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Ruth Bader Ginsberg, The Notorious
If this year has proven anything, it is that anything can happen to just about anybody. Death is inevitable and it will eventually come to claim all of us, even the octogenarian Supreme Court Justice who successfully beat cancer three times. Even she, who took on the white male legal establishment in the 60s and proved that a woman could do more than just type her husband's legal briefs: she could attend her own classes, raise a child, and manage to graduate at the top of her Columbia Law School class. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg, known affectionately and reverently as the Notorious RBG.
I will not waste any time on tears. That isn't to say that I am not saddened by her death, but I won't waste any time worrying about the political shenanigans that are already underway. Because right now, the time for long-winded think pieces on the hypocrisy and virulence of white supremacy in its last desperate, dying stages isn't worth the effort.
Instead, I will share a couple of stories that illuminate why I was such an unabashed #NotoriousRBG fan, and how just like her, I plan to fight until that day when Death comes to collect even me, the Busy Black Woman.
I first learned about Ruth Bader Ginsburg the summer I interned for the Women's Legal Defense Fund (now the National Partnership for Women and Families). Because I was in college, I simply thought it was exciting to have another woman nominated to the Court. The confirmation hearing for Clarence Thomas had been an eye-opening experience for me, given the uniqueness of being at Spelman at a time when many of us were grappling with the meaning and implications of feminism. And it seemed politically correct to counter-balance the appointment of a conservative Black man on the Court with a liberal white woman.
Also of note, the semester before my internship, I took a Constitutional Law class as part of a sequence of pre-law classes to prepare for law school. I will share some anecdotes from that experience at another time (because it was at Morehouse), but the main point to this is to mention that when we studied a series of cases about gender discrimination, I was unaware that many of those cases had been argued by Ginsburg. Color me awestruck to learn that she was the Thurgood Marshall of the Women's Movement, so I was enthusiastic about her selection and confirmation. (BTW, I hate those kind of comparisons, but suffice it to say she applied a similar strategy in attacking gender distinctions in the law.)
Fast forward to several years in the future when I had a chance to hear Ginsburg speak at some event where I was still mesmerized and charmed by this little lady who swore that her best friend on the Court was her ideological opposite, Antonin Scalia. I was in the official civil rights advocacy phase of my career and our consortium was preparing to litigate at least two major affirmative action cases, and he was at the top of our list of nemeses. Yet, it was fascinating to hear her describe their friendship such as their mutual love of opera and dining at a certain Italian restaurant. The fact that she didn't take their ideological differences personally seems so retro given how ardent disciples of both are now engaged in Mortal Kombat over each successive Court vacancy.
That Ginsburg was dubbed Notorious by her admirers and probably called worse by her detractors is a testament to her insistence that she be heard. She authored many opinions during her tenure on the Court, a time of monumental shifts within the legal profession. Coincidentally, a lot more young women and people of color attended law school during her tenure, so we had a lot more reading to help define our generation's advocacy. Ginsburg became our shero because she was so relentless and indefatigable--and this was before we knew about her multiple cancer diagnoses and the workout regimen and the fact that she probably hasn't slept for more than four hours a night since her third year of law school.
That brings me to one of the criticisms I have seen on social media--that she should have relinquished her seat when Obama purportedly asked her to resign. I disagree. She was confirmed to a lifetime appointment, and much like a few other women that I have come to respect, the concept of dedicating one's life to a particular cause typically means that the cause itself becomes one's reason for living. There is no such thing as retirement...die on the field in battle, not on the sidelines. And it was her seat, not Obama's so she had the right to decline his request. She knew as well as anybody else that her departure would launch a thousand missiles from both sides of the political spectrum, and perhaps once she knew that she would not outlive this current Regime, she decided to bequeath us with sufficient motivation to press on with the movement.
Movements change things. Those who are now second-guessing her decision to stay on the Court are thinking in terms of monuments. Monuments are content to stand still to be admired. Anyone who thinks that Ginsburg was concerned about admiration missed the point of her entire career.
The point was not to become a meme or an inspirational Halloween costume. If her life could be summed up in one word, it was dissent. The norms of her upbringing had been that true happiness and fulfillment for young women could only be found in a family. She had both a husband and a child by the time she graduated from law school, but decided that she had more to offer the world. So she dissented. She eventually found a job as a professor, but then resolved it was not enough to shape the young minds that went forth to challenge the status quo; she had to be willing to march into battle as well. So again she dissented. She had ascended to a seat on the highest court in the land and had served that institution for more than a generation, but instead of enjoying a well-deserved retirement, she would vacate in her own time. Another dissent.
I saw the RBG documentary (2018) when it was released, and it hinted at a few of her personal shortcomings. I took note of one in particular, but it was in the dramatized movie of Ginsburg's life On the Basis of Sex (2019), that it became more clear. Like everyone who aspires to and achieves greatness, there are high costs. In her case, Ginsburg was revealed to be a less than involved mother. Her husband became the happy homemaker and made the sacrifices (and connections) that propelled her career. She acknowledged that, and while there is no cup for measuring maternal instinct my guess is that hers was small. Her single-minded focus on dismantling gender inequality didn't give her much time for mothering, but it empowered women to choose their own path to happiness and fulfillment.
Another critique on social media has been the elitist blind spot she (and the rest of the Court) have had with respect to hiring diversity. I agree that she could have done a better job of democratizing the fraternity of Supreme Court law clerks, as it is a rarefied gateway to every elite space in the profession: white shoe law firm partnerships, executive appointments to the Department of Justice, endowed professorships, the federal judiciary, and possibly back to the Supreme Court as a justice (as was the case for John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh). Ginsburg should have hired a more diverse assortment of clerks, but so should every justice. It is a blight that everyone except for Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor share. (And yes, that includes our other SCOTUS hero Thurgood Marshall as well.) But it is a bridge too far to assert that her failure in that respect is proof that she did nothing for people of color or Black people in particular.
That kind of rhetorical nonsense is the stuff of zero-sum cancel culture. It is the bullshit logic of the keyboard whiners who never gear up to fight because they would rather complain about there not being any vegan snack options. Don't be so precious about losing a battle that has not yet been fought.
Of course the odds are against us. Of course this DESPOTUS and his Regime believe this is some kind of flaming cross--a sign that they can still stack the deck and win everything. Maybe. But so what?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote mostly dissents as a member of the Court, and if that record is to be compared to the number of cases she won as an advocate, that could brand her as some kind of sore loser. But if you are mourning her death, then you should already know that she didn't mind losing. The point was to fight on anyway. For example, Ginsburg didn't write the majority opinion in the Lilly Ledbetter case, but her dissent helped to inspire the law that sought to correct the injustices Ledbetter had endured.
Don't dis the RBG for the state of the world if you don't know basic civics (Supreme Court justices don't legislate from the bench). Don't come for the RBG if you aren't registered to vote or only think about elections every four years (there are nine seats on the Court, but hundreds of federal judgeships and McConnell has been green-lighting every Trump appointee that can spell). Don't get so caught up in ideological purity that you would rather ruminate on her shortcomings instead of strategize to move the needle forward on progress. Don't give up the fight just because the battle will be fierce.
Be Notorious. Dissent.
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Home > Journals > Mountain Research and Development > Volume 35 > Issue 4 > Article
1 November 2015 Strategy Development for Mountain Areas in Switzerland: Toward a New "Mountain Pact"
Thomas Scheurer
Thomas Scheurer1,*
1Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies (ICAS), Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Laupenstra
*thomas.scheurer@scnat.ch
Mountain Research and Development, 35(4):410-413 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00099.1
New strategies for mountain areas in Switzerland
The Swiss Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies: promoting the new strategies
Toward a new "mountain pact"
The more national and European policies focus on metropolitan regions, the more the question arises what will be the outlook for rural and mountain areas. Several strategies addressing development in rural and mountain areas in Switzerland, created at different policy levels (cantonal, national, and European/macroregional), were published in 2014 and 2015. What are the reasons for these parallel efforts, and what are their aims and opportunities? And how are mountains defined in relation to other areas? The Swiss Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies aims to take up relevant scientific questions that emerge from these strategies.
In 2014 and 2015, efforts to foster the development of mountain areas in Switzerland gained momentum, triggered by different political and administrative initiatives from the Swiss federal and canton (state) governments as well as the European Union (EU). As a result, 3 key strategies were published with the intention of promoting the inclusion of mountain areas in Switzerland's overall development aims (Table 1).
Recent strategic reports concerning mountain areas in Switzerland and the European Alpine region.
Currently mountain areas in Switzerland face important development challenges (SECO 2014; ARE 2015), such as structural change (especially in the fields of agriculture, industry, and tourism), global competition, low competitiveness, conflicting land use claims, diverging demographic processes (population increase and decrease), decreasing attractiveness for urbanization, unsustainable use of natural resources, consequences of climate change, and loss of cohesion and solidarity both within rural and mountain areas and between them and other areas.
With its policy for rural and mountain areas (Swiss Federal Council 2015), the Swiss government aims to address these challenges by implementing a number of policy measures with the following objectives:
Highlight the relevance and benefits of rural and mountain areas for sustainable development in Switzerland.
Enable a more efficient and effective implementation of existing national sectoral policies in rural and mountain areas (defining aims, improving coordination and conflict resolution, and including regional and local players to better respect the interests of rural and mountain areas).
The territorial strategy of the Governmental Conference of the Swiss Mountain Cantons (RKGK 2014) aims to promote sustainable use of natural resources, reinforcement of urban centers in the Alps, improvement of traffic and telecommunication networks, and the better use of hydropower for the production of cleaner energy (Figure 1).
Hydropower: a driver of the regional economy or just a source of clean electricity for export? (Photo by Thomas Scheurer)
The macroregional strategy for the Alpine region of the EU (EC 2015b) seeks to strengthen cooperation and coordination among regions (including in non-EU states), between metropolitan and rural areas, and between existing sectoral policies to promote sustainable growth and innovation, well-balanced territorial development based on environmentally friendly infrastructure, and wise management of natural and cultural resources.
In January 2015, the Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies (ICAS) organized a colloquium to present these 3 strategies to a broader public interested in mountain development and to discuss the way forward (ICAS 2015). Even though these strategies were developed at different governance levels, they have important goals in common: better valorization and use of endogenous resources, further development of traffic and communication infrastructures and existing urban centers in the Alps, and promotion of cohesion and cooperation between metropolitan/urban and rural/mountain areas.
Why were these strategies developed and published in parallel at the cantonal, national, and macroregional levels? In Switzerland, mountain areas had, for a long time, an exceptional position, based on a national "mountain pact" (pacte montagnard), as shown by Debarbieux and Rudaz (2013, 2014). Since around 1990 this consensus has been gradually lost. The recent strategies of the Swiss government and the Governmental Conference of Swiss Mountain Cantons can be seen as a reaction to this loss of "mountain affinity" in Swiss policies. While from a national point of view mountain areas are seen as falling within the category of rural areas, the cantons call for a framework for mountain-specific development. The strategies mainly address well-known challenges of mountain areas, but they lack precise goals. For the implementation of the national and cantonal strategies, goals and instruments have to be specified at the cantonal and regional levels. This will be a chance to bring together national, cantonal, and regional agents to improve cooperation and mountain-specific governance.
Regarding the European Alps, in a similar process led by the EU in 1991, 6 Alpine states, 2 principalities, and the EU signed the Alpine Convention ( http://www.alpconv.org). However, the EU hardly supported the implementation of this convention but instead recently developed a macroregional strategy for the Alpine region (Figure 2). The latter can be interpreted as indicating that the EU is willing to handle mountain specificities in a larger political context, where it has identified "mutual solidarity between mountain and peri-Alpine territories" (EC 2015a:2).
The Alpine macro-region as defined by EUSALP. (Source: http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/cooperate/alpine/eusalp_map.pdf; simplified version, reproduced courtesy of EUSALP)
Switzerland and the Alpine Convention seem to have reached a turning point concerning the social and political significance of mountain issues: The Alps and other mountain areas are seen as integral parts of a national and macroregional territory. Considering mountain-specific developments, a new balance of shared interests—a new "mountain pact"—has to be established in Switzerland and in the Alpine region as a whole. Such a pact would no longer build on the image of disfavored mountain regions, the segregation of mountain territories, and the reduction of disparities. Instead, as shown in the recent strategies, its main elements would be as follows:
Acknowledging the common heritage of mountains and their uniqueness as the basis of solidarity
Fostering action and cooperation within and between functional spaces, and overcoming segregation by integrating urban, rural, and mountain areas
Promoting cohesion and cooperation between metropolitan/urban and rural/mountain areas
Acknowledging the heterogeneity of regions linked with regionally differentiated strategies (strengthening excellence and cultural identity)
Creating mutual benefits based on complementarity (also between regions within the Alps)
Prioritizing development projects based on mountain-specific resources and competences
Focusing on the vulnerability of Alpine ecosystems and settlements related to climate change
Better using and coordinating existing sectoral policies and instruments for conflict management
Developing new models for transboundary cooperation based on democratic legitimation (for example, in spatial planning).
The implementation of the 3 strategies, in Switzerland as well as in the Alpine region as a whole, is an opportunity to consider mountain issues in a larger, national or macroregional context and to develop a new "mountain pact," with all stakeholders from policy-making bodies and civil society and at the local, national, and European levels. To involve these diverse partners, appropriate instruments for promoting dialogue and multilevel cooperation will be needed. ICAS intends to be an active partner in this process, contributing scientific inputs to the dialogue.
Open access article: please credit the authors and the full source.
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Q: Is this : $\lim \sup\frac{\sigma(n)}{n} , n \to\infty $ has a finite limit? The asymptotic growth rate of the sigma function can be expressed by :
$$\lim \sup\frac{\sigma(n)}{n\log(\log(n))}=e^{\gamma}$$
$$n \to\infty$$
according to the above limit , Is this : $$\lim \sup\frac{\sigma(n)}{n}$$
$$n \to\infty$$ has a finite limit ?
Note : I just would like to know the behavior of sigma function for large $n$
and to know the evaluation of second limit .
Thank you for any help .

A: No. For example, one has $\frac{\sigma(n!)}{n!} > H_n > \ln(n)$, with $H_n$ being a harmonic number.
To prove this, consider that for all $1 \leq k \leq n$ we have $k \mid n!$, so also $\frac{n}{k} \mid n!$.
Therefore the sequence $\frac{\sigma(k)}{k}$ contains a subsequence that goes to infinity, so the lim sup is infinity as well, therefore it is not finite.
Note that we could see this from the original limit as well, but the above gives a nice elementary proof of it.

A: If $\sigma(n) < C n$ for a constant $C$ then $\limsup_{n \to \infty} \frac{\sigma(n)}{n \ln \ln n} = 0$. Contradiction.

A: the lim sup you are asking about is infinite
zeraoulia, the article you should read is Alaoglu and Erdos
http://www.renyi.hu/~p_erdos/1944-03.pdf
The numbers that are most efficient at giving large ( and increasing without bound) $\sigma(n)/n$ are called Colossally Abundant Numbers there. See https://mathoverflow.net/questions/79927/which-n-maximize-gn-frac-sigmann-log-log-n
I should also point out that programming the CA numbers is not so easy. However, the approximate factorization of one of these is very similar to a fairly easy sequence,
$$ \operatorname{lcm} \;  \{1,2,3,4,5, \ldots, N \}   $$
Note that this number increases only when $N$ is a prime or prime power, so make the sequence under consideration from those.
Furthermore, you ask about the ratio $\sigma(n)/n$ by itself. This is, as pointed out, unbounded. As you can see at How would I find a number where $\sum_{d\mid n}d > 100n$?  we can make arbitrarily large values from either the factorials or the primorials. I decided to do it with CA numbers, I did get the ratio up to $30$ and gave up. I think someone dedicated could do the task there with the LCM numbers I describe above.
Prime Power : 1  ratio:  1     n : 1      sigma(n) :  1
Prime Power : 2  ratio:  1.5     n : 2      sigma(n) :  3
Prime Power : 3  ratio:  2     n : 6      sigma(n) :  12
Prime Power : 4  ratio:  2.33333     n : 12      sigma(n) :  28
Prime Power : 5  ratio:  2.8     n : 60      sigma(n) :  168
Prime Power : 7  ratio:  3.2     n : 420      sigma(n) :  1344
Prime Power : 8  ratio:  3.42857     n : 840      sigma(n) :  2880
Prime Power : 9  ratio:  3.71429     n : 2520      sigma(n) :  9360
Prime Power : 11  ratio:  4.05195     n : 27720      sigma(n) :  112320
Prime Power : 13  ratio:  4.36364     n : 360360      sigma(n) :  1572480
Prime Power : 16  ratio:  4.50909     n : 720720      sigma(n) :  3249792
Prime Power : 17  ratio:  4.77433     n : 12252240      sigma(n) :  58496256
Prime Power : 19  ratio:  5.02561     n : 232792560      sigma(n) :  1169925120
Prime Power : 23  ratio:  5.24412     n : 5354228880      sigma(n) :  28078202880
Prime Power : 25  ratio:  5.41892     n : 26771144400      sigma(n) :  145070714880
Prime Power : 27  ratio:  5.55787     n : 80313433200      sigma(n) :  446371430400
Prime Power : 29  ratio:  5.74952     n : 2329089562800      sigma(n) :  13391142912000
Prime Power : 31  ratio:  5.93499     n : 72201776446800      sigma(n) :  428516573184000
Prime Power : 32  ratio:  6.03071     n : 144403552893600      sigma(n) :  870856261632000
Prime Power : 37  ratio:  6.1937     n : 5342931457063200      sigma(n) :  33092537942016000
Prime Power : 41  ratio:  6.34477     n : 219060189739591200      sigma(n) :  1389886593564672000
Prime Power : 43  ratio:  6.49232     n : 9419588158802421600      sigma(n) :  61155010116845568000
Prime Power : 47  ratio:  6.63046     n : 442720643463713815200      sigma(n) :  2935440485608587264000
Prime Power : 49  ratio:  6.74886     n : 3099044504245996706400      sigma(n) :  20915013459961184256000
Prime Power : 53  ratio:  6.8762     n : 164249358725037825439200      sigma(n) :  1129410726837903949824000
Prime Power : 59  ratio:  6.99274     n : 9690712164777231700912800      sigma(n) :  67764643610274236989440000
Prime Power : 61  ratio:  7.10738     n : 591133442051411133755680800      sigma(n) :  4201407903837002693345280000
Prime Power : 64  ratio:  7.16378     n : 1182266884102822267511361600      sigma(n) :  8469504822020624477061120000
Prime Power : 67  ratio:  7.27071     n : 79211881234889091923261227200      sigma(n) :  575926327897402464440156160000
Prime Power : 71  ratio:  7.37311     n : 5624043567677125526551547131200      sigma(n) :  41466695608612977439691243520000
Prime Power : 73  ratio:  7.47411     n : 410555180440430163438262940577600      sigma(n) :  3068535475037360330537152020480000
Prime Power : 79  ratio:  7.56872     n : 32433859254793982911622772305630400      sigma(n) :  245482838002988826442972161638400000
Prime Power : 81  ratio:  7.63179     n : 97301577764381948734868316916891200      sigma(n) :  742585584959041199989990788956160000
Prime Power : 83  ratio:  7.72374     n : 8076030954443701744994070304101969600      sigma(n) :  62377189136559460799159226272317440000
Prime Power : 89  ratio:  7.81053     n : 718766754945489455304472257065075294400      sigma(n) :  5613947022290351471924330364508569600000
Prime Power : 97  ratio:  7.89105     n : 69720375229712477164533808935312303556800      sigma(n) :  550166808184454444248584375721839820800000
Prime Power : 101  ratio:  7.96918     n : 7041757898200960193617914702466542659236800      sigma(n) :  56117014434814353313355606323627661721600000
Prime Power : 103  ratio:  8.04655     n : 725301063514698899942645214354053893901390400      sigma(n) :  5836169501220692744588983057657276819046400000
Prime Power : 107  ratio:  8.12175     n : 77607213796072782293863037935883766647448772800      sigma(n) :  630306306131834816415610170226985896457011200000
Prime Power : 109  ratio:  8.19626     n : 8459186303771933270031071135011330564571916235200      sigma(n) :  69333693674501829805717118724968448610271232000000

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Decided to do it myself this way with the LCM, and see how far I can get. Below is an abbreviated printout. I told it to just print when the ratio became at least as large as the next integer...
Prime Power : 1 prime : 1 floor of ratio:  1 log base ten of n :  0
Prime Power : 3 prime : 3 floor of ratio:  2 log base ten of n :  0.778151
Prime Power : 7 prime : 7 floor of ratio:  3 log base ten of n :  2.62325
Prime Power : 11 prime : 11 floor of ratio:  4 log base ten of n :  4.44279
Prime Power : 19 prime : 19 floor of ratio:  5 log base ten of n :  8.36697
Prime Power : 32 prime : 2 floor of ratio:  6 log base ten of n :  14.1596
Prime Power : 61 prime : 61 floor of ratio:  7 log base ten of n :  26.7717
Prime Power : 103 prime : 103 floor of ratio:  8 log base ten of n :  44.8605
Prime Power : 169 prime : 13 floor of ratio:  9 log base ten of n :  73.6195
Prime Power : 289 prime : 17 floor of ratio:  10 log base ten of n :  127.488
Prime Power : 509 prime : 509 floor of ratio:  11 log base ten of n :  223.273
Prime Power : 881 prime : 881 floor of ratio:  12 log base ten of n :  383.769
Prime Power : 1531 prime : 1531 floor of ratio:  13 log base ten of n :  665.019
Prime Power : 2671 prime : 2671 floor of ratio:  14 log base ten of n :  1153.3
Prime Power : 4639 prime : 4639 floor of ratio:  15 log base ten of n :  2010.98
Prime Power : 8089 prime : 8089 floor of ratio:  16 log base ten of n :  3507.89
Prime Power : 14107 prime : 14107 floor of ratio:  17 log base ten of n :  6130.6
Prime Power : 24649 prime : 157 floor of ratio:  18 log base ten of n :  10714

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The course trains students in applying specialized occupational theory, practical and builds skills and enables them to understand concepts to work solely as a cardiovascular technologist and various other positions.
Students learn to effectively communicate about technical issues, science and technology related to cardiovascular ailments. In B.Sc. Cardiovascular Technology course, students learn how to apply science and technology to study of cardiovascular technology and are able to use latest advancements in field of CVT.
One can also opt for courses similar to B.Sc. Cardiovascular Technology, such as B.Sc. Cardiac Technology, B.Sc. Cardiac Perfusion, etc.
Students aspiring for B.Sc. Cardiovascular Technology course needs to be 10+2 pass with minimum of 50% marks and with Physics, Chemistry, Biology as one of the main subjects.
He/She shall not be having any backlog or compartment in any of the subject/subjects at 10+2 or equivalent level that is yet to be cleared at the time of taking admissions.
In case of reserved category students, they would have to present their reservation certificates issued by the competent authorities in order to avail the benefits applicable for them.
Certain Institutes grant admissions through Common Entrance Test (CET). To get admission in these institutes candidates would have to qualify the respective entrance exam by securing minimum qualifying marks.
The eligibility criteria's mentioned above are common to most of the universities and colleges across the country that are offering B.Sc. Cardiovascular Technology course to the students.
After preparation of final merit list, the process of final allotment of seats to the candidate takes place and the candidate is asked to deposit the fee for B.Sc. Cardiovascular Technology course and register for the respective academic year.
The admission process mentioned might vary for different institutes/universities.
There are a variety of jobs for B.Sc. Cardiovascular Technology graduates in areas such as Hospitals, Health-related organizations, Universities, etc.
A student aspiring for more knowledge in the same or related domain can opt for higher studies such as M.Sc. in Cardiovascular technology, or M.Sc. in Cardiac technology, etc.
The primary role of B.Sc. Cardiovascular Technology graduate is to assist a qualified physician and perform technical procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular injury or ailment.


As one of Bozeman's favorite local bands, Cure for the Common always draws a fun crowd. The funk rock band announced they will be recording a new music video in Bozeman on Friday March 9th and 10th and they are asking their fans to show up to star in the video.
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We're stoked to have Joel Martin and his talented team of MSU Film students on board to direct and produce "Let's Ride" with us. It will feature the most iconic Bozeman sights and sounds, spacemen, a concert performance to be filmed LIVE at the Zebra, Garrett's birthday celebration, bikes!, GoPro epicness, slow motion, and best of all, you!


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By the time we got to the Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! exhibition at Somerset House, we were already a little worn out. Travel, wandering around Borough Market and various coffee stops delayed our arrival until mid-afternoon. We dropped off our bags, bought our tickets and walked past the velvet curtains. They were aptly theatrical, hiding the stages and whirled fantasy of fashion-as-performance beyond.
The late Isabella Blow – innovator, nurturer and lover of exquisite clothing. Stylist. Member of the aristocracy. Wearer of pink lipstick. Avant-garde icon. Promoter of young designers bursting with talent. There are so many ways to describe her. Each is just a part of the fabulous, startling whole, capturing one of the many sparkling facets of a woman unafraid to embrace the unconventional.
Thus the beautifully curated exhibition's focus on clothes as costume is fitting, with each mannequin suggesting a new persona – be it in the power of a well-tailored suit with a flick in its skirt or the whimsy in an elaborate silver dress with paillette layers scattering light-ripples. Lace gowns and antlers, feathers everywhere, intricately embroidered coats. It is not merely glorified dressing up on display, but the glorious combination of imagination, craftsmanship and playfulness.
The words used to describe an exhibition – display, on show, curation, installation – are all curiously appropriate for Blow's general approach to fashion. This is clothing as a display of colour and character, as a show of exuberance, a curation of particular designers and concepts, a once walking-living-moving installation of the self expressed through style.
Part of the excitement in being a visitor and observer also lies in the proximity to the clothes and hats. Very few are displayed behind glass, meaning that you can move in near enough to see every detail from every angle: stitches, seams, sequins, even the occasional moth hole. Philip Treacy's hats are even more incredible when scrutinized up close. A ship made of feathers, an enchanted castle, squiggles, swirls and circles turned into the most divine headwear. The face beneath is transformed, manipulated, made strange.
One of the few creations behind a shiny surface is a decayed, rusty dress from Hussein Chayalan's graduate collection. It's like an inversion of the Snow White fairytale. Rather than the glass box preserving and keeping intact the youthful figure within, here it encloses a dress defined by its entropy. I'm fascinated by this particular collection in general, with Chayalan's use of fabric as a kind of wearable memento mori both unsettling and beautiful.
But then that balance between unsettling and beautiful can summarise much of what is to be seen here. The visual splendor of the installations depicting underwater seascapes; the keepsakes and scraps from Blow's life (her lipstick, her scribbled notes, letters from editors); the continuous looped interviews and catwalk shows that flicker on screens between the mannequins. It is not merely a body of work on show, but also a life embodied.
Moreover, there is an overwhelming pathos in the knowledge that the exhibition's two main subjects, Blow herself, and Alexander McQueen (excluding Treacy and the others shown such as Chayalan and John Galliano) had both committed suicide. The incredible verve and innovation that characterises the exhibition has a bittersweet undertone. There's synthesis of dark and light here, both in the designs shown and the lives hinted at in what was left behind.
This outfit was my small homage to Blow's continual use of clothes as performance. The vintage 50s headpiece came from my paternal grandma (as did the belt and envelope clutch - thanks Babi). It was so windy that it kept trying to take flight from my head. The black velvet dress was found during my incredible Brick Lane trip, whilst the shoes are an old eBay purchase. The smaller-than-usual waist was accomplished through the combination of spanx and an uncomfortably tight notch on the belt. Sliding in and out of the car while trussed up in tight velvet was quite the achievement.
The exhibition has been mounted by a partnership comprising Somerset House, Central St Martins and The Isabella Blow Foundation.
Take a look at the Isabella Blow Foundation website for more information (which incidentally has a picture of the lovely Alexia Wight modelling one of Blow's dresses on its homepage). The foundation supports up-and-coming designers, whilst also seeking to raise awareness of depression and other mental health issues.
Several weeks into my second term, Oxford is now a blending of the familiar with the ongoing possibility of the new. Favourite spaces to frequent have been established; others await discovery. There are plenty of enticing locations and activities I could write about, including cinemas, theatres, parks (mostly flooded right now) and the best cobbled streets to wander along on starlit nights. However, right now my attention is drawn towards a purely liquid theme as I'm busy planning where to take a visiting friend this weekend. Thus, The following lovely places form stops on an imagined tour in search of my two preferred beverages – coffee and cocktails.
I am a haunter of cafes, though the number of loyalty cards in my purse illustrates my flighty movements between establishments. The combination of caffeine and background chatter somehow works to ease into the ideal essay-writing state, while hours spent with hands warmed by mugs, and minds warmed by conversation are always relished.
Quarter Horse Coffee on Cowley Road works well for lazy mornings skipping through books or for late-afternoon frantic typing as deadlines approach. Their strong, smooth flat whites aid both reading and writing, but it's hard to limit oneself to just the one. Their tables attract plenty of laptop-bearing students, as well as newspaper-wielding workers and friends catching up over brownies and coffee.
Truck Store (also in Cowley) is a record shop with a row of chairs and tables squeezed down one side. With good coffee, great music and mismatched crockery, it has a delightfully ramshackle feel. It works equally well as a retreat from spattering rain or a prime destination on sunny Sundays. The only downside is trying not to get distracted by the proximity to all that vinyl. Nick Drake's albums are proving particularly tricky to resist. The cafe part of the store is technically called the Keen Bean coffee club.
The Missing Bean has a much-justified reputation for killer coffee. I first visited during interviews, and have returned many times since in a much more relaxed state. Being central, small and very popular, it fills up quickly – the steamed up windows indicating the number of people within. They also do great bagels and sandwiches for those too peckish for cake.
Turl Street Kitchen is like a glorified (and glorious) living room. With a fireplace downstairs and an array of sink-in-and-never-escape sofas upstairs, it's a place where whole afternoons pass by without realising. Their lunch and dinner menus change daily, and - continuing the theme of a home-from-home - are full of soup, salads and hearty meals from slow-cooked pork and red cabbage to a rolling selection of (rather divine) fish dishes. Oh, and did I mention the cocktails? They're also a not-for-profit business, with all proceeds supporting the hub upstairs – which houses a huge variety of charities, organisations and social justice groups.
Oxford is well-known for its pubs, but although I know and enjoy a few, so far my explorations have been more cocktail-oriented. Plenty of Mojitos, Brambles, Espresso Martinis, and the occasional Raspberry Collins have been sampled, with many others left to try.
Freud in Jericho is a beautiful space with dangerously enticing drinks. This deconsecrated Church, with its high ceilings and stained glass windows adds a pleasing dose of grandeur to an evening. They also host a number of entertaining events from electro-swing nights to panel talks. The Moscow Mules come highly recommended, particularly when experienced at 1am with a good friend in tow.
The Mad Hatter, with its velvet sofas, menus pasted inside old books and bartenders decked out in a fine array of millinery, makes for a playful hour or two. Cocktails are a little pricey, but taste all the better when drunk during their weekly jazz nights.
The House Bar is hidden down a little side alley off the high street. A delicious array of choices, it's considerably cheaper during the happy hour – or in the company of an Oxford Union member. Stay downstairs for a typical leather seats and barstools experience, or seek out the games room on the floor above. Still planning a cocktail-fueled (probably intensely competitive) Monopoly game there at some point.
The Grand Café has a fun and fabulous art deco style interior, complete with huge mirrors and metallic ornaments. A great place to people-watch, but a quick warning – there seems to be no rhyme or reason to when it's open or closed. Twice now we've arrived after checking opening times on the website, only to find dark windows and a locked door.
It was very satisfying to realise that this post actually brings together all three components of my blog title – Clothes, Cameras and Coffee. The clothes here are comprised of a second hand cardigan and vintage Jaeger jumper, a leather skirt from the Oxford vintage fair, boots appropriated from my mum and family-owned accessories. The camera part was provided in photos taken by the lovely Dina from She Loves Mixtapes. And the coffee? Was very much enjoyed.


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How To Integrate ManyChat with Mailchimp
One of the secrets of Facebook Messenger bot marketing is that it is a great platform for capturing additional user data, like emails addresses, phone number or whatever else you need to grow your business. (In fact, here's a case study on how we use Facebook Messenger to grow the email list and drive organic traffic for a publisher.)
How Publishers Can Use Facebook Messenger Bots to Capture Emails and Drive Free Traffic Forever (Automatically!)
As of 2016, more people actively use messaging bots than social networks. This represents a massive opportunity for marketers to reach people where they are. So it's no big surprise that Facebook recently opened up its API to allow brands to create an owned presence on Messenger. While most brands initially used it as a customer service channel, businesses are increasingly expanding what they do on Messenger: broadcasting content, driving conversions, and engaging 1:1 with potential customers.
To leverage Messenger in such ways, brands generally rely on Messenger bots. And with the emergence of tools like ManyChat, creating a Messenger bot has become a democratized process that doesn't require knowledge of programming or artificial intelligence. Any brand can use ManyChat to create simple bots that capture email addresses, drive traffic to their websites, and create entirely new value propositions that take advantage of Messenger's 1:1 nature.
Today, we want to take the conversation one step further and talk about growth. Because if you create a bot but not an audience, you're only going to be talking to yourself—and you'll be missing a massive opportunity.
How the Creative Pros Behind Wit & Measure Are Building a Future-Proof Agency From Scratch
There's a wave of change sweeping through the ad industry right now. Creative talent is leaving corporate powerhouses to start their own shops. Established agencies are dealing with the structural challenge of creating content for both traditional media and emerging platforms. Programmatic, native, and social advertising each claim to be the next big thing. Agencies are lining up and placing their bets.
Seasoned creative pros Eve Asbury and Tina Cervera, the co-founders of Wit & Measure, are building an agency from scratch in the middle of it all. We caught up with them to talk about creating a scalable infrastructure, how to compete with bigger agencies, and the biggest piece of advice they have for creatives looking to branch out on their own.
Paid Social Marketing is Peaking. Here's How Agencies Can Take Advantage
"There is no such thing as a free lunch." These cautionary words of wisdom have been repeated around offices since before the 1930s. Fast forward to the digital marketing landscape of 2017, and the saying might be as relevant as ever.
Introducing BlueWing 2.0
It's been almost five months exactly since we launched BlueWing with an email to family and friends. A ton has happened since then. Here's an update on where we stand right now.
How to Write a Killer Proposal
Congratulations. If you've made it to the proposal stage with a potential client, that means you've been out there taking calls, booking meetings and learning about how you can help another company accomplish their goals.
Now that you've done the groundwork, its time to seal the deal with a killer proposal. At this point, you've should have already had thorough discussion with your potential client about their needs, bugdet and timeline and how you plan to help. The purpose of a proposal is simple: to formally outline all of your learnings form the sales process and get them to sign (or click) on the dotted line.
Whether you are a freelancer, an agency or a business, nailing your proposals is a critical skill. Here's how to do it.
How to Strategically Research and Gather a List of Target Accounts
Building a list of targeted accounts is one of the most important elements of getting started with a list-based or account-based marketing campaign. It's crucial to target the right leads early. It's better to spend more time and resources upfront before you are deep into a campaign and realize you are producing and promoting content for target accounts that shouldn't have been on your list in the first place.
Here's how you can set your company up for success by strategically researching and gathering a list of target accounts.
What Is Account-Based Marketing?
Despite account-based marketing's recent resurgence, the foundational ideas of the approach have been around for years. According to ITSMA's Bev Burgess, who coined the name "Account-Based Marketing" in 2003, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers first introduced the tenets of ABM in their prescient book The One to One Future. 23 years later, digital technology has given companies the tools to execute Pepper's and Roger's ideas at an unprecedented scale.
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There are rocky boundaries in relationships, and then there are jagged ones that should wall off certain subjects like Niagara Falls. Today, we look at the four things you should never share with your boyfriend under any circumstance (unless you're trying to get rid of him).
Guys have seen plenty of doogies in their day, and the last thing they want to see, is their girlfriend cooking up brownies and spatula'ing them off into the porcelain thrown. Keep the door closed when you're doing your business. We can talk later!
Girls feel a close intimacy with their boyfriend when they profess everything about their past sexual experiences. It is like a confessional, where they are being absolved of all their past discretion's. Men, on the other hand, have this image of a white dress maiden that giggles whenever 'Mr. Pokey' comes out to play. Keep him guessing. He'll like you better for it!
It's easy to spout off, Well, my girlfriend's think you're a slob too, in the heat of battle, but you'll pay for it later. His relationship with your circle of friends and family can become permanently tarnished with a little too much information.
Unless you've given an oath of solitary confinement, your passwords should be kept on the shelf along with your toilet habits and past bedroom antics. Men have a tendency to check up on their girlfriend if she makes it too easy, and all this will create is trust issues and insecurities. If he's pressuring you for your passwords, he probably has reason to worry by what's in his own inbox!


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Q: Cant remove identity attribute from PK I need to change the data type of the primary key on one of my tables to string from int (I didn't say I WANT to...).  The migration generates this bit of code:
AlterColumn("dbo.Venues", "ID", c => c.String(nullable: false, maxLength: 128));

This causes SQL server to complain that the data type must be int, bigint, etc because the column is an identity column.  I added the following but it appears to have no effect:
AlterColumn("dbo.Venues", "ID", c => c.Int(identity:false));

Question:  How do I get the migration to change the data type from int to string?
The following may be related to my question but not necessarily:
The only code generated by the migration is the first AlterColumn shown above.  When run as natively generated, the migration caused SQL Server to complain that it could not alter the column because there were dependencies on it.  In fact the only dependency is that it is a PK (there are no tables that reference it as a FK).  I modified the migration to appear as follows and now I am getting the data type error as indicated above.
DropPrimaryKey("dbo.Venues");
AlterColumn("dbo.Venues", "ID", c => c.Int(identity:false));
AlterColumn("dbo.Venues", "ID", c => c.String(nullable: false, maxLength: 128));
AddPrimaryKey("dbo.Venues", "ID");

A: At least for some versions of SQL Server, this can be done without dropping/recreating the database. It reportedly doesn't work for Azure (or didn't as of a 2015 comment). Inspired by this answer, here's my Up() method.
Note that I don't have any foreign keys on this table so don't need to support that wrinkle covered in the linked answer
    public override void Up()
    {
        DropPrimaryKey("dbo.Products"); // Should be same as ALTER TABLE yourTable DROP CONSTRAINT PK_yourTable_id;
        Sql("alter table dbo.Products add tempId int NOT NULL default -1");
        Sql("update dbo.Products set tempId = Id;");
        // Won't work. Can't remove identity: AlterColumn("dbo.Products", "Id", c => c.Int(nullable: false));
        Sql("alter table dbo.Products drop column Id");
        Sql("EXEC sp_rename 'Products.tempId', 'Id', 'COLUMN'");
        AddPrimaryKey("dbo.Products", "Id"); // Should be same as ALTER TABLE yourTable ADD CONSTRAINT PK_yourTable_id PRIMARY KEY (id)
    }

A: Removing an identity specification from a column can only be done by re-creating the table. Look at the ALTER TABLE - ALTER COLUMN statement: there is no syntax to change (add or remove) an identity specification.
So I'm afraid you'll have to do this manually and make a fresh start for subsequent migrations.
BTW Sql Server Management Studio won't help you doing this. You may want to use Toad for Sql Server. It creates a full table rebuild script when you remove an identity specification.


Twitter never fails to impress!
It's not very often that a referee is trending on Twitter, however Mike Dean had the honour after giving out his 100th Premier League red card.
Ashley Young was the unlucky number 100 after he was forced to leave the pitch due to a second bookable offence.
The first referee to reach a century of Premier League red cards, and it's not even close.
He sends Ashley Young off in front of the cameras on live TV.
100 not out for Mike Dean.
Mike Dean: "Yeaaahhhhno, always nice, but the main thing is to get the top marks from the referee's assessor. I had no idea I was on 99 until one of the lads told me before the game"


Global recruitment industry body APSCo has been showcasing best practice through its Annual Excellence Awards since 1999. The mission of the APSCo Awards for Excellence is to exhibit how members are demonstrating and supporting the professional standards that APSCo represents.
Cobalt won the International Recruitment Company of the Year award after a rigorous process that was carried out with real integrity against some very upstanding competition. Cobalt was announced as the winner at the APSCo Awards lunch in London on October 18th 2017.
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COVID-19 School Reopening: Bear With Us A Little More, Education Minister Tells Students
VAM News Agency 6:14 AM Education
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The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba has advised the Nigerian students to exercise more patience as Nigeria mulls the reopening of schools after months of forced closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba gives an update on the COVID-19 situation in the country on April 21, 2020(Credit: Channels Tv)
Nwajiuba who praised the students for their patience since schools were shut down in the country, gave an assurance that the Federal Ministry of Education is working with stakeholders for the safe reopening of the education centres.
"I urge our students who have actually exercised a lot of patience along with their parents … I urge you to bear with us a little bit more. The rioting needs to stop; there is nothing to riot about," the minister stated during Monday's briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.
Students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students during a protest to demand the reopening of Tertiary Institutions by the Nigerian Government amid the coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday 19th August 2020(VAM gallery)
Nwajiuba disclosed that there have been moves to safely reopen schools, noting that the guidelines for such have been given to higher institutions, with a number of them already expressing their commitment to adhere to the protocols.
He expressed confidence that relevant authorities would soon give a nod to the resumption of classes.
"We don't want to bandy around dates," he said, "We remain positive."
According to the Minister, the Federal Government is also in negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), reiterating that every player in the education sector is engaged on the reopening of schools.
"The PTF profiles for us a national response and everyone can tee off from there," he added.
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 * MidiLeds v1.0 - https://github.com/hhromic/midi-leds-js
 * An ADSR-based polyphonic MIDI LEDs display for JavaScript.
 * MIT license
 * Hugo Hromic - http://github.com/hhromic
 *
 * @license
 */
/*jslint nomen: true*/

(function () {
    'use strict';

    // Default parameters per MIDI channel
    var _defaults = {
        attackTime: 80, // in milliseconds
        decayTime: 3000, // in milliseconds
        sustainLevel: 0.0, // 0..1 (float)
        releaseTime: 400, // in milliseconds
        baseBrightness: 0x00, // 0x00..0xFF
        enabled: true,
    };

    // Constructor
    // 'leds' is an array of arrays (MIDI channel x leds)
    // tip: use Uint32Array for better performance
    function MidiLeds (leds, noteMin, noteMax, numVoices, midiColors) {
        this._leds = leds;
        this._noteMin = noteMin & 0x7F;
        this._noteMax = noteMax & 0x7F;
        this._numVoices = numVoices;
        this._midiColors = midiColors;

        // Initialise voices
        this._voices = new Array(numVoices);
        for (var i=numVoices; i--;)
            this._voices[i] = {
                channel: 0x0,
                note: 0x0,
                hsv8: [0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
                adsrEnvelope: new AdsrEnvelope(),
                age: 0,
            };
        this._activeVoices = 0;

        // Initialise parameters
        this._parameters = new Array(16);
        for (var i=16; i--;)
            this.reset(i);
    }

    // Prototype shortcut
    var proto = MidiLeds.prototype;

    // Get a voice index to use for a new MIDI note message
    proto._getVoiceIndex = function (channel, note) {
        var oldestIndex = undefined;
        var idleIndex = undefined;
        for (var i=this._numVoices; i--;) {
            if (this._voices[i].channel == channel && this._voices[i].note == note)
                return i;
            if (idleIndex === undefined || this._voices[i].adsrEnvelope.isIdle())
                idleIndex = i;
            if (oldestIndex === undefined || this._voices[i].age > this._voices[oldestIndex].age)
                oldestIndex = i;
        }
        return idleIndex !== undefined ? idleIndex : oldestIndex;
    }

    // Move voice with given index to the front of the voices array
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        var movedVoice = this._voices[index];
        for (var i=index; i--;)
            this._voices[i + 1] = this._voices[i];
        this._voices[0] = movedVoice;
    }

    // Find the voice index corresponding to a MIDI note message, undefined if not found
    proto._findVoiceIndex = function (channel, note) {
        for (var i=this._numVoices; i--;)
            if (this._voices[i].channel == channel && this._voices[i].note == note && !this._voices[i].adsrEnvelope.isIdle())
                return i;
        return undefined;
    }

    // Get attack time for a MIDI channel
    proto.getAttackTime = function (channel) {
        return this._parameters[channel & 0xF].attackTime;
    }

    // Set attack time for a MIDI channel
    proto.setAttackTime = function (channel, attackTime) {
        this._parameters[channel & 0xF].attackTime = attackTime;
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Deirdre and the Sons of Usna - An Opera
Deirdre and the Sons of Usna | The Everyman | 28 Jan 20
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The Everyman and John O'Brien present a concert performance of a brand-new opera Deirdre and the Sons of Usna – An Opera.
Presented by The Everyman and John O' Brien. The creators of The Nightingale and the Rose present a concert performance of a brand-new opera Deirdre and the Sons of Usna – An Opera. A tale, retold throughout the centuries, of the youthful rebellion of love in the face of corrupted power and treachery. An ancient story which speaks of now, then and always. Music By John O'Brien Libretto By Éadaoin O'Donoghue Starring Kim Sheehan, Ronald Samm & Majella Cullagh


Sheffield is committed to reducing and eliminating health inequalities in the city.
Health inequalities affect everyone and action is being taken to continue to tackle them from now until 2024. These plans have been informed by an assessment of the current and future health, care and wellbeing needs of the people of Sheffield.
The 'Sheffield Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy' states that it is not right that some people can expect to live a less healthy life because of who they are or where they live and it highlights the three main areas that contribute to a healthy life: Starting Well, Living Well and Ageing Well.
Councillors will be asked to approve this strategy on 17th April at Sheffield City Council's cabinet meeting.
It paints an accurate and clear picture of how people are doing in the city; whether they are well and likely to stay well for a long time or not, what will help them stay well and what the barriers are to them keeping well physically and emotionally.
The aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of the poorest and most vulnerable the fastest.
Short term actions will follow the strategy and as no one sector has the answer to these difficult challenges it will be important for people and communities to work with services and business to deliver this strategy.
Work will focus on the person from birth to going to school; how a child develops, has a good education and then transitions to independence, how important it is for that person to have access to a home that supports their health and to have the opportunity for fulfilling work and the resources to support their needs. It will also focus on how that person should be able to walk or cycle in their local area whatever their age or ability, have access to care and support, meaningful social contact and an end to their life with dignity in a place of their choice.
Dr. Tim Moorhead, Co-Chair of the Sheffield Health and Wellbeing Board and Chair of NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group said: "We know that things like your age, the area in Sheffield you live in, your background and how much money you have can affect your health and wellbeing – focusing our efforts towards 'Starting Well', 'Living Well' and 'Ageing Well' will help make sure that everyone has the equal opportunity to live long, healthy lives, just as they deserve.


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Philadelphia PHL
THE BYOB GUIDE
The 10 Best Steakhouses In Philadelphia
The 10 best Philly steakhouses right now.
Sydney McElwee
Rather than type "steakhouse" into Google Maps and pick the one that's closest to you, we've got you covered with which ones are actually worth a visit. Our favorites are a mix of new school and old school, but all are spots we like to go to for a big slab of red meat and a few sides. If you're going to drop big money for a night on the town, make sure it's worth it.
In no particular order, here's our list of the 10 best steakhouses in Philly.
THE SPOTS
Butcher And Singer
American , Steaks in Center City , Rittenhouse
$$$$ 1500 Walnut St
When your new boss offers to take your whole group out, you should immediately do two things. First, be glad that at least someone gets free reign on the corporate card. Second, make a reservation at Butcher & Singer. It's a retro steakhouse that's light on pretense, and if someone else is picking up the tab, the king crab cocktail is the first thing you should get. All of their steaks are also top-notch, and you don't want to skip the bacon mac and cheese. If you still have room for dessert afterwards, there's no one doing baked Alaska better in Philadelphia.
Urban Farmer
American , Steaks in Logan Square
$$$$ 1 Logan Sq
Urban Farmer is modeled off of a classic Chicago steakhouse, meaning all of the steaks are categorized first by cut and second by where the cow lived it's (hopefully very long and pleasant) life. It's probably the most modern-feeling steakhouse in the city, and it's much brighter and airier than the classic chandeliered bank vault you usually eat your steaks in. You can't really mess up an order here, but the best decision you can make is to get the steak tasting, where you'll get three different six-ounce samples for $70.
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Barclay Prime
American , Seafood , Steaks in Rittenhouse
$$$$ 237 S 18th St
If you ever get a call from a friend who's in Philly for just one night and needs your top recommendation for a steakhouse, send them to Barclay Prime. It still feels trendy, even though it's been around for almost 15 years, and the steak here is some of the best you'll have in your life (especially the A5 Wagyu filets). There's also a $125 cheesesteak on the menu that comes with a half-bottle of champagne, and it will ruin you for any future cheesesteaks that are made with lowly cheese wiz, but it's the kind of ruined you want to be.
Davio's Philadelphia
Pasta , Steaks , Italian in Center City , Rittenhouse
There are a few Davio's locations now, but the original one is on the second floor of a converted bank in Center City, and it's basically like if a fancy Italian restaurant ate a kitschy steakhouse. Everything about it, from the white tablecloths to the servers in black and white tuxes, makes it seem like a fine dining establishment, except then you realize that they do things like chicken parm egg rolls, a full children's menu, and take out. But that just makes it all the more endearing.
Alpen Rose
American , Steaks in Center City , Midtown Village
Most steakhouses are huge, cavernous halls with two-story ceilings and tons of big round tables. Alpen Rose is not that. It's a small, 15-table, all-wood room that looks like either the inside of a treasure chest or the personal library of a retired Harvard professor, and it's full of expensive-looking paintings in ornate frames. Alpen Rose has a pretty standard steakhouse menu, divided between appetizers, sides, and dry-aged steaks. Red meat is definitely the focus here, and it's all sliced tableside while you watch like a Golden Retriever who hasn't eaten since breakfast. If you want something a little more interesting, the bone marrow toast and beef tongue are both solid options.
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Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House
American , Steaks in Center City
$$$$ 1426 Chestnut St
Sometimes you just want to pretend like you're an important businessman and exchange business cards with people like you're Patrick Bateman in American Psycho - except maybe without the whole serial killer situation. When that's the case, you want to go to Del Frisco's. It's in the old Packard building, which is so big it's basically like having a meal inside of 30th Street Station, and the crowd here is generally lots of people in suits one-upping each other over a few porterhouses. Along with the traditional options, there are some cheesesteak dumplings that are delicious, and you should end every meal with the butter cake.
Hugo's Frog Bar and Chop House
American , Steaks in Fishtown
$$$$ 1001 N Delaware Ave
Before we say anything about Hugo's, we should tell you that it's in the SugarHouse Casino. And as much as that entire building is an eyesore on the Delaware River, sometimes it's almost ironically fun to go play a bunch of slots and follow it up with a $60 steak and a Manhattan. That's exactly what Hugo's exists for - well, that and the outdoor patio overlooking the river. The steaks here are surprisingly good, and they even have a special "Philly cut," which is a bone-in filet mignon topped with a provolone sauce and fried shallots. It's a must order, as is the foot-and-a-half tall chocolate mousse pie.
Malbec Argentine Steakhouse
Steaks , Argentinian in Society Hill
$$$$ 402 S 2nd St
Most steakhouses are somewhat intimidating - they're overly fancy, they have high ceilings and lots of dark wood, and you wouldn't want to spend a first date connecting with someone while you try to make sure your posture is at exactly 90 degrees. Malbec is the opposite. This small spot in Society Hill looks more like a French bistro than a steakhouse, and it's more affordable than most of the other places on this list. In addition to a bunch of steaks (that are all under $50), they also have some great Argentinian specialties like empanadas and grilled beef chitterlings.
Saloon Restaurant
Steaks , Italian in Queen Village
$$$$ 750 S 7th St
Saloon is already one of our favorite Italian restaurants in the city - the linguine pescatore is just one of their many stand-out pasta dishes - but it also has a list of steaks that are up there with the far more expensive ones you'll find at bigger steakhouses. This place has floor-to-ceiling wood walls and stained glass windows, which makes it feel kind of like you're in the rectory of a church that happens to have a lot of extra communion wine.
Ocean Prime
American , Seafood , Steaks in Center City
The best part about Ocean Prime is how accessible it is. You almost never have to make a reservation here, so if you've had a particularly bad day at work that will only be made better by consuming an entire steak by yourself, you should just grab a seat at the Ocean Prime bar. In addition to being one of the best looking bars in the area, it also has one of the better cocktail menus - with things like a whiskey clover with honey water and rum punch with chocolate bitters.
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Finished fifth in a CheckRayz player appreciation tournament at Poker4Ever. First time I have played there since they announced that they would not allow USA players, then reversed themselves. Made the final table of an OPT $10 buy at Poker.com, but finished out of the money.
Ring table action at Poker.com continues to be good. Even with some bad beats and tough hands that I lost, I am still doing well. Poker.com continues to be the best online poker site, in my opinion.
Before I get to posting a year-end review, I got one of those little reminders about what poker can sometimes be about. I heard someone on a radio show stating that some of the superstar poker players today are just the latest incarnation of crooks and thieves from the past. I mean ... how many of them have more than their share of grifter tales?
Have you read all the crapola about Brandi Hawbaker and Captain Tom Franklin? Talk about a poker soap opera. Real life can oftentimes be better than anything television can make up.
When many of the poker sites decided to say no to USA players, we found out who some of the good guys were, and unfortunately, who some of the bad guys were. Some sites gave us plenty of warning and acted in a respectful way. I may have slammed Titan Poker many times for the unbelievable river beats I received, but Titan was among the best at being up front and giving plenty of time to cash out. I can't say the same for some other sites that gave perhaps a one hour notice before closing accounts ... and keeping money. Yeah - we sometimes get reminded that poker and slime go together quite frequently.
PokerRoom.com, however, takes it to another level. In one of the worst public relations moves in recent memory, PokerRoom.com awarded money for a $19,000 Guaranteed tournament, and then after saying that there was error, TOOK MONEY OUT OF THE WINNING PLAYERS' ACCOUNTS! Makes you wonder how "safe" our money ever really is.
I have already told myself that at any time I could get screwed over by any poker room, forum, or organization. There is a risk to virtually everything in life, and online poker seems riskier than most. I only hope that I never experience what some of our unfortunate poker brothers and sisters received as a Christmas gift from PokerRoom.com.
I got into Las Vegas on December 17 for a three-night poker trip. I was surprised that there were as many people as there were, considering that I was going during what was supposed to be one of the deadest weeks of the year.
I checked into Harrah's late afternoon and headed to one of my favorite poker rooms, Bally's. The Bally's $1/2 NL game had been especially profitable for me in 2006, and I came expecting the same.
About three hands into my visit, I got pocket 9's and hit my set on the flop. They held up, and I was on my way ... or so I thought. The next 27 hours the poker gods forgot that I existed.
Shortly after hitting the set, I called a small raise with A-10. The flop came A-3-4. A player to my right raised and I called. Being new to the table, I had no idea what kind of player was in the hand with me. I was concerned that he went in with A-3 or A-4. The turn was an Ace. The player to my right again bet, and I again called. What did he have? The flop was a Jack, and he increased his raise. I was guessing that he had A-J and just made his boat, but I called anyway. I was thinking that I was probably beat, and I was right. However, I was shocked to see that the guy had pocket Jacks and continued betting with two Aces on the board. He hit his lucky two outer, and now I was back at ground zero.
The next hand I had top pair, okay kicker and raised. I was called by one person, who unfortunately hit his gutshot. Then ... the cards stopped coming.
I was surprised to see so many local players at Bally's that night. The play was obviously going to get tougher and I was getting no cards, so I decided to watch the Survivor finale on tv and return afterwards.
When I returned, the tables at Bally's were full, but I was able to get into a $1/2 NL table at Paris. This was my first time at Paris, and I did have a good time and played against some decent players. There was only one NL table, though, so options were limited. I played for several hours and came out even, getting virtually no playable hands. I decided to call it a night.
On Monday I returned to Bally's and again saw very few playable hands: 9-2os, 8-3os, Q-4os -- you get the picture. It was frustrating sitting on the sideline so much. I finally gave up at dinnertime, decided to catch a quick snack, then try the Sahara 7:00 pm tournament. I was looking forward to the change of pace.
The run of bad cards continued, however, through the first hour of the tournament. After the first break, I immediately had a hand with promise - a nut flush draw after the flop. The turn did not help, but the river brought a diamond, completing the nut flush. Unfortunately, in my excitement at finally playing a hand, I failed to recognize that the river also paired the board. Yep, you guessed it - it completed the full house for someone. He raised, I re-raised, and he went all in, which I naturally called. I was shocked to see that instead of doubling up, I was on the rail. What a day!
I called my wife and my brother to try to change my mojo, and then decided to hit the Wynn.
When I got into the Wynn, I was put on the waiting list -- number nine for $1/3 NL. A few more people signed up, and Wynn opened a new table for us. I was surprised that the wait was so short.
I bought in for $300, as did a few others. A few people bought in for less, and I was wondering how they would measure up. I got my answer on the first or second hand. Two people (each less than $300) went all in and were called by a third player. The winning hand: two pair! I had a feeling this might be the table for me.
Seeing as how I was down and had been fighting bad luck with cards, I decided to start playing very tight. Now -- when the guy playing tight makes a big bet, do you think you should call with a mediocre hand? These guys didn't figure it out, and soon I was rolling in chips. I then opened up my play and just kept building my castle of chips. Within a few hours I was way in front and decided to call it a night.
On Tuesday morning, I was awakened at 8:30 am by a loud alarm with flashing lights. The intercom system announced that Harrah's personnel were trying to locate the source of the trouble, but when I saw security guards searching all over my floor, I thought that it was time to get out. I threw on my smoky old clothes and stumbled out of Harrah's and into Aladdin.
I was pretty tired and decided not to play in the morning tournament, so I hit the Aladdin buffet for breakfast. It was excellent, as always. I felt fatigued and decided to go back to Harrah's and sleep.
After waking, I was anxious to head back to Wynn, but I wanted to give the Venetian a try. The Venetian was all that I had heard -- a very nice poker room, although not very crowded. I played some $1/2 NL and saw a lot of risk taking. People were hitting all kinds of hands on the river, including my all in getting called (I had a straight) and losing to a made flush on the river. I left down only a few chips, but had an excellent time. My only complaint was that the swivel chairs would turn and hit you when someone got up to leave the table.
I wanted to spend the last night at the Wynn, so I left at 10:00 pm and looked forward to a repeat of the night before.
He made big bets and raises, and was at first very irritating. As the night went on and he drank more and more, he became funnier and funnier, and really made for one of the most fun poker nights I have ever had. I usually prefer to play serious poker, but this one night I was willing to trade in my usually serious game to have fun. It was a riot. He had a few dealers who really disliked him, which made things even funnier.
I played through the night since I was having so much fun, but a few crucial hands where my opponents got the cards they needed and I didn't kept me from having another big night. All those hours of poker to only come out even, but I had one night I'll never forget.
I was able to sneak in a few hands of $1/2 NL at Flamingo before I left, and did enjoy the fun banter at the table. I wished that I had had a few more hours before my plane left.
Bally's: Friendly dealers, fishy tourists, but an increasing number of good locals, meaning that making a profit is not as easy as before.
Venetian: Fishy and daring players with a few good ones thrown in. Good dealers but not personable, nice chairs, and a generally nice and well-run place.
Wynn: Fishy players who don't hesitate to reload along with a couple of solid players. Dealers need personality transplants. Nice place to play, well run.
Flamingo: Fishy players with a few good ones thrown in. Dealers were funny. I will try this one again when I have more time on my next trip.
I will be heading out to Las Vegas for more poker at the end of January or the beginning of February. If you have never played poker in Las Vegas, do yourself a favor and book your trip today. You will not be disappointed.
Saturday is the last chance to make it to the finals of the Blogger Poker Tour at Poker.com. My goal last time was to make the final table, then shoot for top five, then take it down. I hit the rail at 13th place when I made a great call, but just lost to a three-outer.
To have any possibility of making the top twenty and getting a chance to play in the Grand Final with a chance to play in the Australia Millions, I will have to play my best poker and hope for a little luck. I probably need to finish near the top, which will be quite a task. The format was changed from an Omaha game to NL Hold Em with deep stacks, so at least I won't be relying solely on luck. Time to buckle down and see if all this time I have invested can pay off.
Ready to go to Las Vegas for three nights. Going solo this time. I usually go with my brother, the king of comped rooms. I'll have to pay for my room this trip, but the rates are dirt cheap this time of year. After considring several places, it looks like I'll stay at Harrah's, which will position me well for some of my favorite middle-of-the-strip poker rooms.
Due to some problems at the last Online Forum Challenge freeroll at OK USA Poker, the top 100 were put in a special freeroll to determine forum honors. I was playing for the K9 Poker Tour this time, as I rotate which forum I play for -- K9, the Online Poker Tour, and CardsChat. A mix of good cards late in the tourney, good decisions overall, and a few gifts from the poker gods translated into a victory. The final table was particularly fun since two of the others in the final six were murrythecat and jermn, two excellent players from the OPT and K9. They both happened to be playing for the OPT, so I imagine that OPT will win the event.
I took third in last night's home game. I have cashed in about five of the last six. I got no cards early on and then got crippled when my A-J was slaughtered by A-7, which hit two pair on the flop. However, I jusy took my time, pushed when appropriate, and either won the hands or got people to fold. So, once again I have to settle for third place, but at least I made it into the money again, which is top three at the home game.
$100,000 Guaranteed saw me go totally card dead for the first hour+. Then, in the Big Blind, I got K-Qos. Everyone folded except the biggish stack Small Blind, who raised. I called and got a flop of rag-Q-rag. The Small Blind went all in, and I thought that he was just trying to muscle me out of the chips, so I called. Unfortunately, he had A-Q. End of story.
Looking back, I should have folded and lived for another hand. Making a poor judgment on my opponent's hand cost me big time. It was a reckless play by a guy who usually plays a little smarter than that. Live and learn.
I played well when I was near the bubble and went to the final table in sixth place. Twice near the end of the tournament, I had four cards toward a flush after the flop. However, no flushes for me on the turn or river. I was the short stack of the final three and caught pocket 5s. I went all in and was called by the chip leader, who hit trip 10s on the flop. No regrets as I was taken out on a decisive play.
Can I can keep up the good play this week? I hope to make a good showing at The Mookie on Wednesday night (although it is at Full Tilt - which has not been kind to me recently), then play well at my monthly home game. I have been cashing in the home game on a regular basis, but now it is time to take the top spot.
I will be making my final 2006 visit to Las Vegas this month, so I hope that the momentum continues for the next few weeks. It would be a great way to end the year.
One hell of a heater all week, and then a major heartbreak.
Although I did not fare too well in some of the blogger tournaments on Full Tilt and PokerStars earlier in the week, I suddenly caught absolute fire on Poker.com at the $1/2 and $.50/1 NL games and won more in one week than I ever had before ... maybe even two or three times as much. I got cards, played them to perfection, and only had one or two bad beats. I have always done well at Poker.com, and it seems to me that the bad beats and river beats even out at that site.
On Friday night, I played in the first-ever K9 High Rollers tournament at Vegas Poker 24/7. Although it was a small field, I was still thrilled to take it down. Additionally, 24/7 is supposed to throw in a free entry to one of its $100,000 guaranteed weekly tournaments, so that is a $216 entry bonus. Yesssssssss.
The heartbreak came today in the second to last Blogger Poker Tour tournament at Poker.com. I finished fourth in the Grand Final last season, and have frankly been embarassed by my poor play this season. My goal was the final table, but I really wanted in the top five for extra points.
After getting virtually no starting hands in the first 90 minutes, I was short-handed in the Big Blind and went all in with TPLK. A call by the table chip leader doubled me up and gave me some breathing room.
Later, someone raised with 8-8. I looked down to see K-K, so I went all in doubled up.
I was one of the chip leaders toward the end when Flandrius raised 4,000 - which I believe was 2X the BB. I put him on A-something and knew that I would have him dominated by my A-K. I went all in and he called with A-J. I was a 67% favorite. The flop: 6-Q-Q. Two more cards and I would double up again and be a threat to win the event. The turn: JACK!!!!! I still had outs for the river (a King or a 10), but a 9 ended my game. So ... I go out in 13th place when I get burned on a three-outer. Flandrius, meanwhile, goes on to take down the event.
This one really hurt. Thank goodness my kids were not around to hear my language as I cursed my bad luck.