Tijuana's dining scene. He has brought first-rate Mexican and continental cuisine here — including you-know-what, tossed tableside.
23. Silvestre (Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico)
An outdoor grill and picnic tables under a canopy hung with ceiling fans are all that chef Benito Molina, of Ensenada's Manzanilla (see number 43) needs to satisfy touring wine lovers (and indigenous winemakers) in the Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico's premier wine country, inland from the coast. Its name means "wild," and Silvestre — open only on weekends, and only from late spring to early autumn — indeed has an attractively unstructured, out-in-the-countryside feeling about it. The menu is fixed-price, including six courses of locally sourced foodstuffs — perfect salads, grilled organic vegetables, lightly smoky grilled oysters, great seafood from all along the Baja littoral (swordfish and tuna are regulars), maybe herb-strewn lamb or Sonoran rib-eye steak with grilled scallions and tortillas, and Baja cheeses. It all tastes even better than it probably would in an indoor restaurant; that expanse of vineyard that begins just a few feet away adds real flavor.
22. La Marea Restaurant (Playa del Carmen, Mexico)
La Marea Restaurant is not a typical surf-and-turf establishment. Tucked within the Viceroy Riviera Maya in the small village of Playa Xcalacoco, just outside Playa del Carmen, the beachfront resort restaurant is a refuge of fine dining. The restaurant is open for dinner only, and Mexican chef Jetzabel Rojas Barragán prepares contemporary interpretations of Mexican cuisine with Mediterranean influences — for instance plantain risotto with crispy Ramonetti cheese, cinnamon, and poached egg; cocoa-crusted Sonora rib-eye with wild mushrooms, roasted Cambray onions, and pasilla chile sauce; and Puerto Morelos poached lobster tail and risotto with asparagus risotto, sweet potato chips, and vanilla butter.
21. Los Danzantes (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Yes, it's touristy, but Los Danzantes delivers a supreme sampling of Oaxaca's famous moles and mezcal. Los Danzantes ("The Dancers") is named for carvings of dancing figures on the ruins of nearby Monte Albán. Set in the courtyard of a renovated three-story colonial building, the 80-seat open-air dining room with adobe walls and a shimmering pool is often packed with tourists dining on fondue de huitlacoche, a corn fungus and cheese fondue with serrano pepper served in a rustic bread bowl; breaded chicken breast stuffed with goat cheese and porcini mushrooms with chipotle cream; and shredded turkey with red mole and chayote. The goat cheese flan with figs, honey, and chocolate sauce, and the empanada with quince, cream cheese, and a red wine reduction are sweet endings to an iconic and memorable Mexican meal.
20. Muelle Tres (Ensenada, Mexico)
Owner David Martinez and chef Andoney Garcia run this tiny, super-casual seafood place, open Tuesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. only, showcasing absolutely fresh fish and shellfish harvested locally. Come here for crema de almeja (a Baja take on clam chowder), local oysters, sashimi or ceviche of whatever's fresh and good, fried calamari, steamed clams, giant shrimp with garlic sauce, or seafood-laden rice or pasta. Simple white wine and cold beer flow freely.
19. Birriería Las 9 Esquinas (Guadalajara, Mexico)
Tucked in the charming working class neighborhood of Las Nueve Esquinas ("the nine corners," named for the area's numerous intersecting streets), Birriería Las 9 Esquinas is the top spot to sample birria (a spicy Mexican goat stew that originated here in the state of Jalisco). Proprietor Don Federico greets diners and seats them in the blue-and-yellow-tiled, colonial-style dining room while Doña Lupita prepares the restaurant's namesake dish. Complimentary cebollitas (baby onions) and tortilla chips are brought to the table while live music entertains guests as they wait for the birria to be served. Here, the birria consists of goat with mirasol, ancho, and pasilla chiles cooked overnight over a low fire and served with a consommé (a clear broth). It's best eaten by first scooping the meat up with a tortilla chip and then dipping it into the broth — delicioso!
18. Café de Tacuba (Mexico City)
This historic Mexico City institution, founded in 1912, is big, bright, and bustling, from the entrance, with its massive mural depicting chocolate in various contexts (being enjoyed by a nobleman, being mixed into mole in a convent kitchen), which overlooks the pastry counter, to the back dining rooms with their ornate mirrors, wrought-iron railings, and Moorish-style lights. The menu is an anthology of Mexican specialties with other homey specialties added. Standouts include the mole poblano enchiladas, the chicken tacos with guacamole, the chuchulocos (taquitos) in hot sauce, the barbecued pork steak, the fried calf's brains, the beef filet with chilaquiles (cut-up tortillas in a chile-based sauce), and the assorted house-made Mexican pastries.
17. Flora's Field Kitchen (San José del Cabo, Mexico)
Located down a rutted, dirt road in the center of Flora Farm, a 10-acre organic farm in the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains, Flora's Field Kitchen offers the ultimate in farm-to-table dining. All ingredients used come from the farm owned by Gloria and Patrick Greene; breads are made from a wood oven and the free-range meat comes from their nearby 150-acre ranch. At night and on Sundays, the wood oven is used to craft 12-inch Neapolitan-style pizzas with toppings such as house-made lemon ricotta and thyme. The seasonally changing menu, which ranked number eight on The Daily Meal's 25 Best Farmstead Restaurant Experiences, includes family-friendly comfort foods served family-style or à la carte like double-cut pork chop and oven-roasted half chicken. Farm walks are offered pre-meal.
16. Villa Saverios (Tijuana, Mexico)
A special-occasion place for the well-to-do of Tijuana, owned by the Plascencia family — Tijuana restaurant royalty — with Javier Plascencia (see Misión 19, number 22) in charge of the kitchen, Villa Saverios is a comfortable restaurant, with bare wood floors, mottled walls, white-napped tables, and a glass room divider etched with images of grapes. The open kitchen at end of the room produces what might best be described as sophisticated Mexican-accented continental cuisine based on top-notch fresh ingredients, many of them Baja-sourced. A kind of carpaccio of smoked marlin is dressed in Baja olive oil and garnished with avocado, basil, habanero chiles, and mango vinaigrette; beautiful deep-water Baja shrimp are simply boiled and served on a bed of samphire; oven-roasted short ribs, slow-cooked for eight hours, are nestled on a bed of smashed potatoes enriched with Real del Castillo cheese from Ojos Negros, east of Ensenada. The cooking is first-rate throughout and shows real finesse.
15. La Querencia (Tijuana, Mexico)
Miguel Ángél Guerrero Yaguës, the chef–proprietor of this Tijuana original, may have coined the term "BajaMed" and was certainly one of its earliest practitioners. La Querencia has a hip, contemporary-industrial look, with bare concrete floors, lacquered steel tables, exposed ducts overhead, and low-tech touches like mounted game trophies on the walls, a tropical fish tank at one end of the dining room, and a row of rusty old cooking implements hanging above the divider that separates the open stainless steel kitchen from the dining room. The menu appears on oversize blackboards. Roast duck, lamb chops, and a marinated rib-eye with shallots and Roquefort are available, but the focus is on fresh Baja seafood — scallop or marlin carpaccio, grilled shrimp salad, grilled octopus, a mixed seafood plate with red and white miso sauces and hot chiles. There's also pasta with pesto or romesco sauce, and a range of tacos, tostadas, and burritos employing such uncommon fillings as smoked marlin, giant squid, manta ray, tuna fin stew, and abalone "chorizo" — all of it delicious.
14. Laja (Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico)
When he's not overseeing the cooking at MeroToro in Mexico City (see number 47), Jair Téllez — whose background includes stints at Daniel in New York City, La Folie in San Francisco, and the Four Seasons in Mexico City — is designing daily four- and eight-course fixed-price menus here at his original restaurant, a rustic, laid-back establishment in the Mexican wine country of the Valle de Guadalupe. Téllez was a pioneer of Baja Mediterranean cuisine, and is fanatical about using the freshest and best organic ingredients grown around the place or in other parts of the valley. Because he cooks according to what's best and most seasonal, the particulars can be unpredictable, but his salads are anthologies of freshness, his soups are authoritative (a cream of eggplant with jamón serrano, for instance), his seafood is first-rate (marinated yellowtail with preserved lemon, say), his meat dishes are full of flavor and perfectly cooked (oven-roasted baby lamb raised a mile or so away is a standout), and his desserts, usually based around fruit from neighboring orchards, are bright and refreshing. Téllez makes his own wines, and also serves a fine selection of the valley's best.
13. Moxi (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
Condé Nast Traveler recently anointed San Miguel de Allende, a pleasant and colorful artists' and American retirees' community in the state of Guanajuato, northwest of Mexico City, as the top city in the world — leaving such burgs as Barcelona, Paris, Venice, Budapest, Sydney, and Kyoto in the dust. Well, all right. Whatever. But San Miguel is certainly an engaging place, and one of its great attractions — and a rare example of contemporary architecture in the city — is the Hotel Matilda, a comfortable and alluring hostelry graced by an excellent restaurant, Moxi. Moxi is under the direction of Enrique Olvera, whose Pujol (see number 10) is one of the top contemporary restaurants in Mexico City. Here, in a pleasant, art-enhanced dining room, with a breezy terrace, Olvera's crew draws heavily on organically raised local produce to produce Mexican-accented international cuisine: lump crab salad with avocado, Cambray potato chips, and guajillo and morita chile purée; agnolotti filled with local farmers' cheese and sauced with mixed herb pesto; fish of the day cooked in parchment with green epazote mole and a potato and purslane salad; confit leg of suckling pig with almond mole and tamarind purée; and many other vividly flavored delights.
12. Corazón de Tierra (Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico)
This is the dining room at La Villa del Valle, the first chic boutique hotel in the Valle de Guadalupe (it opened as Las Brisas del Valle, but was constrained by the proprietors of the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco to rename itself). With sweeping hilltop views of Mexico's premier wine country, here, chef Diego Hernandez creates daily fixed-price menus that are basically Baja-Mediterranean with some Asian accents, utilizing a wide range of vegetables and herbs grown on the property (his cold mint soup wins raves), along with local duck and quail, and seafood from the nearby coast at Ensenada (smoked tuna figures often), served with the hotel's own wines. A standout dessert, if you're lucky enough to dine here when it's on the menu, is cornbread with crème anglaise, crumbled pork cracklings, and pumpkin ice cream.
11. MeroToro (Mexico City)
"Mero" is grouper; "toro" is bull. Put them together and you have a splendid "surf-and-turf"–themed restaurant opened three years ago by Gabriela Cámara and Pablo Bueno of the popular Contramar. The place may be located in Mexico City's posh Colonia Condesa, but the vibe is relaxed (bare tables and slat-backed chairs; open kitchen), and the inspiration comes from far to the northwest, from Baja California, and Cámara and Bueno have secured the services here of one of that region's most accomplished chefs, Jair Téllez of Laja (see number 56) in the Valle de Guadalupe, Baja wine country. Téllez (pleasantly) surprises palates in the Mexican capital with such dishes as ceviche made with samphire as well as the expected chiles, combines scallops with cucumbers, flavors risotto with bone marrow, and serves grouper (of course) on a bed of puréed cauliflower. Tellez's signature dish, though, shows that he has both feet on the ground: pan-fried pork jowl with lentils and a poached egg.
10. Manzanilla (Ensenada, Mexico)
You've got to love a restaurant whose front window promises "Fine Wine, Live Abalone, Rare Mezcal." The hot pink chandeliers and massive wooden back bar (like something out of an upscale cantina from a century ago) that greet you when you enter are a good sign, too. This is obviously a place with personality. Husband-and-wife chefs Benito Molina and Solange Muris have plenty of personality, too, as does their seafood-heavy menu, offering such delights as truly memorable roasted Baja oysters with tarragon butter and chiles; grilled clams with gorgonzola; fish of the day with chickpea purée, chayote, and seaweed; (live) fried abalone with soy and ginger; and for the non-piscatorially inclined, creamy rice with oxtail, pork loin with vanilla-scented apples and polenta, and a few other meaty specialties.
9. El Jardín de los Milagros (Guanajuato, Mexico)
In the fascinating historic colonial city of Guanajuato, northwest of Mexico City, motorcycle-riding chef Bricio Dominguez interprets traditional dishes and uses sometimes pre-Hispanic raw materials to produce consistently fascinating and satisfying dishes. Thin-sliced octopus is glazed with chocolate balsamic; sweetbread tacos are combined with avocado and a tomato foam; lamb chops come with smoked tamarind sauce and beer-vinegar honey. The adventurous might want to sample escamoles, the larvae of agave ants, which Dominguez offers in chalupas or in a creamy rice with Mexican artisanal cheeses. While retaining familiar Mexican food forms more closely than some other cutting-edge Mexican chefs today, Dominguez leads diners into unfamiliar but attractive territory at the same time.
8. Pitiona (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Chef José Manuel Baños Rodriguez's restaurant gives diners a gastronomic tour of Oaxaca. Named for a verbena-like herb commonly used in Oaxacan cooking, Pitiona showcases the region's versatile cuisine, with dishes using a perfect balance of traditional and experimental cooking techniques. Many of the chef's recipes are said to trace back to his mother and grandmother, but they've been personalized and modernized with Rodriguez's own playful style. Think mole with chicatana(ants), lamb with green mole and white bean foam, and carrot tacos with shrimp cevhice. To keep surprising his diners, chef Rodriquez likes to change his menu every month.
7. Origen (Oaxaca, Mexico)
After excelling in renowned kitchens in San Francisco, including Jardinière, La Mar, andChez Papa, chef Rodolfo Castellanos returned to his homeland of Mexico to open up his own restaurant in Oaxaca. Origen has bloomed into more than just a restaurant, offering cooking workshops and its own shop featuring locally sourced and carefully hand-crafted products such as coffee, spices, candies, and jams. In the restaurant itself, chef Castellanos serves carefully crafted dishes, heavily relying on seasonal availability and products from local farmers' markets. Sample fare includes sautéed scallops with cauliflower purée, pork belly, pomegranate, and mandarin; suckling goat confit with yellow squash purée, capers, raisins, and spiced carrots; and baked Alaska with mamon (a type of sponge cake), leche quemada (a type of milk candy) ice cream, caramelized pineapple, and meringue.
6. Misión 19 (Tijuana, Mexico)
Javier Plascencia, whose family owns everything from pizzerias to the special-occasion Villa Saverios (number 61) to the dining room at Hotel Caesar's (number 92), where the famous salad was invented, has been instrumental in helping to turn the infamous border town of Tijuana into something approaching a fine dining destination — and Misión 19 is his flagship. Looking out on the city from the second floor of a modern office building, the dining room — with wraparound windows, an open latticework of wood enclosing the bar, pastel neon accents, and cactuses that look like something out of a cartoon — is every bit as eclectic, colorful, and energizing as Plascencia's creations. A bastion of "BajaMed" cuisine (and why shouldn't northwestern Mexico have every bit as much a claim to the Mediterranean as Northern California?), Misión 19 tempts diners with such unexpected but welcome fare as seaweed and goat cheese salad with cured, grilled salmon trout; risotto with heirloom beans, wild mushrooms, and huitlacoche; fish of the day in fermented soybean sauce with poblano chile adobo, roasted carrots, and almonds; and tablitas (crosscut beef ribs) vacuum-cooked for 48 hours and served with "cracklins" of beluga lentils, chayote, and Brussels sprouts.
5. Pangea (Monterrey, Mexico)
Guillermo González Beristáin opened Pangea in 1998, and since then has set the standard for Mexican haute cuisine, influencing chefs and other restaurants to follow in his footsteps of presenting local Mexican produce in new, inventive ways. Beristáin has opened several other restaurants in the northeast region of Mexico, but Pangea remains his flagship, serving diners Mexican cuisine prepared with modern French techniques. Notable dishes include a warm local artichoke soup with sausage toast, cocoa, and pink pepper; fresh and smoked salmon ravioli with asparagus, hazelnuts, and saffron; braised beef with a green peppercorn demi-glace, mashed potatoes with Ramonetti cheese, organic vegetables, and a porcini mushroom emulsion. Pangea is also home to a highly regarded wine cellar, as Beristáin is a strong supporter of Mexican wines and has even launched a project to promote more unusual grape varieties.
4. Nectar (Mérida, Mexico)
Chef Roberto Solís' haute cuisine at Nectar is as ambitious as that from the big-name kitchens he trained in, namely those of Noma, Per Se, and,The Fat Duck. Located in the Yucatán region of Mexico, Nectar is all about preserving the original flavors and roots of the regional cuisine, and presenting it in a new, evolved manner. Using the techniques of modernist cuisine, the menu includes dishes such as fried summer tomatoes with pork, tomato water, and Oaxaca cheese ice cream; venison with orange, grapefruit, burned corn purée, quail egg, honey and onions, and beer; and local pumpkin with pepitas, tomatoes, grilled onions, and cotija cheese.
3. Casa Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Located in the colonial-style Casa Oaxaca Hotel in Oaxaca, Mexico, the restaurant of the same name offers hotel guests and outside diners alike a high-end experience of modern, Oaxaca-style cuisine infused with Mediterranean flavors. Behind the culinary creations is chef Alejandro Ruiz, who is not afraid to mix the flavor profiles of the Mediterranean and Mexico: basil and rosemary are just as relevant in his kitchen as huitlacoche and grasshoppers. The restaurant is split between two locations: the dining area at the hotel, with a popular open terrace for diners to enjoy the views, and another freestanding restaurant a 10-minute walk away in the historic district of Oaxaca. Both locations feature the innovative cuisine, and a majority of produce used is organic and local. Signature dishes include sea bass ceviche with passion fruit nectar and wild turkey breast with mole.
2. Pujol (Mexico City)
After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., and working for the superb Alsatian-born chef Jean Joho at hisEverest in Chicago, Enrique Olvera opened this contemporary-style restaurant in Mexico City in 2000, with the idea of using indigenous ingredients and traditional cooking methods to produce food with French-style refinement. He succeeds admirably with such dishes as romeritos (an herb that looks like rosemary and tastes like spinach) with favas, coriander stems, and chicken dressing; suckling lamb tacos with avocado, peas, cacao, and poblano chiles; oxtail mixiote (meat pit-roasted with chiles, herbs, and spices); and fermented banana with macadamia nuts, plantain vinegar, and chamomile petals. The restaurant's list of mezcals is eye- and palate-opening, and the collection of Mexican wines, especially reds, is one of the country's most extensive.
1. Biko (Mexico City)
The Mexican-Spanish fusion cuisine served at Biko is described by chefs Bruno Oteiza and Mikel Alonso as "sumptuous with surprises." With a three-year-long streak on the World's 50 Best" list by San Pellegrino, Biko has established its place as one of Mexico City's top high-end restaurants. The menu changes often and consists of locally sourced seasonal ingredients, compiled into refined, simple dishes that match the minimalist décor of Biko's dining room. The signature appetizer, "Foie 100% Algodón [Liver 100% Cotton]," is an elegant plate of whipped foie gras served with different complements depending on the season, including a version wrapped in iceberg lettuce, paired with cheese, and topped with cotton candy.
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Professor of International Macroeconomics , Trinity College Dublin
Leader of Financial Globalization and Macroeconomic Policy
Philip R. Lane is Whately Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin. He is Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board; he is an ex-officio member of the General Board and steering committee of the ESRB. He is also Director of the International Macroeconomics and Finance Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1995 and was Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University during 1995-1997 before returning to Dublin.
His research interests include financial globalisation, macroeconomics of exchange rates and capital flows, macroeconomic policy design and European monetary integration. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of International Economics, NBER Macroeconomics Annual and many other journals.
In 2001, he was the inaugural recipient of the German Bernacer Award in Monetary Economics for outstanding contributions to European monetary economics; in 2010, he was co-recipient of the Bhagwati Prize from the Journal of International Economics. He has also acted as an academic consultant for the European Central Bank, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, OECD, Asian Development Bank and a number of national central banks. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
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Institute Grantee Appointed Central Bank Governor
Article By Rob Johnson |	Oct 20, 2015
The Institute extends its congratulations to Philip Lane, who has been named to succeed Patrick Honohan as the Irish central bank chief, and inherit his role on the council of the ECB.
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Reid Murray celebrates scoring a goal on January 8 at Hudson Valley Community College against the Mohawks.
By Joe Boyle jboyle@digitalfirstmedia.com @boyleralertTroy on Twitter
La Salle's Spencer Carpenter faces off with Mohawk Anthony Fiore on January 8 at Hudson Valley Community College.
Leo Paul stretches on January 8 at Hudson Valley Community College.
Owen Scannell takes a shot in warm ups on January 8 at Hudson Valley Community College.
LA SALLE BATTLES INJURY BUG
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY: La Salle battles injuries to turn around season in new year
Injury stricken La Salle looks to turn around season in new year.
Sports Editor
TROY, NY − The La Salle Hockey team has not had quite the start to the new year that they would have liked. In their first two games of 2020, they lost to Burnt Hills 7-1 and then handed the Niskayuna/Albany/Schenectady/Amsterdam Mohawks their first win of the season 3-2.
Despite the rough start, head coach Tim Flanigan feels his group has the fortitude to bounce back.
"In this game, in any sport really, we are teaching the kids to be resilient, to keep working hard, and we have got to keep playing as hard as we can," said Flanigan. "You try to play the game the right way and if you don't get the result you want you have to rebound, restart, and come back another day."
The loss to Burnt Hills was on January 4. The loss to the Mohawks was just four days later on January 8. La Salle did not play bad for long stretches in those games, but mistakes piled up which allowed opponents to pounce.
"Against Burnt Hills, we had a lapse where they scored three goals on us in two minutes, that's something that normally doesn't happen," said Flanigan. "We haven't had too much luck with bounces and getting scoring opportunities, aside from the two mistakes at the end of the game [against the Mohawks] I thought my team played well."
Burnt Hills/Ballston Spa is currently two spots away from La Salle in the Section II standings despite a 7-2 record overall and 2-1 conference record. The Mohawks are a spot above La Salle after earning their first conference and overall win of the season.
La Salle is 1-3 in conference and 3-7 overall.
"That is one of those games we will have to rebound from, but I think the kids will and I think they will be good to go," said Flanigan.
Last season, La Salle finished eighth in Section II with a 6-10 conference record and 8-13-1 overall record. Their leading scorer, Jack O'Bryan, finished with 30 points including 11 goals. O'Bryan is now gone, along with the second and third top scorer.
"Every year it is a different group and they are growing, sometimes it takes a little longer," said Flanigan. "We are heading in the right direction, we will bounce back."
"Every year it's a different group and I think we have a really good core group of juniors and seniors."
La Salle's three seniors this year are Mike Baker, Spencer Carpenter, and D.J Pauley. A ten player junior class is what stands out, including goalies Leo Paul and Kyle McGee, Reid Murray, and D.J's brother, Nic Pauley.
With back to back losses to start the new year, and just three wins this season, the question becomes why is this happening to a seemingly talented group of players with a deep junior class?
"We've had quite a few injuries this year, we lost our first lince center Nic Pauley the first game with a broken ankle and he's probably going to miss maybe the whole season," said Flanigan. "We've had some guys miss with some concussions that were out, Owen Scannell started the season off of knee surgery and he didn't get cleared to play until the first week of December. We've had a bunch of injuries and the guys have done a good job, the guys who could play through them did."
Owen Scannell has four points this season in seven games. Pauley had two points in his two games. Both players put points up last season, with Nic Pauley being fourth on the team with 12. A full season with both those players in the lineup makes the roster deeper and more versatile down the stretch.
"We are growing as a group. Adding those injuries into the start, it's been a tough start," said Flanigan. "[The injuries] also give other kids the chance to step up."
Spencer Carpenter currently leads La Salle with ten points in ten games. Brendan Witte is not far behind with eight. This year's La Salle team is not relying on just one player to generate a bulk of offense. It will be a team effort, with puck cycling and bodies banging out front.
Luckily, Flanigan and La Salle are known for being a tough, hard hitting, defensive team. Hard hitting may not be best way to describe them, but physical. La Salle finishes their checks, rarely reaches with their stick, and will knock bodies off of the puck if they are in the middle of the ice.
"I try to teach them that they have to play the game the right way and they have to play through the body," said Flanigan. "A lot of them are used to just stick checking, but if you get caught fishing for the puck and you hit the man, it's not good. It's not about how hard you hit guys, it's about effectively checking them off the puck."
Flanigan added that teaching checking in practice has been hard this season with the injuries and injury concerns running through the team.
La Salle has ten games still on the schedule. There's some ground to be made up and that can be done in the new year, but it will not be easy, and Flanigan and his bunch don't plan on looking too far ahead on the schedule.
"In all of my years, we look to the next game, the next practice," said Flanigan. " I have got a good group of kids, they work hard, they are trying to do what I ask them to do. I know it's a cliche but we really just focus on one game at a time and that's what we are doing."
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Q: Updating Claims Value in ASP.NET MVC In the account login, I added values to the claims as
 // Initialization.
 var claims = new List < Claim > ();
 try {
   // Setting
   TextInfo textInfo = new CultureInfo("en-US", false).TextInfo;
   string nme = textInfo.ToTitleCase(Name.ToLower());
   string surN = textInfo.ToTitleCase(surName.ToLower());
   claims.Add(new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, Name));
   claims.Add(new Claim("surName", surN));
   claims.Add(new Claim("Name", nme));
   claims.Add(new Claim("Customer_Id", Customer_Id));
   claims.Add(new Claim("User_Id", UserId));
   claims.Add(new Claim("TimeZone", timeZone));
   var claimIdenties = new ClaimsIdentity(claims, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
   var ctx = Request.GetOwinContext();
   var authenticationManager = ctx.Authentication;
   // Sign In.
   authenticationManager.SignIn(new AuthenticationProperties() {
     IsPersistent = false
   }, claimIdenties);
   var identity = new ClaimsIdentity(claims, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);

   var claimsPrincipal = new ClaimsPrincipal(identity);
   Thread.CurrentPrincipal = claimsPrincipal;

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Now I want to update the Claims value in "Customer_Id" with a new value in another controller.
How do I update this claim?

A: I recently needed to achieve something similar. Add your claims to the IdentityModel where it says Add custom user claims here
var userIdentity = await manager.CreateIdentityAsync(this, DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie);
            // Add custom user claims here
   userIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, Name));
   userIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim("surName", surN));
   userIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim("Name", nme));
   userIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim("Customer_Id", Customer_Id));
   userIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim("User_Id", UserId));
   userIdentity.AddClaim(new Claim("TimeZone", timeZone));

Then insert this line just under the class definition at the top of the controller that you want to access the claims.
ApplicationUserManager userManager = new ApplicationUserManager(new UserStore<ApplicationUser>(new ApplicationDbContext()));

Now to modify the claim in any of your controller actions
ApplicationUser user = await userManager.FindByNameAsync("your username");
user.Customer_Id = "your new id";
await userManager.UpdateAsync(user);

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Trails of Glory takes place on the trails on the north and south sides of NV-160, just below the beautiful cliff faces of Red Rock Canyon in the land of wild burros. Join us at Cottonwood Valley's Late Night Trailhead. With great trails including the Duck Tree, the north side of Cottonwood Valley promises fun, fast trails with stunning views of the cliffs of the Red Rock Escarpment.


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HD 48501 è una stella bianco-gialla nella sequenza principale di magnitudine 6,21 situata nella costellazione del Cane Maggiore. Dista 159 anni luce dal sistema solare.

Osservazione
Si tratta di una stella situata nell'emisfero celeste australe; grazie alla sua posizione non fortemente australe, può essere osservata dalla gran parte delle regioni della Terra, sebbene gli osservatori dell'emisfero sud siano più avvantaggiati. Nei pressi dell'Antartide appare circumpolare, mentre resta sempre invisibile solo in prossimità del circolo polare artico. Essendo di magnitudine pari a 6,2, non è osservabile ad occhio nudo; per poterla scorgere è sufficiente comunque anche un binocolo di piccole dimensioni, a patto di avere a disposizione un cielo buio.

Il periodo migliore per la sua osservazione nel cielo serale ricade nei mesi compresi fra dicembre e maggio; da entrambi gli emisferi il periodo di visibilità rimane indicativamente lo stesso, grazie alla posizione della stella non lontana dall'equatore celeste.

Sistema stellare
HD 48501 è un sistema stellare formato da due componenti. La componente principale A è una stella di magnitudine 6,21. La componente B è di magnitudine 8,8, separata da 18,2 secondi d'arco da A e con angolo di posizione di 143 gradi. Si tratta anche di una variabile Gamma Doradus, la cui luminosità fluttua da 6,18 a 6,27 in 0,9 giorni.

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Voci correlate
Stelle principali della costellazione del Cane Maggiore

Collegamenti esterni

Stelle di classe spettrale F
Stelle bianco-gialle di sequenza principale
Variabili Gamma Doradus

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In Covington, Kentucky, an employment contract is agreement between an employer and employee which legally binds them to conditions stated in the work relationship. Many employment contracts in Kentucky are negotiable because both parties frequently find it beneficial to arrive on a unique agreement that best suits the circumstances. Employment contracts specifying a period of employment provide employees with some measure of job security if conditions are satisfied. They further permit the employer to directly control employee productivity to some degree.
Kentucky employment contracts usually include many terms such as a description of the job, employment duration (generally at-will employment), compensation/benefits, and grounds for terminating. Nonetheless, there are also other, less common, clauses that are worthy of notice. First, an arbitration clause requires parties to forego their rights to access the courts for any employment dispute.
How Can a Covington Lawyer Help?
Covington has many lawyers specializing in Kentucky employment law who may help you understand what the terms of the employment contract are. A lawyer can also lend counsel about what is fair to you in the contract, and can negotiate certain terms that will address your particular concerns as you enter or leave employment.


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Conferences \ Advances in Drug Discovery \ Academic Drug Discovery \ Agenda \ Per Arvidsson
Per Arvidsson's Biography
Per Arvidsson, Director, Karolinska Institutet
Per I Arvidsson is Director of the national Swedish Drug Discovery & Development Platform at Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab DDD). He is also fractional research professor at the College of Heath Science, UKZN, South Africa. Before joining SciLifeLab & Karolinska Institutet in 2013 to set up the SciLifeLab DDD platform, Prof. Arvidsson held various roles at the CNS & Pain iMED at AstraZeneca, Södertälje, the last being Director for late stage pre-clinical and clinical neuroscience drug discovery. His accolades include several professorship positions at Uppsala University in Sweden and postdoctoral studies with Prof. D. Seebach at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Prof. Arvidsson is named inventor on some 15+ patent applications, and co-author to some 100 peer-reviewed publications, two of which have won "most cited papers" awards.
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SciLifeLab DDD is a newly established national Swedish infrastructure for academic drug discovery. I will describe the build-up, operation, and international collaboration of the platform, with the ambition to share learnings and best practice with academic drug discovery centers globally.


The Fiji Rugby Union is excited with the proposed format of the World Rugby Nations Championship that will not only include the Flying Fijians but also provide competitions for Tonga and Samoa.
This also provides opportunities for promotion and relegation between the proposed three Tiers of the competition.
FRU Chair Commander Francis Kean and Chief Executive John O'Connor recently returned from the World Rugby high-level meeting of Tier 1 Unions including Japan, Fiji and the international player representatives in Dublin last week.
The meeting is about World Rugby outlining the details of a game-changing competition model that delivers a true pathway for all Unions through a three-tiered format including a promotion and relegation system.
The World Rugby Nations Championship earmarked to commence in 2022 would see Fiji in the southern hemisphere grouping of the 12 teams Tier 1 conference.
Kean thanked the New Zealand Rugby and SANZAAR, for their strong backing for Fiji's inclusion in the Championship.
He adds World Rugby Tier one playing nations are at the crossroads of making a massive decision for the sport and that a wise decision will be reached in the coming weeks.
Kean is calling on our national rugby players to ensure that we continue to perform on the field of play to guarantee our rugby rankings in the top 12 and a place in this new World Nations Rugby Championship by 2022.


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Patricia D. Wellenbach, President & CEO of Green Tree School and Services
On June 30, 2015, Green Tree School & Services, (GTSS) closed on a business deal that resulted in the sale of its state of the art facility and entered into a lease agreement and management agreement with a multi-state mission aligned agency with $85Mm in annual revenue. By October 2015, GTSS will become a subsidiary of the acquiring organization. The deal came together after 10 months of negotiations with several mission aligned organizations and a major restructuring of its business and debt obligations. The restructuring resulted in the closure of two core business lines, facilitating the transition of over 200 children to new service providers and layoffs of 50% of the workforce, which included clinical and educational staff as well as back office and administrative staff.
The facts of how GTSS arrived at this moment of transformative change are a telling story. What the future holds for GTSS is yet to be discovered, but as the organization begins FY'16 there are bright spots on the horizon that bode well for future success.
Founded in 1957, the mission of Green Tree School & Services is to discover, develop and deliver opportunities for children with unique challenges and abilities to achieve their full potential. GTSS provides comprehensive education and therapeutic and clinical interventions to special-needs children ages 3-21 with Autism Spectrum Disorder (AS) or a Severe Emotional Disability (SED). GTSS operates an Approved Private School, Diagnostic Services and Outpatient Clinic. GTSS' community based programs Green Tree Partnerships, provides consulting services to district and charter schools working with them to meet the needs of special needs students.
In 2011, in response to an increased demand for services and faced with facilities that were outdated in their ability to effectively provide the programs in a safe and appropriate environment, the GTSS Board of Trustees decided to build a new building and consolidate operations to one location.
GTSS did not have a history of philanthropic giving and so it needed to assure it could handle any construction debt on future revenues and projected cash flow. A decision to move ahead on the new building was based on projections through 2017 that indicated GTSS could manage the debt load without the need for a capital campaign. Ground was broken in the fall of 2012, with a completion date of fall of 2013. GTSS entered into an agreement with a regional bank for a $9.5MM construction loan. A portion of the organization's reserve fund was utilized for land acquisition. A capital campaign raised only $650,000.
As the new building project unfolded, necessary changes in the construction plan and weaknesses in the projected overall costs resulted in a significant increase in the final costs. By June of 2013, the total costs of the construction and move had risen from $10.5MM to $16.3MM. GTSS used its reserve fund to make up part of the gap, and took on an additional term loan of $1,000,000 to finance equipment and technology investments.
New Leadership and New Challenges
In February of 2013, mid-way through the building project, GTSS hired a new CEO and COO. The search for new leadership was a lengthy process. As often happens with a protracted transition of leadership, the organization was not as focused on operational excellence in programs as well as back office functions. Within 60 days of hire, the new executive team had conducted a comprehensive analysis of the business and uncovered major system wide problems.
With a commitment to integrity and excellence in the field, significant changes were implemented. A new foundation for GTSS was established through a major restructuring of the business that included the recruitment of new senior management and mid-level managers, further investment in training, professional development and curriculum, and improvements in processes and protocols in business office operations. The board restructured itself and downsized to nine members and redefined its roles and responsibilities as a governing board. The move to the new facility was completed by January of 2014.
During FY'14, GTSS provided education and therapeutic services to over 400 children. Of that, 107 were enrolled in the APS and the balance attended more than 70 public and charter schools in the Philadelphia region where GTSS provided behavior support to 300 students. The hard work of the prior 18 months was beginning to pay off. Referrals to programs and services was growing at a steady pace, school enrollment was ahead of projections, staff retention was improving, process improvements in billing and revenue cycle were starting to yield results. Despite these successes, the improvements in operations had yet to impact the bottom line and the financial picture was tenuous as GTSS closed the year.
Budget projections for the first quarter of FY'15 were concerning. By early fall, the financial position began to improve and by the end of FY'15, if all projections for growth and revenue held, the organization would have stabilized itself and ended the year on solid financial footing.
The Other Shoe Drops
As the 2014-15 school year opened, there was a sense of optimism among the staff at GTSS. The transition issues of having all 240 employees working together for the first time had been navigated, the management team had been in place for over a year and were starting to gel. Business plans for each division had goals that were clearly defined and set a path for success. The organization was about to begin a strategic planning process when the unexpected happened. Community Behavioral Health (CBH), the primary funder of GTSS behavioral health services accounting for a significant amount of our total revenue, made a system wide decision to change the model for a core program which GTSS provided.
In total, 19 agencies were impacted by this decision. As GTSS began to understand and analyze this change, it was clear there would be a significant impact to revenue. When the analysis was complete, the loss to GTSS's projected revenue stream would be close to $2MM for the entire year. An organization with more diversity in programs and services, with a significant reserve fund or without any debt probably could have withstood the impact of the revenue loss. GTSS was 0 for 3 in all areas.
With no reserve funds and a significant debt load, it was clear that the organization was at risk. Management and the board needed to move thoughtfully but quickly to reach a solution. In November, the board approved for management to move forward with either a merger/acquisition or an affiliation strategy. The mandate was to stay aligned to the mission and find a partner that would help stabilize the business and provide a platform for future growth. An M&A or affiliation partnership would create additional cost-savings in shared services and economies of scale. Done correctly, it could open markets to new referral streams and new collaborations. GTSS's challenge was to stay open long enough to make a deal that would stabilize the business and move forward.
Getting to a Soft Landing
GTSS engaged legal, business and communications counsel to advise the board and management. By late January, 19 mission aligned agencies received an overview of the organization, the issues and the opportunity. Eight agencies expressed interest in learning more and eventually five agencies met with GTSS management and began the due diligence process. There was much work to do to get the business stable until we found our way to a positive solution. Of the many things that needed focus, here is a short list of those with high priority:
write a case statement and detailed business plan
begin the budget process for FY'16 and '17
institute a hiring freeze and cut as much expense as possible
work with the bank and secure some forbearance on the loan
manage accounts payable, keep mission critical and revenue producing vendors paid, put non-essential vendors on a prolonged payment schedule while avoiding any litigation risk
engage and inform the board (they met bi-weekly or weekly and collectively contributed over $700,000 in less than 4 months )
By March, we made the difficult decision to close all Behavioral Health services at the end of the school year. Over 200 children would be affected by this decision. We worked closely with CBH, and by June, all students were placed with new agencies, assuring a seamless transition. The closure of the program resulted in a layoff of 50% of the workforce.
By early May, we were still operational but there was no solution in sight. Three agencies had made offers and the negotiations all failed as we could not come to agreement on terms the bank could accept and the potential partner could accommodate. We had begun to work on a Chapter 11 as well as Chapter 7 strategy. Time was clearly running out and we needed to be prepared if a deal was not struck.
Our luck turned on a day in mid-May when a local bank offered to speak to a client who ran a very large for-profit behavioral health agency. We had not explored a for-profit strategy. Not sure how it would work, we began to explore the possibility.
Sometimes the stars do align and in less than two weeks, we came to an agreement with our new business partner. Given the looming crisis and the board's decision that the first week in June was the deadline for a bankruptcy decision, we structured a sale and lease back of the building and developed a management agreement strategy. If the bank would agree to the terms of the sale it would get GTSS out from under the debt load, begin to satisfy the liquidity crisis, preserve the core business and save 120 jobs. After a tense week of negotiations, late on Friday, May 29th, 48 hours before the board was to vote to file bankruptcy, the bank agreed to the terms of the deal, with one caveat: We had to close the deal by June 30th, giving us less than 22 business days to get a very complicated deal financed and closed.
Now the real work began. Drafting agreements of sale, lease agreements, management agreements, securing appraisals and a host of other issues had to be addressed. The daily "to do" list was exhaustive. We were also winding down the academic year, closing two programs and managing the HR issues of terminating 120 staff members. Since there was always the possibility that the deal would fall apart, we continued in our preparations for a full closure of the business.
On June 17th the financing was in place, the legal documents were starting to take shape and it seemed as if we had found a solution. On June 23, 2015, the board of GTSS held its annual board meeting. Past annual meetings were celebratory, achievements of the past year were highlighted, the coming year budget was approved and new board members, as well as officers, were elected. Between November and June, the board had met 22 times and they were tired and probably a bit wary that things might still fall apart.
At this annual meeting, the board would vote to sell the building to a new owner who would eventually own the entire business. After almost 60 years as a non-profit organization educating and supporting special-needs children and the realization of their dream to have a building that would provide the best in programs and services for the kids it served, GTSS board would now vote on an acquisition that just 10 months ago had seemed inconceivable. It was a bittersweet moment but Green Tree School & Services would survive; the new partner was deeply committed to the mission and committed to continue GTSS long into the future. On June 30, 2015 the deal closed and we began to look forward with relief for the first time in months. Through it all the organization had an amazing year. All benchmarks and goals for program growth and achievements were met or exceeded; 5 students graduated, 2 went to community college, 1 to a trade school and 2 were offered jobs. New partnerships were started with other organizations and enrollment in the APS was at an all-time high.
As I write this, we are now a month into our new business model. Some things are new and different but much is still the same. We are a smaller organization, but we are also a smarter one. We are getting to know the organization we have become part of; their culture and people, among the most important aspects. We are learning from them and they are learning from us. The outcome could be seen as an ending but I prefer to think of it as an inflection point. We came through some of the darkest days for our organization and right now, things are looking pretty bright for the future.
About the Author: Patricia D. Wellenbach was appointed CEO of Green Tree School & Services (GTSS) in February of 2013. Prior to joining GTSS she was the President and CEO of Sandcastle Strategy Group, LLC. which she founded in 2007. The company provided management consulting services to clients primarily in the non-profit sector. Its areas of expertise included strategic planning and strategy implementation, organizational realignment, capacity building, succession planning and governance. Select client list included: Pew Charitable Trusts, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council. Wellenbach is a cum laude graduate of Boston College School of Nursing and holds a certificate from the UCLA Anderson School of Management Healthcare Executive Program. She is frequently invited to speak on topics including leadership, organizational change and governance with a focus on the non-profit sector. She was the 2003 recipient of the St. Francis Medallion for excellence in service to the community. In 2000 she received the Benjamin Rush Award from the Philadelphia Medical Society, which recognizes laypersons from the Philadelphia region who have made outstanding contributions to the health and welfare of citizens of the United States.


I'm still "enjoying" lots of face ache. It turns out that it's entirely possible to have toothache concurrently with sinusitis. I've cured the toothache part of it by having the offending molar removed yesterday. It remains unfortunate that the sinusitis has settled into the opposite side from the offending tooth socket so both sides of my face remain sore – thank Waitrose for fish crumble and mashed veg last night, and mashed bananas and strawberries with yogurt for breakfast this morning.
Last week was half term and we took the Smart One to one of his favourite haunts, Didcot Railway Centre. We always go by train as the centre is on the old marshalling yards adjacent to Didcot station. We picked an "in steam" day but surprisingly the place was the least crowded we've ever seen it. This year there is an ongoing exhibition covering the part the railways, in particular the Great Western Railway, played in the first world war, in commemoration of the centenary of it's end. I found the inclusion of two of the GWR locos and a couple of the coaches used as ambulance trains during that war particularly interesting. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to provide treatment to the wounded whilst in a moving train.
These days the Smart One is allowed to roam the large site unsupervised, he had a hoot availing himself of several free rides on both "in steam" trains.
A few days later and totally unconnected to our day out, following a long family discussion, K handed in her notice at her current school and sent out her first applications for posts advertised in Somerset. Rents in Berkshire are horrendously high and becoming unaffordable for a single-parent teacher's salary. In the area we are looking at we will be able to get a 3 double-bedroomed house for less than the rent on the current 2 bedroom flat. Apart from the rent issue there are other advantages to the move. We shall be closer to J&B, who are delighted that they will only have a 45 min drive to visit and to quite a few old friends of mine and K's, including my Bezzies. We know and love the whole of the south west and for K and I it will be going home. The Smart One is a little apprehensive but there are several "outstanding" secondary schools in the area, he will be closer to his Uncle and to his maternal Grandfather and only an hour and a half's train journey from his Dad. He's delighted that we shall be close to the West Somerset railway, a heritage line which ends at Minehead beach (!), and is already putting forward towns and villages with stations on the line as potential areas for me to house hunt! K will be doing the hard bit, applications (two already sent) and interviews and I'll be doing the fun bit – finding us somewhere to live.


Due to Rhode Island's Internet sales tax, Amazon is handing over the names and addresses of online sellers who sold goods to residents in 2017.
Rhode Island collects sales tax from sellers with a physical presence within — a.k.a., a nexus to — the state.
Using a warehouse, vendor, office, or sales person within a state triggers sales tax responsibilities.
Online sellers should check if their vendors are Rhode Island-based, or if any warehouses in the state hold their goods. If yes, it's wise to consult with an e-commerce tax consultant who can handle the logistics and possibly uncover cost-saving ways to restructure your business.
Businesses must register with every state in which they remit sales tax. The concomitant paperwork can prove exceptionally complicated; because as stated earlier, simply using a warehouse or vendor in a given state can tie you to it for tax purposes.
If you need help sorting through it all, give us a call.
What Will Rhode Island Authorities Do With The Amazon Online Sellers Data?
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text: New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter sends former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger deep into the heart of NASCAR country in this action-packed thriller.Talk about a ride! Woe unto he who crosses Bob Lee Swagger, especially when his daughters life is at stake. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her in a coma, clinging to life, reporter Nikki Swagger had begun to peel back the onion of a Southern-fried-conspiracy bubbling with all the angst, resentment, and dysfunction that Dixie gangsters can muster. An ancient, violent crime clan, a possibly corrupt law enforcement structure, gunmen of all stripes and shapes, and deranged evangelicals rear their ugly heads and will live to rue the day they targeted the wrong mans daughter. Its what you call your big-time bad career move. All of it is set against the backdrop of excitement and insanity that only a weeklong NASCAR event can bring to the backwoods of a town as seemingly sleepy as Bristol, Tennessee. A master at the top of his game, Hunter provides a host of thrilling new reasons to read as fast as we can. When Swagger picks up peeling where his daughter left off, and his swift sword of justice is let loose, we find a true American hero in his most stunning action to date. Andin the form of Brother Richard, a self-decreed Sinnerman out of the old fire-and-brimstone traditionHunter offers up his most diabolical, engaging villain yet. A triumph of story, character, and style, Night of Thunder is Stephen Hunter at his very best.


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Career fair recruiter banned from university
Nicole Hanson
The university asked a recruiter from a legitimate financial consulting company to not return to campus after he offered students "unrealistic" job opportunities at a SoB career fair last month.
Associate Dean of Career Development Jill Ferrall described the man as "aggressive."
When interacting with students at the career fair, the recruiter focused heavily on the amount of money students could make working for his company, Ferrall said.
"His sales tactics to get students to interview with him were a bit too strong and too pushy and I did not appreciate the fact that he was really pushing the money aspect as opposed to the experience aspect," Ferrall said.
Ferrall said she prefers School of Business students receive a base salary upon entering the career field. Instead, this recruiter offered students a commission-based salary.
The recruiter told students they would make between $400,000 to $2.7 million in their first year on the job.
"If somebody says that to anybody, it goes with the rule: if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true," she said.
After students said the recruiter made them feel uncomfortable, Ferrall asked the man to stop contacting students.
"He has been blocked via our IT security where he cannot email students," Ferrall said. "I even contacted security and gave them a description of him and said, 'if he ever tries to come on campus, please tell him he's not welcome to come onto campus.'"
Ferrall said she will meet with Chief of Public Safety David Barger in June to see if there is anything she could do differently in terms of registration or security for future career fairs.
Senior finance major Nicholas Guarino said preventing the recruiter from coming back to campus was a good precaution to take.
"If he's kind of a fraud, it wouldn't be good for students to go to him or even to hear what he has to say," Guarino said. "I don't think he would be a harm, but it's just the right thing to do."
Ferrall said this situation was a "fluke" and hopes it will not happen again.
"We have really good students here at Quinnipiac and they're here to get a good education and they really want to work by their education to make a living, and I felt that he was pushing the wrong end," she said. "It was all about money, money, money."
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Prince's Timeless Performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Posted in George Harrison, Prince, The Beatles on July 25th, 2012 by Willie
Prince is one of my heroes, so you might be wondering why the Prince page on my website is fairly barren. Well, the truth is, I'd probably have every Prince music video and performance I could get my hands on if I could, but Prince and his legal team make it damn near impossible to for anyone on the internet to post his music and videos. Well, there is one performance that thankfully is available for the public to consume, and that is of Prince's epic guitar heroics at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Prince was inducted in the same year George Harrison was honored as a solo artist, and so Dhani Harrison, George's son, invited Prince on stage for the performance of the White Album classic, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." I read somewhere that Prince had never even heard the song before, though that's hard to believe as Prince peeled off one of the greatest and most showstopping flawless guitar solos of all time. What is especially spectacular about the performance is that the man who played the original solo on the record, Eric Clapton, was a bit of a guitar legend too, so Prince had a lot to live up to. The thing is, sometimes people forget that Prince is Prince. The man is rightfully one of the greatest musical geniuses of the pop era, and one of the more criminally underrated ones too. Rumor has it that Prince played such an insanely great solo in response to the snub he felt after being left off of Rolling Stone Magazine's top 100 guitar players ever list. Prince proves that he belongs somewhere on that list, perhaps in the top ten, so watch this clip if you've never seen it, and take in the "purple's one's" majesty of rock. Oh, and lastly, at the end of the song, Prince hurls his guitar into the sky towards the audience, and it never lands…a new mystery for our time.
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The Beatles, Here Comes the Sun, Lost Guitar Solo
Posted in George Harrison, The Beatles, Youtube Favs on February 4th, 2012 by Willie
Well, this is miraculous. Here we have a simple video of famed Beatle producer George Martin, his son Giles, and George Harrison's son Dhani, all playing around with the master track for "Here Comes the Sun." Off Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun" is probably George's second greatest song behind "Something," also from the same record. That is a matter of opinion, but the undisputed fact is that from 1968-1971, George was operating at an incredible peak of creative intensity, with his work on Abbey Road serving as a precursor for his immense solo masterpiece album All Things Must Pass. Anyway, in the video, Dhani is fiddling with the dials when he comes across a lost electric guitar solo George recorded years ago. It is a gorgeous piece of hard electric rock that gives edge to one of George's sweetest songs. While the part sounds great, especially to Beatle fans who have memorized every note of their music, it's not hard to see why it didn't make the final cut, as the electric flourish takes away from the gentle majesty of the final mix. It's a shame the Beatles couldn't tour in their later era because they probably would have added extra solos and changes to their songs that would have spun off countless beautiful variations. Still, the undisturbed perfection of what remains what makes discovering anything lost so poignant and moving. Enjoy this clip and pass it to your friends, especially George fans, its magical.
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Australia defend rotation after Shane Warne attack
Australian cricket chiefs on Monday backed chief selector John Inverarity after stinging criticism from Test great Shane Warne and other ex-players over the controversial rotation policy.
Warne used his website to speak out against resting players -- particularly fast bowlers -- to guard them from breaking down as a result of the relentless demands of international cricket.
But Cricket Australia (CA) chairman Wally Edwards insisted Australia were on the right track after meeting under-fire Inverarity and general manager of team performance Pat Howard.
The CA board gave its "unequivocal support" for the methods being used after Howard and Inverarity addressed the board of directors in Melbourne on Monday against a backdrop of criticism from former players and the media.
Edwards said Australia, who dominated the international game for more than a decade, were bidding to become the world's top side by putting into place policies formulated after the release of a wide-ranging report 18 months ago.
"To build a new cricket side is a long term thing.... I'm confident we're on the right track," Edwards said.
"They (Howard and Inverarity) noted that since the appointment of the current team performance leadership group Australia has played 15 Tests of which we've won 10. We've lost two and had three very creditable draws.
"In that time Australia has moved from fifth to third on the world Test rankings."
Warne, 43, earlier Monday called for the best 11 to be selected at all times in each form of the game on his website www.shanewarne.com.
"When we were number one there weren't mission statements flying around, but we got the selection process right and the best 11 were selected for every game," he said.
"Example: Glenn McGrath didn't want to be rotated or rested, he wanted to play every game, and we all did."
The comments from the spin legend came in part two of his manifesto entitled "Where is Australian cricket at?", a week after he labelled cricket chiefs "muppets".
CA chief executive James Sutherland said he had a "robust discussion" at the weekend with Warne, second on the all-time list of Test wicket-takers, and invited him to work with Australia's spinners.
"There's no doubt about his passion and enthusiasm for the Australian cricket team to be successful," said Sutherland, who admitted the board could improve communication with fans and the media over selection.
"Hopefully there are opportunities for him down the track to be closer to us and have an even greater involvement," he added.
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Mourners gather in Juneau in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's honor
September 20, 2020 by Rashah McChesney, KTOO
(left) Kirsten Shelton and her daughters Freja Shelton-Walker and Emilia Shelton-Walker stand at a vigil for former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)
More than 100 people gathered near the Dimond Courthouse in downtown Juneau on Saturday evening in honor of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg who died on Friday.
For the most part, the crowd was silent and still. But a few people started quietly singing "We Shall Overcome" and "This Little Light of Mine," and the crowd joined. And there was some movement as people lit each other's candles in the darkness, and shielded flickering flames.
Nearly 100 people gathered in front of the courthouse in Juneau, in a candlelight vigil for #RuthBaderGinsberg pic.twitter.com/XjXtMO3z52
— Rashah McChesney (@RashahMcChesney) September 20, 2020
The mourners were mostly women, and they joined others in Anchorage, Fairbanks and across the country in grieving for 87-year-old justice. Ginsburg was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court and she served for 27 years.
Kirsten Shelton stood with her arm around her 10-year-old daughter Freja Shelton-Walker.
"You okay baby?" she asked as Freja leaned into her shoulder. "I know, it's kind of hard to have tears when you have a mask on."
Shelton said she is thankful for the opportunities that her daughters have because of Ginsburg's work.
Mourners gathered to remember the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)
Ginsburg argued a groundbreaking Supreme Court case that paved the way for the 14th Amendment to be used to challenge gender discrimination all over the country. And she served as a role model for women who watched her climb to the Supreme Court in an environment that favors men.
"We're inspired by her," Shelton said.
Shelton said it was her 12-year-old daughter Emilia Shelton-Walker's idea to go to the memorial.
"We all felt that it was important. I don't know if we each, we had an idea. It was a collective idea I think," Shelton said.
Other women at the memorial said they wanted to honor Ginsburg's widely reported last wishes to not be replaced until a new president is installed.
But, it's not clear that's going to happen.
Her death opens a vacancy on the court, paving the way for President Donald Trump to appoint a third justice to the Supreme Court. His appointment must be confirmed by a majority vote of the Senate.
But in his statement expressing sympathy for Ginsburg's death, Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell pledged that Senators will vote on whomever President Trump nominates to fill her seat.
Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said that she doesn't support a vote to fill the vacancy Ginsburg left so close to the upcoming election. Her counterpart, Republican Senator Dan Sullivan hasn't weighed-in yet.
Mourners gathered to remember the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday, in downtown Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/KTOO)
During the vigil, retired Juneau attorney Mary Alice McKeen read from two opinions that Ginsburg is well known for writing, including a 2013 dissent that is one of Ginsburg's most widely known arguments.
That case, Shelby County v. Holder, had direct implications for Alaska. It challenged a portion of the Voting Rights Act that mandated that several states — including Alaska– had to get "preclearance" from the Justice Department before making changes to electoral laws.
That preclearance requirement was rooted in the idea of more oversight in places that had troubled histories with voting rights. Alaska used to require English language literacy tests as a qualification for voting, which impacted the ability of Alaska Natives to vote.
In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of striking down the "preclearance" requirement. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts essentially made the argument that things like "preclearance" had worked so well that the country didn't need them anymore.
Ginsberg disagreed with that opinion and wrote a dissent that helped spawn a new generation of fans and the nickname "Notorious RBG."
Ginsberg wrote that throwing out that oversight, when it has worked and is still working to stop voter discrimination is like "throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."
At the memorial, Shelton said she's worried about the future.
"I think we have a, there's collective grief and hope that things will work out. But yes there's a lot of concern about what might happen with who fills the seat on the Supreme Court," Shelton said. "It's been a hard year, so I think it's kind of crushing. But we just do everything we can, that's all we can do."


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In fact this versatile video processor acts as a universal routing switcher, with the capability of simultaneous, real-time, full frame rate monitoring of all inputs.
Each of the three facilities allows up to 20 people to interact in a simulated ATC environment — connected together over a WAN network, with each space viewable from the other facilities, while the ability to host WebEx meetings and video conferencing allows external participants, not present in the room, to take part.
By working with stakeholders, requirements can now be developed more quickly, and this can drive lower development costs from suppliers. "It will also allow 'plug and play' of new technology to enable suppliers to market their new tools," states Rob Langan.
While MicroTiles has provided the three facilities with a high degree of flexibility and visual acuity, NATS is also reassured by the system's ease of service, low cost maintenance — and reconfigurability, should it be required.
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Lion King (SNES) review
"I have oft been mistaken for a lion. Who could blame the perpetrators though? It's perfectly understandable! With my flowing mane of golden hair, my animal-like voraciousness and my liking for the subtle tenderness of gazelle meat, I'm more lion than man. These characteristics would normally be enough to convince most people that a game such as The Lion King is right up my alley. For a virile, powerful man-killer like myself this little cartridge should be an absolute pushover! How wrong you all..."
I have oft been mistaken for a lion. Who could blame the perpetrators though? It's perfectly understandable! With my flowing mane of golden hair, my animal-like voraciousness and my liking for the subtle tenderness of gazelle meat, I'm more lion than man. These characteristics would normally be enough to convince most people that a game such as The Lion King is right up my alley. For a virile, powerful man-killer like myself this little cartridge should be an absolute pushover! How wrong you all are! How dare you all jump to such an erroneous conclusion?
But, good reader, let not my sudden display of humility dissuade you all from your reverence of myself. I am not alone in my failure to fully handle The Lion King and all of its in-game obstacles! This is a difficult game, one that will drain all of the pride from your rocks and leave you a hollow shell of the gamer you once were! It is undoubtedly a product of sheer class, and one of Disney's greatest gaming achievements; but it is constantly held back by its yen to make its later levels resemble hell as closely as possible.
The intention of this release was to follow the story of The Lion King movie from start to finish, albeit in a platforming style. To give the average Joe the chance to undergo Simba's rite-of-passage for himself and give the nefarious Scar a few of his own. This goal is achieved to some extent, but one can't help but come away with this game with a disturbingly sour taste in one's mouth and the urge to perpetrate a few random acts of destruction.
It all starts out innocuously enough though. A baby Simba is our first protagonist, his mission to cavort and frolic around the pridelands whilst looking as cute as he possibly can. Who would have thought that the seemingly innocent lizards and stinkbugs that patrol level one would be replaced by terrifying panthers and lethal drops of lava by the end of the game? Each of the fifteen or so levels in the game is meant to represent a particular scene from the movie. Whether it's the frenetic action of a stampede bearing down on baby Simba, or grown-up Simba making the precarious ascension to the top of Pride Rock, this game has it covered. Some of the scenes cross over better than others – the song "I Just Can't Wait to be King" translating into a horrific montage of wiry monkeys and pink hippos – but generally the movie is done justice.
There are some enterprising ideas thrown up during the course of this game. Platform leaping does carry much of the burden, but this is complemented by a superb array of action scenes and enemy disposal. A mere four hit points are given to Simba; an unsubstantial sum when one considers the breadth and ferocity of the antagonists. A typical Lion King level will call on speed, cunning and massive bursts of testosterone (sorry ladies!) to complete.
So you've completed a few and arrived at the mid-point of the game. Hakuna Matata and its lumbering sub-boss have been resigned to the scrap heap, and you're feeling on top of things. Sure, Simba's been in the obituaries a few times, but it's nothing you haven't been able to handle. I bet you're sitting there with the most incredulous look on your face!
"It's not hard, King Broccoli!"
Just you wait, sonny Jim. Now that Simba has grown into a Broccoli-esque adult lion there's no need for anyone to go easy on you. Gone are the dawdling vultures, insects and easily replenished life bars. Now comes the interesting bit. Should you choose to undertake the Lion King challenge, you'll have to deal with countless scenic obstacles, copious amounts of fearsome foes and a final boss that takes one hell of a battering. Sometimes all three at the same time!
Despite this, The Lion King proves to be a rewarding voyage. An addictive and often enchanting journey that almost promises to never end. You see the real trick of this game is to sporadically introduce a level that verges on being spectacular, one that lessens the blow of the long-term drudgery of the others. Another important factor is the influence of the much beloved movie. This history creates a sense of empathy for the main character that is stronger than in the vast majority of games out there. You want Simba to kick some arse, you want him to take his place in the circle of life, you don't want to see him reduced to lifelessness by a pack of pebble throwing monkeys!
There is an awful lot going in the players favour here. It's easy to be impressed by the speed and agility of the controllable characters, the generosity with lives and continues, and the game's ability to cajole the player into "one last try". Even if there is no orgasmic climax for you at the top of Pride Rock, the journey is always going to be pretty sweet. Made sweeter in fact by the design elements!
What these elements are made of are crisp, vibrant colours and sounds that capture the Disney "feel". We see these through the sleek, well-animated characters and the relatively detailed and occasionally luscious backgrounds. From the tropical paradises, to the seventh realm of the netherworld, little is left to the imagination. The aural component features an emotional and surprisingly recognizable soundtrack. Many of the songs from the movie feature here, taking their place alongside the numerous sound effects. Overall these elements do little but add to the already substantial charm that this game has.
It's not going to be easy, but then again it's not meant to be. I was brought up with the concept of video games being a real slog, something to tackle with the sleeves rolled up. You might not ever finish this game, I might not ever finish this game, but that doesn't mean we have to stop trying. As long as games like The Lion King exist - games that tempt us with potential glory yet thwart us with constant challenges - there is reason enough to fire up the console on a cold winter's night. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and run headlong into a nest of hyenas "one last time".
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