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Fears pub industry could take a hit if beer duty is raised
The pub industry in Northumberland, worth nearly £100million, could take a hit if beer duty is raised as expected next week, Britain's Beer Alliance has warned.
Thursday, 18 October, 2018, 10:01
The pub industry could take a hit if beer duty is raised in the Budget.
Tax on beer is expected to rise by 3.4 per cent in the Chancellor's Autumn Budget, delivered on Tuesday. With consumers increasingly opting for cheaper supermarket drinks and pub margins stretched, local establishments are braced for further struggles.
Northumberland's 334 pubs and bars employ 4,209 people directly, paying them £24million in wages, new analysis from Oxford Economics shows.
They also support another 1,588 jobs and £27million in wages indirectly, either through related jobs, like those in the supply chain, or through the money spent by people working in the pub industry.
In total, through salaries and spending power, the area's pubs contribute £90 million to the local and national economy, the analysis shows.
There are 2,091 pubs across the North East, adding £582million to the economy.
Across the UK, 3.2 pubs have closed on average every day over the last two years. If that trend continues, Britain's Beer Alliance, an umbrella organisation for major brewers and pub companies, says one in ten pubs nationwide could close within five years. It would mean a significant loss to the estimated £18 billion pub industry, which supports around 800,000 jobs.
A survey conducted by the organisation shows that more than a third of people would reconsider a trip to the pub if beer prices increased. It also showed that a decrease in pubs could cause more than just financial loss, with 77 per cent saying that they go to the pub as a place to relax and unwind, and two in five saying it acts a social hub.
David Cunningham, programme director of Britain's Beer Alliance, said: "Pubs are the heart and soul of our culture and communities, they support many jobs, contribute significantly to the economy and are dear to people's hearts right across the country.
"Pubs already face a range of tax pressures and if the Chancellor raises beer duty in line with Retail Price Index inflation as planned on October 29, pubs will feel the pinch even more. Seven in every 10 alcoholic drinks sold in a pub is beer, so it's easy to see how a small tax increase adds up over a year.
"Based on current closure rates, we estimate that within five years more than one in 10 pubs in the UK will have closed for good, costing thousands of jobs. This will have a devastating effect on communities up and down the UK."
There are 15 breweries in Northumberland, supporting 449 jobs and adding £8.4million to the economy, according to the Oxford Economics analysis.
Altogether, the local pub, brewery and beer trade in Northumberland adds £106million to the economy, it says.


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New Businesses open in Basingstoke Dec 2018
Posted by hayley on 5th December 2018 in Basingstoke, Restaurants, Shopping
New businesses open their doors in Basingstoke
Shoppers, visitors and businesses in Basingstoke can make the most of a new and exciting selection of independent venues and national chains which have opened their doors in the Hampshire town.
Nine new businesses have specially selected Basingstoke town centre to set up shop in the last three months. The new businesses which now call Basingstoke home are:
Duck & Tipple bar and restaurant in Wote Street
Chennai Express south Indian restaurant in Wote Street
The Olive House Turkish and Mediterranean Restaurant in Church Street
Surya's newsagent and international food store in Church Street
IncuHive business support hub and meeting space in Church Street
The Salt Lounge natural treatment centre in Feathers Lane
Jack Wills national fashion retailer in Festival Place
Cote Brasserie restaurant in Festival Place
Sushi Maki Japanese restaurant in Festival Place, which is due to open this month
The Olive House, photo credit Basingstoke Together
Basingstoke is bucking the national trend as a thriving shopping hub as high streets across the country face a number of difficulties. Six out of the new businesses have chosen to open in the Top of Town, which is an area rich with local history. It is home to the landmark Willis Museum, it is the starting place of Burberry and it is also host to the Basingstoke market alongside several independent businesses.
The new businesses have been supported by Basingstoke Together, which is the public face of the Basingstoke BID. Basingstoke Together aims to help the town centre to thrive by creating destination events, engaging with consumers and supporting retailers and businesses to be successful.
Lucy Boazman, Chief Executive of Basingstoke Together, said: "Basingstoke has so much to offer to prospective businesses looking for somewhere to launch their new or latest venture. Alongside the array of national high street brands in Festival Place and The Malls, we also have some fantastic independent shops and businesses, which make a visit to Basingstoke truly unique.
"We are so pleased to welcome the new businesses to Basingstoke and we wish them all the best. We also hope that residents and visitors to the town will explore both the newcomers as well as the existing independent businesses throughout the town centre. There is so much choice on our high street now, so we look forward to seeing how people embrace that, both in the run up to Christmas and well into the new year."
Basingstoke town centre, particularly the Top of Town, is also already home to a wide array of successful independent businesses including The Tea Bar, Arc hairdressers, and Exciting Escapes.
Some of the new companies in Basingstoke are fresh to the market, including The Olive House and Chennai Express. However, the team behind Duck & Tipple already run a successful events company, IncuHive has begun opening various other branches in the south of England and Surya's relocated from Basing View.
Duck & Tipple, photo credit Basingstoke Together
George Scott-Welsh, Chief Operating Officer of IncuHive, said: "It is extremely encouraging to see the number of new businesses opening within the town centre and especially at the Top of Town. With the Top of Town being majority independent owner run businesses, this creates a more personal experience for both the shoppers and the other surrounding businesses who are collaborative and supportive of one another.
"The community feel of the Top of Town, teamed with fantastic architecture and local history, creates a hugely positive environment in which to visit and run a business."
Basingstoke Together is committed to supporting independent businesses in the town to develop a vibrant shopping hub. It has recently launched a #BIndependent campaign to foster a regional business community.
For more information visit www.basingstoketogether.co.uk
The Salt Lounge, photo credit Basingstoke Together
Basingstoke Together supports local businesses by creating cultural hotspots within the town centre to draw visitors into the town and promote the business and leisure opportunities on the doorstep.
Basingstoke is a BID – a Business Improvement District, which is a business-led and business funded body formed to improve a defined commercial area. The improvements made by a BID are determined by the businesses themselves. It may include additional cleaning, security or projects such as recycling and improved infrastructure as well as destination branding and promotion.
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Allison Reid 8th December 2018 Reply
Ha!Ha! Five new restaurants and a shop selling food! That's new jobs – great! But really? More places to eat?

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Herbert Hoover – The first German-American President
Written by Katja Sipple on 10. August 2018 . Posted in News.
Written by Ciaran Lyons
Born August 10, 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover was the first American of German descent to occupy the Oval Office.
Hoover was a unique president for his time, not only because of his heritage, but for being a self-made man from the West Coast, as most presidents before him were northerners from well-established families. As president, Hoover was tasked with solving the Great Depression, his failure to do so forever coloring his legacy. But in reality his career as an organizer and an advocate spanned well beyond his four years in the White House.
The Hoovers likely came to America early, before the war for independence, as indicated by their anglicized name. Originally the family would have gone by "Huber", a name common among German farmers. As minorities, Germans in early America like the Hoovers sought assimilation into Anglo-American society, so they took names that would have sounded more familiar to English-speakers. Only with the later wave of immigration in the 19th century did Germans take bolder steps to preserve their cultural identity, such as leaving their surnames unchanged.
By the time Herbert was born his family had established themselves in West Branch, Iowa, his father a blacksmith. Herbert's family life was unstable, his father dying when he was six years old and his mother dying when he was nine, forcing him and his sister to move in with their uncle in Oregon. An unmotivated student, Herbert opted to work at his uncle's real estate office instead of attending high school, though he would later study at Stanford University as part of its first graduating year.
Trained as an engineer, Hoover lent his expertise to mining operations in Nevada, Australia, China, and Burma. It was in this line of work that Hoover gained the experience necessary to become a prodigious organizer. With the outbreak of World War I, Hoover was tasked by the U.S government to evacuate American citizens from Europe, and would later organize efforts to feed civilians in German-occupied Belgium. President Wilson then made Hoover head of the Food Administration, where he successfully balanced American food supplies between domestic consumption and the needs of war-torn Europe. After the war, Hoover was appointed Secretary of Commerce, a position he would hold from 1921 to 1928. During his tenure, the scope of the Commerce Department grew many-fold, Hoover becoming informally known as the "Under-secretary of all other departments". Hoover's experience landed him the Republican Party's nomination for president, with which he won the 1928 election in a landslide. Upon being nominated by the GOP, Hoover declared: "We shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this land."
The Great Depression dashed President Hoover's hopes for his country, the stock market crashing just six months into his term. At first taking a limited approach to economic stimulus, the increasingly dire situation spurred Hoover to adopt an interventionist policy; in 1932 he oversaw the largest tax hike in U.S history. But he maintained that recovery should be shouldered by local efforts and the voluntary conduct of private enterprise.
It was this belief of his that made Hoover so upset about President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Hoover deemed Roosevelt's direction of the recovery a massive overstep by the federal government, and took issue with his deficit spending. As the scope of federal activities under FDR became permanent fixtures in Washington, Hoover became a vocal conservative critic, many of his beliefs forming the backbone of modern American conservatism. However, many historians point out it was Hoover who initially planned the programs that would form the New Deal regime, such as public works programs and Social Security—for this reason some herald Hoover as the father of modern American liberalism.
Hoover was raised Quaker and would practice his faith until passing away in 1964. Regardless of the political positions Hoover took, they were for him towards the end of improving humankind. He sent food to the starving Soviet Union as head of the Food Administration, despite America being in the midst of the Red Scare. He used his authority as Secretary of Commerce to organize relief after the Mississippi River flooded in 1927, no government body at the time being specifically designated for such a task. And after his presidency he worked to raise funds for starving children in Europe, the continent again ravaged by war, and cooperated with President Eisenhower to help found UNICEF.
Want to learn more about Herbert Hoover? You can visit his presidential library's website, or go in person at 210 Parkside Drive, West Branch, Iowa, 52358.
Hoover as Secretary of Commerce—image via Library of Congress, photographed by Harris & Ewing https://www.loc.gov/item/2016885717/
August 11, 1932 speech to Republican National Convention: https://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/academics/research/faculty-research/new-deal/hoover-speeches/hh081132.htm
Blurb from White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/herbert-hoover/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover
Bio from Hoover Pres. Library: https://hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/president-herbert-hoover
Hoover on the New Deal, Great Depression response: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/herbert-hoover-great-depression-and-new-deal-1931%E2%80%931933
C-SPAN documentary on Hoover: https://www.c-span.org/video/?151627-1/life-portrait-herbert-hoover


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'Modern Family' Star Sarah Hyland Proves You Can't Always Trust Your Scale
She weighs 93 pounds and has 49 percent body fat, according to the scale. Something is wrong here.
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In case you're in need of more proof as to why it's not the best idea to base your health on a number on a scale, take a quick look at Sarah Hyland's Instagram. The Modern Family actress recently posted a photo to her Instagram story that showed her standing on a body composition scale, which clocked the star in at 92.8 pounds with 49 percent body fat. If you're thinking that that sounds amiss, you're not alone.
Sarah Hyland/Instagram
"Yeah. My scale says I'm 48 percent fat. Soooo…how's your Monday?" she captioned the photo that morning. Hyland posted another photo before that, noting that her scale is likely broken, which probably can explain why the numbers shown were so bizarre.
If her weight in pounds is correct, the 5-foot-2 star would have a Body Mass Index of 17 — which is considered underweight, actually — according to the U.S. National Institute Of Health's BMI calculator. Dr. Samuel Klein recently spoke to Health about the wonky results, saying "it's highly unlikely" for almost half of Hyland's body weight to be fat.
"Women tend to have more body fat than men, but it's highly unlikely that she would be 92 pounds and almost 50 percent body fat," he said.
For adults, a BMI between 18 and 25 percent is ideal, while a BMI of 30 percent is considered obese — something that Hyland is definitely not. The lesson here? Your scale isn't always right.
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Sunrise and sunset times in Gunnerton
Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in Gunnerton, England, United Kingdom, as well as the whole calendar for January 2023.
Sunset in Gunnerton, England was 4 hours, 27 minutes ago
Tomorrow will be 3 minutes longer than today in Gunnerton
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January 2023 - Gunnerton, England - Sunrise and sunset calendar
Sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight start and end times as well as solar noon, and day length for every day of January in Gunnerton.
In Gunnerton, England, the first day of January is 7 hours, 21 minutes long. The last day of the month is 8 hours, 45 minutes, so the length of the days gets 1 hour, 23 minutes longer in January 2023.
Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Gunnerton, England - 2023
The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Gunnerton for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Gunnerton, England.
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In and around Albany - Kalgan River
The Kalgan River was named the "Riviere des Francais" by the French Scientific Expedition in 1803, captained by French explorer Nicolas Baudin, in the ship Géographe, which anchored in what is now known as Frenchmans Bay, and was subsequently known as the "French River" by early settlers. The explorer Alexander Collie recorded the river as "Kal-gan-up" in April 1831. The name Kalganup is believed to be the Noongar word for "place of many waters".Kalganup is also thought to mean "place of fishes" and there are still the remains of Aboriginal fish traps to prove the point. The traps, known as the Albany Fish Traps have been situated here for many years.
The fringing vegetation of the estuarine portion of the Kalgan River is dominated by the saltwater paperbark trees surrounded by dense stands of coastal saw sedge and shore rushes. The downstream freshwater parts of the river have a much greater variety of species, with a fringing forest that includes swamp paperbark, marri, jarrah, wattle and Western Australian peppermint trees. Further inland, species such as swamp yate, flooded gum and varieties of Banksia and Hakea are found. Parts of the riverbank that have been cleared support a variety of introduced weeds that are shallow rooted. In areas in which the native deep-rooted species have been lost, erosion of the river bank has become a problem. Many wild flowers can be found along the Luke Pen Walk, a trail that follows the river for the 9 km before it reaches Oyster Harbour. Some of the varieties include Hovea trisperma (common hovea), Hovea pungens (devil's pins), Hovea elliptica (tree hovea), Adenanthos obovatus (basket flower), Lysinema ciliatum (curry flower), Leucopogeon pulchelus (beard heath), Banksia sessilis (parrot bush), Banksia squarrosa (pringle) and Acacia extensa (wiry wattle).
The estuarine end of the Kalgan River is home for many species including black bream with a few skippy, herring, mulloway and whiting. Smaller freshwater species that can be found in the Kalgan River include the western galaxias (Galaxias occidentalis), the common jollytail (Galaxias maculatus), the mud minnow (Galaxiella munda), Balston's pygmy perch (Nannatherina balston), Nightfish (Bostockia porosa) and the western pygmy perch (Edelia vittata). The river is home to a large population of birds. In the estuarine part of the river, species such as the Australian pelican, little black cormorant, pied cormorant, pied oystercatcher, black-winged stilt, common sandpiper, Australian white ibis, straw-necked ibis, yellow-billed spoonbill, Pacific gulland Caspian tern can often be seen. The freshwater parts of the river also support an enormous variety of birds including nankeen kestrel, Australian hobby, wedge-tailed eagle, short-billed black cockatoo, long-billed black cockatoo, galah, little corella, purple-crowned lorikeet, red-capped parrot, laughing kookaburra, willie wagtail, white-breasted robin, splendid fairywren, New Holland honeyeater, red wattlebird and red-eared firetail.Amphibious species that can be commonly be found in and around the river are frogs, such as the western banjo and moaning frogs. Reptiles frequently found in the area include tiger snakes and dugites.
The southern end of the Kalgan River has two bridges of note: The Upper Kalgan bridge and the Lower Kalgan Bridge. The Lower Kalgan Bridge was built from 1906 and opened in 1908. At 900 feet (274 m) in length, it was the longest of its kind over water in the State at the time. At this time, the bridge had a special navigation span, 40 feet (12 m) wide at the deepest part of the river. The original bridge remained in place until 1958, when it was replaced, but the navigation span trusses were removed for preservation and are now on display in the park at the western end of the bridge.
The Government Jetty was also built in 1906 so that timber and other construction materials could e delivered adjacent to the Lower King Bridge site. The jetty was also later used as a landing point for tourist vessels that traveled upriver from Albany. It is now in a state of disrepair.
The Kalgan River contains many small islands, particularly in the section below the Upper Kalgan bridge. The largest is Honeymoon Island (also called Elbow Island), which is slightly upstream of the Lower Kalgan bridge. This island has a small clearing and can be readily landed upon. A smaller island, Willie Island, is a little downstream of the Upper Kalgan bridge.
The Kalgan River is a place of great significance to the local Noongar people. A dreaming story tells us of a husband and his wife who lived in the Porongurup ranges. The husband beat his wife terribly but she escaped from him by stumbling through the thick bushland. As the wife ran through the bush, her digging stick trailed over the Earth and cut open the soil behind her forming the path of the Kalgan river.
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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has been endorsed for election by the state chapter of the Ohaneze Ndigbo group.
The Ohaneze Ndigbo, Afenifere, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and the Northern Elders Forum have rejected the outcome of the presidential election calling on Atiku Abubakar to challenge the result in court.
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), on Thursday, February 28, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to and enforce the new minimum wage act once it is passed by the Senate.
The youth wing of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide has mobilized at least 20 million young voters of Igbo extraction ahead of the forthcoming presidential election, Comrade Arthur Uchenna Obiorah, its national president has said.
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has appealed to Igbos who relocated to the southeast for the purpose of casting their votes before the sudden postponement of the polls, to exercise patience by remaining in the region till Saturday, February 23.


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Q: Reactive Hibernate with Spring webflux: Unable to load entity I keep getting this error that is kind of frustrating, as it seems to be a simple issue.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not an entity: class com.vabatch.recipe.infrastructure.persistence.mysql.entity.UserEntity
at org.hibernate.metamodel.internal.MetamodelImpl.entity(MetamodelImpl.java:566) ~[hibernate-core-5.6.0.Final.jar:5.6.0.Final]

I've seen that all answers for that problem are about including
<class>com.example.entity.UserEntity</class>

in the persistence.xml file, but this is not working for me.
This is my persistence.xml file:
<persistence xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_2.xsd"
         version="2.2">
<persistence-unit name="userPU">
    <description>Hibernate Reactive configuration</description>
    <provider>org.hibernate.reactive.provider.ReactivePersistenceProvider</provider>

    <class>com.example.entity.UserEntity</class>

    <properties>

        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/recipeDB" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="root" />
        <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="root" />

        <!-- The Vert.x SQL Client connection pool size -->
        <!-- <property name="javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action" value="drop-and-create"/> -->
        <!-- <property name="javax.persistence.sql-load-script-source" value="data.sql" /> -->

        <!-- SQL statement logging -->
        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
        <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>
        <property name="hibernate.highlight_sql" value="true"/>
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

</persistence>

This is my entity class:
package com.vabatch.recipe.infrastructure.persistence.mysql.entity;

import javax.persistence.*;

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
public class UserEntity {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy= GenerationType.SEQUENCE)
@Column(name = "id")
private int id;

@Column(name = "username")
private String username;

public UserEntity(int id, String username) {
    this.id = id;
    this.username = username;
}

public UserEntity() {
}

public int getId() {
    return id;
}

public void setId(int id) {
    this.id = id;
}

public String getUsername() {
    return username;
}

public void setUsername(String username) {
    this.username = username;
}

}

This is my sessionFactory bean:
@Bean
public Mutiny.SessionFactory sessionFactory() {
    return Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("userPU")
            .unwrap(Mutiny.SessionFactory.class);
}

And this is my POM:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.3</version>
    <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>com.vabatch</groupId>
<artifactId>recipe</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>Recipe Service</name>
<description>Recipe CRUD Service</description>
<properties>
    <java.version>16</java.version>

    <hibernate-reactive.version>1.0.0.Final</hibernate-reactive.version>
    <hibernate.version>5.6.0.Final</hibernate.version>
    <vertx-pg-client.version>4.1.5</vertx-pg-client.version>
    <mutiny-reactor.version>1.1.2</mutiny-reactor.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
        <artifactId>reactor-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <!--  Springboot data -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.vertx</groupId>
        <artifactId>vertx-mysql-client</artifactId>
        <version>${vertx-pg-client.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate.reactive</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-reactive-core</artifactId>
        <version>${hibernate-reactive.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.smallrye.reactive</groupId>
        <artifactId>mutiny-reactor</artifactId>
        <version>${mutiny-reactor.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-jpamodelgen</artifactId>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <!-- JAXB API
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.1</version>
    </dependency>

    JAXB RI
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.4</version>
    </dependency> -->
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

</project>

Also, if I include @Entity(name = "user") I get the following error:

org.hibernate.HibernateException: java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: org.hibernate.property.access.spi.PropertyAccessException: Error accessing field [private int com.example.entity.UserEntity.id] by reflection for persistent property

Any help will be much appreciated.

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Reina sad to see Benitez leave
Our betting panel give their World Cup selections on how far England will go, who will be top African team and who will contest the final. Get all the latest World Cup Betting here.
Jose Reina admits he was shocked to hear of Rafa Benitez's departure from Liverpool.
The Reds goalkeeper is currently on international duty with Spain ahead of this summer's World Cup and he admits to feeling saddened by the news that his club boss has moved on.
"It's a sad moment for Liverpool, for Rafa Benitez and for the players who have been with him," said Reina.
"He was a very important person for the club for six years. Liverpool grew with him and Rafa also grew thanks to Liverpool.
"I hope that this crisis passes. That a person so important for the club as Rafa Benitez has left is news that you never would have expected and that you never would have believed.
"The only thing left for me is to thank him for his confidence during all this time. I wish him the best of luck."
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I'm not gonna lie: When Jake and I first started this blog, it was a full-on sausage party. For about the first year or so, I think pretty much the only female presence on the entire site was Miss Pussycat. But chicks like weirdin' it up as much the boys do, and we're finally taking baby steps towards some semblance of equal gender time with recent Weirdos of the Week like Petunia-Liebling MacPumpkin and Miss Von Trapp. Sorry it took us awhile, ladies.
We're continuing our female-friendly trend this week with the long-overdue addition of Iowa's craziest product this side of the hot beef sundae: Leslie Hall, the queen of bejeweled sweaters, gold spandex jumpsuits, high-STER-ical dance videos and geeky electro/hip-hop party jams as sleek and stylin' as the aforementioned gold spandex jumpsuits.
Amazingly, working with just GarageBand and, as far as we've been able to learn, no real musical training (she actually has a fine art background), Hall has since pumped out five albums' worth of cheeky, increasingly polished dance pop, over which she raps and/or sings about dancing, her sweaters, crafting, her pants, dancing, and how awesome she is. And, one time, killing zombies. But mostly about dancing.
With her chunky glasses and chunkier physique, Hall is like the anti-Katy Perry—a shiny gold beacon of the uncool-as-cool, a reminder to us all that no matter what you look like, all it takes to be fabulous is the right attitude and maybe a good dance move or two. And a gem-covered sweater never hurts, either.
P.S. A big ol' sloppy thank-you to reader Susan Molnar for recently introducing us to the wonders of Leslie Hall, which we had somehow managed to miss previously. Clearly, we need to get out more. Or maybe we need to get out less—and spend more time on YouTube.
P.P.S. Banner photo of Leslie and her white tiger sidekicks by Kai Chan, lifted from this article.


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HomeThe MarketAnalysis: Amelia Island auctions show collector car market is strong when expectations...
Analysis: Amelia Island auctions show collector car market is strong when expectations are realistic
By Andy Reid
The 1960 Maserati 3500 GT Spyder at Bonhams sold for a strong $880,000 | Bonhams
I heard from a lot of people about the weak classic car market after the Arizona auctions. I contended that the market is not weak but has just slowed down a bit.
If the sales at Amelia Island last week told us anything, it is that great cars are still selling for very strong money. Sure, we are not seeing the huge monthly increases that we have seen over the past few years, but the market, in my opinion, is still very strong indeed.
Let's start with the first sale of the week, Bonhams. Yes, there were some legitimate deals at the Bonhams Amelia Island sale, most notably the 1967 Porsche 911S which sold for $126,500 and the 1973 Maserati Bora, a stunning car that sold for $187,000. Both were solid buys at the selling price.
A good deal for the buyer on the 1967 Porsche 911S at Bonhams | Bonhams
That being said there were a number of cars that sold for very strong money, most notably the 1973 Volkswagen Super Beetle cabriolet that went for $52,800 and the 1960 Maserati 3500 GT Spyder that sold for $880,000, both very strong money for each and likely a record for a VW Super Beetle.
Yes, Bonhams had a number of no sales, but the majority of these cars were examples that should have sold for the high bid. This was best illustrated by the 1978 Ferrari 308 GTB that should have had a new owner at the high bid of $82,500. Remember, a car like this 18 months ago would have been lucky to sell for $50,000, let along the 82k high bid.
There were quite a few cars in this category at Bonhams. It seemed as if their owners had unrealistic expectations of what the current market is willing to pay, especially for good but not great examples.
Next let's move on to Gooding & Company. I heard all day Saturday about what a great deal the fiberglass-bodied 1976 Ferrari 308 GTB Vetroresina, (vetroresina means fiberglass), was at a sale price of $236,500. But let me remind you that early fiberglass-bodied 308 cars are still climbing and not every one of these is going to sell for north of $300k. They will at some point but to me this was a car bought for a market price.
The 1972 Iso Grifo was bought at Gooding for a good price | Gooding
There were a few good deals at Gooding. The biggest standout was the 1972 Iso Grifo which sold for $396,000. This was a Ford-engine car with the Pagoda-style hood, and it was well bought at a good price.
Many commented that, for the most part, the Jerry Seinfeld Porsches only reached their low-price estimates, and seemed disappointed at that. At the end of the day, all of these cars sold for strong market prices even if the estimates were set a bit aggressively.
None of these were deals of any kind and the no sales at Gooding were, for the most part, examples of estimates and reserves that were just set too high.
That being said, the final sale price of the nice driver-level 1961 Ferrari 250 California Spider of $17,160,000 and the Seinfeld 1960 VW Beetle sedan selling for $121,000 had to make the sellers and David Gooding quite happy.
Next, on to RM Sotheby's. This sale was as always the star of the weekend, and while it did not have the high-sale car, it did have a tremendous sell-through rate with strong prices, especially when you look at the pre-sale estimates.
Of all the sales, I feel that RM had the fewest deals out here, a good thing for the sellers but buyers had to pay what these cars were worth in order to put them in their garages.
The 1964 Peel sold at RM Sotheby's for a staggering $176,000 | RM Sotheby's
Standout cars from RM were the 1969 Maserati Ghibli, a stunning green car that sold for a very strong $319,000, the tiny 1964 Peel that for some crazy reason sold for a staggering $176,000, and the 1954 Bentley Continental R Fastback, which sold for $1,815,000.
Many cars exceeded their estimates at RM Sotheby's, I am sure making the auction house and sellers happy. The pre-sale estimates were realistic and buyers took notice.
Some additional thought on this market:
• Ferrari 2+2 cars are now valued a bit less than they were, with cars in this category seemingly worth between $225,000 and $300,000 as opposed to last year's numbers of $350,000-$450,000.
• Ferrari 328 cars are hot and seem to be worth north of $150,000, and more modern special Ferrari cars are still achieving very strong numbers.
• Porsche Turbo cars are still strong but are not $400,000 cars, at least not yet. But start paying attention to the Porsche 993 market, especially the 993 Turbo and Turbo S, as well as highly optioned Carrera 4 cars.
• The weakest segment in the market still seems to be 1950s American cars. Prices and interest are well down.
Overall, this is a strong and healthy collector car market. Prices are not still skyrocketing, but thatis a good thing as it makes for greater stability and should mean that a market crash is not in our future any time soon.
Andy Reid's first car, purchased at age 15, was a 1968 Fiat 124 coupe. His second, obtained by spending his college savings fund, was a 1966 Ferrari 330 GT 2+2. Since then, he has owned more than 150 cars—none of them normal or reasonable—as well as numerous classic motorcycles and scooters. A veteran of film, television, advertising and helping to launch a few Internet-based companies, Reid was a columnist for Classic Motorsports magazine for 12 years and has written for several other publications. He is considered an expert in European sports and luxury cars and is a respected concours judge. He lives in Canton, Connecticut.
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India A vs Australia: Wade, Marsh hit fifties as visitors reach 436/6 at lunch
Matthew Wade was slightly more attacking than Marsh scoring 64 off 89 balls with nine boundaries before being dismissed by part-time off-spinner Akhil Herwadkar.
Mumbai, PTI | Updated : 21 February 2017, 04:45 PM
Mitchell Marsh and Matthew Wade completed individual half-centuries as Australia added another 100 plus runs against India A reaching a commendable 436 for 6 at lunch, on the second day of the warm-up game.
Marsh was unbeaten on 64 off 135 balls in the company of Glenn Maxwell batting on two. Matthew Wade was slightly more attacking than Marsh scoring 64 off 89 balls with nine boundaries before being dismissed by part-time off-spinner Akhil Herwadkar.
Marsh-Wade duo added 129 runs for the sixth wicket in 33.5 overs, hardly facing trouble from home team bowlers. Wade, the lone batsman to be dismissed in the morning session, was caught behind off Herwadkar for 64.
Earlier, Australia, who had resumed at the overnight score of 327 for five, added 109 runs in 26 overs in the first session of play.
The tourists started cautiously as Marsh and Wade preferred to wait for the loose deliveries during the first hour of play. Both Marsh and Wade started to open out in the second hour's play.
The first hour produced only 33 runs in 13 overs with Wade, not out 7 last evening, striking two fours and Marsh just one an off-drive on the 27th ball he faced this morning.
The two raised the 50-run partnership in 94 minutes and then accelerated in the second hour to herald the 100 of the stand in 149 minutes and 184 balls.
Later, Marsh who was unbeaten with 16 yesterday - started to play a few more shots and struck Navdeep Saini, who had taken two wickets yesterday morning, for two fours in the bowler?s seventh over after he had bowled economically in his first six overs.
Wade, who had started with a streaky shot for four off Hardik Pandya in the morning, later square cut and then off drove the A team captain handsomely for fours when the bowler over-pitched.
Marsh, whose brother Shaun had scored a century yesterday along with visiting team's captain Steve Smith before both retired to the pavilion, reached his half century after two and a half hours' stay with a pulled tenth four off Ashok Dinda, the misfield by Ankit Bawne helping him in the process, in 103 balls.
The toothless India A bowling attack could do hardly anything worthwhile to disturb the sixth-wicket duo's poise.
They were also a bowler short with Krishnappa Gowtham, who suffered a hamstring injury after lunch yesterday and limped off the field, was off the field in the morning session.
Left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem came on to bowl after the first hour, but he could hardly get any purchase out of the track to trouble the batsmen and Wade punched him off the back foot square of the wicket for two fours. Marsh also smacked him straight to the roof of the stadium.
Wade smashed Shreyas Iyer, who bowled full tosses, twice in as many balls to the cover boundary, forcing Pandya to bring on Herwadkar who succeeded in breaking the stand by having the left handed Wade caught behind by Rishabh Pant off a top-edged sweep shot.
Wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan had gone in during the first break for drinks after handing over his wicket-keeping duties to Pant.
First Published: Saturday, February 18, 2017 12:40 PM
Matthew Wade


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Tractor units are very common to see on the road, especially in rural areas, which there are a lot of in states like Georgia. They are necessary to haul large pieces of equipment around, especially of the farming variety, and as such, are very large and highly unwieldy. When another motorist gets involved in an accident with a tractor unit, the results can be devastating, depending on a number of factors.
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Two seniors were presented the Servant Leader Award by the college's Center for Faithful Leadership during halftime of Saturday's basketball game. Kate Lengacher and Camille Borst, center left and right, were presented the award by Chris Bohle, Associate Director of Student Life and Karina Winkelman. student project manager. The award honors students who serve their community with humility but also, leave a lasting impact. The Center for Faithful Leadership (CFL) provides academic courses for students in leadership, runs a student consulting program and equips students with entrepreneurial development opportunities.
Hope College seniors Camille Borst of Allendale and Katelyn Lengacher of Nappanee, Ind., have each received the Servant Leader Award presented by the college's Center for Faithful Leadership.
The awards were presented on Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse during halftime of the college's home men's basketball game with Olivet College.
The college's Center for Faithful Leadership provides academic courses for students in leadership, runs a student consulting program and equips students with entrepreneurial development opportunities. The Servant Leader Award is designed to honor students who serve their community but also have a lasting impact. Recipients are chosen from among students invited to apply for the award after having been nominated by others.
Borst is a nursing major and member of the college's chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honorary society. A member of the college's cross country and track and field teams, she served as a co-captain of the cross country team this past fall, and was praised for the way she encourages and supports her teammates.
Borst is the daughter of Douglas and Annette Borst of Allendale. She is a 2010 graduate of Allendale High School.
Lengacher is a biology major and aspiring physician. In addition to her involvement with the department of biology, she is active in the college's Campus Ministries program, with activities including leading a Bible study group and assisting the chaplain of discipleship in planning and organizing events for women. She has also served the community beyond Hope's campus at The Rock and Engedi church.
Lengacher is a 2010 graduate of Northwood High School, and the daughter of Jack Jr. and Shelly Lengacher of Nappanee.


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3 Day Southern Yorke Peninsula Coastal Wilderness Adventure Private Facilities Double/Twin
Price is per person and available when booking 2 passengers in a double/twin room.
Hotel pick-up and drop-off in Adelaide, 3 days of touring as outlined, 2 nights accommodation in a double/twin room with private facilities, meals as indicated, professional driver-guide, comfortable 4WD tour vehicle.
Optional Surf Lesson
Children must be at least 7 years of age and 140cm tall
7:00 AM Mon
Yorke Peninsula and Innes National Park
Spend 3 days on our small group (max 16) 4wd eco safari and see Innes national Park, discover Aboriginal Culture and visit some of the best beaches in the world.
Highlights: Troubridge Point, Corny Point, Marion Bay, Spencer Gulf, Full day tour of Innes National Park, Spectacular coastal scenery and views to Kangaroo Island, Photography, beach walkling, fishing, surfing, dolphin & whale watching.
Departing Adelaide, you will be introduced to the Aboriginal history and European settlement of this beautiful city. Heading north along the eastern side of Gulf St Vincent, you will be entertained with stories about our early explorers.
We will pass the Hummocks, ancient remains of a great mountain range that once dominated the outback.
Travelling down the Gulf you will find incredible diversity; from coastal mangroves to one of the richest farming areas in Australia.
Coffee break is at the Ardrossan Country Bakery, famous for its delicious homemade goodies.
Walk to Ochre Cliffs and discover coloured clays that have been used in Aboriginal ceremonies for thousands of years. You will be shown things that not many people even know about, including an ancient man-made fish trap made of heavy rocks that the Adjahdura people used for thousands of years.
Head south down the eastern side of Yorke Peninsula, through one of the best barley growing areas in the world, an essential component of our outstanding local beers. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the cliffs near Troubridge Point before making our way to the clear blue waters of Spencer Gulf.
Explore beautiful coastal tracks and small fishing villages before leaving our bags at our overnight accommodation. Here we find some of the world's most spectacular coastal scenery. White, sandy beaches that seem to go on forever, rolling surf where pods of dolphins frolic and rugged cliffs of unspoiled beauty in a pristine environment. Kick back and relax with a wholesome home-cooked meal.
Overnight: Holiday Home: The Pines/Caravan Park: Corny Point.
A full day exploring beautiful Innes National Park and the spectacular, wild coastline of Southern Yorke Peninsula. Soaring cliffs and magnificent views over Kangaroo Island; this is a photographers dream! Walk, swim, explore pristine beaches. Come face-to-face with the abundant wildlife.
Explore the ruins of Inneston, an abandoned gypsum town along the Inneston Historic Walk. Home to around 200 people, Inneston was completely self-sufficient, having its own school, post office, bakery and general store. Over 26 shipwrecks lie off this coast. An interpretive maritime trail along the coastline recounts tales of tragedy, bravery and the final agonizing moments before these ships sank beneath the waves. Visit the rusted relic of the park's most famous wreck, 'The Ethel', that sank in 1904 when it ran aground near the beach during a severe storm.
Take a short walk to the operating lighthouses at Cape Spencer and West Cape. On the horizon is another lighthouse on Althorpe Island Conservation Park. These not only provide safe passage for vessels today, but offer an insight into the area's maritime heritage.
At the end of the day capture a magical South Aussie sunset over the ocean.
Stroll the spectacular coastline of Spencer Gulf, look for dolphins in the surf or the rare Hooded Plover. Grab a fishing rod (provided) and try the great Australian experience of beach fishing for the sought after King George Whiting. Southern Right Whales visit in winter and can be seen from a number of vantage points.
On our way home we visit the Barley Stacks Winery to enjoy the local drop. Established in 1996, this winery is the first commercial vineyard/winery established on the traditional barley belt of Yorke Peninsula, which is renowned for growing the world's best malting barley. Rich grey soil over limestone, produces the famous barley and also premium quality grapes.
Arrive Adelaide approximately 5pm.


I only believed that God existed but I never had a relationship with God. It all changed when I fell in love with Jesus. I'm now a qualified registered nurse (unbelievable).
I'm Born in a family of six and raised by a single mother. I was at apex university in Zambia studying for my nursing diploma. I started on a high note with good passing marks but things became difficult for me when made wrong kind of friends who introduced me to alcohol and weed.
You know I always thought things can be alright as long as believed there is God hence when I failed my exams I began to blame God for everything. It wasn't my first time failing, my first time came as I was about to enter my last year and I was deferred for 6 months from that point I lost all my faith in God and I became to drink more excessively and smoking things I never thought I would.
As time went on I managed to pass other exams by grace of God and time for my final exams approached, I began to seek for God because of my girlfriend. I reduced drinking but I wouldn't let go of weed. I started to pray a little but only because I wanted to pass exams and not because I repented. I'm sure id fall back to sin if I passed my final exams because there was no relationship with God so easily fell back to sin. We cant hide things from the one who created us. He examines and shows us our impurities.
Results were released and I failed in 3 modules out of 6 modules. I couldn't believe it I didn't know what to do I had a lot of thoughts running through my mind. I was thinking of suicide, quitting school or just becoming a drunkard. I remember that time I said to myself that there was no God . I was really depressed and on top my girlfriend was adding more stress by her demands of material things even when I had no money to give her. So she called me things like "I will be broke forever".
We are only given two chances to sit for the final exams so I was left with one chance to resit for the 3 modules I failed in. I went to drink as usual and when I sat down I began to question my life like is this what I was created for ? Am I going to drink through out my life ? I wasn't pleased with my current self at that time and what I was doing.
The next day I concluded that alcohol wouldn't help or smoking and I said to myself that I should give my life to God maybe he will help me if I truly know him, the moment I was praying and asking God to forgive me and asking to be filled with the Holy spirit, I felt a strong presence in the room and I remember I felt like crying at the same time I felt like someone just took the weight off my shoulders. I was no longer depressed. It felt really good.
Just because I gave my life to Christ things didn't become better for me and I used to tell myself that its only "God testing me I wont give up on you Lord". I struggled with finances to resit for the modules. Our school has a policy of clearing balances to be allowed to sit for exams. My mum tried loans which were rejected by the bank and no relative would help. Jeremiah 29:11 I knew God was still with me despite my struggle and I thought maybe it was his way of telling me nursing wasn't for me. I studied that time a lot and I had sleepless nights studying and during the day I was studying. I even broke up with my girlfriend who was stressing me because I wanted full concentration on books.
This website has helped me a lot. I spent my time reading testimonies and I would say if God can do it for someone and why not me ? Exam time approached I still had my balance and I thought I wasn't going to write. I read the bible everyday too and prayed every time I had the chance. God began to speak to me through dreams, I had dreams of seeing myself graduate with my friends but I really didn't pay attention because I thought I wasn't going to write with my friends. I had similar dreams for conservative days that's when I knew that it was a supernatural dream from God. I prayed to God thanking him for everything despite me not writing and I asked him not to take away the Holy spirit because his the one who will comfort me again.
It's not easy seeing your friends graduate while you are still stuck at the same position. I prayed for God's will to be done because His plans are for good. Exam day came and I was in bed thinking I wasn't going to write but the exams where delayed for a few hours because not the school but the administration from the council of nursing wanted everyone to come and write even those with balances. I couldn't believe it when I received that call and I knew it was all God making a way for me. From that moment I knew I was going to pass. I knew that being a nurse was his plan for me. I immediately got up and went without even bathing or washing my face. I got to the exam room with tears rolling from my eyes, tears of joy and I thanked God for everything.
I was done with exams and a couple of months passed. I received my results I was super excited because I passed all the modules. I'm now a qualified nurse. It's all thanks to God. Don't give up on him. Sometimes storms are meant to test us; we should always learnt from our failures. I'm very happy. Never a day passes without me thanking God.
Wao brother!! What a testimony! We serve a mighty God!!! So happy for you! May he use you mightily to glorify is name alone!


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Pennsylvania has a high home-birth rate, and non-nurse midwives attend most Pennsylvania home births. In 2015, non-nurse midwives attended at least 1,300 deliveries in Pennsylvania. All of the non-nurse midwives who attended these deliveries did so illegally. Non-nurse midwives in Pennsylvania practice illegally because the Midwife Regulation Law proscribes midwifery practice without a license, and Pennsylvania currently provides no path to licensure for non-nurse midwives.
Linda Levinson, M.S. in Nursing is a J.D. Candidate at Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2019.


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Magic Wand Tandem Challenge (picture - Joolze Dymond)
End-to-end record out of sight, but LEJOG tandem pair determined to keep going to John O'Groats
Illness puts pair behind schedulel meanwhile, student is riding tandem the other way with a skeleton as passenger
Sun, Jul 01, 2012 12:50
A pair of cyclists from Hampshire who set off yesterday in an attempt to break the longstanding tandem record from Land's End to John O'Groats crossed the border into Scotland just before noon today, but the record is out of reach after one of them succumbed to illness six hours into the ride yesterday. The pair, who are aiming to raise £50,000 for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's 'The Magic Wand Appeal' are determined to carry on to the end, however.
By noon today, endurance cyclist and motivational speaker Dominic Irvine and Ian Rodd, a consultant paediatrician at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, had covered around 500 miles as they approached Moffat, and still had some 340 miles to go.
At the moment, they have the benefit of a tailwind, and the rain they encountered in the early hours of today as they headed into the Lake District has eased off.
Prior to their departure from Land's End yesterday, the pair received a text message of support from Pete Swindon, who in 1966 together with John Withers set what has proved to be a tough record to break. Their time, verified by the Road Records Association, stands at ride in 2 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes and 25 seconds.
In October last year, former Olympic rowing champion James Cracknell, accompanied by time trial specialist Jerone Walters, set out to challenge the record but had to abandon their attempt less than 70 miles from John O'Groats due to safety concerns.
Cycling photographer Joolze Dymond is following the pair as part of their support crew and is giving updates on Irvine and Rodd's progress via her Twitter feed, and updates are also being given on their Facebook page. Donations to The Magic Wand Appeal can also be made via a Just Giving page set up for the ride.
Meanwhile, there is a tandem also heading in the opposite direction right now, but only one person is pedalling - Kadhim Shubber, a final-year student at Imperial College, London, is riding with a skeleton as a passenger to raise money for student bursaries at the institution. You can find more information on that ride on the Skeleton Fund website.
Magic Wand Tandem Challenge
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Thierry's Tribsa
Put a Triumph engine in a Norton frame and you've got a Triton. Put a Triumph engine in a BSA frame and you've got a 'Tribsa'. It doesn't seem to roll off the tongue as well, but it's a good-looking bike. This one belongs to Thierry, a member of the Southsiders MC collective in France; it's got a pre-unit T110 motor in a BSA A10 Golden Flash frame, which in stock form also uses a Triumph front end. The motor has been fitted with a T140 cylinder head, and it's also been upgraded to 750 cc with a Morgo Big Bore kit—a kit that incredibly, has been in production for three decades.
According to the Southsiders' Vincent Prat, 'The bike appeared two years ago on eBay. The seller was from Birmingham, and the buyer was in the south of France. But the buyer didn't understand anything about British iron, so he put the bike up for sale again—and we bought it.' The only change since then has been the addition of clipons, and Thierry has resisted the temptation to restore the machine. 'I love the patina,' Vincent says. 'It's like a proof of authenticity.'
Filed Under Classic Motorcycles TAGGED BSA motorcycles, Triumph motorcycles |
Jul 26, 2011 Chris Hunter
Spirit of The Seventies' Yamaha street tracker
Honda CB1100R by AC Sanctuary


I asked a while back on Instagram what to do with all of my homemade pumpkin purée.
In a large bowl, begin by whisking together the sugar and the butter together until they're light-colored and fluffy (about 3 minutes). Then add the eggs and continue whisking until well combined.
Pour in the pumpkin purée to the mixture and whisk until smooth.
Now, add the dry ingredients (the salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking powder and flour) and begin to mix it together. Slowly add the milk as you continue to mix it until it reaches a smooth consistency.
Now, all that's left for you to do is to turn on your waffle iron and voila!
P.S. Click here to find out how to make your own homemade pumpkin purée!


Across America, families are being scammed out of their homes and "We the People" are allowing it to happen. Every day hundreds of families are being kicked out of their homes by their mortgage holders. These are homes that people have raised their families in. Where is the fight? Hell, the Mayflower should have just sunk, instead of passengers turning over in their graves in disgust.
Homeowners have been offered a loan modification program from their mortgage holder, which our president made available to homeowners. These modifications are to help people lower their expenses and therefore stimulate the economy. Instead, it's hurting everyone and destroying America as a whole. These government loan modifications are a scam. The percentage helped is so low there's no percentage to count.
I, John Griffith Mayer, will be the first of the "We the People" to stand my ground. I bought a house at the age of 18. Now, being 48 years old, I'm not letting anyone, including our government, take my property from me. Throughout the years I've never been late and wasn't late when offered this loan modification, but now after 15 months of trying to qualify for this scam modification I'm notified that I didn't qualify for the program, leaving me more than $14,000 behind.
I won't go down without a fight, a fight that will be known around the world. I'm not leaving or giving up my property to sit vacant.


I can't pull up Hot Air, Michelle Malkin's site, Stuart Buck's blog, or Amazon.com — using either Firefox or IE.
The Internet is working fine, and I load other sites quickly and without problems. But no matter how much I try to load any page on those sites, I can't.
P.S. Bleg #2: I have an HP Pavilion laptop and it can't read my 4GB SanDisk card that I used to take pictures this vacation. Do I need to buy an external card reader or what?
I can open all those sites using Mozilla.
I could open the sites using either Firefox or MSIE. At this pt, Patterico, I'd suspect a routing prob in your area.
Have you tried opening a DOS window (Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt) and typing tracert amazon.com for instance?
The first step to trouble-shooting this problem is to determine if this is a routing/connectivity problem or a name resolution problem.
and it does not appear that they are giving out the correct IP addresses, at least for http://www.michellemalkin.com and http://www.hotair.com.
I am guessing that these are the servers that you are using. Try switching to some other public DNS servers and see if you get different results.
I get working IP addresses for the above web sites.
So, the short answer is more than likely you are getting invalid DNS lookups from your ISP. For the short term just switch your computer to use some public DNS server then tomorrow morning call your ISP and have them look into it.
I tried the numbered URLs and couldn't pull them up either. What now?
If the IP addresses don't work then the problem is most likely upstream from you. You will really need to call your ISP at this point because the problem is not with your equipment. It is either with them or further upstream from them (but I doubt this as I and others are not having problems).
Your only other real hope is to try going through a proxy server (not intended to be a permanent solution but may be good enough until the real repairs are complete).
It's simplistic and probably futile but try resetting your router. Your ISP will probably ask you to do it anyway as part of its troubleshooting.
It's obviously because you had too much fun on your vacation.
lol, oh dear, whatever will you do? its prolly just a router down, stay calm and everything will be o.k in a few hours.
BTW, i normally read MM from the drudge site and i notice lately that once in michelle's site i hear this clicking noise plus i cant get out when i click the back button to return to drudge, shes holding me captive!!!! actually, she has prolly invested in some anti hacker software as she had issues with hackers awhile back. you might look into this yourself as i notice this blog being posted more an more around the WEB.
I wouldn't rule out the political opinions of one/some/all ISP employees. I had a similar problem with my broadband connection. I got help fro a savvy guy at the help desk who diagnosed it correctly as a DNS problem in their network. He gave me two public DNS servers: 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, and my problem cleared up.
But it doesn't have to be DNS. There are a lot of ways of blocking access.
It only affected my connectivity to conservative web sites. Coincidence? Strange planetary alignment? Maybe. But maybe not.
Roadrunner once blocked the entire Christmas Islands TLD (*.cx) for quite some time, it was beyond iritating.
Your SD card problem: Your 4GB card is probably an SDHC card (Secure Digital High Capacity). The SDHC cards are not always compatible with the older card readers. If you buy a new reader, make sure it is SDHC compatable.
Re: card reader. I bought one at Fry's over Labor Day weekend for $5 that supposedly reads 22 different kinds of cards. My cameras and phones only use SD or Micro SD. It works fine with them.
Check to see if you have inadvertently locked the card.
There were sites I couldn't get to for a while this PM and I'm in Illinois. The sites are now available. I'm guessing there was a corrupt DNS server.
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Karrie-tree Designs originally started as a Handmade Beanie stall at the Nimbin markets. Many years and three children later it has grown into a lovely little business that produces Funky, Vintage inspired women's, children's and men's clothing and accessories. Karrie-tree Designs are a 'little bit' vintage, a 'little bit' hippy and 'lot bit' well made. Can I say 'a lot bit'??? Anyway - Karrie is also a LOFT partner.


1. What was your first role at King County? My first role at King County involved working within the Local Hazardous Waste Management Program (LHWMP) as a Health and Environmental Investigator. As part of the Survey Team, I did business cold calls throughout King County regarding proper use, storage and disposal of hazardous products and waste.
2. What do you do as a Health and Environmental Investigator? As an HE&I III, I am currently the outreach coordinator for LHWMP's Indoor Chemical Hazards project. My primary function is to provide outreach to underserved communities regarding cleaning products with the goal of reducing exposure to and use of harsh cleaning chemicals. The outreach relies on building relations with community organizations, participating in networking group meetings, tabling at community events, and providing Cleaning with Caution workshops.
3. What sort of training is needed for the job? Because the cleaning outreach efforts involve communities with unique cultures and languages, my training involves attending specific cultural competency workshops when available and learning from community partners and advocates. Training in equity and social justice is also necessary to be effective and successful in working with the target audience and in building community relations.
4. What is the biggest challenge in your job? The biggest challenge I have are the language barriers. I must trust and rely on interpreters when presenting to a non-English speaking group. Even with a good interpreter, I sometimes feel, based on audience facial expressions and body language, that the message may not have been understood. Clear, open communications with the interpreter is necessary before and during the workshops. As for translations, professional translating documents may be too formal or not match with the conversational language of the community. I will always have a community advocate review and edit materials that have been translated by a professional service.
5. What do you like most about your job? What I like most about my job is building relations with a variety of communities and cultures and my schedule flexibility that allows me to reach my communities at their convenience, time and availability.


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Express In Conversation
A Bard from East New York: Martín Espada
Called "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors" by Sandra Cisneros, Martín Espada has published eight books of poetry, including Imagine the Angels of Bread, winner of an American Book Award, and Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002, which received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement. His newest book, published last year, is The Republic of Poetry. Espada is a professor in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and the work of Pablo Neruda.
Gabriel Thompson (Rail): Where are you from in Brooklyn?
Martín Espada (Espada): I was born in 1957 in the East New York section of Brooklyn, and grew up in the Linden projects on Wortman Avenue, moving later to Stanley Avenue.
Rail: It was a trip to your old apartment on Wortman Avenue that inspired your poem "Return." What was it like to return to Brooklyn?
Espada:It was really fascinating. For many years I used to go to Brooklyn, customarily to do a reading here or there, and I would ask people to take me back to East New York, and they would always refuse [laughs]. I would do readings in Williamsburg at El Puente, a community center run by a friend of mine, Luis Garden Acosta. And I'd ask him to take me, and he'd say, "Are you kidding, I'm not going to East New York—you're out of your mind!" So for years I would try to persuade people to take me back to my old neighborhood, which has and always did have a rather fearsome reputation.
Rail: Many parts of Brooklyn seem to be changing dramatically. Can the same be said for East New York?
Espada: Well, it was amazing on one level how little anything had changed. You're talking about institutional housing—the projects—so they look like a hospital or school. You know, the light was still dim, the corridors were how I remembered them. What I was not ready for were all of the things I was able to recollect. I had some help because I went back with a friend that I grew up with, Mari McQueen, now an editor at Consumer Reports. A documentary film crew was doing a piece about me, and we decided to go back to East New York. And Mari was our guide, since her family still lives there. Mari said something very interesting on that trip: everyone that comes out of East New York has an edge. She said that is because we learned from the very beginning that lack of respect has serious consequences, up to and including death. And I thought, wow, she really nailed it. Because that's exactly what it was.
Rail: How old were you when you left Brooklyn?
Espada: Thirteen. And the funny thing is that when I left East New York I ended up somewhere much worse: Valley Stream, Long Island. The objective conditions were not worse—it was a working-class community—but it was worse for me. There was a very definite hostility towards Puerto Ricans. Valley Stream was a community composed of people who were a part of white flight. They had left New York to get away from people like me. There were no African Americans in Valley Stream at that time; when the first African American family moved in, crosses were burned, just like in Mississippi. We were the only Puerto Rican family, and I caught absolute hell. It was much more traumatic than anything that ever happened to me on the so-called mean streets of East New York.
Rail: So you were a Puerto Rican in an all-white school?
Espada: Yeah, which meant I ended up in all kinds of brawls. Somebody grabbed my head and slammed me face first into a water fountain—still have a cracked tooth from that. I was punched in the mouth on one occasion, and it did so much damage that thirty years later it turned up on a dental x-ray. I had the word "spic" spray-painted on my locker. Some of this I wrote about in my poem "Beloved Spic." It wasn't me that was beloved, of course; it was the word and the racism behind it. Oftentimes we have this collective illusion that we're all against racism, and it's just a matter of figuring the best way to communicate about it. Where in truth, there are many people who are madly in love with their racism and will cling to it until the bitter end. So I was dealing with people who enjoyed their racism. It was fun to them.
Rail: In "Beloved Spic," it seemed like the white students fetishized the word.
Espada: Yes, and there were very exotic forms of torment. Somebody once gave me a cake, and I opened up the box and there was the word "spic" written in icing. There was no way to accommodate with that kind of environment, no way to compromise with it. In a way it forged me because I had to make a choice. I had to stand up for myself and fight back or I would have been completely obliterated. Which probably has a lot to do with who I am today.
Rail: As a poet, you seem to have held a wide variety of jobs.
Espada: Well, I was a poet before I was anything else. My first love was actually drawing, but that was beaten out of me by an art teacher.
Rail: And you've been everything from a bouncer to a tenant lawyer.
Espada: Yes, you could say I was a poet-bouncer. I do have a very colorful work history. I've done just about everything you can imagine. Once an interviewer asked me, "_Why_ were you a bouncer?" I thought it was a very strange question, because naturally I took that job for the same reason I took most of my jobs: because it was a necessity. And yet I couldn't let the question pass, so when the interviewer—it was for a very prestigious radio program—asked me that question, I said because I thought it would look good when I came up for tenure. There's a strange disconnect between what I do now and what I've done over the years to make ends meet. Being a bouncer at a bar was probably the most colorful of these occupations, but I was also a janitor at Sears & Roebuck, a gas station attendant, a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. Which was probably the most brutal job I ever held, much more so than being a bouncer.
Rail:Why so?
Espada: Well, you might have some leads, but they were the cheapest possible leads—a list of people who had entered free drawings to win an encyclopedia. They clearly didn't want to buy an encyclopedia. So they didn't win the drawing and the next thing they know there's a salesman knocking on their door trying to sell them one for $100. It was an absolutely impossible task, as it turned out. I was a terrible salesman. But I learned something from knocking on doors and having them slammed in my face, which was how to take rejection. I also worked at the University of Wisconsin primate laboratory, taking care of baby monkeys. I'm the only poet you'll ever meet that's been bitten by a monkey. Nobody at the lab knew that one day I would write a poem called "Do Not Put Dead Monkeys in the Freezer." Because that's what the sign said on the freezer door, meaning that it happened at least once. I wish I had been there to see that.
Rail: So during all this time that you're bouncing around at different jobs, are you also writing poetry?
Espada:Absolutely. In a sense I became a poet spy, because I was invisible. I was seen only for what my hands could do—what my hands could clean up as a dishwasher or janitor.
Rail: Some of your poems are sweeping in scope. Others, like "Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits," focus on very specific activities and people that usually aren't considered subjects worthy of poetry. Subjects that perhaps most poets don't have any exposure to.
Espada: Jorge is based on somebody I knew who worked at a church in Harvard Square, Cambridge—that bastion of liberalism—and quit one day because he was treated so badly. But I wrote it in the first person precisely because I had had a very similar experience doing janitorial work at Sears, where I was treated as an extension of my mop, which is why I ended with the imagery that I did. [Maybe the mop will push on without me/sniffing along the floor like a crazy squid with stringy gray tentacles. They will call it Jorge.] I could empathize with that sense of dehumanization because I had experienced it. It's what you might call a working-class sensibility, writing a working-class poem. And doing it not just in terms of the "facts," but in terms of the emotional landscape, where you get into the way a character feels. That's often what gets missed. When we focus on janitors we usually focus on working conditions, or wages, or health insurance—all of which are very important and things around which to organize. But that doesn't get to the poetry of it. The poetry of being a janitor deals with the emotional landscape of it. That can be said for a lot of the occupations I've had. I mean, I've never seen another poem about being a bouncer, and I've got two of them.
Rail: What is the emotional landscape of being a bouncer?
Espada:Well, there's one bouncer poem where I describe what it's like to break my hand on somebody's head, which I don't recommend [laughs]. But in the end it's about observing a tragedy and only being able to help in the most minimal of ways. You watch people drink themselves into oblivion night after night, and then do your best to care for them, to help them gather their things and get them into a taxi. That's mostly what a good bouncer is doing.
Rail: Let's shift to poetry and politics. What roles can poets play in society?
Espada: Poets can play so many different roles. We are used to the idea that poetry accomplishes nothing, accustomed to feeling powerless and helpless as poets. And that point of view is encouraged by a certain element in the poetry community that writes meaningless poetry. You write meaningless poetry, of course it's not going to have any effect on the world, and so the thing to do is to establish your meaningless poetry as a standard, to write poetry that caters only to the obscure and self-indulgent. A poet can do so much more, and if you travel around the world you see the effect that a poet can have on their society. A poet can be a teacher, a historian, a journalist, an organizer, a preacher, a caretaker, or a bard. And a poet can be a political activist, one who participates in the great changes that the world is always going through. We can go back to a poet that used to wander the streets of Brooklyn in the mid-19th century: Walt Whitman.
Rail: With the Republic of Poetry, you write about a number of poets that are activists. Is that tendency muted in the US?
Espada: In this country it is less a matter of the absence of political poetry than the repression of political poetry. In other words, it's there, we just don't get a chance to see it and hear it. We have a very proud tradition of political poetry, of political protest. And it goes back to Whitman. If you go to "Song of Myself" you see a constant empathy with the most downtrodden people in society: prisoners, prostitutes and slaves. He is constantly advocating for their rights. He wrote in the preface to Leaves of Grass that the duty of the poet is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots. This is our tradition. In the 20th century you see many poets in the tradition of Whitman writing political poetry and protesting against the injustices of the day. You have Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Edgar Lee Masters—all writing about political and social concerns. After the Second World War, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlenghetti represented the tradition so well. Then there's Marge Piercy, any number of Latino poets like Gary Soto, Leroy Quintana, Luis Cervantes. Jack Agüeros, who lives in New York City, writes sonnets of the street. And his sonnets of street subjects demand dignity for people in the community, people that are despised by others outside of the community.
Rail: So the tradition continues, even if it's not always gaining huge exposure.
Espada:Right, and that's because political poetry isn't in critical favor, and it hasn't been since McCarthyism. Political poetry was considered a very viable option until the 1930s and 40s. It wasn't until the Cold War that political poetry was considered an oxymoron in this country. The same way that the Left was repressed in Hollywood, the Left was repressed in the academic and literary worlds. It's not an accident that we don't know about our tradition of poetry concerning itself with social justice. It's there, it's always been there, but for half a century we've had this myth that it does not exist in the US, and there are very specific reasons for that.
Rail: At the same time, your political poetry feels very personal.
Espada: In order to write poems, you have to make yourself very vulnerable. There are many poets today who are afraid to take risks, who are terrified of expressing emotion openly. They are terrified of appearing vulnerable on the page. They are ultimately afraid of being accused of sentimentality. That's the greatest crime in our contemporary world.
Rail:You have to be a cool customer.
Espada: Exactly. Detached, hip, cynical, and absolutely invulnerable. And we all know that that's a dishonest pose.
Rail:The focus of your newest book is Chile. What is it about that country that has drawn you to pay so much attention to it?
Espada: The first that drew me to Chile was Pablo Neruda—I think a lot of people could say the same thing. So Neruda is a door through which we pass into another world, and this other world included Chile. I was aware of what had happened three decades ago [the US-sponsored coup of President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973], but I wasn't prepared for what I encountered when I went to Chile in July 2004. I was invited by the government to participate in the centenary celebration of the birth of Neruda. It was inspiring on a number of levels. First of all, I had never seen poets and poetry celebrated in this way. It's inconceivable to us in this country that a poet could be so honored the way Neruda was honored in Chile in July of 2004.
Rail: How was he honored?
Espada:I saw people singing Neruda, dancing Neruda, doing séances trying to recall the spirits of dead poets, Neruda included. I got into a taxi at one point and there was a radio talk show on, discussing poetry! I'm sitting in the back seat and I couldn't believe it. I'd walk into a restaurant and there would be an item on the menu proudly proclaiming it to be a recipe based on an ode by Neruda. I mean, what's going on here? When I left the country there was a woman security guard at the airport who recognized some of my things from the centenary celebration. She said, "Oh, you're a poet? Do a poem for me." I said, "Right now? I gave all my books away." And she says, "Well, you can do something from memory, can't you?" She wouldn't let me leave the country until I declaimed a poem.
Rail: That's an image straight out of the final stanza of your poem "The Republic of Poetry." I thought you had just made it up.
Espada:Everything in that poem is based on something true that happened in Chile. That poem looks and sounds like something right out of magical realism. Every stanza, those things all happened. At the beginning I make a reference to the president of the republic boarding a train full of poets and shaking every hand. That actually happened. We were on a train, a group of international poets and writers, chartered to go from Santiago to Neruda's birthplace, Parral, on his birthday. Halfway there the train stops, and we're told to remain seated. This little man gets on with a suit and sash and starts shaking everybody's hand. He was the president of the country, Ricardo Lagos, a Socialist. Made sure he shook hands with every single writer on that train. And then we got to Parral and he made a speech under a tent to several thousand people. A very literate speech about Neruda and Whitman, where he went on this discourse about comparing politics and poetry, even comparing those two words. And then I thought about our chief executive and My Pet Goat. That's when you want to take the tag that says USA on your lapel and turn it over.
Rail:And you'll be returning to Chile soon to do a series of readings, right?
Espada: Yes, in a few weeks. What's going on there is the continuing transition from dictatorship to democracy. Neruda was against fascism and dictators in his own land. When the coup hit he was already seriously ill, and died shortly after. And the struggle even extended to his wake because his wife brought his body to their house in Santiago and it had been destroyed by the military. She decided to set up the wake and have it there anyways, so the world could see what had happened. Now, Pinochet has finally been forced out of power, and Chile is seeing a transition towards democracy, and memory, and poetry.
Gabriel Thompson
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Boy: Witness and Marker 2003 – 2018
By Lilly Wei
FEB 2019 | ArtSeen
Boyhood is the theme of this elegantly installed show although whether or not it is that of the artist Enrique Martínez Celaya is unclear—purposefully so.
Breaking the Spell: Reykjavík International Film Festival 2018
By Jordan Cronk
DEC 18-JAN 19 | Film
For its 2018 edition, the Reykjavík International Film Festival presented almost 100 feature films, nearly as many shorts, and enough extra-cinematic activities to make one feel guilty for not spending more time in the dark of the theater.
Nicolás Guagnini: Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina
By Israel Lund
OCT 2019 | ArtSeen
Nicolás Guagnini's exhibition Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina at Bortolami was a twisted riddle, a psychoanalytical conundrum. Supplemented by a performance titled Analysis, the show was dense with signs and possible signifiers that warped interpretative norms.
Armonía Somers's The Naked Woman
By Yvonne C. Garrett
NOV 2018 | Books
Originally published in 1950, this slim novel packs a major wallop. Somers (1914 – 1994, pen name for Armonía Liropeya Etchepare Locino) was a Uruguayan writer, pedagogue, and a major force in Latin American feminism. And although she was a prolific writer, this publication of The Naked Woman is Somers only novel translated into English.
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Sean Dyer
Caldwell Boys Lacrosse
Career Totals: 27 12 5
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04/04/2013 @ Seton Hall Prep W 8-6 1 1 — — — — —
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04/11/2013 @ Columbia W 11-1 1 1 — — — — —
04/13/2013 vs. St. Peter's Prep L 6-9 2 — — — — — —
04/16/2013 vs. Madison W 8-7 1 — — — — — —
04/20/2013 vs. Montville W 9-6 1 1 — — — — —
04/23/2013 @ Cranford W 10-2 1 — — — — — —
04/27/2013 @ Montclair Kimberley W 12-6 1 — — — — — —
04/30/2013 vs. Randolph W 11-4 — 1 — — — — —
05/07/2013 vs. Livingston W 15-10 2 — — — — — —
05/13/2013 vs. Mendham L 7-8 — 1 — — — — —
05/15/2013 vs. Boonton W 9-1 1 1 — — — — —
05/20/2013 vs. North Warren W 12-2 2 — — — — — —
05/24/2013 @ Madison L 5-6 1 — — 1 — — —
Season Totals: 17 6 23 1 — — —


Brad and I have refined the choreos a bit more by drizzling white chocolate on the top of them as a finishing touch. As Brad says, "It is all in the presentation."
Please disregard the 11 internship applications I sent out with a typo in the cover letter.
My first time there but I will probably go back to make some better pictures. The bottom picture is part of the Statuephilia exhibit peppered throughout the museum. Most of them I enjoyed thoroughly including this one.
Note: Please notice the leash on the kid.
An FYI for people shooting late night down at parliment. They turn the lights out at 11pm.
On our way to a failed attempt at getting a bunch of free chocolate saw this guy. That is it. We got two small bites of chocolate in the most expensive department store/grocery store I've ever seen. All in all, a bust.


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Pico de gallo (spanska: tuppens näbb) är en tomatsalsa med bland annat chili och lök. Pico de gallo är den vanligaste salsan i Mexiko och landets nationalsås, med avseende på att såsen är grön, röd och vit som Mexikos flagga. Pico de gallo är en blandning av exempelvis färsk tomat, serranochili, lök, lime och korianderblad. Före maten är såsen en aptitretare med totopos och till maten en krydda till tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas och andra rätter.

Varianter av pico de gallo är till exempel den från Jalisco med apelsin eller den från Chiapas med rotfrukten jicama.

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Såser
Mexikanska maträtter

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