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Healthy iodine nutrition within reach in war-torn Yemen
IDD Newsletter 3/2017:
Iodine intakes are borderline adequate in war-torn Yemen
Protecting children from brain damage due to iodine deficiency is possible in war-torn Yemen, with a strengthened salt iodization program.
The latest national study in Yemen delivered some good news: despite food insecurity due to ongoing conflict, iodine nutrition is adequate – but just barely. Not only is the country in danger of slipping into sub-optimal iodine levels, but a large swath of the population, and especially those living in Highland regions in the mountains, are deficient, and currently vulnerable to brain damage and developmental disabilities.
The Iodine Global Network is working together with key partners to raise the alarm to authorities and international humanitarian organizations to urgently accelerate the salt iodization program.
In Yemen, conflict and humanitarian disaster have left 17 million people food insecure and two thirds of the population in need of humanitarian or protection aid, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs .
"In the midst of other health and humanitarian needs in Yemen, the achievement of optimal iodine nutrition is within reach."
– Izzeldin Hussein, IGN Regional Coordinator for MENA
As the crisis continues, and many people remain dependent on food assistance, the elimination of iodine deficiency could be one of Yemen's more attainable humanitarian relief goals. According to Dr. Izzeldin Hussein, IGN Regional Coordinator for the Middle East & North Africa, "In the midst of other health and humanitarian needs in Yemen, the achievement of optimal iodine nutrition is within reach."
A population survey conducted in 2015 measured urinary iodine concentration (UIC) across the country at a median UIC of 101 micrograms/liter, just within the World Health Organization threshold of what is considered healthy.
A strong foundation is already in place to develop an effective USI program. Salt production in Yemen is highly concentrated, making it easier to monitor the quality of iodized salt. The government has endorsed policy to support USI. But in practice, the program needs a kick-start, and a number of critical enhancements. Salt producers need technical support that will allow them to integrate the iodization step in salt processing. And a sustainable supply of potassium iodate––the most common iodine compound added to the salt––is essential.
Increasing the supply of iodized salt would ensure pregnant women have healthy thyroid function, and protect newborns from brain damage. Iodized salt could not only help to defray some of the hardship of war, but safeguard the educational potential–and through it, the economic future–of Yemen's youngest generation, tomorrow's leaders and architects of peace.
"As much as we can, we need to supply iodized salt in the food aid baskets reaching those people in the regions most affected by the war," says Dr. Hussein. "But much more importantly for Yemen's future, the USI program must be strengthened so that, as the conflict resolves, the long-term iodine needs of the population can be met."
Collecting data for the study was itself a tremendous accomplishment in the midst of conflict on the ground, according to Hussein, who provided technical support. The study was conducted by the Ministry of Health, UNICEF and WHO, with technical assistance from the IGN, and funded by USAID and the European Commission.
Among the countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, Yemen has been one of the last to achieve adequate population iodine nutrition. But it has the chance to achieve the success of its neighbors with Universal Salt Iodization (USI).
Dr. Hussein adds: "Yemen is one of the priority countries in the MENA region, and we need to find ways to help. Even in the midst of other health and humanitarian needs in Yemen, the achievement of optimal iodine nutrition is within reach."
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Starting an ice climbing team during the leanest winter in recent memory has forced me to get creative. I have an opportunity 6 days a week to deliver an experience to 4 high school students that will hopefully leave a significant impression on them. When the weather doesn't allow me to get them on ice, and the practice periods are too short to tag a summit, where do I turn? I've been faced with that quandary more than I would've liked this year, and I've had to get creative. Days spent practicing map and compass skills, sharpening tools, going over technical rope systems, and even learning how to sew their own stuff sacks. All worthy things but really just relevant ways to kill an afternoon. On a handful of days I've turned to areas of the map and oddities in the hills that I've been curious about.
It turns out that while we don't often have the time to get above tree line and tag a summit, we do have time to explore something in the woods that makes for a memorable day. There have been 3 days throughout the season where we ended up doing this, and they've reminded me a good bit about the feeling of adventure.
The first such excursion was before the snow had even fallen in November. I wanted my students to practice using a GPS to navigate to a coordinate. I had heard that there was a WWII bomber that had crashed into a mountain side above North Woodstock. I did some sleuthing on line and found the coordinates. Not knowing how it would go, I drove the team up and we headed down an old logging road. A few hours later, after following a intermittent heard path and our GPS, the students stumbled upon the wreckage.
The second day was well into winter, and I wanted to get winter hiking milage under my students boots. The smaller summits around campus that we can drive to and reach during an afternoon have become a little tired with how frequently our teams go there, so I looked north for an idea. Every time I drive through Franconia Notch, there is a prominent mountain pass on the right side, near a 300′ cliff that I've always been curious to explore. After referencing the map I noticed that the Greenleaf trail passes right through it. Not knowing what we'd find I led the team up the hill, wondering if the hike was going to be a dud. It turns out, Eagle Pass as its known, offers incredible views of Cannon Cliff framed by an impressive topography, and a playground of intricate boulder caves.
The third adventure was just this week, and arose from the same situation, looking for something new to do with my students. I had seen on line that there was a 3rd, and much more elusive cliff face profile in Franconia Notch which can only be seen from one small position atop a steep gully after a bushwhack. I didn't know if we'd have the time to reach it, or the nerve to get up a loose gully, but at the very least we'd stumble around a cool hillside and hopefully walk past the Eaglet, a cool rock feature I frequently point out to my students. After turning off the Greenleaf trail at a cairn marking the climbers path to the Eaglet, we quickly lost the path. Using the prominent spire as seen through the trees as our guide, we bushwhacked through boulders and dense evergreens laughing at the absurdity. Walking on branches covered in snow, avoiding deep caves between boulders and putting are heads down and pushing through thick evergreens likes a running back through a defensive line. We finally found the talus slope sticking down from the alpine cliff and followed it up past the Eaglet and the cliff beyond. We encountered the multiple gullies leading to the ridge line and picked the least steep and exposed one, trying not to knock loose scree down on each other. We made the ridge line and bushwhacked to where we thought the view of the profile was, and then beyond, to what turned out to be an even more incredible view.
For a while now, my outdoor adventure medium of choice has been climbing. Hiking has some what lost its appeal to me unless its a big objective above tree-line. At the same time I feel the spirit of adventure less and less in climbing. More often than not I'm visiting the same cliffs. In that case climbing is more about the process, the movement, and the people I'm with, all of which still make it very much worthwhile. The days I feel adventure are exploring new climbing areas that are unknown, something that generally only happens when I'm traveling now a days.
Reflecting on where that sense of adventure went, and why it was so present on these three days with my students lead me to realize that a core aspect of adventure is a sense of unknown, and a strong possibility of "failure." I put failure in quotation marks here, because, as part of the process its something to expect, but never something to feel bad about. Its motivation for future attempts, and keeps you on the edge as you explore. On any of these three days, we could have not made it in time, we could've been disappointed by a less stellar view than expected. The fact that I had students with me, and was anxious for them to have a good time as well, upped the stakes for me as the leader, and made the adventures seem much more real.
I feel that after rediscovering this feeling of adventure again, and realizing I can come across it so readily in what is essentially my backyard will lead me to explore the nooks and crannies of these hills more frequently.
I've included pictures of these three destinations to entice, but have withheld more detailed information in an attempt to inspire and help keep alive the sense of adventure for anyone who may read this and decide to check them out for themselves.
This entry was posted in Commentary, Hiking and tagged Adventure, Cannon Cliff, Eagle pass, Erik Thatcher, Franconia Notch, Franconia Notch State park, The Watcher, White Mountains on February 24, 2016 by ethatcher89.
Just as winter was very much delayed this year, so too is my sharing of some of the recent highlights. The most exciting adventure I've had so far was actually back in Mid December, right before going on vacation. A friend, Kurt Schuler, and I decided to do the Presidential Traverse in a day. While we were half a week shy of it being a true "winter" traverse, the ground and rocks were coated in snow at least giving us a winter scenery.
The traverse is roughly 20 miles long depending on how you do it, with a good portion of that, perhaps half, being above tree-line and very exposed to the elements, and the views. Hiking isn't my usual choice for a days activity, but with little snow or ice and a strong need for an adventure going into the holidays, I thought that a hike of this magnitude would fit the bill. We woke at 3:30 and shut the car doors at the Appalachia parking lot at 4:20. My idea was to start early, both to get a sunrise from a summit, and so that we would minimize hiking in the dark at the end of the day when tired.
We got to Madison hut, 4 miles up Valley Way, in a little under two hours. We dropped out packs and scrambled the short way to the peak of Madison. From here we could see glimpses of sunlight over the low lying cloud bank. It became just bright enough that we were were aware of the monstrous presence of Mt Adams behind us. We grabbed packs and started scrambling up Adams. For some reason i felt like I was sucking wind, and this was the hardest stretch for me. We made it to the summit in perfect time for a spectacular sunrise.
Generally, folks start the Press-Traverse in the north. here, in rapid succession you have the summit of Madison, Adams, Jefferson, and finally Washington. By the time you summit the biggest of the rock piles you have most all of the 8,800′ of elevation gain out of the way, and just have to tag a few more minor bumps on the way out. The northern half is also by far the most scenic with incredible views of the major summits, Great Gulf, Kings Ravine, Castle Ravine and more.
All in all we did just shy of 22 miles in about 11.5 hours. We summited Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Monroe, Pierce and Jackson, accidentally missing the cut off for Eisenhower in the fog. Ironically, since I spent 25 days in the presidential last winter alone, Mt Washington was the only one I had summited before! The best part about the trip couldn't be described in numbers or names, but only conveyed in photos. The sun rise, exceptional undercast and contrasting blue bird skies above made for the most gorgeous day I've had in the mountains.
Panorama of the traverse from Monroe. Washington to the right, and the bump of Eisenhower to the left.
My next real winter adventures didn't come until the last week or so. My first day on ice was a bitterly cold one with friend and long time partner Alexa. We went for linking a slew of pitches on the East face of Mt Willard, which coincidently is where i took her for her first ice climb years ago. We had to bushwhack around the crowded lower tier to get up high, and then ended up doing The east Slabs, upper Hitchcock and the Cleft before rappelling back down and doing Elephants head gully on the way out. The next morning I got to climb at Echo with Spencer, and then had one more morning on Ace of Spades with Alex. All in all I'm way behind on past ice climbing seasons and ready for the climbing to pick up!
Alexa leading the upper hitchcock gully..
This entry was posted in Guide Days and tagged Ace of Spades, Alexa Siegel, Alpenglow, Erik Thatcher, Ice Climb NH, Mooney Mountain Guides, Mountaineering, Mt Adams, Mt Jefferson, Mt Washington, New Hampshire Ice Climbing, Presidential Traverse, White Mountains on January 13, 2016 by ethatcher89.


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Day 120: William and the Prize Pig
William was aware when his father promised to take him to the pantomime for a Christmas treat that he would have to tread very carefully between the promise and its fulfilment if he wished the fulfilment to materialise.
"If I was you," said Douglas earnestly, "I'd jus' do nothin' between now and then 'cept eat at meal times an' go to bed at night."
Number: 10.10
Published: 1929 (1928 in magazine form)
Book: William
Synopsis: The Outlaws ride a prize pig, and so need to blackmail its owner.
In many ways this is a completely classic William story. It has all the key features: William, with no ill intent, absently gets himself into a situation in which he causes chaos, and tries to get out of it by doing an act of public service which is, it turns out, based on a misunderstanding, but miraculously gets out of it anyway.
To put some flesh on the bones of that outline: the Outlaws go to look at Eglantine, a local pig well-known for being repulsively/ prize-winningly fat. For the Outlaws, it is but a short step from looking at Eglantine to riding Eglantine "as if she was an elephant".
The life of quiet virtue that he had led for nearly a day was getting on William's nerves.
When Eglantine's enraged owner vows to complain to William's father, it is clear that desperate measures are necessary: "We'll find out somethin' he's done wrong in his past an' hold it over him that if he goes an' tells about the pig we'll set the police on him."
They don't consider it necessary actually to discover any facts, but instead write Eglantine's owner, Mr Ballater, a generic note reading: "All is nown fle."
But then things all get rather confusing when they decide to 'return' to the Vicar a teapot which they are convinced was stolen by Mr Ballater. And, astonishingly, in the process of extricating themselves from the situation they actually manage to catch a real thief.
So all in all, a typical day for William!
Outlaws and District Times
Day 119: The Sentimental Widow
Mrs Roundway looked at William. There was nothing romantic about William, nothing remotely suggestive of Cupid in William's appearance. There was even something about William's expression that would have chilled sentiment at its very fount.
"No, love," she said simply, "I'm sure that no one would propose to anyone with you about."
Number: 10.9
Published: 1929 (same year in magazine form)
Synopsis: William strives to save an elderly heiress from a gold-digger.
The narrator commences this story by remarking that William has very few adult friends – I'm not so sure this is true, but in any event Mrs Roundway is definitely one of them. She has spent his whole life feeding him boy-shaped cookies, so when she has a problem of the heart, William is only too keen to help out.
Her problem is that her rich, elderly sister Maggie has just lost her husband and moved back from Australia. Her two suitors from their youth immediately start ramping up again. One, a handsome golden-haired man, is Maggie's favourite but, Mrs Roundway is firmly convinced, a gold-digger; the other is a simple country gentleman who genuinely loves her.
"I once heard of a man who climbed up a church steeple when he was a boy an' couldn't get down an' had to stay there till he was old."
William's assistance takes the form of dogging Maggie and the golden-haired suitor wherever they go, aiming with his demeanour to put him off from proposing.
This story would be relatively simplistic and unentertaining were it not for William's 'romantic' conversational overtures as he accompanied the couple of country walks: these included, "I heard of a man once that had seven fingers on each hand," "I once heard of a man what ate five chickens one after the other straight off for dinner" and more.
Day 118: The Outlaws Fetch the Holly
"Pirates," suggested Ginger.
"Robbers," suggested Douglas.
"Smugglers," suggested Henry.
William shook his head. "We've played them so often," he said. "Let's think of somethin' quite diff'rent. I know!" His
freckled face lit up with inspiration. "
I know… Arabs!"
"What?" said the Outlaws.
"Arabs!" said William excitedly.
"Arab chiefs fightin' each other in the desert with camels an' things."
Published: 1929 (1928 in magazine form, originally titled Fetching the Holly)
Synopsis: The Outlaws procrastinate an errand for the Vicar's wife.
The Vicar's wife, who clearly has a total inability to learn from experience, arms the Outlaws with a treasured wheelbarrow and sends them out to collect holly with which she can decorate the Vicarage for Christmas.
The Outlaws instead decide to use the wheelbarrow as a camel in their game of Arabs.
"Mells' Wood's borin'," objected Ginger. "No one minds you goin' there. It isn't even a trespass
wood."
"Crown Wood's better," suggested William.
Crown Wood had the allurement of (almost) impenetrable barbed wire barriers, frequent notice boards that warned trespassers of prosecution, and a ferocious keeper armed with a gun and a dog that, the Outlaws firmly believed, would rend them limb from limb if ever he caught them.
It so happens that the woods in which they are trespassing happen to be owned by a highly eccentric professor who, seeing William – blacked up and dressed in flowing robes – fall from the sky (drop out of a tree), naturally assumes him to be a visitor from Mars and welcomes him into his home.
William is happy to play the character of a visitor from Mars ("Flam gobba manxy pop gebboo"), at least until his father arrives looking for him. The professor introduces the Martian visitor to Mr Brown.
Astonishingly, William (just about) gets away with this. But he still has to face up to the Vicar's wife and explain the absence of any holly…
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My sister and I went to visit our aunt and uncle in Ottawa a few weeks ago, so I went on a little adventure to bring them a nice hostess gift. My father's side of the family enjoys good food, so I was looking to bring them a few tasty treats. One of the things I ended up giving them was a small package of lavender shortbread cookies. We had them with tea during our stay and they were fantastic — buttery, sweet, and floral.
Of course, when I find a recipe that I like, you can bet that I'm going to try to recreate it in my own kitchen. I approached these cookies in similar fashion to the way I make my tea-infused shortbread cookies (see recipes here and here). That is, I "steeped" the lavender in the melted butter before incorporating the rest of the dough ingredients. I wanted to make sure the lavender flavour would come out through the cookie base, which is akin to a sugar cookie.
This might be the best cake ever invented. It is crumbly and moist and absolutely scrumptious! The coffee icing enhances the hazelnut flavour of the cake, and vice versa. The combination is truly one made in heaven!
My mom baked me this cake as a welcome home greeting over my holiday break. My family demolished it within a day, but not before I snapped a hasty picture of it — isn't its heart shape just adorable?
Tiiiiis the season to bake cookies, fa la la la laaaaaa la la la LA!
Gingerbread makes me feel like Christmas has truly arrived. I'm a huge sucker for gingerbread cake (it was my birthday cake this year!) but I don't think anything beats a nice, warm, crispy and chewy gingerbread cookie with a mug of tea.


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Tasting Tomorrow: Les Marchands' Wine Futures Experience Continues Online
(published in the Santa Barbara News-Press on 4/24/14)
I have tasted the future of Santa Barbara wine, and the future tastes good.
This past Saturday's Santa Barbara County Wine Futures Tasting at Les Marchands was a buzzing outdoor fete that liaised ready-to-buy-now consumers with yet-to-be-released wines. It was, above all, a lesson on how to taste wines young; guests sipped barrel samples from Santa Barbara's 2012 and 2013 vintages, mainly, while discussing with the women and men who made them how their wines are likely to evolve. It was also win-win retailing; consumers enjoyed 20% savings while winemakers secured cash flow many months before their wines hit store shelves.
If you missed it, not to worry. The owners at the popular Funk Zone wine bar and shop are making the catalog available for purchase through the end of May. "The online campaign is afoot," co-owner and Master Sommelier Brian McClintic tells me. Tasting and discussing the wines in person is a major plus, of course. But if you weren't there, the catalog's detailed notes and anecdotes – the product of numerous visits to vineyards and wineries by McClintic and his business partner, Eric Railsback – are a thorough, entertaining guide. Download it by visiting www.lesmarchandswine.com.
These are my own favorite takeaways.
Stephanie Varner pours Alta Maria and Native9
Alta Maria and Native9: the effervescent Stephanie Varner, manager at Alta Maria's Los Olivos tasting room, poured wines from these two wonderful projects by viticulturalist James Ontiveros and winemaker Paul Wilkins. The 2013 Alta Maria Sauvignon Blanc ($13) is currently being aged in stainless steel and is brilliant and crisp; this awesome value will be bottled in August. The 2013 Native9 Pinot Noir ($48) won't be bottled until 2015 – it's being aged in 30% new French oak barrels for 23 months – but is already a plush wine with rich flavors that never end.
Kunin and The Valley Project: Seth Kunin's 2012 Larner Vineyard Syrah ($32) was one of this tasting's great finds for me; this wonderfully integrated wine (even now) displayed rich aromas, a supple mouth feel and delicious blackberry and blueberry flavors. He also poured a 2011 "Block 19" Chardonnay ($34) from a newly-named effort, The Valley Project; as he poured this layered Los Alamos-sourced wine, he told me, "I bottle early to trap in the terroir, and that makes for good bottle aging."
Winemaker Chuck Carlson
Carlson: This was my first chance to taste a very personal project from Chuck Carlson, the talented guy who recently left Curtis Winery, which he shepherded for 25 years. His Carlson wines are deliciously refined, like his 2013 Blanc "Trois Fleurs" ($19), a refreshing gewürztraminer-based white blend with a tropical nose, bright flavors and dry finish. The 2013 Sebastiano Vineyard Pinot Noir ($33) displays a flowery nose and a mouth feel that shows off both richness and finesse.
Winemaker Dave Potter
Municipal Winemakers and Goodland: Dave Potter just needed two reds to draw a steady crowd. His 2013 Municipal Fox Family Vineyard Grenache ($33) is a juicy, bright, fresh red wine – "Super popping," Potter described it; the balance of fruit and spice is totally on point. The 2012 Happy Canyon Red ($36) is a joint project by four winemakers, including Potter and Jonata's Matt Dees, who brought his "tannin management skills," according to Potter, to help craft a supple, silky, textured wine. Only about 50 cases of each of these wines were made.
Winemaker Drake Whitcraft
Whitcraft and Mes Amis: Drake Whitcraft's hands-off and honest approach to winemaking leads to beautiful wines each year, including the heavyweight 2013 vintage. He poured two pinots side by side: the Pence Vineyard pinot noir ($60), grown in limestone soils just outside Sta. Rita Hills, has a rhubarb nose and luscious texture while the Kick-On Ranch pinot ($45), grown on far sandier earth in Los Alamos, is leaner and racier. Whitcraft also showcased one of the best white wines of the day – a 2013 Alabrino ($21) on the Mes Ami label; this joint project with Jaffurs' Matt Brady, was quintessential sipping on a sunny spring afternoon, with animated fruit flavors and a crisp mouth feel.
Winemaker Joshua Klapper
La Fenetre: The energy was high at Joshua Klapper's table, where the droll winemaker poured a handful of wonderful wines. His 2013 A Coté Rosé ($12) is pink wine at its finest, downright pretty to gaze at and brimming with fresh berry flavors. The 2013 A Coté Pinot Noir ($18) is Klapper's concerted effort to produce "a really well made but inexpensive pinot noir," he told me; minimal oak aging has led to a light, delicate wine with bouncy fruit flavors.
Ojai Vineyard: assistant winemaker Fabien Castel was on hand to showcase one of the afternoon's very best white wines, the 2012 Puerta Del Mar Chardonnay ($28), sourced just west of Sta. Rita Hills, with minerality and vibrancy that makes it an ideal match for sunshine-inspired fare.
Brian McClintic sips as winemaker Blake Sillix pours
Sillix: This was a totally new find for me. Blake Sillix launched his label in 2010, after stints at Beckmen and Tyler wineries, and with a focus on Rhone wines. His approach to the 2012 Sillix Grenache ($32) is totally refreshing: very light, lively mouth feel with rich red fruit flavors and a subtly spicy edge. Sourced from Camp 4 Vineyard, only 75 cases of this wine were made.
Cebada: this very personal project by horticulturalist Sandra Newman includes about 5.5 acres of grapes on her Route 246 property near Lompoc. And in 2013, she made the wines, herself. The 2013 Estate Chardonnay ($39), which will be bottle sometime after August "depending on how it's drinking," she mentions, features brilliant acid and a mouth feel that is very much alive, as well as a neat peppery edge. Newman also grows blueberries and green tea on her land.
Winemaker Ernst Storm, left
Storm: Ernst Storm's winemaking hinges on the vineyards he sources. "Each site has its own personality" he tells me as he pours, "so you have to find the right vineyard that'll give you the right balance." The 2013 Sauvignon Blanc ($18) is a remarkable value for the way it captures the essence of the Santa Ynez Valley; it sources from four vineyards, stretching from Happy Canyon in the east to Curtis Vineyard to the west and delivers tropical, grassy notes, a delicious pungency and textured succulence that, simply, makes me sad not to have some in my glass right now. The John Sebastiano Vineyard Pinot Noir ($36), which saw whole cluster fermentation, exhibits a rich nose, dark berry flavors and a wonderfully lithe mouth feel; these 175 cases will go fast.
Keep in mind: some of these wines see such small production, they'll only be available for purchase until they sell out. And mark your calendars: Les Marchands' next Futures tasting will take place sometime after tax season, 2015. See you there!
Sampling the Future at Les Marchands
Santa Barbara's newest wine event of record is being hosted by a popular newcomer that, in a few short months, has already become a mainstay.
Les Marchands Wine Bar & Merchant is transforming its Funk Zone parking lot into the ultimate wine tasting room this Saturday, April 19th, as it hosts the Santa Barbara County Wine Futures Tasting. The event will be a boon for wine consumers, who'll be able to taste dozens of wines well before retail release, and to buy them in advance at a 20% discount. The marquee winemakers – more than 40 of Santa Barbara's most buzzed-about producers – will benefit by securing cash flow early and expanding their clientele. (Tickets are $70 in advance and $80 at the door; buy them here.)
"It's fun because people don't usually get the opportunity to taste barrel samples and young wines like this," says winemaker Dave Potter, 35. "It's fun for me to talk to them about where the wine is at this particular stage, and where it's going."
Mr. Potter will be pouring from his two labels, Municipal Winemakers and the collaborative project, Goodland Wines. Samples of a Los Olivos-grown Grenache and a just-bottled cabernet sauvignon from Grassini Vineyards in Happy Canyon will show attendees that the extra warmth of the 2012 and 2013 grape vintages in Santa Barbara made for "luscious wines that are alive, have nice fruit and are pretty expressive right out of the gate," he says.
Brian McClintic, a Master Sommelier who co-owns Les Marchands, agrees. "The cabernets [in 2012 and 2013] got ripe and they have good flavors," he says, "and fruit overall was far more delineated." Mr. McClintock and his business partner, Eric Railsback, spent months visiting winemakers individually to taste and select the wines featured in Saturday's tasting. Among the other labels to be featured are Jaffurs, Kunin, Tatomer, Storm and Star Lane.
Of special note: the 2010 Cent'Anni, a limited edition reserve sangiovese made by Doug Margerum and sourced from Jamie and Julie Kellner's Los Olivos ranch that much of the Santa Barbara wine drinking community has been awaiting for years. It will be poured for the public for the very first time.
And Mr. McClintic is especially excited about showcasing the latest in Santa Barbara County syrah, a wine he says "is not underrated, just underestimated."
(For the complete catalog of wines to be poured, click here.)
The Les Marchands wine bar
This weekend's event is, really, just the latest feather in the caps of Les Marchands' two esteemed owners. They hosted their first futures tasting in August, when their wine bar and wine retail shop opened its doors. It's been an unexpected thrill ride ever since.
"We totally underestimated how busy we'd be," admits Mr. McClintic, 38. "Our business is already 300% above what we'd planned and, on a busy night, we'll need to put four or five guys pouring behind the bar."
The success of Les Marchands has been rooted on several factors, not the least of which is its location. In short order, after all, Santa Barbara's Funk Zone has exploded into the region's hottest culinary destinations, marked by a bevy of eclectic tasting rooms – from wine to beer to spirits – and a growing number, even still, of places to enjoy a good meal. The beach and State Street, both just a couple of blocks away, continue to feed the area with foot traffic.
And Mr. McClintic's own celebrity has been a benefit, too. The urbane sommelier was one of the stars of SOMM, the 2012 documentary that followed four wine experts as they prepared for the arduous Master Sommelier exam, well known as having one of the lowest pass rates in the world. Mr. McClintic passed and, even today, "three of four people a day come up to me and mention the film," he says.
But the Les Marchands formula for success really stems from the way that its owners treat it as the hub for various wine-fueled enterprises.
The Les Marchands wine shop
The wine bar experience, for one, revolves around a regularly changing list of wines by the glass. The featured wines are an assorted cross-section of brands from around the world; recently, the reds lineup featured a merlot from France, a barbera from Italy and a pinot noir from Oregon side by side. A regular favorite is the Vallin label, a Rhone-focused project out of the Santa Ynez Valley by Mr. McClintic, Mr. Railsback and winemaker phenom Justin Willett.
The food – a small but seasonally-driven and share-friendly selection of cheeses, cured meats, salads, sandwiches and fresh entrees – is crafted onsite daily. "On Mondays, when The Lark next door is closed, this place is packed, and that's a really good thing to see," says Mr. McClintic.
At the adjacent wine store, the selection is unique. The original lineup, when Les Marchands opened, was a 50-50 mix of local and international bottles. "But then our regulars called it," says Mr. McClintic, "especially that 25-to-44 demographic, mostly locals, who told us they wanted to buy Old World wines." Today, the shop is heavier-handed on special European labels – increasingly popular whites like gruner-veltliner from Austria and Riesling from Germany, for example.
Les Marchands also features six wine clubs – regular shipments of varying price points aimed to satisfy a variety of wine tastes. The Daily Drinkers Club features two bottles in a monthly $49 shipment, for example, while the Stelvio Monument Club delivers a 12-bottle case for $599, four times a year. Membership signups can be done in-store or online.
Cozy nook, barside, at Les Marchands
Les Marchands also offers at-home wine classes, wine list creation for restaurants and private cellar management, acquisition, liquidation and appraisals.
And then there are the now-annual futures tastings.
"It's what Eric and I wanted to do when we opened," says Mr. McClintic. "We wanted to sell everything we love to drink and to be ambassadors to the wine world."
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Don't Hold the Sauce: Georgia's Smokehouse Bottles Its Flavors
The newest thing on the Georgia's Smokehouse to-go menu: its sauces.
As part of its one-year anniversary celebration, the popular food truck enterprise just launched a line of bottled sauces – a tomato-and-vinegar based Sweet BBQ and a Spicy BBQ, made with dried chilies. "We've been getting a lot of requests for them," admits owner and Chef Brian Parks. "So these are perfect for people who can't get to our trucks or who are just craving barbecue."
The launch also includes an herbs-and-spices Dry Rub.
Chef Parks' proprietary sauces and rubs have been part and parcel to the success of Georgia's Smokehouse ever since he and his wife, Alissa, turned the engine on their first food truck in March, 2013. A second truck hit local streets – from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara to Santa Ynez – six months later. Today, the business employs seven people and runs a steady schedule of private parties, special events and weekly scheduled stops.
Chef Parks decided to bottle his flavors a few weeks ago, when the owners of Santa Barbara Gift Baskets approached him, looking for unique adds to their locally-themed custom gifts. The sauces and rub can now be found at a handful of local retail stores, too, including Isabelle Gourmet Foods, Tri-County Produce and Lane Farms. The two Georgia's Smokehouse food trucks feature them for $7.99.
And the chef's recommendations? The Sweet BBQ, which the trucks feature on the popular Pulled Pork Sammies, "has a real high acid level, so it cuts through fattier foods really well," says Chef Parks. He uses the Spicy BBQ on leaner items, like "chicken and, on a limited basis, fish."
Check out Georgia's Smokehouse on social media – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – and on its website, www.georgias-smokehouse.com.
Santa Barbara Vintners' Reinvented Spring Weekend Begins Today
Published in the Santa Barbara News-Press on 4/10/14
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Vintners Fest 2012 (credit: Jeremy Ball)
Santa Barbara's wine growers have been putting on a spring fete for decades. But this year, they took it up several notches, having hired a third party event planner for the very first time to help design a wine affair to remember. Welcome to Spring Weekend 2014, produced by Santa Barbara Vintners and Santa Barbara-based Relevé Unlimited.
The feast – which has effectively transformed an afternoon tasting into a four-day extravaganza – begins today, with a golf tournament at Sandpiper Golf Course featuring several media and sports celebrities and Sideways author Rex Pickett. The action doesn't stop until Sunday afternoon.
The production has been ambitious from the beginning, creating multiple big-ticket items aimed at more than doubling weekend attendance to some 5000 wine aficionados. Some of the originally scheduled events have had to be pulled – a comprehensive education seminar, a barrel toasting seminar and a high-end vineyard dinner experience.
But a slew of other wonderful opportunities to expand the palate remain, and the following five should be on every wine fan's radar.
Cabernet Seminar: Friday, April 11th, 11:30am-3pm
Brander Vineyard in Los Olivos will shed the spotlight on the grape variety many dub the King of Grapes. This seminar was a late add to the weekend roster and features two Masters of Wine – Peter Koff and Patrick Farrell – leading a powerhouse cabernet sauvignon tasting and discussion. Attendees will taste wines blindly and will get a chance to taste premier renditions of this grape from around the world, including classic growing regions like Bordeaux, Tuscany, Australia, Chile and California. Local cabs, including Brander's own award-winning bottlings, will also be featured. Chef David Cecchini of Solvang's Cecco Ristorante will cater a Mediterranean-style lunch. Seating is extremely limited – 22 people. Contact Fred Brander: fred@brander.com and (805) 688-2455. Tickets are $125.
Vineyard Hikes: Friday, April 11th, 1-3pm
Several of the area's most treasured grape growing sites will offer the public a rare treat: winemaker-led hikes through the vines. Steve Beckmen, for example, will lead a moderately strenuous trek through the acclaimed Purisima Mountain Vineyard, the first and largest biodynamically farmed vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley, located inside the brand new Ballard Canyon AVA. Over in Sta. Rita Hills, vintner John Hilliard will introduce folks to his gorgeous, 21-acre Hilliard Bruce Vineyard, producer of stellar pinot noir and chardonnay. And vintner Kevin Gleason will head an easy-to-moderate excursion through Refugio Ranch in Santa Ynez, with a focus on syrah. All three hikes will feature wine tasting and myriad food stations. Tickets cost $80.
90+ Wine and Dine Event: Friday, April 11th, 6-9pm
This is the event that brings the vineyard to the beach and pops the cork on the very best. Set in the beautiful ocean view Plaza at the Fess Parker Doubletree Resort, this event focuses on wines that have been crowned with ratings of 90 points and above, as determined by respected critics like Robert Parker and Stephen Tanzer and popular publications like Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast. It's a unique chance to taste what the experts say are truly remarkable representations of Santa Barbara winemaking. What's more, the men and women who made them will be doing the pouring themselves, from labels like Blair Fox Cellars, Fess Parker Winery, Larner Vineyard and Winery, Margerum Wine Co., Au Bon Climat, Tercero, Pali Wine Co., Zotovich Cellars and Longoria Wines. Plenty of great food from the likes of Global Gardens and Bacara's Miro Restaurant, as well, along with live entertainment and free parking. Tickets are $150 (or $175 with a pre-event sparkling wine reception).
Fiddlehead Vineyard
Vintner John Dragonette at Volgenzang Vineyard
Grand Tasting, Saturday April 12th, 1-4pm
Winemaker Ryan Carr at Vintners Festival 2013 (credit: Bob Dickey)
This is the weekend's signature event, of course – one of only two times in the entire year that all 120-or-so members of Santa Barbara Vintners pour in unison. It's an exclusive chance to taste new releases and special bottles while mingling and chatting with the winemakers, themselves. The setting, River View Park in Buellton, isn't the only thing that's new this year; the event will also feature an art walk, a farmers' market pavilion, barrel cooper demonstrations and live cooking demos by some of the area's best chefs. The biggest consumer boon of all (and a major plus for wineries) will be the chance to buy wine on the spot – another first for this event. Volunteers armed with iPads will take virtual orders throughout the afternoon, which will then be packaged at an onsite warehouse and even loaded into cars as visitors leave.
Tickets are $95 (or $125 for admission an hour earlier, at noon). There's also a Connoisseurs Club option for $200, giving you access to a posh living room setting where exclusive wines will be poured and guests will get special access to winemakers. Don't want to drive? Roundtrip bus rides from Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and Solvang are available for $25. And designated drivers pay just $25.
Farm-to-Table Picnic and Concert, Sunday April 13th, 11am-2pm
The weekend's official (and rousing) closer will feature a live concert by Jamestown Revival, the much buzzed-about band that's appeared on shows like Conan O'Brian and Last Call with Carson Daily with its high-energy mix of folk, Americana, Texas twang and back-porch rock-&-roll. Set on the sweeping grounds of Fess Parker Winery off Foxen Canyon Road, guests receive a farm-to-table style picnic lunch and tastings of wines by Fess Parker, Fiddlehead and Fontes-&-Phillips, among others. Grab a seat at a communal picnic table or bring your own blanket to stretch across the lawn. Tickets cost $95 and benefit Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People.
And there's more, from open houses to library tastings to winemaker dinners. For tickets and more information, check out www.sbvintnersweekend.com and join the social media conversation at #sbvintnersfest.
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Firstly, I must say Alhamdulillah this pregnancy has been pretty much smooth-sailing and stress-free most of the time compared to my first full-term pregnancy experience.
I did not suffer from swollen and achy feet, nor constant backache. I'm also mercifully spared from the internal heat and eczema that made me most of the time miserable and irritable during my first pregnancy. I still remember how I often broke down in tears because my feet and tummy were so itchy when I'm hot and back then, we didn't even have an aircond to relieve my heat! The eczema problem was equally distressing because the cream and soap the hospital prescribed did little to help.
Except for the episode of non-stop vomiting during my first trimester that had me admitted in the hospital due to dehydration, my 2nd trimester and half of my third trimester has been trouble-free.
So I was not expecting to be admitted to the hospital again before delivery until I had had the OGTT. A week later, my doctor called to inform that my result was not so good - my reading was 11.1 mmol/L. Okaay.... Since I already expected that my blood sugar will be on the high scale, I did not really take serious notice when she asked me to see the dietician. Furthermore, I was on MC, I had a sick little girl to look after and also I had to work even during public holiday this week. So, making an appointment with a dietician who is going to ask me to eat brown rice instead of white rice (I'd seen dietician during my first pregnancy) was definitely not one of my top priorities.
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Teachers to call off agitation for smooth conduct of exams in Odisha!
Bhubaneswar: Amidst agitation by the school and college teachers to meet their various demands, the state government is still hopeful that the teachers will call off their strike for smooth conduct of examinations.
During discussion with Teachers and Employees United Forum at a meeting attended by Higher Education Minister Ananta Das, School & Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra here today, the government urged the teachers for smooth conduct of matric and plus two examinations in the state.
The government has urged to cooperate in smooth conduct of examinations. But the final decision will be taken in steering committee meeting, said Golak Nayak, the convener of School College Teachers and Employees United Forum.
"We are hopeful that the teachers will withdraw their agitation or else the government will go for alternative measures for smooth conduct of matric and plus two examinations in the state," said Higher Education Minister Ananta Das after meeting with School College Teachers and Employees United Forum.
"As the teachers have equal responsibility towards the students and their guardians, we urged them to conduct the examinations. We got positive sign during discussion, which is in progress. I think the teachers will call off their agitation after discussion at steering committee," he said.
We cannot say about their intention. The government is aware of their demands. However, nothing can be done right now as the model code of conduct is already in force. We discussed for smooth conduct of the examination for the students' future. The government will think of alternative if they do not withdraw their strike, Das added.


Having already spent some time this week discussing Thatcher and the EU, there is a temptation to revisit the topic as part of the on-going efforts by (seemingly) every political commentator in the country to appropriate her memory. However, such obsessing with the past is a big part of the British dysfunction when it comes to European integration, so instead I will try to look forward.
In the midst of other events, one story that nearly slipped under the radar was the announcement between the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy that they will now engage in more automatic sharing of banking data, in order to combat tax evasion. This (not so coincidentally) comes in the same week that other member states with more secretive banking sectors have finally signalled their willingness to open up on disclosure.
This is a good example of soft coordination. The genesis of the idea appears to lie in the US's FATCA model and an emerging international consensus on the need to capture increasing volumes of tax evasion/avoidance.
What is particularly striking is the clear intention that this is meant to serve as a potential model for more formal EU regulation in a later phase. Even though it sits outside the enhanced cooperation provisions and is described as a pilot, the membership of the group clearly points towards this being rolled out much more widely. In so doing, it highlights the flexibility of the system, the primacy of member states and – importantly – the constructive contribution that the UK can make.
This last point is rather telling, since that contribution is not being made very much of. Notwithstanding Thatcher's upheaval of the news agenda this week, the Treasury website has limited itself to a press release – quoting a junior minister, rather than the Chancellor – while that has only been picked up by a couple of news outlets.
Just as David Cameron's EU tour has fallen victim to the new schedule – notwithstanding his impending meeting with Angela Merkel – so the lack of willingness of either the government or the media to make much of a constructive advance with European partners is telling, especially when we consider that even the usual sceptic suspects have not made a fuss about it.
As has been argued repeatedly here, too often does the normative agenda overshadow the practical benefits of integration: without a step back from the former, the latter will become ever harder to achieve, which is to no-one's benefit. If we look at the UK's relations with the Union, there are many examples of a real benefit resulting, on both sides. Some calm reflection on this might do everyone some good.
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Kavanaugh's accuser agrees to testify
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>> Brett Kavanaugh's accuser on Saturday agreed to testify before the Senate. Now her team and the judiciary committee must hammer out how. Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford reportedly wanted Kavanaugh to appear separately first and she wanted to be questioned by Senators, not outside council. The Committee had given Ford a Saturday deadline to decide if she would testify.
Republicans began to bemoan the delays with Chairman Chuck Grassley tweeting late Friday quote, five times now we have granted extension to Dr Ford.>> We have to fight for him.>> And the president appeared to be losing patience as well, tweeting Friday that Kavanaugh is, quote, under assault by radical left wing politicians and questioning Doctor Ford's story.
Quote, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed. That tweet sparking a backlash.>> I thought that the president's tweet was completely inappropriate and wrong.>> One of the undecided votes in the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine, said she was appalled by it.
>> But we know that allegations of sexual assault are one of the most unreported crimes that exist.>> Meanwhile on Friday, women supporting the nominee praised his character, and cast doubts on the allegations against him.>> The Brett Kavanaugh I know dated my sister and some of my closest friends during high school and college.
All of whom said that he treated them with nothing but total respect and decency.>> Ford is accusing the Supreme Court nominee of sexually assaulting her over 30 years ago, claiming he pinned her to a bed, groped her, and tried to cover her mouth when she screamed. Kavanaugh forcefully denies the allegations, calling them, quote, completely false.
Ford and Democrats have demanded the FBI investigate but Republicans rejected the idea.>> Judge Kavanaugh has not asked to have the FBI review these claims. Is that the reaction of an innocent person? It is not.>> Despite the growing scandal, majority leader Mitch McConnell on Friday said the Senate is plowing ahead.
>> Judge Kavanaugh will be on the United States Supreme Court.>>


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The Knog PWR is small but packs a powerful punch.
Knog's PWR Commuter is a 450-lumen bicycle light with a compact power bank. It is fully programmable though Knog's new app and ready to hit the road right out of the box.
Knog is forward thinking, typically offering cool products. Its new PWR line featuring the Commuter and Rider lights are no exception. The PWR Commuter tested here is a 450-lumen bike light that also can work as a power bank to charge other devices such as your smartphone or GPS head unit.
Both PWR lights are programmable via Knog's Mode Maker App to dial in your brightness and run time. The difference between the Rider and Commuter lights is capacity, headlight, and charging ability. The Commuter's output is an elliptical beam for broad, bright road coverage, and it has a run time of 40 minutes at full power and an 850mAh power bank. The Rider has a 2-hour run time at full strength and a 2200mAh power bank. Both lights have four bright battery indicator LEDs to alert the user to how much battery life remains in real time.
The Knog PWR Commuter light has a wide beam pattern for maximum visibility.
Both the Commuter and Rider mount using a thick rubber strap that attaches to the base of the light with micro indexing for small horizontal movement. The opposite beam side has an end cap that hides a micro-USB charging portal.
Now you can charge your phone at a coffee stop thanks to Knog's portable power pack.
Installation and use are routine for those who are familiar with rechargeable bike lights. A rubber strap attaches securely to handlebars or light attachment. I encountered zero slippage with the PWR Commuter while riding singletrack on my cross bike. A single click operates the on/off function and cycles through beam settings.
I liked the placement of the button, but found it hard to work with thicker gloves during cold weather rides. On road rides, 450 lumens is an adequate amount of light to be noticed by traffic and also see on unlit roads. The Knog PWR Commuter comes with six pre-programmed light patterns, three of which are sustained and three that pulse. All are applicable in real life riding. But I would like to see an adjustable beam and head like the PWR Rider. That said, the light disbursement is excellent for commuting and city riding.
Styling is slick and clean, with a black alloy body and red button to indicate charging ports. This understated styling is new for Knog, and it looks great on any bike.
You always know where you stand on battery life.
Bottom line, if you're looking for a light that will impress your tech friends and make sure you have a topped off cell phone, the Knog's PWR line is worth a look. The PWR Commuter is practical and priced well. Though a power bank is new territory for bicycle lights, this is a handy tool, especially for forgetful phone chargers like myself.
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The former lead guitarist for Europe, John Norum's career had blossomed since his departure in 1986. With two well received solo albums under his belt, 'Another Destination' was released in 1995. Again, like the previous albums, it was a dream team of...
Fool for the City (1975) (Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Of all the British bands that were big in America during the 1970's, Foghat were, without doubt, the least known in the UK. By the time, 'Fool for the City', their fifth album came out, the band were primed and ready to join the superstar league. They...
Live (1977) (Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
The seventies were a golden time for rock music. It was a period where musically anything and everything was given free rein. 'Foghat Live' was a defining moment for both the band and their audience. Its quality and contents were undeniable and the fact...
Dangerous Attraction (1987) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Sinful (1979) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
After four albums there was a strong feeling that Angel were building towards some sort of creative crescendo. The focus on, 'Sinful' was now on pure pop metal, the band crafting exquisite melodic hard rock with riffs and hooks to die for.
Wiggy Bits
Wiggy Bits (1976) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
The rather oddly named Wiggy Bits were formed from a long line of well-known New York east coast musicians during the early seventies. The band's lone album is a fine example of strong yet melodic mid-seventies hard rock with the emphasis on edgy...
Live Without a Net (1980) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
With five studio albums behind them there was no shortage of material from which to compile this album. Recording two concerts in California during 1978, the band had a red hot selection of tracks that incorporated such nuggets as, 'Tower' and 'Feelin'...
White Hot (1978) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Fourth studio album by the band who were supposed to reflect the less intimidating qualities of their great adversaries, KISS. KISS was being sold as bad boys but Angel, like the name suggests, were knights in white satin. Their complex, prog-infused,...
Brownsville Station
Air Special (1978) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Out of This World (1988) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
The Final Countdown (1986) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Europe was formed during the late '70s and after two well received albums in their native Sweden, they were then taken under the wing of CBS in New York who encouraged the band to pull out all the stops for their third album. On release, 'The Final...
Goddo
An Act of Goddo (1979) (Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Goddo were a Canadian power trio whose musical growth was spectacular, chomping their way through crunchy blues-based rock tracks and introducing some highly refined twists and turns such as horns and even an orchestra. 'An Act of Goddo' is the...
Fastway
Trick Or Treat (1986) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Fastway roared out of the starting block in 1983 with all cylinders firing. Despite the band's fast acceptance and good fortune with their debut album, subsequent albums failed to capitalise on that success. 'Trick Or Treat' was the band's fourth album...
Max Webster
A Million Vacations (1979) (Collector's Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Who Cares (1978) (Bonus Tracks Remastered Album) [CD] [CD / Remastered Album]
Whilst their debut album made a firm case for pummelling hard rock, 'Who Cares' lays down the law in similar fashion but also pushes the envelope, introducing more complex arrangements and acoustic parts.


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Early education among greatest investments - Speech, House of Representatives
Posted by Andrew Leigh 56sc on August 24, 2020
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 24 AUGUST 2020
Nothing I have done in my life has been as rewarding as being the dad to three little boys. Spending time with them, reading and playing games, is one of my true delights in life. But it's hard too. That's just dealing with one or two or sometimes all three of them. When I look at early educators and the work that they do every day, I do so with huge respect. This isn't babysitting; this is education.
As we learn more and more about neuroscience, we get the sense as to the importance of quality early education. That's why when Labor was last in government we pursued both a quantity and a quality agenda, ensuring that early childhood education was more broadly accessible but also raising the standards and the qualifications and ensuring that the ratios were right. That's vital not just for now but also in the future.
Investing in early education is a productivity measure. We know from studies such as the Early Training Project, Perry Preschool and the Abecedarian Project how much of an impact you can have on lives if you invest early on. A study in Heidelberg West, a new Australian randomised trial, is adding to that evidence base as well by randomising disadvantaged children into high-quality early education and comparing them with a similar control group to look at the impact. We need to learn more about the impact of high-quality early education, because it is potentially one of the greatest investment that can be made.
As various studies of the Perry Preschool experiment have shown, when you're working with children who might otherwise end up committing a felony—as the typical child in the control group in Perry Preschool did—then you can get a return something in the order of seven to one for every dollar that you're putting into early learning. So we need a strong focus on early education, not only because it is absolutely vital in improving workforce participation, particularly for women, but also because it's critical for kids.
We know that raising the accessibility of early education is vital for improving the labour force participation of parents but we also know that we need to do a lot on the quality agenda. That's why Labor has been so concerned at the haphazard way in which the government has handled the early childhood sector. On 20 July the government announced that JobKeeper would be withdrawn from the early childhood sector. This is the only sector in Australia now that is specifically banned from receiving JobKeeper, alongside universities, which, through a variety of subterfuge measures, have also been kept out of receiving JobKeeper subsidies. Enormous pressure has been placed on early learning centres. As the shadow minister, Amanda Rishworth, has pointed out, this has been done too hastily and it has caused significant problems right across the sector. So we're calling on the government to put in place a more consistent approach, with more consistent supports for early learning centres.
This bill puts in place a number of sensible measures which improve assistance to vulnerable and disadvantaged families. Labor supports those measures. But we do so in an environment in which we're aware that the government was claiming that there would be free child care, without funding free child care. We saw, for many centres, their inability to access JobKeeper prior to 20 July because they used casual workers who'd been employed for less than 12 months and were therefore ruled out, due to this arbitrary distinction that the government made. As the member for Kingston has said, this is 'a broken promise by this government, a broken promise to families right across Australia'.
In my electorate of Fenner I've been in touch with a range of early learning educators who are frustrated at the situation that they've been placed in this year. One educator wrote to me, prior to 20 July:
… approximately 30% of our employees will not qualify for the job keeper incentive because they have not been with the service for 12 months.
She also said that they were frustrated at the lack of access to protective clothing and equipment. She said:
This tells us that the Australian Government as well as families don't care about us.
I am a grandmother myself and I have not had any contact with my own children or grandchildren for weeks and yet I am expected to come to work every day and hold other children and work in close spaces with co-workers. Early Childhood environments are, in nature, breeding grounds for germs and so we are attuned to the effective prevention of the spread of infectious illnesses. But we are being taken for granted and left without any acknowledgement of what we actually do each day and how our jobs are placing us at risk.
Another early learning educator wrote:
… I'm writing to ask for your support of early childhood educators who have been defined as essential workers recently with lowest pay & highest risk. Other essential workers such as nurses, doctors, retailers etc are allowed to wear masks & protective clothing but we are not. We cannot practice social distancing, so putting ourselves & our families at very high risk of being infected by Coronavirus.
Each and every day we are putting ourselves and our families at risk just for the government with no personal protective gear or anything, we even find it hard to get simple things like gloves, soap and hand sanitizer.
She went on to say:
All I ask is think about us, recognise us as a profession and not as baby sitters, lower-class s--t kickers, because this is how we feel. I have worked in the sector for 5 years and have gotten many sicknesses like gastro, colds, cases of flu and more from the children. We don't receive any support for the hard times we go through. This needs to change before it's too late and the economy begins to fail even more because all childcare centres close and families can't go to work. Just remember this lies in the government's hands so we ask please support us as educators.
Labor will continue to be a strong voice for early learning educators and for the families that depend on them. Labor recognises the crucial role that early education plays in our community and will continue to maintain the pressure on this government to do right by the early learning sector in the course of this pandemic.
Authorised by Paul Erickson, ALP, Canberra.


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More Money for Primary Seat Belt Law? Utah Says "No".
Utah Legislators have "missed out" on $1.2 million from the feds for not having a "Primary Seat Belt Law".
In Utah one can only get cited for not using a seat belt if another infraction is the reason for being pulled over by law enforcement. The feds want Utah to change that law so that Utah can receive additional monies for highway-safety improvements. In other words, the money is conditional.
Utah Legislators feel that imposing a primary seat belt law would be infringing on one's right to think for him/herself.
"Missing out on a million dollars to preserve that right is absolutely appropriate," said Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden.
Statistics show that Utah already has a high compliance rate with wearing seatbelts.
National studies find that about half the people killed in traffic accidents while not wearing seat belts would survive if they buckled up, Hull said. States that adopt laws allowing traffic stops for seat belts reduce traffic fatalities by anywhere from 7 percent to 11 percent, he said.
The lives saved by such a law in Utah could be on the low end because of the state's already-high compliance rate.
While many feel that wearing seatbelts is a matter of common sense, and while the extra million dollars would help with the current budget situation, most legislators are reluctant to even enter a bill for a primary seatbelt law due to the "meddlesome-ness" of many laws already.
Kudos to legislators for not taking the seat belt laws any further. Doing so would cross the line of individual rights.
Posted on February 22, 2009 by dltPosted in UncategorizedTagged citizen rights, constitution, utah legislature, utah politics.


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Home › The deterioration of polymers in audio-visual materials
Why do polymers break down?
Polymer degradation is a feature both of the intrinsic chemical structure of the material itself and of environmental parameters. For a given material, a number of external and environmental factors can influence the rate of degradation. These include:
the effects of oxygen,
the effects of moisture in the atmosphere, leading to hydrolytic breakdown,
heat, leading to thermal degradation,
mechanical stress, leading to loss in tensile properties, for example,
the effects of light,
radiative breakdown,
chemical breakdown due to atmospheric pollutants,
biological breakdown - the growth of fungi, mould etc on the surface of polymer materials,
ultrasonic breakdown.
The action of all those factors upon a particular polymer results in a number of property changes that can be divided into two groups, physical and chemical changes.
Physical changes include a decrease in molecular weight and hence loss in tensile strength for the polymer system, loss of gloss, elongation, distortion, etc.
Chemical changes are those that result in discoloration of the system, production of new groups within the polymer system itself.
The same changes happen in motion picture film, which is essentially composed of a polymeric support. It does not matter whether it is cellulose nitrate, cellulose triacetate, or polyester, and the same is true for magnetic media, and for emulsion containing the silver image and gelatine or a urethane binder and magnetic oxide. In all cases, the binders are polymeric and the support materials are polymeric.
I said earlier that the stability of a given polymer will be dependent upon both the innate structural features and external environmental parameters. The structural features of most polymers are:
the main polymer unit itself, the form in which it's present, its physical form, whether it's present as a film, whether it's present in bulk, or whether it's present as a powder - all these influence stability;
the presence of impurities within the system from manufacturing catalysts, for example metal trace ions that it has picked up from washing procedures;
the presence of incorporated additives, such as plasticizers (which are generally added to polymers to render them flexible), pigments, antistatic agents and flame retardants.
‹ Introduction up What is a polymer? ›
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package ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.provider;

import java.util.*;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import ca.uhn.fhir.context.FhirContext;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.RuntimeResourceDefinition;
import ca.uhn.fhir.context.RuntimeSearchParam;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.dao.DaoConfig;
import ca.uhn.fhir.jpa.dao.IFhirSystemDao;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.composite.MetaDt;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.resource.Bundle;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.resource.Conformance;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.resource.Conformance.Rest;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.resource.Conformance.RestResource;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.resource.Conformance.RestResourceSearchParam;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.valueset.ConditionalDeleteStatusEnum;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.valueset.ResourceTypeEnum;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.dstu2.valueset.SearchParamTypeEnum;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.primitive.BoundCodeDt;
import ca.uhn.fhir.model.primitive.DecimalDt;
import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.RestfulServer;
import ca.uhn.fhir.rest.server.provider.dstu2.ServerConformanceProvider;
import ca.uhn.fhir.util.CoverageIgnore;
import ca.uhn.fhir.util.ExtensionConstants;

public class JpaConformanceProviderDstu2 extends ServerConformanceProvider {

	private volatile Conformance myCachedValue;
	private DaoConfig myDaoConfig;
	private String myImplementationDescription;
	private boolean myIncludeResourceCounts;
	private RestfulServer myRestfulServer;
	private IFhirSystemDao<Bundle, MetaDt> mySystemDao;

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	@CoverageIgnore
	public JpaConformanceProviderDstu2(){
		super();
		super.setCache(false);
		setIncludeResourceCounts(true);
	}

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	public JpaConformanceProviderDstu2(RestfulServer theRestfulServer, IFhirSystemDao<Bundle, MetaDt> theSystemDao, DaoConfig theDaoConfig) {
		super(theRestfulServer);
		myRestfulServer = theRestfulServer;
		mySystemDao = theSystemDao;
		myDaoConfig = theDaoConfig;
		super.setCache(false);
		setIncludeResourceCounts(true);
	}

	@Override
	public Conformance getServerConformance(HttpServletRequest theRequest) {
		Conformance retVal = myCachedValue;

		Map<String, Long> counts = Collections.emptyMap();
		if (myIncludeResourceCounts) {
			counts = mySystemDao.getResourceCounts();
		}

		FhirContext ctx = myRestfulServer.getFhirContext();

		retVal = super.getServerConformance(theRequest);
		for (Rest nextRest : retVal.getRest()) {

			for (RestResource nextResource : nextRest.getResource()) {

				ConditionalDeleteStatusEnum conditionalDelete = nextResource.getConditionalDeleteElement().getValueAsEnum();
				if (conditionalDelete == ConditionalDeleteStatusEnum.MULTIPLE_DELETES_SUPPORTED && myDaoConfig.isAllowMultipleDelete() == false) {
					nextResource.setConditionalDelete(ConditionalDeleteStatusEnum.SINGLE_DELETES_SUPPORTED);
				}

				// Add resource counts
				Long count = counts.get(nextResource.getTypeElement().getValueAsString());
				if (count != null) {
					nextResource.addUndeclaredExtension(false, ExtensionConstants.CONF_RESOURCE_COUNT, new DecimalDt(count));
				}

				// Add chained params
				for (RestResourceSearchParam nextParam : nextResource.getSearchParam()) {
					if (nextParam.getTypeElement().getValueAsEnum() == SearchParamTypeEnum.REFERENCE) {
						List<BoundCodeDt<ResourceTypeEnum>> targets = nextParam.getTarget();
						for (BoundCodeDt<ResourceTypeEnum> next : targets) {
							RuntimeResourceDefinition def = ctx.getResourceDefinition(next.getValue());
							for (RuntimeSearchParam nextChainedParam : def.getSearchParams()) {
								nextParam.addChain(nextChainedParam.getName());
							}
						}
					}
				}

			}
		}

		retVal.getImplementation().setDescription(myImplementationDescription);
		myCachedValue = retVal;
		return retVal;
	}

	public boolean isIncludeResourceCounts() {
		return myIncludeResourceCounts;
	}

	public void setDaoConfig(DaoConfig myDaoConfig) {
		this.myDaoConfig = myDaoConfig;
	}

	@CoverageIgnore
	public void setImplementationDescription(String theImplDesc) {
		myImplementationDescription = theImplDesc;
	}

	public void setIncludeResourceCounts(boolean theIncludeResourceCounts) {
		myIncludeResourceCounts = theIncludeResourceCounts;
	}

	@Override
	public void setRestfulServer(RestfulServer theRestfulServer) {
		this.myRestfulServer = theRestfulServer;
		super.setRestfulServer(theRestfulServer);
	}

	@CoverageIgnore
	public void setSystemDao(IFhirSystemDao<Bundle, MetaDt> mySystemDao) {
		this.mySystemDao = mySystemDao;
	}
}


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Social entrepreneurs and planners should be best friends
16.11.2016 : Monika Markova
Urban regeneration is more than just a few funky, temporary projects. It offers us an opportunity to redefine our engagement with one another and our environment.
From the outside looking in, planning professionals are often misunderstood and take the blame for decisions that the public disagrees with. On the other hand, social entrepreneurs often resort to going it alone, driving the changes they want to see in the world without much help.
When it comes to urban regeneration, an unlikely partnership between planners and social entrepreneurs could be the recipe for success.
Last year I was fortunate enough to live in Leipzig, Germany, where I experienced working in a German planning practice, as well as living in an urban context undergoing rapid change.
Mainstream consumption in the Central City
In the midst of its 1000th year anniversary celebrations, the city marketing department had been busy preparing a programme that promoted Leipzig as an object of consumption. Its streets were lit up with night-time carnivals and street festivals, its museums were keen to showcase 1,000 years' worth of historical artefacts and its galleries and art spaces bustled with new-age hipsters on the hunt for ideas. Everything that a tourist might hope to experience was for sale. Yet there were a few pockets in the city that had refused to buy into the slogans and marketing campaigns that claimed "We are the City" (Wir sind die Stadt). They were part of a movement called Transition Town and had proudly taken up their place as pioneers in the vacant shops of areas that had been in decline since the German Reunification of 1990.
1000 Years Leipzig Marketing poster
Spatial battles
While the central city could boast an abundance of shopping opportunities, a mix of historic and modern architecture and cultural venues for highbrow tastes, there were areas that had clearly lost their fight for economic importance. Funnily enough, the shoppers that could be seen in the central city matched the people portrayed on the posters celebrating 1,000 years of Leipzig - monocultural, happy and with cotton candy in their hand. Further out from the city core, the marketing posters rarefied, and the people on the streets diversified. Power dynamics between the scene of the central city and the unseen of the areas beyond, became glaringly obvious. The battle for space was fought by means of consumption, where the official discourse was led by mainstream capitalism and the alternative was pushed out to the fringes.
Moving away from 'Domestication by Cappuccino'
Sociologist Sharon Zukin has coined a phrase to describe gentrification: 'domestication by cappuccino'1. She uses it to describe the way introducing consumption spaces to areas in decline results in the privatisation of public space.
The Transition Town initiatives outside the areas of mainstream consumption in Leipzig have something different in mind - they aim to engage people in different ways of experiencing consumption. Instead of offering great coffee or the latest fashion, shops led by the Transition Town philosophy aim to show what a post-growth world might actually look like. In other words, they have community and resource stewardship at the heart of their purpose.
Cafe Kaputt- a hidden gem
Café Kaputt:
A repair workshop, where people can learn how to repair everyday items such as technology or clothing. They are able to share tools and professional knowledge for a small donation, while becoming part of a community of people that share their interests.
The Materialsammlung (Material collection point):
Where creative people can go to buy art and design supplies that have been collected from others who no longer need them. Upcycling workshops are also run in the space and whatever is made can be seen on display. There is something about the space, which facilitates exchanges between people from different backgrounds.
A whole cluster of these types of alternative consumption spaces have the power to really transform a street and engage people on a deeper level, encouraging stronger inter-personal exchanges that unfold in workshop situations.
Reconciling two different worlds
If a planning-led approach was largely top-down and community-based initiatives sit at the bottom-up end of the scale, then social enterprises2 provide the perfect platform for the two ends of the governance scale to meet. They can also contribute to more innovative programming of spaces – a bit like curating for the urban environment. Arguably, urban regeneration starts with the use of space. If we can get that right, everything else follows – be it investment or long-term recovery of an area, as people are drawn to activities rather than buildings.
If there was anything to learn from urban regeneration in Leipzig that can be applied to my home in Christchurch, it would be the importance of giving room to social innovation in the programming of spaces. There is no cookie cutter solution, particularly in areas that experience decline and are normally left out of the official discourse on revitalisation. This makes it that much more compelling to consider a conduit for planners to reach out to social entrepreneurs within local communities and vice versa, to assist each other in achieving meaningful and inclusive places.
1 Sharon Zukin first used 'domestication by cappuccino' to describe the upgrading of Bryant Park in New York in her work The cultures of cities (Oxford: Blackwell,1995)
2 Akina Foundation definition of social enterprise
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Q: Rendering custom data in handsontable with the Tornado module in python I am struggling to move data from my tornado webserver to a javascript handsontable.  I think the problem is related to escaping or encoding my data properly, but I can't figure it out.
Here's the python code.  I am taking a list of lists and encoding it as json.
class hot_index(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.render("hot_tradedata.html",
                    data=json.dumps([
                            ['', 'Tesla', 'Nissan', 'Toyota', 'Honda', 'Mazda', 'Ford'],
                            ['2017', 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16],
                            ['2018', 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16],
                            ['2019', 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16],
                            ['2020', 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16],
                            ['2021', 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16]
                                ])
                    )

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = tornado.web.Application(
        handlers=[(r"/hot", hot_index)],
        static_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "static"),
        template_path=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "templates")

Here's the handsontable code.  I'd like the table to populate with the data I defined in my python function.

The browser console indicates that the the data successfully was passed to the html page, but it looks like the javascript doesn't like the input.  I think I need to escape the {{data}} differently?

A: By default Tornado "autoescapes" quotes. You can render it correctly using raw function

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Q: Django Model: Find Avg by Grouping from models I have been trying to find the avg for rating a get queryset.
This is my models.py
class Movie(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=240)
    release = models.DateField(blank=True)
    review = models.TextField()
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    poster = models.FileField(null=True, blank=True)
    poster_wide = models.FileField(null=True, blank=True)
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

    def comment_count(self):
       return self.comment_set.count()

    def rating_avg(self):
       rate = self.rating.aggregate(Avg('rating'))
       return rate['rating__avg']

class Rating(models.Model):
    movie = models.ForeignKey(Movie,on_delete=models.CASCADE,related_name='rating')
    rating = models.IntegerField(choices=rating_choices, default=5)
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

Code in views.py
def home(request):
    top_movies = Movie.objects.annotate(avg = Avg('rating')).order_by('avg')[:5]
    context = {
              'top_movies': top_movies,
         }
    return render(request, 'home.html', context)

I need to find the top 5 rated movies from this given models.
But don't  know how to group query can find average. The above query does not provide the correct answer.
Any links to other answers or documentation that I can refer?

A: Tried almost everything, Finally found one.
This gives the required queryset with movieobjects
top_movies = Movie.objects.annotate(avg=Avg("rating__rating")).order_by('-avg')[:5]

A: Completely and totally spitballing here, as I can't really test this on my end, but maybe you can reach the Movie through the Rating, since it is the model that contains the ForeignKey to the other.
Rating.objects.values('movie').annotate(avg=Avg('rating')).order_by('avg')

or

Rating.objects.annotate(avg=Avg('rating'),
                        movie=Rating.objects.values('movie')).order_by('avg')


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