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Dutch Restaurants Thrive on Sustainability, Re-Purposing, Zero-Waste
May 5, 2018: 12:00 AM EST
Restaurants in The Netherlands, particularly in the capital Amsterdam, are showcasing innovative and accessible sustainability projects that focus on zero-waste practices and creative reuse of buildings and materials. Moer Restaurant, for example, is housed in a former Michelin tire shop; its serving pans are made from old train tracks. It has replaced the traditional buffet table piled high with bound-for-the-bin meats, cheeses, and pastries with a buffet of all-organic offerings, including juices from Dutch orchards, dairy and egg products from a local farm, and homemade granola and breads made with grain and beer waste from brewery Gulpener. The Instock restaurant uses only surplus food for ingredients and wastes nothing. It gets unused food from Albert Heijn, the country's largest supermarket chain. There is so much discarded but edible food that the restaurant has set up a wholesale distribution center to serve other restaurants.[Image Credit: © Moer Restaurant]
Diane Daniel, "Doing good, deliciously: Sustainable dining in Amsterdam", The Washington Post (published in the Toronto Star), May 05, 2018, © Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd
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Phase I of the Fat Smash Diet is halfway through, and if you joined me on this venture, you must be as ecstatic about it as I am. This is the most challenging phase of the whole program.
I needed to intensify (just a little) my daily exercise, due to the unfavorable weather conditions hindering my walking routine.
Today I was thinking about some new items to add to my menu, and realized that the breakfast quiches, I posted in the past, would make a great breakfast, or snack, with some modification to the original recipe.
If you have any other suitable recipes for this phase of the Fat Smash Diet, or any of the future phases, please share them with us.
I will also share any new recipe I get to try out.


Post #17 – Change is hard!
I have 40 minutes and hope to get this done before I need to get ready for our special guests tonight. We have invited a very special family over for dinner and FHE tonight. They are the cutest couple, Matthew and Stephanie, and they have the most adorable little boy, Isaac (you pronounce it E-sack). We love this couple and it brings tears to my eyes to think how when they were new to the ward themselves, they invited a scared, unsure, gringo family over for FHE and dinner, way back when we first moved here. I still remember that day and I pray that I will remember it always. They even shared the FHE message in English.
Paul and I love this couple so very much and we wanted to tell them how much we appreciate their love, friendship, kindness, selflessness and service in our ward. They LOVE Cafe Rio, so I invited Stephanie over to learn how to make it herself. As an added surprise, I quickly whipped up some Tres Leches Cupcakes that she has been craving. I don't know that they will be as good as what she had at The Sweet Tooth Fairy in Utah, but at least I had the aluminum cupcake wrappers and gave it my best try.
Ginger Snap put together a simple little lesson from the Nursery Manual on how Jesus Christ created this world and how we should appreciate it and respect it. We plan to share our birds and hamster with Isaac and hope he has a good experience with them (meaning, we hope he doesn't get bit). Curly Cook set up a fun game of Jenga to play, while the mothers get dinner on the table. Then we will have dinner together: Cafe Rio Pork and Chicken, Tomatillo Dressing, Black Beans, Cilantro Lime Rice, Guacamole, chips and Brazilian Lemonade to drink with Tres Leches Cupcakes and ice cream cones. It will be a real feast!! Fit for this special King and Queen!
For those of you who are asking, thank you by the way, I am feeling much better. I still have a cough but it is breaking up finally. I did wake up Saturday with the feeling that I might need to go get an antibiotic but I have really been trying to stay away from them. Thankfully I had a stupor of thought that morning and instead got to work getting the family ready for a Stake Activity up at Bosque de la Hoja (a LARGE park up in the mountains). I feel the altitude not only helped relieve the stuffiness and discomfort in my right ear but it also helped the pressure in my chest subside. I even felt well enough to go on an impromptu nature hike with some of the youth of our ward, and our old ward that split away from us (La Ribera).
But that night, my heart began to sink. I have been struggling this week. I don't know if being sick brought it on but the house being up for sale has my heart torn into pieces. I am also struggling with my health being more like a yo-yo than a stroll in the park. I am tired of being sick and I am tired of being lonely. The thought of living in Costa Rica longer than I had expected is starting to tear at my heart.
In many ways I feel like these 3 pictures. I seems all fun and games, until you realize that you aren't going anywhere anytime soon. You get uncomfortable and want to get up and walk away from it all . . . but to where? I keep battling in my mind where my heart would feel most complete and at ease. I realize that Utah isn't exactly where my heart wants to be; so then where? I decided to pour my heart out during our couple's prayer, I think I might have scared Paul a bit, but I felt that my deepest concerns needed to be heard not only by Heavenly Father but my husband as well.
As I bore my testimony about how I came to know the Book of Mormon was true, I realized that I was being given something that I had been lacking while living in Costa Rica . . . the opportunity to share my story with others. Because I lack the gift to speak this language the way I would do so in English, people rarely understand where I am coming from. But yesterday, because of my sweet Bishop, the entire congregation heard my story and I believe felt my spirit too. It was a Divine blessing and tender mercy that I had needed and only Heavenly Father knew how to fill that need.
Lee's daughter cried and needed tissue to get through the song. I then realized that I had seen her looking intently on me as I shared my testimony. I felt in my heart that there are NO MISTAKES to what we do in a day. Heavenly Father truly does orchestrate our lives perfectly, as He hears and answers our prayers. We need to learn to trust that we are in the right place at the right time doing the right things. The last speaker was the greatest gift for me. He spoke on Self Reliance but focused first on being Spiritually Self Reliant. As he listed key indicators of what a Spiritually Self Reliant person would do, I realized that I am actually doing them all.
THAT WAS A TENDER MERCY because I DID NOT do all of these things when we lived in Utah. I realized that BECAUSE we moved to Costa Rica and BECAUSE I could not understand church, I HAD TO LEARN HOW to be Spiritually Self Reliant. I had a lump in my throat and I could not hold back the tears and barely held back a coughing attack. The speaker than shared what a Spiritually Self Reliant Family looks like. Again, he listed things that we DID NOT DO in Utah but have been doing for over 31 months. I was DEEPLY touched to SEE a visible validation of the hard work we have put into the quality of our lives while living here.
Then I heard one of the answers to my prayer from the night before. The speaker shared what a Temporally Self Reliant person looks like. I heard SEVERAL things that I need to learn myself and could work on easily, due to my circumstances. If I moved back to Utah, or to the "land of normal", I would get caught up in the community, social, church culture aspect of life and NOT be able to focus on this opportunity. I then realized how my own children NEED to learn this before they leave home. This Self Reliant Program is an answer to my kids "WHY?" do I need to learn, go to school, practice my talents, learn about myself, spend alone time with myself, not mess around and waste my time? I felt overjoyed that I had SO MANY ANSWERS given to me, just because I CHOSE to attend church with faith, hope, love and a spirit of obedience to the Lord and His will for me and my family.
Later that night, I had some alone/quiet time and used it to study the lives of my ancestors. I was intrigued to learn about my Swiss ancestors on my Paternal side and looked up where they came from (Alplanalp). This photo is of the Swiss Alps – the Bern Switzerland Alps. They are known to be some of the most beautiful mountains in the world. The husband was a shoe maker and wood carver in the little town they come from. This town is known for their unique trade. He and his wife traveled all the way from Bern to Midway, Utah and then were sent to Vernal to help settle it. Now THAT is a trip across the world because it was by foot, carriage, train, ship, and then oxen cart wagon. The hardships they endured to do what THEY FELT Heavenly Father WANTED them to do, not only for themselves but for their posterity, were GREAT.
I felt at peace to CHILL OUT and accept that my moving to Costa Rica isn't nearly as difficult as my ancestors traveling across a MAJOR ocean and into a land that not only did they not speak the language, but they were members of a religion that was hated and persecuted. They moved from gorgeous, green, lush mountains to the desert and they LEFT ALL behind, never to be seen again.
I wish I could make this picture bigger but my blog is limited right now, so I will type out what this poem says.
As God may give so God may take and life must come and go . . .
What ever weather may prevail or how the rivers flow . . .
It is not ours to question him, to murmur or complain . . .
Or criticize him for the tears that mingle with the rain . . .
Our sorrow and our tragedy are his divine command and in the deepest darkness . . .
We must try to understand, God rules this whole wide world and all . . .
The Universe he made and if we love and honor him, we need not be afraid . . .
and if he wants us to be sad . . .
And undergo a loss . . .
Then let us do his holy will . . .
and let us bear our cross.
I found this sweet poem in one of my ancestor's sister's memories. It was a poem that the family had found in her things. Although it was not in her handwriting, the fact that she had kept it touched them and they wanted to share it with their family too. We don't know who wrote it but I hope you enjoy it as much as it touched me last night.
No matter what, if I will keep on walking in faith, trusting that my baptismal covenants will always be avialable to me, if I believe and do my part, than I can do ANYTHING with the help of the Lord. Even live in Costa Rica longer than I had anticipated. I pray that I will keep on going and keep on doing those basic things we are constantly urged to do: Follow our Prophet, listen to the voices of our Apostles and heed their counsel, read our scriptures daily (especially the Book of Mormon – the most true book on this earth), say our prayers often, listen to the hymns (for they are prayers unto the heart), hold our weekly Family Home Evenings, attend the Temple often, find names of our ancestors and do their temple work for them, research our ancestor's lives and liken them to ourselves, serve others (especially when you are feeling down), do your Visiting/Home Teaching and magnify your callings.
This can sound like a check list of things to do but it is not. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a way of life that brings peace during the storms of life, happiness when life looks bleak or overwhelming (like right now for us), hope when you don't know if you can hold on, joy when others are filled with sadness, and love when your heart wants to turn cold. I LOVE the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is my dearest friend. I have never had a friend be so devoted to my happiness and peace. I keep waiting for Him to leave me, but He is always there when I turn to Him. If ONLY I will let Him in.
This is the picture of Christ that I grew up with in the Winder 8th Ward. It hung on the wall in the Primary room. Only when I was an adult did I realize that there was not a door knob on the door. It is up to us to let Him in. We have control of opening the door – He respects our AGENCY!
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The Dating Trends That Will Define 2022
"Handticipation," "Gambiting," & "Hesidating" Among Next Year's Hottest Trends
VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Dating app Plenty of Fish today revealed its fifth annual list of dating trends for the upcoming year. To identify the new trends, Plenty of Fish polled nearly 7,000 U.S. members and found that singles are simultaneously experiencing clarity and uncertainty as it relates to relationships, reinforcing just how acutely the pandemic has, and will continue to, influence dating.
Handticipation: The anxiety that comes with being unsure about the physical boundaries that are acceptable due to social distancing from the pandemic, such as whether to hug, handshake, or wave at your date, from Plenty of Fish 2022 Dating Trends.
2022 Dating Trends Include:
Baecationing (/bey-key-shuhn-ing): Inviting a blind date or someone you just started dating on vacation because YOLO! Over 1/3 (38%) of singles and 43% of Gen-Z have experienced this trend. After 18+ months inside, you really do need that sunset beach photo with BAE - who cares if you kinda, maybe, just met.
Communidating (/kuh-myoo-nuh-dayt-ting): Using dating apps not just for dating and intimate relationships but to make friends and connections. Being single doesn't mean you have to go through life solo. In fact, 50% of singles, including 57% of Gen-Z, have fostered new friendships through dating apps this year.
Dar-WIN-ing (/dahr-win-ing): Refusing to date someone who doesn't believe in science. From flat-earthers to anti-vaxxers, 1/3 of singles know someone who has done this, including nearly 1/4 of Gen-Z.
Déjà vu-ing (/dey-zhah -voo-ing): Doing the same things with a new partner that you did with your ex. From strawberry ice cream and car rides to Malibu, 1/3 of singles have done this to someone they were dating, and half (52%) know someone who has done this to someone. On the real though, when you gonna tell her, that we did that too?
Gambiting (/gam-bit-ing): Taking a strategic and calculated approach to dating, like a game of chess. Turns out, 31% of singles admit to Gambiting, including 1/3 of Gen-Z. Dinner reservation at a place that's not too loud but still has a fun vibe, check. Outfit that looks like you tried, but not too hard, check. Fun and engaging conversation that's personal but not intrusive, check. Post-date text to set-up future plans, checkmate!
Handticipation (/hand-tis-uh-pey-shuhn): The anxiety that comes with being unsure about the physical boundaries that are acceptable due to social distancing from the pandemic, such as whether to hug, handshake, or wave at your date. While non-huggers and sweaty-palmers may rejoice, 64% of singles have experienced this awkward trend.
Hesidating (/hez-i-dayt-ing): Feeling indifferent about dating, unsure if you want to date seriously or casually because life in general is so uncertain right now. While some celebrity couples (Hello, Bennifer) have recently hopped into new relationships quickly and with certainty, 70% of singles say hesidating is a very real thing.
Megxit-ing (/meg-zit-ing): Quitting a toxic relationship with family and friends that negatively impacts your relationship. A whopping 50% of singles, including 57% of Gen-Z, have done this, following the lead of a certain royal couple who recently said "cheerio" to tea, crumpets and toxic relationships.
Moderna Love (/mod-ern-uh luhv): Considering COVID-19 vaccination stats, including which shot received, as a desirable trait. Thirty percent of singles know someone who has done this. Vax status is now a must-know dating Q - are you a Pfizer Player? A J&J Bae? Or a Moderna Mami? Turns out getting the shot can help you shoot your shot.
Resigning (/ri-zahyn-ing): Ending a serious relationship due to perspective and clarity gained through the pandemic. There are no regrets because you realized you weren't content and don't want to settle. One-in-five women have done this and 1/4 of Boomers have. Yep, the "Great Resignation" has spread to personal lives, folks. We are keeping those standards way up – no settlers here.
Transformate-ing (/trans-fawr-meyt-ing): Morphing into your counterpart by dressing and acting like them. Celebrity bombshells aren't the only foxes guilty of this trend, over 1/4 (26%) of singles have experienced this trend, including nearly half (49%) of Gen-Z.
Weekend Up-Dating (/week-end uhp-dayt-ing): Using every new relationship as a kickstart to dating someone you find even more attractive, more successful and with whom you have more chemistry! While not everyone has the same luck as our favorite Saturday night comedian whose roller coaster romances get a little sweetener every time he dates someone new, 1-in-5 singles say they too "upgrade" with each new relationship. Thank you, next.
"From pop culture to the pandemic, there are many factors that influence dating," said Kate MacLean, resident dating expert at Plenty of Fish. "These trends demonstrate a new era in dating that's been riddled with uncertainty but has thrived with honest communication and a bit of creativity."
"Trends like Hesidating and Hanticipation are prime examples of how dating and expectations have changed over the past two years," said relationship and dating expert Dr. Jess O'Reilly. "Things that used to be second-nature, like handshakes and hugs, can now add an element of awkwardness and can even be deal-breakers. Fortunately, daters have also become more comfortable with open communication, so discussing boundaries — from whether they're willing to kiss on a first date to whether or not they want something committed or casual — is no longer taboo."
Read more about dating trends and other dating-related advice on the Plenty of Fish blog, The Latest Catch. Join the conversation on social by following Plenty of Fish on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and using #DatingTrends and #POFDictionary.
Dating Trends Survey Methodology
Nearly 6,700 U.S.-based Plenty of Fish users were polled online in October 2021. Participants were ages 18-60 with 62% identifying as male and 37% female.
About Plenty of Fish
Plenty of Fish, a Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH) company, is one of the largest global online dating companies, and is available in 11 languages and more than 20 countries. Unlike many dating offerings today, Plenty of Fish offers a less prescriptive, low-pressure user experience that allows singles to discover what they're looking for.
Déjà vu-ing: Doing the same things with a new partner that you did with your ex, from Plenty of Fish 2022 Dating Trends.
(PRNewsfoto/Plenty of Fish)
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SOURCE Plenty of Fish

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Whether it's a full trash can or something else, it doesn't take much to negatively influence a recruit's visit. Your job as the coach and coordinator for this particular visit is to ensure this never happens. The goal of the campus visit is to win the recruit and his family and give them the confidence that your school is where they want to be. Here are a few important aspects of the campus visit that could be the difference between signing your top priority and losing him.
There are really two parts to the first impression: The visual impression & the personal impression. Sometimes the first one is out of your control, but you should make every effort to make this positive. The second part is fully in your control and you better make it work.
The visual impression: As a recruit and his family drive onto campus, they naturally begin to form an opinion of the school. Is the grass cut? Is the landscaping nice? Are the buildings kept up? These are just a few of the things they look at, but they are important. I'm lucky enough to be at a school that does a fantastic job with their grounds. You will never drive onto our campus and feel like it's a mess. The landscaping is beautiful, the fountains are always flowing, and the trash cans are always empty. Because of the grounds crew at Bob Jones University, my job as a coach has already been made easier.
The personal impression: This is where coaches typically win or lose the visit. We want to win, so here is how we do it. Psychologists have performed studies that say you have seven seconds to make a first impression. When I go to meet a recruit in our Welcome Center or by their car, I always want to be the first person that they interact with. Why? Because it's my responsibility as a coach to make them feel welcomed and I don't want to risk someone else impacting that. Remember, I only have seven seconds to make this "first impression" the best that they have ever seen! Do I have a positive attitude? Is my posture conveying confidence? Do I have a bright smile and welcoming eye contact? Is my handshake firm? Am I genuinely interested in them? I know it sounds silly, but when we have a recruit coming on campus the "first impression" is where I spend most of my time preparing. By making a great first impression we have now set the tone for a positive visit.
When recruits and their families come on a visit, it is oftentimes their first experience on your campus. They have a sense of insecurity and may have a lot of questions. You've already earned their trust and respect by making a great first impression, but now you need to build their confidence in you and your university. One way we can do this is to have many of their questions answered before they are even asked.
As the recruiting coordinator, I maintain constant communication with all of our departments on campus. When we are planning a visit, I will coordinate with our Welcome Center to prepare every aspect of that visit. As I introduce the family to our Welcome Center personnel, they are handed a packet that contains an itinerary, meal passes, and information about the university and their intended area of study. Inside they will find meetings with admissions counselors, class schedules, tours, etc. We always appeal to the recruits needs and make sure we accomplish everything their family wants to accomplish during their visit. Being prepared answers several questions right away that the family may have been wanting to ask. Again, by doing this we are building confidence in the recruit and his family that we will be ready to take care of them.
Once we get the prerequisites of the visit completed, we want to make our recruit feel like he is a part of our family. Every team says that they are a family, but very few actually live it out. In everything we do, we want to be sincere and genuine.
One way that we begin to integrate them into our family is by making introductions to everyone we possibly can. Our support staff, coaches from other sports, administration, students, etc. No one is too small or too big to talk to our recruit and their family. By allowing them to build relationships with people outside of basketball, they will begin to feel like a part of something bigger than themselves.
We also involve our current players a lot in the process. Whether its a workout, a meal or a campus tour, we want as much interaction between the recruit and our players. We find this to be very beneficial because our players can give a first hand perspective of what it is truly like to be a part of our family. They tell it how it is and give an honest answer to the questions being asked.
It's always fantastic when a recruit wants to sign on the spot after his visit. However, we never pressure a recruit to sign before he leaves. Our staff always sits down with the recruit and his family prior to their departure and have a very transparent conversation. We want them to be honest with us and let us know what we can do to make us the best fit for their son. We have the utmost confidence that we did everything we could to make this a special visit for them, so we want to let the process play out. There is no doubt in our minds that if a recruit is meant to be here, he will be here.
Campus visits will be different for everyone, but one thing will always be the same. Recruits and their families want to have confidence not only in your program and your staff, but in the university as a whole. Can you give them that confidence? If so, you are going to have a successful future for you and your program!
When coaches and players talk about accountability, it is far too often done for the wrong reasons and wrapped up in rules and regulations. The most common way to hold someone accountable is to throw a rule book or a policy at them with no thought as to how that will influence someone's life. People, especially college student-athletes, are hungry for mentoring and accountability, but there are too few authentic leaders helping them. This is a problem.
We often talk about holding our team members accountable but if a team truly loves each other they'll want to be their best for each other.
True accountability isn't generated by rules and regulation. It's the result of relationships, love, and the pursuit of excellence.
I think that Jon Gordon has this idea of accountability spot on! Instead of talking about your program culture and its rules, try to lead with relationships, love, and the pursuit of excellence and true accountability will naturally flow from this type of leadership. When we commit to this, our players and those we work with will begin to see our heart and want to give their best for you and the program!
My desire as a coach is to connect with our players and build genuine, lasting relationships. I want to be a trustworthy mentor so that when something happens in their life and they need advice, I can be counted on.
Our job as coaches is to push players to become better both on and off the court. Sometimes this requires us to say things to our players that they don't want to hear. Although we constantly encourage and applaud our players successes, we also criticize and point out their flaws quite a bit, too. And which one do you think most players dwell on and remember?
As coaches, we need to pour our hearts into our players. We need to invite them into our lives and make an effort to be transparent with them. We need to be willing to share our experiences because we have been there too. It is foolish of us to expect our players to feel a connection with us if the only interaction we have with them is on the court or during required team meetings. There needs to be more. We need to get into their world and be vulnerable. They are going through a lot and it is our responsibility to be there for them. We are only able to do that when we establish a sincere connection with them as people.
I'm convinced that if I can authentically connect with our players off the court, they will respect me and listen to me on the court. Now, the applause and encouragement means so much more to them and they know that when I criticize and correct, I am doing it because I believe in them.
Building relationships is crucial in any job, but they are extremely important in the realm of coaching. Without true relationships between a coach/player, coach/AD, coach/media, or coach/administration, there will not be any trust. Relationships are built on the foundation of trust and that trust can only be built by loving and being committed to serve others.
I am learning on a daily basis how to become a better leader and how to enhance my relationships with the people I surround myself with. I like to believe that one of my strengths as a coach is my ability to genuinely love others and make them feel comfortable talking to me. I'm a quiet person by nature, but God has given me the unique ability to relate to people and gain their trust. I look forward to the opportunities I am given to impact others simply by showing an interest in something they love.
Although many relationships are developed through servant-leadership and a display of love towards someone, most relationships are maintained through tough love. In my experience as a coach I have had to work with people in ways which they do not like. College athletes, especially basketball players, do not typically like being told that they are wrong. Many coaches will deal with an issue like this in one of two ways. 1) They will lash out at the player by yelling and insisting that they are right, or 2) They will give in to the player and let him do what he wants, even though the coach knows it will not make him a better person. In my opinion, both of those options are unwise. If we truly desire to build relationships with our players we must love them first. We need to tell them things that they don't want to hear and love them enough to show them how they can make themselves a better player and person.


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Rattlesnake Mesa
Rattlesnake Mesa, where William Branham was hunting in March 1963
This article is one in a series on the Cloud:
An Introduction to the Cloud
Was the Cloud Prophesied?
The Cloud's Location
The Cause of the Cloud
The Timing of Cloud Events
Rebekah Branham Smith, William Branham's daughter, also wrote on the Cloud and specifically details the timing of the events surrounding the appearance of the Cloud in the Only Believe Magazine, "Road to Sunset".
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According to Rebekah Branham Smith in the "Road To Sunset" article in the Only Believe magazine, William Branham was hunting on Rattlesnake Mesa on March 8, 1963, when his hunting companions heard a loud blast. After the hunting trip, William Branham said that he was caught up into a constellation of seven angels while hunting on Sunset Mountain, and that these angels formed a mysterious cloud after this event that was photographed in the May issue of Life Magazine.
La vérité pure et simple sur la géographie de l`Arizona.
1 Problems with the story of the cloud
1.1 Location of the Hunt
1.2 The Blast
2 The Cloud and the Peak
Problems with the story of the cloud
The campsite at Rattlesnake Mesa
There are a number of problems with the story that William Branham tells about the cloud and its location as follows:
Location of the Hunt
William Branham said that he was hunting a number of different locations, including:
Exactly Northeast of Flagstaff, or Prescott. [1]
Exactly forty miles north of Tucson, upon Sunset Mountain in the Coronado Forest. [2]
East side of Sunset Peak.
Based on the testimony of Gene Norman[3] and Pearry Green [4], William Branham was hunting on Rattlesnake Mesa, about 10 miles north of Sunset Peak, when the Angels appeared. Technically, there is no place called "Sunset Mountain", although there is an area called "Sunset" just to the east of Sunset Peak. Rattlesnake Mesa was also where William Branham returned to in 1964, after which he told of a blast that prophesied judgment for the West Coast. The cloud appeared north of Flagstaff, around 200 miles away from Sunset Peak.
Another interesting fact is that there was not just one cloud, but two. The second cloud is noted in the Life Magazine, and appears in a smaller photograph off to the north-west.
North side of Sunset Peak, 10 miles south-west of Rattlesnake Mesa. Its on the map, but its not where William Branham was hunting.
The Blast
Gene Norman was hunting with William Branham on Rattlesnake Mesa in early March of 1963 when something strange happened. Gene said, "I hunted, oh, probably about a half hour, and that blast went off. It sounded like it was just right above my head. And, I looked up, and, I didn't see nothing. Ah, yeah, I did, I seen something, but I didn't see the cloud in the form that it shows in the picture. When I looked up I seen two long streaks like, ah, like a plane leaving a trail. Two streaks, with a great, miles one way and miles the other way. With a spot in between. A big spot, a space in between it.
The March 1, 1963 edition of the Arizona Republic Newspaper includes an article called "Shaken Up By Sonic Booms". This article tells of multiple sonic booms over the town of Springerville, Arizona that were being caused by aircraft from Williams Air Force Base. Some of these booms were so loud they cracked windows in the town.
The Williams Air Force Base was operating F-5 Freedom Fighters and T-38 Talons in 1963, which were both supersonic jets. Springerville is around 120 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, where the Williams Air Force Base was located. Rattlesnake Mesa is around 80 miles southeast of Phoenix. The speed of sound is 768 miles per hour. It is likely that the flight paths of these jets were in transition after the complaints from Springerville and therefore, an appearance over a relatively uninhabited area like Rattlesnake Mesa would preferred.
William Branham described the same event in a sermon called "The Seventh Seal" on March 24, 1963. He said, "A little over a week ago I was up way back into the mountains, nearly to Mexico, with two brethren that's setting here, picking…sand burrs off of my trousers leg, and a blast went off that almost, looked like, shook the mountains down." There is no mention of a cloud in this sermon.
If Gene Norman is right, what looked like a plane leaving a trail was actually a plane leaving a trail.
The Cloud and the Peak
The attached map is near-to-scale, and shows the location of the cloud. From William Branham's testimony, it was morning when the blast hit Sunset Peak, 40 miles north-east of Tucson in Arizona's Coronado National Forest, and a constellation of seven angels appeared from the west.
It was evening when the cloud appeared just north of Flagstaff, Arizona. More specifically, the southern edge of this cloud was 10 miles north of Flagstaff and 200 miles north of where William Branham was located.
↑ And they took that picture, you know, in the sky. And I didn't think much about it, never noticed it. So it begin to impress me somehow the other day. And Brother Norman, Norma's father here, told me, said, "Did you notice this?" And just as I looked, right there was them angels just as plain as they could be, setting right there in that picture. You see? I looked to see when it was, and it was time, same 'bout day or two before or, day or two after I was up there. I looked where it was at: northeast of Flagstaff, or Prescott, which is below Flagstaff. Well, that's just where we was at (See?), just exactly. (sermon "Come Follow Me" (June 1, 1963))
↑ And it shall be Light at the evening time upon Sunset Mountain in the Coronado Forest, forty miles north of Tucson. Get on the map and see if Sunset Peak there. That's exactly where it happened. I never know it till the other day. ("What is the Attraction" (July 25, 1965))
↑ Gene Norman's online audio testimony
↑ Videos of Pearry Green's testimony can be found on Youtube
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Education has always been influenced by the social, economic, and political conditions existing during various historical periods. During the 20th century, education in America was greatly influenced by changes in the economy, like the Great Depression.
The period after the crash of the stock markets in October 1929 was marked by the closure of banks, businesses, and factories. There was massive unemployment, particularly among minorities, and the markets were flooded with unemployed young people. The government's focus shifted and placed the priority on providing relief measures and aid to the affected.
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Under his New Deal policy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created two organizations to assist in the work relief programs. These programs played an extensive role in federal intervention directed toward education during the Depression. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the National Youth Administration (NYA) were established in 1933. The CCC administered a temporary work assistance program, and the NYA administered two programs—the first a work relief and employment program for the needy and those out of school, the second a part-time employment assistance program for needy high school and college students. At one point, approximately 750,000 students were enrolled in the NYA program. But it slowly dawned on officials of both the CCC and the NYA that many of the participants lacked basic skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic, as well as vocational skills. For the first time in the history of the nation, the federal government began to offer education courses, primarily in the basic skills.
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The Great Depression was a time of massive need across the country, and changes to education reflected that. While many of the changes occasioned by the Great Depression have since faded away with the recovery of the country, many of the programs have remained, or at least provided the foundation for modern developments that you may be employing in your classroom today.


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If Labour Party wins control of Parliament, Corbyn vows to stop UK arms to Israel
December 3, 2019 by JNS
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday that if his party controls Parliament in the United Kingdom following elections on Dec. 12, Israel would no longer receive arms from Great Britain.
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labor Party. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Such a move would add to the leader's and his party's clear animosity towards and bias against the Jewish state.
"Labour's new internationalism means we will create a peace and conflict-prevention fund and invest an extra 400 million pounds [$513 million] to expand our diplomatic capacity and increase oversight of arms exports to ensure we're not fueling conflicts, as in Yemen and in Israel and the Palestinian territories," he said in a speech outlining his party's foreign-policy goals.
A recent poll found that 87 per cent of British Jews consider Corbyn to be an anti-Semite.
He has been condemned for allowing antisemitism to spread under his leadership, and the Labour Party has been called out for its poor handling of antisemitic accusations. Many leaders of the British Jewish community, as well as former Labour members, have urged the public not to vote for Corbyn in the upcoming election.
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Another San Jose planning commissioner resigns
by Nadia Lopez
September 13, 2019April 9, 2020
San Jose City Hall is pictured in this file photo. Photo by Ramona Giwargis.
Months after a fierce showdown over political representation on San Jose's Planning Commission unfolded, another commissioner announced on Wednesday that he's resigning, opening up an extra vacancy on the powerful panel.
The lengthy and drawn out battle over a seat on the 7-member commission began months ago, after some community leaders denounced the appointment of former Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, a white male from affluent District 6 instead of the two Latino candidates from East San Jose and downtown, a contentious move considering four other members were previously from District 6. After Oliviero's appointment, former Commissioner Namrata Vora resigned, opening up the appointment process again.
Now, another member, Commissioner John Leyba, has also submitted his resignation, citing familial responsibilities. Leyba is also running for Santa Clara County Supervisor to succeed Dave Cortese.
"Serving on our city's planning commission has been one of the greatest honors of my life. Thank you for the opportunity," Leyba wrote in his resignation letter to the City Council. "Regrettably, I hereby resign from the planning commission."
Leyba, who works at Pacific Gas and Electric Company as a business analyst, said he was "recently promoted with increased responsibilities." His new role, he said, "must be balanced" with family commitments to his wife and kids.
"A couple of weeks ago I was promoted to lead our Portfolio Management team in electric business operations at PG&E," Leyba added in an interview with San Jose Spotlight on Friday. "The new job comes with increased responsibility and workload, and most of the team is based in San Ramon. Since cutting back family time is not negotiable, the Planning Commission role was the obvious place to scale back."
Intense public scrutiny prompted Mayor Sam Liccardo and other city leaders to propose sweeping political reforms to enact new changes to the Planning Commission appointment process after Oliviero's contentious win. If adopted, the new process will prohibit more than two people from the same district from serving, ban applicants who were lobbyists in the last two years and ask voters to expand the size of the commission to 11 members, one from each district to ensure fair representation.
Instead of opening up the appointment process all over again, City Clerk Toni Taber confirmed Friday that city councilmembers will choose two commissioners from the pool of three finalists chosen to fill Vora's seat, effectively filling both Vora and Leyba's vacancies.
"We're not recruiting," said Taber. "We're going to use the same applicant pool."
The three finalists for the two vacancies include Mariel Caballero, a Santa Clara County deputy director at the probation department; Louis Barocio, vice principal at East Side Union High School District; and business owner Rolando Bonilla.
The City Council in October will select two commissioners to fill one term ending in 2020 and the other ending in 2022. Applicants must receive six or more votes to be appointed to the Planning Commission, according to Taber.
Contact Nadia Lopez at [email protected] or follow @n_llopez on Twitter.
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Dennis Kyne Sep 13, 2019 at 4:36PM
Two commissioners from the pool of theee. NO. Open it up. This is a democracy still.
Chris kaman Sep 13, 2019 at 7:57PM
No more scumbag d6
Yolanda Sep 15, 2019 at 2:09PM
I am not surprised. Down town San Jose changed when redevelopment first tried to modernize uptown. We use to love going up town to the movies.Dance halls. Old timers were forced to leave ????
San Jose needs to enclude Mexican people born in San Jose or brought up here. Going up town is not worth it now,Too expensive!!!!
Barb In CA Sep 16, 2019 at 9:08PM
This might be a shock to some, but the planning commission serves ALL of SJ, not just a District, culture, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Instead, they are selected based on QUALIFICATIONS.
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The New Prague Trojan girls cross country team opened its 2018 season at the St. Olaf Showcase Thursday, Aug. 30, in Northfield, and had a strong showing. The Trojans placed 13th of 33 squads at the meet, which included several nationallyranked teams.
The Trojans had a good grouping of four runners who placed close together, from 67th to 78th, all finishing within 14 seconds of each other. Iris McCarthy placed 67th in a time of 20 minutes, 55 seconds. Sydney Siele was 70th in 21:01, Nora Rosemeier was 74th at 21:023 and Morgan Brandt was 78th in 21:09. The fifth Trojan to finish was Kate Chromy, 133rd in 21:59. Abby Carlson was 147th in 2:14 and Elsie Hatlevig was 161st in 2:41.
Four of the Trojans' top five were seniors. Rosemeier is a freshman.
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Transfer and Career Center holds industry panel to discuss black excellence
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Elisabeth Vermeulen, Staff Writer • February 27, 2020
As Black History Month commemoration continues, the Transfer and Career Center held an Industry Career Panel discussing the topic of black excellence. "It was really important for me to find representatives...
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San Diego City College will hold its second and third part of the film screening of the hit Netflix series "When They See Us" in commemoration of Black History Month. With the support of the UMOJA team and the English, counseling, and communication studies department, City College features the series, which is based on events from the April 19, 1989 Central Park jogger case.
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February is the celebration for Black history month and San Diego City College is celebrating with different events throughout the month.
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For about a month, students, faculty, and art lovers are able to visit and observe works of 50 San Diego women photographers at Luxe Gallery in downtown San Diego. On opening night, groups of attendees...
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The red stage lights dimmed down onto the stage as the sounds of African drums streamed through the speakers of the Saville Theatre. The cast, all African Americans, entered the stage in a choreographed...
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City College's Black History month celebration came to an end on Feb. 27 with the showing of the award winning film "Fruitvale Station," based on the true story of Oscar Grant and his death at hands of...


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It had to be the worst of all bad ideas. Saturday, March 7, 1807. HMS Halifax, a Royal Navy sloop, lies off Hampton Roads, Va. The Napoleonic Wars are in full swing, and the British are in Chesapeake Bay, blockading two French warships that had made port seeking refuge and repair after a storm. About 6 p.m., First Lieutenant Thomas Warren Carter orders Midshipman Robert Turner and five crew into a jolly boat (a small dory) to weigh anchor. Out of this simple task grows one of the contributing incidents to the War of 1812.
On Oct. 3, 1916, dozens of people flocked to a farmer's field just north of London at a place called Potters Bar to see the grisly spectacle of the crash site of a Zeppelin airship.
For nearly two years, Britain suffered helpless outrage as German airships, particularly Zeppelins, rained destruction on city targets, killing more than 100 citizens and injuring hundreds more. The Germans called airship pilots Knights of the Air—the British called them baby-killers.
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Today's comic comes from Bil Keane's Family Circus. It's dated August 14, 2004.
This is a joke that I've seen over and over again in various other comic strips. But there's nothing wrong with that.
In my last blog entry, my son and I were touring Lehman Caves at Great Basin National Park. But that was in the morning.
So in the afternoon we went out hiking.
Here's our comic for today. It was published on November 8, 1967. It features The Ryatts.
Our next stop in our trip out west: Great Basin National Park. This sits in Nevada near the border with Utah.
We left out campground at Craters of the Moon on June 25th and it was a good 7 hour drive . . . through a lot of nothing.
For our comic today I've gone back to March 23, 1953. It's from Out Our Way by J. R. Williams.
It's that time of year when kids are going back to school (it started last Thursday around here—Yikes!).
I guess they had different problems back then.
After leaving Yellowstone we headed to Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve. We were there for about a day and a half (2 nights): June 23 and 24.
Let me finish up writing about the hike at Yellowstone to Fairy Falls, Imperial and Spray Geysers, and Sentinel Meadows. This was on June 22nd.
By the way, I don't usually break up hike descriptions into separate posts, but on a trip like this, some of the hikes generate so many pictures it makes sense to do so.


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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday at the G20 summit of industrialized nations that while Turkey did not want to damage the Saudi royal family, the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been a test for the whole world.
Speaking to reporters in Buenos Aires, Erdogan said that solving the Khashoggi killing would also be in the interest of the Saudi royal family.
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Despite finally filing its financials, OCZ Technology Group still remains a highly risky bet that investors should avoid.
There tend to be two types of investments in the computer storage world. On one side of the fence, there are names that have real, sustainable competitive advantages that generally drive those businesses into a very lucrative duopoly/oligopoly. Think names like Micron (NASDAQ:MU), SanDisk, Western Digital, and Seagate. The former two are making a killing riding the secular growth of NAND flash, while the latter two are raking in the dough with their hard disk drive duopoly (OK, Toshiba still technically makes hard drives, too).
Unfortunately, along with these money-printing machines, investors also see the story – stock high fliers that, despite having some neat-sounding technology and hyper revenue growth rates, ultimately end up with businesses that simply can't scale to profitability – often times due to the fact that the value on top of commodity hardware simply isn't there. While there are many such names, none is more tragic than the story of OCZ Technology Group (UNKNOWN:OCZ.DL).
OCZ started out as a reseller of commodity DRAM to PC gamers, but as this business failed to become profitable, the company switched to developing solid state flash drives for PCs. While OCZ took a number of steps to differentiate itself, most notably by purchasing Indilinx, a developer of NAND flash controllers for such drives, as well as picking up some enterprise storage software assets in a bid to be a meaningful player in the higher margin enterprise flash markets, it was all in vain. The company never managed to post a profitable year.
But, things got worse during late 2012. After several quarters of very poor financial performance, CEO and founder, Ryan Petersen, resigned abruptly. Shortly thereafter, it was revealed that OCZ's financial statements had several glaring errors that ultimately led to an SEC investigation and a year-long effort to restate financials all the way back to 2009. After several delays and missed deadlines, OCZ finally filed its restated financials – ugly as they were.
The company burned through many secondary offerings' worth of cash (totaling several hundred million dollars), has taken loans on very unfavorable terms, and desperately cleared out inventory at significant losses to maintain liquidity. The financial situation today isn't all that great, despite the fact that the books are finally clean. OCZ is still a mess, and even at $1.22 per share, the likelihood that the shares trade much lower is very real.
A major problem of OCZ's was that it attempted to sell commodity solid state drives in a market in which the NAND flash manufacturers hold all the cards (and the profits). While these low-end commodity businesses are largely done at OCZ, the company is still trying to play in the enterprise flash space. The problem here is that, even though NAND flash supply isn't everything, the competitive environment is incredibly fierce. Even players such as Fusion-io and the recently public Violin Memory, with well-known customers and fairly differentiated technology, still have a rough time breaking even, let alone turning a profit. sTec, another pure-play fabless enterprise flash player, was also bleeding money before it was finally acquired by Western Digital on the cheap.
So, owning OCZ today is really a bet that one of the larger players may be interested in acquiring the company. And, quite frankly, OCZ doesn't really have much to offer a larger player at this point. The only valuable IP it has is the SATA SSD controller from Indilinx, but with LSI and Marvell offering excellent controllers at a fairly low cost, and with many of the NAND flash players having already bought controller IP, it's tough to see a lot of value here.
If you want to invest in the storage industry, it is much better to pick high-quality names with sustainable advantages than to pick a company that's facing significant liquidity issues, offers no real competitive advantages in a highly competitive market, and just spent the last year without up-to-date financials. For OCZ, the risk/reward, even at a tempting $1.22 per share, just doesn't look good enough for even the most risk-tolerant long-term investor.
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A Man Walks Into A Bar
July 16, 2017 / by James Tauber
I've thought for a while that "A man walks into a bar" jokes are a great example of how definiteness works in English. I mentioned this to Jonathan Robie in Cambridge and he seemed to like the example too so I thought I'd share it more broadly.
Consider the standard joke form:
A man walks into a bar. The bartender says X. The man says Y.
Notice this has two indefinite articles and two definite articles. When do we use the indefinite article and when do we use the definite article?
In our sentence above, we've neither been introduced to the man nor the bar before. And so we use the indefinite article.
We can't say "* The man walks into a bar" unless he's been introduced before. Likewise we can't say "* the bar" unless the bar's been introduced before. For example,
Chris is one crazy guy! The man walks into a bar…
is fine if we take the man to be Chris. Similarly,
You know that bar on 52nd Street? A man walks into the bar…
works if the bar in the joke is the one on 52nd Street.
If we were telling a second joke, we could use the to indicate the man (or the bar) was the same but notice we'd have to use something like another and NOT a for introducing a second bar (or man):
Later, the man walks into another bar…
Later, another man walks into the bar…
Notice in our original joke, the third sentence starts "The man". This makes sense because that man has already been introduced. We wouldn't say "* The man walks into a bar. The bartender says X. A man says Y." Even it were a different man, we'd probably use something like "Another man".
But notice we did use the with the bartender even though he or she has NOT been introduced yet. The reason is our frame for a bar is that it has a bartender. The existence of the bartender has effectively been set up by us having a bar and that's the bartender we want to reference so it's not a completely new reference. Saying "* A man walks into a bar. A bartender says X" would be odd. Notice also that even if the bartender is a man, the following "The man says Y" is unambiguous.
Even if there were more than one bartender (certainly possible, although not prototypical for the frame) we'd have to say something like "One of the bartenders says X".
This can be demonstrated with an example where we EXPECT multiple instances.
A man walks into a classroom. One of the students says X.
In this case, it would be odd to say "* A student says X" and even odder to say "* the student says X". We want definiteness (because the classroom frame has already established the likelihood of a group of students and that's the group we want to reference a member of) but because it's a group, we need to say "one of" to call out an individual.
"One of the" calls out an indefinite member of a definite group.
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A number of small, basic proteins penetrate into the structure of the large subunit of the ribosome. While these proteins presumably aid in the folding of the rRNA, the extent of their contribution to the stability or function of the ribosome is unknown. One of these small, basic proteins is L36, which is highly conserved in Bacteria, but is not present in Archaea or Eucarya. Comparison of ribosome crystal structures shows that the space occupied by L36 in a bacterial ribosome is empty in an archaeal ribosome. To ask what L36 contributes to ribosome stability and function, we have constructed an Escherichia coli strain lacking ribosomal protein L36; cell growth is slowed by 40-50% between 30°C and 42°C. Ribosomes from this deletion strain sediment normally and have a full complement of proteins, other than L36. Chemical protection experiments comparing rRNA from wild-type and L36-deficient ribosomes show the expected increase in reagent accessibility in the immediate vicinity of the L36 binding site, but suggest that a cooperative network of rRNA tertiary interactions has been disrupted along a path extending 60 Å deep into the ribosome. These data argue that L36 plays a significant role in organizing 23 S rRNA structure. Perhaps the Archaea and Eucarya have compensated for their lack of L36 by maintaining more stable rRNA tertiary contacts or by adopting alternative protein-RNA interactions elsewhere in the ribosome.


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Monaco royals: the hidden meaning behind new portrait of Charlene, Albert and twins
Prince Albert of Monaco poses with his wife Charlene and their adorable twins Jacques and Gabriella in a new official photo with charitable goals
December 02, 2019 3:41 PM ESTUpdated on March 27, 2020 12:09 PM EDT
With Christmas around the corner, Prince Albert with his wife Princess Charlene and their adorable twins Princess Gabriella and Prince Jacques have started a beautiful solidarity initiative by releasing a new official photo of the family. In the image, taken in the royal residence by photographer Eric Mathon, we can see Grace Kelly's son, posing very proud with a very elegant Charlene in a long teal gown and their children in front of them, completely stealing the show. The beautiful family snap was taken for a good reason. On December 4, the portrait will be on sale to raise funds for the Principality of Monaco's humanitarian work.
Grace Kelly´s family stars in new official picture with four adorable little members
The portrait was taken in the throne room just the day before of Monaco's National Day, and we can see the adorable twins dressed very elegant. Gabriella, who has obviously inherited her mom's style, wears a cute white dress with a crystal-embellished belt, whereas Jacques looks like a little man in a navy dress suit and a maroon tie. So cute!
Check out the cutest moments of Monaco's 4-year-old royals
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Four-year-old Jacques and Gabriella celebrating Monaco's National Day
Prince Albert and Princess Charlene are completely devoted to their little ones, and the Princess opened up in an interview with Point de Vue magazine and talked about their family life. "When it's the four of us, we speak in English, but Jacques and Gabriella speak perfect French at school." She also explained how a normal day as a mom is for her, "In the morning, their dad takes them to school, and when they are back, my work starts and it lasts till the following day," she said to the publication, "Evenings are usually busy. When I am alone with them, the kids will fight over who sleeps with mom, they love to climb into our bed, so it's tight, and that´s not counting our two dogs, Poppy and Harley!" Princess Charlene said in the very same interview that she is a protective mother and that raising twins is often exhausting but also, so stimulating in many areas.
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Prelude to Tales of the Cocktail 2015
14 July 2015 by Dave Broom
Dave Broom lands at the largest, maddest, geekiest, most hedonistic event in the bar trade's year - Tales of the Cocktail.
Dave, meet Peat: phenols on parade
Stepping out of the terminal at Louis Armstrong Airport In New Orleans (NOLA from now on) is like plunging into a warm shower. It's as hot as it was when I left Houston – about 100˚F (as the Americans say), but infinitely more steamy. The result is that, while it is like a warm shower, you need to have a shower to stop you feeling as if you have just been in the shower. If you get my drift.
Anyhoo… that's life in NOLA. Things will only get worse. Or better. Or both. Probably at the same time. This is, after all, Tales of the Cocktail week, the largest, maddest, geekiest, most hedonistic event in the bar trade's year.
A leisurely bus ride later, a dumping of the bag in the hotel and my partner in crime Ryan Chetiyawardana and I head into the French Quarter for our first gig. Tales officially starts tomorrow (Weds) so the streets are remarkably quiet – well, apart from a procession of delegates from a different conference marching down the street after a brass band. They look a relatively sober bunch (sobriety being a relative term in this city). This is not a bad thing. Four years ago Tales coincided with a swingers convention. I'll leave it at that.
We're heading up Royal Street to Beam Suntory's Julep House, though such is the humidity and subsequent loss of liquid that it is soon clear that we need to hydrate. Mr B's Bistro seems appropriate for a swift(ish) Scotch & soda which will tide us over before we reach the gig.
Ryan and I are doing a class on peat and smoke in drinks on Wednesday to about 220 people and using (with their permission) a selection of smoky drams from the Beam Suntory stable - Hakushu, Connemara, Ardmore, Bowmore and two from Laphroaig including this year's Cairdeas.
Ryan, for reasons best known to himself, has brought along a sample of the last, labelled as 'tea syrup' to disguise its true function. He's also put it in a plastic bag which makes it look like, well, a sample. If you get my drift. I think he's being generous just in case they don't have enough in the house. He's like that. It still looks weird though.
The Beam Suntory guys can't make the class because they're working in the Julep House, so after snaffling a significant chunk of their dinner (first jambalaya of the trip), we sit on a piano stool in the faded elegance of the house's front room and take them on a quick run-through of the talk: what is peat, how is it formed, how does it get into whisky, how do distillers control it, what does it give to distillery character, how it manifests itself on the palate, why Islay peat is different to mainland and Welsh, how it has terroir, how to use it in drinks.
The stars of the show are Bowmore 15 – which is just astounding at the moment – and the Cairdeas which is all hot roads and seaweed, clove, bog myrtle, herbs, mint and horse stable.
I come away clutching five bottles of different phenols. I sniff one of them – there's the horsey note. Ryan still is clutching his sack of Cairdeas. Unopened. They had enough. It seems to have become like a comfort blanket for him, but looks increasingly like some medical procedure has taken place.
Early night all round. Need to be fresh for the first day proper. Ryan has to start prepping his drinks early. I have to write this and sniff some phenols.
This is work, after all.
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Tales of the Cocktail: Day 4
Dwarves, apes, and William of Orange's campervan distillery. It could only be the last day of Tales.
Becky Paskin's third day at Tales proves whisky brings people together like nothing else.
Day two of Tales throws up a heated whiskey debate, and a heavy metal bagpipes surprise.
From hedonism to geekiness, with Scotch whisky playing an ever more significant part.
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Tales on Tour Edinburgh 2017
The annual New Orleans cocktail festival brought a taste of the Deep South to Scotland's capital.


the current frame pointer is saved in the s0 register.
GDB can not unwind after handle_exception as it is unable to verify that the handle_exception frame is valid, the handle_exception function has been written on assembler with a prolog that restores sp from a scratch register instead of a frame initalization. I added a frame pointer saving for handle_exception after the stack pointer restoration ( https://github.com/slavaim/riscv-magenta/blob/riscv/kernel/arch/riscv/rv64/exception.S ).
From the frame before the exception handler we see that the arch_thread_construct_first raised the exception. We need to examine this function prologue to get the offset to the bootom of the stack from the frame address.
Now the $pc, $sp and $s0 (a frame pointer ) registers can be set to unwind the stack before handle_exception was called by a CPU. 64 bytes was subtracted from the s0 register value to get the sp register value according to the function prologue displayed above.


The screening will be at 6:30 p.m. June 20 at the Historic Jones Theater, 409 Main Street, in Westcliffe. Admission is free and open to the public.
The Arkansas River in Colorado is one of the hardest working rivers in the lower 48 states. Myriad users, including municipalities, farmers and recreational users, all depend on the water collected from the river's 28,000-square-mile basin, the largest river basin in Colorado. The Arkansas originates in the snowmelt on the Continental Divide near Leadville and drops nearly 10,000 feet as it courses more than 300 miles to the state line.
Samuel Ebersole, a professor at Colorado State University-Pueblo, directed and produced the hour-long documentary, in partnership with the Arkansas River Basin Roundtable. Ebersole explores the river from its headwaters near Leadville to the plains near the Kansas border. The documentary sheds light on the many ways we all depend on the Arkansas River.
"Custer County is an important part of the Arkansas River basin," Ebersole said. "Local residents should be concerned about the health of the river and the efforts being made to ensure that recreational users, agricultural users and municipal users can share this precious resource is a way that honors and protects established rights and future needs."
"Everything we do from the moment we wake until we close our eyes at night, depends on the availaibilityof clean water," he continued. "I hope this documentary will help us to better appreciate the many ways we're all affected by the health of our river and the watershed."
Following the screening, a panel will discuss the documentary and answer your questions. Ebersole will be joined by Blake Osborn, southern Colorado water resources specialist with the Colorado Water Institute and Colorado State University Cooperative Extension; Jerry Livengood, local Division of Water Resources Water commissioner; Keith Hood, area rancher and a member of the Arkansas River Basin Roundtable; and moderator Chelsey Nutter of the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District. Osborn and Hood also are members of San Isabel's board of directors. To view the documentary trailer, go to pepoarkbasin.com.
San Isabel, a nationally accredited 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, works with landowners to protect and care for land and water in Huerfano, Custer, Fremont and Pueblo counties. The land trust aims to ensure the region remains a beautiful and wild landscape with a strong agricultural foundation and a vibrant, healthy community. To learn more or to donate to this important work, go to sanisbel.org.
The Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District was founded in 1979 by a group of visionary water users, irrigators and leaders to protect and secure water in the Upper Arkansas Valley.Its service area covers more than 3,000 square miles and includes Custer, Chaffee and Fremont counties, as well as a small portion of Saguache and El Paso Counties. For more information, go to uawcd.com.


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Q: How to mock some methods only throw exception for the first time and then do nothing, with specs2? In specs2, we can mock a method and let it throw exception:
class Hello {
   def say():Unit = println("Hello, world")
}

val hello = mock[Hello]
hello.say() throws new RuntimeException("something wrong")

But how to make it just throw the first time, and then always do nothing?

A: This is actually a mockito question, not a specs2 one.
From the mockito documentation:
when(mock.someMethod("some arg"))
   .thenThrow(new RuntimeException())
   .thenReturn("foo");

Alternative, shorter version of consecutive stubbing:
 when(mock.someMethod("some arg"))
   .thenReturn("one", "two", "three");

A: doThrow(new RuntimeException("something wrong")).doNothing().when(hello).say()


The Tana River Delta is a mosaic of wetlands packed with biodiversity. Within its breathtaking vastness, it shelters thousands of migratory birds, a unique subspecies of topi (a type of antelope) and an endangered monkey called the Tana River mangabey. As the region's rainfall becomes more unpredictable in response to climate change, the delta also provides an increasingly critical source of water for cattle farmers and their herds.
In April 2010, I visited this amazing place to aid two conservation organizations—Nature Kenya and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds—that were trying to protect the delta from development pressures. I had a week to capture its essence in a way that would convey its intrinsic value to Kenya, but it wasn't easy. The delta is not like a coral reef or rain forest: you have to work hard to find images that illustrate its wonders.
At one point, after climbing the highest sand dune to get a bird's-eye view of the landscape, I ventured into the heart of the delta, traveling up its network of tributaries in a Pokomo fisherman's canoe. Enormous crocodiles dived off the banks as we passed. Then, while navigating through a narrow mangrove channel, I spotted this crocodile hatchling dancing through the roots. It was in the open for only a second before darting away.


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Gordon Alec Hill (born 1 April 1954) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Millwall, Manchester United, Derby County and Queens Park Rangers, and was capped six times for the England national team.

Player
In 1971, after leaving Longford School, Hill began his club career with Staines Town of the Athenian League as a 17-year-old. In 1972, he moved to Southall F.C., playing a few youth games there while his brother was on trial at the club. He drew the attention of Millwall F.C. and signed with them in 1973. Known to The Lions fans as 'Merlin', Hill had outstanding skill that earned him wide recognition. The Millwall youngster entertained the fans with high-class shooting and dribbling and it was not long before scouts from big clubs noticed him. He played 91 league games for Millwall, scoring 22 goals. After spending the summer of 1975 on loan with the North American Soccer League's Chicago Sting, and being named All League, Hill subsequently signed for Manchester United in November 1975 for £70,000, a bargain for manager Tommy Docherty, forming a wing partnership with Steve Coppell.

Hill helped United reach the 1976 FA Cup Final, scoring both goals with typical long-range efforts in the semi-final at Hillsborough Stadium against Derby County. Unfortunately for Hill, United lost in the Final against Southampton. He was also part of the 1977 FA Cup-winning side. Hill left United for Derby County for £250,000 in 1978, with his sale by Dave Sexton deeply unpopular with supporters. At the time of his sale, Hill was United's top scorer and a favourite among fans. He spent two seasons with Derby County, most of it sidelined with a knee injury suffered in one of his first games, before moving to Queens Park Rangers in 1979. He left England for the Montreal Manic of the NASL in 1981. After a successful first season with the Manic, he began the 1982 season in Montreal, but after five games the Manic sent him to the Chicago Sting. In the fall of 1982, the Sting entered the Major Indoor Soccer League for the winter indoor season. Hill began the season with the Sting, and moved to the San Jose Earthquakes after eleven games. In January 1983, the Earthquakes turned around and traded Hill and Gary Etherington to the New York Arrows in exchange for Steve Zungul. In the summer of 1983, Hill played for Inter-Montreal of the Canadian Professional Soccer League. In the autumn of 1983, Hill signed with the Kansas City Comets of MISL. He played one season with the Comets, then began the 1984–85 season before being released. In December 1984, he signed with the Tacoma Stars.

He joined FC Twente in the Dutch Premier Division for the 1985–86 season, playing 19 times and scoring four goals. He spent the summer of 1986 in Finland with HJK Helsinki, scoring two goals in as many appearances before returning to England where he played under his former teammate Stuart Pearson at Northwich Victoria, before retiring from the game.

Manager
In the summer of 1991, Hill was managing director, Head Coach and Player of the Nova Scotia Clippers in the team's only year in the Canadian Soccer League, where he took the club to the playoffs. In 2001, he briefly managed Chester City during their spell in the Football Conference, and had a short spell managing Hyde United. He was the Director of coaching (Boys) for Cleveland United SC 2012–13. Hill admits that any promising players would be steered towards his former team.

He returns to the UK several times a year with groups of players to play games in the Manchester area.

International career
During his career, Hill played at every level for England: as an amateur, youth, under 23, England B and full International, at which level he won six full caps between 1976 and 1977.

Honours

Club
Manchester United
FA Cup: 1976–77
FA Charity Shield: 1977

Individual
NASL 1st All-Star team: 1975
Manchester United top scorer: 1976–77, 1977–78

References

External links
 England stats
 North American Soccer League bio
 Bio – sporting-heroes.net

1954 births
Living people
Canadian Professional Soccer League (original) players
Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) players
Chester City F.C. managers
Chicago Sting (MISL) players
Chicago Sting (NASL) players
Derby County F.C. players
England international footballers
England B international footballers
England under-23 international footballers
English expatriate footballers
English expatriate sportspeople in Canada
English expatriate sportspeople in the United States
English footballers
English Football League players
English football managers
Eredivisie players
Expatriate footballers in Finland
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate soccer players in Canada
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
FC Twente players
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players
Hyde United F.C. managers
Inter-Montreal players
Kansas City Comets (original MISL) players
Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) players
Manchester United F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
Montreal Manic players
New York Arrows players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
Nova Scotia Clippers players
People from Sunbury-on-Thames
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
San Jose Earthquakes (1974–1988) players
Southall F.C. players
Stafford Rangers F.C. players
Tacoma Stars players
Association football midfielders
FA Cup Final players

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